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20070061358

11225678

1. A computer-implemented workflow application comprising: one or more workflow components, each workflow component comprising an object having a metadata property; a workflow program comprising workflow components connected together to execute an operational workflow; a class loader program operable to introspect the objects and extract the metadata properties when each workflow component of the workflow program is executed, and store the metadata properties in a memory; and a workflow manager program operable to analyze the metadata stored in the memory and provide requested status information.

20150288574

14434482

1. An information system construction assistance device comprising: a selection screen presentation unit that presents a selection screen for selecting a requirement item group provided according to a specific task requirement in inputting construction requirements of a construction expected system that is an information system to be constructed; an input screen presentation unit that presents an input screen for inputting parameters included in the selected requirement item group; a system model selection unit that selects a system model satisfying the construction requirements based on the input parameters from the system models set as design information units of a previously stored system; an operation information acquisition unit that acquires operation information of an existing system that is an already constructed information system, on the basis of the system model selected by the system model selection unit and a similar system model similar to the system model; a performance evaluation unit that evaluates a performance of the system model selected by the system model selection unit, using parameters which are included in the operation information acquired by the operation information acquisition unit; and a construction candidate presentation unit that compares the performance of the system model evaluated by the performance evaluation unit and the construction requirements based on the input parameters, and presents an information system in which a system factor for determining a size of a system included in the design information of the system model selected by the system model selection unit is constructible by using the selected system model, as a candidate of the construction expected system.

8229777

13013322

1. An iterative score generation system configured to score associations of orders and providers utilizing a computing device, comprising: a) a processor; b) a data storage device; c) a knowledge base module in communication with the data storage device and including order information and provider information; d) a virtual provider module in communication with the knowledge base, wherein the virtual provider pairs order information and provider information, thereby creating paired order-provider information; e) a scoring module in communication with the processor and the knowledge base module, wherein the scoring module scores paired order-provider information thereby generating a score associated with paired order-provider information, the scoring module including; i. an inspection module configured to inspect paired order-provider information, wherein the inspection module determines if further information is required; ii. a request module in communication with the inspection module, wherein the request module signals a request for more information be made to outside the system wherein the inspection module has determined that further information is required; and iii. an update module in communication with the knowledge base, wherein the update module revises a score of paired order-provider information based on additional information received in response to a request signaled by the request module.

8468129

13242081

1. A computer-implemented method of sharing user enrollment data, comprising: receiving requests from users to enroll with a web-based service, a plurality of computing devices run separate instances of the web-based service; assigning the users to the plurality of computing devices, one computing device per user; at each computing device of the plurality of computing devices, maintaining one or more blocks of user enrollment data of the users assigned to the computing device; in response to one or more of the computing devices being assigned a threshold number of users, designating the one or more of the computing devices as one or more deactivated computing devices which are not assigned additional users, while a subset of computing devices of the plurality of computing devices remain as active computing devices and are assigned additional users; and causing the active computing devices to update one another regarding the one or more blocks of the active computing devices with more urgency than an urgency by which the active computing devices update the one or more deactivated computing devices regarding the one or more blocks of the active computing devices.

7886202

12038690

1. A computer-implemented method for tracking computer system events and user actions, the method comprising: detecting at least one system event of a computing system and at least one user action performed on the computing system; recording the at least one system event and at least one user action; synchronizing the recordation of the at least one system event and the recordation of the at least one user action; visually presenting to a user the recordation of the at least one system event and the recordation of the at least one user action along a time line corresponding to a time period; selecting by the user a point along the time line; and restarting the computer system from the selected point with corresponding recorded at least one system event and at least one user action upon an event that requires a restart of the computer system.

9557442

12704369

1. A method of predicting properties of an anisotropic formation in the crust of the earth, the formation including a rock formation comprising a plurality of elastically anisotropic layers, the plurality of elastically anisotropic layers of the formation being orthotropic materials being π-periodic in the circumferential direction, the method comprising: receiving acoustic sensor measurements from a sensor system provided in a borehole, the sensor system comprising a transmitter and a receiver and being configured to emit an acoustic signal and receive an acoustic response from the surrounding formation responsive to the emitted acoustic signal; collecting the acoustic sensor measurements as a function of depth of the borehole; formulating, based on the acoustic sensor data, a model geometry of the formation, the model geometry comprising a plurality of elastically anisotropic layers definable in a cylindrical coordinate system defined by an axial direction normal to each of the layers, a radial direction relative to the axial direction, and a circumferential direction relative to the axial direction, the elastic anisotropy of each layer of the formation being describable by an orthotropic material law being theta dependent and π-periodic in the circumferential direction, each layer having its own orthotropic velocity characteristics; formulating a computational model of wave propagation in the model geometry of the formation, the computational model comprising one or more field variables, the one or more field variables including a time-dependent displacement field, wherein a wave equation describing wave propagation in the plurality of elastically anisotropic layers and a behaviour of the one or more field variables is described by the time-dependent displacement field, a stiffness matrix and a mass matrix representing the orthotropic elastic properties and the mass of the formation and wherein the one or more field variables are theta dependent and represented as respective coupled Fourier series expansions of π-periodic harmonics in the circumferential direction, the resulting propagating waves or modes derived from the wave equation being likewise coupled; and numerically solving the computational model, to thereby predict one or more physical properties of the formation selected from the list of properties including: a velocity of sound propagation through the formation, a density of the formation, a permeability of the formation, a porosity of the formation, a resistivity of the formation, a permittivity of the formation, and a Young's modulus of the formation.

20120180103

12930437

1. A management system for a facility, comprising: a computer; a database in communication with said computer; a task tracking means in communication with said database; an access management means in communication with said database, for supplying event information to said database; an inventory tracking means in communication with said database, for supplying event information to said database; and an alert means in communication with said database, using said event information; whereby said computer uses the event information supplied to said database to compile an event library which can be used to generate alerts, compile reports, and control access to and egress from the facility.

20090284204

12268819

1. A method for estimating a temperature of a rotor of an induction motor through analysis of voltage and current signals associated with the motor, comprising: determining a representation of the voltage signal; determining a representation of the current signal; determining a speed of the rotor; determining an estimate of a rotor time constant according to a function that includes a fundamental frequency voltage component extracted from the representation of the voltage signal, a fundamental frequency current component extracted from the representation of the current signal, and the rotor speed; determining an estimate of the rotor temperature based on a first relationship between rotor temperature and the rotor time constant; and storing the rotor temperature.

10013729

15587771

1. A computer implemented method comprising: storing a plurality of events and user interactions performed by users of a social networking system with the plurality of events; associating a set of events of the plurality of events with a category; selecting a set of users associated with the set of events, comprising, for each event from the set of events: identifying users performing user interactions with the event, for each identified user, determining a measure of user interactions of the user with the event, wherein the measure of user interactions of the user with the event is based on a frequency of interaction of the user with the event, and including the user in the set of users, responsive to the measure of user interactions of the user with the event exceeding a threshold; selecting a set of candidate events associated with the set of users, based on user interactions of users from the set of users with the candidate events, wherein each candidate event associated with a selected user is selected responsive to interactions of the selected user with the candidate event exceeding a second threshold; determining whether each candidate event is associated with the category based on keyword occurrences in content associated with each candidate event; and providing information describing a particular event to a user for performing an action, the information provided based on the category.

9935950

14595178

1. A method for establishing ownership of a component of an internet of things (“IoT”) device, the method comprising: receiving, at a registration service, a request to register the component of the IoT device, the request comprising a public key of the component of the IoT device, an identifier of the component of the IoT device, and a public key of an owner of the component of the IoT device; generating, via the registration service, an authorization file that includes rights information associated with the component of the IoT device; determining a qualified name for the component of the IoT device based on a name associated with the owner of the component of the IoT device; generating one or more domain name system (“DNS”) records for the component of the IoT device, the one or more DNS records comprising the authorization file and an authentication file that identifies a chain of ownership of the component of the IoT device; and storing the one or more DNS records in a registry.

7900193

11557454

1. A method for identifying errors in computer software, the method comprising: executing one or more test tools to identify a potential problem in the computer software; electronically identifying a portion of the computer software affected by the identified potential problem; electronically determining a control flow graph and a data flow graph for the affected portion of the computer software originating at the identified potential problem; electronically back-tracking and forward-tracking the control flow graph and the data flow graph to verify that the identified potential problem is an actual error; and providing configuration for how large the control flow graph and a data flow graph need to be, and limit on the maximum time spent on verifying that the identified potential problem is an actual error.

20100063900

12538235

1. A method for purchasing a glass product, comprising the steps of selecting a glass product and transacting value for the purchase of the glass product, wherein selecting the glass product comprises: identifying one or more properties for the glass product and processing with a computer the selection of the glass property to determine one or more glass products having the characteristic property; wherein the one or more identified properties are selected; and wherein the selection of one identified property can be changed to another selection which with prior selections which were not changed is processed to determine one or more glass products having the characteristic property.

10148530

14624356

1. A method comprising: providing multiple services in a service infrastructure system; enabling, by the service infrastructure system, a customer to access a first service in the multiple services via a base subscription; receiving, by the service infrastructure system, a request by the customer to access a second service; establishing, by the service infrastructure system, in response to the request, a clone subscription that is cloned from the base subscription, the cloned subscription enabling the customer to access the second service that is cloned from the first service; generating a data structure for storing configuration for the clone subscription; creating, by the service infrastructure system, an association between the base subscription and the clone subscription, the association based upon a set of one or more rules, the set of one or more rules controlling how a change made to configuration for the base subscription is propagated to the configuration for the clone subscription, wherein the set of one or more rules comprises a first rule identifying a condition based upon one or more criteria, and wherein the condition further identifies a numerical threshold based upon one or more metrics; detecting, by the service infrastructure system, a change to the configuration for the base subscription; in response to detecting the change, determining whether the condition of the first rule is satisfied; and upon determining that the condition of the first rule is satisfied based on the one or more metrics satisfying the numerical threshold, modifying the configuration for the clone subscription per the first rule, the modifying comprising modifying data stored in the data structure.

20080281569

12094195

1. A method for generating a model of a structure using scan data from a plurality of subjects, the method comprising: collecting a set of scan data comprising scan data of the part of the anatomy for each of the plurality of subjects; applying a feature detector to each item in the set of scan data to generate a set of feature data; converting each item in the set of the feature data into a common reference system to generate a set of transformed data; accumulating each item in the set of transformed data to generate a model of the structure representing a plurality of subjects; and selecting structural features defining said model by optimizing the spatial correspondence of the features between images in said set of feature data.

20160063893

14853548

1. A portable electronic apparatus comprising: a power source; a storage device storing profile data of a user of the apparatus; a video capture device configured to capture video data of an environment in which the apparatus is located; a video coding device configured to receive video data from the video capture device and compress the video data to generate compressed video data; a location sensor configured to obtain location data that indicates a location of the portable electronic apparatus; an input device; wireless communication circuitry; a processor operatively coupled to the power source, the video coding device, the location sensor, the input device and the wireless communication circuitry, the processor configured to: receive input corresponding to activation of a guidance mode; activate guidance mode and generate and send a guidance request in response to receiving the input; and while guidance mode is active, transmit compressed video data and location data using the wireless communication circuitry to a second device, and receive guidance feedback data from the second device; and an output device configured to output information to the user based on the guidance feedback data.

20030074163

09682750

1. In an automated design system, a method of analyzing a design using predetermined analysis models, the automated design system including an integration server in communication with a plurality of subprocess servers each configured for conducting a subprocess analysis using one of the analysis models, the method comprising: receiving at the integration server an analysis request including a set of desired performance parameters; constructing at the integration server a set of design characteristics for meeting the desired performance parameters; and determining a set of design performance results associated with the set of design characteristics using the analysis models of the subprocess servers, wherein the step of determining comprises the steps of passing input information from the integration server to the plurality of subprocess servers; processing at least a portion of the input information to a format usable in the analysis model of each of the plurality of subprocess servers; and passing output information from each of the plurality of subprocess servers to the integration server and using the output information to determine the design performance results.

8428960

12334046

1. In a health care claims processing system including at least one processing element configured to execute instructions, thereby forming a machine configured to perform a method of processing an original batch comprising a plurality of health care claims, the method comprising: receiving the plurality of health care claims packaged in at least one envelope and including information regarding a submitter and a payor; validating the information regarding the submitter and the payor and generating an error message if the information is invalid; if the information regarding the submitter and the payor is valid, analyzing the at least one envelope and the plurality of health care claims for compliance with a predefined specification; if non-compliance is identified, determining if information associated with one of a provider or a subscriber is errant and then removing the health care claims relating to any provider or subscriber for which the associated information is determined to be errant; and if non-compliance is identified and the information associated with one of a provider or a subscriber is not errant, then processing the plurality of health care claims by: separating the plurality of health care claims into a plurality of in-process batches without consideration of compliance of the documents of the in-process batches; following separation of the documents into the plurality of in-process batches, identifying if the documents of the in-process batches are either non-compliant documents that fail to comply with a predefined specification or compliant documents that do comply with the predefined specification; forming at least one non-compliant batch containing the non-compliant documents and at least one compliant batch containing the compliant documents based upon the identification of the documents as being either compliant or non-compliant; and providing an output based upon at least one of the non-compliant batch and the compliant batch.

20150146984

14552099

1. A system for identifying and extracting text from an electronic document, the system comprising: one or more processors; memory; and a text identifier and extractor that receives the electronic document, generates a stream of text tokens based on the electronic document, matches a pattern to a portion of the stream of text tokens, and outputs the text in accordance with the matched pattern.

8255346

12616534

1. A computer-implemented method of variable group selection comprising: providing at a computer device, a training data set for which a predictive model is to be generated; iteratively selecting from among a plurality of variables of said data set, one or more variable groups minimizing a residual error in each iteration; and in each iteration, selecting a variable group with respect to the minimization of residual error of an updated predictive model when the selected variable group is included in the said predictive model in addition to those variable groups that have been selected in earlier iterations; and, performing a regression by an arbitrary component regression method using the selected variable groups selected into the current predictive model up to the current iteration in each iteration to obtain said updated predictive model, wherein a program using a processor unit executes one or more said iteratively selecting and performing step.

20090119637

11935679

1. A computer-implemented method of selecting a technology to implement a service integration, comprising: receiving, by a computing system, a set of requirements for a service of said plurality of services, wherein said set of requirements includes a plurality of functional requirements and a plurality of non-functional requirements; receiving, by said computing system, a plurality of technology preference relative weights for relatively weighting a plurality of technologies; receiving, by said computing system, a plurality of requirement relative weights for relatively weighting said set of requirements; receiving, by said computing system, a plurality of responses, wherein said responses are associated with said requirements and with said requirement relative weights in a one-to-one correspondence, wherein said responses are associated with said technology preference relative weights and with indicators of a set of indicators in a many-to-one correspondence, wherein said set of n indicators indicates said plurality of technologies, and wherein said plurality of responses indicates a plurality of characteristics that satisfy said set of requirements; and selecting, by said computing system, a technology of said plurality of technologies to implement said service integration of said plurality of services, wherein said selecting said technology is based on said plurality of technology preference relative weights and said plurality of requirement relative weights.

4445181

06269471

1. A device for calculating the cost and time of a meeting and displaying the cost thereof, comprising: input means for selecting the time based compensation rate of each meeting attendee; memory means connected to said input means for accumulating the instantaneous selected compensation rates of all meeting attendees; timing means for timing the meeting, said timing means selectively enabled by said input means and operative to activate said memory means for accumulating the selected compensation rates of all meeting attendees over a time period initiated by said input means; and display means connected to said memory means for displaying the accumulated selected rates of said attendees.

7949563

11494304

1. A system comprising: user computers coupled to a network and disposed in various geographic locations within a region, each user computer being associated with at least one advertisement of an associated web property, each advertisement for enabling visitors to navigate to the associated web property via the advertisement; remote processing systems, at least one of the remote processing systems comprising a processing device and a data storage device, the remote processing systems coupled to the network and geographically distributed, each user computer being associated with at least one of the remote processing systems that is located more proximate to the user computer than another one of the remote processing systems and that stores account information on the advertisement associated with the user computer, the remote processing systems being geographically disposed apart from each other in varying continental regions; an advertisement channel coupled to the network and operative to receive a content request from a particular visitor, to obtain a particular advertisement of a particular web property based on the content request, and to present the particular advertisement to the particular visitor in response to the content request, the particular advertisement belonging to an advertisement group, the advertisement group belonging to an advertisement campaign; a tag-based tracking mechanism operative to collect visitor session data if the particular visitor navigates to the particular web property from the particular advertisement, wherein the tag-based tracking mechanism includes at least one HTML tag on the web property and the at least one HTML tag is operative to request an instrumentation script from a script server, the instrumentation script being operative to collect the visitor session data; a server operative to receive the visitor session data from the tag-based tracking mechanism, to extract visitor data based on the visitor session data, and further operative to forward the visitor data based on the visitor session data to the one of the remote processing systems associated with the user that is associated with the particular advertisement; and a campaign optimizer operative to optimize performance of the particular advertisement and of the advertisement campaign based on the visitor session data, the performance including cost efficiency and effectiveness of the particular advertisement and of the advertisement campaign.

10115155

15704289

1. A computing system configured to allow a user to remotely unlock credit data of the user at each of a plurality of credit bureaus, wherein the credit data of the user can be unlocked at the plurality of credit bureaus only with authorization from the user, the computing system comprising: a touchpad computing device configured to receive an identifier of the user; and a communication interface configured to allow the touchpad computing device to communicate a credit data sharing authorization to a server computing system, wherein the server computing system stores a database indicating an identifier of the user in association with at least each of a first access protocol for a first credit bureau of the plurality of credit bureaus and a second access protocol for a second credit bureau of the plurality of credit bureaus; wherein the touchpad computing device is configured to: present a user interface indicating an option for the user to unlock the credit data of the user at each of the first credit bureau and the second credit bureau; detect input requesting unlocking of credit data of the user; and in response to detecting the input requesting unlocking of credit data of the user, transmit the credit data sharing authorization to the server computing system; wherein the server computing system is further configured to, in response to receiving the credit data sharing authorization from the touchpad computing device: determine, based on an association with the identifier of the user, a first access protocol associated with the first credit bureau; request unlocking of the credit data of the user at the first credit bureau using the first access protocol; determine, based on an association with the identifier of the user, a second access protocol associated with the second credit bureau; and request unlocking of the credit data of the user at the second credit bureau using the second access protocol.

20100223500

12677886

1. A method for determining a probability of occurrence that an overall system fulfills a predefined system performance, wherein the overall system is composed of instances of different classes of partial systems and wherein each class of partial system has an associated class fault tree, the method comprising the steps of: (a) Calculating an overall performance for each failure combination of non-failed instances within a class; (b) Automatic selection of failure combinations, the calculated overall performance of which fulfills the predefined system performance; (c) Automatic generation of an overall fault tree based on the class fault trees of partial systems as a function of the selected failure combinations; and (d) Evaluation of the generated overall fault tree for calculating the probability of occurrence of a fulfillment of the predefined system performance by the overall system.

20150243052

14615466

1. A display apparatus comprising: a display configured to display an image; an image processor configured to process the displayed image; and a controller configured to control the image processor to adjust a blue (B) value of red (R), green (G), and B values constituting the image based on at least one of information about a user and information about a viewing habit of the user.

20150350447

14820766

1. A method for processing communications in a server system, the server system comprising at least one processor, the method comprising: providing a receiver identifier associated with the server system for receiving messages; receiving a first message comprising a request to associate a first device identifier and a second device identifier with a common identifier; locating the first device identifier within a database of device identifiers; associating the common identifier with the first and second device identifiers, wherein the server system configures a first communication device associated with the first device identifier to communicate with the server system using the common identifier for a communication with a second communication device associated with the second device identifier, and wherein the server system configures the second communication device associated with the second device identifier to communicate with the server system using the common identifier for a communication with the device associated with the first device identifier; and sending a second message to the first communication device informing the first communication device of the common identifier associating the first and second device identifiers.

20150254786

14660455

1. A method for crowd sourcing tasks, comprising: identifying, a computer system, a group of potential candidates for crowd sourcing, wherein each candidate of the group of potential candidates is identified based on the candidate being expected to accept an offer for performance of a certain type of task, the certain type of task being at least performable within a predetermined range of time; receiving, by the computer system, a request to perform a particular task from at requester; determining, by the computer system, if the particular task corresponds to the certain type of task; and transmitting, by the computer system, an offer for performance of the particular task to at least a subgroup of the group of potential candidates in response to the particular task corresponding to the certain type of task for a target candidate.

5465304

08230073

1. In a character recognition system, a method for segmenting portions of a medium representation into text and non-text types, said method comprising the steps of: a) accessing said medium representation, said medium representation comprising a plurality of scanlines; b) extracting a set of run lengths from said plurality of scanlines; c) generating a set of run length classifications by generating a run length classification for each run length of said set of run lengths, said run length classification determined according to a length of each run length; d) constructing a plurality of rectangles using said set of run length classifications, each of said plurality of rectangles representing a portion of said medium representation; e) classifying each of said plurality of rectangles as either a non-text type or an unknown type; and f) merging a plurality of rectangles of said unknown type into a plurality of text blocks.

20100050154

12195362

1. A method for guiding correction of semantic errors in code in an integrated development environment, said method comprising the steps of: inputting, using a code editor, code being developed by a developer in an integrated development environment; identifying, using one or more collaboration records located for a node in a syntax tree constructed for said code inputted, any semantic errors pertaining to use of a third-party library in said code inputted by said developer; and displaying one or more suggestions associated with said one or more collaboration records located to correct said any semantic errors identified for said node, wherein said developer can choose a suggestion of said one or more suggestions displayed to guide correction of said any semantic errors.

8731988

13570554

1. A migration method, comprising: receiving, by a computing system, a request to generate a migration plan to migrate knowledge for an entity, said computing system comprising a memory unit, said memory unit comprising a migration planning tool suite including a management tool and a planning tool; receiving, by said migration planning tool suite from a user, answers to questions used to prepare and automatically generate a full staffing plan with cost analysis and savings summaries for a business scenario to support said to migrate knowledge, wherein said questions comprise an initial set of baseline questions grouped and presented to the user with an adjustable flow of varying questions; querying, by said migration planning tool suite, a business rules/edits repository for every attribute entered by the user in response to said questions, wherein said querying comprises ensuring that a format, a content, and data relationships for every said attribute meets requirements set by business rules of said migration planning tool suite; generating, by said planning tool based on results of said querying, a strategic plan comprising a first procedure for transferring knowledge required for performing job functions comprised by a first set of individuals to a second set of individuals and a second procedure for defining a set of temporary individuals to perform a transition management process through said transferring, wherein said generating said strategic plan comprises; calculating, by said planning tool, an assumed current cost for running said entity, wherein said calculating comprises utilizing entered, edited, and collected data to support an existing business model of the first set of individuals that are currently required to support functions of said second set of individuals, wherein said assumed current cost comprises licensing charges, real-estate charges, and office needs charges associated with said transferring said knowledge, and wherein said assumed current cost comprises a subset of said attributes; calculating, by said planning tool, transitional staffing and travel cost requirements associated with said transferring said knowledge to said second set of individuals, wherein said transitional staffing and travel cost requirements comprise travel and labor costs for each of said second set of individuals as they transition through migration phases; and calculating, by said planning tool, onetime and recurring investment requirements associated with said transferring said knowledge to said second set of individuals, wherein said onetime and recurring investment requirements comprise costs associated with: management support and travel; telephone, hardware, and software requirements; cell phone, pagers, and equipment requirements; network capacity and connectivity requirements; migration management transition support staff; and preplanning expenses; generating, by said management tool, an allocation plan for first allocating said set of temporary individuals to said entity for said transition management process and second allocating said second set of individuals for said transferring; generating, by said management tool, a ramping down plan for ramping down to close out said first set of individuals and said set of temporary individuals based on data extracted from a previous ramping down plan; processing, by said migration planning tool suite, said request to migrate knowledge by generating a tranche comprising a group of said second set of individuals that have been collected into a similar migration strategy and schedule; editing, by said migration planning tool suite, each phase needed to support said tranche; performing, by said migration planning tool suite, a cross phase content analysis for said tranche and each said phase; generating, by a computer processor of said computing system executing said planning tool, said migration plan for supporting said entity based on said strategic plan, said allocation plan, results of said processing, and said ramping down plan, said migration plan comprising a procedure for allocating said second set of individuals for supporting said entity.

9813261

13593898

1. A method for socially provided context-based messaging, comprising: receiving, in a messaging system and from a user, message content including a plurality of objects; matching an object of the plurality of objects to socially provided context information; moderating the socially provided context information by overlaying shadow information which a moderator considers more appropriate than the matched socially provided context information; and displaying the moderated socially provided context information with the message content, wherein the socially provided context information is information relevant to the object and obtained from a social network to which the user belongs.

20090210730

12034025

1. A method for power conservation in a hierarchical branch predictor system, comprising: addressing multiple branch predictors in parallel or sequentially, each of the branch predictors comprising various sizes of hierarchical storage, the branch predictors storing information about previously encountered branch instructions; in response to receiving a first branch prediction from one or more of the branch predictors, comparing the first branch prediction with previously-stored branch predictions to determine the existence of a branch prediction loop, the branch prediction loop including a sequence of branch predictions that repeat as long as constituent predictions of the branches remain unchanged; upon determining that a branch prediction loop exists, associating the branch prediction loop with the branch predictors that provided each branch prediction; activating power saving on the branch predictors that are not associated with the branch prediction loop; and deactivating power saving upon determining that branch predictions are needed from branch predictors not associated with the loop.

20110055361

12551501

1. A method of installing software to a target machine in a network, comprising: receiving an identifier for the target machine; retrieving at least one of a management software component type or an inventory of resources for the target machine from a management database based on the identifier; and transmitting at least one management agent corresponding to the at least one of the management software component type or inventory of resources to the target machine.

10123191

14529202

1. A method comprising: receiving, by a profile orchestration system comprising a processor, information from a user device, wherein the information identifies a location of the user device and further identifies a service to be provided by the user device to a user of the user device; determining, by the profile orchestration system, based on the information received from the user device, whether one of a plurality of existing device operational profiles stored in a device operational profile database is suitable for a sensor device located within an area associated with the location of the user device; in response to determining that an existing device operational profile of the plurality of existing device operational profiles suitable for the sensor device located within the area associated with the location of the user device does not exist, generating, by the profile orchestration system, based on the information received from the user device, a device operational profile comprising characterizations of how the sensor device located within the area associated with the location of the user device is to perform in order to collect sensor data and to provide the sensor data to the user device for use by an application executed by the user device to provide the service to the user of the user device; and sending, by the profile orchestration system, the device operational profile to a profile provisioning system that uses the device operational profile to generate a setting to provision the sensor device located within the area associated with the location of the user device so that the sensor device performs in accordance with the characterizations of the device operational profile to collect the sensor data and to provide, via a sensor network, the sensor data to the user device for use by the application executed by the user device to provide the service to the user of the user device.

9654957

15193674

1. A method, comprising: capturing information about an event, that has occurred above a threshold, by at least one mobile device, the information comprising location information and event type information, the location information or the event type information comprising an image; identifying the event via an event alert server by associating the event type information with a specific event and associating the location information with a location associated with the specific event; identifying a location of at least one other mobile device; and sending an alert of the event to the at least one other mobile device, wherein the sending of the alert comprises sending at least one of: a first alert to a first mobile device of the at least one other mobile device moving towards the event; and a second alert to a second mobile device of the at least one other mobile device moving away from the event.

20150379746

14320083

1. A method for synthesizing information and application user interface elements into a continuous stream form, the method comprising: an act of adjusting a level of cinematicity to be applied to a session of information as the session is presented, wherein higher levels of cinematicity use higher degrees of movement in presenting movement of user interface elements representing the information, and lower levels of cinematicity use lower or no movement of user interface elements representing the information.

7653695

11062320

1. A method for managing information relating to electronic messages, comprising the steps of: receiving, from a plurality of message information collectors, message information that describes characteristics of a set of electronic messages received by the plurality of message information collectors, wherein the message information is separate and distinct from the set of electronic messages which it describes; processing, at a data processing unit, the message information to generate message volume information, wherein the message volume information describes characteristics of a set of message senders of electronic messages over a period of time, wherein each of the set of message senders sent one or more of the set of electronic messages identified in the message information, and wherein the message volume information includes a prediction metric that indicates a likelihood that a particular message sender, of the set of message senders, has been sending unsolicited commercial electronic messages; and providing, to an email gateway, the prediction metric and at least one other characteristic of the particular message sender described in the message volume information, wherein at least the prediction metric and the at least one other characteristic are used by the email gateway in determining whether to treat a particular electronic message, sent by the particular message sender, received by the email gateway, as an unsolicited commercial electronic message, wherein said particular message sender is a second email gateway; wherein the email gateway is separate from the data processing unit; wherein the step of processing, at the data processing unit, the message information to generate the message volume information comprises the step of: determining how many requests for information about the particular message sender were received during a particular period of time; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.

9607097

13430044

1. A method implemented on a machine having at least one processor, storage, and a communication platform connected to a network for fault tolerant content delivery, the method comprising: receiving a first request from a user for customized content on the network, the first request for the customized content comprising identification information related to the user, wherein the customized content is customized based on the identification information; determining whether generic content related to the customized content is available in a cache; responsive to a determination that the generic content is not available in the cache, sending a second request to a content server for the generic content, wherein the second request is based on the first request without the identification information; storing the generic content in the cache, wherein the generic content is associated with an expiration time; forwarding the first request over the network to the content server; and when the customized content is not received from the content server within a specified period of time, obtaining the generic content from the cache, and sending the generic content to the user in response to the first request.

10031921

14816984

1. A method, comprising: at a server system with one or more processors and memory: maintaining a database storing metadata for a plurality of media items, the plurality of media items including a first media item, wherein the first media item corresponds to a first node in a tree, the tree including nodes corresponding to the plurality of media items, and wherein the database stores a first metadata structure for the first media item; causing, based upon the metadata stored in the database, a first graphical representation of the tree to be displayed on a user interface at a client device, the first graphical representation including a first graphical element representing the first node; receiving, from the client device, metadata corresponding to a modified media item, wherein the modified media item is a modified version of the first media item, and wherein the metadata corresponding to the modified media item is received in connection with a user selection of the first graphical element in the first graphical representation of the tree for modifying the first media item, and user input modifying the first media item; and in response to receiving the metadata corresponding to the modified media item, adding a second metadata structure to the database for the modified media item, the second metadata structure including the metadata corresponding to the modified media item, and appending, to the tree, a new leaf node that is linked to the first node, wherein the new leaf node corresponds to the modified media item.

20100287481

12777517

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, at a server system hosting a customer relationship management (CRM) application, a request from a client device for an activity management screen that integrates a registration screen with a calendar screen; retrieving, using the server system, activity data to be displayed in the registration screen; generating instructions for displaying the activity management screen on the client device, wherein the instructions are configured to be executed by the client device and, when executed by the client device, to cause the client device to: retrieve calendar data to be displayed in the calendar screen from a calendaring application local to the client device, wherein the calendaring application maintains persistent data from which the calendar data is retrieved; generate the activity management screen comprising the registration screen containing the activity data and the calendar screen containing the calendar data; identify at least one business activity from the activity data to be indicated in the calendar screen; and modify the calendar data to incorporate the identified at least one business activity such that the identified at least one business activity is indicated in the calendar screen, wherein the persistent data of the local calendar application is unaffected by the modification of the calendar data; and providing the activity data and the generated instructions to the client device.

20140066028

13603589

1. A method for determining a potential suspect, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a first time and a first location; determining a first access point near the first location; and determining a first group of devices associated with the first access point at the first time.

9275079

13151626

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving, at a server computer system, digital image data captured by a mobile device; performing image recognition analysis on an object within the digital image data to identify the object; receiving, at the server computer system, sensor data that describes a change in orientation executed by the user device; determining based on the identity of the object, the image analysis, and the sensor data, a gesture associated with the object; querying a semantic associations database based on the determined gesture and the object to determine a secondary meaning associated with the gesture and the object, wherein the secondary meaning is a non-literal meaning associated with the determined identity of the object based on the gesture, wherein the non-literal meaning is inferred from descriptions associated with a plurality of images located on a computer network that depict objects with the determined identity, wherein the descriptions each include one or more references to the non-literal meaning associated with the gesture; in response to the determination of the secondary meaning, requesting augmentation data from a remote service based on the secondary meaning; receiving the augmentation data from the remote service in response to the request, wherein the augmentation data is relevant to the secondary meaning associated with the identified object, and wherein the augmentation data is to be rendered over the identified object in the digital image data when displayed by the mobile device; and transmitting augmentation data to the mobile device that is semantically relevant to the object based on the secondary meaning.

20030084017

09979197

1. An arrangement comprising: a processor; a plurality of satellite databases communicating with said processor, each storing data; and a materialized database, under control of said processor, that stores a union of the data stored in all of said satellite databases, where said processor includes a queue and a controller that, through updates sent from said satellite databases to said processor, and updates sent from said controller to said satellite databases and to said materialized database, maintains consistency among said satellite databases and said materialized database.

8346947

12930984

1. A Data-Over-Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) cable modem system coupled to: via a local area internet protocol (IP) network, a voice over internet protocol (VoIP) device operating Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for signaling a VoIP media session; and via a DOCSIS network, a cable modem termination system (CMTS) via a network; the cable modem system comprising instructions stored in a memory and executed by a processor, the instructions comprising: in response to receiving a frame via the local area IP network, the frame being a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message which includes identification of a compression protocol to be used for compressing digital audio of a real time protocol (RTP) stream of a VoIP session between the VoIP device and a remote endpoint: using the identified compression protocol to determine required service flow attributes, the required service flow attributes including a grant size and grant interval necessary for supporting the RTP stream; determining if the required service flow attributes match service flow attributes of an existing unsolicited grant (UGS) of a VoIP media session service flow between the cable modem and the CMTS; in response to both: i) determining that the required service attributes match service flow attributes of an existing UGS service flow between the cable modem and the CMTS; and ii) receiving a frame via the local area IP network, the frame being a SIP OK message to initiate the real time protocol stream of the VoIP session between the VoIP device and the remote endpoint; generating a DOCSIS Dynamic Service Change (DSC) request to add an additional sub flow to the existing UGS service flow to support the RTP stream of the VoIP session between the VoIP device and the remote endpoint; and in response to: i) determining that the required service attributes are different from service flow attributes of all existing UGS service flows between the cable modem and the CMTS; and ii) receiving a frame via the local area IP network, the frame being a SIP OK message to initiate the real time protocol stream of the VoIP session between the VoIP device and the remote endpoint; generating a DOCSIS Dynamic Service Change (DSC) request to initiate an additional UGS service flow with the required service flow attributes to support the RTP stream of the VoIP session between the VoIP device and the remote endpoint.

8825682

12210511

1. A system for receiving a retrieval request and generating a recognition result, the system comprising: a processor; a gateway having a plurality of inputs for receiving the retrieval request that includes at least an image portion and contextual information, the gateway processing the retrieval request to generate an image query and a recognition parameter, the gateway having a plurality of outputs for sending recognition results; a matching unit stored on a computer-readable storage medium and executable by the processor, the matching unit coupled to receive the image query and the recognition parameter from the gateway, the matching unit analyzing and comparing the image query and recognition parameter to an index table to generate the recognition result including a page identification number and a location on the recognition result, the matching unit coupled to send the recognition result to the gateway; and a hotspot database coupled to the matching unit, the hotspot database for retrieving hotspot information corresponding to the page and the location identified in the recognition result.

8132162

11773463

1. A system for supporting method level caching by a runtime machine, comprising: a disk space of a computer system comprising at least one type of memory; an operating system for controlling allocations and access within the disk space; a runtime machine for running at least one application through at least one of the operating system and directly on at least one processor of the computer system, the runtime machine for managing a selected disk space from among the disk space allocated to the runtime machine by the operating system and for managing a separate method cache within the selected disk space limited to storing at least one result of at least one method of a plurality of methods of the application for access for a next instance of the at least one method during runtime of the application, wherein the separate method cache is separate from an application heap managed by the runtime machine for the application within the selected disk space; the runtime machine for accessing at least one argument object graph and a result object graph for each method of the plurality of methods of the application to determine whether a size of the at least one argument object graph and the result object graph exceeds a maximum graph size for the method cache; the runtime machine, responsive to the size of the at least one argument object graph and the result object graph exceeding the maximum graph size for the method cache, for marking the particular method to direct the runtime machine not to cache the separate result of the particular method in the method cache; the runtime machine, responsive to the size of the at least one argument object graph and the result object graph not exceeding the maximum graph size for the method cache, analyzing the at least one argument object graph and result object graph for the particular method to determine whether each separate at least one argument object graph and result object graph for the particular method comprises only primitive object types, wherein as the runtime machine traverses each node of each of the at least one argument object graph and result object graph the runtime machine updates a current traversal time since the start of traversing the at least one argument object graph and result object graph and updates an estimated traversal time remaining for traversing the at least one argument object graph and result object graph based on a number of paths remaining in the at least one argument object graph and result object graph; the runtime machine, responsive to detecting that at least one of the current traversal time and the estimated traversal time exceed a maximum analysis time, halting the analysis of the particular method and marking the particular method to direct the runtime machine not to cache a separate result of the particular method in the method cache; the runtime machine, responsive to detecting that a particular at least one argument object graph and result object graph of a particular method from among the plurality of methods comprises only primitive object types, and the current traversal time or estimated traversal time does not exceed a maximum analysis time, for marking the particular method to direct the runtime machine to cache the separate result of the particular method in the method cache.

8078453

12885806

1. A method of computer analysis of at least one communication originated from a person, comprising: receiving with a computer the at least one communication with each communication being comprised of a group of words originated by the person; processing a text of the received group of words in each of the received at least one communication with a computer to determine risk posed by the person from at least one of emotional state or emotional tone represented by the text of the group of words in each of the at least one communication; and in response to the determined risk posed by the person from the at least one of emotional state or emotional tone generating with a computer an output communication pertaining to the risk posed by the person from the at least one of emotional state or emotional tone of the at least one communication.

20080195657

11672901

1. A method of facilitating media annotation, comprising: (a) for a particular user, analyzing a set of existing free-form annotations that are associated with a plurality of media objects based on a context and the social community of the particular user so as to determine a ranked list of annotations that is ordered by likely relevance to the context of the particular user; and (b) presenting a highest ranked subset of the ranked list of annotations to the particular user as a list of suggested annotations that are selectable by the user to annotate one or more media objects.

9706337

14299502

1. A method, comprising: identifying, by a coordinating device comprising a processor, one or more non-coordinating devices of a network and associated with a same entity; and coordinating a single, shared radio connection to which the coordinating device and the one or more non-coordinating devices are communicatively coupled, wherein the coordinating comprises one or more operations associated with an initialization stage, a management stage or a transmission stage, wherein the coordinating device and the one or more non-coordinating devices comprise a set of candidate devices, and wherein the initialization stage comprises a stage in which a device of the set of candidate devices performs operations comprising: detecting respective proximities between the device and other devices of the set of candidate devices; selecting a coordinating device from the set of candidate devices, wherein the set of candidate devices, other than the coordinating device, are the one or more non-coordinating devices; and negotiating a capability of the device.

9645798

14842400

1. A method comprising: analyzing, by one or more processors, first program code based on receiving the first program code, the first program code comprising a variable and being provided for display on a user interface, generating, by the one or more processors, help information for the first program code based on analyzing the first program code, the help information comprising one or more possible actions to take on the variable, the one or more possible actions being associated with one or more functions, providing, by the one or more processors, the help information for display on the user interface with the first program code, generating, by the one or more processors, second program code for executing at least one of the one or more possible actions on the variable included in the first program code, and inserting, by the one or more processors, a selected portion of the second program code into the first program code based on receiving a user instruction.

8639318

13663309

1. A system for monitoring a heart failure status of a heart failure patient, comprising: an implantable medical device; and a programmable device having machine executable instructions for performing a method to assist with managing a patient's health, the method performed by the programmable device including acquiring from the implantable medical device sensed physiological parameters, and using the sensed physiological parameters to generate a composite parameter indicative of respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), wherein the sensed parameters acquired from the implantable medical device includes sensed heart rate and sensed respiration, and using the sensed physiological parameters to generate the composite parameter indicative of RSA includes using a function of the sensed heart rate and the sensed respiration to generate the composite parameter indicative of RSA.

7886960

12406410

1. A computer-implemented method for redistributing a plurality of parts, comprising: defining, by a server, a plurality of locations including at least one dummy location; establishing, by the server, an actual inventory of a plurality of parts among the plurality of locations; establishing, by the server, a desired allocation of the plurality of parts among the plurality of locations; determining, by the server, a demand for the plurality of parts at each of the plurality of locations using the actual inventory and the desired allocation; determining, by the server, a plurality of paths, each path operable to transfer at least one of the plurality of parts from one of the plurality of locations location to another one of the plurality of locations; generating, by the server, a transfer function describing a cost of transferring a plurality of excess parts along the plurality of paths; and optimizing, by the server, the transfer function to achieve the desired allocation of the plurality of excess parts at a minimum cost.

8352589

11316452

1. A method of adaptively monitoring a computer network, the method comprising: providing a computer network that includes a plurality of associated network components and a plurality of terminals connected thereto, the pluralities of network components and terminals configured to run a plurality of application programs at least one of which is configured to perform one or more user initiated activities, two or more of the network components and/or terminals being associated with one or more identifying attributes, each identifying attribute being a value that can be determined at a given time for any network component or terminal; providing one or more activity signatures each usable to detect that a specific activity has been performed; detecting, using the one or more activity signatures, one or more baselined attributes of one or more user initiated activities of the two or more of the network components and/or terminals, each baselined attribute being defined by its own signature that may extend beyond an associated activity signature; measuring, after the detecting, one or more of the same baselined attribute values of the two or more network components and/or terminals; and grouping network components and/or terminals into a plurality of subsets thereof based on the measured attribute values so as to yield group descriptions, each group description describing a group of the network components and/or terminals whose members share related characteristics in the measured baselined attribute values, the yielded group descriptions being monitoring profiles that are usable to detect abnormal behavior of a member or members of the described group.

9397962

13698915

1. A terminal for exchanging messages via tokens brought in proximity to the terminal, the terminal comprising: at least one communication processor to exchange token relationship information with storage media; at least one detection processor for substantially localizing and identifying local semantic tokens brought in proximity to the terminal; a display for displaying a visual representation of remote semantic tokens; proximity logic configured to assert a local proximity relationship between a first one of the local semantic tokens and a reference location if the first one of the local semantic tokens and the reference location are localized at a distance below a predetermined first proximity radius, the reference location being a second one of the local semantic tokens or a fixed point on the terminal; a database update agent, operatively coupled to the proximity logic, for storing asserted local proximity relationships in the storage media; and a database querying agent for obtaining cross-site proximity relationship information pertaining to the local semantic tokens from the storage media, the cross-site proximity relationship information comprising an identification of remote semantic tokens present at another terminal in a proximity relationship with semantic tokens equivalent to respective ones of the local semantic tokens, wherein the display is configured to display visual representations of the remote semantic tokens in proximity to respective ones of the local semantic tokens in accordance with the cross-site proximity relationship information.

10104162

14273830

1. A location based interactive method, comprising: acquiring, by a user terminal, a geographic coordinate of a user's location; sending, by the user terminal, the acquired geographic coordinate to a location server; receiving and displaying, by the user terminal, a Point of Interest (POI) list from the location server, wherein the POI list comprises at least one POI corresponding to the geographic coordinate; according to a selection by the user from the POI list, sending, by the user terminal, a group creating instruction to a login server, such that the login server directly creates a group in response to the group creating instruction, wherein the login server is separate from the location server, and does not communicate with the location server; and interacting, by the user terminal, with the login server based on the group created by the login server so as to provide the user with an intra-group interactive service, wherein the group is created by the login server based on a POI carried in a group creating request, wherein the group includes only the user of the user terminal when the group is created, and other users in the group are added only by invitation or join request, and wherein the intra-group interactive service comprises: searching for a location of another user within the group, inviting another user to join the group, receiving a request from another user for joining the group and allowing the another user to join the group, initiating an intra-group session, allowing users within the group to jointly complete a POI sign-in; wherein the method further comprises: before the interacting with a login server based on a group created by the login server, acquiring the group creating instruction; and sending the group creating request to the login server based on the group creating instruction, wherein both the group creating instruction and the group creating request are carried with a POI selected by the user from the POI list; wherein: the POI list comprises at least two POIs corresponding to the geographic coordinate; the group creating request includes multiple POIs selected by the user from the POI list; and the created group is associated with geographic locations corresponding to the multiple POIs.

8140411

11766468

1. A computer-implemented method for providing labor cost information, the method comprising: receiving, by the computer, input specifying a vehicle and/or a vehicle system; receiving, by the computer, user input to the computer specifying part information, wherein the part information comprises a specific part; receiving, by the computer, user input to view repair jobs associated with the part information; providing, by the computer, a plurality of repair jobs associated with the specific part; receiving, by the computer, user input to view labor cost information associated with at least one of the repair jobs, wherein said receiving the user input to view the labor cost information is received after the user input specifying the part information and the input specifying the vehicle and/or the vehicle system; and automatically providing, by the computer, the labor cost information associated with the at least one of the repair job for display in response to the user input to view the labor cost information, wherein the labor cost information is automatically determined based on the vehicle and/or the vehicle system and the at least one repair job, wherein the labor cost information specifies a cost of labor for installing the specific part, and wherein said automatically providing the labor cost information is performed without further user input specifying the part information.

9009498

12263336

1. A process comprising: tracking U i (t) for each of N virtual-machine guests VMG i , where U i (t) corresponds to utilization over time of a pre-migration host by an ith virtual-machine guest prior to migration to a target host, where i is an index ranging from 1 to N, and t is time; projecting U i ′(t) for each VMG i based at least in part on U i (t), where U i ′(t) is a projected utilization over time by VMG i of the respective pre-migration host; projecting U i ″(t) for each VMG i , based at least in part on U i (t), where U i ″(t) is a projected utilization over time by VMG i of the target host, each U i ″(t) having a respective peak value V i ; calculating U T ″(t) at least in part by combining U i ″(t) over i, where U T ″(t) is a projected utilization over time of the target host, U T ″(t) having a peak value V T , the calculating being such that the sum of the peak values V i is greater than the peak value V T of the sum; and projecting P″(t) based at least in part on U T ″(t), where P″(t) is a projected power consumption for the target host for a scenario in which all VMG i are hosted by the target host.

8694576

13428238

1. A method for processing an event through an event processing network (EPN) including a plurality of event processing agents (EPA), each of the plurality of EPAs having an execution mode being one of a concurrent mode or a sequential mode, comprising: routing the event through the EPN; identifying an input event corresponding to an encountered EPA, the encountered EPA having a plurality of child EPAs; only upon an execution mode of the encountered EPA being in the concurrent mode, creating a replica of the input event; allocating the replica of the input event to each of the plurality of child EPAs; creating a change summary for each of the plurality of child EPAs; in response to a modification by one of the plurality of child EPAs to an allocated replica of the input event, modifying a change summary associated with the one of the plurality of child EPAs; and synchronizing the plurality of change summaries.

8468042

11446511

1. A method for identifying and partitioning a service into at least one atomic service in an environment to fulfill information technology services, the method comprising: determining whether the entire work to perform at least one of an information technology service and smaller tasks can be automated; determining whether all tasks can be performed by one person when the entire work to perform said information technology service cannot be automated; determining whether the entire work can be partitioned to match different skills required to perform different sections in the entire work when all tasks can be performed by one person; dividing the entire work into the smaller tasks with a processor based on at least one of different skills required to perform different sections of the entire work, and subteams required to perform the entire work; determining whether all tasks can be performed by one team when all tasks cannot be performed by one person; encapsulating at least one of all tasks and the smaller tasks into at least one atomic service with the processor when the entire work to perform at least one of said information technology service and the smaller tasks can be automated; and storing the at least one atomic service in an atomic services catalog.

8516482

13160611

1. A virtual machine assigning method for use in a processor included in an information processing device having a virtual machine monitoring unit and connected to an input/output device, the virtual machine assigning method comprising: partitioning the processors into a plurality of partitioned processors; setting a plurality of assignment times of virtual machines in the plurality of partitioned processors; assigning the virtual machines to the plurality of partitioned processors based on the plurality of assignment times; measuring a response time from outputting of an input/output request from each of the plurality of partitioned processors to the input/output device until inputting of a response to the input/output request into each of the plurality of partitioned processors from the input/output device in each of the plurality of assignment times by each of the plurality of partitioned processors to which the virtual machines are assigned; extracting an optimum assignment time that is a maximum assignment time among assignment times corresponding to response times within a predetermined range based on the plurality of set assignment times and a plurality of measured response times; and assigning the extracted optimum assignment time to each of the plurality of virtual machines.

20020024996

09949352

1. A method for dynamically regulating power consumption of a high-speed integrated circuit including a multiplicity of processing blocks, the method comprising the operations of: defining a first metric relating to a first performance parameter of the integrated circuit; defining a second metric relating to a second performance parameter of the integrated circuit ; setting the first metric to a pre-defined value; disabling selected ones of the multiplicity of processing blocks in accordance with a set of pre-determined patterns; evaluating the second metric, while performing the disabling operation, to generate a range of values of the second metric, each of said values corresponding to the pre-defined value of the first metric; identifying a most desirable value of the second metric from the range of said values; and matching the most desirable value of the second metric to a corresponding one of the pre-determined patterns; wherein the integrated circuit is subsequently operated with selected ones of the multiplicity of processing blocks disabled in accordance with the pre-determined pattern corresponding to the most desirable value of the second metric.

20140039844

13564413

1. A computer implemented method for determining a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) model for a building, comprising: receiving a description of the building; receiving an HVAC meta-model, wherein the HVAC meta-model is independent of the building; and determining an HVAC model for the building based on the description of the building and the HVAC meta-model.

20130166293

13772509

1. A method of detecting pre-determined phrases to determine compliance quality, comprising: specifying a plurality of pre-determined phrases in association with an event and a precursor event; receiving audible input from a sender and a recipient in a communication over a communications network; determining by a processor whether the event has occurred based on the communication; if the event has not occurred, determining whether a trigger phrase associated with the precursor event is present in the audible input received; if the trigger phrase associated with the precursor event is present, determining whether a pre-determined phrase of the plurality of pre-determined phrases associated with the precursor event is present in the-audible input received; and rating the recipient based on a presence of the pre-determined phrase associated with the precursor event in the communication.

8626571

12833103

1. An apparatus for requesting and assessing a locate operation, the locate operation comprising identifying, in response to a locate request ticket, a presence or an absence of at least one underground facility within a dig area, wherein at least a portion of the dig area is planned to be excavated or disturbed during excavation activities, the apparatus comprising: a communication interface; a memory to store processor-executable instructions; and a processing unit coupled to the communication interface and the memory, wherein upon execution of the processor-executable instructions by the processing unit, the processing unit: A) generates the locate request ticket identifying the dig area, the locate request ticket including or having electronically associated therewith first image data associated with the dig area, wherein the first image data includes at least one of: a marked-up image of a geographic area including the dig area, the marked-up image including at least one dig area indicator to provide an indication of the dig area; and geographic information derived from or relating to the marked-up image relating to the at least one dig area indicator; B) controls the communication interface to transmit the locate request ticket to at least one entity associated with the locate operation; C) controls the communication interface to receive a completed locate request ticket, the completed locate request ticket comprising marking information including second image data and/or non-image data relating to the locate operation as performed by a field technician pursuant to the locate request ticket, the locate operation comprising: identifying the presence or the absence of the at least one underground facility within the dig area using at least one physical locate mark placed by the field technician on ground, pavement or other surface within the dig area; D) processes the completed locate request ticket so as to provide a quality assessment of the locate operation by comparing the marking information in the completed locate request ticket to reference information so as to provide the quality assessment of the locate operation, wherein the reference information includes at least one of: first information derived from or relating to one or more facilities maps; second information derived from or relating to one or more previous locate operations; and third information relating to one or more environmental landmarks in or proximate to the dig area; and E) controls the communication interface and/or the memory to electronically transmit and/or electronically store information relating to the completed locate request ticket and/or the quality assessment so as to provide a searchable electronic record of the locate operation.

8438031

11759480

1. A computer method of analyzing a recognized utterance recognized by performing voice recognition on a spoken utterance to generate at least one command for at least one of a plurality of speech enabled applications, the method for use with a foundation domain model including an ontology having a plurality of classes and definitions indicating relationships between the plurality of classes, a lexicon providing a dictionary of allowable words and indications of which of the plurality of classes each of the allowable words belongs to, and a syntax template defining how the plurality of classes may be linked together to form sentences the method comprising: providing a plurality of application domain models each associated with a respective one of the plurality of speech enabled applications, each one of the plurality of application models extending the foundation domain model with application specific information corresponding to the respective one of the plurality of speech enabled applications to form an extended ontology, an extended lexicon and an extended syntax template for the one of the plurality of application domain models; generating a plurality of grammatic specifications each corresponding to at least one of the plurality of application domain models, each grammatic specification configured to assign meaning to at least one recognized utterance based on the extended ontology, the extended lexicon and the extended syntax template of a respective one of the plurality of application domain models; identifying a target application from the plurality of speech enabled applications for which a recognized utterance is deemed to have been directed to; transforming the recognized utterance into at least one command based on the grammatic specification of the application domain model associated with the target application; and providing the at least one command to the target application for execution.

20030139860

10290621

1. A method of detecting engine sensor faults comprising the steps of: a) computing engine shaft horsepower for each of a plurality of engine sensors based upon respective input signals therefrom; b) computing a first mean horsepower from the plurality of engine sensors; c) computing the horsepower deviation from the first mean horsepower for each engine sensor; d) computing a horsepower deviation ratio for each engine sensor relative to all other engine sensors; e) disabling the engine sensor with the largest deviation from the first mean horsepower based upon the horsepower deviation ratio thereof; f) computing a second mean horsepower after disabling the sensor with the largest deviation from the first mean horsepower; g) computing the horsepower deviation from the second mean horsepower for each engine sensor; h) re-computing the horsepower deviation ratio for each engine sensor relative to all other engine sensors; i) comparing the horsepower deviation ratios to predefined limits; and j) declaring a sensor fault if the horsepower deviation ratio for an engine sensor exceeds a predefined limit.

8593073

12905968

1. A lighting control system comprising, in combination: (a) a light sensor; and (b) one or more processors; wherein the one or more processors are configured to: (i) to optimize a parameter regarding lighting, (ii) to calculate how to adjust outputs of respective light sources to maximize or minimize the parameter, (iii) to update a constraint in an optimization algorithm, after the sensor has been moved relative to a light source to a new position, by (A) taking a measurement of incident intensity at the new position, (B) calculating attenuation, by comparing the measurement to a reference value at a known distance from the light source, and (C) using the inverse square law to calculate a change in the constraint of the optimization algorithm.

20150262399

14657771

1. A computer-implemented method for providing tile data, the method comprising: collecting, using one or more processors, map data describing a map from a variety of resources; separating, using the one or more processors, the map data into multiple sets of layer data describing multiple layers of the map; dividing, using the one or more processors, each set of layer data into multiple sets of element data describing individual elements in each layer of the map; dividing, using the one or more processors, each set of layer data into multiple sets of tile data, each set of tile data describing a tile of the each layer of the map, each tile including one or more segments of the individual elements; and providing, using the one or more processors, the tile data.

8438572

12282489

1. A method of scheduling execution of a plurality of tasks by a processor, the processor having a processor memory, the processor being arranged to load into the processor memory, during execution of a current task, data for execution of a task that is scheduled for execution after the processor has completed the current task, the method comprising: executing by the processor a current task; scheduling a next task for execution by the processor; after scheduling the next task, determining whether there is a high priority task to be executed by the processor; and if there is a high priority task to be executed by the processor: determining whether the processor has begun loading data for execution of the next task into the processor memory; if the processor has not begun loading the data for execution of the next task into the processor memory, scheduling the high priority task, instead of the next task, for execution by the processor after the processor has completed the current task; and if the processor has begun loading the data for execution of the next task into the processor memory, maintaining the next task as scheduled for execution after the processor has completed the current task.

9719972

14675154

1. A system for determining the source of an air pollutant comprising: a network for receiving pollution data on at least one air pollutant from a plurality of stationary motor vehicles at different air quality measuring locations, wherein said pollution data is provided by a plurality of sensors integrated into the stationary motor vehicles, wherein said plurality of sensors include at least one pollution sensor that is integrated with a GPS system of the motor vehicle; a motion control module that controls said plurality of sensors to stop taking readings when said stationary motor vehicles are moving; and a pollutant source localization device including at least one hardware processor that is configured to produce an air pollution model using a partial differential equation (PDE) describing at least one of diffusion and advection of gasses, wherein integrating the pollution data into the air pollution model provides an origin of a pollutant source for the at least one air pollutant, wherein the PDE comprises: ∂ C/∂t+u∂C/∂x+v∂C/∂y+w∂C/∂z=K _ x (∂^2 C )/ ∂ x ^ 2+ K _ y (∂^2 C )/ ∂ y ^ 2+ K _ Z (∂^2 C )/ ∂ x ^ 2 wherein C is a scalar concentration field, x, y, z are space dimensions, t is a time dimension, u, v and w are wind speed velocities in x-, y- and z-directions respectively, and Kx, Ky, Kz are diffusion coefficients.

20050289108

11112255

1. A method for handling data, the method comprising: storing on a machine readable volume an Operating System (OS) and files and an index created from the files wherein the files include files of different file types; making the volume, after the storing, available for distribution to licensees or customers.

9811511

12725711

1. A method of dynamically allowing a user to select a configuration of viewable data displayed via a user's graphical user interface, the method comprising: selecting an order of displaying the viewable data on the graphical user interface; and executing a layout of the graphical user interface to include displaying the viewable data in a first cell portion of the layout of the graphical user interface in an order based on the selecting operation and a designated priority associated with the viewable data, wherein when the viewable data in the first cell portion of the layout fails to fit within the first cell portion and overlaps into another cell portion reserved for other viewable data, x and y coordinates of the first cell portion are incremented and a replacement operation for executing the layout is performed, and when a plurality of cells are displayed in the layout, a priority indicates an order for which the plurality of cells are displayed, and each of the priority of cells are assigned an identification that corresponds to the priority.

9613031

13076661

1. A computer-implemented method for providing a media profile, said method comprising: receiving at a host server first data from a first content distributor, said first data comprising an end-user's preferences associated with first media distributed from the first content distributor to the end-user; receiving at the host server second data from a second content distributor, said second data comprising the end-user's preferences associated with second media distributed from the second content distributor to the end-user; storing a media profile for the end-user on the host server, said media profile including (i) at least a subset of the first data comprising the end-user's preferences associated with the first media, and (ii) at least a subset of the second data comprising the end-user's preferences associated with the second media; and providing, via an application programming interface, at least a subset of the media profile to a requesting content distributor in response to a request from the requesting content distributor.

8583512

12982793

1. A computer-implemented method for generating customized shopping lists for a consumer, the method being performed by an intermediate computer in communication with a computing device of a consumer and respective computers of respective electronic sources through respective networks, the method comprising: the intermediate computer aggregating respective electronic transaction data from respective electronic sources, the aggregated item-level electronic transaction data representing respective prior purchases by the consumer from respective merchants; the intermediate computer determining respective purchase intervals of a plurality of respective items purchased by the consumer from respective merchants, respective purchase intervals being based at least in part upon respective item-level electronic transaction data representing prior purchases of respective items by the consumer; the intermediate computer determining respective estimated dates when the consumer will purchase respective items again based at least in part upon respective purchase intervals; and the intermediate computer generating a plurality of shopping lists for a particular estimated date, the plurality of shopping lists comprising respective items to be purchased by the consumer from respective different merchants based at least in part upon prior purchases by the consumer from the different merchants.

8384583

12802400

1. A synthetic aperture radar system for monitoring ground and structure movements, said system comprising at least the following mechanical and electronic components: a ground based platform including a measurement interferometric and polarimetric sensor, an embedded power supply and connection unit, a linear positioner provided with a movable carriage, and a measuring head; an embedded main system control unit, an embedded electromagnetic wave generator and receiver module controlled by said unit, comprising a continuous—wave stepped—frequency scatterometer, a motor control and managing unit, an embedded UPS module including an embedded buffer battery; an I/O managing module, an embedded calibrated videocamera or photocamera, an embedded. GPS receiver module, an embedded display and an alphanumeric keypad, an embedded LAN module, an embedded mass storage module, an embedded GSM/GPRS/UMTS module, an embedded WLAN module, and embedded standard interfaces for assembling laser scanners and topographic instrument reflectors; whereby all the mechanical components of said system are provided with unique reference marks and points or connections, characterized in that, to perform a measurement, said measuring head is initially driven along a linear track with a constant speed in an “on the fly” acquisition mode of operation; and wherein during a constant speed movement, the system acquires data needed to process a single radar image.

7702931

11475418

1. A computer implemented method of adjusting power budgets of multiple servers within a data center, comprising: organizing the multiple servers into hierarchical groups; dividing a total power budget among the hierarchical groups; and assigning power consumption levels to individual members of a particular hierarchical group such that the sum total of the assigned power consumption levels does not exceed the total power budget for the particular hierarchical group; wherein the act of dividing is dynamic with respect to time.

20150127651

14595144

1. A computer-implemented system for grafting cluster spines, comprising: a spine module to obtain cluster spines, each cluster spine comprising two or more clusters of documents; a vector module to generate a score vector for each of the cluster spines based on the documents within the clusters for that spine; a comparison module to compare the score vectors of the cluster spines; a placement module to place in a display those cluster spines that are sufficiently dissimilar from the other cluster spines based on the comparison; and a grafting module to graft at least one remaining cluster spine onto one of the displayed spines such that no overlap of the placed spine and the remaining spine occurs.

8825713

11900740

1. A method, comprising: presenting a user interface to receive user input specifying a database for a business process management (BPM) system operable with a plurality of database types, the plurality of database types comprising three or more separate database types, wherein the user input specifying the database does not comprise an indication of a database type of the database for the BPM system or differences between the database and other databases of the plurality types; installing the BPM system, wherein the installing comprises creating a schema for the database using a database definition comprising uniform elements and parameters supported by all of the plurality of database types, the database definition specifying tables, table columns and data types, wherein the data types are recognizable by all of the plurality of database types, each of the plurality of database types having one or more features that are inapplicable to other ones of the plurality of database types; executing, by a processing device, a definition of a business process using the BPM system, the definition of the business process being expressed in a business process language; and when executing the definition of business process, accessing, by the BPM system, the database, wherein accessing the database comprises receiving a request pertaining to a data object, mapping, using a mapping document, the data object to a database element in the schema for the database, wherein the mapping document is separate from the database definition and the mapping document specifies database elements and element properties that are uniform for all databases supported by the BPM system, the properties being recognizable by any of the plurality of database types, and performing a database operation for the database element according to the request.

20150179529

14133840

1. A method for analyzing a tiered semiconductor structure, comprising: defining one or more segments for a tiered semiconductor structure, the one or more segments comprising a first segment; determining a set of thermal properties for the first segment; performing electrical analysis on the first segment based upon at least one of an initial temperature or a time period to obtain a first power metric; determining a new temperature for the first segment based upon the first power metric and the set of thermal properties; and utilizing the new temperature to determine a thermal analysis characteristic for the first segment.

7941831

11704844

1. A computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, implement components comprising: an authentication component that, when executed by the at least one processor, performs a method for authenticating an entity using first credential information, wherein, during authentication, the authentication component may identify that second credential information is required to complete the method for authenticating; an interface component that: receives the first credential information from at least one application component and provides the first credential information to the authentication component; when the authentication component identifies that second credential information is required to complete the method for authenticating, notifies the at least one application component that the second credential information is required; and after the at least one application obtains the second credential information in response to the notification from the interface component, provides the second credential information to the authentication component; and the at least one application component, separate from the authentication component, that, when executed by the at least one processor, obtains the first credential information and the second credential information for the entity by: generating at least one user interface in the context of the at least one application component; and collecting the first credential information and the second credential information via the at least one user interface.

20180068219

15560401

1. A system comprising: a processing device; and a memory device in which instructions executable by the processing device are stored for causing the processing device to: receive a plurality of predictor variables, wherein each predictor variable corresponds to an entity; determine a correlation between each predictor variable and an outcome; generate a neural network that includes a hidden layer for determining a relationship between each predictor variable and a risk indicator based on the correlation, wherein the risk indicator is a level of risk associated with the entity and wherein the neural network is operable for determining whether a monotonic relationship exists between each predictor variable and the risk indicator; and iteratively adjust the neural network so that the monotonic relationship exists between each predictor variable and the risk indicator as determined by the neural network, wherein the processing device is configured to: adjust the neural network by adjusting at least one of a number of nodes in the hidden layer of the neural network, a predictor variable in the plurality of predictor variables, or a number of layers in the neural network; determine, using the neural network, the risk indicator based at least partially on the predictor variables after the monotonic relationship exists between each predictor variable and the risk indicator; determine, based on a rate of change of the risk indicator with respect to the predictor variable, that the monotonic relationship exists between each predictor variable and the risk indicator; determine, using the neural network, an impact of each predictor variable on the risk indicator; and generate, using the neural network, an adverse action code associated with each predictor variable that indicates the impact of each predictor variable on the risk indicator.

20150279118

14224575

1. A method comprising: receiving a plurality of video frames comprising a current frame and at least one previous frame, wherein each of the plurality of video frames includes data for a corresponding image and data for a corresponding depth map; receiving a reference model comprising data from the at least one previous frame, the reference model including data representing a reference surface corresponding to at least one dynamic object captured in the plurality of video frames; processing the data representing the depth map of the current frame to produce data for a directional distance function (DDF) field that represents an area surrounding a target surface of the at least one dynamic object captured in the current frame; generating a forward transformation that modifies the data representing the reference surface to align with data representing the target surface; calculating a backward transformation that modifies data representing the target surface of the current frame to align with the reference surface, wherein the backward transformation uses at least a portion of the forward transformation; generating a transformed DDF by applying the backward transformation to the DDF; and updating the reference model with the transformed DDF to produce data for an updated reference model.

20030038963

09747650

1. A printing interface apparatus comprising: a wireless communication component that is configured to receive electronic document information over a wireless connection, wherein the electronic document information is associated with one or more electronic documents; a printer interface component that is configured to communicate said electronic document information to a printing device for generating a hard copy of said one or more electronic documents; and a payment component that is configured to control the printing of documents by requiring a monetary payment prior to generating said hard copy of said one or more electronic documents.

20080222210

12045306

1. A method for handling Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) updates to entities, the method comprising: receiving at least one update to be applied to a UDDI entity within a UDDI registry; applying each received update to the UDDI entity; detecting at least one subscriber of the entity; changing a status indicator for each detected subscriber to indicate that a subscription to the entity has been deleted, wherein the change to the status indicator negates a need to scan the subscriptions associated with the entity for each received update to the entity.

8560667

11739946

1. An analysis apparatus for carrying out an analysis for responses of a computer system including a plurality of servers, comprising: a unit to obtain data concerning a CPU utilization ratio of each of said plurality of servers from said computer system; a storage device; a unit to obtain processing history data generated in said computer system, to generate data of a request frequency by users of said computer system, and to store said data of said request frequency into said storage device; and an estimate unit to estimate an average delay time in each said server by using said CPU utilization ratio of each said server and said request frequency stored in said storage device, and wherein said estimate unit comprises: a consumed CPU time estimate unit to estimate an average consumed CPU time per one request for each said server by carrying out a regression analysis using said CPU utilization ratio of each said server and said request frequency; and a server delay time estimate unit to estimate an average delay time in each said server by using said average consumed CPU time per one request for each said server and said CPU utilization ratio of each said server, and said consumed CPU time estimate unit calculates inclination of a regression straight line on a plane mapped by said CPU utilization ratio and said request frequency as said average consumed CPU time per one request for each said server.

9022974

13349058

1. A device, comprising: one or more processors; and a memory operatively coupled to the one or more processors, the memory storing signals which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive input information relating to one or more physiologic processes of a patient, determine a predicted change in a physiologic parameter of the patient in response to intravenous administration of a fluid bolus to the patient for the purpose of intravascular volume expansion wherein the predicted change is based at least in part on the input information, and generate a fluid administration signal in response to the predicted change wherein the fluid administration signal is useable to control the administration of an intravenous fluid to the patient in order to effect intravascular volume expansion.

8108293

12685060

1. A trading floor administrator computer for an electronic trading system for trading products between potential counterparties, wherein each of the potential counterparties is at least one of a parent counterparty associated with a parent trading floor code and a dependent counterparty associated with a dependent trading floor code dependent on a parent trading floor code, the trading floor administrator computer comprising: a data store configured to store counterparty trading limits of at least one parent counterparty with at least one other counterparty for trades to buy or sell products on the electronic trading system using the dependent trading floor code associated with a dependent counterparty, said dependent trading floor code dependent on the parent trading floor code associated with the at least one parent counterparty; and an interface configured to communicate a market view based on the counterparty trading limits stored in the data store to at least one trader terminal of the at least one dependent counterparty using the dependent trading floor code dependent on the parent trading floor code associated with the at least one parent counterparty and using the counterparty trading limits of the at least one parent counterparty stored in the data store.

20090171932

11965256

1. A method for annotating and ranking a user review personalized to prior user experience, the method comprising: generating a collection of content items for which a user has previously expressed interest, a reference to the collection of content items stored in a user profile; identifying a new content item that is not contained in the collection of content items, the new content item comprising one or more objective attributes; and providing a reference framework to interpret the new content item in view of one or more common objective attributes for a given one of the one or more content items in the collection of content items.

7797712

12164562

1. A method of displaying information in an interactive electronic program guide (IPG) comprising: displaying a plurality of television program listings, wherein each television program listing corresponds to a television program; providing a cursor; providing an interactive information region; displaying information personalized to a user in the interactive information region; receiving a first input from the user confirming receipt of the personalized information; displaying, responsive to the first input, advertisement information in the interactive information region in place of the personalized information, wherein the displayed advertisement information corresponds to a first television program; positioning the cursor over the interactive information region and receiving a second input from the user selecting the interactive advertisement information region over which the cursor is positioned; and displaying, responsive to the second input, further information about the first television program.

9946887

13487787

1. A method comprising: determining at least one value for at least one instance of data, wherein the data comprises biometric data measurements of a user derived from a biometric sensor signal and at least one test result associated with an efficacy test, wherein the at least one value comprises at least one actual measurement of the biometric data measurements; determining an efficacy estimation of a product for the user based upon an analysis of the at least one value and information about seasonal, regional, or individual variations specific to the user; determining at least one privacy policy, at least one security policy, or a combination thereof based, at least in part, on the determined efficacy estimation and one or more parameters for sharing the at least one instance of data and the determined at least one value with other users or entities; applying, using a processor, the at least one privacy policy, the at least one security policy, or a combination thereof with respect to the at least one instance of data; and initiating, using the processor, a sharing of the at least one instance of data to a social networking platform based, at least in part, on the applied at least one privacy policy, the at least one security policy, or a combination thereof.

8681855

12734076

1. An apparatus, comprising: an encoder for encoding bi-predictable picture data for at least a portion of a picture using adaptive geometric partitioning, wherein geometric partitions for the adaptive geometric partitioning are predicted using at least one predictor selected from a first set of predictors corresponding to a first list of reference pictures, a second set of predictors corresponding to a second list of reference pictures, and a third set of predictors used for bi-prediction and including predictors from at least one of the first and second sets.

8543656

13251261

1. A method of enhancing an e-mail user interface by an e-mail application, comprising: identifying by the receiving e-mail application an e-mail having one or more attachments having content that can be visually rendered; rendering a window at a location proximate to said e-mail on an inbox view list of e-mails to provide to a user a visual connection to said e-mail; providing within said window user controls to enable selection and display of one or a sequence of said attachments without opening said e-mail, wherein said attachments comprise a plurality of images and said user controls within said window enable rendering successive ones of a sequence of said images, where at least one of said images is not visible within said window with other ones of said images; and rendering an image of the content of an attachment of said e-mail within said window such that a majority of said content is visible within said image, said image being sized to fit within the window without scrolling.

10033572

14644336

1. A method for improving resiliency in computing components functioning according to a multilayered Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model in a network architecture running Ethernet or Internet protocols, by a processor device, comprising: upon detection of at least one transient quality of service (QoS) event associated with a network health within a specified layer of the network architecture, providing a notification of the event in an inter-layer basis, such that a responsible entity comprising an entity which detected the event manages the event by forwarding the notification describing the event to each device in the network architecture on the inter-layer basis according to an OSI model-wide system; wherein forwarding the notification on the inter-layer basis further includes end port devices sending the notification, switch devices flooding the notification from all ports, and router devices broadcasting or multicasting the notification from all subnets thereby providing the notification on the inter-layer basis so as to notify at least all layer 2 and layer 3 devices in the network architecture of the detected at least one transient QoS event.

20030065716

10242538

1. A service providing system, comprising: a plurality of terminals, each of the terminals having a unique device ID, wherein each of the terminals transmits the respective device ID when accessing the system; and a server including a specification information table storing specifications of the terminals, each of the specifications corresponding to one of the device IDs, wherein the server receives the device IDs and provides the terminals with services of the corresponding specifications.

20130335436

13757161

1. A method, comprising: displaying a timeline; determining that a plurality of events to be displayed within the timeline will not fit within the timeline; grouping the plurality of events into a first group of events and a second group of events; displaying the first group of events within the timeline; and displaying an icon within the timeline, wherein the icon represents one or more events of the second group of events; wherein a first visual characteristic of the icon represents a temporal position of the one or more events; and wherein a second visual characteristic of the icon represents an amount of the one or more events.

9947342

14205602

1. A gamification system for presenting analysis of speech audio signals in real-time, the system comprising: a real-time audio capture system configured to receive source conversational audio signals of current audio involving an agent and convert the received audio signals into analyzable digital audio as streamed audio conversational signals at low-latency; a real-time signal processing system configured to apply metrics to transform the streamed audio conversational signals into computed streamed behavioral signals at low-latency; an application server configured to provide the computed streamed behavioral signals to a computing device of the agent; and an agent dashboard operated on the computing device of the agent, the agent dashboard configured to display the computed streamed behavioral signals and gamification objectives for the agent, wherein the gamification system enables real-time comparison of computed streamed behavioral signals and displayed gamification objectives; wherein the gamification objectives include one or more target metrics that are identified using machine learning techniques to produce positive outcomes; and wherein the computed streamed behavioral signals are metrics comprising any of conversational participation computations, conversational flow computations, dynamic variation computations, speaking rate computations, vocal effort computations, and hyper/hypo articulation computations.

20110158527

13061235

1. A method, comprising: subdividing an image into a plurality of sub-images; applying a plurality of color constancy algorithms to each of the sub-images; determining which of the color constancy algorithms give inconsistent results across the sub-images; adjusting the influence of the outputs of the algorithms providing inconsistent results to decrease their influence with respect to the outputs of algorithms providing consistent results; and combining the outputs of the plurality of color constancy algorithms based upon the adjustment of the outputs.

20130104112

13280122

1. A method for pre-parsing headers comprising: scanning one or more header files on a computing device into a tokenized form; parsing the tokenized form on the computing device into one or more abstract syntax trees; and creating one or more pre-parsed headers for the one or more header files, by serializing in a modular form the one or more abstract syntax trees to a storage device.

20040153331

10360451

1. A method for extracting an implied value of a component associated with a plurality of product packages, said method comprising: receiving data associated with a plurality of product packages, said data comprises product package price data associated with said plurality of product packages; processing said data utilizing a mathematical optimization to produce first output data; and processing said first output data with a statistical regression to produce second output data comprising an estimated value and its standard error of said component associated with said plurality of product packages.

20060143646

11021576

1. A communications manager within a presence system, said communications manager comprising: an event detector capable of detecting the occurrence of an event associated with at least one of a presentity and a watcher; and a controller operable to automatically modify a status of a presence subscription of said watcher for receiving presence information of said presentity in response to detection of said event.