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20090013291 | 12212606 | 0 | 1. A library accessible by an electronic design automation (EDA) tool, the library comprising: a base curve database; and a plurality of curve data sets, wherein each curve data set identifies at least one base curve in the base curve database, the at least one base curve is used for modeling a function curve of a standard cell. |
20150128115 | 14594954 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: compiling, with a first compiler, source code of a target function to generate ahead-of-time (AOT) compiled machine code for the target function; compiling, with a second compiler, the source code of the target function to generate an intermediate representation (IR) of the target function; determining that the target function should be just-in-time (JIT) compiled; in response to determining that the target function should be JIT compiled, linking the AOT-compiled machine code for the target function to the IR of the target function; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices. |
20130346067 | 13533313 | 0 | 1. A method for determining a sentiment of an electronic message, comprising: parsing, using a processor of a computer, the electronic message to identify one or more sub-constructs; for at least one of the sub-constructs that is not false-positive, assigning a sentiment indicator from a set of types of sentiment indicators; and assigning a score for the sentiment indicator; obtaining a final score for at least one type of sentiment indicator in the electronic message by summing scores for that type of sentiment indicator; and based on the final score for the at least one type of sentiment indicator, identifying a sentiment of the electronic message. |
20030158753 | 10335545 | 0 | 1. A handheld device providing a patient medical data interface comprising: a display; a plurality of application programs, each processing medical data; and a framework program which controls selection of application programs to present user interfaces on the display, controls patient context of each application program, and controls sharing of data between the application programs. |
20150317295 | 14265999 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: determining, by a processing device, that a field of a document accessed from a computer-readable medium lacks a tag describing the field; determining, by the processing device, that data entered into the field of the document corresponds to a value of a field description included in a user profile; and tagging, by a processing device, the field of the document with the field description based on the entered data corresponding to the value of the field description. |
20050128196 | 10961456 | 0 | 1. A system for creating three-dimensional models of scenes, the system including: a video camera configured to capture scene information and to transfer scene information to a computer; a structured light frame coupled to the video camera, the structured light frame including a light projector configured to project a plurality of light beams onto the surface of the scene such that the projections of the light beams are visible in the scene; a computer configured to receive scene information; and software configured to process the scene information to create a three-dimensional model of the scene. |
7637799 | 12457254 | 1 | 1. A substrate production apparatus, comprising: a first production apparatus to process a first mother substrate to generate at least one first model substrate and at least one second model substrate from the first mother substrate, and to perform grinding with a first grinder and cleaning with a first cleaning unit on the first model substrate; a second production apparatus to process a second mother substrate to generate at least one first model substrate and at least one second model substrate from the second mother substrate, and to perform grinding with a second grinder and cleaning with a second cleaning unit on the second model substrate; a relay device installed between the first and second production apparatuses to transfer the second model substrate generated at the first production apparatus to the second production apparatus and to transfer the first model substrate generated at the second production apparatus to the first production apparatus, wherein the first model substrates have different dimensions from the second model substrates. |
20160144510 | 14953005 | 0 | 1. A method for operating a robotic device with a kinematic chain of mobile components, wherein the kinematic chain comprises a function-specific end-effector at one end, the method comprising: acquiring respective sensor values using sensors of the robotic device arranged on the kinematic chain or in an environment of the kinematic chain; determining a force applied to the function-specific end-effector or another component of the kinematic chain, or a variable dependent thereupon, in a prespecified manner based on the acquired sensor values; comparing the force or variable determined with a prespecified first safety limit value by a control mechanism of the robotic device; and adapting a characteristic of the kinematic chain or of the function-specific end-effector when the determined force or variable is in a prespecified relationship to the first safety limit value. |
20090088108 | 11984619 | 0 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a determining unit configured to determine one or more applicable radio selections including one or more radio interfaces for use by one or more communication applications; a ranking unit configured to rank the applicable radio selections into an order of superiority according to a predefined ranking criterion; and a selecting unit configured to select, from among the one or more applicable radio selections, a radio selection for use by the one or more communication applications on the basis of the order of superiority of the radio selections. |
5413764 | 07503585 | 1 | 1. A test carrier analysis system for analyzing a component of a fluid sample comprising: a plurality of test carriers containing at least one reagent in at least one test layer thereof, in which a reaction of the at least one reagent with a component to be analyzed leads to a detectable change in at least one of said test layers, wherein the detectable change follows a particular relationship, obeying an evaluation curve wherein a parameter of the fluid sample corresponds to the detectable change of the concentration of the component, and wherein the evaluation curve is dependent on a manufacturing batch of the plurality of test carriers; evaluation means for evaluating a test carrier which has undergone said detectable change comprising a measurement and digitization circuit for (a) measuring said physically detectable change, (b) generating a measurement signal and (c) converting the measurement signal into an intermediate result independent of the evaluation curve by digitization of the measurement signal into one of a finite number of digital output states; display means for displaying the one of the finite number of digital output states in the form of alpha and/or numeric characters; and a readable information carrier element associated with each test carrier or with each plurality of test carriers providing a correlation between the alpha and/or numeric characters corresponding to said digital output states and end result values determined in accordance with the evaluation curve, wherein said end result values correspond to a parameter of the component of the fluid sample, said readable information carrier element is specifically made for each test carrier manufacturing batch, and wherein the correlation of the alpha and/or numeric characters to the end result values may be different from batch to batch. |
7984379 | 12098397 | 1 | 1. A method performed at least in part by a computer, the method comprising: enabling a file to be constructed that describes a hierarchical relation of a website's content using a standardized schema, wherein said standardized schema is configured to be used to render a site map when a user navigates to a particular web page without having the user click on the particular web page associated with the site map to view a rendering of the site map, said standardized schema describing a consistent and structured schema applicable to multiple websites and including a number of elements, at least some individual elements containing a property that defines whether an element is to be automatically rendered upon navigation to the particular web page in an expanded or unexpanded manner; and making the hierarchical description of the website's content available to one or more users. |
7904884 | 11558729 | 1 | 1. A method of data processing, said method comprising: encrypting each of plurality of restricted terms utilizing a one-way function to obtain a set of encrypted restricted terms; parsing plain text within a source file to identify a plurality of source file terms; encrypting each of the plurality of source file terms utilizing the one-way function to obtain a plurality of encrypted source file terms; comparing the plurality of encrypted source file terms and the set of encrypted restricted terms to determine if the source file contains any of the plurality of restricted terms; and in response to determining by the comparing that the source file contains at least one restricted term among the plurality of restricted terms, reporting the at least one restricted term contained in the source file, wherein said reporting includes entering in a result file in plain text the at least one restricted term contained in the source file but not others of the plurality of restricted terms and including in the result file an indication of one or more locations of the at least one restricted term in the source file. |
9495599 | 14711871 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method for applying computer vision techniques to automatically detect and classify the presence or absence of a train within a railway track area, the method comprising executing on a processor the steps of: classifying a segment of input video image data comprising a group of consecutive video frames that each comprise “train absent” label and “static” labels as a “no train present” segment, wherein the input video image data is acquired from a region of interest defined around a train track area within an image scene of a stream of the video image data that comprises a portion of a railway track area; classifying a segment of the input video data comprising a group of consecutive video frames that each comprise the “train present” label and a “motion present” label as a “train present and in transition” segment; classifying a segment of the input video data comprising a group of consecutive video frames that each comprise the “train present” label and the “static” label as a “train present and stopped” segment; determining a presence or a motion state of a train within the region of interest of the video scene at a time of inquiry as the “no train present”, the “train present and in transition” or the “train present and stopped” classification of the segment comprising the video frame of the time of inquiry; determining a distribution of the “train present” and “train absent” labels of the plurality of the video segments within an auto-correction time period; in response to the determined distribution of the “train present” and “train absent” labels not meeting an expected distribution for the auto-correction time period, exchanging the “train present” and the “train absent” labels that are determined for each of the video frames; and repeating, as a function of the exchanged “train present” and “train absent” labels, the steps of classifying the segments of the input video data of consecutive video frames that each comprise the “train absent” label and the “static” label as the “no train present” segment groups, classifying the segments of the input video data of consecutive video frames that each comprise the “train present” label and the “motion present” label as the “train present and in transition” segments, and classifying the segments of the input video data of consecutive video frames that each comprise the “train present” label and the “static” label as the “train present and stopped” segment groups. |
20120004864 | 13176781 | 0 | 1. An optical measuring apparatus for measuring optical data of specimens, i.e., objects to be measured, dispersed in a sample fluid flowing within a flow passage by irradiating light to said specimens, comprising: a plurality of measuring sections each having a light irradiating section for irradiating light to said specimens and a light receiving section for receiving the optical data acquired by irradiating the light to said specimens; and a flow rate calculating section for calculating values of flow rate of said specimens based on a difference of measured times of said optical data measured by said plurality of measuring sections with respect to said specimens and a distance between said plurality of measuring sections. |
20130191349 | 13358159 | 0 | 1. A method for deduplicating data by a processor device, comprising: parsing the data to identify portions of metadata within the data; and processing the data and identified portions of metadata by a deduplication engine to be storable in a single repository, the deduplication engine adapted for deduplicating the data without at least one of deduplicating and indexing the identified portions of metadata. |
20140180642 | 13721087 | 0 | 1. A method for allocating spatial resources, the method comprising steps of: a) providing a store layout; b) assigning categories to locations in the store layout, creating a first store layout with assigned category locations; c) translating the store layout with assigned category locations into a first distance relationship matrix; d) providing an ideal category relationship matrix; e) calculating a total score for the first store layout with assigned category locations by comparing the first distance relationship matrix to the ideal category relationship matrix; f) implementing the category assignments in a store. |
9596518 | 14669479 | 1 | 1. A method for retrieving messages from a networking site, comprising: receiving data associated with a video program; accessing the networking site in response to a user input, the user input initiated while the video program is being output to a display device; generating at least one keyword from the received data, the at least one keyword used for creating a list of identities to follow on the networking site, each identity in the list of identities to follow having an account with the networking site, the account associated with at least one of an actor, an athlete, a celebrity and a company; retrieving from the networking site a message posted to the networking site by an identity to follow, the identity to follow being a current identity to follow selected from the list of identities; outputting the list of identities to follow in a first display arrangement simultaneous with the program; and outputting at least one retrieved message in a second display arrangement simultaneous with the program, the at least one retrieved message associated to the current identity to follow. |
9846999 | 15245548 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: determining, by a mobile device, that a user is looking at the mobile device based on sensor data; determining, by the mobile device, an area of a likely accident event; generating, by the mobile device, an alert based on the determining that the user is looking at the device and the determining the area of the likely accident event; and determining a cohort of the user, wherein the generating the alert further comprises generating the alert based on the determined cohort of the user; and the cohort of the user comprises other users having characteristics similar to the user. |
20150052137 | 14091667 | 0 | 1. An apparatus for collecting contents using social relation characters, comprising: an input unit for receiving search information from a main user; a database for storing a social network service (SNS) subscriber list of the main user and related users in relation to the main user and group information in relation to friendship in an SNS; and a content managing unit for searching contents in relation to the received search information by using the group information from contents possessed by the main user and the related users in an SNS server, defining the searched contents as a first content group, calculating a first interest index for each content included in the first content group based on additional information input by the related users, and determining a predetermined content, on which interest of the related users is focused, from the searched contents based on the calculated first interest index, wherein the additional information includes at least one of comment information, sharing information and likability information. |
9727648 | 14577898 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, at a processing system, a search query containing one or more query terms from a remote device; determining, by the processing system, one or more entity types implicated by the search query based on the one or more query terms, and for each entity type, determining an entity score indicating a likelihood that the search query implicates the entity type; identifying, by the processing system, one or more index clusters from a plurality of index clusters to search based on the one or more entity types implicated by the search query, each index cluster having a plurality of tiers, and each tier including one or more search indexes; generating, by the processing system, a query execution plan based on the entity scores of the one or more entity types, the query execution plan indicating, for each identified index cluster, i) a priority assigned to a search of the index cluster and ii) a time constraint assigned to the indicating cluster indicating a maximum amount of time allotted to search the index cluster; performing, by the processing system, a consumer driven search on the identified index clusters based on a set of query terms corresponding to the one or more query terms and in accordance with the query execution plan to identify a delivery consideration set of records; generating, by the processing system, delivery search results based on the delivery consideration set of records; and transmitting the delivery search results from the processing system to the remote device; performing, by the processing system, a continuation search, wherein performing the continuation search comprises, for each index cluster indicated in the query execution plan: assigning a lowest priority and an unlimited time constraint to the set of query terms with respect to the index cluster; inserting the set of query terms in a queue corresponding to the index cluster with other intent queries, each other intent query having a respective priority assigned thereto; searching all tiers of the index cluster using the set of query terms; and updating a continuation consideration set of records based on the searching, wherein the continuation consideration set of records indicates records identified across all of the index clusters indicated in the query execution plan. |
8947099 | 13290111 | 1 | 1. An equivalent power method adapted for implementation by controller communicatively coupled to an active material actuator, and composing a circuit, and for reducing the effects of voltage variation during at least one actuation event, said method comprising the steps of: a) determining an ideal voltage within the circuit; b) calculating an ideal output based on the ideal voltage, such that the output is operable to ideally activate the actuator; c) determining an ideal power based on the ideal output and ideal voltage; d) measuring a real voltage during said at least one actuation event; and e) calculating an applied real output based on the ideal voltage, ideal output, and real voltage, such that the applied real output and real voltage determine a real power, and the real power is equivalent to the ideal power. |
8438162 | 13264493 | 1 | 1. A method for selecting clusterings to classify a predetermined numerical data set, the method implemented in a data processor having a memory and a display and comprising: (a) using the data processor to sequentially apply a plurality of clustering methods to the numerical data set to generate a plurality of clusterings and storing the clusterings in the memory; (b) using the data processor and a metric that measures a similarity between two clusterings generated by a pair of the clustering methods to create a metric space of clusterings in the memory; (c) using the data processor to project the metric space to a lower dimensional space of clusterings; (d) using the data processor to generate at each point in the lower dimensional space which does not represent a clustering, a clustering for that point based on nearby clusterings; and (e) displaying points representing the lower dimensional space on the display. |
9563409 | 13668772 | 1 | 1. A computer implemented method of executing a script comprising one or more operations, the method comprising: parsing each of a plurality of operations into an operation name and an associated input data set description to obtain one or more parsed operation descriptions; determining, using a selected parsed operation description corresponding to a selected operation, that the selected operation has previously been executed on an associated previous execution input data set, wherein the associated previous execution input data set is a proper subset of at least one associated input data set for the selected operation; reducing the at least one associated input data set based on an overlap between the associated previous execution input data set and the at least one associated input data set, thereby producing a reduced input data set that includes a portion of the at least one associated input data set and excludes the overlap; linking an output of the selected operation to a stored output of the selected operation previously executed on the associated previous execution input data set and an execution output of the selected operation executed on the reduced input data set, thereby producing a revised script; and executing the revised script. |
20060021030 | 10883351 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: identifying network paths for a system; identifying products and platforms for the system; applying application security for the system; analyzing a security status for the system; and based at least in part on the analysis of the security status, automatically identifying changes for the network paths for the system or the products and platforms for the system. |
20110314454 | 12817291 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method for testing code, the computer-implemented method comprising performing computer-implemented operations for: receiving a new version of the code, the new version of the code comprising a new version of one or more functions; retrieving an old version of the code from a data storage location, the old version of the code comprising an old version of the one or more functions; comparing the new version of the code to the old version of the code to determine if the new version of the one or more functions has been modified with respect to the old version of the one or more functions; retrieving a test summary corresponding to the old version of the one or more functions; and in response to determining that the old version of the one or more functions has been modified, treating the test summary as potentially invalid. |
20060089742 | 11161417 | 0 | 1. A method for monitoring health of a machine tool operable to perform at least one operation cycle including at least one machining operation on a workpiece, the machine tool including a spindle configured to hold a cutting tool and a first slide operable to effect a linear movement of a portion of the machine tool, the machine tool having at least one sensor operatively connected thereto for sensing a machine operation parameter, and a controller configured to output data related to operation of the machine tool, the method comprising: operating the machine tool outside an operation cycle to effect movement of a portion of the machine tool; processing data from signals output from the at least one sensor and from the controller to define at least one movement-specific data profile for the movement of the portion of the machine tool; and applying an algorithm to at least a portion of the at least one movement-specific data profile to generate at least one movement-specific data point, thereby facilitating generation of at least one movement-specific trend line. |
8812126 | 13765306 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: storing in a memory device a volume of tissue activation (VTA) data structure that is derived from analysis of a plurality of patients; receiving, by a computer processor, patient data for a given patient, the patient data representing an assessment of a patient condition; and evaluating, by the computer processor, the VTA data structure relative to the patient data to determine a target VTA for achieving a desired therapeutic effect for the given patient. |
20060067404 | 11274804 | 0 | 1. A method of video motion estimation for determining the dominant motion in a video image, said dominant motion being defined by a parametric transform which maps the movement of an image block from a first frame of the video to a second frame; the method comprising: (a) selecting a plurality of blocks in the first frame, and matching said blocks with their respective block positions in the second frame; (b) from the measured movements of the blocks between the first and second frames, calculating a plurality of estimates for a parameter of the transform; (c) sorting the parameter estimates into an ordered list; and (d) determining a best global value for the parameter by examining the ordered list. |
20050155031 | 10830334 | 0 | 1. A method of automatically identifying changes to a computer system, comprising: scanning the computer system for active software components; investigating file change histories for the active software components to find recently updated files; and searching a local file system for context information for the recently updated files. |
8182150 | 12704321 | 1 | 1. A method to calibrate a mechanical model of behaviour and movement of an interventional radiology table, the method comprising the steps of: moving the table over at least one degree of freedom; acquiring at least one set of images corresponding to different positions of the table and C-arm; obtaining at least one set of images of a test object from different positions; using the images of the test object to determine parameters of the mechanical model of table behaviour and movement; combining these parameters with data given by table movement sensors so as to deduce the true relative positions of the table with respect to the medical imaging system; and acquiring images for an elementary degree of freedom, wherein: in the images thus obtained, the positioning of elements of the test object is detected: a matrix of projection parameters is derived therefrom for at least two images, one thereof corresponding to a reference position and the other to another acquisition position of the set of images, from which extrinsic parameters are deduced; a calculated movement of the table is determined by combining the extrinsic parameters determined for the reference position and for the other acquisition position; and from this calculated movement and the movement measured by the system's sensors, an elementary movement vector is determined associated with the elementary degree of freedom to which the set of images corresponds. |
20170059330 | 14835221 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by use of a communication device, a request for navigation data, the request having a type; determining, by a processor coupled with the communication device, the type of the request; generating, by the processor responsive to receipt of the request, a virtual table based on the determined type of the request and a navigation database, coupled with the processor, in which a set of navigation data is stored, the generated virtual table comprising at least a subset of the set of navigation data stored in the navigation database, the subset being determined by the determined type of the request, the generated virtual table and the navigation database being accessible via a same query format; querying, by the processor using the query format, the virtual table based on the request for navigation data to obtain the requested navigation data therefrom; constructing, by the processor, a map tile command based on the obtained navigation data; and sending, by the communication device, the map tile command to a mobile device. |
8234099 | 12957118 | 1 | 1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium for determining a nutritional diet for a canine or feline companion animal having stored thereon instructions for a computer to execute the medium comprising: at least one electronic database; and at least one software routine comprising instructions for: (a) receiving first data relating genomic map data to a physiological condition of a canine or feline companion animal, and second data comprising the effect of nutrition on the expression of genes in the genomic map data; (b) determining a relationship between said first and second data; and preparing a nutritional diet for the canine or feline companion animal based on the relationship. |
8296130 | 12696991 | 1 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, using one or more data processors, a plurality of offensive words, wherein each respective offensive word in the plurality of offensive words is associated with a severity score identifying the offensiveness of the respective word; receiving, using the one or more data processors, a string of words, wherein a candidate word is selected from the string of words; calculating, using the one or more data processors, for each respective offensive word in the plurality of offensive words, a distance between the candidate word and the respective offensive word; calculating, using the one or more data processors, a plurality of offensiveness scores for the candidate word, each offensiveness score in the plurality of offensiveness scores based upon (i) the calculated distance between the candidate word and an offensive word in the plurality of offensive words and (ii) the severity score of the offensive word, wherein the plurality of offensiveness scores are calculated according to one or more of:
offensiveness score= A *(( B−C )/ B );
offensiveness score= A *(( B−( 1/ C ))/ B );
offensiveness score=Max((( A−C )/ A ),0); and
offensiveness score=((( B−C )/ B )> T ); wherein, A is the severity score for an offensive word in the plurality of offensive words; B is a function of a length of the offensive word; C is the calculated distance between the candidate word and the offensive word; and T is a threshold value; and determining, using the one or more data processors, whether the candidate word is an offender word based on whether the highest offensiveness score in the plurality of offensiveness scores for the candidate word exceeds an offensiveness threshold value. |
6111576 | 08554062 | 1 | 1. On a graphic user interface system, a method for providing selected menu functions of a main menu for attachment to a user created object that contains a user created menu, the method comprises the step of: a) creating an attachment menu bar that includes the selected menu functions of said main menu; b) graphically attaching the attachment menu bar to the user created object, wherein said user created object comprises a user created menu; and c) when one of the selected menu functions is invoked, performing a function indicated by the one of the selected menu functions on an object within the user created object or on the user created object. |
20070277153 | 11786088 | 0 | 1. A system for customizing an application program, comprising: (1) a plurality of reusable modules for incorporation into end-user derived modules, at least one of said reusable modules having a set of variables accessible by an end-user and a set of variables not accessible by the end-user, and wherein a derived module incorporating said reusable module inherits attributes of said reusable module; (2) a graphical editor for modifying and managing software modules; and (3) an object visualization editor for graphically representing relationships between modules and variables within modules; |
20160269911 | 14643389 | 0 | 1. A method for network planning for a fixed wireless backhaul network comprising a plurality of nodes, wherein each node comprises at least one hub module (HM) at each macro-cell site, and each hub module serves a set of remote backhaul modules (RBMs) through hub-RBM radio links, each RBM being located at a small cell (SC) site, and wherein the method comprises one or more of: a) terrain pathloss (PL) and antenna gain prediction; b) network design and system design comprising site association, hub dimensioning and pointing; c) optimization of small cell deployment; and wherein performing Terrain PL prediction comprises selecting one of a set of reference use cases comprising channel models for each of downtown, urban and suburban use case scenarios, and performing PL prediction and other network planning steps based on user input, and estimated inputs for other parameters based on the selected channel model. |
8024198 | 12258125 | 1 | 1. A computer implemented method, comprising: generating a doctor profile of a doctor based on one or more parameters associated with treatment information of the doctor, wherein the treatment information comprises historical orthodontic treatment information of prior treated patients, wherein the generating of the doctor profile is performed by a computer; generating a patient dental profile of a patient based at least in part on a weighting of a portion of a plurality of orthodontic-related treatment parameters, the generating of the patient dental profile being performed by the computer and comprising: assigning a value to each orthodontic condition of a first set of orthodontic conditions to achieve an assigned set of values comprising a patient classification, the first set of orthodontic conditions being a selected set of current orthodontic conditions of the patient, wherein the position of each value within the assigned set of values represents an orthodontic-related treatment parameter of the plurality of orthodontic-related treatment parameters; receiving an identification of a set of orthodontic-related treatment parameters of the plurality of orthodontic-related treatment parameters that is important to the patient in the treatment of the first set of orthodontic conditions; weighting the set of orthodontic-related treatment parameters relative to the plurality of orthodontic-related treatment parameters; and providing one or more doctor referrals based on the generated doctor profile and the generated patient dental profile, wherein the providing the one or more doctor referrals is performed by the computer and comprises: determining which of the prior treated patients has a second set of orthodontic conditions similar to the first set of orthodontic conditions. |
7571422 | 11857301 | 1 | 1. A method for generating a design rule map having a spatially varying design rule overlay budget, the method comprising: providing a design data file that characterizes a fabrication process used for forming a pattern on a semiconductor substrate where information contained in the design data file includes pattern information concerning patterns formed on a first layer of a semiconductor substrate and pattern information concerning patterns formed on a second layer that is formed over the first layer of a semiconductor substrate; processing the information contained in the design data file to generate a design map that includes a spatially varying overlay error budget for the design map using a computer processor, comprising: characterizing the design map as a set of user defined regions, including characterizing a first portion of the map as having a first pattern density and second portion of the map as having a second pattern density, and characterizing the first portion having the first pattern density as comprising a portion of the design map were a minimum distance between polygons comprises a first minimum distance and characterizing the second portion having the second pattern density as comprising a portion of the design map were a minimum distance between polygons comprises a second minimum distance; and defining the localized tolerance to overlay errors for each region in the set of user defined regions including defining a first local tolerance to overlay errors for the first portion of the map having a first pattern density and defining a second local tolerance to overlay errors for the second portion of the map having a second pattern density, and defining a first local tolerance to overlay errors as said first minimum distance for the first portion of the map and defining a second local tolerance to overlay errors as said second minimum distance for the second portion of the map, where the spatially varying overlay error budget defines a localized tolerance to overlay errors for different spatial locations on the design map, with portions of the map having a pattern that is relatively tolerant of overlay error having a relatively larger overlay error budget and portions of the map having a pattern that is relatively intolerant of overlay error having a relatively smaller overlay error budget, thereby defining an design map having a spatially varying overlay error budget. |
20090187445 | 12235352 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method for determining energy savings in an energy-consuming facility, comprising: inputting baseline facility condition data to an artificial intelligence model generator, the baseline facility condition data representing baseline facility conditions during a first time interval before an energy conservation measure and comprising weather conditions experienced by the facility during the time interval; inputting baseline energy consumed by the facility during the first time interval; the artificial intelligence model generator generating an artificial intelligence model in response to the baseline facility condition data and baseline energy consumed, the artificial intelligence model modeling how facility energy consumption responds to facility conditions; inputting actual facility condition data to the artificial intelligence model, the actual facility condition data representing actual facility conditions during a second time interval after the energy conservation measure and comprising weather conditions experienced during the second time interval; inputting actual energy consumed by the facility during the second time interval; the artificial intelligence model outputting, in response to the actual facility condition data, a projection of energy that would have been consumed under the baseline facility conditions but for the energy conservation measure; computing energy savings, wherein the energy savings are defined by a difference between the actual energy consumed during the second time interval and the estimate of energy that would have been consumed but for the energy conservation measure; and generating Energy Efficiency Certificates (EECs) corresponding to the computed energy savings. |
9309731 | 13500459 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: collecting formation temperature data along a wellbore extending into a subterranean formation using a downhole tool; performing a wellbore hydraulic simulation, using a processor, of a response of wellbore fluid conditions to initial test operating parameter values and the formation temperature data; determining, using the processor, whether the response of wellbore fluid conditions is indicative of a well control or stability problem at least partly by: retrieving into the processor formation pressure data acquired by the downhole tool or by another downhole tool; determining, using the processor, a wellbore pressure profile from the simulation; and comparing, using the processor, at least a portion of the formation pressure data with at least a portion of the wellbore pressure profile to identify whether the response of wellbore fluid conditions is indicative of a well control or stability problem; and initiating a test based on the determination of whether the response of wellbore fluid conditions is indicative of a well control or stability problem. |
10162912 | 15026530 | 1 | 1. A friction identification method performed by a fiction identification device that is connected to a control device which drives a motor to drive a driven object, the friction identification method comprising: receiving a position, a displacement, a velocity, and an acceleration of the driven object, and a driving force from the control device; measuring a relation between a driving force and a position of the driven object; identifying; a parameter of a position-dependent friction model based on a relation between a driving force and a position of the driven object; measuring a relation between a driving force and a displacement of the driven object from a position at which a motion direction is reversed; identifying; a parameter of a displacement-dependent friction model by using a relation between a driving force and a displacement of the driven object, and by using the position-dependent friction model; measuring a relation between a driving force and a velocity of the driven object; identifying a parameter of a velocity-dependent friction model by, using a relation between a driving force and a velocity of the driven object, and by using the position-dependent friction model and the displacement-dependent friction model; measuring a relation between a driving force and an acceleration of the driven object; identifying a parameter of an acceleration-dependent friction model by using a relation between a driving force and an acceleration of the driven object, and by using the position-dependent friction model, the displacement-dependent friction model, and the velocity-dependent friction model and outputting the parameters of the position-dependent friction model, the displacement-dependent friction model, the velocity-dependent friction model, and the acceleration-dependent friction model to the control device so that the control device drives the driven object using the parameters of the fiction models, each of the friction model being depending on a single state amount of the position, the displacement, the velocity, or the acceleration. |
20050170326 | 11094250 | 0 | 1. An interactive training method based on a simulated customer interaction, the method comprising: providing a predetermined customer portion of a dialog segment from the simulated customer interaction to a trainee via a graphical user interface, the dialog segment comprising the customer portion and at least one predetermined keyword associated with the customer portion; receiving a response to the customer portion from the trainee via the graphical user interface; and determining whether the response includes the at least one keyword. |
20070078699 | 11241693 | 0 | 1. A method for determining reputation values, comprising: until a convergence condition is satisfied: iteratively solving a reputation function for a set of reputation values with respect to a set of linked nodes, the nodes representing reviewers and reviews; determining whether a stability condition is satisfied; and modifying the reputation function so as to remove from the reputation function nodes with negative reputation when the stability condition is satisfied. |
20100058037 | 12541546 | 0 | 1. A method for generating a result vector with shifted values, comprising: receiving a first input vector, a second input vector, and a control vector, and optionally receiving a predicate vector, wherein each vector includes N elements; recording a value from an element at a key element position in the second input vector into a base value; and generating the result vector, wherein generating the result vector involves, if the predicate vector is received, for each element in the result vector to the right of the key element position for which a corresponding element in the predicate vector contains a non-zero value, otherwise, for each element in the result vector to the right of the key element position, setting the element in the result vector equal to the base value shifted in a predetermined direction a number of bit positions equal to a sum of a value in each relevant element of the first input vector from an element at the key element position to and including a predetermined element in the first input vector. |
20020027526 | 09858371 | 0 | 1. A source location estimation device, comprising: an array antenna including two sub-arrays, each sub-array having at least three elements with at least one unshared element; a first sampler for sampling elements of one sub-array; a second sampler for sampling elements of the other sub-array; a direction-of-arrival estimator for using samples from the samplers to make a separate direction-of-arrival estimate for each sub-array for direction of arrival of a signal from a source; a source location estimator for estimating distances from the source to each element based on the separate direction-of-arrival estimates from the direction-of-arrival estimator; and a sampling adjuster for adjusting timing of sampling performed by the samplers based on the distances from the source location estimator. |
8319723 | 12671583 | 1 | 1. A method for illuminating an area surroundings a display by a light-source element, the display having a front side from which an image can be viewed and a back side that is opposite the front side, the method comprising: performing a measurement of ambient light with a sensor element, deriving ambient light characteristics of said ambient light from said measurement, deriving light output characteristics for said light-source element by applying said derived ambient light characteristics to a light-source adjustment model, and using said light-source element to produce a light output according to said light output characteristics that is projected away from the display from the back side of the display such that no direct light from the light-source element is projected outward from the front side. |
9495604 | 14139068 | 1 | 1. A computing system comprising: one or more hardware computer processors configured to execute software instructions; and one or more electronic storage devices in communication with the one or more hardware computer processors and storing software modules, the software modules comprising software instructions configured for execution by the one or more hardware computer processors in order to cause the computing system to: access, from one or more image storage devices, an image series comprising one or more medical images; determine an exam characteristic associated with the image series; access a computerized advanced processing data structure including rules for executing respective computerized advanced processing techniques based on corresponding exam characteristics; identify one or more rules that are matched by the exam characteristic; initiate execution of computerized advanced processing techniques associated with the identified one or more rules that are matched by the exam characteristic; and in response to an input from a user indicating to mark a report as read, the report including exam information related to the image series: in response to determining that the exam information does not include a significant finding related to the execution of a computerized advanced processing technique applied to the image series, mark the report as read; and in response to determining that the exam information does include a significant finding related to the execution of a computerized advanced processing technique applied to the image series, provide a notification to the user. |
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8661290 | 13006987 | 1 | 1. A method, in a data processing system, for saving power in redundant service processors of the data processing system, the method comprising: responsive to receiving a primary control signal from a primary service processor within a first predetermined time period, placing, by the redundant service processor, a plurality of components into a low power state, wherein the plurality of components excludes an Ethernet controller of the redundant service processor; monitoring, by the redundant service processor, for a signal within a second predetermined time period from the primary service processor; responsive to receiving the signal from the primary service processor within the second predetermined time period, determining, by the redundant service processor, whether the signal is a heartbeat signal or an activate signal; and responsive to receiving the activate signal, waking-up, by the redundant service processor, the plurality of components that are in the low-power state in order for the redundant service processor to collect data and recover the data processing system in an event of a failure. |
8204983 | 11929617 | 1 | 1. A method of allocating online resources to monitor online community members that have been identified as engaging in inappropriate behavior, the method comprising: receiving an indication that an online user may be engaging in inappropriate behavior, wherein the indication is sent when another online user takes action to initiate storing a time based history of online community activity of the online user, the time based history covering a period that extends a desired duration before the taking of the action and a desired duration after the taking of the action; capturing the time based history of an online session that includes the online user's online community activity; recreating the online community activity and determining if there was inappropriate behavior by an offending online user according to standards currently being used to measure the inappropriate behavior; allocating online resources for a desired level of monitoring of the offending online user; and modifying the standards when a majority of online users indicates that a particular activity is inappropriate behavior even when the standards currently being used to measure the inappropriate behavior indicates that it is not. |
20160085809 | 14755088 | 0 | 1. A method, comprising: creating an event processing network to represent a data store; creating, in the event processing network, a table component that represents a data store event of the data store; and for a particular event in an event stream, executing a processor of the event processing network using the table component as an external relation source to perform operations comprising: selecting, from the data store, particular data that corresponds to the particular event; and adding the particular data to the particular event. |
7895190 | 12146058 | 1 | 1. A method for indexing and querying XML documents stored in a relational database, the method comprising: a) allowing, by a computer, a user to choose, within a database table, one or more columns for storing XML data of a known structure; b) obtaining from the user one or more XML paths for indexed data, each of the obtained one or more XML paths being stored in a static index table; c) creating, in response to the obtained one or more XML paths, at least one dynamic index table for each static index table, the dynamic index table being updated upon data being entered into the database table; d) intercepting a user's query to process a XML expression part of the query and converting the XML expression part into one or more rows in the static index table; e) generating a new query against the dynamic indexing tables, using values obtained from the static index table, and executing the generated query; f) rewriting the user's query by transforming XML path part of the user's query expression into a format understood by a database query engine; and g) returning a result to the user, after executing the rewritten query, together with any non-XML part of the user's query, that is executed by the database query engine. |
8452629 | 12173175 | 1 | 1. A system comprising: a processor; a data bus coupled to the processor; a memory coupled to the data bus; and a computer-usable medium embodying computer program code, the computer program code comprising instructions executable by the processor and configured for maintaining a project schedule within at least one software factory by performing the steps of: launching a project management tool, wherein the project management tool comprises an end-to-end project plan for at least one project, and wherein said at least one project creates at least one software product using said at least one software factory in a global delivery network; appending a status block to a work packet that is utilized when executing said at least one project within said at least one software factory, wherein the work packet is a self-contained work unit that is assembled within said at least one software factory, wherein each work packet constitutes a contractual agreement that governs a relationship among a design center, a software factory governance board, a software factory operations unit, and an assembly line in the software factory, wherein the design center breaks a software project into major functional areas, wherein the software factory governance board determines whether or not to allow the software factory to accept the software project, wherein the software factory operations unit dispatches the software project to the assembly line, wherein the assembly line receives and executes work packets that are specified by the design center to create a customized deliverable unit of software, and wherein the work packet comprises a header, wherein the header comprises a unique identification number, a description of the work packet, a type description of the work packet, and an identifier of a parent object from which the work packet has inheritance, and wherein the work packet includes governance procedures, standards, reused assets, work packet instructions, an integration strategy, schedules, exit criteria and artifact checklist templates for Input/Output routines, wherein the exit criteria is a checklist for returning the work packet and the customized deliverable unit of software to the software factory, and wherein the status block defines an execution status of the work packet; initiating execution of said at least one project; automatically triggering an alert from said at least one software factory whenever the execution status of the work packet changes; and transmitting the alert to the project management tool to update a project schedule for the project, wherein the completion status of the end-to-end project plan reflects a status of a project schedule for a project described by the end-to-end project plan. |
8498954 | 13073536 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method for managing operations of a system, the method comprising: deriving a nonlinear modeling function from a nonlinear response function, wherein the nonlinear modeling function models an affinity between multiple variables, wherein the multiple variables define one or more characteristics of the operations of the system, and wherein the nonlinear modeling function approximates one or more operations of the system; defining an allowed range for output values of the nonlinear modeling function; determining a range of a first set of input values of the nonlinear modeling function based on the allowed range of the output values, wherein a boundary of the range of the first set of input values is an optimal input value, wherein the optimal input value can be processed through the nonlinear modeling function to produce an optimal output value; deriving a nonlinear probability function from the nonlinear response function; receiving the first set of input values; calculating the output values by processing each input value in the first set of input values through the nonlinear modeling function; determining, using the probability function, a relative probability of performing a first future system operation for each input value of the first set of input values, wherein, for each input value of the first set of input values, the relative probability shows a probability of performing the first future system operation for the corresponding input value relative to a probability of performing the first future system operation for the optimal input value; and displaying, for each input value in the first set of input values, the corresponding output value and the corresponding probability. |
9483495 | 13853996 | 1 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, using one or more computing devices and from a user computing device, a search query comprising data indicative of a point of interest and a time of year, wherein the time of year includes a range of dates or a season; retrieving, using the one or more computing devices, geographic data comprising a logical hierarchy of terms indicating relationships between one or more geographic destinations or points of interest including at least the point of interest; identifying, using the one or more computing devices, a plurality of photographs using an index of photographs, the plurality of photographs being identified from the index as photographs geographically related to the point of interest and having a creation timestamp corresponding to the time of year; determining for each of the plurality of photographs, using the one or more computing devices, a relevancy score based at least in part on: selection success data of the photograph for image queries referring to the point of interest, wherein the selection success data comprises click through data for the photograph responsive to the image queries referring to the point of interest, and references to the point of interest in documents that are associated with the photograph, wherein determining references to the point of interest that are associated with the photograph comprises: identifying electronic documents associated with the photograph based on one or more criteria; and determining which of the documents associated with the photograph reference the point of interest, wherein a document is determined to reference the point of interest when the document comprises terms that are relevant to the point of interest identified from the geographic data comprising the logical hierarchy of terms; and selecting, using the one or more computing devices, a particular photograph from the plurality of photographs based at least in part on the respective relevancy score for each photograph; and providing, using the one or more computing devices and to the user computing device, the particular photograph in response to the search query for presentation of the particular photograph via the user computing device. |
20090099815 | 12249286 | 0 | 1. A method for analyzing interlinked production processes for manufacturing a product, the method comprising the steps of: a) acquiring, using a data processing unit, static and dynamic input data for at least one product parameter or process parameter; b) determining at least one degree of freedom of the at least one product parameter or process parameter; c) acquiring at least one target parameter for the at least one product parameter or process parameter; d) processing the acquired static and dynamic input data for the at least one product parameter or process parameter on the basis of the at least one degree of freedom, and automatically adjusting the at least one of the product parameter or process parameter; e) storing or outputting at least some of the data determined and acquired in steps a) to d). |
20170222996 | 15008633 | 0 | 1. An authentication system, comprising: an interface operable to: receive a request to authenticate a user; receive a first factor, the first factor comprising a first set of received cell values corresponding to the first set of cell identifiers of the card matrix; and receive a second factor, the second factor being different than the first factor; and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the interface and operable to: determine a first set of cell identifiers of a card matrix to associate with the user; determine a first set of stored cell values corresponding to the first set of cell identifiers of the card matrix; compare the first set of received cell values to the first set of stored cell values; and determine that the user is authenticated based at least in part upon the comparison of the first set of received cell values to the first set of stored cell values. |
8903787 | 13765115 | 1 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a computer processor, data that is classified with a first code, the first code defined by a first version of a classification system, the first code to be re-classified to a second code that is defined by a second version of the classification system; searching a database of profiles for content that matches at least a portion of the data; sending the data to a converter system having one of the profiles that is associated with the content responsive to the searching; receiving, from the converter system, a mapping of the first code to the second code; and updating, by the computer processor, a database of codes with results of the mapping; analyzing, over a duration of time, the mapping activities performed by a coder via the converter system, the mapping activities including mapping of codes between the first version of the classification system and the second version of the classification system; determining the accuracy level of the mapping activities; and updating a profile of a coder to include a proficiency of the coder, wherein the proficiency of the coder is based on an accuracy level of mapping activities performed by the coder via the converter system. |
9020727 | 13188551 | 1 | 1. A vehicle braking assist device for a host vehicle comprising: a risk potential computing device that computes a risk potential of the host vehicle with respect to an obstacle in the travelling direction of the host vehicle based on a computed arrival time or distance to the obstacle; a sensor that detects an operation state of an accelerator; a braking force application device; and a controller that controls the braking force assist device to: (1) apply a breaking force when the risk potential exceeds a first threshold, but not a second threshold, unless the operation state of the accelerator exceeds a prescribed value, thus overriding the breaking assist device; and (2) apply a breaking force irrespective of the operation state of the accelerator when the risk potential exceeds the second threshold that is greater than the first threshold. |
20170031921 | 15231150 | 0 | 1. A method performed by an electronic device, the method comprising: receiving, at the electronic device, a search query; determining, based on data from a database on the electronic device, that the search query matches either a title or one or more keywords associated with at least one software module installed on the electronic device, the database being populated with titles and keywords associated with one or more software modules installed on the electronic device; and in response to determining that the search query matches either the title or the one or more keywords associated with the at least one software module, displaying, at the electronic device, first search results identifying the at least one software module such that the search results having associated titles that match the search query are displayed with higher priority than the search results having associated keywords that match the search query. |
8078562 | 12273954 | 1 | 1. A system for configuring an artifact whose constituting components and features are selectable via parameters in an interrelated set of parameters, a range of consistent configurations for the artifact being defined by a set of constraints restricting which variable values that are simultaneously selectable, the system comprising: a storage means arranged to store: a problem description in the form of a part-of hierarchy, and a list of step definitions, the part-of hierarchy including at least two different parts and each step definition including a pointer to a respective part in the part-of hierarchy, a processing means arranged to solve constraint satisfaction problems in response to input data designating parameter settings, and an application module arranged to create and execute step instances which are based on the list of step definitions, the step instances being executed sequentially and the execution of each step instance involving: creating a constraint satisfaction problem based on the part to which a pointer a corresponding step definition points and any descendents to this part, causing presentation of a range of variables wherein each variable has at least one selectable value assignable via a user-committed setting in the input data, ordering the processing means to solve the constraint satisfaction problem of the step instance based on the user-committed settings and any variable values resulting from any preceding step instances in said sequence, receiving from the processing means a set of resulting variable values, and causing presentation of the set of resulting variable values, the application module being arranged to repeatedly prompt a user to enter input data to represent user-committed settings until all the step instances in said sequence have been executed. |
9105000 | 14304741 | 1 | 1. A computer system configured to aggregate and analyze data from a plurality of data sources, the computer system comprising: one or more hardware computer processors configured to execute code in order to cause the system to: obtain first and second data from a plurality of data sources, the plurality of data sources comprising a first data source and a second data source, wherein the first data source and the second data source are different from one another, each of the first data source and the second data source comprising one or more of: email data, system logon data, system logoff data, badge swipe data, employee data, software version data, software license data, remote access data, phone call data, work production data, VPN login data, remote access data, or job processing data, each data source of the plurality of data sources associated with a plurality of employees, wherein for each data source, each employee of the plurality of employees is associated with a respective identifier; detect a discrepancy associated with data from the first data; in response to the detection of the discrepancy, reobtain first data from the first data source; detect inconsistencies in formatting of data from each of the reobtained first data and the second data; transform data from each of the reobtained first data and the second data into a format that is compatible for combining data from respective data sources of the plurality of data sources, and wherein the reobtained first data and the second data comprise different identifiers that identify the same employee; generate a mapping of unique employees from the plurality of employees to data from each of the reobtained first data and the second data, wherein the mapping is based at least in part on correlating each employee's respective identifier to the different identifiers from the reobtained first data and the second data that identify the same employee; generate combined data by combining data from the reobtained first data and the second data; generate an intermediate output based at least in part on the combined data associated with respective employees and the mapping, wherein the intermediate output associated with a particular employee comprises a reduced version of the combined data associated with the particular employee from the plurality of data sources, and wherein the intermediate output associated with the particular employee summarizes at least some of data items associated with efficiency indicators of the particular employee; determine a plurality of efficiency indicators for the respective employees based at least in part on a comparison of data from the intermediate output associated with the respective employees and other employees that have at least one common characteristic, wherein the at least one common characteristic comprises at least a common job title or job description, wherein the plurality of efficiency indicators provides information relating to efficiency of the respective employees having the at least one common characteristic, and wherein a first efficiency indicator of the plurality of efficiency indicators is based at least in part on intermediate output associated with email summary data of the respective employees, and wherein a second indicator of the plurality of efficiency indicators is based at least in part on intermediate output associated with at least an average work product statistic over a period of time for the respective employees, and wherein the average work product statistic comprises a correlation between the email summary data and the common job title or job description for the respective employees; and display, in a user interface, summary data relating to at least some of the respective employees, wherein the at least some of the respective employees share at least one common characteristic, and wherein the summary data comprises the first efficiency indicator and the second efficiency indicator for the at least some of the respective individuals. |
20140086232 | 13625197 | 0 | 1. A method for estimating a channel at a receiver in a wireless communications network, the method comprising: obtaining, at the receiver, channel model parameters for a received signal, based on raw channel estimates for the received signal, each raw channel estimate corresponding to an antenna at the receiver; combining the channel model parameters to generate a first plurality of combined channel model parameters; choosing a first set of indices corresponding to combined channel model parameters from among the first plurality of combined channel model parameters having magnitudes passing a combined channel model parameter threshold; and estimating the channel in a sparse domain based on the first set of indices. |
8625532 | 12832327 | 1 | 1. A mobile computing device comprising: one or more communication devices, wherein the one or more communication devices are configured to enable connection to two or more wireless networks simultaneously so that the mobile computing device can communicate, through a single radio, with said two or more wireless networks; one or more computer-readable storage media; a combiner module embodied, at least in part, on the computer-readable storage media, the combiner module being configured to: recognize two or more data packets that include completely duplicated payload data; recognize two or more data packets that include partially duplicated payload data; and determine a best representation of the duplicate payload data based, at least in part, on the completely duplicated payload data or the partially duplicated payload data; a splitter module embodied, at least in part, on the computer-readable storage media, the splitter module being configured to send outgoing data through the two or more wireless networks, wherein the splitter module is configured to duplicate outgoing data, at least in part, on each of the two or more wireless networks when the two or more wireless networks are connected to the mobile computing device; and one or more logical adapters embodied, at least in part, on the computer-readable storage media, individual logical adapters being associated with individual wireless networks and configured to send and receive frame data to an associated individual wireless network through the single radio. |
7913066 | 12045243 | 1 | 1. A circuit arrangement implemented in at least one integrated circuit device, comprising: a vector register file including a plurality of vector registers; a vector floating point execution unit including a multi-stage vector floating point execution pipeline; an issue unit coupled to the vector floating point execution unit and configured to issue instructions associated with an iterative refinement algorithm to the vector floating point execution unit, wherein the instructions associated with the iterative refinement algorithm include a floating point instruction having a read after write dependency relative to another instruction and configured to write back to the vector register file; dependency logic coupled to the issue unit and configured to selectively stall issuance of instructions having read after write dependencies by the issue unit; programmable early exit detection logic configured to detect an early exit condition during execution of the iterative refinement algorithm by the vector floating point execution unit by comparing an exponent associated with an intermediate error value for the iterative refinement algorithm against a programmable threshold, wherein the programmable early exit detection logic is further configured to set the programmable threshold responsive to decode of an instruction associated with the iterative refinement algorithm; and early exit logic configured to, in response to detection of the early exit condition by the early exit detection logic prior to completing the iterative refinement algorithm, disable write backs to the register file and stalls of subsequent instructions having read after write dependencies by the dependency logic until completion of execution of the iterative refinement algorithm. |
20160006563 | 14851684 | 0 | 1. An encrypted data computation system comprising a client terminal, a computation device, and a computation assist device, the client terminal comprising a numerical value storing circuit configured to store numerical values; a key generating circuit configured to generate an encryption key to encrypt each of the numerical values, and a secondary computation key and a tertiary computation key that constitute a decryption key corresponding to the encryption key, and an encryption circuit configured to encrypt each of the numerical values on the basis of the encryption key and generating encrypted data, the computation device comprising a tertiary computation key storing circuit configured to store the tertiary computation key, a primary computation circuit configured to execute primary computation processing on the basis of each of the encrypted data and thereby generate a primary computation result corresponding to data in which a computation result of an expression that has added and subtracted each of the numerical values is encrypted, a tertiary computation circuit configured to execute tertiary computation processing on the basis of a secondary computation result and the tertiary computation key when the secondary computation result in which the primary computation result is randomized is generated by the computation assist device, and thereby generate a tertiary computation result corresponding to data in which the computation result of the expression that has performed the addition-subtraction is kept secret by random numbers alone, and a magnitude deciding circuit configured to decide the magnitude relation between a minuend and a subtrahend in the expression on the basis of the tertiary computation result, the computation assist device comprising a secondary computation key storing circuit configured to store the secondary computation key, a random number generating circuit configured to generate the random numbers, and a secondary computation circuit configured to execute secondary computation processing on the basis of the primary computation result, the secondary computation key, and the random numbers and thereby generate the secondary computation result. |
8553856 | 11650880 | 1 | 1. A machine implemented method comprising: displaying, on a mobile device, a user interface capable of presenting a plurality of voicemails; playing a first voicemail of the plurality of voicemails in response to receiving a first selection of the first voicemail within the user interface on the mobile device; receiving a second selection of a second voicemail within the user interface on the mobile device while playing the first voicemail on the mobile device; receiving, by the mobile device while playing the first voicemail, a command within the user interface to operate on the second voicemail, wherein the command is one of: deleting the second voicemail, forwarding the second voicemail, saving the second voicemail, or moving the second voicemail to a folder; and performing, while playing the first voicemail, the command on the second voicemail. |
7797145 | 12426013 | 1 | 1. A method of obtaining and electronically delivering a diagnosis of the health of a dog through a combination of computerized data and human interpretation related to the dog comprising: obtaining data relating to the physical characteristics of the dog, the data being obtained from at least one of a physical inspection, family or breed history of the dog, and submitting the obtained data to a clinical pathologist; securing a physical blood sample from the dog, and submitting the blood sample for laboratory analysis of the total T4, total T3, free T4, free T3, T3 autoantibody, T4 autoantibody and thyroglobulin autoantibody; generating a computer report of the laboratory analysis; reporting the analysis to the clinical pathologist wherein the clinical pathologist has the patient record containing the data relating to the physical characteristics, and the clinical pathologist thereby makes a preliminary diagnosis of the dog's health; generating from a menu on a computer screen a supplemental diagnostic report based on the laboratory analysis and the patient record, the supplemental diagnostic report including the laboratory analysis to support the preliminary diagnosis, and wherein the laboratory analysis is reported in a first computer program and the menu is in a second computer program; transferring the data from the first computer program to the second computer program; configuring the second computer program to permit supplementation of the data from the first computer program, wherein the menu includes selectable icons defining predetermined supplemental report characteristics, the characteristics of the selectable icons representing the textual content of the supplementary report, and different selectable icons being individually related to animal characteristics of age and animal grouping; selecting the selectable icons for animal characteristics dependant on age and on animal grouping, the groupings being of adult, puppy-adolescent, geriatric, or large breed dog and selecting selectable icons for thyroid disease, the selectable icons representing normal relative to thyroid disease, or abnormal relative to thyroid disease; establishing optimal levels for thyroid disease analysis, the levels being defined by a range different from a laboratory reference range as presented in the laboratory report, and wherein the adult optimal level of free T3 (FT3) is less than 8 pg/mL and the adult optimal level of free T4 (FT4) is less than 3 ng/dL; assessing thyroid function as part of the laboratory analysis and comparing the laboratory analysis to the optimal levels to thereby obtain a supplemental report; generating an integrated computer report having the laboratory analysis and the supplemental diagnostic report; and communicating the integrated computer report indicating thyroid function to a remotely located client, such communicating being electronic. |
20150347703 | 14713134 | 0 | 1. A method of classifying a subject into a necrotizing meningoencephalitis (NME) disease risk group, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a sample from the subject, wherein the sample comprises nucleic acids; detecting the presence of one or more risk markers in the sample that are associated with a risk of developing NME, wherein the risk markers are selected from the group consisting of 74522353 T>A on canine chromosome 4 and 53338796A>G on canine chromosome 15; and classifying the subject into a risk group based on the presence of at least one or more risk markers or classifying the subject into a non-risk group based upon the absence of the risk markers. |
9995790 | 13355706 | 1 | 1. An apparatus for identifying a health status of a contactor, the apparatus comprising: a processor, the processor coupled to a non-transitory computer readable medium, the processor to be coupled to the contactor to instruct the contactor to open and close during operation; a database stored in the non-transitory computer readable medium, the database including: qualitative operation count variables including New, Middle, and Old, each of the qualitative operation count variables correlated to a user defined percentage of the designed life operation value of the contactor, the qualitative operation count variables indicating a relative operation health status of the contactor, and, qualitative closing time variables including Good, Normal and Bad, each of the qualitative closing time variables correlated to a user defined percentage of the maximum designed closing time, the closing time variables indicating a relative closing time health status of the contactor, and health status rules of the contactor, the qualitative operation count variables and the qualitative closing time variables being inputs to the health status rules to identify the health status of the contactor and being outputs to a display; the processor to input at least one of the qualitative closing time variables into a first logical AND gate; the processor to input at least one of the qualitative operation count variables into the first logical AND gate; the processor to input an output of the first logical AND gate to a logical OR gate; the processor to input at least a second output corresponding to a second logical AND gate to the logical OR gate; the processor to associate an output of the logical OR gate to the health status of the contactor; and a customization program stored in the non-transitory computer readable medium, the customization program enabling an operator to set and to modify on the display at least one of the qualitative operation count variables and the qualitative closing time variables, the customization program further enabling an operator to specify logic on the display, the specified logic defining the health status rules. |
20020019697 | 09878644 | 0 | 1. A method of identifying a situation in which a host vehicle is operated, comprising: a. selecting a plurality of events, wherein each event of said plurality of events is representative of a situation in which the host vehicle is operated, and at least two of said events are different from one another; b. selecting at least one set of said events that are related to a situation in which the host vehicle is operated; c. providing for a set of data from at least one of a first set of data, a second set of data and a third set of data, wherein said first set of data is representative of a target in a field of view of the host vehicle, said second set of data is representative of the position or motion of the host vehicle, and said third set of data is representative of an environment of said host vehicle; d. selecting an inference method for a first inference engine, wherein said inference engine comprises at least one input and an output; e. selecting as a first input to said inference engine at least one element of said first set of data, said second set of data and said third set of data; and f. generating a first output from said first inference engine responsive to said first input, wherein said first output is representative of a probability of occurrence of at least one event of said set of said events. |
20020070363 | 10005637 | 0 | 1. A defect inspection method for detecting surface errors in a three-dimensional shape, comprising: repetitively scanning a light beam in a linear pattern on a first work; said first work being a reference work having a desired surface shape; storing reference images of said linear pattern on said first work, together with related information about positions of said light beam to produce a first matrix value at each position of said light beam; repetitively scanning said light beam in said linear pattern on a second work; said second work being an inspected work; storing inspected images of said linear pattern on said second work, together with related information about positions of said light beam to produce a second matrix value at each position of said light beam; finding a set of differences between each element of said first matrix and each corresponding element of said second matrix: defining as defect candidates elements of said set of differences in which said difference exceeds a most frequent difference by a predetermined value; and determining a presence of defects based on states of said defect candidates. |
20130124977 | 13734620 | 0 | 1. A method for editing a web page comprising: identifying a plurality of server-side executable components that collectively form a programmatic representation of a first Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) web page, wherein server-side execution of the server-side executable components causes the first web page to be dynamically generated, at least one of the server-side executable components providing content that dynamically changes in response to execution of the one server-side executable component; generating a second HTML web page that substantially emulates visually the first HTML web page and comprising a plurality of parameters displayable by a client device, each parameter providing a client-side representation of a corresponding one of the server-side executable components, the second HTML web page enabling a standard HTML editor in the client device to make one or more modifications to at least one of the parameters in the second HTML web page; interpreting one or more modifications made by the client device to at least one of the parameters as a request for modification of at least a first of the server-side executable components into a modified server-side executable component; and generating, based at least in part on the interpretation, a programmatic representation of a third web page based on modifying the first of the server-side executable components into the modified server-side executable component, enabling the third web page to be dynamically generated by server-side execution of the modified server-side executable component. |
20160034466 | 14539792 | 0 | 1. A method, comprising: obtaining, with a processor, a search term from a first user at a user device via a network interface; generating, based on the search term, an initial result including a first group of content items as stored in a content database, the content items from a social network, the content items including member profiles of members of the social network; ranking, with the processor, each of the content items of the first group based, at least in part, on information indicative of interactions from an activity database with the content items of the first group, the interactions being by at least a second user of the social network different than the first user, the activity database storing the information indicative of the interactions related to the social network with search results that include ones of the content items; and causing the user device to display a second group of the content items, including at least some of the first group of the content items, according to the rank of the first group of the content items. |
20090132540 | 11918266 | 0 | 1. A method of obtaining context information from a context server maintaining a context for an object of interest in a telecommunication network, said context server receiving raw context data from sensors associated with the object of interest and processing the raw context data in a context refiner according to predefined rules in order to derive or calculate refined context information from the raw context data, comprising the following steps: receiving, from a requesting party, a request for refined context information with reference to said object of interest, collecting individual context data for at least one individual entity of said requesting party, creating a customized rule on the basis of the received individual context data by aggregating the collected individual context data and the received context information request, said customized rule defining conditions in an adapted request for refined context information regarding the object of interest, sending said adapted request including the customized rule to the context server of said object of interest, wherein the context server produces refined context information from the raw context data according to the customized rule, and receiving, from the context server, context information refined according to said customized rule. |
20140033197 | 14042619 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: accessing a model of a workload to be installed on a virtual machine of a system; accessing a model of the system; and generating an installation specification for the workload, the installation specification being derived at least in part from the model of the workload and the model of the system. |
8990294 | 13449459 | 1 | 1. A method, in a data processing system, for optimization of a map/reduce distributed file system by log data analysis, the method comprising: initiating, by a name node in the distributed file system, a log analysis map/reduce job on one or more connected data nodes via a map/reduce processing framework in the distributed file system, wherein initiating a log analysis map/reduce job on the one or more connected data nodes comprises initiating a plurality of algorithms to run on the one or more connected data nodes, wherein the plurality of algorithms accomplish the same goal installed on each of the one or more connected data nodes; receiving, by the name node, result data resulting from the log analysis map/reduce job from the one or more connected data nodes via the map/reduce processing framework in the distributed file system; performing, by the name node, analysis on the received result data, wherein performing analysis on the received result data comprises performing data mining on the received result data to identify patterns to predict which algorithms among the plurality of algorithms have a best performance on each given data node or across data nodes within the one or more connected data nodes; generating, by the name node, an optimization plan for the one or more connected data nodes based on results of the analysis and using the identified patterns, wherein generating the optimization plan comprises configuring each given data node within the one or more connected data nodes to use its corresponding predicted algorithm; and initiating, by the name node, the optimization plan on the one or more connected data nodes via the map/reduce processing framework in the distributed file system. |
20090106605 | 12252128 | 0 | 1. A method for monitoring a system, comprising: executing a health check to determine information related to the system, wherein the health check is invoked based upon a predefined schedule or in response to one or more conditions detected in the system; and outputting the information related to the system determined from executing the health check. |
7907282 | 12136219 | 1 | 1. An integrated sensing module, said sensing module comprising: an optical filter assembly and a light or energy sensitive array, the optical filter assembly and the light or energy sensitive array forming a solid-state device either matched directly in spectral response to a source, or capable of responding to wavelengths over a broad spectral range from one or more sources, the optical filter assembly and the light or energy sensitive array being aligned for direct coupling to one another thereby forming interfacing optics and preserving spectral resolution of the optical filter assembly; system optics; one or more on-board processors; and a memory for storing reference spectral data recorded in the absence of analyte material, the reference spectral data being used to provide a ratio of energy detected by a sample measurement and energy obtained from the reference spectral data, thereby providing a direct measure of the energy absorbed by the sample and system optics. |
7650231 | 11113941 | 1 | 1. An apparatus for determining transportation routes using a geographical information systems (GIS) database that represents a geographical area, wherein the GIS database includes at least one node representing at least one geographical location within the geographic area and at least one arc representing at least one street within the geographic area, comprising: at least one airborne surveillance platform; a computer system having a memory and a data storage device coupled thereto, the computer system receiving information from the airborne surveillance platform; one or more programs, performed by the computer, for: converting the information received from the airborne surveillance platform into a format acceptable to the data storage device; and determining a transportation route for at least one vehicle within the geographical area using the information from the airborne surveillance platform. |
8572233 | 10891989 | 1 | 1. A method for identifying properties of a plurality of web page traversal paths, comprising: acquiring data from a plurality of sessions corresponding to said plurality of web page traversal paths; grouping, by a computer, said web page traversal paths into web page categories, wherein grouping said web page traversal paths into said web page categories includes correlating traffic amount relationships between specific ones of a plurality of web pages in said web page traversal paths to identify said web page categories, wherein correlating the traffic amount relationships between the specific web pages comprises correlating the specific web pages based on an amount of traffic between the specific web pages; using, by the computer, the web page categories to map the plurality of sessions to new sessions; clustering, by the computer, said new sessions according to a similarity measure into a plurality of web session clusters, wherein clustering said new sessions comprises defining the similarity measure between sessions, and partitioning said new sessions into said plurality of web session clusters according to said similarity measure; and selecting, by the computer, one of said plurality of web session clusters most closely exhibiting at least one predefined metric from said plurality of web session clusters for analysis of properties of a web page traversal path contained therein. |
9602339 | 15132857 | 1 | 1. A method for supporting event handling in a distributed data grid, said method comprising: providing an event model in the distributed data grid, wherein the event model operates to raise a plurality of events associated with a plurality of operations in the distributed data grid wherein said plurality of events are selected from the group consisting of StorageEvents for storage operations in the distributed data grid, and TransactionEvents for start transaction operations in the distributed data grid, commit transaction operations in the distributed data grid, and rollback transaction operations in the distributed data grid; providing a plurality of event interceptors which each map to one of said plurality of events by registering each event interceptor for said one of said plurality of events with a registry associated with the distributed data grid, wherein more than one of said plurality of event interceptors may be registered for each of said plurality of events; raising a particular event of the plurality of events in response to an associated particular operation of said plurality of operations; calling, with an event dispatcher, a particular one or more event interceptors of said plurality of event interceptors registered for the particular event in response to raising of said particular event; handling, with said particular one or more event interceptors, the particular event; dispatching said particular event from the event dispatcher for processing of the particular operation only after all of the particular one or more event interceptors registered for the particular event have been called by the event dispatcher; whereby the event dispatcher defers completion of the particular operation of said plurality of operations in the distributed data grid pending completion of the handling of the particular event by the particular one or more event interceptors called by the event dispatcher. |
10108709 | 15829055 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving video data for a first video; deconstructing the video data of the first video into a plurality of context windows, wherein each of the context windows comprises at least one of: an image frame of a segment of the first video from the video data, and an audio frame of a segment the first video from the video data; performing, on each context window of the plurality of context windows that includes an image frame, a video analytic function on the image frame to identify one or more characteristics of the context window that are associated with image-related content of the first video; performing, on each context window of the plurality of context windows that includes an audio frame, a video analytic function on the audio frame to identify one or more characteristics of the context window that are associated with audio-related content of the first video; generating, for each of the plurality of context windows, a respective local atomic unit comprising attributes derived from the identified one or more characteristics of the respective context window, to form a plurality of local atomic units; generating a local graph representation of the first video, comprising a plurality of nodes corresponding to the plurality of local atomic units, wherein generating the local graph representation comprises applying local graph edges connecting the plurality of nodes to each other, wherein the local graph edges represent relationships between the connected nodes based, at least in part, on the attributes of the corresponding local atomic units; generating a global graph representation of a plurality of videos that includes the first video, wherein nodes of the global graph representation are derived from respective local graph representations of respective videos of the plurality of videos; generating a global atomic unit comprising the local graph representation and attributes derived from the local graph representation, wherein the global graph representation includes a first node corresponding to a global atomic unit corresponding to the first video and a plurality of second nodes corresponding to respective global atomic units of respective second videos of the plurality of videos; receiving a query, from a user, of the global graph representation for information associated with content of the plurality of videos; and producing, in response to the query and by analyzing the global graph representation, a response for the user, the response including the information associated with the content of the plurality of videos. |
20030204866 | 10436158 | 0 | 1. A process for selecting a cotton plant which exhibits genetically-controlled herbicide resistance that is not attributable to genetic engineering comprising: (a) cold stressing cotton seeds in a humid atmosphere, (b) planting said cotton seeds following step (a) to produce cotton plants, (c) self-pollinating cotton plants produced in step (b) and forming cotton seeds thereon as the result of said self-pollination, (d) maintaining said cotton seeds produced in step (c) for sufficient time to reach maturity, (e) soaking said mature cotton seeds from step (d) in a liquid comprising a herbicide for a period of time sufficient for the herbicide to reach the embryos of the cotton seeds, (f) planting said cotton seeds following said soaking of step (e) in a growing medium and producing at least one cotton plant that displays resistance to said herbicide, (g) analyzing a portion of a plant from at least one cotton plant produced in step (f) or a descendant plant thereof to confirm the absence of a foreign gene for herbicide resistance introduced by genetic engineering, and (h) selecting a cotton plant from step (g) which exhibits genetically-controlled herbicide resistance that is not attributable to a foreign gene for herbicide resistance introduced by genetic engineering. |
9357219 | 14455549 | 1 | 1. A video decoding apparatus that executes a decoding processing for input encoded data for each block, comprising: a variable-length decoding portion that decodes a partition structure of a block to be processed from the input encoded data; a predictive image producing portion that produces a predictive image for each partition that is specified by the partition structure; and a transform candidate deriving portion that determines a list of transform candidate that is a list of applicable transforms based on partition shape information, which partition shape information characterizes each partition with respect to at least one of partition size, a feature of partition size, and a layer in the partition structure, wherein the variable-length-decoding portion decodes a transform selection flag based on the input encoded data and the list of transform candidate as well as decodes a transform coefficient of the block to be processed based on the transform selection flag, the video decoding apparatus further comprises: a prediction residual reconstructing potion that reconstructs a prediction residual by applying inverse transforms to the transform coefficient, the inverse transforms corresponding to transforms, the transforms being specified by the transform selection flag; and a local decoded image producing portion that outputs decoded image data based on the predictive image and the prediction residual, the decoded image data corresponding to the block to be processed; wherein the partition structure is expressed by a layer structure, and specifies that each partition is included in either layer corresponding to a shape of the partition. |
9964654 | 13851327 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: providing data from at least two data sets in a continuous color model that comprises at least two color axes; transforming the data from the continuous color model to a hue, saturation and value color model to generate at least saturation data; applying an edge detection algorithm to the saturation data to generate enhanced data; and rendering at least a portion of the enhanced data to a display. |
20160106358 | 14893552 | 0 | 1. A method of diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease (AD) in a subject, the method comprising: tracking eye movements of the subject; identifying microsaccades from the tracked eye movements; characterizing one or more dynamics of each of the microsaccades, the dynamics including a direction of the microsaccade; comparing the one or more characterized dynamics to corresponding healthy microsaccade dynamics of a healthy subject; assessing, from the comparing step, differences between the one or more determined dynamics and the corresponding healthy microsaccade dynamics to determine a presence of AD; and generating a report including one or more diagnoses related to AD of the patient, the diagnoses being based on the differences between the one or more determined dynamics and the corresponding healthy microsaccade dynamics. |
7773670 | 09874872 | 1 | 1. A method of encoding video content, the method comprising: assigning a predefined quantization model to each of at least two regions of interest of video content, wherein a respective region of interest of the at least two regions of interest comprises a rectangular-based region covering less than a full frame identified on a frame-by-frame basis by a first descriptor associated with top left corner coordinates of a first sub-segment in the respective region of interest and a second descriptor associated with a last sub-segment in the region of interest, wherein the first descriptor and the last descriptor define a defined structure of the respective region of interest based on a number of sub-segments in the respective region of interest, wherein the respective region of interest includes an arbitrarily shaped object in a portion of the respective region of interest that is smaller than the defined structure of the respective region of interest; and encoding at an encoder of a plurality of encoders each of the at least two regions of interest based on the predefined quantization model assigned to the defined structure of the respective region of interest, the encoder using quantization model information to encode each of the at least two regions of interest differently based on the assigned predefined quantization model. |
9467000 | 13907535 | 1 | 1. A method for monitoring a battery pack, the battery pack comprising a plurality of modules and a pack controller, each module comprising a corresponding module controller, the method comprising, for each module: measuring a module current; measuring a module voltage; comparing the measured module current and the measured module voltage to state of health (SOH) data in at least one dynamic look-up table; and determining, by the module controller, a state of charge for the module based on the comparison of the measured module current and the measured module voltage to the SOH data in the at least one dynamic look-up table. |
20130263282 | 13783867 | 0 | 1. A biometric authentication device comprising: a memory, and a processor to execute an operation by executing a program stored in the memory, the operation including: obtaining biometric information from a user; creating verification characteristic data from the biometric information; verifying registered characteristic data registered in a storage device with the verification characteristic data and determining whether the user is a true user; permitting execution of re-authentications up to a predetermined number of times when the user is determined to not be the true user; managing the verification characteristic data by storing the verification characteristic data used in the verifying in an existing group, or by creating a new group and storing the verification characteristic data used in the verifying therein, when the user is determined to not be the true user; determining whether the user is a false user based on the number of groups; and limiting the execution of re-authentications by the user when the user is determined to be the false user. |
7885222 | 11537521 | 1 | 1. A method for scheduling tasks for execution by a mobile device, comprising: scheduling a task to be executed by the mobile device; defining a connectivity prerequisite for the task; receiving connectivity state information associated with the mobile device; comparing the connectivity prerequisite to the connectivity state information; executing the task responsive to the connectivity state information satisfying the connectivity prerequisite; rescheduling the task responsive to the connectivity state information failing to satisfy the connectivity prerequisite; identifying a change of connectivity state of the mobile device responsive to establishing or changing connectivity with one of a plurality of communication interfaces in the mobile device; updating the connectivity state information responsive to identifying the change in connectivity state; comparing the connectivity prerequisite to the updated connectivity state information responsive to identifying the change in connectivity state; and executing the task responsive to the updated connectivity state information satisfying the connectivity prerequisite after the change in connectivity state. |
9619652 | 12917400 | 1 | 1. A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer readable program code being executable by a computer to perform operations, the operations comprising: identifying by a system a plurality of parameters associated with an entity's access to system data, where the plurality of parameters includes a data sharing rule assigned to the entity that enables the entity to create and grant specific system data access to another entity, the specific system data access including access to one or more elements of the system data; determining by the system a selection of one of a plurality of algorithms, where each of the plurality of algorithms is used to determine a risk score for the entity in accordance with a plurality of predetermined categories of risk, wherein the plurality of predetermined categories of risk includes one or more of: data loss by the system in association with the entity, data theft by the entity, or insider trading by the entity; determining by the system a predetermined number of points assigned to each of the plurality of parameters according to the selected algorithm, determining by the system a plurality of weighted numbers respectively corresponding to the plurality of parameters, wherein determining a given one of the weighted numbers respectively corresponding to a given one of the parameters includes multiplying the predetermined number of points assigned to the given parameter by a weight associated with the given parameter by the selected algorithm, determining by the system the risk score for the entity by summing the weighted numbers respectively corresponding to the plurality of parameters; identifying by the system that the entity is attempting to perform one or more actions within the system; and preventing by the system the performance of the one or more actions when the system determines that the risk score for the entity is higher than a predetermined threshold. |
20100005528 | 12166341 | 0 | 1. A method for hooking applications to monitor and prevent execution of security-sensitive operations, the method comprising the steps of: (a) reading at least one configuration parameter list from a configuration module; (b) hooking, by a hooking engine, a hooking point in an application, wherein said hooking point is defined in said configuration module; (c) calling, by said application, said hooking point during operation of said application; (d) matching at least one hooking parameter in said hooking point to at least one configuration parameter in said at least one configuration parameter list; and (e) upon detecting a match between said hooking parameter and at least one configuration parameter, performing at least one configuration-defined action. |
10148528 | 14832679 | 1 | 1. A system comprising: a communication interface configured to receive a selection of a computing environment for provisioning from a resource requester; placement circuitry in communication with the communication interface, the placement circuitry configured to: determine placement options for a resource type for implementing the computing environment; and obtain, from the resource requester, a selected placement from among the placement options through the communication interface; type translation circuitry configured to: determine a service provider region corresponding to the selected placement; and reference a translation table defining a mapping between the resource type and a destination type for provisioning in the service provider region, wherein the translation table includes a translation identifier for mapping an input table corresponding to the resource type and an output table corresponding to the destination type, and wherein the translation table also includes a path field to an executable script that, when executed, facilitates translation of the resource type to the destination type; after referencing the translation table and prior to initiating provisioning of the destination type within the service provider region, translate the resource type to the destination type based on execution of the executable script; job preparation circuitry configured to prepare a new job and new tasks that implement the new job for provisioning the destination type; and provisioning workflow circuitry configured to initiate provisioning of the destination type within the service provider region. |
20120310505 | 13118985 | 0 | 1. A system for an engine, the system comprising: a first module that determines an expected response of crankshaft speed due to combustion within a cylinder of the engine; a second module that determines a value based on the expected response and a measured response of crankshaft speed due to combustion within the cylinder of the engine; a third module that estimates an indicated mean effective pressure (IMEP) for the cylinder of the engine based on the value; and a fourth module that selectively adjusts an operating parameter of the engine based in the estimated IMEP. |
10133479 | 13952621 | 1 | 1. A method of text entry for an electronic device, the method comprising: (a) generating a sequence of letter entries from a sequence of keystrokes, wherein for any word a user want to input, a single keystrokes generates a letter entry for a single letter location of the word, and wherein the keystrokes performed over a keyboard with a plurality of keys partitioned into multiple regions, at least one region comprising one or more adjacent keys which are activated by a first keystroke and a plurality of second keystrokes, said first keystroke is configured to output a letter group entry which generates a group of possible letters at a letter location of the word and each keystroke from said plurality of second keystrokes is configured to output a single letter entry which generates a single letter to a letter location of a word, and said group of possible letters generated by said first keystroke only comprises letters generated by all said second keystrokes; (b) creating a list of possible words, each possible word is a word that is created from a combination of possible letters at each step of said sequence of letter entries that matches with a word in a priori database of words; (c) displaying said list of possible words to the user; and (d) receiving from the user a selected word in said list of possible words and providing the selected word for further processing. |
20100161651 | 12343371 | 0 | 1. A computer readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions to: specify a set of database tables defining vertices and database joins defining oriented edges to form a graph, wherein the oriented edges specify directionality characterizing dependent relationships between database tables; identify a query path in the graph; split the graph into a set of directed acyclic graphs, wherein each directed acyclic graph has a single root vertex that does not form a path to itself through oriented edges; remove selected oriented edges from each directed acyclic graph to form a tree corresponding to each directed acyclic graph, wherein the tree is a sub-graph of a directed acyclic graph without loops and one list of joins relates any two database tables in the tree; generate a database query for each tree; apply the database query to database tables to form query results; and display the query results. |
20070198926 | 10590306 | 0 | 1. A process for controlling computerized equipment with a device comprising a multi-contact bidimensional sensor that acquires tactile information and a calculator that generates command signals as a function of the tactile information, comprising: generating graphical objects on a screen placed under a transparent multi-contact tactile sensor, each graphical object associated with at least one specific processing rule such that the sensor delivers during each acquisition phase a plurality of tactile information, and each piece of the tactile information forms an object of a specific processing determined by its localization relative to a position of one of the graphical objects. |
20070174263 | 11329687 | 0 | 1. A method of obtaining a value via a rule engine implemented by a collection object in an object-oriented application, said method comprising: receiving a request for a value from an object-oriented application, said request including a key and being directed to a method of a collection object associated with said object-oriented application, wherein said collection object is capable of storing said key, storing data associated with said key, and providing said data in response to said receiving said request; responsive to said receiving, processing said request by a rule engine external to said object-oriented application, said processing replacing said providing said data by said collection object via said method of said collection object being overridden to invoke said rule engine; identifying, via said processing said request, a rule included in a rule definition file external to said application, said identifying based on said rule being associated with said key included in said request, said rule definition file including an algorithm associated with said rule; and executing said algorithm via said processing said request, said executing providing said value. |
20150074506 | 14020723 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented system for implementing a shared renderer, comprising: an application interaction module configured to interact with two or more applications, each application providing an augmented reality experience; and a data store for storing shared state information, the shared state information including: objects created by said two or more applications; property information, identifying zero, one, or more object properties associated with each object; and permission information, identifying a set of permissions associated with each object property; the application interaction module being configured to: identify an update which affects a particular object property; modify the shared state information based on the update; identify zero, one, or more applications that are entitled to receive information regarding the particular object property, based on permission information associated with the particular object property; and send information regarding the particular object property to said zero, one, or more applications. |