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20090070112 | 11900274 | 0 | 1. A method of providing automatic reading tutoring, comprising: retrieving a textual indication of a story from a data store; creating a language model including constructing a target context free grammar indicative of a first portion of the story; receiving a first acoustic input; employing a speech recognition engine that uses an acoustic model trained with input from a plurality of children to recognize the first acoustic input; comparing an output of the speech recognition engine to the language model; and providing a signal to a user interface indicative of whether the output of the speech recognition matches at least a portion of the target context free grammar. |
5394546 | 07782075 | 1 | 1. A database management system for operating a database by performing a data processing procedure with respect to the database which is defined by a data type, said database management system comprising: a file for storing a correspondence between a user defined extended data type and a standard data type; a library for storing a load module corresponding to a user defined extended data processing procedure; a catalog for storing a correspondence between a user defined data type/data processing procedure and a definition of the data type/data processing procedure; and, a controller for analyzing a command request inputted by a user and for controlling access to said database by using said correspondence in said file and said load module in said library on the basis of said correspondence in said catalog. |
20090030852 | 12004413 | 0 | 1. A system for managing risks associated with a group of non-insurance financial products issued by a financial institution and, the system comprising: a data storage module for storing information associated with said insurance instrument; and a computing system, in electronic communication with said data storage module and said financial institution, for determining behavioral and market risk assumptions associated with said group of non-insurance financial products said computing system including: a processing module for dividing the risks associated with providing a group of non-insurance financial products to an individual or group into behavior risks and market risks as well as identifying the market risks for transfer outside of the insurance provider; a calculation module for modeling the financial institution's exposure under said group of non-insurance financial products wherein said behavior risks are separated from said market risks; and a risk assessment module for assessing the risks associated with the issuance of said group of non-insurance financial products wherein the risks are comprised of behavior risks and market risks; wherein said group of non-insurance financial products are grouped based at least in part on demographic characteristics, investment style, product chassis and rider design. |
20150010890 | 14373352 | 0 | 1. A system for improving brain function in order to prevent dementia, the system comprising: a brain-function-improving content storage unit that subdivides content for judging a degree of activation of human brain function into multiple classified regions and levels and stores the subdivided content; a content selection unit that selects the content stored in the brain-function-improving content storage unit for each region according to a predetermined classification method; and an achievement determination unit that determines achievement of a user based on scores acquired through feedback provided by the user for the content selected by the content selection unit. |
8843148 | 13779449 | 1 | 1. In a multi-user cellular wireless communications system providing one or more wireless services to devices in plural cells or cell sections forming areas of wireless service, a method of channel resource allocation comprising: for each of the plural cells or cell sections classifying the devices as either cell-center users (CCUs) and cell-edge users (CEUs), wherein a classification of a device is based upon geographical or electromagnetic propagation distance of the device from a base station serving the cell or cell section; determining, for each of the plural cells or cell sections, distribution statistics corresponding to a load value of the CEUs in the cell or cell section; and allocating communication channel resources to the plural cells or cell sections, wherein the allocation of communication channel resources of the CEUs in the plural cells or cell sections is provided according to the distribution statistics, wherein a first cell or cell section is allocated more communication channel resources than a second cell or cell section, wherein a load value of the CEUs of the first cell or cell section is greater than a load value of the CEUs of the second cell or cell section. |
8918487 | 13687787 | 1 | 1. A set of executable instructions residing in a non-transitory computer-readable medium for execution on a processor, comprising: downloading an applet to a browser; and executing the applet to create an applet-controlled cache in memory that is independent of an existing browser cache for the browser and that does not require and does not rely on any caching mechanism built into a platform that executes the applet. |
8255724 | 12525115 | 1 | 1. A method of operating a mobile device comprising: operating the mobile device in a low power mode, switching the mobile device to a high power mode, in response to an event, identifying the event as specific type of event, selecting a time period according to the identified type of event, preventing a sleep mode algorithm, which decides if the mobile device is switched to the low power mode, from executing for said time period, and executing said algorithm upon expiration of said time period, wherein the mobile device does not automatically switch to said low power mode upon expiration of said time period but instead executes the sleep mode algorithm that decides if the device enters said low power mode. |
8955134 | 13369225 | 1 | 1. A computer-readable storage device containing computer-executable instructions for controlling a computing device to analyze a malware infection by a method comprising: receiving pre-infection snapshots from a plurality of machines suspected of being infected with malware, the pre-infection snapshot for a machine identifying monitored activities that were conducted at that machine prior to the machine being suspected of being infected with malware, each pre-infection snapshot for a machine being created by a program that monitors and records the activity of that machine; comparing the monitored activities of the pre-infection snapshots of multiple machines to identify monitored activities that are common across multiple pre-infection snapshots of different machines, wherein the monitored activities of a machine relate to accessing of an operating system resource of an operating system executing on the machine; and tagging as being suspicious at least some monitored activities that are common across multiple pre-infection snapshots. |
20070169029 | 11332819 | 0 | 1. A computer implemented method for using an intermediately compiled source code program, the method comprising: using a path type to represent the type of an inner object within an outermost object, wherein the path type comprises a complete class inheritance path from the outermost object to a runtime type of the inner object. |
8898045 | 13146437 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: obtaining a gamma count rate decay curve one each for a plurality of gamma detectors of a nuclear logging tool, the gamma count rate decay curves recorded at a particular borehole depth; applying at least a portion of each gamma count rate decay curve to input nodes of a neural network; predicting by the neural network a value indicative of gas saturation of a formation surrounding the borehole at the particular borehole depth, the predicting by the neural network in the absence of a formation porosity value supplied to the neural network; repeating the obtaining, applying and predicting for a plurality of borehole depths; producing a plot of the value indicative of gas saturation of the formation as a function of borehole depth. |
20080201370 | 11764617 | 0 | 1. Method for mood detection comprising: receiving audio data ( 1 ), determining a mood ( 3 ) for said audio data ( 1 ) based on at least one mood model ( 8 - 1 , 8 - 2 , 8 - 3 ), receiving user feedback (F) of a user for said determined mood ( 3 ), said user feedback being indicative as to whether said determined mood ( 3 ) corresponds to a perceived mood of said user for said audio data ( 1 ), and adapting said mood model ( 8 - 1 , 8 - 2 , 8 - 3 ) based on said user feedback. |
9355009 | 13285655 | 1 | 1. A method for improving performance of a task, the method comprising the steps of: a computer detecting a problem with performance of a task in a production environment and in response, the computer determining a recommendation for reducing the problem, wherein reducing the problem further comprises the steps of: the computer reading a log data structure associated with the task; the computer determining from the log data structure that the task is associated with first and second customers; and the computer identifying in the on data structure a number of database transactions performed by the task for the first customer; the problem is that the number of database transactions performed by the task for the first customer exceeds a threshold; and the recommendation comprises: disassociating the first customer from the task; splitting the task into first and second tasks; and associating the second task with the first customer; in response to an approval of the recommendation, the computer modifying performance of the task based on the recommendation for execution in a test environment; the computer comparing performance of the modified task in the test environment to performance of the task without the modification in the production environment; and responsive to a determination that the modified performance of the task in the test environment is better than performance of the task without the modification in the production environment, the computer subsequently performing the modified task in the production environment instead of the task without the modification. |
20140113665 | 14118714 | 0 | 1. A computer implemented method for providing indoor navigation, the method comprising: determining a client location; identifying the client location as being within a source polygon selected from a plurality of convex polygons, the plurality of convex polygons defined by a map model that comprises the plurality of convex polygons and a set of adjacency relationships among the plurality of convex polygons, the plurality of convex polygons being associated with navigable space within a given geographical area; determining a destination polygon associated with a destination location; determining, using a processor, a route from the source polygon to the destination polygon using the map model by identifying a path defined by the set of adjacency relationships; and providing the route from the source polygon to the destination polygon as a navigation path from the client location to the destination location. |
20180148296 | 15363306 | 0 | 1. A method for smart elevator car destination management according to probabilistic destination determination, the method comprising: predicting a set of passengers requesting use of an elevator car in a bank of elevator cars in a building; determining a probability for each of the passengers that each passenger will select as a destination a particular floor in the building; grouping ones of the passengers in the set according to a common floor determined to be probable for the grouped ones of the passengers; and, displaying in connection with the bank of elevator cars an assignment of the grouped ones of the passengers to one of the elevator cars in the bank. |
20030009239 | 10130404 | 0 | 1. A method for bio-surveillance detection and alerting, comprising the steps of: subtracting background noise from relevant data sets using a background estimation algorithm to create residual data; modeling the effects of a hypothetical anomalous event on said relevant data sets to create replica data; matching said residual data with said replica data using a detector to detect a real anomalous event similar to said hypothetical anomalous event; and triggering an alert if a real anomalous event similar to said hypothetical anomalous event is detected. |
4608557 | 06528846 | 1 | 1. A graph drawing machine for producing a graph from inputted numerical data, comprising: key input means for inputting numerical data and control commands; control means responsive to said key input means for storing and processing the numerical data in preparation for producing a graph according to inputted control commands on a record medium, said control means including first memory means for storing numerical data input by the key input means; second memory means for storing control command programs and machine function programs; preset means for designating a preset top and bottom margin for graphing the inputted numerical data on said record medium, said top and bottom margins corresponding to maximum and minimum values, respectively, of said numerical data; graphing means responsive to the key input means and the preset means for producing a graph from the inputted numerical data in which numerical data exceeding the preset values are printed in numerical form outside of said margins and not graphed; printer means responsive to said control means and said preset means for printing a graph and said numerical data exceeding said preset values on said record medium; and display means responsive to said key input means and said control means for displaying any of said numerical data. |
20080189329 | 11703325 | 0 | 1. A method for targeting media, comprising: receiving descriptive information that describes media; comparing the descriptive information to a stored set of user-defined criteria; and if the descriptive information contains any criterion, then storing the media in memory, wherein the stored media is targeted to a user's communications device. |
20090114079 | 11934259 | 0 | 1. An integrated interactive electronic virtual reality multimedia recording and learning platform and system adapted for a top down butterfly morpheus music notation comprising: a) a central processing unit complete with plurality of input means, output means and a variety of memory means; b) a butterfly morpheus musical instrument with plurality of manual input means each with a first unique visible indicia interfaced to said central processing unit; c) a plurality of finger adapters each with a second unique visible indicia donned on respective fingers; d) a first custom butterfly morpheus music notation computer interface comprising a plurality of bars, staves, scales, keys chords, arpeggios, notes frequencies customized to said music instrument and said finger adapters; e) a second custom butterfly morpheus music notation computer interface comprising a plurality of virtual characters assigned to specific positional coordinates, virtual musical instruments representations vertical/horizontal scroll bars and a virtual command screen display; f) a custom graphics tablet connected to said computer with plurality of input means, output means and a variety of memory means; g) a custom Digital Stylus interfaced between said plurality of input means and said central processing unit; h) a custom set of external controllers for controlling and executing said input and output of commands requested by the user utilizing a new generation music notation system, routed through said central processing unit; i) a custom playback means with plurality of input and output means interfaced to said CPU of said system; j) a custom color designation means applied upon said first unique visible indicia to indicate eight specific note value lengths; and k) a custom midi interactive program operable in said central processing unit to display program messages and specific notes utilizing said first visible indicia, specific hand configurations utilizing said second visible indicia and specific note value lengths utilizing said eight specific colors. |
20150026189 | 14316911 | 0 | 1. A method for building an index structure for a relational database table, comprising: obtaining at least one JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) document from the relational database table; identifying a plurality of JSON objects in the at least one JSON document and assigning identifiers for the plurality of JSON objects; and building the index structure according to values in the plurality of JSON objects such that the index structure includes at least one node which records the values in one of the plurality of JSON objects and includes a corresponding identifier of the one of the plurality of JSON objects. |
20170032178 | 14813376 | 0 | 1. A method performed by data processing apparatus, the method comprising: detecting one or more faces based on image data from a camera of a mobile device; determining that one or more of the detected faces correspond to one or more people in a set of people that are classified as being important to a user; in response to determining that one or more of the detected faces correspond to one or more people in the set of people that are classified as being important to the user, determining quality scores for the one or more detected faces that are determined to correspond to one or more people that are classified as important to the user; capturing multiple images with the camera based on the quality scores such that, for each face determined to correspond to a person that is classified as important to the user, at least one of the multiple images includes an image of the face having at least a minimum quality score; and generating a composite image that combines the multiple images. |
20170161335 | 14958158 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: analyzing a plurality of communication logs associated with a query related to an information technology issue to determine one or more discourse relationships between the plurality of communication logs, wherein each of the plurality of communication logs comprises (i) a description of one or more actions taken in connection with the information technology issue, (ii) a status related to the one or more actions taken, and (iii) identification of a group carrying out the one or more actions; generating a hierarchical structure representing the plurality of communication logs and the one or more determined discourse relationships; associating the query with one or more classified queries by (i) determining one or more patterns in the hierarchical structure and (ii) comparing the one or more determined patterns to patterns associated with multiple historical hierarchical structures associated with classified queries; and determining one or more information technology issue categories applicable to the query based on said associating; wherein the steps are carried out by at least one computing device. |
20130238487 | 13416372 | 0 | 1. A system for managing financial data related to an allowance account and a diversionary account for one or more users, comprising: a communications interface for receiving user data related to a plurality of allowance account and diversionary account designations, each allowance account designation corresponding to at least one spending related sub-account and each diversionary account designation corresponding to at least one savings related sub-account, each spending and savings related sub-account further having an associated priority rating provided by the user, at least a first of the savings related sub-accounts being linked to one of a bank savings account, brokerage account, mutual fund account, education savings account, retirement account, deferred annuity account during an accumulation phase, and certificate of deposit account, and a second of the savings related sub-accounts being linked to another one of a bank savings account, brokerage account, mutual fund account, education savings account, retirement account, deferred annuity account during an accumulation phase, and certificate of deposit account; a data storage device configured to store the received user data related to the plurality of allowance account and diversionary account designations; a computer processor configured to execute program instructions to: receive, via the communications interface, data related to a third party financial transaction; correlate the third party financial transaction data with at least one of the plurality of spending and savings related sub-accounts; determine one or more allowance account and diversionary account rebalancing transactions based upon the correlated sub-account for the third party financial transaction and the associated priority rating of the sub-account; and transmit data related to the one or more allowance account and diversionary account rebalancing transactions to a financial account management system for execution; wherein responsive to the one or more allowance account and diversionary account rebalancing transactions comprising re-allocation from one of the spending related sub-accounts to the first savings related sub-account, the data transmitted to the financial account management system for execution comprising data for automated transfer of funds from a debit checking account linked to the spending related sub-account to the account linked to the first savings related sub-account. |
20120294828 | 13180281 | 0 | 1. A method for attracting a stink bug to an indoor predetermined location, comprising administering to the indoor predetermined location a composition comprising an effective amount of murgantiol, wherein murgantiol is active in attracting the stink bug to the indoor predetermined location. |
7970625 | 11265979 | 1 | 1. A method of retrieving medical data, the method comprising: determining, by a user computing device, based on a user's stored rights to mark respective medical data as read, qualifications of the user of the user computing device to mark medical data as read, wherein users have varying rights to mark different types of medical data as read based on at least their respective medical training, and wherein marking respective medical data as read indicates that the user has completed observation of the respective medical data for purposes of creating a medical report; receiving, at the user computing device, user-specific rules from the user defining criteria for medical data to be retrieved by the user computing device; periodically selecting any medical data that both satisfies the user-specific rules and is associated with an indication that the medical data has not previously been marked as read by a user that is qualified to mark the respective medical data as read; and initiating transfer of the selected medical data for review by the user; allowing, by the user computing device, the user to mark the selected medical data as read in accordance with at least the determined qualifications of the user and a type of the selected medical data; and transmitting, by the user computing device, read indications received from the user to a network-connected computing device. |
20080243876 | 11693753 | 0 | 1. A method of modeling a relational database, comprising the steps of: defining a set of data tables to accommodate any number of levels of a business hierarchy, said set of data tables including: a first control table, a second table containing hierarchy nodes in a flattened format, a third table storing unique hierarchy node names, and a fourth table describing the hierarchy nodes in one or more languages; and using said set of data tables as a generic data model to handle various levels of requirements of the business hierarchy. |
20150016661 | 14270163 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: receiving an item of content captured by an electronic device associated with a user; obtaining information extracted from the received item of captured content; and by reference to the obtained information, correlating the received item of captured content with at least one selected from the group consisting of: at least one other item of captured content, at least one item metadata associated with the at least one other item of captured content, and at least one item of metadata associated with the information extracted from the received item of captured content. |
8688728 | 13406090 | 1 | 1. A search method comprising: creating a list of candidate probe words; for each candidate probe word, counting a number of item descriptions that contain the candidate probe word; choosing, with a computer, q i probe words from the candidate probe words whose word count is closest to |D i |/(q i +1), where D i is a set of remaining item descriptions after a previous repetition, and q i represents a number of probe words presented for user selection for the ith repetition and is an integer greater than 1; presenting the q i probe words for selection by the user; receiving a selection of one of the q i probe words by the user; pruning the list of candidate probe words to eliminate item descriptions that include non-selected ones of the q i probe words to create a pruned list of candidate probe words; choosing q i+1 probe words from the pruned list of candidate probe words that is closest to |D i+1 |/(q i+1 +1), wherein D i+1 is a set of remaining item descriptions after the ith repetition, q i+1 represents a number of probe words presented for user selection for the i+1 repetition and is an integer greater than 1, and the pruned list of candidate probe words includes the selected one of the q i probe words; and presenting the q i+1 probe words for selection by the user. |
9838834 | 13724758 | 1 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a processor circuit; a storage medium arranged to store a location database generator component comprising: a logging component operative on the processor circuit to receive multiple location data packages each comprising one or more locations and associated wireless transmitter identifiers, and log the location data packages into a location database comprising tuples of locations and wireless transmitter identifiers; and an analysis component operative on the processor circuit to: create an initial cluster of one or more tuples, each tuple in the initial cluster comprising a same wireless transmitter identifier; estimate an initial location of a first wireless transmitter based on the locations of the tuples in the initial cluster; identify a candidate tuple from the initial cluster that falls outside a defined distance from the initial location, the defined distance corresponding to an estimated maximum range for a type of the first wireless transmitter; create a new cluster comprising the identified candidate tuple and estimate a second location of a second wireless transmitter based on the location of the identified candidate tuple; assign tuples from the initial cluster to the new cluster when a distance from a tuple from the initial cluster is closer to the second location than to the estimated initial location of the first wireless transmitter, wherein a tuple assigned to the new cluster is removed from the initial cluster; estimate a new location of the first wireless transmitter based on any tuples remaining in the initial cluster; and construct a transmitter mapping from the wireless transmitter identifier to the new location of the first wireless transmitter and to the second location of the second wireless transmitter; and a location estimation component operative on the processor circuit to receive a request for location assistance from a mobile device, the request comprising the first wireless transmitter identifier and a second wireless transmitter identifier, determine a third location for the second wireless transmitter identifier, select one of the locations mapped to the first wireless transmitter identifier according to which of the first wireless transmitter identifier locations is closer to the third location, and send the selected location to the mobile device. |
8050916 | 13085149 | 1 | 1. A signal classifying method, comprising: obtaining a spectrum fluctuation parameter of a current signal frame; buffering the spectrum fluctuation parameter of the current signal frame in a first buffer array if the current signal frame is a foreground frame; if the current signal frame falls within a first number of initial signal frames, setting a spectrum fluctuation variance of the current signal frame to a specific value and buffering the spectrum fluctuation variance of the current signal frame in a second buffer array; otherwise, obtaining the spectrum fluctuation variance of the current signal frame according to spectrum fluctuation parameters of all signal frames buffered in the first buffer array and buffering the spectrum fluctuation variance of the current signal frame in the second buffer array; and calculating a ratio of signal frames whose spectrum fluctuation variance is above or equal to a first threshold to all signal frames buffered in the second buffer array, and determining the current signal frame as a speech frame if the ratio is above or equal to a second threshold or determining the current signal frame as a music frame if the ratio is below the second threshold. |
20100123815 | 12619789 | 0 | 1. A scene information displaying method comprising: detecting scene information from an input image; determining a scene for the input image by using the scene information; calculating probabilities that the scene corresponds to respective scene modes; generating a scene information identifier including the probabilities for the scene modes; and displaying the scene information identifier on a display unit. |
9547490 | 14946707 | 1 | 1. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by at least one programmable processor, cause the at least one programmable processor to perform operations comprising: classifying each design time artifact of a plurality of design time artifacts in a dependency tree as at least one of a source artifact and a sink artifact, the dependency tree comprising the plurality of design time artifacts ordered according to a call order defined by a database application accessing data in a database; traversing the dependency tree in a direction reverse of the call order to determine, for each sink artifact, one or more required source artifacts upon which the sink artifact depends and that is needed to provide correct data inputs for operation of the sink artifact; identifying, based on the traversing, an implicitly dependent sink artifact of the plurality of design time artifacts that is positioned earlier in the call order than at least one of the one or more required source artifacts for the implicitly dependent sink artifact; and defining a new call order of the plurality of design time artifacts in which all of the one or more required source artifacts for the implicitly dependent sink artifact are called before the implicitly dependent sink artifact. |
9411831 | 13782833 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: by a computing device, automatically and without user input grouping one or more images captured by a first user into clusters of particular moments based at least in part on metadata associated with one or more of the images or data determined through analysis of one or more of the images, each particular moment being associated with a particular geo-location and time; by the computing device, for one or more of the clusters, determining curating information comprising information identifying one or more second users present at the particular geo-location and time, the determining being based at least in part on: social-graph information associated with the first user; social-graph information associated with one or more of the second users; and socially relevant activity of one or more of the second users that is related to the particular geo-location and time, wherein the social-graph information comprises a social graph including a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes, and wherein at least one node in the social graph corresponds to the first user and at least one node in the social graph corresponds to one of the second users; and by the computing device, providing, for each of the one or more of the clusters, the images and a selected portion of the curating information for display on a computing device of the first user, wherein the provided curating information identifying one or more of the second users present at the particular geo-location and time is selected based on one or more edges in the social graph connecting one of the nodes corresponding to the second users to the node corresponding to the first user. |
20110302127 | 13209983 | 0 | 1. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory tangible machine-readable medium that stores a program, the program being executable by a machine to perform a method of identifying a common subgraph between first and second networks, the first network G 1 having a set of nodes V 1 and a set of edges E 1 , the second network G 2 having a set of nodes V 2 and a set of edges E 2 , where N(a) is a set of neighbors of a given node a, the set being of size |N(a)|, with each edge e of a network having an edge weight w(e), the method comprising: for each of a set of node pairs (i, j), where i is a node from the first network and j is a node from the second network, and where u is a neighbor of i and v is a neighbor of j, computing a similarity score; selecting from the similarity scores a set of scores that capture mutually-consistent pairwise matches; and extracting node mappings from the set of scores to identify one or more conserved edges between the first and second network. |
20060106573 | 11034705 | 0 | 1. A method for resolving ambiguity in location determination with N ambiguous location determination solutions using clock temporal bias value comprising: generating a probability distribution function (PDF) model for clock temporal bias; obtaining N clock temporal bias values for the N ambiguous location determination solutions; inserting each of the N clock temporal bias values into the PDF model; evaluating the PDF model to get N PDF values; setting N goodness metrics to the N PDF values; comparing the N goodness metrics; defining a maximum goodness metric as the largest of the N goodness metrics; and selecting a final location determination solution having the maximum goodness metric. |
8640063 | 13732241 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method for synthesizing soft error tolerant combinational circuits, comprising the steps of: inputting an original gate level combinational circuit; specifying a maximum number of inputs M to the original gate level circuit; extracting smaller sub-circuits from the original gate level circuit based on the maximum number of inputs M and subject to constraints of limiting the number of inputs M for a feasible running time, limiting the number of outputs per each extracted circuit to 1, restricting for each extracted sub-circuit the number of fan-outs to other circuits to zero; returning a list of the extracted sub-circuits subject to the constraints; determining a number of controllability don't care (CDC) conditions for each sub-circuit in the list, thereby discovering a set of care minterms for each extracted sub-circuit; computing, via simulation, the probability of each care minterm to occur for each extracted sub-circuit; producing a new multi-level sub-circuit from each of the extracted sub-circuits; maximizing logical fault masking against the occurrence of a single fault applied to each of the new multi-level sub-circuits, wherein the maximizing is based on the computed probabilities; and merging the new multi-level sub-circuits back to the original inputted gate level combinational circuit. |
8648829 | 13335231 | 1 | 1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium on which is encoded processor-executable program code, the computer-readable medium comprising: program code for receiving data from at least one packet from a touch-sensitive input device, the data indicating a movement on the touch-sensitive input device; program code for determining navigation within at least one list based at least in part on the movement; program code for determining whether to output a haptic effect, the haptic effect based at least in part on the data; program code for synchronously generating and transmitting, responsive to determining to output the haptic effect, a signal configured to cause the haptic effect; and program code for determining, subsequent to synchronously generating and transmitting the signal, whether a battery level is low and, responsive to determining that the battery level is low, synchronously outputting a low battery haptic effect and disabling haptic effects. |
20070239777 | 11393394 | 0 | 1. A method for creating and updating a consolidated database of job postings, the method comprising the steps of: manually identifying a set of job post hosting sites having job postings therein; for each site within the set of job post hosting sites: creating a job bot adapted to visit said each site and adapted to extract job post information for at least one of the job postings stored at said each site and adapted to store the job post information in a searchable job posting database; and running the job bot to visit said each site and extract the job post information into the searchable job posting database; and periodically running the job bots to update the searchable job posting database. |
8385812 | 12406855 | 1 | 1. A computer-based system for assessment driven learning, the system comprising a processor and machine-executable instructions, the system comprising: a generator configured to present questions received from a processor to a question presentation device utilizing a question module and a question database having a plurality of questions, wherein the plurality of questions are associated with a stacking weight, wherein the plurality of questions are ordered according to the stacking weight of each question, and wherein each question presented includes at least one answer option and at least one associated correct response; a question property evaluator configured to utilize the question module and question database to determine a likelihood of randomly selecting the at least one associated correct response for each question presented by calculating: an inverse of a product of the number of answer options the user is instructed to select and a number of possible combinations of selection and non-selection of the answer options when the number of answer options the user is instructed to select is less than the number of answer options, or an inverse of two raised to a power of the number of answer options when the number of answer options the user is instructed to select is greater than or equal to the number of answer options, and a question response receiver configured to receive, from a device associated with the user, at least one response to each question presented utilizing a communications module; and a question response evaluator configured to, utilizing an evaluation module and a user response history database for each question presented: determine, when the at least one response is the at least one associated correct response, a likelihood that the at least one response is a false positive using the question property evaluator, a response history of the user, and a response history of one or more other users, wherein the question response evaluator is further configured to increase the likelihood that the at least one response is a false positive upon an increase in the likelihood of randomly selecting the at least one correct response adjust the stacking weight of each question presented within the question database depending at least upon the likelihood that the at least one response to the question is a false positive. |
20150302077 | 14753901 | 0 | 1. (canceled) |
8849255 | 13534957 | 1 | 1. A system comprising: a service computer configured to provide a subscription service to a subscriber computer via a network; and an event interface coupled to the service computer, wherein the event interface is configured to receive event information for a rules based event, wherein the subscription service includes communication of the event information to the subscriber computer; wherein the service computer is further configured to: determine a geographic location of the subscriber computer based on stored geographic information that is associated with an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the subscriber computer; determine a blackout geographic area of the subscription service and a blackout time of the subscription service; determine if the geographic location is within the blackout geographic area; determine if a time that the subscription service is to be provided to the subscriber computer is within the blackout time; deny the subscription service to the subscriber computer if it is determined that the geographic location is within the blackout geographic area and the time is within the blackout time; and provide a token uniform resource locator (URL) to the subscriber computer if it is determined that the subscriber computer is eligible to receive the subscription service, wherein the token URL is unique and specific to the IP address of the subscriber computer, and wherein unique identifier information corresponding to the rules based event is at an end of the token URL. |
9892529 | 13958523 | 1 | 1. A method for evaluating a constraint system for use in rendering three-dimensional (3D) graphics, the method comprising: accessing a first directed acyclic graph (DAG) representing a first virtual 3D object; accessing a second DAG representing a second virtual 3D object; receiving a constraint relationship request, the constraint relationship request identifying the first DAG as a constraint parent and the second DAG as a constraint child; verifying whether the first DAG is compatible for constraining to the second DAG; connecting, in response to the first DAG and second DAG being compatible for constraining, an output of the first DAG to an input of the second DAG; evaluating the first DAG to determine a first output value at the output of the first DAG; evaluating, in response to determining that the first output value affects the evaluation of the second DAG, the second DAG based on the first output value received at the input of the second DAG from the output of the first DAG; and rendering, after determining that the evaluation of the first DAG and second DAG is complete, an image depicting at least a portion of the first virtual 3D object and at least a portion of the second virtual 3D object. |
20030198303 | 10228787 | 0 | 1. A parameter estimator of a multiuser detection receiver comprising: means for estimating a training sequence location index (&tgr; TS ) in each frame of a received baseband signal; means for calculating an estimate of an average noise power ({circumflex over (&sgr;)}(p) 2 ) in said received baseband signal in accordance with said training sequence location index (&tgr; TS ) input; means for estimating signature waveforms (s K (n,p)) unique to each user in said received baseband signal in accordance with said training sequence location index (&tgr; TS ) input and said transformation matrix ( T r ) input; means, coupled to an output of said estimate of an average noise power calculating means and to an output of said signature waveforms estimating means, for determining the number of active users; and means, coupled to said means for determining the number of active users and to prestored known training sequences for each user, for generating said transformation matrix ( T r ) to send to said signature waveform estimating means. |
9864903 | 15471051 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a device, an image of a first person, the device being associated with a second person; selecting a matching algorithm based on input from the second person, wherein the input from the second person comprises an indication identifying whether the second person desires a speedy matching process or an accurate matching process; identifying, based on the matching algorithm, images of a group of potential matching people from a database of known people associated with the second person; displaying, on the device, the images of the group of potential matching people; after the displaying of the images of the group of potential matching people, receiving an input associated with a specific image from the images of the group of potential matching people; and displaying the specific image on the device. |
8407130 | 13185613 | 1 | 1. A computer implemented method for performing data processing operations associated with providing principal protection exposure to an equity market, comprising: generating, by a computer processor, an offering document that describes an offering of a trust certificate associated with a trust; receiving, at the computer processor, a representation that a first entity is a qualified purchaser; conducting, by the computer processor based on the offering document, a trust certificate sale from the trust to the first entity resulting in a trust agreement and proceeds; structuring the trust; conducting, by the computer processor, an equity security purchase with a first allocated portion of the proceeds of the trust certificate sale, wherein the equity security purchase is made by the trust from an equity market; conducting, by the computer processor, a put option purchase with a second allocated portion of the proceeds of the trust certificate sale, wherein the put option purchase is made by the trust from a second entity and is written on an equity associated with the equity security purchase; and providing the first entity with principal protection exposure to the equity market without causing substantial income statement volatility based on the trust certificate sale. |
20140127162 | 14067786 | 0 | 1. An inducible expression system for gene products, the system comprising: a first adeno-associated virus vector comprising: a first ITR; a promoter positioned 3′ to the first ITR; a first recombinase target site positioned 3′ to the first ITR and 5′ to a 3′ end of the promoter; a second recombinase target site positioned 3′ to a 5′ end of the promoter; an insertion site positioned 3′ to the promoter and 3′ to the second recombinase target site, such that the promoter would be operably linked to at least an inserted polynucleotide; and a third recombinase target site positioned 3′ to the insertion site; and a second ITR positioned 3′ to the third recombinase target site, wherein the first, second, and third recombinase target sites are oriented in the same direction; and a source of a recombinase configured to induce recombination events between two or more of the recombinase target sites. |
8215186 | 12986024 | 1 | 1. A transducer, comprising: a transducer body; an adaptor on the transducer body for coupling to a prosthesis; a beam disposed on each of anterior, posterior, right and left sides of the adaptor, wherein the beams support the adaptor on the transducer body; a first strain-measuring device on the transducer to measure forces in a first plane; and a second strain-measuring device on the transducer to measure forces in a second plane substantially orthogonal to the first plane; wherein the first and the second strain-measuring devices are arranged to reduce measuring forces in a third plane orthogonal to the first and second planes. |
8849828 | 13249953 | 1 | 1. A computer-readable storage medium storing executable instructions for configuring a computing appliance, which, when executed, performs an operation for refining asset classifications, the operation comprising: receiving a plurality of assets, each asset having a classification of a term, wherein each term is selected from a business glossary which provides a hierarchy of controlled vocabulary of terms used within an organization and wherein each asset is characterized using a set of attributes selected from a domain ontology; and upon determining a first term assigned to a first one of the assets satisfies a set of refinement criteria, refining the classification of the first asset by assigning the first asset a second term from the business glossary, wherein the second term is more precise in the business glossary than the first term and wherein the refinement criteria includes: determining that the term of a second one of the assets comprises a descendent of the classification of the first asset, and determining that each attribute of the first asset is at a lower level in the domain ontology than a corresponding attribute in the second asset. |
20120121048 | 13387308 | 0 | 1. A MIMO channel estimation method based on polyphase decomposition, comprising: a. Receiving frequency domain receiving signals at the pilot symbols processed through discrete Fourier transformation; b. Performing phase correction for the frequency domain receiving signals; c. Performing polyphase decomposition for the frequency domain receiving signals treated by the phase correction to obtain polyphase signals; d. Performing interpolation for the polyphase signals to obtain estimated values of different linear combinations of the MIMO channel parameters at the frequency points; e. Obtaining the decorrelation matrix according to the pilot structure of the transmitting antenna, and utilizing the decorrelation matrix to perform decorrelation for the estimated values of different linear combinations of the MIMO channel parameters at the frequency points to obtain the channel parameters of the pilot symbols at the frequency points; f. Obtaining the channel parameters at the data symbols according to the channel parameters at the pilot symbols. |
4794547 | 06896869 | 1 | 1. A robot control system for controlling the location and position of an object to be controlled, which is fixed on a robot wrist, in accordance with data taught in advance, comprising: taught data memory means for storing the taught data; means for computing an error vector indicating an error in a wrist coordinate system corresponding to the positional error of said object with respect to said robot wrist; memory means for storing the computed error vector in said wrist coordinate system; command value computing means for computing a command value for a robot drive unit to correct said positional error concerning said object in accordance with the taught data of said taught data memory means and the error vector of said error vector memory means; and means for controlling said robot drive unit based on said command value. |
8930728 | 14212085 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: generating a plurality of power profiles for a corresponding plurality of processing cores of a computing system, wherein each power profile of the plurality of power profiles includes power consumptions of a corresponding processing core under various operating conditions; selecting, from a plurality of candidate configurations, a subset of the plurality of candidate configurations, such that each candidate configuration of the subset of the plurality of candidate configurations is a feasible candidate configuration, wherein each candidate configuration of the plurality of candidate configurations comprises corresponding candidate operating conditions for the plurality of processing cores, wherein a candidate configuration is a feasible candidate configuration if candidate operating conditions associated with the candidate configuration are able to meet a current load demand of the computing system; for each candidate configuration of the subset of the plurality of candidate configurations, determining a corresponding combined power consumption, such that a plurality of combined power consumptions is determined corresponding to the subset of the plurality of candidate configurations; and based on the plurality of combined power consumptions, selecting a first candidate configuration of the subset of the plurality of candidate configurations for managing the plurality of processing cores, wherein a first combined power consumption of the plurality of combined power consumptions corresponds to the first candidate configuration of the subset of the plurality of candidate configurations, wherein the first combined power consumption is determined such that the first combined power consumption is a function of
( AP — A — fa 1 ×Ua )+( IP — A — fa 2×(1 −Ua ))+( AP — B — fb 1 ×Ub )+( IP — B — fb 2×(1 −Ub ))+. .. +(( AP — N — fn 1 ×Un )+( IP — N — fn 2×(1 −Un )), wherein the plurality of processing cores comprises processing cores A, B,. .. , N, wherein the first candidate configuration of the subset of the plurality of candidate configurations indicate that the processing cores A, B,. .. , N operate (i) at an active power mode, at frequencies fa1, fb1,. .. , fn1, respectively, and with utilization factors Ua, Ub,. .. , Un, respectively, and (ii) at an idle power mode, at frequencies fa2, fb2,. .. , fn2, respectively, wherein AP_A_fa1, AP_B_fb1,. .. , AP_N_fn1 represent power consumed by processing cores A, B,. .. , N, respectively, while the processing cores A, B,. .. , N operate at the active power mode, at frequencies fa1, fb1,. .. , fn1, respectively, and wherein IP_A_fa2, IP_B_fb2,. .. , IP_N_fn2 represent power consumed by processing cores A, B,. .. , N, respectively, while the processing cores A, B,. .. , N operate at the idle power mode, at frequencies fa2, fb2,. .. , fn2, respectively. |
20120047045 | 12806812 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented system for providing selectable attribute values for one or more products, comprising: at least one memory storage device storing: a set of product records that identify products potentially selectable by a user, wherein the product records comprise product attributes that represent one or more features of a product, wherein the product attributes comprise one or more attribute values; and one or more product configuration rules used to define permissible or impermissible product configurations and attributes of the products; at least one processor programmed to: create one or more attribute binary decision diagram (BDD) structures representative of the product attributes, the BDD structures including offering attribute nodes representative of product attribute values selectable by the user based on the product configuration rules, and non-offering attribute nodes representative of product attribute values not selectable by the user based on the product configuration rules; and evaluate the BDD structures and prepare a customized set of product records for transmission to the user, wherein the customized set of product records contains product attribute values corresponding to the offering attribute nodes. |
8515731 | 12568435 | 1 | 1. A computer implemented method, comprising: receiving a term and a candidate synonym for the term at a generator, where the term is in a first language, and the candidate synonym is in a second language, and where the second language is different than the first language; generating a term group of one or more text strings and a synonym group of one or more text strings at the generator, each text string in the term group corresponding to a translation of the term into a third language, and each text string in the synonym group corresponding to a translation of the synonym into the third language, where the third language is different from the first language and the second language; and determining, from an amount of overlap between the term group of text strings and the synonym group of text strings, whether the candidate synonym is a valid synonym for the term at a verifier. |
20050246158 | 11177129 | 0 | 1. A method of grammar checking an input string of text, the method comprising: generating alternative strings of text; producing parse trees for the input string of text and for each of the alternative strings of text; calculating separate parse scores for each of the parse trees generated for the input string of text and for each of the alternative strings of text; determining which one string of text, out of the input string of text and the alternative strings of text, has the highest stochastic parse score; and selecting the one string of text which has the highest stochastic parse score. |
10133999 | 15835807 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: retrieving multiple recordings of conversations associated with multiple representatives, wherein each of the conversations is between at least one of the representatives and at least one of multiple customers, and wherein each conversation is associated with a deal offered by the at least one of the representatives to the at least one of the customers; extracting multiple features from each of the multiple recordings, wherein the multiple features indicate characteristics of any of (a) a customer of multiple customers in the corresponding conversation, (b) a representative of multiple representatives in the corresponding conversation, (c) the corresponding conversation; analyzing features associated with a first conversation of the conversations to determine if the first conversation includes any feature that is indicative of a first deal associated with the first conversation being at a risk, wherein the analyzing is performed for each of the conversations; and generating, based on the analyzing, information regarding a set of deals that is at risk, wherein each deal of the set of deals is determined to be at risk in an event one or more conversations with which the corresponding deal is associated includes features that are indicative of the corresponding deal being at risk, the generating further including generating a reason why each deal of the set of deals is at risk. |
20120240187 | 13478951 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: a computer receiving from a workflow engine a workflow representation of a workflow, the workflow representation including a first numerical value that was calculated using a formula prior to a transmission of the workflow representation to the computer, the workflow representation being a format to which the workflow was converted prior to the transmission; the computer performing a checksum on the workflow representation, the performing comprising using the formula to determine a second numerical value for the workflow representation, wherein a difference between the first numerical value and the second numerical value is indicative of a change to the workflow representation during the transmission; and the computer, using the checksum, determining a snapshot of what the workflow represents. |
20140129525 | 14154159 | 0 | 1. A computer system for storing and processing data in a manner that encourages parallel processing by one or more superscalar processors, the system comprising: a processor and memory configured to execute software instructions; a data storage component configured to store database data persistently between sessions of use of the system; a data normalization component configured to retrieve data stored by the data storage component and to load the retrieved data into memory in a normalized data representation that allows fast superscalar processing; an operation manager configured to manage requests to perform database operations on stored database data; a batch assembly component configured to identify batches of data that have control flow and data independence such that the batch includes parallelizable operations; an outlier identification component configured to identify data values in a batch of data that cannot be performed by a fast processing path that performs efficient superscalar processing; a fast operation component configured to provide instructions to a superscalar processor in a manner that allows parallel execution of the instructions by multiple functional units of the superscalar processor; a slow operation component configured to perform database operations on data within a batch that is not stored in the normalized data representation; and a result processing component configured to gather results from the fast operation component and slow operation component and return the results to an operation requestor. |
20120306877 | 13151174 | 0 | 1. A method to generate optimized shader programs at run-time, comprising: receiving a designated graphics effect from an application at run-time; automatically identifying one or more shader program source instructions based on the designated graphics effect; automatically compiling the identified one or more shader program source instructions to generate an optimized shader program; and executing the optimized shader program. |
20130226493 | 13409035 | 0 | 1. An apparatus comprising: an interface configured to receive particle acceleration data; one or more processors; one or more storage media storing instructions, which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to perform: determining one or more of particle velocity data or particle displacement data, based upon the particle acceleration data, by processing the particle acceleration data using a filter that at least approximates a Wiener filter and that uses one or more damping factors selected to provide stability in the presence of noise in the particle acceleration data. |
20130058646 | 13636439 | 0 | 1. A method of operating a production optical amplifier comprising: (i) determining a data set of training amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) values of a training optical amplifier over a plurality of training operating conditions, (ii) determining a data set of production ASE values of the production optical amplifier over a plurality of production operating conditions, the plurality of production operating conditions corresponding to a sub-set of the plurality of training operating conditions, (iii) determining an adjusted data set of adjusted ASE values produced by extrapolation from the production data set so that the adjusted data set is provided over a plurality of operating conditions corresponding to the plurality of training operating conditions, (iv) determining, for each of a plurality of operating conditions, a dynamic ASE tilt factor from the training data set and the adjusted data set so determined, (v) determining a larger data set of ASE values over a wider set of operating conditions than either the training data set or the production data set from the adjusted ASE data set and the dynamic ASE tilt factor, and (vi) compensating the optical output power of the production optical amplifier in correspondence with the larger ASE data set generated from the production data set and the dynamic ASE tilt factor over the plurality of operating conditions, which is preferably a larger set of operating conditions than that of the training data set or production data set. |
20120203518 | 13023728 | 0 | 1. A computer implemented method of forming a well model for reservoir simulation of well in a subsurface reservoir from a reservoir model having formation layers having vertical fluid flow and flow barrier layers with no vertical fluid flow, the method comprising the computer implemented steps of: forming a reduced system model of the reservoir from a full reservoir model by assembling as a single vertical flow layer the flow layers having vertical flow and located adjacent a flow barrier layer in the reservoir model; solving by matrix computation the reduced system model for the bottom hole pressure of the well and residual unknowns; solving the full reservoir model by treating the well as having the determined bottom hole pressure; determining completion rates for the layers of the well for the full reservoir model; determining total rate for the well from the determined completion rates for the layers of the well; and forming a record of the determined completion rates for the layers and the determined total rate for the well. |
9767499 | 14040631 | 1 | 1. A computer-readable non-transitory medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to search and match data, the searching and matching comprising: receiving an XML (Extensible Markup Language) payload comprising a data value representing an item configuration; generating a first match key for the payload that comprises the data value; comparing the first match key with a second match key stored in a match repository using a relational database management system; retrieving a configuration item identity from the match repository when the first match key exactly matches the second match key, wherein the configuration item identity represents a previously ordered item configuration; generating a new configuration item identity when the first match key does not match the second match key, wherein the new configuration item identity represents the item configuration; and fulfilling an order based on the retrieved or the new configuration item identity and wherein the retrieved or new configuration item identity comprises a value separate and distinct from the first and second match key. |
20150323464 | 14477898 | 0 | 1. A situational awareness apparatus based on a hand-held Raman laser device integrating multiple functional systems for distant life-death determination, the apparatus comprising: a laser resonance Raman backscattering device; a set of day & night EO/IR cameras capable of high resolution imaging; a user I/O fusion capability to take into account first responder medics knowledge and/or ground truth obtained from a touch screen and said set of EO/IR cameras to determine remotely estimated and final decisions of first responder medics; a signal-to-noise enhancement processing system implementing a method of measuring an effluent plume of peri-mortem and post mortem molecules based on said laser resonance Raman backscattering device; a smart storage firmware, CPU and I/O device with memory to compute a process to identify molecules present and their concentration based on a spectral library of known molecules, wherein said process incorporates: stored updatable molecular spectrum library of peri-mortem and post-mortem laser backscattering data for identifying mortem fuzzy membership function, and/or stored fuzzy logic rule based 2×2 tables to combine vital and mortem signs based on remote estimations; and a touch-screen interface comprising a programmable firmware to display situational awareness results based on said process and accomplish a fine resolution geo-location grid touch screen. |
20070189627 | 11353799 | 0 | 1. A process for enhancing the appearance of a face in an image in an image sequence, comprising the process actions of: (a) identifying facial components in an initial image frame of the image sequence and determining local color models for each of these facial components; (b) inputting a subsequent image frame of the image sequence as the current image frame; (c) locating face and eye locations in the current image frame; (d) classifying pixels of the face into different facial components using the local color models and the face and eye locations to produce an initial classification map for the current image frame; (e) temporally smoothing the pixels of the initial classification map of the current image frame using a final classification map of the immediately previous image frame of the image sequence to create a final classification map of the current image frame; and (f) applying cosmetic filters to facial components defined in the final classification map of the current image frame to produce an enhanced image of the face. |
20140233498 | 14262032 | 0 | 1. A method of operating a user equipment device in a cellular network, the method comprising: receiving a first reference symbol at the user equipment (UE) from a first base station (eNB); processing by the UE the first reference symbol with one or more of a plurality of precoding matrices to form a plurality of channel quality indices (CQI); and providing feedback from the UE to the eNB comprising one or more feedback CQI selected from the plurality of CQI and one or more precoding matrix indicators (PMI) identifying the one or more precoding matrices used to form each of the one or more feedback CQIs, wherein at least two PMI are included in the feedback. |
20040045013 | 10230509 | 0 | 1. A method of integrating software components comprising: providing an application integration model capable of adapting to different environments by dynamically using different software components at application runtime, wherein the software components are categorized into different stages, the stages being indicative of when the software components are to be loaded and executed within an application by the application integration model; and employing the application integration model to assemble software components into the application within a runtime environment. |
20070192382 | 11355327 | 0 | 1. A redundant server network architecture comprising: a plurality of servers, each of the plurality of servers comprising a copy of a database; a communications network coupled to the plurality of servers, the communications network configured to deliver a user generated query to each of the plurality of servers; and a look-up table accessible by each of the plurality of servers, the look-up table configured to direct processing of the query by the plurality of servers, wherein if a first server from the plurality of servers fails to process the query within a predetermined time period, a second server from the plurality of servers will attempt to process the query as directed by the look-up table. |
8577390 | 13346265 | 1 | 1. A method of dynamically predicting routes between a starting geographic location and a destination geographic location, comprising: setting a starting geographic location associated with a mobile communication device; setting a destination geographic location associated with said mobile communication device; generating a plurality of possible routes between said starting geographic location and said destination geographic location; calculating a plurality of possible next geographic locations of said mobile communication device along each of said plurality of possible routes; and iteratively updating said previously generated plurality of possible routes as said mobile communication device traverses at least one of said plurality of possible routes. |
20130067440 | 13697619 | 0 | 1. A system for performance assurance in development environment, the said system comprising: a. at least one virtual testing platform generating plurality of instances of the development process; b. plurality of users communicatively coupled with the said virtual testing platform, executing at least one instance of development process on the said testing platform; c. a user management means controlling user creation and user access to the said testing platform; d. a SQL performance tuning means; e. a load testing means adapted to operate in a single user mode; f. at least one input instruction adapted to be bundled in a SQL batch file; g. an input means adapted to receive instructions and statistics for executing said process; h. an emulated framework means adapted to receive said input instructions in order to obtain emulated parameters in relation to said input instructions; i. a development framework means adapted to receive said input instructions in order to obtain development parameters in relation to said input instructions, said development framework having: production database means adapted to store production database parameters; j. computational means adapted to compute development parameters in relation to said production database parameters; k. production framework extrapolation means adapted to extrapolate actual production parameters from said emulated parameters and said development parameter in relation to pre-defined functions to obtain an estimation of pre-defined parameters required for executing the process in the production environment; and l. an output means adapted to receive processed results and downloading of generated reports in relation to each process to the user executing the said process on the said testing platform. |
10149111 | 15608152 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: by a computing device, determining a current location of a user based on location data received from a client device; by the computing device, calculating a transition probability of the user transitioning, within a predetermined time window, from the current location to each of a plurality of candidate geographic locations, wherein the calculating of the transition probability is based at least in part on previously logged location data associated with a plurality of users who were at the current location; by the computing device, determining metadata associated with the user; by the computing device, calculating an offline probability associated with each of the plurality of candidate geographic locations using a computer model and the metadata associated with the user, wherein the computer model is generated using machine learning and metadata associated with users who were at the respective candidate geographic location, wherein the offline probability represents a likelihood that the user will lack wireless connectivity at the respective candidate geographic location; by the computing device, calculating a connectivity probability that the user will lack wireless connectivity within the predetermined time window based on the transition probabilities and the offline probabilities; and by the computing device, providing data to the client device in response to the offline probability being higher than a threshold probability. |
20120240863 | 13070420 | 0 | 1. A system for cognitive enrichment of a domesticated animal comprising: at least one display device configured to display stimuli to an animal; at least one input device configured to accept input from said animal; at least one reward dispenser configured to dispense at least one reward to said animal; at least one processor communicatively coupled with said at least one display device, said at least one input device, and said at least one reward dispenser; and a computer-readable medium comprising computer-readable instructions, wherein execution of said computer-readable instructions by said at least one processor causes said at least one processor to carry out steps comprising: displaying one or more stimuli to said animal using said at least one display device; accepting an input from said animal corresponding to at least one of said one or more stimuli; making a dispensing decision based on said input; and dispensing a reward using said at least one reward dispenser based on said dispensing decision. |
20120076193 | 13310275 | 0 | 1. A method for estimating channel distortion in a communications channel including an adaptive equalizer, comprising: determining one or more adaptive filter coefficients h 1 (n) associated with a signal by the adaptive equalizer; normalizing the determined one or more adaptive filter coefficients to unit energy; and differencing the normalized one or more adaptive filter coefficients with an ideal response h 0 (n) of the communications channel, the differencing producing an error sequence h 2 (n). |
20150026637 | 13944559 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: generating, by a processing device, a plurality of selection areas configured for respectively selecting a plurality of selectable objects in a graphical interface, wherein generating the plurality of selection areas comprises, for a selectable object of the plurality of selectable objects: generating a boundary around the selectable object, wherein any point within the boundary is closer to the selectable object than any other selectable object of the plurality of selectable objects, and clipping the boundary to define a selection area for the selectable object; and adding, by the processing device, the plurality of selection areas to a document object model that is usable for rendering the plurality of selectable objects in the graphical interface. |
20040169687 | 10792341 | 0 | 1. A computer-readable medium having a suite of computer-executable components comprising at least one component implementing a component setup interface, said component setup interface exposing a first method to allow another component to query for a specific setup install action interface for each install action available for the component. |
9464242 | 13331130 | 1 | 1. A system for creating blends of crude oil feedstock from a plurality of refinery feed streams to a refinery to reduce corrosion impact, the system comprising: an on-line analyzer for obtaining at least one of spectroscopic and impedance measurements as a function of temperature for each of the plurality of refinery feed streams to the refinery; a database operatively disposed to receive the spectroscopic and/or impedance measurements from the on-line analyzer and correlate the spectroscopic and/or impedance measurements for each of the plurality of refinery feed streams to the refinery with at least one corrosivity indicator selected from the group consisting of molecular break-up of acid molecules, dissociation of acids in crude oil feed, and dissociation of sulfur compounds into ionic species as determined by Raman spectroscopy, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy or voltammetry in a plurality of reference refinery feed samples wherein the corrosivity indicator of the plurality of reference refinery feed samples is predetermined such that a determination of corrosivity for each of the plurality of refinery feed streams can be made by the database and the corrosivity can be compared to an acceptable corrosivity limit; and an operator, operatively disposed to receive information comprising the determination of corrosivity for each of the plurality of refinery feed streams from the database, wherein the operator modifies a blend of the plurality of refinery feed streams in response to the received information such that the resulting blend of the plurality of refinery feed streams is predicted by the database to have an acceptable level of corrosivity. |
7765313 | 10177043 | 1 | 1. A classification engine capable of receiving a plurality of protocol data units (PDUs) and performing a tree-based classification on the PDUs, the classification engine comprising: input means for receiving the PDUs; control means for supplying raw protocol data and control information as parameters of the received PDUs; parsing means, controlled by said control means, said parsing means capable of parsing the PDUs to generate an abstracted protocol structure for at least one of the PDUs, said parsing means further for applying a protocol syntax check on the raw protocol data of the PDU; a classifier that classifies the PDUs based on a protocol associated with the PDU, and said classifier sub-classifies the classified PDUs, based on sub-protocols with the protocol, to isolate traffic and to isolate commands associated with the isolated traffic; said classifier performs policy enforcement for the PDUs that includes at least one of: access control, stateful firewall control, and quality control; said control means call a finite state machine for the classifier and supply the abstracted protocol structure and control information for the received PDUs; said finite state machine capable to update a stream table with protocol specific state variables; said finite state machine modifies the abstracted protocol structure, based on at least one policy parameter associated with the at least one of the received PDUs; if a received PDU is denied, said classifier performs at least one of: modifies the PDU to return a useful message to the sender, ignoring the denied data and not passing said data to a destination and terminates the connection; and output means for transmitting the PDUs, tagged only with the modified abstracted protocol structure, based on the updated stream table. |
9704119 | 14544314 | 1 | 1. A method of requirement, compliance and resource management algorithm utilizes: a computer system, wherein the computer system comprising: a premise computer system, a mobile computer system and a cloud computer system; wherein the computer system comprising: one or more hardware processors in communication with a computer readable medium; wherein the computer readable medium stores one or more software modules, including instructions for the method of requirement, compliance and resource management algorithm, that are executable by the one or more hardware processors; wherein the method of requirement, compliance and resource management algorithm comprises the steps, at least in an ordered sequence: (a) a requirement input collection algorithm for collecting a requirement or a requirement input data from a data source or an inputting device; (b) a compliance requirement input collection algorithm for collecting compliance or a compliance input data from a data source or an inputting device; (c) a requirement analysis algorithm for analyzing the requirement, the requirement input data, the compliance or the compliance input data; (d) a specification generation algorithm for generating a specification of the requirement based on the analysis of the requirement, the requirement input data, the compliance or the compliance input data; (e) a resource allocation algorithm for allocating a resource, wherein the resource consisting of: a hardware resource, a software resource, a human resource and a financial resource; (f) a verification algorithm for verifying the requirement, the requirement input data, the compliance or the compliance input data; (g) a fuzzy logic algorithm for accounting for inexactness of the requirement input data or inexactness of interpretation of the requirement input data; (h) a statistical analysis algorithm for accounting for variability of the requirement input data or variability of interpretation of the requirement input data; (i) interfacing at least to search for a keyword, utilizing a graphical user interface; (j) searching for the keyword, utilizing the graphical user interface; and (k) a traceability generation algorithm for tracing the requirement input data or the requirement output data, wherein the method of requirement, compliance and resource management algorithm is coupled with a set of instructions for interfacing with a software program, utilizing an application programming interface. |
20160014559 | 14536090 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising: generating, with a first chipset, a first set of geo-fence rules and a second set of geo-fence rules, which are a simplified subset of the first set of geo-fence rules; transmitting the second set of geo-fence rules to a second chipset; powering down the first chipset; detecting if at least one of the second set of geo-fence rules has been broken; and if at least one least one of the second set of geo-fence rules is broken, powering up the first chipset to determine if the at least one broken second rule is indicative of breaking at least one rule of the first set of geo-fence rules. |
20070136024 | 11298960 | 0 | 1. A computer program product embodied on tangible media, the computer program product comprising instructions operable to cause data processing apparatus to: initiate, at an interface, load testing of a first application during a first test run in accordance with a first definition of a first group of load tests; initiate, at the interface, load testing of a second application during a second test run in accordance with a second definition of a second group of load tests; and initiate, at the interface, combining of test results of the first and second test runs to generate a report that individually characterizes at least some of the test results as members of a series of test runs, the series of test runs comprising the first and second test runs. |
20090307528 | 12134908 | 0 | 1. At a computer system, a method for marshaling data to perform a diagnostic operation for a target execution context, the method comprising: an act of receiving an indication that a diagnostic operation is to be performed for part of a target execution context within another separate execution context, the other separate execution context being separated by an execution boundary such that execution within the other separate execution context does not influence execution outside of the other separate execution context, the other separate execution context to be created from an instrumented version of the assembly used to create the target execution context; an act of non-invasively obtaining a portion of state data related to performing the diagnostic operation for the part of the target execution context, non-invasively obtaining the state data including accessing state data from at least one of: a memory location and a register the target execution context is using to store state data during execution, without altering any accessed state data contained in the at least one of: the memory location and the register; and an act of marshaling any obtained state data into a format for delivery to the other separate execution context so that the other separate execution context can perform the diagnostic operation based on the obtained state data to simulate performance of the diagnostic operation within the target execution context without influencing subsequent execution within the target execution context. |
8237659 | 11398906 | 1 | 1. A method for enabling generation of text on a handheld electronic device, said handheld electronic device comprising a plurality of input members and a memory, at least some of the input members each having a number of linguistic elements assigned thereto and the memory having a plurality of language objects stored therein, the method comprising: enabling detection of a number of input member actuations corresponding with an ambiguous input; setting a first threshold, said first threshold having a value of at least two; selecting a second threshold; and only when said number of input member actuations exceeds the first threshold and a quantity of predicted language objects corresponding with said ambiguous input is less than the second threshold, generating for output, based on the quantity of predicted language objects, a number of prefix objects corresponding to said ambiguous input and a number of the predicted language objects corresponding to said ambiguous input, each predicted language object comprising a prefix object portion and a completion portion; and providing at a text input location an output comprising a prefix object and a completion portion of a first predicted language object. |
9734512 | 14495378 | 1 | 1. A non-transitory computer readable medium for incentivizing service providers comprising instructions that, upon execution by a hardware processor, cause the hardware processor to: execute a first subroutine for assembling a best practices model in the form of a best practices database interfacing with the hardware processor and which presents series of treatment options ranging from desirable to undesirable associated with a given type of service; execute a second subroutine providing a decision support system interfacing with the best practices database and hardware processor, the support system providing any of a grading or awarding system for scoring, in real time, performance metrics for each of any number of providers of the service; execute a third subroutine for outputting to a plurality of devices assigned to each of the providers, real time and continuously updated scoring of their performance metrics based upon the grading or awarding system and as a result of the treatment options selected and inputted by the providers; execute a fourth subroutine for incentivizing adherence by the providers to the best practices model by tying desirable performance metrics to financial incentives which are scaled to each treatment option; execute a fifth subroutine for designating a sum of funds representative of an operating budget for a service provider and for disbursement on a percentage basis to each of any number of subset service providers based upon adherence to the best practices model; and execute a sixth subroutine for subdividing said sum between different practice groups and sub-specialties associated with a given class of service providers. |
8386189 | 13150756 | 1 | 1. An article of manufacture for analysis of a decoy protein to determine whether a decoy protein has a structure of a native globular protein, comprising: a computer-readable medium having computer-readable code embodied thereon, the computer-readable code comprising: a step to determine a normalized second-order hydrophobic moment profile for the decoy protein; a step to use the normalized second-order hydrophobic moment profile to determine a scoring function for analysis of the decoy protein; a step to use the scoring function to generate a score for the decoy protein, wherein the scoring function comprises S H =∫ 0 1 |{tilde over (H)} 2 |ds, wherein the score comprises an integral of an area under the normalized second-order hydrophobic moment profile of the decoy protein, and wherein the score measures a prominence of a hydrophobic core and a prominence of a hydrophilic exterior of the decoy protein; and a step to use the score of the decoy protein to determine whether the decoy protein has a structure of a native globular protein. |
10089299 | 15652144 | 1 | 1. A method for generating a language processing model, comprising: obtaining one or more multi-media labels, wherein each multi-media label is based on a corresponding multi-media item that is associated with a content item, wherein each particular multi-media label is associated with one or more n-grams from the content item that is associated with the multi-media item that corresponds to the particular multi-media label, and wherein an n-gram is a digital representation of one or more words or groups of characters; including, in a language corpus, the one or more n-grams associated with each of the one or more multi-media labels; and generating the language processing model comprising a probability distribution by computing, for each selected n-gram of multiple n-grams in the language corpus, a frequency that the selected n-gram occurs in the language corpus, wherein one or more of the probabilities provided by the probability distribution are multi-media context probabilities indicating a probability of a chosen n-gram occurring, given that the chosen n-gram is associated with provided one or more multi-media labels, wherein the multi-media context probabilities are based on the associations between the one or more multi-media labels and the one or more n-grams. |
20080305475 | 11759692 | 0 | 1. A method for analyzing a bacterial community comprising: amplifying DNAs extracted from a bacterial community by PCR using 16S rRNA genes as templates and fluorescently labeled primers; cleaving the amplification products with a restriction enzyme to thereby obtain sample PCR fragments; electrophoresing the sample PCR fragments together with size standard PCR fragments; and comparing the mobilities thereof to thereby determine the sizes of the sample PCR fragments, wherein PCR fragments prepared by using, as a template, a 16S rRNA gene derived from a bacterium contained in the bacterial community to be analyzed are used as the size standards. |
20130247011 | 13422596 | 0 | 1. A computer program product for transforming a program-event-recording event into a run-time instrumentation event, the computer program product comprising: a tangible storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method comprising: enabling run-time instrumentation for collecting instrumentation information of an instruction stream executing on a processor; detecting, by the processor, a program-event-recording (PER) event, the PER event associated with the instruction stream executing on the processor; and writing a PER event record to a collection buffer as a run-time instrumentation event based on detecting the PER event, the PER event record identifying the PER event. |
20110264812 | 12765368 | 0 | 1. A system for maintaining alternative connections for dynamic transition during communication between a first computing device and a second computing device, said system comprising: a memory area for storing data defining an active connection and a set of candidate connections, said memory area being associated with a mobile computing device, wherein the data includes a protocol and address for the active connection and each of the candidate connections; and a processor programmed to: establish communication between the mobile computing device and another computing device via the protocol and address of the active connection; determine performance of at least one of the candidate connections during transit of the mobile computing device and during communication with the other computing device; compare, by the mobile computing device, the determined performance with performance of the active connection; select one of the candidate connections based on the comparison; and transition communication between the mobile computing device and the other computing device from the active connection to the selected candidate connection via the protocol and address of the selected candidate connection during transit of the mobile computing device. |
20040205756 | 10345627 | 0 | 1. A method for automatically obtaining an operational sequence of processes that determine an output value from at least one input value, with the following steps: a multitude of processes whose inputs are provided with at least one of the attributes “input value of the same calculation cycle”, “input value of the preceding calculation cycle”, “input value from any calculation cycle” are arranged in such a way that a process which has no input with the attribute “input value of the same calculation cycle” is determined as the first process of a calculation cycle, the found sequence of the processes is output. |
8226579 | 12390142 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: collecting a plurality of digitized, non-nutritive suck (NNS) pressure samples using a non-nutritive nipple with a pressure transducer; determining a plurality of standard deviations of the plurality of burst data sets, wherein each standard deviation is based on a burst data point value associated with a particular sample of each of a plurality of normalized burst data sets; and summing the plurality of standard deviations to provide a spatiotemporal index (STI) of non-nutritive suck pattern stability, wherein the STI is configured to provide a composite indication of variability of amplitude, and duration of a plurality of portions of the NNS pressure samples. |
20090105973 | 12043802 | 0 | 1. A noncontact measurement method of a plurality of superconductive wires connected in parallel, the noncontact measurement method comprising: (a) arranging a plurality of hall sensors for measuring voltage values based on magnetic fields generated around the plurality of superconductive wires; (b) setting a matrix relation equation between the voltage values measured by the hall sensors, current values of currents flowing through the superconductive wires, and a variable matrix having a plurality of variables defining relations between the voltage values and the current values; (c) applying predetermined measurement current values to the plurality of superconductive wires a plurality of times and measuring measurement voltage values corresponding to the measurement current values through the plurality of hall sensors; (d) calculating the variables of the variable matrix by substituting the measurement current values and the measurement voltage values into the matrix relation equation; and e) calculating unknown current values of unknown currents flowing through the superconductive wires by substituting a plurality of unknown voltage values measured by the plurality of hall sensors when the unknown currents flow through the superconductive wires and the variable matrix calculated at the step (d) into the matrix relation equation. |
7760732 | 11149877 | 1 | 1. A method performed by a switch fabric comprising: calculating a first signature from a first fabric destination address of the switch fabric, wherein the first fabric destination address corresponds to a first multicast group address, the first multicast group address is received in a multicast packet, and performing said calculating to reduce supercasting in the switch fabric associated with packets comprising the first multicast group address; comparing the first signature to a second signature, wherein the second signature is a label in a label-to-destination address table (LTDT); and updating an LTDT entry with a combination of the first fabric destination address and a second fabric destination address, if the first signature matches the second signature, wherein the LTDT entry corresponds to the second signature, and the second fabric destination address is associated with the second signature. |
20140365421 | 14456153 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: accessing a plurality of computer-implemented directionally distinct relationships among a plurality of computer-implemented objects; inferring automatically a first expertise level of a first person who is a first user of a computer-implemented system from one or more usage behaviors; selecting one or more computer-implemented objects of the plurality of computer-implemented objects, wherein the selecting is performed by a computer-implemented function executed on a processor-based device in accordance with the first expertise level and at least one of the plurality of the computer-implemented directionally distinct relationships; and delivering the one or more computer-implemented objects to the first person. |
7938197 | 11952511 | 1 | 1. A method for mechanical specific energy (MSE)-based drilling operation, comprising: drilling through a first interval utilizing a first weight-on-bit (WOB); determining automatically a first MSE corresponding to drilling utilizing the first WOB; drilling through a second interval utilizing a second WOB that is different than the first WOB; determining automatically a second MSE corresponding to drilling utilizing the second WOB; and drilling through a third interval utilizing one of the first WOB and the second WOB which is automatically selected based on an automated comparison of the first MSE and the second MSE. |
9690862 | 14517813 | 1 | 1. An information handling system that serves as a question and answering (QA) system, the system comprising: one or more processors; a memory coupled to at least one of the processors; a network adapter that connects the information handling system to a computer network; and a set of instructions stored in the memory and executed by at least one of the processors, wherein the set of instructions perform actions of: ingesting a first set of sources into a first corpus; ingesting a second set of sources into a second corpus, wherein the second set of sources are a subset of the first set of sources, and wherein the second set of sources include updates to the first set of sources; receiving a question from a requestor; identifying a plurality of candidate answers to the question using one or more sources included in the first and second corpuses, wherein a weighting is associated with each of the candidate answers; determining whether the first and second corpuses have an overlapping source from which two or more of the candidate answers were identified; in response to determining the overlapping source, assigning a first candidate answer from the overlapping source in the first corpus with a lower weighting than a second candidate answer from the overlapping source in the second corpus; selecting one or more likely answers from the plurality of candidate answers, wherein the selecting is based on the weighting associated with the respective candidate answers; and returning the selected likely answers to the requestor. |
10127513 | 15632369 | 1 | 1. A system for automated multi-channel customer journey testing, comprising: a test database comprising at least a processor, a memory, and a plurality of programming instructions stored in the memory and operating on the processor, wherein the programming instructions, when operating on the processor, cause the processor to: store a plurality of test cases, each test case comprising at least a test execution configuration, a test script, and a plurality of test success criteria; a customer journey test management server comprising at least a processor, a memory, and a plurality of programming instructions stored in the memory and operating on the processor, wherein the programming instructions, when operating on the processor, cause the processor to: retrieve a test case from the test database; establish a test execution environment based on the test execution configuration of the test case; execute the test script, according to the test execution configuration, within the test execution environment; transmit, according to the test execution configuration, a plurality of messages via a plurality of communication channels comprising at least a telephony network; receive a plurality of response messages pertaining to the plurality of test messages, via the plurality of communication channels; and compare at least a plurality of the response messages against the test success criteria of the test case; and a customer journey tracking server comprising at least a processor, a memory, and a plurality of programming instructions stored in the memory and operating on the processor, wherein the programming instructions, when operating on the processor, cause the processor to: analyze at least a portion of the response messages to identify response messages corresponding to a specific test case, the identified response messages forming thereby a simulated customer journey that comprises a plurality of individual communications; wherein the customer journey test management server generates a second set of test messages, thereby creating a new test case, based on the simulated customer journey. |
20150146968 | 14611938 | 0 | 1. A method, comprising: providing a first image and a second image, wherein the first image is of a substrate having a defect and the second image is of a reference substrate; determining a difference between the first image and the second image; using a simulation model running on a computer system to generate a simulation curve corresponding to the difference; dispositioning the substrate based on the simulation curve. |
9430458 | 13288111 | 1 | 1. A method of editing electronic list content within a collaboration system, the method comprising: using an electronic list including a number of list items having associated data types; using a pre-selection input to animate rows of the electronic list including highlighting a row of the electronic list associated with a position of an input cursor as the user navigates the electronic list; using a post-selection and pre-edit input to animate cells of a selected row including highlighting a cell of the selected row associated with a position of the input cursor as the user navigates the selected row; using an edit state to switch cell content of a selected cell to an editable state including distinguishing a column portion and a row portion associated with the selected cell to identify the edit state; and in response to editing the selected cell, presenting an editing indicator in a selected row portion. |
20060080648 | 10964231 | 0 | 1. A system for loading non object-oriented code on a computing environment to allow multiple execution instances and repeat execution comprising: a code library (CL) having code that is not object oriented to handle data and provide access functions to data in a manner that restricts multiple execution instances or repeat execution of the code; a stub file, generated as a source code, cooperating with a binary executable program to allow the binary executable program to have access to the code found in the CL; and a dynamic linker/loader to load an instance of the CL into a dynamically allocated memory block wherein the scope of the data variables defined in the CL is confined to the memory block. |
9967397 | 15237563 | 1 | 1. A system for routing events to service workers comprising: a processor; a memory, wherein the memory includes instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: receive registration data from a worker group, the worker group comprising one or more service workers; receive a subscription request from the worker group, the subscription request being a request to subscribe the worker group to a service opportunity, the service opportunity being a business opportunity to provide a specified service for one or more communication events; receive a communication event corresponding to the service opportunity; select a service worker of the worker group based on the registration data from the worker group; and route the communication event to the service worker. |
9536237 | 13688134 | 1 | 1. A method for suggesting recipes, the method comprising: providing a first computer system having an input device; providing a second computer system in communication with the first computer system, the second computer system having a processor including an output module, an analysis module, and a control module; providing a recipe database that stores a plurality of recipes; receiving, through the first computer system, a plurality of sale transactions; forwarding the plurality of sale transactions to the output module; generating, through the analysis module, a user interface control, the user interface control representing a correlation scale of customer-adjustable experimentation settings, the correlation scale indicating the correlation of a recipe with each of a plurality of micro patterns and macro preferences of a customer, the micro patterns of the customer including sale transaction patterns for the customer, the macro preferences of the customer including categorized food types for the customer determined through analysis of the micro patterns; providing an application executable by a mobile computing device in communication with the second computer system; presenting, through the output module, the user interface control to the application, the user interface control representing the correlation scale, the correlation scale embodied as a slidable scale with each position on the slidable scale representing a different experimentation setting for the customer; receiving, through the control module, a selection of one of the experimentation settings by the customer selecting one of the positions on the slidable scale; receiving, through the control module, a request for one or more recipes from the mobile computing device; analyzing, through the analysis module, the one or more sale transactions of the customer to identify each of the micro patterns of the customer and macro preferences of the customer; identifying a food item within the one or more sale transactions; determining, through the analysis module, a statistical significance of the food item with respect to the one or more sale transactions; correlating, by the analysis module, the food item with at least one of the micro patterns or at least one of the macro preferences of the customer upon a determination that the statistical significance of the food item exceeds a predetermined threshold; omitting, by the analysis module, the food item from the one or more micro patterns and the one or more macro preferences upon a determination that the statistical significance of the food item does not exceed the predetermined threshold; indicating, through the analysis module, a correlation between a recipe and each of the micro patterns of the customer and macro preferences of the customer for the recipe to be identified as potentially relevant to the customer; identifying, through the analysis module, one or more of the plurality of recipes from within the recipe database as being potentially relevant to the customer, each of the one or more recipes corresponding to the correlation a recipe is to have with each of: micro patterns of the customer, macro preferences of the customer, and the customer-selected experimentation setting; associating at least one photograph with the one or more identified recipes; and transmitting, through the output module, the one or more identified recipes and the at least one associated photograph to the mobile computing device. |
9588814 | 14582430 | 1 | 1. A device configured for vectorization processing, comprising: a memory module; a processing module; and a fast conflict detection module to cause the processing module to: read a first vector and a second vector from the memory; generate summaries based on the first and second vectors; distribute the summaries based on the first and second vectors into a first summary vector and a second summary vector, respectively; and determine potential conflicts between the first and second vectors by comparing the first summary vector and the second summary vector. |