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20120055986

13292420

1. A hand hygiene compliance monitoring system comprising: a portable data reader having a display and a memory; a portal trigger configured to recognize an entrance event in response to a person with the reader entering a room; and a dispenser trigger configured to cause the reader to record a dispensing event in the memory when the person with the reader causes a cleaning dispenser to dispense cleanser, wherein the display displays a number indicating hand hygiene compliance of the person.

8395341

13195442

1. A method comprising: receiving a control signal; applying a model function to the control signal to generate a model signal; receiving a target signal; determining an error estimate based on the model signal and the target signal; determining a correction factor based on the error estimate; and outputting a signal based on the correction factor to control a motor; wherein applying the model function, determining the error estimate and determining the correction factor are performed by electronic circuitry.

20070245351

11703525

1. A method of reducing burst usage in a networked computer system, the method comprising: transmitting over a network to a plurality of computers information regarding a future first time period when resource requests for a first set of resources will be accepted, wherein resources in the first set of resources are not allocated during the first time period; receiving a plurality of resource requests from a plurality of requesters during the first period of time, wherein the plurality of resource requests are received over the network, wherein the plurality of resource requests include a request from a first of the resource requesters for a preferred resource and an indication as to whether an alternate resource different than the preferred resource would be acceptable; during a second time period beginning after the first time period ends, processing the plurality of resource requests in batch mode using a processing system, the processing further comprising: ranking the plurality of resource requests based on one or more of the following criteria: corresponding locations for some or all of the resource requesters; history of resource requests for some or all of the resource requesters; allocating resources to at least a portion of the plurality requesters based at least in part on corresponding resource request rankings and availability of requested resources; transmitting a communication over the network to one or more requesters receiving an allocation, the communication providing information regarding the corresponding allocation; allocating the alternate resource to the first requester if the first requester indicated a willingness to accept the alternate resource, was not allocated the preferred resource, and if the alternate resource is available to be allocated to the first requester; and transmitting a communication over the network regarding the alternate resource allocation to the first requester.

8380531

12509318

1. A method of clinical trial endpoint development comprising: a) administering one or more questions to a subject who is administered a medical product or a placebo, wherein said one or more questions are administered to said subject by a portable electronic device, wherein said device records data about said subject's response to said one or more questions, wherein said one or more questions comprise at least one health-related quality of life (HRQOL) question; b) analyzing said data, wherein said analyzing comprises a statistical analysis of responses to said at least one HRQOL question; c) developing at least one validated HRQOL question based on said analysis, wherein said developing comprises i) determining whether said at least one HRQOL question is an unqualified HRQOL question or a validated HRQOL question based on a capacity of said at least one HRQOL question to serve as an evaluative indicator, ii) for said unqualified HRQOL question, revising and/or recreating said unqualified HRQOL question, and repeating steps a) and b); and retaining said revised and/or recreated unqualified HRQOL question as a validated HRQOL question based on a capacity of said revised and/or recreated unqualified HRQOL question to serve as an evaluative indicator; d) collecting responses from more than one subject administered said validated HRQOL question; e) developing one or more clinical trial endpoints based on said responses to said validated HRQOL question; and f) assessing a label claim of said medical product tested in a clinical trial comprising said one or more clinical trial endpoints.

20100049681

12336636

1. A method for predicting properties of lubricant base oil blends, comprising the steps of: a. generating an NMR spectrum, HPLC-UV spectrum, and FIMS spectrum of a sample of a blend of at least two lubricant base oils; b. determining at least one composite structural molecular parameter of the sample from said spectrums; c. generating SIMDIST and HPO analyses of the sample; d. determining a composite boiling point distribution and molecular weight of the sample from such analysis; e. applying the at least one composite structural molecular parameter, the composite boiling point distribution and the composite molecular weight to a trained neural network trained to correlate with the at least one composite structural molecular parameter, the composite boiling point distribution and the composite molecular weight so as to predict composite properties of the sample, wherein the properties comprise Kinematic Viscosity at 40 C, Kinematic Viscosity at 100 C, Viscosity Index, Cloud Point, and Oxidation Performance.

10038494

15639947

1. A method of pro-active protection of packet-optical transport in a software defined network (SDN) controller, the method comprising: defining, by the SDN controller, a proactive protection threshold criterion based on a plurality of optical system performance metrics; collecting, by the SDN controller, at least one measurement for each of the plurality of optical system performance metrics; determining, by the SDN controller, whether the proactive protection threshold criterion is met based on at least one of the collected measurements; selecting, by the SDN controller, a protection mechanism and defining a protection threshold criterion on a condition that the proactive protection threshold criterion is met; initiating, by the SDN controller, one or more proactive protection events based on the selected protection mechanism; determining, by the SDN controller, whether the protection threshold criterion is met; and implementing, by the SDN controller, one or more protection events on a condition that the protection threshold criterion is met.

7933785

10619748

1. A computer-implemented method for providing a distributed service marketplace, the method comprising: receiving, from a user, requirements for services; electronically preparing a search message including the requirements for services; transmitting the search message to one or more service providers; automatically receiving bids from the one or more service providers that satisfy the requirements for services; sorting the received bids based on criteria selected by the user; automatically selecting a best bid from the received bids based on the sorting; automatically transmitting a contract document to the service provider associated with the best bid; and automatically receiving the contract document from the service provider associated with the best bid, wherein the contract document includes a status of at least one of accepted, rejected, and amended, wherein if the received contract document includes the status of rejected, then automatically selecting a next best bid from the received bids based on the sorting, and repeating the automatically transmitting and automatically receiving the contract document steps with the next best bid.

8065719

12647481

1. A method for reducing firewall rules in a communication network, comprising: identifying a plurality of existing firewall rules on a per external partner network basis; identifying a permitted internet protocol address space on a per external partner network basis; and analyzing, via a processor, an entry of a firewall access log to identify an unused firewall rule, wherein the analyzing further comprises: keeping a count of usage frequency of a firewall rule from the plurality of existing firewall rules that matches an accepted session, wherein the count of usage frequency is used as a placing order of the firewall rule in a firewall configuration file, wherein the placing order places a more frequently used firewall rule at a higher position in a firewall access list in the firewall configuration file.

20160041710

14918358

1. A computing device comprising: one or more computer processors; and one or more computer-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon that, responsive to execution by the one or more computer processors, perform operations comprising: enabling, through a single user interface, selection of two or more applications through selectable labels associated with each of the two or more applications, the selectable labels each having multiple areas reporting respective multiple changes to the applications to which each is associated; and responsive to selection of one of the multiple areas in one of the selectable labels, causing content to be presented, the content associated with the change reported in the selected one of the multiple areas.

8082119

11779426

1. A method, executed by a computer, for controlling mask fabrication using statistical process control analysis, comprising: defining a manufacturing model that describes a fabricating process for masks according to material data and device data; performing a process run of a mask as defined by the manufacturing model; performing a fault detection analysis to reduce a bias in the manufacturing model by the computer, wherein the fault detection analysis comprises collecting process data during the process run; generating a fine-tuning signal in response to a result of the fault detection analysis according to the material data, the device data and the process data using analysis of variance method and regression analysis method by the computer; and adjusting the process run operation according to the fine-tuning signal.

20100211754

12705570

1. A method comprising: monitoring memory allocations as they occur in a system that is running an application, sampling the memory allocations to record sampled allocations, the sampled allocations being fewer than an entirety of the memory allocations, recording releases of the sampled allocations, communicating the sampled allocations and releases to an analyzer, processing, by the analyzer, the records of sampled allocations and releases to produce one or more memory utilization patterns, and displaying the one or more memory utilization patterns on a display device.

20080270926

12173153

1. An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; a memory coupled to the at least one processor; and a pointer drag path mechanism residing in the memory and executed by the at least one processor, the pointer drag path mechanism comprising a pointer that allows a user to select a first object that represents a first operand by performing a pointer selection, dragging the selected first object across a second object that represents a first operator and a third object that represents a second operator, picking up at least one attribute from the second object without the user performing any pointer selection, dragging the selected first object across a third object that represents a second operator, picking up at least one attribute from the third object without the user performing any pointer selection, and dropping the selected first object onto a fourth object that represents a second operand, resulting in the drag path mechanism operating on the first and second operands with the first and second operators.

20070260378

11634793

1. An apparatus for detecting objects on or beneath a surface of a medium comprising: (a) a platform; (b) a reach-in arm; wherein the base of said reach-in arm is mounted to said platform; (c) a sensor for sensing objects on or beneath a surface of a medium, wherein said sensor is connected to the distal end of said reach-in arm; (d) at least one motor controller electronically connected to said reach-in arm and to said sensor; said at least one motor controller for controlling the movements of said reach-in arm and said sensor; (e) a computer in communication with said reach-in arm, said sensor, and said at least one motor controller; said computer: (i) for processing data received from said sensor to detect objects on or beneath a surface of a medium; (ii) for controlling the movement of said reach-in arm; and (iii) for controlling the movement of said sensor.

20020188593

10075065

1. A method for inspecting rail equipment and storing information relating to the inspection comprising: providing rail equipment having a plurality of parts; inspecting the rail equipment to determine the condition of the parts of the rail equipment; providing a data entry system for recording the condition of the parts of the rail equipment wherein the data entry system comprises a plurality of fields for entering information related to condition of the rail equipment; inputting the information into the data entry system; generating reports related to a condition of the rail equipment that is calculated from the information input into the data entry system; and providing a database interconnected with the data entry system for storing information input into the data entry system or generated by the data entry system.

8879547

12791129

1. A computer-implemented method for implementing telephony services, the method comprising: executing a first pre-defined service-level component on a processor of a server, the first pre-defined service-level component comprising a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) service of a Service Delivery Platform (SDP) provided by the server to a plurality of users on two or more networks of different types, the first pre-defined service-level component comprising a reusable function for a telecommunications network application; executing a second pre-defined service-level component on the processor, the second pre-defined service-level component comprising a SOA service of the SDP and comprising a reusable function for the telecommunication network application; combining the pre-defined service-level components, using the processor, such that the pre-defined service-level components, when executed, provide a combined set of functions; and providing, by the processor through the SDP, the combined set of functions as telephony services on a network, wherein the pre-defined service-level components execute on the two or more networks through a a plurality of enablers, each of the plurality of enablers providing an abstraction of the underlying two or more networks through a common Application Program Interface (API), each of the plurality of enablers providing a different set of intrinsic functions accessible by the pre-defined service-level components through the common API, each of the plurality of enablers comprising two or more adapters, and each of the adapters specific to a technology of the two or more networks of different types.

9105041

13749609

1. A system, comprising: at least one hardware processor; at least one application interface to one or more social networking sites; and at least one executable software module that, when executed by the hardware processor, performs operations comprising: importing menu data over at least one network from a point-of-sale (POS) system of a first restaurant, wherein the menu data includes data for a first menu item and a second menu item; receiving, from a device of a first user, a first order including a selection of one of the first menu item and the second menu item; using the application interface to receive information related to at least one of the first user and a second user from one or more social networking websites; generating an interactive menu displaying the first menu item and the second menu item according to a relative position that is determined based at least in part on the selection of the one of the first menu item and second menu item included in the first order, and information related to at least one of the first user and the second user from one or more social networking websites; providing the interactive menu to a device of the second user; and transmitting a second order received from the device of the second user to the POS system of the first restaurant.

9857935

14472944

1. A method comprising: displaying, at a display of an electronic device, a first screen on a window; receiving, by the electronic device, a first input comprising a line drawn across a part of the first screen; determining, by the electronic device, a partial area corresponding to a quadrangle including a start point and an end point of the line of the one or more strokes; dividing, by the electronic device, the window into a first area and a second area in response to the first input, the second area corresponding to the partial area; displaying, at the display of the electronic device, at least a part of the first screen on the first area; displaying, at the display of the electronic device, an application list on the second area; receiving, by the electronic device, a second input for selecting an application from the application list; and displaying, at the display of the electronic device, a second screen related to the selected application on the second area in response to the second input.

8965967

12976601

1. A method of predicting tie strength between persons within a social media network, the method implemented by a computer having a processor and system memory, the method comprising: modeling, with the computer, tie strengths between a user of the social media network and connected persons linked together in the social media network within a model as a combination of: a plurality of predictive variables, interactions between dimensions of the predictive variables, and network structure of the social media network that interlinks the connected persons; where modeling includes: fitting equations of the model with tie strengths between the user and the connected persons by determining weights of dimensions of the predictive variables using an iterative variation of ordinary least squares regression; and assigning correlation statistic values to respective predictive variables that indicate an importance of respective predictive variables when in the presence of other of the predictive variables; altering, with the computer, a stream of social media content received by the user from the connected persons using the tie strength as associated with the respective connected persons according to the modeling; and delivering, by computer, the altered stream of social media content to a communications device of the user.

20060174241

11347070

1. A method for controlling a software maintenance process in a software system landscape having a plurality of logical systems, wherein independent service software components are executed in a central control system and used to perform actions of the software maintenance process for servicing the logical systems, the service software components communicating with a phase controller that coordinates the software service components and allows and denies actions based on a phase of the software maintenance process and on phase definitions comprising allowed and/or barred actions.

20040030704

10275194

1. A method of creating structured medical data comprising the steps of: a establishing a data context within which information is utilized; b. visually displaying data entry influence material correlated to said data context on a first computing device; c. user generating verbal medical information which is shaped to coordinate at least some degree to said data context by said data entry influence material; c. converting at least a portion of said verbal medical information into digital verbal data representative of at least a portion of said verbal medical information on said first computing device; d. at least temporarily storing said digital verbal data on said first computing device; e. transferring said digital verbal data to a second computing device; and f. transforming said digital verbal data into structured data by use of said second computing device.

8117136

12201063

1. A mobile computing device for maintaining relationships between data comprising: a computing device screen; an event capture module for storing an event identifier and a field describing a scheduled occurrence date associated with the event identifier; an entity store coupled to the event capture module for storing an entity identifier and one or more fields describing characteristics of an entity and for storing an entity-entity association between the entity identifier and a second entity, wherein the association is generated responsive to input from a user; a task management module coupled to the event capture module and the entity store for storing a task identifier describing an action associated with the user and for storing a task-entity association between the action associated with the user and the entity identifier or a task-action association between the action associated with the user and the entity identifier; and an analysis module coupled to the event capture module, the entity store and the task management module, the analysis module storing a user-defined entity score, a user-defined entity-entity association score, a user-defined event identifier score, a user defined task identifier score, a user-defined task-entity association score and a user-defined task-action association score and for displaying one or more of the entity, the entity-entity association, the event identifier, the task identifier, the task-entity and the task-action association using the computing device screen, wherein one of the scores comprises a numerical value based on a user assessment of one of the entity, the entity-entity association, the event identifier, the task identifier, the task-entity and the task-action association.

8140668

12490868

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: starting, by a host controller, a plurality of virtual machines on a plurality of hosts over a time span according to configurable timelines recorded in a plurality of timers stored in memory, wherein start times of the virtual machines are spread over the time span; and running the virtual machines on the hosts by a pre-determined time to provide virtual desktops to remote clients; wherein starting the plurality of virtual machines further comprises: observing a load spike during the time span when the plurality of virtual machines are started; and rescheduling one or more of the plurality of virtual machines to start at a different time such that the load spike created by starting the plurality of virtual machines is evenly distributed over the time span when the plurality of virtual machines are started; and wherein the time span comprises a time interval when the plurality of virtual machines are started and does not include the run time of the plurality of virtual machines.

8694233

12809618

1. A method for managing fuel consumption of a hybrid vehicle on a given trip, the vehicle comprising an internal combustion engine, electric energy storage means and at least an electric machine configured to work as a generator or as a motor, this method comprising: determining a target value of a parameter representative of fuel savings resulting from the use of the electric machine, wherein the parameter is a comparison of the energy needs of the vehicle for the trip corresponding to the energy savings resulting from the use of the storage means and the electric machine; determining an actual value of the parameter when the vehicle is running on the trip; comparing the target value and the actual value; and informing a user of a result of the comparison of the target value and the actual value at least at the end of the trip, wherein the result of the comparison of the target value and the actual value is a numerical value representing an influence of a driver's behavior in terms of fuel consumption, wherein determining the target value comprises: computation of a first energy needs reference value of the vehicle to travel the trip when only the internal combustion engine is used; computation of an optimal second energy needs reference value of the vehicle to travel the trip when the internal combustion engine, the storage means and the electric machine are used; and computation of the target value of the parameter, on the basis of the first and second energy needs reference values, and wherein determining the actual value comprises: computation of a third energy value of the vehicle corresponding to an actual need of the internal combustion engine when the driver is driving the vehicle on the trip; and computation of the actual value of the parameter, on the basis of the first energy needs reference value and the third energy value.

10147422

15054301

1. A method of commanding a computing device, comprising: receiving, by one or more servers via a network, a first bid from a first advertiser device, the first bid corresponding to a first voice action grammar in a voice action language model, the first voice action grammar including a first plurality of triggering phrases and a first plurality of electronic actions; receiving, by the one or more servers via the network, a second bid from a second advertiser device, the second bid corresponding to a second voice action grammar that includes a second plurality of triggering phrases and a second plurality of electronic actions; selecting, by the one or more servers based on a comparison of the first bid with the second bid, the first bid from a plurality of bids comprising the first bid and the second bid; weighting, responsive to selection of the first bid based on the comparison, at least one of the first plurality of triggering phrases in the voice action language model to increase a likelihood that a voice input matches the at least one of the first plurality of triggering phrases; and configuring, by the one or more servers for the computing device, the voice action language model with the weighted first plurality of triggering phrases to enable the first voice action grammar on the computing device to cause the computing device to perform the first plurality of electronic actions of the first voice action grammar responsive to voice input detected by a microphone of the computing device that matches, based on the voice action language model, at least one of the first plurality of triggering phrases of the first voice action grammar, wherein the first voice action grammar is configured to cause the computing device to perform the first plurality of electronic actions comprising at least two of displaying a website in a browser application, calling a telephone number, displaying a location via a mapping application, downloading a data file, presenting media content, sending an electronic message to a recipient device, performing a search via a search engine, or launching a chat application.

20090065580

12298136

1. A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag reader that includes a reading section, a processing section, memory and a transmitting section; wherein the reading section is configured to read tag data stored on one or more RFID tags, the processing section is configured to process this data and the transmitting section is configured to transmit the result as transmitted data; such that the transmitting section is also configured to transmit updated tag data to the or each of the RFID tags, said updated tag data replacing some or all of the tag data stored on the RFID tag to be updated.

7979444

12183751

1. A system for path-based ranking of unvisited Web pages for WWW crawler, comprising: a storage unit which stores all paths leading to visited web pages containing content relevant to a search as a good-path set and all paths leading to unvisited web pages as a partial-path set; a classifier and a labeler which classifies all the visited web pages and labels each web page with the labels of a class or classes it belongs to; a statistic modeler which trains a statistic model for generalizing common patterns among all ones of the good-path set; and an evaluator which evaluates the partial-path set with the statistic model to determine a similarity between the partial-path set and all ones of the good-path set and ranks the unvisited web pages with evaluation results, wherein highest ranked unvisited web pages are unvisited web pages most likely to contain content relevant to the search.

9546872

15055681

1. A method for indexing map data, the method comprising: from a set of received trajectory points, determining, by one or more computer processors, whether each received trajectory point from the set of received trajectory points is associated with a road link of a map, wherein data associated with the set of received trajectory points comprises: a moving object identification, a timestamp of a moving object, a longitude coordinate and a latitude coordinate of the data, a spatial cell identification, and a distance; building, by one or more processors, from the set of received trajectory points, a hybrid index, wherein the hybrid index comprises spatial cells, and wherein the spatial cells comprise a road link or a grid cell, wherein the grid cell represents a missing road link of the map; creating one or more bundled spatial cell by combining, by one or more processors, at least one grid cell to form a bundled grid cell and more than one road links to form a bundled road link, wherein a size of the hybrid index data is less than a size of the set of received trajectory points, and wherein an equivalent trajectory density is represented in each bundled spatial cell; forming a trajectory segment with identification based on the one or more bundled spatial cells; responsive to building the hybrid index, inputting, by one or more processors, a set of information into a trajectory hybrid indexing module, wherein the set of information comprises: moving object (MO) identification, a spatial cell identification, a start time, an end time, and a determined trajectory segment identification; receiving, by one or more processors, a query for an area of the map, based on the bundled spatial cell, comprising: identifying, by one or more processors, each area represented by the bundled spatial cells which intersects with an area of the map represented by the query; scanning, by one or more processors, the area represented by the bundled spatial cells which intersects with the area of the map represented by the query; determining, by one or more processors, whether the intersecting bundled spatial cells are grid cells; and in response to determining that the intersecting bundled spatial cells are grid cells, executing, by one or more processors, a set of spatial related computations, wherein the set of spatial related computations comprise: determining, by a spatial computing engine, an intersection between the grid cells, using data associated with the received set of trajectory points; returning, by one or more processors, results from the set of spatial related computations, based on the received query; and updating, by one or more processors, during runtime, the bundled spatial cell, based, at least in part, on a trajectory pattern and the trajectory density.

20160026872

14339242

1. A computer-implemented process for identifying the presentation style of a video, comprising the actions of: using one or more computing devices that are in communication with each other via a computer network to perform the following process actions: receiving the video; computing a set of features that represents the video; and using a pre-learned video presentation style classifier to weight each of the features in said set and determine a presentation style that is predominately employed in the video, said presentation style determination being based on the weighting of said features.

20140018106

13884037

1. A server system for providing data to at least one mobile device, the server system comprising: a processing resource configured to: obtain data that represents the variation of a parameter as a function of location; and process the data to generate at least one data set representative of the data for transmission to a mobile device; and a communications resource for transmitting the at least one data set to the mobile device; wherein the processing resource is configured to determine from the data at least one contour that represents a boundary of a respective area for which the parameter has substantially the same value, and to generate contour data representing the at least one contour, the data set comprising the contour data; and wherein the communications resource is operable to receive location data from the mobile device identifying at least one location and the processing is configured to obtain the data set in dependence on the identified location.

8161060

12642701

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, at a conflicts management system, a conflict search request having a request type selected from one of a plurality of request types defined by the conflicts management system and identifying a first party representing a potential new client and a second party to whom the first party is known to be adverse; selecting a query to be processed and one or more rules to be evaluated based on the request type, the query and the one or more rules part of a risk matrix that maps customizable queries and customizable rules to request types, the queries and rules for use in assessing risk that would be undertaken by engaging the first party, or a party determined to be related to the first party; executing the query against a data source to identify additional parties related to the first or second party and to identify party attribute data associated with one or more parties, the party attribute data for use in evaluation of the one or more rules; evaluating, using a hardware processor, the one or more rules using as input any one or more of the first party, the second party, any identified additional parties, or any identified party attribute data; based on a result obtained from evaluating the one or more rules, assigning to the first party and any identified additional party to which the first party is related a risk score representing a measure of risk that would be undertaken if the first party or any additional party to whom the first party is related is engaged as a client; displaying a conflict report including the first party, and any identified additional party to which the first party is related, along with their respective assigned risk scores; receiving user-input indicating that a particular party included in the conflict report having a risk score that exceeds a threshold risk score does not represent an actual conflict; prompting for and receiving information relevant to the reason why the particular party does not represent an actual conflict; and utilizing the received information to modify one or more rules used in assigning the risk score to the particular party.

8949070

12069267

1. A method of monitoring human activity using an inertial sensor, comprising: monitoring accelerations by a portable electronic device that includes the inertial sensor; identifying a current user activity from a plurality of potential user activities based on the accelerations, wherein each of the plurality of potential user activities is associated with one of a plurality of types of periodic human motions that are detectable by the portable electronic device, the identifying comprising: comparing the accelerations to a plurality of motion criteria sets, each of the motion criteria sets being associated with a particular user activity; incrementing a plurality of buffers, each of the buffers associated with one of the plurality of potential user activities, when the motion criteria associated with the buffer are satisfied, wherein each buffer stores a periodic motion count for an associated user activity, such that a single periodic movement increments a plurality of buffers; and identifying the potential user activity whose buffer has reached a threshold value as the current user activity; resetting the buffers associated with activities other than the current user activity, such that the periodic human motions are only counted in one buffer associated with the current user activity; counting the periodic human motions associated with the current user activity.

20110184545

12952990

1. A device for formulating numerical models of manufactured products by defining predetermined numerical data, comprising: a display unit; a storage unit configured to store numerical data for each model, the numerical data corresponding to components of a manufactured product, variables and constraints; a processor configured to formulate a numerical model, the processor including a structure construction unit configured to generate and store in the storage unit numerical data corresponding to a structure of the manufactured product, the structure being a tree structure linking different structural components of the manufactured product, a constraint unit configured to define constraints for conformance with the numerical model, and a validation unit configured to display, on the display unit, the numerical data stored in the storage unit, and a plurality of validation selections to validate inclusion of the displayed numerical data of a previously formulated numerical model when executing the numerical model, wherein the display unit displays at least one acquisition window corresponding to each unit and configured to acquire numerical data, and an execution window corresponding to each unit and configured to execute a functional model that defines a manufactured product configuration.

20120239165

13484121

1. A method for optimizing a control process for an actuator, the method comprising: operating the control process using an extremum seeking control strategy; and using an electronics circuit to compensate for an actuator saturation condition of the extremum seeking control strategy.

8024368

11297172

1. A method for converting a body of data records to an XML format, wherein each record of said body of data records conforms to a same record format, said record format comprising record fields and an ordering among said record fields, each record field of said record fields belonging to a data type, wherein no record of said body of data records conforms to XML, wherein the method comprises: generating a target XML schema document that includes declarations that both describe the record format and describe said XML schema of XML instances to which to convert said body of data records; for each record field of said record fields, the declarations describe the respective data type of the record field and the order of the record field in said ordering among the record fields; based on the body of data records and the XML schema, generating an XML instance that conforms to the XML schema; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.

7505784

11285556

1. A portable electronic device system, comprising: (a) a portable electronic device having a user interface, wherein the portable electronic device is operable to provide a plurality of functions in response to user input received through the user interface, wherein the portable electronic device is configured to be used independently of a vehicle; (b) a speed detector in communication with the portable electronic device, wherein the speed detector is configured to detect a linear traveling speed of the portable electronic device, wherein the speed detector is configured to generate and communicate a speed signal indicative of the detected linear traveling speed, wherein at least a portion of the speed detector is located within the portable electronic device; (c) a safety circuit in communication with the speed detector and the portable electronic device, wherein the safety circuit is configured to receive the speed signal communicated from the speed detector, wherein the safety circuit includes a threshold logic, wherein the threshold logic is configured to compare the speed indicated by the speed signal to a threshold, wherein the safety circuit is further configured to disable at least one of the functions of the portable electronic device in response to detecting that the speed indicated by the speed signal is in excess of the threshold in accordance with the threshold logic; and (d) a consumer input logic in communication with the safety circuit, wherein the consumer input logic is configured to receive input from a consumer of the portable electronic device indicating a consumer preference relating to activation of the safety circuit, wherein the safety circuit is subject to selective activation in accordance with a consumer preference indicated through the consumer input logic, wherein the consumer input logic is configured to selectively override at least a portion of the disablement provided by the safety circuit in accordance with the consumer preference indicated through the consumer input logic.

7945850

11679647

1. A method comprising: executing a customer relationship management (CRM) software application on a computer, wherein the CRM software application includes customized settings and local field names, and further wherein the CRM software application includes a CRM database that stores CRM data; receiving a report generation request within the CRM software application; in response to the request, examining, with a reporting module installed within the CRM software application, a schema and data structures of the CRM database and customized settings including local field names within the CRM application, wherein the reporting module installed within the CRM software application includes one or more report toolkits; displaying a list of report templates with the reporting module installed within the CRM software application that are pre-defined by the one or more report toolkits of the reporting module installed within the CRM software application; receiving a selection of one of the report templates with the reporting module installed within the CRM software application; presenting a set of user-selectable database fields with the reporting module installed within the CRM software application as a function of the selected report template; receiving, from the user with the reporting module installed within the CRM software application, a selection of one or more of the user-selectable database fields; generating, with the reporting module installed within the CRM software application, a database query as a function of the user-selectable database fields that were selected by the user; invoking a spreadsheet application from the reporting module installed within the CRM software application using an application programming interface (API) of the spreadsheet application to automatically generate an electronic worksheet viewable by the spreadsheet software application, wherein the automatically generating the electronic worksheet comprises directing the spreadsheet application with the reporting module installed within the CRM software application to create a new workbook having the electronic worksheet; further invoking the spreadsheet application from the reporting module installed within the CRM software application using the API to automatically generate a pivot table within the electronic worksheet according to the database query, wherein the pivot table contains the CRM data from the CRM database, and wherein invoking the spreadsheet application includes communicating report parameters from the reporting module installed within the CRM software application to the spreadsheet software application based on the schema and data structures of the CRM database and the customized settings including the local field names within the CRM software application; presenting the pivot table to a user with the spreadsheet application in accordance with the report parameters received from the reporting module installed within the CRM software application; receiving within the spreadsheet application a selection from the user of the selected CRM data contained within the pivot table; and in response to the selection, automatically creating a second worksheet that displays the CRM data as a number of rows in columnar format according to fields within the CRM database, wherein each row represents a single CRM record stored within the CRM database.

9473742

14525129

1. A method comprising: receiving, by a computer processor, a first moment capture request indicating that a first participant of a teleconference would like to capture a first moment of the teleconference, wherein the first moment spans a first duration of the teleconference, wherein the request received from the first participant specifies the first duration of the first moment; capturing, by the computer processor, the first moment of the teleconference to yield a first captured moment, wherein the first captured moment includes teleconference data presented as part of the teleconference during the first duration of the teleconference; presenting, by the computer processor, a first captured moment indicator to at least the first participant and a second participant of the teleconference, wherein: the first captured moment indicator represents the first captured moment, and the first captured moment indicator is selectable to cause presentation of the first captured moment; and calculating a social strength of the first captured moment, the social strength based on feedback received to the first captured moment from participants of the teleconference.

20120008536

13043425

1. A method of maintaining an IP connection between a mobile terminal and a network node over a network, comprising: detecting a rate with which the client-slide request are made from the mobile terminal; dynamically adjusting time intervals between the keep-alive messages sent to the mobile terminal based on the rate with which the client-side requests are made; sending, by the network node, keep-alive messages to the mobile terminal in an absence of network traffic through the IP connection between the mobile terminal and the network node; further optimizing the time intervals between the keep-alive messages based on a cost to send the keep-alive messages in the network.

20070101949

11611211

1. An animal behavior modification apparatus, comprising: a stimulation device for applying a stimulation having a current stimulation level associated with one of a plurality of stimulation levels including a minimum level, said stimulation device including control logic for applying a stimulation, based upon the steps of: increasing said current stimulation level; applying a stimulation corresponding to said current stimulation level; determining the behavior of the animal until compliant behavior is obtained; and reducing said current stimulation level between said current stimulation level and said minimum level dependant upon said determining step.

20070014042

11183540

1. A method for mapping error corrections in a magnetic tape drive data storage system, comprising: performing data write and/or read operations on a tape medium mounted in a data storage tape drive; receiving information pertaining to successful recoveries from corresponding errors during the data operations; mapping the successful error recovery information to associate each error recovery with a physical location on the tape medium; mapping any hardware optimization of the read/write channel or servo system performed as a preventative measure; generating a first output report providing a first level of error recovery detail; and generating a second output report providing a second level of error recovery detail, the second output report having more of detail than the first output report.

20130297220

13913726

1. A portable activity monitoring device adapted to couple to a body of a user, the portable activity monitoring device comprising: a housing having a physical size and shape that is adapted to couple to the body of the user; one or more motion sensors, disposed in the housing, to detect motion; a user interface, disposed in the housing, including a display; and processing circuitry, disposed in the housing and coupled to the plurality of sensors and the user interface, to: detect one or more user inputs to the user interface using data from at least one of the one or more motion sensors, calculate data which is representative of a progress toward a user activity goal using data from at least one of the one or more motion sensors, and generate display data which is representative of the progress toward the user activity goal in response to detecting the one or more user inputs to the user interface.

9503359

14163316

1. A method, comprising: determining, by a network device executing a learning machine process, a topological profile of individual nodes in a shared-media communication network; determining, by the network device, a respective likelihood of the nodes in the network to become a root of a floating topology based on the topological profiles, wherein the floating topology is a sub-topology of a main topology that is likely to become disconnected from the main topology; and sending, from the network device, instructions to particular nodes in the network based on the respective likelihoods.

8265743

12645663

1. A method of single-trial detection of significant cognitive responses to stimuli, comprising: measuring EEG data of an operator's brain activity to stimuli from a plurality of electrodes placed on the operator's scalp; tracking the operator's free eye movement to determine fixation events; applying a fixation-locked window to the EEG data to generate a time segment of EEG data for each said fixation event; extracting one or more features from each time segment of EEG data; for each said fixation event, presenting said one or more features to a classifier to generate a fixation-locked cue as a likelihood output indicative of whether the operator exhibited a significant cognitive response to a presented stimulus; and outputting a sequence of the cues with a time code of the associated fixation event.

9020134

14046452

1. A system for automated assignment of monitoring to supervisor resources in a communication system, comprising: a metadata extraction module configured to extract metadata related to each of a plurality of customer-agent interactions; a resource attribute collection module configured to collect attributes about each of a plurality of supervisor resources in the communication system; and an assignment module configured to execute a matching algorithm, and to assign one of the plurality of supervisor resources to monitor one of the plurality of customer-agent interactions based on a match between the extracted metadata and the collected attributes.

20100153096

12710618

1. A method of enabling input into an electronic device having a plurality of input members, a display, and a memory having stored therein a number of language objects and a number of associated frequency objects, at least some of the language objects each comprising a number of characters, at least some of the input members each having a number of the characters assigned thereto, the method comprising: detecting an ambiguous text input; generating a number of compound language solutions by identifying a language object that corresponds with an initial portion of the ambiguous text input and identifying another language object that corresponds with another portion of the ambiguous text input; for at least a first compound language solution, generating a junction object comprising a terminal character of the language object and an initial character of the another language object, and making a determination that at least one of: the junction object corresponds with a language object associated with a frequency object having a frequency value below a predetermined threshold, and no language object corresponds with the junction object; and employing the determination in outputting with the display a representation of each of at least some of the compound language solutions.

20040059666

10603100

1. A method for facilitating trading of securities over a computer system, comprising the steps of: electronically receiving a first buy or sell order for a security from a first user; determining that said first order is reasonably priced; transmitting to a second user an electronic notification that a reasonably priced order for said security is present, but without notifying said second user of the side of said first order; receiving a second order from said second user, wherein said second order is a contra to said first order and sufficiently aggressive in price to cross said first order; and executing a trade comprising said first order and said second order at said first order's limit.

5495603

08077222

1. In a computer system having means for storing a plurality of files each having one or more file attributes and for storing at least one Automatic Class Selection (ACS) filter, a method for assessing the file management class of said files comprising the steps of: responsive to the opening of a first said file, referencing said Automatic Class Selection (ACS) filter in said storage means wherein said ACS filter includes an ordered plurality of rule declarations each specifying a range of values for a plurality of said file attributes and at least one file management class; testing in sequence each said rule declaration for coincidence with the file attributes of said first file until first encountering a rule declaration that coincides with said first file attributes; and selecting for said first file the file management class specified in said first encountered coincident rule declaration; and retesting said rule declarations and reselecting said file management class for said first file responsive to a subsequent reopening of said first file.

20120311665

13585665

1. A method comprising: providing a plurality of policies stored at a server, wherein the policies are applicable to a plurality of target profiles, each target profile having a set of target attributes, wherein each policy comprises a code component comprising a conditional expression having a policy abstraction and a corresponding action that will be performed when the conditional expression is satisfied, and each policy abstraction has a corresponding definition statement stored separately from the policy; at the server, analyzing a first policy of the plurality of policies to determine whether the first policy is relevant or irrelevant to a first specific target profile with a first set of specific target attributes without inspecting a first code component of the first policy; at the server, upon determining the first policy is relevant to the first specific target profile, inspecting the first code component of the first policy, otherwise when the first policy is determined not to be relevant to the first specific target profile, not inspecting the first code component of the first policy; at the server, when the first policy is determined to be relevant to the first specific target profile, based upon the inspecting of the first code component of the first policy, altering the first code component of the first policy by changing the conditional expression to obtain a modified first code component of the first policy; when the first policy is determined to be relevant to the first specific target profile, transferring the first policy to a first specific target with the first specific target profile by transferring the modified first code component, not the first code component, to the first specific target; collecting usage information comprising denials of access to information on a plurality of device having the target profile, wherein usage information comprises a time the usage information occurs, an event type of the usage information, and a resource information of the usage information; and analyzing the usage information to detect when a user has been denied access to a first piece of information by a first rule and the user has been denied access to the first piece of information by a second rule.

7908607

11847794

1. A method for converting a SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) message into a business process message by a business process adapter, said business process adapter associated with a business process management server, said method comprising: defining a body path associated with the business process adapter, said body path specifying a location of a node of the SOAP message; defining a node encoding type associated with the business process adapter, said node encoding type specifying a format of the node; receiving the SOAP message via the business process adapter; extracting the node of the SOAP message wherein the node is located in the SOAP message at the location defined by the body path and the node is encoded according to the defined node encoding type; generating the business process message from the extracted node wherein a content of the business process message includes the extracted node; and sending the business process message to the business process management server; and wherein the business process adapter configured with computer-executable instructions for sending SOAP messages, said instructions for: defining a format of the SOAP message associated with the business process adapter; defining a content encoding type for the SOAP message associated with the business process adapter; receiving the business process message from the business process management server; encoding a body of the business process message according to the defined content encoding type; generating the SOAP message from the encoded body of the business process message according to the defined format wherein the content of the SOAP message includes the encoded body; and sending the SOAP message via the business process adapter to an application.

7818337

11966901

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, over a computer network, a client request from a client computer system, wherein the client request includes a request method and includes a resource identifier; traversing a directory structure using the resource identifier, the traversing resulting in one or more identified resource files; selecting one of the one or more identified resource files, wherein the selected resource file includes a name of the resource method; retrieving one or more database connection attributes associated with the selected resource file, the database connection attributes corresponding to a database; retrieving a database query statement from the selected resource file; executing the retrieved database query statement on the database, the executing yielding one or more database results; and returning the database results to the client computer system over the computer network.

7822681

11374727

1. A portfolio based financial network, comprising: a plurality of network participants, the plurality of network participants comprising a first network participant comprising a first network participant requesting a loan on a first date and a second network participant funding at least one portion of the requested loan on the first date, wherein the requested loan is of a predetermined value between 100 USD and 3000 USD, wherein a portion of the requested loan is withheld as an advance fee, and wherein the requested loan is repaid on at least a second date with a loan fee; a data processing system, including a computer, the data processing system for managing a corresponding account for each of the plurality of network participants, wherein the data processing system performs financial transactions including a payment deposit related to investment in a portfolio, a loan repayment deposit, a payment distribution associated with the accounts of the plurality of network participants, loan requests of the network participants, and collection of loan fees from the network participants; wherein the data processing system combines loan fees from the network participants into a portfolio fee; wherein the data processing system collects network participant's personal and credit information; wherein the data processing system combines deposits from the network participants in a loan fund; wherein the requested loan to network participants are issued by the data processing system from the loan fund based on a funding criteria; wherein the data processing system determines whether one or more network participants of the plurality of network participants has repaid the requested loan on at least the second date; wherein the data processing system redistributes at least a portion of the portfolio fee among the network participants who repaid their respective loans by at least the second date; and wherein the data processing system calculates a gain or loss on the portfolio for the lenders.

8745148

14073225

1. A method of providing user communications, the method comprising: providing an application software program for installation on a mobile computing device associated with a user; providing, by a computer system comprising a computing device and a network interface, a communication service to a web page of the user; receiving, at the computer system, from a visitor to the web page of the user a communication request to communicate with the user via a communication interface displayed in association with the web page of the user, the communication interface including a text entry field configured to receive a text message from the visitor for the user; causing, at least in part by the communication service, at least a first system to transmit a text message entered by the visitor into the text entry field to the application software program, wherein the application software program is installed on the user mobile computing device, without the visitor providing, and without revealing to the visitor, a mobile communication device phone address of the user; creating a contact record in a contact database accessible by the application software program; determining by the computer system if the user has a first account; and if the user does not have a first account, requesting that the user provide at least a first type of registration information prior to enabling the application software program to be provided to the user mobile computing device.

7571136

11326931

1. A method for financial instrument management utilizing an electronic trading system, wherein said electronic trading system includes a plurality of traders operationally connected to a central processing center, said method comprising: receiving, at a market module of said central processing center of said electronic trading system, at least a financial instrument portfolio from a first trader and a financial instrument portfolio from at least a second trader from the plurality of traders; calculating, at said market module of said central processing center, relative risk positions of each financial instrument portfolio received from the first and second traders; matching, at said market module of said central processing center, offsetting relative risk positions of the first and second traders; and executing, at an execution module of said market module of said central processing center, a switch between the first and second traders for the matching offsetting relative risk positions, wherein the switch comprises an exchange of at least one financial instrument defining a financial risk position for at least one financial instrument defining an opposite financial risk position.

7496895

11025218

1. A system for debugging a multi-domain graphical model, comprising: a computational device, having: a plurality of debuggable objects respectively associated with at least one of a plurality of entities found in a graphical model, the plurality of entities including entities from modeling domains of different types; and a unified debugger, the unified debugger integrating a plurality of the debuggable objects that are associated with entities from the modeling domains into a common diagnostic environment, the unified debugger generating a view of information based on information referenced by a debuggable object being executed in the graphical model; and a display device configured to display a view of information associated with an executing one of the plurality of entities in the graphical model, the view automatically changing as entities from different types of modeling domains are executed in the graphical model, the changing view based on information in a debuggable object associated with a currently executing entity in the graphical model, the view changing between views of at least two of a time-based block diagram, a statechart, a data flow diagram, a discrete event model and compiled code.

8515885

12916332

1. A method, comprising: simulating a simulation spiking neural network to generate learned information for a digital circuit chip, wherein said digital circuit chip comprises plural synapse devices interconnecting multiple digital electronic neurons; and loading the learned information into said digital circuit chip to implement a spiking neural network, wherein the learned information comprises synaptic weights for said plural synapse devices, neuron parameters for said multiple digital electronic neurons, and interconnectivity information for on-chip interconnectivity between said multiple digital electric neurons; wherein the synaptic weights affect functional behavior of said plural synapse devices; and wherein the spiking neural network implemented on said digital circuit chip has a one-to-one correspondence with said simulation spiking neural network.

8463685

12665932

1. A Masuda stick chart generation and display apparatus which expresses price trends of objects traded on the market, such as stocks, bonds, currencies, and commodities, using three Masuda stick curves, namely, a short-term Masuda stick curve, a medium-term Masuda stick curve, and a long-term Masuda stick curve corresponding to daily sticks, weekly sticks, and monthly sticks, respectively, comprising: a programmable computer processor; basic data storing unit which stores basic data including a series of daily price strings, weekly price strings, and monthly price strings going back a predetermined period from the present point in time, and a series of short-term moving average price strings, medium-term moving average price strings, and long-term moving average price strings related, respectively, to the series of daily price strings, weekly price strings, and monthly price strings, as well as a pair of neighboring average price strings which define upper and lower ends of daily sticks, weekly sticks, and monthly sticks, and stick color value strings which represent distinctions between dark and light colors for the daily sticks, weekly sticks, and monthly sticks; Masuda stick curve generating and drawing unit which generates and draws short-term, medium-term, and long-term Masuda stick curves related to daily sticks, weekly sticks, or monthly sticks based on the basic data stored in the basic data storing unit; and Masuda future stick curve generating and drawing unit which generates and draws short-term, medium-term, and long-term Masuda future stick curves related to the daily sticks or weekly sticks based on the basic data stored in the basic data storing unit means wherein the Masuda future stick curve generating and drawing unit comprises medium-term Masuda future daily stick curve generating and drawing unit which generates and draws a medium-term Masuda future daily stick string of a predetermined number of days after today: wherein the medium-term Masuda future daily stick curve generating and drawing unit comprises a first medium-term Masuda future daily stick string generating and drawing unit which, if a trend change in stick color value is detected with a first stick color value continuing for a predetermined number of times or more and then a second stick color value continuing for a predetermined number of times or more up to today in a medium-term Masuda daily stick curve for a predetermined number of most recent days, generates a medium-term Masuda future daily stick string for a predetermined number of days after today according to a predetermined rule corresponding to the detected trend; wherein the medium-term Masuda future daily stick curve generating and drawing unit comprises a second medium-term Masuda future daily stick string generating and drawing unit which determines a divergence value string of divergences between a daily price of today and daily prices of days earlier, by the number of days in a medium-term interval, than a predetermined number of future days, determines a breakdown of the divergence value string by polarity, and generates and draws a medium-term Masuda future daily stick string for a predetermined number of days after today based on determination as to which polarity a majority belongs and according to a predetermined rule.

7870256

11248932

1. A method comprising: receiving a request for a remote desk-top session; generating, by a processor a remote desktop session performance model based on applications to be used in the remote desktop session wherein the remote desktop session performance model is used to estimate the resource requirements for running the applications in the remote desktop session while maintaining a predetermined QoS; and assigning at least one resource to run the remote desk-top session using the remote desktop session performance model.

8438633

11640629

1. A system for authenticating access to one or more data stores, comprising: a server coupled to a network; a mobile device communicatively coupled to the server via the network; a short message service (SMS) center communicatively coupled to the server and the mobile device; one or more data stores communicatively coupled to the server, wherein the one or more data stores includes a connection management application stored in memory and executable by a processing device to inform the server of a presence of new data or a change to existing data at the one or more data stores; and an Internet Protocol connection manager communicatively coupled to the server and the mobile device, the Internet Protocol connection manager configured to monitor Internet Protocol connections between the mobile device and the server; upon being informed of the presence of new data or a change to existing data at the one or more data stores, the server being configured to: query the Internet Protocol connection manager to determine whether an Internet Protocol connection exists between the mobile device and the server; if an Internet Protocol connection exists, instruct the Internet Protocol connection manager to issue a trigger that causes a synchronization operation to occur, wherein during the synchronization operation the server authenticates access to the one or more data stores and forwards the new data or changed existing data from the one or more data stores to the mobile device; if no Internet Protocol connection exists, instruct the SMS center to transmit an SMS message to the mobile device; and instruct the Internet Protocol connection manager to establish an Internet Protocol connection with the mobile device, wherein the SMS message transmitted to the mobile device causes the mobile device to accept the Internet Protocol connection being established by the Internet Protocol connection manager, whereby a synchronization operation occurs asynchronously and in a background of other mobile device operations.

9466086

13239548

1. A method, comprising: receiving a first message configured to request a disassociation between users of one or more of a plurality of over the top (OTT) service platforms, wherein the first message is received during a voice communication between the users and includes an event trigger specifying when the disassociation is to be initiated, wherein the voice communication is provided by a communications network provider and each OTT service platform is provided by a different entity distinct from the communications network provider, wherein the users include at least a first user and a second user of the one or more of the plurality of OTT service platforms, wherein the users are associated with one another in the one or more of the plurality of OTT service platforms, wherein the event trigger includes a user-selected number of voice communications between the users after which the second message is automatically sent to the one or more of the plurality of OTT service platforms, wherein the first message includes an identification of the second user, wherein the identification of the second user is obtained from a phone contact list stored in a mobile device operated by the first user, and wherein the first message does not use an application program interface (API) of any of the one or more of the plurality of OTT service platforms; identify, using at least one of information in the first message or stored information, the one or more of the plurality of OTT service platforms in which disassociations are to be made; and in response to the event trigger, send at least a second message to the one or more of the plurality of OTT service platforms, the second message using the API and configured to initiate the disassociation between the users in the one or more of the plurality of OTT service platforms.

20150294510

14362988

1. A data processing method for determining six parameters, corresponding to six degrees of freedom, of a contact position of a joint which connects two bones, comprising the steps of acquiring a 3D model of each bone, acquiring four of the six parameters as given parameters, selecting initial values for the two remaining parameters and varying the two remaining parameters virtually in order to achieve a virtual relative position between the two 3D models such that they are in contact with each other.

20160034140

14450626

1. A method for adjusting a graphical user interface on an electronic device, the method comprising: receiving, from a detection element positioned at a backside of an electronic device, first data generated when a hand is positioned at the backside of the electronic device; determining, based on the first data, whether there is a one-handed operation of the electronic device; and adjusting a displaying of a graphical user interface on the electronic device when the one-handed operation is determined.

4811207

06837283

1. A method of operating a join operation processing system in a distributed database management system including multiple sites each having a memory and computers each employing a distributed database stored in said memory, said multiple sites and computers being interconnected via a communication network, said method comprising the steps of: (a) determining whether a processing request from one of the computers is a request to define relations or a request to perform a join operation; (b) transmitting the request to define the relations to each of the sites if said processing request is a request to define the relations, and transmitting a request to read relation definition to each of the sites if said processing request is a request to perform the join operation; (c) analyzing the request at each of said sites, for determining whether said request is a request to define the relation or a request to read the relation definition, and storing the definition in said memory if said request is a request to define the relation, and reading said definition previously stored in the memory and transferring it to the computer if said request is a request to read the relation definition; (d) determining, upon receiving the relation definitions from each of the sites, a process to perform said join operation in accordance with said request for the join operation, and transmitting a local processing request to a predetermined site; (e) performing at each of said sites receiving said local processing request a local join operation of the relation managed by the site itself, and transmitting to the next site, if there is processing to be done on the next site, a request for the next site to perform local processing and the result of said local join operation and, if there is no processing to be done on the next site, transmitting the result of the join operation processing effected in the site itself to said computer, so as to thereby effect a join operation between said computer and each site in a pipe line processing sequence based on said steps.

20170147306

15275584

1. A method comprising: in response to receiving an initial user input that causes a builder computing system to compile a set of source code for an application into a set of compiled targets, deploying, by the builder computing system, the set of compiled targets to initiate execution of the application, wherein a subset of the set of source code is compiled into an initial subset of the set of compiled targets; after modification to at least the subset of the set of source code, receiving, at the builder computing system, a subsequent user input that causes the builder computing system to compile at least the subset of the set of source code into an updated subset of the set of compiled targets; and in response to determining that the updated subset differs from the initial subset, deploying the updated subset of the set of compiled targets to update the application without terminating execution of the application.

20120095952

12907219

1. A storage medium storing instructions executable by a processor to perform a method comprising: generating feature representations comprising distributions over a set of features corresponding to objects of a training corpus of objects; and inferring a topic model defining a set of topics by performing latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) with an Indian Buffet Process (IBP) compound Dirichlet prior probability distribution, the inferring being performed using a collapsed Gibbs sampling algorithm by iteratively sampling (1) topic allocation variables of the LDA and (2) binary activation variables of the IBP compound Dirichlet prior probability distribution.

8706684

13427035

1. A system to manage data of an enterprise, the system comprising: a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory comprises, a definition module defining a data management architecture (DMA) to manage the data, the DMA comprising, an enterprise model for analyzing an enterprise process to create and modify enterprise metadata corresponding to the data of the enterprise generated by the enterprise process, the enterprise metadata and the data being stored in one or more data sources; a set of service tools comprising a report tool, a configure tool, a define tool, an administrative tool, an analytics and collaborate tool, and a job monitor tool, wherein the set of service tools is configured to perform a set of services on the data; wherein the enterprise model couples a plurality of services in the set of services to each other, and wherein the enterprise metadata is integrated with each service tool in the set of service tools; and at least one adapter for communicating with the one or more data sources for extracting the enterprise metadata and the data for processing by the set of services, wherein the system is configured to, determine a service effectiveness index (SEI) for each service in the set of services, based on a set of characteristics corresponding to each service, wherein the set of characteristics include functionality, integration, interoperability, security, collaboration, and adaptability, and wherein the SEI indicates performance level of a corresponding service for defining further improvements to the service; analyze the data to determine a set of metrics including a data quality index, a data value index, a data usage index, and a data effectiveness index, wherein the data is managed based on the set of metrics; and provide the SEI for one or more services in the set of services and the set of metrics corresponding to the data to stakeholders, based on privileges assigned to the stakeholders.

20180121286

15340128

1. A method comprising: at a controller device configured to communicate with storage nodes of a distributed storage system in which erasure codes are used to encode source data onto the storage nodes and ranks of matrices containing coding coefficients associated with the erasure codes indicate whether repairs of failed storage nodes of the distributed storage system are feasible: generating a decomposition structure to be used as a guide for transforming the matrices to upper triangle form (UTF) for use in computing the ranks of the matrices, wherein the decomposition structure defines (i) a break-down of the matrices into submatrices each including a number of rows of coding coefficients less than the number of rows of coding coefficients in each of the matrices, and (ii) mappings among the matrices and the submatrices that indicate how to merge the submatrices in order to transform the matrices to UTF; and while the distributed storage system is performing repairs of the failed storage nodes, as part of determining feasible repair strategies for subsequent repairs of failed storage nodes, computing the ranks of the matrices by transforming the matrices to UTF using operations on the submatrices according to the decomposition structure.

8639824

10666092

1. A system embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable medium for dynamic account management in a grid computing system comprising: a distributed resource management system; a link mapper coupled to said distributed resource management system for providing a unique symbolic link comprising a modified user identifier, wherein a user is authorized by providing a dynamic account that is associated with said symbolic link to said user, wherein said dynamic account is temporarily assigned to said user; a grid membership verification system wherein said grid membership verification system is a single service associated with a grid distributed resource management system for authenticating membership of said user, wherein credentials used for accessing said dynamic account can be used to access at least one other said dynamic account; and a grid scheduler for matching a resource of said distributed resource management system to requirements of said user for a global interactive session to launch multiple applications such that said user interacts with said launched multiple applications through separate per-application sessions.

20110145106

13033504

1. A method comprising: associating a plurality of users with a collaborative shopping session, the collaborative shopping session including a common interface displayed to the plurality of users; receiving a first cursor movement request from a first user of the plurality of users and a second cursor movement request from a second user of the plurality of users during the collaborative shopping session; selecting, using one or more processors, the first user based on satisfaction of at least one cursor movement criterion; moving the cursor on the common interface according to the first cursor movement request from the first user based on the selection, the movement of the cursor indicating a selection of an item displayed by the common interface; and displaying an indication that the item was selected on the common interface by the movement of the cursor.

8584227

11801211

1. A method of operating a computing device executing an application, the method comprising: determining that a firewall policy applicable to the application in a current network context has not been set; in response to the determination that the firewall policy applicable to the application in the current network context has not been set, determining that at least one previously set firewall policy is applicable to the application in a network context different from the current network context; in response to the determination that the at least one previously set firewall policy is applicable to the application in the network context different from the current network context, presenting information relating to the at least one previously set firewall policy applicable to the application in the network context different from the current network context as at least one hint regarding a firewall policy for the application in the current network context; and in conjunction with presenting the information, prompting for a decision relating to the firewall policy for the application in the current network context.

8688375

11756412

1. A system for tracking a mobile person or asset, comprising: a portable system associated with a person or asset being tracked, the portable system comprising at least an inertial navigation unit including at least one accelerometer, at least one gyroscope, at least one magnetic field sensor, and a processor that is configured to generate information for the person or asset based on sensor data received from one or more of the at least one accelerometer, the at least one gyroscope, or the at least one magnetic field sensor, wherein the information includes at least three-dimensional location coordinates, and data about one or more of posture of the person or asset, movements of the person or asset, or features associated with the environment in which the person or asset is being tracked; and a computer configured to receive, from the portable system, the information generated by the processor and to calculate a path from the information that tracks the person or asset, wherein the computer is further configured to develop one or more location-related sensor profiles from the information and to infer one or more building features from the information, and wherein the computer is further configured to execute one or more processing algorithms to make corrections to the three-dimensional location coordinates based on the one or more location-related sensor profiles and the one or more building features and to recalculate the path thereby reducing tracking errors in the path.

8849254

13490745

1. A location information management system (LIMS), comprising: a controller computer; and one or more databases operatively coupled to the controller computer and configured to store network event historical data and metadata; wherein the LIMS is configured to utilize the network event historical data and the metadata to produce location-aware intelligence including geo-profiles for mobile devices, wherein said geo-profiles include location and time information for said mobile devices; and wherein the LIMS is further configured to: analyze past and real time data to produce intelligence in the form of metadata, and to store the metadata; and iteratively use previously generated metadata to automatically contribute to new analysis that uses both real data and metadata, wherein said new analysis produces information including identification of potential behaviors of interest, identification of specific mobile users associated with said behaviors of interest, associations between mobile device users, and mobile device user identification.

20160005176

14769814

1. A method of gaze estimation, the method comprising: detecting at least a location of the centre of at least an eye on at least an eye image of a viewer watching at least a video image displayed on a screen; determining at least a first position of the gaze of the viewer on said screen by using the at least a detected location of the centre of the at least an eye and a mapping function based on centre-bias property of human gaze distribution.

20160207199

15005362

1. A method performed by a computing system, the method comprising: receiving, by one or more processors of the computing system, an instruction requesting that a robotic device perform a physical action in a physical environment occupied by the robotic device; in response to receiving the instruction, the one or more processors determining multiple estimated trajectories of one or more physical components of the robotic device, wherein the multiple estimated trajectories are multiple trajectories along which the one or more physical components are estimated to move as the robotic device performs the physical action; the one or more processors associating respective probabilities to the robotic device moving along the multiple estimated trajectories; based on the multiple estimated trajectories and further based on the associated respective probabilities, the one or more processors determining a virtual representation of space that the robotic device is estimated to occupy in the physical environment while performing the physical action; and the one or more processors providing, into the physical environment, an indication of a location of the space in the physical environment, the indication visually depicting the multiple estimated trajectories and indications of the associated respective probabilities.

20110267969

13058633

1. A telecommunication system comprising at least a control center and at least one mobile unit moving along a track comprising a plurality of stations, said at least one mobile unit and said at least one control center handling a broad band bi-directional communication of data/signal with roaming between said mobile unit and a plurality of wireless access points integrated in a network with said at least one control center and distributed along said track, each of said at least one mobile unit comprising onboard receiving-transmitting means for connection with said wireless access points, characterized in that it further comprises a control application for continuously scanning the quality of said broadband communication based upon the consideration of at least the following parameters: predetermined and programmable list of the channels to be scanned when a roaming is triggered; time during which the access points are deemed valid; signal/noise ratio received; threshold under which the bandwidth obtainable with the channel in transmission triggers a roaming; threshold under which the signal level received triggers a roaming; hysteresis threshold of the signal received by said access points; time elapsing between the scan of a channel and a subsequent one; time elapsing between a comparison of said decision thresholds and the subsequent one.

20150301791

14753611

1. A media messaging system for coordinating output of a plurality of media messages within a geographical area, the system comprising: a plurality of media devices spaced apart within the geographical area, each media device including an output operable to output one or more of the plurality of media messages to an ambient environment associated therewith; and a controller configured to issue control instructions sufficient for coordinating output of the one or more of the plurality of media messages according to a control strategy, the control strategy synchronizing output of the one or more media messages across the plurality of media devices to occur relative to a common timeline.

20040133869

10675908

1. An improved method for mapping an electronic digital circuit to a Look Up table (LUT) based Programmable Logic Device (PLD) comprising the steps of: selecting an unmapped or partially mapped LUT, identifying a group of circuit elements for mapping based on the available capacity of the selected LUT and the mapping constraints, mapping the group of circuit elements onto the selected LUT, and continuing the process of selecting an LUT, forming a group of circuit elements and mapping until all the circuit elements have been mapped, characterized in that, the cascade logic associated with each LUT is also incorporated in the steps of forming the group of circuit elements and the mapping of the group.

20120116691

13265504

1. A method of obtaining radiation data useful for the identification and detection of composition of a contained material comprising the steps of: a) providing a radiation source and a radiation detector system spaced therefrom to define a scanning zone therebetween; the detector system being capable of detecting and collecting spectroscopically resolvable information about incident radiation; b) collecting intensity information about radiation incident at the detector system, and hence interaction of a container of known material composition and of known wall thickness, absent any contents, in the scanning zone with incident radiation from radiation received at the detector system after interaction with and for example after transmission through the container; c) repeating step b) for a plurality of different containers, each of known material composition and known wall thickness, and being absent any contents; to obtain a data set of intensity information relating to containers of known material compositions and known path length through the container; d) evaluating a numerical relationship relating to the plurality of containers to generate a first analytical function which describes spectroscopically resolvable intensity information about radiation incident at the detector system after interaction with a container of known material composition relative to the path length through the container; e) repeating steps b) to c) with the same containers now containing a contained material of known composition to obtain a data set of intensity information relating to container and contents of known material compositions and known path length through the container and contents; f) deconvolving the data generated at step e) from equivalent data generated for an empty container to obtain a data set of intensity information relating to contained material of known material composition to known path length through the contained material; and g) evaluating a numerical relationship relating to the known liquid to generate a second analytical function which describes spectroscopically resolvable intensity information about radiation incident at the detector system after interaction with a liquid of known composition relative to the path length through the contained material.

20080030798

11496166

1. A method of determining a level of similarity between a feature in a subject document and expected characteristics of said feature, the method comprising: a) obtaining a digital image of at least a portion of said document; b) isolating said feature in said digital image c) gathering data from an analysis of said feature d) comparing data gathered in step c) with expected data from expected characteristics of said feature e) generating a score based on a comparison between said data and said expected data wherein said expected characteristics are based on methods used to manufacture said subject document.

20090144605

11949586

1. One or more computer-storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, perform a method for classifying a page type of a portion of an electronic document, the method comprising: receiving an OCR file associated with the portion of the electronic document, wherein the OCR file includes semantic information about text in the portion of the electronic document; applying one or more features to the semantic information; based on the application of the one or more features to the semantic information, determining the page type of the portion of the electronic document; and storing an indication of the page type.

9262459

14634021

1. A computer-implemented method performed by data processing apparatus comprising one or more computers in data communication, the method comprising: instantiating a virtual machine emulating an operating system of a user device; instantiating, within the virtual machine, a native application that generates application pages for display on a user device within the native application, the native application operating independent of a browser application that can operate on the user device; accessing, within the virtual machine, application pages of the native application, and for each of the application pages: extracting content from the application page, the content including content of a plurality of different content types, the content for each content type being extracted by a corresponding extractor specific to that content type; generating application page data describing content of the application page, the content described by the application page data including text that a user device displays on the application page when the user device displays the application page; and indexing the application page data for the native application in an index that is searchable by a search engine.

20030005775

09901883

1. A sensor for determining the presence of an object, the sensor comprising: first and second flexible conductor elements separated by a separation distance and having a capacitance dependent on the separation distance; and a non-conductive compressible element interposed between the first and second flexible conductor elements, wherein the non-conductive compressible element compresses in response to an object applying a force to at least one of the first and second flexible conductor elements such that the separation distance between the first and second flexible conductor elements decreases, wherein the capacitance of the first and second flexible conductor elements changes in response to the separation distance between the first and second flexible conductor elements decreasing.

20080262699

11898275

1. A control system for an internal combustion engine, comprising: pressure change amount-detecting means for detecting an amount of change in pressure within a cylinder of the engine as a pressure change amount; heat release amount-calculating means for calculating an amount of heat released in the cylinder as a heat release amount, according to the detected pressure change amount; load detecting means for detecting load on the engine; and fuel property-estimating means for estimating a property of fuel, based on the calculated heat release amount and the detected load on the engine.

8655052

11627414

1. A method of scene reconstruction comprising: obtaining a plurality of images of a scene representing at least two perspective views of said scene; generating a 3-dimensional model of said scene using a first subset of said plurality of images, wherein said generating comprises selecting one or more vertices of said 3-dimensional model; calculating a perspective for each said image in said first subset based on one or more of said one or more selected vertices; and refining said model based on one or more of said calculated perspectives and a second subset of said images, wherein said second subset includes at least one image not in said first subset.

9973613

15486570

1. A method for arranging social media items on a display comprising: running, at a first user mobile device, a social networking application configured to present social media content items for display on a user interface of said first user mobile device; detecting, at a processor unit of a first user operating mobile device, a signal representing a second user mobile device is within a local physical proximity of said first user mobile device; determining, at a processor unit of said first user operating mobile device, an identification of said second user mobile device responsive to said detecting; obtaining, by said processor unit, an identity of the second user based on said determined identification of the second user's mobile device; obtaining, by said processor unit, information relating to the second user; analyzing, using said processor unit, said obtained information to determine interests of said second user; determining, at said processor unit, based on said determined interests of said second user, a manner re-arranging said social media content items on said user interface of said first user mobile device; automatically re-arranging said social media content items on said user interface of said first user mobile device utilizing said social networking application, of said first user mobile device, to process the rearrangement of said social media content items; and synchronizing, using said processing unit, said rearrangement of said social media content items from said first user mobile device, via one or more network connections, to the second user's mobile device and to a website associated with said social networking application.

7894362

12027389

1. An apparatus comprising: an optical line terminal (OLT) in communication with a plurality of optical network terminals (ONTs) via an optical distribution network (ODN); and a passive optical network (PON) topology estimator coupled to the OLT or at least one of the ONTs, wherein the PON topology estimator is configured to model a PON topology, wherein the model comprises a plurality of network parameters, a plurality of component parameters, and at least one relationship between the network parameters and the component parameters, and wherein the PON topology represents the physical connectivity of optical fiber cables, couplers, splitters, distributors, or combinations thereof in the optical distribution network.

20050120127

11020616

1. A review and approval system for media content comprising a plurality of frames of digital data, comprising: a player for playing the media content; a comment receiver for receiving an indication from a reviewer of a start frame and an end frame of a selected one or more of the plurality of frames, and for receiving comments from the reviewer pertaining to the selected one or more of the plurality of frames of the media content; and a storage manager for storing the received comments in frame accurate correspondence with the selected one or more of the plurality of frames of digital data to which the received comments pertain.

20160373700

14742617

1. A self-contained fixed and integrated evidence collecting and recording device for collecting and preserving evidence of an event relating to the use of any firearm. Said evidence collecting and recording device comprising, in combination with an electrical power rechargeable electronic evidence collecting device configured to be mounted inside of a gun and integrated into the guns polymer frame, said evidence collecting device comprising: (A) Video camera for producing a HDMI video signal representing video information obtained from the point of view of the gun; (B) A device that can store HDMI quality audio obtained related to the deployment of the firearm. (C) Data is preserved on the device via an internal memory with the ability to download in accordance with agency guidelines. (E) The device is built into the firearms frame, stock, and grip. (F) The device's main components are installed into the back-strap of the handguns grip. 1. The apparatus defined in claim 1 , further comprising a sensor that will activate the firearm when it reaches a 90 degree angle and remains fluid. This will cause the audio visual function to engage. After a predetermined time (5 to 10 minutes) of no movement, the device will switch to standby mode until raised and moved again. 2. The apparatus defined in claim 1 , wherein said evidence collecting device further comprises a microphone, coupled to device, for producing a sound signal representing sound information obtained from the location of the gun. 3. The apparatus defined in claim 1 , wherein said evidence collecting device further comprises a HDMI video camera, for producing a clear video signal representing information obtained from the location of the guns point of view. 4. The apparatus defined in claim 1 , wherein the device will include a time/date stamp for accuracy. 5. The apparatus defined in claim 1 , wherein the device will include a memory storage function, capable of maintaining a digitally encrypted amount of date, to be downloaded by the end user via a USB portal device.

8122424

12245403

1. A method for transferring content from one computer resource to another computer resource, comprising: intercepting by a computer a user-selected information element during transfer from a source computer resource to a destination computer resource; determining by a computer a natural language in which the intercepted information element is expressed; responsive to the expressed natural language not matching a user-specified preferred natural language: searching by a computer for a handling rule corresponding to the expressed natural language; responsive to finding no corresponding handling rule: invoking by a computer a rule management user interface; and allowing by a computer a user to define a handling rule corresponding to the expressed natural language; and performing by a computer a natural language handling action on the intercepted information element to translate the intercepted information element into the preferred natural language, wherein the handling action comprises isolating certain information elements according to the handling rules, thereby blocking transfer of the certain information elements to the destination; and transferring by a computer the translated information element to the destination computer resource.

20140181126

13230732

1. A data structure for scheduling one or more event queues, comprising: a scheduler having a current time and a current epoch bit; a first event queue having a first event, the first event including a first time stamp, the first time stamp being associated with a first epoch bit; and a second event queue having a first event, the first event of the second event queue including a first time stamp, the first time stamp being associated with a first epoch bit, wherein a processor determines, based on the data structure, a real time by comparing the current epoch bit with the first epoch bit of the first event queue and the first epoch bit of the second event queue.

9990672

12568495

1. A computer system, comprising: a tangible computer readable medium storing programming instructions that when executed by the computer system perform operations, comprising: providing logon information to on-line viewers as part of a registration process; providing, to the on-line viewers, image data of a plurality of articles from different seller websites; receiving, from each of the on-line viewers, selection input that identifies one or more of the articles; in response to the selection input, accessing article image data for the identified one or more articles; accessing structure image data for a structure; for each on-line viewer, storing the article image data for the identified one or more articles in a virtual closet for access by the each on-line viewer and allocating a limited amount of storage in the virtual closet for the each on-line viewer; merging the at least one of the identified one or more articles with the structure to generate a merged image of the at least one article and the structure; providing the merged image to an on-line viewer; for each on-line viewer, establishing a list of favorite retailers; in response to a subsequent logon by the on-line viewer, retrieving the list of favorite retailers; and providing, to the on-line viewer, the list of favorite retailers that includes links to websites of the favorite retailers.

20160216991

14917621

1. A method to allocate virtual machines to physical machines, the method comprising: sorting a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) according to a size attribute associated with a dominant resource requirement; sorting a plurality of physical machines (PMs) according to a power efficiency attribute associated with each of the plurality of PMs; selecting one of the sorted plurality of PMs based on the power efficiency attribute; selecting one of the sorted plurality of VMs based on the size attribute; allocating the selected VM to the selected PM; and in response to a determination that a residual capacity attribute of the selected PM is less than a particular threshold, discontinuing allocation of the selected VM to the selected PM.

20160080421

14489339

1. A method comprising: providing identifying data, by a client device, to a service provider via a network, the identifying data being usable by the service provider to identify the client device or functionality associated with the client device, or both; receiving one or more contexts at the client device from the service provider via the network, the one or more contexts corresponding to the identifying data, and each of the one or more contexts having management objects and one or more triggers configured to cause the one or more contexts to transition to a corresponding one of a plurality of context states, the transition to the corresponding one of the plurality of context states causing performance of one or more actions associated with the corresponding one of the plurality of context states; and implementing the one or more contexts locally by the client device effective to identify and perform the one or more actions by the client device based on identification of the one or more triggers without use of network communication by the client device.

9430736

14094589

1. A neural network portion comprising a number N of hardware implemented pre-synaptic neurons capable each of firing an action potential, wherein N can be encoded in a word of n bits; the neural network portion being provided for, upon firing of a number F of hardware implemented pre-synaptic neurons in a predetermined period of time: if F.n<N, generating a message of a first type, the message comprising a unique address for each hardware implemented pre-synaptic neuron having fired in said predetermined period of time, each address being encoded as a word of n bits; and if F.n>N, generating a message of a second type, the message comprising N bits and being encoded in words of n bits, wherein each one of said N hardware implemented pre-synaptic neurons is represented by a unique bit, each bit having a first value if the hardware implemented pre-synaptic neuron represented by the bit has fired in said predetermined period of time, and a second value otherwise.

8682608

13058072

1. A behavior recognition apparatus which recognizes a user behavior from a hand movement made by a user, the behavior recognition apparatus comprising: a hand movement observation unit configured to detect the hand movement made by the user and output hand movement data indicating the hand movement; a velocity variation detection unit configured to detect a time at which a variation in velocity of a hand of the user occurs, from the hand movement data outputted from the hand movement observation unit; a feature selection unit configured to select the hand movement data that is outputted from the hand movement observation unit at specific times including the time detected by the velocity variation detection unit and times before and after the detected time; a standard behavior pattern storage unit configured to store a movement pattern data sequence represented by a hand movement data sequence, in association with the user behavior; and a behavior recognition unit configured to calculate a degree of similarity between the movement pattern data sequence stored in the standard behavior pattern storage unit and the hand movement data selected by the feature selection unit, and to recognize, as the user behavior, a behavior represented by the movement pattern data sequence when the degree of similarity is highest.

20040030753

10611491

1. A system that facilitates conveying notifications, comprising: a component to determine a time period to deliver information based upon an urgency of the information; and a notification component to convey the information based at least in part upon endpoint sensing of at least one device and the time period.

20140214425

14169177

1. A dialogue type voice recognition apparatus comprising: an extractor which is configured to extract a first utterance element representing a user action and a second utterance element representing an object from a user's utterance voice signal; a domain determiner which is configured to detect an expansion domain related to the extracted first and second utterance elements based on a hierarchical domain model, and determine at least one candidate domain related to the detected expansion domain as a final domain; a communicator which is configured to perform communication with an external apparatus; and a controller which is configured to control the communicator to transmit information regarding the first and second utterance elements and information regarding the determined final domain.

9183233

14267275

1. A computer program product for managing a nomadic data system, wherein the nomadic data system comprises a central data repository and nomadic data devices, wherein updating a data element associated with the central data repository is performed by a nomadic data device, and wherein the computer program product comprises a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code readable and executable by a processor to perform a method comprising: transmitting a check out template to an authorized nomadic data device; receiving a request to check out data from the authorized nomadic data device; authenticating the authorized nomadic data device; presenting a list of authorized items for checkout to the authorized nomadic data device that has been authenticated; checking out a data element from the list of authorized items to the authorized nomadic data device while locking the data element to other nomadic data devices, wherein locking the data element prevents the other nomadic data devices from accessing the data element that has been checked out to the authorized nomadic data device; disconnecting the authorized nomadic data device from the central data repository, wherein disconnecting the authorized nomadic data device from the central repository provides an indication to the other nomadic data devices that the authorized nomadic data device is locally working with the checked out data element at the authorized nomadic data device, wherein the central data repository comprises a data server that serves the data element, and wherein the central data repository further comprises communication servers that enable communication between the data server and the authorized nomadic data device; collecting updated data for the data element from the authorized nomadic data device, wherein the updated data was generated at the authorized nomadic data device while the data element was locked out to the other nomadic data devices and while the authorized nomadic data device was disconnected from the central data repository; receiving a release check out signal from the authorized nomadic data device, wherein the release check out signal indicates that a user wishes to check the data element back into the central data repository without making any changes; in response to receiving the release check out signal from the authorized nomadic data device, prompting the user of the authorized nomadic data device for an authentication identifier; receiving the authentication identifier for the user; in response to receiving the authentication identifier for the user, transmitting a first confirmation of a release check out; receiving an affirmation of the first confirmation from the user; in response to receiving the affirmation of the first confirmation from the user, transmitting a second confirmation reminding the user that all changes to the specific items of data being checked back in to the central data repository will be removed; receiving an affirmation of the second confirmation from the user; in response to receiving the affirmation of the second confirmation from the user, checking the data element back in to the central data repository; creating a client definition; creating an engagement definition, said engagement definition being tied to a specific client; creating an authorization profile; creating a group profile for a group of users; creating a user entry and assigning the user entry to a specific group of users within a single engagement; checking out an access collection to the user that meets the client definition, the engagement definition, and the authorization profile, and is a member of the group of users described in the group profile, while locking other users out of the access collection; and checking in an updated data file to the access collection, wherein the updated data file was generated at the authorized nomadic data device while the data element was locked out to the other nomadic data devices.

8429100

12948182

1. A method for building an adaptive soft sensor, comprising the following steps: using a distributed control system (DCS) for sampling and inspecting a manufacturing process; using sensors configured in the distributed control system to obtain online data for recording process variables to form input vectors of an interferential model; using the distributed control system to preprocess the online data to remove approximately identical data records and/or remove the data records that out of a reasonable range in order to be meaningful for model generation and optimization; operating an online subtractive cluster algorithm to divide the online data into a plurality of local regions according to a schedule vector, which is a sub set of the input vectors, and the plurality of local regions compose of a plurality of clusters; building a linear model in each of the local regions, and constructing the inferential model based on each of the linear models; converting the online subtractive cluster algorithm into a recursive regression algorithm; calculating density of the schedule vector with P Φ = κ - 1 ( k - 1 ) ⁢ ( γ ⁡ ( k ) + 1 ) - 2 ⁢ η ⁡ ( k ) ⁢ ϕ ⁡ ( k ) + σ ⁡ ( k ) , where Pφ is the density of the scheduled vector k is a time interval, γ is the covariance of scheduling vector at the current sampling time k, which denotes the current change of soft sensors, η is the accumulation of changes of the scheduling vector for the past sampling time 1 , 2 ,. .. k−1, which denotes the past change of soft sensor, σ is the accumulation covariance of scheduling vector for the past sampling time 1 , 2 ,. .. k−1, which denotes the known knowledge of soft sensors φ is the schedule vector, γ(k)=φ(k) T φ(k), η ⁡ ( k ) = ∑ j = 1 k - 1 ⁢ ϕ ⁡ ( j ) T = η ⁡ ( k - 1 ) + ϕ ⁡ ( k - 1 ) T , ⁢ σ ⁡ ( k ) = ∑ j = 1 k - 1 ⁢ ϕ ⁡ ( j ) T ⁢ ϕ ⁡ ( j ) = σ ⁡ ( k - 1 ) + ϕ ⁡ ( k - 1 ) T ⁢ ϕ ⁡ ( k - 1 ) ; merging two nearest clusters, updating existing clusters or adding a new cluster to eliminate the recording of the redundant online data for saving memory space of the distributed control system, wherein merging two nearest clusters, updating existing clusters or adding the new cluster further comprise: merging two nearest clusters into a new cluster when the two cluster centers are closer than a threshold; updating existing clusters; while obtaining new online data; and adding the new cluster when the new online data is far away from the plurality of clusters already exist; operating the recursive regression algorithm to update a plurality of local models in real-time according to the linear model of the local regions; and obtaining a predicted output value by using each of the linear models.

20050074149

10679138

1. A method of processing contrast enhanced medical imaging information, the medical imaging information corresponding to a time dependent imaging signal behavior associated with at least one tissue volume, the method comprising: automatically determining whether a portion of a tissue volume exhibits an imaging signal washout behavior; automatically determining whether the portion of a tissue volume exhibits one from the group of an imaging signal plateau behavior and an imaging signal persistent enhancement behavior in the event that the portion of a tissue volume fails to exhibit an imaging signal washout behavior; and identifying at least one likely malignancy within the portion of the tissue volume.

20090070049

12199117

1. A method for monitoring a fluid transfer process, comprising: providing an allowable pressure profile; detecting a pressure occurring in the course of the fluid transfer process; comparing the detected pressure with the allowable pressure profile; signaling an error, if the detected pressure is not within the allowable pressure profile; wherein the allowable pressure profile is defined by interpolation points, the interpolation points being based on a probability function representing a family of pressure courses of a plurality of fluid transfer processes.