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20060200359

11072877

1. A method of organizing an index of municipalities comprising: forming a hierarchically layered data structure that includes a first set of municipalities, and for each municipality in the first set of municipalities, indicating one or more other municipalities as having an affinity relationship for the municipality in the first set of municipalities, wherein a municipality is determined to have an affinity relationship with the municipality in the first set of municipalities if the municipality is within an affinity domain of the municipality in the first set of municipalities.

20030042288

10264833

1. A welding and network information system, comprising: a welder operatively coupled to a network interface, the network interface communicates to at least one of a local database and a remote database; and at least one welding information broker to determine whether welding information in the at least one of the local database and the remote database is applicable to a current welding operation, the welding information broker initiates at least one network request based upon one or more information requests from the current welding operation.

8717164

13066382

1. A wind-articulated, secure warning system responsive to oblique wind currents acting external to surfaces of its exposed, non-flat-sheet and non-fabric structural elements which does not provide any wind-velocity indications and which provides a functional-airfoil-cross-section surface configured to display and provide emergency critical technical data for specific classes of regular and emergency visitors to the entrance portal of an industrial site where large quantities of dangerous substances, including, radioactive, flammable, explosive, corrosive, oxidizing, asphyxiating, biohazardous, toxic, pathogenic, or allergenic substances are handled and which substances might be released by accident or by terrorist attack and dispersed by winds into the local environment, the system comprising: each visitor to the site provided with predetermined personal handheld devices including a known, portable RFID tag reader and/or a smartphone for graphic web access and for transferring spoken or key-entered passwords, said devices allowing confirmation of a particular level of security clearance and enabling physical access to the site and, if needed, maximum-security-web-access to critical site information prior to entry therein; a rigid support mast which extends vertically about 2-10 m above the ground surface, the mast being placed generally in the center of a cleared and leveled area of ground surface about 10 m in radius, the mast having a width of about 40-70 mm and at least one mast-lateral-display surface visible to entering visitors; a wind-responsive, stiffened, monocoque panel formed of thin sections of lightweight materials into the general shape of a polygon, the panel being a smooth, thin, symmetrical airfoil, said panel defined by opposed first and second panel-lateral-face surfaces and having characteristic span, chord, thickness L 4 , plane of symmetry, a center of lift, a leading edge, a trailing edge, a root and an outboard tip, the panel further connected to said mast for unobstructed, 360 degree rotation thereabout, the airfoil oriented so that its plane of symmetry lies parallel to the axis of the mast and its chord is generally perpendicular to the mast axis; said panel being pivotably mounted to the mast by mechanical connection to one or more lightweight monocoque, support beams which have an airfoil shape in plan view, extend perpendicular to said mast axis upstream of the leading edge of said panel, said one or more beams providing beam-lateral-display surfaces and mechanical connection of said panel to the mast and adapting it for full rotation thereabout at wind velocities as low as 0.5 m/sec, whereby the center of lift of said airfoil is offset a distance of at least a distance L 1 ˜0.2*chord downstream from the mast axis; each of said one or more beams being provided with low-friction bearings adapted for thrust loads and for rotation under extreme weather conditions; each of said panel-lateral-face surfaces provided with one or more displays of encoded and readable messages; said one or more panel-displays including text, and graphics to provide warning data along with related iconic symbols in grayscale and/or color; said panel lateral-face surfaces being provided with one or more regulatory-compliant, retroreflective exterior signs indicating in text, colors, icons and special QR-type digital graphics, certain information on characteristics of the dangerous substances and the particular site, the QR codes facilitating password-controlled web access by the visitor's personal handheld devices to predetermined additional sensitive data, including layout diagrams; said lateral display surfaces of said mast and said one or more beams being provided with at least one secure, robust RFID-tag device oriented toward the direction from which visitors approach and which can be accessed by means of a visitor-carried, secure reader to obtain updated, critical or sensitive data on particular aspects of the site; and whereby a visitor, having the use of a secure portable tag reader and/or smartphone, is informed prior to admittance or actual entry into the site, of relevant critical intelligence data, safety information about the site and instant risks of exposure to dangerous substances.

8583584

12907928

1. A computer-implemented method for identifying events of interest in web analytics data, comprising: at a computer server having one or more processors and memory for storing programs to be executed by the one or more processors: storing web analytics data for a web page in a device, wherein the web analytics data comprises a plurality of prior time-value pairs, each time-value pair including a value of one of a plurality of attributes associated with the web page and a time associated with the value; collecting a new time-value pair for the particular attribute, the new time-value pair including a new value associated with the web page and a new time when the value was determined; estimating a predicted value for the attribute and associated error-variance at the new time for the predicted value by applying a forecasting model to the plurality of prior time-value pairs in respective subsets of the web analytics data; and tagging the collected new time-value pair if the value of the new time-value pair is outside the error variance of the predicted value of the forecasting model for the particular attribute; adding to the collected web analytics data for the web page the new time-value pair including a tag indicating whether the new value is an anomaly and a significance factor if the new value is an anomaly, wherein the significance factor is associated with the error variance of the predicted value of the forecasting model; for the new time-value pair and the particular attribute, determining the significance factor such that, when the error-variance is multiplied by the significance factor, the value of the time-value pair is inside the factored error-variance of the predicted value; and in response to a request from a client application for analytics information, the request including a significance threshold for one or more of the attributes, reporting to the client application the new time-value pair if the significance factor for the time-value pair exceeds the significance threshold.

8396842

13052220

1. A method of validating data, said method comprising: a computer receiving a data item input to a first software application included in a plurality of software applications; said computer receiving metadata specifying a type of said received data item; based on said received metadata, said computer determining a method to cleanse said received data item; based on said received metadata and based on said method to cleanse said received data item, said computer cleansing and validating said data item input to said first software application by said computer running a software-based validation engine, and external to said plurality of software applications; said computer caching a result of said cleansing and validating said data item input to said first software application; said computer receiving a request from a second software application included in the plurality of software applications to validate a data item input to said second software application; said computer determining said data item input to said second software application is identical to said data item input to said first software application; based on said received request from said second software application to validate said data item input to said second software application and based on said data item input to said second software application being identical to said data item input to said first software application, said computer validating said data item input to said second software application by sending said cached result of said cleansing and validating said data item input to said first software application to said second software application, without requiring an additional step of running said software-based validation engine to validate said data item input to said second software application; and wherein said received data item is a credit card number, wherein said running said software-based validation engine includes said computer running a Luhn validation routine to validate said credit card number input to said first software application, wherein said receiving said request from said second software application includes said computer receiving a request to validate said credit card number input to said second software application, and wherein said sending said cached result of said cleansing and validating includes said computer sending a result of said running said Luhn validation routine to said second software application to validate said credit card number input to said second software application without requiring an additional step of running said Luhn validation route to validate said credit card number input to said second software application.

9720388

14459605

1. A method for controlling an electrical system, the method comprising the acts of: determining a first characteristic value of the electrical system; for the first characteristic value, determining a suitable first group of optimizing variables; determining a first group of command variables suitable for the first group of optimizing variables; for the first group of command variables, determining a first group of current boundary values; for each boundary value of the first group of current boundary values, predicting a first group of predicted boundary values; assigning a probability to each predicted boundary value of the first group of predicted boundary values to obtain a first group of predicted, probability-related boundary values; prioritizing all boundary values of the first group of current boundary values and of the first group of predicted, probability-related boundary values in order to obtain prioritized boundary values; using the prioritized boundary values, calculating at least one control value; and controlling the electrical system using the at least one calculated control value.

20170284897

15087439

1. A control system imbedded within an engine having at least one combustion chamber and a piston associated with the at least one combustion chamber, the control system comprising: at least one sensor configured to generate a signal indicative of a combustion process occurring inside the at least one combustion chamber; and a controller in communication with the at least one sensor and configured to: determine an amount of heat and a pressure generated inside the at least one combustion chamber based on the signal and a combustion model of the engine; determine a heat flux through the piston based on the amount of heat and a heat flux model of the piston; determine a temperature at a rim of the piston based on the heat flux and a thermal model of the piston; track a time at the temperature and the pressure; and determine a damage count of the piston based on the time at the temperature and pressure.

9836343

14217030

1. A computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions for controlling a computing device to generate a crash report when an application crashes, the application being organized as a module with functions, the computer-executable instructions comprising instructions that: install a crash handler to execute in the same process as the application when the application crashes; and under control of the crash handler executing in the process of the application after the application crashes, identify a victim thread of the process that was executing at the time of a crash; walk a call stack of the victim thread to identify return addresses for returning from called functions of the application; identify offsets within the module corresponding to the return addresses; identify a call chain of functions using the identified offsets; and create a crash report based on the identified call chain.

20160042182

14453851

1. A method for dynamic verification of a computer software application execution path, the method comprising: detecting, by one or more processors, execution of a target instruction of a computer software application, wherein the computer software application is configured to generate a token at an instruction near a waypoint instruction of the computer software application, and wherein the waypoint instruction lies along an execution path that leads to the target instruction; determining, by one or more processors, responsive to detecting execution of the target instruction, whether a token exists; and performing, by one or more processors, a computer-security-related remediation action responsive to determining that the token does not exist.

9264557

13896417

1. A computer-implemented method in a node of a telecommunications charging system comprising one or more processors, the one or more processors performing the steps of: associating plural telecommunications services with a product and creating a product instance, the product instance being available to a subscriber entity and having a product instance lifecycle; reserving a product fee for the product instance against a payor account upon receipt of a first service reservation of a first reserved service of the plural telecommunication services associated with the product instance; posting the product fee against the payor account in conjunction with use of one of the plural telecommunication services associated with the product instance; thereafter permitting use of all of the plural telecommunication services associated with the product instance to the subscribing entity during the product instance lifecycle without posting a further fee for use of the plural telecommunication services associated with the product instance; wherein upon receiving a subsequent reservation for another reserved service of the plural telecommunication services associated with the product instance, a further fee for the product instance is not reserved against the payor account; upon receiving the reservation for the first reserved service of the plural telecommunication services associated with the product instance, enabling reservation of telecommunications resources for the first reserved service; and upon receiving the subsequent reservation for the another reserved service of the plural telecommunication services associated with the product instance, enabling reservation of telecommunications resources for the another reserved service.

20170167347

14964680

1. A system comprising: a model predictive control (MPC) module that: generates a set of possible target values for an actuator of an engine; predicts an operating parameter for the set of possible target values, wherein the predicted operating parameter includes at least one of an emission level and an operating parameter of an exhaust system; determines a cost for the set of possible target values; selects the set of possible target values from multiple sets of possible target values based on the cost; determines whether the predicted operating parameter for the selected set satisfies a constraint; and sets target values to the possible target values of the selected set when the predicted operating parameter satisfies the constraint; and an actuator module that controls an actuator of an engine based on at least one of the target values.

20110029370

12762556

1. A method for transmitting a presence indicator, comprising: creating an identifier, wherein the identifier is associated with a location; and transmitting the identifier in an open-air environment using an ultrasonic signal transmitter.

20100011361

12171463

1. A method of managing a task request, the method comprising: receiving, from a requester, a request to perform a task with respect to an object within an organization; extracting a requested task and requested object from the request; analyzing the requested task and requested object to determine whether the requester is permitted to initiate the requested task on the requested object; reporting an error when the requestor is not permitted to initiate the requested task on the requested object; and performing the requested task on the requested object when the requestor is permitted to initiate the requested task on the requested object.

20150047034

13963674

1. A method for use in analyzing executable content within at least one network of an enterprise, the method comprising: receiving executable content at a central analysis server over at least one network of an enterprise; extracting, by a processor of the central analysis server, one or more characteristics from the executable content; identifying, by the processor, associations among the extracted characteristics; and storing the extracted characteristics and identified associations in a database accessible by the central analysis server.

7653657

11215299

1. A method for discovering media resources, the method comprising: receiving at a computing device, a request from a client input device for information pertaining to one or more media resources; identifying by the computing device, a particular node for consideration (PNC) from a collection of media information associated with the requested information, the computing device being configured to facilitate identifying the PNC; determining if the PNC is a terminal node, a parent node with a single child, or a parent node with multiple children; based on the determination that the PNC is a parent node with a single child, detecting a branch of nodes, wherein: the branch of nodes begins with the PNC and advances down a hierarchy of nodes until finding a terminal node or a node with more than one child node, the branch of nodes having a last node that is either the terminal node or the node with more than one child node; classifying the PNC as a first node-type if the PNC is a terminal node or the detected branch of nodes ends in a terminal node; classifying the PNC as a second node-type if the PNC is linked to more than one child node or the last node in the detected branch of nodes has more than one child node; modifying a user interface presentation to be customized to a PNC, such that the media information is presented using a first presentation paradigm for the first node-type, and the media information is presented using a second presentation paradigm for the second node-type, wherein the first presentation paradigm provides the media information in a manner which emphasizes a single media resource related to the terminal node in the branch of nodes, such that the presentation paradigm will automatically advance over any number of levels in the hierarchy of nodes containing only one entry for selection and automatically select the terminal node in the branch of nodes, and wherein the second presentation paradigm provides the media information in a manner which lists plural media resources that are associated with the child nodes of the last node in the branch of nodes, such that the presentation paradigm will automatically advance over any number of levels in the hierarchy of nodes containing only one entry for selection.

20090083262

12233812

1. A method comprising: (a) receiving an input query including one or more keywords and one or more entity types; (b) searching a database that indexes keywords and instances of entities having entity types in a collection of documents, the searching including searching for documents having the keywords and entities with the entity types in the input query; (c) aggregating a respective score for each of a plurality of entity tuples across the plurality of documents; (d) normalizing the aggregated scores, each respective normalized score providing a ranking of a respective entity tuple, relative to other entity tuples, as an answer to the input query; (e) outputting a list, including a subset of the entity tuples having the highest normalized scores among the plurality of entity tuples, to a storage or display device or a network.

10048748

14077821

1. A method comprising: accessing, by a processor of a hand-held user device comprising a display screen, an audio-visual assistant being executed on the hand-held user device, the audio-visual assistant comprising an optical detection function executable on the hand-held user device for receiving visual input of a user on the hand-held user device and an audio detection function executable on the hand-held user device for receiving voice input that enables audio interaction by the user with the hand-held user device; identifying, by the processor of the hand-held device via the audio-visual assistant, a user's face; receiving, by the processor of the hand-held device, data associated with the identified user's face, the data including eye tracking data for tracking a user's gaze; mapping, by the processor of the hand-held device, based on the received data, the user's gaze with respect to different portions of the display screen for determining a portion of the display screen the user is observing; determining, by the processor of the hand-held device via the audio-visual assistant, the portion of the display screen currently being observed by the user based on the received visual input; identifying, by the processor of the hand-held device, a user interface element for executing tasks, the user interface element displayed within the determined portion of the display screen and displayed proximate a visually observable cursor that is separate from the identified user interface element and that tracks a movement of the user's gaze; receiving, by the processor of the hand-held device, a voice input as a command from the user to control the user interface element identified by the received visual input; selecting, by the processor of the hand-held device from a plurality of tasks, a task to be associated with the identified user interface element, the plurality of tasks corresponding to a respective plurality of commands associated with the audio-visual assistant; and executing, by the processor of the hand-held device based at least on the received command from the user, the selected task associated with the identified user interface element.

8930258

13088022

1. A method for order entry comprising: displaying, by a computer device, a trading screen having a display of a trading tool, wherein the trading tool has a trading tool element that is configured to perform at least one trade action and has a value and a location that are determined according to market data received from an electronic exchange; determining, by the computer device, whether the trading tool element should be active or inactive based on trade data and the market data, wherein the trading tool element, when active, is operable to perform the at least one trade action and, when inactive, is inoperable to perform the at least one trade action; dynamically, by the computer device, activating or deactivating the trading tool element in response to determining whether the element should be active or inactive in response to determining whether the trading tool element should be active or inactive; and changing, by the computer device, the display of the trading tool element to indicate whether the trading tool element is active or inactive.

9601106

13968154

1. A prosody editing apparatus comprising: a storage configured to store attribute information items of phrases and one or more first prosodic patterns corresponding to each of the attribute information items of the phrases; a search unit configured to search the storage for one or more second prosodic patterns corresponding to an attribute information item that matches an attribute information item of a predetermined phrase, the second prosodic patterns being included in the first prosodic patterns; a mapping unit configured to map each of the second prosodic patterns on a low dimensional space to generate mapping coordinates, the mapping coordinates being used to suppress a first prosodic pattern which is not assumed normally, wherein a first distance between coordinates of the first prosodic pattern and coordinates of a target prosodic pattern is not within a first threshold; a selection unit configured to obtain coordinates selected from the mapping coordinates as selected coordinates; a restoring unit configured to restore a second prosodic pattern according to the selected coordinates to obtain a restored prosodic pattern; and a replacing unit configured to replace prosody of synthetic speech generated based on the predetermined phrase by the restored prosodic pattern.

4439161

06301090

1. A learning aid comprising: control means having defined therein a response data set and a set of messages, said control means having means for selecting a first response data from said set of response data in response to an operator generated problem, and for selecting a second response data from said set of response data in response to an operator generated evaluation input, memory means for storage of said response data set; said means for selecting a first response data including means for randomly choosing an incorrect response data from said response data set as said first response; said means for selecting a second particular response data including means for evaluating if said first response data is appropriate with said operator generated problem; and operator interface means communicating with said control means, said operator interface means having means for receiving said operator generated problem, for receiving said operator generated evaluation data, and for communicating to the operator said first response data and said second response data.

8694491

13043400

1. A system comprising at least one server, wherein the at least one server includes: memory; and one or more processors to execute one or more programs stored in the memory, wherein the system is configured to: access Internet usage data for a particular individual computer user, wherein the usage data include a plurality of search queries previously submitted by the particular individual computer user; identify, without human intervention by the particular individual computer user, from at least some of the Internet usage data, a search query previously submitted by the particular individual computer user that meets one or more predefined query selection criteria; automatically rerun, without human intervention by the particular individual computer user, the identified search query in its entirety, wherein the identified search query is a search query previously submitted by the particular individual computer user; and send at least some search results from the rerun query to a computer associated with the particular individual computer user for display.

8803461

12976309

1. A method for synchronous machine health monitoring comprising: receiving a plurality of phase voltage values and a plurality of phase current values; computing a plurality of voltage phasors based on the plurality of phase voltage values; computing a negative sequence voltage (Vn) based on the plurality of phase voltage values, wherein the Vn is representative of a negative sequence back electromotive force (EMF) which represents a signature of a winding fault in a corresponding configuration of a synchronous machine; computing one or more operating parameters based on at least one of the plurality of phase voltage values and the plurality of phase current values; retrieving from a lookup data store, one or more known Vn based on the one or more operating parameters; computing a machine health indicator based on the computed Vn and the one or more known Vn wherein the one or more known Vn may be scaled according to a measured speed of the synchronous machine, wherein computing the machine health indicator comprises: computing a phasor difference between the healthy state Vn and the computed Vn; and normalizing the phasor difference with respect to the healthy open circuit Vn; and raising an alarm based on the machine health indicator, wherein the raising an alarm based on the machine health indicator comprises comparing a computed value of the machine health indicator with a healthy state value of the machine health indicator.

9898738

14078987

1. A computer system for managing electronic transactions, comprising: a server computer system including: a processor; a computer-readable medium connected to the processor; a network interface device connected to the processor; and a set of instructions on the computer-readable medium, the set of instructions being executable by the processor and including: a data store; a plurality of consumer accounts stored in the data store; a login module receiving login information from a consumer device over the network interface device; an identifier storing module receiving a plurality of first consumer account identifiers, each first consumer account identifier being received from a respective consumer device, and storing each first consumer account identifier in association with a respective consumer account, wherein the first consumer account identifier is selectably and interchangeably storable as one of at least first and second types of identifiers and the storing by the consumer device of the first consumer account identifier only being permitted upon successful login based on the login information; a communication and routing module that receives a charge request over the network interface device, the charge request including an amount and a second consumer account identifier, wherein the communication and routing module is configured to receive the second consumer account identifier in the charge request when the second consumer account identifier in the charge request is of the first type and when the second consumer account identifier in the charge request is of the second type and the communication and routing module identifies a selected one of the consumer accounts by associating one of the plurality of first consumer account identifiers with the second consumer account identifier in the charge request, wherein the communication and routing module is configured to identify the selected consumer account by associating the first consumer account identifier with the second consumer account identifier in the charge request when the second consumer account identifier in the charge request is of the first type or when the second consumer account identifier is of the second type, wherein if the first consumer account identifier is stored as the first type of consumer account identifier then the second consumer account identifier only identifies the first consumer account identifier if the second consumer account identifier has the first type but not if the second consumer account identifier has the second type; and a transaction processing system that processes the charge request based on an account detail of the selected consumer account.

9395712

14607011

1. An improved computer implemented method to forecast energy usage in 15-minute periods in a commercial building with an installed heating and cooling plant and a building management system, wherein, for said building of interest, the computer performs the following steps: a) determining a building's natural thermal lag (NTL) by linear regression based on a data set of daily energy usage and external temperature for a plurality of days; b) using said natural thermal lag to generate a best fit regression model to forecast said building's daily energy usage; c) determine which of said plurality of days exhibit external matching temperature profile to yield a set of matching days by: SS = ∑ i = 1 p ⁢ ( T AF i - T C i ) 2 where SS represents a summation of squares over period i=1 to p, where p matches an optimal window size, wherein p is a preselected number of 15 minute periods T AF i is outside temperature at time period i, on said preselected day T C i is actual external temperature at time period i on day selected for comparison to said preselected day d) using an energy profile exhibited during said matching days, proportionately assigning said forecast of said building's daily energy usage for said preselected day into forecast of energy usage during a preselected number of 15-minute periods; e) calculating for said preselected day a start time for said building's installed heating and cooling system; and f) controlling chilling pumps using instructions received from said building management system at said start time.

9875090

13721031

1. A device that analyzes program packages of applications, the device comprising: at least one processor, and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, provide a static program analysis system comprising: a program acquirer that stores a program package comprising: a set of program resources; and a manifest that describes deployment of the respective program resources for the application; a static program analysis engine that performs a static program analysis of the application comprising: a first pass over the program package that: using the manifest, identifies dependencies of the respective program resources upon respective dependency targets involving other program resources of the program package, and generates a program resource dependency model that describes the dependencies among the respective program resources of the program package; and a second pass, following the first pass, that uses the program resource dependency model to discover runtime dependency issues arising at runtime among the program resources of the program package, wherein the runtime dependency issues are irrespective of resources not provided by the program package that may or may not exist on a target device upon which the program package is installed; and a results presenter that presents, to a user, the results of the static program analysis, including diagnostic messages that describe the runtime dependency issues discovered during the second pass of the static program analysis.

8589157

12329406

1. A method for automatically generating a text message from an arbitrary speech input, comprising steps for: receiving a statistical language model trained using one or more sets of real-world text messages as training input; receiving a text message database constructed using a subset including some or all of the text messages in the one or more sets of real-world text messages received as the training input; receiving an arbitrary user speech input; evaluating the speech input relative to the probabilistic model and text message database to return a set of one or more probable speech recognition hypotheses corresponding to the arbitrary user speech input; identifying a set of one or more text messages from the text message database as probabilistic matches to one or more of the speech recognition hypotheses; ranking the probabilistically matching text messages in an order corresponding to a probabilistic confidence score associated with each speech recognition hypothesis; selecting the highest ranked text message to paraphrase the arbitrary user speech input; and transmitting the single selected text message to one or more recipients.

8983926

13661628

1. A method for tagging original data generated by things in the Internet of Things (IoT), comprising: identifying, by a computer, based on keyword searching, one or more social media messages on a network server related to an event of interest; filtering, by the computer, the identified one or more social media messages based on a message posting time occurring in a predefined time interval about the event of interest; filtering, by the computer, the time filtered social media messages based on message content describing an event that is occurring or has just occurred; extracting, by the computer, physical location information contained in the occurring-just-occurred filtered social media messages; identifying, by the computer, data generating devices that are within a predefined distance of the event of interest based on the extracted physical location information and the data generating devices' known locations; and tagging, by the computer, original data generated by the identified data generating devices with semantic metadata based on the predefined time interval about the event of interest and the content of the occurring-just-occurred filtered social media messages.

20150208120

14161304

1. A method comprising: determining, by a server device, content prediction parameters associated with a plurality of content; generating, by the server device, respective content prediction aggregate scores for each of the plurality of content, a particular content prediction aggregate score, associated with a particular content, being generated based on content prediction parameters associated with the particular content; generating, by the server device, a content prediction instruction based on the respective content prediction aggregate scores; and providing, by the server device, the content prediction instruction to cause the user device to receive and store a portion of the particular content.

9166891

14456307

1. A method, for managing communications network resources using a policy management framework, comprising: communicating, by the policy management framework having a processor, a policy condition, stored at a policy repository of the policy management framework, from the policy management framework to a deep packet inspection component being separate from and in communication by way of a P4 interface with the policy management framework; and performing, by using the processor in response to the deep packet inspection component monitoring data traffic using the policy condition and determining that the policy condition is satisfied, operations comprising: receiving, by the policy management framework, from the deep packet inspection component, being separate from the policy management framework, a trigger communication, the trigger communication comprising an indication that the policy condition has been satisfied based on results of the monitoring; and generating, by the policy management framework, in response to receiving the trigger communication from the deep packet inspection component, an enforcement decision comprising an enforcement action for execution by an enforcement function, wherein: the deep packet inspection component is part of a first network element and comprises a first processing resource; the enforcement function is implemented by a network gateway component; the network gateway component is implemented as a gateway general packet radio service support node; and the gateway general packet radio service support node is: (i) part of a second network element being distinct from the first network element to accomplish efficiency and performance benefits; and (ii) in communication via a Gx interface with the policy management framework; wherein the deep packet inspection component is in operative communication with the network gateway component, including the enforcement function, via an interface distinct from both the Gx and P4 interfaces.

8150754

12342601

1. A method comprising: storing, by a computer-based system for interfacing a merchant processor with a card issuer database, and in a global merchant database, a merchant profile that includes customer information; determining, by the computer-based system and based upon a transaction history of a customer, that the customer is making non-automatic payments to a merchant; requesting, by the computer-based system and from a merchant system, additional information about the customer; receiving, by the computer-based system, the additional information about the customer from the merchant system; storing, by the computer-based system, the additional information about the customer in the global merchant database; and notifying, by the computer-based system, a marketing system that the additional information about the customer is stored in the global merchant database.

9059954

13558212

1. A computer-implemented method for extracting indirect relational information from email correspondence, the method comprising: analyzing a set of email communications addressed to a first user to identify a subset of email communications within the set that each have a primary communication addressed to the first user and a thread of other email communications appended to the primary communication, the primary communication being more recent in time relative to the other email communications in the thread; analyzing a first email communication of the subset of email communications to identify at least a second user and a third user from the other email communications in the thread appended to the primary communication of the first email communication, the second user and the third user being unlisted as recipients of the primary communication of the first email communication; designating the second user and the third user as having a relationship that does not directly include the first user; and updating a relational database with the relationship between the second user and the third user.

20170185627

14998079

1. A system for a distributed repository, comprising: an input interface to receive a request to change a portion of code; and a processor to: determine a change reference and an existing reference; indicate to lock one or more repositories; determine whether swapping references is approved by a vote; in the event that swapping references is approved by a vote: swap the references; and to indicate to unlock the one or more repositories.

20120136791

13367025

1. A method for clearing financial instruments through an electronic clearing system in which a cost of clearing an instrument varies with a time of day, comprising: receiving over a network electronic files of items including data from scanned financial instruments including an amount of each of said instruments, said scanning including scanning a MICR line, amount, account number, user field, check number, serial number, flag and routing/transit number from said scanned financial instrument; applying a rule to sort said items by determining, for each of said associated financial instruments, whether said item associated with said instrument should be stored for clearing said associated financial instrument at a later time having a relatively lower-cost per item fee, or forwarded for clearing said associated financial instrument without storage, said rule including a first step of determining whether said associated financial instrument is issued by the United States government, and if so, forwarding said associated item for clearing without storage; a second step of determining whether said instrument is drawn on a financial institution listed on a Federal Reserve schedule as a next day endpoint; and if so, storing said associated file for forwarding at a later time having a lower per item fee; a third step of determining whether said associated financial instrument can be cleared before a first deadline having associated therewith a lowest-cost per item fee, and if so, forwarding said instrument for clearing without storage; a fourth step of determining whether said electronic file is received before a second deadline, different from said first deadline, determining whether each of said items contained in said received electronic files exceeds a first threshold amount, and forwarding said items exceeding said first threshold amount over a network for clearing without storage, and placing said items not exceeding said first threshold amount in storage for forwarding over a network for clearing before a subsequent said first deadline; a fifth step of determining whether said electronic file is received before a third deadline, different from said first and second deadlines, determining whether each of said items contained in said received electronic files exceeds a second threshold amount, and forwarding said items exceeding said second threshold amount over a network for clearing without storage, and placing said items not exceeding said second threshold in storage for forwarding over a network for clearing during a subsequent said first deadline; and a sixth step of determining whether said electronic file is received before a fourth deadline, different from said first, second and third deadlines, determining whether each of said items contained in said received electronic files exceeds a third threshold amount, and forwarding said items exceeding said third threshold amount over a network for clearing without storage, and placing said items in storage for forwarding over a network for clearing during a subsequent said first deadline; and a seventh step of determining whether said electronic file is received before a fifth time of day deadline, different from said first, second, third and fourth deadline, having associated therewith a highest-cost per item fee, and if so, placing said item in storage for forwarding over a network for clearing during a subsequent one of said first time of day intervals.

8271409

12061218

1. A computer implemented method for indexing a data stream having attribute values, comprising: parsing the data stream; forming a Stream Approximate Onion (SAO) index of tuples for a subset of attribute values of the data stream, the index being configured for retrieving top-K tuples that optimize linearly weighted sums of at least some of the attribute values in the subset, the index being formed to have a plurality of layers of convex hulls; and maintaining in the index a number of the plurality of layers of convex hulls less than a number of convex hull layers maintained in an Onion index.

9032298

12127873

1. A Web-based system for accessing development components, which include an online video clip library and an online music clip library, and enabling online production of custom-integrated media products, said system comprising at least one computer server connected to a computer network, said server including: an upload engine capable of receiving over the computer network a plurality of video and music clips from a plurality of content provider users; a storage engine capable of storing the uploaded plurality of video and music clips provided by said plurality of content provider users in a database and media content storage devices as libraries; a search engine capable of indexing the database and media content storage devices that store the libraries of uploaded video and music clips; a user interface engine capable of providing over the computer network to a plurality of producer users interactive Web formatting screens allowing said producer users to select from said libraries a plurality of video and music clips from among any of the video and music clips uploaded by said plurality of content provider users; and a mixer module capable of allowing said producer users to edit and play said selected video and music clips, wherein said mixer module supports mixing together a plurality of said uploaded video and music clips, such that producer users are able to self-produce video advertisement templates each comprising static content and at least one placeholder, said mixer module further capable of allowing advertiser users to customize said video advertisement templates by uploading a list, such that advertiser users are able to automatically self-produce a set of different customized video advertisements based on an advertisement template, in which the at least one placeholder for each customized video advertisement contains a different item from the list, wherein said mixer module is capable of arranging said video advertisement templates and customized video advertisements as respective XML files on a server, said XML files being accessible by a plurality of users using respective browser applications, such that upon updating an XML file representing a video advertisement template or a customized video advertisement, the updated video advertisement template or customized video advertisement is made accessible to users accessing the updated XML file; said system further comprising a Web application for encoding and formatting video advertisements in particular formats.

7567867

12069611

1. A device for diagnosing a crankcase ventilation of an internal combustion engine, having at least two cylinder banks to which the crankcase ventilation is supplied, comprising: an actuator, whose position influences a distribution of the crankcase ventilation to the at least two cylinder banks, and in which in a first position of the actuator, a different distribution of the crankcase ventilation to the at least two cylinder banks comes about than in a second position of the actuator which differs therefrom; a switchover arrangement, together with simultaneously activated operation of the at least two cylinder banks, to switch the actuator over at least once between the two different positions; a determination arrangement to determine a characteristic variable of the internal combustion engine influenced by the crankcase ventilation for at least one of the at least two cylinder banks prior to and following the switchover operation; a specification arrangement to determine a minimum value for a change in at least one of (i) the characteristic variable of at least one of the at least two cylinder banks, and (ii) a ratio of the characteristic variable between the at least two cylinder banks for the switchover-related change in the distribution of the crankcase ventilation; and an identification arrangement to detect a malfunction of the actuator if at least one change derived from the ascertained values for the characteristic variable undershoots in quantitative terms its assigned expected value.

20110167113

13063934

1. A management method for an object-based storage system, the object-based storage system comprising a client, an Object-Based Storage Device (OBSD), a metadata server and an interconnect network, wherein the interconnect network connects the client, the OBSD, and the metadata server; wherein the OBSD comprises a root object, a partition object, a collection object, an user object, and a function object; and wherein the function object comprises a user function object and a system function object; and the management method comprising the OBSD responding to a client request for the user object; the OBSD calling the user function object to execute the client request; the system function object reading the root object attributes and the real time system status information of the OBSD, and determining whether the object-based storage system is in a specific condition; and if the object-based storage system is in the specific condition, the system function object performing a predetermined specific system management functions.

20170103317

15389345

1. A method for generating a respective neural network output for each of a plurality of inputs, wherein the generating comprises processing each input through each of a plurality of neural network layers to generate the respective neural network output for the input, wherein the neural network layers are arranged in a directed graph structure, and wherein each neural network layer has a respective batch size, the method comprising, for each of the neural network layers: receiving a plurality of inputs to be processed at the neural network layer; forming one or more batches of inputs from the plurality of inputs, each batch having a number of inputs equal to the respective batch size for the neural network layer; selecting a number of the one or more batches of inputs to process, where a count of the inputs in the number of the one or more batches is greater than, less than, or equal to the respective associated batch size of a subsequent layer in the directed graph structure; and processing the number of the one or more batches of inputs to generate the respective neural network layer output.

20100102625

12257553

1. A vehicle power control system, comprising: a power supply configured to supply a first quantity of power to at least one device configured to consume the first quantity of power based on a first power demand; an intelligent device, the intelligent device being configured to determine a second power demand for the intelligent device during a vehicle operation; and an energy management system configured to: communicate with the at least one intelligent device regarding the second power demand to coordinate scheduling of power distribution during the vehicle operation; generate a power distribution schedule to account for the first power demand of the at least one device and the second power demand of the at least one intelligent device; direct the first quantity of power to the at least one device according to the first power demand of the at least one device; and direct a second quantity of power to the at least one intelligent device according to the power distribution schedule.

20130212473

13612015

1. A system to view and manipulate artifacts at a temporal reference point, comprising: one or more artifact drafts associated with each of a plurality of artifacts, each of said one or more artifact drafts representing a state of the associated artifact at a point in time and one or more commands in a command stack that transformed said each artifact draft's parent into said each artifact draft; a plurality of traceability links and traceability vertices representing connections between said one or more artifact drafts of the plurality of artifacts, wherein a traceability link includes an edge between an artifact draft of an artifact in the plurality of artifacts and an artifact draft of another artifact in the plurality of artifacts, said artifact draft of an artifact in the plurality of artifacts and the artifact draft of another artifact in the plurality of artifacts forming the traceability vertices; a processor; and a module operable to execute on the processor and navigate through said one or more artifacts of the plurality of artifacts from a reference temporal point via the plurality of traceability links.

8102839

12070873

1. A method comprising: forming a session initiation protocol (SIP) INVITE at a first user equipment (UE-A) to establish a SIP dialog associated with originating a call in the CIS domain with a second user equipment (UE-B), the SIP INVITE message including a session description protocol (PSTN) payload comprising: a) a connection data field indicating public switched telephony network (PSTN) connection parameters; b) a media type indicating an audio stream; and c) an indication that the circuit-switched (CS) domain will be used for delay-sensitive class flow; sending the SIP INVITE message via an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS); receiving a SIP response comprising a CS bearer media descriptor that includes a phone number associated with the UE-B; and sending, in response to receiving the SIP response, a circuit-switched call setup message to establish the call via the circuit switched domain, wherein the call setup message comprises the phone number associated with the UE-B.

9188977

12565465

1. A method for management of maintenance information items in an aircraft comprising a centralized maintenance system, the method comprising: receiving at least one maintenance message concerning a fault in the aircraft that does not have an impact on flight safety of the aircraft; determining a value of an impact attribute associated with the at least one maintenance message according to predetermined configuration data, the value of the impact attribute corresponding to a level of an importance of an economic impact on operation of the aircraft that results if the fault is not corrected and based on a commercial impact with regard to the passengers and a risk of technical delay on subsequent missions; assigning a priority to the at least one maintenance message based on the value of the impact attribute associated with the at least one maintenance message; and processing the at least one maintenance message according to the assigned priority based on the value of the impact attribute associated with the at least one maintenance message.

20060129818

11280453

1. A method of transmitting content to a user device from a home server in a home network, the method comprising: transmitting the content, which is encrypted by using a predetermined content key, and transmitting the predetermined content key, which is encrypted by using a pair of a predetermined session public key and a session private key, to the user device, wherein the content that is transmitted is bound to a user by using a user public key and a user private key of the user to whom the home server belongs.

20090254638

12343087

1. A method of assigning a plurality of client systems to a set of servers, comprising: calculating a network cost for assigning a first client system to each of the set of servers; and determining an optimal rule set effective to reduce a total network cost of serving the plurality of client systems, the optimal rule set including assigning the first client system to a substantially optimal server of the set of servers.

7792660

11925511

1. A method for generating at least one alert for a system process, said method comprising: obtaining raw channel data over a time duration of information of at least one monitored channel of said system process; processing said raw channel data to form time dependent signals based on at least one user specified processing rule; and producing said at least one alert based on a deviation in behavior in at least one channel of said at least one channel, said deviation being based upon said time dependent signals for varying time intervals and comparing the signals with historically normal baseline signals.

20120243469

13074839

1. A method of operating a media gateway supporting location based services, the method comprising: receiving, from a mobile device of a user, topological information identifying one or more electronic devices in a premise environment; receiving, from the mobile device for transmission to a server, a message identifying content for delivery by the server to the mobile device; receiving, from the server, the content identified in the message; determining whether the received content contains information identifying user selectable media content; modifying the content received from the server to cause display at the mobile device of one or more graphical objects representing electronic devices in the premise environment capable of reproducing the selectable media content; transmitting the modified content to the mobile device for display; receiving, from the mobile device, an indication of user selection of a graphical object representing one of the one or more electronic devices capable of reproducing the media content; sending to the server a request for delivery of the media content to the media gateway; and directing received media content to the one of the one or more electronic devices corresponding to the selected graphical object.

7882444

12264071

1. A system, comprising: a storage module configured to store at least one user-displayed visual stimulus observable through a browser-based interface; and a processing module coupled to the storage module and configured to execute code capable of reconstructing data relating to the previously stored user-displayed visual stimulus based on user-defined parameters, wherein the reconstructed user-displayed visual stimulus data represents at least a portion of the previously stored user-displayed visual stimulus, wherein a visual indication comprising a plurality of different colorizations is generated to distinguish the reconstructed user-displayed visual stimulus data from a first visual stimulus that was not originally displayed.

20130343541

13926245

1. A method of secure communication in a transmitter, the method comprising: determining a method of generating a training sequence that is shared with a receiver; generating the training sequence based on the method of generating the training sequence, and secret information; and communicating with the receiver based on channel information derived from the training sequence.

8386188

13014850

1. A system for determining cardiovascular information for a patient, the system comprising: at least one computer system configured to: receive patient-specific data regarding a geometry of at least a portion of an anatomical structure of the patient, the anatomical structure including at least a portion of a plurality of arteries and myocardial tissue connected to at least some of the plurality of arteries; create a three-dimensional model representing the anatomical structure of the patient based on the patient-specific data; divide at least a portion of the three-dimensional model representing the myocardial tissue into segments; and determine perfusion information associated with at least one of the segments based on the three-dimensional model and a physiological condition of the patient.

8938799

11597486

1. An apparatus associated with an endpoint and configurable between a network and a host of the endpoint, comprising computational resources, the computational resources at least comprising one processor, wherein the computational resources are not accessible by the host, are accessible over a secure connection by a management server, and are configured to provide an open platform able to execute security function software modules from multiple vendors and provide immunization and defense functionality to protect the host.

20120158733

13160856

1. An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory computer-readable data storage medium including computer-readable instructions stored thereon for causing a processor to perform a method of managing an information network by providing an interface between a social network and a content network, the method comprising: creating a community of users across network devices; defining an interaction record structure including a tagged grid; storing an interaction record of content in the community of users based upon the interaction record structure; creating a community index of content of the interaction record; tagging the interaction record with a user-generated description of content; synchronizing the community of users based upon the community index by providing an updated content component in the stored interaction record to users such that the users have the same interaction record; and updating the community index of the interaction record.

9233218

13542858

1. A system for controlling the delivery of medical gases during respiratory support of a patient, the system comprising: a breathing circuit including a patient connection adapted to deliver respiratory support to the patient; a mixer pneumatically connected to the breathing circuit, the mixer configured to provide at least oxygen and a balance gas to the breathing circuit; a mechanical ventilator pneumatically connected to the breathing circuit, the mechanical ventilator configured to create fluid pressure waveforms within the breathing circuit to provide respiratory support to the patient; a digital signal processor communicatively connected to the mixer and the mechanical ventilator, the digital signal processor receives at least one ventilation parameter value change, calculates a fresh oxygen flow rate into the breathing circuit and a total fresh gas flow rate into the breathing circuit with the at least one ventilation parameter value, and calculates a reference oxygen flow rate representative of a predetermined oxygen concentration delivered to the patient with at least the total fresh gas flow rate; and a graphical display communicatively connected to the digital signal processor, wherein the graphical display presents the calculated fresh oxygen flow rate, the total fresh gas flow rate, and the reference oxygen flow rate.

9450974

14220444

1. A computer implemented method for network intrusion management, the method comprising: monitoring, by an intrusion management system, a set of nodes of a computer network; determining, by the intrusion management system, a node workload for the set of nodes; classifying, by the intrusion management system, in response to detecting a network intrusion related to the set of nodes, an intrusion signature for the network intrusion; determining, by the intrusion management system, a response for managing a security vulnerability of the set of nodes based on the node workload and the intrusion signature; and instantiating, by the intrusion management system, the response to the set of nodes; wherein determining the response includes: determining a protocol or an application targeted by the network intrusion; and determining that the protocol or the application targeted by the network intrusion is not active at the time of the network intrusion based on the node workload; wherein the response includes deferring application of a security patch for the network intrusion based on determining that the protocol or the application targeted by the network intrusion is not active at the time of the network intrusion.

9739843

13371949

1. An arrangement for characterizing magnetic systems based on an initialized set of input parameters of the magnetic system, the arrangement comprising: a magnetic field sensor for measuring the magnetic field distribution of the magnetic system of a magnet, means for determining an optimal expected magnetic field distribution of the magnetic system by optimizing one or more parameter(s) selected from the set of input parameters of the magnetic system, wherein said means for determining said optimal expected magnetic field distribution comprises i) means for determining an expected magnetic field distribution using a theoretical simulation model and based on said set of input parameters, said expected magnetic field distribution comprising precalculated simulation data, ii) means for comparing said expected magnetic field distribution to said measured magnetic field distribution value, and iii) means for using an optimization scheme to obtain an optimized expected magnetic field distribution of the magnetic system, means for comparing said optimal expected magnetic field distribution of the magnetic system to the measured magnetic field distribution of the magnetic system by forming a residual image, and means for performing statistical image analysis on the residual image to yield quantitative parameters reflecting imperfections and/or quality of the magnetic system and to determine whether the magnetic system passes or fails a quality control.

20050137718

10741404

1. A method for rendering at least one state diagram for an enterprise architecture, comprising: defining a plurality of objects, wherein each of the objects represents an element of the enterprise architecture; defining a plurality of relationships, wherein each of the relationships is between one of the plurality of objects and another of the plurality of objects; and rendering the at least one state diagram based upon the plurality of objects, the plurality of relationships, and a frame of reference.

8027540

12014193

1. A method comprising: receiving, by a computer, an image of a handwritten item; performing, by said computer, a word segmentation process on said image to produce a set of sub-images; extracting, by said computer, a set of feature vectors from each sub-image using said computer; computing, by said computer, a first log-likelihood score of said feature vectors using a word model having a first structure; computing, by said computer, a second log-likelihood score of said feature vectors using a background model having a second structure different than said first structure using said computer; computing, by said computer, a final score for said sub-image by subtracting said second log-likelihood score from said first log-likelihood score; comparing, by said computer, said final score against a predetermined standard to produce a word identification result; and outputting, by said computer, said word identification result.

9886364

14588089

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing computer instructions stored therein for causing a computer processor to perform a method providing a technical solution to the technical problem of evaluating the performance of a software application without affecting overall system performance, the method comprising: (a) continuously receiving, at a call selector software component, software calls within a computer system each representing an indication of the initiation of a software workflow transaction having a unique transaction ID, and, for each respective received software call, utilizing a measurement marker algorithm comprising (i) comparing, for the respective software call, a first byte of its unique transaction ID to a threshold value calculated based on a predefined selection criteria percentage, (ii) determining, for the respective software call, whether the respective software call is to be marked as a traceable transaction based on the result of the comparison, and (A) if it is determined that the respective software call is to be marked as a traceable transaction, marking the respective software call as traceable, or if it is determined that the respective software call is not to be marked as a traceable transaction, not marking the respective software call as traceable, and (iii) forwarding the respective software call to a call processing software component, (iv) wherein (A) a first set of the received software calls are marked as traceable, (B) a second set of the received software calls are not marked as traceable, and (C) a ratio of a number of software calls in the first set to a number of software calls in the first and second sets corresponds to the predefined selection criteria percentage; and (b) receiving, at the call processing software component, the forwarded software calls, including the first set of received software calls and the second set of received software calls, and, for each respective forwarded software call, (i) determining, for the respective software call, whether the respective software call is marked as traceable, and (ii) effecting execution of one or more respective operations to execute the respective software call, and (A) if it was determined that the respective software call is marked as traceable, tracking the performance of the one or more respective operations executed for the respective forwarded software call representing an indication of the initiation of a software workflow transaction and storing call metrics based on the tracked performance of the one or more respective operations in an intermediate memory, or if it was not determined that the respective software call is marked as traceable, not tracking the performance of the one or more respective operations.

8455028

12115892

1. A method for operating a cooking process based on a multiple number of entered parameters, the method comprising: entering parameters through an input device of the cooking appliance, the entered parameters including (i) at least one of a multiple number of cooking products and a multiple number of cooking programs, (ii) an ending time, and (iii) at least one cooking parameter per cooking product or cooking program; indicating, with an output device, when each cooking product of a multiple number of selected cooking products is to be loaded into a cooking chamber of a cooking appliance and to be removed from the cooking chamber depending on the ending time for each cooking product for conducting the multiple number of cooking programs automatically in a sequence; and running at least two cooking programs in the cooking chamber during a cooking process, each cooking program comprising a plurality of atmosphere settings for the cooking chamber, at least one atmosphere setting of each cooking program being different than the corresponding atmosphere setting of the other cooking program(s), wherein the atmosphere settings include a temperature setting, a moisture setting, and an air flow circulation setting, and wherein running the at least two cooking programs comprises running the at least two cooking programs overlapped at least part of the time by automatically calculating an optimum sequence of atmosphere settings based on the atmosphere settings of the at least two cooking programs, the optimized sequence of atmosphere settings being used for changing the atmosphere in the cooking chamber to optimize the cooking process with regard to at least one of the energy consumed by the cooking appliance, the required time, and the weight loss of each cooking product to minimize dead time and save resources.

8886521

13206068

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium with an executable program stored thereon, wherein the program instructs a microprocessor to perform the following steps to use speech commands to produce a formatted report of a predetermined type, comprising: identifying a set of phrases frequently used to complete discrete sections of the report; parsing the phrases, where parsing comprises: constructing the phrases using variables; assigning each set of variables an identifier; identifying unique, comfortable-to-say, short identifiers for each phrase including words that accurately bring the phrase to mind; labeling each phrase as a logical “and” or “or”; grouping identifiers into logical, comfortable, spoken sets, wherein one or more groupings are identified, appropriate for different user experience levels and coordinated so it is easy for the user to move to the next level; labeling each set as a logical “and” or “or”; and identifying punctuation locations; comparing identifier words throughout the report to eliminate ambiguities; and constructing text macros that follow the parsed text, enabling the user to speak the identifiers to indicate full, formatted text for inclusion in the report.

20090248270

12408189

1. A vehicle drive assist system comprising: front-environment recognition means for recognizing a running environment in front of a subject vehicle; preceding-vehicle recognition means for recognizing a preceding vehicle on the basis of the running environment recognized by the front-environment recognition means; and running control means for increasing and decreasing a subject vehicle speed so that the subject vehicle follows the preceding vehicle and for performing acceleration control so as to return the subject vehicle speed to a set vehicle speed set beforehand when the preceding vehicle moves away, wherein the running control means includes: forward-obstacle recognition means for recognizing a forward obstacle on the basis of the running environment recognized by the forward-environment recognition means after the preceding-vehicle recognition means detects that the preceding vehicle has moved away; obstacle specifying means for specifying a type of the forward obstacle recognized by the forward-obstacle recognition means by determining whether or not the forward obstacle satisfies any of obstacle specifying conditions corresponding to a plurality of preset types; and sub-running control means for limiting the acceleration control on the basis of the type specified by the obstacle specifying means.

20140282309

13868954

1. A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising: code for receiving one or more parameters, at least one of which corresponds to an interface protocol; code for constructing a data flow based on the one or more parameters; code for receiving an indication of one or more control constructs; and code for creating a hardware design, utilizing the constructed data flow and the one or more control constructs.

20070079205

11224249

1. A circuit simulation method comprising: (a) defining for a circuit a first set of non-linear equations of the time-varying electrical responses of the devices of the circuit; (b) defining for the circuit a second set of non-linear equations of the time-varying temperature responses of the circuit devices; (c) determining initial, DC electrical responses of the circuit devices and initial temperatures of the circuit devices; (d) predicting a solution of the first set of equations of the time-varying electrical responses of the circuit devices based on the electrical responses of the circuit devices determined in step (c); (e) solving the first set of equations of the time-varying electrical responses of the circuit devices utilizing an iterative solution technique that causes the first set of equations to convergence to the predicted solution thereby determining updated electrical responses of the circuit devices, wherein: each iteration of the iterative solution technique determines electrical responses of the circuit devices as a function of the temperatures of the circuit devices at the commencement of the iterative solution technique; and the electrical responses determined in one iteration of the iterative solution technique are utilized as the starting electrical responses for the next iteration of the iterative solution technique until the iterative solution technique converges whereupon the electrical responses of the circuit devices that caused said convergence are deemed to be the updated electrical responses of the circuit devices; (f) solving the second set of equations of the time-varying temperature responses of the circuit devices to determine updated temperatures of the circuit devices, the second set of equations solved (1) after each iteration of the first set of equations in step (e) and as a function of the electrical responses of the circuit devices determined thereby or (2) after convergence of the first set of equations to the solution predicted in step (d) and as a function of the updated electrical responses of the circuit devices; and (g) displaying for each of one or more of the circuit devices (1) at least one of the electrical response(s) and/or (2) the updated electrical response(s) thereof.

8893109

13195917

1. A computer-implemented method for distributing product updates from a configuration device to one or more handheld medical device(s), comprising receiving, by the configuration device, a request to download a product update to a requesting medical device, retrieving, by the configuration device, a dependency that must be met before the product update can be downloaded to the requesting medical device, where the at least one dependency specifies a version of software that resides on a device which is interoperable with the requesting medical device, receiving, by the configuration device, a listing of peer devices from the requesting medical device, such that each peer device in the listing of peer devices is distinct from and interoperable with the requesting medical device and each peer device includes an enumeration of software residing thereon including a version for the software, for each peer device in the listing of peer devices, determining, by the configuration device, software residing on a given peer device from the listing of peer devices, comparing, by the configuration device, the version of software specified by the dependency to the version of the corresponding software in the listing of peer devices, and distributing, by the configuration device, the product update to the requesting medical device when the software residing on each peer device in the listing of peer devices is compatible with the version of software specified by the dependency, determining a first dependency that specifies a version of a first software entity and a second dependency that specifies a version of a second software entity, and distributing the product update to the requesting medical device when the first and second dependencies are met, where the first and second software entities reside on different peer devices.

9112975

13669384

1. A method for connecting a website user to a contact center agent, the method comprising: monitoring, by a processor remote from the website user, an interaction of the website user with a website; receiving, by the processor, a call request from the website user via the website; identifying, by the processor, an agent or an interactive voice response based on the monitored user interaction; and establishing, by the processor, a WebRTC communication channel supported by a media engine implemented in a web browser, the media engine controlling a microphone and a speaker of a computing device of the website user, the WebRTC communication channel being established between the website user and the identified agent or the interactive voice response.

20110160941

12872673

1 - A multifunction airborne radar device operating in active and passive modes, comprising a plurality of antenna modules fixed relative to the aircraft, which are placed substantially on the surface of the aircraft and form transmit and receive beams of width adapted to the aimed direction, allowing detection of targets for the implementation of a sense-and-avoid function.

20130073653

13619054

1. A system to manage instant messages, the system comprising: an input interface configured to receive instant messages created by or on behalf of one or more message sources for delivery to an intended recipient; a screening component configured to identify, from among the received instant messages, qualifying instant messages that satisfy a capture rule, and to capture as captured instant messages two or more of the qualifying instant messages; and an output interface configured to inform the intended recipient unobtrusively of the captured instant messages and to enable the intended recipient to manage the captured instant messages.

8868598

13586711

1. One or more computer storage media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, configure the one or more processors to perform acts comprising: detecting a search gesture from a user, the search gesture defining and substantially bounding a region of content that is displayed on a device; in response to detecting the search gesture, formulating a search query based on the region of content defined by and substantially bounded by the search gesture; providing a first user interface for the user of the device to specify at least one website or search engine; submitting the search query to obtain content related to the search query from the at least one website or search engine specified by the user; receiving search results corresponding to the at least one website or search engine specified by the user based on the search query; positioning target areas related to the search query in web pages returned in the search results; extracting content from the target areas in the returned web pages, the extracted content being grouped into a plurality of groups, wherein each of the plurality of groups corresponds to a particular class of information related to the search query and/or the at least one website or search engine specified by the user that is different from the rest of the plurality of groups, and wherein each of the plurality of groups is stored under a particular folder that is different from the rest of the plurality of groups; providing a second user interface comprising a plurality of indicators, each of the plurality of indicators representing a group of the plurality of groups; receiving a selection gesture from the user to select a particular indicator of the plurality of indicators; and providing content associated with a group of the plurality of groups represented by the particular indicator.

7496639

11466453

1. A method for controlling messaging outputs in a messaging session, said method comprising the steps of: receiving a plurality of message entries intended for a particular recipient and each associated with a particular topic from among a plurality of topics within a particular channel of an instant messaging session; and controlling output of said plurality of message entries according to output attributes assigned to said plurality of message entries for said particular recipient to distinguish between said plurality of topics according to preferences of said particular recipient, such that output of said plurality of message entries according to topic is distinguished according to said particular recipient receiving said plurality of message entries.

20120173904

13311475

1. A processor to conserve power, comprising: a plurality of domains including a core domain and a non-core domain, an interrupt generator to generate a first interrupt in response to the non-core domain entering a power saving state and a second interrupt in response to the non-core domain exiting the power saving state, an operating system coupled to the processor to initiate a timer in response to occurrence of the first interrupt and to halt the timer in response to occurrence of the second interrupt, and a power management unit to determine an actual residency time of the non-core domain in the power saving state using a first value and a second value, wherein the first value is registered in the timer in response to initiating the timer and the second value is registered in the timer in response to halting the timer, wherein the actual residency time of the non-core domain is used to control power state of the non-core domain.

10031991

15221820

1. An electronic design process comprising: receiving, using at least one processor, an electronic design environment including both a design under test (“DUT”) to be fabricated and a System Verilog testbench; simulating an electronic design associated with the electronic design environment; generating a coverage database associated with the electronic design; identifying one or more unexercised portions of the System Verilog testbench indicative of an absence of a stimulus; performing coverage analysis of the DUT and the System Verilog testbench using an automated System Verilog inheritance aware analysis, wherein the automated System Verilog inheritance aware analysis includes applying an object oriented programming inheritance hierarchy to the coverage analysis of the testbench; generating coverage analysis results; and applying the coverage analysis results to the testbench after simulation; wherein the electronic design is provided to a fabrication facility to manufacture integrated circuits.

20070038561

11424802

1. A method for real-time enrollment in a system for transferring funds, said method comprising: enrolling a customer having a customer account on-line in a banking system for transferring funds; and permitting the customer to add counterparty accounts immediately after enrolling the customer.

20150354474

14729716

1. A transmission system for use with an engine, comprising: a plurality of gear sets; an input member configured to be powered by the engine and to drive the plurality of gear sets; an output member driven by the plurality of gear sets; at least one clutch configured to selectively engage select gears of the plurality of gear sets; and a controller in communication with the engine, the controller being configured to: generate an estimated temperature of the at least one clutch; and selectively derate the engine based on the estimated temperature.

20090094216

12061742

1. A method for transforming a concept-based query into SQL query statements, comprising the steps of: transforming an inputted concept-based query into logic rules; checking validity of said logic rules; optimizing logic rules that are valid; and translating optimized logic rules into SQL query statements.

8676717

11512419

1. A computer-implemented method for reducing a renege rate of an application, the computer including a processor and memory and the method comprising steps performed by the computer of: collecting and storing renege data, by the processor, from a plurality of reneges; determining, by the processor, one or more renege factors based on an analysis of the renege data; collecting, by the processor, candidate data related to the renege factors, the candidate data being related to a candidate; determining, by the processor, a weight for each of the renege factors based on a frequency of the renege factor in the renege data; determining, by the processor, a rating for the renege factors based on a relationship between each of the renege factors, the relationship indicating the relative significance of each renege factor relative to the other renege factors; assigning, by the processor, a renege index value to each of the renege factors by aggregating the rating and weight; and estimating, by the processor, the propensity of the candidate to renege using a statistical comparison of the candidate data and the stored renege data; and revising, by the processor, the renege factors based on the statistical comparison.

9910666

15243849

1. An apparatus for implementing system locale management including application and task oriented live locale object update in a computer system comprising: a processor, a Locale-Object Management Daemon (LOMD) tangibly embodied in a non-transitory machine readable medium used to implement live locale object update; said processor using said Locale-Object Management Daemon (LOMD), checking a predefined living locale object update profile, monitoring status of a table of running application and correlated loaded locale-objects, and making a selective living locale-object update decision in certain nodes for certain applications, and moving a not ready application to another node before deploying a selective living locale-object update session.

8548699

12787022

1. A control system for a transmission, comprising: a pressure control module that: determines a first learned pressure based on a first torque range of a predetermined steady-state of said transmission and a first transmission turbine speed of said predetermined stead-state, and a second learned pressure based on a second torque range of said predetermined stead-state and a second transmission turbine speed of said predetermined stead-state, and operates a hydraulic control system of said transmission at a target pressure during said predetermined steady-state based on said first learned pressure and said second learned pressure; and a pressure adapt module that selectively adjusts at least one of said first learned pressure and said second learned pressure based on a first pressure at which a slip condition of said transmission occurs.

9250104

11569823

1. A patient monitoring system comprising: a plurality of self-contained sensors which acquire physiological signals from a patient and a remote device which wirelessly communicate with the sensors, wherein each of the plurality of sensors includes: a communication module which provides direct and independent wireless communication to the remote device without any intermediate patient-based station, a personalization module configured to create and associate a patient identifier to said communication, and a signal storage and processing module which stores and process the acquired signals and data derived from the signals respectively prior to communication with the remote device, wherein the signal storage and processing module further controls processing and storing of signals and data depending on the availability of the communication, wherein each sensor communicates independently with the remote device.

20140156238

14174643

1. A method of optimizing production of a plurality of wells using a control mechanism, the method comprising: generating, for each well of the plurality of wells, an intermediate solution to optimize the production of each well of the plurality of wells using, an offline model comprising a mixed-integer non linear program solver and using a plurality of prod fiction cures based on a state of the control mechanism and a given wellhead pressure; calculating, using a network model and the intermediate solution of each well of the plurality of wells, a current online wellhead pressure for each well of the plurality of wells, wherein the current online wellhead pressure for each well is dependent upon each other well of the plurality of wells; setting the intermediate solution as a final solution based on determining that a difference between the current online wellhead pressure of each well and a prior online wellhead pressure of each well of the plurality of well is less than a tolerance amount; and adjusting, using the final solution of each well, at least one operating parameter of the plurality of wells to generate an actual wellhead pressure of each well, wherein the final solution of each well identifies a value for the at least one operating parameter.

20140129569

13667205

1. A method, comprising: receiving a communication from a sender comprising a plurality of words; assigning, via a computing apparatus, a score to each of the words; determining, via the computing apparatus, a respective total sum for each of a plurality of word sequences in the communication, the respective total sum determined as a sum of the scores for each word in the respective word sequence; identifying a first word sequence of the word sequences having a total sum that is greater than a threshold value; and extracting the first word sequence from the communication as an address of the sender.

7949951

11624162

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving text to compose, the text including a plurality of paragraphs; composing the text using paragraph composition, the paragraph composition determining a layout for the lines of each paragraph according to a line break scheme that determines line breaks for the paragraph as a whole; designating one or more paragraphs of the plurality of paragraphs as having limited recomposition; receiving a modification to a line of a paragraph, the paragraph having a plurality of lines and where the modified line is subsequent to a first line in the paragraph; determining whether the paragraph of the modified line has limited recomposition; if the paragraph has limited recomposition, recomposing a portion of the paragraph using a multi-line paragraph composition process without recomposing the full paragraph; and if the paragraph does not have limited recomposition, recomposing the full paragraph, wherein the designating further comprises receiving a user input limiting recomposition for the paragraph, where the user input flags one or more particular lines in the paragraph preventing backing up the composition beyond the flagged one or more lines.

8719117

10873000

1. A method for managing return-processing of a product of a manufacturer, the method comprising: receiving, at a return-processing server separate from the manufacturer, via a network, information from a database regarding the manufacturer's return procedures for the product; receiving, at the return-processing server, via the network, information from a client system regarding the product, wherein receiving the information comprises receiving an expiration date of the product; determining that the product is short-dated by determining whether a difference between the expiration date and a present date is less than a threshold, wherein the threshold is a period of time less than a year; in response to determining that the product is short-dated: transmitting instructions for placing the product in a donation database, and receiving a request from the client system to place the product in the donation database; determining, at the return processing server, an amount to be credited in an electronic debit invoice; creating, at the return-processing server, the electronic debit invoice, wherein the electronic debit invoice includes debit authorization for creating an electronic debit in accordance with the information regarding the manufacturer's return procedures for the product and the information received from the client system regarding the product; and storing the electronic debit invoice in a debit invoice database accessible by the manufacturer for processing return credit.

8332122

12669902

1. A control apparatus for a vehicle drive unit achieving demands related to various types of capabilities of the vehicle drive unit by coordinately controlling a plurality of actuators related to operations of the vehicle drive unit, the control apparatus having a control structure of a hierarchical type, the control structure comprising: a demand generation level; a mediation level disposed on a level lower than the demand generation level; and a control variable setting level disposed on a level lower than the mediation level, signals being transmitted in one direction from a higher level of hierarchy to a lower level of hierarchy, wherein: the demand generation level includes multiple demand output elements, each of which is associated with any one of the various types of capabilities of the vehicle drive unit, and outputs one or more demands related to an associated type of capability, each of the demands falling into any one of predetermined multiple demand categories, the mediation level includes multiple mediation elements, each of which is assigned to a single demand category among the predetermined multiple demand categories, and collects the one or more demands falling into an assigned category, and mediates the collected one or more demands into a single demand according to a predetermined rule, and the control variable setting level includes an adjuster portion adjusting the values of mediated demands based on a relationship between the mediated demands, and includes multiple control variable calculation elements, each of which is assigned to a single actuator among the plurality of actuators, and calculates a control variable of an assigned actuator based on at least one of the mediated demands and adjusted demands, each of the mediated demands and the adjusted demands being used to calculate at least one control variable of the plurality of actuators.

20080052214

10461866

1. A system for conducting securities transactions, comprising: a hub in electronic communication with a distributed network, at least a first participating firm in electronic communication with the hub via the distributed network, wherein the hub comprises a message tier configured to intercept a firm request received from the first participating firm, and an application tier for validating and processing the firm request, and the firm request includes at least a parameter associated with a stock loan transaction.

8452415

11591187

1. A method comprising: receiving, by a programmer, a patient-specific patient anatomy data set that describes at least one characteristic of patient tissue proximate to an electrical stimulation lead having a complex electrode array geometry implanted within a patient, wherein the stimulation lead comprises a plurality of non-contiguous electrode segments located at different angular positions about a circumference of the lead and different axial positions along a length of the lead; receiving, by the programmer, user input that defines stimulation parameter values; generating, by the programmer, a stimulation field model that represents where electrical stimulation will propagate from the electrical stimulation lead based upon the patient-specific patient anatomy data set and the stimulation parameter values; displaying, by the programmer, the stimulation field model in conjunction with a representation of the electrical stimulation lead, the representation illustrating the complex electrode array geometry; receiving, by the programmer, stimulation field input from a user that modifies at least one of a size, shape or location of the stimulation field model relative to the representation of the electrical stimulation lead, wherein receiving stimulation field input comprises receiving input that drags a boundary of the stimulation field; and determining, by the programmer, at least one new stimulation parameter value based on the modification of the stimulation field model.

7943879

11628142

1. A method for sorting unaddressed mail items stored in a number of batches, the method comprising: providing a number of the batches, each of the batches being defined by respective identical unaddressed mail items; registering each batch by recording at least one pictorial reference feature of at least one of the mail items belonging to the respective batch, linking the pictorial reference feature to a sorting plan, detecting the pictorial reference feature on the unaddressed mail items during a subsequent sorting of all the unaddressed mail items of all the batches; and distributing the unaddressed mail items in accordance with the sorting plan linked to the detected pictorial reference features.

20090013216

12146951

1. A data processing system including modules that execute on a computer for troubleshooting computer system problems using a master taxonomic structure which classifies the computer system problems, the master taxonomic structure comprising a plurality of symptom pathways, said modules comprising: an opening module which opens a session for resolving a computer system problem; a copying module which generates a copy of the master taxonomic structure; a display module which displays symptom pathways included in the generated copy of the master taxonomic structure, each of the symptom pathways being associated with a displayed usage indicator indicating a frequency in which the respective symptom pathway was previously implemented for successfully resolving the computer system problem; a selection module which enables a user to select one of the displayed symptom pathways based on the respectively displayed usage indicators associated with each of the plurality of the symptom pathways and a symptom associated with the computer system problem, and which causes the display module to display the selected symptom pathway, wherein the displayed, selected symptom pathway includes nodes and connectors, each node indicating a symptom or solution related to the computer system problem, each node being interconnected to a neighboring node by a connector, wherein node usage indicators are displayed in association with each respective node of the displayed, selected symptom pathway, each of the node usage indicators indicating frequency of the respective node's usage to solve the computer system problem relative to other nodes of the displayed, selected symptom pathway; a problem resolution module which traverses at least a first portion of the displayed, selected symptom pathway responsive to further user selection to resolve the computer system problem, the further user selection being informed by the displayed node usage indicators associated with each respective node; a node adding module which adds, to each node included in the first portion, a node history indicator indicating that the respective node is included in the first portion; and an updating module which updates the displayed, selected symptom pathway by updating the node usage indicators of the nodes included in the first portion responsive to receiving an update request from the user, and which updates the master taxonomic structure responsive to receiving user indication that the computer system problem is resolved, including updating node usage indicators and node history indicators of nodes included in a portion of a symptom pathway in the master taxonomic structure corresponding to the first portion of the updated symptom pathway, wherein the node usage indicators and the node history indicators of the nodes included in the portion of the symptom pathway in the master taxonomic structure are updated based on the updated node usage indicators and the added node history indicators, respectively, of the nodes included in the first portion.

7711457

11577321

1. A navigation aid method for an aircraft comprising the steps of: positioning an execution order in a flight plan then in a flight path, wherein the order is for deferred execution, a condition comprising the steps of: estimating the position of the aircraft when the condition associated with the order is satisfied, this position being designated anchor position, modifying the flight plan based on the anchor position according to the order, calculating a new flight path based on the modified flight plan.

9460632

13911706

1. A method for incentivizing physical activity, comprising: in a computing system that includes one or more processors; tracking a person's physical activity over a period of time; comparing the person's physical activity to a threshold for the period of time; identifying a reward corresponding to the threshold, the reward comprising use of an electronic device; and determining that the person's physical activity is less than the threshold and, in response, authorizing a proportional amount of the reward, the proportional amount being scaled based on the person's physical activity relative to the threshold; wherein authorizing the proportional amount of the reward comprises authorizing a battery charge of the electronic device, the authorized battery charge being less than a full charge of the battery.

8214290

12484517

1. A system for monitoring plurality of electronic self-service devices, the system comprising: a receiver module configured to receive from each of the electronic self-service devices information regarding a fault-related event that occurred in a corresponding one of the electronic self-service devices; a database module configured to: associate each of the fault-related events with one of multiple event types; and store the fault-related event information in machine readable memory; a web server module configured to provide reporting information based on the fault-related events to a user; and a computational module that is configured to calculate a tally of fault-related events that are associated with at least one of the event types; wherein the web server module is configured to include the tally in the reporting information.

20110164820

12853927

1. A records management system, comprising: one or more electronic files that represent each page of each document in a project; a description module configured to create a description of said each representation of a page; a location designation module configured to designate an electronic storage location for said each representation of a page; a data module configured to create an electronic data file that corresponds to said each representation of a page, wherein the electronic data file relates said each representation of a page to a document within the project, and wherein the electronic data file includes the description of said each representation of a page, a unique identification code for said each representation of a page, and the electronic storage location for said each representation of a page; at least one workstation configured to receive input of additional data for the electronic data file, the input additional data further including a category for said each representation of a page; a supplementation module configured to supplement the electronic data file with said input additional data for the electronic data file; a merging module configured to merge said each representation of a page with the corresponding electronic data file for each said representation of a page such that said each representation of a page and the corresponding electronic data file are accessible from a single electronic project file;

20030135349

10332007

1. A system for diagnosing a facility apparatus characterized by having: facility state detecting means mounted on the facility apparatus for detecting a state of the facility apparatus; a facility management data processing section for signal-processing and outputting facility state detecting information detected by said facility state detecting means; a facility state determining section for determining a level of information outputted from said facility management data processing section comparing with a management reference value and outputting it; a facility monitoring section for gathering, processing and outputting the information related to the facility apparatus level-determined and outputted from said facility state determining section; and an advanced analysis and diagnosis section for performing an advanced analysis of the information outputted from said facility monitoring section and identifying a cause of an abnormality of the facility apparatus and improvement measures thereof to send the identified results to said facility monitoring section.

9257009

13454742

1. A jackpot triggering method for use with a gaming system having a jackpot controller and a plurality of gaming devices, each gaming device having a credit input mechanism configured to accept a physical item associated with a monetary value for establishing a credit balance, the credit balance being increasable and decreasable based at least on wagering activity, a payout mechanism configured to cause a payout associated with the credit balance, the method comprising: establishing a credit balance via a gaming device to provide for a contribution, and decreasing the credit balance; determining via the jackpot controller a jackpot trigger value from a current value of at least one jackpot trigger parameter; generating via the jackpot controller a submission value in response to receipt of the contribution associated with a gaming device participating in the jackpot, by using a value of at least one contribution parameter associated with the contribution as a seed value to randomly generate the submission value; making via a respective payout mechanism a jackpot award if the submission value corresponds to the jackpot trigger value; and selecting via the jackpot controller the value of the at least one contribution parameter from the group including: arrival time of the contribution; number of games played on a gaming device associated with the contribution; turnover on a gaming device associated with the contribution; and total win on a gaming device associated with the contribution.

20130346233

13913768

1. A method for providing location-aware group recommendations, the method comprising: receiving, at a network-based system, a group recommendation request from a mobile device associated with a first user, the group recommendation request including identification of a second user and information identifying a current location associated with at least one of the first and second users; accessing, using one or more processors within the network-based system, user profile data associated with the first user and the second user; and generating, using one or more processors within the network-based system, a common recommendation based on the current location and a combination of a portion of the user profile data associated with the first user and a portion of the user profile data associated with the second user.

8930286

13281115

1. An information processing apparatus which creates a classifier for classifying an attribute of a pattern image using a plurality of nodes consisting of a tree structure, comprising: an input unit configured to input a plurality of learning pattern images to each of the plurality of nodes, each of the plurality of learning pattern images including a target object; a selection unit configured to select, from each of the plurality of learning pattern images inputted to the node, at least one point; a determination unit configured to determine, for each of the plurality of learning pattern images inputted to the node, whether the selected point belongs to a region of the target object in the learning pattern image; a distribution unit configured to distribute and input, to a lower node of each node, a learning pattern image for which said determination unit has determined that the selected point belongs to the region; a deletion unit configured to delete a learning pattern image for which said determination unit has determined that the selected point does not belong to the region; and a storage unit configured to store an attribute of the learning pattern image input to a terminal node of the plurality of nodes in association with the node, wherein said selection unit selects, from each of the plurality of learning pattern images inputted to the node, a plurality of points, said determination unit determines, for each of the plurality of learning pattern images inputted to the node, whether a ratio of the selected plurality of points belonging to the region of the target object in the learning pattern image is larger than a threshold, said distribution unit distributes and inputs, to a lower node of each node, a learning pattern image for which said determination unit has determined that the ratio of the selected plurality of points belonging to the region of the target object in the learning pattern image is larger than the threshold, and said deletion unit deletes a learning pattern image for which said determination unit has determined that the ratio of the selected plurality of points belonging to the region of the target object in the learning pattern image is not larger than the threshold.

7953815

12138602

1. A computer readable storage medium for controlling a client wireless component for providing location dependent information to a user for selective colleague assistance, a computer readable medium comprising instructions for: receiving location data from a location tracking device; transmitting the location data to a server associated with location dependent data structures; and receiving automatically server generated location dependent data transmitted from the server to a subset of a group associated with a first colleague item list in response to a user of a client wireless component being a member of the group associated with a first colleague item list and the client wireless component being within a threshold distance to at least one of an event location and an object specified in the first colleague item list, wherein each member of the group associated with the first colleague item list has added at least one item to the first colleague item list and has associated with at least one item in the first colleague item list that has been added by another member of the group associated with the first colleague item list; and receiving, within the threshold distance to the at least one of an event location and an object specified in the first colleague item list, automatically server generated location dependent data transmitted from the server to a subset of a group associated with a second colleague item list in response to the user of the client wireless component being a member of the group associated with the second colleague item list and the client wireless component being within a threshold distance to at least one of an event location and an object specified in the second colleague item list and wherein a list of members of the first colleague item list is different from a list of members of the second colleague item list, wherein each member of the group associated with the second colleague item list has added at least one item to the second colleague item list and has associated with at least one item in the second colleague item list that has been added by another member of the group associated with the second colleague item list, and further in response to at least one other member of the subset of the group currently being located within a given distance from a location associated with the user of the client wireless component.

20080270086

12168469

1. A system, said system comprising: means for importing a design netlist containing one or more components; means for computing one or more output functions for said one or more components; means for generating one or more output equivalent state sets from said one or more output functions; means for identifying one or more next-state functions for said one or more components; means for producing one or more image equivalent state sets for said one or more next-state functions; means for classifying one or more output-and-image equivalent states for said one or more image equivalent state sets and said one or more output equivalent state sets; means for getting a preimage from said one or more next-state functions and said one or more output-and-image equivalent states to generate a preimage of said one or more output-and-image equivalent states; means for partitioning over one or more original states of said one or more components, and one or more equivalent class input sets of said one or more components; means for selecting one or more input representatives of said one or more equivalent class input sets; means for forming an input map from said one or more input representatives; means for synthesizing said input map; and means for injecting said input map back into said netlist to generate a modified netlist.

20130339280

13523574

1. A method of learning in a neural network, comprising: determining an uncertainty associated with a first pre-synaptic spike time of a first neuron model for a pattern to be learned; and determining a delay based on the uncertainty, such that the delay added to a second pre-synaptic spike time of the first neuron model results in a causal margin of time between the delayed second pre-synaptic spike time and a post-synaptic spike time of a second neuron model.

9865092

15151322

1. A system for predictive processing and delivering virtual reality content, the system comprising: one or more computer servers comprising one or more processors and one or more storage devices; and executable software stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices and executable on demand, the software operative with at least one of the one or more processors to cause the one or more computer servers to: process feedback data relating to one or more events related to a virtual reality content; receive sensor data to determine one or more of a viewing direction or an orientation of a user; additionally receive data descriptive of the virtual reality content; predict, based at least in part on the feedback data, a change in one or more of the determined viewing direction or the determined orientation; generate one or more two-dimensional renditions from the virtual reality content, wherein the one or more two-dimensional renditions are generated by mapping the virtual reality content to a two-dimensional bijective resolution-defined projection, wherein each of the one or more two-dimensional renditions represents a full sphere of the virtual reality content; select at least one of the one or more two-dimensional renditions for display; and cause display, by a display device, an inverse projection of the virtual reality content to a sphere or other three-dimensional shape, wherein one or more of the generating the one or more two-dimensional renditions or the selecting at least one of the one or more two-dimensional renditions for display is based at least in part on the predicted change in one or more of the determined viewing direction or the determined orientation.

20150212920

13840697

1. A method comprising: identifying data representing a path of a transaction, wherein the path comprises a plurality of transaction fragments associated with a plurality of software components, the transaction is to return a particular value, and the particular value is returned by a first one of the plurality of software components; identifying a particular one of the plurality of software components as a source of the particular value, wherein the particular software component is different from the first software component and passes the particular value in a particular one of the plurality of transaction fragments; determining, using a data processing apparatus, a type of test action for use in verifying the particular value as originally generated at the particular software component, wherein the type of test action is determined based on at least one of a type of the particular software component and whether the particular software component is managed by an agent monitoring at least a portion of operation of the particular software component; and generating, using a data processing apparatus, the test action of the type, wherein the test action is executable, to attempt to verify the particular value from the particular software component.

20140325617

13928215

1. A system, comprising: a memory storing a list of common credentials; a network interface component, configured to receive a credential associated with a user authentication attempt; and one or more processors configured to: determine if the received credential is correct; compare the received credential to a list of common credentials when the received credential is not correct; increase a score associated with the common credential when the received credential matches a common credential on the list of common credentials; and make a security determination based on the score.