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8626433 | 12565834 | 1 | 1. An information delivery system comprising: at least one processor executing the following computer-executable components: a receiver component that receives information about at least one of movement, velocity, acceleration, and location of a user over time; a computation component that determines a time when the user will be stopped based at least in part upon the received information; and an alerting component that determines when to provide the user with an alert based at least in part on a cost associated with deferring provision of the alert to the user, wherein the cost is based at least in part on availability of the user to review the alert, and the availability of the user is determined based at least in part upon the determined time when the user will be stopped. |
5392410 | 07876646 | 1 | 1. An apparatus for faster data access in a computer system from a virtual address, comprising: a cache memory for storing data lines, each of said data lines stored in said cache memory being stored and accessed in accordance with a subset of real address bits from a real address of said each data line, said subset of real address bits including at least one real address bit that is translated when a real address is generated from a corresponding virtual address; a cache directory for storing a real address corresponding to said each data line stored in said cache memory; a history table for predicting said at least one real address bit from a virtual address for a desired data line before completion of actual translation of said virtual address for said desired data line to a corresponding real address for said data line; cache memory accessing control means responsive to said at least one predicted real address bit from said history table for provisionally outputting from said cache memory at least one data line that corresponds to said at least one predicted real address bit; address translation means for generating a true real address that actually corresponds to said virtual address; and verification means for comparing said true real address with said stored real address corresponding to each of said at least one data line. |
7603460 | 11047189 | 1 | 1. A computer-readable storage medium including computer-executable instructions facilitating diagnosis of communications problems experienced by a first wireless device in a wireless network, wherein the first wireless device is either a wireless computing device or a wireless access point, the computer-executable instructions executing on the first wireless device and performing the steps of: determining that a communications problem exists in the wireless network; broadcasting a request to one or more neighboring wireless devices for assistance in diagnosing the communications problem, wherein the neighboring wireless devices that hear the request for assistance switch to an eavesdropping mode; responding to diagnostic session requests sent by a second wireless device in a diagnostic session; and receiving information about the diagnostic session from at least one of the neighboring wireless devices in the eavesdropping mode, which serves as an eavesdropping client, the information about the diagnostic session based on monitoring, by the eavesdropping client, of times of receipt of the diagnostic session requests sent by the second wireless device to the first wireless device and of times of receipt of corresponding diagnostic session responses sent by the first wireless device to the second wireless device, the received information about the diagnostic session facilitating diagnosis of the communications problem. |
9977141 | 14818958 | 1 | 1. A scientific method for transforming seismic data into a subsurface physical property model, comprising: constructing the subsurface physical property model by performing tomographic inversion of the seismic data, using a computer, with residual depth errors reconstructed using property scanning; wherein the physical property is one of velocity, a vector component of velocity, one or more anisotropy parameters, and any other property of a medium that affects a kinematic property of propagation of acoustic waves, wherein the residual depth errors are reconstructed using the following relationship at each imaging point
DA(v m -v f ) where A is a matrix built from ray tracing, v m is a base migration model of the property, v f is a model of the property as picked from a property scan of migrated seismic data, and deviation operator D is defined by its operation on an arbitrary n-dimensional vector a={a j }: ( Da ) j = a j - ∑ i a i n where indices i and j denote different source-receiver offsets among a total of n offsets present in the migrated seismic data, wherein the property model is constructed by computing an update to the base migration model, said update Δv being given by solving
(DA)Δv=Dz m where z m is migrated depth, and wherein the property scanning includes, choosing a suite of property models, generating tables of depth errors for each property model in the suite using the matrix A, forming images by migrating the seismic data using each property model in the suite, picking a focusing property at a plurality of image points, and using the tables of depth errors, finding a depth error that corresponds to each focusing property. |
10074199 | 14900460 | 1 | 1. A tissue mapping system for constructing an idealized representation of a patient's scanned breast comprising: a recording system comprising a controller in communication with an imaging probe, the controller configured to electronically receive and record the scanned images from the imaging probe, to correlate recorded position of a region of interest to an idealized position of the region of interest on an idealized depiction of the anatomy and a position tracking system comprising at least one position and orientation sensor configured to provide data corresponding to the position and three-dimensional orientation of the imaging probe by generating position data for the scanned image from a plurality of position sensors providing data about positions of the imaging probe; electronically communicating the position data from the plurality of position sensors to a tissue map processor, wherein based on the position data the processor identifies a coronal plane for the patient, a first anterior-posterior projection through a tissue reference point to the coronal plane, and a second anterior-posterior projection through a probe reference point to the coronal plane; computing a relative angle between the first and second projections and medial-lateral vector through the tissue reference point; computing a distance between the first and second projections; constructing an idealized breast map based on the relative angle and distance computed; conforming the geometry of the recorded image to the idealized breast map; and depicting a recorded tissue feature in the idealized breast map by translating the recorded position of the tissue feature in the scanned image to a corresponding position in the idealized breast map. |
8775913 | 12751966 | 1 | 1. A method for computing one or more of a soft data value and a log likelihood ratio for a received value in one or more of a communication system and a memory device, comprising: obtaining at least one received value; identifying a segment of a function corresponding to said received value, wherein said function is defined over a plurality of segments, wherein each of said segments has an associated segment-dependent variance; and calculating said one or more of said soft data value and said log likelihood ratio using said segment-dependent variance associated with said identified segment, wherein one or more steps of said method are performed by at least one hardware device. |
20140193071 | 13899003 | 0 | 1. An apparatus of detecting and recognizing an object using a local binary pattern, comprising: a feature map creator configured to extract an object area in which a moving object exists from an input image, to create a local binary pattern by designating a local area in the object area, and to create a vector component map comprising information about magnitude vector components and direction vector components using the local binary pattern; a feature map configuring unit configured to divide the object area into a plurality of blocks and to create a feature vector map through a histogram using the vector component map in a unit of the block; and an object detector configured to detect and classify a moving object based on the feature vector map. |
5473596 | 08164500 | 1 | 1. A method of monitoring a plurality of alarm signals generated by a plurality of network elements, said method comprising the steps of: collecting said plurality of alarm signals; cross-referencing a plurality of network processing circuits associated with said plurality of alarm signals to a plurality of DS-1 facilities; correlating said plurality of DS-1 facilities to customer circuit identification information; and routing DS-0 alarm information, based upon the steps of cross-referencing and correlating, to at least one of a plurality of user locations. |
20160282325 | 15068338 | 0 | 1. A method of analyzing a population of cells, comprising: i) obtaining an array of cells on a substrate, wherein the cells are labeled with one or more mass tags and are separated from one another; ii) measuring, using secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS), the abundance of the one or more mass tags at a plurality of locations occupied by the cells, thereby generating, for each individual cell measured, a set of data; and iii) outputting the set of data for each of the cells analyzed. |
20100179668 | 12552013 | 0 | 1. A low noise linear actuator, comprising: a rotary motor comprising a motor shaft output; and a screw transmission assembly comprising a threaded shaft coupled to the motor shaft output, the threaded shaft comprising a hollowed out portion containing an acoustic damping material, a nut assembly, wherein the screw transmission assembly translates rotational motion of the motor shaft output to a linear motion of the nut assembly. |
10162602 | 15201882 | 1 | 1. A method for using a collection of user-level events, said method comprising for each application event to be entered in a computer application: retrieving from the collection of user-level events, a corresponding user-level event and a transformation of a sequence of input events into the corresponding user-level event, said transformation having associated therewith the contexts of the computer application in which the corresponding user-level event can be fired and/or wait for; and only if a context of the computer application belongs to the contexts associated to the transformation: obtaining an executable form of the transformation, whenever the contextual parameters of said transformation define that said transformation should be called; configuring at least one of the application and an environment of the application for sending, to the transformation, a series of bit patterns as sequences of input events expected as inputs to the transformation; wherein obtaining an executable form of the transformation comprises compiling a source code corresponding to the transformation, in order to generate said executable form. |
9047328 | 13681347 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: identifying, for a plurality of entities and a plurality of keys stored in a data structure in a data storage unit, a plurality of entity-key associations, wherein each of the entity-key associations includes an entity and a key that are associated with each other; creating, for each of the entity-key associations, an entity-key association string by concatenating an entity identification (ID) of the entity in the entity-key association with a key ID of the key in the entity-key association, to produce a plurality of entity-key association strings; storing the entity-key association strings and a plurality of association value IDs in a plurality of shards, the association value IDs used for retrieving association values of the entity-key associations represented by the entity-key association strings; and distributing the shards to a plurality of servers in a computer network. |
20130184904 | 13603610 | 0 | 1. A method of displaying, to an operator of a vehicle having at least one generally forward-facing window, information relevant to hazards existing or expected in connection with ground deceleration of the vehicle, the method comprising: a. electronically processing information relating to vehicle-performance hazards existing or expected in connection with ground deceleration of a vehicle; and b. displaying the processed information in the normal forward-looking field of vision of the operator through the window. |
20050044289 | 10729138 | 0 | 1. A disk scheduling system, comprising: at least one queue to hold a subset of Input/Output requests directed to a storage medium; and a scheduling component that employs a predetermined number of the requests within a round to provide a particular latency level and maintain a particular throughput level in connection with storage medium updates. |
9736189 | 13974998 | 1 | 1. A method for operating a service capability interaction manager which provides for orchestrating a plurality of applications, arranged as an application chain based on an initial message, for processing messages of a session, the method comprising: configuring respective application criteria for each application of said plurality of applications, wherein each application criteria indicate whether a message of the session is to be processed by a corresponding application of said application chain when the application chain processes the message of the session; receiving a non-initial request associated with the session from an originating party at the service capability interaction manager; comparing said non-initial request to the respective application criteria of each of application in said application chain; routing said non-initial request to each application in said application chain, for processing, when said non-initial request satisfies corresponding application criteria; bypassing processing of the non-initial request by each application in said application chain for which said non-initial request does not satisfy corresponding application criteria; recording said non-initial request for each application bypassed in a respective applications-by-passed requests lists; forwarding the non-initial request, after processing by the application chain, from the service capability interaction manager to a terminating party; receiving a non-final response from the terminating party at the service capability interaction manager; routing said non-final response to each application in said application chain when the non-initial request does not appear in the corresponding applications-by-passed-requests list respectively associated with each application in the application chain; bypassing processing of the non-final response by each application in said application chain for which the non-initial request appears in the corresponding applications-by-passed-requests list respectively associated with each application in the application chain; and forwarding the non-final response from the service capability interaction manager to the originating party. |
8276059 | 11694020 | 1 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a collection of one or more data storage devices storing information; and a display device comprising a visual rendition of a table that systematically arranges the information stored at the one or more data storage devices in a collection of rows and columns, wherein the table includes information associated with a collection of items, wherein the visual rendition of the table is configured to replace a row selected by a user with a region configured to render at least one of a plurality of categories of additional detail for a first item included in a user-selected row in the collection of rows, wherein the additional detail is stored at the one or more data storage devices and is available to be rendered in the region, wherein the region is disposed below a first row disposed immediately above the user-selected row prior to the user selection and above a second row disposed immediately below the selected row prior to the user selection, wherein the region includes a plurality of interactive display elements, each configured for selection by a human user and corresponding to a particular category of additional detail in the plurality of categories of additional detail, each interactive display element operable, when selected, to trigger rendering, in the region, of a category of the stored and available additional detail corresponding to the selected interactive display element. |
20070208655 | 11744910 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a first and a second of one of buy side orders and sell side orders for an item, each of the first and the second orders specifying a plurality of terms comprising a near date and a far date, wherein at least one of the near date of the first order and the near date of the second order are mis-matched, and the far date or the first order and the far date of the second order are mis-matched; receiving a query for one of buy side orders and sell side orders, the query specifying a plurality of terms comprising a near date and a far date; identifying automatically in response to the query a set of orders comprising at least the first and second orders based on the near date of the first order occurring within a period of time from the near date of the query and the far date of the second order occurring within a period of time from the far date of the query, wherein the first and second orders are contra-side orders to the query and wherein at least one of the near date of the second order is mis-matched with the near date of the query and the far date of the first order is mis-matched with the far date of the query. |
8862595 | 13300364 | 1 | 1. A method performed by data processing apparatus, the method comprising: receiving a query in a source language, the query including one or more query terms; determining one or more target languages relevant to the query using one or more language scores associated with each of the one or more query terms, wherein determining one or more target languages relevant to the query includes: identifying terms related to the query for each related term, determining a language score for each of a plurality of languages; combining the language scores for each related term for each respective language of the plurality of languages; and determining one or more target languages relevant to the query, other than the source language, as corresponding to languages of the plurality of languages having a combined language score beyond a threshold score; translating the query into one or more translated queries in the respective one or more target languages; determining search results responsive to the respective one or more translated queries; and providing one or more of the search results. |
8789016 | 11321712 | 1 | 1. A method for providing a configurable software library comprising: receiving user input to specify a target setting for at least one configurable setting of a base software library along with a desired target language for comments, the base software library being designed to be configurable and comprising human-readable programming code, wherein the configurable settings of the base software library control a number of allowable communication sockets for the software to be created; identifying at least one code segment to be added to or removed from the base software library based on the target setting and the desired target language for the comments, wherein identifying the at least one code segment comprises identifying an exact location of the code segment that is to be removed; creating a modified software library by altering the base software library in accordance with the target settings in an automated manner utilizing a computer program, wherein the altering comprises removing a code segment at the exact location such that the base software library includes a first code segment that is not included in the modified software library, wherein the modified software library comprises human-readable programming code and the comments and/or the programming code in the modified software library are in the desired target language, wherein the base and modified software libraries comprise programming code for an embedded device; and compiling machine-readable code utilizing programming code that references the modified software library. |
20180140843 | 15356360 | 0 | 1. A method for determining a system response for a neuronal region of interest (ROI), the method comprising: positioning an electrode proximate to the neuronal ROI, wherein the electrode is electrically coupled to a neurostimulation (NS) system; delivering, from the NS system, a stimulation waveform from the electrode based on NS parameters; programming one or more processors for: measuring an evoked potential waveform resulting from the stimulation waveform; comparing at least one excitation pulse within the stimulation waveform to the evoked potential waveform to obtain a candidate response function; and identifying a neuronal system response for the neuronal ROI based on the candidate response function. |
9560399 | 14738376 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: storing, by a computing device, a watch history of shows for a user at a video delivery service that provides a service to send videos to a plurality of users, wherein the shows release recurring episodes in a season on the video delivery service; training, by the computing device, a machine learning predictor to determine selection probabilities for shows using the watch history of shows, the selection probability indicating a prediction the user will select the show to watch; receiving, by the computing device, a request for an episode of a show from a client device being used by the user; updating, by the computing device, the watch history of shows with an indication the episode of the show was watched; determining, by the computing device, a list of eligible shows for the watch list based on the updated watch history of shows for the user; receiving, by the computing device, user specific features for the list of eligible shows based on the updated user's watch history, wherein the updated user's watch history is used to determine unseen released episodes for at least a portion of the list of eligible shows; inputting, by the computing device, the user specific features and the list of eligible shows into the machine learning predictor to determine selection probabilities for each of the list of eligible shows, the selection probability indicating the prediction the user will select the show to watch and affected by a number of unseen released episodes for the show when the show has unseen released episodes; and dynamically updating, by the computing device, the watch list of shows for the user based on the selection probabilities of the list of eligible shows, wherein the watch list of shows orders the shows in an order in which the selection probability predicts that the user will select one or more of the list of eligible shows to watch. |
8135754 | 13008500 | 1 | 1. A method of playing back previously published content, comprising: identifying an age of the previously published content; and automatically adding visual ambience to the previously published content as a function of the age of the previously published content, so as to provide a visual but non-alphanumeric indication of an era associated with the age of the previously published content while playing back the previously published content. |
20120253688 | 13526248 | 0 | 1. A method for analyzing data generated by probe arrays, comprising: (a) receiving a first user selection of at least two data files and a second user selection identifying one or more subsets of intensity values within each data file, wherein each subset comprises one or more of the intensity values acquired from a biological probe array; (b) opening one of the data files; (c) identifying the intensity values associated with one or more of the selected subsets; (d) determining one or more parameters for processing; (e) storing the parameters and the identified intensity values; (f) closing the data file; (g) repeating steps (b)-(f) for each of the selected data files; and (h) processing each of the stored intensity values using the one or more parameters to identify one or more biological events. |
9791351 | 14616105 | 1 | 1. A system for detecting an anomaly in a combustion section of a gas turbine, the system comprising: a plurality of combustors associated with a combustion section; a plurality of thermal sensors disposed at an exhaust section of a gas turbine, wherein the thermal sensors are configured to provide exhaust profile data of the gas turbine; a processing circuit communicatively coupled to a memory, the memory storing instructions which when executed by the processing circuit perform operations comprising: receiving, from the plurality of thermal sensors, the exhaust profile data of the gas turbine; analyzing the exhaust profile data to calculate statistical features associated with a peak-trough pattern; determining, using an algorithm or model, that the statistical features are abnormal; and in response to the determination, continuing processing of the exhaust profile data for a predetermined period of time; and reporting an anomaly in the combustion section of the gas turbine when the statistical features remain abnormal for the predetermined period of time. |
10116623 | 15159732 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a request for access to a resource from a remote user device, the request received by an application-level firewall; associating a token with the request, by the application-level firewall, wherein the token is added to a session context and the token is injected into multiple events that originate from the request to service the request during the session to allow the application-level firewall to correlate the request with a corresponding session wherein associating a token with the request comprises the application-level firewall modifying logic of the request to include the token; storing the token and associated information in an event correlator communicatively coupled with the application-level firewall; associating the token with one or more subsequent actions by the resource in response to receiving the request, wherein the one or more subsequent actions comprises at least generating a database query based on the request, the database query including the token in logic of the database query; selectively applying one or more traffic management policies by the application-level firewall based on at least the session context having the token by at least identifying abnormalities in transactions through the application-level firewall utilizing at least a statistical model, wherein a total score is maintained over a session and can be updated by multiple host system entities; and transmitting a response to the request with the token to the remote user device via the application firewall, wherein the application-level firewall analyzes the response and determines an action to be taken on the response based on the token and the associated information. |
20170161556 | 15433707 | 0 | 1. An electronic device comprising: a rear facing camera and a depth sensor configured to capture a portion of a document or a book in an environment; two or more cameras configured to capture a first part of the environment and to capture a second part of the environment; a processor configured to identify the document or the book based on the captured portion, the captured first part of the environment, the captured second part of the environment, and information received via a network adapter; and wherein tracking information of furniture the identified document or the book has been previously located is retrieved. |
20040220911 | 10428263 | 0 | 1. A method for transforming a database statement containing a first subquery and a second subquery joined to the first subquery, the first subquery including a group by operation over a child subquery, the method comprising removing the first subquery from the database statement to remove the join between the first subquery and the second subquery. |
8779927 | 13227354 | 1 | 1. A method for detecting power outage, the method comprising: receiving a message from a device, the message indicating loss of power by the device; determining a feeder associated with the device; evaluating messages received from a first plurality of devices connected to the feeder; probing a second plurality of devices connected to the feeder, wherein a message indicating power loss has not been received from any device in the second plurality of devices; pausing for a predetermined period of time, prior to the probing, to allow for restoration of communications; and determining a power outage of the device. |
20170108995 | 14885313 | 0 | 1. A method, performed by one or more computing devices, for providing a customized experience to at least one user, comprising: receiving, by an information collection component, feedback information associated with a user from at least one feedback-providing point, the feedback information providing an assessment by the user of a program feature, the assessment being expressed, at least in part, by at least one comment made by the user; storing, by the information collection component, the feedback information in a user feedback profile associated with the user, in a data store; determining, by a modification determination component, a modification to be made to the program feature based on the user feedback profile associated with the user, said determining including automatically interpreting said at least one comment made by the user based on a linguistic content of said at least one comment; and making, by a modification component, the modification to the program feature to produce a modified program feature, the modified program feature producing a modified user experience when the user interacts with the modified program feature using a user computing device. |
9881356 | 15102057 | 1 | 1. A data processing method for processing hyperspectral image data of a scene, the method comprising: a) sequentially receiving portions of the data at a data buffer to form a data set comprising a predefined number of data portions; b) calculating a set of global statistical parameters and data correction factors using the data forming the data set; c) receiving a further data portion at the data buffer and simultaneously removing the earliest received data portion at the data buffer, from the data set, d) calculating a set of local statistical parameters using the data of the further data portion; e) updating the set of global statistical parameters using the set of local statistical parameters; f) correcting the data of the data portion removed from the data set using the correction factors; and g) outputting the corrected data portion and set of global statistical parameters calculated using the data set comprising the removed data portion, to a processor. |
20120254665 | 13111818 | 0 | 1. A method for generating functional tests for verifying code migrated from a first host to a second host, comprising: analyzing source code associated with the first host to extract user input scenarios; determining based on the analysis, an output response for each of the extracted user input scenarios; and generating functional tests for testing the code on the second host using the extracted user input scenarios and determined output responses. |
20080195560 | 12028830 | 0 | 1. A method for determining a licensing/billing fee for computer security software deployed in a host computer for protecting the host computer against a vulnerability attack, the method comprising the steps of: (a) collecting host attributes, characterizing performance of the security software in protecting the vulnerability attack, during a billing period for the security software; (b) determining an effective vulnerability protection measure of the host computer based on the attributes collected prior to the step (b); and (c) determining the licensing/billing fee for the security software based on the effective vulnerability protection measure. |
8560544 | 12882824 | 1 | 1. A computer implemented method for improved clustering of analytic functions in a data processing environment, the computer implemented method comprising: identifying a set of instances of an analytic function receiving data input from a set of data sources, a first subset of instances configured to receive input from a first subset of data sources, and a second subset of instances configured to receive input from a second subset of data sources, wherein the analytic function is described by an analytic function specification, an instance in the set of instances executing in the data processing environment, and wherein the analytic function performs an analytical computation when the instance executes in the data processing environment; assigning the set of instances to a cluster, wherein the cluster is a process within which the set of instances are configured to execute, and wherein the instances in the set of instances satisfy a condition; and beginning executing the cluster in a computer in the data processing environment when the first subset of data sources begins transmitting time series data input to the first subset of instances in the cluster. |
20150160752 | 14627708 | 0 | 1. A computer system comprising the following: one or more processors; one or more computer-readable storage media having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computer system to perform a method for accessing and controlling a remote desktop of a remote computing system using a multi-touch display of the local computing system, the method comprising: displaying a remote desktop on the multi-touch display of the local computing system; and upon detecting an initial point of user contact with the multi-touch display when the display is not engaged as a trackpad, engaging the multi-touch display as a trackpad; and initiating a cursor pointer for controlling the multi-touch display as the trackpad, the cursor pointer's position being independent of the initial point of user contact, the cursor being controllable from any part of the multi-touch display. |
8578335 | 11643534 | 1 | 1. A method to provide warranty services by the manufacturer of a product comprising a computer readable medium comprising computer readable code, comprising: supplying an engineering server external to said product and comprising a database associating product failure information with known error conditions and with fault symptom codes; supplying a product failure alert assembly external to said product and comprising memory, microcode written to said memory, one or more test algorithms written to said memory, and a processor, wherein said product failure alert assembly is in communication with said product; supplying a computing device external to said engineering server, and external to said product failure alert device, and external to said product, wherein said computing device comprises a configuration control database, wherein said configuration control database comprises one or more code updates associated with said one or more fault symptom codes; supplying, a first communication link interconnecting said product and said product failure alert assembly, a second communication link interconnecting said product failure alert assembly and said engineering server, wherein said first communication link differs from said second communication link, a third communication link interconnecting said engineering server with said configuration control database wherein said third communication link differs from said first communication link and said second communications link, and a fourth communication link interconnecting said engineering server with a product application engineer, wherein said four communication link differs from said first communication link, and said second communication link, and said third communication link; detecting an error condition in said product; providing product failure information to said engineering server by said product failure alert assembly; identifying one or more error conditions using said product failure information; identifying one or more fault symptom codes associated with said one or more error conditions; determining if said configuration control database comprises one or more code updates associated with said one or more fault symptom codes; operative if said configuration control database comprises one or more code updates associated with said one or more fault symptom codes; providing said one or more code updates to said product failure alert assembly; and installing by said product failure alert assembly said one or more code updates on said product; running one or more test algorithms to determine whether the installed one or more code updates eliminate said one or more error conditions; and if the installed one or more code updates do not eliminate said one or more error conditions, then continue to perform the steps of providing, identifying, installing to provide one or more other code updates that eliminate said one or more error conditions. |
20080310733 | 11763989 | 0 | 1. A method for rendering a façade of a structure, comprising: identifying a horizontal waveform and a vertical waveform, the horizontal waveform for representing a horizontal portion of the façade and the vertical waveform for representing a vertical portion of the façade; combining the identified horizontal and vertical waveforms to generate façade waveforms that model the façade; and rendering the façade waveforms as a façade for the structure. |
7584107 | 10237889 | 1 | 1. A method for managing defined contribution benefits, comprising: storing product information about a plurality of benefits products from a plurality of benefits suppliers in a computer system for access by multiple of a plurality of employers and by multiple of a plurality of employees, wherein each of the plurality of employees corresponds to one of the plurality of employers; designing a plurality of defined contribution benefits portfolios, each of the defined contribution benefits portfolios corresponding to one of the plurality of employers, including for each employer: providing an employer profile, the profile including the budgeted amount for benefit compensation provided by the employer; defining a plurality of categories of benefits within the defined contribution benefits portfolio, including defining employer preferred allocation values towards the benefits categories; automatically generating, with a computer, a portfolio recommendation for the employer, comprising a set of recommended benefit product plans selected from a combination of the plurality of benefit products customized to both of the employer profile and the preferred allocation values towards the benefits categories; and selecting a set of benefit product plans to be offered within the defined contribution benefit portfolio based upon the portfolio recommendation and selections of the plurality of benefit products by the employer; establishing a defined benefit selection from the defined contribution benefit portfolio of the employer corresponding to each employee, including for each employee: presenting, to the employee, a total contribution by the employer towards benefits; presenting, to the employee, the benefit categories and benefit products within the benefit product plans contained within the defined contribution benefits portfolio of the employer; receiving, from the employee, a plurality of preferred allocation values indicating employee preferences of how to apportion the total employer contribution among the benefit categories and benefit products; generating a package recommendation for the employee, comprising a combination of benefit products from the set of benefit product plans that is customized according to the preferred allocation values; and presenting options to enable the employee to select a personalized subset of benefit products from the plurality of benefits products based on the package recommendation; and configuring, for each of the plurality of employees, a benefits package, the benefits package containing the personalized subset of the benefits products selected from the defined contribution benefits portfolio designed for the employer of the employee. |
8184045 | 12738189 | 1 | 1. A method of processing signals from a satellite positioning system, the method comprising: receiving an indication of approximate location which has been provided directly by a user; receiving data samples broadcast from the satellite positioning system at a location corresponding to the received indication; processing the received data samples using the received indication of approximate location to derive a more accurate position than the approximate location. |
20120054244 | 13292043 | 0 | 1. A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium haying a computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method, the method comprising: storing a user object associated with a user having access to a multi-tenant on-demand database system via a portal of the multi-tenant on-demand database system; referencing the user object in at least one data object of the multi-tenant on-demand database system; and providing access to the data object of the multi-tenant on-demand database system, based the reference. |
20110134220 | 12962345 | 0 | 1. A real-time 3D visualization system, including: a. means for conveying electromagnetic energy emanating from one or more 3D surfaces included by a scene, b. means for sensing spatial phase characteristics of the electromagnetic energy as the configuration of the 3D surfaces relative to the system changes, c. means for creating a 3D scene model utilizing the spatial phase characteristics sensed in a plurality of configurations, and d. means for displaying the 3D scene model in real-time, wherein said means for displaying includes means for synthesizing depth cues. |
8861306 | 12168125 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: modeling interpolated seismic measurements as a random process characterized by pressure measurements and particle motion measurements acquired at sensor locations, and an interpolation error; and processing the pressure measurements and the particle motion measurements in a processor-based machine to determine the interpolated seismic measurements based at least in part on a minimization of the interpolation error; and: further modeling the interpolated seismic measurements based on the seismic measurements and the interpolation error. |
9015091 | 13292191 | 1 | 1. A method of neural component replay, comprising: referencing a pattern in a plurality of afferent neuron outputs with one or more referencing neurons; learning one or more relational aspects between the pattern in the plurality of afferent neuron outputs and an output of the one or more referencing neurons with one or more relational aspect neurons using structural plasticity learning rule; and inducing one or more of the plurality of afferent neurons to output the same pattern as the referenced pattern by the one or more referencing neurons. |
7571133 | 10611458 | 1 | 1. A method of hedging risks associated with the purchase of a variable defined derivative product that has a variable defined order price, the method comprising: (a) executing by a match system a transaction based on an order for a variable defined derivative product that has a variable defined order price; (b) receiving order risk data from an order risk management module; (c) using a best efforts approach to locate a potential hedge transaction that corresponds to the derivative product order; (d) comparing data of the potential hedge transaction to the order risk data; and (e) executing the potential hedge transaction when a rule is not violated; wherein the variable defined order price of the derivative product is a function of an original order price, an updated price of an underlying product and at least one price determination variable value based on a predetermined formula received at the match system. |
20130083959 | 13249064 | 0 | 1. A method for processing images, the method comprising: receiving a sequence of images for a scene from an imaging system; detecting an object in the scene using the sequence of images; and registering a viewpoint of the imaging system to a model of the scene using a region in the model of the scene in which an expected behavior of the object is expected to occur. |
7647277 | 10691970 | 1 | 1. A method of regulating access to a content selection, the method comprising: receiving a request to access a content selection; configuring a media player to access a medium associated with the content selection; accessing the medium associated with the content selection; configuring the media player to access a medium rule base stored with the medium, a media player rule base stored on the media player, and a host rule base stored on the host, wherein the medium rule base includes a set of access rules related to content permissions associated with the medium, the media player rule base includes a set of access rules related to content permissions associated with the media player, and the host rule base includes a set of access rules related to content permissions associated with the host; identifying priorities for rule bases at the media player, wherein priorities determine the order in which rule bases are accessed; accessing rule bases to analyze the content request in the order of the identified priorities; and enabling access to the content selection in accordance with one or more results of the analysis. |
8320635 | 11164722 | 1 | 1. A computer implemented method of monitoring quality for images of financial documents, the method comprising: storing the images in a storage device at an image sharing vendor; performing, in a computer system at the image sharing vendor, a quality analysis of at least some of the images; identifying suspect images to a responsible customer bank over a network, the identifying being accomplished by the computer system at the image sharing vendor based on results of the quality analysis; and recording in the storage device at the image sharing vendor, for at least some of the images, a quality decisioning result received from the responsible customer bank over the network, the quality decisioning result being recorded in association with information identifying the images wherein the quality decisioning result is based on the result of the quality analysis. |
8380555 | 12270443 | 1 | 1. A system for managing a customer service center resource comprising: a resource management system comprising hardware processing circuitry for the following components: a. a topic identifier configured to monitor a network for a topic; b. an interest monitor configured to monitor the network for an interest; c. a skill monitor configured to monitor the network for an internal or external resource that has a skill; and d. a resource manager configured to determine if there is enough interest to warrant adding the skill, to project a resource needed for the skill in response to determining that there is enough interest to warrant adding the skill, to determine if the resource needed for the skill exists in an internal resource, and to direct the skill monitor to monitor the network for the external resource that has the skill in response to the resource needed for the skill not existing in the internal resource. |
9514161 | 13870346 | 1 | 1. A method to guarantee anonymity under r-dereferenceability in a Linked Data graph comprising: transforming an original Linked Data graph structure having labeled nodes interconnected by directed edges into a corresponding anonymous Linked Data graph, with one or more nodes embodying a searchable Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), and updating the corresponding ontology definitions of the Linked Data graph based on the applied transformations; iteratively expanding said corresponding anonymous Linked Data graph up to r times, where r is an integer>0, wherein said iteratively expanding comprises: dereferencing a searchable URI of a node of said anonymized Linked Data graph structure by following a link to a resource from which a further Linked Data graph structure is obtained, said further Linked Data graph structure having additional labeled nodes embodying additional searchable URIs and property values, and replacing the node embodying the searchable URI of the anonymized Linked Data graph structure with the further Linked Data graph structure to obtain an expanded Linked Data graph, and updating the corresponding ontology definitions of the expanded Linked Data graph to include the ontology definitions of the further Linked Data graph structure; determining from each said additional URIs and property values in said expanded corresponding anonymous Linked Data graph whether anonymity is breached by searching for a URI whose iterative dereferencing originates a graph containing a Linked Data graph node URI that was present in the original Linked Data graph, and making a URI determined as breaching said anonymity non-dereferenceable, wherein a computing system including at least one processor unit performs one or more of: the transforming, iteratively expanding, determining and said dereferencing. |
4094067 | 05705570 | 1 | 1. A method for producing a denture comprising: forming a generally U-shaped assembly of prosthetic teeth, bonding said U-shaped assembly of teeth into a generally U-shaped hard base structure; providing a terminus of said hard base structure disposed a short distance rearwardly of the incisor areas of said assembly of prosthetic teeth; mechanically and removeably connecting a soft deflectable formable layer onto said hard U-shaped base by means of resilient plugs projecting from said soft deflectable formable layer and removably received in sockets in said hard U-shaped base; inserting said hard U-shaped base and deflectably formable layer into a patient's mouth and finger forming said deflectable formable layer into close proximity to the edentulous areas of the patient's mouth; then removing said base and deflectably formed layer and placing a hardenable orally curable material in impressionable form on the soft deflectably formed layer; then unitarily reinserting the base and layer and curable material into the human individual's mouth and impression forming the curable impressionable material into impression conformance with said edentulous gum area of the patient's mouth and allowing the curable impressionable material to cure over the deflectably formable layer and bond thereto, to form a liner which conforms intimately to the features of the edentulous gum areas of the mouth, thereby forming a fitted denture module; then making a first impression model of one side of said fitted denture module; then making a second impression model of the opposite side of said fitted denture module; then removing the impressionable material and soft deflectably formed layer from the hard U-shaped base assembly of prosthetic teeth, then casting uncured denture base resin in a formable form between said second impression model and with said first impression model with the U-shaped hard base structure imbedded therein; and allowing said uncured denture base resin to cure in bonded relationship to said hard base structure to form said denture. |
9292890 | 13172547 | 1 | 1. A method for providing case update notifications, comprising: associating a bar number with a user comprising: assigning the bar number to a non-attorney user or receiving the bar number from an attorney user; receiving a first set of judicial court case updates from at least one judicial court case management system for a first judicial court; identifying at least one of said first set of judicial court case updates as being associated with said bar number; said bar number being unaffiliated with said first judicial court that is participating in said judicial court case; applying, to the at least one of said first set of judicial court case updates, at least a first set of user filters stored in a customer settings database that indicate the types of judicial court case updates that the customer wishes to receive for the first judicial court; querying the customer settings database to determine user-specified settings of how to receive judicial court case updates for the first judicial court; and automatically notifying, after said applying, said user of said at least one of said first set of judicial court case updates, based on the user-specified settings of how to receive the judicial court case updates for the first judicial court. |
20130211871 | 13369918 | 0 | 1. A method for assessing resiliency of facility configuration strategies, comprising: determining organization environment factors; determining one or more desired performance metrics associated with the organization; receiving a technical model specification that defines configuration for facilities of the organization; creating a Generalized Semi-Markov process representation of the configuration; solving, by a processor, for steady-state characteristics of the created Generalized Semi-Markov process representation; and estimating one or more values respectively of the desired performance metrics based on said steady-state characteristics, wherein said resiliency is measured based on said estimated one or more values. |
20060206898 | 11079308 | 0 | 1. A method for allocating computing resources to tasks, comprising the steps of: receiving first data that indicates a limit for unblocked execution by a processor of a set of at least one task that includes a plurality of instructions for the processor; receiving second data that indicates a maximum use of the processor by the set; determining whether a particular set of at least one task has exceeded the limit for unblocked execution based on the first data; and if it determined that the particular set has exceeded the limit, then blocking execution of the particular set by the processor for a yield time interval based on the second data. |
20060053228 | 10934873 | 0 | 1. A method of enabling a client to execute a streamable software application, the client including a file system that includes a non-streamable software application, the method comprising installing, in the client, client streaming software which configures the client so that the streamable software application can be located in the file system and executed in a streaming mode without being isolated from the non-streamable software application. |
9348417 | 12917331 | 1 | 1. In a computing environment, a method performed at least in part on at least one processor, the method comprising: receiving sets of input data corresponding to a plurality of input modalities, the received sets of input data including a first set of input data and a second set of input data, the first set of input data being associated with a first input modality from the plurality of input modalities, the second set of input data being associated with a second input modality from the plurality of input modalities; selecting the first set of input data and the second set of input data based on one or more of the following: user defined preferences, and a current operating mode of a program; accessing a dictionary to determine a combined meaning of the first and second set of input data; receiving environmental input from one or more sensors; and providing output data for input by the program, the output data corresponding to the combined meaning of the first and second set of input data and the environmental input. |
9105091 | 13577619 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: accessing a propagation map associated with a watermark from a list having one or more watermarks; defining at least one detection criterion for blocks in the propagation map; generating a flag matrix to identify at least one region; selecting a seed block for initiating the flag matrix from blocks within the propagation map, the seed block being part of the at least one region; determining a signal of the seed block; populating the flag matrix with additional blocks adjacent to the seed block, the additional blocks have the same kind of signal as the seed block; continuing to populate the flag matrix with other blocks that are connected to the seed block through at least the additional blocks, wherein other blocks and any intervening blocks have the same kind of signal as the seed block; assigning the seed block and any blocks in the populating and further populating to a first region, thereby producing the first region for identifying the at least one region; identifying the at least one region of at least one of the blocks contained within the propagation map, wherein the at least one region is grouped responsive to the at least one detection criterion; and producing information of the at least one region. |
7530018 | 10323928 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method of generating pages in a markup language for selecting products, comprising: inputting attribute groups into a databank; inputting attributes into the databank, each of the attributes being assigned to one of the attribute groups; inputting product information into the databank, each item of the product information being assigned to at least one of the attributes; generating a page in the markup language for each of the attribute groups, wherein representations of the attributes are assigned to the respective ones of the attribute groups, and input fields for a user to specify the attributes are generated on each of the pages associated with each of the attribute groups, respectively, wherein the pages display representations of products; storing the pages in the markup language for access with a browser program; selecting one of the representations of one of the products; calculating a utilization for the selected product based on product properties specified by the user; graphically displaying the calculated utilization of the selected product in the markup language; and calculating a value of an excessive demand on the selected product which fails to correspond to the search profile specified by the user and generating a page in the markup language graphically illustrating the value of excessive demand of the selected product in relation to the property input by the user and displaying the generated page. |
7761916 | 11841600 | 1 | 1. A method utilizing a system comprising a processor and a memory encoded with program instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform the method, the method comprising: receiving a load module and an associated specification; verifying that the load module performs as specified by the specification; determining that the load module does not include harmful functionality; conditionally digitally signing the load module based at least in part on results of the verifying and determining steps; and distributing, to a remote protected processing environment, a digital signature generated by the step of digitally signing the load module, the remote protected processing environment being operable to perform an authentication step on the digital signature using a public key, and to conditionally execute the load module based at least in part on a result of the authentication step, wherein the remote protected processing environment is resistant to tampering by an owner of an electronic appliance upon which the remote protected processing environment is running and is operable to maintain the public key as a secret from the owner of the electronic appliance. |
8000991 | 11512462 | 1 | 1. A method for executing a workflow on a device, the workflow comprising one or more task activities comprising actions performed by devices participating in the workflow and routing activities used to transfer control and data between devices, the workflow further comprising roles, wherein the method comprises: receiving a message representing an incoming routing activity; generating, using one or more processors, from the workflow a local part to be executed on the device, wherein generating the local part comprises: modifying partner links in the workflow in order to specify coherent partner links; deleting at least part or all task activities in the workflow that do not belong to the local part, while keeping dependencies specified by process control activities; and simplifying the routing and process control activities in the workflow; executing task activities comprised by the generated local part on the device; performing a request to a discovery service in order to obtain one or more identifications of one or more next devices by matching a role to capabilities of the one or more next devices, the role being a set of attributes of the one or more next devices, the set of attributes being used to execute next task activities associated with a next local part on the one or more next devices; and sending one or more messages representing a next routing activity to the one or more next devices thus identified. |
20080140602 | 11609307 | 0 | 1. A method, comprising: processing a data set including multiple records to generate data rules for the data set, wherein each record has a record format including a plurality of fields, wherein each rule provides a predicted condition for one field based on at least one predictor condition in at least one other field; providing the generated data rules to a user interface to enable a user to edit the generated data rules; and storing the data rules in a rule repository to be available to use to validate data sets having the record format. |
20090222409 | 12039068 | 0 | 1. A method for multilingual data querying, comprising: sending one or more words in an original language to a word ontology; receiving sense descriptions of the one or more words from the word ontology; selecting one or more sense descriptions of the one or more words and a language for querying; translating the one or more sense descriptions into the language for querying; translating the one or more sense descriptions back into the original language for verification; and selecting at least one of the one or more sense descriptions to use in a query. |
20140323146 | 13870776 | 0 | 1. A method performed by a location aware network node, the method comprising: the location aware network node receiving from a second network node a mobility management and control, MMC, rule, wherein the MMC rule comprises i) location information and ii) action information specifying a set of one or more actions, wherein the action information is associated with the location information; the location aware network node receiving from a radio access network (RAN) network node a message comprising mobility information related to a mobile communication device, MCD; the location aware network node, in response to receiving the message, using i) the location information included in the MMC rule and ii) the mobility information included in the received message to determine whether the location aware network node should perform the set of one or more actions specified by the action information included in the MMC rule; and the location aware network node performing the set of one or more actions specified by the action information included in the MMC rule in response to determining that it should perform the actions. |
5428744 | 08113442 | 1 | 1. A method for combining a plurality of graphic geometries stored as a hierarchy of graphic objects in an object-oriented operating system, said objects including logic and data defined by a plurality of classes on a computer with a storage and an attached display, comprising the steps of: (a) defining a first class in said storage representative of a plurality of geometric figures including logic and data representative of basic geometries; (b) creating a second class in said storage representative of a plurality of geometric figure operations including logic and data for performing union, difference, intersection and exclusive-or of said first class geometries; (c) creating a third class in said storage including logic and data for accepting a plurality of first classes and a plurality of second classes and generating a data structure containing said plurality of graphic geometries stored as a hierarchy of objects in said object-oriented operating system; (d) applying a geometric figure operation to a first and a second geometric figure to create a resultant geometric figure by extracting a pair of first classes from said data structure and applying a second class to said pair of first classes to generate said resultant geometric figure; (e) repeating step (d) until a root is encountered in said data structure containing said plurality of graphic geometries stored as a hierarchy of objects in said object-oriented operating system; and (f) displaying said resultant geometric figure on said display. |
20070194129 | 11625665 | 0 | 1. A document core material comprising: polyolefin; and particles dispersed in the polyolefin, the particles each comprising layers of material, the particles having at least one visible color such that the dispersed particles provide a visibly verifiable authentication attribute for the core material, and the particles having a non-visible forensic material. |
6122361 | 08928769 | 1 | 1. An automated directory assistance system comprising: a) a speech recognition dictionary including a plurality of vocabulary items potentially recognizable on a basis of a spoken utterance by a user of said automated directory assistance system, each vocabulary item being indicative of a locality in which an entity whose telephone number potentially sought by the user may reside; b) extraction unit for extracting from said speech recognition dictionary on the basis of the spoken utterance by the user a plurality of vocabulary items, each of said plurality of vocabulary items being a candidate having a certain probability to correspond to the spoken utterance, said plurality of vocabulary items forming a list of candidates; c) a plurality of a priori data structures, each a priori data structure containing a plurality of probability data elements, the probability data elements being derived at least in part on a basis of call records indicative of prior automated directory assistance transactions; d) a selecting unit for selecting one of said a priori data structures; and e) a weighing unit for weighing candidates in said list on a basis of probability data elements in said one of said a priori data structures. |
10013551 | 14834079 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: obtaining, from a process running in an isolated environment of a computing device that executes the process in isolation from processes running in a non-isolated environment of the computing device, a request to access an object stored in the non-isolated environment, wherein the isolated environment includes an isolated primary memory instantiated from a primary memory of the computing device and restricted from portions of the primary memory of the computing device corresponding to the non-isolated environment and an isolated secondary memory instantiated from a secondary memory of the computing device and restricted from portions of the secondary memory of the computing device corresponding to the non-isolated environment; determining a map back frequency that reflects a frequency that future changes to a first version of the object that will be stored in the isolated environment of the computing device in response to the request will be mapped back to a second version of the object stored in the non-isolated environment of the computing device, wherein determining the map back frequency that reflects the frequency that future changes to the first version of the object that will be stored in the isolated environment of the computing device in response to the request will be mapped back to the second version of the object stored in the non-isolated environment of the computing device is based on at least one or more of: an upper limit on a number of objects stored in the isolated environment; a number of isolated processes using the object; an upper limit on a number of times the object in the isolated environment can be changed before being mapped back to the non-isolated environment; a maximum of times objects can be left unmapped inside the isolated environment; or a size of the object; and determining, based on the map back frequency that reflects the frequency that future changes to the first version of the object that will be stored in the isolated environment of the computing device in response to the request will be mapped back to the second version of the object stored in the non-isolated environment of the computing device, whether to store the second version of the object in the primary memory associated with the isolated environment of the computing device or the secondary memory associated with the isolated environment of the computing device. |
9984325 | 15724643 | 1 | 1. A learning method for improving performance of a CNN by using feature up-sampling networks (FUN) included in a learning device, wherein the learning device includes (i) a down-sampling block for reducing a size of an input image; (ii) each of a (1-1)-th to a (1-k)-th filter blocks from which each of a (1-1)-th to a (1-k)-th feature maps is acquired by performing one or more convolution operations; (iii) a (2-k)-th to a (2-1)-th up-sampling blocks each of which correspondingly interacts with each of the (1-1)-th to the (1-k)-th filter blocks and thereby generates each of a (2-k)-th to a (2-1)-th feature maps; (iv) an application block for generating an application-specific output by using at least part of the (2-k)-th to the (2-1)-th feature maps; and (v) an application-specific loss block for computing a loss by comparing between the application-specific output generated by the application block and Ground Truth (GT), comprising steps of: (a) the learning device, if the input image is obtained, allowing the down-sampling block to acquire a down-sampling image by applying a predetermined operation to the input image for reducing the size thereof; (b) the learning device, if the down-sampling image is obtained, allowing each of the (1-1)-th to the (1-k)-th filter blocks to respectively acquire each of the (1-1)-th to the (1-k)-th feature maps by applying the one or more convolution operations to the down-sampling image; (c) the learning device (I) allowing the (2-1)-th up-sampling block to (i) receive the down-sampling image from the down-sampling block, and (ii) receive the (2-2)-th feature map from the (2-2)-th up-sampling block, and then rescale a size of the (2-2)-th feature map to be identical to that of the down-sampling image and (iii) apply a certain operation to the down-sampling image and the (2-2)-th resealed feature map, thereby acquiring the (2-1)-th feature map and (II) allowing the (2-(M+1))-th up-sampling block to (i) receive the (1-M)-th feature map from the (1-M)-th filter block, and (ii) receive the (2-(M+2))-th feature map from the (2-(M+2))-th up-sampling block, and then rescale a size of the (2-(M+2))-th feature map to be identical to that of the (1-M)-th feature map and (iii) apply a certain operation to the (1-M)-th feature map and the (2-(M+2))-th resealed feature map in order to generate the (2-(M+1))-th feature map, thereby acquiring the (2-k)-th to the (2-2)-th feature maps, wherein M is an integer greater than or equal to 1; and (d) the learning device (i) allowing the application block to acquire the application-specific output by applying an application-specific operation to at least part of the (2-k)-th to the (2-1)-th feature maps and (ii) allowing the application-specific loss block to acquire the loss by comparing the application-specific output to the GT; and thereby adjusting parameters of at least part of the application block, the (2-k)-th to the (2-1)-th up-sampling blocks and the (1-1)-th to the (1-k)-th filter blocks by using the loss during a first backpropagation process. |
20060123332 | 11002845 | 0 | 1. A method in a data processing system for incrementally processing program annotations, the method comprising: detecting at least one annotation in at least one source file, wherein the at least one annotation is changed in the at least one source file; recording changes of the at least one annotation in a source model; and processing the recorded changes to a doclet model. |
20080266168 | 12083219 | 0 | 1. An obstacle detecting method for detecting a presence of an obstacle to a moving body using a sensor mounted on the moving body, comprising: setting a movable area which is a surrounding area of the moving body and in which the moving body can move; arranging plural unconfirmed bodies over an entire area of the movable area as obstacle candidates as an initial state; and deleting the obstacle candidate which is determined not to be actually present as a result of detection by the sensor from the obstacle candidates arranged as the initial state. |
20080320133 | 12148159 | 0 | 1. A method for determining the dynamics of a logical network, said network comprising a plurality of communication nodes ( 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 ; 21 , 24 , 26 , i, k), said method comprising the steps of: obtaining ( 31 ), in a node ( 21 ) of the network, of at least one item of information (Li, Jk) relating to a modification of the neighbourhood of said node, in the course of a predetermined period; and determining ( 33 ), in said node of the network, of a local dynamics corresponding to at least one sum ( ∑ i Li , ∑ k Jk ) of least part of the information obtained. |
20150149372 | 14472296 | 0 | 1. A document classification system that acquires digital information recorded in a plurality of computers or servers, analyzes document information included in the acquired digital information, and classifies the document information so as to be readily used in a lawsuit, comprising: an extraction unit that extracts a document group, which is a data set including a predetermined number of documents, from the document information; a classification code receiving unit that receives a classification code; a selection unit that classifies the extracted document group for each classification code on the basis of the classification code, analyzes a keyword which commonly appears in the classified document group, and selects the keyword; a search unit that searches for the keyword; a score calculation unit that calculates a score indicating connection between the classification code and the document, using the search result of the search unit and the analysis result of the selection unit; and an automatic classification unit that automatically assigns the classification code on the basis of the result of the score. |
9894096 | 14445806 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method for determining a suitability of a mobile application for distribution in a mobile application marketplace, the method comprising: receiving a mobile application for distribution in a mobile application marketplace; performing a static analysis on the mobile application to identify a set of registered application permissions of the mobile application, and determine one or more events that simulate user interaction on the client device based on the identified registered application permissions; selecting an emulated environment configured to execute the mobile application based on the identified registered application permissions; executing the mobile application in the selected emulated environment, the emulated environment simulating a mobile device; recording behaviors of the simulated mobile device in response to providing the one or more events to the mobile application; classifying the mobile application as malicious or non-malicious based on the recorded behaviors; and determining, based on the classification, whether to approve or reject the mobile application for distribution in the mobile application marketplace. |
20080243606 | 11693245 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: monitoring at least one printing device via a communication network; receiving a usage profile from the at least one printing devices wherein the usage profile includes data that reflects usage information for the at least one printing device over a period of time; comparing the usage profile to a service history profile to create a service-dependent usage profile; and if the service-dependent usage profile satisfies a reward criterion, providing a user of the at least one printing device with a reward. |
7634717 | 11337762 | 1 | 1. A method for applying multiple conditional formatting rules to a plurality of data cells in a user interface, the method comprising: identifying with a computing device a first conditional formatting rule as having a highest priority of a plurality of conditional formatting rules, the first conditional formatting rule including a first condition type, at least a first parameter, and a first formatting; determining with the computing device a first set of data cells in the user interface that are associated with the first conditional formatting rule; for each data cell in the first set of data cells: determining with the computing device whether the data cell should be evaluated; if determined that the data cell should be evaluated, evaluating the data cell with the computing device to determine if the first conditional formatting rule is TRUE; if determined that the first conditional formatting rule is TRUE, determining with the computing device whether the first formatting conflicts with previously applied formatting for the data cell; and if determined that the first formatting does not conflict with previously applied formatting, applying with the computing device the first formatting to the data cell; identifying with the computing device a second conditional formatting rule as having a next highest priority of a plurality of conditional formatting rules, the second conditional formatting rule including a second condition type, at least a second parameter, and a second formatting; determining with the computing device a second set of data cells in the user interface that are associated with the second conditional formatting rule, wherein at least a first data cell in the second set of data cells is also in the first set of data cells and wherein at least a second data cell in the second set of data cells is not in the first set of data cells; for each data cell in the second set of data cells: determining with the computing device whether the data cell should be evaluated; if determined that the data cell should be evaluated, evaluating with the computing device the data cell to determine if the second conditional formatting rule is TRUE; if determined that the second conditional formatting rule is TRUE, determining with the computing device whether the second formatting conflicts with previously applied formatting for the data cell; and if determined that the second formatting does not conflict with previously applied formatting, applying with the computing device the second formatting to the data cell; wherein when the first and second conditional formatting rules are determined to be TRUE for the first data cell and when the first and second formatting does not conflict with previously applied formatting for the first data cell, the first formatting and the second formatting are both applied to the first data cell. |
20160110198 | 14830819 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: analyzing, by a processor of an analysis system, an instruction set architecture of a targeted complex-instruction set computer (CISC) processor to generate an instruction set profile for each CISC architectural instruction variant of the instruction set architecture; determining a combination of instruction sequences for the targeted CISC processor from the instruction set profile that corresponds to a desired stressmark type, the desired stressmark type defining a metric representative of functionality of interest of the targeted CISC processor; monitoring performance of the targeted CISC processor with respect to the desired stressmark type while executing each of the instruction sequences; and identifying one of the instruction sequences as most closely aligning with the desired stressmark type based on performance results of execution of the instruction sequences with respect to the desired stressmark type. |
8370372 | 12265288 | 1 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving a search request; determining, by a processor, whether a search result obtained by a first human assistant responsive to a query assigned to the first human assistant is available; selecting the search result of the first human assistant based on a match of a keyword of the search request to the query; obtaining a response from an automated search engine determined based on a rating of the automated search engine; rating the automated search engine based on a comparison of responses of the automated search engine to search results obtained by human assistants; providing an indication of human assistance to a source of the search request when the search result of the first human assistant is returned and the search result of the first human assistant is superior to the response of the automated search engine for the search request; and directing the search request to a second human assistant when the search result of the first human assistant is not superior to the response of the automated search engine. |
20040236546 | 10480020 | 0 | 1. A method for revising an aggregate risk model to be consistent with standalone models, said method comprising: providing a space of possible aggregate risk models wherein each of said aggregate risk models is consistent with standalone models; representing said each aggregate risk model in said space as a point in a product of orthogonal groups; searching said product of orthogonal groups for a best representative point using a predetermined objective function; and obtaining said revised aggregate risk model consistent with standalone models by mapping said best representative point in said product of orthogonal groups back to a corresponding point in said aggregate risk model space. |
9973815 | 14294510 | 1 | 1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a content provider configured to provide content including at least one of audio and video to a user; a plurality of sensors configured to: detect physical parameters associated with the user and an external environment of the user; generate a sensor signal based on the physical parameters; a processor configured to: receive the sensor signal from the plurality of sensors; determine relation information related to the content for the user, wherein the relation information is based on reaction information of the user to the content, wherein the reaction information includes behavior information based on a behavior of the user determined from the sensor signal, environment information determined based on the sensor signal, and text data information related to the content; calculate a relationship degree based on the relation information, wherein the relationship degree indicates a degree of relationship between the content, the behavior information, the environment information, and the text data information; rank the relation information based on the calculated relationship degree; select secondary content based on the relation information of the content and in order of the rank of the associated relation information; and provide the secondary content to the user via the content provider. |
8725231 | 12709309 | 1 | 1. A method of fracture risk assessment comprising: generating a volumetric model corresponding to a three-dimensional image of a bone structure for each bone structure in a training set of bone structures wherein the volumetric model comprises a number of volumetric vertices; defining a vector of variables, wherein each variable in the vector of variables comprises a three-dimensional position of one of the number of volumetric vertices and at least one parameter associated with at least one volumetric vertex; generating a set of individual vectors, the generating comprising, for each individual vector, determining values for each variable in the vector of variables wherein each individual vector corresponds to one bone structure in the training set of bone structures and the values for each variable in the vector of variables are based, at least in part, on the volumetric model corresponding to the one bone structure; generating a covariance matrix comprising calculated covariance between elements of the set of individual vectors; performing variable reduction on the set of individual vectors providing a plurality of reduced variables, the variable reduction based on eigenvalues calculated from the covariance matrix; determining a discriminator based at least in part on a result of the variable reduction wherein the discriminator comprises one or more of the plurality of reduced variables; and applying the discriminator to a selected bone structure to assess the fracture risk of the selected bone structure, wherein the selected bone structure is not in the training set of bone structures; wherein the generated volumetric model is a specific volumetric model corresponding to a selected bone structure based on a two-dimensional image of the selected bone structure, the generating the specific volumetric model further comprising: selecting an initial value for at least one specific reduced variable of the plurality of reduced variables; generating a current volumetric model based, at least in part, on the at least one specific reduced variable; determining a current value of an objective function wherein the objective function comprises at least one of a plurality of geometric measures and at least one bone mass density based on the two-dimensional image of the selected bone structure and a corresponding at least one of the plurality of geometric measures and at least one bone mass density determined based on the current volumetric model; and updating a value of the at least one specific reduced variable and repeating generating the current volumetric model based, at least in part, on the updated value of the at least one specific reduced variable and determining the current value of the objective function until the objective function converges wherein the current volumetric model when the objective function converges corresponds to the specific volumetric model. |
8792917 | 13802211 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by one or more computers, a current location of a mobile device and a context of the current location, the context comprising a pattern of movement of the mobile device; identifying, from a plurality of geofences, two or more geofences intersecting the current location; selecting a geofence from the two or more geofences using the context, wherein selecting the geofence comprises: determining a fence size for each of the two or more geofences; calculating match scores measuring matches between the fence sizes and the pattern of movement of the mobile device; and selecting the geofence based on the match scores; and determining that the mobile device is located in a geofenced area enclosed by the selected geofence. |
9524276 | 14331187 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: sending a content item for display to a user of a social networking system, the content item including a user interface element for requesting a bookmark of the content item; receiving, from the user, a selection of the user interface element for requesting a bookmark of the content item; identifying the bookmarked content item stored in connection with the user; selecting the bookmarked content item for retargeting to the user based on the existence of the bookmark that identifies the selected bookmarked content item; selecting, by the social networking system, one or more users, wherein the selected one or more users satisfy the following criteria: the selected one or more users are connected to the user in the social networking system, and the selected one or more users satisfy privacy criteria that is specified by the user; and responsive to the selecting, sending information associated with the selected bookmarked content item for display in a feed to the selected one or more users, the information comprising a textual description indicating that the user bookmarked the content item and a link to access the content item. |
20110004846 | 12459472 | 0 | 1. An information processing system, comprising: a processor; and instructions executable by the processor to perform a method, the method including: a) receiving user input in response to prompts on a display, the user input identifying a processable medical item being at least one of a medical sample or medical product and selecting each of a plurality of discrete actions for handling the medical item, the actions having an at least implied order to be performed; b) based on the received user input, storing identification information identifying the medical item and storing action information representing the selected actions; and c) displaying at least some of the action information with at least some of the identification information in form of a flow diagram depicting at least some of the selected actions automatically arranged in the at least implied order. |
20060085450 | 11166065 | 0 | 1. A method for generating a product forecast notification in a data processing system, the method comprising the steps of: providing a data structure comprising a product forecast notification message entity, a message header package, and a product forecast package, the message header package comprising a message header entity that further comprises a sender party entity and a recipient party entity, the product forecast package comprising a product forecast entity, a party package, and a product forecast item package, the party package comprising a buyer party entity and a vendor party entity, the product forecast item package comprising a product forecast item entity, a location package, and a product information package, the location package comprising a ship from location entity and a ship to location entity, the product information package comprising a product entity; receiving values for the fields in the data structure; and storing the values into the data structure to generate the product forecast notification. |
7536323 | 10810432 | 1 | 1. A method for real-time online search processing over inter-connected computer networks of shopping requests received from a wireless handheld client in a received native language, comprising the steps of a. communicating with the wireless handheld client through a remote server using XML; b. maintaining in an offline database information for a plurality of vendor sites each having a native language over inter-connected computer networks, wherein the plurality of vendor sites include vendor sites in different native languages, and the maintained information includes URL's, search form URL's, description of domains, and vendor descriptions and, for each of the plurality of vendor sites, information in the native language of that vendor site, wherein the vendor descriptions include generalized rules about how product information is organized on each of the plurality of vendor sites; c. processing a product keyword request, received from the wireless handheld device client in the received native language through the remote server, including using the vendor descriptions to identify ones of the plurality of vendor sites which may have information responsive to and in the received native language of the product keyword request, and using the search form URL's; d. extracting real-time price and product information from the identified ones of the plurality of vendor sites, wherein the extracted price and product information are in the received native language; and e. communicating the extracted real-time price and product information to the wireless handheld device client through the remote server. |
20100145917 | 12572160 | 0 | 1. A computer program product comprising one or more computer readable storage media storing instructions translatable by one or more processors to perform: accessing network file systems at one or more physical locations; collecting file system metadata from the network file systems, wherein the file system metadata comprises one or more pieces of metadata of interest; applying one or more user-defined heuristics to the one or more pieces of metadata of interest to generate one or more file system statistics of interest; storing the one or more pieces of metadata of interest and the one or more file system statistics of interest in a metadata repository; enabling a user to define a rule via a user interface, wherein the rule comprises a pattern and an action and wherein the pattern comprise at least one of the one or more pieces of metadata of interest or at least one of the one or more file system statistics of interest; searching metadata records in the metadata repository that match the pattern; and applying the action on one or more managed objects in the network file systems that are associated with the metadata records, thereby changing a state of the network file systems. |
20170039108 | 15338525 | 0 | 1. A computer program product for optimizing performance of a computer backup solution that includes at least a first data mover and a second data mover, the computer program comprising: a machine readable storage device; and computer code stored on the machine readable storage device, with the computer code including instructions for causing a processor(s) set to perform operations including the following: measuring performance statistics of the first data mover with respect to at least one virtual machine class processed by the first data mover, to produce performance statistics, by virtual machine class, of the first data mover; measuring performance statistics of the second data mover with respect to at least one virtual machine class processed by the second data mover, to produce performance statistics, by virtual machine class, of the second data mover; optimizing, by one or more processors, performance of a data mover; operating, by one or more processors, a performance model operationally coupled with a data mover wherein the performance model includes at least performance statistics of the first data mover and performance statistics of the second data mover; initiating, by one or more processors, communications between the first data mover and the second data mover during at least a backup cycle, to exchange at least performance statistics between the first data mover and the second data mover; generating, by one or more processors, a peer-to-peer model wherein the first data mover has access to the performance model of the second data mover and the second data mover has access to the performance model of the first data mover; computing, by one or more processors, performance rankings with respect to virtual machine class, of a first data mover and a second data mover, based at least in part on performance statistics of the first data mover and performance statistics of the second data mover; analyzing, by one or more processors, respective performance statistics of the first data mover and the second data mover, with respect to virtual machine class, to produce performance rankings, by virtual machine class, of the first data mover and the second data mover; shifting, by one or more processors, some workload from a first data mover to a second data mover, in accordance with their respective performance rankings, with respect to virtual machine class, such that the computer backup solution converges toward an optimized configuration; shifting, by one or more processors, some workload from virtual machines of a class, from the first data mover to the second data mover, based at least in part, on the performance rankings of the first data mover and the second data mover with respect to workload from virtual machines of the class; operating concurrently, one or more producer threads in the data mover; operating concurrently, one or more consumer threads in the data mover; changing the number of producer threads or consumer threads operating concurrently in the data mover; measuring a change of performance of the data mover, in response to changing the number of producer threads or consumer threads operating concurrently in the data mover, to produce performance statistics on which to base, at least in part, a subsequent change in the number of producer threads or consumer threads operating concurrently in the data mover, such that the data mover converges toward an optimized performance state; storing at least performance statistics relative to a first data mover, in the performance model associated with the first data mover; storing at least performance statistics relative to a first data mover, in the performance model associated with the second data mover; storing at least performance statistics relative to a second data mover, in the performance model associated with the first data mover; and storing at least performance statistics relative to a second data mover, in the performance model associated with the second data mover. |
20160373898 | 15175991 | 0 | 1. A location information management system (LIMS), comprising: a controller computer; and one or more databases operatively coupled to the controller computer and configured to store data concerning network events; wherein the LIMS is configured to utilize the data concerning network events to produce location-aware intelligence including geo-profiles for mobile devices, wherein said geo-profiles include location and time information for said mobile devices; and wherein the LIMS is further configured to detect unlawful border crossing activities by: (a) collecting data representing wireless device cellular events, said data representing the locations of wireless devices as they are registering with a wireless communications network (WCN) and the times of the cellular events; and (b) analyzing the collected data representing wireless device cellular events in areas near the border to identify a collection of cellular events associated with an unlawful border crossing. |
8768968 | 13649091 | 1 | 1. A method implemented in a computer system having a business processor engine coupled to one or more data sources and one or more user interfaces, the method comprising: defining a hierarchical structure of positions stored in the one or more data sources; for one or more of the positions, the business processor engine associating at least one of the one or more of the positions with one or more users; the business processor engine associating at least one of the one or more users or the one or more positions with one or more roles; the business processor engine associating one or more access rules for one or more business processes with a first one of the positions, wherein the one or more access rules are applicable to a first subset of the roles; for a first user associated with a second one of the positions which is subordinate to the first one of the positions in the hierarchical structure of positions, the business processor engine applying to the first user selected ones of the access rules that are applicable to ones of the roles that are associated with the first user and that are associated with the first one of the positions; and the business processor engine controlling user access to the one or more user interfaces by the first user to the one or more business processes according to the selected ones of the access rules. |
9201673 | 12182971 | 1 | 1. A method for attenuating spin waiting of virtual processors in a virtual machine environment, comprising: examining a hint source for hints to determine if a virtual processor is accessing a synchronizing section that acquires a lock on an underlying physical resource that causes any other virtual processors to spin wait until said virtual processor releases the lock; wherein said synchronizing section is a region of code that determines access to resources by virtual processors; providing a time slice extension to said virtual processor to increase the time allotted in its assigned time slice if said virtual processor is accessing said synchronizing section; limiting said time slice extension to a predetermined period of time; limiting granting said time slice extension to a predetermined number of times; and debiting said time slice extension granted to said virtual processor from a subsequent time slice granted to said virtual processor such that the virtual processor has less allocated time in the subsequent time slice. |
20070112949 | 11623737 | 0 | 1. A process for metasearching on a distributed network activated by a request executed by a user on a client device to request a metasearch engine to send a plurality of search queries to a plurality of server devices, each of the plurality of search queries comprising a keyword phrase, each of the keyword phrases comprising at least one keyword specified in the request by the user, at least two of the keyword phrases of the plurality of search queries being different from each other, comprising the steps of: (a) receiving, at the metasearch engine, the request from the client device for the metasearch engine to send the plurality of search queries comprising the at least two keyword phrases to the plurality of server devices; (b) sending, by the metasearch engine, the plurality of search queries comprising the at least two keyword phrases to the plurality of server devices; (c) receiving, at the metasearch engine, search results from the plurality of server devices in response to the plurality of search queries comprising the at least two keyword phrases sent to the plurality of server devices; (d) incorporating, by the metasearch engine, the received search results into at least two different display lists corresponding to the at least two different keyword phrases, wherein: each different one of the at least two different display lists comprises the received search results in response to the plurality of search queries comprising a different one of the at least two keyword phrases, each same one of the at least two different display lists comprises the received search results therein in response to the plurality of search queries comprising a same one of the at least two keyword phrases; (e) incorporating, by the metasearch engine, the at least two different display lists of received search results into a response for communicating to the client device; (f) communicating, by the metasearch engine, the response from the metasearch engine to the client device. |
20090265230 | 12106230 | 0 | 1. A system for ranking sponsored results, the system comprising: a server configured to receive a query; and an advertisement engine configured to receive the query from the server, the advertisement engine ranking an advertisement of a plurality of advertisements based on a plurality of features, wherein the plurality of features include at least one word overlap feature and a correlation feature. |
20050210533 | 10908809 | 0 | 1. A method for the analysis of sampled network communication traffic for potential intrusion activity, the method comprising the steps of: assigning sampled data packets to a flow; scaling the sampled data based on a sample rate; collecting flow data from packet headers; determining a primary flow in the event that multiple devices report the same flow; analyzing collected flow data to assign a concern index value to the flow based upon a probability that the flow was not normal for data communications; maintaining an accumulated concern index from flows associated with a host; and issuing an alarm signal once the accumulated concern index has exceeded an alarm threshold value. |
5515098 | 08303352 | 1 | 1. An apparatus for selectively distributing messages over a communications network comprising: a controller for communicating over the network with a plurality of subscriber terminals in a plurality of subscriber households served by the communications network, each of said subscriber terminals having a network address; a reservoir of data operatively associated with said controller, said reservoir containing network addresses of said subscriber terminals and subscriber profile data associated with each of said subscriber households and including demographic data; a source of commercial messages; selection means operatively associated with said controller for selecting at least one of said commercial messages for transmission to at least one of said subscriber terminals based on the subscriber profile data associated with said at least one subscriber terminal; and identifying means operatively associated with said controller for identifying the selected at least one commercial message with the network address of said at least one subscriber terminal; said controller causing the transmission, over said network from said source to said at least one subscriber terminal, of commercial messages identified with the network address of said at least one subscriber terminal. |
8275829 | 12506587 | 1 | 1. A method for prefetching an object responsive to utilization of a connection, the method comprising: (a) storing in a cache, by an appliance, an object from a server communicated to a client; (b) determining, by the appliance, that utilization of a transport layer connection established between the appliance and the server is below a predetermined threshold; (c) prefetching, by the appliance, the object from the server via the transport layer connection in response to the determination and storing the prefetched object in the cache. |
8625876 | 13946665 | 1 | 1. A method for use in creating a template for automated validation of media items, the method comprising: receiving images of multiple media items of similar type, each of the images belonging to one of multiple classes associated with media items of that type; using the images to create a single segmentation map that represents media items belonging to all of the multiple classes; using the images and the segmentation map to create multiple one-class classifiers, where each of the one-class classifiers is associated with one of the multiple classes; and defining the template to include the segmentation map and the multiple one-class classifiers. |
9679049 | 14564058 | 1 | 1. A system for providing visual suggestions for document classification via injection, comprising: a database to store clusters of unclassified documents and a set of reference documents, each reference document associated with a classification code; and a server comprising a central processing unit, memory, an input port to receive the clusters from the database, and an output port, wherein the central processing unit is configured to: compare one or more of the unclassified documents within one such cluster to the reference documents; identify for the cluster, one or more of the reference documents that are similar to the compared unclassified documents; inject the similar reference documents into the cluster; set a threshold for a number of the similar reference documents to be injected into the cluster; and display each of the similar reference documents in the cluster with a visual indicator representative of the associated classification code, display the unclassified documents of the cluster, and provide a suggestion for classification for one of the unclassified documents within each cluster based on the visual indicators of the similar reference documents. |
8984051 | 13440479 | 1 | 1. A computer implemented method for communicating feed information to one or more recipients, the method comprising: receiving, via a user interface for accessing a social networking system, an identification of one or more first recipients to whom to communicate an information update configured to be published to an information feed of the social networking system, the information feed capable of being displayed on a display device; receiving, via the user interface, a first indicator in addition to the identification of the one or more first recipients; identifying the first indicator as a request to communicate the information update to one or more recipients in addition to the one or more first recipients; automatically causing identification of one or more second recipients responsive to identifying the first indicator, the identification of the one or more second recipients based on the one or more first recipients, the identification of the one or more second recipients comprising: determining that an entity satisfies a relevance measure associated with the first indicator, the determination based on performance of one or more operations and application of weighting information in relation to the one or more operations to indicate a degree of relevance between the entity and a first recipient, and selecting the entity to be included in the one or more second recipients; identifying a second indicator as a request to not communicate the information update to one or more potential recipients; automatically causing identification of one or more potential third recipients based on the second indicator, the one or more potential third recipients being excluded from having access to the information update; and providing the information update for access by the one or more second recipients. |
20010034592 | 09773560 | 0 | 1. A system for simulating a flexographic printing process based on user-controlled process parameters, the system comprising: a set of data bases comprising a formal model of flexographic printing process variables, ranges of potential process variable values, potential interactions between process variables, and effects of the potential interactions on a printing process output; a simulator program comprising a dynamic model of the printing process; and a user interface for providing user control of the simulator program. |
20040059241 | 10602077 | 0 | 1. A method for treating physiologic brain imbalances, comprising: obtaining neurophysiologic information from a patient, quantifying the neurophysiologic information, and correlating the quantified neurophysiologic information to therapy responsivity profiles. |
20070143274 | 11305958 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method for query processing in a distributed computer system, comprising: receiving a query request for processing data stored as column chunks striped across a plurality of storage servers; determining a hierarchy of servers for performing execution steps to process the query request; transforming the query request to specify execution steps to be performed by the hierarchy of servers; and performing the execution steps of the transformed query request by the hierarchy of servers. |
8924811 | 12657018 | 1 | 1. A serially concatenated convolutional code decoder comprising: a data converter for processing soft demodulator data derived from a demodulator to generate log of probabilities data; an inner decoder comprising a forward recursion metric in parallel with a backward recursion metric that process the log of probabilities data received from the data converter and are coupled to a soft log-likelihood calculation processor that generates inner decoded soft data; a de-interleaver that de-interleaves the inner decoded soft data; an outer decoder comprising a forward recursion metric in parallel with a backward recursion metric that are coupled to a soft log-likelihood calculation processor that processes de-interleaved inner decoded soft data to generate outer decoded soft data; an interleaver for feeding back the outer decoded soft data to the inner decoder; and a decision processor for processing the outer-coded soft data to generate decoded data. |