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20030076256

10273472

1. A method of creating a response in an object subjected to a user defined field distribution created by a wavefront generator wherein a distance and orientation between a transmitting array and the object are predetermined and the distance lies within a near field of the transmitter array, the method comprising: transmitting at a frequency at a first amplitude, a first phase and a first polarization from a first transmitter; transmitting at the frequency at a second amplitude, a second phase and a second polarization from second transmitter; transmitting at the frequency at a next amplitude, at a next phase and a next polarization from a next transmitter, wherein the first, second and next transmitters comprise the transmitter array; and determining an excitation vector comprising the amplitudes, phases and polarizations of the first, second and n transmitters using an optimization technique.

20130339385

13517821

1. A method, comprising: receiving a database query for a first database; determining whether a second database contains data responsive to the database query, wherein the second database comprises a graph database; retrieving responsive data from a memory device associated with the second database if it is determined that the second database contains data responsive to the database query; and responding to the database query by providing the responsive data.

20150227557

14619045

1. A server for identifying and transmitting to a mobile device additional information relating to a query image obtained by a user with a mobile device, the server comprising: a reference image database storing one or more reference feature descriptors associated with one or more reference images, wherein at least one reference image feature is mapped to a plurality of addresses in the reference image database using a plurality of functions; and a processor for executing one or more modules comprising: a query receiving module for receiving, from the mobile device, a first query including one or more query image feature descriptors; a candidate feature descriptors retrieval module for: calculating, for each of the one or more query image feature descriptors, a plurality of addresses using the plurality of functions, and for each of the plurality of addresses, calculating a number of duplicate reference image feature descriptors stored within a pre-defined region of the reference image database; a candidate images retrieval module for: selecting a set of reference image feature descriptors based on the calculated number of duplicate reference image feature descriptors; an image matching module for: comparing the selected set of reference image feature descriptors with the one or more query image feature descriptors to determine if any reference image mages the query image; the server further configured to perform the steps of if a matching reference image is determined, obtaining additional information associated with the at least one matching reference image from an annotation database, and transmitting the additional information to the mobile device for displaying as additional information relating to the at least one item of interest to the user.

9769206

14675669

1. A system, comprising: a processing unit; and a memory unit that stores instructions that, when executed by the processing unit, cause the processing unit to perform operations comprising monitoring a plurality of events for anomalies, wherein each of the plurality of events can impact a policy participation level of an active feedback instance operating in a runtime, wherein the active feedback instance comprises an intentional, directed feedback loop that can be utilized to effect a policy in a cloud computing environment, in response to detecting an anomaly within the plurality of events, receiving an event associated with the anomaly, mapping the event to the policy, and determining a new policy participation level for the active feedback instance according to the policy.

20170085418

14860735

1. A computer-implemented method of determining a master remote access controller (RAC) in an information handling system (IHS), the method comprising: transmitting a first set of RAC parameters from a first RAC to a plurality of other RACs, the first set of RAC parameters including a locality of reference (LOR) value for the first RAC; receiving a plurality of other sets of RAC parameters from the other RACs; generating a first list of all of the RACs including the associated LOR values; sorting the first list based on the LOR values; and designating the RAC having the highest LOR value in the first list as a first master RAC candidate.

9895121

14912965

1. A method of determining a breast density measurement from a digital mammogram, the method comprising: receiving an input image corresponding to the digital mammogram; removing metadata information from the input image to generate an intermediate image; generating a region of interest (ROI) image based on the intermediate image; extracting values for predictor variables from the metadata information, the intermediate image and the ROI image; and calculating the breast density measurement based on the values of the predictor variables.

8005771

12236587

1. A method for detecting a change from a normal state in a multivariate data stream, the method comprising the steps of: (A) receiving a multidimensional training data stream including a plurality of data points representing a normal state; (B) sampling a plurality of m segment windows in the training data stream, each segment window representing a predefined time interval in the data stream; (C) for each of said plurality of segment windows, summarizing a distribution of data points in the segment window by constructing a training histogram h; (D) representing each training histogram h i by a set of distribution representatives r i using clustering; (E) receiving a test data stream including a plurality of multidimensional data points; (F) sampling data points in a plurality of segment windows in the test data stream, each segment window representing a predefined time interval in the data stream; (G) for each segment window in the test data, summarizing a distribution of data points in the segment window by constructing a test histogram h′; (H) representing each test histogram h′ by a set of distribution representatives r′ using clustering; (I) comparing test histograms h′ with training histograms h i using the distribution representatives to find closest matches using a similarity measure S; and (J) transmitting an indication that the multivariate data stream contains a change from the normal state for those segments having a similarity measure S indicating a similarity lower than a decision threshold σ.

7657063

11583681

1. A system for identification of a radiation source, the system comprising: a portable detection unit that detects ionizing radiation from the radiation source and provides a corresponding detection signal, wherein the detected ionizing radiation includes gamma, neutron and X-ray radiation; a multi-channel analyzer, including a microprocessor, that analyzes the detection signal and generates a spectrum of the ionizing radiation; and means for connecting the system to a network and for communicating the spectrum to a remote expert system; wherein, if the microprocessor is unable to unambiguously identify a radioisotope of the radiation source, the system requests information from an expert system at a higher level in a hierarchy, and wherein the hierarchy includes at least two higher levels, including a first expert system located on a local area network, and a second expert system located on a global network.

20040008687

10192971

1. A method that is machine performed by a first-hop node of a wide area network (WAN), for managing on-demand Quality of Service (QoS) assured pre-set path transmission of data from a source machine to a destination machine through the WAN, said method comprising the steps of: managing a node-path database providing links between QoS assured pre-set paths through the WAN and identification of a last-hop node of each QoS path; thereafter, receiving a message that includes identification of a specific request for a QoS assured pre-set path and the identification of the last-hop node that is coupled to the destination machine; thereafter, searching the node-path database for QoS assured pre-set paths linked to the identified destination machine, and selecting and extracting a QoS path based upon the identification of the last-hop node that is coupled to the destination machine; and thereafter, informing the source machine as to the status of the request.

6107957

09105673

1. A method of operating a FMCW radar tank level gauge that measures a level in a tank by obtaining a set of phase shift data points of mixed transmitted waves and received waves, the method comprising: generating and storing a set of spectral data phase shift values including a received target marker indicating the level; calculating an adaptive set of masking threshold phase shift values corresponding to at least a portion of the spectral data phase shift values; comparing the adaptive set of masking threshold phase shift values with the corresponding spectral data chase shift values to identify at least one spectral data phase shift value associated with the level; calculating the level of the tank from said at least one spectral data phase shift value; and reporting the level of the tank.

20080062845

11932166

1. A data recording apparatus for recording data on an optical disc, comprising: an optical pickup having a laser diode; means for forming a data block organized as data columns and data rows, each data row comprising bytes and each data column forming an error correcting code; a signal processing means for rearranging the order of bytes in each data row according to plural rearranging rules to produce a rearranged data block, including rearranging a first row of data according to a first rearranging rule and rearranging at least a second row of data according to a second rearranging rule different from the first rearranging rule; and a modulation means for modulating a data row in which order of bytes was rearranged by the signal processing means; wherein the optical pickup focus laser light emitted by the laser diode on a recording layer of the optical disc in order to record a data row modulated by the modulation means on the recording layer.

20100058260

12201591

1. A method, comprising: detecting, via a 1×N compiler, a relationship between a first cell of a 1×N building block and a second cell of the 1×N building block, wherein the first cell is adjacent to the second cell; selecting a design-for-manufacturing (DFM) alteration, via the relationship, for the first cell; and applying the DFM alteration to a physical design representation of the 1×N building block.

20070198567

11378122

1. A method for creating a database structure using the concatenation of the ASCII Values in an alphanumeric string which serves as a numeric index to store the alphanumeric string and its related data in a computer.

20050240580

10890854

1. A method of personalizing placed content, comprising: determining an interest of a user; accessing a user profile associated with the user; identifying a set of placed content that matches the interest of the user; and ordering the set of placed content in accordance with the user profile.

20130080348

13428978

1. A method for capturing event feedback, the method comprising: a) on a computer-readable storage module, storing a plurality of different event records for a plurality of different events such that the plurality of different event records comprises a corresponding event record for each event in the plurality of different events; b) for each event record in the plurality of different event records, receiving a plurality of feedback indicia arrays at a communication module, the communication module being electronically linked to the computer-readable storage module for communication therewith, wherein each feedback indicia array in the plurality of feedback indicia arrays stores a plurality of different times and a plurality of feedback indicia, such that for each time in the plurality of different times, the plurality of feedback indicia comprises an associated feedback indicium; and c) for each event record in the plurality of different event records, operating a data processing module, linked to the computer-readable storage module for communication therewith, to determine an aggregate feedback result array from the plurality of feedback indicia arrays received for that event record, wherein the aggregate feedback result array defines an associated aggregate feedback timeline, and for a plurality of different times in that timeline, a plurality of aggregate feedback results, such that for each time in the plurality of different times in that timeline, the plurality of aggregate feedback results comprises an associated aggregate feedback result, the plurality of aggregate feedback results being determined by aggregating the plurality of feedback indicia for each feedback indicia array in the plurality of feedback indicia arrays based on the plurality of different times for each feedback indicia array in the plurality of feedback indicia arrays.

10093261

14342498

1. A method for activating a safety actuator of a motor vehicle, comprising: ascertaining an endangerment model of the motor vehicle with the aid of an anticipatory sensor system and at least one characteristic value of a driving operation of the motor vehicle; ascertaining a controllability of the motor vehicle by a driver of the motor vehicle with the aid of the at least one characteristic value, wherein the controllability represents a degree to which the driver is able to control the motor vehicle; and activating the safety actuator to an extent which is a function of the endangerment model and the controllability, wherein: the activating is based on a value associated with an intervention point located in a quadrant of a four-quadrant state diagram in which a first coordinate of the intervention point represents the controllability and a second coordinate of the intervention point represents a degree of endangerment as determined by the endangerment model, a first quadrant of the state diagram represents high controllability and high endangerment, a second quadrant of the state diagram represents low controllability and high endangerment, a third quadrant of the state diagram represents low controllability and low endangerment, and a fourth quadrant of the state diagram represents high controllability and low endangerment.

9384738

14340720

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, for each of multiple utterances of a hotword, a data set including at least (i) a speaker verification confidence score associated with the utterance, and (ii) environmental context data associated with the utterance; selecting from among the data sets, a subset of the data sets that are associated with a particular environmental context; selecting a particular data set from among the subset of data sets based on one or more selection criteria; selecting, as a speaker verification threshold for the particular environmental context, the speaker verification confidence score included in the particular data set; and providing, for output to a speaker verification system, the speaker verification threshold for use in performing speaker verification of utterances that are associated with the particular environmental context.

8767245

13588278

1. A non-transitory article of manufacture comprising a machine-readable medium including data that, when accessed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising: configuring one or more sets of rules within an input device to route print jobs to a plurality of workflows; receiving a print job at the input device; matching the print job with a first of a plurality of workflows based on a set of rules associated with the first workflow, where the rules can include any combination of filename pattern matching and matching of job attributes derived from meta-data files that may accompany print jobs; and routing the print job to the first workflow.

9755989

14509333

1. A method for increasing the efficiency of a resource-aware system, the method comprising: handling request traffic, the handling including: receiving request traffic, monitoring a performance of a set of system resources in response to the request traffic, determining when at least one of the set of system resources is approaching an overload threshold based on a management policy defining the overload threshold for each one of the set of system resources and a corresponding corrective action for each one of the set of system resources, identifying in the management policy a corrective action to avoid crossing the overload threshold based on the at least one system resource that is approaching the overload threshold, determining whether the identified corrective action previously had been unsuccessful in avoiding crossing of the overload threshold, on condition that the identified corrective action has been successful, implementing the identified corrective action so as to avoid crossing the overload threshold and, on condition that the identified corrective action has been unsuccessful, discarding the identified corrective action in favor of a different identified corrective action; recording a performance history of the corrective action; and, amending the management policy based on the performance history of the identified corrective action.

20150302772

14443857

1. A tactile display system comprising: an array of pixels, each pixel comprising a block of hydrogel that can reversibly move between a collapsed position and any of a plurality of swollen positions in response to an environmental stimuli.

20090319597

12142027

1. A system of monitoring and administering distributed applications comprising: an agent associated with an application server configured to collect and transmit session information relating to distributed application sessions active on the application server; a central data repository capable of storing the session information, wherein the agent transmits the session information to the central data repository; a workstation configured to accept an input from a user and query the central data repository based on the input; the workstation further configured to extract a subset of the session information stored in the central data repository and format the subset of the session information for display; and a display capable of displaying the formatted subset of the session information.

9269012

13973913

1. A computing device, comprising: one or more processors; one or more cameras; and memory including instructions that, upon being executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing device to: capture, at a first time, one or more first images using the one or more cameras; detect at least one portion of a representation of a face of a user in the one or more first images using a facial detection process; capture, at a second time, one or more second images using the one or more cameras; track the at least one portion of the representation of the face of the user between the one or more first images and the one or more second images by concurrently executing a plurality of types of object tracking processes, the plurality of types of object tracking processes including two or more of a feature-based tracking process, an elliptical tracking process, a template matching tracking process, an optical flow tracking process, or a silhouette or contour tracking process; select an object tracking process from among the plurality of object tracking processes based at least in part upon the object tracking process best satisfying a condition; and determine a position of the face of the user based at least in part upon where the selected object tracking process tracked the at least one portion of the representation of the face of the user in the one or more second images.

20150226804

14694753

1. An electromagnetic testing system for predicting a usable life of a vacuum interrupter, the electromagnetic testing system comprising: a flexible magnetic field coil configured to be placed around an installed vacuum interrupter; a power supply connected to the flexible magnetic field coil and operable to generate a DC current and to apply the DC current to the flexible magnetic field coil to generate a magnetic field to cause ion current flow across one or more gaps inside the installed vacuum interrupter; and a processor configured to measure the ion current flow across the one or more gaps inside the installed vacuum interrupter and to calculate a pressure based on a difference in measured quantity of ions flowing across the one or more gaps.

20060085455

11251811

1. A system, comprising: a database; means for gathering data containing economic and workforce development information and storing it in the database; a database server which makes data from the database available via the Internet to a user of a web browser; a plurality of user selectable analytical tools which allow a user to mine data from the database relevant to a particular inquiry and organize and present that data in a useful form; and means for presenting mined and organized data to the user.

20110004967

12792477

1. A method, comprising: generating a band excitation signal; simultaneously exciting a probe at a plurality of frequencies within a predetermined frequency band using the band excitation signal; and measuring a response of the probe across a subset of frequencies of the predetermined frequency band.

20160081357

14955490

1. A method of preparing a dough or a dough-based edible product, comprising adding a polypeptide to the dough, wherein the dough comprises at least 10% sucrose by weight, and the polypeptide: a) has an amino acid sequence which is at least 70% identical to SEQ ID NO: 1, and b) compared to SEQ ID NO: 1 comprises an amino acid alteration which is substitution or deletion of or insertion adjacent to I15, R18, K44, N86, T87, G88, Y89, H90, Y92, W93, F188, T189, D190, P191, A192, F194, L196, D329, N371, D372, P373, N375 or R376.

20140067280

13834685

1. A method for constructing an ancestral-specific reference genome database comprising the steps of: a) obtaining a familial whole genome data set comprising whole genome DNA sequences from three or more individuals of a first family; b) comparing the whole genome DNA sequences within the familial whole genome data set to obtain a corrected familial whole genome data set; c) preparing a first composite familial whole genome sequence from the corrected familial whole genome data set; d) repeating steps a-c for a second, third or more families to obtain a second, third or more composite familial whole genome sequences; e) evaluating the first, second, third or more composite familial whole genome sequences for single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and/or haplotypes and assigning statistical significance to the SNPs and/or haplotypes; f) grouping the first, second, third or more composite familial whole genome sequences based on single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and/or haplotypes that are statistically significant; and g) preparing a plurality of ancestral-specific reference genomes, each ancestral-specific reference genome based on the SNPs and/or haplotypes shared by a group of composite familial whole genome sequences with the same ancestry.

20080126883

11495452

1. A method for reporting reasons for failure during transactional execution, comprising: while executing a program on a processor, transactionally executing a block of instructions in the program; if the transactional execution of the block of instructions completes successfully, committing changes made during the transactional execution, and resuming normal non-transactional execution of the program past the block of instructions; and if the transactional execution of the block of instructions fails, discarding changes made during the transactional execution, and recording failure information indicating why the transactional execution failed.

9053486

12985121

1. A computer-implemented method for ordering commercials that are provided to an audience by a content provider, wherein all steps are performed by the computer, the computer comprising a processor, a memory device and control logic stored therein, the method comprising: presenting a plurality of advertisement campaigns to a user through a computer interface for selection by the user, each advertising campaign comprising a plurality of fillable video segment slots, each fillable segment slot arranged at a specific time point within said advertisement campaign; in response to receiving a campaign selection input, presenting the user with a first set of criteria associated with the selected advertisement campaign; receiving a first criteria selection from the user; accessing a library of media segments stored in the memory device, each of the media segments comprising a portion of an advertisement, each media segment associated with metadata defining the media segment; transmitting the first criteria selection to an assembly component; searching the memory device for media segments having metadata correlating with the first criteria selection; retrieving at least one correlating media segment from the memory device; inserting the correlating media segment into one of the fillable media slots into the advertisement campaign, thereby generating a first version of a completed commercial; receiving instructions by the assembly component from the user to assemble a second version of a completed commercial using a second set of criteria; receiving a second criteria selection from the user; accessing the library of media segments stored in the memory device; transmitting the second criteria selection to an assembly component; searching the memory device for media segments having metadata correlating with the second criteria selection; retrieving at least one correlating media segment from the memory device; inserting the correlating media segment into one of the fillable media slots into the advertisement campaign, thereby generating a second version of a completed commercial; presenting on the display a preview of the first and second versions of the completed commercial prior to transmitting at least one of the first and second versions of the completed commercial to the content provider; receiving ordering instructions from the user; and transmitting at least one of the first and second versions of the completed commercial to one or more content providers in response to the ordering instructions.

9141766

13876355

1. A method of controlling generating an image of a perfusable structured of an organism, wherein: a fluid is flowing through the perfusable structure; a dose of a traceable agent is present in the fluid; and wherein for each specific one of a plurality of locations in the perfusable structure, the method comprises: determining multiple further evolutions of a physical quantity, representative of a spatial concentration of the traceable agent, wherein each respective one of the multiple further evolutions is determined for a respective one of multiple further ones of the plurality of locations in a specific neighborhood of the specific location; optionally, determining a specific evolution of the physical quantity at the specific location; determining a further quantity dependent on a degree of similarity between the multiple further evolutions themselves, or on a degree of similarity of the specific evolution to the multiple further evolutions, and allocating a specific indicator to the specific location in dependence on the further quantity for control of representing the specific location in the image.

9371404

14614631

1. A gas-phase polyolefin reactor system, comprising: a) a control valve, wherein a first stream is connected to an input end of the control valve and to an input end of a high-flow valve and a second stream is connected to an output end of the control valve and the high-flow valve, wherein the second stream is connected to a third stream, wherein the third stream is connected to an input of a gas-phase polyolefin reactor; b) wherein the first, second and third streams comprise a reaction component, wherein an empirical model predicts a required amount of a reaction component based upon an initial concentration and a selected ending concentration, and wherein a flow meter measures a flow rate of the first stream near the input end of the high-flow valve and outputs the measured flow rate to a totalizer.

20120051422

13222494

1. A video processing method based on multiple texture images, comprising: dividing an input video into shot segments, and selecting one from a plurality of frames of each shot segment as a seed image; detecting a plurality of texture points from the seed image; tracking the plurality of texture points from the plurality of frames of the shot segment and then calculating spatio-temporal location transform variables for the respective texture points; and defining a plurality of texture images using texture points at which the spatio-temporal location transform variables correspond to one another.

20020087822

09929894

1. A method for performing free space collection in an information storage system having storage units in which information segments are located, the method comprising the steps of: determining a fitness value for at least some of the segments by determining the product of the amount of free space in the segment and the expected time the free space will last; choosing segments for free space collection with the maximum fitness values.

6016465

09005547

1. A method of detecting sensor faults in a system having at least one sensor providing a sensor signal for monitoring or controlling system parameters, the method comprising the following steps: (a) generating reference signals of the system; (b) recording the value of each sensor signal and the corresponding reference signals at time intervals; (c) comparing the shape of an outline formed from a series of values of each sensor signal with the shape of an outline formed from a series of corresponding modified reference signals by means of a correlation coefficient; (d) continuously updating the respective series of signals with the most recent values and (e) declaring a fault when the correlation coefficient falls outside a prescribed range, wherein the modified reference signal is generated by: (f) multiplying the reference signal by a scaling factor to convert each sensor signal and its corresponding reference signal; (g) calculating the mean values of each sensor signal and its corresponding reference signal; (h) subtracting the respective mean values from each sensor signal and its corresponding reference signal to obtain new values for each sensor signal and its corresponding reference signal; (i) applying deviation thresholds to either side of the new values for each sensor signal; (j) superimposing the value of each reference signal over the thresholds around the new value of its corresponding sensor signal, and (k) formulating a modified reference signal from a hybrid of values of the new sensor signal and the new reference signal.

8380649

12500894

1. A method for applying an avatar behavior rule within a virtual universe environment, comprising: monitoring a behavior of a collective plurality of avatars within a virtual universe environment for compliance with a violation threshold of an avatar behavior rule for the virtual universe environment; determining an amount of compliance of the monitored collective plurality behavior with the rule; comparing the determined compliance amount with the violation threshold; if the determined compliance amount exceeds the violation threshold, revising the violation threshold upward, wherein a higher level of the determined compliance amount is required to exceed the violation threshold; and repeating steps of monitoring the behavior of the collective plurality of avatars within the virtual universe for compliance with the rule, determining an amount of compliance of the monitored collective plurality behavior with the rule, comparing the determined compliance amount with the revised violation threshold, and revising the violation threshold upward, until the monitored compliance amount does not exceed the revised violation threshold.

9665564

14506855

1. A method, in a data processing system comprising a processor and a memory, the memory comprising instructions that specifically configure the processor to implement a logical reasoning system for processing logical relationships in natural language content, the method comprising: receiving, by the logical reasoning system of the data processing system, natural language content upon which a reasoning operation is to be performed; generating, by a parser implemented in the data processing system, a first parse representation of the natural language content by performing natural language processing on the natural language content; generating, by the logical reasoning system of the data processing system, a logical parse of the first parse by identifying latent logical operators within the first parse indicative of logical relationships between elements of the natural language content; and performing, by the logical reasoning system of the data processing system, a reasoning operation on the logical parse to generate a knowledge output indicative of knowledge associated with one or more of the logical relationships between elements of the natural language content, wherein generating, by the parser, the first parse representation of the natural language content comprises: parsing the natural language content into one or more atomic logical terms that lack explicit or implicit logic; and connecting the one or more atomic logical terms by logical operators in the first parse representation to specify a logical relationship between the one or more atomic logical terms.

8688669

13477985

1. A method performed by data processing apparatus, the method comprising: receiving, from a user device, a search query for a content item, the search query including one or more search terms; identifying a corpus of content items previously delivered to the user device, wherein the content items included in the corpus of content items are advertisements corresponding to content sponsors; creating an index of the corpus of content items previously delivered to the user device, wherein the index of the corpus of content items previously delivered to the user device is populated of a cookie stored at the user device; using the received search terms to search the index of the corpus of content items; determining that at least one content item in the index corresponds to the received search terms; and delivering, to the user device, a content item search result, the content item search result including the at least one content item corresponding to the received search terms.

9603539

13255136

1. A method for using a computing system to identify a cardiac condition in a patient associated with changes in electrical activity of an ion channel containing cardiac cells of an anatomical structure by identifying multiple waveform features associated with cardiac conditions in response to a simulated application of a drug or chemical, the method comprising: using an electrocardiographic monitor to detect electrical activity of an anatomical structure of the patient; storing, in a database: the detected electrical activity of the anatomical structure of the patient; a propagation algorithm representing conduction of the electrical activity through the anatomical structure; and cell set data corresponding to a group of ion channel containing cardiac cells, wherein the cell set data includes a plurality of cell models, each cell model including a waveform representing electrical activity exhibited by at least one of the cells in the group of ion channel containing cardiac cells during a predetermined period of time, wherein the electrical activity represents a functioning of the ion channels in the at least one cell; and using a processor of the computing system to: accept user inputs from a user interface, the user inputs including selection of a simulated drug or chemical parameter; apply the simulated drug or chemical parameter to a cell model from the plurality of cell models, wherein the application of the simulated drug or chemical parameter changes an ion channel conductivity and an electrical activity of the cell model; form at least one reconfigured cell model representing electrical activity of a modeled anatomical structure resulting from the changes in the ion channel conductivity due to the application of the simulated drug or chemical parameter to the cell model; identify waveform features in the electrical activity of the ion channel containing cardiac cells of the modeled anatomical structure based on the at least one reconfigured cell model associated with a cardiac condition; calculate a body surface potential map on the body of the patient using the propagation algorithm and the identified waveform features; and use the body surface potential map to select alternate electrode locations for recording the electrical activity of the ion channel.

20130132070

13299692

1. A method for building an expression, the method comprising: utilizing any formal grammar of a context-free language; displaying an expression on a computer display via a graphical user interface; replacing at least one non-terminal display object within the displayed expression with any of a) at least one non-terminal display object, and b) at least one terminal display object; and repeating the replacing step a plurality of times for a plurality of non-terminal display objects until no non-terminal display objects remain in the displayed expression, wherein the non-terminal display objects correspond to non-terminal elements within the grammar, and wherein the terminal display objects correspond to terminal elements within the grammar.

20060109891

10997397

1. An equalizer, comprising apparatus that generates a set of filter coefficients w from inverting a series of sub-matrices E, each of the sub-matrices of size no greater than 2×2 and representing an element of an approximated correlation matrix C rr for a spread spectrum signal received over a multipath channel.

20080098348

11585511

1. A software domain model that enables simultaneous independent development of software components, comprising: a first component; a second component; a core layer that defines an item that can be accessed by the first component and the second component; and wherein the first component can extend the item, and wherein the second component can independently and separately extend the item; a software layer that can use the first component and the second component to perform a holistic task through a set of micro-orchestrations, wherein a micro-orchestration invokes a piece of functionality in a component, the core layer, and/or the software layer.

20070081586

11528140

1. A method of encoding multimedia data, comprising: classifying content of multimedia data; and encoding the multimedia data in a first data group and in a second data group based on the content classification, wherein the first data group comprises a coefficient and the second data group comprises a first differential refinement associated with the first data group coefficient.

20050033718

10633578

1. A process for changing a computer system or application from a first language to at least a second language comprising the steps of: determining a structure of a system about to be migrated; storing migration information based on the determination of the structure; performing said migration based on said stored migration information.

7675860

11363840

1. A method comprising: providing a point-to-multipoint label switching path having a plurality of nodes interconnected by network links, wherein at least one of the plurality of nodes is a branching node; computing, with a processor, a point-to-multipoint backup path to the point-to-multipoint label switch path for each of a plurality of nodes located upstream from said branching node each backup path originating at a respective node located upstream from said branching node and including a set of nodes located downstream from said branching node, wherein at least one of said backup paths includes at least one network link present in the point-to-multipoint label switching path; determining a cost metric associated with each backup path; determining a distance metric associated with each backup path; and selecting one of the backup paths as said preferred backup path based on said cost metric and said distance metric.

9526979

14204929

1. A modular assembly system for use with an interactive software experience, the system comprising a module and the module comprising: one or more connectors for attaching other modules to the module to form a coherent physical whole object, each connector being arranged to pass data and power between modules; and a storage element arranged to store an identifier of the module and module data for the module, wherein at least a portion of the module data is updated in use by the interactive software experience in response to user interaction, the module data comprising at least one of permissions, price, or acquisition data of the module.

8737980

13629117

1. A process for end to end application automatic testing comprising the steps of: establishing a connection between a mobile device and a test control mobile application, and connecting to a network emulator to initialize settings; forwarding a request from test management to said mobile device to initiate a test control mobile application with user entry information; send radio condition settings to said network emulator; generating a user entry from said test control mobile application based on information received from test management; initiating an internet connection upon successful start of the test control mobile application; opening the internet connection for the mobile device though the network emulator; executing a specific application request through said test control mobile application upon successful internet connection; capturing data transfer size on both the mobile device and the network emulator during the test control mobile application; changing the radio conditions by test management during execution of the test control mobile application on the network emulator; computing test specific key performance indicators by test management; and comparing the specific key performance indicators against test thresholds to determine test success.

7505908

10216390

1. A method for representing gestures made by a user, comprising: recognizing a gesture; converting the recognized gesture into at least one recognition result by using finite-state transducers, each recognition result comprising a sequence of symbols including a set of gesture symbols with a SEM (semantics) placeholder symbol for specific content of the gesture, wherein each symbol of the sequence of symbols identifies a specific attribute of the recognized gesture and the SEM placeholder symbol represents the specific content of the gesture such that when recomposing specific gestural content, the specific content is mapped to the SEM placeholder symbol and other specific attributes are mapped to themselves; and outputting the recognition result.

20120059348

13038635

1. A method for setting a basal rate profile for an insulin pump, wherein the basal rate profile defines a basal rate delivery for a selected time interval and has a pre-defined number of profile segments each of which define the basal rate delivery for a subset of the selected time interval, the method comprising: providing a curve representing a basal rate as a continuous function of time as an input for an input unit; and generating the basal rate profile from the curve by a calculation unit by assigning curve values at selected time instances to the pre-defined number of profile segments.

8565134

12958185

1. A system comprising: a memory to store instructions; and a processor, coupled to the memory, that facilitates execution of the instructions to perform operations comprising: accessing a set of sleep mode instructions comprising a first sleep mode instruction for a first sleep mode defined in a corresponding wireless communication standard and a second sleep mode instruction for a second sleep mode defined in the corresponding wireless communication standard, wherein a sleep mode instruction of the set of sleep mode instructions is selectable based on a sleep mode selection policy; and modifying the sleep mode selection policy based on a semi-Markov decision process model to form a modified sleep mode selection policy without modification of the sleep mode instruction of the set of sleep mode instructions.

8675931

13002490

1. A method for segmenting a three-dimensional medical image, comprising: receiving, by a computing device, medical image data representing spatial variation of the three-dimensional medical image; deriving, by the computing device, shape data from the medical image data; clustering, by the computing device, image data including the medical image data and the shape data, to generate a plurality of modes; merging neighboring ones of said plurality of modes to form merged modes; and outputting, by the computing device, segmentation data relating to the three-dimensional medical image, derived from the plurality of modes, wherein the segmentation data is based on the merged modes.

20140097335

13645212

1. An apparatus for evaluating an earth formation intersected by a borehole, the apparatus comprising: a first radiation responsive element configured to absorb substantially all incident thermal neutrons and produce first light scintillations indicative of the absorbed thermal neutrons; and a second radiation responsive element configured to produce second light scintillations indicative of at least epithermal neutrons that traverse the first radiation responsive element.

10162341

14879572

1. A method for sequencing a plurality of tasks performed by a processing system, the method comprising: generating a schedule by iteratively performing a scheduling process, the scheduling process comprising: generating a first list of highly constrained tasks from a plurality of tasks yet to be scheduled based on a difference between a latest start time and an earliest start time of each respective task; determining whether a portion of the first list of the highly constrained tasks exceeds a capacity of a plurality of semiconductor processing equipment stations comprising the processing system, wherein said determining comprises: generating a station set list of sets of semiconductor processing equipment stations corresponding to the semiconductor processing equipment station on which a highly constrained task can run; generating a second list based on each set of semiconductor processing equipment stations in the station set list by creating sets of highly constrained tasks that may run on each set of semiconductor processing equipment stations in the station set list; and determining for each set of highly constrained tasks in the second list whether the set of highly constrained tasks exceed the capacity of the plurality of semiconductor processing equipment stations; responsive to determining the portion of the first list does exceed the capacity, assigning a task from the first list of highly constrained tasks at a next available time on one of the plurality of semiconductor processing equipment stations; responsive to determining the portion of the first list does not exceed the capacity, assigning a task from the plurality of tasks yet to be scheduled to run at a next available time on one of the plurality of semiconductor processing equipment stations; and updating the latest start time and the earliest start time associated with each of the plurality of tasks yet to be scheduled based on the assigned task; and processing a plurality of substrates using the plurality of semiconductor processing equipment stations according to the schedule.

9411856

13632284

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: registering, with one or more processors, a first user and a second user with a social network; receiving, with the one or more processors, user activities for the second user associated with the first website and a second website, the user activities being other users' ratings based on a bi-directional communication between another user and the second user; generating, with the one or more processors, a website rating for the second user based on the user activities related to the first website and an overall rating for the second user based on the user activities related to the first website and the second website; determining whether to include the second user in an overlay associated with the first website and displayed to the first user based on determining whether the website rating and the overall rating of the second user exceed a threshold value specified by the first user; and responsive to determining that the website rating and the overall rating of the second user exceed the threshold value, generating, with the one or more processors, graphical data for displaying the overlay for the first website that includes information about the second user to the first user, the overlay including a name, the overall rating and the website rating of the second user such that the first user can interact with the second user within the overlay.

20090216556

12036285

1. A method comprising: a) aggregating a plurality of clinical data for a plurality of patients; and b) providing a unified display for displaying said clinical data, wherein said unified display is sorted based on a condition to monitor.

8322059

12529313

1. A method of providing event information to an athlete in an athletic event comprising the steps of: providing multiple sets of information displays, each said set of information displays including a plurality of adhesive layers secured to a corresponding plurality of display layers wherein the display layers in each said set of information displays include elapsed time data for a predetermined pace relating to the event, and each second set of information displays includes elapsed time data for a different pace; selecting a said information display from one of said sets of information displays based upon a desired pace; applying said information display to the skin of the inner portion of one of the forearms of the athlete prior to the event utilizing said adhesive; utilizing the event parameter data during the event; and removing said information display from the athlete's forearm after the event, wherein said event is a race.

20150367514

14310567

1. A method of determining an optimal grasp pose of an object by an end-effector of a robot in the execution of a task, the method comprising: receiving a set of inputs via a controller, including a descriptive parameter of the object, a task wrench having a frame of reference, and a commanded end-effector grasp force; calculating a grasp wrench in the frame of reference of the task wrench; rotating and shifting the grasp wrench via the controller until the task wrench and the grasp wrench are optimally balanced, wherein the task wrench and the grasp wrench are optimally balanced when the sum of the task wrench and the grasp wrench is minimized; recording the optimal grasp pose in memory of the controller as the grasp pose at which the grasp wrench and the task wrench are optimally balanced; and executing a control action via the controller using the recorded optimal grasp pose.

9875305

14709084

1. A computerized search system, comprising: a search engine embodied on non-transitory computer-readable memory; at least one processor; a storage unit storing a search index and instructions; and stored instructions, wherein the stored instructions when translated by the at least one processor instruct the search engine to: receive an indexing request associated with an object; identify any derived metadata fields in the search index that would be affected by the indexing request associated with the object; determine whether any of the identified derived metadata fields in the search index that would be affected by the indexing request associated with the object are within a list or record of protected metadata fields; retain any of the identified derived metadata fields in the search index that would be affected by the indexing request associated with the object and that are determined to be within the list or record of protected metadata fields such that any of the identified derived metadata fields in the search index thus retained are protected from change caused by the indexing request associated with the object; and execute an indexing command to update the search index with data associated with the object and without any of the identified derived metadata fields in the search index thus retained by the search engine such that the search index is updated without the search engine deleting or changing any value of the derived metadata fields in the search index that have been identified by the search engine as would be affected by the indexing request associated with the object and that have been determined by the search engine to be associated with the list or record of protected metadata fields, the data comprising text, metadata, or both.

20160203136

14886003

1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a processor, an electronic stream of data comprising packets of data; generating, by the processor, electronic data records based on the packets of data; retrieving, by the processor, an electronic representation of a hash function; generating, by the processor, an electronic tabulation in response to hashing the electronic data records using the electronic representation of the hash function; generating, by the processor, a vector from the electronic tabulation, the vector associated with heads of corresponding keys; generating, by the processor, a twisted hash function by twisting the heads associated with the vector; and storing, by the processor, the twisted hash function in electronic association with the electronic data records.

20110166738

13012927

1. A vehicle motion control device for a vehicle, the vehicle having a plurality of wheels and a driving device for driving the wheels based on a driving force/load distribution ratio, comprising: a calculating unit for obtaining, based on equations of state that describe a state of motion of the vehicle, a divergence value, which is a characteristic value that represents a tendency of vectors in a vector field, the vector field describing a state surface with axes representing state variables for the state of motion of the vehicle; a setting unit for setting a target value of the driving force/load distribution ratio for the individual wheels, such that the divergence value becomes less than a current value of the divergence value or the divergence value becomes less than or equal to zero; and a driving device control unit for controlling the driving device based on the target driving force/load distribution ratio.

8850583

13785349

1. A method for the secure detection of signatures comprising: a. capturing network data; b. generating a search hash value from said captured network data using a first hash function; said search hash value employing at least one one-way function, whereby given the search hash value one cannot determine the network data; c. determining the presence of a hash value match between said generated search hash value and one or more hash values in a secure signature table; said secure table comprising one or more hash values each comprising at least one corresponding encrypted rule; d. after determining a search hash value match, generating a decryption key from said captured network data using a second hash function; said second hash function different from said first hash function; e. decrypting one or more said encrypted rules of said secure signatures table having a corresponding hash value equal to said generated search hash value using said generated decryption key; f. processing each said decrypted secure signature rule for a match, and if a match is detected, deploying one or more user notifications; and g. said steps performed by one or more processors.

20130090124

13253120

1. A method performed by a processor connected to a node of a wireless core network that controls at least one radio access network (RAN) and is operated by at least a first operator, comprising: obtaining key performance indicators (KPIs) from one or more cells served by the core network; deciding to make a sharing attempt based on the KPIs, wherein the sharing attempt is an attempt to borrow or to supply cellular resources that affect capacity; announcing the sharing attempt to a sharing entity (SE) embodied in a processor connected to the wireless core network; obtaining from the SE the identity of at least one further operator and the terms of a sharing agreement with the further operator; and configuring the RAN to support borrowing of resources from the further operator or supplying of resources to the further operator according to the terms of the sharing agreement.

8887279

13077548

1. A method for centrally managing information about security events detected by a group of protected web-connected resources, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of security event reports from one or more deployment components by a first computer, wherein each of the deployment components is coupled to a native service local to one of a plurality of web-connected resources of a plurality of additional, separate computers; based on the received security event reports, determining by the first computer a threat level indicator across the plurality of web-connected resources using one or more analyses and metrics; transmitting the determined threat level indicator to each of the web-connected resources of a plurality of the additional, separate computers; receiving the threat level indicator by each of the web-connected resources of the plurality of additional, separate computers; and one or more of the native services of the plurality of additional, separate computers selecting and performing a security breach abatement action according to the received threat level indicator, wherein the selecting is performed by the native service according to a Security Policy local to each corresponding additional, separate computer; wherein the threat indicator excludes instructions for security breach abatement.

7689887

11962781

1. A design structure embodied in a machine readable medium, the design structure comprising: a thermal sensor device located in proximity to a circuit to which BIST testing operations are applied, said thermal sensor device comparing the current temperature value sensed by said thermal sensor to a predetermined temperature threshold and determining whether the predetermined temperature threshold is met or exceeded; and BIST control means for suspending said BIST testing operation in response to meeting or exceeding said predetermined temperature threshold, and for initiating resumption of BIST testing operations when the current temperature value is reduced below said predetermined threshold value.

8692936

13732019

1. A system for determining an accuracy of a caption data set, comprising: at least one computing device; and a captioning evaluation tool, executing on the at least one computing device, that determines the accuracy of a caption data set by: receiving the caption data set; determining a number of errors in the caption data set; and determining the accuracy of the caption data set using at least the number of errors in the caption data set.

20160203411

15075957

1. A method, comprising: identifying a plurality of refinements R(q) of a first search query q, each refinement rεR(q) being a search query that follows the first query q in a session of queries submitted to a search system; identifying a document set D(r) of each of the refinements r, the document set of a refinement being the documents d that have been presented as search results in response to the refinement by the search system and that have received user selections while being presented as the search results; building a representation of a graph G for the first search query q, wherein the graph G has a node for the first search query q, a node for each of the refinements r, a node for each document d in the document sets of the refinements, and an off-topic node for an off-topic state f and wherein the graph G has edges from the first search query node q to each of the refinement nodes r, edges from the first search query q to each document in the respective document set D(q) of the first search query q, edges from each refinement to each document in the respective document set D(r) of the refinement, and edges from each refinement to each co-occurring query Q(r) of the refinement and to the off-topic node; building a transition probability matrix P for the graph G that includes first probabilities for each edge (r i , d), second probabilities for each edge (r i , f), and third probabilities for each edge (r i , r j ); calculating a visit probability vector for each refinement in the plurality of refinements R(q) from the transition probability matrix P, where each vector has elements representing a probability for each document in the document set D(q) and the document sets of the refinements R(q); and clustering the refinements into refinement clusters by partitioning the visit probability vectors into proper subsets.

8375065

12626831

1. A method comprising the steps of: receiving a data input file, said data input file defining a first set of data fields to be included in a database and said data input file including a set of data elements to be included in said database; identifying a second set of data fields in said data input file that are designated to contain a Boolean element, said second set of data fields being a subset of said first set of data fields; defining at least one new data field, each new data field collectively storing a plurality of said Boolean elements from said second set of data fields such that each one of said plurality of said Boolean elements in said new data field is the same as one of said Boolean elements from said second set of data fields; modifying said first set of data fields to eliminate said second set of data fields; and storing in a catalog data that defines an arrangement of said first set of data fields, wherein said arrangement includes said at least one new data field for collectively storing said Boolean elements previously contained in said eliminated second set of data fields.

20110264998

13179130

1. A system for displaying groups of cluster spines, comprising: obtaining groups of cluster spines, each group comprising one or more spines with one or more document clusters each associated with at least one concept; a vector module to generate group concept score vectors for each of the spine groups by aggregating the concepts for the clusters in that spine group; a comparison module to compare the group concept score vectors for each of the spine groups and to identify those spine groups that are unique; and a placement module to place the unique spine groups into a display by arranging the unique spine groups at equal distance angles around a ring provided centrally in the display.

9965322

13858334

1. A distributed processing system comprising: plural task nodes each including a reconfigurable processor (RP) for processing a corresponding task, and a non-reconfigurable processor (non-RP) for processing the corresponding task; and a scheduler node configured to: control a distributing of tasks in a computing environment by: calculating, for a task, RP gains for each of the plural task nodes based on a difference between a corresponding RP cost and a corresponding non-RP cost; determining a RP gain that has a greatest absolute value among the calculated RP gains; and in response to the determining the RP gain: selecting a task node, from the plural task nodes, that is to process the task based on the determined RP gain; and selecting a task processing method, between an RP-method and a non-RP method, by which the selected task node is to process the task based on direction information of the determined RP gain, wherein, to select the task processing method, the scheduler node is configured to select the RP-method as the task processing method when the direction information represents a first signed direction and select the non-RP method as the task processing method when the direction information represents a different second signed direction, wherein the selected task node processes the task according to the selected task processing method.

20150092938

14041834

1. A method performed by a processor servicing a contact center comprising a plurality of resources, the method comprising: collecting a plurality of work items in a contact center, a first work item in the plurality of work items being received at a first time, a second work item in the plurality of work items being received at a second time, wherein the second time is later than the first time but both the first and second time are within a predetermined interval of time; and analyzing each of the plurality of work items received during the predetermined interval of time against a plurality of agents in a contact center to determine an agent to assign to each of the plurality of work items, wherein a first of the plurality of agents is not available at the first time but is available within a remainder of the predetermined interval of time, and wherein a second of the plurality of agents is available at the first time but is less-qualified to handle the first work item as compared to the first agent.

20080282225

11747058

1. A method for generating a visualization of a programming code base using a set of navigable landmasses, comprising: representing each of a plurality of different code components using a respective landmass; adjusting a size of each landmass based on a number of lines of code in the code component corresponding to the landmass; and displaying the landmasses.

9008694

13538296

1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a mobile device, radio frequency (RF) signals from a plurality of RF sources, wherein at least one of the plurality of RF sources is located inside a structure; determining information associated with the plurality of RF sources; comparing the determined information with a priori information associated with a set of indoor-only RF sources; determining whether the plurality of RF sources includes at least one of the set of indoor-only RF sources; if the plurality of RF sources includes the at least one of the set of indoor-only RF sources, using an indoor positioning algorithm to determine a location of the mobile device; and if the plurality of RF sources does not include the at least one of the set of indoor-only RF sources, using an outdoor positioning algorithm to determine the location of the mobile device.

9947025

14989174

1. An apparatus comprising: a communication module; and a processor configured to: transmit, via the communication module, a search request including at least one keyword to an external electronic device; in response to the search request, acquire together advertisement content and non-advertisement content from the external electronic device; and present, via a display operatively coupled with the processor, the advertisement content in relation with the non-advertisement content, wherein the non-advertisement content includes video content or image content; wherein the non-advertisement content and the advertisement content are selected by the external electronic device using a search term including the at least one keyword, and wherein the advertisement content is integrated into a portion of the non-advertisement content in which the at least one keyword is found.

8655970

13752815

1. A method, comprising: determining, by a processor, a future travel event associated with a user, wherein the future travel event is scheduled to take place within a determined time interval; providing a notification of the determined future travel event to a device associated with the user, wherein the notification comprises at least one user query for display at the device associated with the user, the at least one user query for downloading suggested media content for playback during the future travel event, and wherein a playback duration of the suggested media content is equal to or greater than a duration associated with the future travel event; and responsive to receiving an indication from the device associated with the user indicating user consent to the at least one query, causing the suggested media content to be downloaded to the device associated with the user.

20070179857

11697928

1. A method for generating weights with which one or more advertisements comprising an advertisement group are selected for distribution, the method comprising: retrieving analytics data for the one or more advertisements comprising the advertisement group; retrieving advertiser specified configuration data associated with the one or more advertisements comprising the advertisement group; calculating a score for the one or more advertisements comprising the advertisement group; and assigning weights to the one or more advertisements comprising the advertisement group based upon the scores and analytics data associated with the one or more advertisements.

9229457

14351822

1. A method for determining a driving strategy for a vehicle, comprising: obtaining, by at least one computer processor, a driving condition specification; detecting, by the at least one computer processor, whether a following vehicle is present, wherein the following vehicle is at least partially behind the vehicle; and selecting, by the at least one processor and from a plurality of candidate driving strategies, a driving strategy for achieving the specified driving condition based on (a) a power consumption analysis and (b) the detection; wherein: the plurality of candidate driving strategies includes a first driving strategy and a second driving strategy that is more power-saving than the first driving strategy; the at least one processor is configured to select the second strategy responsive to presence of a relevant following vehicle not being detected, and to select the first strategy responsive to detection of the presence of the relevant following vehicle.

20120054133

13222169

1. A method of configuring a device ( 10 ) for detecting a situation from among a set of situations (S- 1 ,. .. , S-N) in which it is possible to find a physical system ( 40 ) observed by a least one sensor ( 18 ), comprising the following steps: receiving ( 102 ) a sequence of observation data of the physical system, called a training sequence (L- 1 ,. .. , L-N), provided by the sensor and corresponding to a determined situation of the physical system, determining, from the training sequence, the parameters of a statistical hidden Markov model (HMM- 1 ,. .. , HMM-N) recorded onto the detection device's storage media ( 20 ) and relating to the determined situation, by prior initializing ( 104 - 116 ) these parameters, then updating ( 118 ) these initialized parameters, characterized in that this prior initialization ( 104 - 116 ) comprises the following steps: with the statistical model being used having a given number of hidden states, determining ( 104 , 106 ) multiple probability distributions from the training sequence, by dividing the sequence into sub-sequences and assigning to each sub-sequence a probability distribution statistically modeling it, the number of determined probability distributions being greater than the number of hidden states in the statistical model being used, distributing ( 106 - 114 ) said determined probability distributions between the hidden states of the statistical model being used, determining ( 110 ), for each hidden state in the statistical model being used and, from the probability distributions assigned to said hidden state, a single probability distribution that is representative of said hidden state, and initializing ( 116 ) the parameters of the statistical model being used from the determined representative probability distributions, and in that the method also includes a configuration step ( 122 ) for the detection device such that the statistical model being used includes the parameters determined by said prior initialization ( 104 - 116 ) and then said update ( 118 ).

8537843

12858099

1. A method of operating an Internet Protocol (IP) communication system wherein a user transfers a service request for an application, the method comprising: receiving the service request for the application into an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS); in the IMS, processing the service request to generate initial filter criteria that includes a first logic component that has a first time limit to control provision of the application to the user; transferring the initial filter criteria from the IMS and receiving the initial filter criteria into an application server; in the application server before the first time limit expires, providing the application to the user based on the initial filter criteria with the first logic component, and after the first time limit expires, providing the application to the user based on the initial filter criteria without the first logic component.

20150254284

14711406

1. A server comprising: a storage medium to store a plurality of images; and a processing circuit configured to execute instructions to receive at least one rectified image having at least one potential object of interest from a computing device for a visual search and to extract descriptors representing features of the at least one rectified image, wherein the extracted descriptors of the at least one rectified image are designed to be invariant to rotation, scale, and lighting without needing to be invariant to perspective or affine distortion.

8682950

12790617

1. A method comprising: on a computing device executing a computer algebra application, the computer algebra application performing operations including: identifying an original polynomial to be symbolically factored; pre-processing the original polynomial at a polynomial pre-processing module to identify one or more pre-processing factors and a remaining polynomial, the pre-processing including: factoring out a greatest common factor of coefficients of the original polynomial at a coefficient factorization module; and factoring out a variable having a lowest power found in each term of the original polynomial at a lowest power variable factorization module; factoring the remaining polynomial to identify factors of the remaining polynomial; and returning the pre-processing factors and the factors of the remaining polynomial as factors of the original polynomial.

8200695

11621820

1. A computer device for retrieving a document, the computer device comprising: a memory storing a document to establish a document database; a processing unit comprising: a document feature writing unit extracting attribute information of the document stored in the document database and generating an index information for the document based on the attribute information, the index information being stored in the memory to establish a document feature database; a query input unit receiving a query input that includes at least a portion of a document and at least one or more hint keywords inputted by a user; a keyword extraction unit extracting one or more keywords from the at least the portion of the document and the at least one or more hint keywords inputted by the user; a weighting unit assigning a weight to the extracted keyword using the index information and the weighting unit assigning higher weight to the one or more hint keywords inputted by the user than the extracted one or more keywords from the at least the portion of the document; a document retrieving unit retrieving a similar document using the one or more keywords with the assigned weight and at least one of classificational information, regional information, subject information, time information and the one or more hint keywords inputted by the user that is assigned higher weight than other keywords; an output unit outputting the similar document retrieved by the document retrieving unit to the user; and a similar word extraction unit extracting a plurality feature keywords for each stored document using the index information, selecting at least two feature keywords from the extracted feature keywords in accordance with an evaluation value of the keyword and clustering the selected feature keywords as similar words, wherein the document retrieving unit retrieves the similar document using the clustered similar words in addition to the keyword extracted from the query.

20130120358

13295567

1. A method for providing chart animation control, the method comprising: receiving a change to a displayed visualization, wherein the visualization comprises a plurality of data elements; determining whether to animate an update of the visualization according to the change to the displayed visualization; and in response to determining to animate the update of the visualization according to the change to the data value: constructing an animation of the update, rendering the animation of the update, and displaying the updated visualization.

7774335

11321890

1. A method, comprising: one or more computer systems, each comprising at least a processor for performing: determining each of a plurality of navigation paths among a plurality of online content sources; for each of said plurality of navigation paths, determining a respective corresponding path weight, wherein different values of said corresponding path weights are indicative of different levels of user activity along corresponding ones of said navigation paths and wherein said user activity comprises a plurality of requests generated by a plurality of users to access individual ones of said online content sources; and identifying a particular one of a plurality of aggregate paths within said plurality of online content sources, wherein said particular aggregate path includes one or more of said navigation paths, wherein an aggregate path weight corresponding to said particular aggregate path is dependent upon said one or more path weights corresponding to said one or more of said navigation paths included in said particular aggregate path, and wherein said aggregate path weight satisfies an optimization criterion relative to aggregate path weights of other ones of said plurality of aggregate paths within said plurality of online content sources, such that said particular aggregate path is selected from other ones of said aggregate paths dependent upon corresponding path weights of said one or more navigation paths included in said particular aggregate path; wherein a given one of said one or more navigation paths included in said particular aggregate path corresponds to a possible user traversal from a first one of said online content sources to a second one of said online content sources.

8340217

12257141

1. A Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, comprising: a Radio Frequency (RF) section, the RF section adaptable to receive at least one GPS signal from at least one GPS satellite; and a baseband section, coupled to the RF section, the baseband section, comprising at least one correlator, wherein the at least one correlator includes a programmable start search value and a programmable end search value, the programmable start search value and the programmable end search value being used to acquire the at least one GPS signal from the at least one GPS satellite, wherein the programmable start search value is determined with reference to a first Coarse Acquisition (C/A) code word such that the programmable start search value and the programmable end search value is configurable to define a variable amount of the first C/A code word.

6098012

09018424

1. A vehicle fuel control system for controlling a fuel flow to an engine of a motor vehicle operating in a transient mode, comprising: a plurality of input sensors for detecting an engine state, including a speed sensor, a manifold absolute pressure sensor, a throttle position sensor, an AIS motor position sensor, an oxygen sensor, and a spark advance position sensor; a neural network for calculating a fuel multiplier based on input from each of said plurality of sensors, whereby the fuel multiplier controls fuel flow in the vehicle fuel control system; and a fuel actuator for receiving the fuel multiplier and adjusting the fuel flow to the engine of the vehicle.

10008196

15300715

1. A computer-implemented method of handling an audio dialog between a companion robot and a human user, the method comprising: during said audio dialog, receiving audio data and converting said audio data into text data; in response to verification of one or more dialog mode execution rules of said text data, selecting a modified dialog mode; wherein a dialog mode comprises one or more dialog contents and one or more dialog voice skins; wherein a dialog content comprises a collection of predefined sentences, said collection comprising question sentences and answer sentences; wherein a dialog voice skin comprises voice rendering parameters comprising frequency, tone, velocity and pitch; wherein said one or more dialog contents and/or voice skins are authored or edited online using a web platform; wherein one or more predefined dialog contents and/or voice skins are modified by multiple parties; wherein one or more dialog contents or a selection thereof are moderated by application of one or more filters, said filters comprising blacklists of one or more words, white lists of one or more words and/or dialog mode execution rules; and wherein a moderation of use of said one or more dialog content and/or voice skins to a final dialog expressed by the companion robot comprise the use of secured boot methods.

8229922

12420693

1. A method of optimizing a query in a multi-tenant database, said database having one or more data tables, each table having one or more logical columns defining data categories and one or more logical rows associated with one or more tenants, wherein a plurality of tenants have data stored in the data tables, the method comprising: generating tenant-level statistics for each of said plurality of tenants for each of the data tables; receiving a SQL query and an identification of a tenant associated with the query; and optimizing the SQL query based on the tenant-level statistics for the tenant associated with the query.

20060123348

11336489

1. A computer implemented method for validating conformance of an unpublished article to the scientific method by peer review of the unpublished article over a communications network, comprising: receiving an article from an author via a communications network; generating a ranked list of keywords related to the article; providing the list of keywords to the author; receiving an approval of the ranked list from the author; extracting context information from the article; querying a database containing profiles of potential reviewers to determine a qualified reviewer based on the extracted context information; assigning the qualified reviewer to the article; providing an evaluation form to the reviewer; receiving a completed evaluation form from the reviewer; providing the completed evaluation form to the author; receiving a response from the author directly in the completed evaluation form; providing the completed evaluation form with author responses to an editor; receiving a publication decision from the editor; and providing the publication decision to the author and the reviewer.

9111285

11845499

1. A control system comprising at least one computing device adapted to: render a shared virtual environment to a viewing user, wherein the shared virtual environment is also accessible by at least one hosting user; determine at least one advertisement time slot in a media broadcast accessed by a given hosting user, wherein the given hosting user is capable of being present within the shared virtual environment during the at least one advertisement time slot in the media broadcast and the media broadcast is separate from the shared virtual environment; and identify a content representation that is indicative of content associated with the given hosting user; and effect presentation to a viewing user of the content representation in association with a host representation representing the given hosting user.

7792818

11413627

1. A method for categorizing documents in a distributed database to create categorized documents, the method comprising: initially assuming all documents are non-commercial in nature; calculating, through the use of at least one processor, a transactional score, wherein the calculation of the transactional score comprises determining whether the documents include a field for entering credit card information or a field for a username or password for an online payment system; calculating, through the use of the at least one processor, a commercial score based on the transactional score; filtering out, with the commercial score and through the use of the at least one processor, all documents that are commercial in nature and placing them in a first category; filtering out, through the use of the at least one processor, all documents that are existing advertiser client documents from the documents in the first category and placing them in a second category; and defining all remaining documents in the first category as lead documents and placing all lead documents in a third category.

9473496

14788515

1. A method for enhancing capabilities of a communications device to enable generating trust relationships based on dynamically created maps of network trust relationships established among network devices, the method comprising: receiving, at a server computer, one or more authentication protocol messages from an authenticator computer device to authenticate a supplicant computer device; transmitting, from the server computer, the one or more authentication protocol messages to an authentication computer server; displaying on a digital computer display device a trust topology map as a graphical diagram and comprising information about trusted and untrusted links, encrypted and unencrypted links, authenticated and unauthenticated users, peer policies applied on the links, and roles associated with endpoints of the links; after sending one or more corresponding response messages comprising one or more responses to the one or more authentication protocol messages, updating, based on the one or more responses, the trust topology map with information reflecting peer security policy data that indicates a secure link between the authenticator computer device and the supplicant computer device, and changes in one or more security trust relationships between the authenticator computer device and the supplicant computer device based on the authentication protocol messages and the response messages, and in which links and paths are coded according to encryption capabilities, security properties and other characteristics identified in the response and the peer security policy data.

20110175801

12688804

1. A processor-implemented method for directing a performance in a motion capture system, comprising the processor-implemented steps of: tracking a person in a field of view of the motion capture system, the tracking includes distinguishing the person in the field of view; displaying a virtual space on a display, the virtual space includes an avatar which represents the person; directing movement of the person; and based on the tracking, detecting the movement of the person, and updating the virtual space based on the detecting the movement of the person.

9871836

14875383

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: determining, with one or more computing devices, voting experience associated with a participating collaborator of an event; determining, with the one or more computing devices, a rank associated with a first discussion item; determining, with the one or more computing devices, a relationship between the voting experience associated with the participating collaborator and the rank associated with the first discussion item; determining, with the one or more computing devices, whether to select the first discussion item for the participating collaborator of the event based on the relationship between the voting experience associated with the participating collaborator and the rank associated with the first discussion item; and responsive to determining that the first discussion item is selected for the participating collaborator, providing, with the one or more computing devices, the first discussion item for display to the participating collaborator.

8914425

13569067

1. A system in communication with data storage, for storing data, and comprising: a first log structured array storing data in a storage device; a first log structured data storage system operable with the first log structured array to store the data in the first log structured array; a second log structured array in the storage device storing metadata for the data in the first log structured array, wherein the second log structured array for storing the metadata is nested within the first log structured array, and wherein the first and second log structured arrays comprise separate instances of log structured arrays; a second log structured storage system operable with the second log structured array, wherein the second log structured storage system allocates address space in the second log structured array for the metadata when the first log structured storage system requires the allocation of address space for metadata for data the first log structured storage system stores in the first log structured array; and a superblock area storing data for both the first and second log structured arrays, wherein the second log structured array uses a portion of the superblock area to provide a data area in which the first log structured array stores metadata.

20040103384

10431535

1. A parasitic element extraction apparatus that extracts parasitic elements based on logical netlist information that defines cell information for defining cells of a semiconductor integrated circuit and nets showing connection between the cells, layout information that defines position information on wiring patterns of the cells and the nets connecting the cells, the position information being used when placement and routing are carried out using the logical netlist information, and a library that defines capacitances and inductances for the wiring patterns, the parasitic element extraction apparatus comprising: a category classification unit that classifies the nets defined in the logical netlist information based on a constraint that defines at least two categories of a first category to a third category among five categories, the five categories including the first category related to the nets adjacent a net of interest among the nets defined in the logical netlist information and having potentials of the adjacent nets being likely to change in a same direction as a direction of the potential of the net of interest; a second category related to the nets adjacent the net of interest and having the potentials likely to change in an opposite direction to the direction of the potential of the net of interest; the third category related to the nets adjacent the net of interest and having the potentials likely to change in both the same direction and the opposite direction to the direction of the potential of the net of interest; a fourth category related to the nets having the potentials fixed even when logical of the semiconductor integrated circuit changes; and a fifth category related to the nets adjacent the net of interest that do not affect any one of the capacitance and the inductance for the net of interest or that can ignore any one of the capacitance and the inductance for the net of interest; and a parasitic element extraction unit that extracts the parasitic elements while attention is paid to any one of the capacitances and the inductances defined in the constraint for each of the classified nets, and generates connection information including the extracted parasitic elements.

8319964

13382825

1. An apparatus for producing atomic emission, comprising: a target holder, wherein the target holder is adapted to hold a target, wherein the target comprises target material; at least one laser, wherein the at least one laser is configured to generate a first laser beam pulse, wherein the first laser beam pulse is directed to the target to create an ablation event so as to produce an ablation plume of target material; and a transport system, wherein the transport system transports at least a portion of the ablation plume of target material a distance d from the ablation event, wherein the at least one laser is configured to generate a second laser beam pulse, wherein the second laser beam pulse is directed to the at least a portion of the ablation plume of target material transported a distance d from the ablation event to produce an analytical plasma, such that one or more elements of the at least a portion of the ablation plume of target material undergo atomic emission, wherein d is sufficiently large that the analytical plasma is uncoupled from the ablation event, wherein the transportation system comprises a flowing carrier gas.

20040068391

10263434

1. A method for performing a thermomechanical analysis of a tire design, comprising: creating a finite element analysis model of the tire having a plurality of elements, the elements of the model comprising a tire compound (TC) having elastic material properties (G′) and loss moduli (G″); performing a baseline run, comprising performing a structural analysis of the elements using baseline elastic material properties (G′ 0 ), performing an energy dissipation analysis using baseline loss moduli (G″ 0 ), calculating energy dissipated per unit volume of the element per cycle (Q 0 ); performing a perturbation run, comprising performing the structural analysis of the elements using perturbation elastic material properties (G′ 1 ), performing the energy dissipation analysis using perturbation loss moduli (G″ 1 ), calculating energy dissipated per unit volume of the element per cycle (Q1); and calculating deformation indices (m) by the following equation: 12 m = log ⁢ ⁢ ( Q 1 / Q 0 ) - log ⁢ ⁢ ( G 1 ″ / G 0 ″ ) log ⁢ ⁢ ( G 1 ′ / G 0 ′ ) + 1 ; performing a thermal analysis run while updating the element heat flux in the tire thermal model according to the following equation: 13 Q. t = Q. t0 ⁡ ( G t ′ G t0 ′ ) m - 1 ⁢ G t ″ G t0 ″ where, {dot over (Q)} t =Element heat flux at temperature t {dot over (Q)} t0 =Element heat flux at reference temperature t 0 G′ t, G″ t =Storage and loss moduli at temperature t G′ t0, G″ t0 =Storage and loss moduli at temperature t 0 m=Deformation index

9655034

14530593

1. A system, comprising a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising: in response to receiving an identifier, receiving information related to a user profile from a device associated with an access network discovery and selection function, wherein the information comprises an interest indicator, and wherein the information is associated with historical use information associated with the user profile; determining a commerce provider value for a commerce provider wireless network device having a service area comprising a location of a mobile device associated with the user profile, wherein the commerce provider value is determined based on whether the commerce provider value satisfies a rule related to the interest indicator; selecting the commerce provider wireless network device based on the commerce provider value; and facilitating access to a commerce provider service feature via the mobile device connected to the commerce provider wireless network device.

20130038554

13572605

1. A method for determining the position of one or more touches on a touch sensor, the method comprising: receiving values from a grid of touch sensing elements, wherein the values are responsive to a first touch on a touch sensitive surface of the touch sensor; converting the received values to binary data in which each of the received values of each of the touch sensing elements is assigned one of two values; identifying at least one first contiguous touched region from the binary data; extracting a plurality of parameters for each first contiguous touched region wherein the plurality of parameters are responsive to the shape and position of each contiguous touched region; determining whether each of the first contiguous touched regions is valid by comparing at least one of the extracted parameters to established values; receiving values from a second touch, converting the values of the received second touch data into binary data, identifying at least one second contiguous touched reason, extracting the parameters from the binary data of the second touch, and determining whether the binary data of the second touch is valid wherein the first touch immediately precedes the second touch; linking the first with the second contiguous touched regions thereby creating a temporal series of parameters that are responsive to the shape and position of each of the first and the second contiguous touched regions; and filtering the temporal series of parameters to remove noise.

8489382

13491366

1. A method comprising: generating a first intermediate result based on a model and based on internals associated with a target processor, the model including a reference design, the internals including at least one of architecture information, compiler information, compiler settings, or operating system information, and the generating the first intermediate result being performed by a computing device; generating a second intermediate result based on code information associated with the target processor and code information associated with the model, the generating the second intermediate result being performed by the computing device; comparing the first intermediate result and the second intermediate result, the comparing being performed by the computing device; determining a discrepancy between the first intermediate result and the second intermediate result, the determining being performed by the computing device; determining a cause of the discrepancy, the determining the cause of the discrepancy including: determining if the discrepancy is due to an overflow behavior associated with the first intermediate result, and updating, when the discrepancy is due to the overflow behavior associated with the first intermediate result, the overflow behavior, the determining the cause of the discrepancy, the determining if the discrepancy is due to the overflow behavior associated with the first intermediate result, and the updating the overflow behavior being performed by the computing device; updating, based on the comparison and determining the cause of the discrepancy, information associated with the target processor, the updating the information being performed by the computing device; determining, based on the updating the information, whether a model simulation result is achieved for the target processor, the determining whether the model simulation result is achieved for the target processor being performed by the computing device; and reperforming, when the model simulation result is not achieved for the target processor, the generating the first intermediate result, the generating the second intermediate result, the comparing, the determining the discrepancy, the determining the cause of the discrepancy, and the updating the information until the model simulation result is achieved for the target processor, the reperforming being performed by the computing device.

9141271

12548140

1. A method comprising: comparing, by a processor, a first plurality of attributes associated with a first plurality of respective users in a social networking system to at least one second attribute associated with a purpose; determining, by the processor from the comparing, that an attribute in the first plurality of attributes is compatible with the at least one second attribute from a comparison of metadata associated with each respective attribute, the metadata associated with the each respective attribute comprising a polarity indicator indicating whether the each respective attribute is compatible with the corresponding user or the purpose, the comparison of metadata comprising determining whether each respective attribute is compatible with the corresponding user or the purpose by determining that the polarity indicators associated with the attributes do not represent opposite polarities with respect to the corresponding user or the purpose; and based on the determining, taking action, by the processor, upon a second plurality of users that is included in the first plurality of users with respect to the purpose, the second plurality of users having respective attributes of the first plurality of attributes that are compatible with the at least one second attribute.