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20100082644 | IMPLICIT INFORMATION ON MEDIA FROM USER ACTIONS - The exemplary embodiments relate to a new interactive method and system to implicitly enrich any multimedia content effortlessly by combining multiple pieces of information on media content. The new solution consists of logging implicit user actions (e.g., display, modify, remove, copy, classify, send) on media from their terminals (e.g., PC, mobile phone, PDA). Pertinent information related to media will be then statistically generated and consolidated from these logged media actions and will be used to enrich related media content. A unique identifier number will be associated with each media in order to retrieve its associated information. | 04-01-2010 |
20100088322 | REAL TIME QUERY TRENDS WITH MULTI-DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATION - A list of “hot topics” may be provided to a user to indicate information that is currently popular. A topic may be deemed popular when a large number of search queries related to the topic are entered by users. A search system may receive and analyze an electronic source of published information to determine a reason for why a particular popular topic is popular. If content related to why a particular popular topic is popular exists in multiple electronic sources of published information, text summarization techniques may be used to determine a reason for why the popular topic is popular by from among the multiple electronic sources of published information. | 04-08-2010 |
20100114914 | Selective Home Page Manager - A computer implemented method, apparatus, data processing system, and computer program product are present for displaying a web page. A home page for a browser is selected from historical information collected from prior web page access to form a selected home page. The selected home page is displayed on a display device. | 05-06-2010 |
20100138428 | KEYWORD OUTPUT APPARATUS AND METHOD - Related keywords having certain relations to a target keyword are extracted from a unit storing keywords according to relations among each other. Expressions corresponding to the target keyword and related keywords are read from a unit storing expressions correspondingly with each stored keyword, each expression having been extracted from a content containing the corresponding keyword. A commonness between the expressions corresponding to each related keyword and the target keyword is calculated. An association between each related keyword and the target keyword is calculated using a distance for each related keyword from the target keyword and the commonness. A related keyword having a certain association is extracted as a same-region keyword in a same region as the target keyword. A drawing including the target keyword and related keywords arranged according to the associations is output with the same-region keyword displayed distinguishably from other related keywords not included in the same region. | 06-03-2010 |
20100169328 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS USING MODEL-BASED COLLABORATIVE FILTERING WITH USER COMMUNITIES AND ITEMS COLLECTIONS - Massively scalable, memory and model-based techniques are an important approach for practical large-scale collaborative filtering. We describe a massively scalable, model-based recommender system and method that extends the collaborative filtering techniques by explicitly incorporating these types of user and item knowledge. In addition, we extend the Expectation-Maximization algorithm for learning the conditional probabilities in the model to coherently accommodate time-varying training data. | 07-01-2010 |
20100228744 | INTELLIGENT ENHANCEMENT OF A SEARCH RESULT SNIPPET - A method, system, and medium are provided for enhancing a search result snippet that is associated with a URL. Potentially descriptive terms of the URL are identified by reconciling multiple sources of terms related to the URL. One aspect includes comparing search terms of historically relevant queries to anchor text for the URL. The search result snippet might be intelligently enhanced by causing common terms to be visibly distinguished when the snippet is displayed. | 09-09-2010 |
20110055229 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A VALUATION OF REVENUE OPPORTUNITY FOR A KEYWORD FROM A VALUATION OF ONLINE SESSIONS ON A WEBSITE FROM USER ACTIVITIES FOLLOWING A KEYWORD SEARCH - An improved system and method for generating a valuation of online sessions on a website following a keyword search. The revenue generated for online sessions of users for pairs of keyword/referrer may be calculated from activities performed on the website during the online sessions and may be added to a sum representing the session value for the pair of keyword/referrer on the website. In an embodiment, the revenue opportunity of the pairs of keyword/referrer for a website may be estimated by multiplying the session value by the difference of a total count of clicks for multiple websites on search results by a referrer for the keyword and a count of clicks for the website on search results by a referrer for the keyword. The pairs of keyword/referrer may be ranked for the website by the estimated revenue opportunity, and then applied to optimize monetization of online content. | 03-03-2011 |
20110055230 | Community-Based Knowledge Sharing - A method of intelligent community-based knowledge sharing includes receiving a query from a user of a community, retrieving a social distance hierarchy of members of the community associated with the user, traversing the social distance hierarchy to determine a first recipient of the query, and transmitting the query to the first recipient. | 03-03-2011 |
20110055231 | MULTI-DATABASE QUERY SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system for retrieving data from a plurality of data sources is provided. The system includes a first data source for storing first data, a second data source for storing second data, and a server computer in communication with the first and second data sources. The server is programmed to receive a query execution request including a query definition reference and a query parameter definition wherein the query definition reference corresponds to a query definition that includes a first query block and a second query block, create a first executable query based on the first query block and the query parameter definition, create a second executable query based on the second query block and the query parameter definition, execute the first executable query at the first data source to create first query results, and execute the second executable query at the second data source to create second query results. | 03-03-2011 |
20110119278 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DELIVERING TARGETED CONTENT TO WEBSITE VISITORS TO PROMOTE PRODUCTS AND BRANDS - A method of selecting a website for delivery of targeted content to an audience member computer based on attitude values associated with audience members who participate in a computer implemented survey is disclosed. The survey response information, as well as website visitation information, and demographic information associated with the audience members may be collected and stored in a central database. An attitude value may be determined from the survey response information and/or the other information for the audience members. The attitude value may indicate the audience member's view about an issue, topic, product, service or the like. The attitude value in conjunction with other website visitation information may be used to select a website for delivery of the targeted content to the audience members. | 05-19-2011 |
20110125765 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING MEDIA PROFILE - An approach is provided for updating a media profile. The social media service receives a request, from a device, to update a content object, wherein the content object includes a content playlist for expressing a content preference of a user of the device. Then, the social media service, in response to the request, automatically retrieves information related to the content preference from the device or another device associated with the user. Next, the social media service selects one or more content items to include in the content playlist based on the retrieved content preference information. | 05-26-2011 |
20110161331 | Incremental Update Of Long-Term And Short-Term User Profile Scores In A Behavioral Targeting System - A behavioral targeting system determines user profiles from online activity. The system includes a plurality of models that define parameters for determining a user profile score. Event information, which comprises on-line activity of the user, is received at an entity. To generate a user profile score, a model is selected. The model comprises recency, intensity and frequency dimension parameters. The behavioral targeting system generates a user profile score for a target objective, such as brand advertising or direct response advertising. The parameters from the model are applied to generate the user profile score in a category. The behavioral targeting system has application for use in ad serving to on-line users. | 06-30-2011 |
20110208755 | DATA RESTORATION UTILIZING FORWARD AND BACKWARD DELTAS - A restoration technique includes storing a collection of blocks having (i) a first baseline of blocks defining a file at a first time within a predefined window, (ii) older blocks, and (iii) newer blocks. The technique further includes providing a direction signal to restore the file at a particular time from the collection of blocks. The direction signal has an older direction value when the particular time is older than the first time and (ii) a newer direction value when the particular time is newer than the first time. The technique further includes forming, from the collection of blocks, a second baseline of blocks from the first baseline of blocks and additional blocks. The additional blocks are either (i) the older blocks or (ii) the newer blocks depending on the direction value. The second baseline defines the file at the particular time. | 08-25-2011 |
20110208756 | ONLINE RANKING METRIC - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for ranking resources. One or more signals reporting one or more actions by the plurality of users related to a respective resource are received, where a reported action is a presentation of the respective resource, an addition of the respective resource, or a deletion of the respective resource. The reported actions include one or more short deletions of the respective resource. A respective long-addition click-through rate (LACTR) is determined for the respective resource based on a number of reported presentations of the respective resource and a difference between a number of reported additions of the respective resource and a number of short deletions of the respective resource. The plurality of resources are ranked based on the respective LACTRs for the plurality of resources. The ranking of the plurality of resources are provided. | 08-25-2011 |
20110213788 | INFORMATION FUSION FOR MULTIPLE ANOMALY DETECTION SYSTEMS - The present invention is a method for detecting anomalies against normal profiles and for fusing and visualizing the results from multiple anomaly detection systems in a quantifying and unifying user interface. The knowledge patterns discovered from historical data serve as the normal profiles, or baselines or references (hereinafter, called “normal profiles”). The method assesses a piece of information against a collection of the normal profiles and decides how anomalous it is. The normal profiles are calculated from historical data sources, and stored in a collection of mining models. Multiple anomaly detection systems generate a collection of mining models using multiple data sources. When a piece of information is newly observed, the method measures the degree of correlation between the observed information and the normal profiles. The analysis is expressed and visualized through anomaly scores and critical event notifications that are triggered by fusion rules, thus allowing a user to see multiple levels of complexity and detail in a single view. | 09-01-2011 |
20110246487 | METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR FACILITATING SEARCHING - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for providing facilitating searching. A method may include determining a search term. The method may further include searching a database having at least one codified terminology set. The searching may be performed based at least in part upon the search term and historical search data. The method may additionally include determining one or more search results from the search. Each search result may include a codified term from the at least one codified terminology set. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also provided. | 10-06-2011 |
20110289097 | METRICS-BASED ACCESSING OF SOCIAL THREADS - A method of accessing feeds based on metrics is provided. Feeds, each associated with an object stored in a database system, are provided to users of the database system. Inferential user interaction data captures implicit user behavior of users of the database system, wherein the data is generated in relation to a feed. Feed metrics are determined based on the user interaction data, wherein a feed metric is based upon statistics comprising user consumption, user responsiveness, content proliferation, and feed life. Finally, an action is executed in relation to at least one feed based on the feed metrics, wherein the action comprises discontinuing the feed, characterizing a feed, determining that a feed can be monetized, determining that a feed should be cached, or determining that intervention in a feed is advisable. | 11-24-2011 |
20110320464 | RETRIEVAL DEVICE - In conventional retrieval techniques for narrowing down a candidate when there are a plurality of candidates as retrieval results, a method results in a huge number of candidates in order to prevent omission of candidates, whereby the administration cost is increased, and another method involves always processing all candidates, whereby the processing time becomes longer and the response performance is lowered. Retrieval history storage means stores a retrieval history including a content input from input means and a candidate list, narrowing-down method selecting means selects, according to the content of the stored retrieval history, a narrowing-down method from a method of limiting search targets to top-ranked candidates and a method of performing a search again based on inputs made in the past, candidate score update means sets, from the search history, a search candidate and a score thereof according to the selected narrowing-down method, and updates a candidate score based on a character string received from the input means with reference to an index for search, candidate determining means determines a candidate to be presented based on a number of candidates and score distribution which are updated, and candidate presenting means presents, to the user, the determined candidate with reference to name information data. | 12-29-2011 |
20120023113 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHAT MESSAGE PRIORITIZATION AND HIGHLIGHTING - A system and method is provided for chat message prioritization that uses a combination of machine-derived and user-supplied relevancy criteria to present a filtered, annotated, and/or highlighted chat stream. | 01-26-2012 |
20120059831 | INFORMATION SEARCHING APPARATUS, INFORMATION SEARCHING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - In response to a search request, the type of the terminal from which the request originated is determined, and a selection history is weighted and accumulated so that the order of the results of a search carried out according to set search conditions varies depending on the selection history. In the case where the type of the request origin terminal is a terminal type in which the number of search results that can be displayed on a single screen is less than in other terminal types or the movement of the screen is more complicated than in other terminal types and search results have been selected across a plurality of screens, a greater weight is applied to the selection history of the selected search results than for other terminal types. | 03-08-2012 |
20120066235 | CONTENT PROCESSING DEVICE - A content processing device includes a first acquisition unit acquiring a content data; a second acquisition unit acquiring a history including a time when a user plays the content data; a first extraction unit extracting a keyword from the content data; a management unit extracting a preference keyword representing a preference of the user from the keyword based on the history, said management unit managing the extracted preference keyword with an importance score; a presentation unit presenting a recommended content data according to a comparison of the keyword and the preference keyword; an update unit updating the importance score of the preference keyword corresponding to the recommended content data selected by the user; and a second extraction unit extracting another recommended content data using the updated importance score. | 03-15-2012 |
20120089623 | ACTIVE AND PASSIVE PERSONALIZATION TECHNIQUES - A method for personalizing content for a particular user in a computing system comprising a user interface configured to display content. The method comprises identifying a long term profile having one or more features in a feature set and a long term level of importance associated with each term in the feature set, identifying a short term profile having one or more features in the feature set and a short term level of importance associated with each term in the feature set, identifying input related to the display of the one or more content items on the user interface, and using the input to modify the short term level of importance and the long term level of importance associated with each term in the feature set to form a modified user interest set. | 04-12-2012 |
20120102051 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EMERGING LITIGATION RISK IDENTIFICATION - A computer-implemented method, by a computer having a computer processor, of identifying emerging risks of agents causing harms to a particular system comprises accessing, via a computer network, an electronic document database comprising document data; inputting a set of criteria, which includes a selected set of agents and a selected set of harms to a particular system, specified by a user; extracting a subset of the document data that satisfies the set of criteria; generating, with the processor, an array containing agent-harm coincidences from the extracted subset of the document data; assessing, with the processor, statistical significance of each agent-harm coincidence relative to other agent-harm coincidences; compiling, with the processor, risk data, based on the statistical significance, of agents of the selected set of agents causing harms of the selected set of harms to the particular system; and outputting the risk data. | 04-26-2012 |
20120109979 | APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR ESTABLISHING A PRIORITIZED MEDIA-FILE PLAYLIST AT MEDIA DEVICE - An apparatus, and an associated method, facilitates selection of a media file for play-out at a media player, such as a media player forming part of a wireless device. Prioritization criteria is used to prioritize a plurality of media files according to a prioritization criteria. And, once prioritized, a playlist is established. The playlist is used in the selection of a media file to be played out at the media-file player. | 05-03-2012 |
20120109980 | METHOD FOR RETRIEVING, ORGANIZING AND DELIVERING INFORMATION AND CONTENT BASED ON COMMUNITY CONSUMPTION OF INFORMATION AND CONTENT. - A method and system for designing a knowledge portal for retrieving, organizing and delivering information and content to portal users, wherein the information and content viewed, modified or accessed by each user has been analyzed, compared, rated, ranked or tagged against the user's profile, prior content consumption, other user profiles and by consumption of similar information and content within the community of portal users. The method and system further comprises a process by which users can upload, create or modify information and content within the portal, and thereafter rate, review and tag said information and content for sharing within the community of portal users to influence the content delivered to the user as well as the community of portal users and subsequently construct and influence the knowledge portal in accordance with community patterns. The knowledge portal evolves to reflect the desires and preferred content of the community of users. | 05-03-2012 |
20120143882 | PRIORITIZING TRAVEL ITINERARIES - One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for prioritizing one or more travel itineraries based on an itinerary query. Respective candidate itineraries from a set of candidate itineraries are ranked based on one or more ranking factors for the candidate itineraries, where the candidate itineraries were identified from a location-interest graph using the query. A desired number of the ranked candidate itineraries are re-ranked based on a one or more historical travel sequences, such that one or more prioritized travel itineraries can be identified in response to the itinerary query. | 06-07-2012 |
20120143883 | RANKING PRODUCT INFORMATION - Ranking product information is disclosed, including: determining, for each of a plurality of pieces of product information, a category grading value and a plurality of attribute grading values associated with that piece of product information; determining a plurality of user demand values corresponding to the plurality of pieces of product information based at least in part on the category grading value and at least one of the plurality of attribute grading values associated with each of the plurality of pieces of product information; and ranking the plurality of pieces of product information based at least in part on the corresponding plurality of user demand values. | 06-07-2012 |
20120158751 | Ranking of Address Book Contacts Based on Social Proximity - In one embodiment, a user of a social networking system requests to look up an address book maintained by the social networking system. The social networking system improves the look up search results by ranking one or more contacts in the address book based on social graph, social relationship and communication history information. | 06-21-2012 |
20120173551 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STORING AND RETRIEVING TAGS - A method of operating a message system can include maintaining a list of users of the message system and maintaining a connection list and a message stream for each user of the message system. After receiving a message from a first user of the message system, the received message can be published on the message stream of the first user and on the message streams of the users identified in the first user's connection list. If the received message is detected to be a reply to an earlier message from a second user, then the earlier message can be published on the message streams of the users identified in the first user's connection list, who are not in the second user's connection list. | 07-05-2012 |
20120215797 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPARATIVE TRAVEL RECORD SCORING - A system, method, and computer readable medium. A method of characterizing and comparatively scoring travel records of a plurality of travelers includes, for each traveler in the plurality of travelers, calculating a point value for each of a plurality of characteristics of a travel record of the traveler. The method also includes comparing the point values for the plurality of travelers and ordering the plurality of travelers according to the comparison. The method further includes, for each traveler in the plurality of travelers, storing a total score value representative of the position of the traveler in the ordered plurality of travelers. | 08-23-2012 |
20120246178 | EVALUATING SUPPLY OF ELECTRONIC CONTENT RELATING TO KEYWORDS - Systems and methods are disclosed for evaluating the supply of electronic content on an electronic network. In accordance with one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes receiving search results history for a plurality of queries, determining a variability of the search results history for queries for at least one keyword, and determining a supply value indicative of a supply of electronic content on the electronic network relating to the at least one keyword, based on the determined search results variability. The method further includes requesting, over the electronic network, electronic content relating to the at least one keyword based on the determined supply value. | 09-27-2012 |
20120254197 | OBJECT ACCESS SYSTEM BASED UPON HIERARCHICAL EXTRACTION TREE AND RELATED METHODS - An object access system may include an input component, and a processor coupled to the input component and configured to construct an extraction tree based upon an ordered list of objects, each object having an object description and associated weighted value. The extraction tree may include nodes, each node having a node range for representing a group of objects based upon the respective object descriptions. The nodes may include a parent node, and ordered child nodes associated therewith and having overlapping node ranges. The processor may be configured to traverse the extraction tree, based upon user input from the input component, along an access path from a root node to a terminal node including a selected access object. | 10-04-2012 |
20120254198 | Online Ranking Metric - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for ranking resources. One or more signals reporting one or more actions by the plurality of users related to a respective resource are received, where a reported action is a presentation of the respective resource, an addition of the respective resource, or a deletion of the respective resource. The reported actions include one or more short deletions of the respective resource. A respective long-addition click-through rate (LACTR) is determined for the respective resource based on a number of reported presentations of the respective resource and a difference between a number of reported additions of the respective resource and a number of short deletions of the respective resource. The plurality of resources are ranked based on the respective LACTRs for the plurality of resources. The ranking of the plurality of resources are provided. | 10-04-2012 |
20120271837 | INTELLIGENT DATA FILTERING - Data received from a data source is aggregated and filtered by parsing the data to determine an attribute related thereto. The data and attribute are added to a data structure that includes an automatically-generated history of a user's interaction with previously received data. A score is assigned to the received data based on its relationship to the previously received data. The data is outputted to the user if the score is greater than a threshold. | 10-25-2012 |
20120303638 | LOCATION ENABLED FOOD DATABASE - A system and method described herein simplifies data entry by a subject of a structured blood glucose test as well as helps with dietary compliance by providing specific dietary suggestions to the user. The system includes a portable device configured to be possessed by the subject. The portable device has a location detection system configured to provide data indicative of the location of the subject. A food database provides to the portable device a list of food items that are limited based on foods available at the location, such as a restaurant. The portable device is configured to receive a selection from the list that is indicative of a food consumed by the subject. A blood glucose meter reads blood glucose readings from the subject. The food database is configured to store the blood glucose readings and information about the foods consumed by the subject. Compliance to a prescribed dietary regimen can be monitored by the user and/or a physician. | 11-29-2012 |
20130013622 | Media Recommendations for a Social-Software Website - Collaborative-filtering software creates a neighborhood using a map-reduce architecture by pair-wise application of a similarity measure to a sparse matrix of users and items of media designated by the users. The collaborative-filtering software then generates recommendations for a particular user by rating items of media designated by other users in the neighborhood (but not the particular user). The collaborative-filtering software rates the item of media, using a weighted vote of the users in the neighborhood. The weighted vote depends at least in part on the mean similarity of the users in the neighborhood who have designated the item of media. Then the collaborative-filtering software records the item of media as a recommendation for subsequent presentation to the other user, if the rating of the item of media is among the highest in comparison to the ratings of other items of media designated by users in the neighborhood. | 01-10-2013 |
20130046772 | RECOMMENDING CONTENT INFORMATION BASED ON USER BEHAVIOR - Content recommendation includes: determining a plurality of user behavior categories pertaining to a plurality of user behaviors by a plurality of users within a period of time, and a plurality of user behavior frequencies corresponding to the plurality of user behavior categories; determining whether the number of user behavior categories exceeds a preset category threshold; in the event that the number of user behavior categories exceeds the preset threshold, excluding one or more user behavior categories such that the number of remaining user behavior categories does not exceed the preset threshold; determining, based at least on the remaining user behavior categories and corresponding user behavior frequencies, user preference data comprising frequency distribution information of a plurality of pieces of content information targeted by user behaviors in the remaining user behavior categories; and recommending content information to a user based on the user preference data. | 02-21-2013 |
20130117285 | SEARCH SUPPORT APPARATUS, SEARCH SUPPORT METHOD, AND SEARCH SUPPORT PROGRAM - Provided is a search support apparatus including: a search keyword reception unit that sequentially receives a part of search keywords input by a target user; a first ranking unit that ranks the search keywords for each user based on search history information and generates keyword ranking information; a user association degree calculation unit that calculates a degree of association of search trends between the target user and other users by using the keyword ranking information; a second ranking unit that ranks the other users based on the degree of association and generates other user ranking information; a score calculation unit that calculates a score of the search keywords matching a part of the search keywords; and an input candidate presenting unit that presents, to the target user, search keywords matching a part of the search keywords as input candidates of the search keywords in descending order of the score. | 05-09-2013 |
20130124542 | Default Structured Search Queries on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph that includes a plurality of nodes and edges, identifying a nodes corresponding to a page currently accessed by a first user, generating one or more structured queries, where each structured query comprises a reference to the identified node and one or more edges that are connected to the identified node, and transmitting one or more of the structured queries to the first user for display on the page. | 05-16-2013 |
20130185315 | Identification of Events of Interest - Example embodiments relate to identification of events of interest from a feed including a plurality of events. Example embodiments may determine an interestingness score for each of a plurality of time intervals, each time interval including one or more events from the feed of events. Example embodiments may then select a time interval or output a visualization of the time interval, where the score of the time interval indicates that the time interval is likely to contain events of interest. | 07-18-2013 |
20130191401 | CROSS-PLATFORM CONTENT POPULARITY RANKINGS - A method includes receiving popularity measure values for a media asset. The popularity measure values provide a measure of a popularity of the media asset provided in digital content and physical content. Popularity measure value weights for the popularity measure values are identified. A digital ranking score for the media asset in digital content is determined based on the popularity measure values and corresponding popularity measure value weights for the digital content. A physical ranking score is determined for the media asset in physical content based on the popularity measure values and corresponding popularity measure value weights for the physical content. A digital ranking weight and a physical ranking weight are identified for the media asset. The method also includes determining a cross-platform ranking score of the media asset based on the physical ranking score, the physical ranking weight, the digital ranking score, and the digital ranking weight. | 07-25-2013 |
20130204882 | Systems And Methods of Detecting, Measuring, And Extracting Signatures of Signals Embedded in Social Media Data Streams - A system for scoring micro-blogging messages is provided, including an extractor, and evaluator, a calculator, and a publisher. The extractor may be configured to receive micro-blogging messages, to detect messages containing terms of interest, to extract raw data, and to store the data in a database. The evaluator may be configured to access and parse the stored data into tokenized data, and to store the tokenized data in a database. The evaluator may also be configured to identify relevant micro-blogging messages; to tag message as indicative; and to filter messages from low-volume or malicious sources before being tagged as indicative. The calculator may be configured to access a sentiment dictionary; to calculate a sentiment score of the tokenized data, and to calculate a sentiment signature for a term of interest. The publisher may be configured to provide access to clients of the system. | 08-08-2013 |
20130218907 | RECOMMENDER SYSTEM - Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatus for recommending items from a catalog of items to users in a population of users by generating trait vectors that represent items in the catalog responsive to explicit and/or implicit preference data for a group of less than all the users and using the trait vectors to recommend items to users in the population that are not in the group. | 08-22-2013 |
20130262482 | KNOWN GOOD LAYOUT - A computer implemented method for preserving preferred customer digital collage layouts is disclosed. A group of digital images is received from a customer. A compatibility score is calculated for a plurality of the digital collage layouts, where each of the digital collage layouts has a plurality of openings and the openings are populated with some or all of the group of digital images. The customer selects one of the populated digital collage layouts. These steps are repeated with subsequent customers and the selection of the digital collage layouts is tracked. The digital collage layouts are stored and ranked based on how often they are selected by customers. | 10-03-2013 |
20130297623 | Ranking Interactions Between Users on the Internet - A system and method for determining the amount of influence users of the internet have on other users of the internet based on data from interactions between users on the internet. | 11-07-2013 |
20130304751 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - A pathological image and a primary diagnosis result are obtained from a first terminal via a network, the first terminal being of a first user, the primary diagnosis result being a diagnosis result about the pathological image by the first user. The obtained pathological image and the primary diagnosis result are provided to at least one second terminal via the network, the one second terminal being of at least one second user. A browsing history and an opinion of the second user are obtained from the second terminal via the network, the browsing history at least including information on a displayed area in the pathological image, the opinion of the second user being about the primary diagnosis result based on observation of the pathological image by the second user. The obtained browsing history is estimated, and a reliability score of the obtained opinion is generated. | 11-14-2013 |
20130332470 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a totaling unit gathering information indicating a client type and taste information indicating an evaluation to content and totaling the evaluation to content according to the client type, a vector generating unit generating at least a user taste vector expressing a characteristic of content liked by the user and a client type-based vector expressing the characteristic of content liked by the user on a client-type basis, and a recommending unit recommending content by using at least one of the vectors generated by the vector generating unit and a characteristic vector expressing a characteristic of content and, recommending content to a first-time user who makes use of the service for a first time by using the client type-based vector corresponding to the client type of a client used by the first-time user. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332471 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A USER MUSIC TASTE DATABASE, METHOD FOR SELECTING A PIECE OF MUSIC FOR RECOMMENDATION, MUSIC PIECE SELECTION SYSTEM AND DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM - Generating a user music taste database, comprising determining, as a first count, a number of appearances of a selected classification identifier of classification identifiers in a user specific first set of music identifiers, wherein the classification identifiers are attributed to the music identifiers in the first set of music identifiers and determining, by the circuitry, as a second count, a number of appearances of the selected classification identifier in a second set of music identifiers, wherein classification identifiers are attributed to the music identifiers in the second set of music identifiers. A classification identifier related to the selected classification identifier is stored in an expertise list in the user music taste database, if a value determined from setting the first count and the second count in relation to each other is equal to or larger than a predetermined expertise level threshold value. | 12-12-2013 |
20140032573 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING THE PEER REVIEW PROCESS OF SCHOLARLY JOURNALS - A computer-implemented method and system for providing a rating of the quality of a peer review process for an article is disclosed. A weighted peer review score is calculated from metadata of the article which includes information about the number of editors-in-chief, the number of associate editors, and the total number of reviewers that participated in the peer review of the article. The metadata also includes information about the number of revisions of the article. The peer review score is displayed next to a link to the article returned in the search results from the search engine. The peer review score indicates the relative thoroughness of the peer review process that the article underwent. The peer review score is included with a link to the article when the article appears in a search engine search results. | 01-30-2014 |
20140040285 | Generating Default Search Queries on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph that includes a plurality of nodes and edges, generating a plurality of structured queries, where each structured query comprises references to nodes and edges of the social graph, calculating a score for each structured query based on user-engagement factors, and sending each structured query having a score greater than a threshold score to a first user for display. | 02-06-2014 |
20140081996 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ITEM RECOMMENDATIONS - Means and a computerized method for recommending items such as books and audio compact disks. For each item, a user profile includes ratings provided by users of the system. Unlike present recommendation systems, the user profiles do not include pre-computed similarity factors measuring similarity between users. Rather, when an advisee requests a recommendation, similarity measures are computed comparing the advisee to other users, and the similarity measures are associated with the other users. A subset of the users is selected, where the subset includes the users most similar to the advisee. A recommendation is made based on the ratings by the members of the selected subset. | 03-20-2014 |
20140129573 | COMPUTERIZED METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING A DIGITAL RESUME - A system and computer-implemented method to build a digital resume which may incorporate work history data as well as reviews by former co-workers, and may further include a computer generated status of the digital resume. | 05-08-2014 |
20140149434 | Methods of and Systems for Selecting and Presenting Content Based on User Content Interaction - A method of selecting and presenting content based on learned user preferences is provided. The method includes receiving search input from the user for identifying desired content items and receiving content selection actions from the user. The method further includes analyzing the date, day, and time of content selection actions by the user and analyzing descriptive terms associated with the selected content items to learn a periodicity of user selections of similar content items. In response to subsequent searches by the user, the method calls for selecting and ordering a collection of content items for presentation to the user based on comparing the user's search input to descriptive terms associated with content items and based on the learned periodicities of the user. | 05-29-2014 |
20140149435 | BUG LOCALIZATION USING VERSION HISTORY - A method of searching a corpus including a plurality of files includes automatically determining, using a processor, a historical ranking for each file using respective changeset information. Search term(s) of a query are received. A textual ranking is determined for each file using the search term(s) and contents of that file. The historical and textual rankings are combined to provide a result ranking. A data processing system includes a storage system storing the corpus including the plurality of files, a processor configured to determine the result rankings, and a user interface system configured to receive query results from the processor and present them to a user. | 05-29-2014 |
20140164401 | Systems and Methods for Providing Personalized Recommendations for Electronic Content - Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for presenting content recommendations. In one implementation, a method is provided for providing content recommendations to a plurality of users. The method may include generating a first plurality of content recommendations for a first user using a first plurality of methods, each of the first plurality of methods having a weight associated therewith. The method may further include selecting a second plurality of content recommendations from the first plurality of content recommendations based on the weights associated with the first plurality of methods. The method may further include providing the second plurality of content recommendations to the first user. The method may further include updating the weights associated with the first plurality of methods based on engagement by the first user with the second plurality of content recommendations. | 06-12-2014 |
20140214862 | AUTOMATED ATTRIBUTE DISAMBIGUATION WITH HUMAN INPUT - Systems and methods are disclosed herein for performing classification of documents or performing other tasks based on rules. The rules may include context rules that define a mapping that relates a value and context in a document to an attribute to which the value corresponds. Products are selected for labeling with attributes by identifying patterns, e.g. values and contexts that are not covered by a current rule set. Those products having a highest score are selected for labeling in a crowd sourcing forum, where the score is based on the number of non-covered patterns and a frequency of occurrence of the non-covered patterns in a document corpus. Proposed rules are generated for frequently occurring patterns and submitted to analysts for one or both of completion and validation. Proposed rules may include a proposed attribute for a frequently occurring value and corresponding context. | 07-31-2014 |
20140244666 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PREVENTING OVERLOAD OF AN APPLICATION - A mechanism for preventing overload of application is disclosed. A method includes receiving a query submitted by a user, the query includes user identification (ID) and an operation to be processed by an application. The method also includes filtering user records to identify subset of the user records associated with the user ID and determining quality of service (QoS) ranking from the subset of the user records associated with the user ID. The method also includes submitting the query to the application when the determined QoS ranking is assigned with high ranking. The method also includes filtering query records to identify subset of the query records associated with the query when the determined QoS ranking is assigned with low ranking. The method further includes determining quality string (QS) rating associated with the subset of query records and providing a decision on the query in view of the determined QS rating. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244667 | Method and Apparatuses for Enabling Recommendations - Method and a recommendation system ( | 08-28-2014 |
20140258313 | Musiqo quality score - A method for applying a quality score to digital content automatically, based on how people naturally use and interact with it. | 09-11-2014 |
20140280243 | INTELLIGENT PRESENCE SERVER SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A method for directing inquiries to available subject matter experts includes storing an expert database in memory and defining presence states to describe present attributes of each subject matter expert with respect to a number of resource elements. Inquiries are directed to the experts, and response histograms are populated based on whether a response was obtained in a given presence state. The response histograms describe or define a response probability for each subject matter expert, as a function of the corresponding present attributes for each of the resource elements. | 09-18-2014 |
20140344289 | ENERGY-SAVING SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR UPDATING MEDIA INFORMATION - Energy-saving methods and systems for updating media information on a media equipment device are provided. An update to media information is received at the media equipment device. Data identifying a weight for the update is retrieved from the storage device. The data may be related to the user's media preferences or viewing history of content associated with the update. A weight is then assigned to the update based on the retrieved data. The assigned update weight is compared to a threshold value which is retrieved from the storage device. If the update weight exceeds the threshold value, the device will switch from a first power mode of operation (e.g., sleep mode) to a higher power mode of operation (e.g., active mode) so that the media information may be updated with the information contained in the received update. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344290 | ADDRESSABLE NETWORK RESOURCE SELECTION MANAGEMENT - A system and a method for the management of addressable network resources (e.g., Web pages, electronic documents accessed via a Uniform Resource Identifier, etc.) within a network are provided. Specifically, embodiments of addressable network resource selection systems and methods are disclosed for managing the analysis and identification of optimal links between addressable network resources. A resource selection component enables pruning of undesirable pages on the basis of various usage metrics, including user depart rate. The resource selection component may then identify optimal linking strategies by determining one or more linking scores for remaining pages based on any of a number of different page usage metrics. In other embodiments, addressable network resource selection systems and methods may weight linking scores to emphasize desired outcomes, such as encouraging exploration of a network-based site or encouraging high aggregate sales figures. | 11-20-2014 |
20140358947 | METHOD FOR RANKING MESSAGES - A computer implemented method for user-enhanced ranking of messages, the method comprising: receiving a datastream, the datastream comprising a message generated by an end-user, an identifier of an earlier message and an attribute defined by the end-user, the earlier message being stored in a computer-based database ( | 12-04-2014 |
20150012548 | QUESTION-RELATED IDENTIFICATION OF RELEVANT SOCIAL COMMUNITIES - Methods, products, apparatus, and systems may identify one or more relevant social communities for one or more questions. Additionally, a user-question affinity value between a user and a question may be determined. In addition, a user-community affinity value between the user and each of a plurality of candidate social communities may be determined. Moreover, a question-community affinity value between the question and each of the plurality of candidate social communities may be determined based on the user-question affinity value and the user-community affinity value. The question-community affinity value determination may involve calculating a running average using the user-question affinity value and the user-community affinity value. The question-community affinity value may identify the one or more relevant social communities from the plurality of candidate social communities. | 01-08-2015 |
20150019573 | FEEDBACK LOOP CONTENT RECOMMENDATION - Media content may be recommended based on feedback weightings. Input data describing the presentation of a media content items in association with content management accounts may be represented as data points. Each data point may identify feedback data for a media content item previously recommended for presentation in association with a content management account. The feedback data may identify a viewer reaction to the recommended media content item. A weighting factor based on the feedback data for the media content item presented in association with the content management account may be applied to produce a recommendation. | 01-15-2015 |
20150046473 | SOCIAL ACTIVITY PLANNING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A social activity planning method includes the following operation. A database storing multiple candidate invitees with their geographical locations and interest scores towards a topic, and a social graph including vertices representing the candidate invitees and edges connecting two vertices representing mutual acquaintance of the associated candidate invitees is accessed. A social activity request including an invitation number, information about a social activity, and a familiarity condition for the social activity request is received. At least one feasible solution including the invitation number of the candidate invitees and meeting the familiarity condition is generated. A group of selected invitees are found based on the feasible solution and the information about the social activity. | 02-12-2015 |
20150052156 | RANKING ORGANIZATIONS ACADEMICALLY & RATIONALLY (ROAR) - A computer-implemented process that utilizes digital and/or other resources to objectively rank a subject based on publications having a plurality of authors. The system assigns individualized credit to each subject axiomatically. The system finds self-citations pertaining to each subject and removes such self-citations. The system then ranks the subject objectively, typically through automatic data mining. | 02-19-2015 |
20150066959 | Prioritizing Items From Different Categories In A News Stream - Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for displaying a customized news stream. One method includes an operation for identifying dwell times spent by users while accessing a first plurality of items, each item belonging to one media type from a plurality of media types (e.g., news articles, videos, slide shows, etc.). In addition, the method includes operations for determining statistical parameters for each media type based on the identified dwell times, and for detecting a news corpus having a second plurality of items. A priority for each item in the news corpus is determined based on the media type of the item, the corresponding statistical parameters for the media type of the item, and the profile of a user. The news stream is sent to the user for presentation on a display, the news stream being sorted based on the priority of the items in the news corpus. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066960 | AUTONOMICALLY DEFINING HOT STORAGE AND HEAVY WORKLOADS - In defining database objects for storage in a storage hierarchy, frequencies of accesses of a plurality of database objects over a predetermined time period are observed. A mean and standard deviation for the plurality of database objects are computed based on the observed frequencies of accesses of the plurality of database objects. A z-score for a given database object is determined based on a comparison of the frequency of access for the given database with the mean and standard deviation computed for the plurality of database objects by the computing processor; and a level in the storage hierarchy corresponding to the z-score of the given database object is determined. The given database object may then be stored at the level in the storage hierarchy corresponding to the z-score of the given database object. | 03-05-2015 |
20150066961 | FLOW FIELDS - A computing device can automatically generate a flow diagram showing statuses that objects in a system can possess, and the possible transitions between these statuses. Using snapshots of database data, the device can determine how the statuses of these objects have changed over time. The device can analyze the data to suggest which database fields likely represent object status. The device can render the flow diagram to illustrate system states at different selected times. Each rendered flow diagram can indicate, for the selected time point, the quantity of objects that possessed each status at that time, and, for a selected time interval, the quantity of objects that changed from each status to each other status during that time interval. The statuses can be represented in the flow diagram as status bubbles having sizes that are based on the quantities of objects have those bubble's statuses at the selected time point. | 03-05-2015 |
20150088912 | DATA ALLOCATION CONTAINERS IN A PARTITIONED TABLE OF A COMPUTER DATABASE SYSTEM FOR HOLDING DATA BASED ON USAGE - An apparatus and method utilize partitioned database tables divided into data allocation containers (DACs) where data is placed into the DACs based on usage of the data in past queries. Records that are used most often are placed together and records that are used less often are placed together to improve database performance. In preferred embodiments, a database manager determines where to place data into the DACs based on how often the data is selected by a database query using a DAC selection ratio (DSR). The database manager may determine when to perform table maintenance to move rows of data to the appropriate DACs based on a timestamp or last check date (LCD) stored in the database. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088913 | Determining Criticality of a SQL Statement - The present invention discloses a mechanism for determining criticality of a SQL statement. A plurality of elements in the SQL statement is extracted. A score of the SQL statement is calculated based on a correlation relation among respective elements in the plurality of elements and base scores of the respective elements. The criticality of the SQL statement is determined based on the score of the SQL statement. In this way, a database administrator only needs to define a small number of rules according his own needs. In the meantime, the mechanism automatically analyzes a received simple or complex SQL statement according to the small number of rules defined by the user to determine its criticality, without missing any critical SQL statement, and thereby protect security of data in the database. | 03-26-2015 |
20150088914 | USER RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND SYSTEM IN SNS COMMUNITY, AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM - The present invention relates to a user recommendation method and system in SNS community and a computer storage medium. The method includes following steps: obtaining an interaction record between a first user and a second user in a first community; generating an interaction frequency of the first user and the second user according to the interaction record; calculating familiarity of the first user and the second user according to the interaction frequency; recommending the second user whose familiarity with the first user exceeds a threshold to the first user in a second community. The method and system and computer storage medium calculate familiarity between users in other community, recommend other users to the user in current community according to familiarity, expand information sources used for determining which users are persons user may possibly know, thereby obtaining more persons user may possibly know and improving efficiency of expanding user relationship circle. | 03-26-2015 |
20150120761 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING COMPONENTS FOR INCLUSION IN PORTIONS OF A DISPLAYABLE FILE - Systems and methods are provided for selecting components to include in portions of a displayable file. Selecting the components may include determining an order of the components for each portion of the displayable file. The components' order for a given portion may be based on a score for each component, where a component's score is based on an estimated value and standard error associated with the component. The component to include in each portion of the displayable file may be selected based at least in part on the determined component order for each portion and a predetermined priority of each portion. | 04-30-2015 |
20150127665 | Personalized Quantitative Measure of Accessibility - A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for personalized quantitative measure of accessibility. For a given web site or web application, the mechanism accesses existing crowd sourced user ratings. The mechanism generates a crowd source score for the given web site or web application based on the crowd sourced user ratings. The mechanism generates a compliance score for the given web site or web application based on compliance data published for the given web site or web application. The mechanism obtains a static analysis score for the given web site or web application. The mechanism generates weights for a given user based on user profile information of the given user and applies the weights to the crowd source score, the compliance score, and the static analysis score to form weighted data. The mechanism generates a personalized accessibility score based on the weighted data. | 05-07-2015 |
20150293983 | PRESENTING A TRUSTED TAG CLOUD - A method for presenting a trusted tag cloud to a user. The method includes associating a number of tags with a first user who applies the tags, calculating a weight of the tags being examined by a second user. The weight may be based on the identity of the second user, the identity of the first user, and examining the relationship between the two. The tags may then be presented to the user in accordance with the value of the weight. | 10-15-2015 |
20150302105 | ADAPTIVE LEARNING METHODS FOR SELECTING PAGE COMPONENTS TO INCLUDE ON DYNAMICALLY GENERATED PAGES - A subset of a set of components is selected for inclusion on a dynamically-generated page within a particular user context. The subset of components is selected based on scores associated with the components in the set. The score of a component is preferably determined based on measurements of user activity resulting from exposures of the components to users in the particular context. | 10-22-2015 |
20150310035 | FAIR SAMPLING IN A HIERARCHICAL FILESYSTEM - A software and hardware facility persistently maintains metrics on directories at different levels within a tree of a filesystem. The facility hierarchically aggregates attributes of files contained by directories and stores them as metric values in inode date of each directory within a tree. The stored metric values represent summed or otherwise aggregated data from the descendant directories and files. The metric values are utilized to provide representative compositional samplings of data in the filesystem tree structure. Based on the metric value in its inode data, each directory is weighted in a manner that determines the likelihood that each file sample is taken from that directory. | 10-29-2015 |
20150317337 | Systems and Methods for Identifying and Driving Actionable Insights from Data - Certain examples provide systems and methods to identify and drive actionable insight from data. An example system includes a configured processor that is configured to: identify, using the processor, a pattern in a data set using an analytic algorithm, the data set associated with a domain; process, using the processor, the identified pattern to assign a score to the identified pattern based on a comparison to statistical model meta data; construct, using the processor, a semantic model modeling people, processes, and systems associated with the domain; combine, using the processor, the identified pattern with the semantic model; determine, using the semantic model and the processor, an output including: a) a root cause for the identified pattern and b) a recommended action to remediate the root cause; and facilitate, using the processor, execution of the recommended action based on a trigger associated with the output. | 11-05-2015 |
20150339336 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING SOCIAL PERCEPTION - A system for evaluating communicative acts between communicative pairs to determine a social perception network representation. Each communicative pair includes two entities participating in a communicative act. The system includes a patterns database storing behavior recognition patterns defining particular behaviors that may be used in the communicative acts and a social perception score associated with each of the particular behaviors. The scoring processor determines a first pairwise social perception score for each communicative pair based on the particular behaviors in the communicative acts occurring during a first time frame. The scoring processor determines a different first pairwise social perception score for each of the communicative pairs during a first time frame and determines a different second social perception score for each of the communicative pairs during a second time frame. The communications network aggregation processor combines the pairwise social perception scores into a first social perception network representation. | 11-26-2015 |
20150347413 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING NON-MANIPULABLE TRUSTED RECOMMENDATIONS - Exemplary methods, apparatuses, systems, and user interfaces for providing non-manipulable trusted recommendations are described. An embodiment includes determining that users have interacted with entities and causing entity rating user interface modules to be presented to a random subset of the users to allow those users to provide ratings for the entities. The ratings are received, and quality score values are determined for the entities based upon the received ratings and timestamps indicating when each respective user last interacted with the respective entity. A recommendation user interface module is presented to a user, which includes a set of entity modules corresponding to a set of the entities having the largest or smallest quality score values of the determined quality score values. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347416 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECOMMENDING MULTIMEDIA RESOURCE - A method for recommending a multimedia resource is provided. The method includes acquiring user viewing data of a to-be-recommended multimedia resource in a playing trial run. The user viewing data includes at least user audio and video data and user video depth data. The method further includes analyzing the user viewing data to obtain user action data corresponding to the to-be-recommended multimedia resource, calculating a first user preference score of the to-be-recommended multimedia resource based on the user action data, acquiring a plurality of second user preference scores of a plurality of recommended multimedia resources, and recommending the to-be-recommended multimedia resource based on the first user preference score and the second user preference scores. | 12-03-2015 |
20150356179 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SCORING BROWSING SESSIONS - A system, method and device for calculating a page rank of a web page is provided. The method comprises: accessing browsing history data associated with the web page, the browsing history data comprising time data; computing a rank score for the web page utilizing the browsing history data and the time data; and ranking the web page in a list according to the rank score. The method may be executed on a processor. The server comprises: a processor; a database for storing records relating to browsing histories; and page rank software operating on the server providing instructions to the processor executing the method. | 12-10-2015 |
20150363484 | STORING AND IDENTIFYING METADATA THROUGH EXTENDED PROPERTIES IN A HISTORIZATION SYSTEM - A historian system enables the creation, storage, and retrieval of extended metadata properties. A tag metadata database module of the historian system stores tag metadata received over a network connection in a tag metadata database and retrieves tag metadata in response to requests received over the network and from within the historian system. An extended property database module creates extended properties associated with a tag metadata instance in response to requests, stores the created extended properties, and retrieves the stored extended properties in response to requests. The extended property search index module indexes extended properties as they are created, searches the indexed extended properties in response to requests, and provides the indexes of extended properties to enable location of the extended properties in the extended property database. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363502 | Optimizing personalized recommendations with longitudinal data and a future objective - Systems and techniques are provided for optimizing personalized recommendations with longitudinal data and a future objective. An identifier may be received for content items. A user content item history including a list identifying a previously acquired content item may be received. Content item metadata may be received including a correlation between the previously acquired content item and a content item for which an identifier was received, and a correlation between a content item for which an identifier was received and fulfillment of a future objective. A joint probability may be determined for each content item based on the user content item history and the content item metadata, including the probability that the content item will be acquired by the user after being recommended to the user and that a future objective will be fulfilled after the content item is acquired by the user. | 12-17-2015 |
20160012140 | SYSTEM, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR SHARING ACADEMIC USER PROFILES AND RANKING ACADEMICS USERS | 01-14-2016 |
20160026640 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF TESTING-BASED ONLINE RANKING - The technology disclosed relates to web analytics and, in particular, to testing user reactions to alternative browser or web application presentations. Some implementations present a selected, ordered set of images. The position and ordering of individual images can be significant to user response. Some implementations adapt a background, motif, or image set based on a requesting user's preferences, such as a color preference. The technology disclosed simplifies test implementation, so that a few lines of code can be added to a web app to invoke the test platform and obtain operational parameters that shape a user's experience. | 01-28-2016 |
20160026668 | DATA TRANSMISSION SERVICE SWITCH SYSTEM AND METHOD - A data transmission service switch system and method are provided. The data transmission service switch system includes user equipment and a server. The user equipment is configured to generate service request information, receive a pipe message and record a pipe time, wherein the service request information includes a plurality of service requests. The server has a database and is configured to generate a calculated result according to the service request information and stored information in the database. The server further transmits the pipe message according to service mechanisms corresponding to each of the service requests which are included in the calculated result. The server further adjusts the stored information of the database according to the pipe time. | 01-28-2016 |
20160028798 | Peer Network Membership Management - Techniques are described that may be utilized to manage membership of peers in a peer-to-peer network. For example, membership may be based at least in part on a score that is calculated that describes a reputation for peers in the peer-to-peer network. The calculation of the score may be based, at least in part, on a number of peers that provided reports of inappropriate content, rather than relying solely on a number of reports received from the peers as was performed using conventional techniques. In another example, this score may also be calculated, at least in part, to reflect a positive score for the peer. For instance, the score may also be adjusted based on a number of peers that also received the content but did not report the content as inappropriate. | 01-28-2016 |
20160034468 | TESTING OF AND ADAPTING TO USER RESPONSES TO WEB APPLICATIONS - The technology disclosed relates to web analytics and, in particular, to testing user reactions to alternative browser or web application presentations. Some implementations present a selected, ordered set of images. The position and ordering of individual images can be significant to user response. Some implementations adapt a background, motif, or image set based on a requesting user's preferences, such as a color preference. The technology disclosed simplifies test implementation, so that a few lines of code can be added to a web app to invoke the test platform and obtain operational parameters that shape a user's experience. | 02-04-2016 |
20160070706 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTING PUBLIC DATA SOURCES - A method of selecting a public data source by dynamically ranking publicly available data sources with respect to a search term, including a plurality of ranking processes carried out on the dataset for each data source and including: using metadata for each dataset to rank the datasets by comparing the search term against a dataset information for each source; creating a temporary ranking list of the data sources based on the metadata ranking; measuring availability for each of the data sources and updating the temporary ranking list based on availability; carrying out instance-based ranking based on fitness of the dataset in each data source against the search term to finalize the ranking list and using the finalized ranking list to select one or more data sources. | 03-10-2016 |
20160070802 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF A MOBILE INTERFACE PLATFORM - A system and method of comparing mobile applications is described. The method includes authenticating a user access to a plurality of industry-related mobile applications for a set trial period of time, and receiving trial sequence data indicating the user's preference for each of the plurality of industry-related mobile applications for the set period of time. The method also includes generating a ranking of the plurality of industry-related mobile applications from the received trial sequence data, via a single operating platform and associated virtual machine language of a networking system. The method also includes accepting one or more of the plurality of industry-related mobile applications onto the single operating platform, based upon its associated ranking. The system includes an interoperable platform, a plurality of mobile applications that are related to a single industry and interconnected with the interoperable platform, an operating system connected to the interoperable platform, and a server. | 03-10-2016 |
20160103922 | PRESENTING CONTACTS TO A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM USER BASED ON USER INTERACTIONS WITH ADDITIONAL USERS AND WITH GROUPS - A social networking system selects a set of contacts for presentation to a user of the social networking system. A contact is an additional user or a group of users maintained by the social networking system. To select the set of contacts, the social networking system generates scores associated with additional users of the social networking system and groups of users based on interactions between the user and various additional users and between the user and groups of users. Based on the scores associated with additional users and with groups of users, the social networking system selects a set of contacts from the additional users and the groups of users. Information identifying the set of contacts is communicated from the social networking system to a client device for presentation to the user. | 04-14-2016 |
20160110466 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RANKING NAMED-DATA NETWORKING OBJECTS IN A CACHE - A router can select a cached Content Object to rank, and analyzes historical usage information for the Content Object to determine a set of exclusions received for the Content Object. The router then computes a rank value for the Content Object, based on the set of exclusions for the Content Object and one or more predetermined exclusion patterns, and stores the rank value in association with the Content Object. When the router receives an Interest whose name is associated with multiple cached Content Objects, the router selects, from the multiple cached Content Objects, a cached Content Object with a highest rank value. The router can return the selected cached Content Object to satisfy the Interest. | 04-21-2016 |
20160124959 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO RECOMMEND A BUNDLE OF ITEMS BASED ON ITEM/USER TAGGING AND CO-INSTALL GRAPH - A system and method of recommending a bundle of content items to a user, including storing a plurality of content items in a computer system, determining a respective co-selection score for each pair of content items among the plurality of content items, the co-selection score indicating a probability that a given pair of content items among the plurality of content items will both be downloaded by a user of the computer system, and outputting, to a first user, a plurality of content items comprising a sub-set of the plurality of content items. | 05-05-2016 |
20160140125 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING QUERY SUGGESTIONS BASED ON USER FEEDBACK - Methods, systems and programming for providing query suggestions based on user feedback. In one example, a prefix of a query is first received. An input including a prefix of a query is received from a user in a search session. A plurality of query suggestions are fetched based on the prefix of the query. Rankings of the plurality of query suggestions are determined based, at least in part, on the user's previous interactions in the search session with respect to at least one of the plurality of query suggestions. The at least one of the plurality of query suggestions has been previously provided to the user in the search session. The plurality of query suggestions are provided in the search session based on their rankings as a response to the input. | 05-19-2016 |
20160147760 | PROVIDING ALTERNATE WORDS TO AID IN DRAFTING EFFECTIVE SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS - The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for increasing an engagement level of a social media post among a community of social media users. For example, systems and method described herein involve building and training a data model that represents how a given community of social media users engages with social media posts. Furthermore, systems and method described herein utilize the trained data model to suggest one or more alternative word choices for use in a social media post, in order to increase or optimize the predicted level of engagement the social media post will receive from the community of social media users. | 05-26-2016 |
20160170991 | USER-AWARE NOTIFICATION DELIVERY | 06-16-2016 |
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20160188739 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THROTTLING CLICK BAIT - Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media configured to determine a value of a utility factor associated with a content item corresponding to a link. An optimized utility value relating to an interaction type of an outbound click is determined based on the value of the utility factor. An expected utility score associated with the content item is generated based on the optimized utility value to determine potential presentation of the content item to a user. | 06-30-2016 |
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