21st week of 2013 patent applcation highlights part 71 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130132293 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MATCHING AGENTS OR ADVISORS WITH POTENTIAL CLIENTS - A web-based system and method for matching potential clients with agents and/or advisors using personality compatibility ranking. The method including preselecting agents based on geographic location and determining compatibility primarily based on guardedness. The method including steps for resolving ranking ties. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132294 | System and Method for Engaging a Social Network - A method of engaging a consumer's social network includes promoting a potential gift to members of the consumer's social network, soliciting and receiving contributions to the gift from members of the consumer's social network, and determining whether a trigger condition has been met. The method then provides a gift to the consumer, and the gift may include one or more conditional contributions from the vendor of the gift item, depending on the whether the trigger condition has been met. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132295 | MOVING COST ESTIMATION SYSTEM - A system for estimating costs associated with relocating a plurality of items is provided. The system includes an apparatus. The apparatus includes a receiver that receives user input data associated with relocating a plurality of items. The apparatus includes a processor that provides an interface to at least one device. The interface that receives the user input data associated with relocating a plurality of items. The interface transmits user input data to the apparatus. The interface calculates a plurality of cost estimates that includes a total moving cost. The plurality of cost estimates are based at least in part on cost data and the user input data. At least one of the plurality of cost estimates is dynamically updated after at least a portion of the user input data is transmitted. The processor determines the cost data associated with the received user input data. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132296 | NETWORKED BUSINESS OBJECT SHARING - A method may include acquiring metadata defining a networked business object, the networked business object model being a meta model class or type data structure and the acquiring including acquiring first state metadata defining a first set of attributes to associate with a first state of the networked business object class; acquiring second state metadata defining a second set of attributes to associate with a second state of the networked business object; and creating the object model having a plurality of states by associating the first set of attributes and the second set of attributes with each other. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132297 | CONNECTING BUSINESS CONTEXT TO BUSINESS SOLUTION - A business management machine within a business management system may access a business model and a solution model, and the business management machine may generate a connection map based on the business model and the solution model. The business management machine may detect a business activity. Based on the detecting of the business activity, the business management machine may initiate an access of a connection map that indicates a correspondence between a business solution within the solution model and the one or more context descriptors within the business model that define the business context. The business management machine may perform the access of the connection map. Based on the access of the connection map, the detecting of the business activity, or both, the business management machine may present a reference to the business solution or to a document pertinent to the business solution or to the business context. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132298 | MAP TOPOLOGY FOR NAVIGATING A SEQUENCE OF MULTIMEDIA - A computer implemented method providing a sequence of multimedia files in a map topology includes layers and sub-layers to enable a user to navigate and play a particular multimedia file that demonstrates a feature of a product. Each layer and sub-layer corresponds to a multimedia file that demonstrates a feature of a product. The sequence of multimedia files are stored in an application server (104). The method includes processing a selection of a layer from the user based on a preview of the layer that includes a first reveal branches field, a first hide branches field, and a first play field, displaying at least one branch of a sub-layer of said layer when the reveal branches field is selected, and playing the particular multimedia file corresponding to any of the layer, the sub-layer, or any further sublayer of the sub-layer when a play field is selected. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132299 | USING NON-TEXTUAL NOTATION FOR DESCRIBING SERVICE RELATED HUMAN EXPERIENCE BASED ON A HIERARCHAL MODEL OF HUMAN NEEDS - A system for describing and analyzing service-related human experience in organizational or commercial environments based on a hierarchical model of needs (e.g. Maslow's hierarchy of needs) is provided herein. The system may include a classifier configured to classify experience states based on a predefined hierarchical model of needs, to yield a classification; a modeler configured to model a real-life environment into a model that includes a set of process instances associated with users; and an experience notation generator configured to: extract experience-related data associated with the users from the model, based on the classification; and represent the experience-related data of each one of the process instance as a non-textual time series, based on the classification. Optionally, the time series may be used to produce reports using an analyzer. The reports may be applied to a remedy engine to generate recommendations for improving the human experience. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132300 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COMBINING SECURITIES AND CARBON CREDITS - Systems and methods are provided for reducing or neutralizing a carbon footprint of a security using carbon credit. At least one security that is excluded from an investment fund may be determined. A carbon footprint of the at least one security may be calculated. A first amount of carbon credit necessary to neutralize the carbon footprint of the at least one security may be determined. A second amount of carbon credit may be purchased based on the act of calculating the first amount of carbon credit necessary to neutralize the carbon footprint. A financial instrument determined to have an at least partially neutralized carbon footprint may be generated by causing the at least one security and the second amount of carbon credit to be stored in a trust. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132301 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DATA RELATING TO PROVIDING RISK MANAGEMENT FOR INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS - A computer system or network of computer systems is configured to administer investment accounts issued by an issuer. The investment accounts include equity based investments having associated guarantees, such as variable annuities during the accumulation phase. The investment accounts further include fixed income investments with a guarantee, such as a guaranteed minimum accumulation benefit. The fixed income accounts may sell may sell equity put spreads to the variable annuity accounts, and the variable annuity accounts may sell equity all spreads to the fixed income accounts. An independent pricing service may determine pricing for non-traded instruments. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132302 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND INTERFACES IN A PATENT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - Systems, methods and interfaces for patent portfolio management are proposed. In one example embodiment, a system comprises at least one module, executing on one or more computer processors, to assign a first, arbitrary patent value unit to any issued patent in the portfolio that has not been cited forward against another patent or application, assign a second, arbitrary patent value unit to any issued patent in the portfolio that has been cited forward against another patent or application, and sum the first and second arbitrary patent values units to derive the aggregate value of the patent portfolio. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132303 | SYSTEM AND PROCESS TO PROVIDE A SECURITY THAT CLOSELY MIRRORS RETURNS OF AN INDIVIDUAL SECURITY WHILE ALSO PROVIDING STOCK LOAN INCOME - The invention includes a process and a transaction system that allows, tracks, and monitors at least one of an individual security and a security that closely mirrors returns of the individual security. The system includes a database that stores information related to at least one of the individual security and the security that closely mirrors returns of the individual security associated with a lender, a server configured to receive a request from an investor to borrow at least one of the individual security and the security that closely mirrors returns of the individual security, the server further configured to execute a lending transaction requested by the investor to borrow at least one of the individual security and the security that closely mirrors returns of the individual security, and the server further configured to track and monitor the lending transaction. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132304 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE INSTRUMENTS (SPI) - A method and system for designing and providing sustainable performance instruments. A new type of financial instruments called Sustainable Performance Instruments (SPI) provides investors with returns tied to the actual performance outcomes or impacts from a sustainable social or environments program or other policy interventions. The SPI incentivize investors with higher returns and/or borrowers with lower rates based on a scale on social and/or environmental and/or other objectives. The SPI are a new way to fund innovative projects in public and private sectors that may not be able to find financing or funding using conventional mechanisms. The SPI hold executors of the project or program accountable by directly tying financial returns and other benefits to actual measurable performance benchmarks or observable impacts. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132305 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALYZING FINANCIAL DATA - A system analyzes multiple financial accounts having a common account holder and identifies a particular attribute, such as interest rate, associated with each of the multiple financial accounts. The system then makes a determination regarding whether an adjustment of funds among the multiple financial accounts would benefit the account holder. If the adjustment of funds would benefit the account holder, then recommending the adjustment of funds to the account holder and offering to perform the recommended adjustment of funds. The system executes the adjustment of funds if the account holder accepts the offer to perform the recommended adjustment of funds. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132306 | GAME SYSTEM, AND A STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A COMPUTER PROGRAM AND SERVER APPARATUS THEREFOR - A game system capable of calculating fees appropriate for a usage state is provided. The game system ( | 2013-05-23 |
20130132307 | MANAGING THE USE OF SECURE COMPARTMENTS IN CHARGING STATIONS FOR PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICES - The disclosed embodiments provide a charging station for portable electronic devices. During operation, the charging station obtains input from a user to the charging station. If the input matches an ongoing transaction associated with charging of the portable electronic device by the charging station, the charging station uses the input to identify a first secure compartment of the charging station containing the portable electronic device, wherein power is supplied to the portable electronic device within the first secure compartment. Next, the charging station releases a first door of the first secure compartment. Finally, upon detecting a presence of the portable electronic device in the first secure compartment after the first door is subsequently closed, the charging station secures the first door and continues to supply power to the portable electronic device without requiring additional input from the user. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132308 | Enhanced DeepQA in a Medical Environment - A DeepQA engine is enhanced to provide a digital medical investigation tool which assists a medical professional in researching potential causes of a set of patient conditions, including clues, facts and factoids about the patient. The DeepQA engine provides one or more answers to a natural language question with confidence levels for each answer. If a confidence level falls below a threshold, the enhanced DeepQA engine performs a crowd sourcing operation to gather additional information from one or more domain experts. The domain expert responses are provided to the medical professional, and are learned by the enhanced DeepQA system to provide for better research of similar patient conditions in future queries. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132309 | Method Performed in a Computer System for Aiding the Assessment of an Influence of a User in or Interacting with a Communication System by Applying Social Network Analysis, SNA, Functions, a Computer System, Computer Program and Computer Program Product - The invention relates to a method performed in a computer system for aiding the assessment of an influence of a user in or interacting with a communication system by applying social network analysis, SNA, functions. The method comprises: obtaining two or more SNA metrics for each user of a first number of users, each SNA metric being determined by a respective SNA function; calculating a weight parameter for each one of the SNA metrics using a machine learning method, the weight parameters indicating a combination of the SNA metrics for use in the assessment of the influence of the user; and applying the estimated weight parameters to SNA metrics of a second number of users to assess a ranking in accordance with influence of users in the second number of users. The invention also relates to a computer system, computer programs, and computer program products. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132310 | Method and System for Evaluating the Class of a Test Datum in a Large-Dimension Data Space - A method and a system for evaluating the class of a test datum in an original metric space, each datum belonging to at least one class grouping a plurality of data, includes a step of graphical representation of the spatial organization of a set of learning data of the original space in a representation metric space, a conjoint membership level indicating if any two data from the learning set belong to the same class. The method also includes a step of relating the test datum to the projections of the data from the learning set, the most probable class of the test datum being the class of the projections of the data from the learning set related to the test datum. Application: assistance with decision-making in discrimination, shape recognition. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132311 | SCORE FUSION AND TRAINING DATA RECYCLING FOR VIDEO CLASSIFICATION - Multiple classifiers can be applied independently to evaluate images or video. Where there are heavily imbalanced class distributions, a local expert forest model for meta-level score fusion for event detection can be used. Performance variations of classifiers in different regions of a score space can be adapted. Multiple pairs of experts based on different partitions, or “trees,” can form a “forest,” balancing local adaptivity and over-fitting. Among ensemble learning methods, stacking with a meta-level classifier can be used to fuse an output of multiple base-level classifiers to generate a final score. A knowledge-transfer framework can reutilize the base-training data for learning the meta-level classifier. By recycling the knowledge obtained during a base-classifier-training stage, efficient use can be made of all available information, such as can be used to achieve better fusion and better overall performance. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132312 | DATA PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLINICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM - Provided is a data processing method for clinical decision support system. The data processing method provides an algorithm capable of performing parsing based on an Ontology technique and automatically updating rule database in order to reduce time and labor overloads accompanied by update of the rule database. According to an aspect, the data processing method includes inferring input data having a natural language format based on an Ontology technique to recognize at least one input rule included in the input data; inferring storage data having a natural language format and stored in rule database based on the Ontology technique to recognize at least one storage rule associated with the input rule from the storage data; comparing the input rule to the storage rule using a Self Evolutionary Rule-base algorithm; and updating the storage data stored in the rule database to the input data according to the result of the comparison. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132313 | METHOD OF REPAIRING FINANCIALLY INFEASIBLE GENETIC ALGORITHM CHROMOSOME ENCODING ACTIVITY START TIMES IN SCHEDULING - The method of repairing financially infeasible genetic algorithm chromosome encoding activity start times in scheduling problems determines cash availability during a given period, identifies all possible activities' schedules, determines the cash requirements for each schedule, ranks schedules based on the contribution on minimizing the increase in the project duration, schedules all activities of the selected schedule, and determines the impact of the scheduled activities on the project cash flow. Thus, the algorithm introduces effective chromosomes that maximize the utilization of the available funds and minimize project duration. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132314 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MODELING BINARY SYNAPSES - Methods and system for modeling the behavior of binary synapses are provided. In one aspect, a method of modeling synaptic behavior includes receiving an analog input signal and transforming the analog input signal into an N-bit codeword, wherein each bit of the N-bit codeword is represented by an electronic pulse ( | 2013-05-23 |
20130132315 | CLASSIFICATION USING CORRENTROPY - Various methods and systems are provided for classification using correntropy. In one embodiment, a classifying device includes a processing unit and memory storing instructions in modules that when executed by the processing unit cause the classifying device to adaptively classify a data value using a correntropy loss function. In another embodiment, a method includes adjusting a weight of a classifier based at least in part on a change in a correntropy loss function signal and classifying a data value using the classifier. In another embodiment, a method includes classifying a data value by predicting a label for the data value using a discriminant function, determining a correntopy statistical similarity between the predicted label and an actual label based at least in part on a correntropy loss function, and minimizing an expected risk associated with the predicted label based at least in part on a correntropy statistical similarity. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132316 | Substructure and Boundary Modeling for Continuous Action Recognition - Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for improved state space modeling (SSM) comprising two added layers to model the substructure transition dynamics and action duration distribution. In embodiments, the first layer represents a substructure transition model that encodes the sparse and global temporal transition probability. In embodiments, the second layer models the action boundary characteristics by injecting discriminative information into a logistic duration model such that transition boundaries between successive actions can be located more accurately; thus, the second layer exploits discriminative information to discover action boundaries adaptively. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132317 | POWER PROVISION BASED ON SELF-SACRIFICING CRAFT - A biologically-inspired system and method is provided for self-adapting behavior of swarm-based exploration missions, whereby individual components, for example, spacecraft, in the system can sacrifice themselves for the greater good of the entire system. The self-sacrifice can involve donating resources or assets, such as power provisions, to a different component of an autonomous system. A receiving component of the system can benefit from receiving the donated resource or power provision. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132318 | Methods and Systems for Collaborative Formulation and Solution of Problems - Methods and systems for computationally solving problems are disclosed. A problem can be specified using a computing device. The problem can include at least an initial state and a plurality of operators. Each operator of the plurality of operators can be configured to transform an input state to an output state. The computing device can set a current state of the problem to the initial state. The computing device can generate a display of at least the current state and at least one operator of the plurality of operators. The computing device can receive an input specifying a first operator of the plurality of operators. After receiving the input, the computing device can use the first operator to transform the current state to a transformed state. The computing device can store the transformed state. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132319 | HEALTH AND FITNESS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A health and fitness management system is provided that has a health and fitness application operating, e.g., on a smart phone, that can wirelessly communicate with an activity module worn on the user which has an accelerometer. The application accepts food and weight inputs (e.g., from the smart phone) and user activity units (e.g., from the activity unit) and develops a user intrinsic metabolism. The application includes fitness arc and health quotient graphical indicators that guide the user on health and fitness activities. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132320 | INNOVATION EXPERT SYSTEM, IES, AND ITS PTR DATA STRUCTURE, PTR-DS - The claimed Innovation Expert System, IES, and for a given innovation/invention the claimed Data Structure DS—structurally being the same for any innovation/invention—meet two kinds of functional requirements. They support: | 2013-05-23 |
20130132321 | GENERAL MARKET PREDICTION USING POSITION SPECIFICATION LANGUAGE - Methods evaluating propositions about timeseries are provided. A service accepts a proposition about one or more timeseries, and the service monitors those timeseries. A proposition can reference multiple timeseries with different time intervals and different units. When new data is available, the service evaluates the proposition to determine if the proposition is true, false, or neither. The service automatically performs unit conversions and selects relevant, previously observed values before evaluating a proposition when new data is available. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132322 | SCALABLE, RULE-BASED PROCESSING - A system, method and computer program product for scalable, rule-based processing, including an automaton builder for constructing automatons corresponding to trigger rules and word lists that are employed by the trigger rules, and a rule evaluator for evaluating any of the trigger rules with respect to an input document by selecting any of the automatons to evaluate a given one of the trigger rules, parsing the input document using the selected automatons, determining whether conditions of the given trigger rule are met, and identifying any actions that are associated with the given trigger rule. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132323 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RISK STRATIFICATION OF PATIENT POPULATIONS - A statistical processing system includes a server operably configured with program instructions implementing a plurality of statistical models to at least one of (a) predict a health outcome based on questionnaire responses, (b) assist a patient's choice of therapeutic modality based on questionnaire responses, and (c) assess a health risk or status based on questionnaire responses. Also provided is a research agency communicating with the server and contracted to provide the statistical models using a visual interface communicated by the server. The server is configured to analyze requests received from users relating to a plurality of said statistical models to reduce redundancy in requests for patient data. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132324 | APPLICATION OF NORMATIVE RULES IN A VIRTUAL UNIVERSE - The present invention teaches methods for applying an avatar behavior rule within a virtual universe environment. An avatar behavior rule and a violation threshold for the rule are defined for a virtual universe environment. The behavior of a collective plurality of avatars within the virtual universe is monitored for compliance with the rule, including determining an amount of compliance with the rule and comparing the compliance amount with the violation threshold. If the compliance amount does not exceed the violation threshold but avatars are complaining that the monitored behavior of another of the avatars is at an objectionable level, then the rule or the violation threshold is revised until the monitored behavior of the collective plurality of avatars within the virtual universe exceeds the revised violation threshold, or none of the avatars is complaining. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132325 | Scalable, Rule-Based Processing - A system, method and computer program product for scalable, rule-based processing, including an automaton builder for constructing automatons corresponding to trigger rules and word lists that are employed by the trigger rules, and a rule evaluator for evaluating any of the trigger rules with respect to an input document by selecting any of the automatons to evaluate a given one of the trigger rules, parsing the input document using the selected automatons, determining whether conditions of the given trigger rule are met, and identifying any actions that are associated with the given trigger rule. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132326 | RULES ENGINE ECOSYSTEM - An object cache framework client selects a rule-set object in an object cache framework. The rule-set object comprises a rule-set (set of business rules). The object cache framework client evaluates criteria of the rule-set against properties of a plurality of rules engines. The object cache framework client determines if the properties of a rules engine, from a plurality of rules engines, satisfy the criteria of the rule-set. The object cache framework client supplies the rule-set object to the rules engine for execution of the rule-set. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132327 | SELF CONFIGURING KNOWLEDGE BASE REPRESENTATION - A self configuring knowledge representation system and method is presented which self configures based on the external stimuli in order to answer the query in a way best suited to the user. The domain knowledge representation here is by way of graphs that allows the knowledge to self configure based on the query intent to give “specific” to the query answers. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132328 | Survey Feasibility Estimator - The disclosure is directed to systems and methods for estimating the completion time of a web-based survey. The estimated completion time can be determined based on survey parameters associated with the web-based survey. The survey parameters can be based on characteristic values of the web-based survey associated with the survey parameters. The characteristic values of survey parameters can be used to estimate parameter completion times, from which an estimated survey completion time for the web-based survey may be determined. The disclosed systems and methods further permit assessments of survey feasibility. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132329 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE MEDIA DATA STORAGE - A method and apparatus store media data on a portable electronic device. The method can include monitoring media data storage activity regarding user media data storage activity usage patterns that store media data in a memory in a portable electronic device. The method can include storing the media data storage activity data in the portable electronic device. The method can include triggering a full memory prediction algorithm based on a user action event that affects media data storage in the memory and can include running the full memory prediction algorithm in response to the trigger. The full memory prediction algorithm can predict when the memory will be substantially full based on past user media data storage behavior according to the media data storage activity data. The method can include outputting a potential upcoming full memory indication. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132330 | MANAGEMENT OF PRIVACY SETTINGS FOR A USER DEVICE - A system and methods of managing privacy settings of a user are presented here. The system obtains context information that is indicative of a contextual scenario associated with operation of a user device and determines, with a first analytics system, a first set of privacy settings predictions that is influenced at least in part by the context information. A second analytics system is used to determine a second set of privacy settings predictions that is influenced at least in part by the context information. When the first set of privacy settings predictions differ from the second set of privacy settings predictions by at least a threshold amount, the system issues a query for user-specified privacy settings for the contextual scenario. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132331 | PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF A CLASSIFIER - A computer-implemented method for evaluating performance of a classifier, the method comprising: (a) comparing labels determined by the classifier with corresponding known labels; and (b) based on the comparison, estimating a probability of observing an equal or better precision at a given recall with random ordering of the labels determined by the classifier. This disclosure also concerns a computer program and a computer system for evaluating performance of a classifier. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132332 | RULE CREATION AND APPLICATION - A computing device receives a rule that includes information describing conditions associated with a consequence, and identifies rule components corresponding to the rule. The computing device creates a rule formula, based on the rule components, by creating a first-order logic version of the rule and creating a rule formula table based on the first-order logic version of the rule. The computing device stores the rule formula table in a relational database. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132333 | MULTIDIMENSIONAL GROUPING OPERATORS - A multidimensional object, such as a language-integrated query (LINQ) object, can be generated based upon a grouping set operator and zero or more key selectors. The object can be utilized to query over a non-relational data source. The object can include a sequence of functions corresponding to each grouping related to the grouping set operator in order to provide multidimensional grouping representation. Furthermore, the object includes nested structures for optimized execution of the grouping set operator. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132334 | Collaborative Data Management System for Engineering Design and Construction Projects - A collaborative data management system for engineering, design, and construction (EDC) projects is presented. The system includes a storage medium, a processor, executable code, a display, and an input device. The storage medium stores a plurality of EDC data objects and a plurality of relationship objects. The EDC data objects represent parameters relevant to EDC projects. The relationship objects represent relationships between EDC data objects. The processor and executable code are communicatively coupled with the storage medium and are configured to (i) display the relationship objects on the display and (ii) allow a user to manage synchronization of the EDC objects with the input device. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132335 | UPDATING METHOD AND SYSTEM OF APPLICATION SYSTEM DATABASE THEREOF - An updating system comprises a registering module, for registering database updating requests required to be executed by an applicant of the application system during an application session, when a same data registered and updated previously is required during a same application session, the same data is acquired from a modified data in a recording module; a recording module, for recording the registered database updating requests and the modified data required for submitting to the database; a submitting module, for submitting the multiple database updating requests when the application session is completed; a merging module, for merging the database updating requests, when multiple times of updating are executed for different fields of a same data by the applicant in the application session, the database updating requests of the same data are merged into one database updating request; and an updating module, for starting database transaction and completing the database update. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132336 | COMMUNICATION APPARATUS THAT IMPROVES USABILITY OF ADDRESS BOOKS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A communication apparatus which is capable of improving usability of address books provided for respective ones of a plurality of users. When a destination included in the address books has been updated by any user among the plurality of users, a process result indicating that the destination has been updated, and descriptions of a process determined according to the process result are stored in association with and in conjunction with the destination in a storage device. The process corresponding to the destination is carried out on address books of users different from the user who has updated the destination, the address books including the destination stored in the storage device. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132337 | REPORT GENERATION APPARATUS, REPORT GENERATION SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A report generation apparatus includes a user information storage unit that stores therein user identification information for identifying a user and regional information on a region where the user is located, so as to associated with each other; a regional information obtaining part that receives user identification information and obtains regional information associated with the received user identification information from the user information storage part; and a generator that obtains device management information relating to usage of a device and generates a report using the obtained device management information and the obtained regional information. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132338 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided with an information processing apparatus. A holding unit is configured to hold a communication parameter to be used to perform communication with a storage device configured to store a content. A storage unit is configured to store a content. A memory unit is configured to store a record of change for the content stored in the storage unit. A deletion unit is configured to delete, from the memory unit, the record of change used to synchronize the content stored in the storage unit with the content stored in the storage device in accordance with deletion of the communication parameter used to perform the communication with the storage device from the holding unit. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132339 | Mind Map with Data Feed Linkage and Social Network Interaction - Embodiments of the disclosed technology comprise a method of augmenting a mind map of a plurality of objects based on at least one data feed. The method comprises providing an interface which contains visual representations of objects and associates semantic data with these objects. The interface allows for a user to access data from a data feed, and it analyzes these data in order to identify additional objects which may be semantically related to the object. A visual representation of the additional object is then augmented with a connector to the original object. Information about the relationships of the objects may be certified automatically or manually. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132340 | FILE SYNCHRONIZATION METHOD, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM - The present invention provides a file synchronization method, an electronic device and a synchronization system. The method comprises: in a hybrid system having a first system and a second system, monitoring in the first system a first cache of the first system, in which first data corresponding to a first file stored in a non-volatile storage of the first system opened by a first file processing program of the first system is saved; sending, to the second system, operating content performed by the first file processing program on the first file via a data information channel between the first system and the second system, when the first data in the first cache is changed; wherein a second file processing program in the second system performs a synchronization processing on a second file according to the operating content, the second file being a file corresponding to the first file in the second system. With the above technical solutions, a real-time synchronization/updating may be performed on same files in different systems, since the plug-in application service logic is provided and may access the cache in real time. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132341 | SYNCHRONIZED LINKING METHOD AND SYSTEM BETWEEN ENGINEERING ANALYSIS PROGRAMS BY USING A SHARED MEMORY OF A DATABASE - A synchronized linking system between engineering analysis programs includes: a global variable extracting unit for extracting global variables defined in source codes of programs; a memory management unit for creating a database to search for global variables according to variable name and storing the database in the shared memory; a translation unit for changing an original source code to allocate storage space of the shared memory, and then creating an execution file for each program, after removing a global variable declaration area of the source codes; and a code executing unit for executing the execution files created by the translation unit and progressing over time at synchronized time intervals, and storing and restoring the storage space of the shared memory that determines status of each program on a physical memory. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132342 | System, Method and Computer Readable Storage Medium for Data Synchronization - Disclosed herein is a data synchronization system which includes a plurality of electronic devices and a synchronization server. Each of the electronic devices includes a storage management module, an electronic device status module, and a synchronization module. The synchronization server, communicatively coupled to the electronic devices, includes an electronic device status management module and a data synchronization management module. Also disclosed herein are a data synchronization method and a computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a data synchronization program executable by the data synchronization system for synchronizing data. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132343 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF REPLICATED SEQUENTIAL ACCESS STORAGE COMPONENTS - Various embodiments for synchronization of source and replicated instances of sequential access storage components in a computing environment by a processor device are provided. A replication synchronization table (RST) of a source instance is updated at a source component with the compacted information. Based on the RST of the source instance and the RST of the replicated instance, data representative of a most recent position on the source component from which data should be transmitted to a replicated component to achieve a full synchronization is determined. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132344 | Systems and Methods for Publishing Datasets - Systems and methods for publishing datasets are provided herein. According to some embodiments, methods for publishing datasets may include receiving a request to publish a dataset to at least one of an internal environment located within a secured zone and an external environment located outside the secured zone, the request comprising at least one selection criteria, selecting the dataset based upon the at least one selection criteria, the dataset being selected from an index of collected datasets, and responsive to the request, publishing the dataset to at least one of the internal environment and the external environment. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132345 | Replication Support For Heterogeneous Data Types - A method, system and computer readable storage medium for replicating database data of heterogeneous data type are disclosed. The method includes determining the data type of an element of heterogeneous data type to be replicated. The element is packed into a predetermined transfer format as an opaque data type, based on the determined data type, and replicated to a replication server. The replication server is instructed to not modify the element noted as opaque. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132346 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR MERGING, STORING AND RETRIEVING INCREMENTAL BACKUP DATA - A method of managing backup data. The method includes accessing, via a backup manager, index data of an initial snapshot and accessing, via the backup manager, index data of a subsequent snapshot. The method further includes determining, via the backup manager, whether the index data of the subsequent snapshot is different from the index data of the initial snapshot. Responsive to a determination that the index data of the subsequent snapshot is different from the index data of the initial snapshot, creating an updated index data and creating an updated snapshot with the updated index data. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132347 | BACKUP METHOD FOR PORTABLE DEVICE - An embodiment of the invention provides a backup method for a portable device. The method comprises creating a first log file according to a first file that has to be stored in a backup device, connecting the portable device to the backup device. When the backup device is connected to the portable device, the backup device reads the first log file and stores the first file to the backup device. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132348 | MANAGING DISCONNECTED INVESTIGATIONS - A system and a method enable an information analyst to use a stand-alone computer-based investigation application to conduct a disconnected investigation on shared database data in a remote location where network access to a shared data repository of the system might be only periodically available, unreliable, or non-existent. In addition, the system and method enable the disconnected investigation to incrementally incorporate ongoing updates made to the shared repository of data, and to periodically publish interim or final results of the disconnected investigation to the shared data repository. A disconnected investigation can be conducted entirely at the disconnected investigation location without having any network connectivity to the shared repository of data. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132349 | TENANT SEPARATION WITHIN A DATABASE INSTANCE - A method for a database instance associated with a database management system includes receiving a command to perform a copy or a move on a first tenant partition from a first database instance to a second database instance destination partition. The method shuts down the first tenant partition, packs tenant-dependent data into tenant-dependent tables, acquires a data definition lock that prevents changes to metadata describing the first tenant partition, obtains tenant-specific metadata of a catalog of the first database instance, packs the first database instance catalog tenant-specific metadata into the first tenant partition, locks write transactions on tenant-specific data in the first tenant partition, creates a tenant-specific snapshot of the first tenant partition, stores the tenant-specific snapshot in a storage device external to the first database instance, performs the received command, and releases both the write transaction lock and the data definition lock. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132350 | PRIORITIZED DIGITAL MEDIA ARCHIVING - An investment value of a media file is automatically determined by recording an interaction with the media file. Further, a uniqueness value of the media file is automatically determined by determining a probability that the media file is irreplaceable. In addition, an archival prioritization of the media file is performed in comparison with an additional media file. An archival storage device stores the media file if the archival storage device has space to accommodate the media file and the media file has a higher archival prioritization than the additional media file. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132351 | COLLECTION INSPECTOR - A computer program product for providing a collection context includes computer-readable instructions embodied on tangible, non-transient media and operable when executed to identifying a collection of items. An indication to inspect one or more items in the collection can be received, and an inspection interface for inspection of the one or more items can be provided, the inspection interface providing at least data about the one or more items and a list of the items in the collection. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132352 | EFFICIENT FINE-GRAINED AUDITING FOR COMPLEX DATABASE QUERIES - The present application provides for techniques for implementing data auditing embodiments that determine whether a query into a database is or has referenced forbidden data within the database. Various techniques are given for efficiently finding all tuples in a database referenced by a given query. A set of sensitive data is determined within a database and the set of sensitive data is employed to define a forbidden view within the database. Data within the database may be annotated to provide efficient identification of data access by query. Incoming queries may be analyzed and modified to propagate annotations for analyzing what data is or was accessed. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132353 | Compression Of Genomic Data - The present subject matter discloses a system and a method for compression of genomic data. In one embodiment, the method for compression of genomic data includes obtaining modified genomic data from genomic data based at least in part on intermediary data identified from the genomic data. In one implementation, the modified genomic data includes a plurality of primary characters. The genomic data may then be modified to generate one or more most-frequent character files based at least on a most-frequent character and a second most-frequent character from among the plurality of primary characters. Further, based at least on the one or more most-frequent character files and the modified genomic data, a least-frequent characters file may be created from the modified genomic data. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132354 | MULTIPLE SOURCE DATA MANAGEMENT USING A CONFLICT RULE - A solution for managing data received from multiple sources is provided. In particular, when conflicting data values are received from multiple sources for a data element, a conflict rule is used to determine the main data value for the data element, which is subsequently stored for use. The conflict rule can define any automatic, semi-automatic, or manual procedure for resolving the conflict. The conflict rule, or an identifier thereof, can be stored with each data value and the main data value for the data element. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132355 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - Information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program are provided. An information processing apparatus includes the following elements. A receiver receives a command requesting for the execution of predetermined processing. A storage unit stores data and first information indicating, among a plurality of stages in a lifecycle of the information processing apparatus, the current stage determined by the stored data and second information indicating an executable command in the current stage, the executable command being determined for each of the plurality of stages. A determining unit determines on the basis of the first information and the second information whether the command received by the receiver is an executable command in the current stage. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132356 | Method and Apparatus for Sorting Inquiry Results - Sorting inquiry results includes, based on extracted inquiry results matching search conditions of a user, collecting features of the inquiry results. The collected features may be used as features of a respective inquiry result and feature fitting may be conducted based on a support vector machine (SVM) regression model to obtain a feature fitting value of the respective inquiry result. The inquiry results may be sorted based on relevancy values of the inquiry results, and, for inquiry results having a same relevancy level, the inquiry results may be sorted in a top-down manner based on feature fitting values of the inquiry results. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132357 | QUERY REFINEMENT IN A BROWSER TOOLBAR - Embodiment described herein are generally directed to a toolbar extension of a web browser that grabs a user's search engine query and suggests a refined search query known to yield better search results. The toolbar recognizes the web page the user is on as being associated with a search engine and retrieves the user's search query. The toolbar interacts with a refinement component on a server, and the refinement component determines a refined search query based on confidence scores assigned to data mined from a data center affiliated with different search engine (one related to the toolbar). The refined search query is returned and displayed in a search field of the toolbar, allowing the user to easily run the refined search on the different search engine. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132358 | CONSUMER INFORMATION AGGREGATOR AND PROFILE GENERATOR - Disclosed are electronic systems and techniques for implementing consumer information aggregation and profile generation. An aggregator component can obtain data relating to a user from virtually any open, publicly available, or private sources of information. A profile of candidate characteristics associated with the user is generated, or updated, based on the information obtained, and the eligibility of the user for one or more offers, such as a loan, can be determined based at least in part on the profile of candidate characteristics. In this regard, banks and retailers can automate an offer decision-making process using information about the applicant that is readily available. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132359 | GROUPED SEARCH QUERY REFINEMENTS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on one or more computer storage devices, for grouping search query refinements. One of the methods includes while receiving a text input into an input field by a user and before the user has submitted the text input to a search engine obtaining query suggestions based at least in part on the text input. The method includes grouping query suggestions based on a common query term shared by the query suggestions, wherein the query suggestions include terms that refine the common query term. The method includes transmitting a set of query suggestions to a client device for presentation, wherein the set includes the query suggestions that are presented as a group with the common query term presented in a prominent position and the refinement terms presented in subordinate positions and wherein the common query term and the refinement terms are each user-selectable. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132360 | ITERATIVE AND DYNAMIC SEARCH OF PUBLICLY AVAILABLE DATA BASED ON AUGMENTATION OF SEARCH TERMS AND VALIDATION OF DATA RELEVANCE - Disclosed are electronic systems and techniques that generate validation measures related to information obtained from publicly available data sources for providing recommendations about a potential client. Trusted search criteria are used to obtain a set of query results. These results are used to gather metadata associated with a potential client for loan offers. The validation measures are initiated from the associations and used to modify the search criteria or identifying data for searching further. A credit worthiness score related to the potential client is configured based on the validation scores and relevancy of the data. The client information is updated dynamically with continued modification of the initial search criteria in order to alter a scope and improve an accuracy of information. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132361 | INPUT METHOD FOR QUERYING BY USING A REGION FORMED BY AN ENCLOSED TRACK AND SYSTEM USING THE SAME - An input method and a system for querying by using at least one region formed by at least one enclosed track are provided. The method mainly includes: forming at least one region on digital type information; storing at least one of text information and image information in the track into a registering memory; generating at least one of text-based information retrieval and image-based information retrieval according to the at least one of the text information and the image information; and finally, transmitting the at least one of the text-based information retrieval and the image-based information retrieval to at least one search engine for querying. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132362 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROMOTING HUMAN-ASSISTED SEARCH - A method and system of promoting service(s) of a search system are disclosed. A monitoring software or a search monitor may be operative on a user device. A user may be notified of an alternate search result(s) when such a result is identified. Condition(s) whereby a notification is presented to a user may be modified based on user action(s) and/or other information. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132363 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING SYNONYMS AND USING SYNONYMS TO SEARCH - A method and an apparatus for identifying synonym and utilizing such synonym to conduct search is disclosed. The disclosed method includes: obtaining arbitrary two words to be identified; determining whether a shortest edit distance between the two words less than or equal to an edit distance threshold; determining whether the two words to be identified exist in a preset knowledge database, and if an answer is yes then searching a smallest granularity type with highest weight value for each word in the knowledge database; and if the two word have the same smallest granularity type with highest weight value, then determining such two words are synonyms, or non-synonym otherwise. The disclosed techniques greatly improve accuracy of synonym identification and guarantee effect of synonym identification. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132364 | CONTEXT DEPENDENT KEYWORD SUGGESTION FOR ADVERTISING - Various technologies described herein pertain to suggesting context dependent keywords for advertising. A set of seed queries can be identified from a context, where the context is a source keyword, a search query, a category, or a landing page. Moreover, the set of seed queries can be inputted to a search engine. A predetermined number of web pages returned by the search engine upon executing the set of seed queries can be retrieved. Candidate keywords can be extracted from the web pages returned by the search engine. Further, keywords from the candidate keywords can be selected from the candidate keywords based on relevance scores of the candidate keywords. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132365 | AUTOMATIC EXPANSION OF AN ADVERTISEMENT OFFER INVENTORY - An extensible offer inventory database of offers in a domain is established. Further, an offer ontology is generated based on the extensible offer inventory database. The offer ontology provides an extensible vocabulary that correlates to categories in the offer inventory database. In addition, offers are automatically located. The offers are also semantically analyzed to generate semantic analysis data. Further, user data is obtained. In addition, an optimal offer match is automatically determined based upon the semantic analysis data and the user data. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132366 | Interest Keyword Identification - A domain classifier develops and maintains relevance data about specific domains based on historical relevance data and source context data. Such data may be used to classify the user's interest in attempting to visit a specific domain and thereby redirect the user to a website expected to be aligned with the user's interest. In various implementations, the historical relevance data is derived from source context data and/or post-visit user behavior collected from previous attempts to visit a specific domain. The source context data collected from the current visit may also be used as source context-factors to influence domain classification. Based on such historical and current source context factors, as well as the domain address provided in the user's navigation request, a domain classifier consults the historical relevance data and provides the user with Web content that is identified as likely to be relevant to the user's interests. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132367 | Search Engines and Systems with Handheld Document Data Capture Devices - Embodiments of the disclosed innovations provide systems and methods for locating data associated with rendered documents. Some embodiments support the use of a handheld document data capture device. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132368 | LARGE SCALE ANALYTICAL REPORTING FROM WEB CONTENT - An analysis system is configured to perform quantitative (e.g., statistical) and/or qualitative analysis of large numbers of documents, files, etc., such as web pages, images on web pages, social medial pages, or other documents available via the Internet, an extranet, an Intranet, etc. In some embodiments, the large numbers of documents, files, etc., may be treated as a data set that can be quantitatively analyzed and reports of such analyses may be made electronically available to a user. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132369 | BATCHED SHORTEST PATH COMPUTATION - A batched shortest path problem, such as a one-to-many problem, is solved on a graph by using a preprocessing phase, a target selection phase, and then, in a query phase, computing the distances from a given source in the graph with a linear sweep over all the vertices. Contraction hierarchies may be used in the preprocessing phase and in the query phase. Optimizations may include reordering the vertices in advance to exploit locality and using parallelism. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132370 | Hybrid Query Execution Plan - A procedural pattern in a received query execution plan can be matched to a stored pattern for which an equivalent declarative operator has been pre-defined. The query execution plan can describe a query for accessing data. A hybrid execution plan can be generated by replacing the procedural pattern with the equivalent declarative operator. A hybrid execution plan processing cost can be assigned to execution of the hybrid execution plan and a query execution plan processing cost can be assigned to execution of the query execution plan. The assigning can include evaluating a cost model for the hybrid execution plan and the query execution plan. The query can be executed using the hybrid execution plan if the hybrid execution plan processing cost is less than the query execution plan processing cost or the query execution plan if the hybrid execution plan processing cost is greater than the query execution plan processing cost. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are disclosed. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132371 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR PROVIDING A QUERY LAYER FOR CLOUD DATABASES - Computer-implemented methods, systems and computer-readable media for providing a query layer for cloud databases comprise importing data into said cloud by at least one of the computing devices, converting at least one of the queries over row-store database into a query over column-store database by means of cost based query optimizer and retrieving said data from the column-store database based on said query by at least one of the computing devices. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132372 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC SERVICE INTEGRATION - The client may access a wide variety of data sources without extensive customization. A service integration module comprises a plurality of service records, each of which is associated with a respective data source. The service integration module may be configured to manage data source integration including data source drivers, credentials, and connection information. In response to a service request from a client, the service integration module identifies a service record, generates a data source query, accesses a result of the query, and transmits the result to the client. The service integration module may map raw data returned from a data source into a standard format. The service integration module may also reformat the results into a format or data encoding specified by the client. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132373 | MASSIVE MODEL VISUALIZATION WITH SPATIAL RETRIEVAL - Systems and methods for massive model visualization in product data management (PDM) systems. A method includes storing a hierarchical product data structure by a product data management (PDM) system, including a plurality of occurrence nodes and component nodes. The method includes receiving a query that references an occurrence node and at least one cell index value and determining a query result corresponding to the query. The query result identifies at least one occurrence node that corresponds to the cell index value. The method includes forming a query result chain corresponding to the query result, the query result chain filtered by a structural criterion, and applying a configuration rule to the filtered query result chain to identify child nodes of the filtered query result chain that conform to the configuration rule, and thereby producing a configured spatial retrieval result. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132374 | INTELLIGENT VIDEO SUMMARIES IN INFORMATION ACCESS - In a method for displaying video data within result presentations in information access or search systems, compressed thumbnails are computed for videos in a result page and applied to the result page. An end user is enabled to select a video in the result page and activate streaming of a video summary within the context of the associated result page. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132375 | Dynamic View-Based Data Layer in a Geographic Information System - Interactive geographic information systems (GIS) and techniques are disclosed that provide users with a greater degree of flexibility, utility, and information. A markup language is provided that facilitates communication between servers and clients of the interactive GIS, which enables a number of GIS features, such as network links (time-based and/or view-dependent dynamic data layers), ground overlays, screen overlays, placemarks, 3D models, and stylized GIS elements, such as geometry, icons, description balloons, polygons, and labels in the viewer by which the user sees the target area. Also, “virtual tours” of user-defined paths in the context of distributed geospatial visualization is enabled. Streaming and interactive visualization of filled polygon data are also enabled thereby allowing buildings and other such features to be provided in 3D. Also, techniques for enabling ambiguous search requests in a GIS are provided. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132376 | INTELLIGENT CLIENT CAPABILITY-BASED RESULTS RELATED TO A CHARACTER STREAM - Information may be presented to a user by using a first application to receive a character stream of one or more noncompletion characters. The noncompletion characters indicate that additional characters may be received. The character stream is exchanged with a host that analyzes the character stream to generate results that are responsive to the user's predicted interest. Results are received and displayed so that the user may select one of the results to launch a code segment related to the selected result. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132377 | Systems and Methods for Localized Bag-of-Features Retrieval - Methods and systems for performing fast, large-scale, localized Bag-of-Features (Local BoF) retrieval are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method may include receiving a query image and ranking each image of a large set of database images as a function of its similarity to the query image with a Local BoF operation. A Local BoF operation may be configured to localize, for each ranked image, a region that has a highest similarity to the query image. As such, the systems and methods described herein may be suitable for use in large-scale image search and retrieval or categorization operations that may identify objects of interest with arbitrary rotations, significantly different viewpoints, in the presence of clutter. In some embodiments, systems and methods described herein may be used as building blocks of various computer vision and image processing applications including, for example, object recognition and categorization, 3D modeling, mapping, navigation, gesture interfaces, etc. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132378 | SEARCH MODEL UPDATES - Search model updates are described. In one or more implementations, a search service uses a model to rank items in a search result, the model formed using an initial set of data. An update is generated using a subsequent set of data, which is formed after the initial set of data, that provides feedback describing user interaction with one or more items in the search result formed using the model, the generating of the update performed without use of at least a portion of the initial set of data. The model and the update are employed to rank items in a search result for a subsequent search. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132379 | IDENTIFICATION AND SELECTION OF AT LEAST ONE CORD BLOOD UNIT FOR TRANSPLANTATION - The invention describes a method for the identification and selection for at least one cord blood unit for a transplantation. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132380 | APPLYING EFFECTS TO ELECTRONIC MEDIA FILES - A method of searching for an effect to apply to an electronic media file, fee method comprising: storing a plurality of effects, each effect having one or more identifiers associated with it; receiving a search query which defines one or more search terms having one or more corresponding identifiers; retrieving a set of effects which are associated with the one or more identifiers; and outputting a set of search results comprising the set of retrieved effects, each applied to the electronic media file. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132381 | TAGGING ENTITIES WITH DESCRIPTIVE PHRASES - A plurality of description phrases associated with a first domain may be determined, based on an analysis of a first plurality of documents to determine co-occurrences of the description phrases with one or more name labels associated with the first domain. An entity associated with the first domain may be obtained. An analysis of a second plurality of documents may be initiated to identify co-occurrences of mentions of the obtained entity and one or more of the plurality of description phrases, and contexts associated with each of the co-occurrences of the mentions and description phrases, in each one of the second plurality of documents. A description tag association between the obtained entity and one of the description phrases may be determined, based on an analysis of the identified contexts. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132382 | END CREDITS IDENTIFICATION FOR MEDIA ITEM - Systems and methods for automatically identifying end credits in a media item are disclosed. An analysis component analyzes a media item and identifies a transition point in the media item where end credits begin and a presentation component presents a prompt, such as a survey, based on the transition point. In another aspect, a monitoring component monitors at least one of content or audio of the media item. According to this aspect, the analysis component analyzes the at least one of the content or the audio, identifies a pattern of the media item associated with the end credits, and identifies the transition point as a function of the pattern. In various aspects, the pattern is associated with a streaming of text, a music soundtrack, an absence of speech, an absence object movement, or an absence of an appearance of objects included in the body of the media item. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132383 | INFORMATION SERVICE FOR RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN FACTS EXTRACTED FROM DIFFERING SOURCES ON A WIDE AREA NETWORK - In one general aspect, a wide area network fact information service system is disclosed. It includes a real time database that stores information about facts on the network by recording at least an identifier and an occurrence timepoint for each fact, with the occurrence timepoint identifying a time at which the fact occurred. It also includes fact-based expression logic operative to interact with expressions that define relationships between facts based on both their identifiers and their timepoints, a relationship database for storing representations of the relationships that satisfy the expressions, and a service interface operative to allow a service consumer to query the database of stored relationships. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132384 | SOCIAL DIALOGUE LISTENING, ANALYTICS, AND ENGAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - Embodiments of social media listening, analytics, and engagement systems and method are described herein where a system user may listen to and analyze social media content based on one or more key terms. The system may expand the key terms and listen to additional social media content based on the expanded terms. The system may also enable a user to engage social media participants related to the social media content via multiple campaigns. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132385 | METHOD FOR ANALYZING TIME SERIES ACTIVITY STREAMS AND DEVICES THEREOF - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and data manager computing device comprises retrieving a time series data of a monitored asset based on one or more tags in response to a request. Further, a heterogeneous data based on the one or more tags is retrieved. Furthermore, a cause of an anomaly period in retrieved time series data of the monitored asset is determined based on the retrieved heterogeneous data. Finally, the determined cause of the anomaly period in the time series data in the monitored asset is provided. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132386 | SEMANTIC MODEL OF EVERYTHING RECORDED WITH UR-URL COMBINATION IDENTITY-IDENTIFIER-ADDRESSING-INDEXING METHOD, MEANS, AND APPARATUS - A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, comprising non-transitory computer executable program code configured to perform the steps of: receiving a representation of an unlabeled event; labeling the unlabeled event according to a unitary relative event ontology; and storing the labeled event in the computer readable storage medium. The unitary relative event ontology can comprise an information description vector comprising a plurality of ontological primitives, and the plurality of ontological primitives can comprise a point description element, a reference-body description element, an observer description element, a position description element, a scene description element, and a specification description element. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132387 | INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing terminal device includes: a communication unit; a primary content information acquiring unit for acquiring primary content information; a primary content information holding managing unit for holding and managing primary content information, in correlation with a unique primary content identifier; a subsidiary content information holding managing unit for obtaining subsidiary content information configured having at least playback control information and having a subsidiary content identifier corresponding to itself and an editing history identifier; an editing processing unit for executing editing processing with secondary usage of at least one of primary content information and subsidiary content information; a subsidiary content information creating unit for creating subsidiary content information; an editing history identifier managing unit for generating the editing history identifier; and a subsidiary content identifier managing unit for generating a subsidiary content identifier to be correlated with subsidiary content information and providing this to subsidiary content information. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132388 | APPARATUS FOR CAPTURING BRUSHING HABITS - An apparatus that monitors the brushing history of a user is provided. In one embodiment, the apparatus, such as a toothbrush, may capture brushing data when a user is brushing teeth, and store the captured brushing data in a database of the apparatus. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132389 | ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT REPOSITORY SYSTEM - An electronic document repository system comprises a storage arrangement ( | 2013-05-23 |
20130132390 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY PROVIDING AN AGGREGATED TREND - A method of selectively providing an aggregated trend obtained from at least a subset of a plurality of individual trends. The method comprises deciding whether to provide the aggregated trend by determining whether an individual trend in at least the subset of the plurality of individual trends can be at least partially identified from the aggregated trend. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132391 | PREDICTING CONTENT AND CONTEXT PERFORMANCE BASED ON PERFORMANCE HISTORY OF USERS - Systems and methods are provided for selecting contexts for new invitational content and invitational content for new contexts. In particular, a performance history of delivered invitational content in known contexts is combined with similarity measures for the delivered invitational content, with respect to a new invitational content, to generate a list of potential contexts for the new invitational content. Similarly, a performance history of in known contexts with delivered invitational content can combined with similarity measures for known contexts, with respect to a new context, to generate a list of potential content for the new context. Further, a combination of these methods can be used to pair new invitational content with new contexts. | 2013-05-23 |
20130132392 | Pangenetic Web Item Recommendation System - Computer based systems, methods, software and databases are presented in which correlations between web item preferences and pangenetic (genetic and epigenetic) attributes of individuals are used for pangenetic based web item recommendation in which a user can request and receive personalized online recommendations of web items that are based on the user's pangenetic makeup. Data masking can be used to maintain privacy of sensitive portions of the pangenetic data. | 2013-05-23 |