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9483483

14996406

1. A method for applying a content defined minimum size bound on content defined segmentation of data into blocks using a processor device in a computing environment, comprising: defining a plurality of segmenting probabilities and a plurality of segmenting conditions, wherein each of the plurality of segmenting conditions is associated with one of the plurality of segmenting probabilities; ordering the plurality of segmenting conditions in accordance with the associated one of the plurality of segmenting probabilities to form a hierarchy of the plurality of segmenting conditions; defining a segmenting condition associated with a highest segmenting probability to be a lowest level segmenting condition in the hierarchy of the plurality of segmenting conditions, and defining the segmenting condition associated with a lowest segmenting probability to be a highest level segmenting condition in the hierarchy of the plurality of segmenting conditions; determining a position of one of a plurality of hash values as a candidate segmenting position in the data if at least one of the plurality of segmenting conditions is satisfied by the hash value; defining a hierarchy level of a candidate segmenting position as the hierarchy level of the highest level segmenting condition that is satisfied by the one of the plurality of hash values of the candidate segmenting position; calculating the size of the interval of data between a newly found candidate segmenting position and a previous candidate segmenting position; and discarding the newly found candidate segmenting position if the size of the interval of data is lower than the minimum bound on the size of a block.

8365290

12466728

1. A method of detecting website vulnerabilities, comprising the steps of; connecting to a website; retrieving a webpage from the website; identifying a link within the retrieved webpage; comparing the identified link to a known database of links to determine a unique link, wherein determining the unique link includes evaluating a degree of uniqueness when compared to the known database; requesting the unique link from a server; generating an attack string directed to the requested unique link; and identifying security vulnerabilities within the requested unique link.

20140241145

13875056

1. A method for analyzing network traffic comprising: sending by a traffic analysis computing device to one or more network devices a request to capture one or more network information upon identifying a fault within a network; receiving by the traffic analysis computing device one or more network reporting files comprising the captured one or more network information from each of the one or more network devices; determining by the traffic analysis computing device a location at which the identified fault occurred within the network; and performing by the traffic analysis computing device one or more corrective actions at the location of the identified fault within the network based on the determination.

20150242637

14631309

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: obtaining distributable vulnerability data comprising, for each of a plurality of software packages and associated vulnerabilities, threat mitigation information and a threat priority parameter, wherein the distributable vulnerability data was derived from an intelligence graph comprising a plurality of fundamental instance nodes, a plurality of document nodes, and a plurality of edges; identifying installed software packages on a computer system; correlating a plurality of the installed software packages with the distributable vulnerability data to obtain a plurality of installed software packages and associated vulnerabilities; ordering at least some of the plurality of installed software packages and associated vulnerabilities according to threat priority parameters, whereby an ordered plurality of installed software packages and associated vulnerabilities is obtained; and providing mitigation information for the ordered plurality of installed software packages and associated vulnerabilities.

10152400

14948650

1. A method for dynamically unblocking customers in critical workflows by pushing community contributed solutions just-in-time when an error is encountered, the method comprising: providing, by an application provider computing system, a software application to a user using a user computing systems, and implementing, by a user computing system, at least a portion of the provided software application; providing, by the application provider computing system, a message based action system as a component of the software application, the message based action system configured to provide action messages through the software application to user computing systems implementing at least part of the software application; providing, by a community portal computing environment, a community portal for the software application using one or more computing systems through which recurring error solution data representing solutions to recurring errors encountered by users of the software application is obtained; automatically tracking steps that a user takes to correct an error and checking whether the steps resulted in a successful solution to the error, storing successful solutions in a solutions database provided for the purpose; generating threshold error occurrence rate data representing a threshold error occurrence rate such that if an error occurs more than the threshold error occurrence rate, the error is designated a recurring error; automatically updating, upon determination that an error occurs more than then threshold error occurrence rate, the community portal, to allow recurring error solution data representing solutions to the recurring error to be obtained and/or posted; providing a recurring error solutions ratings system using one or more computing systems through which the recurring error solution data representing solutions to recurring errors obtained and/or posted in the community portal for the software application are rated and associated recurring error solution ratings data is generated; generating threshold recurring error solution ratings data representing a defined threshold recurring error solution rating such that if recurring error solution data representing a solution to a recurring error obtained and/or posted in the community portal for the software application has associated recurring error solution ratings data representing a recurring error solution rating for the recurring error solution data greater than the threshold recurring error solution rating represented by the threshold recurring error solution ratings data, the recurring error solution data is designated well rated recurring error solution data representing a well rated solution to the recurring error; categorizing all well rated recurring error solution data according to error data and context data associated with the recurring error that is the subject of the well rated recurring error solution data to generate categorized well rated recurring error solution data; storing the categorized well rated recurring error solution data; receiving, from the user computing system of the user, user critical issue report data indicating a first user has encountered an access issue or other critical issue, the access issue or other critical issue blocking the first user from progressing with the software application; automatically obtaining user log error data and user context data associated with the user critical issue report data from the user computing system associated with the user of the software application; storing the user log error data and user context data in a log error data and context data tracking database; analyzing the obtained user log error data and user context data and determining that the obtained user log error data and user context data matches error data and context data of at least one of the categorized well rated recurring error solution data representing well rated solutions to recurring errors; pushing an action message to the user computing system through the message based action system associated with the software application, the action message representing a solution to the access issue or other critical issue blocking the first user from progressing; and automatically implementing, through the software application, the solution to the access issue or other critical issue on the user computing system.

20140088446

13631046

1. A method of determining a value indicative of a hemodynamic parameter of a patient, comprising: performing a plurality of value determinations, wherein performing the plurality of value determinations includes determining a first value indicative of the hemodynamic parameter, determining, with a controller, a difference between the first value and a baseline associated with the first value, and replacing the baseline with the first value, in a memory of the controller, if the difference is outside of a predetermined range; and determining an estimate of the hemodynamic parameter based on acceptable values determined during the plurality of value determinations.

20100310128

12793594

1. A computer-implemented method for measuring full field deformation characteristics of a body, the method comprising: determining optical setup design parameters for measuring displacement and strain fields; applying a dot pattern on a planar side of a deformable body; acquiring a sequence of images of the dot pattern before and after deformation of the body; identifying the characteristic points of the dots with a computer processor; eliminating irregular objects from the sequence of images; matching the characteristic points between two or more subsequent images; calculating the displacement vector of the characteristic points; and calculating full field displacement based on the displacement vector of the characteristic points.

20080082266

11537151

1. A deeply integrated navigation system that operates in the presence of multipath, comprising in combination: a navigation processor that receives data from inertial sensors and computes a navigation solution; and a Kalman filter that includes a multipath error model, wherein the Kalman filter receives the navigation solution and data from a global positioning satellite (GPS) receiver, and uses the navigation solution, the data from the GPS receiver, and the multipath error model to calculate an estimate that is provided to the navigation processor.

20110144707

13032400

1. An external defibrillator comprising: a therapy delivery circuit configured to be electrically charged and to deliver electrical therapy to a patient; a sensor configured to sense a physiological condition of the patient and generate data indicative of a probability that therapy will be delivered to the patient; and a processor configured to analyze data generated by the sensor to determine whether there is a threshold level of the probability that the therapy delivery will be delivered to the patient, if the probability is at least at the threshold level, charge the therapy delivery circuit, and determine whether therapy delivery is advisable based on the physiological condition of the patient after determining whether the probability is at least at the threshold level.

20150067256

14536748

1. A computer system comprising: a host computer comprising a volume; a storage apparatus comprising a storage media, the storage apparatus providing a RAID group being configured by the storage media, a logical volume being configured by the RAID group, a pool being configured by the logical volume, and a virtual volume being allocated from the pool and corresponding to the volume of the host computer; and a management server configured to store performance information which indicates a performance of the logical volume and/or the RAID group and mapping information which indicates a relationship among components of the computer system in view of logical and physical connections; and said management server being further configured to: determine whether or not a correspondence relationship exists among components of the computer system by referring to the performance information; and output a relationship among components of the computer system based on the determination of the correspondence relationship and the mapping information.

7882107

11952627

1. A computer system for processing a text search query in a collection of documents, comprising: a computer; a full posting index for the documents of the collection, said full posting index comprising a first set of index terms and a full posting list for said index terms of said first set, enumerating all occurrences of said index terms of said first set in all documents of the collection; search conditions on search terms of a given text search query that are translated into conditions on said index terms to provide translated conditions; an additional posting index for said documents of the collection, said additional posting index being related to a defined document part and comprising a second set of index terms and a restricted posting list for said index terms of said second set, enumerating all occurrences of said index terms of said second set in said document part of said documents of said collection; identified conditions of said translated conditions, which are restricted to defined document parts, for which an additional posting index is available; said identified conditions with part restriction rewritten as pair conditions on index terms of said additional posting index and corresponding document part; and a query result based on said additional posting index and said pair conditions.

20070244723

11787120

1. A nursing information management apparatus, comprising: a setting unit which sets a plan on a medical action for a patient; an implementation recording unit which records a content of an implementation of a nursing action conducted along with the plan set by the setting unit; a discrepancy information input unit which inputs, per problem related to a patient's disease, information on a factor of discrepancy between the content of an implementation recorded by the implementation recording unit and the plan set by the setting unit; and a discrepancy information recording unit which records the information on a factor of discrepancy inputted by the discrepancy information input unit and the problem related to the patient's disease by associating the information on a factor of discrepancy and the problem related to the patient's disease.

8332254

12079677

1. A method for automatic identification, performed by a processing device of a computer in a data processing system, of an insertion point in a first model stored in memory of the computer for a predetermined element t of a second model, the method comprising the computer processing device performing insertion point identification process steps of: providing in the memory a comparison of first and second models defining correspondence between elements of the models; analyzing a sequence order of elements in the second model to identify predecessor and successor elements of element t in the second model; using said comparison to identify a set of first model predecessors, comprising elements of the first model which correspond to said predecessor elements in the second model, and a set of first model successors comprising elements of the first model which correspond to said successor elements in the second model; and for pairs of adjacent elements x, y in the first model, comparing positions of the elements x, y in a sequence order of the first model with positions of elements in the sets of first model predecessors and successors, and determining if a position of an edge between elements x and y relative to the first model predecessors and successors is not inconsistent with the sequence order of the element t and the predecessor and successor elements in the second model and identifying the edge as an insertion point if the position of the edge between elements x and y is determine to be consistent; wherein the position of the edge relative to the first model predecessors and successors is deemed not inconsistent with said sequence order in the second model if: (c) the element x is either a successor of, or is not ordered with respect to, all first model predecessors, OR (d) the element x is a disjunctive element that does not satisfy condition (c) AND the element y is either a successor of, or is not ordered with respect to, all first model predecessors AND (e) the element y is either a predecessor of, or is not ordered with respect to, all successors, OR (f) the element y is a conjunctive element that does not satisfy condition (e) AND the element x is either a predecessor of, or is not ordered with respect to, all successors.

9075853

14518308

1. A method, comprising: retrieving at a computing device comprising at least one processor a plurality of objects from a database sharing one or more of description details of a user input; constructing a tree data structure based on the description details of the plurality of objects; displaying, via a display of the computing device, visual images associated with the retrieved plurality of objects; displaying a first predetermined number of selection option choices at a first iteration of a search, wherein the first predetermined number of selection options comprise at least one first visual image and at least one first corresponding attribute at a first level of the tree; receiving at least one selection of one or more of the visual images; displaying a second predetermined number of selection option choices at a second iteration of the search, wherein the second predetermined number of selection options comprise at least one second visual image and at least one second corresponding attribute at a second level of the tree, and wherein the at least one second visual image and the at least one second corresponding attribute are different from those in the first level of the tree; determining whether additional visual images are associated with the tree data structure, the additional visual images not yet provided to the user; if so, displaying the additional visual images associated with the tree data structure to the user; receiving a user selection of one or more of the additional visual images; and if none of the visual images are matching at least one of the attributes related to the plurality of objects, then prompting the user to perform at least one of change the user input comprising description details of at least one desired object and reduce the amount of entered information.

20060047683

10928408

1. An apparatus comprising: logic instructions operable to: generate a first estimate of the number of unique values of an attribute in a data sample using a first estimator; generate a second estimate of the number of unique values of the attribute in the data sample using a second estimator; generate a weighted first estimate based on a weighting factor and the first estimate; generate a weighted second estimate based on the weighting factor and the second estimate; and combine the weighted first and second estimates to form a final estimate.

20110239186

12730263

1. A computer-based method of accessing a closure variable defined in a function of a computer program from a lambda expression that is invoked from a computer program location outside the function while an instance of the function is active, the variable stored in a frame on a runtime stack, the frame corresponding to the function instance, comprising: a) in response to entering the function during program execution, storing a pointer to the variable in a data structure; b) in response to an instruction to retrieve a value of the variable, the instruction in the lambda expression, employing the variable pointer to locate the variable in the frame on the runtime stack and retrieve the variable value.

20030088367

10287679

1. An object growth control system for growing an object, comprising: a weighting unit for detecting external environments and a user's state, loading weights on predetermined user emotional states, predetermined object growth tendencies, and predetermined object emotional states according to the result of detection and the user's tendency, and outputting the results of loading of the weights as state data; a growth state analyzer for applying a predetermined statistical model to the state data input for a predetermined period to analyze the user's tendency and outputting a degree of education on the object with respect to the user's tendency based on the state data to which the predetermined statistical model has been applied; and an object operation controller for applying a predetermined rule-based or statistical model to the state data and the degree of education to generate a control signal for controlling the operation of the object.

20160196287

15069490

1. A method, comprising: deriving, by a processor, partial-image search criteria that comprise a combination of multiple partial-image user selections of portions of at least one image; and returning, responsive to a search for images that correspond to the derived partial-image search criteria, visual search results that comprise at least one identified image that comprises features that correspond to the derived partial-image search criteria that comprise the combination of the multiple partial-image user selections.

20140236801

14262682

1. In a network service provider environment that includes at least one service provider and at least one user-agent, an automated system for evaluating the market value of items, the system comprising: a service provider computing device comprising: a network interface; a memory storing computer-readable instructions; and a processor in communication with the network interface and the memory, wherein the processor is configured to execute the computer-readable instructions stored in the memory; at least one database accessible to the processor, wherein the at least one database includes previously exposed market transaction data sets; a metric manager executable by the processor, wherein the metric manager is configured to manage at least one evaluation service and a plurality of predefined instructions for adapting metric data; and a metric application in communication with the metric manager, wherein the metric application is programmed to manage communications between a user-agent computing device and the service provider computing device and to coordinate invocation of the at least one evaluation service including execution of the predefined instructions that pertain to the at least one evaluation service, wherein the metric application is further programmed to: receive, from the user-agent computing device, one or more product specification data sets, wherein each product specification data set identifies at least one item that is defined by two or more parameter values, or a plurality of items that differ in accordance with at least one parameter value; and for at least one item identified in a received product specification data set, invoke the at least one evaluation service to determine at least one synthetic market value for the item, wherein invoking the at least one evaluation service causes the metric application to: obtain, from the at least one database, a plurality of market transaction data sets responsive to attributes of the at least one item identified in the product specification data set, wherein each obtained market transaction data set is defined by at least one parameter value and represents market reference price data of a particular period of time; ascertain the parameter values for the at least one item as represented in each obtained market transaction data set, wherein at least one of the plurality of obtained market transaction data sets differs by one or more parameter values from the at least one item as identified in the product specification data set; execute the predefined instructions that pertain to the at least one evaluation service as applicable to each of the market transaction data sets, wherein responsive to the predefined instructions, at least one adjustment value is calculated and applied to the market reference price data of the market transaction data sets having parameter values that vary from the at least one item as identified in the product specification data set, transforming the market reference price data of the market transaction data sets and generating a plurality of normalized market reference price data sets responsive to the at least one item in the product specification data set; and determine at least one synthetic market value for the at least one item in the product specification data set, wherein the price data associated with the normalized market reference price data sets are input into one or more predefined algorithms associated with the at least one evaluation service to generate the at least one synthetic market value for the item, wherein when the at least one synthetic market value satisfies predefined validity criteria, the metric application is further programmed to communicate the at least one synthetic market value to at least the user-agent computing device via the network interface.

7710258

11838618

1. A system for utilizing emergent information from an array of sensors, the system comprising: an array of sensors deployed to an array location, wherein each sensor in the array of sensors is programmed with a trigger rule that describes a local condition that must be met for the sensor to trigger an event signal, and wherein each sensor in the array of sensors is programmed with a relationship rule that describes a hierarchy of communication control among sensors in the array of sensors, and wherein each sensor in the array of sensors comprises multiple different trigger rules to be used in a creation of different emergent information, and wherein the relationship rule defines how each sensor, in the array of sensors, communicates with other sensors in the array of sensors, wherein, in response to conditions at the array location causing a predetermined percentage of sensors, from the array of sensors, to trigger event signals, emergent information is generated by the array of sensors about the array location, wherein the emergent information describes conditions at the array location, and wherein the emergent information exists only when the predetermined percentage of the sensors trigger event signals; a local controller that is composed of only the array of sensors, and wherein the local controller responds to the emergent information by using a consolidation of trigger rules from the array of sensors; and a remote controller for updating the trigger rule and the relationship rule in each sensor in the array of sensors.

20080317337

11821980

1. A system for decomposing a digital image, comprising: a digital image stored as a word-graph comprising words and visualized features, and zone hypotheses that group one or more of the words; and an image decomposer, comprising: a zone modeler to express causal dependencies of the zone hypotheses through a learned generative zone model to which costs and constraints are assigned; and a zone inference engine to infer an optimal set of the zone hypotheses, which are non-overlapping, through a heuristic search of the costs and constraints.

20160210770

14994366

1. An apparatus for generating cartoon content, the apparatus comprising: a cut input controller configured to control inputting of a signal for adding a cut included in the cartoon content and having at least one layer; an effect input controller configured to control inputting of an effect applied to the at least one layer and property information; and a cut generator configured to generate a final cut of the cartoon content that is stopped on a display screen, without moving in correspondence with a first user event that is input, wherein the cut generator moves the final cut of the cartoon content in correspondence with a second user event that is additionally input when the first user event that is input satisfies a first condition.

20160063089

14935851

1. A method comprising: receiving, by an enterprise content management (ECM) computing system comprising a computer processor, data associated with a subscriber; connecting, by said computer processor, devices belonging to said subscriber to said ECM computing system via an Intranet, wherein said devices comprise computing devices and storage devices; connecting, by said computer processor, end user systems associated with said subscriber to said ECM computing system via said Intranet, wherein said end user systems comprise service tools, documentation systems, and storage systems; connecting, by said computer processor, database and repository systems associated with said subscriber to said ECM computing system via said Intranet, wherein said database and repository systems comprise a database, an enterprise content management metadata system, and past search results; retrieving, by said computer processor from said devices, said end user systems, and said database and repository systems, metadata associated with content retrieved by said subscriber via said devices and said end user systems; analyzing, by said computer processor, said metadata, wherein said analyzing comprises: executing a text analytics process with respect to said metadata; executing a Web analytics process with respect to said metadata; and performing an analysis of said metadata with respect to dates of creation and modification of said content, a frequency of said modification being performed with respect to time periods, and numbers of shares of said content via emails; classifying, by said computer processor based on said analyzing said metadata, said content into formal content and informal content, wherein said formal content comprises content that has been uploaded to a primary repository of said ECM computing system, and wherein said informal content comprises content that has not been uploaded to said primary repository of said ECM computing system; generating, by said computer processor for said subscriber based on monitoring multiple searches for additional content initiated by said subscriber and results of said classifying, multifaceted search results associated with said formal content and said informal content; and presenting, by said computer processor to said subscriber, said multifaceted search results.

8655890

13452371

1. A system for determining recommendation data, comprising: a processor configured to: extract a first set of keywords from a set of user action logs that occurred prior to a predetermined time point and determine a weight value for at least one of the first set of keywords; extract a second set of keywords from a set of user action logs that occurred subsequent to the predetermined time point and determine a weight value for at least one of the second set of keywords; merge at least a portion of the first set of keywords and at least a portion of the second set of keywords to obtain a third set of keywords and determine a weight value for at least one of the third set of keywords; match the third set of keywords to a database of data that can potentially be recommended to a user; and in the event that a piece of data is determined to match at least one keyword from the third set of keywords, determine that the piece of data is to be recommended to the user; and a memory coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions.

7596757

10686889

1. A computer-implemented method of representing and manipulating a diagram on a browser, the diagram including a representation of a plurality of interconnected business objects, the computer-implemented method comprising the steps of: displaying at least a portion of the diagram in an active area of the browser, the active area being located in a first portion of the browser; displaying a diagram overview in a second portion of the browser, the diagram overview including a representation of an entirety of the diagram and indicating a currently displayed portion of the diagram that is displayed in the active area; enabling a selection of a canvas mode of a plurality of canvas modes, each of the plurality of canvas modes being configured to enable a respectively different associated canvas action to be taken on any of the business objects of the diagram displayed in the active area of the browser, selection of at least some of the canvas actions causing at least one target indicator to be shown, the at least one target indicator indicating where the selected canvas action may be taken in the currently displayed portion of the diagram, each business object representing a business process and including business information and associated business logic for acting upon the business information; enabling a selection of at least one of the plurality of business objects of the diagram displayed in the active area; providing contextual information regarding the diagram displayed in the active area in a third position of the browser; providing hierarchical information regarding the selected at least one of the plurality of business objects in a fourth portion of the browser; carrying out the canvas action associated with the selected canvas mode on the selected at least one of the plurality of business objects; determining whether the carried out canvas action is solely a diagram navigation event that does not change the business process represented by the selected at least one business object or whether the carried out canvas action results in a change the business process represented by the selected at least one business object, and if the selected canvas action is determined to change the business process represented by the selected at least one business object, changing at least one of the business information and the business logic of the selected at least one business object on which the selected canvas action was carried out, and refreshing at least the active area of the browser to display a revised portion of the diagram, the revised portion of the diagram incorporating any changes to the diagram as a result of carrying out the selected canvas action on the selected at least one of the plurality of business objects.

7761252

11949390

1. A method of optical chassis measurement of motor vehicles, comprising the steps of providing a measuring arrangement equipped with at least one measuring device; associating image capturing devices with one another in terms of their position and location and recording by the one or more image capturing devices a surface geometry of a vehicle or measurement points arranged on the vehicle; carrying out a step selected from the group consisting of a referencing, an orientation, and both of the at least one measuring device in relation to a measuring station with use of reference features that are arranged or present at particular measuring station coordinates in the measuring station; based on orientation data and/or association data obtained and based on measurement data obtained during execution of an axle measurement, carrying out an evaluation in an evaluation unit in order to ascertain chassis data; and measuring measuring station coordinates of the references features once or at chronological intervals by a preset test feature arrangement in the measuring station in that at least one measuring device performs an image captured of a test feature arrangement from at least two different points of view, with the reference features to be measured being contained in captured images and with positions of the test features and reference features recorded by the measuring device constituting observations in a system of equations, whose unknowns are determined by the evaluation unit through a compensation process; and executing a sequential detection with incremental or continuous position and/or orientation changes of the measuring device; and evaluating completely image data thus obtained or reducing image data thus obtained by an evaluation system as a function of a guaranteed precision required.

8374901

12846635

1. A method of searching a plurality of candidate profiles having respective candidate attributes and threshold requirements by a computer system having at least one computer comprising at least one processor and storage medium within a computer network, said method comprising: storing candidate attributes received from a candidate in a structured format on said at least one storage medium in communication with said at least one computer; receiving by said at least one computer from a prospective employer at least one threshold requirement selected from said candidate profiles; identifying at least one candidate profile by said computer system based on at least one search parameter received from said prospective employer; comparing said at least one search parameter with said candidate attributes by said computer system; determining by said computer system whether at least one of said identified candidate profiles matching said at least one search parameter meets said threshold requirement, and; communicating to said prospective employer said at least one determined candidate profile.

7895226

11987466

1. A method for executing a data operation request in a business system, comprising: receiving, from a frontend application, a data operation request for an operation to be performed by at least one of a plurality of backend applications, the data operation request specifying a business object, a node in the business object, and a data operation to be performed on data related to the business object node, the data operation request defined in a structured query language as a first query; extracting identifiers corresponding to the business object, the node within the business object, and the specific data operation to be performed from the first query; translating for any one of the plurality of backend applications the extracted information into a native command, the native command defined in a format native to the identified business object and the identified node, wherein the identified business object indicates to which one of a plurality of backend applications the native command is to be sent, wherein the translating comprises: creating a virtual table, each row of the virtual table listing the business object, the business object node, and an assignment of a value to an attribute of the business object node; and for each row in the virtual table, mapping the entries in the row to parameters expected by a backend application; sending the native command to the identified backend application containing the business object; performing the data operation on the data related to the specified business object node contained in the at least one of the plurality of backend applications; receiving an indication from the identified backend application that processing of the command completed, wherein the indication is in a format native to the backend application; transforming the format of the received indication into a format expected by the frontend application; and presenting the transformed indication to the frontend application.

9436535

14691479

1. A system comprising: a memory storing computer-executable instructions; and a computer processor in communication with the memory, the computer processor programmed by the computer-executable instructions to at least: receive, from a monitored source, current input data regarding an operating parameter at a current time, wherein the operating parameter relates to performance of a computing system; analyze prior input data regarding the operating parameter to determine an expected change in the operating parameter, wherein the prior input data reflects a value of the operating parameter at each of a plurality of prior times; determine, based at least in part on the values of the operating parameter at each of the plurality of prior times, a particular time at which the expected change in the operating parameter is expected to occur; determine that the current time corresponds to the particular time; analyze the current input data and at least a portion of the prior input data to determine a current change in the operating parameter; determine, based at least in part on the values of the operating parameter at each of the plurality of prior times, a permitted relationship to the expected change; determine that the current change does not satisfy the permitted relationship with the expected change; in response to determining that the current change does not satisfy the permitted relationship, generate an anomaly notification; and cause display of a graphical interface presenting the anomaly notification, wherein the graphical interface is configured to obtain an indication that the anomaly notification is erroneous.

9619525

14707121

1. A method of optimizing a web page for a search engine, the method comprising: generating an event log comprising one or more events representing one or more initiatives affecting an organic search ranking of the web page for a search query performed in the search engine; generating at least one data graph of historical search rank data including the organic search ranking of the web page for the search query over time; identifying a feature or trend in the at least one data graph; automatically correlating, using a processor, the event data with the feature or trend identified in the at least one data graph to automatically identify the one or more events causing the feature or trend in the at least one data graph; determining, using the processor, a recommended modification to at least one parameter of a web document associated with the web page, the recommended modification to improve the organic search ranking of the web page, the determination made based on the correlation; and prompting, in a user interface, the recommended modification.

8438517

13324880

1. A computer-implemented method for identifying and managing the relationships between clock domains in an integrated circuit design, comprising: receiving at a computer system as inputs a description of the design, and definitions of clock waveforms and timing constraints used in the design; and in the computer system, automatically identifying pairs of clocks from the timing constraints and, for each identified pair of clocks: in the computer system, categorizing each clock in the pair as a source clock or a generated clock and, if the clock is a generated clock, its parent clock; in the computer system, identifying any points in the design at which the clocks in the pair of clocks are applied simultaneously; in the computer system, identifying any points in the design at which the clocks in the pair of clocks logically merge; in the computer system, if the clocks in the pair of clocks are both source clocks, determining the default relationship between the clocks; in the computer system, if either clock in the pair of clocks is a generated clock, determining the relationship between the generated clock and the source clock from which the generated clock is derived; in the computer system, if either clock in the pair of clocks is a generated clock, determining whether the generated clock inherits any relationship from its parent clock; and in the computer system, assigning the clock pair to one of a plurality of behavioral categories based upon one of the determined relationships.

20060249335

11356234

1. An elevator group supervisory control method for supervising a plurality of elevators, comprising: a step for forming multi-dimensional coordinates in which a plurality of allocation evaluation indexes having different view points are defined as coordinate axes thereof, respectively.

10108414

14510648

1. A system, comprising: a processor programmed to initiate executable operations comprising: identifying at least a first application lifecycle management artifact, indexed by a unified data store, that does not comply with at least a first process convention, wherein the first process convention is a rule defining at least one requirement for a type of the first application lifecycle management artifact and the first process convention specifies that the first application lifecycle management artifact must be linked to another application lifecycle management artifact, wherein the first application lifecycle management artifact is a test case for software or a required milestone; responsive to identifying the first application lifecycle management artifact, indexed by the unified data store, that does not comply with the first process convention, determining, by a process convention agent executed by the processor, whether script code is available to update the first application lifecycle management artifact to comply with the first process convention; and responsive to the process convention agent determining that script code is available to update the first application lifecycle management artifact to comply with the first process convention, the process convention agent automatically executing the script code to update the first application lifecycle management artifact to comply with the first process convention and to link the first application lifecycle management artifact to the other application lifecycle management artifact.

8730836

12807701

1. A system, comprising: (a) communiqué aspect data intercepting module configured to intercept communiqué aspect data transmitted to a communication device associated with an end user, the intercepting to prevent the communiqué aspect data from reaching at least temporarily the communication device, the communiqué aspect data to be intercepted indicating one or more aspects of a communiqué that is directed to the communication device and that is affiliated with a particular source entity, the intercepting of the communiqué aspect data being in accordance with one or more conditional directives received via the communication device, wherein the communiqué aspect data intercepting module is separate from the communication device; and (b) covert indicator data transmitting module configured to transmit to the communication device covert indicator data that upon reception by the communication device covertly indicates at least some of the one or more aspects and/or one or more other aspects of the communiqué, the transmission of the covert indicator data being in response to the intercepting of the communiqué aspect data and in lieu of transmitting direct indication of the communiqué to the communication device, wherein the covert indicator data transmitting module includes at least: (i) a covert indicator data transmitting module configured to transmit to the communication device covert indicator data that when received by the communication device causes the communication device to present a covert indicator that covertly indicates one or more aspects of the communiqué and/or one or more other aspects of the communiqué, wherein the covert indicator data transmitting module configured to transmit to the communication device covert indicator data that when received by the communication device causes the communication device to present a covert indicator that covertly indicates one or more aspects of the communiqué and/or one or more other aspects of the communiquéincludes at least: (A) a covert indicator data transmitting module configured to transmit to the communication device predefined data that when received by the communication device causes the communication device to present at least one predefined covert indicator that covertly indicates one or more aspects of the communiqué and/or one or more other aspects of the communiqué, wherein the at least one predefined covert indicator covertly indicates, without explicitly indicating, as the one or more covertly indicated aspects and/or one or more other aspects of the communiqué at least one of an identity of the source entity, a subject heading of the communiqué, or a reception time of the communiqué; and wherein at least one of the communiqué aspect data intercepting module or the covert indicator data transmitting module is implemented at least in part with hardware.

9886370

14945852

1. A method of generating a test suite comprising a plurality of test cases, said method comprising: receiving, by a processor of a test suite generating system, a plurality of first requirements, wherein each of the plurality of first requirements comprises functional requirements, service requirements, and performance requirements associated with a software application; identifying, by the processor, one or more interdependencies among the functional requirements, the service requirements, and the performance requirements; generating, by the processor, an interdependency matrix based on one or more interdependencies; determining, by the processor, one or more execution sequences of the plurality of first requirements based on the interdependency matrix, wherein the one or more execution sequences of the plurality of first requirements improve response times and avoid product regression; and generating, by the processor, the test suite comprising the plurality of test cases based on the one or more execution sequences of the plurality of first requirements.

8850308

13046596

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: retrieving, by one or more programmed computing systems, a Web page of a target Website of an online merchant, the retrieved Web page including information about one of a plurality of products available from the online merchant and having an associated textual document that represents a structure of the Web page and having a distinct visual representation when displayed, wherein the plurality of products share one or more common attributes and have differing values for at least one of the common attributes; generating, by the one or more programmed computing systems, a task for one or more humans to identify information of an indicated type in the visual representation of the retrieved Web page, wherein the information of the indicated type includes a value for the one product for the at least one common attribute; submitting the generated task to a task fulfillment system for human performance, and receiving, from the task fulfillment system, results of the human performance of the generated task, the received results including the identified information of the indicated type; mapping, by the one or more programmed computing systems, the identified information from the received results to a corresponding location in the textual document, the corresponding location identifying a structural element within the textual document at which the identified information is stored; retrieving, by the one or more programmed computing systems, information of the indicated type from other Web pages of the target Website that are distinct from the retrieved Web page by using the identified structural element to retrieve information from associated textual documents that represent structure of the other Web pages; and providing one or more indications of the retrieved information.

8278620

12772875

1. A method of calibrating ion fragmentation energy used for fragmenting ions in a mass spectrometer, comprising: (a) obtaining data on number of fragment ions produced for each of a plurality of precursor ion populations having respective mass-to-charge ratios at each of a plurality of settings of a fragmentation-energy-related variable, said variable being an instrumental variable used to control applied fragmentation energy; (b) determining, for each mass-to-charge ratio, a respective model curve relating at least a portion of the data on number of fragment ions produced to the fragmentation-energy-related variable, each respective model curve comprising a maximum, and first and second regions in which the value of the model curve continuously decreases as the fragmentation-energy-related variable either increases or decreases away from a point corresponding to the maximum; (c) determining first and second reference features of the model curve determined at each respective value of the mass-to-charge ratio, the first reference feature relating to the respective maximum, the second reference feature relating to either a fragmentation threshold or to a parameter of the respective model curve; (d) locating, for each mass-to-charge ratio, first and second reference values of the fragmentation-energy-related variable, each reference value corresponding to a respective reference feature determined at the respective mass-to-charge ratio; (e) determining, from the plurality of locating steps, the variation, with mass-to-charge-ratio, of each of the reference values of the fragmentation-energy-related variable; (f) associating each of the reference values of the fragmentation-energy-related variable with respective reference values of a dimensionless useable-fragmentation-energy variable; and (g) storing parameters describing the variation of each of the reference values of the fragmentation-energy-related variable with mass-to-charge ratio, wherein the parameters comprise coefficients of at least one non-linear equation.

7881382

12578145

1. A prediction image generation apparatus for generating a prediction image from encoded data obtained by subjecting a video image to prediction encoding, the video image having a luminance component and first and second color difference components, the apparatus comprising: a receiver configured to receive an input of encoded data obtained by encoding, for one or more to-be-decoded blocks, a plurality of combinations each comprising (a) a first weighting factor for the luminance component, (b) a second weighting factor for the first color difference component, (c) a third weighting factor for the second color difference component, (d) a first offset for the luminance component, (e) a second offset for the first color difference component, (f) a third offset for the second color difference component, and (g) a flag indicating presence or non-presence of the weighting factor and offset concerning the luminance component, and encoding, for a to-be-decoded block, (A) information of a motion vector and (B) an index indicating (a) a combination selected from the plurality of combinations and (b) a reference image; a deriving module configured to derive, for the to-be-decoded block, the weighting factors and the offsets from the index and the plurality of combinations; and a generator configured to generate a prediction image by multiplying the luminance component and the first and second color difference components of the reference image by the weighting factors, respectively, and adding the offsets, respectively, to results of the multiplying, based on the motion vector.

9003306

12982030

1. A communication system for providing created media in a chat context, the system comprising: a display device; an input device; and a computing device in communication with the display device and the input device, the computing device comprising at least one processor and at least one computer readable storage medium in communication with the at least one processor, the at least one computer readable storage medium having encoded thereon a set of instructions that are executable by the processor to cause the computer system to perform one or more operations, the set of instructions comprising: instructions for rendering a chat interface at the display device, the chat interface providing a user interface to allow a user of the computing device to interact, within a chat context, with a second user at a separate computing device, wherein the chat interface comprises a plurality of graphical bubbles, each of the plurality of graphical bubbles comprising each message within the chat context, wherein at least one message within the chat context comprises a text message; instructions for receiving, with the input device, a request for a chat-context media interaction; instructions for providing a media creation interface with the display device, in response to the request for a chat-context media interaction; instructions for receiving, with the input device, user input for creating media within the chat context; instructions for rendering one of the plurality of graphical bubbles within the chat context, wherein the one of the plurality of graphical bubbles is rendered in a same manner as any other of the plurality of graphical bubbles, and wherein the plurality of graphical bubbles are rendered so as to have uniform shape and rendered so as to have varying sizes depending on a size of the created media or the text message; instructions for rendering the created media within the one of the plurality of graphical bubbles within the chat context; and instructions for transmitting the created media, rendered within the one of the plurality of graphical bubbles within the chat context, for reception by the second user, wherein the created media comprises a drawing doodle and a background image, wherein rendering the created media within the chat context comprises displaying the background image within the one of the plurality of graphical bubbles within the chat interface, wherein the background image within the one of the plurality of graphical bubbles is a moving image comprising live video, and wherein the drawing doodle overlays the background image comprising the live video in the one of the plurality of graphical bubbles.

8190538

12363057

1. A computer-implemented method of normalizing strings, comprising: tokenizing a string into a sequence of components; generating one or more sequences of tags by assigning tags to the components based on lookup tables; determining, using a processor, a sequence of states of the components based on the one or more sequences of tags; and generating a normalized string by normalizing the sequence of the states.

8312519

12895130

1. A method for agile generation of one time passcodes (OTPs) in a security environment, the security environment having a validator and a token generator comprising a token generator algorithm, the method comprising: generating a client OTP at the token generator according to a variance technique; wherein the variance technique is selected from a set of variance techniques; receiving the client OTP at a validator, wherein the validator is different from the token generator; determining, at the validator, the variance technique used by the token generator to generate the client OTP; determining whether to validate the client OTP based on the client OTP and variance technique; validating the client OTP based on the determination; and where the variance technique is given by a function OTP=H(F(SKC, SKPC),InputSet), wherein H is a Hash and wherein the InputSet is a set comprising K and Time, wherein Time is the time for the OTP; wherein K is a key, SKC is a Symmetric Key certificate containing information about the key, F is a function or algorithm which switches among a plurality of OTP generation algorithms for each OTP generation, SKPC is a Symmetric Key Policy Certificate containing policy information about the key.

8977635

13798626

1. A device comprising: a memory configured to store a program; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to execute a process based on the program, the process including: for input data made of a combination of pieces of unit data and including a plurality of consecutive records each including data of a plurality of items, when a sequence of type information indicating a kind of each piece of the unit data in the input data is divided into partial sequences each having a certain length, analyzing a break position of the records in the input data by determining, as a length of each of the records, the length of each of the partial sequences when sequences of type information in all the partial sequences correspond to each other.

7613464

11690022

1. An apparatus for improving the coverage of a target area by a radio transmitter, the method comprising: one or more processors configured to create multiple potential alternative locations for a radio transmitter; one or more processors configured to analyze potential alternative locations, alternative classes alternative frequencies and/or alternative channels associated with a radio transmitter; one or more processors configured to test whether the alternative locations, alternative classes, alternative frequencies and/or alternative channels or combinations thereof are feasible; and one or more processors configured to score the alternative locations, alternative classes, alternative frequencies and/or alternative channels, wherein the scoring generates a numerical score that represents potential population and/or demographic coverage within a target area and potential implementation costs; wherein the numerical score comprises a net present value (NPV k ) of a radio transmitter j having the alternative locations, alternative classes, alternative frequencies and/or alternative channels of a scenario k, wherein NPV k = ( ∏ j ⁢ P j , ⁢ k Success ) ⁢ ( V k - ∑ j ⁢ ⁢ C j , ⁢ k - C k Extract ) ( 1 + r ) n C j , k = C j , k Pops + C j , k NewTX comprises a cost attributed to the radio transmitter j for the scenario k and comprises a cost due to a change in population and/or demographic coverage for the radio transmitter j and a cost of a new transmission facility for the radio transmitter j in the scenario k, C k Extract = ∑ j ⁢ s j Extract ( V k - ∑ i ⁢ C i , k ) comprises a cost due to negotiations in the scenario k, p j,k Success comprises a probability of success for change to the radio transmitter j in the scenario k, R comprises a return on investment, and V j comprises a base value of the radio transmitter j.

7949683

11986975

1. A method for traversing a compressed deterministic finite automata-based graph comprising: in a processor: traversing nodes in the compressed graph, the nodes being interconnected through valid arcs, by traveling node to node through a valid arc, where a current valid arc of a current node leads to a next node with a walker process to search for an expression in an input stream, the compressed graph having no redundant arcs, and each valid arc of the compressed graph representing a character match in the expression; and using a hash value generated from an input character to index in the current node and to read the current valid arc associated with the input character; using a hash function associated with the current valid arc to generate a hash value from a next input character; and indexing in the next node using the hash value generated from the next input character to read a next valid arc to manage the walker process.

8289324

11958240

1. A method, comprising: initializing a first stack of bits to include only one bit per level of a spatial hierarchy, the first stack of bits initialized such that a most significant bit of the first stack of bits is set to a first value and all other bits of the first stack of bits are set to a second value; traversing, utilizing a processor, the spatial hierarchy for tracing a ray; storing, in the first stack of bits, a number of nodes traversed in each of a plurality of levels of the spatial hierarchy; setting the most significant bit of the first stack of bits to the second value as a result of storing, in the first stack of bits, the number of nodes traversed in each of the plurality of levels of the spatial hierarchy; detecting that the most significant bit of the first stack of bits is set to the second value; and terminating the traversal of the spatial hierarchy in response to the detection of the most significant bit of the first stack of bits being set to the second value; wherein the number of nodes traversed in each of the plurality of levels of the spatial hierarchy is stored regardless of whether the nodes are intersected by a ray.

8548965

12061323

1. In a computer processing system, an apparatus including a memory for managing file data, comprising: a changed files manager for creating and managing a changed files list that at least directly identifies the files that have changed based on time of change, the changed files list associated with a plurality of time buckets, each of the plurality of time buckets directly representing a respective date and time period and being associated with file change records for files having a timestamp falling within the respective date and time period, each of the file change records associated with a unique file identifier and the timestamp for a corresponding one of the files, the timestamp specifying a date and a time corresponding to a latest one of a creation time or a most recent update time for the corresponding one of the files; and a file system processing module comprising a processor for comparing a current date and time against a timestamp for a given file, creating a new file change record for the given file and inserting the new file change record into a corresponding one of the plurality of time buckets having the respective time date and time period in which the timestamp falls when an existing file change record does not exist for the given file, and moving the existing file change record for the given file into the corresponding one of the plurality of time buckets having the respective time date and time period in which the timestamp falls when the current date and time is different than the timestamp and the existing file change record already exists for the given file, wherein the existing file change record is maintained in a currently inserted time bucket, when the timestamp matches the current date and time and falls within the respective data and time period of the currently inserted time bucket and the existing file change record already exists for the current file.

8037005

11576071

1. A computerized method for the analysis of a system, the method comprising: initializing by a processor a model into a state corresponding to a given state of the system, creating a discordant variables list of characteristic variables whose value in the system differs from that predicted by the model, and for each characteristic variable of said discordant variables list, a process that includes: creating an initial suspect variables list of influent variables that may have generated the discordant value of said discordant variable, creating a restricted list of suspect variables by filtration of said initial list of suspect variables, and wherein, based on the use of a model of said system, where said model includes at least two variables divided into one or more groups, each of said groups being defined by, and including, one or more variables called characteristic variables and grouping together all the other variables, called influent variables, having a direct or indirect influence on the value of at least one of said characteristic variables of said group.

9736456

13630301

1. A method of converting two-dimensional image data to three-dimensional image data, comprising: dividing the image data into blocks; performing motion estimation on the blocks to produce block-based motion vectors; applying a global motion analysis and a local motion analysis to the block-based motion vectors to generate motion-based depth; applying a global image model and a local image model to the block-based motion vectors to generate image-based depth, wherein the local image model collects color, brightness, and sharpness in a local window to calculate an image-based pixel-wise depth and applying the global image model includes: calculating weights for at least two different global depth models, wherein each global depth model is designed for a different type of scene; and combining the at least two different global depth models to produce a weighted average depth models; and generating a three-dimensional view by fusing the motion-based depth and the image-based depth.

9578552

14553333

1. A method for proactively provisioning at least one Internet application service to a mobile communication terminal prior to a handover of said mobile communication terminal from one communication network access device to another communication network access device, comprising: receiving a signal indicating that the mobile communication terminal may be handed over within a given time t1>0 to a communication network access device other than a communication network access device currently providing service to said mobile communication terminal; in response to receiving said signal and prior to a handover operation being initiated, provisioning at the communication network access device to which said mobile communication terminal may be handed over, an association of the at least one Internet application service with said mobile communication terminal; whereby said at least one Internet application service is available for use by said mobile communication terminal at a communication network access device to which it is handed over immediately upon completion of the handover operation.

9713871

14824019

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving a signal from one or more sensors attached to a head-mounted device, wherein the one or more sensors are configured to detect a location of a computing device and locations of one or more boundaries that define an environment within which the computing device is located; generating data identifying geometric parameters of the environment based, at least in part, on the signal; generating location data identifying the location of the computing device relative to the environment based, at least in part, on the signal; generating a set of instructions for the computing device to perform one or more tasks based, at least in part, on the location data identifying the location of the computing device and the data identifying the geometric parameters of the environment; and communicating the set of instructions to the computing device thereby causing the computing device to perform the one or more tasks.

8693640

13675319

1. A method for preparing for a service disruption, comprising: receiving, at a processor, information relating to an activity at a target location, wherein the information relating to the activity at the target location comprises a type of the activity, hardware associated with the target location, and a contractor performing the activity; upon receiving the information relating the activity at the target location, retrieving, by the processor, stored data related to the activity and the target location; assessing, by the processor, a probability of a service disruption at the target location based on the stored data related to the activity and the target location, wherein assessing the probability of a service disruption at the target location comprises analyzing, by the processor, historical information relating to the type of the activity, the target location, and the contractor performing the activity; determining, by the processor, a priority level associated with the target location based on a type of data passing through the hardware; monitoring, by the processor, the target location; and generating, by the processor, an alert upon detecting a change in services associated with the target location.

9363283

14755801

1. A method of generating a digital reputation score, comprising: generating, by a server, a first reputation score of a first user based on online activity associated with the first user, identity verification of the first user and online transaction history of the first user; receiving, by the server, a first plurality of requests from a first online account of the first user to establish unidirectional trust relationships with a first set of online accounts corresponding to a first set of users, the first online account and the first set of online accounts maintained by the server; establishing, by the server, responsive to receiving the plurality of requests from the first online account, for the first online account, a unidirectional trust relationship from the first online account to each of the first set of online accounts; receiving, by the server, a second plurality of requests from a second set of online accounts corresponding to a second set of users to establish unidirectional trust relationships with the first online account corresponding to the first user, the second set of online accounts maintained by the server; establishing, by the server, responsive to receiving the second plurality of requests from the second set of online accounts, for the first online account, a plurality of unidirectional trust relationships from the second set of online accounts to the first online account, each of the unidirectional trust relationships from the second set of online accounts to the first online account established from a respective online account of the second set of online accounts to the first online account; generating, by the server, for the first online account of the first user, a second reputation score based on a first number of unidirectional trust relationships established from the first online account to each of the first set of online accounts and a second number of unidirectional trust relationships established from the second set of online accounts to the first online account; generating, by the server, for the first online account of the first user, a third reputation score using the first reputation score of the first user and the second reputation score of the first user; identifying, by the server, from the second set of online accounts, a second online account corresponding to a second user that is included in the second set of online accounts; generating, by the server, for the second online account of the second user, a fourth reputation score based on i) online activity associated with the second user, ii) identity verification of the second user, and iii) online transaction history of the second user; generating, by the server, for the second online account of the second user, the fifth reputation score based on i) a third number of unidirectional trust relationships established from the second online account to each of a third set of online accounts and ii) a fourth number of unidirectional trust relationships established from a fourth set of online accounts to the second online account, the third set of online accounts including the first online account corresponding to the first user; generating, by the server, for the second online account of the second user, a sixth reputation score of the second user based on the fourth reputation score and the fifth reputation score; receiving, by the server, an update on at least one of the online activity associated with the first user, the identity verification of the first user or the online transaction history of the first user; adjusting, by the server, the first reputation score and the third reputation score of the first user responsive to receiving the update; and adjusting, by the server, responsive to adjusting the third reputation score of the first user, the fourth reputation score of the second user based on the unidirectional trust relationship from the second online account to the first online account.

20100274791

12431556

1. A computer system for detecting associations between a reviewer and an entity under review, comprising: a processor; a memory; an estimation mechanism configured to estimate a relationship strength between the reviewer and the entity under review; and a determination mechanism configured to determine whether the relationship strength between the reviewer and the entity under review exceeds a predetermined threshold.

8676829

13428544

1. An ecommerce system having a database comprising multiple data items, wherein the data items represent products sold in the ecommerce system, the system comprising: a processor; a processor-implemented candidate list generator module to: generate a list of keywords from search query information; generate a set of token pairs including a keyword from the list of keywords and a token, the token being a synonym of the keyword; receive demand information and supply information, wherein the demand information is information retrieved from query logs maintained for user-provided query entries stored in the database and the supply information is seller-provided descriptor information for the data items stored in the database; and apply candidate selection rules to token pairs across a plurality of categories of data items in the database using the demand information and the supply information, generating a set of candidate token pairs; a processor-implemented validation module to: calculate a divergence value for each candidate token pair across the plurality of categories, wherein calculation of the divergence value comprises: performing a search using a keyword of a candidate token pair as a search criteria; determining a first distribution (P) of search results for the keyword, the first distribution over the plurality of categories; performing a search using a token of the candidate token pair as a search criteria; determining a second distribution (Q) of search results for the token, the second distribution over the plurality of categories; calculating the divergence measure as an Information Radius (IRad) value as: IRad=0.5[ D ( P ∥avg( P,Q ))+ D ( Q ∥avg( P,Q ))], wherein D is Kullback-Liebler divergence calculated as: D ( P∥Q )=Σ P ( i )log( P ( i )/ Q ( i )), wherein avg (P,Q) is an average of the first distribution and the second distribution, and wherein an index i=1, 2,. .. N, and N is the number of categories in the plurality of categories; and validate the candidate token pairs based on the divergence value, wherein the candidate token pairs having divergence values exceeding a divergence threshold are valid token pairs; and a processor-implemented data dictionary module to: receive the validated token pairs as entries in a vocabulary, and provide the validated token pairs in response to a search query containing a keyword corresponding to at least one entry in the vocabulary.

20100286987

12754303

1. An apparatus for generating an avatar based video message, the apparatus comprising: an audio input unit configured to receive speech of a user; a user input unit configured to receive input from a user; a display unit configured to output display information; and a control unit configured to: perform speech recognition based on the speech of the user to generate editing information, to edit the speech based on the editing information; generate avatar animation based on the edited speech; and generate an avatar based video message based on the edited speech and the avatar animation.

8984047

12694114

1. A system for delivering targeted content to a subscriber, the system comprising: a data preparation element deployed in a service provider network for generating web events associated with a network identifier based on network application data, the web events conforming to a common data scheme; an event analyzer for generating one or more profiling algorithms by applying behavior pattern recognition analysis to the web events; a profiler for maintaining a profile of the subscriber generated by using the one or more profiling algorithms on web events associated with the subscriber, the profile characterizing the subscriber's interests; and a content server for selecting and delivering targeted content to the subscriber based upon the profile of the subscriber.

6038531

09010621

1. A similar word discrimination method for discriminating words that may be misrecognized because of their similarity, comprising the steps of: receiving voice data of input words; using a learning voice model to obtain a specified output that shows a level of correctness in response to the voice data of the input words; processing the output to establish a specified period in which the characteristic components of the input words are included in the output, when the output shows a level of correctness of a predetermined amount or greater; examining the characteristics of the voice data of said input words during the specified period; and discriminating between the input words and words that are similar to the input words on the basis of the examination.

20160154921

14146770

1. A method, in a data processing system, for validating overall resilience and security characteristics of a sub-component chip design, the method comprising: for each instance of a resiliency template identified as appearing in a design netlist of the sub-component chip design thereby forming one or more identified resiliency sections of the design netlist, determining whether an output of the design netlist where an error signal is output interconnects to the one or more identified resiliency sections of the design netlist; responsive to the one or more identified resiliency sections of the design netlist interconnecting to the output of the design netlist where the error signal is output, marking the one or more identified resiliency sections of the design netlist as being protected by the error signal; and outputting an identification of the one or more identified resiliency sections of the design netlist and an identification of the error signal protecting the one or more identified resiliency sections of the design netlist to a design team of a larger chip design where the sub-component chip design is to be integrated.

9703826

14218719

1. A method for providing in-line scheduling in an on-demand service in a machine resident database system for a multi-tenant database system, the method comprising: sending, to a user machine, a group of links to a corresponding group of views that may be chosen by a user; receiving, at the machine resident database system for the multi-tenant database system, a request for an information view from the group of views, wherein the information view is for being presented to include multiple fields in a list showing information about contacts, accounts and other information stored in the machine resident database system for the multi-tenant database system, wherein each line of the information can be edited or deleted using selectable links and wherein the request for the information view is a selection of a link from the group of links that corresponds to the information view; after the receiving of the request for the information view, sending the information view for display to the user machine of the user, the information view including a link to a calendar view; receiving, at the machine resident database system for the multi-tenant database system, a request for the calendar view that is distinct from the information view, the request for the calendar view having been initiated by a selection of the link to the calendar view provided with the information view; after receiving the request for the calendar view, sending the calendar view for display in-line with the information view such that the information view and the calendar view are distinct from one another and are viewable simultaneously in a horizontal arrangement within a same single window; receiving, at the machine resident database system for the multi-tenant database system, a drag and drop feature-generated request from the user machine to schedule an event, wherein the request to schedule the event includes (i) selection information associated with a first location within the information view and associated with a selection using a user input device, and (ii) information representing moving and dropping the selection information to a second location within the calendar view; and scheduling, by the machine resident database system for the multi-tenant database system, the event based on the received request to schedule the event.

20090157671

12370530

1. A system for providing full-text search integration in XQuery, comprising: a storage device storing computer-executable program code; a processor executing the computer-executable program code in computer-executable program modules, comprising: an XQuery interpreter implementing a built-in search function defined in an XQuery language and initiating a full-text search, wherein the search function comprises one or more search terms and a relation logic; a search function implementation module identifying variants for each search term comprised in the search function and obtaining posting lists for one or more of the variants, each posting list comprising values offset from elements containing the search term associated with the variant to which the posting list corresponds; a postings resolution module applying the relation logic to the offset values of the posting lists and selecting those elements with offset values that satisfy the relation logic; and a posting module providing the elements that satisfy the relation logic to the XQuery interpreter as results of the full-text search.

20120023197

13262378

1. A negotiation method for delivery of a service to a terminal comprising: sending to said terminal a set of proposals for interactions with a delivery component configured for delivery of said service, the set of proposals being capable of enabling said terminal to indicate to said delivery component that said terminal accepts at least one proposal from the set of interaction proposals.

20150220812

14689904

1. A computer implemented method for simplification of a point cloud that represents one or more three-dimensional objects or surfaces, the point cloud comprising a set of points, the method comprising: implementing recursive spatial partitioning of the set of points into a hierarchy of clusters; for each cluster, calculating a tangent plane estimate for the points in the cluster and deriving a confidence factor for the calculated tangent plane estimate, wherein the confidence factor is a measure of the planarity of the points in the cluster; identifying representative points within each cluster in the hierarchy; and, for each representative point, defining a point-pair that consists of the representative point and a representative point of an immediate parent cluster; calculating a contraction error metric for each point-pair that is weighted by the inverse of the confidence factors calculated for the clusters associated with each representative point; and iteratively contracting the point-pair with the lowest contraction error metric, updating remaining point-pairs as a result of the contraction, and revising the contraction error metric of the updated point-pairs accordingly.

8139845

12257551

1. An evaluation object pattern determining apparatus for use in a pattern evaluating system having a CAD data managing section storing patterns of a LSI chip as CAD data, a simulator for picking out coordinates of local patterns whose process margin is small out of the pattern of the LSI chip from the CAD data by way of simulation and an observation instrument for assisting observation of the local patterns of the LSI chip produced in a fabrication line; the evaluation object pattern determining apparatus determining coordinates of the local patterns to be observed by the observation instrument out of the coordinates of the local patterns picked out by the simulator and comprising: a risk level map creating section for creating a risk level map in which risk areas are disposed on the pattern of the LSI chip; the risk areas being assigned with risk levels obtained by digitizing that the risk area is an area whose process margin is smaller than that of other areas by the CAD data and at least one of fabrication data acquired in the fabrication line; and a superimposition processing section for superimposing the coordinates of the local patterns with the risk level map to pick out the coordinates of the local patterns located within the risk area.

9970673

14151592

1. A method comprising: pairing manipulated variables and controlled variables in an HVAC system; perturbing an unpaired variable of the HVAC system; controlling the HVAC system to compensate for the perturbance of the unpaired variable by adjusting one or more of the manipulated variables to maintain the controlled variables in a comfort range; determining a state of the system based upon logged data relating to the manipulated, controlled, and perturbed variables; repeating the perturbing, controlling, and determining a state of the system; and deriving a model from the determined states of the system, wherein the model is derived by measuring multiple steady states by perturbing different unpaired variables of the system while maintaining the controlled variables in a comfort range.

7768301

12174565

1. An apparatus comprising: a plurality of reconfigurable logic elements having first inputs and first outputs; a plurality of special function elements having second inputs and second outputs, wherein a subset of the first outputs are coupled to the second inputs, and wherein the special function elements include multiple ones selected from the group consisting of a subtractor, an arithmetic logic unit, a multiplier, a floating point unit, a memory array, and an adder that includes one or more fast carry logic blocks; and a plurality of crossbar devices having third inputs and third outputs, wherein the plurality of crossbar devices are configured to selectably couple a subset of the third inputs to first or second outputs, and wherein a subset of the third outputs are coupled to the first and second inputs.

20100214104

12772842

1. A computer system for processing sensor data from a continuous glucose sensor, the computer system comprising: a sensor data receiving module configured to receive sensor data from the continuous glucose sensor via a receiver, wherein the sensor data comprises one or more sensor data points; a reference data receiving module configured to receive reference data from a reference glucose monitor, wherein the reference data comprises one or more reference data points; a data matching module configured to form one or more matched data pairs by matching at least one reference data point to at least one substantially time corresponding sensor data point; and a stability determination module configured to determine a stability of the continuous glucose sensor, wherein the stability determination module evaluates a level of oxygen.

20060172384

11301383

1. An expression vector for producing FGF18 protein comprising the following operably linked elements: (a) a prokaryotic origin of replication; (b) a transcriptional initiation DNA element; (c) a polynucleotide sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO:1; and (d) a transcriptional terminator.

20030212310

10348163

1. A method for observing a retinal irregularity, the method comprising: illuminating a viewing area with a steady light; illuminating the viewing area with a flash pattern; and enabling a user to observe, by looking at the illuminated viewing area, a visual representation of the existence of a retinal irregularity.

20110184865

12695870

1. An automated teller machine comprising: a user interface configured to receive user identifying information from a user; and a processing device operatively coupled to the user interface and configured to use the user identifying information to determine a pre-established user preference, wherein the processing device is further configured to use the user interface to interact with the user based at least partially on the pre-established user preference.

10088976

14444160

1. A computer implemented method comprises: receiving by a processor device a user-based selection of first portions of a document displayed in a user interface on a display device in communication with the processor device, with the document having plural passages at least one of which is pre-associated with a default voice that is pre-associated with a first voice model, and with the first portions including tags that are association indicators; generating by the processor device in response to the user selection, a first visual indicium over the user-based selection, and a second, different visual indicium over second, different portions of the document that are not pre-associated with the default voice and the pre-associated first voice model; causing by the processor device the document to be displayed on the display device according to the generated first visual indicium and the second visual indicium; receiving a user selection of an action to override the pre-associated default voice; and overwriting by the processor, the default voice of one or more passages corresponding to the first portions, with a second voice and a second, different voice model according to the tag association indicators.

20120158268

13325531

1. A fuel-injection-characteristics learning apparatus which learns a fuel-injection-characteristic value of a fuel injection system, the fuel injection system includes: a fuel injector injecting the high-pressure fuel accumulated in the accumulator through a fuel injection port; a memory portion storing a fuel-injection characteristics which the fuel injector individually has; and a fuel injection command portion generating a fuel-injection command signal based on the fuel-injection characteristics, the fuel-injection characteristics learning apparatus comprising: a fuel pressure sensor provided in a fuel passage fluidly connecting the accumulator and the fuel injection port, the fuel pressure sensor detecting a fuel pressure in the fuel passage; a characteristic-value detecting portion analyzing a fuel injection condition based on a fuel pressure waveform which represents a variation in a detection value of the fuel pressure sensor, the fuel-injection characteristic detecting portion detecting the fuel-injection-characteristic value based on the analyzed fuel injection condition; a fuel temperature sensor detecting a fuel temperature; and a learning portion storing the fuel-characteristics in the memory portion in association with the fuel temperature detected by the fuel temperature sensor.

8826367

13104184

1. A method for elastic resource provisioning, the method comprising: grouping physical resources in an asymmetric distributed cluster of data processing nodes logically into one or more provisions, a provision comprising at least one data processing node, and a data processing node providing at least one of computing resources and storage resources; configuring access to the physical resources with the one or more provisions; and managing adjustment of operations among the data processing nodes in correspondence with adjustment to the physical resources through the one or more provisions and transparently to a plurality of applications utilizing the physical resources simultaneously, wherein the adjustment to the physical resources comprises dynamically changing logical grouping of the cluster of the data processing nodes to support changing resource needs of the plurality of applications.

7689678

10133163

1. In a network router operating within a Local Area Network (LAN), a method comprising: accessing, via a configuration manager that operates from within the network router, a device independent data structure stored in a non-volatile memory of the network router and communicatively interfaced with the configuration manager, the device independent data structure comprising operational parameters for the network router, wherein the device independent data structure conforms to a standardized markup language and is not device-specific or vendor-specific; accessing, via the configuration manager of the network router, an internal memory structure stored in a volatile memory of the network router and communicatively interfaced with the configuration manager, wherein the common internal data structure is a proprietary device-specific data structure whose contents represent the then currently running configuration of the network router; mapping, via a Universal Management Object Layer (UMOL) of the network router that is communicatively interfaced with the configuration manager and operates in conjunction with the configuration manager, the operational parameters accessed from the device independent data structure to the currently running configuration in the internal memory structure; re-populating, via the UMOL of the network router in conjunction with the configuration manager, the operational parameters for the network router accessed from the device independent data structure into corresponding locations within the proprietary device-specific data structure based upon the mapping of the operational parameters to the currently running configuration; and wherein re-populating the operational parameters comprises restoring the currently running configuration of the network router from the device independent data structure stored in the non-volatile memory of the network router without having to re-process a plurality of commands used to originally generate the currently running configuration of the network router; modifying one or more operational parameters of the currently running configuration responsive to command input received at the network router; mapping the modified operational parameters of the currently running configuration to the device independent data structure; modifying the device independent data structure stored in the non-volatile memory of the network router by loading the modified operational parameters of the currently running configuration directly into the device independent data structure; and storing the modified device independent data structure in the non-volatile memory of the network router, wherein the modified device independent data structure reflects the modifications made to the currently running configuration responsive to the command input, and wherein the modified device independent data structure to be later restored to the network router as the currently running configuration, or sent to a second network router to be loaded as a new active currently running configuration for the second network router, or both.

9476716

14072728

1. A method comprising, at a mobile device: receiving via a wireless communication signal, from a route server that is separate and external to the mobile device, at least a portion of a planned route to a pre-determined destination, said received at least said portion of said planned route comprising indicators for travel within a location of at least one harsh or diminished radio frequency environment; said received at least said portion of said planned route comprising an instruction to activate at least one sensor if an estimated position of said mobile device is proximate to or approaching said location of at least one harsh or diminished radio frequency environment; processing acquired satellite positioning system (SPS) signals, terrestrial positioning system (TPS) signals, or a combination thereof, for use in computing said estimated position of said mobile device; said mobile device activating, said at least one sensor in response to said instruction based, at least in part, on a determination that said estimated position of said mobile device is proximate to or approaching said location of at least one harsh or diminished radio frequency environment; and using measurements obtained at said activated at least one sensor to aid in obtaining a position fix within said location of at least one harsh or diminished radio frequency environment.

20090204341

12424403

1. A method for processing sensor data from a continuous analyte sensor, comprising: receiving sensor data from a continuous analyte sensor; processing the sensor data; and providing output based at least in part on the sensor data, wherein the sensor data is displayed on a graph having a non-uniform y-axis.

20110222776

13037901

1. A form template definition method comprising: a cell extraction step of analyzing an image of a form so as to extract one or more cells from the image of the form; a cell classification step of classifying the extracted cells; and a cell attribute definition step of defining attributes of the extracted cells class by class, wherein, if an attribute of a first cell in a class is defined, then other cells in the class automatically copy the attribute of the first cell.

9001058

13411942

1. A method for performing a computer action based on a user input on a touch screen of a computing system, the user input entered by a user by holding the computing system in a right or left hand and touching the touch screen with the other hand, the method comprising the steps of: the computing system receiving the user input on the touch screen of the computing system, wherein the touch screen is capable of displaying information; the computing system receiving a shape of the user input on the touch screen; the computing system determining which hand is used to enter the user input on the touch screen; the computing system receiving an angle of rotation of the computing system with respect to gravity during entry of the user input; the computing system determining a specific computer action to perform, based on the specific computer action being associated with predefined input parameters corresponding, within a specific error tolerance, to: the received shape of the user input on the touch screen, the determined hand used to enter the user input on the touch screen, and the angle of rotation of the computing system with respect to gravity during entry of the user input on the touch screen; and the computing system performing the specific computer action.

9989507

14497130

1. A method for automation control for carbon monoxide diagnosis, the method comprising: receiving, at an automation controller, carbon monoxide sensor readings from one or more carbon monoxide detectors; recording, by the automation controller, the carbon monoxide sensor readings over a first time period; monitoring, by the automation controller, activity of components of a home over the first time period, wherein the activity of the components is at least in part based on a first activity schedule and constrained by a user input; identifying, by the automation controller, a first correlation between the activity of the components of the home and the carbon monoxide sensor readings over the first time period; generating, by the automation controller, a second activity schedule for a second time period for at least one component of the home, wherein the second activity schedule defines second activity comprising active and inactive periods of time for the at least one component of the home, and wherein the automation controller, during the second activity schedule, is configured to: meet user constraints; and test the first correlation between the activity and the carbon monoxide sensor readings by activating or deactivating the at least one component of the home to follow the second activity schedule during the second time period to analyze the carbon monoxide sensor readings over the second time period in response to the second activity; recording, by the automation controller, the carbon monoxide sensor readings over the second time period; monitoring, by the automation controller, the activity of the components of the home over the second time period; identifying, by the automation controller, a second correlation between the activity of the components and the carbon monoxide sensor readings over the second time period; and determining, by the automation controller, if the first correlation and the second correlation are consistent.

20020138289

09938265

1. A property management system for managing property utilized by a tenant, managed by a property manager, and serviced by a vendor, comprising: an incident report corresponding to an incident being generated by a correspondent, the correspondent selected from at least one of the tenant, the property manager and the vendor; a digital network for receiving the incident report from the correspondent; and a computer-based application for receiving the incident report from the digital network and storing the reported incident in a database, the database being accessible via the digital network to the tenant, the property manager and the vendor.

20050159971

11008197

1. A method for planning demand for at least one configurable product in a managed supply chain, the at least one product having at least one product dependent characteristic relating to a component of the product, wherein at least one of a plurality of respective component types is associated with each product, respectively, the method comprising the steps of: storing master data defining a set of characteristic value combinations relating to the product dependent characteristics of the or each product; inputting transactional data defining a demand plan with respect to a product or component; specifying at least one product dependent characteristic of one or more products for which an additional characteristic value is to be assigned; automatically generating the additional characteristic value identifying the specified characteristics; and storing the additional characteristic value to the characteristic value combinations in master data.

20090201044

12030531

1. A method to improve the performance of synchronous and asynchronous logic in the presence of cyclic structures, the method comprising: identifying a first state holding element in an original cyclic structure; identifying a first functional logic element in said original cyclic structure; inserting a second state holding element or initial token in series with said first functional logic element in said original cyclic structure to create a modified cyclic structure, wherein said second state holding element or initial token has identical functionality to the first state holding element; and coupling a second functional logic element to an output node of said modified cyclic structure, wherein said second functional logic element has identical functionality to the first functional logic element.

9558186

14460117

1. A computer-implemented method for extracting facts, the method comprising: at a computer system including one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs, the one or more processors executing the one or more programs to perform the operations of: identifying a first fact having an attribute and a value obtained from a first document; retrieving a second document that contains the attribute and the value of the first fact; identifying in the second document a contextual pattern associated with the attribute and value of the first fact; extracting a second fact from the second document using the contextual pattern, the second fact having an attribute that is different than the attribute of the first fact and having a value that is different than the value of the first fact; and storing the first fact and the second fact in a fact repository of the computer system.

9602886

14457420

1. A method for providing supplemental content associated with media assets, the method comprising: transmitting, to a plurality of users over a communication link, a request for information used to determine a factual basis of a statement in a media asset in response to a user request; receiving, by control circuitry, messages from the plurality of users in response to the request, wherein each of the messages includes information related to the factual basis of the statement; comparing, by the control circuitry, the information included in each of the messages to determine the factual basis of the statement; generating, by the control circuitry, supplemental information associated with the statement based on the comparison; and generating for display the supplemental information on a user device.

8117218

12277119

1. An automated data mapping and analysis method comprising: receiving, at a processing device, test data from a plurality of test objects at a data storage facility incorporating a computer memory; selecting, for receipt by the processing device, a test environment and analysis parameters from a user interface; retrieving a portion of the test data from the data storage facility based on the selected test environment and analysis parameters; ensuring, with the processing device, the retrieved test data is in a common format; and analyzing the retrieved test data to generate, with the processing device, at least one of a trending profile, an overlay profile, and a maintenance profile for the test objects for the selected analysis parameter; wherein analyzing the retrieved test data to generate a trending profile comprises comparing test result data from at least one previously tested object under test to that of a current object under test, and wherein analyzing the retrieved test data to generate an overlay profile comprises displaying test result data from at least one previously tested object under test with respect to that of a current object under test.

8301629

12974182

1. A method for searching for tagged resources stored in a data repository in a portal infrastructure comprising the steps of: a) receiving a portal page including an actual tag cloud and a GUI control for triggering a bagging mechanism for grouping tags for search of tagged resources, b) triggering ( 310 ) said bagging mechanism by a user based on his preferences for grouping tags which are frequently used together for searching tagged resources via said GUI control, c) creating ( 312 , 314 , 318 ) a request for building a search bag including user identification and information about the tags to be grouped together in said search bag and sending it to the tagging API of said portal, d) creating ( 320 ) a mapping entry in a data repository for said tags to be grouped in said search bag with a grouping name including user identification of said triggering user, wherein a selected group of community members are notified about said search bag, e) responsive to said triggering user requesting ( 350 ) the same portal page, loading ( 352 ) the actual search bag referenced to said portal page including the grouping that has been created by said triggering user, f) displaying ( 354 ) said search bag including said groups of tags at said referenced portal page, characterized by the steps of: g) determining ( 350 ) if a second search bag similar to said actual search bag exists in a pre-stored form at said portal server, h) responsive to determining a second search bag similar to said actual search bag existing in pre-stored form at said portal server, displaying ( 354 ) said similar search bag to said searching user.

9305041

14147999

1. A method for compression of serialized B-Tree data using a processor device in a computing environment, comprising: compressing the serialized B-Tree data that has been split, sorted and classified into identified data ranges; and encoding each of the identified data ranges with frequency encoding, wherein a first value in a frequency encoded identified data range is a first value in original data and all subsequent values in the frequency encoded identified data range are equal to a difference between a corresponding value in an input file and a previous value in the input file.

8051430

11392830

1. A data processing system having a service-oriented architecture for providing a confirmation service, the data processing system comprising: a database storing a hierarchy of confirmers; and at least one processor executing a set of instructions to: initiate one of a plurality of foundation business objects based on a request from a requester to create an instance of the one of the plurality of foundation business objects, initiate a dependent business object to create an instance of the dependent business object, the instance of the dependent business object including an attribute for identifying the one of the plurality of foundation business objects upon which it depends, store the instance of the dependent business object in a persistence table in the database, identify a confirmer, provide request information, contained in the instance of the one of the plurality of foundation business objects, to the confirmer using the instance of the dependent business object, receive a confirmation or a rejection from the confirmer, and forward the confirmation or rejection from the instance of the dependent business object to the instance of the one of the plurality of foundation business objects and to the requester.

20160011956

14859365

1. A computerized method of analyzing code of a software program for dominance relationships between a plurality of functions of the software program, the method comprising: receiving, at a computer including at least one processor and memory, a first file including a source code of a software program, the source code having a plurality of functions; identifying a plurality of intraprocedural dominator graphs each for another of the plurality of functions of the source code; combining, by the at least one processor, the plurality of intraprocedural dominator graphs to create a combined interprocedural dominance graph with edges that logically connect between nodes of the plurality of functions of the source code; identifying, by the at least one processor, a plurality of interprocedural dominance relations between nodes in different functions of the plurality of functions using the combined interprocedural dominance graph; computing a static single assignment (SSA) form based on the plurality of interprocedural dominance relations; storing a representation of the interprocedural dominance relations and the computed SSA on the memory in a second file; and analyzing the received software program according to the plurality of interprocedural dominance relations and the computed SSA by accessing the second file.

9665239

13946900

1. A system configured to facilitate user progression in a virtual space based on user purchases of virtual currency, the system comprising: one or more processors configured by machine-readable instructions to: execute an instance of the virtual space in which an online game takes place, to implement the instance of the virtual space by receiving and executing commands in the instance of the virtual space to facilitate user participation in the online game, and to facilitate presentation of the virtual space on client computing platforms; manage user accounts associated with individual users, the user accounts indicating, for individual users, a level in a first ability and a level in a second ability, the user accounts including a first user account associated with a first user that indicates a level of the first user in the first ability and a level of the first user in the second ability; facilitate transactions by users in which the users purchase virtual currency with real money value; present offers of virtual items for sale to the users in exchange for virtual currency purchased by the users, the offers being presented to the users through store interfaces implemented on client computing platforms associated with the users; increment levels of the users in the first ability based on gameplay by the users, wherein the first ability and the gameplay by the users are separate from both the transactions in which users purchase virtual currency and the offers of virtual items for sale; and responsive to purchases of virtual currency, increment levels of the users in the second ability and provide the virtual currency purchased to the users based on the purchases of the virtual currency, without requiring separate benefit purchases, such that responsive to the first user purchasing a first amount of virtual currency, the first user receives the first amount of virtual currency and the level of the first user in the second ability is incremented, wherein the second ability is separate from both the transactions in which users purchase virtual currency and the offers of virtual items for sale.

8340974

12346019

1. An audio data processing device for use by a plurality of users to control a system and for use with a microphone, a user demographic profiles database and a content database, the microphone being operable to detect speech and to generate a speech data based on the detected speech, the user demographic profiles database being capable of having demographic data stored therein, the content database being capable of having at least one of content data and advertisement data stored therein, said audio data processing device comprising: a voice recognition portion operable to process user instructions from a first user of the plurality of users, based on a command speech data that comprises at least one command by the first user for controlling the audio data processing device; a voice analysis portion operable to determine characteristics of the first user based on the speech data; and a speech to text portion operable to determine interests of the first user based on a conversational speech data that comprises at least a portion of a monitored conversation between the first user and at least a second user of the plurality of users, and further wherein the portion does not comprise a command by the first user for controlling the audio data processing device.

9690558

14879565

1. A method of deploying a multiple target application (MTA), comprising: identifying a MTA for deployment, the MTA including one or more software modules, the MTA associated with a deployment descriptor that identifies at least one dependency associated with the one or more software modules; identifying one or more target platforms for deployment of the MTA, wherein identifying the one or more target platforms for deployment includes identifying a first set of one or more target platforms referenced in a first extension descriptor that extends the deployment descriptor and identifying a second set of one or more target platforms included in a second extension descriptor that extends the deployment descriptor, the second extension descriptor being different than the first extension descriptor and the second set of one or more target platforms being different than the first set of one or more target platforms, wherein the first extension descriptor includes a first value for a first property included in the deployment descriptor and the second extension descriptor includes a second value for the first property, the second value being different than the first value, and wherein identifying the one or more target platforms further includes identifying a third extension descriptor that extends the first extension descriptor, wherein the third extension descriptor includes a value for a second property that is included without a value defined in the deployment descriptor; and deploying the one or more software modules on the one or more target platforms, wherein deploying the one or more software modules includes implementing the at least one dependency identified in the deployment descriptor, and wherein deploying includes deploying the one or more software modules to the first set of one or more target platforms and to the second set of target platforms.

9189317

13050808

1. A method comprising: detecting a problem with a software product; searching for a problem signature relating to the detected problem in a repository of a set of known issues corresponding to the software product to identify a sequence of debug steps to execute to capture debugging information corresponding to the detected problem, and to identify a root cause of the detected problem; capturing debugging information corresponding to the detected problem by executing the sequence of debug steps identified in the problem signature relating to the detected problem when the problem signature relating to the detected problem is found in the repository; capturing debugging information automatically from the software product when the problem signature relating to the detected problem is not found in the repository; indicating the detected problem is a known issue in the set of known issues corresponding to the software product, and automatically applying a corresponding solution to the detected problem, when the problem signature relating to the detected problem is found in the repository, and when the problem signature relating to the detected problem is not found in the repository indicating the detected problem is not a known issue in the set of known issues corresponding to the software product: providing as output user input describing an occurrence of the problem with the software product, and the debugging information captured automatically from the software product for analysis; updating the repository of the set of known issues to include a troubleshooting task signature comprising a troubleshooting task identifier, a troubleshooting task description, a description of debugging information to be collected, and a sequence of debugging steps to be performed to collect the debugging information to be collected, the troubleshooting task signature to be used by a debugging system to collect debugging information for troubleshooting the detected problem, responsive to the analysis; triggering debugging with the troubleshooting task identifier in response to the updating; and responsive to the triggering debugging, completing the analysis and updating the repository of the set of known issues to include a new problem signature relating to the detected problem as a new known issue and a corresponding solution to the detected problem.

9087123

13512368

1. A collaborative filtering system which uses evaluation values of contents from a plurality of users, the system comprising: an arithmetic processing device comprising: a similarity calculation unit which, when there are no evaluation values from at least one user who has evaluated both a first content and a second content, calculates the similarity between the first content and the second content using evaluation values of a third content whose evaluation value is present from at least one user who has evaluated both the first content and the third content and whose evaluation value is present from at least one user who has evaluated both the second content and the third content; and a predicted evaluation value calculation unit which calculates a predicted evaluation value from a user who has not evaluated either of the first content and the second content using the similarity between the first content and the second content calculated by the similarity calculation unit and the evaluation values of the first content and the second content, wherein, for one user who has used a specific content and has not evaluated the specific content, the predicted evaluation value calculation unit calculates a predicted evaluation value of the specific content from the one user using the use frequency of the specific content of the one user, the use frequency of the specific content of another user who has used the specific content and has evaluated the specific content, and an evaluation value of the specific content from another user.

8682757

10925614

1. A nontransitory computer-readable medium having computer program code recorded thereon that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform operations comprising: receiving information from a merchant, wherein the information corresponds to a financial transaction between a purchaser and a merchant, wherein the purchaser uses a payment vehicle authorized by a transaction account provider; determining if the financial transaction is qualified for adjusted financing terms, based on receiving or accessing an amount of the financial transaction, status of enrollment by the merchant and an enrollment status of the purchaser; charging the purchaser, using a single billing statement generated by the transaction account provider, for the financial transaction according to standard financing terms in response to the determination that the financial transaction is not qualified for the adjusted financing terms; charging the purchaser, using the single billing statement generated by the transaction account provider, for the financial transaction according to the adjusted financing terms in response to the determination that the financial transaction is qualified for the adjusted financing terms; using only one single network, and a same set of components within the only one single network, to complete processing of a payment for the financial transaction from the transaction account provider to the merchant for a standard financial transaction and a qualified financial transaction; and transmitting the payment to the merchant.

20080294947

12180450

1. A data recording method for recording data to a recording medium comprising the steps of: forming a data block organized as data columns and data rows, each data row comprising a plurality of bytes, the data block including identification data and error detection code parity for detect error of the identification data; for each data column in the data block, adding bytes to include an error correcting code parity; rearranging the order of bytes in each data rows according plural rearranging rules to produce a rearranged data block without changing a position of the identification data and the error detection code parity, including rearranging a first row of data according to a first rearranging rule and rearranging at least a second row of data according to a second rearranging rule different from the first rearranging rule; and recording the rearranged data block to a recording medium.

20170277516

15083170

1. A method of facilitating creation of a cloud computing application, the method comprising: receiving user input of first and second workflow items in sequence, the first and second workflow items individually being related to one or more cloud computing services; determining whether a data dependency exists between the first and second workflow items; in response to determining that a data dependency exists between the first and second workflow items, determining an execution sequence between the first and second workflow items in accordance with the data dependency between the first and second workflow items without additional user input; and in response to determining that a data dependency does not exist between the first and second workflow items, determining another execution sequence according to which the first and second workflow items are executed independently.

7836069

10639918

1. A computer-implemented poet's assistant method, comprising: loading a word processing program; receiving a word in the word processing program provided by a user; displaying a plurality of poet windows in response to receiving the word, the poet windows corresponding to underlying models that represent pre-defined poet personalities; the plurality of poet windows comprising a finish word window, a finish line window and a finish poem window; and processing the word in each of the plurality of poet windows with processing the word in the finish word window comprises: loading an author analysis model; locating the word in the author analysis model; and generating a proposed word in conjunction with the author analysis model.

7739115

10670126

1. A method for evaluating compliance of at least one agent reading at least one script to at least one client, the method comprising at least the following: conducting at least one voice interaction between the at least one agent and the at least one client, wherein the at least one agent follows the at least one script via at least one of a plurality of panels; entering information by the at least one agent according to responses obtained from the at least one client during the voice interaction; assigning a time displacement timestamp to each of the plurality of panels as they are presented and viewed by the at least one agent during the voice interaction; logging a time displacement, based on the time displacement timestamp, per panel as a portion of a log record; logging the voice interaction as a portion of the log record; based on the logging, evaluating the at least one voice interaction via the at least one of the plurality of panels employing panel-by-panel playback with the assigned time displacement timestamp with at least one automatic speech recognition component adapted to analyze the at least one voice interaction; and determining, via generating a score using confidence level thresholds of the least one automatic speech recognition component such that the confidence level thresholds are assigned to each of the plurality of panels and evaluating the score against a static or a varying standard, whether the at least one agent has adequately followed the at least one script by using the evaluated at least one voice interaction.

20140173004

14060181

1. A method for a low latency messaging chat service, comprising: receiving from a chat client a connection request via a network; authenticating the chat client by a registration process; allocating to the chat client at least a first topic corresponding to a first message queue and a second topic corresponding to a second message queue, the first topic assigned a first format and the second topic assigned a second format; enabling the chat client to post messages in the first topic; and enabling the chat client to receive messages in the second topic.

20130325777

13488106

1. A method of implementing heterosynaptic plasticity for a connection configured to communicate an input to a spiking neuron in an artificial neuronal network the method comprising: operating said connection in accordance with a first plasticity mechanism; and based at least in part on an indication, operating said connection in accordance with a second plasticity mechanism.