34th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 57 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110208631 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MORTGAGE APPLICATION RECORDING - A system and method for mortgage application clearinghouse is disclosed. In particular, the present disclosure is directed to a centralized mortgage application recording system for online data processing, recording and maintenance of mortgage application-related data. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208632 | Generation of a Hedgeable Index and Market Making for a Hedgeable Index-Based Financial Instrument - Systems, methods, and apparatuses are provided for processing a relationship metric comprising a plurality of components each having an associated percentage weight, selecting a plurality of financial instruments each corresponding to one of the plurality of components, determining an integer number of each of the plurality of financial instruments such that a relationship based on the integer numbers approximates the percentage weights, and composing an index that includes the respective integer numbers of each of the plurality of financial instruments. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208633 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRADING A FUTURES CONTRACT BASED ON A FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT INDEXED TO ENTERTAINMENT DIVIDENDS - A method of trading includes performing a transaction of a futures contract between a buyer and a seller. The futures contract is associated with at least one entertainment event and comprises a purchase price and a settlement date. The method concludes by performing a settlement of the futures contract based at least in part upon the purchase price and a value associated with the entertainment event at the settlement date. The entertainment event is associated with a security and the transaction of the futures contract is performed in conjunction with the issuance of the security to the seller. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208634 | System and method for optimizing order execution - An embodiment of the present invention provides computer-implemented methods and systems for optimizing the executing an order, such as trading orders. An order may be electronically routed to an Execution Optimizer (“EO”). The EO may apply a particular profile to the order, corresponding to a particular portfolio manager. Next, the order, with the profile, may be routed, electronically, to a third party where a prediction model may be applied to the order, indicating trading parameters for the order. The order, with the trading parameters from the prediction model, may be passed back to the EO, where a rules engine may apply rules, specific to the executing financial institution, to the order. The order may then be passed to a selected broker for market trading. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208635 | CREDIT EVENT FIXINGS - Disclosed are methods and systems for transacting credit derivatives. The methods and systems allow for the calculation of the final cash settlement prices for credit derivatives following a credit event, such as a corporate bankruptcy. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208636 | MATCHING PARTIES TO A TRANSACTION FOR AN AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY - In general, in one aspect, the invention relates to a method for matching parties to a transaction of an agricultural commodity. The method involves receiving buyer criteria (e.g., purchase quantity, buyer price, transaction location at which to buy the agricultural commodity) sent from a mobile device used by a primary and secondary buyer. The method further involves receiving seller criteria sent from a seller mobile device. The method further involves matching, within a predetermined period of time after receiving the buyer criteria and the seller criteria, the primary and secondary buyer with the seller based on determining that a yield is sufficient to meet the purchase quantity and a transaction location at which to buy the agricultural commodity falls within a number of locations common the primary/secondary buyers and the seller. The method further involves sending the buyer criteria to the seller mobile device using short message service (SMS) format. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208637 | POWER TRADE SERVER, GREEN MARKET MANAGEMENT SERVER, TRADING MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND GREEN TRADING MANAGEMENT METHOD - There is provided a power trade server comprising a first certificate acquisition unit obtaining a first certificate certifying a storage amount of a first device for charging electricity a first user owns, from the first user eager to buy electricity, a second certificate acquisition unit obtaining a second certificate certifying a space amount of a second device for charging electricity a second user owns, from the second user eager to sell electricity, a power selling limitation unit limiting an electricity amount the first user can sell up to the storage amount of the first device for charging electricity based on the first certificate obtained by the first certificate acquisition unit, and a power purchase limitation unit limiting an electricity amount the second user can sell up to the space amount of the second device for charging electricity based on the second certificate obtained by the second certificate acquisition unit. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208638 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AUCTIONING A DEFAULTED LOAN - A method and system for conducting an online property auction whereby the system allows for identifying an owner of property willing to sell his property by an online auction, entering into a contract with the owner obligating him to complete the sales of his property conducted pursuant to terms of the contract; pre-arranging a minimum auction price for his property that accounts for the owner's interest, plus costs and fees, conducting the on-line auction with a plurality of bidders for his property whereby at the on-line auction's conclusion there is a winning bidder and ensuring the transfer of the winning bidder's funds to the escrow holder. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208639 | IDENTITY VALIDATION FOR FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS - Systems and methods for validating a party's identity for facilitating peer-to-peer loan transactions are provided. Drivers of a fleet of parcel delivery vehicles associated with a particular common carrier are used to collect information validating a party's identity. As part of a scheduled parcel delivery, or as an independent stop specifically for identity validation, a driver visits an address associated with a party (e.g., a consignor or consignee) and confirms the party's association with the address, such as by visually inspecting the party's driver's license or other identifying document. Information regarding the party's association is provided to a system accessible by a peer-to-peer lending facilitator. Input from the drivers relating to the association may be transmitted to a server via the driver's handheld device. The information can be used by the peer-to-peer lending facilitator to determine a level of risk associated with entering into a loan transaction with the party. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208640 | TICKETED FUNDS TRANSFERS BETWEEN A BROKERAGE ACCOUNT AND A DEPOSIT ACCOUNT - Systems, apparatuses, and methods may include establishing an omnibus account for conducting financial transactions with a financial institution, establishing a brokerage account for each of a plurality of customers, receiving a plurality of order requests to make transfers of respective customer-specified monetary amounts between a subset of the brokerage accounts and the omnibus account, aggregating the monetary amounts to determine a net monetary amount based on the order requests, generating a payment order based on the net monetary amount, communicating the payment order to the financial institution, and receiving confirmation from the financial institution in response to the payment order to execute the order requests. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208641 | HONORARY PAYMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - Provided in some embodiments is a method for conducting a transaction for electronically transmittable items. The method includes receiving a request to purchase an electronically transmittable item of an internet vendor, wherein the electronically transmittable item is configured to be received via electronic transmission, requesting a voluntary payment from a purchaser in exchange for providing the electronically transmittable item, wherein the request comprises a request to provide the voluntary payment to one or more third party agents, providing the electronically transmittable item to the purchaser via electronic transmission prior to receiving the voluntary payment for the electronically transmittable item, and receiving the voluntary payment for the electronically transmittable item via at least one of the one or more third party agents. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208642 | TRANSACTION SCORING SYSTEM AND METHOD - Provided in some embodiments is a method for conducting an honorary credit transaction. The method includes receiving a request to purchase an electronically transmittable item of an internet vendor, wherein the electronically transmittable item is configured to be received via electronic transmission, assessing honorary credit worthiness of a purchaser requesting to purchase the electronically transmittable item from an internet vendor via electronic transmission, and if the honorary creditworthiness of the purchaser satisfies a credit threshold: providing honorary credit to the purchaser in exchange for an honorary commitment to provide payment for the electronically transmittable item to one or more agents, wherein the honorary commitment comprises a non-legally binding commitment to provide payment to the one or more agents for purchase of the electronically transmittable item, and providing the electronically transmittable item to the purchaser via electronic transmission prior to receiving payment for the electronically transmittable item. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208643 | HONORARY CREDIT SYSTEM AND METHOD - Provided in some embodiments is a method for conducting an honorary credit transaction. The method includes providing a system configured to provide honorary credit to a purchaser in exchange for an honorary commitment to provide payment for electronically transmittable item to one or more agents, wherein the honorary commitment comprises a non-legally binding commitment to provide a payment to the one or more agents for purchase of the electronically transmittable item, receiving a request from a first purchaser to provide a second purchaser honorary credit in exchange for an honorary commitment to provide payment for an electronically transmittable item to one or more agents, providing the second purchaser honorary credit in exchange for an honorary commitment to provide payment for the electronically transmittable item to one or more agents, providing the electronically transmittable item to the second purchaser via electronic transmission prior to receiving payment for the electronically transmittable item, and if a payment is received for the electronically transmittable item via at least one of the one or more agents, providing an incentive to the first purchaser. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208644 | MONEY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A money management system includes a money handling machine | 2011-08-25 |
20110208645 | VIRTUAL FARE CARD AND VIRTUAL FARE DEVICE - Embodiments of systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed for enabling a uniquely-identifiable item as fare media in a transit system. Embodiments generally include collecting a unique identifier from the item, and sending the unique identifier, and other data, to a virtual fare device. The virtual fare device can use the unique identifier to access historical and/or other information associated with the unique identifier, calculate a fare, and/or update the information in a manner similar to how a physical fare device updates information on physical fare media, such as a stored-value card. The virtual fare device then can send data, such as priced transaction data including fare information, to other systems and/or servers of the transit system for further processing. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208646 | SMART VEHICLE NAVIGATION AND TRACKING SYSTEM - An intelligent navigation and vehicle tracking (INVT) utility collects/generates vehicle activity and location information for vehicles equipped with an intelligent navigation device. The INVT utility obtains GPS/location data for various vehicles from information provided by corresponding navigation devices and uses the received location information to calculate congestion and identify alternate routes. Additionally, the INVT utility provides an incentive mechanism for motorists to receive credit/cash rewards for selecting less congested routes. The INVT utility utilizes congestion data to determine the time efficiency and energy efficiency for traveling along particular routes. Furthermore, the INVT utility enables motorists to select routes based on energy expended, time expended and/or available credit/cash rewards. One aspect involves: downloading computerized maps providing a driver with information about: (a) pre-selected types of establishments; and (b) wireless network signal service levels/availability; and enabling drivers with registered driver accounts to establish driver sub-networks for sharing specific information with other drivers/members/friends. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208647 | System and Method for Crowd-Based Resource and Data Management - A system for crowd-based data and resource management, comprises, an application server adapted to perform a method of data management comprising providing an interface for posting an idea, providing an interface to search for an organization, providing an interface to enable a user to donate to the organization, providing an interface to share information about the organization, and providing an interface to view analytics about the organization. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208648 | BEARING INFORMATION ON A CARD - A financial transaction card is supplemented by position determining means which determines position coordinates for the card. The determined position is compared with a predetermined position stored in the memory to provide bearing data on the predetermined position from the position of the card. The card also includes a display for indicating the bearing. The card is particularly useful for indicating the bearing of the Kaaba from the position of the card. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208649 | INVOICE SYSTEM AND METHOD - Provided in some embodiments is a method of providing an invoice for payment. The method includes providing, in a computer system memory, an indicia set comprising a finite number of indices serviceable by a indicia system, wherein the indicia set includes a subset of indices each having a monetary value associated therewith, receiving a request to provide one or more indices having a net monetary value, assessing the indicia subset to determine a combination of indices comprising a net value equal to the monetary value, wherein the net value comprises a sum of the monetary values associated with each indicia of the combination of indices, and providing the combination of indices for inclusion on the invoice for payment. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208650 | Systems and Methods for Paying Invoices - An invoice payment service enables a method for paying an invoice at a retail store. The invoice identifies a payment amount owed by a customer to a service provider for use of one or more services. The payment process is enabled by assigning a unique customer identification code to the customer and assigning a unique PLU number to the service provider. Both the customer identification code and PLU number are entered into a point of sale system of the retail store and the payment amount is collected. The customer identification code and PLU number are then transmitted to the invoice payment service for use in causing a financial institution to complete a fund transfer by which the service provider receives the payment amount tendered by the customer at the retail store. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208651 | INTERNET BILLING METHOD - Equipment of a provider may be operable to establish a billing arrangement with a purchasing customer to charge a billing account associated with the purchasing customer a first amount, establish a remitting arrangement with a selling vendor to remit between the selling vendor and the provider a second amount by way of an account associated with the selling vendor, establish communications with equipment of the purchasing customer, enable the equipment of the purchasing customer to communicate with equipment of the selling vendor, obtain transactional information relating to a purchase transaction initiated by the purchasing customer, which results in the billing account of the purchasing customer being charged the first amount, and initiate between the selling vendor and the provider a remittance of the second amount by way of the account associated with the selling vendor. Additional embodiments are disclosed. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208652 | Method For Processing Internet Point Of Sale Payment Using Automated Teller machine Switch Settlement - A system and method for effectuating Electronic Funds Transfer credit messages. The main structural components of the system include a Payment Portal Processor (PPP), an Internet Pay Anyone (IPA) Account, a Virtual Private Lockbox (VPL) and an associated Account Reporter, the existing EFT networks, and a cash card for accessing a VPL or IP account. The PPP is a software application that provides a secure portal for accessing (linking to) either the user's Demand Deposit Account (DDA) or an IPA account and can be combined with the functionality of a traditional digital Wallet. Consumers use a PPP enhanced Wallet to fund their account, shop on the web, pay bills, pay anyone, store electronic receipts and transaction history, and check their recent PPP enhanced Wallet activity. The IPA account is a special purpose account with limited functionality for making electronic payments in the form of EFT credit messages. The VPL is a limited function receive only account for receiving electronic payments through the EFT. The Account Reporter is a portal to view transaction history and balance of IPA and VPL accounts, provide online, real-time transaction reports, and to reconciles accounts receivable/purchase records against incoming EFT payment records. A physical card can be associated with either an IPA or VPL account in order to provide PIN debit capability. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208653 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GRANTING DEPOSIT-CONTINGENT E-MAILING RIGHTS - An Email guarantee deposit method, system, and program product, with the method comprising in one embodiment, the steps of: receiving from a sender a request to send to a recipient an Email; receiving a deposit or an authorization to obtain a deposit of something of value; sending the Email to the recipient only if a deposit of authorization for a deposit is received; determining if the recipient has accepted the deposit; and if the recipient has accepted the deposit, then facilitating the disposal of the deposit. In an important alternate embodiment, a deposit can be required before an Email with a auditory or visual enhancement is provided, or before routing to a designated type of device occurs. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208654 | MANAGED PURCHASE ACCOUNT FOR DEFINED COMMODITIES - A purchase account may be managed to control purchases made using the account. An account number may be provided at a point of sale. The account number is associated with or includes an identifier for a class or type of goods or services. A merchant computer may receive the identifier and process it to determine whether what is proposed for purchase using the account is a qualified type of good or service. The computer may obtain a list of qualified or unqualified products and compare the list to what is proposed for purchase. In the alternative, the computer may provide instructions to a human operator for the merchant, who may determine whether or not the proposed product is qualified. If the proposed product is deemed qualified for purchase, use of the account may be approved; if otherwise, use of the account may be refused. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208655 | System And Method For Creating And Marketing Authentic Virtual Memorabilia - A system and method for creating and marketing authentic virtual memorabilia is disclosed. The System and method include at least one computer server, at least one database connected to said at least one computer server, a communication connection for connecting said at least one computer server to a network, software hosted on said at least one computer server, said software configured to create a marketplace for limited edition authentic virtual memorabilia, said software further configured to provide an auction environment for said authentic virtual memorabilia, said software further configured to allow display of said limited edition authentic virtual memorabilia in a showcase. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208656 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR FACILITATING PROMOTIONS WITH AN E-WALLET - An electronic wallet platform obtains, from a check-out web page of a merchant, (i) a unique identification of a given consumer, of a plurality of consumers, who is purchasing at least one item from the merchant in an on-line transaction, and (ii) associated transaction data. The electronic wallet platform supplies, to a transaction qualification service, the unique identification of the given consumer; and retrieves, from a consumer enrollment database, a record wherein at least one useful token is stored in association with the unique identification of the given consumer. The transaction qualification service determines, based on rules from an offers registry database, whether the at least one useful token is applicable to the on-line transaction. The rules are stored in the offers registry database in association with the at least one useful token, and the rules take into account at least one of the unique identification of the given consumer and the associated transaction data in determining the applicability. If, based on the determining step, the at least one useful token is applicable to the on-line transaction, a further step includes providing the at least one useful token to the merchant, using the transaction qualification service and the electronic wallet platform. The at least one useful token is provided to the merchant prior to payment card authorization, clearing, and settlement for the on-line transaction. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208657 | Mobile monetary transactions and banking for rural populations - Authenticating users for mobile transactions conducted over mobile phones. In general, the present invention makes it possible to securely authenticate a rural user (using the unique user ID from the uWallet, the client certificate in the mobile phone of the rural user and PIN code/password provided by the rural user) and then permit mobile banking transactions over the mobile phone. Both participating individuals employ their individual mobile phones and secure USB/Bluetooth based mobile banking devices (the uWallet) to authenticate themselves and conduct monetary transactions (funds transfer, mobile payments, etc.). | 2011-08-25 |
20110208658 | Multifactor Authentication Using A Directory Server - A method and a server computer are provided for authenticating a cardholder account. The server computer implements the method, which includes obtaining a first identifier and a cryptogram from a first entity, identifying an issuer associated with the cardholder account, forwarding the first account identifier and the cryptogram to a second entity for validation, receiving a second identifier from the second entity, and sending the second identifier to the first entity. The first identifier can be associated with the cardholder account. The second identifier can be generated by the second entity and associated with a validated form of the first identifier. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208659 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING SECURE TRANSACTIONS USING AN INTERNET ACCESSIBLE DEVICE AND APPLICATION - A method for making financial transactions uses a proprietary server and network in communication with a merchant's point of sale (POS) terminal and a customer's smart phone. The smart phone runs an application that generates or downloads from the server a two dimensional barcode containing encrypted information. The barcode display is scanned at the POS, and transaction information is returned to the proprietary server for processing as an ACH or a conventional transaction. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208660 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING CUSTOMER RELATIONS INFORMATION - Methods and systems for providing information to a mortgage recipient or other customer of a financial institution. A system identifies potential customer inquiries and provides a list of scripts responsive to the potential customer inquiries. If none of the scripts address the customer's inquiry, the customer specifies the inquiry and an additional list of scripts is generated. The scripts include scripted text, account information, and financial transaction information. In one variation, the customer accesses a website maintained by the financial institution and views a script responsive to the inquiry. In another variation, the customer telephones a customer service agent who selects a script responsive to the inquiry, and reads the script to the customer. In yet another variation, the script is provided to the customer via an Interactive Voice Response system. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208661 | OFFICE BUILDING INEFFICIENCY FACTOR AND SPACE PLANNING CIRCULATION FACTOR CALCULATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for calculating a space required for a tenant in a building includes determining the areas of rooms required by the tenant. A circulation factor for each of the rooms based on the area of each room is calculated. The total of the room areas and the circulation factors are added to determine a pure space required by the tenant. The losses in actual usable space are determined for a building and an inefficiency factor is calculated based on these losses. The pure space is multiplied by the inefficiency factor to obtain a building efficiency loss. The building efficiency loss is added to the pure space to obtain the space required for the tenant in the building. The system may be configured on a network computer system or a standalone computer. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208662 | Systems and Methods for Regulatory Compliance - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating regulatory compliance are disclosed. A regulatory compliance system includes a regulation module and one or more compliance modules. The regulation module stores regulatory data relating to one or more regulations and subscription data partitioned into to one or more subscriptions. Each of the subscriptions is associated with a client entity and each of the subscriptions is linked to a corresponding portion of the regulatory data relating to at least one of the regulations: The subscription data and the regulatory data are accessible through the one or more compliance modules. Each compliance module is associated with a client entity and provides access to a subscription associated with the client entity and the corresponding portion of the regulatory data to which the subscription is linked. The corresponding portion of the regulatory data may additionally be stored in the compliance module associated with the client entity. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208663 | EXTRACTION OF TRANSACTION DATA FOR COMPLIANCE MONITORING - A knowledge base and methods for use in connection with a policy compliance monitoring system operative to determine exceptions to policies expressed by computer-executable policy statements. The system allows establishment, codification, and maintenance of enterprise policies, monitors electronic transactions of the enterprise from various and possibly heterogeneous data sources, detects exceptions to established policies, reports exceptions to authorized users such as managers and auditors, and/or provides a case management system for tracking exceptions and their underlying transactions. The knowledge base comprises extractor files that are utilized for extracting information from data sources for utilization in policy compliance monitoring, a mapper for normalizing data from the data sources against a system ontology and storing normalized data in a monitoring database, and computer-executable compliance policy statements used by a transaction analysis engine. The policy statements represent predetermined policies of the enterprise that apply to data stored in the monitoring database. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208664 | Employment portal enabling interactive mobile contact and feedback - The present invention relates to an enabled real time interaction between an employer and a job seeker. The job seeker submits resume information on a job portal and may enable a chat session option should an employer request one. The job seeker may download a chat client on his or her computer as well as a wireless mobile device. An employer that wants to contact a matched job seeker sends a chat request that activates the downloaded chat client on a computer or a mobile device of the job seeker without the job seeker logged on the website. The employer may be enabled to chat via a similar downloaded chat software module as the job seeker. The job seeker may be provided with job related feedback statistics before or after the application is made. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208665 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR EMPLOYMENT QUALIFICATION ASSESSMENT - A qualification processing system configured to dynamically collect and/or analyze information associated with a client and/or a candidate via an automated system and method. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208666 | BUSINESS DRIVEN TRAINING AND QUALIFICATIONS SYSTEM - A method for business driven training includes obtaining a vocational profile for a user, where the vocational profile includes a vocational type for the user; obtaining training information for the user using the vocational type, where the training information includes assessments and completed training of the user; and determining a training program for the user based on the training information, where the training program specifies required training courses to obtain a promotion certification for the user. The method further includes generating a qualifications profile based on the training information, where the qualification profile specifies services that the user is capable of providing, and displaying the qualifications profile and a progress of the user in the training program, where the qualification profile includes a proficiency for each of the services that the user is capable of providing. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208667 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EMISSIONS REDUCTION - A method for reducing emissions from a plurality of moving assets includes receiving trip pattern data corresponding to positions and times from the moving assets and the preference data from a plurality of users. A database of trips made by the moving assets is then generated based on the trip pattern data and trip consolidation opportunities for the moving assets are identified based on the generated database. The method also includes ranking the trip consolidation opportunities based on the preference data and utilizing the ranked trip consolidation opportunities to provide shipping recommendations designed to reduce fuel consumption of the moving assets. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208668 | Server Provider Recommendation Engine - In one example, a device includes a first interface to receive a request for a service provider recommendation, the request comprising a first geographic position value and a second, different geographic position value, wherein the service provider recommendation comprises a recommendation for a provider of a wireless service for a mobile device, means for determining aggregate signal quality values for service providers at a first location including the first geographic position and at a second location including the second geographic position, means for determining scores for the service providers based on signal quality values for the service providers at the first location and the second location, means for constructing the service provider recommendation comprising an identification of the service provider having the highest score, and a second interface to output the service provider recommendation. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208669 | Method and System for Aggregating Reviews and Searching Within Reviews for a Product - The embodiments disclosed herein include new, more efficient ways to collect product reviews from the Internet, aggregate reviews for the same product, and provide an aggregated review to end users in a searchable format. One aspect of the invention is a graphical user interface on a computer that includes a plurality of portions of reviews for a product and a search input area for entering search terms to search for reviews of the product that contain the search terms. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208670 | Execution Optimizer - Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for optimizing the automatic execution of trade orders and picking an optimal trading algorithm for said execution. An order may be received and processed using a set of pre-determined screening rules. When at least one of the screening rules is violated, a meta-algorithm may be applied to the order. The meta-algorithm may select an algorithm to automatically execute the order based price slippage to determine if the algorithm is “optimal.” | 2011-08-25 |
20110208671 | INVESTMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computer implemented investment method comprises: financing an investor with a limited-recourse loan to make an investment in a security, the investment having an underlying investment strategy, which is to be applied over a plurality of investment periods, and periodic investment exit points; for each period of the investment, calculating a payment, which is payable by the investor in order to remain invested in the investment; investing during each period according the underlying investment strategy; calculating: a first redemption value if the investor exits at an exit point before the end of a final period, the value at least in part determined by the performance of the investment up to the point of exit; or a second redemption value if the investor remains invested over all periods, the value at least in part determined by the performance of the investment up to the end of the final period; and determining a redemption payment to the investor according to the respective redemption value and the loan amount. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208672 | ASSET INVESTMENT TOOL - A case management tool devises an investment strategy and simulates a post-mortem asset distribution that reduces tax ramifications while increasing the transfer of the assets to a beneficiary of an asset holder. In one implementation, a portion of the assets that is estimated to survive the asset holder is invested into a life insurance policy having proceeds that transfer to the beneficiary. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208673 | ANTIBODIES TO LYMPHOTOXIN-ALPHA - The invention provides various antibodies that bind to lymphotoxin-α, methods for making such antibodies, compositions and articles incorporating such antibodies, and their uses in treating, for example, an autoimmune disorder. The antibodies include murine, chimeric, and humanized antibodies. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208674 | Analyzing No-Show Persons to Fine Tune Event Ticket Overbooking - The practice of overbooking, where a service provider promises to service more customers than she will be able to in expectation that some customers will cancel their request, has been widely implemented in industries such as hotels and airlines. Overbooking has not widely been used for event tickets. This is likely due to the availability of the secondary market, which allows people with tickets who know beforehand that they cannot attend the event to sell their ticket to someone else. Additionally, the danger of having more people arrive with tickets than there are seats in a venue is large because fans are often emotional. The present invention overcomes these limitations by using previous attendance records to accurately predict future attendance. This allows an event organizer to overbook with confidence that it will be very unlikely too many people will show up with tickets compared to the number of seats available. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208675 | BRAIN IMAGING SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DIRECT PROSTHESIS CONTROL - Methods and systems for controlling a prosthesis using a brain imager that images a localized portion of the brain are provided according to one embodiment of the invention. For example, the brain imager can provide motor cortex activation data using near infrared imaging techniques and EEG techniques among others. EEG and near infrared signals can be correlated with brain activity related to limbic control and may be provided to a neural network, for example, a fuzzy neural network that maps brain activity data to limbic control data. The limbic control data may then be used to control a prosthetic limb. Other embodiments of the invention include fiber optics that provide light to and receive light from the surface of the scalp through hair. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208676 | CONFIGURABLE CIRCUITRY FOR SOLVING STOCHASTIC PROBLEMS - Techniques described herein may be used to solve a stochastic problem by dividing the stochastic problem into multiple fragments. In some cases, each fragment may be related to a random variable that forms a part of the problem, such that each fragment may produce samples from a probability distribution for that variable. Each fragment of the stochastic problem may then be assigned to a configurable circuit to solve the stochastic fragment. Configurable circuits may be implemented using any suitable combination of hardware and/or software, including using stochastic circuitry. In some embodiments, stochastic circuitry may include a stochastic tile and/or a stochastic memory. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208677 | INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEM ALERTS MECHANISM - A system and method for analyzing Intrusion Detection System (IDS) alert data associated with a computer network is described. The method includes applying first association rules to obtained IDS alert data associated with a computer network and processing the obtained IDS alert data with the first association rules. Analyst feedback data associated with the processed obtained IDS alert data is received, and a training data set from the analyst feedback data is received. New association rules are determined based upon the training data set, and the new association rules are outputted to a display of a computing device. Outputting the new association rules may include outputting patterns within the IDS alert data of false positive alerts. The new association rules may be applied back to the obtained IDS alert data. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208678 | MECHANICAL SHOCK FEATURE EXTRACTION FOR OVERSTRESS EVENT REGISTRATION - An electronic system includes an accelerometer. A method for excessive mechanical shock feature extraction for overstress event registration and cumulative tracking includes obtaining a sample from the accelerometer. Feature extraction is performed on the sample using empirical mode decomposition (EMD) to produce a plurality of modes. A pattern classifier is utilized for processing the plurality of modes to determine if the sample classifies as a shock event. If the sample classifies as a shock event, a shock event counter is incremented. If the shock event counter reaches a specified count, an indication to a user is generated. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208679 | TROUBLE PATTERN CREATING PROGRAM AND TROUBLE PATTERN CREATING APPARATUS - A computer readable, non-transitory medium has stored therein a trouble pattern creating program. The program causes a computer to execute: (a) extracting, from a plurality of log messages that are output from an information system having a plurality of configuration items and that are output in a predetermined period of time, configuration items that output the log messages; (b) calculating a degree of relationship between the configuration items extracted in the (a) extracting; (c) executing learning of the rate of the number of occurrences of troubles in the information system in the number of times the log messages are output, the learning is executed by a number of times corresponding to the degree of relationship calculated in the (b) calculating; and (d) creating, in accordance with a result of the learning in the (c) executing, a trouble pattern message that is output when a trouble occurs. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208680 | ASSISTING WITH UPDATING A MODEL FOR DIAGNOSING FAILURES IN A SYSTEM - The method includes obtaining system model data representing a set of failures in a system including a plurality of components, a set of symptoms and relationships between at least some of the failures and symptoms. The system model data is used to create a Bayesian Network. Failure cases data is also obtained, where each failure case describes the presence/absence of at least one of the symptoms and the presence/absence of at least one of the failures. A learning operation on the Bayesian Network using the failure cases data is then performed and the contribution made by at least some of the failure cases to updating the parameters of the Bayesian Network during the learning operation is assessed. Information representing the assessed contribution of the at least some failure cases is displayed. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208681 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CORRELATING PAST ACTIVITIES, DETERMINING HIDDEN RELATIONSHIPS AND PREDICTING FUTURE ACTIVITIES - A system and method of data correlation and analysis of past activities and prediction of future activity that includes establishing a database comprising structured metadata on at least one computer and a distributed system of networked computers having a plurality of access levels, configuring a database front-end to parse incoming data, the database front-end defining a plurality of entities and events, each having one or more attributes, and correlation IDs, which are user defined attribute relationships that correlate events and entities, collecting data, parsing the incoming data in the database front-end into structured metadata, the distributed analysis engine correlating the incoming structured metadata with structured metadata in the database and determining micro-patterns in the structured metadata, generating a graphical representation of a composite network of the determined micro-patterns as super-objects, and predicting future activity from the one or more super-objects representing the determined micro-patterns. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208682 | PERFORMANCE EVALUATING APPARATUS, PERFORMANCE EVALUATING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A performance evaluating apparatus for a rule is provided, which is capable of evaluating a business value of a rule applied to the operation and management of an information system through autonomous control. The performance evaluating apparatus for a rule collects, respectively before activation processing that is prescribed by a rule and after completion of the execution of the processing, a rule execution history and a system state information indicating a state of a monitored information system that is necessary for calculation of the business value. The business value is calculated from the collected system state information and rule execution history by a given calculation formula. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208683 | OPTICAL TEST ORDERING IN CASCADE ARCHITECTURES - Methods for optimizing the cost of executing a set of tests including finding the optimal ordering of the tests for some important cases such as set of tests having series-parallel structure with no statistical dependencies, and near-optimal orderings for the rest of the cases, such that the resources required for executing the tests are minimized. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208684 | COLLABORATIVE NETWORKING WITH OPTIMIZED INFORMATION QUALITY ASSESSMENT - A method for implementing information quality assessment includes receiving a value relating to a predicted outcome of an event from each of an entity and at least one other entity and a reputation score for the entity and the other entity. The method also includes generating a collective prediction value for the event that reflects a collective prediction for the event. The collective prediction value is generated from predicted outcome values from the entity and the other entity. The collective prediction value is calculated as a function of reputation scores corresponding to the entity and the other entity. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208685 | Motion Capture Using Intelligent Part Identification - Methods, systems, devices and arrangements are implemented for motion tracking. One such system for tracking at least one object articulated in three-dimensional space is implemented using data obtained from a depth sensor. The system includes at least one processing circuit configured and arranged to determine location probabilities for a plurality of object parts by identifying, from image data obtained from the depth sensor, features of the object parts. The processing circuit selects a set of poses for the at least one object based upon the determined location probabilities and generates modeled depth sensor data by applying the selected set of poses to a model of the at least one object. The processing circuit selects a pose for the at least one object model-based based upon a probabilistic comparison between the data obtained from the depth sensor and the modeled depth sensor data. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208686 | Mass spectrometry precursor ion selection - The present invention is concerned with methods for the selection of precursor ions of a sample polypeptide for fragmentation in mass spectrometry, together with methods for determining at least one putative amino acid sequence for a sample polypeptide, apparatus and computer programs for same. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208687 | COLLABORATIVE NETWORKING WITH OPTIMIZED INTER-DOMAIN INFORMATION QUALITY ASSESSMENT - A method for implementing inter-domain information quality assessment includes calculating relationships among domains in a knowledge base by identifying features that respectively define each of the domains and identifying domains having correlating features. The method also includes assigning values to pairs of the domains that reflect a closeness of the relationships based upon the correlating features. The method further includes evaluating a reputation of an entity in one domain based on past performance of the entity with respect to another domain where the other domain is determined, via the assigned values, to be related to the domain. The past performance of the entity indicates capabilities of the entity to render accurate predictions about events in a particular domain. The method also includes calculating a value representing the reputation of the entity with respect to the domain based upon the evaluation and assigning the value representing the reputation to the entity. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208688 | Nearest Neighbor Methods for Non-Euclidean Manifolds - Embodiments of the invention disclose a system and a method for determining a nearest neighbor to an input data point on a non-Euclidean manifold. The data points on the non-Euclidean manifold are clustered, projected into Euclidean sub-space nearest to the cluster and mapped from the Euclidean sub-space into a Hamming space such that neighboring data points of the Hamming space corresponds to neighboring data points on the non-Euclidean manifold. The method maps the input data point to the Hamming space corresponding to a particular Euclidean sub-space, wherein the particular Euclidean sub-space is the nearest to the input data point, and selects a data point corresponding to a nearest data point to the input data point in the Hamming space as the nearest neighbor for the input data point on the non-Euclidean manifold. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208689 | COMMUNITY-DRIVEN MAP CREATION AND ACCESS - Techniques for creating and enabling access to a community-augmented map are provided. The techniques include uploading user-generated content about one or more locations on a map, processing the user-generated content about one or more locations on the map and storing the user-generated content about one or more locations on the map in an intelligent knowledgebase, applying one or more domain concepts from the intelligent knowledgebase to the user-generated content to infer one or more derivatives in connection with one or more locations in the map, and retrieving information of the one or more locations on the map from the intelligent knowledgebase to provide the map information as augmented metadata on the map. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208690 | VIEWING AN OLAP CUBE AS A VIRTUAL DATA SOURCE - Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for generating an online analytical processing (OLAP) query. A report specification may be received against the OLAP system. The report specification may include relational constructs. An application may apply constructs in the OLAP query according to a mapping and in a specific order. Consequently, the semantics of the report specification may be preserved. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208691 | Accessing Large Collection Object Tables in a Database - The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for accessing large object collection tables in a data warehouse, so that input-output complexities are reduced and the performance and responsiveness of the data warehouse are improved. In one aspect, a process may set up a new large object collection table by determining the object identification information of business activities occurring in a business period using the records in a business flow table. A sub-table from the original large object collection table may be generated based on the derived object identification information. The resulting sub-table may be incorporated into a new large object collection table that is partitioned according to business periods. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208692 | GENERATION OF STAR SCHEMAS FROM SNOWFLAKE SCHEMAS CONTAINING A LARGE NUMBER OF DIMENSIONS - An aspect of the present invention simplifies generating a star schema from a snowflake schema. In an embodiment, a user first specifies fact tables to be included in a star schema, and a synchronization tool inspects the snowflake schema to determine the dimension tables linked to the specified fact tables. The determined dimension tables are included in the star schema sought to be generated. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208693 | METHOD FOR ACCESSING DATA STORED IN STORAGE MEDIUM OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for accessing data stored in a storage medium of an electronic device, where the storage medium stores a file-usage table having a plurality of file-usage data which correspond to a plurality of clusters of the storage medium, respectively, includes: when a file is stored into at least a specific cluster of the plurality of the clusters of the storage medium, modifying a specific file-usage data which corresponds to the specific cluster; and when the file is deleted from the storage medium, setting the specific file-usage data by a first predetermined value. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208694 | 'Efficient Data Synchronization in a Distributed Data Recovery System' - A method for synchronizing data stored on primary and secondary storage volumes in a distributed data recovery system is provided. The method comprises associating N data recovery relationships between a primary volume and N secondary volumes by way of implementing N data structures respectively. Each data structure comprises a first indicator that indicates whether data stored on a first track of the primary volume has been updated, due to a first operation performed by a host application. One or more of said N data structures are stored in at least a first data storage medium with high speed data access rates. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208695 | DATA SYNCHRONIZATION BETWEEN A DATA CENTER ENVIRONMENT AND A CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Methods, systems, and articles for simultaneously maintaining copies of data in a data center and a cloud computing environment providing network based services. Synchronizing applications monitor modifications to data records made in the data center and the cloud computing environment. The synchronizing applications are also configured to convert modified records from the data center into a format compatible with databases in the cloud computing environment prior to updating the databases in the cloud computing environment, and vice versa. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208696 | TEMPORARY SESSION DATA STORAGE - Systems and methods are provided according to one or more embodiments for a Distributed Temporal Data Storage (DTDS) architecture. In one embodiment, a system includes a load balancer located at one location. The system also includes at least one server coupled to the load balancer, wherein the load balancer is adapted to determine communication channels to reach the at least one server via a network. The system also includes one or more processors and one or more memories adapted to store a plurality of machine-readable instructions which when executed by the one or more processors are adapted to cause the system to store data in the at least one server as time based data in a corresponding time slot of a time based configuration according to an expiration time. The plurality of machine-readable instructions are also adapted to cause the system to allow retrieval of the stored data, wherein if the time based data is accessed within the expiration time, at least one time operation is triggered, and if the time based data is not accessed for a time longer than the expiration time, the time based data is removed from the time slot. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208697 | Synchronization of Recurring Time-Scheduled Data Objects Between Incompatible Databases - Methods, apparatus and computer program products for storing a recurring time-scheduled data record in a calendaring application that does not support a pattern of recurrence of the record are described herein. The method includes the steps of: 1) receiving from a server, the recurring time-scheduled data record having a first recurrence pattern; 2) determining whether the first recurrence pattern is supported by the calendaring application; 3) if the pattern is not supported, then selecting a closest recurrence pattern supported by the calendaring application; 4) modifying the selected closest recurrence pattern by applying recurrence exceptions to create a second recurrence pattern; 5) modifying the recurring time-scheduled data record based on the second recurrence pattern to create a supported record; and 6) transferring the supported record to the calendaring application. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208698 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR DATA SYNCHRONIZATION - A method, an apparatus, and a system for data synchronization are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a parameter value change notification message which carries a parameter change event and/or a digest of a specific parameter; and synchronizing data according to the parameter value change notification message. The synchronizing the data includes synchronizing the data in a parameter change record table stored in a Customer Premises Equipment (CPE). An Auto-Configuration Server (ACS) includes a receiving unit and a synchronizing unit. In this way, the requirement on the ACS is lowered and the burden of the ACS is relieved. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208699 | DEVICE AND METHOD OF INTEGRATING FILE SYSTEMS - A device for integrating file systems includes a plurality of storage device interfaces. Each storage device interface is operatively coupleable to a corresponding storage device, and each storage device has a corresponding storage device file system. The device also includes a host interface and a hub configured for operatively connecting between the storage device interfaces and the host interface. The hub is operative to create a virtual file system that aggregates the storage device file systems. The virtual file system is configured to represent to a host, via the host interface, each file of a first group and to refrain from representing to the host each file of a second group, where the files are stored in one or more of the plurality of storage devices. Each file of the first group satisfies a first condition and each file of the second group fails to satisfy the first condition. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208700 | METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT DATABASE VERSION CONTROL - The method carries out version-control of a database in a database environment including a master server storing a database, which is to be developed, one or more local servers capable of storing a local copy of the database, and a local machine for the development of the database. When a developer makes a change to the local database on the local machine, a program resident on the local machine derives a script (e.g. an SQL script) based on the change, and checks the script into the master server. The program executes the script on the master database and stores the script in a metadatabase, which can be accessed by the local servers. When a developer wishes to update a local copy of a database to a particular version, he calls up the program on the local machine, which obtains from the metadatabase those scripts necessary to incrementally change the state of the local copy to the given state. Preferably, when the script is stored on the metadatabase, the program issues an ID for the script, and the ID is stored in a table on both the master server and the local server. Preferably also, the program derives the script by comparing the changed local copy of the database with a reference copy of the original database likewise situated on the local server, and forming the script from the determined changes. Scripts may also be exported, preferably as text files, and used to update test or production servers to a required version. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208701 | Computer-Implemented Systems And Methods For Flexible Definition Of Time Intervals - Systems and methods are provided for segmenting time-series data stored in data segments containing one or more data records. A combined segment error measure is determined based on a proposed combination of two candidate segments. An error cost to merge the two candidate segments is determined based on a difference between the combined segment error measure and a segment error measure of one of the segments. The two candidate segments are combined when the error cost to merge meets a merge threshold to generate a combined segment. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208702 | Method and System for Verifying Geographical Descriptiveness of Media File - The invention relates to a system for verifying geographical descriptiveness of a media file, such as a picture. The system comprises storage means adapted to store a media file, communication means adapted to send said media file to a plurality of user terminals, and to receive, from the user terminals, data indicating a guessed geographical position with which the user of each user terminal associates the media file. The system also comprises calculation means adapted to determine whether the media file is indicative of a geographical position based on the guessed geographical positions received from the plurality of user terminal. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208703 | SELECTIVITY ESTIMATION - The invention concerns the compression, querying and updating of tree structured data. For example, but not limited to, the invention concerns a synopsis ( | 2011-08-25 |
20110208704 | HIERARCHICAL LOCKING IN B-TREE INDEXES - Portions of a B-tree index in a database are locked for concurrency control. In one example, hierarchical lock modes are provided that permit locking a key, a gap between the key and the next key, and a combination of the key and the gap. In another example, key range locking may be applied to the B-tree index using locks on separator keys of index nodes. In another example, key range locking may be applied to the B-tree index using locks on key prefixes. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208705 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR STORING FILE SYSTEM CONTENT IN A MULTI-TENANT ON-DEMAND DATABASE SYSTEM - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for storing file system content in a multi-tenant on-demand database system. These mechanisms and methods for storing file system content in a multi-tenant on-demand database system can enable embodiments to reduce a number of files stored on a file system, avoid copying of all file system content to file system copies, etc. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208706 | Content Service Bus Framework - Electronic content is routed and stored within an enterprise, in which a distributed service-oriented architecture platform is provided to seamlessly route and store content to heterogeneous enterprise content repositories. Dynamic content may be stored, retrieved and queried in real-time through a content service bus (CSB), thus eliminating the need to have point-to-point connectivity between client applications and the destination repositories, while supporting the flexibility to consolidate multiple platforms with minimal impacts to clients. The CSB framework may incorporate underlying technologies, including Web services, intelligent routing based on content, message transformation, and federation of content. A request may be routed to the appropriate content repository based on attached content or metadata in the request and transformed by the CSB to a format required by the determined content repository. The requestor is subsequently provided a response from the content repository in a consistent manner for all of the content repositories. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208707 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED FIND-IN-PAGE FUNCTIONS IN A WEB BROWSER - A system and method for an enhanced find-in-page query function in a web browser. A find-in-page query is received for at least one webpage displayed on a computing device, wherein the query comprises a search string. Metadata relating to data objects displayed on the webpage is collected from the HTML code comprising the webpage, from the source of the of the plurality of objects, and from at least one search engine. At least one of the plurality of data objects matching the find-in-page query is identified wherein the search string is matched to metadata, wherein metadata relating to the matching data objects comprises the search string. The display of the matching data objects on the webpage is then altered, using the computing device, whereby the user is able to identify the data objects which match the find-in-page query. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208708 | Systems and Methods for Finding Keyword Relationships Using Wisdoms from Multiple Sources - Systems and methods for finding related terms based on three different sources are disclosed. Generally, a first plurality of distances is determined based on one or more received terms and a first plurality of terms derived from an algorithmic search list. A second plurality of distances is determined based on the one or more received terms and a second plurality of terms derived from a sponsored search list. A third plurality of distances is determined based on the one or more received terms and a third plurality of terms derived from search logs. The first, second, and third pluralities of distances are combined to derive a fourth plurality of distances. Finally, a plurality of related terms related to the one or more received terms is generated based on the fourth plurality of distances. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208709 | SCALABLE ASSOCIATIVE TEXT MINING NETWORK AND METHOD - A text mining network that improves the performance of search engines by using a network of computer entities with autonomous neural networks. Each neural network provides a weighted list of associated search terms for each search query. The lists of associated search terms from two or more computer entities are merged to a unique list of associated search terms by utilization of a virtual index algorithm. Document result sets from the autonomous entities are merged to a unique result set by a weighted combination of two or more result sets. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208710 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATING VERTICAL SEARCH ENGINES WITH CLOUD COMPUTING NETWORKS - A method and system for creating vertical search engines with cloud computing networks. The cloud computing networks include a cloud communications network using public networks, private networks, community networks and hybrid networks. The cloud communications network provides on-demand vertical search services, broadband network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity and measured electronic services for vertical search engines. The method and system dramatically improve a vertical search engine infrastructure used by searchers by providing vertical electronic information using less bandwidth and less processing cycles via the cloud communications network than via a non-cloud communications network. Custom vertical search engines can be created by a user with QR bar codes and other types of bar codes and other types of custom information. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208711 | SEARCH ANNOTATION AND PERSONALIZATION SERVICES - Various features are disclosed for storing and providing access to event data reflective of user-generated events, including events associated with search query submission of users. One such feature enables users to annotate search results, to later recall and view these annotations, and to publish the annotations to other users. Another feature involves recording event data reflective of search result viewing events of users, and using this event data to personalize search results pages for particular users. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208712 | AUTOMATED TOOL FOR HUMAN ASSISTED MINING AND CAPTURING OF PRECISE RESULTS - An automated tool for human assisted analysis of search results for obtaining precise results responsive to a request. A single query entry triggers a search using one or more resources and results returned from the resources are displayed in a corresponding embedded renderer. A human provider analyzes the returned results and extracts pertinent information for delivery to a requestor who submitted the query. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208713 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO RETRIEVE SEARCH RESULTS FROM A DISTRIBUTED DATABASE - Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of retrieval of information from a distributed database, e.g., using distributed computation as a search engine. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208714 | LARGE SCALE SEARCH BOT DETECTION - A framework may be used for identifying low-rate search bot traffic within query logs by capturing groups of distributed, coordinated search bots. Search log data may be input to a history-based anomaly detection engine to determine if query-click pairs associated with a query are suspicious in view of historical query-click pairs for the query. Users associated with suspicious query-click pairs may be input to a matrix-based bot detection engine to determine correlations between queries submitted by the users. Those users indicating strong correlations may be categorized as bots, whereas those who do not may be categorized as part of flash crowd traffic. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208715 | AUTOMATICALLY MINING INTENTS OF A GROUP OF QUERIES - The automatic search intent mining technique described herein pertains to a technique for mining search intent from a group of queries. The automatic search intent mining technique described herein automatically mines search intents from a group of queries. The technique leverages knowledge of query log data in order to determine search intent. The automatic search intent mining technique, in one embodiment, utilizes three kinds of information sources: Web page content, Web page structure and search engine query log data to mine intents for a group of queries. In one embodiment of the technique, the three data sources are used separately to mine candidate search intents for each of the three sources. The candidate search intents extracted from each of the three sources are then integrated to form the final search intents. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208716 | Image-Based CAPTCHA Exploiting Context in Object Recognition - Techniques for an image-based CAPTCHA for object recognition are described. The disclosure describes adding images to a database by collecting images by querying descriptive keywords to an image search engine or crawling images from the Internet. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208717 | CHAFFING SEARCH ENGINES TO OBSCURE USER ACTIVITY AND INTERESTS - A computer program product comprises a computer readable storage medium containing computer code that, when performed by a computer, implements a method for obscuring at least one computer search by a set of users from at least another user, wherein the method includes issuing a plurality of search requests comprised of one or more search requests issued by the set of users, and one or more spurious search requests, to at least one computer search provider; and separating search results received from the at least one computer search provider associated with the plurality of search requests into one or more intended search results in response to the one or more search requests issued by the set of users, and one or more spurious search results in response to the one or more spurious search requests not issued by the set of users. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208718 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ADDING ANCHOR IDENTIFIERS TO SEARCH RESULTS - Methods and systems are provided that may be utilized to determine one or more selectable anchor identifiers for one or more search results. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208719 | EVALUATING REFERENCE BASED OPERATIONS IN SHARED NOTHING PARALLELISM SYSTEMS - Embodiments are included for methods, systems, and computer program products for evaluating operations in a shared nothing parallelism system using an electronic computing device are presented, the methods and computer program products including: causing the electronic computing device to receive the operation, where the operation is non-collocated, reference based operation, and where the operation is configured for execution on a first partition in the shared nothing parallelism system; causing the electronic computing device to insert a table queue operator on a second partition, where the second partition includes a reference to input data, causing the electronic computing device to place the reference to the input data on the first partition by the table queue operator; and causing the electronic computing device to execute the operation on the reference to the input data on the first partition. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208720 | APPRAISING DOMAIN NAMES USING COMPARATIVE DATA - Systems and methods of the present invention provide for the spinning and appraisal of a domain name. A list of keywords may be extracted from a domain name entered into a user interface on a client. These keywords may be compared to potential matches in a database and a result set may be compiled and displayed to the user. The client may also display a certified domain name appraisal using a plurality of logical groupings within a domain name appraisal process. This appraisal process may also include a multiplier derived from comparisons of registration statistics for various top level domains. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208721 | METHOD FOR CATEGORIZING PATENTED TECHNOLOGICAL INTERRELATIONSHIPS - A method for identifying patents which are relevant to a field of endeavor by first establishes a set of criteria for defining the field of endeavor and storing the set of criteria in a searchable medium. Using this set of criteria, boundaries are defined within which external data would be considered relevant to the set of criteria. Then a patent database is accessed and compared to the boundaries which have been set in order to identify patents which are relevant to the set of criteria. The patents in the patent database may be subdivided into subsections including at least the following subsections: claims, specification and prior art and optionally including the step of weighting the patents identified as relevant to the set of criteria dependent upon which subsection of each patent is relevant. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208722 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEGMENTING AND SUMMARIZING MEDIA CONTENT - An approach is provided for increasing content relevancy to user search queries by segmenting and summarizing media content. A probabilistic tag application segments a first media content item into at least a first segment and a second segment, associates a first keyword with the first segment, and assigns to the first keyword a first probability value indicating relevance of the first keyword to the first segment. Thereafter, the probabilistic tag application includes the first segment in a search result, in response to a search query including the first keyword. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208723 | CALCULATING RELIABILITY SCORES FROM WORD SPLITTING - Systems and methods of the present invention provide for the word splitting and reliability score for an entered character string. A list of keywords may be extracted from the character string entered into a user interface on a client. These keywords may be compared to potential matches in a dictionary database and a reliability score for word splits and keywords strings may be compiled and displayed to the user. The client may also display the reliability score using a plurality of logical groupings within a reliability score process. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208724 | Entity Display Priority In A Distributed Geographic Information System - A system for ranking geospatial entities is described. In one embodiment, the system comprises an interface for receiving ranking data about a plurality of geospatial entities and an entity ranking module. The module uses a ranking mechanism to generate place ranks for the geospatial entities based on the ranking data. Ranked entity data generated by the entity ranking module is stored in a database. The entity ranking module may be configured to evaluate a plurality of diverse attributes to determine a total score for a geospatial entity. The entity ranking module may be configured to organize ranked entity data into placemark layers. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208725 | REGISTRATION AND MAINTENANCE OF ADDRESS DATA FOR EACH SERVICE POINT IN A TERRITORY - A computer system and method is disclosed for mining current and archived address data in order to identify a preferred address for each service point in a territory. The data mining system may start in response to the presentation of a candidate address for matching The set of mined data may be prioritized by clustering like characteristics, building similarity matrices, and by constructing dendrograms with nodes joined according to common characteristics. A computer system and method for maintaining a central database of preferred addresses is also disclosed. Selected address data gathered in a queue may be scored by characteristic, grouped by consignee location, and staged for processing. The scored queue of data may be prioritized by clustering like characteristics, building similarity matrices, and by constructing dendrograms. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208726 | SERVER FOR AGGREGATING SEARCH ACTIVITY SYNCHRONIZED TO TIME-BASED MEDIA - Where multiple client devices are synchronized to multiple, asynchronous instances of a time-based media presentation such as live and time-shifted views of a television broadcast, interactive content can be delivered to each one of the various devices at a particular time (or “time offset”) within the presentation independent of when each instance of the time-based media presentation is viewed. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208727 | ELECTRONIC PREVIOUS SEARCH RESULTS LOG - A method for providing a viewable search results log to allow determination of the effectiveness of search strategies and sharing results of searches with others. The search results log reveals search strategies utilized by a human searcher with which the search results log is associated. The search results produced by at least one human searcher are stored in the search results log and presented according to a view format selected by a viewer. The search results log can be interrelated to other systems such as a blog or a search engine. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208728 | Computer System, Method, and Computer Program For Extracting Terms From Document Data Including Text Segment - A computer system, method, and article of manufacture for extracting a term from electronic document data that includes a text segment. The system includes: a first extraction unit that uses a first text processing information to extract a noun word from the document data; a second extraction unit that uses a second text processing information to extract a term candidate in relation to the noun word or a corpus that includes text data described in the same language used in the document data; a weight assignment unit that uses a third text processing information to select which type to assign a weight from the plurality of types and assigns the weight to the selected type for each noun word and term candidate; a determination unit that determines the type to which the noun word and term candidate belong; and an output unit to output the noun word and term candidate. | 2011-08-25 |
20110208729 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - The invention provides an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information processing program that can improve convenience of a user and facilitate participation of a user, with respect to an existing group having members (users). | 2011-08-25 |
20110208730 | CONTEXT-AWARE SEARCHING - A model generated from search log data predicts a hidden state based on a query to determine a context of the query, such as for providing re-ranked search results, query suggestions and/or URL recommendations. | 2011-08-25 |