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20100223227 | 12600990 | 0 | 1. A method of statistical application in an OLTP environment, the method comprising: querying a database containing a statistical table to determine if a statistical record having a record identity exists in the statistical table; if the statistical record exists, checking a time element of the statistical record to determine if the statistical record has expired; if the statistical record has not expired, sending the statistical record to an inquirer; and if the statistical record does not exist or has expired, invoking an SQL statement to compute the statistical record. |
7533007 | 10869873 | 1 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a processor to calculate a planning allocation of resources for stages of product life cycle of a system comprising a plurality of components, based upon characterizing a system attribute of interest by an uncertainty of usage of said system, said uncertainty of usage described using random variables whose values are characterized by a probability distribution that describes a potential usage of said components; and a graphical user interface for interacting with a display device selectively permitting information of said planning allocation of resources to be viewed by a user. |
9938916 | 12671267 | 1 | 1. A system comprising: an automotive vehicle, the vehicle comprising at least one of an internal combustion engine, an automatic gearbox, and exhaust gas treatment equipment controllable by the control device, and an onboard electronic control device arranged to control at the least one of the internal combustion engine, the automatic gearbox, and the exhaust gas treatment equipment; and an arrangement for adjusting control parameters of an onboard electronic control device of an automotive vehicle in view of a journey or type of journey, the arrangement including a computing facility arranged to generate a set of control parameters, distinct from a route of the vehicle, to be used by the electronic control device for controlling at least one of equipment and subsystems of the vehicle, and a user interface arranged to allow a user to provide the computing facility with data relating to the journey or type of journey and to at least one constraint to be considered as having priority during the journey or type of journey, the computing facility being arranged to generate the set of control parameters based on the data provided through the user interface, wherein the electronic control device uses the control parameters to control at least one of the internal combustion engine, the automatic gearbox, and the exhaust gas treatment equipment of the vehicle. |
6038539 | 08026014 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented job shop scheduling system for designating start times of a plurality of procedures processed by a plurality of resource devices, having restriction conditions with respect to available start times, end times, a sequence of said procedures, and a prohibition of simultaneous executions of multiple said procedures, said system comprising: initial restriction violating condition set means for initially setting restriction violating conditions which satisfy a sufficient condition for a violation of said restriction conditions; start time change means for changing a first start time of one of said plurality of procedures when said restriction violating condition is set by said initial restriction violating condition set means, to not satisfy said restriction violating conditions, thereby optimizing a total process time; start time designation means for designating a second start time of one of said plurality of procedures when said restriction violating condition is set by said initial restriction violating condition set means, to not satisfy said restriction violating conditions, thereby optimizing a total process time; restriction violating condition generation means for assigning a start time of a procedure which satisfies at least one of said restriction violating conditions to a corresponding variable of one of the restriction violating conditions which is satisfied and for ANDing said restriction violating conditions with said one restriction violating condition having said assigned start time to generate a new restriction violating condition and for narrowing a search space by substituting a real numeric number of a start time into a variable corresponding to a start time of a restriction violating condition and prohibiting a sub-schedule based on a partially undefined schedule which satisfies said restriction violating condition; and restriction violating condition storage means for storing said restriction violating conditions set by said initial restriction violating condition set means and generated by said restriction violating condition generation means. |
20150036004 | 14383968 | 0 | 1. A system of capturing and sharing media, comprising: a plurality of communication devices; a management server in communication with the communication devices and including a processor and a downloadable user interface configured to distribute to the communication devices a media captured during a defined event, the media distributable to each communication device associated with the defined event, the user interface configured to distribute to at least one communication device a coded indicia, the coded indicia distributable to the at least one communication device associated with an administrator of the defined event; and a database in communication with the management server configured to store data related to a plurality of registered user accounts. |
8666603 | 13025939 | 1 | 1. A method for providing steering-control feedback to an operator of an automotive vehicle, the method comprising: receiving first attribute information identifying a first attribute of a first operator coupling of an operator, of an automotive vehicle, to a steering-control mechanism of the automotive vehicle; detecting that a specified steering-control criterion is met based on the first attribute; identifying feedback information, based on the steering-control criterion; and sending, in response to the detecting, the feedback information to present, via an output device, a feedback indicator to the operator. |
20140025210 | 13946115 | 0 | 1. A method optimizing operation of a chemical looping plant having loops A and B, each having a riser for carrying solid particles entrained in air/gas upward then through a horizontal upper pipeline to a separation unit adapted for separating the solid particles from the fluid, the separation unit provides the solid particles downward through a dip leg to a seal pot, the seal pot selectively sending the solid particles either to the opposite loop through a crossover pipe or through a return leg to a lower pipeline at an interconnection point, the fluid is introduced into the lower pipeline blowing the solid particles up the lower pipeline and back through the riser, the method comprising the steps of: creating a reduced order model (“ROM”) by: creating mass balance equations employing terms for pressure, pressure drop, mass flow, acceleration of air and particles for each of the riser, dip leg and return leg; deleting pressure drop terms for the return leg other than those defining friction; deleting acceleration terms in the return leg; setting the return leg pressure drop due to friction to a constant; providing various inputs (u i ) to the ROM and monitoring outputs (y i ) of the ROM to determine optimum settings for the chemical looping plant; and providing the optimum settings to the chemical looping plant to result in optimum operation of the chemical looping plant. |
8388445 | 12878971 | 1 | 1. A fantasy sports competition game method of play comprising the steps of: (a) selecting a single actual live sporting event to occur in the immediate future between two actual teams made up of actual sports players, the single actual live sporting event to be followed and associated with the play of the fantasy sports competition; (b) enrolling a plurality of fantasy game players into the fantasy sports competition as fantasy team owners for a corresponding number of fantasy teams; (c) randomly assigning a plurality of the actual sports players to each of the fantasy teams, each of the fantasy teams being assigned the same number of actual sports players while the specific actual sports players randomly assigned may vary between fantasy teams, the step of randomly assigning a plurality of actual sports players to each of the fantasy teams comprising randomly choosing from a pool of all actual sports players on the two actual teams to complete a fantasy team and returning all actual sports players to the pool to be randomly chosen from to complete a next fantasy team, wherein the same actual sports player may end up being assigned to more than one fantasy team; (d) tracking the performance of the assigned actual sports players during the play of the actual live sporting event; (e) assigning points to the tracked performance of each of the assigned actual sports players and associating those assigned points with each fantasy team to which those actual sports players are assigned; (f) each fantasy team accumulating points during the play of the single actual live sporting event based upon the performance of the actual sports players randomly assigned to that fantasy team; and (g) upon the completion of the single actual live sporting event, totaling the accumulated points for each fantasy team and declaring a winner based upon the fantasy team with the most points. |
20120110337 | 12916348 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method performed by a first process configured to execute an application file, the method comprising: determining whether the first process has a parent process; when it is determined that the first process does not have a parent process, terminating execution of the application file; when it is determined that the first process has a parent process, determining whether the parent process has a digital signature; when it is determined that the parent process has a digital signature, determining whether the parent process is associated with an authorized entity; when it is determined that the parent process is not associated with an authorized entity, terminating execution of the application file; when it is determined that the parent process is associated with an authorized entity, determining whether the digital signature is valid using a public key associated with the authorized entity; when it is determined that the digital signature is valid, executing the application file; and when it is determined that the digital signature is invalid, terminating execution of the application file. |
20070250793 | 11773193 | 0 | 1. A method for managing menus associated with a graphical user interface that is displayed on a display unit, the method comprising the computer-implemented steps of: receiving a request from a user for a menu panel, wherein: the request is not associated with the user selecting any menu objects that are displayed on the display unit at the time of the request, the menu panel comprises two or more selection regions, each of the two or more selection regions is associated with one base menu, and at least one base menu includes two or more menu items; and in response to the request from the user: displaying on the display unit the menu panel, wherein the menu panel is displayed at a location based on a first position of a cursor when the user requests the menu panel, and displaying on the display unit a first base menu that is associated with a first selection region of the two or more selection regions. |
7853337 | 11582138 | 1 | 1. A device that monitors and controls a machine having at least one mold device comprising a top mold part and a bottom mold part disposed on a mold base which is supported on a vibrating table, comprising at least two sensors for recording measurement variables comprising motion variables selected from a group consisting of frequency of vibration, amplitude of vibration, duration of vibration and pressing power with which the top part of the mold device acts on the bottom part of the mold and an electronic control loop that evaluates the recorded measurement variables and correspondingly controls machine components which influence the measurement variables, wherein at least one sensor has its own power source which is fed by a generator that converts motion energy into electrical energy, wherein at least one sensor comprises a processor for processing data determined by the at least one sensor itself or data determined by another sensor, wherein the device is adapted to exchange data wirelessly between the sensors and the electronic control loop via at least one of a transmitting device and a receiving device, and wherein the at least one sensor comprises a data memory for storing at least one of data determined by the at least one sensor itself and data determined by another sensor. |
6161081 | 09169327 | 1 | 1. A computerized simulation model for a digital system, said model comprising: (a) a plurality of functional units; and (b) a plurality of interface units for transmitting messages between the functional units; (c) wherein each interface unit includes a mechanism for automatically composing and decomposing said messages into higher and lower levels of design abstraction. |
20140336971 | 14143723 | 0 | 1. A quantitative analyzing method of a copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) film, the method comprising: obtaining spectra by irradiating a laser on the plurality of CIGS films having different component compositions, selecting a first spectral line and a second spectral line among the spectral lines of target elements to be analyzed and obtaining a correlation plot between a measured intensity of the first spectral line and a measured intensity of the second spectral line, correcting the measured intensity of the first spectral line and the measured intensity of the second spectral line using results obtained by curve fitting the correlation plot, obtaining a linear calibration curve using the corrected intensity of the first spectral line and the corrected intensity of the second spectral line; and comparing the linear calibration curve with LIBS analysis of a target sample to be analyzed. |
20040147324 | 10696083 | 0 | 1. A method for modeling a two-way conversation between a computer-based character and a user, the method comprising: storing situation data that defines a set of situation tags and associated situation text, wherein the situation tags represent situations that describe contexts in which the user interacts with the character; storing character data that defines a set of character tags and associated character text, wherein the character tags define a set of computer-based characters; storing a behavior pattern that defines a conversation between the user and the character, wherein the behavior pattern is represented as a set of linked frames that specify respective text-based dialogue between the character and the user, wherein the text-based dialogue includes embedded media tags selected from the situation tags and the character tags; and modeling a two-way conversation between the user and the character within the online environment by merging the text-based dialogue specified by the frames with the situation text and the character text in accordance with the media tags defined within the frames. |
20150304634 | 13566956 | 0 | 1. A method for real-time tracking of features, the method comprising: acquiring a collection of images and one or more subsequent collections of images to create a three-dimensional space, wherein the collection of images and the one or more subsequent collections of images are substantially simultaneously captured from multiple sources; identifying a candidate feature in the three-dimensional space for tracking; and tracking the candidate feature in the three-dimensional space over time. |
10149108 | 14929986 | 1 | 1. An electronic device comprising: a display configured to display a screen executing a schedule management service application and a predicted rendezvous location; a memory configured to store schedule information input into the application, data related to a plurality of places and a plurality of regions, the data being stored in a place database, and user location history data, the user location history data being acquired by storing a plurality of individual user locations related to movement of the electronic device; and at least one processor configured to: receive the input of the schedule information in the schedule management service application, assign a set of first scores to each of the plurality of places based on a schedule place name found in the schedule information, computationally add a set of second scores equivalent to a reciprocal number of a distance between a location of each of the plurality of places and location information from the schedule information to the set of first scores, predict a rendezvous location based on a high score among the plurality of places assigned a score, and display the predicted rendezvous location in the schedule management service application on the display. |
20060181413 | 11343560 | 0 | 1. A security system for monitoring at least one shipping container being transported by at least one cargo transport vehicle, the system comprising: a Container Security Device (CSD) configured to be removably coupled to the at least one freight shipping container wall thereby utilized for monitoring a cargo inside the container and detection of intrusion violations accompanied with partial destruction of the container wall when in a coupled condition, the CSD including at least one anti-tamper sensor, a microcontroller and a communication device; wherein the microcontroller generates an alert status based on an output data generated by least one anti-tamper sensor being subjected to an individual sensor processing procedure and then to an integrated sensor processing procedure, the integrated sensor processing procedure makes determination of the overall container alert status based on the output data from said at least one sensor; and a Network Operations Center (NOC), the NOC including a NOC communications facility configured to communicate with at least one telecommunication network, the NOC being configured to receive data from each of a plurality of the CSDs and including a data storage medium configured to store sensor data and contained an archive of the container events. |
20130346355 | 14015354 | 0 | 1. A method for processing risk factors for a user, comprising: receiving protocol data for creating a risk factor engine by an application stored and executed at a computing device, the risk factor engine stored in memory and executable by a processor to process a first set of stored user health data for a user, wherein the protocol data includes a rule and one or more health attribute values, the rule and the one or more health attribute values each including a computer programming expression editable by an administrator; and determining a user health score through execution of the risk factor engine by the processor and based on the user health data, wherein determining the user health score includes evaluating the expressions of the one or more health attribute values by inputting the user health data to calculate one or more calculated health attribute values, and then evaluating the expression of the rule by inputting the one or more calculated health attribute values to calculate the user health score. |
9607124 | 14691599 | 1 | 1. A method for performing a hierarchical timing analysis and closure of a component of an integrated circuit (IC) chip using load-sensitive feedback constraints, the method comprising: obtaining at least one original feedback constraint, a base load representation, and a sensitivity of the at least one original feedback constraint to the base load representation for one or more boundary pins of the component; performing timing analysis and closure of the component, wherein the timing closure involves at least one of gate re-sizing, wire re-routing, and wire buffering, and updating an electrical parasitic of the one or more boundary pins; obtaining an updated value of the load representation of the one or more boundary pins that accounts for the electrical parasitic updates; computing an updated feedback constraint of the one or more boundary pins based on the at least one original feedback constraint, the base load representation, the sensitivity of the at least one original feedback constraint to the base load representation for the one or more boundary pins of the component, and the updated value of the load representation; and employing the computed updated feedback assertion to perform a new timing analysis of the component as part of timing closure of a design of the chip prior to manufacturing the integrated circuit chip. |
9442738 | 13783312 | 1 | 1. A method of facilitating processing within a computing environment, the method comprising: determining, by a processor, that a transaction executing within the computing environment has aborted a predefined number of times, the transaction effectively delaying committing transactional stores to main memory until completion of a selected transaction; based on determining the transaction has aborted the predefined number of times, performing an action to restrict processing of the processor or another processor during a retry of the transaction, the action to be performed being selected based on an abort count associated with the transaction, wherein there are a plurality of ranges of abort counts having one or more selectable actions associated therewith, and wherein the action selected to be performed comprises one or more actions of the one or more selectable actions associated with a range of abort counts comprising the abort count; and retrying the transaction one or more selected times subsequent to performing the action. |
9111604 | 11513407 | 1 | 1. A computer program product comprising a tangible computer readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions for enabling a client computer system to retrieve selected content from a plurality of content providers, instructions comprising: first computer program code for enabling the client computer system to select content to be retrieved from among a set of content available from the plurality of content providers and presented to the client computer system, wherein the first computer program code enables the client computer system to present the retrieved selected content with an interface that is customized to or by the respective content providers, wherein the first computer program code enables the client computer system to: present an identification of the retrieved selected content; receive selections associated with the retrieved selected content; and present the retrieved selected content; second computer program code for enabling the client computer system to request, in response to a single action per request, that the selected content be repeatedly and automatically retrieved, wherein the request involves exchange of one or more object manifests that reference the selected content between the client computer system and respective ones of the plurality of content providers, wherein the selected content comprises multiple separately selected content items available from at least two different respective content providers for providing each separately selected content item and retrieved from at least two different respective servers hosting each separately selected content item; object manifest computer program code for enabling the client computer system to generate the one or more object manifests for the selections, each including one or more manifest list entries of the selected content and corresponding source addresses for the selected content; and third computer program code enabling the client computer system to retrieve the selected content from the plurality of content providers as identified by the one or more manifest list entries and corresponding source addresses; and fourth computer program product code for enabling the client computer system to persistently store at least one of retrieved selected content and an identification of available content from the plurality of content providers in a storage device. |
20080147416 | 11611075 | 0 | 1. In a computing environment, a method of implementing desired business logic functionality, the desired business logic functionality including a plurality of individual functions, the method comprising; selecting a plurality of computer implemented modules, each module being configured to perform at least a portion of one of the individual functions and wherein each module comprises a computer implemented interface for connecting to other modules; and operatively coupling the plurality of computer implemented modules to create a composite module, wherein the composite module comprises functionality for implementing the plurality of individual functions, and wherein the composite module comprises computer implemented interfaces for connecting to other modules, including a UI module, such that the composite module is reusable in implementing more complex functionality by being selected as a computer implemented module and being coupled to other computer implemented modules, wherein the composite module is agnostic to how a UI module exposes functionality to a user. |
7831528 | 12399011 | 1 | 1. A method of examining a structure formed on a semiconductor wafer, the method comprising: obtaining a first diffraction signal measured using a metrology device; obtaining a second diffraction signal generated using a machine learning algorithm, wherein the first and second diffraction signal represent light diffracted from the structure formed on the semiconductor wafer, and wherein the machine learning algorithm receives as a direct input one or more parameters that characterize a profile of the structure to generate the second diffraction signal as a direct output of the machine learning algorithm; comparing the first and second diffraction signals; and when the first and second diffraction signals match within a matching criterion, determining a feature of the structure based on the one or more parameters of the profile used by the machine learning algorithm to generate the second diffraction signal. |
9424287 | 12316712 | 1 | 1. A tangible article of manufacture comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a machine to at least: monitor a database operation associated with a logical table to detect insertion, in the logical table or a different table, of a row that contains a column having a value not already contained in the column in the logical table or the different table, the monitoring of the database operation to detect the value not already contained in the column of the logical table or the different table initiated in response to a table creation command that includes a partition-by constraint specifying the column; and in response to detecting the value not already contained in the column of the logical table or the different table, create a next partition for the logical table to include rows of the logical table or the different table that include the value in the column by: in response to receiving a template-creation command, storing a template in a storage device for subsequent retrieval by a template name specified by the template-creation command, wherein the template includes a database command with one or more symbolic placeholders; and in response to receiving a template-instantiation command, instantiating the template by: parsing the template-instantiation command to obtain the template name and one or more template-specified parameters: retrieving the template corresponding to the template name; extracting the database command from the template; substituting the one or more template-specified parameters for the one or more symbolic placeholders in the database command; and creating the next partition for the logical table according to the retrieved template and the one or more template-specified parameters. |
20160019315 | 14869741 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: receiving first activity information for a sender of a message sent to at least one recipient by a collection resource at a Web site, wherein the message comprises text associated with the Web site, the collection resource adds a first link to the message, and no personally identifiable information of the sender is collected in collecting the first activity information; storing the first activity information at a storage server; receiving second activity information when a first recipient accesses the first link sent by the sender corresponding to the first activity information stored at the storage server, wherein no personally identifiable information of the first recipient is collected in the second activity information; using at least one processor, using the first activity information to identify a first node in a social graph as being representative of the sender; using the second activity information to identify a second node in the social graph as being representative of the first recipient; determining a category for the first link as a first category type; identifying a first edge between the first and second nodes is representative of the first category type; and in the social graph, updating a value of the first edge between the first and second nodes. |
8589127 | 12823590 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method of simulating behaviour of a thermodynamic system over time, the thermodynamic system having potential energy that can be split into more quickly varying parts and more slowly varying parts and having a state described by collective vectors of position and momentum at any given time, the method comprising a momentum refreshment process, a conservative dynamics process, and an acceptance/rejection process, wherein the momentum refreshment process comprises mixing the collective momentum vector with a noise vector; the conservative dynamics process comprises applying a mollified impulse multiple time stepping conservative dynamics method to a current state, in which process calculations for forces corresponding to more slowly varying energy parts in the thermodynamic system undergo an averaging procedure and are carried out at a larger time step than calculations for forces corresponding to more quickly varying energy parts; and wherein the acceptance/rejection process is based on the system energy and comprises accepting a current state or returning a replacement state. |
20140002496 | 13538848 | 0 | 1. A method for generating and displaying one or more virtual objects, comprising: identifying a particular object within an environment, the identifying is performed by a first mobile device; acquiring a 3D model of the particular object, the particular object is associated with one or more tags; acquiring an identification of a first tag of the one or more tags from a second mobile device different from the first mobile device; determining a virtual object corresponding with the first tag based on the identification of the first tag; determining a first location associated with the virtual object relative to the 3D model; and displaying at the first mobile device the virtual object such that the virtual object is perceived to exist at a point in space corresponding with the first location. |
20070010160 | 11175586 | 0 | 1. An apparatus for child activity comprising: a plurality of activity centers, each center having an educational activity integrated therein, each center having at least one contact surface for connecting the plurality of activity centers to each other. |
8448082 | 12015943 | 1 | 1. A method for controlling a display on a mobile terminal, the method comprising: displaying, on a touch screen of the mobile terminal, a browser including at least one text field, wherein each of the at least one text field has no cursor indicating that a text can be input therein, and wherein one specific text field of the at least one text field is displayed with an execute icon to input an execute command to process a text to be input in the specific text field; receiving a first touch input to the specific text field having a predetermined size; in response to the first touch input, enlarging the specific text field, generating, in the enlarged specific text field, the cursor indicating that a text can be input therein, and generating a virtual keypad, such that the virtual keypad, the enlarged specific text field, the cursor in the enlarged specific text field, and the execute icon are simultaneously displayed on the touch screen; receiving a second touch input to the displayed virtual keypad; in response to the second touch input, displaying, in the enlarged specific text field, a text corresponding to the second touch input to the displayed virtual keypad, such that the virtual keypad, the enlarged specific text field, the text in the enlarged specific text field, the cursor in the enlarged specific text field, and the execute icon are simultaneously displayed on the touch screen; receiving a third touch input to the execute icon which is separate from the virtual keypad; and in response to the third touch input, performing the following steps: removing, from the touch screen, the displayed virtual keypad, shrinking the enlarged specific text field, and displaying the shrunken specific text field simultaneously with the execute icon. |
20090144254 | 11947102 | 0 | 1. A method for aggregating scoring of tagged content across social bookmarking systems, the method comprising: combining tag scores for a tag in content across multiple different social bookmarking systems into a single aggregate tag score; and, applying the single aggregate tag score to the tag in the content. |
20140237347 | 13773345 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: generating, using one or more processors, a collaborative bookmark; associating, using the one or more processors, the collaborative bookmark with a corresponding event; detecting, using the one or more processors, an occurrence of the event corresponding to the collaborative bookmark; causing, using the one or more processors, the corresponding collaborative bookmark to be displayed in response to the detection of the event; and transmitting information from the collaborative bookmark. |
20020004933 | 09798095 | 0 | 1. A method for dynamically varying context sensitive menus of a software system, comprising the steps of: adding a first menu item to a first context sensitive menu of a graphical user interface (GUI) in response to a call to the software system from a first subsystem module; receiving an activation event for the first context sensitive menu from the GUI; displaying the first menu item as either active or inactive based on a response to a query from the software system to a second subsystem module; and executing an action associated with the first menu item as specified by the first subsystem module when the first menu item is selected only if the first menu item is active. |
20060205488 | 11275280 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: receiving an operating characteristic value, wherein the operating characteristic value indicates a value of an operating characteristic of a wagering game machine; based on a set of previous operating characteristic values of the operating characteristic, determining whether the operating characteristic value is within a normal operating range; and if the operating characteristic value is not within the normal operating range, performing a fault operation. |
9519472 | 13303651 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a processing device, a request to instantiate a virtual machine, wherein the request is associated with a software package to be installed on the virtual machine; generating a minimal installation of an operating system, wherein the minimal installation comprises a virtual machine disk image; modifying the virtual machine disk image, while the operating system is shut down, to allow remote access to the operating system for a known set of credentials; instantiating the virtual machine disk image of the minimal installation of the operating system; generating, by the processing device, a customized minimal installation of the operating system by installing the software package into the minimal installation of the operating system, while the operating system is running using the remote access for the known set of credentials; modifying the virtual machine disk image, while the operating system is shut down, to remove the remote access for the known set of credentials while preserving additional remote access added during the customized minimal installation of the operating system; and storing the virtual machine disk image comprising the customized minimal installation of the operating system. |
7708562 | 11130040 | 1 | 1. A method for facilitating a learning of items by a user, said method comprising: providing an unmastered pool, a ready pool, a mastered pool, and a delayed pool; specifying a period of time after which any mastered item in the mastered pool is recycled back into the unmastered pool; providing items to be learned by the user in the unmastered pool, said ready pool consisting of items previously transferred from the unmastered pool, said items previously transferred being stored in the ready pool; assigning a weight to each item in the unmastered pool, wherein each item in the unmastered pool has a probability of being randomly selected such that said probability is a function of said weight, wherein said probability is proportional to said weight, and wherein said assigning assigns the weight to each item based on a relative importance of each item and not based on a relative difficulty of learning each item; specifying a function relating an integer N to an integer K, said function being an increasing function of K, said function of K having a value of at least 5 for each value of K not less than 2; selecting K of at least 2; after said specifying the function and after said selecting K, determining N from the increasing function of K, said N at least 5; after said determining N, randomly selecting N items from the unmastered pool; transferring the selected N items to the ready pool; after said transferring the selected N items, a processor of a computer system randomly selecting a current item from the ready pool, said selected current item being an item previously transferred from the unmastered pool to the ready pool; after said randomly selecting the current item and before presenting the current item to the user, adding new items to the unmastered pool; presenting the current item to the user; after said presenting the current item, receiving a response to the current item from the user, said response being a correct response or an incorrect response; after said receiving the response, ascertaining whether a condition is satisfied, said condition being that a correct response to the current item was received from the user and (the current item had not previously been presented to the user or the user had responded correctly to the current item during a last J times that the user responded to the current item such that said J at least 2); if said ascertaining whether the condition is satisfied ascertains that the condition is satisfied: then transferring the current item from the ready pool to the mastered pool as a mastered item followed by randomly selecting another item from the unmastered pool and transferring the selected another item to the ready pool and further followed by recycling the mastered item from the mastered pool to the unmastered pool after the mastered item has been in the mastered pool for the specified period of time, else placing the current item into the delayed pool; ascertaining that K additional items have been subsequently randomly selected from the ready pool, presented to the user, and responded to by the user; after said ascertaining that K additional items have been subsequently randomly selected from the ready pool, presented to the user, and responded to by the user, transferring the current item from the delayed pool to the ready pool, wherein said current item is again randomly selected for presentation. |
9130967 | 12948452 | 1 | 1. A method for network element service recovery in a network including a client operative to conduct a session with a frontend server connected to downstream network elements and at least one alternate frontend server connected to alternate downstream network elements, the method comprising: detecting by a frontend server of an error in or unavailability of a downstream network element; and, sending a response code to the client to trigger the client to redirect service to or recover on an alternate frontend server. |
9886862 | 15390043 | 1 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a computing device, position data indicating a position of an aerial vehicle, wherein the position comprises an altitude; determining, from a plurality of possible airspace classifications, a first airspace classification at the position of the aerial vehicle, wherein each airspace classification specifies one or more communication parameters for communication within an associated airspace; selecting, by the computing device, from a plurality of communication repositories, a first communication repository that is associated with the first airspace classification, wherein each communication repository specifies a set of pre-defined communication components for at least one associated airspace classification; generating, by the computing device, a communication related to the aerial vehicle using the first communication repository; and sending the generated communication to at least one recipient. |
20030083949 | 09983702 | 0 | 1. A system for facilitating the sale of goods or services offered from at least one vendor to at least one buyer through an intermediary platform in communication with the vendors and the buyers, comprising: at least one processor and memory device associated with the intermediary platform, said memory device provided with descriptive information relating to each of the goods or services offered by the vendors as well as at least one haggle table, said at least one processor utilizing said descriptive information as well as said haggle table to conduct a haggle process with at least one of the buyers to facilitate the consummation of a sale of the goods or services from at least one of the vendors. |
9497316 | 14381054 | 1 | 1. A method of determining a data connection profile for a data connection between one of a plurality of end-user devices and an aggregation transceiver device at which data connections in respect of a plurality of end-user devices are aggregated for onward connection through an access network, the data connection being one of a plurality of data connections belonging to one of a plurality of predetermined categories, each category being associated with one of a plurality of service providing entities, each of the plurality of data connections belonging to one of the plurality of predetermined categories, the method comprising, in respect of one of said data connections: receiving performance data indicative of the performance of the data connection; receiving an entity identifier indicative of one of said plurality of service providing entities, and determining in dependence thereon the category to which the data connection belongs; and determining a data connection profile for the data connection in dependence on the performance data and on the category so-determined, the data connection profile specifying a set of values for one or more parameters associated with the data connection. |
20140203785 | 13747275 | 0 | 1. A vehicle system comprising: a battery pack comprising a plurality of subdivisions; a measurement system communicatively coupled to the battery pack configured to determine a first plurality of subdivision electrical parameters, each subdivision electrical parameter of the first plurality of electrical parameters being associated with one subdivision of the plurality of subdivisions; a calculation system communicatively coupled to the measurement system configured to calculate a plurality of derivative values over a first period of time based upon the first plurality of subdivision electrical parameters, to calculate a first summation value based on the plurality of derivative values and to calculate a second summation value based on a plurality of derivative values associated with a second electrical parameter over the period of time; and a battery control system communicatively coupled to the calculation system, the battery control system configured to generate a command configured to control an aspect of an operation of the battery pack, the control command being generated at least in part based upon the first summation value and the second summation value. |
20140082053 | 14007963 | 0 | 1. A information file generating system based on parallel processing, said information file generating system based on parallel processing comprising: a file request processing device for receiving and analyzing a file request instruction from an application server, and creating an information file generation task and at least one temporary information file generation task according to the result of the analysis; a control device for monitoring the execution of said information file generation task and updating the state of the tasks, and constructing a response information related to the generation condition of the information file; a temporary task processing device for processing said at least one temporary information file generation task based on a database and updating the state of said at least one temporary information file generation task; an abnormity processing device for processing abnormal events for said at least one temporary information file generation task; an input/output device for transmitting said response information to said application server according to the instruction of said control device, and receiving a confirmation message from said application server. |
8522212 | 12840326 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method for generating one or more test utility classes for use in testing a user interface of a web application, comprising: providing source code for the web application user interface, the source code including one or more user interface elements; compiling the source code to generate user interface elements to be rendered on the user interface, wherein compiling further includes invoking a test utility class generator framework and passing a user interface object tree that includes the one or more user interface elements to the test utility class generator framework; analyzing, by the test utility class framework, the user interface object tree to identify a set of basic user interface elements on the rendered user interface and to compute an extensible markup language path for each user interface element in the hypertext markup language rendered for the user interface; and generating, based on the analysis, one or more test utility classes for use in testing the rendered user interface. |
20140015973 | 13942075 | 0 | 1. A mobile device, comprising: a memory adapted to store one or more input parameters identifying at least one object to monitor; a sensor operable to: monitor an environment external to a vehicle, capture images of such environment from a location within the vehicle, and generate an image signal representing a captured image; one or more processing units operable to: perform image recognition based on the captured image utilizing the input parameters, detect objects in the environment external to the vehicle based on results of the image recognition, and identify selected ones of the detected objects as traffic indicators based on one or more predetermined criteria; and an output device configured to output an alert to a vehicle operator of the detected objects identified. |
10120857 | 15284385 | 1 | 1. A system for parsing complex data, the system comprising: a memory device configured to store a set of instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the set of instructions to perform the following operations: input complex data into a parsing pipeline within a parser, the complex data associated with at least one format, and execute, for each of one or more strings extracted from the complex data inputted into the parsing pipeline, the following operations: generate a second string, by a first handler, based in part on a current input string to the parsing pipeline, if the current input string to the parsing pipeline matches a regular expression specified for the first handler in a parser definition; and input the second string, regeneratively, by the first handler, to the parsing pipeline, if the current input string to the parsing pipeline matches a regular expression specified for the first handler in the parser definition; wherein the executing, for each of one or more strings extracted from the complex data inputted into the parsing pipeline, facilitates at least one conversion from the at least one format to at least one other format; outputting the converted complex data. |
8959360 | 13967433 | 1 | 1. A computer readable storage device encoded with a computer program, the program comprising instructions that when executed by a data processing apparatus cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising: receiving, by the data processing apparatus that is operating in a locked mode, audio data that encodes an utterance of a user, wherein the locked mode prevents the data processing apparatus from performing at least one action; providing, while the data processing apparatus is operating in the locked mode, the audio data to a voice biometric engine and a voice action engine; receiving, while the data processing apparatus is operating in the locked mode, data from the voice action engine that identifies a voice action that is associated with the utterance; determining, while the data processing apparatus is operating in the locked mode, that the voice action that is associated with the utterance is classified as a voice action that does not require authentication to perform; based on determining that the voice action that is associated with the utterance is classified as a voice action that does not require authentication to perform, processing, while the data processing apparatus is operating in the locked mode, the voice action that is associated with the utterance; and after processing the voice action that is associated with the utterance, receiving, while the data processing apparatus is operating in the locked mode, an indication from the voice biometric engine, the indication specifying whether the user has been biometrically authenticated. |
8825683 | 12275387 | 1 | 1. A computer-based method for use in geotargeting online advertisements to users of search engines, comprising: providing a geographic keyword generator running on a computer communicatively linked to a digital communications network; providing a spatial database in data storage comprising a plurality of geographic keywords; from a client node linked to the communications network, receiving a keyword request including location data for an advertiser; operating the geographic keyword generator to generate a service area based on the location data, wherein the service area defines boundaries of a geographic area; with the geographic keyword generator, retrieving a set of the geographic keywords from the spatial database associated with the service area; and reporting the set of geographic keywords to the client node for use in the geotargeting of the online advertisements. |
8364340 | 12415487 | 1 | 1. An engine control system for a vehicle propulsion system comprising: a processor; a plurality of engine model modules executing independently and programmed to receive engine operating condition values from a plurality of sensors positioned on an engine, each of said plurality of engine model modules programmed to determine an estimate of a process parameter of a location in the engine where at least one of a sensor for the process parameter is not available, a sensor for the process parameter is not present at the location, a sensor at the location has failed, and a sensor at the location is determined to be inaccurate; an estimate source selector configured to determine model blending factors; and a model blending module configured to determine an estimated virtual sensor value using the determined estimates from at least two of the plurality of engine model modules and the model blending factors. |
20030161463 | 10373395 | 0 | 1. A system for integrating agent scripting, call routing and workforce management functions in contact centers, comprising: a workforce management system consisting of at least a forecasting engine, a business rules module, a scheduling engine, and an adherence module; a routing system; an agent scripting engine; a feedback mechanism between the said agent scripting engine and either the said forecasting engine or the said adherence module of the said workforce management system, or both; and a feedback mechanism between the said call routing system and either the said forecasting engine or the said adherence module of the said workforce management system, or both; wherein useful information is exchanged dynamically between the said workforce management system and the said agent scripting engine and call routing system, said information exchange being unidirectional in either direction with respect to the said workforce management system, or bidirectional. |
20120110537 | 12916317 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a routing selection, the routing selection being for a path between at least a first cell and a second cell, the first and second cell being associated with a functional description of an integrated circuit; modifying a floorplan associated with the functional description to create a modified floorplan, the modified floorplan having a physical design change relative to the floorplan; automatically generating a pre-route based on receipt of the routing selection and the modified floorplan; and adding the pre-route to a physical design of the chip to create a pre-routed physical design, the pre-route being generated and added to the physical design prior to generation and addition of a plurality of additional floorplan routes to the physical design. |
9589288 | 13769160 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: providing a commerce server associated with a retailer; providing a database stored on the commerce server and containing data associated with a plurality of sales assistants; providing an electronic computing device controlled by a sales assistant and physically remote from an augmented reality device worn by a consumer shopping in a retail store, the electronic computing device communicatively coupled to the augmented reality device and the commerce server; receiving, with a processing device of the commerce server, a help request signal from the augmented reality device; linking, with the processing device, the augmented reality device with the electronic computing device; receiving, with the processing device, a consumer communication signal from the augmented reality device, wherein the augmented reality device is configured to generate an interface using audio data and video data in order to initiate the real-time communication between the consumer and the sales assistant, and wherein the consumer communication signal contains the audio data and the video data comprising at least part of a field of view the consumer; transmitting, with the processing device, the consumer communication signal to the electronic computing device; correlating, with the processing device, the audio data and the video data to determine a location of a first item; receiving, with the processing device, a consumer distance signal from the augmented reality device, wherein the distance signal is generated by a distance sensor of the augmented reality device using a laser; receiving, with the processing device, a consumer position signal from the augmented reality device, wherein the position signal is generated by an ultrasonic position sensor of the augmented reality device; determining, with the processing device and using the distance signal, the position signal, and the location of the first item, that the first item is within a predefined distance from the consumer; providing, with the processing device, sales assistance to the consumer shopping in a retail store and considering the first item for purchase; receiving, at the processing device, a receipt signal containing a list of items purchased by the consumer; and determining, with the processing device, that the first item is among the list of items purchased by the consumer to track an effectiveness of providing sales assistance. |
5464038 | 08289622 | 1 | 1. An apparatus for providing a time scheduled sequence of fluid flow volumes to a fluid actuated host system and thereby delivering a minimal fluid volume per unit time within each normal host supply cycle and with minimal compromise of host system effectiveness comprising: an electrically controllable fluid flow volume regulating subsystem having a conventional flow inlet and flow outlet, the flow inlet being connected to a supply outlet of a fluid supply line, the flow outlet being connected to a supply inlet of the host system, also having a conventional fluid flow sensing means and a normally-open control valve means connected such that while in an unpowered state, fluid entering the flow inlet passes, essentially unobstructed with respect to normal fluid flow volume supply to the host system, to the flow outlet, the fluid flow sensing means primarily providing for detection of fluid flow to the host system such that fluid flow volume scheduling is coincident with such flow, the fluid flow sensing means and control valve means being electrically connected to a fluid flow volume schedule subsystem: and a microprocessor-based, fluid flow volume schedule subsystem for storing, recalling and implementing a use-effect optimizeable, multiple step sequence, time-based fluid flow volume schedule coincident with fluid flow detected and electrically reported by the fluid flow sensing means, such scheduling being accomplished by electrical aperture control of the control valve means, the fluid flow volume schedule system having a conventionally interconnected microprocessor, memory and support circuitry, the memory comprising data memory and program memory, the data memory having a plurality of memory locations for storing control and operational data, the program memory having a plurality of memory locations for storing a plurality of operational programs. |
20170060409 | 15256440 | 0 | 1. A method of processing an infrared (IR) image based on a swipe gesture, the method comprising: displaying an IR image on a touch screen, wherein the IR image is displayed within a first graphical object of one or more graphical objects displayed within said touch screen; and receiving, by a processor communicatively coupled to said touch screen, a user indication of a swipe gesture via said touch screen, wherein said receiving the user indication comprises generating first data representing a first swipe gesture starting location and second data representing a first swipe gesture direction. |
7760908 | 10907411 | 1 | 1. A computer implemented method of event-packaging a video sequence, comprising the steps of: acquiring a video stream containing an event of interest and providing the acquired video stream to a video processing system; the video processing system extracting event information from the video stream and storing one or more event parameters within an event database; the video processing system detecting a user-defined event from the video stream; the video processing system extracting a video clip from the video stream containing the event of interest; the video processing system associating metadata representing the event parameters with the extracted video clip; and the video processing system exporting the video clip containing the event of interest and the associated metadata to an external agent. |
7958067 | 11752673 | 1 | 1. A method for classifying documents, comprising: receiving at least one labeled seed document having a known confidence level of label assignment; receiving unlabeled documents; receiving at least one predetermined cost factor; training a transductive classifier through iterative calculation using the at least one predetermined cost factor, the at least one seed document, and the unlabeled documents, wherein for each iteration of the calculations the cost factor is adjusted as a function of an expected label value; after at least some of the iterations, storing confidence scores for the unlabeled documents; and outputting identifiers of the unlabeled documents having the highest confidence scores to at least one of a user, another system, and another process. |
8914483 | 13050195 | 1 | 1. A method for providing information sharing, executable by a processor, comprising: receiving, from a first user device, a request to create an event and to share information among a group of user devices only within a predetermined time period associated with the event; receiving information from each respective user device in the group during the predetermined time period; and distributing the received information only to the group of user devices during the predetermined time period; generating a summary of the event after the predetermined time period expires; and distributing the generated event summary to the user devices in the group, wherein the information comprises at least one of geographic locations of the group of user devices and imagery taken by one or more of the group of user devices during the event. |
8542984 | 11784120 | 1 | 1. A method for recording programs with an interactive media guidance application comprising: receiving a user selection of a program for recording, the selection specifying a user preference to record the program with or without commercials; retrieving media guidance information data for the program from memory; following receipt of the user selection of the program for recording, automatically determining, from the media guidance application data, whether a version of the program matches the user preference; and when the version of the program is determined from the media guidance data to match the user preference, automatically scheduling a recording of the version of the program on a recording device in accordance with the user selection, when no version of the program is determined from the media guidance data to match the user preference, searching updated media guidance data for the version of the program that matches the user preference after the media guidance data is updated. |
8296180 | 12869271 | 1 | 1. A computer implemented method, comprising: creating one or more trade zones, wherein creating a trade zone comprises grouping a set of parameters to deliver custom shapes; clustering the custom shapes according to offline data, online data, and geographic distribution of IP addresses; and mapping clusters of the custom shapes to IP addresses; receiving data indicating consumption of a content source, the content source having a plurality of tokens; organizing the plurality of tokens according to the one or more trade zones, wherein the one or more trade zones consume the tokens at a calculated rate; analyzing the calculated rate to determine an interest associated with each trade zone; targeting based on a selected trade zone, wherein the selected trade zone is selected based upon a desired interest representative of a desired audience; transmitting a targeting request including display instructions and information associated with a target action; and performing the target action. |
8560480 | 12868259 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method of determining a similarity between tasks, the method comprising: receiving a task, at a computing device, the task comprising structured data and unstructured data; processing the task to generate a current task object based on the structured data and the unstructured data, the current task object comprising a plurality of task attributes; retrieving a previous task object from a computer-readable repository; for each task attribute of the plurality of task attributes, calculating a task attribute similarity value based on a corresponding task attribute of the previous task object, thereby providing a plurality of task attribute similarity values; providing a user defined rule based on human knowledge, the rule comprising a plurality of conditions, each condition representing a task context that comprises one or more task attributes associated with one or more respective predefined values and that indicates an influence of the task attributes on task attribute similarity values; and determining that the rule is applicable to a task similarity calculation based on one or more of the plurality of conditions and in response: dynamically determining a plurality of weight values such that a weight value is determined for each task attribute and each weight is determined using the number of task attributes and a task attribute similarity value based on the rule processing; weighting each of the plurality of task attribute similarity values using the plurality of weight values to provide a plurality of weighted task attribute similarity values, wherein a first weight value applied to a first task similarity value is different than a second weight value applied to a second task similarity calculation in response to determining that the rule is applicable to the task similarity calculation; calculating a task similarity value between the current task object and the previous task object based on the weighted task attribute values; and providing the task similarity value to be displayed on a display. |
20080281596 | 11745745 | 0 | 1. A detection compensation system, the system comprising: a compensation module: that compensates for untreated distortions propagating through the detection compensation system; a user model pool that comprises of a plurality of model sets; a model selector that selects at least one model set from plurality of model sets in the user model pool wherein compensation is accomplished by producing scores distributed according to a prescribed distribution for the at least one model set and mitigating the adverse effects of the scores being distorted and deviating from a preset operating bound. |
20100275075 | 12629038 | 0 | 1. (Canceled) |
9294799 | 14926640 | 1 | 1. A first user equipment configured to: receive, using control circuitry, a selection of a media asset identifier corresponding to media content, wherein the media content was previously accessed by second user equipment, wherein a request to pause access to the media content was received by the second user equipment when the media content was previously accessed by the second user equipment, and wherein a position, in the media content, that corresponds to a pause point, was stored in a data structure of a profile of a user in a storage device remote from the first user equipment when the request to pause access to the media content was received by the second user equipment; access the data structure of the profile of the user; access, from the data structure, the position that corresponds to the pause point; retrieve the position that corresponds to the pause point from the data structure; determine, based on information in the data structure, that the media content was previously accessed by the second user equipment; based on the receiving: cause to be simultaneously displayed a first option and a second option; determine whether the first option or the second option is selected by the user; and when it is determined that the first option is selected by the user: generate a request including a position identifier that identifies the retrieved position that corresponds to the pause point, transmit the request, and receive, from the position that corresponds to the pause point, based on the position identifier included in the request, the media content; and when it is determined that the second option is selected by the user: access the media content starting from a second point in the media content which is prior to the position. |
9728090 | 12096548 | 1 | 1. A method of managing a flight plan of an aircraft executed by a flight management system (FMS), the fight plan defining a predicted terminal route to be followed by the aircraft and being defined by chaining one or more navigation procedures, each navigation procedure comprising a sequence of various waypoints associated with specific flight constraints, and the last chained navigation procedure being an approach procedure of a predetermined landing terrain, said method comprising: before a start of a flight and during a progress of the flight whilst the aircraft has not yet arrived at the predicted terminal route, upon a first request of a crew, loading in the flight plan a published navigation procedure accessible from a navigation database and storing automatically said published navigation procedure in a dedicated memory; during the progress of the flight whilst the aircraft has not yet arrived at the predicted terminal route, upon a second request of the crew, modifying the published navigation procedure stored in the dedicated memory and storing automatically in the dedicated memory said modified published navigation procedure as a new modified version of the published navigation procedure; and during the progress of the flight whilst the aircraft has not yet arrived at the predicted terminal route and upon a third request of the crew, generating an updated modified flight plan by: selecting, by the FMS, a set of navigation procedures among the navigation procedures stored in the dedicated memory, chaining, by the FMS, the selected navigation procedures with said modified published navigation procedure to define an updated modified terminal route to be followed by the aircraft, displaying for the crew, on a navigation screen of the FMS, the updated modified terminal route predicted in the updated modified flight plan, and causing the FMS to execute the updated modified flight plan based on the updated modified terminal route. |
20080319981 | 12052978 | 0 | 1 : A method for searching databases, the method comprising: accessing historical incident data from a plurality of databases having different coding representing categories; recoding the different coding to provide a standardized coding of the historical incident data; and outputting unified historical incident data from the plurality of databases using the standardized coding to create standardized categories. |
7702572 | 12412750 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: receiving by at least one programmed computer data on a financial instrument, wherein the data includes: (i) trade data received at one time, the trade data corresponding to a trade of the financial instrument and comprising a trade size and a trade price, and (ii) order data received at a subsequent time, the order data corresponding to one of an unmatched bid and an unmatched offer for the financial instrument and comprising an order price and an order size; calculating by the at least one programmed computer an enhanced volume-weighted average price for the financial instrument based at least in part on the trade data, wherein calculating the enhanced volume-weighted average price includes: (i) increasing a total-trade-size by the trade size, wherein the total-trade-size is equivalent to a sum of sizes corresponding to trades of the financial instrument; and (ii) calculating the enhanced volume-weighted average price based at least on the trade size, the trade price, and the total-trade-size; calculating by the at least one programmed computer another enhanced volume-weighted average price for the financial instrument based at least in part on the order data, wherein calculating the another enhanced volume-weighted average price includes: (i) calculating a value based at least on (1) the total-trade-size, and (2) a difference between the order price and the enhanced volume-weighted average price; and (ii) adjusting the enhanced volume-weighted average price by the value, thereby resulting in the another enhanced volume-weighted average price, wherein an effect of the value to adjust the enhanced volume-weighted average price decreases with an increase in size of the total-trade-size; calculating by the at least one programmed computer at least one additional enhanced volume-weighted average price for the financial instrument based at least in part on the another enhanced volume-weighted average price and the received data; and communicating by the at least one programmed computer via a communications network to at least another programmed computer the additional enhanced volume-weighted average price. |
20110047572 | 12688595 | 0 | 1. TV comprising: chassis; display supported on the chassis; network interface; processor in the chassis communicating with a TV tuner and the network interface and controlling presentation on the display; computer readable storage medium local to the processor and accessible to the processor, the processor executing logic to: present a main user interface (UI) on the display, the main UI including entries for respective content genre including video and TV, wherein responsive to an entry associated with the video genus being selected, the processor presents on the display at least one entry corresponding to an Internet video provider and at least one entry corresponding to at least one video file stored locally without being sourced through the network interface, a video from the Internet being sourced through the network interface for presentation on the display at least in part responsive to selection of the entry corresponding to the Internet video provider, a video from local storage being sourced for presentation on the display without passing through the network interface at least in part responsive to selection of the entry corresponding to at least one video file stored locally. |
20100008359 | 12500493 | 0 | 1. An apparatus to perform prioritized matching, comprising: a plurality of microcode controlled state machines; and a distribution circuit that routes input data to the plurality of microcode controlled state machines, such that the plurality of microcode controlled state machines apply rules to the input data to determine matches and produce priority indicators, wherein each match has an associated priority indicator; wherein at least one of the matches is selected based on the priority indicators. |
9984144 | 14827373 | 1 | 1. A method for classification, comprising: extracting, in a decision logic pipeline, respective classification keys from a collection of data items, each classification key comprising a string of bits; receiving a corpus of rules for matching to the classification keys, each rule comprising a respective set of unmasked bits having corresponding bit values, and at least some of the rules comprising masked bits in addition to the unmasked bits; extracting rule patterns from the corpus, each rule pattern defining a different, respective sequence of masked and unmasked bits to which one or more of the rules conform; grouping the rule patterns into extended rule patterns, such that the respective set of unmasked bits in any rule pattern that is grouped into any given extended rule pattern is a superset of the unmasked bits in the given extended rule pattern, whereby the rule patterns that are grouped into at least one of the extended rule patterns include at least first and second rule patterns having different, respective numbers of unmasked bits; computing rule entries corresponding to the rules using the extended rule patterns into which the rule patterns are grouped, and storing the rule entries in a random access memory (RAM); and classifying the data items by matching the respective classification keys to the rule entries in the RAM. |
8650610 | 13523856 | 1 | 1. A method for applying a security policy to a network devices, the method comprising: performing an identification of a device connected to an access point; collecting audit information pertaining to the device, by querying network equipment; and applying a security policy that includes requirements pertaining to the identification and the audit information, the applying of the security policy taking place at a gatekeeper, wherein applying the security policy includes altering a data communication within the access point with respect to the device. |
9563857 | 14170881 | 1 | 1. A multi-objective semiconductor product capacity planning system, comprising: a memory device; and a processor coupled to the memory device, the processor configured to execute a plurality of modules stored in the memory device, and the plurality of modules comprising: a data input module, accepting inputs of machine information, product information and order information, the machine information defining a plurality of production stations and a capacity limit of the plurality of production stations, the product information defining a plurality of product categories and a production cost of the plurality of product categories, the order information defining a demand quantity of order for a plurality of customer orders and a product price; a capacity planning module, receiving input data from the data input module, coordinating the demand quantity of order with the machine information and the product information to plan a satisfied number of order to satisfy the capacity limit, determining the satisfied number of order by a capacity allocation proportion of order to decide a capacity utilization rate of each of the orders and a satisfied priority of order to arrange a production sequence of each of the orders, combining the capacity allocation proportion of order and the satisfied priority of order as a resource allocation and transforming the resource allocation into a gene combination by a chromosome encoding method; and a computing module, receiving the gene combination from the capacity planning module, calculating the gene combination several times to generate a plurality of new candidate solutions by using a multi-objective genetic algorithm, sorting the plurality of new candidate solutions by using a plurality of planning objectives as evaluation criteria to generate a new gene combination, and repeating the calculation to form a candidate solution set until a stop condition is satisfied, transforming the candidate solution set into a plurality of suggestive plans and selecting one of the plurality of suggestive plans to arrange the production stations for manufacturing the product categories; wherein the gene combination comprises two parts of a parent chromosome, which are respectively represented as the capacity allocation proportion of order and the satisfied priority of order, wherein when the parent chromosome generates a child chromosome, a corresponding relationship of a gene code of the parent chromosome is corrected; wherein the plurality of planning objectives are a revenue maximization, a profit maximization and a gross margin maximization. |
20140375804 | 13922091 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method for determining an estimated available parking distance for a vehicle via vehicle side detection in one or more image frames from an operational video, the operational video acquired from a fixed parking occupancy video camera comprising a field of view associated with a parking region, the method comprising: obtaining operational video from a fixed parking occupancy video camera; detecting, within a region of interest (ROI) of the one or more image frames from the operational video, a side of one or more vehicles parked in a parking region facing a traffic lane using a trained classifier that is trained to detect the side of the one or more vehicles; and determining an estimated available parking distance based on the side of the one or more vehicles that are detected. |
8277312 | 12751775 | 1 | 1. A game configured to be executed by a computer having at least a processor, the game comprising: a plurality of characters, each of the plurality of characters having a plurality of abilities; a slot game, executed by the processor, the slot game including a multiplier that is applied to a randomly generated outcome of the slot game, and the slot game including a plurality of reels displaying a plurality of symbols, including at least one ability symbol corresponding to each of the plurality of abilities; and a role-playing game that is executed by the processor in response to an event of the slot game, the role-playing game including at least one opportunity for a player to increase the multiplier of the slot game using at least one of the plurality of characters; wherein the slot game and the role-playing game are arranged around a common theme. |
8798257 | 13461302 | 1 | 1. A system for making outbound calls comprising: processor; and memory, wherein the memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: receive from a first agent device for an associated first agent, first agent status relative to a defined task, wherein the first agent status is indicative that the first agent is in a ready state; add the first agent to a first number of agents identified as ready to handle interactions; receive from a second agent device for an associated second agent, second agent status relative to the defined task, wherein the second agent status is indicative that the second agent is in a not-ready state; calculate, based on the received second agent status, a first time indicative of when the second agent is to transition to the ready state; add the second agent to a second number of agents identified as agents predicted to be ready to handle interactions based on the calculation; determine a number of outbound interactions based on the first and second numbers; and transmit a command for placing the outbound interactions based on the determined number. |
20120259766 | 13527340 | 0 | 1. A non-transitory computer readable medium having program instructions stored thereon, which when executed cause a processor to execute acts comprising: displaying a chart representing historical market data for a tradeable object, the historical market data including at least one of traded prices and traded volume for the tradeable object; receiving a user input to select a portion of the chart; determining characteristics of the selected portion of the chart; analyzing market data received from an electronic exchange to identify the characteristics of the selected portion of the chart in the received market data; in response to identifying the characteristics of the selected portion of the chart in the received market data, identifying a portion of the received market data having the characteristics of the selected portion of the chart as a reoccurring pattern; and responsively displaying an indicator of the reoccurring pattern. |
8543923 | 11839445 | 1 | 1. An apparatus to display health, the apparatus comprising: a computer readable program stored on a computer readable storage medium; a processor executing the computer readable program, the computer readable program comprising: a status module recording a health status for each of a plurality of components at a plurality of temporal instances, wherein each component comprises a virtual tape server, a tape library, and a hierarchical storage manager, the health status instances are recorded in a history file, and each health status instance comprises a percentage of full capacity of the component; an interconnection module recording interconnection relationships for the plurality of components in a resource file; and a display module displaying a system graphical representation comprising a graphical representation for each of the components, each interconnection relationship for the components, a health status for each component, and a transitional health for each component, wherein the system graphical representation is for a first specified temporal instance and the transitional health portrays a change in health status over the plurality of temporal instances, the transitional health portraying a diminishing health status with a first simulated motion and portraying an improving health status with a second simulated motion, the display module further paging through graphical representations for the plurality of instances to a second specified temporal instance at a specified time and date in response to a command. |
9384494 | 14147862 | 1 | 1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a user state detector configured to detect a state of each of a plurality of users based on sensing data provided from the plurality of users together with position information; a user state integration unit configured to integrate the detected state for each user group defined based on the position information to generate integrated state information; and a state display generator configured to generate information for displaying the integrated state information in association with a position, wherein the user state detector is configured to detect the state of each of the plurality of users by comparing the sensing data with a threshold value, and wherein the user state detector is configured to set the threshold value, based on the position information, to define each user group. |
20110154311 | 12641387 | 0 | 1. A computer-readable storage medium tangibly storing computer-readable instructions thereon, which when executed by the computer, cause the computer to perform operations comprising: receiving a new version of a provider's object, wherein the provider's object is used in a customized program, and wherein a contract is associated with the provider's object; comparing data from the contract of the provider's object with the new version of the provider's object; detecting a change of the provider's object in the new version of the provider's object; and providing a where-used objects list with changed provider's objects. |
20110145254 | 12976934 | 0 | 1. A computer automated method of aggregating and presenting data, said method comprising: inputting a set of user-defined instructions into a locally located computer database system via a local network connection; inputting a user query into said computer database system via said local network connection; mining said computer database system for data relevant to said user query; creating a data set comprising said data relevant to said user query; aggregating data in said data set using domain metrics selected based on any of predefined and configurable rules and past user usage, wherein the aggregation comprises: tagging all data attributes in said data set based on database metadata and inputs from a user, wherein said data attributes comprise any of data identifications (IDs), data grouping attributes, and data measure attributes, wherein the tagging process comprises inputting said user query, said database metadata for said data attributes in said user query, and attributes specifications; and reducing the number of the tagged data attributes in said data set by logically eliminating data attributes; selecting at least one presentation report for compiling the aggregated data, wherein the selection is based on any of predefined and configurable rules and past user usage; and displaying said at least one presentation report to said user via said private network, wherein the displaying process comprises graphically arranging said at least one presentation report based on an available viewing area of a device accessing said at least one presentation report; wherein for each of said data attributes in said user query, said tagging process comprises tagging the data attribute as a grouping attribute when said data attribute is to be treated as a grouping attribute based on inputs to any of said computer database system and said database metadata; and wherein when said data attribute comprises a grouping attribute and has a number of unique values less than the maximum numbers of unique values allowed to select a database attribute as a grouping attribute, said tagging process comprises tagging said data attribute as a grouping attribute. |
20170091943 | 14866781 | 0 | 1. A method for detecting a target object, the method comprising: receiving an input image frame; creating a plurality of distinct regions within the input image frame, wherein the plurality of distinct regions has a first probability distribution comprising of a particular probability of being selected for each respective region in the plurality of distinct regions; selecting, according to the first probability distribution, a first region from the plurality of distinct regions; extracting, from the first region, a first one or more descriptors from a first one or more feature points detected within the first region; analyzing one or more properties of the first region to update a particular probability of the first region being selected; creating a second probability distribution for the plurality of distinct regions according to the particular probability of the first region being selected; selecting, according to the second probability distribution, a second region from the plurality of distinct regions; extracting, from the second region, a second one or more descriptors from a second one or more feature points detected within the second region; and referencing at least the first one or more descriptors and the second one or more descriptors for detecting the target object. |
20130027505 | 13194709 | 0 | 1. A non-transitory, computer accessible memory medium storing program instructions for automatically using a first conferencing system instead of a second conferencing system, wherein the program instructions are executable to: detect a first participant is in proximity to the first conferencing system; determine that a conference is scheduled for the first participant using the second conferencing system; and automatically use the first conferencing system instead of the second conferencing system for the conference based on detecting the first participant is in proximity to the first conferencing system and based on determining that the conference is scheduled for the first participant. |
20110145209 | 12795426 | 0 | 1. A computing-device implemented method comprising: maintaining, by a data access point, a plurality of data items, each data item of the plurality of data items being associated with a respective category of the data item and supplemental information relating to deletion of the data item; associating, by the data access point, a plurality of counters with at least one of the categories; receiving, by the data access point, a deletion request corresponding to one of the plurality of categories, the deletion request including the supplemental information; identifying, by the data access point and in response to the deletion request, one or more of the plurality of counters associated with the category corresponding to the deletion request, the identification being performed based on the supplemental information included with the deletion request; incrementing, by the data access point, values of the identified counters; and selectively deleting, by the data access point, one or more of the data items, of the plurality of data items, based on values of the plurality of counters. |
20050260922 | 10851378 | 0 | 1. A method for determining when to stop chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) of a workpiece, where the workpiece has a first-to-be-polished layer composed of a first material and an underlying layer structured to include a plurality of sacrificial pads composed of a second material, where planarized areas of the second material exhibit less friction against a utilized CMP slurry than do like-sized and planarized areas of the first material, the stop time determining method comprising: (a) while the first-to-be-polished layer is being polished by said utilized CMP slurry and before the sacrificial pads are substantially exposed, testing a friction-indicating signal that is indicative of magnitude of friction between the workpiece and a slurry holder to detect a first change in slope versus time, where the slope of the friction-indicating signal after the first change has a negative value that is more negative than a predefined, threshold negative slope and where the slope of the friction-indicating signal after the first change indicates that exposure of the sacrificial pads has substantially begun; (b) after the first change in slope is detected by said first-recited testing and while said utilized CMP slurry continues to be used for polishing of both the first and second materials, further testing the friction-indicating signal to detect a signature point in the friction-indicating signal, where the signature point is indicative of a more progressed, but not yet complete exposure of the sacrificial pads, and where the more progressed exposure constitutes a substantially greater exposure of the sacrificial pads to the utilized CMP slurry than the exposure of the pads when the first change in slope of the friction-indicating signal was detected. |
20120016649 | 12837550 | 0 | 1. An integrated production control unit for controlling an advancing fluid front in a reservoir toward a wellbore at a wellsite, the production control unit comprising: a reservoir model unit for producing a reservoir model; a production path unit for producing a production path model that determines at least one pressure parameter about the wellbore during a life of the wellbore; and a production optimizer unit for producing a well plan that optimizes a function of the wellsite, wherein at least one of the functions may be controlling an advancing fluid front in the reservoir with at least one control device, and wherein a production path is constructed based on the well plan. |
8620736 | 13193847 | 1 | 1. A method of identifying a set of recommended items to a user, comprising: correlating a first item to one or more potential second items using a computing system and a data repository associated with the computing system to identify a set of candidate items predicted to be of interest to the user, the data repository containing at least one rating for the first item from the user, the user the at least one rating for the first item having been acquired during a group item sampling event during which the first item was sampled; identifying a user physical location based on location data for the user provided by a user mobile computing device; correlating the user physical location to one or more selected merchants in the vicinity of the user physical location with the computing system, wherein the one or more selected merchants are identified by the computing system to carry one or more of the candidate items; in response to detecting the one or more merchants in the vicinity of the user physical location, processing the set of candidate items with the computing system to identify the set of recommended items based on a calculated rating for the user for the set of candidate items; providing at least one electronic coupon to the user's mobile computing device for selected ones of the set of recommended items; and providing electronic location indicia to the user's mobile computing device identifying a physical location of the one or more selected merchants carrying the selected ones of the set of recommended items. |
8234619 | 11737991 | 1 | 1. A computer implemented method comprising: identifying, using a computer, at least one of a plurality of business objects in a development environment; parsing the identified business objects to determine various graphical views, at least one of the graphical views comprising a structural presentation of the business object; filtering the structural presentation based on one or more filter criteria; presenting at least a portion of the views including the structural view; presenting a testing interface, wherein the testing interface includes a breakpoint selection dialog, a trace dialog, and a context menu providing at least one of an execute check functionality or an execute modify functionality; and presenting a detailed view, the detailed view including a table view and a form view, wherein the table view displays a plurality of formatted outputs enabling a user to interact with or view detailed information associated with a plurality of different business object instances and the form view displays detailed information for a single business object instance. |
20120109963 | 13382381 | 0 | 1. A classification hierarchy regeneration system comprising: a clustering unit which clusters a data group associated with a hierarchical classification, and generating a classification group, i.e., a group obtained by extracting a classification satisfying a condition defined in advance from classifications corresponding to respective data in a cluster; a cooccurrence degree calculation unit which calculates a degree of cooccurrence of two classifications selected from the classification group; and a classification hierarchy regeneration unit which regenerates a hierarchy of the classification, based on the classification group and the degree of cooccurrence. |
7877278 | 09583216 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method for a network-based facility, the computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, using one or more processors, a complaint from a first party, the complaint relating to a network-based transaction between the first party and a second party; communicating, using the one or more processors, information about the complaint to the second party; allowing the first party and the second party, without additional prompting, to repeatedly authenticate to the network-based facility as said first party or second party to said transaction, view and enter comments about the complaint relating to the network-based transaction on a messaging board, notification of comments entered by said first or second party is sent to the other party; allowing the first party to specify if the complaint is resolved; and allowing the first party to file an insurance claim concerning the complaint relating to the network-based transaction only if the complaint relating to the network-based transaction is not resolved and after a first criterion have been met. |
8352126 | 12532996 | 1 | 1. An assistance system for driving a motor vehicle in slopes, wherein the system comprises sensors for continuous measurements of physical quantities related to the movement of the vehicle, an electronic path-correcting computer named ESP computer integrating a hill assist module for uphill starting assistance and a hill descent control module for limiting downhill speed, and actuators controlled by the ESP computer in order to act on different driving parameters of the vehicle, wherein the computer further integrates a hill assist descent control module for assistance with control of driveability in slopes which orders the entry into action and withdrawal of either one of said hill assist and hill descent control modules for handling intermediate life situations of the vehicle between situations managed by the hill assist module and those managed by the hill descent control module, wherein the hill assist descent control module controls (i) when the vehicle is starting on an uphill slope and when the vehicle is starting on a downhill slope, entry into action of the hill assist module for starting assistance, (ii) gradual withdrawal from operation of the hill assist module after an operating time of the hill assist module longer than a predetermined duration, and (iii) the vehicle then being in movement, entry into action of the hill descent control module if the speed of the vehicle is higher than a predetermined speed on a downhill slope, so as to slow down the vehicle to this predetermined speed. |
8488751 | 11801882 | 1 | 1. A unified messaging method, comprising: a sender email server attaching an audio file to an email message; the sender email server forwarding the email message to a repository server, wherein the email message is directed from a sender to a recipient; the repository server receiving the email message; the repository server storing the email message and the audio file in a message store, wherein the message store is remote from the sender email server and remote from a recipient email server; the repository server receiving a request to access the audio file from the recipient email server; and the repository server making the audio file available to the recipient by calling the recipient. |
20070142078 | 11316645 | 0 | 1. A mobile computing device, comprising: a radio sub-system; a processing sub-system to couple to said radio sub-system; and a context information management module for execution by said processing sub-system, said context information management module to search for context information associated with a contact identifier for a call request using a context information database. |
9336256 | 13840446 | 1 | 1. A database network router apparatus for data tokenization, the apparatus comprising: one or more processors; and one or more memories operatively coupled to at least one of the one or more processors and having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one of the one or more processors, cause at least one of the one or more processors to: receive a request directed to a tokenized database, wherein the tokenized database contains one or more tokenized data values and wherein the request does not include any tokenized data values; apply one or more rules to the request; rewrite the request based on at least one of the one or more rules, wherein the rewritten request is configured to cause one or more non-tokenized data values specified in the request to be tokenized by a software agent resident on the tokenized database when data is added to the tokenized database as a result of the request and wherein the rewritten request is configured to cause the tokenized database to return non-tokenized data values when data is received from the tokenized database as a result of the request; and transmit the rewritten request to the tokenized database. |
10083530 | 15331276 | 1 | 1. A multivariate digital separation and display system for generating visible pictures from an original hyperspace data set by reducing said hyperspace data set to a two-dimensional and/or three-dimensional rendering, said system comprising: an input device for receiving said hyperspace data set with multiple classes (m-classes); a computer processor for receiving said hyperspace data set from said input device and maximizing a separation between said classes and projecting said classes into a pairs-hyperspace that can be visualized; and a 2D and/or 3D output device for producing a representation of said pairs-hyperspace that can be visualized, wherein said computer processor is configured to performs the steps of: (a) constructing a pairs-matrix from said original hyperspace data set comprised of points of multiple classes in hyperspace; (b) evaluating a percent degree of separation for each available variable of each pair of classes in said original hyperspace data set; (c) sorting said variables based on their degree of separation from a maximum to a minimum for each pair of classes; (d) calculating a maximum degree of separation of each pair of classes by combining only contributing variables, wherein combining said contributing variables will increase the degree of separation beyond the maximum for any variable in step (c), wherein data from step (d) may be transmitted to a 2D output device for visual presentation of pairs-hyperspace data, and; (e) when generating a 3D rendering performing the step of transforming said hyperspace data set of n-dimension and m-classes to a pairs-dimension using the calculated maximum degree of separation determined in step (d), and transmitting data from step (e) to a 3D output device for 3D graphical presentation of data points in 3D space for any of three classes of interest, and; wherein said 2D output device and/or said 3D output device generates visible pictures from said original hyperspace data set. |
20140040031 | 13956209 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: creating a reference number which denotes a web user's online and retail habits (Continuously Refining Online Genotype) based on historical data assessed on a user's properly equipped smart phone; emitting or broadcasting said reference number by a computer peripheral device or a mobile communication device; and capturing the reference number in order to display relevant advertisements on digital out-of-home media including Taxi TV, Gas Station TV, billboards, or digital signage based on the characteristics of the reference number. |
20110082764 | 12897774 | 0 | 1. A computer implemented method for coordinating and evaluating apparel/accessory items, comprising the steps of: receiving information about an apparel/accessory item for coordination from a user; calculating a coordination score of said apparel/accessory item by applying a plurality of predetermined rules to determine if said apparel/accessory item coordinates with one or more apparel/accessory items in a virtual wardrobe; and providing a recommendation of said one or more apparel/accessory items in said virtual wardrobe based on the coordination score. |
9269055 | 13868512 | 1 | 1. A data classifier device, comprising: a data storage; and at least one processor configured to predict classification labels for test data by: determining a relationship between the test data and training data, the training data having associated training classification labels, the determining comprising generating a proximity graph in which test data and training data members are represented by nodes of the proximity graph; assigning initial edge weights to the edges between the nodes in the proximity graph that correspond to a similarity between the nodes; performing a first propagation of labels from training data nodes in the proximity graph to test data nodes in the proximity graph based on the initial edge weights; modifying the initial edge weights based on the first propagation of labels; performing a second propagation of labels from training data nodes in the proximity graph to test data nodes in the proximity graph based on the modified edge weights; and adding, after the second propagation of labels, a member of the test data that is part of the proximity graph and its associated label to the training data based on the associated label. |
20050038743 | 10915820 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method for providing coupon payments as an alternative to payments made with checks, comprising the steps of: determining whether a bill is eligible for coupon payment; generating a coupon for the bill, if it is determined that the bill is eligible for coupon payment; receiving the coupon from a customer, the coupon including the customer's election to make the coupon payment for the bill; and paying the bill using a check-less payment network, in accordance with information from the coupon. |
20030037049 | 10139431 | 0 | 1. A method for accelerating data access in a main storage of a computer system which runs a plurality of applications, each application having a set of buffer pools in the main storage to store data records of data sets used by the application, comprising the steps of: (a) generating buffer pool usage data for each of said data sets including a set of usage parameters; (b) specifying a threshold value for each of said data sets for scaling a selected one of said usage parameters; (c) generating a performance value for each of said data sets by comparing the selected usage parameter generated for the data set with the threshold value specified for the data set; and (d) checking the performance value generated for each of said data sets to determine whether it satisfies a data set reassignment criterion and reassigning each data set having a performance value satisfying said reassignment criterion to another buffer pool. |
20050114328 | 10999746 | 0 | 1. A method for an implementation of XML Query language, comprising the steps of: analyzing an XML query; creating a token stream representation of at least one XML document required to process said XML query; transforming said XML query into a second query that can work on said token stream representation; and, executing said second query on said token stream representation. |
20160277881 | 14953770 | 0 | 1. A method of notifying a user about temporally and spatially proximate personally attended services using a computer system, the method comprising: the computer system detecting user availability for receiving a personally attended service; the computer system determining a user location; the computer system determining methods of transportation proximate to the user location; for each method of transportation, the computer system selecting a transportation buffer time; the computer system determining temporal-spatial criteria from a configuration based at least in part on user information, the temporal-spatial criteria including a weighting of the user location, travel time and a user profile; the computer system identifying one or more personally attended services satisfying the temporal-spatial criteria based at least in part on the weighting of the user location, travel time, user profile and transportation buffer time and; and the computer system presenting the one or more personally attended services to the user. |
20140298175 | 14306221 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: identifying, at a computing system, information characterizing a plurality of pause events associated with playback of a video content item for a content management account, each of the pause events identifying a time at which playback of the video content item was paused, the time being measured relative to the playback length of the video content item, each of the pause events being associated with a respective one of a plurality of profiles associated with the content management account; receiving a selection of one of the profiles at the computing system, the selected user profile being associated with a designated one of the pause events, the designated pause event identifying a designated time at which playback of the video content item was paused in association with the selected user profile; and transmitting an instruction to a client device to initiate playback of the video content item in accordance with the designated pause event at the client device, the video playback being initiated at the designated time. |
8654835 | 13063768 | 1 | 1. A method for encoding video information, the method comprising: determining a first Lagrangian multiplier with a video encoder, wherein determining the first Lagrangian multiplier comprises estimating the first Lagrangian multiplier by using at least global information, the estimation of the first Lagrangian multiplier comprising calculating λ estimate , wherein λ estimate is a function of a global estimation method ƒ global (·) for global information I global , wherein λ estimate =ƒ global (I global ), and wherein the global information comprises a frame rate, or a current coding structure, or a hierarchy level within a current Group of Pictures (GOP); initializing a second Lagrangian multiplier; and updating the second Lagrangian multiplier with the first Lagrangian multiplier, wherein the updated second Lagrangian multiplier is a function of the first Lagrangian multiplier and the current second Lagrangian multiplier; wherein the video encoder encodes video information according to the updated second Lagrangian multiplier. |