Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
707726000 | Links from other files or link content analysis | 54 |
20100082613 | OPTIMIZING RANKING OF DOCUMENTS USING CONTINUOUS CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELDS - The present invention provides an improved method for ranking documents using a ranking model. One embodiment employs Continuous Conditional Random Fields (CRF) as a model, which is a conditional probability distribution representing a mapping relationship from retrieved documents to their ranking scores. The model can naturally utilize features of the content information of documents as well as the relation information between documents for global ranking. The present invention also provides a learning algorithm for creating Continuous CRF. Also provided, the invention introduces Pseudo Relevance Feedback and Topic Distillation. | 04-01-2010 |
20100082614 | BAYESIAN VIDEO SEARCH RERANKING - A general framework for video search reranking is disclosed which explicitly formulates reranking into a global optimization problem from the Bayesian perspective. Under this framework, with two novel pair-wise ranking distances, two effective video search reranking methods, hinge reranking and preference strength reranking, are disclosed. Experiments conducted on the TRECVID dataset have demonstrated that the disclosed methods outperform several existing reranking approaches. | 04-01-2010 |
20100094868 | DETECTION OF UNDESIRABLE WEB PAGES - A system for detecting artificial promotion of a resource, including a search engine operative to index a set incoming links (“inlinks”) which reference the resource, a log module coupled with the search engine and configured to store log data associated with the set of inlinks, a partitioning module coupled with log module and operative to partition the set of inlinks into a plurality of groups of inlinks based on at least one partitioning scheme, a statistics module coupled with the partitioning module and operative to compute a statistic associated with the inlinks within each of the plurality of groups of inlinks, and a computation module coupled with the statistics module and operative to process the computed statistic associated with the inlinks of each of the plurality of groups of inlinks and compute a metric associated with set of inlinks where the metric indicates a level of uniformity of a distribution of values of the respective computed statistics among the plurality of groups of inlinks, and where the search engine places a list of search results, generated in response to a search query, in a pattern based on the metric. | 04-15-2010 |
20100106718 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO EXTRACT DATA ENCODED IN MEDIA CONTENT - Methods and apparatus to extract data encoded in media content are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a media content signal, sampling the media content signal to generate digital samples, determining a frequency domain representation of the digital samples, determining a first rank of a first frequency in the frequency domain representation, determining a second rank of a second frequency in the frequency domain representation, combining the first rank and the second rank with a set of ranks to create a combined set of ranks, comparing the combined set of ranks to a set of reference sequences, determining a data represented by the combined set of ranks based on the comparison, and storing the data in a tangible memory. | 04-29-2010 |
20100153383 | Method and system for identifying consumers - The present invention provides a method and system for determining and creating an extended ID file for a consumer located in a database containing a large record of consumers. The system and method utilizes existing historical records located in legacy databases, and through a scoring program to match consumer records, creates an extended identification file that represents a higher probability of a combination of name, address and social security number for a given consumer. The extended identification file may now be utilized by credit bureaus to locate credit history for the given consumer. | 06-17-2010 |
20100153384 | System and Method for In-Context Exploration of Search Results - A method of providing in-context exploration of a query results web page, wherein the web page has at least one element and a plurality of query results, receives an indication of interest in the at least one element, and in response to the indication, emphasizes at least one query result relative to the plurality of query results. | 06-17-2010 |
20100161597 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINDING POTENTIAL TRADING PARTNERS IN BOTH TWO-PARTY AND MULTI-PARTY SCENARIOS - System and method for bartering items between two or more parties using a communications network in which each party accesses a central server via the communications network and provides a list of items they have to trade and want to obtain, a description of the items and any conditions for trade of the items. The lists are stored in a database and links indicating the party's possible trades are automatically created. A search for possible trades between the parties is undertaken using the links and the parties involved in each possible trade are notified to confirm the trade. Upon receipt of confirmation from each party, the trade is processed to completion. Weights may be assigned to the links, representing a degree of similarity between descriptions of items, whereby the search for possible trades is conducted based on the weights of the links. | 06-24-2010 |
20100191724 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO IDENTIFY PROVIDERS IN WEB DOCUMENTS - An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a method of identifying providers. The method includes obtaining a results document from a search, wherein the results document comprises references to documents that contain a keyword. analyzing the results document to identify a plurality of the references. The method includes accessing each of the documents using the identified references and analyzing each of the accessed documents to determine a probabilistic value that the accessed document is associated with a provide. | 07-29-2010 |
20100191725 | A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISCOVERING PROVIDERS - An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a method of identifying providers. The method comprises obtaining a keyword from a client and obtaining a results document from a search, wherein the results document comprises references to documents that contain the keyword. The method also comprises analyzing the results document to identify a plurality of the references, accessing the documents corresponding to the identified references, and analyzing the accessed documents to determine a list of keywords. The list of keywords is compared to lists of keywords associated with each of a plurality of category headings to identify a list of related category headings. | 07-29-2010 |
20100223261 | System for Communication and Collaboration - A system and method for communication and collaboration that uses a generalized annotation based mechanism such that items can be shared amongst users and both items and users can be searched and ranked based on existing Information Retrieval ranking techniques. A new method is introduced for clustering users and items simultaneously on the basis of category contexts. These mechanisms are leveraged to create a mechanism that allows for publishing and subscribing items based on context. | 09-02-2010 |
20100250527 | SPONSORED SEARCH RESULTS RE-RANKING BASED ON LINKING ASSOCIATIONS - A computer-implemented system and methods of re-ranking sponsored search results by a search engine in response to a search query include: retrieving one or more organic search results and a plurality of sponsored search results (“search results”), along with their respective rankings, associated with a search query; determining a degree of association between each sponsored search result and the other search results through analyzing web links between the search results and other web documents to or from which the search results are at least indirectly linked; calculating a clustering score for each sponsored search result based on their respective degrees of linking association; generating a new ranking score for each sponsored search result based on their respective clustering scores and rankings; and re-ranking, and storing in memory, the plurality of sponsored search results based on the new ranking scores of each respective sponsored search result. | 09-30-2010 |
20100250528 | QUICKLINK SELECTION FOR NAVIGATIONAL QUERY - According to techniques described herein, the best set of quicklinks is picked to maximize the benefits for a majority of the users of a search engine, since the “real estate” on a search results page is constrained and valuable. Quicklinks are navigational shortcuts that are displayed below the website homepage on a search results page. Using user browsing trails obtained from browser toolbars, and a simple probabilistic model, the quicklink selection program is formulated as a combinatorial optimization problem. Two techniques are proposed herein: a greedy technique and a tree-based technique. The tree-based technique finds an optimal solution, but may do so in a greater amount of time than the greedy technique takes to find a solution that is not guaranteed to be optimal. The tree-based technique may incorporate natural constraints on the set of chosen quicklinks. | 09-30-2010 |
20100268708 | System and method for ranking search results within citation intensive document collections - Systems and methods facilitate a search and identify documents and associated metadata reflecting content of the documents. In one implementation, a method receives a query comprising a set of search terms, identifies a stored document in response to the query, and determines a score value for the retrieved document based on a similarity between one or more of the query search terms and metadata associated with the identified document. The method locates the identified document in a citation network of baseline query results, the citation network comprising a first set of documents that cite to the identified document and a second set of documents cited to by the identified document. The method further determines a new score value of the identified document as a function of the score value and a quantity and a quality of documents within the first and second set of documents. | 10-21-2010 |
20110010365 | Content Category Scoring for Nodes in a Linked Database - Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for assigning content category scores to nodes of a linked database. The nodes of the linked database include linking nodes and linked nodes. Each linking node is assigned a linking node score for each content category. The linking node score for each content category represents a degree of relevancy of the linking node to the content category. Each of the linked nodes is linked to by at least one of the linking nodes. Each linked node is assigned a content category score for each content category. The content category score for each content category is based on the linking node score for said content category of each linking node that links to the linked node. | 01-13-2011 |
20110016114 | PROBABILISTIC LINK STRENGTH REDUCTION - Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for resolving relationships in a relationship graph of identities. A strength of at least one link from a node of the relationship graph may be reduced, based on at least a count of the links from the node. Further, the reduction may be based on one or more predefined threshold counts. The node having a reduced link strength may be evaluated to identify whether a relationship between the node and a specified node meets predefined criteria for a relationship of interest. A user may be alerted of any identified relationship. | 01-20-2011 |
20110016115 | USING LINK STRUCTURE FOR SUGGESTING RELATED QUERIES - An approach is provided for determining related queries for a given search query based on the linking structure of electronic documents within a document set. Document titles are used to represent potential search queries and links between the electronic documents are used to determine relationships between the potential search queries. As such, the document set may be represented as a directed graph in which document titles (which represent potential search queries) are nodes and links are edges between the nodes. When a particular search query is received, a corresponding node is identified and related queries are determined by identifying other nodes having connections with that node. | 01-20-2011 |
20110029511 | KEYWORD ASSIGNMENT TO A WEB PAGE - A method, system and apparatus for a assigning keywords to a web page using keyword data from the web page itself, web pages having links pointing to the web page, and web pages pointed to by a link in the web page, wherein the keyword data from the multiple web pages is processed to provide a relevant set of keyword data for the web page. | 02-03-2011 |
20110029512 | PROVIDING LINK TO PORTION OF MEDIA OBJECT IN REAL TIME IN SOCIAL NETWORKING UPDATE - Techniques are described herein that are capable of providing a link to a portion of a media object (e.g., video, audio, etc.) in real time in a social networking update. For example, a user in a social networking system may generate a social networking update that references a media object while the user is consuming the media object. A determination may be made that the user is consuming the media object and that the user generates the social networking update while the user is consuming the media object. A link is inserted in the social networking update that references a portion of the media object that corresponds to a time instance at which the user generates the social networking update. For instance, the link may be automatically inserted in the social networking update. | 02-03-2011 |
20110060735 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING EXPERTISE BASED SEARCH RESULTS - Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer program products for generating search results comprising web documents with associated expert information. One embodiment of a method for generating such search results includes receiving one or more search queries, selecting one of the one or more search queries, determining one or more categories of web documents responsive to the selected search query and crawling a web graph of linked web documents to identify one or more web documents tagged as within the one or more categories responsive to the selected search query. The method further includes generating a result set of the one or more web documents identified as within the one or more categories responsive to the selected search query, ranking the result set and generating a list of ranked search results responsive to the selected search. | 03-10-2011 |
20110119262 | Method and System for Grouping Chunks Extracted from A Document, Highlighting the Location of A Document Chunk Within A Document, and Ranking Hyperlinks Within A Document - A system and method for grouping chunks, highlighting a chunk location within a document, and ranking hyperlinks of a document. A portion of a document including one or more hyperlinks to linked documents at respective data sources is displayed in a first window. In response to a search request including one or more search terms, one or more of the linked documents are requested from the respective data sources. When a respective linked document is received from a respective data source, it is determined whether the respective linked document includes chunks that match at least one of the search terms. If true, at least a subset of the chunks are displayed as a respective group in a second window only if a number of groups displayed in the second window is less than a predefined number of groups. | 05-19-2011 |
20110119263 | INFORMATION COLLECTION APPARATUS, SEARCH ENGINE, INFORMATION COLLECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention provides an information collection apparatus, an information collection method, and a program capable of collecting information from information resources on a network effectively as well as a search engine that searches the information resources collected. An information collection apparatus of the present invention that collects information from information resources on a network includes an extraction unit that acquires data from an information resource via the network to extract a link-destination address included in the data, a calculation unit that calculates, by comparing each link-destination address with a collection rule describing a set of addresses qualified for a collection target, a score for each link-destination address that reflects a distance from the set to a link-destination information resource indicated by the link-destination address, and a judgment unit that judges whether the link-destination information resource is to be included in the collection target or not in accordance with the score calculated for the link-destination information resource. | 05-19-2011 |
20110191334 | Smart Interface for Color Layout Sensitive Image Search - The present disclosure describes a user interface and techniques to use the user interface to specify user search intent for color layout image search. In one aspect, a user interface is comprised of a color map control, a plurality of controls to draw a color layout, and a drawing canvas upon which to draw. The controls used to draw the color layout include shape preserving and shape modifying operations as wells as editing operations. In this way a color layout may be automatically generated with drawing semantics. The user interface may also be integrated with text search engines that perform text search on text metadata tags associated with digital images. | 08-04-2011 |
20110202526 | SEMANTIC SEARCH SYSTEM USING SEMANTIC RANKING SCHEME - A semantic search system using a semantic ranking scheme including: an ontology analyzer analyzing ontology data related to a search target to determine a weight value of each property according to a weighing method for property; a semantic path extractor extracting all the semantic paths between resources and query keywords and determining a weight value of each extracted semantic path according to the semantic path weight value determination scheme by using the weight value of each property; a relevant resource searcher traversing an instance graph of ontology based on a semantic path having a pre-set length and weight value of more than an expectation level to search resources that have a semantic relationship with the query keywords and are declared as a type presented in the query; and a semantic relevance ranker selecting a top-k results having the highest rank from among the candidate results extracted by the relevant resource researcher by using a relevance scoring function. | 08-18-2011 |
20110213772 | Blending Mobile Search Results - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for blending mobile search results. A method includes receiving a search query and multiple search results. The search results each satisfy the search query and have a respective search result quality score. The search results include generic and mobile search results. The generic and mobile search results each identify a generic and mobile resource, respectively. The search result quality scores include mobile and generic search result quality scores for the mobile and generic search results, respectively. The mobile search result quality scores and the generic search result quality scores were generated according to different scoring formulas. Based on one or more terms in the search query, the search query is classified as a mobile query. As a consequence, one or more search result quality scores are modified to improve the sorting of search results that include both mobile and generic search results. | 09-01-2011 |
20110238660 | CLIENT MANAGEMENT OF DOWNLOAD SEQUENCE OF ORCHESTRATED CONTENT - Downloading resources according to a priority is disclosed. A feed document is retrieved. A feed document represents time-variant chunks of published content. The feed document is parsed to extract one or more references to a downloadable resource. A downloadable resource is a type of content identified by a reference within the feed document. A priority level is assigned to each reference. Priority levels may be assigned in a variety of ways, such as through a size of a resource identified by a reference or a file type of a resource. Priority levels may also be assigned to nestable resources and one or more resources contained therein. Resources for each extracted reference are then downloaded according to the assigned priority levels. A resource for a reference with a higher assigned priority level is downloaded before a resource for a reference with a lower assigned priority level. | 09-29-2011 |
20120047133 | Self-organizing community system - The invention provides self-organization methodologies and system for internet users to build web-based organizational hierarchical structure that is constituent of units within which direct and sufficient communication can be fulfilled. Each unit is administrated autonomously through the democratic-decision process, and processes information internally. The members of unit can designate or replace its leader anytime though election; the leader elect of a unit will then become a member of its direct upper unit in the structure, representing its unit to participate in the management and election of upper unit and to bring the consolidated results of its unit to the upper unit for further consolidation; recursively, a hierarchical structure is to form from bottom to upper progressively, and to produce different level of end products at different layer. Taking the advantage of self-organization methodologies, the SOC & SOwiki platform and systems are to be designed and implemented to support various applications of SOC & SOwiki structures that are created to satisfy different social needs or business models. | 02-23-2012 |
20120226684 | USER INTERACE AND PROCESSING FUNCTIONALITY FOR PATENT EXAMINER INFORMATION SYSTEM - A patent Examiner information accessing system is disclosed for accessing patent Examiner information from a Patent and Trademark Office, or other, database. A search system is provided so that a user can search information aggregated by the Examiner information accessing system. | 09-06-2012 |
20130086055 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING WITH CONSIDERATION USER'S ACTION - A method searches web objects. The method includes calculating a user rank for at least one web object based on a user's action and determining a listing order of at least one found web object using the user rank. | 04-04-2013 |
20130144870 | RESULTS RETURNED FOR LIST-SEEKING QUERIES - List-based search results are generated. According to one technique, items are extracted from multiple resources deemed relevant to a user-submitted search query, and a comprehensive master list of those items is compiled and returned to the query-submitted user in response to his submission. According to another technique, lists of items are identified within such query-relevant resources. For each list-containing resource deemed to be relevant to the query terms, a list is extract from that resource and included within that resource's abstract on the search results page returned to the user in response to his submission. Additionally, the resources may be re-ranked for generation of the search results page based on the lists contained within those resources in addition to (or regardless of) occurrences of query terms within those resources. | 06-06-2013 |
20130191379 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SEARCH RESULTS - A method includes generating search results in response to a user query, where at least one of the search results includes a group of links. The group of links may represent links to web pages within a same web site and may be identified based on at least one factor associated with the links. The method may also include providing the search results to the user. | 07-25-2013 |
20130254189 | Using Anchor Text to Provide Context - A search engine can provide referencing information as context for a particular search result when an excerpt from the search result, comprising at least some similar elements to the user's query, is not generated. Referencing information can include one or more anchor texts having similarity to at least some elements of the user's query, the anchor texts being used by referencing pages to link to the page returned as a search result. User selection of the anchor text can enable the user to visit a referencing page using that anchor text to link to the page returned as a search result, and having a high static rank. | 09-26-2013 |
20140040253 | IDENTIFYING AND RANKING WEB PAGES OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB BASED ON RELATIONSHIPS IDENTIFIED BY AUTHORS - Methods and systems for providing related web pages are disclosed. One method includes identifying a plurality of web pages, wherein the plurality of web pages each have a relationship with the first file, wherein the world wide web provides a platform for sharing web pages, and wherein each web page includes a document or information resource that is suitable for the world wide web and is accessible through a web browser. The method further includes generating a list of inquiries based on the plurality of web pages, providing, the list of inquiries to at least one author of the first file, receiving from the at least one author at least one response to the list of inquiries, selecting a subset of the plurality of web pages based on the at least one response, and storing information related to the selected subset of the plurality of web pages. | 02-06-2014 |
20140188861 | USING SCIENTIFIC PAPERS IN WEB SEARCH - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for using scientific papers in web search are described. A web search system can rank scientific content highly in search results of a query, when the scientific content has been popular in the past but is obscure at query time. The web search system can augment a search query by providing additional search terms when terms in the search query and the additional search terms appeared together in news stories frequently in the past but appear together infrequently at query time. | 07-03-2014 |
20140214820 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF CREATING A SEACH QUERY - A system and method for disambiguation of a query is provided. The system and method identifies elements of a query which may be ambiguous and assists a person to resolve any ambiguous elements. Algorithmic processing may provide auxiliary information which may be selectively presented with a query and/or a response to a query. | 07-31-2014 |
20140236938 | DETERMINING SORT ORDER BY DISTANCE - Included are embodiments for determining sort order. At least one embodiment of a method includes determining a plurality of search results associated with at least one search criteria. Some embodiments of a method include determining a first distance between at least one of the search results and a home page associated with the at least one search result and determining a display order for the plurality of search results. | 08-21-2014 |
20140317103 | INTERFACE TO NAVIGATE AND SEARCH A CONCEPT HIERARCHY - A method includes receiving a concept hierarchy at a computing device. The concept hierarchy identifies concepts associated with a document corpus. An interface based on the concept hierarchy is generated. The interface is operable to navigate and search the concept hierarchy. | 10-23-2014 |
20140337331 | Methods and Systems for Discovery of Linkage Points Between Data Sources - Data records are linked across a plurality of datasets. Each dataset contains at least one data record, and each data record is associated with an entity and includes one or more attributes of that entity and a value for each attribute. Values associated with attributes are compared across datasets, and matching attributes having values that satisfy a predetermined similarity threshold are identified. In addition, linkage points between pairs of datasets are identified. Each linkage point links one or more pairs of data records. Each data record in the pair of data records is contained in one of a given pair of datasets, and each pair of data records is associated with a common entity having matching attributes in the given pair of datasets. Data records associated with the common entities are linked across datasets using the identified linkage points. | 11-13-2014 |
20140379707 | DETERMINING KEY EBOOK TERMS FOR PRESENTATION OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RELATED THERETO - Systems and methods for rendering automatic annotation for electronic books with external information provided by an information database. A computer implemented method is used to automatically determine key terms and match the key terms with correct information from external information sources for presentation at an e-book page. The key terms can be detected based on a TF-IDF based content analysis process. The detected key terms can be processed by a disambiguation process to select the pertinent definition for multi-sense terms according to one or more selected information sources. Hyperlinks can be embedded in the key terms for direct and convenient link to the matching external information in response to user interactions. | 12-25-2014 |
20150058335 | DETERMINING SORT ORDER BY DISTANCE - Included are embodiments for determining sort order. At least one embodiment of a method includes determining a plurality of search results associated with at least one search criteria. Some embodiments of a method include determining a first distance between at least one of the search results and a home page associated with the at least one search result and determining a display order for the plurality of search results. | 02-26-2015 |
20150066920 | MEDIA CLIP SHARING ON SOCIAL NETWORKS - Systems and techniques are disclosed for creating and sharing short, customized media clips on social networks. The system can perform media content analysis (i.e., facial recognition, audio recognition, etc.) on a media. The system can generate metadata associated with the media content based on the media content analysis. A user can submit a search query for characteristics of the media content. The system can perform a search on the generated metadata based on the received search query. The system can return identified portions of the media content that satisfy the search on the generated metadata. A short, customized clip created from the identified portions of the media content can be shared to a social media network. | 03-05-2015 |
20150088874 | EXPOSING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN UNIVERSE OBJECTS - Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for exposing relationships between universe objects. In some implementations, actions include identifying a universe, the universe including objects at an abstracted layer, automatically processing the objects of the abstracted layer to provide one or more link groups, each link group including a plurality of objects that have some relation to one another, and outputting the one or more link groups. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088875 | System and Method For Ranking Search Results Within Citation Intensive Document Collections - Systems and methods facilitate a search and identify documents and associated metadata reflecting content of the documents. In one implementation, a method receives a query comprising a set of search terms, identifies a stored document in response to the query, and determines a score value for the retrieved document based on a similarity between one or more of the query search terms and metadata associated with the identified document. The method locates the identified document in a citation network of baseline query results, the citation network comprising a first set of documents that cite to the identified document and a second set of documents cited to by the identified document. The method further determines a new score value of the identified document as a function of the score value and a quantity and a quality of documents within the first and second set of documents. | 03-26-2015 |
20150112979 | MEDICAL CONTENT SEARCH AND RESULTS - A search request for medical content can be initiated by a user, and the medical content that is relevant to the search request can be identified. The identified medical content can be ranked based on the number of times the content has been referenced as well as by the healthcare provider that referenced the medical content. The relevant identified medical content can then be displayed in an ordered list that is ordered based on the number of times the content has been assigned. | 04-23-2015 |
20150317401 | CONTROLLING ACCESS OF USER INFORMATION USING SOCIAL-NETWORKING INFORMATION - In particular embodiments, a computing system may receive a search query from a first user of an online social network, identify one or more second users of the online social network that match the search query, where each identified second user may have a visibility setting specifying which other users of the online social network can view information from the online social network associated with the second user, and send to the first user information associated with each second user having a relationship within the online social network to the first user such that the visibility setting of the second user specifies that the first user can view the information associated with the second user. | 11-05-2015 |
20150339310 | SYSTEM FOR RECOMMENDING RELATED-CONTENT ANALYSIS IN AN AUTHORING ENVIRONMENT - Disclosed herein are technologies for recommending related-content analysis in a text document authoring environment. In some implementations, a matched related-content is generated on-the-fly to a user based on a context-based analysis of user-entries in the text document authoring environment. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 11-26-2015 |
20150370796 | MEDIA STORE WITH A CANONICAL LAYER FOR CONTENT - A media store, as disclosed herein, may be composed of one or more canonical documents. Each of the canonical documents may refer to one or more of content items. Each content item may be a source file for a specific piece of content such as a movie or song. The system may represent variants of the content items as a single document, the canonical document. A user may view one or more of the content items referred to in the canonical document. | 12-24-2015 |
20150370842 | ANALYZING LOG STREAMS BASED ON CORRELATIONS BETWEEN DATA STRUCTURES OF DEFINED NODE TYPES - A method by a log stream analysis computer includes identifying records of log streams within a log repository containing a defined term. The log streams are generated by respective software sources executed by the host nodes. Similarity values are determined to indicate similarity between content of the records containing the defined term. A term node is generated to contain a data structure that identifies the defined term and lists identities of the records and corresponding ones of the similarity values. Related log stream analysis computers are disclosed. | 12-24-2015 |
20160019216 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING THE RANKING OF NEWS ARTICLES - A system ranks results. The system may receive a list of links. The system may identify a source with which each of the links is associated and rank the list of links based at least in part on a quality of the identified sources. | 01-21-2016 |
20160063126 | WEB-BASED CUSTOMER SERVICE INTERFACE - A system and method for processing a web-based query is provided. The system comprises a web server for transmitting a web form having a text field box for entering a natural language query, and a language analysis server for extracting concepts from the natural language query and classifying the natural language query into predefined categories via computed match scores based upon the extracted concepts and information contained within an adaptable knowledge base. In various embodiments, the web server selectively transmits either a resource page or a confirmation page to the client, based upon the match scores. The resource page may comprise at least one suggested response corresponding to at least one predefined category. The language analysis server may adapt the knowledge base in accordance with a communicative action received from the client after the resource page is transmitted. | 03-03-2016 |
20160117329 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SOCIAL RECOMMENDATIONS - Computer-implemented systems, methods, and media for making a recommendation or a non-recommendation to a user comprising: a software module configured to calculate a social distance between a first and a second user; a software module configured to allow the first and the second user to rate a plurality of items using a gamified rating model; a software module configured to analyze a degree of similarity between the first and the second user based on the ratings of the plurality of items by the first and the second user; a software module configured to make a recommendation or a non-recommendation to the first user based on the social distance and the degree of similarity between the first and the second user, and the ratings of the plurality of items; and a software module configured to present the recommendation or non-recommendation in a manner that comprises a ranked list. | 04-28-2016 |
20160125075 | ANSWER INTERACTIONS IN A QUESTION-ANSWERING ENVIRONMENT - In a question-answering (QA) environment, a first answer sequence is identified. As identified, the first answer sequence includes a first answer and a second answer. A corpus is analyzed using the first answer and the second answer. Based on the analysis, a set of influence factors corresponding to both the first answer and the second answer are identified. A first answer relationship between the first answer and the second answer is then generated based on the set of influence factors. | 05-05-2016 |
20160147875 | Question Pruning for Evaluating a Hypothetical Ontological Link - Mechanisms for generating a set of questions to evaluate a link between concept entities are provided. A hypothetical link between at least two information concept entities is generated. A set of questions corresponding to the hypothetical link is retrieved and pruned into a subset of questions based on at least one of characteristics of the hypothetical link or characteristics of the at least two information concept entities. The pruned set of questions is processed based on a corpus of evidence to generate a measure of support for or against the hypothetical link being an actual link between the at least two information concept entities. A validity indication for the hypothetical link indicating whether or not the hypothetical link is an actual link between the at least two information concept entities is output. | 05-26-2016 |
20160147901 | Generating Derived Links - A system, method, computer program product and computer program for evaluating links between objects are provided. A receive ontology component receives an ontology and an identify component identifies, from the ontology, semantic feature types within the ontology that can be used to measure the links between the objects. A data receive component receives instance information and maps the instance information into an ontological form of the instance information. An analyze component analyzes the ontological form to generate an ontological mapping of the instance information. A match component analyzes the mapping to identify matches with semantic patterns. A strength component analyzes the associated semantic features associated with the objects of the matches to determine weightings for the links of the matches. An alert component provides the links and associated weightings. | 05-26-2016 |
20160378878 | SYSTEM TO STORE USER SELECTION AND PROVIDE EASY RETRIEVAL AND TRAVERSAL - A computer implemented method and system for organizing file location bookmarks of navigations within corresponding applications. A plurality of navigation histories relating to an application are captured, in response to a user navigating a file system using an application and selecting resource locations within corresponding directories of the file system for saving. The selected locations of the navigation history are displayed on a user interface (UI) of the computer. The selected locations of the navigation history are updated and displayed, responsive to the selections of the user. | 12-29-2016 |