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20100121987

12544355

1. A method of remotely configuring a host apparatus connectable to at least one image forming apparatus, the method comprising: selecting the at least one image forming apparatus; configuring at least one configuration item of the at least one image forming apparatus; selecting whether to add the at least one configuration item to the work list window; displaying the at least one configured configuration item on a work list window; and storing the configured at least one configuration item and a configuration value corresponding to the at least one configuration item.

20120257796

13478317

1. A method of 3D object delineation from 3D seismic data comprising the steps of: a) providing 3D seismic data; b) processing the data based on a first characteristic, wherein said first characteristic is extracted from the data and compared with at least one reference characteristic so as to define a set of object data; c) delineating the object data according to a first delineation technique; d) transforming the delineated object data using a second delineation technique so as to obtain a set of improved object data; e) extracting object data from the improved object data set; f) and repeating steps b) to e) using the extracted object data, until desired criteria are reached, so as to define a region of interest.

8843605

11151665

1. A method for filtering event data in a network, the method comprising: filtering, at a client receiver platform communicatively coupled to one or more managed devices within the network, the event data at a local level to produce local event filtered data; filtering, at a server communicatively coupled to the client receiver platform, the local event filtered data at a global level to produce global event filtered data; probe filtering the global event filtered data at a network management system to produce probe filtered event data, the network management system being distinct from the server, and communicatively coupled to, the server; filtering, at the network management system, the probe filtered event data produce control center filtered data; determining whether each event in the control center filtered data is actionable; for each of the events, when the event is determined actionable, taking remedial action; and for each of the events, when the event is determined not actionable, modifying at least one of the filtering at the client receiver platform, the filtering at the server, and the probe filtering.

7797141

11304925

1. A method of assessing behavioral aspects of one or more mission systems, the method performed by a processor configured with memory, the method comprising: providing to a user a plurality of architectural components each generically representing a hardware or software system element includable in a model of a mission system; based on input from the user to a runtime environment of the processor, combining instances of the architectural components to represent hardware components and software components in a mission system model and mapping the software components to the hardware components to indicate deployment of the software components on the hardware components, to enable execution of the mission system model; based on the user input, specifying one or more amounts of resources of the hardware components needed by one of the software components and associating the one or more amounts with the one of the software components to enable execution of the mission system model; based on the user input, associating at least some of the architectural components with runtime availability analysis components for receiving and responding to availability attribute messages in the runtime environment; based on the user input, associating availability characteristics with one of the at least some of the architectural components; dynamically modeling system availability, the modeling performed by sending an availability attribute message input by the user to an availability analysis component associated with one of the architectural components and monitoring behavior of at least one of the hardware or the software component of the at least some of the architectural components in response to the message; dynamically indicating availability of the mission system model to the user based on the behavior; wherein the availability characteristics for a software component comprise at least one of failure rate, coldstart time, restart time, redundancy, cascading failures, minimum acceptable level, and switchover time; and wherein the availability attribute message indicates one of the following: coldstart, restart, switchover, operational, and fail.

20140365583

13911226

1. A method for maintaining a messaging state across multiple clients and devices which use respective communications systems, comprising: connecting a plurality of users to multiple messaging communications systems, the multiple messaging communications systems using a plurality of associated messaging clients on each of the users' respective devices, for messaging communications between the users; storing the users' messaging communications from the multiple messaging communications systems and their respective messaging clients, using a proxy service; tracking a device using the proxy service, of the plurality of messaging clients, the device being used by a messaging user of the plurality of users; and routing a current messaging communication of the messaging user from the stored messaging communications to the currently used device, using the proxy service, for maintaining a state of the messaging communications of the users.

20150039686

13954193

1. A method comprising: determining a user preference value for each of multiple items of web content to be loaded onto a mobile device of the user; determining a content provider preference value for each of the multiple items of web content to be loaded onto at least the mobile device of the user; for each of the multiple items of web content to be loaded onto the mobile device of the user, combining (i) the corresponding user preference and (ii) the corresponding content provider preference value, thereby generating a combined value for each of the multiple items of web content; and loading the multiple items of web content to the mobile device of the user in order of highest combined value to lowest combined value; wherein at least one of the steps is carried out by a computing device.

20130152055

13316563

1. A method for reducing false alarms in a static analysis of first and second concurrent programs, comprising: determining that a static analysis of the first concurrent program generates a warning for an input; determining whether a static analysis of the second concurrent program generates the warning for the input; and removing the warning if the static analysis of the second concurrent program generates the warning.

20050071026

10770935

1. A method for synchronizing operations in a computer environment with accompanying audio, said method comprising: replaying said operations and said accompanying audio in said computer environment, said operations resulting from processing of recorded user inputs; creating a synchronization point at a common point in said replaying of said operations and said accompanying audio; and associating said synchronization point with said accompanying audio, said synchronization point providing a reference point to substantially synchronize said accompanying audio when said operations are replayed in a replay computer environment using said recorded user inputs.

5487215

08198367

1. A fastener installation apparatus having a plunger with a free end and a die button spaced from said free end, said plunger free end facing said die button, said installation apparatus being adapted to be mounted between the platens of a press for installing a fastener into a panel by impacting said fastener and panel with said fastener installation apparatus during the stroke of one of said platens toward the other of said platens; said press having a shut height defined as the distance between the platens when said one platen is at the bottom of its stroke; said fastener installation apparatus being adapted to be operatively mounted between the platens of said press within said shut height and having an operative length defined as the distance between the free end of said plunger and said die button when said one platen is at the top of its stroke; control means operatively coupled to said fastener installation apparatus for periodically adjusting the operative length of said installation apparatus and for controlling said press to ensure proper installation of said fastener into said panel.

20170318416

15651880

1. A method for communicating location information to a device, comprising: receiving, at a computer system that implements a social networking service, location information that represents a geographic location of a device associated with a first user; associating, by the computer system, the received location information with a profile associated with the first user; and sending, from the computer system to a device associated with a second user, a message that is generated based at least in part on the location information.

20050102223

10704533

1. A method of conducting a wagering activity, the method comprising: providing an event upon which a plurality of bettors may each place at least one wager; enabling each bettor of the plurality to provide input regarding at least one portion of their respective at least one wager prior to the event; and randomizing at least one other portion of each bettor's at least one wager prior to the event.

9805102

14936844

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: identifying a given content item that is eligible to be transmitted to a user device; obtaining, for the given content item, a predicted performance measure; determining, by one or more computers, that the given content item will be presented at the user device in a navigational context, including determining that a similarity between a search query and a domain name of a landing page for the given content item meets a navigational similarity threshold; obtaining a navigational performance adjustment factor that indicates a relative performance of content items presented in the navigational context relative to performance of content items presented in a non-navigational context, wherein the non-navigational context is a context in which the search query and the domain name of the content items does not meet the navigational similarity threshold; adjusting, by the one or more computers and using the navigational performance adjustment factor for a content item slot in which the given content item will be presented, the predicted performance measure of the given content item based on the determination that the given content item will be presented in the navigational context; selecting, based on the adjusted predicted performance measure, the given content item from among a plurality of available content items; and updating a user interface of the user device to present the given content item based on the selection of the given content item.

20090209152

12391101

1. A system for controlling the velocity of a watercraft having an engine for propulsion, said system comprising: a velocity measuring device capable of obtaining a measurement of the velocity magnitude of said watercraft; a control input device capable of accepting an input of a predetermined velocity for said watercraft; a tachometer device capable of measuring the speed of said engine propelling said watercraft; a control module comprising: an engine speed algorithm capable of creating a first engine speed output correction from said velocity magnitude and said predetermined velocity; an engine speed comparator capable of determining the engine speed error between said tachometer speed measurement and said first engine speed output correction of said engine speed algorithm; an engine torque algorithm capable of creating a first engine torque output correction from said engine speed error; and said first engine torque output correction being capable of causing said watercraft to be propelled at substantially said predetermined velocity.

8073912

11827754

1. A method for authenticating a received email used by an email system, comprising: classifying the received email as either a first type or a second type based on whether the sender domain of the received email is associated with a spammer, when the received email is classified as the first type, sending a first type of bounceback email with a new sub-address to a sender of the received email, the first type of bounceback email having the new sub-address in computer-readable form, the new sub-address being appended to the origination email address in the bounceback email, and when the received email is classified as the second type, sending a second type of bounceback email to a sender of the received email, the second type of bounceback email having a test in a body of the second type of bounceback email, the test for differentiating a human from a machine and having a solution that is the new sub-address, wherein a destination address of a reply-to-bounceback email includes the new sub-address.

20020111697

10073628

1. A method for minimizing total cost of interaction among components of a computer program, each of said components being characterized by at least one implementation property, said method comprising the steps of: a) carrying out at least a partial run of said program; b) monitoring said at least partial run of the program to measure an amount of interaction between each pair of components; c) determining a cost of interaction between each pair of interacting components; d) determining a choice of implementation properties which minimizes total cost of said at least partial run; e) assigning said choice of said implementation properties to said components for a subsequent at least partial run of said program.

9264488

13867724

1. A method, comprising: extracting, by a web services proxy, social networking data from multiple different social networking sites for multiple users to generate combined social networking data, the web services proxy interfaced with multiple different web service adapters through an application programming interface (API), each web service adapter associated with a different one of the multiple different social networking sites and configured to communicate with the respective social networking site using a data schema of the social networking site to extract the social networking data; storing the combined social networking data in a standardized format within a unified social networking database; maintaining presence data of the multiple users; receiving a request, from a first computing device, for users matching a specified criteria associated with the combined social networking data and the presence data; detecting that a second computing device, associated with a user matching the specified criteria, is within proximity to the first computing device; and notifying the first computing device that the user matching the specified criteria is within proximity to the first computing device.

20110081079

12575298

1. A method for classifying a candidate red-eye object in a digital image, the method comprising the acts of: i) selecting a candidate red-eye object in a digital image; ii) determining a search scale set and a search region for the candidate red-eye object where an eye object may reside; iii) determining a number of subwindows that satisfy an AdaBoost classifier, the number denoted as a vote; iv) determining the maximum size of the subwindows that satisfy the AdaBoost classifier; v) calculating a normalized threshold by multiplying a predetermined constant threshold by the maximum size calculated at act iv); vi) determining that the vote is greater than the normalized threshold; and vii) transforming the candidate red-eye object into a true red-eye object.

20020111903

09780504

1. A method for at least partly automated bookkeeping, comprising: providing a server with a banking service application and an account service application, said server being accessible to at least one client through an wide area network such as the Internet, wherein said account service application is connected to a book-keeping database, receiving to said server data representing instructions for at least one transaction, using said data in the banking service application for conducting the transaction, using at least part of said data as accounting information in the account service application for updating said book-keeping database.

20140316933

14320367

1. A method, comprising: communicating, by a computer-based system configured for facilitating a service dialog, a service dialog request; receiving, by the computer-based system, tailored content based upon the service dialog request; and communicating, by the computer-based system, a selection of the tailored content.

20140344817

13896795

1. A method for converting a hybrid flow comprising: identifying a plurality of task nodes of a hybrid flow; combining each of the plurality of task nodes with a plurality of corresponding operators of the hybrid flow; and converting the combined plurality of task nodes and the plurality of corresponding operators of the hybrid flow to a data flow graph using a code template.

8825087

14174725

1. A system configured to trigger events in a virtual space, the system comprising: a server comprising one or more processors configured to execute computer program modules, the computer program modules comprising: a location module configured to obtain real-world location information indicating a real-world location of the first user; a space trigger module configured to obtain event information specifying real-world location criteria that will trigger an event within a shared, interactive virtual space hosted over the internet, to compare the real-world location information for the first user with the real-world location criteria for the event, and, responsive to the real-world location information indicating the first user has satisfied the real-world location criteria for the event, triggering the event for the first user in the virtual space, wherein the space trigger module is configured to obtain the event information for the event triggered for the first user via a graphical user interface configured to receive entry or selection of the event information from a second user that is different from the first user.

20130276026

13787072

1. A computer-implemented method for managing audience data for advertisement placements, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, at a programmed computer, a source signal stream comprising metadata and an advertisement space; extracting from the metadata, using the programmed computer, a channel identifier and personal identifiable information about an intended audience of interest to advertisers; identifying, using the programmed computer, at least one anonymous statistic of a national market and a placement opportunity including an owner of the advertisement space, the at least one anonymous statistic of a national market based in part on the channel identifier and the personal identifiable information; purging, using the programmed computer, the personal identifiable information about the intended audience when the owner of the advertisement space is identified as a national network; and, targeting, using the programmed computer, an advertisement decision to the intended audience based on the at least one anonymous statistic of a national market.

20120120104

12874048

1. A system for creating customized labeled maps, comprising: a presentation device; a mapping system configured to access map data and use the map data to display a map using the presentation device based on a selectable elevation value; and a clickmap system configured to automatically create and display at least one label located in proximity to a user selected position on the map, wherein the map data includes geocoded information, and wherein the at least one label is based on reverse geocoded information associated with the user identified map position.

20160080444

14953891

1. A method, comprising: determining, by at least one computing device, a set of recommended media content items based at least in part on a media consumption history of a client and real-time behavior data of the client; selecting, by the at least one computing device, a subset of the set of recommended media content items based at least in part on an amount of available resources in the client; preparing, by the at least one computing device, the client for instantaneous playback of the subset of the set of recommended media content items before a selection of any of the subset of the set of recommended media content items for playback; and performing, by the at least one computing device, processing of a first recommended media content item of the subset of the set of recommended media content items in response to the first recommended media content item being selected for playback after the client is prepared for instantaneous playback of the first recommended media content item.

8641670

12452927

1. A skin-adherable portable therapeutic fluid delivery device for delivering a therapeutic fluid into a body of a patient comprising: a cannula for delivering the therapeutic fluid into the body of the patient; a cradle unit configured for adhesively securing to the skin of the patient and defining an opening for providing a passageway for the cannula, the cradle unit comprising one or more anchors for securing a proximal end of the cannula to the cradle after insertion of the cannula into the body of the patient; a skin-adherable patch unit connectable to the cradle unit and to the cannula, the patch unit comprising a pump, a reservoir, a processor, a user interface and a display, wherein: the processor is configured for controlling the pump to deliver the therapeutic fluid from the reservoir to the body of the patient according to one or more inputs, the one or more inputs corresponding to at least one of a delivery rate and a delivery profile, the user interface is configured for adjusting the one or more inputs; and the display is operable for displaying patch information when the patch unit is disconnected from the delivery means, the patch information including at least one of the one or more inputs.

20120254665

13111818

1. A method for generating functional tests for verifying code migrated from a first host to a second host, comprising: analyzing source code associated with the first host to extract user input scenarios; determining based on the analysis, an output response for each of the extracted user input scenarios; and generating functional tests for testing the code on the second host using the extracted user input scenarios and determined output responses.

20020071537

08904784

1. A method of managing telephone activity in an institution, comprising the steps of: (1) providing a first communication connection between an institutional caller and an outside recipient; (2) blocking said first communication connection, while sensing tones present along said first communication connection; (3) comparing said tones with a set of predetermined tones to determining whether to connect said institutional caller and said outside recipient; wherein said comparing is to determine whether said outside recipient is attempting to bridge said first communication connection with a second communication connection.

20080225753

11685175

1. A method of configuring a policy used by a network device by specifying an action to be taken in the event an element of the policy is undefined, the method comprising: (a) providing a configuration interface for configuring a policy of a network device; (b) identifying, by the configuration interface, a policy comprising a first action to be taken based on an evaluation of an expression; (c) receiving, via the configuration interface, information identifying a second action for the policy, the second action to be taken if an element of the policy is undefined.

9795004

14252397

1. A lighting device, comprising: a processor; a source of light, the source of light being configured to output visible light for general illumination in a manner permitting control of a plurality of parameters of the visible light output, responsive to control by the processor; an image sensor configured to capture images; a data communication interface, controlled by the processor, configured for communication of data from and to the lighting device over a network; a microphone accessible to the processor and configured to detect audio user input activity; a storage device accessible by the processor; and a program in the storage device, wherein execution of the program by the processor configures the lighting device to implement functions, including functions to: identify the occupant by: detecting, based on occupancy sensed by the image sensor or the microphone, that an individual has entered the space serviced by the lighting device; and biometrically identifying that the individual is a particular identified occupant from the captured images from the image sensor by: (i) applying facial recognition, (ii) determining relative dimensions of the individual in comparison to one or more objects in the space, or (iii) recognizing gestures from the individual; retrieve a profile of the identified occupant, the profile including a lighting control function established for the identified occupant; operate the light source to illuminate the space while the identified occupant is in the space, including control of at least one of the plurality of parameters of the visible light output in accordance with the lighting control function established for the identified occupant; access, via communication over the network, information about the identified occupant from an on-line social media service; responsive to the accessed information about the identified occupant, determine a social media status of the identified occupant; detect a condition in a space illuminated by the lighting device based on the captured images, the condition relating to an activity of an occupant when within the space; process the condition responsive input from the captured images to determine an activity status that recognizes a task being performed by the identified occupant while in the space; detect via voice recognition a current mood status of the identified occupant from the audio user input activity of the microphone; in response to: (i) determining the social media status, (ii) determining the activity status that recognizes the task being performed by the identified occupant while in the space, and (iii) detecting the mood status of the identified occupant from the audio user input activity, adjust at least one of the plurality of parameters of the visible light output of the lighting control function included in the profile, the adjustment resulting in an adjusted lighting control function; and further operate the light source to illuminate the space in accordance with the adjusted lighting control function.

4791578

06947612

1. A method for designing a circuit system comprising a plurality of logic gates each having a gate input and a gate output with said circuit system having a plurality of system inputs and outputs, said logic gates to be electrically interconnected together at said gate inputs and outputs and to said system inputs and outputs in a selected manner, said method comprising: representing an initial design for said circuit system in a computer system which is capable of determining for this initial design so represented those logic values that will occur at said logic gate outputs in response to selected logic values being provided at said circuit system inputs in said initial design representation; providing a plurality of controllability count registers in said computer system for each of said gate inputs in said initial design representation with each such count register being capable of keeping a total of count increments provided thereto in said computer system, there being a said controllability count register in each said plurality of controllability count registers for each of those logic values which can occur at that said gate input corresponding thereto; providing a plurality of sensitivity count registers in said computer system for each pairing possible of said gate inputs and outputs in each of said logic gates in said initial design representation with each such count register being capable of keeping a total of count increments provided thereto in said computer system, there being a said sensitivity count register in each said plurality of sensitivity count registers for each gate input and output logic value pair which can occur at that gate input and output pair corresponding thereto; providing in sequence a plurality of sets of logic values in said computer system for said circuit system inputs in said initial design representation; determining in said computer system those logic values that will occur at said logic gate outputs in said initial design representation in response to each set of logic values provided at said circuit system inputs in said initial design representation, as aforesaid; incrementing each said controllability count register by one count if a logic value corresponding thereto appears at its corresponding gate input after each said determining of logic values; incrementing each sensitivity count register by one count if a pair of gate input and output logic values corresponding thereto appears at its corresponding gate input and output pair after each said determining of logic values, but only if gate input logic values occurring at those other said gate inputs of said corresponding logic gate are such that were a change to occur in that gate input logic value of such an appearing pair of gate input and output logic values that there would result a change in that gate output logic value of such appearing pair; and estimating what likelihoood exists in such initial design for detecting at some said circuit system output an incorrect logic value occurring at any logic gate input based on total counts occurring in each said controllability count register and in each said sensitivity count register after said plurality of sets of logic values has been provided for said circuit system inputs in said initial design representation, as aforesaid.

20150169548

14634119

1. A natural language generation method for generating a referring noun phrase for an intended referent found in one or more messages within a document plan, the method comprising: arranging, using a processor, the one or more messages in the document plan, wherein messages represent a phrase or a simple sentence and are created in an instance in which the input data stream comprises data that satisfies one or more message requirements; identifying an intended referent in a message of the one or more messages to be referred to in a textual output; determining a lowest common ancestor for the intended referent and a previously referred-to entity within a part-of hierarchy; determining a salient ancestor of the intended referent within the part-of hierarchy; generating a referring noun phrase for the intended referent to be used in the textual output by traversing the part-of hierarchy from the salient ancestor to the lowest common ancestor, wherein the reference noun phrase comprises a default descriptor of the intended referent and one or more default descriptors of one or more parts of the part-of hierarchy that are traversed; and generating the textual output, wherein the textual output linguistically describes at least a portion of the input data stream.

10019480

14541731

1. A computer program product comprising: a machine readable storage device; and computer code stored on the machine readable storage device, with the computer code including instructions for causing a processor(s) set to perform operations including the following: receiving a first query tuning request identifying a first untuned query to be tuned, with the first query being directed toward a first production database operated on a first set of computer hardware, with the first production database including substantive data and catalog data, and with the catalog of the first database including first database schema, first database statistics, system configuration settings, database configuration settings, capture statements from production, data description language (DDL), database object structures, database object relationships, database object states, and historical requests to access database objects, setting up a first mimic of the first production database on a second set of computer hardware, with the first mimic including at least a portion of the catalog data of the first production database but not the substantive data of the first production database, and performing query tuning of the first untuned query using the first mimic operating on the second set of computer hardware to obtain a first tuned query, and outputting the first tuned query; wherein the setting up the first mimic includes: determining a plurality of relevant objects with respect to the first untuned query, selecting a relevant portion of the catalog data of the first production database that relates to the relevant objects of the first untuned query, and setting up the first mimic to include the relevant portion of the catalog data.

7805415

11131940

1. A system for sharing data, comprising: a storage element configured for storing a plurality of rules, wherein the rules include rule information regarding a policy framework, a data type, a data transfer and a data classification; and a processor including an information segmentation module configured for processing at least one of the plurality of rules, wherein said processor is responsive to a processed said at least one rule to control transfer of the data to a first entity and to maintain integrity of the data within the system based on the rule information, said information segmentation module being operative to segment the data into data segments and tag the data segments with sub component identifiers in accordance with policy information of the policy framework, wherein the policy information is selected from a group consisting of: a data owner; a data provider; a data user; and a data use; wherein said information segmentation module is further operative to detect private information in the data, segment the private information into a plurality of subsegments with each subsegment being identified with a particular private information sensitivity, and organize the data according to the private information sensitivity whereby the segmented data may be transferred to the first entity according to a rule designating which of the segments may be transferred to the first entity according to the private information sensitivity; wherein said information segmentation module is further operative to detect one or more classification standards within the data, segment the data according to the one or more classification standards, and organize the data by the one or more classification standards whereby a rule may be generated that governs the transfer of information with respect to the one or more classification standards and prevents the transfer of classified data to an unauthorized entity; and wherein said information segmentation module is further operative to sanitize and aggregate portions of the private information.

9975549

15215151

1. A method comprising: receiving, from a processor device, input information associated with the processor device; determining, based at least in part on the received input information, at least one vehicle behavior exhibited by the vehicle, the vehicle behavior comprising a driving pattern initiated by an operator of the vehicle in which the processor device is installed; identifying a condition affecting the vehicle; determining that a value associated with the at least one vehicle behavior exhibited by the vehicle deviates from at least one parameter associated with the condition affecting the vehicle; determining a set of actions to be used to deter the at least one driving pattern exhibited by the vehicle, the set of actions comprising a chronologically ordered series of actions appropriate with respect to the identified condition; and providing at least the first action in the series of actions to the processor device to be executed; and upon determining that the first action was ineffective, cause at least a second action from the set of actions to be executed, the second action initiating an activation of a vehicle component to cause the vehicle behavior to cease, wherein the second action comprises increasing a brake sensitivity or decreasing a throttle sensitivity.

10089862

15334826

1. A method for alerting a user of a mobile device that includes a display screen, comprising: tracking a location of the mobile device relative to a pedestrian street crossing identified from mapping data; based on the tracking, determining that the user is approaching the pedestrian street crossing; rendering an alert to the user regarding the pedestrian street crossing, the alert being active over a time interval; identifying one or more GUI (graphical user interface) applications among a plurality of applications executing on the mobile device, the GUI applications rendering content on the display screen; dimming, freezing, or obscuring the content rendered by the GUI applications on the display screen; determining that the user has completed traversing the pedestrian street crossing; and re-activating the display screen such that the user can continue interaction with the GUI applications without loss of state when the user completes traversing the pedestrian street crossing.

20140208336

14223442

1. (canceled)

20140257979

14142989

1. A system for providing consumer advertising, comprising: one or more memory devices storing instructions; and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to: receive a user registration request that includes at least an authorization to receive data indicating content presented at one or more client devices associated with a user and an authorization to access financial service account data associated with the user; identify advertisements in content presented at the one or more client devices during a first time period; provide alternative advertisements to the one or more client devices in substantially real-time for presentation in place of the identified advertisements; determine user financial service account data associated with one or more user financial service accounts and further associated with the user; determine, based on the one or more user financial service accounts, user financial data indicating one or more user purchases during the first time period; associate the one or more user purchases with one or more alternative advertisements provided during the first time period based on at least the received user financial data; and determine an efficacy score for each of the one or more alternative advertisements based at least on the association of the one or more user purchases with one or more alternative advertisements.

20150356977

14826942

1. An audio signal decoder for providing an upmix signal representation on the basis of a downmix signal representation and an object-related parametric information, and depending on a rendering information, the apparatus comprising: an object parameter determinator configured to acquire inter-object-correlation values for a plurality of pairs of audio objects, wherein the object parameter determinator is configured to evaluate a bitstream signaling parameter in order to decide whether to evaluate individual inter-object-correlation bitstream parameter values, to acquire inter-object-correlation values for a plurality of pairs of related audio objects, or to acquire inter-object-correlation values for a plurality of pairs of related audio objects using a common inter-object-correlation bitstream parameter value; and a signal processor configured to acquire the upmix signal representation on the basis of the downmix signal representation and using the inter-object-correlation values for a plurality of pairs of related audio objects and the rendering information; wherein the audio signal decoder is configured to combine an inter-object-correlation value IOC i,j associated with a pair of related audio objects with an object level difference value OLD i describing an object level of a first audio object of the pair of related audio objects and with an object level difference value OLD j describing an object level of a second audio object of the pair of related audio objects, to acquire a covariance value associated with the pair of related audio objects; wherein the audio decoder is configured to acquire an element e i,j of a covariance matrix according to e i,j =√{square root over (OLD i OLD j )}IOC i,j , wherein the object-related parametric information comprises the bitstream signaling parameter and the individual inter-object-correlation bitstream parameter values or the common inter-object-correlation bitstream parameter value.

9487104

14093681

1. A method for controlling an electrically-powered torque machine of a powertrain system, comprising: determining a predicted torque command for controlling the torque machine; determining an immediate torque command for controlling the torque machine responsive to an output torque command to the powertrain system; determining a clamped torque command responsive to the immediate torque command, said clamped torque command limited to the maximum achievable torque for the electrically-powered torque machine at a monitored torque machine rotational speed and a monitored high-voltage electrical potential; determining an adaptive predicted torque command based on the predicted torque command and the immediate torque command; determining a flux command responsive to the predicted torque command, including comparing the predicted torque command with the clamped torque command and selecting the maximum of the adaptive predicted torque command and the clamped torque command as a flux torque command and determining the flux command based on the flux torque command, said flux command comprising a flux level providing a fast torque reserve that is responsive to the predicted torque command, the fast torque reserve comprising a prescribed minimum rate of change in torque output from the torque machine responsive to the predicted torque command; and operating an inverter controller to control flux of the torque machine responsive to the flux command.

20080276181

11744777

1. A method comprising: associating a plurality of devices with a user; storing a core object at a remote location; and projecting the core object to at least one device of the plurality of devices in a view.

9704204

14720998

1. A method for automatically tagging data with at least one identifier, comprising: capturing, by using an image capturing device, at least one image for processing based on an input from a user; extracting, by a data extraction device, data from the captured at least one image by applying one or more predefined rules; determining, by a tagging device, a first identifier based on the extracted data; associating, by the tagging device, the first identifier with the captured at least one image for uniquely identifying the at least one image; and publishing, by a data publishing device, the captured at least one image along with the first identifier through at least one social media website being accessed on at least one computing device based on a publishing setting defined by the user.

20070174189

11695152

1. A method of facilitating commercial transactions, said method comprising the steps of: receiving, at said transaction mechanism, a request to debit said first financial account to effectuate a purchase transaction between said first party and a second party; receiving, at said transaction mechanism, transaction information relating to said purchase transaction between said first party and said second party; comparing, at said transaction mechanism, said transaction information with previous transaction information to determine whether said request to debit said first financial account is fraudulent; determining, at said transaction mechanism, whether said purchase transaction is acceptable by performing at least one of a credit risk analysis and a fraud risk analysis; debiting, at said transaction mechanism, funds from said first financial account in the amount of a sales price of said item when said request to debit said first financial account is not fraudulent; and, disbursing, at said transaction mechanism, said funds to a second financial account associated with said second party, wherein said funds are credited to said second financial account.

10088316

13687358

1. A navigation system for predicting a route comprising: one or more processors; a satellite antenna communicatively coupled to the one or more processors, wherein the satellite antenna receives a first signal from one or more global positioning system satellites; one or more memory modules communicatively coupled to the one or more processors; one or more previous locations stored in the one or more memory modules; a segment list stored in the one or more memory modules; and machine readable instructions stored in the one or more memory modules that cause the navigation system to perform at least the following when executed by the one or more processors: transform the first signal into a first location of the navigation system; access the one or more previous locations stored in the one or more memory modules; calculate a first heading based on the first location; calculate a previous heading based on the one or more previous locations; calculate a difference between the first heading and the previous heading; determine, automatically, that a turn has occurred based on the first location and the one or more previous locations when the calculated difference exceeds a heading threshold; store a segment in the segment list after it is determined that the turn has occurred; and predict a route based on the segment list.

20160364972

14737250

1. A system, comprising: one or more sensors to gather information about an environment; a memory device that stores one or more computer executable components; and a processor to execute the following computer executable components in the memory: an event detection component to obtain information from the one or more sensors and identify whether a first level event has occurred based on the obtained information, a coalescence component to consolidate a plurality of events into a hierarchically higher-level, pre-defined coalesced event, and a communication component to send to one or more users a notification of a hierarchically highest level event determined to have occurred during a pre-determined time range.

20090071154

12212249

1. A system for collecting solar energy for one or more of thermodynamic engines, the system comprising: one or more thermodynamic engines each comprising one or more chambers; a solar collector configured to concentrate solar energy; and a distribution mechanism configured to distribute the concentrated solar energy to the one or more chambers in each of the one or more thermodynamic engines for a predetermined period of time.

8949708

13158937

1. A method in an electronic signature service, comprising: creating a template that specifies required electronic signature data and that specifies usage restrictions that specify a maximum number of electronic signatures that can be collected via the template; transmitting a URL that identifies the template; receiving a request based on the transmitted URL; enforcing the usage restrictions; determining a number of uses for the template; in response to the received request, and when it is determined, based on the determined number of uses, that the maximum number of electronic signatures specified by the usage restrictions has not been reached, preparing a form based on the template; presenting the form within a Web browser; and receiving the required electronic signature data; and in response to the received request, and when it is determined, based on the determined number of uses, that the maximum number of electronic signatures specified by the usage restrictions has been reached, presenting an error message indicating that the form is not available for signing; and refusing to prepare and transmit a form based on the template, wherein the usage restrictions further specify a maximum frequency that the template can be used for electronic signature purposes, the maximum frequency specifying a length of time between signings, wherein a recipient may only sign the form once within the specified length of time.

20020196458

10052163

1. A method for managing electronic apparatuses comprising the step of: causing the electronic apparatuses to verify identification information of a portable terminal which demands apparatus management information with respect to the electronic apparatus and transmit the apparatus management information in accordance with the portable terminal to the portable terminal which demanded the apparatus management information.

8081987

11895101

1. A method for implementing a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) network, said method comprising: receiving configuration data comprising a unique identification of a mobile electronic device and an assigned membership of said mobile electronic device to a workgroup; selecting a data dictionary based upon said assigned membership of said mobile electronic device to said workgroup and wherein said data dictionary comprises at least one desired GIS feature type which was not originally intended for use by said mobile electronic device; sending said data dictionary to said mobile electronic device via a wireless communication network; determining that said data dictionary is not yet resident upon said mobile electronic device; automatically sending said data dictionary to said mobile electronic device; determining that a GIS data collector application for enabling said mobile electronic device to perform GIS data collector functions is not a current version of said GIS data collector application; and sending said current version of said GIS data collector application to said mobile electronic device via said wireless communication network.

8244568

11776939

1. A method of scheduling a meeting comprising: receiving meeting time information from a meeting organizer, by a calendar application of a meeting organizer information handling system (IHS), the meeting time information including candidate times for a meeting with prospective participants, the meeting time information indicating times when the meeting organizer is available; receiving from the meeting organizer, by the calendar application of the meeting organizer IHS, a selection of a request participant free time option; generating a respective request for participant free time form for each prospective participant, by the calendar application of the meeting organizer IHS, in response to selection of the request participant free time option, each request for free time form including candidate meeting times; transmitting via email, by the calendar application of the meeting organizer IHS, a respective request for participant free time form to each prospective meeting participant; receiving from the prospective meeting participants, by the calendar application of the meeting organizer IHS, completed request for participant free time forms; combining, by the calendar application of the meeting organizer IHS, the completed request for participant free time forms into a single form; parsing, by the calendar application of the meeting organizer IHS, the single form to determine the free times associated with each prospective participant; determining, by the calendar application of the meeting organizer IHS, a consensus free time from the free times associated with each prospective participant; and transmitting via email, by the calendar application of the meeting organizer IHS, to each prospective meeting participant the consensus free time as a first invitation for the meeting that includes the consensus time for the meeting.

20070015494

11170545

1. A system that facilitates consolidation of services in a multi-modal, multi-lingual mobile device, comprising: an interface component that facilitates interaction of a first service and a second service via the multi-modal, multi-lingual mobile device; and a collaboration component that pools a first resource from the first service with a second resource from the second service to provide functionality to the multi-modal, multi-lingual mobile device.

10031893

15416953

1. A computer-implemented method for transforming data to generate a layout, the computer-implemented method comprising: obtaining data comprising an image and a content item; analyzing the image to identify: a salient region of the image, the salient region comprising a subject of the image; and an invariant region of the image, the invariant region comprising a region of the image wherein a variation of at least one feature is below a threshold to achieve a contrast between the content item and the image; comparing the data to a plurality of designs; selecting a design of the plurality of designs to generate the layout, the design comprising a viewport frame, a salient region placement frame, and a content placement frame, and the selecting being based at least in part on: determining that the salient region corresponds to the salient region placement frame; and determining that the invariant region corresponds to the content placement frame; and generating the layout based at least in part on the design.

20130007731

13171333

1. A method performed by one or more computers to track virtual machines (VMs) deployed on hosts, respectively, the method comprising: automatically maintaining linking information that links application elements to the VMs, the linking information indicating which application elements were used to build or compile applications installed on which of the VMs.

8149696

11322651

1. A method for controlling a call from a source node to a destination node in ad hoc wireless networks, the method comprising: evaluating the first probability of QoS violation of the call if the destination node is a one-hop neighbor of the source node, and admitting the call when the first probability of QoS violation of the call is below a first threshold; evaluating the second probability of QoS violation of the call that is different from the first probability of QoS violation based on a number of hop delay distributions if the destination node is not a one-hop neighbor of the source node, and admitting the call when the second probability of QoS violation of the call is below a second threshold; and scheduling packets of the admitted call when the admitted call violate a QoS requirements, wherein the call belongs to one of Class C1, Class C2, and Class C3, the Class C1 represent flows comprising at least one of voice over IP (VoIP) and streaming video, the Class C2 represent flows comprising at least one of hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) and web browsing and the Class C3 represent flows comprising at least one of file transfer protocol (FTP) and downloads, wherein for the Class C1, each of the first probability of QoS violation and the second probability of QoS violation is evaluated by using a delay bound d bound (C k ) , and each packet of Class C1 specifies the maximum tolerated delay comprising at least one of the delay bound, d bound (C k ) , a jitter bound, d jitter — bound (C k ) , and a required rate, R required C k and if the destination node is an immediate neighbor to the current node, then the current node computes the first probability of QoS violation, wherein for the Class C2 and the Class C3 the method further comprising; evaluating a mean delay requirement and a requirement on the rate for the Class C2 and the Class C3 flows; and scheduling the Class C2 and the Class C3 flows based on the evaluated mean delay requirement and the requirement on the rate.

8122409

11869306

1. A method for integrating statistical timing and automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) to selectively add timing margin in an integrated circuit, comprising: identifying, while a chip is in design, paths that are unable to be robustly tested “at speed” during manufacturing test; running, by a processor, statistical timing to calculate a margin to be applied to the paths; updating design specifications for the margin to be applied to the paths, the margin being included as an additional delay at an output pin of a path; and optimizing chip logic based on the updated design specifications.

20150065736

14475790

1. A transgenic soybean seed having increased total fatty acid content of at least 20% when compared to the total fatty acid content of a non-transgenic, null segregant soybean seed wherein said seed comprises at least one recombinant construct having at least one DGAT sequence and a construct downregulating plastidic phosphoglucomutase activity wherein the DGAT sequence and the plastidic phosphoglucomutase construct can be in the same recombinant construct or in separate recombinant constructs.

20100153889

12710316

1. A method for using a computer system to provide a user interface to an electronic text, comprising in sequence the steps of: a. on a display controlled by the computer system, presenting a portion of an electronic text and a portion of an outline of said electronic text, wherein: i. an element of the text comprises at least one phrase appearing in said electronic text, said at least one phrase comprising at least one word; ii. said outline comprises a plurality of elements, wherein elements of the outline comprise copies of elements of said electronic text; iii. each element of the outline represents a portion of said electronic text; iv. the combined elements of the outline comprise substantially less text than the entire said electronic text; v. substantially all portions of said electronic text are represented by at least one element of the outline; vi. at least one outline element is hierarchically superior to at least two other outline elements, indicating that said hierarchically superior outline element represents text also represented by said at least two other outline elements; vii. the relative positional and hierarchical relationships of elements of the outline correspond to the relative positional and hierarchical relationships of the portions of said electronic text represented by said elements of the outline; and viii. said presented portion of said outline is presented on said display in a distinct screen region different from the screen region in which said portion of electronic text is presented; and b. detecting a change in cursor location within said electronic text, wherein: i. said cursor location represents a location of said electronic text that is presented on said computer display; and ii. said change in cursor location is from a text location corresponding to a first outline element presented in said distinct region of step a.viii, to a text location corresponding to a second outline element initially not presented in said distinct region of step a.viii; and c. displaying said second outline element in said distinct region of step a.viii, wherein: the relative positional and hierarchical relationships of elements of the outline displayed on said distinct region of step a.viii maintain correspondence to their positional and hierarchical relationships in said outline.

7584140

10726851

1. A computer implemented method for minimizing communications bandwidth among parties trading derivatives using computers, the method comprising: (a) receiving, by a network computer, via a network, market data, the market data representative of a state of a market for a plurality of products; (b) receiving, by the network computer, via the network, quote data from at least one market maker computer, the quote data operative to facilitate derivation, by the network computer, of at least one indicative quote for at least a subset of the plurality of products; (c) generating, by the network computer, a plurality of indicative quotes for the subset of the plurality of products based on the market data and the quote data, and transmitting the plurality of indicative quotes to a subscriber computer via the network; and (d) facilitating, by the network computer, the subscriber computer to generate a request for actionable quote for at least one product of the subset of the plurality of products based on the plurality of quotes and transmit the request for actionable quote to all of the at least one market maker computer via the network, each of the at least one market maker computer being responsive thereto to generate an actionable quote in response to the request for actionable quote and transmit the actionable quote back to the subscriber computer via the network wherein the subscriber computer may generate an order based on the actionable quote.

20140282466

14213994

1. A method of merging functionality of multiple applications, comprising: determining, by a computer comprising one or more processors, one or more changes to be made to an application on a target computer; identifying metadata associated with the application, the metadata corresponding to the one or more changes to be made; generating at least one tag associated with the metadata, the at least one tag comprising information that describes one or more database definitions included in the metadata; wrapping the at least one tag and the metadata into a mergeable metadata application; and transmitting, to the target computer, the mergeable metadata application.

20120109678

13319567

1. A method ( 10 ) for clinical decision support based on comparison of multiple molecular signatures, said method ( 10 ) comprising the steps of: obtaining ( 110 ) genetic information; obtaining ( 120 ) primary biological data corresponding to the genetic information from a knowledge database; ordering ( 130 ) said genetic information according to the primary biological data; obtaining ( 140 ) multiple molecular signatures from a signature data repository; obtaining ( 150 ) secondary biological data corresponding to each molecular signature from the knowledge database; sorting ( 160 ) said molecular signatures according to the correspondence of said secondary biological data and said primary biological data, to form a ranking of said molecular signatures; and generating ( 170 ) an output signal indicative of a clinical decision based on said ordered genetic information and said ranking of the molecular signatures.

9807362

13435444

1. A system, comprising: a depth control module configured to determine a depth setting for use in displaying autostereoscopic video (AV), the depth setting being based on at least one of user parameters or device parameters; and an AV processing module configured to display the AV on a display, the displaying of the AV being based on the depth setting; an image capture module configured to capture an image; and a user parameter module configured to detect a face within the captured image, determine features based on the detected face, and determine whether a user profile of a particular user corresponding to the features exists, the user profile comprising depth preference information, said depth preference information comprising a user specified amount of depth for displaying said AV: wherein when said user profile exists, said user parameters are based on said depth preference information, wherein the depth setting is based on device parameters only if a user profile corresponding to the features of a particular user is determined not to exist.

9986407

15374122

1. A method for determining performance of an application installed on one or more mobile stations, the method comprising: configuring, by an application performance detection system, each of the one or more mobile stations upon receiving a performance assessment request from an assessment scheduler device associated with the application performance detection system; receiving, by the application performance detection system, application data pertaining to the application from each of the one or more mobile stations 103 thus configured, wherein the application data comprises one or more device parameters and network traffic parameters; determining, by the application performance detection system, one or more absolute Key Performance Indices (KPIs) of the application based on the application data of the application obtained from each of the one or more mobile stations, wherein the one or more KPIs comprises at least one of fair usage index, information availability index, network load index and device resource consumption index; determining, by the application performance detection system, absolute rating of the application based on a correlation of the one or more absolute KPIs of the application obtained from each of the one or more mobile stations separately; and verifying, by the application performance detection system, the performance of the application based on a comparison of the absolute rating of the application with a predefined absolute rating standard of the application.

20140207632

13997643

1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media having instructions embodied therein that are configured to cause a computing device, in response to execution of the instructions by the computing device, to: determine, for a thread executing on the computing device, a collection ratio of a number of events associated with execution of the thread that have occurred during a period of execution of the thread and for which information has been collected to a total number of associated events that have occurred during the period of execution of the thread; determine, based at least in part on the determined collection ratio, whether a slowdown cost budget has been exceeded; and determine, based at least in part on a result of the determination of whether a slowdown cost budget has been exceeded, whether to collect information about associated events occurring during execution of the thread subsequent to the period of execution.

20160099844

14504945

1. A system comprising: a storage subsystem; and cloud-based logic configured to: receive one or more logs generated by the storage subsystem, wherein the one or more logs include status information associated with the storage subsystem; and generate a read-only graphical user interface (GUI) based on the one or more logs, wherein the read-only GUI presents a view of a status of the storage subsystem.

20150324431

14802466

1. (canceled)

9386121

14680943

1. A method for providing a wireless ambient service to a mobile end-user device operating on a Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN), the method comprising: receiving, from a mobile end-user device communicating over the WWAN, a first Internet access request for a first ambient service, the first ambient service comprising a primary policy that provides access to primary ambient content but does not provide primary access by the mobile end-user device to a first Internet destination through the first ambient service, the first Internet access request requesting primary ambient content allowed by the primary policy; transmitting to the mobile end-user device and responsive to the first Internet access request, primary ambient content, the primary ambient content including one or more user-selectable references related to the first Internet destination, the first ambient service comprising at least one secondary policy allowing access through the one or more user-selectable references to the first Internet destination; receiving, from the mobile end-user device, a second Internet access request for the first ambient service, the second Internet access request generated from a first reference selected by the user from the one or more user-selectable references; and transmitting to the mobile end-user device, responsive to the second Internet access request, secondary ambient content, including content from the first Internet destination that is allowed by the at least one secondary policy based on the user selection of the first reference.

9067136

13045323

1. A computing system, comprising: a peripheral input configured to receive depth images from a depth camera; a display output configured to output a user interface to a display device; a logic subsystem operatively connectable to the depth camera via the peripheral input and to the display device via the display output; a data holding subsystem holding instructions executable by the logic subsystem to: receive from the depth camera one or more depth images of a world space scene including a human target; translate a world space position of a hand of the human target in a curved virtual interface space having a curved virtual shape to an uncurved screen space cursor position of the user interface using a virtual desktop transformation, the virtual desktop transformation and the curved virtual shape of the curved virtual interface space being dynamically adjusted based on a history of button press actions executed by the human target.

6153848

09321590

1. A welding quality decision apparatus comprising: temperature detection means for detecting a surface temperature of a member to be welded at a welding point after welding; decision means for deciding whether or not a detected temperature value is higher than a comparative reference temperature value; and control means for controlling a welding machine on the basis of the decision result from said decision means.

20100306782

12471490

1. An article of manufacture, comprising: a machine-accessible medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising: importing a first business intelligence (BI) block to a host analytics user interface (UI), the first BI block including one or more synchronizable dimensions and one or more propagatable dimensions; updating a host data context of the host analytics UI by propagating the propagatable dimensions of the first BI block; importing a second BI block to the host analytics UI, the second BI block including at least one synchronizable dimension in common with at least one propagatable dimension of the first BI block; and synchronizing the synchronizable dimensions of the second BI block to the updated host data context.

7917525

11567577

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer executable instructions embodied therein that when executed carry out a method comprising: searching administrative healthcare claims data; and comparing one subset of the administrative healthcare claims data against a plurality of other subsets of the administrative healthcare claims data; and calculating a hypergeometric statistical result based on the comparing step using one or more pre-generated factorial tables, the factorial tables comprising logarithmic entries.

6081665

08994393

1. A real-time virtual machine method (RTVMM) for implementing real-time systems and activities, the RTVMM comprising the steps: implementing an O-OPL program that can run on computer systems of different designs, an O-OPL program being based on an object-oriented programming language (O-OPL) comprising object type declarations called classes, each class definition describing the variables that are associated with each object of the corresponding class and all of the operations called methods that can be applied to instantiated objects of the specified type, a "method" being a term of art describing the unit of procedural abstraction in an object-oriented programming system, an O-OPL program comprising one or more threads wherein the run-time stack for each thread is organized so as to allow accurate identification of type-tagged pointers contained on the stack without requiring type tag information to be updated each time the stack's content changes, the O-OPL being an extension of a high-level language (HLL) exemplified by Java, HLL being an extension of a low-level language (LLL) exemplified by C and C++, a thread being a term of art for an independently-executing task, an O-OPL program being represented at run time by either O-OPL byte codes or by native machine codes.

20090198724

12026475

1. A method, comprising automatically combining multiple entries within a log file, said entries describing traffic in a computer network, into a single page view entry in a condensed log file by treating all non-unique page view entries in the log file that are recorded within a user-designated time of a page view entry in the log file, each a related entry, as being related to the page view entry and combining said related entries with the page view entry in the condensed log file.

20130067075

13612534

1. A method of evaluating compliance with a policy for a service provided by objects on a network infrastructure, said method comprising: comparing: an indication of a target of said service, said indication of said target of said service provided by a first object of a first set of objects, said first object of said first set of object being a provider of said service, to an indication of a provider of said service, said indication of said provider of said service provided by a first object of a second set of objects, said first object of said second set of objects being a target of said service. determining that a result of said comparison violates a policy for said service on said network infrastructure.

8386421

12824254

1. A concurrency control system, comprising: a memory; a record component that creates intention records from completed transactions generated concurrently on a distributed and shared log, the intention records describe the results of the transactions and include updated state of modified data items, the intention records are appended to the shared log and deterministically processed according to a sequence in which the intention records are appended, wherein the intention records are confluent trees that define transaction effects and dependencies according to structure and version information for each intention record; a meld component that merges an intention record with related last committed database state to create updated database state and prevent merging of the intention record with the last committed database state when there is a conflict detected, wherein the meld component generates an ephemeral intention record in response to melding a concurrent intention record and maintains the ephemeral intention record when reachable by an executing transaction; and a processor that executes computer-executable instructions associated with at least one of the record component or the meld component.

7995964

12145138

1. A first personal portable device to cooperate with at least a second personal portable device through a wireless network to perform a task comprising a plurality of task portions, the first personal portable device comprising: a first wireless transceiver to enable communications across the wireless network with the second personal portable device; a first processor; a first storage in which is stored a first assignment routine comprising a sequence of instructions, that when executed by the first processor, causes the first processor to: retrieve a first requirements data indicating a capability required to execute a first task routine to perform a first task portion of the plurality of task portions, a second requirements data indicating a capability required to execute a second task routine to perform a second task portion of the plurality of task portions, and a first capabilities data indicating a capability of the first personal portable device to execute a routine; operate the first wireless transceiver to signal the second personal portable device through the wireless network to retrieve a second capabilities data indicating a capability of the second personal portable device to execute a routine; derive a first distribution of assignments of performances of the first and second task portions among the first and second personal portable devices in response to comparing the first requirements data to the first and second capabilities data and in response to comparing the second requirements data to the first and second capabilities data, wherein the first task portion is assigned to be performed by the first personal portable device such that the first processor is assigned to execute the first routine and the second task portion is assigned to be performed by the second personal portable device such that a second processor of the second personal portable device is assigned to execute the second routine; and operate the first wireless transceiver to signal the second personal portable device through the wireless network with an indication that the second personal portable device is assigned to execute the second task routine; and wherein the first processor being caused to derive the first distribution comprises the first processing being caused to: compare a version level of the first task routine to a version level of another task routine corresponding to the first task portion and stored in a second storage of the second personal portable device; and select the first task routine at least partially due to the version level of the first task routine being a later version than the version level of the other task routine.

9172706

12624012

1. A method, comprising: receiving, at a server, a website request for a website sent from a client; reading, by the server, an announcement header in the website request; retrieving, by the server, a broadening function from the announcement header; retrieving, by the server, a value of personally identifiable information from a field in the announcement header; comparing, by the server, the value of the personally identifiable information to a requirement of the website for the personally identifiable information; determining, by the server, the value of the personally identifiable information fails to match the requirement of the website; determining, by the server, from the announcement header that the value of the personally identifiable information is negotiable; and negotiating, by the server with the client, to obtain more of the personally identifiable information.

20150019090

13941605

1. A vehicle powertrain comprising: an internal combustion engine having a drive shaft carrying an input torque; a transmission having an input member that receives the input torque, an output member, and a plurality of clutches operable to execute a plurality of clutch-to-clutch shifts; a torque converter assembly having a pump that is connected to the drive shaft and a turbine that is connected to the input member; and a controller having a processor and tangible, non-transitory memory on which is recorded a plurality of lumped inertia models and instructions for executing the clutch-to-clutch shifts using the lumped inertia models, wherein the lumped inertia models collectively reduce the dynamics of the vehicle powertrain to two degrees of freedom (DOF) for all fixed gear modes and three DOF for each of the clutch-to-clutch shifts, and wherein the controller is programmed to: estimate a required clutch torque for each of the clutches used in a corresponding one of the clutch-to-clutch shifts using the lumped inertia models, and command execution of the corresponding clutch-to-clutch shift using the required clutch torques.

8204891

12077590

1. A concept-service component of a content-search-service system for searching a content item having an audio track, the concept-service component comprising: a hardware processor configured to: receive, as input, a content ID and search query, wherein the content ID uniquely identifies the content item; use the content ID to retrieve a category ID, ontology, vocabulary, and a transcript, wherein: the category ID relates to a subject matter of the content item, and the transcript includes a textual rendering of the audio track; receive a search query and corrects and linguistically normalizes terms or phrases within the search query; and use the linguistically normalized terms and phrases to process the transcript to assign ontology-based scores to terms or phrases in the transcript using a transcript scorer; and a memory coupled with the processor, wherein the transcript scorer: prepares a list of term/ontology-metric pairs for each term or phrase in the linguistically normalized terms or phrases of the search query; and for each term or phrase in the transcript, associates a score with the term or phrase based on co-occurrence-metrics in the prepared lists of term/ontology-metric pairs, and wherein the transcript-scorer prepares a list of term/ontology-metric pairs for each term or phrase in the linguistically normalized terms or phrases of the search query by: identifying each entry in the ontology that includes the term or phrase paired with a second term; and for each identified entry, computing a co-occurrence metric as a combination of the co-occurrence values in the identified entry, and adding an entry to the list that includes the second term and the computed co-occurrence metric; and adding an entry to the list that includes the term and an identical-term co-occurrence metric.

8953456

13047128

1. A network element for operation at an edge of a domain of a multi-domain Ethernet network, the network element comprising: at least one exterior port configured to transmit frames to and receive frames from at least one other network element in another domain of the multi-domain Ethernet network; and a forwarding engine configured to: receive a plurality of Operation Administration and Maintenance (OAM) frames, wherein the plurality of OAM frames have a multicast destination address and are transmitted to the network element for forwarding to the at least one other network element; and filter the plurality of OAM frames such that only selected OAM frames of the plurality of OAM frames are transmitted via the at least one exterior port to the at least one other network element in the another domain of the multi-domain Ethernet network and the OAM frames of the plurality of OAM frames that are not the selected OAM frames are prohibited from being transmitted by the network element to the at least one other network element, wherein frames other than OAM frames are capable of being transmitted to the at least one other network element in another domain of the multi-domain Ethernet network.

7870136

11753120

1. A method for clustering data using pairwise constraints, comprising: receiving a set of data for clustering, the set of data includes a plurality of data units; identifying soft pairwise constraints, wherein the soft pairwise constraints include, for each pair of data units in the set of data, a soft must-link constraint indicating that the respective pair of data units are in a same cluster and having a confidence level indicating a probability of the soft must-link constraint; and a soft cannot-link constraint indicating that the respective pair of data units are not in the same cluster and having a confidence level indicating a probability of the soft cannot-link constraint; and clustering the plurality of data units in the set of data into a plurality of data partitions based at least on a chunklet modeling technique that employs the soft pairwise constraints, wherein the chunklet technique includes sampling the soft must-link and cannot-link constraints associated with each respective pair of data units in the set of data according to their associated confidence levels.

6047324

09019233

1. A computer system for implementing and managing a message-based protocol that is adapted to provide any of a plurality of online services over a communications network, wherein the system comprises a) an application program interfacing mechanism adapted to send and/or receive at least one of: TCP messages, UDP messages, and asynchronous message responses; b) a framework mechanism adapted to provide at least one of: thread management, connection management and multicasting so as to provide an interface to at least one online service; c) a routing mechanism adapted to route messages and message responses between the application program interfacing mechanism and the framework mechanism; d) the framework mechanism further adapted to broadcast periodic heartbeat messages on the network to identify and prioritize any of a plurality of available online services.

20100058287

12616835

1. A method of handling changes to a software system in a business environment comprising: capturing customer requirements of the software system in a schema; modeling business-software architecture of the software system in a first level of the schema as business functions, business activities, forms, actions, and business rules, wherein each of the business functions comprises functions performed in a business process of the software system, wherein each of the business activities comprises activities performed in each of the business functions, wherein each of the forms comprises semantics to capture and retrieve information for each of the business activities, wherein each of the actions comprises tasks performed in each of the forms, and wherein each of the business rules comprises rules that govern each of the actions; modeling design architecture of the software system in a second level of the schema as components, system entry points, user interfaces, services, and methods, wherein each of the components corresponds to each of the business functions of the business process, wherein each of the system entry points corresponds to visual-interface elements of each of the business activities, wherein each of the user interfaces with visual-interface elements corresponds to each of the forms, wherein each of the services corresponds to each of the actions performed in each of the user interfaces, and wherein each of the methods corresponds to each of the business rules that are invoked in handling each of the services; defining events that connect the first level and second level of the schema, wherein events comprise entry events and exit events, and wherein each of the entry events is a stimulus that triggers a business function, a business activity, or a form and each of the exit events is a response from the respective business function, business activity, or form to the stimulus; defining links that represent interactions between the user interfaces, wherein each of the links comprises cross connections between the visual-interface elements in the user interfaces and the events associated with at least one the business functions, business activities, and forms; defining integration services for each of the events, wherein integration services define cross connections for data updates between the events associated with at least one the business functions, business activities, and forms in the first level and services and methods in the second level; mapping each of the business functions, business activities, forms, actions, and business rules in the first level to a corresponding one of the components, system entry points, user interfaces, services, and methods in the second level using the events, links, and integration services; creating a knowledge repository with a traversable user interface representing the mappings between the first level and the second level of the schema; identifying changes to the software system in the business environment, wherein the changes are associated with at least one of the business functions, business activities, forms, actions, and business rules; and analyzing impact of the changes to the software system using the knowledge repository with the traversable user interface.

8914394

12121688

1. A method, comprising: receiving a search request at a server from a client device for at least two search tags relating to a particular multimedia content; converting, by the server, the search query from the client device into one or more first compatible queries for one or more broadcast content information databases stored on one or more database servers; performing, by the server, one or more first searches on the one or more broadcast content information databases with the one or more first compatible queries, the broadcast content information databases containing availability information specifying a plurality of available multimedia content items and broadcast sources for recording the plurality of available multimedia content items; receiving, at the server, broadcast search information in response to the one or more first searches on broadcast content information databases, the broadcast search information being retrieved from the broadcast content information databases, the broadcast search information identifying one or more broadcast sources from which the particular multimedia content is available via broadcast signals for recording by the client device; converting, by the server, the search query from the client device into one or more second compatible queries for one or more broadband content information databases stored on one or more remote servers remote to both the server and the client device; performing, by the server, one or more second searches on the one or more broadband content information databases with the one or more second compatible queries, the broadband content information databases containing availability information specifying a plurality of available multimedia content items and broadband sources for downloading the plurality of available multimedia content items; receiving, at the server, broadband search information in response to the one or more second searches on broadband content information databases, the broadcast search information being retrieved from the broadband content information databases, the broadcast search information identifying one or more broadcast sources from which the particular multimedia content is available via broadcast signals for recording by the client device; combining, by the server, the broadcast search information and the broadband search information as search result information for the search request; and sending, by the server, the search result information in response to the search request to the client device.

7660480

11351794

1. A method of performing a mesh-free analysis of a general three-dimensional structure, the method comprising: defining a plurality of nodes representing the general structure in a computer system having a mesh-free analysis application module installed thereon; choosing a mesh-free approximation scheme to be used in the mesh-free analysis application module; constructing a set of original mesh-free shape functions based on the chosen mesh-free approximation scheme; when the original shape function is lack of Kronecker delta properties, converting the original shape function to a first transformed mesh-free shape function; otherwise designating the original shape function as the first transformed mesh-free shape function, such that the first transformed mesh-free shape function always possesses the Kronecker delta properties; selecting a low pass filter function; creating a second transformed mesh-free shape function by applying only the low pass filter function to the first transformed mesh-free shape function; and performing a mesh-free analysis of the general structure in the computer system using a low-order integration rule in the mesh-free analysis application module, wherein the mesh-free analysis's results are stored to a storage device coupled to the computer system for assisting a user to make decision in improvements of the general structure.

8966595

12969382

1. A computer-implemented method for binding peers in an electronic environment, comprising: under the control of one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions, embedding, in at least one web page of a Web site, a reference to a trusted script that is able to be sent with the at least one web page to at least one client computing device, wherein the trusted script is configured to begin executing on the at least one client computing device that is displaying the at least one web page in response to the at least one client computing device rendering the at least one web page; receiving a request for a page of the at least one page of the Web site from a first client computing device; providing the page for display on the first client computing device, the trusted script and a predetermined security sequence being sent with the page, the predetermined security sequence including a predetermined sequence of inputs to be inputted on the page; receiving a submission from the first client computing device, wherein the submission includes the predetermined security sequence entered through the trusted script being executed by the first client computing device; generating a queue for the first client computing device in response to receiving the submission, the queue being configured to store information for events generated on other client computing devices, wherein the other client computing devices were also provided the page for display, and wherein a submission including the predetermined security sequence was received from the other client computing devices; and in response to a polling request from the first client computing device, sending information for any of the events stored in the queue, whereby the events generated on other client computing devices are able to be replicated on the first client computing device.

8429146

13334953

1. A computing system configured to identify a predicted future query, the system comprising: one or more query logs configured to store queries issued by users in several partitions; and one or more prediction components configured to identify predicted future queries that a user is likely to issue in a certain time period based on a query history for the user and aggregated behaviors for a group of users corresponding to the queries stored in the query log for the group of users.

9589061

14245764

1. A method of collecting learning materials for informal learning, the method comprising: detecting an addition of an item to a curation; extracting one or more links from a page referenced by the item; downloading pages corresponding to the one or more links; filtering the downloaded pages to generate candidate index pages by excluding a subset of the downloaded pages not having links that point back to the page referenced by the item; detecting information blocks containing links pointing back to the page referenced by the item in one or more of the candidate index pages; locating a primary information block in one or more of the candidate index pages based on a page structure analysis; performing a uniform resource locator (URL) structures analysis of the one or more of the candidate index pages that include the links pointing back to the page referenced by the item in the primary information block; based at least partially on the URL structures analysis, identifying an appropriate index page from the candidate index pages; locating a primary information block in the appropriate index page, the primary information block including a portion of the appropriate index page where a majority of substantive information is contained; and generating an automated extraction rule configured to direct a system to the primary information block of the appropriate index page.

20140325392

14324718

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising receiving, at a computing device, a request from a user to display descriptors of media programming content for a time period; identifying people associated with the user employing information stored in a computer database, and identifying time-associated media programs electronically scheduled on behalf of the identified people; and providing, for display to the user, the descriptions of the identified people and of the time-associated media programs.

20150246673

14193546

1. A system, comprising a computer in a vehicle, the computer comprising a processor and a memory, wherein the computer is configured to: perform one or more operations of the vehicle without occupant input; store data relating to a baseline occupant state; collect data relating to a current occupant state; perform a comparison of the baseline occupant state to the current occupant state; and modify a parameter governing performance of the one or more operations according to the comparison.

20100185712

12478546

1. A method for behavior mapped influence analysis, comprising: defining in computer readable memory an electronic representation of a core influence mapping, the representation of the core influence mapping comprising: actor identifiers; and actor influence specifiers selectively connecting the actor identifiers and encoding influences between organizational actors identified by the actor identifiers; executing in computer readable memory a mapping program comprising program instructions that cause a processor to: generate on a user interface a rendering of the core influence mapping that visualizes that the organizational actors influence one another as encoded by the actor influence specifiers; accept through the user interface a selection input specifying a selected actor from among the organizational actors; display a behavior list comprising permissible behavior tags for the selected actor; accept through the user interface a behavior selection from the behavior list; and transform the core influence mapping into a behavior influence mapping by: creating an actor behavior specifier for the behavior selection in the core influence mapping; and creating a behavior link from the selected actor to the actor behavior specifier in the core influence mapping.

20160313721

15103986

1. A method of adjusting at least one control parameter used in a control apparatus of an electric motor, the control apparatus including: a first position controller for generating a speed command such that a position command transmitted from an outside of the control apparatus of the motor coincides with a load's detection position that is a detected position of a load coupled with the motor; a speed controller for generating a torque command such that the speed command coincides with a motor's detection speed that is a detected speed of the motor; a torque controller for driving the motor in accordance with the torque command; and a torque command generator for outputting a for-adjustment torque command containing a plurality of frequency components, wherein a speed feedback circuit serving as a control loop is formed including the speed controller and the torque controller, the speed feedback circuit acquiring a motor's detection speed to be re-inputted to the speed controller, the motor's detection speed to-be-re-inputted being acquired from the speed command and the motor's detection speed, the speed command and the motor's detection speed having been inputted to the speed controller, and wherein a first position feedback circuit serving as a control loop is formed including the first position controller and the speed feedback circuit, the first position feedback circuit acquiring a load's detection position to be re-inputted to the first position controller, the load's detection position to-be-re-inputted being acquired from the position command and the load's detection position, the position command and the load's detection position having been inputted to the first position controller, the method comprising the steps of: computing a first frequency characteristic by using the for-adjustment torque command output from the torque command generator and by using the motor's detection speed detected when the motor is driven in accordance with the for-adjustment torque command, wherein the first frequency characteristic is a present load-frequency characteristic being a load-frequency characteristic from the for-adjustment torque command to the motor's detection speed; computing a present speed-proportional gain range by using a speed-proportional gain and the present load-frequency characteristic such that the speed feedback circuit becomes stable, wherein the present speed-proportional gain range is a range of a present speed-proportional gain of the speed-proportional gain serving as the control parameter used in the speed controller; computing a present mechanical-system characteristic constant by using the present load-frequency characteristic, wherein the present mechanical-system characteristic constant indicates a characteristic of a mechanical system containing the motor and the load; computing a present proportional gain range by using the speed-proportional gain, a position-proportional gain serving as the control parameter used in the first position controller, the present load-frequency characteristic, and the present mechanical-system characteristic constant such that the position feedback circuit becomes stable, wherein the present proportional gain range is a range of combination of the present speed-proportional gain and a present position-proportional gain of the position-proportional gain; computing a secular characteristic based on the present load-frequency characteristic and secular-change information transmitted from the outside of the control apparatus of the motor, wherein the secular characteristic includes a secular load-frequency characteristic being the load-frequency characteristic having undergone a secular change, and a secular mechanical-system characteristic constant being a mechanical-system characteristic constant having undergone the secular change; computing a secular speed-proportional gain range by using the speed-proportional gain and the secular load-frequency characteristic such that the speed feedback circuit becomes stable; computing a secular proportional gain range by using the speed-proportional gain, the position-proportional gain, the secular load-frequency characteristic, and the secular mechanical-system characteristic constant such that the first position feedback circuit becomes stable, wherein the secular proportional gain range is a range of combination of a secular speed-proportional gain being the speed-proportional gain having undergone the secular change and a secular position-proportional gain being the position-proportional gain having undergone the secular change; and selecting proportional gains from computed-ranges, the proportional gains including a value of the speed-proportional gain and a value of the position-proportional gain, the computed-ranges including: the present speed-proportional gain range computed in the step of computing the present speed-proportional gain range; the range of the combination of the present speed-proportional gain and the present position-proportional gain with the range being computed in the step of computing the present proportional gain range; the secular speed-proportional gain range computed in the step of computing the secular speed-proportional gain range; and the range of the combination of the secular speed-proportional gain and the secular position-proportional gain with the range being computed in the step of computing the secular proportional gain range, wherein each value of the selected proportional gains satisfies all of the corresponding computed-ranges.

20160078508

14946232

1. An information exchange method for online collaborative shopping, performed by a computing device, the method comprising: displaying, by the computing device, commodity information to a main control user; transmitting, to a collaborative user device, information for displaying the commodity information; sending, by the computing device, an interactive assistance request to the collaborative user device; receiving, by the computing device, a response message corresponding to the interactive assistance request from the collaborative user device; establishing, on receipt of the response message, a real-time exchange channel between the computing device and the collaborative user device; and exchanging, by the computing device, the evaluation information of one or more commodities selected by the main control user with the collaborative user device by using a paintbrush.

10046201

14902869

1. An electronic apparatus comprising: a main body; a display unit mounted on the main body; input elements mounted on the main body for inputting information; and a control body disposed in the main body, the control body comprising: a control unit which is operable in an interval training mode in which a high intensity exercise and a low intensity exercise are repeated by a user and which calculates a high intensity exercise time for performing the high intensity exercise and a low intensity exercise time for performing the low intensity exercise based on input time information which is the best time when the user performs an exercise in moving a predetermined distance or a time requested by the user; a storage unit which includes: a first storage unit that stores first information in which a high intensity exercise time is associated with a running level; and a second storage unit that stores second information in which time information is associated with a low intensity exercise time; and a notification unit, wherein the control unit includes an operation unit and a timer unit; wherein the operation unit is configured to: calculate a running level, which is an index of running, based on the input time information and the first information; calculate the high intensity exercise time, based on the calculated running level; calculate the low intensity exercise time, based on the input time information and the second information; and output the running level, the high intensity exercise time, and the low intensity exercise time to the timer unit, and wherein the timer unit is configured to use the running level, the high intensity exercise time, and the low intensity exercise time to control the notification unit to output a notification sound when counting of the high intensity exercise time, counting of the low intensity exercise time, and counting of the high intensity exercise time or the low intensity exercise time are finished.

20130243243

13744859

1. An image processor comprising: a general-purpose classifier configured to detect a predetermined large classification target, the general-purpose classifier including one or a plurality of weak classifiers in which a next-stage weak classifier performs detection processing to a preceding-stage output domain; and a dedicated classifier configured to detect a small classification target which is a subdivision of the large classification target, the dedicated classifier including one or a plurality of weak classifiers in which a next-stage weak classifier performs the detection processing to the preceding-stage output domain; wherein the image processor comprises: an image acquisition part configured to acquire a photographed image photographed by a camera; an image extracting part configured to extract a registered image including a domain assigned by a user from the photographed image; a dedicated classifier performing part configured to cause the dedicated classifier to perform the detection processing to the registered image extracted by the image extracting part; a dedicated classifier selector configured to select the dedicated classifier having a highest index indicating superiority or inferiority of a detection result; and a classifier generator configured to generate a registered image classifier to detect a target included in the registered image by replacing some weak classifiers included in the dedicated classifier selected by the dedicated classifier selector with the weak classifiers included in the general-purpose classifier.

20090248473

12060062

1. A computer readable medium including program code for providing a message-based interface for performing a store service, the service exposing at least one service as defined in a service registry, wherein upon execution the program code executes in an environment of computer systems providing message-based services and comprises: program code for receiving, from a service consumer, a first message for processing information for an operational unit at a location where retail processes with respect to consumers are executed; program code for invoking a store business object, wherein the business object is a logically centralized, semantically disjointed object for representing an operational unit at a location where retail processes with respect to consumers are executed, and comprises data logically organized as: a store root node; a description subordinate node; a location subordinate node and wherein the location node contains: a location address subordinate node; a supplying branch subordinate node; and a price level subordinate node and wherein the price level node contains: a price level product category subordinate node; and program code for initiating transmission of a message to a heterogeneous second application, executing in the environment of computer systems providing message-based services, based on the data in the store business object, the message comprising a store supplying branch request message entity, a message header package, and a store package.

20060265241

11417901

1. A system for sorting a plurality of medical waste items, the system comprising: a plurality of containers, wherein at least one container is associated with at least one waste category; a waste identification device configured to determine a qualitative parameter of a medical waste item; a database comprising waste item classification information; and a control system configured to compare information obtained from the waste item identification device with information contained in the database, wherein the control system is further configured to assign the medical waste item to at least one waste category; and wherein the system is further configured to identify at least one of the containers based on the waste category.

20120041805

13247720

1. A method of distributing and redeeming coupons, comprising: receiving, at a coupon service system, instructions for issuing redeemable coupons from one or more coupon issuers; establishing a communications link between the coupon service system and one or more remote devices communicatively coupled to one or more users; receiving, at the coupon service system, user data from the remote devices; enabling a remote user operating at least one of the remote devices to communicate with the coupon service system over the communications link to access one or more selective offers for redeemable coupons based on the user data; storing coupon files in a database, the coupon files containing information relating to redeemable coupons offered to and selected by the remote user; and causing selected coupons contained in the database to be automatically redeemed when the remote user effectuates a transaction using a user identifiable card.

8600869

09386160

1. A method, implemented by a computer, for managing a credit limit for a credit card issued to a card holder, comprising: activating an account for the credit card; assigning an initial credit limit to the account, the initial credit limit being below a tolerance level for the card holder; developing credit history data based on the card holder's use of the account during respective predetermined short intervals of time, wherein the card holder's use of the account is based on each transaction made by the card holder with the credit card during the respective predetermined short interval of time and reflects at least a manner in which the card holder used the credit limit, wherein the manner includes: whether the card holder used all or most of the initial credit limit, and if so, how quickly the card holder used all or most of the initial credit limit; evaluating, by the computer, the developed credit history data after each of the predetermined short time intervals by generating a score based on the card holder's use of the account over each respective predetermined short time interval; and deciding, by the computer, whether to increase the credit limit of the account based on the score generated from evaluating the developed credit history.

20130067598

13230388

1. A computer-implemented method for configuring a computing appliance, the method comprising: establishing an initial configuration interface to access the computing appliance; receiving one or more configuration commands via the initial configuration interface; determining whether each of the one or more configuration commands have been authorized for execution prior to the acceptance of an end user license agreement (EULA); and executing only configuration commands determined to be authorized for execution prior to acceptance of the EULA.

7677030

11301808

1. An apparatus configured to calculate a regeneration availability profile of an exhaust gas aftertreatment system, the apparatus comprising: a data module configured to read a stored first regeneration availability profile, and further configured to receive requirements data relative to desired regeneration conditions of the exhaust gas aftertreatment system; an input module to receive operational data relative to current operating conditions of the exhaust gas aftertreatment system; and a controller configured to determine a regeneration availability indicator by comparing the operational data to the requirements data, the controller further configured to calculate a second regeneration availability profile based upon the regeneration availability indicator and the first regeneration availability profile; wherein the data module is further configured to store the second regeneration availability profile, and wherein each regeneration availability profile comprises a series of operating period data corresponding to a series of operating periods of the exhaust gas aftertreatment system.

20140282977

14215477

1. A computer-implemented method for calculating an authenticity score for a user account, the method comprising: calculating, by an electronic processor of a computer system, a user score in response to at least a portion of profile data associated with at least one social network or professional network of a first user account; calculating, by the processor, a connections score in response to at least one connection formed between the first user account and at least a second user account through the social network or professional network; calculating, by the processor, an affinity score in response to an overlap between at least a portion of the profile data of the first user account and at least a portion of profile data associated with at least a second user account; and, combining the calculated user score, the calculated connections score, and the calculated affinity score to yield an authenticity score for at least the first user account.