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20080016464 | 11774068 | 0 | 1. A method of operating a portable device, comprising: populating on a portable device a navigation menu with navigation descriptions of navigation records stored in a navigation database on said portable device; obtaining on said portable device a navigation selection of one of the navigation descriptions, where said navigation selection is input into said portable device; determining on said portable device that the navigation selection is associated with a media file; constructing on said portable device an action menu with action descriptions of action records stored in an action database on said portable device, where at least one action record is customizable by downloading data to said portable device from an external computing device; accepting on said portable device an action selection of one of the action descriptions; and initiating on said portable device an action associated with the action selection. |
8713532 | 11655679 | 1 | 1. A system comprising: at least one processor and a memory, the memory including a code debugger application, the code debugger application having instructions that when executed on a processor perform the actions comprising: performing a code analysis process on source code without executing the source code; identifying during the code analysis process at least one possible program defect; displaying a review of a representation of the at least one possible program defects identified during the code analysis process; selecting one of the at least one possible program defect; displaying a call stack associated with the selected one of the at least one possible program defect displaying at least one selectable entry in the call stack; and in response to selection of the at least one selectable entry, displaying a portion of the source code corresponding to the at least one possible program defect including a variable and a range of one or more possible values for the variable. |
8095573 | 11774969 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: storing into a first repository, first asset information comprising dynamic physical asset information; storing into a second repository, second asset information comprising static financial asset information, wherein the second asset information is obtained using a technique different from a technique used to obtain the first asset information; receiving a first rule, to determine when an exception has occurred by comparing the first asset information with the second asset information and finding on comparison that a first attribute value in the first repository does not match a corresponding second attribute value in the second repository; displaying on a computer screen a first option to enable or disable automatic execution of a first action when the first rule is satisfied; receiving input on said first option; and when the first action is disabled by said input, not performing the first action; when at least the first action is enabled by said input, automatically performing the first action for the exception, in response to finding that first rule is satisfied; wherein the first action comprises performing an automated update to the second attribute in the second repository and not modifying the first repository, wherein a value of the update to the second attribute in the second repository is found in the first asset information; wherein the first rule is further associated with a second action, and the second action has an associated second option to enable or disable execution of the second action when the first rule is satisfied; wherein the method has a first configured state with the first option enabled and the second option disabled; and wherein the method has a second configured state with the first option enabled and the second option enabled. |
9230238 | 12401416 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: presenting a favorites list that includes a favorites list item, that is authored by a user, with associated content from an affiliate provider in a webpage configured as a profile page of the user for a social networking service, wherein the associated content is selected from the affiliate provider by the user in conjunction with authoring the favorites list item and for presentation with the favorites list item in the profile page; exposing a control operable to share the favorites list item with another user; and responsive to operation of the control: obtaining data from the affiliate provider that is related to the associated content presented with the favorites list item, including access permissions that enable the associated content to be accessed from the affiliate provider to recreate the favorites list item; and recreating the favorites list item in a webpage configured as a profile page of the other user for the social network by generating a corresponding favorites list item for the other user based upon the obtained data, the corresponding favorites list item reproducing an appearance of the favorites list item as authored by the user including appearance of the associated content selected from the affiliate provider by the user. |
20090228292 | 12041665 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: outputting on a multimedia system from a service provider enhanced content including an offering to a user; receiving by the multimedia system a trigger from user activation of a given remote control input indicating selection of the offering; sending from the multimedia system an indication of the selection of the offering to the service provider; receiving by the multimedia system additional information concerning the offering from the service provider in response to the multimedia system sending the indication of the selection of the offering; outputting on the multimedia system the additional information concerning the offering to the user; receiving by the multimedia system one or more additional triggers from user activation of one or more remote control inputs indicating selection or input of one or more parameters or attributes concerning the additional information about the offering; and sending from the multimedia system an indication of selection or input of one or more parameters or attributes to the service provider. |
10144434 | 14960307 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: categorizing, via a processor, a plurality of vehicles into a plurality of peer groups, wherein the categorizing of a vehicle of the plurality of vehicles is based on at least one of: a weight of the vehicle and a population density at a location wherein the vehicle is operated; determining, via the processor, for each peer group of the plurality of peer groups, a baseline of a vehicle operation efficiency; determining, via the processor, for each peer group of the plurality of peer groups, a baseline of driving behavior, wherein the baseline of the driving behavior that is determined comprises one or more of: a behavior associated with speeding, a behavior associated with braking, a behavior associated with accelerating, a behavior associated with tailgating, a behavior associated with stopping and going, and a behavior associated with lane changing; identifying, via the processor, at least one vehicle with a vehicle operation efficiency in one peer group of the plurality of peer groups that is a vehicle operation efficiency outlier as compared to the baseline of the vehicle operation efficiency associated with the one peer group; determining, via the processor, whether a driving behavior of a driver driving the at least one vehicle is a driving behavior outlier as compared to the baseline of the driving behavior associated with the one peer group; identifying, via the processor, for the at least one vehicle, the driving behavior of the driver driving the vehicle as being a cause for the vehicle operation efficiency being identified as the vehicle operation efficiency outlier, when the driving behavior of the driver driving the vehicle is determined to be the driving behavior outlier, or identifying for the at least one vehicle, a need for maintenance of the vehicle as being the cause for the vehicle operation efficiency being identified as the vehicle operation efficiency outlier, when the driving behavior of the driver driving the vehicle is not determined to be the driving behavior outlier; and providing, via the processor, an output, wherein the output comprises the at least one vehicle in a list of vehicles with vehicle operation efficiencies and, for each vehicle in the list of vehicles, the cause for the vehicle operation efficiency being determined to be the vehicle operation efficiency outlier. |
7831954 | 11861195 | 1 | 1. A method for computing the effect of perturbations to an input pattern layout during an OPC (Optical Proximity Correction) process, the method comprising: receiving a pattern layout; receiving a set of lithography model kernels; obtaining a set of convolved patterns by convolving the pattern layout with each of the set of lithography model kernels; computing, using at least a computer, a model flash lookup table for each of the lithography model kernels, wherein the model flash lookup table contains precomputed values for a set of convolution functions obtained by convolving a set of basis functions with the lithography model kernel; applying a perturbation pattern to the pattern layout; for a query location in a plurality of query locations on the pattern layout, obtaining a set of convolution values at the query location by using the model flash lookup tables to convolve the perturbation pattern with the set of lithography model kernels; updating the set of convolved patterns at the query location to account for the effect of the perturbation pattern on the pattern layout by combining the set of convolution values, which represents the effect of the perturbation pattern, with the set of convolved patterns, which are computed from the pattern layout; and computing an intensity value at the query location. |
20110093267 | 12975715 | 0 | 1. A device, comprising: one or more processors configured to: provide a query to a user, receive voice data from the user responsive to the query, perform voice recognition on the voice data to identify a query answer, calculate a confidence score associated with the query answer, wherein the confidence score represents the likelihood that the query answer has been accurately identified, and determine a likely age range associated with the user based on the confidence score, wherein the one or more processors configured to calculate the confidence score are tuned to increase a likelihood of recognition of voice data for a particular age range of callers. |
8770480 | 13896002 | 1 | 1. A method for an issuer managing a dispensing of fuel at a fueling location for vehicles in a vehicle fleet comprising: providing a computer system having a database storing a current inventory of stock vehicles and identifications of a plurality of issuers authorized to issue fuel vouchers; entering a request on a computer by an issuer of the plurality of issuers to initiate a fuel voucher generation process; confirming the issuer is authorized to issue a fuel voucher using the computer system; entering an identification of a vehicle into the computer system for refueling and the identification of a fuel voucher recipient; indicating if the vehicle is a stock vehicle or a non-stock vehicle; issuing the fuel voucher for a predetermined amount for a stock vehicle if a vehicle stock number is in current inventory and the fuel voucher recipient is a currently authorized fuel voucher recipient; requesting the issuer to provide additional information if the vehicle is a non-stock vehicle and that the additional information provided corresponds to validation protocols established for non-stock vehicles; and validating the request for a fuel voucher for a stock and a non-stock vehicle if the fuel voucher recipient is a currently authorized fuel voucher recipient. |
20040002776 | 10600721 | 0 | 1. An asset surveillance system, comprising in combination: an operating mode partitioned fault classification model of an asset comprised of a plurality of fault classification submodels each having an asset operating mode associated thereto; a fault indication means for determining one or more fault indications given a set of observed asset signals from the asset; means for determining at least one operating mode of the asset for the set of observed asset signals; a first selection means for selecting at least one of the fault classification submodels from the operating mode partitioned fault classification model as a function of at least the one determined operating mode for providing a fault classification of determined fault indications for performing asset surveillance. |
20170053653 | 15254326 | 0 | 1. A method for automatically transcribing a customer service telephone conversation between an arbitrary number of speakers, the method comprising: receiving data corresponding to the telephone conversation, wherein the received data comprises audio data; separating the audio data into frames; analyzing the frames to identify utterances, wherein each utterance comprises a plurality of frames; performing blind diarization of the audio data to differentiate speakers, wherein the blind diarization comprises: identifying homogeneous speaker segments in the audio data, and associating each homogenous speaker segments to a corresponding speaker in the telephone conversation, tagging each homogeneous speaker segment in the telephone conversation with a tag unique for each speaker; performing speaker diarization to replace one or more of the tags with a speaker's identity, wherein the speaker diarization comprises: comparing the homogeneous speaker segments in the telephone conversation to one or more models retrieved from a database, and based on the comparison, identifying one or more of the speakers; and transcribing the conversation to obtain a text representation of the conversation, wherein each spoken part of the conversation is labeled with either the speaker's identity or the tag associated with the speaker. |
7895275 | 11536153 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method of reviewing and distributing digital content comprising: identifying a plurality of authors of digital content via a registration process wherein the plurality of authors agree to review digital content in exchange for review of their own digital content; receiving a submission from one of the plurality of authors including metadata for digital content to be reviewed where the metadata includes a target quality level for the digital content; and effecting review of the digital content by at least one group of reviewers selected from others of the plurality of authors based on the metadata for the digital content and reviewer credentials for the others of the plurality of authors, wherein effecting review of the digital content includes selecting a group of reviewers from the others of the plurality of authors based on the target quality level and the reviewer credentials of the others of the plurality of authors and feedback is provided to the one of the plurality of authors based on the review. |
20180032807 | 15223449 | 0 | 1. A method for image processing, comprising: reading an image of a flowchart; identifying, within the image, a plurality of paths corresponding to the flowchart; grouping the plurality of paths into a plurality of groups comprising a first group and a second group; calculating a plurality of likelihood scores corresponding to flowchart elements for each of the plurality of groups; identifying a first path belonging to the first group and the second group; selecting the first group as the primary group for the first path based on a maximum likelihood score for the first group and a maximum likelihood score for the second group; and generating a flowchart object based on the primary group for the first path. |
20160140424 | 14884963 | 0 | 1. A method for classifying a vehicle type, comprising: performing scale aware detection; performing detection assisted sampling for convolutional neural network (CNN) training; and performing deep CNN fine grained image classification to classify the vehicle type. |
8015080 | 12633501 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method of identifying an anomalous product in a supply chain, the method comprising: maintaining a set of anomalous patterns of events of a product in the supply chain; transmitting at least one of the anomalous patterns of events to nodes of the supply chain; receiving messages from nodes that have received the at least one pattern at a third party, wherein the third party is not a node of the supply chain, the messages indicating whether or not the occurrence of an event of the product in the supply chain at the node matches an event in the anomalous pattern of events that has been transmitted to the node, wherein messages indicating that an event at the node matches an event in the anomalous pattern of events are securely encrypted by the node prior to transmission to the third party, wherein the encryption is based on a key that is unknown to the third party; and determining, via at least one processor of the third party, that the product is an anomalous product, wherein the determination is based on the messages from nodes indicating that a sequence of events occurring at one or more nodes matches a sequence of events in the anomalous pattern of events. |
8195155 | 11913039 | 1 | 1. A Home Subscriber Server for handling IP Multimedia Subsystem subscriptions comprising: means for maintaining associations between public user identities and Service Profiles, each public user identity associated with a service profile, two or more public user identities being associated with a common Service Profile; and means for identifying to a network node all public user identities other than those belonging to an Implicit Registration Set, that are associated with the common Service Profile. |
9919219 | 14520109 | 1 | 1. A method for providing a user-generated video game program in a music-based video game, comprising: receiving an ordered sequential list of a plurality of user selected songs from a user using a game device; processing the received information to create a video game program based on the received information, the video game program comprising the plurality of user selected songs, the video game program including instructive cues for the songs; determining that the created video game program may be transmitted to a plurality of game devices, wherein the determining that the created video game program may be transmitted to a plurality of game devices is based on receipt of a payment from the user; and transmitting the created video game program to the plurality of game devices. |
10146749 | 14590438 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method for dynamically tracking of JavaScript actions in different document object models, the computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a first document object model (DOM) representative of a first particular page of an application at a first particular time; analyzing the first DOM received to identify each JavaScript action on the particular page; calculating, for each JavaScript action identified, a JavaScript action characteristics ID based on one or more JavaScript action attribute names and one or more respective computed node characteristics identifiers; storing to memory, the JavaScript action characteristics ID and associated JavaScript action; determining whether multiple instances of a same JavaScript action exist, using the JavaScript action characteristics ID; responsive to a determination of multiple instances of the same JavaScript action exist, for each of the JavaScript action characteristics ID corresponding to a multiple JavaScript action, collecting a list of the JavaScript actions corresponding to a current JavaScript action characteristics ID; removing from memory, JavaScript action entries for the multiple instances of the same JavaScript action characteristics ID and a same neighbor influence; computing the neighbor influence for members of the list of JavaScript actions to uniquely distinguish between the JavaScript actions comprising the list of JavaScript actions, wherein computing the neighbor influence for a member of the list of JavaScript actions remaining further comprises: identifying a node as being the node to which is initiated searching for a closest neighbor that will distinguish between the JavaScript actions; constructing a search tree rooted in the node identified using a current DOM tree; using the search tree to perform a breadth first search, until locating a correct element, wherein each time an element is selected, a same path is traversed as in the current DOM tree for all of the JavaScript action entries that are identical to determine whether the element selected uniquely identifies all of the JavaScript action entries that have a same JavaScript action characteristics ID and wherein a stop condition for the breadth first search is one of: completion of traversing the search tree and not locating an element to uniquely identify the JavaScript action entries in which case the JavaScript action entries are considered to be the same; a predefined depth threshold in the search tree is reached in which case the JavaScript action entries are considered to be the same in which case the breadth first search does not proceed; and an element that helps distinguish the JavaScript action entries from each other is located; storing to memory, the JavaScript action characteristics ID and the associated JavaScript action wherein the JavaScript action characteristics ID is calculated for the members of the list of JavaScript actions remaining; determining whether there are more multiple JavaScript actions; responsive to a determination there are no more multiple JavaScript actions, returning all of the JavaScript action characteristics ID and the associated JavaScript action stored; receiving a second DOM representative of a second particular page of the application at a second particular time; and comparing the returned JavaScript action characteristics IDs and the associated JavaScript actions of the first DOM with the JavaScript action characteristics IDs and the associated JavaScript actions of the second DOM and outputting matching JavaScript actions based on the comparison. |
20140379909 | 14481164 | 0 | 1. A method for providing intelligent monitoring services, the method comprising: receiving a deviation threshold value via a user interface of an application executing on a computer processor; receiving a rate of deviation threshold value via the user interface of the application; receiving a responsive action via the user interface of the application; sampling data over a defined time period, the data sampled via a computer processor; calculating, via the application executing on the computer processor, a normative value for the defined time period based on the data; monitoring, via the application, incoming data; comparing, via the application, a monitored value for the incoming data to the normative value; and generating, via the application, the responsive action when the comparing the monitored value to the normative value indicates that the deviation threshold value and rate of deviation threshold value are met. |
10057651 | 14874859 | 1 | 1. A system comprising: a video clip service configured to execute on at least one server, the video clip service configured to create one or more video clips of broadcast media streams and distribute the one or more video clips in a social media network; and a video clip application configured to execute on a computing device, the video clip application configured to communicate with the video clip service over a network, the video clip application configured to provide a video clip editing interface, wherein the video clip service includes a video editor configured to receive a broadcast media stream and obtain a volume of social media engagements on the social media network using a set of keywords, the set of keywords including one or more user-defined keywords, the social media engagements being user engagements on the social media network about the broadcast media stream, wherein the video editor is configured to provide the broadcast media stream, a visualization of the changing volume of social media engagements against a timeline of the broadcast media stream, and a plurality of selectable keywords within the video clip editing interface of the video clip application, wherein the video editor is configured to identify a segment from the broadcast media stream in response to the segment's volume of social media engagements exceeding a threshold level, and create a video clip having at least the identified segment, wherein the video clip service includes a video surfacer configured to provide the video clip for inclusion in a content stream of one or more users of the social media network. |
20160267105 | 14657708 | 0 | 1. A method for creating a virtual database system, the method comprising: receiving multiple snapshots of a source database, the source database comprising a first partition comprising a first set of database tables and a second partition comprising a second set of database tables; storing on a storage system, database blocks for a plurality of different snapshots of the source database, wherein at least some of the stored database blocks are shared between multiple snapshots of the source database; creating a plurality of virtual databases based on the source database, each virtual database represented by a set of files, each file in the set of files linked to database blocks of a snapshot of the source database, each virtual database comprising a first virtual partition corresponding to the first partition of the source database and a second virtual partition corresponding to the second partition of the source database, wherein the first virtual partition shares database blocks with first virtual partitions of other virtual databases based on the source database and the second virtual partition shares database blocks with second virtual partitions of other virtual databases based on the source database; modifying the first virtual partition of a virtual database such that the data of the first virtual partition corresponds to a second snapshot, the modifying comprising, modifying a set of files storing data of the first virtual partition to point to database blocks of the second snapshot; and modifying the second virtual partition of the virtual database such that the data of the second virtual partition corresponds to a third snapshot, the modifying comprising, modifying a set of files storing data of the second virtual partition to point to database blocks of the third snapshot. |
20090125612 | 11937348 | 0 | 1. A computer program product, tangibly embodied in a computer-readable medium, the computer program product being operable to cause data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising: receiving data characterizing one or more web services to activate for a provider system in a group of systems having a profile having one or more policies to be adhered to by the systems, the systems comprising a consumer system and the provider system, the consumer system to have one or more consumer proxies to call the web services; and causing run-time configurations to be generated for each of the web services and each of the consumer proxies, the run-time configurations including one or more settings derived from the policies of the profile. |
8996406 | 11419865 | 1 | 1. A system comprising: memory; one or more processors; and a segmentation component stored on the memory and executable by the one or more processors, the segmentation component comprising: a configuration element that: displays a plurality of search types, displays, for a given search type of the plurality of search types, one or more representations of search engines to enable selection of a respective search engine from among a plurality of search engines, and receives one or more user selections associating respective search engines of the plurality of search engines with respective search types of the plurality of search types; and a routing element that: receives a search query, compares the search query to a set of search terms to determine a search type for the search query from among the plurality of search types, and determines, based at least partly on the user selections and the search type of the search query, a search engine from among the plurality of search engines. |
20160101480 | 14971378 | 0 | 1. A welding system, comprising: a gas metal arc welding (GMAW) torch; a welder coupled to the GMAW torch configured to produce a welding arc in the GMAW torch; and a sensor configured to sense a parameter indicative of a size of a welding material used by the GMAW torch by detecting a configuration of a contact tip used by the GMAW torch, wherein the sensor is configured to send a signal to the welder, the signal representing the parameter indicative of the size of the welding material, wherein the welder is configured to automatically implement at least one of an arc starting parameter or a welding parameter based on the signal. |
20080105787 | 11540452 | 0 | 1. A method for avoiding singularities in the movement of a set of control moment gyroscopes (CMGs) configured to allow null space maneuvering comprising: determining a mandatory null space maneuver to avoid singularities; and determining an optional null space maneuver to increase available torque. |
10068098 | 15132165 | 1 | 1. A data storage and access platform, comprising: one or more data storage units storing user data, the data storage units within a user controlled physical location in a user determined jurisdiction; a system control unit adapted to control access to the one or more data storage units; a platform privacy server operatively connectable to the system control unit via an encrypted address, the platform privacy server executing a privacy matrix configured to define authorized access and compliant pathways to user data stored on the one or more data storage units; and an application compliance matrix, and a jurisdiction compliance matrix; wherein the platform privacy server allows encrypted access to the user data by providing direct user access to the system control unit via the encrypted address only upon confirmation that the user data remains jurisdictionally compliant; and wherein the jurisdictional compliance matrix contains distilled control signals that map compliance requirements of user defined jurisdictional laws and any system user's real-time location jurisdictional laws. |
9276893 | 13741625 | 1 | 1. A method for determining the current logical state of a social media communication thread, the method comprising: capturing multiple social media communication threads pertaining to an enterprise from one or more social media forums into an enterprise-specific database; computing an initial probability for applicability of each of multiple logical states for a first entry in a given social media communication thread between one or more customers of the enterprise and/or one or more agents of the enterprise extracted from the enterprise-specific database, wherein each of the multiple logical states is defined on a basis of an action to be taken by the enterprise at a given point in the communication thread, and wherein the initial probability is computed based on one or more features derived from (i) content of one or more entries in the communication thread, and (ii) identity of one or more authors of one or more entries in the communication thread, wherein said computing the initial probability is carried out by a machine learning module, executing on a hardware processor and communicatively linked to the enterprise-specific database, accessing the multiple social media communication threads in the enterprise-specific database; computing a transition probability between each consecutive entry in the communication thread subsequent to the first entry, wherein the transition probability indicates the probability of moving from one logical state to another logical state, wherein said computing the transition probability is carried out by the machine learning module executing on the hardware processor and communicatively linked to the enterprise-specific database; and determining the current logical state of the communication thread based on the computed initial probability for the first entry and the computed transition probability between each subsequent entry in the communication thread from the first entry to a current entry, wherein said determining is carried out by the machine learning module executing on the hardware processor and communicatively linked to the enterprise-specific database. |
20180109670 | 15842870 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a processor, data of an event stream, each event in the event stream to be delivered electronically to a client device over a network; storing a data structure indicative of one or more events in the event stream that are not yet delivered to the client device, wherein the event stream is assigned a unique conversation identifier, and wherein the data structure includes: one or more entries corresponding to the one or more events in the event stream, wherein each of the one or more entries includes a communication number, a recipient identifier associated with a recipient, and a status; and content of a most recent event of the one or more events in the event stream labeled with the communication number for the most recent event and a sender identifier associated with the most recent event; retrieving, by the processor, from the data structure, data indicative of a current state of the event stream, wherein the current state of the event stream includes a number of events not yet delivered to the client device and the content of the most recent event in the event stream; and sending, by the processor, the retrieved data indicative of the current state of the event stream to the client device. |
8173450 | 13027227 | 1 | 1. A method for designing an etch stage measurement system involving an etch process for one or more layers on a substrate, the etch stage measurement system comprising metrology devices and a metrology processor, the etch stage measurement system configured to meet two or more etch stage measurement objectives, the etch process performed in an etch process tool, the etch process tool having an etch chamber, a controller, and one or more etch process parameters, the method comprising: (a) setting the two or more etch stage measurement objectives; (b) selecting two or more optical metrology devices for measuring electromagnetic energy off the chamber or off the substrate during the etch process; (c) obtaining etch stage measurements using the selected two or more optical metrology devices; (d) obtaining an actual etch stage data for each of the etch stage measurements using one or more reference measurement technologies; (e) developing a correlation algorithm of the etch stage measurements to the actual etch stage data; (f) extracting an etch measurement value using the developed correlation algorithm and an etch stage measurement using the selected two or more optical metrology devices; (g) comparing calculated etch stage measurement objectives using the extracted etch measurement value to the set two or more etch stage measurement objectives; and (h) if the set two or more etch stage measurement objectives are not met, modifying the selected two or more optical metrology devices, refining the correlation algorithm, and/or enhancing the etch stage measurement by adjusting for noise in the measured electromagnetic energy and iterating steps (c) to (h) until the two or more etch stage measurement objectives are met, wherein refining the correlation algorithm comprises using non-linear functional relationships between the electromagnetic energy measurements and the actual etch stage measurement data, wherein the non-linear functional relationships include arbitrary functions, composite functions, and least squares fit solutions wherein least squares fit can include nonlinear fitting methods, searching parameter space methods, grid search methods, gradient search methods, expansion methods, and Marquardt methods. |
20130275514 | 13997525 | 0 | 1. A server device comprising: a behavior list memory that stores a behavior list indicating combinations of behaviors and subsequent possible behaviors of a user; a mutual information memory that stores mutual information representing connections between users; a user information memory that stores user information representing an influence of a behavior of the users; a behavior information acquirer that acquires behavior information including information representing a behavior carried out by the user and information identifying the user; an influence calculator that acquires, from the behavior list, a subsequent possible behavior of the user who has carried out the behavior indicated in the behavior information acquired by the behavior information acquirer, and on the basis of the mutual information and the user information, calculates the influence the behavior in question has on another user who has a connection with the user and has seen the behavior in question or the result thereof in the case the user has carried out the subsequent possible behavior, the influence including a percentage at which it is inferred that the another user carries out a similar behavior; and a presenter that generates presentation information including the influence the behavior in question has on the another user in the case the user has carried out the subsequent possible behavior, the influence having been calculated by the influence calculator, and presents the presentation information to the user. |
8044791 | 12283489 | 1 | 1. A method for controlling or operating a plurality of target systems via spoken commands, the method comprising: assigning interface information to one or more target systems of the plurality of target systems, the one or more target systems including a first target system; transmitting the interface information from the first target system to a speech recognition system, the first target system being controllable via the spoken commands; checking the first target system into the speech recognition system using the interface information, unless the interface information is stored on the speech recognition system; analyzing the interface information for the one or more target systems including the first target system using the speech recognition system; and identifying spoken commands issued for controlling or operating the first target system as a function of the interface information. |
20060026203 | 10532163 | 0 | 1. A method for discovering knowledge from text documents, the method comprising the steps of: extracting from text documents semi-structured meta-data, wherein the semi-structured meta-data includes a plurality of entities and a plurality of relations between the entities; identifying from the semi-structured meta-data a plurality of key entities and a corresponding plurality of key relations; deriving from a domain knowledge base a plurality of attributes relating to each of the plurality of entities relating to one of the plurality of key entities for forming a plurality of pairs of key entity and a plurality of attributes related thereto; formulating a plurality of patterns, each of the plurality of patterns relating to one of the plurality of pairs of key entity and a plurality of attributes related thereto; analyzing the plurality of patterns using an associative discoverer; and interpreting the output of the associative discoverer for discovering knowledge. |
9442919 | 15070463 | 1 | 1. A computer implemented method for identifying word-senses, the method comprising: generating, by a computer, a plurality of arrays of aggregated statistical information of words, their corresponding word-senses, and temporal properties within different professional fields using an n-gram viewer, wherein the aggregated statistical information comprises frequency of usage of words, frequency of occurrence of words, frequency of co-occurrence of words with other words, and their respective corresponding word-senses; generating, by the computer, a set of domain tables based on the generated plurality of arrays of aggregated statistical information, wherein each of the domain tables within the set of domain tables corresponds to a different professional field comprising medical, veterinary, legal, and engineering; receiving, from a remote server through a network, a digital text stream comprising metadata and one or more words from a doctor, using the computer, the network being an Internet connection; selecting, using the metadata, a medical frequency domain table, veterinary frequency domain table, and a word-sense domain table from the set of domain tables; determining a frequency of occurrence value for the received digital text stream within each of the selected domain tables; receiving a threshold from the doctor; associating the medical frequency domain table with the received digital text stream in response to the frequency of occurrence value satisfying the received threshold; determining a word-sense of the received digital text stream, by determining a corresponding word sense to the received digital text stream within the medical frequency domain table; assigning a confidence value to the word-sense based on a degree of frequency of occurrence of the received digital text stream within the medical domain, wherein the word-sense has a higher confidence value, when the frequency of occurrence of the received digital text stream is higher within the medical domain table; and presenting the word-sense and the confidence value to the doctor. |
8755058 | 13366242 | 1 | 1. A computer implemented method for creating an electronic book, the method comprising: providing a genre from a plurality of genres on a display device, each genre being associated with at least one template; providing a template for the genre, the template including an object policy configured to protect portions of the book that are selected by a first user; providing an intent element which reflects the first user's intent with respect to a first portion of the book; receiving a genre selection, an intent element selection, and the protected portions selection from the first user; applying a first permission associated with the intent element to a first portion of the book; binding a first content to the first portion of the book; causing the book including the genre and the template to be published; and providing a second content based on contextual data that is specific to a reader. |
20150303997 | 14438733 | 0 | 1. A Near Field Communication method of detection of a tag ( 6 ) presence by a tag reader, comprising: stimulating the transmitter of the reader so as to generate an impulse response of said transmitter, evaluating the generated impulse response of said transmitter, and assessing, from the evaluated impulse response of said transmitter, the presence or the absence of a tag. |
9747097 | 14869098 | 1 | 1. A method for automated exchange of customization software between an electronic device having internet access and one or more remote computing systems, the method comprising: delivering the electronic device without a retailer specific software installed; powering the electronic device; determining, via the electronic device, availability of internet access; determining from the one or more remote computing systems a status of the electronic device; automatically communicating from the electronic device an electronic device ID to the one or more remote computing systems; automatically determining whether retailer specific software is available for installation on the electronic device, and if retailer specific software is available, receiving the retailer specific software from the remote computing system without user interaction, wherein the retailer specific software is selected and delivered based on an association of the electronic device ID with at least one of a retailer ID and a software ID at the one or more remote computing systems; and one or more of displaying a message on a display of the electronic device, delivering a message to an audio component of the electronic device, providing information from a sensor to the one or more remote computing systems, deactivating the electronic device, and providing a GPS location or other sensor information for the electronic device to a third party. |
10089560 | 15280363 | 1 | 1. A method for sending an image rendered in a hypertext markup language (HTML rendered image), to a printer, and printing the image by use of the printer, the method comprising steps of: providing an intelligent module adapted to connect to the printer, the intelligent module configured to be set a network address; providing a user terminal having network access to the intelligent module, and configured to execute a web application; embedding an application program interface (API) in the web application, the API providing: (i) a first property element user-input displayed on the user terminal and configured to designate a conversion method for converting the HTML rendered image into raster image data, (ii) a second property element user-input displayed on the user terminal and configured to set the network address of the intelligent module, and (iii) a method element configured to convert the HTML rendered image into the raster image data and send the converted raster image data to the intelligent module; converting, at the user terminal, the HTML rendered image into the raster image data by use of the method element, according to the conversion method designated by the first property element user-input; sending the converted raster image data from the user terminal to the intelligent module by use of the method element, according to the address designated by the second property element user-input; and sending the converted raster image data from the intelligent module to the printer. |
20140068148 | 13752809 | 0 | 1. A level placement method for q-level cells of solid-state memory, where q>2, the method comprising: controlling programming of groups of cells to respective levels of a predetermined plurality of programming levels; controlling reading of each programmed cell at a series of time instants to obtain a sequence of read metric values for that cell; processing the sequence of read metric values for the groups of cells programmed to each programming level to derive statistical data as a function of time for that level; processing said statistical data for each programming level to determine for that level at least one parameter of a model defining variation with time of the statistical data for programming levels; extrapolating the at least one parameter for the levels to define parameter variation as a function of level; and calculating, using a processor, from said parameter variation and said model a set of q programming levels which has a desired property over time. |
20030222986 | 10154565 | 0 | 1. A system for synchronizing a plurality of subsystems, comprising: a processor operable to determine an objective and one or more constraints, the one or more constraints describing a plurality of subsystems comprising at least one sensor; and a timing module coupled to the processor and operable to: receive the objective and the one or more constraints from the processor; determine an objective function in response to the objective, the objective function comprising a function of a plurality of time variables, a time variable being associated with a subsystem; optimize the objective function, in accordance with the one or more constraints to determine a time value for each time variable; and synchronize the subsystems according to the time values, the processor operable to receive data from the synchronized subsystems and generate an image from the data. |
8521510 | 11469016 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: verifying, via a processor, an identity of a first user; when the identity of the first user is verified: identifying a template for a domain associated with the first user; receiving input speech from the first user, the input speech comprising a substantive portion and an instructional portion, the instructional portion related to navigation between fields in the template; transcribing the substantive portion of the input speech to text based on the domain, to yield transcribed text; and storing the transcribed text in a database; upon receiving a first request via a web page-from a second user to display the transcribed text: retrieving the transcribed text from the database; and displaying the transcribed text to the second user; and upon receiving a second request from the second user to play a dictation for a particular word in the transcribed text, playing the dictation of the particular word. |
8917275 | 12815383 | 1 | 1. A system comprising: a processor and a memory; and a module configured to cause the processor to: obtain a first image of a user interface element that includes text; responsive to obtaining the first image, generate a second different image that comprises a grayscale representation of the first image; correlate a subset of a plurality of maxima of a histogram of the second image with a background pixel in the second image; determine a first maximum on the histogram of the second image by locating at least one maximum from the correlated ones of the plurality of maxima; responsive to determining the first maximum on the histogram of the second image, identify, in the first image, a first pixel corresponding to the determined first maximum; select, from the uncorrelated ones of the plurality of maxima, a second maximum farthest from the first maximum; wherein the second maximum corresponds to the text of the user interface element and the first maximum does not correspond to the text of the user interface element; responsive to selecting the second maximum, identify, in the first image, a second different pixel corresponding to the determined second maximum; and calculate a ratio of a value associated with one of the identified first and second pixels to a value associated with the other of the identified first and second pixels. |
20120030227 | 12848082 | 0 | 1. A method of providing a suggestion to a user, the method comprising: sensing context data related to a user environment through at least one sensor of a computing device; with at least one processor, generating a hypothesis of information of interest to the user based on at least one list of items and the context data; and based on the generated hypothesis, identifying at least one item consistent with the hypothesis and presenting, through a display on the computing device, the identified item. |
8842007 | 13601927 | 1 | 1. A method for generating alerts for a live performance, comprising: monitoring a live performance; generating different sets of excitement levels for the live performance based on the monitoring, the different sets of excitement levels relate to different subscriber categories; for each of the different sets of excitement levels, identifying if any of the excitement levels are at or above one or more excitement thresholds; generating different sets of alerts for the different subscriber categories with respect to excitement levels that are at or above one or more excitement thresholds; and reporting the generated alerts to a plurality of subscribers, the generating the different sets of alerts further comprises determining an amount of time required to trigger the different sets of alerts for the excitement levels that are at or above the one or more excitement thresholds, the reporting the generated alerts includes reporting the alerts to the plurality of subscribers when the amount of time required to trigger the different sets of alerts reaches a pre-determined value, the generating the different sets of alerts further comprises determining a rate at which to reduce the amount of time required to trigger the different sets of alerts and reducing the amount of time required to trigger the different sets of alerts based on the rate, wherein the rate is determined based on a difference between the different sets of excitement levels with respect to the one or more excitement thresholds. |
9037529 | 13787700 | 1 | 1. A method for relational analysis of input items of information, each having a title, header or subject line and content to which it refers, said method to be performed on a computer system operable with a visual mapping software program for creating a visual map of input items of knowledge information related to a given theme and to each other as topics and subtopics in order to create a visual map of knowledge information of the given theme, said computer system including a storage repository for storing information content related to the given theme for topic and subtopics referenced on the visual map of knowledge information, said method comprising: a) parsing a title, header, or subject line for an input item of information into syntactical components of at least a subject component and any predicate component syntactically related thereto; b) determining the subject component as a topic and any predicate component as a subtopic relationally linked thereto; c) searching a topic-subtopic index of the knowledge information map for any existing topics or subtopics created therein for a match to said subject component syntactically parsed from the input item of information; d) if a match to an existing topic or subtopic is found, then formatting said subject component to be displayed the same as the existing topic or subtopic, and if no match is found, then formatting said subject component to be displayed as a new topic in the existing knowledge information map, and also formatting said predicate component to be displayed as a subtopic of the displayed topic, wherein in said searching for match step, if there is a match of a subject component at a topic level, then it is subsumed under the existing topic and its predicate component is added as a linked subtopic if no subtopic match is found, and a new subject component is added as a topic if its associated predicate component matches an existing subtopic, and wherein a translation function of the computer system for translating topics and subtopics from an original language into one or more target languages is enabled by user request or indicated user preference for display on a generated visual map of knowledge information. |
20100156899 | 12339418 | 0 | 1. A method for prioritized rendering of objects in a virtual universe, comprising: assigning a value to each of a set of items within an inventory of an avatar; comparing a set of objects in the virtual universe to the value assigned to each of the set of items within the inventory of the avatar to determine a priority of each of the set of objects in the virtual universe; and rendering the set of objects in the virtual universe based on the priority of each of the set of objects in the virtual universe. |
9723469 | 15366387 | 1 | 1. An anomaly detection system for a service comprising: one or more processors; and one or more memory resources storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the anomaly detection system to: construct routine route profiles for users of a network service by, for each of the users, (i) collecting historical route data, and (ii) identifying correlated route shapes in the historical route data, wherein the correlated route shapes comprise a plurality of distinct routes between a common start point or region and a common end point or region; monitor a current route traveled by a respective one of the users; identify a matching routine route profile of the respective user; determine a probable anomaly in the current route based on the matching routine route profile; and in response to determining the probable anomaly, perform one or more actions in accordance with a safety protocol, wherein an initial action of the safety protocol comprises transmitting a status query to a mobile device of the respective user, and wherein a subsequent action in the safety protocol comprises contacting a predetermined user contact to report the probable anomaly. |
8892421 | 13313372 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method of determining a difficulty level of a text, comprising: determining with a processing system a number of cohesive devices present in a text; determining with the processing system a number of cohesive devices expected in the text, wherein determining the expected number of cohesive devices includes: for each sentence in the text having a preceding sentence in the text, determining a total number of words in that sentence and a sentence preceding that sentence to generate a sentence pair total; determining a sum of the sentence pair totals; and determining the expected number of cohesive devices based on the sum of the sentence pair totals; calculating with the processing system a cohesiveness metric based on the number of cohesive devices present in the text and the number of cohesive devices expected in the text; and identifying a difficulty level of the text based upon the cohesiveness metric. |
20170316697 | 15143701 | 0 | 1. A method for managing a dispatch of vehicles based on generation of a dispatch schedule, the method comprising: generating, by one or more processors, a dispatch schedule for one or more vehicles at one or more time instants based on a first demand for the one or more vehicles at one or more stations in a route and a count of the one or more vehicles, wherein the dispatch schedule comprises at least a count of vehicles, from the one or more vehicles, to be dispatched from a first station of the one or more stations at the corresponding time instant; at a current time instant of the one or more time instants: predicting, by the one or more processors, a second demand for the one or more vehicles at each of the one or more stations, at the one or more time instants subsequent to the current time instant, based on a current demand received from one or more sensors at each of the one or more stations; updating, by the one or more processors, the dispatch schedule by varying the count of vehicles, from the one or more vehicles, to be dispatched from the first station based at least on the second demand and the count of the one or more vehicles; and transmitting, by one or more transceivers, a notification to a computing device installed in each of the one or more vehicles, wherein the notification comprises an updated dispatch schedule for the corresponding vehicle, wherein each of the one or more vehicle dispatches from the first station based on the updated dispatch schedule. |
20120151279 | 13313338 | 0 | 1. A method for modifying a user interface (UI) in a computing environment, the method comprising: listening for a first UI event; in a computing device, determining whether the first UI event is erroneous; in response to determining that the first UI event is erroneous, initiating a recording comprising a user fix of the error and a state associated with the UI of the first UI event; storing in a computing storage device the user fix as an alternative UI event; and in response to subsequently detecting the first UI event and a matching state associated with the UI of the first UI event, providing the alternative UI event such that the UI of the first UI event is modified. |
7865873 | 11645205 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method of defining object classes, comprising: on a computer, executing the method of: programming the computer with a browser-based classification editor having a first tier functionality and a second tier functionality; wherein said first tier functionality is operable to enable a user of said computer to create a new class having a first group; select and associate one or more attributes with said first group; and define and modify one or more conditions to said first group, wherein said first group comprises objects having said one or more attributes that meet at least one of said one or more conditions; and wherein said second tier functionality is operable to enable said user to manipulate an expression comprising said first group. |
20070236729 | 11730096 | 0 | 1. An image organizing device comprising: an image organizing means for organizing a plurality of images inputted thereto based on at least one of a content of each inputted image and an associated attribute of each inputted image; an organizing condition storing means for storing an organizing condition used in organization carried out by the image organizing means, the organizing condition being associated with user identifying information for identifying a user of the device; a user identifying information receiving means for receiving an input of the user identifying information; and an organizing condition acquiring means for acquiring the organizing condition associated with the inputted user identifying information from the organizing condition storing means, wherein the image organizing means carries out organization of newly inputted images based on the acquired organizing condition. |
8437534 | 11779905 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented defect classification method to classify defects, by using a classifier constructed based on features of defects extracted from detected signals acquired from a defect inspection apparatus, the computer-implemented defect classification method comprising: constructing the classifier by using a classifier construction process commanded by a computer processor to set a branch condition for each of at least one branch point of the classifier, based on instruction of defect classes and feature data previously associated with the defect classes, the branch condition of each branch point including: one or more defect classes located on each side of the at least one branch point, a feature to be used to branch, and a discriminant reference, wherein the classifier construction process includes a priority order specification process configured to display a user selection panel configured to obtain the following data from a user, for each of a plurality of defect classes: a preferred parameter of one of purity and accuracy, a target performance value for said preferred parameter, and a priority ranking in comparison to other defect classes, and wherein the classifier construction process is configured to construct the classifier based on data obtained by the priority order specification process; using the computer processor to input unclassified defects into the classifier, receive classification results from the classifier, and store the classification results and/or exhibit the classification results via a user interface. |
7672922 | 11727322 | 1 | 1. A pointer-oriented object acquisition method for tangible treatment of information of the computer system which is based on one natural language and in which a received signal-reaction of this computer system of Artificial Intelligence of a cyborg or an android, a corresponding association of this computer system of Artificial Intelligence of a cyborg or an android, a corresponding thought of this computer system of Artificial Intelligence of a cyborg or an android are substantiated, characterized in that the first pointer in which the RAM (Random Access Memory) addresses of the inputs of all n reactions of all n sensor groups that represent all sense organs (or rather at least five sensor groups, the group of the sense of sight, the group of the sense of hearing, the group of the sense of smell, the group of the sense of taste, the group of the sense of touch and thereto all n groups from all n-Sense organ sensor groups else) are stored is substantiated and treated subjectively by the pointer-oriented object acquisition method in RAM of the computer system of Artificial Intelligence of a cyborg or an android at run-time as a subjective object (as a received signal-reaction of this computer system of Artificial Intelligence of a cyborg or an android), in a way of the thinking paradigm of the programming language C++, as in instancing an object on the Heap (the freely available memory storage area by dynamic memory allocation). |
9823985 | 14691316 | 1 | 1. A computing system, comprising: a plurality of cell computers connected via a computer network to form a computing entity, wherein each respective cell computer of the plurality of cell computers is configured to: acquire an Internet Protocol (IP) address assigned to the respective cell computer; interrogate network infrastructure of the computer network to determine an identity of the computing entity and a unique identifier that identifies the respective cell computer based on a unique hierarchical network connectivity location of the respective cell computer in the computer network; announce presence of the respective cell computer in the computing entity identified by the identity by propagating the unique identifier of the respective cell computer to other cell computers in the computing entity; store a list of identifiers of the cell computers currently in the computing entity; receive a computing request to perform an action on a file; divide the computing request into a plurality of operations, each operation of the plurality of operations is associated with an identifier of the list of identifiers of the cell computers currently in the computing entity; determine a subset of operations of the plurality of operations that have a particular identifier that matches the unique identifier assigned to the respective cell computer; and perform the subset of operations of the computing request that have the particular identifier that matches the unique identifier assigned to the respective cell computer. |
10032256 | 15355777 | 1 | 1. An image processing method, the method comprising: dividing each training image of a dataset of training images into a plurality of training images patches; applying an image processing algorithm, over a range of possible tuning parameters, to each of the plurality of training image patches to generate a plurality of performance curves; constructing a loss function based upon the plurality of performance curves; training a convolutional neural network (CNN) to optimize the loss function to establish a trained convolutional neural network; predicting a specific tuning parameter for an image of interest using the trained convolutional neural network; and performing image processing of the image of interest using the specific tuning parameter and the image processing algorithm to generate a processed image of interest. |
20180192000 | 15395172 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: by a computer server machine, receiving, from one or more client devices with each client device respectively associated with a user, one or more video streams associated with a video session, wherein the one or more video streams are associated with the one or more users and wherein the one or more users are communicating with one another within the video session; by the computer server machine, analyzing the one or more video streams to identify an interesting event; by the computer server machine, generating a marker for the one or more of the video streams based on a time associated with the identified interesting event; and by the computer server machine, sending information regarding the marker to the one or more client devices. |
10140983 | 14838643 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method for building an n-gram language model for an automatic speech recognition, comprising: reading training text data and additional text data for the n-gram language model from storage, wherein the additional text data comprises a plurality of sentences having at least one target keyword; building the n-gram language model by a smoothing algorithm having discount parameters for n-gram counts, wherein each discount parameter for each target keyword is tuned using development data which are different from the additional text data so that a predetermined balance between precision and recall is achieved; decreasing erroneous detection of one or more target keywords by tuning all of the discount parameters to be larger, or increasing n-gram counts of each of a plurality of words erroneously detected as one of the one or more target keywords by tuning each of the discount parameters to be smaller; and performing spoken term detection based on the n-gram language model built using the development data. |
20140304312 | 13857415 | 0 | 1. A computer implemented method comprising: identifying at least a first content item associated with a first metadata creation time and a second content item associated with the first metadata creation time; comparing, via processor, a first file system modification time associated with the first content item to a second file system modification time associated with the second content item; when the first file system modification time is earlier in time than the second file system modification time, determining that the first content item was created before the second content item. |
9218635 | 12428279 | 1 | 1. A load planning system comprising one or more memory storage areas and at least one computer processor configured for executing the steps of: (A) receiving user input requesting retrieval of historical shipment data and indicating a certain shipper, a certain origin location, and a certain time period; (B) retrieving historical shipment data relating to one or more packages previously shipped from said certain origin location for said certain shipper by one or more shipping entities during said certain time period, said historical shipment data comprising an indication of one or more package attributes associated with each of said one or more packages, wherein said one or more package attributes include a destination location; (C) receiving user input requesting a first simulation and indicating a simulation origin location associated with a shipping hub operated by a certain shipping entity; (D) retrieving package routing data for said certain shipping entity, said package routing data comprising data indicating a next shipping hub to which a shipped package would be routed if shipped from said simulation origin location based, at least in part, on the shipped package's destination location; (E) generating said first simulation, wherein said first simulation simulates the shipment of said one or more packages according to said package routing data, and wherein generating said first simulation comprises identifying the next shipping hub to which each of said one or more packages would be inbound if shipped from said simulation origin location according to said package routing data, and identifying a daily number of said packages that would be inbound to each next shipping hub if shipped from said simulation origin location according to said package routing data; (F) receiving user input requesting a second simulation and indicating one or more modifications to said package routing data; (G) generating modified package routing data based on said modifications; and (H) generating a second simulation simulating the shipment of said one or more packages according to said modified package routing data, wherein generating said second simulation comprises identifying the next shipping hub to which each of said one or more packages would be inbound if shipped from said simulation origin location according to said modified package routing data, and identifying a daily number of said packages that would be inbound to each next shipping hub if shipped from said simulation origin location according to said modified package routing data. |
20070106738 | 11272515 | 0 | 1. A computer implemented process for indicating the value of an email message, the process comprising: collecting message values assigned to the email message; calculating a composite message value based on the collected message values; and inserting the composite message value into the email message. |
20070150250 | 11644350 | 0 | 1. An electronic processing device for setting a parameter, comprising: a first storage unit storing a model characteristics table, the model characteristics table including a plurality of electronic element characteristics and physical phenomenon lists thereof; a second storage unit storing measurement data of an electronic element; and a processor including a program to execute the steps of: reading a first model of a circuit element characteristic, and a physical phenomenon list thereof; calling a second model of a circuit element characteristic from the model characteristics table on the basis of the physical phenomenon list of the first model of a circuit element characteristic; obtaining a parameter of the second model by using the measurement data; and converting the obtained parameter of the second model of a circuit element characteristic so as to meet the first model of a circuit element characteristic. |
8135860 | 09620495 | 1 | 1. An apparatus for use in a computer network, the apparatus comprising: at least one server within the network, the server being operative to process a client request generated by a client device to determine a particular client type associated with the client device, to retrieve web content identified in the client request, to retrieve one or more augmentation files associated with at least one of the web content and the particular client type, and to alter the retrieved web content in accordance with the one or more augmentation files, wherein the altered web content is delivered to the client device; wherein the server parses the retrieved web content into one or more component structures, and subsequently applies a pattern matching process to recognize designated component structure subject to alteration in accordance with the one or more augmentation files; and wherein the pattern matching process comprises comparing a given one of the component structures of the retrieved web content to predetermined component structures represented by respective tokens in the one or more augmentation files. |
20150067164 | 14316061 | 0 | 1. A method for execution by one or more processing modules of one or more computing devices of a dispersed storage and task (DST) network, the method comprises: receiving an access request; determining an estimated processing load associated with the access request; selecting a processing resource based on the estimated processing load; determining a coordinated execution schedule for a plurality of DST execution units; and assigning the access request to the processing resource in accordance with the coordinated execution schedule. |
20160212138 | 14598164 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: obtaining contextual data defining communication activity associated with a first profile and at least one other profile of a plurality of profiles; selecting an individual profile of the plurality of profiles based, at least in part, on the contextual data; causing a communication of a recommendation identifying the individual profile; causing a communication of an invitation in response to receiving an authorization for the recommendation, wherein the invitation indicates permissions associated with the first profile that are to be shared with the individual profile; and modifying a set of permissions of the individual profile based, at least in part, on the permissions associated with the first profile in response to receiving a confirmation in response to the invitation. |
9971830 | 13605999 | 1 | 1. A method for recommending users to invite to a social networking system group comprising: receiving, at a social networking system server from a client device, a request from a user of a social networking system identifying the social networking system group maintained by the social networking system, the group including a set of users of the social networking system; accessing, by the social networking system, a user profile associated with the user of the social networking system, the user profile identifying one or more characteristics of the user; determining, by the social networking system server from the user profile, a set of candidate users connected to the user and not included in the identified group; determining, by the social networking system server, a user score for each of the candidate users, a user score for a candidate user based on each of one or more characteristics of the candidate user, a likelihood that the user will invite the candidate user when suggested, a likelihood that the candidate user will join the group when invited by the user, and an amount of activity of the user within the identified group; selecting, by the social networking system server, a candidate user associated with a user score greater than a threshold value from the set of candidate users; and presenting, by the social networking system server via the client device, the selected candidate user to the user within a social networking system interface displayed by the client device. |
9235780 | 14101047 | 1 | 1. A method, comprising: detecting by a device, a first set of key points for an original image to be used as a query image for a visual search request; generating a transformed image as an affine-transformation of the original image; detecting a second set of key points from the transformed image; determining matches between key points for the original image and key points for the transformed image; and selecting, from the matches, matching key points for the original and transformed images to transmit to a visual search server in the visual search request. |
20110038547 | 12856113 | 0 | 1. A method of assessing consumer reaction to a stimulus, comprising: (a) receiving a visual recording stored on a computer-readable medium of facial expressions of at least one human subject as the subject is exposed to a stimulus so as to generate a chronological sequence of recorded facial images; (b) accessing the computer-readable medium for automatically detecting and recording expressional repositioning of each of a plurality of selected facial features by conducting a computerized comparison of the facial position of each selected facial feature through sequential facial images; (c) automatically coding contemporaneously detected and recorded expressional repositionings to at least a first action unit, wherein the action unit maps to a first set of one or more possible emotions expressed by the human subject; (d) assigning a numerical weight to each of the one or more possible emotions of the first set based upon the number of emotions in the set and common emotions correlating to at least a second set of one or more possible emotions related to at least one other second action unit detected within a predetermined time period of detecting the at least a first action unit. |
20050238173 | 10829861 | 0 | 1. A method of visually displaying statistical information relating to the operation of a quantum key distribution (QKD) system having first and second single-photon detectors (SPDs) and first and second modulators each having two or more possible modulator states, comprising: exchanging quantum photons between first and second QKD stations for each combination of modulator states; collecting data on the number of quantum photon counts obtained in each of the first and second SPDs for each modulator state combination; defining a statistical region for each modulator state combination based on said data; and displaying the statistical regions on a graph having indicia indicating ideal locations for the statistical regions. |
20120123618 | 12945947 | 0 | 1. A method for determining an estimated driving range for a vehicle, comprising the steps of: (a) determining an available energy for a battery that may be used for vehicle propulsion; (b) using the available energy from step (a) to determine an instantaneous rate of change for the battery; (c) using the instantaneous rate of change from step (b) to determine an average rate of change for the battery; and (d) using the instantaneous rate of change from step (b) and the average rate of change from step (c) to determine the estimated driving range for the vehicle, wherein the estimated driving range includes a range of values that is influenced by the volatility in power consumption and/or power creation regarding the battery. |
8601534 | 12765775 | 1 | 1. A method of enforcing access permissions for services of a service provider, comprising: obtaining a plurality of component-specific access permissions respectively assigned to a plurality of individually executable portions of a computer executable code for accessing the services of the service provider, wherein at least one of the individually executable portions is configured to request at least one of the services when executed by a dynamically scalable computing resource; enforcing at least one of the component-specific access permissions in connection with accessing at least one of the services by at least one of the individually executable portions; and requesting cancellation of at least one of the component-specific access permissions, wherein said at least one of the component-specific access permissions is rendered inoperable in response to a request to cancel said at least one of the component-specific access permissions. |
20050234739 | 10825352 | 0 | 1. A rule processing computer-based method comprising: defining a target group of patients chosen from a group of existing patients; defining an action to be taken concerning one or more patients within the target group of patients; and scheduling an execution time for the action. |
7797313 | 11391159 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: responsive to receiving a list of items, generating first ranking criteria for the list of items; performing, using a processor, a first ranking operation with respect to a first item of the list of items, wherein the first ranking operation is performed using at least first storage information associated with the first item of the list of items, the first ranking operation is performed based on the first ranking criteria, the first ranking operation is performed using at least a storage parameter, and a backup parameter, the storage parameter comprises a storage value, the storage value comprises information regarding a storage destination device used to store the at least one item of the list of items, the backup parameter comprises a backup policy for the first item of the list of items, and a backup value for the first item of the list of items, the backup policy comprises information regarding a scheduled backup for the at least one item of the list of items, the backup parameter further comprises a parameter, item data comprises content of the at least one item of the list of items, an amount modified associated with the item data represents that portion of the item data that is modified between a first backup of the at least one item of the list of items and a second backup of the at least one item of the list of items, the parameter represents the amount modified, and the first ranking criteria further comprise a user privilege of a user who has accessed the at least one item of the list of items; and performing, using said processor, a second ranking operation with respect to a second item of the list items, wherein the second ranking operation comprises responsive to the second item having second storage information comprising parameters absent from the first storage information, generating second ranking criteria, wherein the second ranking criteria are based in part upon the parameters absent from the first storage information. |
7797671 | 11129895 | 1 | 1. A device control system for controlling a device, comprising: a device controller that carries out object-based executable code to issue control commands to the device based on control signals received from the device; a state chart structure having tabular state charts that contain logical expressions encoded in reverse polish notation or tabular parsable format, the logical expressions expressing properties and behavior of control laws for the device; wherein the tabular state charts of the state chart structure include: a condition table with logical expressions that capture one or more sets of conditions present in state chart models; an action table with logical expressions that capture actions to be performed while in a particular state; a transition table with logical expressions that capture sets of transitions between states; a parallel state and sub-state table with logical expressions that capture interrelationships within the state chart models; and a timer table with logical expressions that capture delays between state transitions; and wherein the logical expressions of the tables are indexed against each other; and an information storage medium in which the executable code and the state chart structure are stored, the executable code is arranged in a layered object-based architecture as a generalized logic engine that is tolerant to changes made to the tabular state charts without re-verification, the executable code including: an event recognition layer having at least one event recognition object configured to detect the occurrence of a device event that triggers a change in the state of the device controller; a state determination layer including at least one state controller object for condition evaluation, state determination and object coordination; an event response layer including at least one event response object configured to issue the control commands to the device; a logic engine including a conditional recognition object, a logic parser object and a temporary storage object, the logic engine further including objects that process the logical expressions of the tabular state charts; and wherein the event recognition layer and the state determination layer make use of the logic engine objects to evaluate the tabular state charts to set parameters that appear in the state chart structure and drive the event response layer to issue the control commands to the device. |
20100169475 | 12346162 | 0 | 1. A process for managing usage on a broadband network, said broadband network comprising a network, a data gathering system and a control system, said process comprising: (a) monitoring a subscriber's broadband usage on said network by gathering data using said data gathering system and providing said data to said control system; (b) determining if said usage exceeds a level indicative of an event using said control system; (c) determining if said event is consistent with heavy usage or with a security incident using said control system; (d) if said event is consistent with heavy usage, said control system performing at last one of reallocating bandwidth to said subscriber, offering said subscriber a plan for an upgraded subscription, or offering subscriber an incentive to concentrate usage in nonpeak time; and (e) if said event is consistent with a security incident, said control system implementing security measures to minimize unintended usage. |
8150862 | 12722416 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method for collecting event information, comprising: on a server system having one or more processors for executing one or more programs stored in memory of the server system so as to perform the method: loading a plurality of XML documents, each XML document specifying event parsing logic for a respective group of related events; storing in one or more parsing trees a representation of the event parsing logic in the plurality of XML documents, the one or more parsing trees including event parsing logic for parsing events in a plurality of groups of events; receiving events, including events in the plurality of groups of events; and processing the received events in the plurality of groups of events in accordance with the event parsing logic in the one or more parsing trees, wherein the processing of the received events in the plurality of groups of events is performed in accordance with stored program instructions that are independent of the parsing logic for the plurality of groups of events, the processing including storing event information for the received events, wherein the stored event information for at least a subset of the received events includes information determined in accordance with the event parsing logic in at least one of the one or more parsing trees; wherein the event parsing logic in the one or more parsing trees includes event parsing logic for a respective group of events, and processing the received events includes producing enhanced information for a respective event, and wherein producing enhanced information includes supplementing the information for the respective event with information from events in a respective group of events that includes the respective event. |
7528938 | 11328669 | 1 | 1. An image change detecting system to detect a change in a collected geospatial image from a geospatial image sensor carried by an airborne platform, the collected geospatial image having at least one geospatial collection value associated therewith, the image change detecting system comprising: a geospatial scene model database; an image processor cooperating with said geospatial scene model database for generating a reference geospatial image corresponding to the collected geospatial image based upon synthetically positioning a virtual geospatial image sensor within a geospatial scene model based upon the at least one geospatial collection value; and a change detector cooperating with said image processor for detecting a change between the collected geospatial image and the reference geospatial image. |
9766940 | 14176679 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: generating a first set of configurations for a currently executing MapReduce job, wherein said set of configurations comprises job-level configurations and task-level configurations; dynamically modifying: (i) a distinct set of task-level configurations of a mapper component associated with at least one ongoing map task of the MapReduce job, based on the generated first set of configurations, wherein said task-level configurations of the mapper component comprise a size of a map task input, resource allocation for a mapper component, central processing unit, memory, a size of a sorting area, and a number of threads when writing a map output to a local disk, and (ii) a distinct set of task-level configurations of a reducer component associated with at least one ongoing reduce task of the MapReduce job, based on the generated first set of configurations, wherein said task-level configurations of the reducer component comprise a number of threads when copying a map output to a reducer component, a size of a reduce task input, resource allocation of a reduce task, central processing unit, memory, and a size of a sorting area; and deploying said modified configurations to the mapper component and the reducer component associated with the MapReduce job in accordance with one of multiple temporal deployment schedules, wherein the temporal deployment schedule is based on the contents of the modified configurations; wherein said generating, said modifying, and said deploying are carried out by one or more computing devices. |
8689175 | 12717107 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented system comprising: a communications module to receive an input, the input specifying a rule expressed in a custom syntax, the custom syntax provided by a rules authoring system; and a translator to translate the rule expressed in the custom syntax into a translated rule, using at least one processor, the translated rule being in a form of a source code suitable for being compiled into an executable module, the translator comprising: a parser to parse the rule expressed in the custom syntax, a validator to utilize one or more validation rules to validate parameters associated with the rule, a validation rule from the one or more validation rules authored using the custom syntax, and a resource generator to extract resources associated with the rule and to process the resources into a format suitable for a runtime environment, the resources comprising one or more keywords; a compiler configured to compile the translated rule into a compiled rule; and a deployment module to publish the compiled rule to the runtime environment. |
10007872 | 15429307 | 1 | 1. A media processing system arranged to process image receiving media under predetermined physical conditions, the system comprising: a controller including a scheduler module configured to schedule jobs to be processed from input bins in the system, to calculate first predicted timings (T0) at which media will have to be ready for processing and to indicate the first predicted timings on a user interface; and a buffer in which a supply of media that has been received from a first environment is kept in a specified second environment before being processed, wherein the buffer is distinct from the input bins and comprises a local media store from which the media are to be transferred to a media input section from which the media will be supplied for being processed, wherein the scheduler module is further configured to: calculate an acclimatization time required for the media to acquire said predetermined physical conditions by being kept in the second environment in the buffer, and to calculate and indicate a second predicted timing (T1) by prompting a user at which time the media should be present in the sheet buffer in view of the calculated acclimatization time, and schedule a plurality of print jobs waiting in a queue, and wherein the prompting is displayed adjacent to the schedule of the plurality of print jobs on a screen of the user interface. |
4559823 | 06662378 | 1 | 1. A process for measuring the humidity of a gas comprising, drawing a sample of said gas through a first tube, heating said tube to within a few degrees of the dry bulb temperature of the gas sample to prevent condensation within the tube, measuring the dry bulb temperature of the sample, delivering the sample to a housing and dividing it into two streams, said housing circumscribing a cylinder partially filled with water, said cylinder including supply ports, a wick being located on the exterior of said cylinder below said ports, one of said streams flowing around said cylinder and wick and exiting from said housing through an outlet, the second of said streams flowing into said cylinder through an entrance and into contact with a wet-bulb wick circumscribing a wet-bulb sensing device, measuring the wet-bulb temperature of the sample, discharging the second stream from the cylinder and combining it with the first stream, extracting heat from said combined streams and transferring it to the water to be delivered to the cylinder, calculating the enthalpy of the sample. |
20090209866 | 12333599 | 0 | 1. A computer-assisted method for determining a dimension of an anatomical feature using two or more fluoroscopic images, the method comprising: displaying a first fluoroscopic image taken of an anatomical feature taken from a first pose, the first image being registered to a common three-dimensional coordinate system; receiving indication of position of at least a first point and a second point within first image corresponding respectively to at least two anatomical landmarks shown within first image; displaying a second fluoroscopic image taken of the anatomical feature from a second angle, the second image being registered to the known three-dimensional coordinate system; indicating with reference to the second image where the anatomical landmarks lie along each of two lines of sight defined by the first and second points within the three-dimensional coordinate system; and determining distance of a line specified by the first and second points. |
6035397 | 08971016 | 1 | 1. A method for certifying data (ECG1) which arise from a source forming part of a first entity and are intended for at least one user, said method comprising the steps of: scrambling said data arising from said source using a first string of control words CW1, so as to construct a first scrambled item IE(ECG1), encrypting said first string of control words CW1 using a first key KA, so as to construct a first string of encrypted control words E(CW1).sub.KA, wherein said scrambling and encryption steps are performed by an authority independent of the first entity and also of the user, said method further comprising the steps of: transferring, to the user, said first scrambled item IE(ECG1) and said first string of encrypted control words E(CW1).sub.KA, and decrypting said first string of encrypted control words E(CW1).sub.KA and descrambling said first scrambled item IE(ECG1) using means supplied to the user under the control of said independent authority. |
9158800 | 13724391 | 1 | 1. A method for providing one or more content items for a content item slot, comprising: receiving, by one or more data processors, a height and a width of a content item slot of a resource, wherein a ratio of the height of the content item slot to the width of the content item slot is a non-standard content item slot ratio, and wherein no format parameter associated with a pre-defined slot size or slot ratio is received; receiving, by one or more data processors, one or more requesting device parameters; determining, by one or more data processors, a minimum content item size for the content item slot of the resource based on the one or more requesting device parameters, a distribution of previously rendered content item sizes, and one of the height or the width, wherein the one or more requesting device parameters comprise at least one of a browser type, a browser version, or an operating system, wherein the distribution of previously rendered content item sizes is a truncation curve selected based on the one or more requesting device parameters; determining, by one or more data processors, a number of content items based on the height, the width, and the minimum content item size; selecting, by one or more data processors, one or more content items equal to the determined number; formatting, by one or more data processors, the one or more selected content items based on the minimum content item size, the height, and the width; and outputting, by one or more data processors, data to effect display of the one or more formatted content items. |
20110112923 | 12965288 | 0 | 1. The method of claim 70 , further comprising providing a choice of a plurality of options for automated seller engine architecture implementations depending upon the particular application involved, and selected from the group consisting of a parallel processing architecture, a pipeline architecture, a hub and spoke architecture and a hybrid combination of all the above. |
7603381 | 10955945 | 1 | 1. A computing system for publication of actions associated with a current context of an entity, the computing system comprising: a processor, a display, and a memory containing computer readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, is configured to: a component for storing entities having at least one context, the at least one context relating to an environment in which a related entity is used, the at least one context comprising: at least one abstract context class, the at least one abstract context class holding common logic for said at least one context of each of the stored entities, the at least one abstract context class being chosen from a group comprising: an entity class, wherein the entity class is configured to: find entity data from various sources, extract a class name and an object key, return an object constructed based on the entity class and the object key, and provide class fields, an application context class, wherein the application context class is configured to: store information about a current client application, identify the current client application, and store the identified current client application, a user role context class wherein the user role context class is configured to: check an identity of a current thread, determine what role a user belongs to, and store the role the user belongs to, and a locale context class, wherein the locale context class is configured to store information about a current locale when an action depends on a current language of an application, at least one context provider, at least one context hash, and at least one context that is an interface that all context classes implement; a component for storing actions associated with the entities, the actions describing the entities' activities, the actions containing a display method that presents the actions to the user, the actions containing an execution method for performing the entities' activities, and the actions stored separately from the entities; and a software component, coupled to the component for storing entities and the component for storing actions associated with the entities, for providing information about the entity's activities in the current context of the entity, the software component comprising a context provider module that identifies the current context of the entity, an action provider module that queries the component for storing actions and retrieves the actions associated with the current context of the entity using a keyword associated with the context, and a context resolver that translates the context into a corresponding keyword and returns the keyword associated with the context of the action provider module. |
20120271607 | 13092181 | 0 | 1. A system comprising: a host application configured to receive a component model representing a vehicle component, wherein the component model represents a body having at least one of a concave portion and a convex portion that define a fluid retainer; and a detection tool in communication with the host application and configured to determine a size and location of the fluid retainer; wherein the detection tool is configured to associate the size of the fluid retainer to a design rule and calculate a value representing a minimum hole size that will allow fluid to flow into or out of the fluid retainer in accordance with the design rule. |
20020072876 | 09732811 | 0 | 1. A method for evaluating stall/surge margin for a machine of interest, the method comprising: identifying at least one vital factor wherein each of the at least one vital factor corresponds to operation of the machine of interest; providing raw data relating to the at least one vital factor; determining a contribution of the at least one vital factor to the stall/surge margin from at least the provided raw data; statistically analyzing the contribution of the at least one vital factor to the stall/surge margin; allocating stall/surge margin based on the step of statistically analyzing; and defining an operating limit line based on the step of allocating. |
8831339 | 13527032 | 1 | 1. A system for classifying a test image, said system comprising: at least one processor programmed to: receive a data graph of the test image; receive a graph lattice, the graph lattice including a plurality of nodes, each of the plurality of nodes including a subgraph, a weight and at least one mapping of the subgraph to data graphs of a plurality of training images, the plurality of training images corresponding to a plurality of classes; map the data graph of the test image by the subgraphs of the plurality of nodes; compare mappings between the graph lattice and the data graphs of the training images with mappings between the graph lattice and the data graph of the test image to determine, for each of the training images, a weighted vote of similarity between the data graph of the training image and the data graph of the test image, the weighted vote based on the weights of the plurality of nodes; and, determine a class of the test image from the weighted votes of the training images, the class of the test image being the class of the training image with the highest weighted vote above a threshold number of votes. |
10108603 | 14753169 | 1 | 1. A system comprising: one or more processors; a data store storing a context-free linguistic model, a first context-specific linguistic model, and a natural language understanding model, wherein the natural language understanding model is trained using both the context-free linguistic model and the first context-specific linguistic model; an input interface configured to receive input and generate a digital signal corresponding to the input; and memory storing instructions that, when executed by one of the processors, cause the system to: obtain text based on the digital signal, retrieve, via a wireless network and using one or more network protocols, a second context-specific linguistic model from a remote server; store the second context-specific linguistic model at the data store; prior to performing semantic analysis of the text, process the text using the context-free linguistic model and the second context-specific linguistic model to generate one or more linguistic processing results for the text, perform a semantic analysis of both the text and at least one of the one or more linguistic processing results using the natural language understanding model to generate a natural language understanding recognition result that comprises at least one of an intent corresponding to the text and a mention corresponding to the text, and transmit the natural language understanding recognition result to an application executing on the one or more processors. |
9026258 | 13060429 | 1 | 1. A system for the regulation of a wind park that is connected to an electric utility grid into which electric power generated by the wind park is fed, the system comprising: a control input for setting nominal controlled variables of the wind park; a plurality of interconnected wind energy installations, the wind energy installations each having its own local control system for individual control, the local control system comprising means for calculating at least one controlled input variable for the associated wind energy installation as a function of the nominal controlled variables of the wind park; wherein each wind energy installation is regulated as a decentralized installation in order to maintain at least one nominal controlled variable of the wind park. |
20110282886 | 12901587 | 0 | 1. An article of manufacture including a computer readable storage medium to tangibly store instructions, which when executed by a computer, cause the computer to: receive a user request at a client computing device, the user request comprising a search query with one or more keywords; identify one or more verbs and nouns in the search query; based on the identified one or more verbs, nouns and a context of the user, execute the search query at a server computing device to obtain a list of tools; based on the identified nouns and the context of the user, rank the list of the tools; and display the list of tools on a user interface. |
5426042 | 08179593 | 1 | 1. A biologically pure culture of Klebsiella oxytoca FERM BP-3616 that is resistant to arsenic. |
8209215 | 12822840 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method of determining a bankability value of an actor, comprising: performing, by one or more computer systems configured with executable instructions, the following steps: identifying movies for which the actor was a cast member; for each identified movie, obtaining an audience-interest-level value for each cast member; calculating a share percentage for the actor by dividing the audience-interest-level value for the actor by an aggregate of the audience-interest-level values for selected cast members of the movie, the share percentage being indicative of audience interest attributable to the actor relative to audience interest attributable to the cast members; and receiving at least one revenue value corresponding to the movie; calculating a decayed revenue value by adjusting the at least one revenue value to account for lapsed time; and calculating a revenue share for the actor by multiplying the share percentage for the actor by the decayed revenue value, the revenue share being indicative of revenue for the movie that is attributable to the actor; calculating a total revenue share for the actor by aggregating the revenue share for the actor for each identified movie for which the actor was a cast member; and normalizing the total revenue share into a bankability value. |
9910920 | 11173799 | 1 | 1. A method in a computing system for processing a search query, the computing system having a processor and memory, the method comprising: identifying one or more media sequences satisfying the query; identifying for each identified media sequence an advertising message based on metadata associated with the media sequence; generating, for each identified media sequence, a link comprising a first identifier for the respective media sequence and a second identifier for the respective identified advertising message; and in response to the query, returning a search result including the link generated for each identified media sequence, such that when a link for one of the identified media sequences is selected in the search result, the selected media sequence is displayed in conjunction with the advertising message identified for the selected media sequence, wherein code for performing the method is stored in the memory and executed by the processor. |
8005747 | 11806802 | 1 | 1. A method for communicating sale offers through an electronic network system, the method comprising: inputting a sale offer parameter for randomly generating at least one sale offer to purchase a product or service on the electronic network system at an offer price substantially less than a current value of the offered product or service in a competitive marketplace; randomly displaying, through the electronic network system, the at least one sale offer at the offer price to a buyer in communication with the electronic network system at an unexpected period of time; and withdrawing the display of the randomly generated sale offer in response to an absence of an indication of acceptance of the randomly generated sale offer by the buyer within a predetermined period of time after displaying the randomly generated sale offer. |
9008890 | 13837573 | 1 | 1. A system, comprising: an autonomous vehicle, including: a stuck-condition detection component, configured to detect a condition in which the autonomous vehicle is impeded from navigating according to a first trajectory, and a communications component, configured at least to send an assistance signal indicating that the autonomous vehicle seeks assistance navigating according to the first trajectory, and to receive a response to the assistance signal, wherein the assistance signal includes sensor information of the autonomous vehicle, indicating low-level sensor strike input and high-level, polygonal or polyhedral representations of objects in the vicinity of the autonomous vehicle; and an assistance center, including: a communications component, configured at least to receive the assistance signal, and to send the response to the assistance signal, and a trajectory specification component, configured to specify a second trajectory for the autonomous vehicle, and to generate the response to the assistance signal including a representation of the second trajectory, wherein the second trajectory is based on the first trajectory, and wherein the second trajectory ignores the presence of at least one high-level, polygonal or polyhedral representation of an object that obstructs the first trajectory. |
8881000 | 13347600 | 1 | 1. A method for informing a user of an action to be performed by a web component, comprising: receiving a webpage from a first domain at a web browser executing on one or more computing devices; displaying the webpage from the first domain using the one or more computer devices; on a display of the webpage from the first domain, receiving the web component from a second domain at the web browser in connection with instructions embedded within the webpage; receiving an indication that a position indicator has moved over a display area of the web browser associated with the web component; in response to receiving the indication that the position indicator has moved over the display area and before receiving a selection within the display area, generating for display in the web browser an alert describing a hidden action, performed in the second domain, which would result from a selection within the display area. |
20120271876 | 13090024 | 0 | 1. A method for reducing latency for served applications by anticipatory preprocessing, the method comprising: transmitting at least one first state of at least one application from at least one server, which hosts the at least one application, to at least one client; determining, utilizing the at least one server, that at least one expected client response from the at least one client to the at least one first state will be at least one of a finite set of possible client responses; generating, utilizing the at least one server, at least one additional state of the at least one application utilizing at least one possible client response from the finite set of possible client responses prior to receiving the at least one expected client response from the at least one client; and providing the at least one additional state from the at least one server to the at least one client. |
20130158983 | 13732953 | 0 | 1. A system, comprising: one or more memory units; and one or more processing units operable to: access text comprising a plurality of words; tag each of the plurality of words with one of a plurality of parts of speech (POS) tags; create a plurality of tokens, each token comprising one of the plurality of words and its associated POS tag; cluster one or more of the created tokens into a chunk of tokens, the one or more tokens clustered into the chunk of tokens based on the POS tags of the one or more tokens; and form a phrase based on the chunk of tokens, the phrase comprising the words of the one or more tokens clustered into the chunk of tokens. |
20140250136 | 14277786 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a request from a viewing user of a social networking system for a timeline view presenting a plurality of stories in a chronological order based on a time associated with each of the one or more stories; accessing a plurality of items of narrative data maintained by the social networking system and related to the viewing user; filtering the plurality of items of narrative data based at least in part on one or more time periods; removing from the filtered plurality of items of narrative data that the viewing user does not have permission to view; generating one or more timeline units from selected of the filtered plurality of items of narrative data; generating an affinity score for each of the one or more timeline units, each affinity score comprising a measure of the relevance of a timeline unit to the viewing user; generating a ranking of the one or more timeline units based on the affinity scores; selecting one or more of the timeline units based at least in part on the ranking; and sending to the client device for display to the viewing user the timeline view comprising displayable representations of the plurality of stories in the chronological order, the plurality of stories corresponding to the narrative data of the selected timeline units. |