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9098681 | 13793628 | 1 | 1. Apparatus personalized music or entertainment, comprising: electronic circuitry and/or processor(s) that: obtain a cumulative-time of playback or presentation, of a composition to a user; obtain a time when said composition was previously played or presented to said user; determine a target time for playback or presentation of said composition to said user, that at least partially based on: said cumulative-time, and said time when said composition was previously played or presented to said user; initiate a playback or presentation of said composition to said user, at least partially based on said target time for playback or presentation. |
20040028082 | 10013825 | 0 | 1. A method for allowing an adaptable electronic device to be adapted prior to sale to an end user, wherein the device is sold by a retailer, the method comprising the following steps performed by the retailer obtaining an order for a device with first functionality; adapting the device with the first functionality; and selling the device with the first functionality to an end user. |
8543414 | 12301815 | 1 | 1. A system for automatically selecting question contents, the system comprising: an input device that receives as input: a question group having at least one question including an inquiry for testing knowledge about health and a plurality of answer options to the inquiry; an answer by a respondent to the question of the question group; a right answer setting for setting whether or not each of the answer options is a right answer; a right answer rate (RAR) threshold for the question group; a vital sign measurement value of the respondent; and a vital sign measurement value threshold; a storage device that stores: the question group; the right answer setting; the RAR threshold; the vital sign measurement value threshold; and a batch comprising a plurality of question groups, the plurality of question groups being classified into education levels or symptom levels of the respondant and being classified into a matrix having two or more axes, one axis related to the RAR threshold and another axis related to the vital sign measurement value threshold; a controller, comprising a processor, that selects a question group from the batch comprising the plurality of question groups to assign to the respondent, based on: a RAR comparison result obtained by comparing a RAR of answers by the respondent, calculated from answers input by the respondent through the input and the right answer setting stored in the storage, and the RAR threshold for the question group which the respondent answers; and a vital sign measurement value comparison result obtained by comparing the vital sign measurement value of the respondent, received through the input, and the vital sign measurement value threshold stored in the storage; and a display that displays: the inquiry and the answer options of the question of the question group which the controller assigned to the respondent; and the RAR comparison result and the vital sign measurement value comparison result. |
20160344828 | 15158989 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: in an electronic data repository, storing individually addressable document elements for a plurality of documents, each of at least some of the document elements having one or more associated topics; and using one or more computer processors, tracking user interactions with the document elements and storing, for each of the interactions, at least an identifier of the document element interacted with and an identifier of the interacting user; and determining, for each of at least some of the interacting users, at least one of an interest or a field of expertise based at least in part on the tracked user interactions of that user and the topics associated with the interacted-with document elements. |
8751428 | 13887115 | 1 | 1. A digital conversation generation processor-implemented method, comprising: creating a dialogue agent; populating the created dialogue agent application on a dialogue platform; receiving a dialogue action from an individual target via the dialogue platform; generating a dialogue line in response to the received dialogue action via the dialogue agent; recording an interactive dialogue comprising the dialogue action and the generated dialogue line; retrieving the recorded interactive dialogue between the individual target and the dialogue agent; determining a plurality of parameters associated with the interactive dialogue; allocating a value point to each dialogue element of the interactive dialogue; receiving pricing information from an exchange; adjusting the allocated value point of each dialogue element based on the received pricing information; creating a digital asset comprising at least the retrieved interactive dialogue associated with the allocated value point to each dialogue element of the interactive dialogue; receiving information indicating a demand for a digital conversation asset; determining a type of the demanded digital conversation asset; initializing an exchange procedure for the determined type of the demanded digital conversation asset; obtaining information required by the exchange procedure for the determined type of the demanded digital conversation asset; and determining a value for the demanded digital conversation asset at least based on the obtained information for the determined type of the demanded digital conversation asset and the allocated value point to each dialogue element of the interactive dialogue; instantiating the created digital asset; generating a tradable financial instrument based on the instantiated digital asset; determining a price for the tradable financial instrument; and facilitate a transaction of the financial instrument between an owner of the digital asset and a participant. |
10079712 | 15482052 | 1 | 1. A brokering device managing content information, the brokering device comprising: an interface device causing selection of the content information, the interface device providing the content information to a user device without requiring specification of a protocol; a controlling device accessing the content information, the controlling device providing the content information to the user device based on a policy; a discovery device operatively coupled to the controlling device, the discovery device comprising a self-registering feature, the self-registering feature retrieving information associated with at least one of a device discovery protocol and a content discovery protocol, wherein the device discovery protocol obtains information relating to multimedia devices from multimedia device descriptors and the content discovery protocol obtains information relating to multimedia content files from multimedia content descriptors, and wherein the device discovery protocol and the content discovery protocol retrieve and match multimedia content files and multimedia devices; and a rule device providing the policy, the policy comprising one of an internal policy, external policy, the policy causing discovery of a set of the content information wherein the policy allows discovery of a limited set of multimedia content files and multimedia devices. |
8909611 | 11428333 | 1 | 1. A method of operating a content management system, the content management system including a central server and a plurality of content servers connected to the central server, each content server associated with a respective location, comprising: receiving data at the central server for distribution to at least one of the content servers; accessing, by the central server responsive to said receiving data at the central server for distribution to the at least one of the content servers, user information relating to one or more users at one or more locations, wherein the user information contains the locations and job titles of users located at each one of the respective locations of the content servers; determining, responsive to the accessing of the user information, and based on the user locations and job titles contained in the accessed user information, on the received data, and on locations of the content servers, whether the received data is needed by users located at individual ones of the respective locations of the content servers; and selectively transmitting the data from the central server to one or more content servers responsive to the determining whether the data is needed by users at the respective locations of the content servers, such that the data is only transmitted to at least one of the content servers where the data is needed by users at the same location. |
20110161096 | 12647811 | 0 | 1. A healthcare services analysis and visualization system, the system comprising: a data store to store data related to healthcare services provided in at least one geographic region; a processor to retrieve and sort data from the data store based on one or more criteria, analyze the sorted data, and transform the sorted data into a geographical map representation of the healthcare services data; and a user interface to display the geographical map representation of the healthcare services data and facilitate user review and interaction with the geographical map representation and the underlying healthcare services data. |
9317354 | 14169292 | 1 | 1. A system, comprising: one or more computer processors; and a memory containing a program, which when executed by the one or more computer processors, performs an operation comprising: responsive to an occurrence of an error on a computing system, selecting, based on one or more policy attributes, a first systems management application from a plurality of systems management applications registered to manage the computing system; generating an event notification including an identifier for the first systems management application; and transmitting the event notification to the first systems management application for reporting to a remote service. |
9152718 | 13960515 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: obtaining, by one or more processing devices, a first set of document information extracted from a shallow crawl of a first set of untargeted Websites, the first set of untargeted Web sites comprising at least one document for which document information is unavailable, wherein, for the at least one document, the first set of document information comprises an estimate of document information for the at least one document, the estimate being based on a classification of the at least one document among the first set of untargeted Websites; obtaining, by one or more processing devices, a second set of document information extracted from a deep crawl of a second set of targeted Websites, the second set of targeted Websites being different from the first set of untargeted Websites, the targeted Websites comprising Websites provided by content providers having available spots for receiving content, and the targeted Websites comprising content about which information has not been previously obtained or stored; and serving, by one or more processing devices, content using at least one of the first set of document information or the second set of document information. |
7750911 | 11676656 | 1 | 1. A drawing system, comprising: a computer system having a display and a pen input device having a pen stylus; the computer system having curve model generation software running thereon; the curve model generation software responsive to one or more strokes of made with the pen stylus to sketch a first 2D curve and generating a first 2D vector curve therefrom; the curve model generation software displaying a guide on the display to guide the user in sketching a second curve; the curve model generation software responsive to one or more strokes made by the user with the pen stylus to sketch a second 2D curve and generating a second 2D vector curve therefrom; and the curve model generation software generating a pair of mirror symmetric 3D vector curves from the first and second 2D vector curves which are displayed on a canvas displayed on the display; wherein the generation of the pair of the mirror symmetric 3D curves by the curve model generation software generates the pair of mirror symmetric 3D includes the curve model generation software: calculating 3D curve c 1 on the display from the first 2D vector curve; creating a ray surface R starting from an eye position e and containing c 1 ; creating a mirrored ray surface R M of R where R M starts from a mirrored eye position e M ; displaying R M on the display where R M converges to a vanishing point and provides the guide for the sketching of the second 2D curve; calculating a second 3D curve c 2 from the second 2D vector curve; creating a 3D curve C 2 by projecting C 2 onto R M ; and creating 3D curve C 1 by mirroring C 2 where 3D curves C 1 and C 2 are the pair of mirror symmetric 3D curves. |
8201223 | 11934574 | 1 | 1. A system for constraining computer use by a user, the system comprising: a computer system including a memory and a controller coupled to the memory, the memory storing at least one constraint specifying a computer user activity to be controlled, the computer system being configured to: read the at least one constraint from the memory; receive an indication that the user is attempting to perform the computer user activity using the computer system; and control the computer user activity on the computer system according to the at least one constraint, wherein control according to the at least one constraint either restricts each instance of the computer user activity to an automatically titrated duration with a progressively decreasing duration or automatically causes the user to engage in a cognitive restructuring exercise. |
9788061 | 14084029 | 1 | 1. A method for recommending media content, the method comprising: receiving, using control circuitry, an activity datum, related to an activity being performed by a given user, wherein the activity is unrelated to media consumption; generating, using the control circuitry, a database of media asset identifiers associated with activities by: monitoring a plurality of users to identify a plurality of activities performed by the plurality of users, each of the plurality of activities being unrelated to media consumption; for each of the plurality of activities, identifying which media asset was accessed by a respective one of the plurality of users who performed a first of the plurality of activities, wherein the identified media asset was accessed by the respective one of the plurality of users after the respective one of the plurality of users finished performing the first activity; and for each of the plurality of activities, storing an identifier of the media asset identified as having been accessed by the respective one of the plurality of users; determining, using the control circuitry, based on the received activity datum, which of the plurality of activities in the database matches the activity performed by the given user; retrieving, using the control circuitry, from the database the identifier of the media asset associated with the determined activity; determining, using the control circuitry, whether the media asset corresponding to the retrieved identifier is available to the given user following the activity performed by the given user; and in response to determining the media asset corresponding to the retrieved identifier is available to the given user, generating, using the control circuitry, a recommendation of the media asset corresponding to the retrieved identifier to the given user for display on a display device. |
9015844 | 13532327 | 1 | 1. A method for web application vulnerability scanning comprising the steps of: crawling a web application for content associated with the web application, including generating dynamic interactions with interface elements to elicit additional dynamic content; generating a client security policy based on the content associated with the web application; deriving test vectors from the client security policy; simulating at least one user interaction with the web application using an augmented web browser that is configured to enforce the client security policy during a simulation; and scanning the web application for vulnerabilities by comparing an observed behavior of the web application in response to the at least one simulated user interaction to an allowed behavior defined by the generated client security policy. |
9473313 | 13122058 | 1 | 1. A method for dynamically provisioning at least one of a network and a portable electronic device connectable to said network via one or more communication links comprising: receiving a network state of said network at a provisioning engine connected to said network, said network state indicating an availability for each of said communication links; accessing a normal profile associated with said portable electronic device at said provisioning engine, said normal profile indicating whether said portable electronic device is permitted to communicate via each of said communication links, and wherein said normal profile comprises an identifier of a first one of said communication links based on a first protocol; determining, at said provisioning engine, if none of said communication links indicated as being permitted in said normal profile are indicated as being available in said network state, said determining performed by comparing said communication links indicated as being permitted in said normal profile with said communication links indicated as being available in said network state; when none of said communication links indicated as being permitted in said normal profile are indicated as being available in said network state: generating a plurality of alternative profiles at said provisioning engine, each alternative profile including a price plan and connection settings; sending a message identifying each of said alternative profiles from said provisioning engine to said portable electronic device for display at said portable electronic device; receiving a selection of one of said alternative profiles at said provisioning engine from said portable electronic device; and provisioning said portable electronic device within said network, by sending updated provisioning data, including said price plan and connection settings contained within said selected alternative profile, from said provisioning engine to at least one network element, according to said selected alternative profile; wherein said selected alternative profile comprises an identifier of a second one of said communication links, wherein said selected alternative profile includes a modified billing rate associated with said second link, and wherein said modified billing rate is equal to or less than a billing rate associated with said normal profile. |
20090140683 | 12050338 | 0 | 1. A tutorial learning method for a rehabilitation robot, comprising at least steps of: providing a rehabilitation robot, comprising at least a motor capable of controlling the joints of the rehabilitation robot and a tutorial learning module capable of providing tutorial learning in a rehabilitation mode; performing a tutorial learning mode capable of registering motor actuation parameters into the tutorial learning module; and performing rehabilitation mode for accessing the motor actuation parameters and transmitting the motor actuation parameters to the motor. |
20150188854 | 14145017 | 0 | 1. A method, comprising: identifying a message that is associated with two or more users, wherein the users include a sender and one or more recipients, and wherein the message includes one or more terms; determining one or more vague terms of the terms; identifying a user-restricted database, wherein the user-restricted database is associated with a given user of the users and includes content personal to the given user, and wherein access to the user-restricted database is limitable by the given user; determining, based on the user-restricted database, additional information that is related to the vague term; and providing the additional information to at least one of the users. |
20100125952 | 12324497 | 0 | 1. An adjustable bed, comprising: an occupant support having adjustable settings that include an elevation, a profile and an angular orientation; an interface for allowing desired values of the adjustable settings to be individually commanded; a single-action boost control for commanding a boost configuration comprising a boost elevation setting, a boost profile setting and a boost angular orientation setting; and an adjustment system for adjusting the adjustable settings to the desired values in response to inputs to the interface and for adjusting the elevation, profile and angular orientation to the boost configuration settings in response to input applied to the single-action boost control. |
20120072432 | 13237844 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: at a social-networking site, presenting a network update interface including a presentation of selected network-update information and a plurality of facet-filter selection panels, the network update interface configured to be accessed by a user of a social-networking service; receiving a selection of facet-filter characteristics through at least one of the plurality of facet-filter selection panels from a device of the user; filtering network-update information generated by further users of the social-networking service with a facet-filter configured according to the selected facet-filter characteristics to produce facet-filtered network-update information; and communicating the facet-filtered network-update information to the social-networking site to update the presentation of selected network-update information. |
20050255861 | 10984618 | 0 | 1. In a system for providing telecommunication services between multiple mobile devices and multiple network access points, an apparatus comprising: at least one location server coupled among at least some of the network access points; at least one database coupled with the location server, wherein the database includes location information regarding points of interest, wherein at least some of the points of interest are associated with point of interest categories, and wherein the database further includes point of interest records associated with at least some of the multiple mobile devices, wherein each of the point of interest records includes at least one user-defined set of two or more point of interest categories; and wherein the location server is configured to: receive a command via one of the network access points, wherein the command is based on a single command from a user's mobile device to locate current points of interest closest to a current geographic location of the user's mobile device, wherein each of the current points of interest are associated with one of the two or more point of interest categories in a point of interest record associated with the user's mobile device; obtain the current geographic location of the user's mobile device; query the database for location information for points of interest that a) are closest to the current geographic location of the user's mobile device, and b) are associated with the point of interest categories in the user-defined set; provide, to the user's mobile device, a list of points of interest for each point of interest category in the user-defined set that are closest to the current geographic location of the user's mobile device; and provide additional options to the user based on the list of points of interest. |
20060195392 | 11350077 | 0 | 1. A computer implemented method for securing a loan, made between a lender and a borrower, with an insurance policy, the method comprising: pursuant to a first agreement between said lender, said borrower, and an intermediary: naming, by the borrower as record owner of the insurance policy, the intermediary as record owner of the insurance policy; holding, by the intermediary, said insurance policy as a financial asset, in a security account; and disbursing, by the lender, the loan to said borrower in accordance with a loan agreement; wherein said first agreement permits said lender to become the record owner of the insurance policy if said borrower is in default of said loan agreement. |
9195985 | 11448767 | 1 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a computer system, an authorization request from a merchant for a transaction, wherein the authorization request indicates that the transaction has been initiated using a first transaction instrument corresponding to a user; based on the authorization request, the computer system determining a second transaction instrument corresponding to the user; the computer system analyzing transaction data for the transaction, wherein the analyzing includes determining whether the transaction data at least partially corresponds to particular transaction data associated with the second transaction instrument; and based on said analyzing, the computer system transmitting a response to the authorization request to the merchant, wherein the response indicates whether the transaction is authorized. |
10121213 | 15459157 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method for recommending a property listing, the method being executed by one or more processors and comprising: compiling subjective information associated with the property listing; receiving preferred criteria from a user device; receiving, from the user device, a selection of items in a user profile; and transmitting the property listing to the user device based on a determination that the compiled subjective information associated with the property listing correlates to the preferred criteria and the selection of items in the user profile correlates to the selection of items in other user profiles, wherein the other user profiles are associated with other locations in proximity to the property listing. |
20080086397 | 11867479 | 0 | 1. An automated transaction processing system for electronically processing transactions involving buyers and sellers using, for each transaction, electronic profile data that is appropriate to each buyer/seller pairing and a contract data set defined as a function of the buyer and a predefined business relationship between the buyer and at least one seller, the system comprising: a transaction processor arrangement to process electronic transactions according to the stored contract data sets and profile data, the transaction processor arrangement comprising a computer-implemented auditing engine to, for each transaction involving a buyer and at least one seller, audit transaction data using a stored contract data set for the transaction, and generate computer-readable audit data characterizing the audit, a computer-implemented payment processor to finance and process electronic payment to a seller financial institution in response to generated audit data indicating that payment to the seller is appropriate for at least one transaction involving the seller and a buyer, and a computer-implemented fee assessment engine to assess a transaction processing fee, for each seller to which electronic payment is made, by generating computer-readable fee data that associates the fee and a fee amount with a seller for which the fee data is generated. |
10164431 | 15071402 | 1 | 1. A system, comprising: a memory to store executable instructions; and a processor coupled to the memory, that executes or facilitates execution of the executable instructions to perform operations, comprising: generating network topology data, indicative of a topology for an electrical energy distribution system associated with a power outage, based on connectivity data indicative of a connectivity status for devices in the electrical energy distribution system; determining, based on the network topology data, a first set of devices from the devices that are de-energized; determining a second set of devices from the devices that are not included in the first set of devices, wherein the second set of devices is indicative of a set of candidate devices for the power outage that is not confirmed to be de-energized; updating, based on meter data indicative of meter readings provided by a set of relay devices associated with the second set of devices indicative of the set of candidate devices for the power outage, the network topology data to generate updated network topology data; and identifying, based on the updated network topology data, a device from the second set of devices that satisfies a criterion associated with the power outage. |
9537630 | 14349365 | 1 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a user equipment from a network, a plurality of separate periodic control information cap values, each defining a maximum amount of resources that can be used in a subframe for transmitting periodic channel state information reports over a specific type of physical uplink control channel format; ranking periodic channel state information reports based on one or more predetermined criteria, wherein the periodic channel state information reports correspond to the user equipment; selecting, for a specific type of physical uplink control channel format, a set of highest ranking periodic channel state information reports on the basis of a corresponding control information cap value; and multiplexing the selected set of highest ranking periodic channel state information reports into the same subframe for transmission to the network. |
10061835 | 14064600 | 1 | 1. A method carried out by a computing system comprising a processor and non-transitory data storage containing instructions executable by the processor for carrying out the method, the method comprising: presenting via a user interface display, a plurality of data-input fields in a computer-based form having an associated default order for user entry of respective values in the respective data-input fields, wherein arrangement of the data-input fields of the computer-based form suggest the associated default order in which the respective values should be entered responded to; receiving respective user entered values via the user interface in the respective data-input fields; storing a respective current counter value of an incrementing counter in association with receiving each respective user entered value; establishing a respective user-confidence level for each of one or more of the respective user entered values, wherein each established user-confidence level is set based at least in part on a comparison of the associated default order with a set of one or more of the stored counter values, wherein the stored counter values indicate a departure from the default order; and outputting, to the user interface display, the established user-confidence levels, and wherein departure from the associated default order results in displaying higher and lower user-confidence levels of the user entered values as compared to the user-confidence levels associated with the default order, wherein departure from the associated default order further establishes greater user-confidence levels for data-input fields which are entered as compared to data-input fields which are skipped, without requiring user entry of a confidence level. |
8140447 | 12099812 | 1 | 1. A method on a computer for regression from interval target values, comprising: reading training data comprising an interval output; estimating an initial model; assigning representative values for the interval output of the training data using the initial model; estimating a regression model using the representative values for the interval output of the training data; determining on the computer whether the regression model converges by alternating between evaluating a linear Gaussian model and an expectation-maximization algorithm until the regression model converges; iterating the step of assigning representative values for the interval output and iterating the step of estimating the regression model using the representative values for the interval output, in response to the regression model not converging; and outputting the regression model, in response to the regression model converging. |
20050288890 | 10860521 | 0 | 1. A method for assessing available clearance of a pattern of features, including the step of: determining a float remaining figure having size and location indicative of float remaining in the pattern. |
8224195 | 12515987 | 1 | 1. A method to control a development process in an electrographic process and electrographic printer or copier, comprising the steps of: with at least one developer station inking a latent image on an intermediate carrier with toner of a predetermined color, the toner being extracted from a mixture made up of toner and carrier particles, and wherein fresh toner is supplied to the mixture; determining a characteristic value D for a status of the mixture from a model calculation in which a toner exchange rate b with which fresh toner is supplied to the mixture per time increment, and an operating aging rate a which indicates a proportion of toner that remains in the developer station and is thereby damaged by re-use per time increment of operation of the developer station, are linked; at least one of monitoring, controlling, or regulating the development process, dependent on the characteristic value D; and in which the characteristic value D is calculated iteratively according to a relationship
P i =a i −( a i +b i )· D i
D i+1 =D i +P i ·ΔT wherein D i is the characteristic value D at an actual time increment i and D i+1 is the characteristic value D at a next time increment i +1, i is a running variable for the time increments, P i is an auxiliary variable, a i is the operating aging rate in 1/s, b i is the exchange rate in 1/s and ΔT is the time increment size in s. |
20110282508 | 13105393 | 0 | 1. A system, comprising: a data information hub configured to receive power system related data from one or more data sources associated with a power transmission and distribution grid (PTDG), and correlate respective pieces of the power system related data, based at least in part on at least one of a temporal axis, a locational axis, or a topological axis, to generate correlated pieces of power system related data; and a generalized grid security platform (GGSP) configured to analyze at least a portion of the correlated pieces of power system related data in real time to control power transmission and distribution by at least one of a power substation or a transformer in the PTDG in real time, in accordance with at least one predefined power system control criterion. |
20040010438 | 10613953 | 0 | 1. A method for grouping items in a grocery store containing a plurality of existing products, the method comprising: categorizing each said existing product by type; assigning shelf space to each said existing product, wherein said assigning includes placing each said existing product in close geographic proximity to another said existing product with the same type; and rearranging the shelf space in the grocery store responsive to said assigning. |
20090210530 | 12030955 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method for discovering a service offered in a network environment, the method comprising: an act of determining that a service discovery request for a service satisfying service criteria is to be dispatched; an act of identifying search termination criteria for the service discovery request; and an act of constructing a service discovery request including the service criteria as well as the search termination criteria. |
20080134133 | 11905830 | 0 | 1. A method stored in a tangible medium and executed by one or more processors comprising: accepting information on whether one or more data definitions are needed in a software project, accepting information on whether one or more string tables are needed in a software project, accepting information on whether one or more link tables are needed in a software project, creating one or more files selected from the group consisting of data definitions, string tables, link tables and combinations thereof, collecting the one or more created files, compiling the one or more created files with an application generator, and outputting resultant source code from the compiling. |
20020024532 | 09939278 | 0 | 1. A method of creating a personalized user profile implemented on a computer for searching a database comprising: (a) displaying to the user an index of choices representing content items stored in the database, wherein each choice of the index is associated with a set of related keywords representing categories for the content items stored in the database; (b) establishing a personal profile for the user comprising keywords compiled from selections made by the user from the displayed index and entered as user input on the computer; (c) receiving a first user input of a selection of a choice from the displayed index, and retrieving the associated keywords related to the selected choice in order to generate a set of search phrases using the associated keywords; (d) conducting a search of the database using the set of search phrases as search queries to the database, and returning one or more objects from the database in response to the search queries; (e) displaying to the user a new index of choices representing the objects returned from the database, wherein each choice on the displayed index is associated with the keywords used in the search phrase that returned the object represented; (f) receiving a subsequent user input of a selection of a choice from the displayed index, and updating the user's personal profile with the keywords used in the search phrase that returned the selected object; (g) retrieving associated keywords related to the keywords used in the search phrase that returned the selected object in order to generate a subsequent set of search phrases using the associated keywords; (h) conducting a subsequent search of the database using the subsequent set of search phrases as further search queries to the database, and returning one or more objects from the database in response to the search queries; (i) displaying to the user a new index of choices representing the objects returned from the database, wherein each choice on the displayed index is associated with the keywords used in the search phrase that returned the object represented; and (j) iteratively continuing the cycle of user input by selection from the displayed index of choices, updating the user's personal profile with keywords used in the search phrase that returned the object selected by the user, using associated keywords related to the selected keywords to generate a subsequent set of search phrases, and conducting a further search of the database with the subsequent set of search phrases, thereby enhancing the depth of the personal profile and allowing it to be used to uniquely characterize the particular interests of the user in computerized applications that are to be personalized to the user. |
8924383 | 11256755 | 1 | 1. A system comprising: a content acquisition platform executed on a processor and to receive media content including a video file and a related audio file of a broadcast television program broadcast without metadata and without closed captioning from a source and store the media content in a media storage platform; a media processing platform to segment the media content based upon predetermined criteria defined by a user, generate metadata in real time, and store the metadata in an index in the media storage platform, corresponding to the media content segmented, the metadata including a dialog approximation based on speech recognition of the media content by the media processing platform, a topic boundary, and a scene boundary; an alert platform to provide the user with: an immediate alert identifying the media content segmented, the immediate alert including a portion of the metadata stored in the media storage platform, the immediate alert transmitted to the user in response to the metadata generated in real time while the media content segmented is being received and before an entire media clip is received by the content acquisition platform, the media clip determined to be of interest to the user based on the predetermined criteria matching information derived from processing the media content in real time, the immediate alert transmitted to a device of the user identified in a subset of a user contact list, the subset identifying devices selected by the user from devices in the user contact list to be used for notification purposes; and a predictive alert identifying media content matching the user's profile that will be broadcast from the source at a later time, the predictive alert transmitted to a device of the user identified in the subset of a user contact list, the subset identifying devices selected by the user from devices in the user contact list to be used for notification purposes; and a content delivery platform to send the media content segmented to the device of the user. |
20120323170 | 13526212 | 0 | 1. A method of programming remote medical pumps comprising the steps of: (a) connecting a wireless device to a network communicating with a database providing information identifying patients to pump programming data related to treatment of the patient; (b) communicating a search query from the wireless device over the network to the database to identify at least one given patient; (c) receiving search results from the database at the wireless device, the search results including pump programming data linked to patients; (d) selecting pump programming data related to the given patient; (e) converting the pump programming data into data for controlling a medical pump; and (f) operating the medical pump according to the converting data. |
20150178370 | 14140287 | 0 | 1. A computer implemented method comprising: predicting, by a computer system, a time a user of a client application is likely to access a preferred network connection; calculating, by the computer system, a pre-download index for one or more multimedia content items, the pre-download index representing how likely the user is to interact with the one or more multimedia content items at approximately the predicted time; ranking, by the computer system, the indexed multimedia content items based on the pre-download index of each of the one or more multimedia content items; and providing, by the computer system, to the client application the ranked multimedia content items at the predicted time. |
8826280 | 11388576 | 1 | 1. A method of monitoring a plurality of task queues in real-time, comprising: adding an increment to adjust a priority of each task in a first task queue in the plurality of task queues after an aging interval time period has passed; determining, using a processor, that one or more tasks in the first task queue has a priority that exceeds an alert threshold for queue priority; presenting, at a user interface, a notification that the alert threshold for queue priority has been exceeded; receiving a request from a user, for task queue information regarding at least the first task queue and a second task queue, wherein the first task queue and the second task queue each includes one or more tasks that comprise a corresponding work flow, and wherein the first task queue and the second task queue are each associated with at least one human task performer who is assigned perform at least one task in the respective task queue; querying, in response to the request, at least the first task queue and the second task queue in real-time including by performing a plurality of database queries to obtain a set of raw task queue information; post processing the raw set of task queue information to generate the requested real-time task queue information including a respective total number of human task performers assigned to the first task queue and the second task queue and a respective number of tasks that exceed the threshold number of tasks in the first task queue and the second queue, wherein the post processing includes performing at least one of the following: adding up all human task performers for an human task performers count, counting one or more tasks in different states for task count summaries associated with different task states, and identifying and counting tasks that are close to or have surpassed corresponding due dates; presenting at the user interface the requested real-time task queue information; and receiving, from the user, at least one reassignment of a human task performer from the second task queue to the first task queue to perform at least the first tasks in the first task queue. |
6041605 | 09080338 | 1 | 1. In a microprocessor controlled system including a motor, a compressor driven by the motor, a condenser, an expansion device, an evaporator, means for supplying refrigerant for cooling the motor, and compressor regulating means, a method for providing refrigeration responsive to a signal indicating a requirement for refrigeration including the steps of: supplying power to an electronic module which is thereby placed in a power-on reset start-up routine including the serial steps of: a) determining static discharge pressure; b) starting the compressor; c) determining the discharge pressure; and d) if the discharge pressure is more than 10 psi below the static discharge pressure within fifteen seconds after starting the compressor, the compressor is stopped; sensing the motor temperature; sensing the discharge temperature; if the sensed motor temperature is at or above a first temperature, liquid refrigerant is supplied to the motor until the first temperature is lowered by a first predetermined amount; if the sensed motor temperature exceeds the first temperature by a second predetermined amount, the motor is shut off; if the sensed discharge temperature is at or above a second temperature, liquid refrigerant is supplied to the motor until the second temperature is lowered by a third predetermined amount; if the sensed discharge temperature exceeds the second temperature by a fourth predetermined amount, the motor is shut off. |
20130138603 | 13427035 | 0 | 1. A system to manage data of an enterprise, the system comprising: a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory comprises a definition module defining a data management architecture (DMA) comprising at least one of an enterprise portal comprising a set of service tools, wherein the set of service tools comprises at least one of a report tool, a configure tool, a define tool, an administrative tool, an analytics and collaborate tool, and a job monitor tool, and wherein the set of service tools is configured to perform a set of services on the data; an enterprise model for analyzing an enterprise process to create and modify enterprise metadata of the data, wherein the enterprise process generates the data; at least one adapter for communicating with a data source associated with the enterprise process for extracting the enterprise metadata from the data source; and a set of metrics representing an analysis of the data. |
8849860 | 13345640 | 1 | 1. A method of modifying a computer-readable elemental data structure, the method comprising: estimating, using at least one processor executing stored program instructions, a relevance associated with an elemental component, wherein the elemental component comprises an elemental concept or an elemental concept relationship between two or more elemental concepts, and wherein estimating the relevance comprises estimating a frequency of occurrence in reference data of one or more labels associated with the elemental component, wherein the elemental component includes the elemental concept, wherein the relevance associated with the elemental component comprises a concept relevance associated with the elemental concept, wherein the one or more labels associated with the elemental component comprises a label associated with the elemental concept, and wherein estimating the frequency of occurrence in the reference data of the one or more labels associated with the elemental component comprises estimating a term frequency of the label within at least a portion of the reference data; and in response to determining that the relevance associated with the elemental component exceeds a relevance threshold, modifying the elemental data structure, wherein modifying the elemental data structure comprises: adding the elemental component to the elemental data structure, and storing the relevance in data associated with the elemental component, wherein the elemental component is encoded as a computer-readable data structure storing the data associated with the elemental component. |
4685060 | 06662850 | 1 | 1. A method of translating a text of a first language into a text of a second language, comprising: a first step of providing individual identification numbers to words/idioms which appear in the text of said first language to identify the words/idioms, in accordance with a predetermined order by managing saidi words/idioms as data sorted in a table in which said words/idioms are arranged in accordance with said predetermined order with the same identification number being provided to the same word/idiom; a second step of generating the text of said second language including said identification numbers as well as character strings of said second language corresponding to said words/idioms of said first language in which the identification numbers for the words/idioms of said first language corresponding to the character strings of said second language are appended as data of fixed length in correspondence with the respective character strings of said second language; and a third step of indicating the identification numbers appended to the character strings of the second language, so as to make it possible to trace the words/idioms of the first language using said identification numbers. |
8006136 | 12247157 | 1 | 1. A system for automating testing of control devices, the system comprising: a computer memory that stores a grammar comprising one or more terminal and nonterminal symbols with tags that describe a first set of test cases; and a processor that is operable to: generates the first set of test cases for a device under test using the grammar; receives feedback about the execution of the first set of test cases from the device under test; in response to the feedback, automatically modify the grammar to identify at least one cause of failure of the device under test as a function of the received feedback; and generate a second set of test cases for the device under test using the grammar. |
20070022368 | 11375151 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method for hiding sensitive data in an electronic spreadsheet, wherein a first output equation expresses an output data as a function of at least one first input data and at least one first intermediary result, wherein a plurality of first intermediary equations relates the at least one first intermediary result to at least one second intermediary result and at least one second input data, wherein a plurality of input data denotes the at least one first input data and the at least one second input data collectively, wherein a plurality of intermediary results denote the at least one first intermediary result and the at least one second intermediary result collectively, said method comprising: assigning the plurality of intermediary results as content of intermediary cells of the spreadsheet; generating a second output equation that expresses the output data as a function of a subset of the plurality of input data with no functional dependence on the plurality of intermediary results, said generating the second output equation utilizing the first output equation and the plurality of first intermediary equations; assigning the output data of the second output equation as content of an output cell of the spreadsheet; and after generating the second output equation, removing the content of the intermediary cells, resulting in the plurality of intermediary results not being identifiable in the spreadsheet. |
20060253436 | 11485462 | 0 | 1. A method for providing media samples comprising: receiving a request including at least one media keyword; identifying one or more media samples that correspond with the at least one media keyword; and in response to a selection to preview an identified media sample, providing the identified media sample to enable playback on a media device. |
20120324015 | 13596901 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: appending user posts to a category in a voice application; prompting subdivision of the category upon satisfaction of a first condition; designating the category as a parent category; soliciting at least one subcategory nomination from users; soliciting user input on appending at least one nominated subcategory to the parent category; appending a nominated subcategory to the parent category upon satisfaction of a second condition; and soliciting user input to reassign a user post from the parent category to at least one subcategory. |
7937334 | 11755924 | 1 | 1. A method to monitor dynamic units that operate in dynamic environments comprising: collecting raw data to capture state information of the units; using a processor to analyze the raw data by obtaining a set of normalized compression distance (NCD) of the raw data based on a Kolmogorov complexity to identify an anomaly in a unit visualizing the set of NCD in a two dimensional space; minimizing distortion of the visualization by using a Kruskal's Stress-1 projection; wherein the raw data is obtained by tracking an aircraft flight, the method further comprising tracking additional aircraft flights, computing a set of NCD for each additional flight, projecting the set of NCD in a two dimensional space for viewing, and classifying flights that are potential anomalies. |
20090144192 | 11950072 | 0 | 1. A method, comprising: generating a request of an entity based on a set of parameters provided by an initiating patron of the entity; allocating an initial consideration to the request from the initiating patron; generating a profile of the request having the initial consideration in a request aggregation environment; and allocating, to the initial consideration, an additional consideration provided when a different patron contributes the additional consideration to the request. |
20140358870 | 14016268 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: dividing an address space of files into multiple containers; performing a file metadata scan, including obtaining attributes for files in each container; aggregating the file attributes into characterizations for each attribute dimension, and generating a content feature summary for each container incorporating the characterizations; measuring a content similarity prediction measurement between containers from the generated content feature summary; and assigning files from each container to a de-duplication domain based on the computed content similarity prediction measurement. |
20160294859 | 14735579 | 0 | 1. An apparatus for detecting a malicious domain cluster, comprising: a domain name server (DNS) data collection unit configured to collect DNS traffic over a network and store the DNS traffic in a database; and a malicious domain cluster detection unit configured to generate a domain cluster based on the DNS data, learn characteristics of normal and malicious clusters in the domain cluster, and detect whether the domain cluster is malicious based on a result of the learning. |
20170085429 | 15145268 | 0 | 1. A method of reducing burst usage in a networked computer system, the method comprising: transmitting, over a network and to a plurality of computers, information regarding a first time period when resource requests for a first set of resources will be accepted, wherein each resource in the first set of resources is not to be allocated during the first time period; receiving, over the network, a plurality of resource requests during the first time period, each resource request of the plurality of resource requests being from a requester electronic device and being for at least a portion of the resources in the first set of resources; during a second time period beginning after the first time period ends, processing the plurality of resource requests in batch mode using a processing system, the processing further comprising: assigning a priority to each resource request of the plurality of resource requests, the assignment of the priority being based on one or more criteria, and the assignment of the priority not being dependent on a time at which each of the plurality of resource requests was received; allocating first resources to a first portion of a plurality of requesters based at least in part on the assigned priority and availability of requested resources, the plurality of requesters corresponding to the plurality of requester electronic devices; transmitting, for each requester in the first portion of requesters, a communication over the network to the corresponding requester electronic device that provides information regarding a first resource allocated to the requester; allocating one or more alternate second resources to a second portion of the plurality of requesters, each requester of the second portion of the plurality of requesters having an assigned priority that is lower than each requester of the first portion of the plurality of requesters; and transmitting, for each requester in the second portion of requesters, a communication over the network to the corresponding requester electronic device that provides information regarding an alternate second resource allocated to the requester. |
20160061121 | 14470843 | 0 | 1. A method, comprising: defining an efficient engine operating region over an engine operating domain; applying a first filter to a desired engine power if the desired engine power is within the efficient engine operating region; applying a second filter to the desired engine power if the desired engine power is not within the efficient engine operating region; and commanding an engine to operate at a filtered engine power. |
8140484 | 13079121 | 1 | 1. A method for determining an implemented data protection policy comprising: selecting a data protection method for a recovery point of a storage object for which data protection processing is performed, wherein said data protection method selected is associated with said recovery point and is determined in accordance with a facility and replication type associated with said recovery point; selecting a data protection category for said recovery point, wherein said data protection category selected is determined in accordance with said data protection method, a recovery point type, and a recovery point location associated with said recovery point; and storing a data protection policy indicating an implemented data protection policy for said storage object for said data protection category, said data protection policy for said storage object for said data protection category including said data protection method and said recovery point location. |
7865272 | 11484877 | 1 | 1. A method of monitoring operation of devices in a facility, the method comprising: controlling a plurality of computing devices in the facility to operate at a controlled power level, where the controlled power level is a predetermined percentage of a maximum power level less than 100%; measuring air temperature at one or more locations in the facility; controlling at least one air conditioning unit in the facility based on the air temperature at the one or more locations in the facility; said controlling a plurality of computing devices includes controlling each of the plurality of computing devices to perform at least one additional task selected to provide a level of capacity to cause each computing device to operate at the predetermined percentage of the maximum power level. |
20170063599 | 14841766 | 0 | 1. A method, comprising: identifying service impact events in an alarm dataset from a cloud software defined network, the service impact events including service alarms; identifying alarm sources associated with the service impact events; identifying impacted network service alarms provided in the cloud software defined network according to the alarm sources; identifying service alarm type classifications for the impacted network service alarms; by a processor of a service impact event analyzer, identifying a service impact model comprising the service alarm type classifications and the service impact events, the model describing impacts of the service impact events on network services; using the service impact model, identifying association rules of parent and child event relationships of the service impact events, so that parent events are primary events for root causes of trouble, and child events are correlated to parent events; by the processor, computing time durations of the service impact events using correlated secondary alarms, the correlated secondary alarms being identified using the service impact model; and by the processor, evaluating a risk area and degree of service assurance based on the time duration and on the service alarm type classifications. |
20100306714 | 12474781 | 0 | 1. A method for using a gesture shortcut in a system that takes user gestures as input to an application, comprising: receiving data captured by a capture device, the data corresponding to a user-performed gesture; processing the data to determine an output corresponding to whether the user performed a shortcut of a gesture, the shortcut of the gesture corresponding to a full version of the gesture; and sending the output corresponding to the shortcut of the gesture to the application. |
9767498 | 14169058 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: providing a virtual purchasing assistant that includes a memory to store a digital representation of a customer purchase profile including historical purchase information and activity data of a potential customer; receiving, at a user portal, first data corresponding to the customer purchase profile; receiving, at a supplier portal, second data corresponding to a supplier specification of a potential inventory item; establishing, via the virtual purchasing assistant and a private communication bridge processor, a private communication bridge between the potential customer and a supplier; receiving a query, at the private communication bridge processor via the user portal, based on an expression of an interest in a purchase of an inventory item by the potential customer, the expression including at least an interest lifetime which indicates a period in which the potential customer may acquire the inventory item; matching, at the private communication bridge processor, at least one match of the inventory item to the supplier specification of the potential inventory item; creating, via the private communication bridge processor, a real-time distribution channel that is sustained during a portion of the interest lifetime to host an exchange between the potential customer and the supplier via the real-time distribution channel based on the match, wherein the potential inventory item is made available to the potential customer via the real-time distribution channel; analyzing the historical purchase information via an intelligent suggestion engine of the virtual purchasing assistant to form a customer purchase profile; continuously searching, via the intelligent suggestion engine, during the interest lifetime for another item than the inventory item to suggest the potential customer acquire based on the customer purchase profile; and provide a notice to the potential customer from the intelligent suggestion engine via the real-time distribution channel that at least one other item is available to the potential customer, where the notice provides visibility of inventory that is personalized, immediately actionable and not readily available to the public. |
8788220 | 13161965 | 1 | 1. A vehicle impact detection system comprising: a first layer adapted to sense ballistic impacts, the first layer adapted to conduct an electromagnetic signal and having a plurality of electromagnetic signal measuring portions oriented in a first orientation; a coupler securing the first layer to an exterior of the vehicle; at least one input coupling point in electrical communication with at least one of the plurality of electromagnetic signal measuring portions of said first layer, said at least one input coupling adapted to receive an electromagnetic signal input; an electromagnetic signal generator coupled to said at least one input coupling point to provide the electromagnetic signal input; at least one output coupling point in electrical communication with at least one of the plurality of electromagnetic signal measuring portions of said first layer, said at least one output coupling point adapted to provide an electromagnetic signal output; an electromagnetic signal measuring device coupled to said at least one output coupling point; and a processing system adapted to control said electromagnetic signal generator and said electromagnetic signal measuring device, wherein said processing system is adapted to determine data on a damage event based on changes between said electromagnetic signal input at the at least one input coupling point and said electromagnetic signal output at the at least one output coupling point; wherein said damage event is further determined based on a comparison of changes of said electromagnetic signal outputs between a first electromagnetic signal measuring portion and second electromagnetic signal measuring portion; wherein said electromagnetic signal changes of said first electromagnetic signal measuring portion includes a baseline measurement data determination based on a predetermined data value associated with a first state of said first layer by taking an electromagnetic signal measurement of said first layer before at least one said damage event. |
8005427 | 12004704 | 1 | 1. A method for exchanging a profile of a server device in a Bluetooth communication system, the method comprising: receiving a request for a service support list from a client device; if there is no adequate profile for the client device, generating and transmitting a service support list including information informing that an active profile generation is possible in response to the request; after providing the service support list, receiving the active profile generated by the client device when the client device requests an active profile exchange; and operating according to the active profile generated by the client device. |
20080140448 | 11944530 | 0 | 1. A method for monitoring healthcare data and workflow within a healthcare enterprise having a plurality of components, comprising: reporting on a constructed workflow package associated with healthcare data, said workflow package storing data comprising: an image study ordered for a patient, physician names associated with the image study, workflow routing rules for the image study, a current individual component location of the image study, a date and time of arrival of the image study to and departure of the image study from the individual component location, a date and time of image study retrieval by a physician, and a date and time when the image study was returned by a physician; generating a return value at each individual component of the plurality of components within the healthcare enterprise based upon data stored in the workflow package; comparing the return value at each individual component to a user specified threshold value; and generating a graphical representation of an individual component performance of at least one component of the plurality of components within the integrated healthcare enterprise based upon the comparison of the return value of the individual component to the user specified threshold value. |
20110260958 | 12765480 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: dimming a backlight that illuminates a display of an electronic device in response to a task initiated by a user; and prior to the task completing, automatically adjusting an intensity of the backlight based on a progress of the task. |
20130318492 | 13841277 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, from log files, historical user preferences and usage data relating to a user and one or more development tools for software development at a computing device, wherein the historical user preferences and usage data are based on past acts of the user and recorded at the log files; generating a model based on the historical user preference and usage data; determining one or more predictions from the model, wherein the predictions include one or more of: an ordering of the development tools, a filtering of a plurality of features of one or more of the development tools, and a usage-based customization of the one or more development tools; and providing the development tools for display to the user based on the predictions. |
9483753 | 13791092 | 1 | 1. A method of integrating a document related communication with a document, comprising: providing communication interfaces to establish a plurality of different types of communications; storing document related communications, performed via the communication interfaces, within a data file containing the document, wherein the document related communications are comprised of the plurality of different types of communications; providing, in the document, a plurality of links, wherein each link of the plurality of links is to a document related communication of the document related communications; providing a navigation panel in a graphical user interface (GUI), and the navigation panel includes the plurality of links in a form of GUI elements; and sorting the plurality of links in the navigation panel according to the plurality of different types of communications for the document related communications. |
20120013075 | 13183861 | 0 | 1. A method of organizing and conducting a game, the method comprising the steps of: a) arranging a plurality of contestants within a predefined adventurous area; b) providing a plurality of items, each item having a distinct identifying characteristic; c) providing an ultralight with a programmable ejection system for launching the plurality of items through the air into the adventurous area according to a predetermined routine; d) allowing the contestants to search for and collect the items within the adventurous area until an end of the game; e) providing means for correlating the identifying characteristic of each item to a prize; and f) allowing each contestant to retain the prize correlating to the identifying characteristic of the item collected by the contestant. |
8411826 | 12487472 | 1 | 1. A computing device-implemented method comprising: receiving, from a server and by the computing device, a particular number of threads; generating, by the computing device, a dynamic thread based on the particular number of threads, the generating the dynamic thread including: providing, to the server, information associated with a load of the computing device; providing, to the server, information associated with connections between the computing device and a message store; receiving, from the server, an instruction to generate the dynamic thread when one or more of the load is less than or equal to a particular load, a number of the connections is less than or equal to a particular number, or size information associated with the message store is greater than or equal to a particular size; and generating, based on receiving the instruction, the dynamic thread; retrieving, from the message store and by the computing device, a message based on the dynamic thread and when the message store is not empty; receiving, by the computing device, a binding from another server associated with a user; generating, by the computing device, a notification based on the retrieved message and based on the binding; and providing, by the computing device, the notification to a user device associated with the user. |
9170033 | 13010608 | 1 | 1. A method of operating a solar energy system having a field of heliostats, the method comprising: acquiring at least one image of at least a portion of the field of heliostats; based on said at least one image, determining a first sub-portion of the field of heliostats shaded by one or more clouds; and based on said determining, changing an aiming direction of one or more of the heliostats outside of the first sub-portion. |
9589197 | 14653211 | 1 | 1. A method of registration and quick recognition of a user of a service, through identification codes derivable from biometric data, comprising the steps of: registering a user, through a respective registration event, wherein each registration event comprises: acquiring from the user to be registered at least one biometric datum related to a configuration of blood vessels of the user, wherein the at least one biometric datum related to a configuration of blood vessels is an image of a hand of the user to be registered or recognized; encoding, by a coding procedure, the at least one acquired biometric datum into a respective registration identification code of the user to be registered; associating said registration identification code to the user to be registered; registering the user as a registered user, and the associated registration identification code as the registration identification code of the registered user; recognizing a registered user, among a plurality of registered users, through a respective recognition event, comprising: acquiring from the user to be recognized said at least one biometric datum related to a configuration of blood vessels of the user; encoding, by said coding procedure, the at least one acquired biometric datum into a respective recognition identification code of the user to be recognized; preparing, based on the registration identification codes, registered at a plurality of registration events, a comparison set comprising a plurality of comparison identification codes; comparing the recognition identification code with each of said plurality of comparison identification codes; estimating, for each of said comparisons, a respective matching level; recognizing or refusing recognition of the user to be recognized based on the estimated matching levels; wherein the step of preparing a comparison set comprises defining the comparison set starting from the overall set of all the registration identification codes of the plurality of already registered users, and using, on said overall set, classification and grouping techniques on the registration identification codes; wherein the recognition method is associated to an operative service and acts in a different manner according to requirements imposed by the operative service; wherein a plurality of recognition thresholds is defined, each of the thresholds being related to a respective operation available for the operative service; requesting one of said operations, by the user of the service, before the recognition is completed; automatically selecting a recognition threshold related to the operation required by the user; and carrying out the step of recognizing or refusing recognition of the user by employing said selected recognition threshold as the matching threshold. |
8385364 | 12549546 | 1 | 1. A method to allocate resources in a single-cell discrete Fourier transform spread orthogonal frequency division multiple access (DFT-S-OFDMA) network, comprising: for each user, determining a reward for assigning each permissible frequency chunk (FC), where each FC is a set of contiguous subcarriers; splitting each user into one or more sub-users, each sub-user having identical rewards; and assigning resources using a greedy heuristic or a message-passing based procedure; wherein the reward for a k th user, is determined when assigning a chunk of subcarriers or resource blocks (RBs) starting from the i th subcarrier or RB [i ,. .. , i+n−1] of size n as w k c ki n , where c k,i n is the maximum achievable rate under the available modulation and coding schemes (MCS) and power budget and w k is the weight or priority of user k. |
7904532 | 11434036 | 1 | 1. An apparatus structured to select a business insurance carrier from a plurality of insurance carriers, the apparatus comprising: an Internet receiver; an Internet transmitter; a memory device storing information for the plurality of insurance carriers and a plurality of kill questions, wherein each kill question is associated with at least one of the insurance carriers; a web page generator operatively coupled to the Internet receiver, the Internet transmitter, and the memory device, the web page generator being structured to transmit a first web page to a client device via the Internet transmitter, the first web page including standard industrial code (SIC) prompt and a zip code prompt, the web page generator being further structured to transmit a second web page to the client device via Internet transmitter, the second web page including at least one of the kill questions; an insurance carrier determination module operatively coupled to the Internet receiver and the memory device, the insurance carrier determination module being structured to select a subset of the plurality of insurance carriers from the memory device based on a standard industrial code and a zip code input in the first web page at the client device and received via the Internet receiver the insurance carrier determination module being further structured to select at least one candidate insurance carrier from the subset of insurance carriers based on responses to the at least one kill question input in the second web page at the client device and received via the Internet receiver; and a kill question selector operatively coupled to the memory device, the kill question selector being structured to retrieve at least one kill question from the memory device, wherein the at least one retrieved kill question is associated with the insurance carriers in the subset of insurance carriers and used by the web page generator in generating the second web page. |
20160330315 | 15150736 | 0 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving monitored voice calls conducted in a communication network; selecting a partial subset of the monitored voice calls that are suspected of having been conducted by a predefined target individual, encrypting the selected partial subset with an encryption key that is associated with the target individual, and retaining only the encrypted partial subset of the voice calls, wherein selecting the partial subset comprises choosing the voice calls whose speech content matches a digital voice signature of the target individual; upon showing that the voice calls in the partial subset were conducted by the target individual with a confidence level greater than a threshold, receiving a decryption key that is associated with the target individual; and decrypting the encrypted partial subset of the voice calls using the decryption key, and providing the decrypted voice calls for analysis. |
20030004916 | 09892553 | 0 | 1. A method for location-based image sharing, comprising: providing a sharing rule defining with which one or more recipients images are shared based on location-identifying information; and applying location-identifying information associated with an image to the sharing rule to determine the one or more recipients with which the image should be shared. |
8180451 | 12814968 | 1 | 1. A system for providing electrical pulses to tissue of a patient to treat a neurological condition, comprising: an implantable pulse generator for generating electrical pulses, wherein the implantable pulse generator is adapted to generate electrical pulses according to a multi-stimulation set program with each stimulation set of the program containing a respective set of pulse parameters and an electrode configuration; a programming device for programming the implantable pulse generator, wherein the programming device is adapted to conduct wireless communications with the implantable pulse generator after implant in the patient, wherein the programming device comprises: (A) a processor for controlling the programming device; (B) a display screen for providing a display to a user of the programming device; and (C) memory for storing data and software code, wherein the memory stores: (1) code for communicating data to cause the implantable pulse generator to generate electrical pulses according to the multi-stimulation set program; (2) code for providing one or more graphical user interface (GUI) screens on the programming device, the one or more GUI screens comprising (a) a master amplitude GUI control for controlling amplitudes for multiple stimulation sets of the multi-stimulation set program and (b) one or more balancing GUI controls for controlling amplitudes of each individual stimulation set of the multi-stimulation set program; (3) code for automatically recalculating multiple calibration parameters for a respective stimulation set in response to manipulation of one of the balancing GUI controls by the user, a first calibration parameter being recalculated directly from a level of the balancing GUI and a second calibration parameter being recalculated as a function of the recalculated first calibration parameter; and (4) code for communicating the recalculated calibration parameters to the implantable pulse generator to affect a change in amplitude for the respective stimulation sets during execution of the multi-stimulation set program by the implantable pulse generator. |
20060074935 | 10955749 | 0 | 1. A machine-implemented method of representing a collection of objects, the method comprising: providing one or more data structure definitions, the one or more data structure definitions defining a set object to represent the collection of objects as being within a computer-representable universal set that is a subset of a universal set defined for the collection of objects, wherein the computer-representable universal set is limited to data types representable within a computer system; and generating, with a computer-implemented constructor using the one or more data structure definitions, a set object representing the collection of objects. |
20100260365 | 12728358 | 0 | 1. A configuration for detecting acoustic feedback in a hearing device, the configuration comprising: a first feedback detection unit for receiving a microphone signal from the hearing device and determines a feedback probability; at least one second feedback detection unit for receiving the microphone signal from the hearing device and determines a weighting factor between “1” indicating a definite presence of feedback and “0” indicating a definite absence of feedback; an arithmetic unit calculating the feedback probability using the weighting factor; and a comparison unit comparing the feedback probability calculated using the weighting factor with a predefinable threshold value and outputs a signal when the predefined threshold value is exceeded. |
8782422 | 13335493 | 1 | 1. A document distribution device for distributing a document to a recipient data processing apparatus via a data communications network, the document distribution device comprising: a data processing apparatus comprising a processor, the data processing apparatus configured to process applications software for generating an electronic document, to encrypt the electronic document produced by the applications software using a public key associated with the document distribution device prior to being communicated to the recipient data processing apparatus, and to generate an original hash value from the electronic document; and a communication interface configured to communicate the original hash value to the recipient data processing apparatus before a predetermined event via the data communications network, and, after the predetermined event, to communicate the electronic document to the recipient data processing apparatus via the data communications network, wherein the predetermined event includes expiration of a time limit. |
20110010276 | 12839145 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method of identifying an automotive core for an auction house and determining the value of the automotive core in a vehicle up for bidding using a core fulfillment system, the method comprising: receiving vehicle identification information from the auction house in an interface computing device; comparing the vehicle identification information from the auction house in the interface computing device to automotive core descriptions and automotive interchange numbers in an interchange database and core supplier identification indicators in a core supplier database that correspond to the vehicle identification information; identifying the automotive core with an interchange number matching computing device based upon the comparison of the vehicle identification information to automotive core descriptions and automotive interchange numbers and core supplier identification indicators, the automotive core descriptions including a part type identifier and a yard description; assigning a core value to the identified automotive core; determining, with a demand and pricing database, an aggregate value of core inventory based upon an aggregate total of assigned core values of identified automotive cores; and sending a vehicle evaluation page to an auction bidder, the vehicle evaluation page showing the identified automotive core, yard description, and aggregate value of core inventory, the aggregate value of core inventory indicating an offer for purchase price that a core supplier will pay to the auction bidder for the automotive cores based upon the demand for the automotive cores. |
6119113 | 08937218 | 1 | 1. A computerized method for efficiently searching a master database for a desired target, the master database having a series of records, each consisting of one or more alphanumeric fields, the method comprising: storing a series of search tree representations of the master database in an auxiliary database; receiving an input signal having a plurality of alphanumeric characters identifying the desired target; determining an intended alphanumeric field to be searched from among the alphanumeric fields contained in the master database; and processing a limited number of the alphanumeric characters of the input signal with the auxiliary database to determine the presence or absence of qualifying search target in the intended alphanumeric filed corresponding to the desired target without first accessing the master database. |
20160321812 | 14992696 | 0 | 1. (canceled) |
8452804 | 12590504 | 1 | 1. A database management system comprising: a relational data store configured to store fact data; a non-relational data store configured to store aggregated fact data; a communication interface operably connected between the relational data store and the non-relational data store for the communication of fact data from the relational data store to the non-relational data store and for the communication of aggregated fact data from the non-relational data store to the relational data store; and a computer system comprising computer hardware, the computer system programmed to implement: a query servicing mechanism configured to service one or more natural language queries from a user, the query servicing mechanism comprising: a query processing mechanism configured to process a given natural language query using operations to: determine whether servicing the given natural language query needs data stored in the relational data store or in the non-relational data store; upon determining that servicing the given natural language query needs data stored in the relational data store, automatically route the given natural language query to the relational data store, so that data is accessed from the relational data store and forwarded to the query processing mechanism for use in servicing the given natural language query, in a manner transparent to the user; and wherein upon determining that servicing the given natural language query needs data stored in the non-relational data store, automatically route the given natural language query to the non-relational data store, so that data can be accessed and forwarded to the query processing mechanism for use in servicing the given natural language query, in a manner transparent to the user. |
9956047 | 15137607 | 1 | 1. A knee replacement system for implantation in a knee joint of a patient, comprising: a knee replacement implant including a femoral implant for implantation on a femur of the patient and a tibial implant for implantation on a tibia of the patient, the femoral implant including a lateral condyle portion having a curved condylar shape and having a lateral bearing surface configured to articulate with the tibial implant when the tibial and femoral implants are implanted in the knee joint of the patient and an inner surface configured to abut one or more bone cut surfaces of a femur when the femoral implant is implanted in the knee joint of the patient, and the tibial implant including a bearing surface configured to articulate with the lateral bearing surface of the femoral implant when the tibial and femoral implants are implanted in the knee joint of the patient, and a bone-facing surface configured to abut a surface of a tibia of the patient when the tibial implant is implanted in the knee joint of the patient, wherein the lateral condyle portion has a narrowed posterior portion relative to a lateral distal portion of the lateral condyle portion, such that the width of the lateral condyle portion measured in substantially the mediolateral direction narrows in a posterior part of the lateral condylar portion, wherein the narrowed posterior portion of the lateral condyle portion is configured to avoid soft tissue impingement. |
20070250306 | 11635248 | 0 | 1. A method for identifying parallel sub-sentential fragments in a bilingual collection, the method comprising: translating a source document from a bilingual collection; querying a target library associated with the bilingual collection using the translated source document; identifying one or more target documents based on the query; aligning a source sentence associated with the source document to one or more target sentences associated with the one or more target documents; and determining whether a source fragment associated with the source sentence comprises a parallel translation of a target fragment associated with the one or more target sentences. |
20070192225 | 11352294 | 0 | 1. A method of providing tri-party transaction services, comprising: receiving, at a third party intermediary, instructions from a first party regarding terms of an agreement allegement previously agreed upon between the first party and a second party; storing the terms of the agreement allegement as stored terms of the agreement allegement; presenting at least a portion of the stored terms of the agreement allegement to the second party; receiving, at the third party intermediary, an indication of approval of the stored terms of the agreement allegement from the second party; and in response to said indication of approval, clearing the agreement allegement as a finalized agreement between the first party and the second party. |
8332944 | 12697559 | 1 | 1. A method for detecting malicious executables, which comprises: (a) creating, in an offline training phase, a database M of system call sequences that are characteristic only to malicious files, when the malicious files are executed, and storing said system call sequences in the database M; and (b) continuously monitoring in runtime, for each running executable, issued run-time system calls of each running executable and comparing with the system call sequences within the database M to determine whether there exists a match between a portion of a system call sequence of the issued run-time system calls and one or more of the system call sequences in the database M, and when the match is found, declaring said running executable as malicious; wherein said training phase comprises: (c) providing an M r dataset which comprises recordings of system call sequences of malicious executables, and a B r dataset which comprises recordings of system call sequences of benign executables; (d) finding, using a Sequential Pattern Discovery using Equivalence classes (SPADE) algorithm, a set S of system call sequences for a specific support value, wherein the specific support value corresponds to a percentage value of recordings of system call sequences of malicious executable within the M r dataset, in which recordings of system call sequences of malicious executables a given sequence of system calls is present, wherein each system call sequence of said set S is repeated within some group of recordings of system call sequences of malicious executables in the M r dataset equal to or larger than the specific support value from among all the system call sequences of the recordings of system call sequences of malicious executables in dataset M r ; (e) determining, for each of the system call sequences of set S, whether the system call sequence of set S is found within any of the recordings within the dataset B r , and forming a reduced dataset S m which contains only system call sequences of set S that are not included within any of the recordings of system call sequences of benign executables in dataset B r ; (f) adding dataset S m into database M, and eliminating from dataset M r all recordings which have been found to contain any one or more of the system call sequences of dataset S m ; (g) when dataset S m is found in step (e) to be empty, reducing the specific support value, and repeating step (d); and (h) continuing step (d) until either the specific support value is equal to zero, or the dataset M r is empty, therefore finalizing the procedure with a database M containing a group of system call sequences that each appears within one or more of the system call sequences of malicious executables, but does not appear within any of the system call sequences of benign executables. |
7721286 | 11213261 | 1 | 1. In a data processing system having at least one processor for running tasks and resources available to tasks, a method comprising: logically partitioning tasks into groups of tasks that utilize at least one same resource by initially placing each task in its own group and subsequently merging tasks that allocate the at least one same resource into the groups of tasks; preemptively scheduling the groups of tasks to be run such that each group of tasks is given a time slot in a cycle in which each group's tasks are scheduled to run on the at least one processor; and non-preemptively scheduling tasks within each group to be run during the time slot given to the group. |
20170016400 | 15301145 | 0 | 1. An operation plan preparation and evaluation device for preparing an operation plan for a component used in equipment and evaluating the prepared operation plan, the operation plan preparation and evaluation device comprising: a storage unit for storing master information related to the equipment and the component, generated information related to the equipment and the component generated when the operation plan is prepared, and an initial factor used when the operation plan is prepared; and a control unit for preparing the operation plan based on the master information, the generated information, and the initial factor, wherein the control unit performs a factor setting process of assigning a predetermined set value as the initial factor, an operation plan preparation process of preparing the operation plan based on the initial factor serving as the set value, the master information, and the generated information, and an operation plan evaluation process of evaluating a plurality of respective operation plans prepared by repeatedly performing the operation plan preparation process while varying the set value of the initial factor in the factor setting process, and deriving an optimum operation plan, and wherein the master information includes operation job master information related to an operation job of the equipment, the generated information includes individual article list information related to an individual usage condition of the component, the control unit performs a component extraction process of extracting the component, which is required for the operation job and is not currently used, based on the individual article list information, a priority assignment process of assigning priorities to a plurality of components extracted in the component extraction process, and a component selection process of excepting a predetermined quantity m i in descending order of priority from the components to which the priorities are assigned in the priority assignment process, and selecting components corresponding to a required quantity to be used in the operation job in descending order of priority from remaining components, and the predetermined quantity m i is treated as the initial factor in the factor setting process. |
20070112606 | 11544176 | 0 | 1. A method for grouping travel itineraries, comprising: receiving a list of travel itineraries; grouping the list of travel itineraries into one or more clusters according to a set of grouping parameters; selecting a lead itinerary to represent each of the one or more clusters; determining additional itineraries in each cluster; and displaying the lead itinerary and a link referring to further details about the additional itineraries in each cluster. |
7953518 | 12206092 | 1 | 1. A system, comprising: an energy sink configured to consume a portion of energy; an interface component configured to receive a portion of data related to detection of an occupancy; an energy manager configured to dynamically control the energy sink with respect to consumption of the portion of energy based at least in part upon an evaluation of the portion of received data; and the energy manager configured to employ at least one of a power on or power off of the energy sink, or an adjustment of a setting for the energy sink, based on the detection of the occupancy. |
10134075 | 14021918 | 1 | 1. A computerized method of facilitating discovery of user-generated item comparison data, comprising: receiving, from a device of first user of an electronic catalog, a request to create a research note that compares at least a first catalog item to a second catalog item, the electronic catalog comprising catalog pages corresponding to respective catalog items; creating a research note in response to the request, and storing, in said research note, item comparison data subsequently supplied by the first user, said item comparison data comparing at least the first and second catalog items; storing the research note in a data repository of user-generated research notes; tracking, in connection with the research note, accesses by the first user to pages of multiple sites, and recording information associated with the accessed pages of the multiple sites in the research note, said tracking comprising execution of a browser toolbar on the device of the first user; subsequently, during a browsing session of a second user: maintaining, in computer storage, a record of item selection actions performed by the second user during browsing of the electronic catalog, said record reflective of catalog item viewing activities of the second user; detecting, based on said record, that the second user is potentially making a comparative decision between at least the first and second catalog items, said detecting comprising determining that the second user has performed a first selection action to select the first catalog item for viewing and has performed a second selection action to select the second catalog item for viewing; in response to detecting that the second user is potentially making a comparative decision, determining whether the data repository of user-generated research notes contains any user-generated research notes that compare the first catalog item to the second catalog item, said determination resulting in identification of said research note, and in response to said identification of the research note, generating, for the second user, a supplemented catalog page that is supplemented with at least (1) a link to the research note, and (2) an indication that the research note compares the first and second catalog items; said method performed by a computer system that comprises one or more physical servers. |
8793807 | 12987099 | 1 | 1. A method of controlling access to and manipulation of a data object in a computer system, the method comprising: determining a current user role of a current user requesting interaction with the data object, the current user role being one of a set of defined user roles for accessing the data object; determining a current lifecycle state of the data object, the current lifecycle state being one of a set of states the data object can transition to; restricting, by a computer processor, interaction with the data object by the current user based on at least the current user role of the current user and the current lifecycle state of the data object, the interaction including creating data associated with the data object, reading data associated with the data object, updating data associated with the data object, deleting data associated with the data object, and transitioning the data object to a different lifecycle state; notifying a computer process when a data object user transitions the data object to a different lifecycle state; receiving a plurality of object rules for accessing and manipulating the data object based on the set of defined user roles and a set of finite lifecycle states; presenting a visual representation of a lifecycle state associated with one or more processes; and converting the visual representation into a computer readable markup language; wherein restricting interaction with the data object by the current user includes searching the object rules that apply to the current user role of the current user and the current lifecycle state of the data object; and wherein the set of user roles, the set of lifecycle states, and plurality of object rules are encoded and associated with the data object. |
7865384 | 11840322 | 1 | 1. Detecting, by a computing system, an initiation of an information technology (IT) action by a user of a computing unit coupled to said computing system; determining, in real time by said computing system and prior to a completion of said IT action, an actual cost to perform said IT action; obtaining, by said computing system, a target cost to perform said IT action; comparing, by said computing system, said actual cost to said target cost; determining, by said computing system, a result of said comparing, wherein said result is said actual cost being greater than said target cost; obtaining, by said computing system, one or more recommended actions, wherein an outcome of performing said one or more recommended actions is a reduction of said actual cost to perform said IT action; sending, in real time by said computing system and prior to said completion of said IT action, a notification to said computing unit wherein said notification includes a description of or a link to said one or more recommended actions, and wherein said notification further includes a cost-reducing link associated with a recommended action of said one or more recommended actions; receiving, by said computing system, a selection of said cost-reducing link; and automatically performing, by said computing system and in response to said receiving said selection, said recommended action, wherein a result of said automatically performing said recommended action is a reduction in said actual cost. |
20030149575 | 10071768 | 0 | 1. A method of cost-sharing of a client's subscription to usage of a hosted enterprise solution, the method comprising: creating a list of partners of a client to define the client's unique collaboration communities; creating an invitee list that lists which partners should be invited to become subscribers to the hosted enterprise solution; and issuing, based on an amount of external revenue generated, credit to the clients that the clients can use to offset against their subscription fees to the service providers for using their hosted enterprise solutions. |
8462892 | 12955729 | 1 | 1. A noise-constrained diffusion least mean square method for estimation in adaptive networks, comprising the steps of: (a) establishing an adaptive network having N nodes, wherein N is an integer greater than one, and for each node k, a number of neighbors of node k is given by N k , including the node k, wherein k is an integer between one and N; (b) establishing an integer i and initially setting i=1; (c) calculating an output of the adaptive network at each node k as d k (i)=u k,i w 0 +v k (i), wherein u k,i represents a known regressor row vector of length M, w 0 represents an unknown column vector of length M and v k (i) represents noise in the adaptive network, wherein M is an integer; (d) calculating an error value e k (i) at each node k as e k (i)=d k (i)−u k,i w k,i-1 , wherein w k,i represents an estimate of an output vector for node k at iteration i; (e) calculating a local estimate for each node neighboring node k, ψ k,i , for each node k as ψ k,i =w k,i-1 +μ k (1+γλ k,i-1 )u k,i *e k (i), wherein λ k , i = ( 1 - β ) λ k , i - 1 + β 2 ( e k , i 2 - σ v , k 2 ) , β and γ being selectable unitless parameters, μ k represents a node step size for each node k, and wherein σ v,k 2 represents an additive noise variance; (f) calculating an estimate of an output vector w k,i for each node k as w k , i = ∑ l ∈ N k c lk ψ l , i , wherein l is an integer, c lk represents a combination weight for node k; (g) if e k (i) is greater than a selected error threshold, then setting i=i+1 and returning to step (c); otherwise, (h) defining a set of output vectors w k for each node k, where w k =w k,i ; and (i) storing the set of output vectors in computer readable memory. |
7708205 | 11640814 | 1 | 1. A digital image capture and processing system designed by one or more original system designers, and having a set of standard features and functions, and a set of custom features and functions that satisfy customized end-user application requirements, said digital image capture and processing system comprising: a digital camera subsystem for projecting a field of view (FOV) upon an object to be imaged in said FOV, and detecting imaged light reflected off the object during illumination operations in an image capture mode in which one or more digital images of the object are formed and detected by said digital camera subsystem; a digital image processing subsystem for processing said one or more digital images and (i) producing raw or processed data, or (ii) recognizing or acquiring information graphically represented in said one or more digital images, and producing output data representative of said recognized information; an input/output subsystem for transmitting said output data, or said raw or processed data, to an external host system or other information receiving or responding device; a system control subsystem for controlling and/or coordinating the operation of said subsystems above; and a computing platform for supporting the implementation of one or more of said subsystems above, and the features and functions of said digital image capture and processing system; said computing platform including (i) memory for storing pieces of original product code written by said one or more original system designers, and (ii) a microprocessor for running one or more applications by calling and executing pieces of said original product code in a particular sequence, so as to support a set of standard features and functions which characterize a standard behavior of said digital image capture and processing system; wherein said one or more pieces of original product code have a set of place holders into which pieces of third-party product code can be inserted or plugged by third parties, including value-added resellers (VARs), original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and also end-users of said digital image capture and processing system; and wherein one or more pieces of third-party code that have been plugged into said set of place holders, operate to extend the features and functions of said digital image capture and processing system, and modify the standard behavior of said digital image capture and processing system into a custom behavior for said digital image capture and processing system. |
9075074 | 13131988 | 1 | 1. A method for determining a flow in a vicinity of a first aircraft comprising the following steps: measuring one or more flow velocities by one or more sensors on the first aircraft using at least one measuring position of the one or more sensors, each of the one more measured flow velocities being in one measuring direction of the one or more sensors; initializing parameters of a flow model representing a flow, wherein the flow is a wake turbulence of a second aircraft and the flow model is an analytical vortex model; calculating, with an arithmetic unit connected with the one or more sensors, one or more simulated flow velocities at the at least one measuring position according to the flow model representing the flow; comparing with the arithmetic unit the one or more measured flow velocities obtained from said measuring step to the one or more simulated flow velocities obtained from said calculating step; adjusting the parameters of the flow model representing the flow by minimizing a quality function that depends on at least one comparison result of said comparing step to obtain an approximated flow model; repeating said steps of calculating, comparing, and adjusting for one or more iterations; and then determining the flow of the second aircraft in dependency of the approximated flow model. |
9053491 | 14338395 | 1 | 1. A product evaluation system, comprising: a characteristic acquisition device that acquires characteristic information of a product, wherein the characteristic acquisition device comprises at least one device compatible with the product type identified by a product identifier selected from at least one of the group consisting of a radiographic test device, a fluorescent X-ray analysis device, an ultraviolet absorption analysis device, an image enlargement processing device, a surface roughness measurement device, an infrared light absorption/penetration analysis device, an acoustic frequency analysis device, an odor sensor, and a reflection coefficient measurement device; and a computer that evaluates a product, the computer comprising: a product information memory that stores a product type of a product including at least one of a product, a product group, a product brand and a product category, and identification information of the product; a characteristic acquisition method memory that stores an acquisition method for acquiring characteristic information corresponding to the product; the product identifier that identifies a product type of a product targeted for evaluation including at least one of a product, a product group, a product brand, or a product category, based on input information; a genuine product characteristic information memory that stores genuine product characteristic information of the product; a counterfeit product characteristic information memory that stores genuine product characteristic information of the product; a product condition memory that stores value information for each condition of the product; a market information memory that stores market information corresponding to the value information of the product; an evaluation task memory that stores a type of evaluation including any one of authentication, a value estimation, or authentication and a value estimation; an evaluation task acquisition unit that acquires the type of evaluation from the evaluation task memory; and an evaluation unit that performs a predetermined evaluation of the product targeted for evaluation, wherein: the evaluation unit acquires the identification information of the product targeted for evaluation from the product information memory based on the product type identified by the product identifier, acquires the characteristic acquisition method for the product targeted for evaluation from the characteristic acquisition method memory based on the identification information, and acquires the characteristic information of the product targeted for evaluation from the characteristic acquisition device compatible with the characteristic acquisition method; the evaluation unit references the type of evaluation acquired by the evaluation task acquisition unit; when the type of evaluation includes the authentication, the evaluation unit performs the authentication by acquiring at least one of the genuine product characteristic information and the counterfeit product characteristic information of the product targeted for evaluation with reference to at least one of the genuine product characteristic information memory and the counterfeit product characteristic information memory based on the identification information of the product targeted for evaluation, and by comparing the acquired at least one of the genuine product characteristic information and the counterfeit product characteristic information with the characteristic information of the product targeted for evaluation acquired from the characteristic acquisition device; when the type of evaluation includes the value estimation, the evaluation unit performs the value estimation by acquiring the value information of the product targeted for evaluation from the product condition memory based on the identification information of the product targeted for evaluation and the characteristic information related to the condition of the product targeted for evaluation acquired from the characteristic acquisition device, and by acquiring the market information of the product targeted for evaluation with reference to the market information memory based on the acquired value information; and when the evaluation unit evaluates that the product targeted for evaluation is a counterfeit product, the characteristic information of the product targeted for evaluation is saved in the counterfeit product characteristic information memory. |
20080244513 | 11848026 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: running a source code editor; displaying source code within the source code editor; and displaying a summary box, the summary box comprising a list of one or more aspects affecting the source code displayed within the source code editor. |
10157257 | 15272457 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: receiving an input that is in an electronic file format and that includes information associated with an integrated circuit (IC) layout; selecting a non electromigration (EM) rule compliant metal line of the IC layout from the input, the non EM rule compliant metal line being in violation of an EM rule; selecting a proximate metal line of the IC layout from the input, the proximate metal line being disposed in a region of the IC layout that spans from a side of the non EM rule compliant metal line; obtaining a current of the non EM rule compliant metal line from the input; comparing the current with a threshold current; determining whether the EM rule violation is negligible based on the result of the comparison; and based on a determination that the EM rule violation is negligible, fabricating a semiconductor device from the IC layout; wherein at least one of the operations of the method are performed using a computer. |
10064017 | 15487215 | 1 | 1. A method for estimating an altitude of a receiver using building weather profile parameters, the method comprising: identifying one or more weather profile parameters for a building; determining an initial estimate of an altitude of a receiver at a floor inside the building; and using the initial estimate and the one or more weather profile parameters to determine a corrected estimate of the altitude of the receiver at the floor by: determining a first value by dividing a first product by a second product, wherein the first product is determined by multiplying an acceleration due to gravity, a molar mass of dry air, and a measured indoor pressure, and wherein the second product is determined by multiplying a universal gas constant and a reference outdoor temperature; determining a second value by multiplying the first value by the initial estimate of the altitude of the receiver; determining a third value by multiplying a first weather profile parameter, an inverted temperature difference and a second weather profile parameter; determining a difference of the second value and the third value; determining a fourth value by adding a third weather profile parameter to the difference; determining a third product by multiplying the first weather profile parameter and the inverted temperature difference; determining a fifth value by subtracting the third product from the first value; and determining the corrected estimate of the altitude of the receiver by dividing the fourth value by the fifth value. |
20070203758 | 11559530 | 0 | 1. An insurance enrollment and underwriting method, comprising: providing a first user interface with one or more controls for enabling a user to specify one or more health conditions in an enrollment application for pet health insurance; receiving data representing one or more health conditions specified through the first user interface; and electronically processing the data representing the one or more health conditions and electronically flagging each condition as a condition that is acceptable, precluded, or for manual review. |