36th week of 2009 patent applcation highlights part 50 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20090222350 | METHODS, KITS AND METHOD OF MARKETING FOR INCREASING HAIR DIAMETER AND DELIVERING ADDITIONAL BENEFITS - Disclosed is a method for increasing hair diameter, comprising the steps of: topically applying a first composition comprising to a region where hair diameter increase is desired; and topically applying a second composition to a region where an additional benefit is desired; wherein the first composition comprises a hair diameter increasing agent comprising a xanthine compound, a vitamin B3 compound, and a panthenol compound; and wherein the second composition comprises an additional benefit agent, such additional benefit being selected from the group consisting of hair volume-up, hair conditioning, hair strengthening, scalp sensation, hair color, scent, and mixtures thereof. The kits and methods of the present invention increase hair diameter, and also provide: motivation to consumers to use such compositions for a longer period of time so that consumers can obtain hair diameter increase benefit; at least one additional benefit, while not-compromising the penetration of the hair diameter increasing agent; and/or optimized benefits from both hair diameter increasing agents and additional benefit agents. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222351 | System And Method For Obtaining Advertising Exposure Time - The embodiments of the present invention disclose a system for obtaining advertising exposure time, which includes: one or more clients, adapted to calculate exposure time of playing an advertisement each time by the client, and send an identity of the advertisement and the exposure time of playing the advertisement each time to an advertising server; the advertising server, adapted to obtain total exposure time of the advertisement according to the identity of the advertisement and the exposure time of playing the advertisement each time sent by the client. The embodiments of the present invention also disclose a method for obtaining advertising exposure time. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222352 | Interactive Event Planning and Payment Method and System - Method for an event organizer to receive gifts and services and an interactive registry system. A database of gifts and services is created and a price therefor is obtained. Gift givers accessing the database are shown gifts and services along with their prices. The gift givers select which gifts and/or services they want to purchase and remit funds to an intermediary upon which, the gift or service provider is directed to forward the gift to the organizer or perform the services for the organizer. In an event planning method and system, different templates with prices are stored in memory, each template including information about goods and services for an event or service. An event organizer accesses the memory to browse the templates and select one for purchase. Upon selection of a template, the provider(s) of the goods or services are requested to provide the listed goods and services. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222353 | Payment system - The credit a mobile radio apparatus account, the display ( | 2009-09-03 |
20090222354 | ENROLLMENT APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD - An apparatus for enrolling a package is disclosed including: a receiving surface for receiving the package; at least one weight sensor in communication with the receiving surface which generates a weight signal indicative of the weight of the package; at least one video camera which generates a video signal indicative of an image of the package on the receiving surface; and a processor in communication with the at least one weight sensor and the at least one video camera. The processor includes: a weight module which produces, in response to the weight signal, weight data indicative of the weight of the package; and a dimension capture module which produces in response to the video signal, dimension data indicative of the size of the package. In some embodiments the processor further includes a recognition module which produces, in response to the video signal character data indicative of one or more characters present on the package. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222355 | Process for toy rental service - A toy rental service enabling parents, or other caregivers, to provide their children with a regularly changing variety of the most appropriate, safe and clean toys while eliminating the expense and time required to shop for and purchase such toys by conventional means. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222356 | PROPOSAL SUBMISSION SYSTEM AND METHOD - There is described a method and system for submitting trade proposals. The method comprises, in a processing device accessible via a communication network: extracting a keyword from a quote request received via the communication network, from a remote server accessible on the communication network, the quote request initially entered by a buyer accessing digital content on the remote server; selecting a potential seller from multiple sellers, based on a comparison of the keyword with seller information associated with the multiple sellers; retrieving an address associated with the potential seller selected; sending a notification of the quote request to the address, over the communication network; creating a proposal submission entry upon the potential seller submitting a proposal in response to the quote request; and sending a notification of the proposal over the communication network, to the buyer, once the proposal submission entry has been created. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222357 | ONLINE PURCHASING SYSTEM SUPPORTING SELLERS WITH AFFORDABILITY SCREENING - An online system uses, in various embodiments of the invention, credit report information, loan affordability screening and credit approval and management functionality to facilitate the purchase and finance of products online. The online system may include both sellers of products and lenders that offer financing to buyers seeking to purchase the products. The system may automatically obtain a buyer's credit report information and use that information to determine if the buyer is pre-approved, for example, to obtain financing for a particular product or products. The system also enables use of buyer credit information to identify only those of a seller's products for which the buyer is pre-approved, for example, to finance using one or more loans. The system then enables selection of an identified product or products for purchase, and selection of a loan, for example, for financing of the selected product or products. Credit approval (or pre-approval) may be performed automatically, and along with credit processing, may be performed completely online. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222358 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROMOTING COMMERCE, INCLUDING SALES AGENT ASSISTED COMMERCE, IN A NETWORKED ECONOMY - A personal communication and electronic commerce system for use by participating users and participating merchants in connection with incentive programs in the Network Economy. The system includes a cellular communication network that includes geographically spaced base stations that are linked to a fixed communication network. Users may have personal communication devices that can be used to allow a digital message generated on the personal communication devices by placing a call through one of the base stations and memory for storing a digital value corresponding to a monetary value. The personal communication device may also be used as a cellular position locator to determine one's geographic location and, if desired, to access information from a merchant information database containing information pertaining to a plurality of participating merchants located within the geographic territory covered by the cellular communication network. The merchant information may be stored on a database that is accessible by merchants so those merchants can add, delete or alter information contained in their respective listings. An incentive system is also provided for creating incentives for participating users to encourage. This computer implemented incentive program for encouraging certain participant actions includes a first reward program under which participants may earn points for certain actions and a second reward program through which the redemption rate associated with a particular participant is adjusted in response to certain participant action. The incentive program has a wide range of applications, including transportation, financial services and computer gaming. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222359 | Stock Monitoring - System(s) and method(s) for stock monitoring are provided. Stock monitoring system(s) may include e.g., a housings one or more doors disposed in or on the housing, a sensor for sensing the condition of the door(s) and providing a door closed signal indicative of the door(s) having been closed by a user; one or more containers for stock items, located within the housing, the or each container having associated therewith a weight sensor for providing a weight signal indicative of the current weight of the container, and control circuitry, coupled for communication with the weight sensor(s). Method(s) may include, e.g., receiving a door closed signal; receiving one or more weight signals; and determining, for the or each container, the number of stock items removed from the container(s) by the user, from the weight signal(s) occurring during a predetermined sensing period, the predetermined sensing period being dependent upon the door closed signal. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222360 | MANAGING CONSISTENT INTERFACES FOR BUSINESS OBJECTS ACROSS HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS - A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to an individual material bill of material and/or an order tracking view business object. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222361 | DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A data management system may include computer code to receive data that may include financial data and related data. The computer code may store the data in a database. The financial data may include data not tracked by a general ledger, such as contractual commitments, operating leases, head count, environmental incidents, lost time, disposal of operations, etc. The financial data may be applicable to different business units. The computer code may be configured to permit access to, entry of, and sign-off on the data only by users granted authority to do so. The financial data may include different data categories, and the data management system may be configured to use a different workflow to manage the data based on the data category of the financial data. The computer code may generate reports from the data retrieved from the database. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222362 | METHOD FOR HANDLING OF A BANK NOTE AND SYSTEM THEREFORE - The present invention relates to a method for handling of a plurality of bank notes comprising the following steps: a) collecting said plurality of bank notes ( | 2009-09-03 |
20090222363 | Systems And Methods For Automated Retail Recovery Auditing - Systems and methods for automated recovery auditing are described. In one described system, an analytical engine receives deal information. The analytical engine then receives purchase order information associated with the deal information. If any discrepancies are identified, the analytical engine generates a notification identifying the discrepancy. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222364 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ATTRIBUTE-BASED TRANSACTION CATEGORIZATION - Presently disclosed is a system for attribute-based transaction categorization that utilizes transaction designation attributes other than or in addition to a payee name to provide reduced user effort and improved accuracy in the categorization of transactions. Further, the system for transaction categorization may retroactively re-categorize and/or re-name previous transactions based on subsequent transaction categorization. The transaction categorization system may assign match scores based on the number and/or type of designation attributes that match rules for associating a designation to a transaction. If a match score exceeds a predetermined threshold and/or is greater than other match scores, the transaction is automatically designated. Otherwise, the user may manually designate the transaction. Manually designated transactions may be used by the transaction categorization system to generate new designation rules. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222365 | Community-Based Transaction Categorization - Presently disclosed is a system and method for community-based transaction categorization that utilizes previous categorizations of transactions by members of a community of users to categorize a new transaction for an individual member of the community. Each manual categorization of a transaction by a user within the community may be used to generate a community designation rule. Then each community designation rule may be used to categorize transactions of another user within the community. More specifically, when a user within a community manually categorizes a transaction, an individual rule applicable to all the user's transactions with similar attributes is generated. If the individual rule meets certain criteria, the individual rule becomes a community rule. The community rule is then applicable to all users within the community having transactions with similar attributes. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222366 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING OPTIMAL BILL/PAYMENT SCHEDULE - A method and system for generating bill payment schedule utilizes a composite pricing module to generate payment schedule over a predetermined period of time. In one aspect, a fraction of each pricing model attributing to the composite pricing model is determined. A charge fee associated with said each pricing model based on said fraction and said total price to charge is determined. Price to charge during each time unit of the time period is allocated, based on budget over the time period, discount rate, target profit margin and risk affordance. Bill schedule is generated using the allocated price. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222367 | System and Method for the Activation and Use of a Temporary Financial Card - Systems and methods for the activation and use of a temporary financial card are provided. A customer may cause a temporary financial card to be activated and associated with a value, and may give the card to a recipient who may use the temporary financial card to conduct financial transactions. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222368 | AUTHOR WEBSITE IN A COMMERCE ENVIRONMENT - A method, system and apparatus of an author website in a commerce environment are disclose. In one embodiment, a method of a merchant site includes creating, through an interaction module of the merchant site, an author website having at least some descriptive content of a literary work that is automatically applied from the merchant site to the author website based on a preference of an author of the literary work, automatically associating a user database of the merchant site to the author website, providing access to the author website from a location adjacent to where the literary work is marketed in the merchant site and providing an interface to enable a patron of the merchant site represented in the user database to communicate with the author of the literary work through at least one of the merchant site and the author website. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222369 | Fraud Detection System For The Faster Payments System - A computer-based fraud detection system stores extracts of the payment and other activity of the payer as well as the payee by efficiently profiling their accounts, and also stores extracts of the overall global or segmented payment activities. This profile information is then used to effectively capture fraudulent activity. The fraud detection system accepts messages from the payment processing system or from the associated financial institution, and depending on the nature of the message will update its databases, or assess fraud risk by computing a score, or both. If a score is computed, the higher the score, the greater the likelihood that the transaction is fraudulent. Said score is based on automatically determined risky values of variables and is also be automatically scaled using self-calibrating analytics using the captured profile information. In a typical scenario the fraud detection system client sets a “threshold score” above which the transactions are considered suspect enough to be investigated further or to trigger a payment decline outright. The solution is suitable for being installed at a financial institution, on the network, or some other institutional participant of the Faster Payments System (FPS), such as an access service provider to the FPS for corporate clients. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222370 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXCHANGING FINANCIAL-TRANSACTION-RELATED MESSAGES OVER A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK - At a first functional entity, a financial-transaction-related message destined for a destination associated with a second functional entity is received. The financial-transaction-related message is assessed for compliance with a fundamental message format and, upon assessing that the financial-transaction-related message is not compliant with the fundamental message format, a translation of said financial-transaction-related message into a translated message that is compliant with the fundamental message format is effected and the translated message is released towards said destination. The translated message is then received at the second functional entity, and the translated message is assessed for compliance with a message format that is employed by the destination. Upon assessing that the translated message is not compliant with a message format that is employed by the destination, the translated message is translated into a re-translated message that is compliant with a message format that is employed by the destination. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222371 | METHOD OF ENERGY PROCUREMENT AND SYSTEM FOR EMPLOYING - A method and system of procuring energy for a consumer from a number of wholesale parties is provided. The method includes preparing and conducting an event. Conducting the event including registering the number of wholesale parties, providing for the reception and recording of a number of offers from the number of wholesale parties, receiving a number of best offers from the number of wholesale parties, providing a first display of the number of best offers to the number of wholesale parties, providing a second display of the number of best offers to the customer, and determining a number of final winning offers from the number of best offers. The method concludes with securing energy for the customer according to the number of final winning offers. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222372 | Method of Creating and Trading Derivative Investment Products Based on a Statistical Property Reflecting the Volatility of an Underlying Asset - A method of creating and trading derivative contracts based on a statistical property reflecting a volatility of an underlying asset is disclosed. Typically, an underlying asset is chosen to be a base of a volatility derivative and a processor calculates a value of the statistical property reflecting an average volatility of price returns of the underlying asset over a predefined period. A trading facility display device coupled to a trading platform then displays the volatility derivative based on the value of the statistical property reflecting the volatility of the underlying asset and the trading facility transmits volatility derivative quotes from liquidity providers over at least one dissemination network. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222373 | TOTAL STRUCTURAL RISK MODEL - The present invention generally relates to financial data processing, and in particular it relates to credit scoring, consumer profiling, consumer behavior analysis and modeling. More specifically, it relates to risk modeling using the inputs of credit bureau data, size of wallet data, and, optionally, internal data. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222374 | TOTAL STRUCTURAL RISK MODEL - The present invention generally relates to financial data processing, and in particular it relates to credit scoring, consumer profiling, consumer behavior analysis and modeling. More specifically, it relates to risk modeling using the inputs of credit bureau data, size of wallet data, and, optionally, internal data. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222375 | TOTAL STRUCTURAL RISK MODEL - The present invention generally relates to financial data processing, and in particular it relates to credit scoring, consumer profiling, consumer behavior analysis and modeling. More specifically, it relates to risk modeling using the inputs of credit bureau data, size of wallet data, and, optionally, internal data. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222376 | TOTAL STRUCTURAL RISK MODEL - The present invention generally relates to financial data processing, and in particular it relates to credit scoring, consumer profiling, consumer behavior analysis and modeling. More specifically, it relates to risk modeling using the inputs of credit bureau data, size of wallet data, and, optionally, internal data. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222377 | TOTAL STRUCTURAL RISK MODEL - The present invention generally relates to financial data processing, and in particular it relates to credit scoring, consumer profiling, consumer behavior analysis and modeling. More specifically, it relates to risk modeling using the inputs of credit bureau data, size of wallet data, and, optionally, internal data. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222378 | TOTAL STRUCTURAL RISK MODEL - The present invention generally relates to financial data processing, and in particular it relates to credit scoring, consumer profiling, consumer behavior analysis and modeling. More specifically, it relates to risk modeling using the inputs of credit bureau data, size of wallet data, and, optionally, internal data. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222379 | TOTAL STRUCTURAL RISK MODEL - The present invention generally relates to financial data processing, and in particular it relates to credit scoring, consumer profiling, consumer behavior analysis and modeling. More specifically, it relates to risk modeling using the inputs of credit bureau data, size of wallet data, and, optionally, internal data. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222380 | TOTAL STRUCTURAL RISK MODEL - The present invention generally relates to financial data processing, and in particular it relates to credit scoring, consumer profiling, consumer behavior analysis and modeling. More specifically, it relates to risk modeling using the inputs of credit bureau data, size of wallet data, and, optionally, internal data. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222381 | PROCESS OF AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING CHECK PROCESSING AT POINT OF SALE AND ACCELERATED CREDIT FOR CHECK TRANSACTIONS - Process of and system for providing credit to a retailer by collecting checks from customers during financial transactions between the customers and the retailer, depositing by the retailer the collected checks into a safe located at the retailer facility, calculating the total monetary value of the checks that are deposited into the safe, and electronically transmitting a data file that identifies the calculated total monetary value of the deposited checks. Using the information in the transmitted data file, the retailer is credited by a bank or other financial institute with the total monetary value of the deposited checks. Crediting may be provided on a business day basis, and other features include imaging of the deposited checks, facilitating check processing using the image files of the checks, displaying the imaged checks on a display at the retailer during the financial transaction, depositing the checks into the same safe into which cash collected by the retailer is deposited, providing the checks within the safe in sealed cassettes, and printing an image of a collected check on a receipt that is provided to the customer. Other features also are described. The process and system advantageously make funds readily available and improves cash flow to retailers who take-in checks as part of their normal business operations. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222382 | PLATFORM FOR MANAGEMENT OF INTERNET BASED PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS AND PUBLIC COMMENT - An Internet-based integrated technology platform that simultaneously supports the management of Public Information Sites—Web sites used to both (1) inform the public; and (2) capture and manage public comment (including submission of images—while at the same time providing support for electronic communication for project teams that manage public involvement projects. The support includes sharing of graphic, text and collaborative tasks. The system and method allow revisions to comments and dynamic feedback in agency decision making based on comments with greater responsiveness. The system is also suited for implementing charettes with a large number of participants. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222383 | Secure Financial Reader Architecture - Methods and systems are provided for secure transaction processing. A secure processor may include an integrated wireless card reader and optionally a secure memory. When a request for payment information associated with an on-line transaction is received, the integrated wireless card reader reads data from the payment card. The secure processor may retrieve a set of transaction identifiers from the payment card issuer or optionally a trusted third party. The secure processor transmits one of the retrieve transaction identifiers to the on-line merchant instead of payment card data. The on-line merchant communicates the transaction identifier to the payment card issuer or the trusted third party for validation. Alternatively, the secure processor may encrypt the read payment card data utilizing the payment card number as the shared secret required by the cryptographic algorithm. The secure processor then forwards the encrypted payment card data to the on-line merchant. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222384 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INTERVENTION IN ELECTRONIC MARKETS - A transaction management system for managing the purchase of products or services by a buyer comprising: a data store for storing a seller identifier and seller offer data indicating at least one product or service offered for sale; and transaction data for each of a plurality of historical transactions, a transaction identifier, and the seller and a buyer identifier. The system also having a program store storing instructions and a processor coupled to the data store and to the program store for implementing the instructions for controlling the processor to implement a buyer interface to receive a purchase inquiry, output seller offer data for a plurality of sellers, the sellers each being able to meet the purchase criteria; and receive a purchase request accepting an offer. The processor can also analyze the transaction data to determine stability a market. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222385 | System and methods for modeling a multiplicative index - Computer-implemented methods for valuing a derivative based on the BMA rate: the methods may comprise generating a model of the BMA/LIBOR ratio as a function of the LIBOR index, a stochastic noise function, and a seasonality process. The methods may also comprise solving the model for at least one value of the LIBOR index, and estimating a value of the derivative given the solution of the model. The value of the derivative may then be stored. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222386 | Alpha node hashing in a rule engine - Some embodiments of alpha node hashing in an exemplary rule engine have been presented. In one embodiment, constraints are added into a constraint set in response to requests from one or more users of a rule engine. The rule engine then determines which constraints within the constraint set are mutually exclusive. Furthermore, the rule engine dynamically enables hashing of facts asserted into a working memory of the rule engine in response to a current number of the mutually exclusive constraints. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222387 | Diagnosis, Prognosis and Prediction of Recurrence of Breat Cancer - The present invention relates to methods and compositions for the diagnosis, prognosis, and prediction of breast cancer. More specifically, the invention relates to classification of breast cancer tissue samples based on measuring the expression of a set of marker genes. The set is useful for the identification of clinically important breast cancer subtypes. Methods are disclosed for prediction, diagnosis and prognosis of breast cancer. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222388 | Method of and system for hierarchical human/crowd behavior detection - The present invention is directed to a computer automated method of selectively identifying a user specified behavior of a crowd. The method comprises receiving video data but can also include audio data and sensor data. The video data contains images a crowd. The video data is processed to extract hierarchical human and crowd features. The detected crowd features are processed to detect a selectable crowd behavior. The selected crowd behavior detected is specified by a configurable behavior rule. Human detection is provided by a hybrid human detector algorithm which can include Adaboost or convolutional neural network. Crowd features are detected using textual analysis techniques. The configurable crowd behavior for detection can be defined by crowd behavioral language. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222389 | CHANGE ANALYSIS SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM - Different virtual labels, for example, like +1 and −1, are assigned to two data sets. A change analysis problem for the two data sets is reduced to a supervised learning problem by using the virtual labels. Specifically, a classifier such as logical regression, decision tree and SVM is prepared and is trained by use of a data set obtained by merging the two data sets assigned the virtual labels. A feature selection function of the resultant classifier is used to rank and output both every attribute contributing to classification and its contribution rate. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222390 | Method, program and apparatus for generating two-class classification/prediction model - A method includes: a) preparing as training data a sample set that contains a plurality of samples belonging to a first class and a plurality of samples belonging to a second class; b) generating, by performing discriminant analysis on the sample set, a first discriminant function having a high classification characteristic for the first class and a second discriminant function having a high classification characteristic for the second class; c) by classifying the sample set using the first and second discriminant functions, isolating any sample whose classification results by the first and second discriminant functions do not match; d) forming a new sample set by grouping together any sample thus isolated, and repeating b) and c) by using the new sample set; and e) causing d) to stop when the number of samples each of whose classification results do not match in c) has decreased to or below a predetermined value. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222391 | MANAGING AN ENCODER MALFUNCTION IN AN ELEVATOR DRIVE SYSTEM - A knowledge base of information is generated to facilitate servicing of equipment from multiple manufacturers. A network ( | 2009-09-03 |
20090222392 | DYMANIC INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT - Disclosed are various embodiments of systems and methods for generating composite mediasets from mediasets, each comprising media items, associated with a plurality of users. In some embodiments, individual and/or group recommendations are provided for creating a group playlist by aggregating user taste data for a plurality of users in a group. In other embodiments, systems and methods are provided which allow for sharing and playing of a group playlist by users in a group, each of which has a media playback device. In still other embodiments, systems and methods are provided for dynamically building a composite playlist that may be updated as users enter and/or leave the group. One example of an interactive entertainment application also is described for use at a venue to entertain live guests with music selections that are dynamically influenced by the guests' individual tastes. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222393 | EFFICIENT DECISION PROCEDURE FOR BOUNDED INTEGER NON-LINEAR OPERATIONS USING SMT(LIA) - Systems and methods are disclosed for deciding a satisfiability problem with linear and non-linear operations by:
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20090222394 | ENHANCED CALL-BACK SERVICE - An enhanced call-back service, in which a local rule engine is caused to be capable of invoking a rule defined at an external rule engine, and a function provided by the local rule engine is exposed as a call-back service. At the call-back service and from the external rule engine, a request to interact with the function is received, and, using the call-back service, an interaction is provided between the external rule engine and the function. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222395 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND SOFTWARE FOR ENTITY EXTRACTION AND RESOLUTION COUPLED WITH EVENT AND RELATIONSHIP EXTRACTION - For automated text processing, the inventors devised, among other things, an exemplary system that includes an entity tagger, an entity resolver, a text segment classifier, and a relationship extractor. The entity tagger receives an input text segment, and tags named entities with the segment as being a person, company, or place. The entity resolver accesses authority files, and associates the persons and companies named in the text segment with specific entries in the files. The text segment classifier determines whether the text segment includes a relationship event, such as job-change event or merger and acquisition event, and if an event is detected, the relationship extractor determines the event role of entities named in the segment. For example, the extractor determines for a merger and acquisition event, which named company was the acquirer and which was acquired. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222396 | ADAPTIVE MULTI-LEVELS DICTIONARIES AND SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION TECHNIQUES FOR AUTONOMIC PROBLEM DETERMINATION - A system and method for autonomic problem determination. Events and problems associated with the events are received from a computing resource and are expressed as entries in an event-problem matrix. Expert knowledge is expressed as entries in one or more multi-level structure dictionaries. The system and method enables dynamic interaction between the events in the matrix and the current dictionaries with its entries being updated continuously to maximize correlation among the events and problems. The index of each term in the dictionary is used to calculate the weight of each event in the matrix wherein events having frequent association with a specific problem will be given a higher weight in the matrix. Using singular value decomposition (SVD), the weighted events enable an accelerated and accurate convergence to a set of specific associated problems. Feedback, responsive to the output of the problem determination, is provided to trigger the recalculation of the index of each associated term in the dictionaries, resulting in gradual evolution of the dictionaries to accumulate expert knowledge. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222397 | Beta node indexing in a rule engine - Some embodiments of beta node indexing in an exemplary rule engine have been presented. In one embodiment, a rule engine creates a network based on a set of rules. The network includes at least one multiple-input node, such as a beta node having two inputs. The beta node further includes a memory associated with each input. The rule engine may generate a single index for at least one of the memories of the beta node based on a set of predetermined attributes of elements within the memory. Examples of the elements include tuples and data objects. The index includes a set of composite keys, each having a value of each of the attributes. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222398 | System and Method for Explaining a Recommendation Produced by a Decision Support Tool - In accordance with a particular embodiment of the invention, a method for explaining a recommendation produced by a decision support tool is disclosed. The method comprises submitting a list of observation inputs to the decision support tool and producing a recommendation. The list of inputs is then reordered according to an observation metric. The method further comprises quantifying how each input impacts the probability of the recommendation produced. The inputs may then be ranked by comparing the associated changes in probability of the recommendation produced. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222399 | TRUSTWORTHINESS ASSESSMENT OF SENSOR DATA PROCESSING - The present description refers in particular to a computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computer system for trust evaluation of sensor data during at least part of a sensor data life-cycle. The computer-implemented method may include evaluating an acquisition trust value (ATV) of sensor data at a sensor data acquisition module from at least one sensor node in a wireless sensor network (WSN), wherein the WSN comprises at least one sink, evaluating a delivery trust value (DTV) of sensor data at a sensor data delivery module from a sending entity to a receiving entity; and evaluating a processing trust value (PTV) at a sensor data processing module in a processing entity, to obtain a trust evaluation of the sensor data. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222400 | CATEGORIZATION AND FILTERING OF SCIENTIFIC DATA - The present invention relates to methods, systems and apparatus for capturing, integrating, organizing, navigating and querying large-scale data from high-throughput biological and chemical assay platforms. It provides a highly efficient meta-analysis infrastructure for performing research queries across a large number of studies and experiments from different biological and chemical assays, data types and organisms, as well as systems to build and add to such an infrastructure. According to various embodiments, methods, systems and interfaces for associating experimental data, features and groups of data related by structure and/or function with chemical, medical and/or biological terms in an ontology or taxonomy are provided. According to various embodiments, methods, systems and interfaces for filtering data by data source information are provided, allowing dynamic navigation through large amounts of data to find the most relevant results for a particular query. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222401 | Detecting Presence/Absence of an Information Signal - A method including receiving inputs; determining an expected variance of the inputs; and testing a first hypothesis that the inputs include a signal. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222402 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTATION OF LOCAL AND REMOTE MESSAGE SEARCH RESULTS - There is disclosed a system and method for presenting message search results at a wireless handheld device. In an embodiment, the method comprises conducting a search of local messages stored in the wireless handheld device using at least one search term to obtain a local search result; retrieving a search of remote messages stored in a message server using the at least one search term to obtain a remote search result; comparing the local and remote search results to identify any duplicate messages; and if the size of the local message is greater than or equal to the size of the remote message, then selecting the local message for presentation; else selecting the remote message for presentation. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222403 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND JOB PROCESSING METHOD - When an image processing apparatus acquires job log information and error log information from an image forming apparatus, the information processing apparatus identifies a job processing time from a job start time and a job end time of each job which are recorded in the acquired job log information. Subsequently, the information processing apparatus identifies a job suspension time from an occurrence time and a recovery time of an error of each log which is recorded in the error log information. Then, the information processing apparatus calculates a job execution time based on the identified job processing time and the job suspension time. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222404 | QUERYING NONSQL DATA STORES WITH A SQL-STYLE LANGUAGE - A nonSQL index containing data associated with a social networking network is queried with a nonSQL query generated from a SQL query. A query translation component parses the SQL query for query parameters specifying requested data and identifies a type of the nonSQL index based on the nonSQL index. The query translation component generates a nonSQL query based on the query parameters and the type of nonSQL index and queries the nonSQL index with the generated nonSQL query to search for the requested data. The query translation component receives a nonSQL result set from the nonSQL index based on the nonSQL query and then transforms the nonSQL result set into a SQL result set based on the type of nonSQL index and the received SQL query. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222405 | DYNAMIC PROFILE SYSTEM FOR RESOURCE ACCESS CONTROL - A dynamic profiling system (DPS) provides dynamic access session configuration for telecommunications subscribers, and provides subscriber session information to application platforms. The DPS configuration adapts to meet the needs of any combination of user connection requests, access channel devices, and access channels used to communicate connection requests. The DPS provides an aggregated view of user session information to efficiently and effectively provide services to subscribers. As the many different access channels (e.g., WiFi, ATM, Ethernet and DSL access) continue to grow through which a subscriber connects to services, the dynamic profiling system also eliminates the inefficient proliferation of custom interfaces between the many support systems and applications that need access to subscriber profile and session configuration information. The DPS provides a universal and personalized access to telecommunications services. Provisioned services may be accessed by many different access channels based upon static and dynamically maintained information in the subscriber profile and the access channel used, respectively. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222406 | Method for indexing, searching and retrieving patient information from a picture archive and communications system - The present invention is a centrally deployed, computer-based system for uniquely indexing and searching a picture archiving and communications system (PACS) or other like device. This system and method uses a LAN, WAN or global communication system, e.g., the Internet, to acquire, analyze, index, search and retrieve medically relevant facts about all patients requested by the user interacting with a PACS system. The central deployed, computer-based system of the present invention has various components that will i) increase the efficiency of a users ability to find health care related data while also improving the quality of care to individual patients; and ii) solves the problem associated with relative inaccessibility caused by storing large amounts of data on patients with various diseases within a PACS, a clear weakness of the current picture archiving and communications systems. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222407 | INFORMATION SEARCH SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM - A system, method and computer program product for searching at high speed for documents matching a dependency pattern from document data containing a large volume of text documents. The system includes a storage device for storing, index storage means for storing in the storage device occurrence information, receiving means for receiving information, reading means for reading from the index storage means, and searching means for comparing occurrence information. The method and computer program product include the steps of storing in the storage device, receiving information, reading from the storage device, comparing occurrence information, and searching. The computer program product includes instructions to execute the steps of storing each of the plurality of document data in the storage device, storing in the storage device occurrence information. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222408 | DATA STORAGE STRUCTURE - Efficient data storage and retrieval (e.g., in terms of time and space requirements) is facilitated by implementing an indexing structure comprising an indexing array. That is, a functional relationship between elements of a source set and elements of a query result set can be stored in the indexing structure. This allows, for example, a query regarding whether an element is a member of a set (e.g., whether a particular website or Uniform Resource Locator (URL)) has been visited before) as well as a relationship between the member set and the query (e.g., the number of hyperlinks in the website the last time it was visited) to be resolved efficiently. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222409 | Conceptual Reverse Query Expander - A method for multilingual data querying comprises sending one or more words in an original language to a word ontology. The method further comprises receiving sense descriptions of the one or more words from the word ontology, and selecting one or more sense descriptions of the one or more words and a language for querying. The method further comprises translating the one or more sense descriptions into the language for querying, and also translating the one or more sense descriptions back into the original language for verification. The method further comprises selecting at least one of the one or more sense descriptions to use in a query. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222410 | Method and Apparatus for Query Processing of Uncertain Data - Techniques are disclosed for indexing uncertain data in query processing systems. For example, a method for processing queries in an application that involves an uncertain data set includes the following steps. A representation of records of the uncertain data set is created based on mean values and uncertainty values. The representation is utilized for processing a query received on the uncertain data set. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222411 | LOCATION DESCRIPTION FOR FEDERATION AND DISCOVERABILITY - System and methods for directing a federated search using a location description file to locate a data source are provided. For a federated search, a location description may be used to describe the location of each data source searched, and may further be used to connect the user to that particular data source. The format of such a location description file may include several elements, some of which provide information on how to display the file (e.g., name, description, author, icon link, etc.) and other elements (e.g., simple location, location type, etc.) are used to connect the user to the location of the data source. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222412 | FACET VISUALIZATION - A system described herein includes a receiver component that receives a dataset and defined relationships amongst data in the dataset, wherein the relationships are indicative of identities of a plurality of facets in the dataset, wherein each facet includes an item, and wherein items in a facet have a common attribute. The system further includes a renderer component that renders a first facet in the plurality of facets on a graphical user interface, wherein the first facet is rendered as a selectable graphical icon. Concurrently with rendering the first facet, the renderer component renders a second facet in the plurality of facets on the graphical user interface, wherein the second facet is rendered with respect to a linear attribute. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222413 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MIGRATING INFORMATION AND DATA INTO AN APPLICATION - A data classification module is configured to retrieve information from the repository and migrate the information into applications. The data classification module is configured to receive a request to migrate information and data from the repository into an application. The request can include the type of application and the type of information and data requested. The application can be an new application or an existing application. In order to locate information and data to migrate, the data classification module is configured to maintain rules that describe how the various applications maintain data and information. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222414 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND DATA IN COOPERATION WITH A COMMUNICATION APPLICATION - Systems and methods classify, organize, and retrieve data from a variety of applications based on entities associated with the data. A data classification module is further configured to operate in cooperation with a communications application. Upon receiving an incoming communication via the communication application, the data classification module is configured to receive the identifying information from the communication application. The data classification module is configured to utilize the identifying information to retrieve additional information and data associated with the remote user from the searchable repository. The additional information and data can include additional identity information for the remote user. The additional information and data can also include information to allow the user to discern the context of the incoming communication. The data classification module is configured to generate an interface to provide the retrieved information to the user of communication application. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222415 | EVALUATING RISK OF INFORMATION MISMANAGEMENT IN COMPUTER STORAGE - Method and system of evaluating overall risk of mismanagement of information contained in a file and its copies on a storage system. The method collects information about storage availability, accessibility, preservation and searchability of the data in each file. The method quantifies the collected information and allows a user to define risk criteria and assign risk values for each aspect of the collected information. The file risk of mismanagement of a specified data file is evaluated and compared against a threshold to determine whether or not the file is well-managed. If the file has copies, the file risk of mismanagement of each of the copies is also evaluated to obtain the risk of mismanagement of information in all of the copies. Copies with high risks of mismanagement may be discarded to lower the risk of mismanagement of the information. An administrator of a storage system may perform the method. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222416 | Automatic Website Generator - A system and method for the automatic generation of a website. The website is created upon a user request, where the user provides identification information that is used to search an information database. The information will provide a reference to a code that relates to a template that is used to specify the layout, style and content of the website that is to be generated, and the website is then generated in accordance with the structure of the template, based on content contained in the information database. The user may engage the system and method by means of e-mail or a dedicated website or other such suitable means. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222417 | Systems and methods for dynamic support of e-commerce - The inventions herein are directed to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for the rapid deployment of data-intensive applications capable of intelligent interactions across multiple data systems so as to provide a user with accurate data in an intelligent manner. The invention includes a method of data exchange including obtaining data describing a product from a database, persistently storing the data in binary format, and providing the data in binary format to an application. The invention is also directed to a method of dynamically filling fulfilling an order including sending product information to a client; receiving updated product information; sending the updated product information to the client; receiving an order for a product from the client; and routing the order for fulfillment from available stock. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222418 | Systems and methods for dynamic content presentation - The inventions herein are directed to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for the rapid deployment of data-intensive applications capable of intelligent interactions across multiple data systems so as to provide a user with accurate data in an intelligent manner. The invention is directed, in part, to a method of content presentation including receiving product data, allowing the product to be selected, storing information regarding the manner in which the product was selected, and sending the information to a module. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222419 | SUCCINCT INDEX STRUCTURE FOR XML - Succinct data and index structures aim to maximize the efficiency of update and search operations on any data while setting the constraint of storage size to be close to the theoretical optimum. The succinct index structure of the invention indexes data represented in a hierarchical structure. The index is comprised of a symbol table of all distinct root-to-leaf paths as keys or unique element tag names as keys, wherein an entry for a key in the symbol table holds transformed topological information of nodes associated with the key together (FIG. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222420 | FILE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, FILE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A file management apparatus that displays a plurality of pieces of first file management information each being a unit for managing files and associated with second file management information on a display unit based on setting content indicated by associated second file management information. When a first symbol image corresponding to one piece of the first file management information is selected, the file management apparatus displays files associated with the piece of the first file management information corresponding to the first symbol image, on the display unit. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222421 | PERSONAL INDENTIFICATION SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREOF - A personal identification system includes a user database and a knowledge database. The user database stores personal data of a user. The knowledge database stores knowledge data relating to the personal data stored in the user database. The personal identification system generates a query on the basis of the knowledge data stored in the knowledge database, issues the generated query, and screens candidates for identification in accordance with an answer to the query. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222422 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR DATA TRANSMISSION BASED ON DLNA NETWORK - The present invention relates to a method, apparatus, and system for data transmission based on a DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) network that classifies contents files which are stored in a DMS according to a support of the DLNA network to make a contents list. Support is provided to convert a file attribute of a selected file into a file attribute which can be applied to the DLNA network to generate, in case a user selects a non-supported file which is not applied to the DLNA network. The invention outputs the selected file to a display unit, captures the outputted image to convert into a file which can be applied to the DLNA network. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222423 | Text diplay apparatus, text display method and program storage medium - A scroll bar area is displayed as two divided areas, namely a first mark display area which displays a mark figure corresponding to a first mark, and a second mark display area which displays a mark figure corresponding to a second mark. A first mark figure is displayed in that area in the first mark display area which corresponds to a line which is indicated to be affixed with the first mark by mark affixing information. A second mark figure is displayed in that area in the second mark display area which corresponds to a line which is indicated to be affixed with the second mark by the mark affixing information. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222424 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATED LIFE THROUGH VIRTUAL CITIES - A virtual cities server hosts one or more virtual cities, which in turn include one or more virtual environments with which a user interacts, where the one or more virtual environmental are three-dimensional spaces. The one or more virtual cities correspond to one or more physical cities, and virtual environments in turn correspond to physical environments in physical cities, thereby allowing businesses, organizations, and individual to establish virtual presences that correspond to physical presences and conduct transactions and activities that ultimately facilitate physical transactions and activities. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222425 | PRODUCT NORMALIZATION - A computer-implemented approach for organizing input listings from various sources of input listings. Input listings are organized by mapping the input listings to consolidated listing that correspond to the input listings. The mapping of the input listings are based on various techniques such as a Stock Keeping Unit item-listing-to-consolidated-listing matching technique, a name/title item-listing-to-consolidated-listing matching technique, and a model item-listing-to-consolidated-listing matching technique. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222426 | Computer-Implemented System And Method For Analyzing Search Queries - Systems and methods for handling input search engine data. A data store is searched based upon one or more data items contained within the input search engine data. The result of searching the data store is used to determine which data items in the input search engine data might be a search term. Search terms are extracted based upon the result of searching the data store. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222427 | Online Tracking of Life-Limited Parts - This application describes tools for online tracking of life-limited parts. These tools may support methods that include receiving queries, and searching databases in response to the queries. These methods may integrate results of the searches into reports that provide comprehensive histories of life-limited parts for installation within vehicles, and may report these integrated results. To build these databases, other methods may receive information relating to the life-limited parts from a variety of sources, load the information into suitable databases, and integrate this information as provided by the various sources. Other methods may also evaluate whether the parts have any permitted life remaining. These tools may also provide databases that store serial numbers associated with the parts, store physical locations of the parts at various times, indicate who owned the parts at different times, and include remaining life records that indicate any permitted life remaining for the parts. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222428 | MULTI-LINGUAL INFORMATION DISPLAY IN A SINGLE LANGUAGE PORTAL - A multi-lingual search and display system and/or methodology. The system providing a single point of access to information in multiple languages by executing a query against a set of targets, where the set of targets can include continents, countries, regions, geographic areas, languages, cultures, economies, markets, and so forth. Additionally, the subject invention translates the resulting documents and renders the translated results in a single view. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222429 | Service identification in legacy source code using structured and unstructured analyses - Identifying service candidates in legacy source code, including a source code analyzer performing structured and unstructured analyses of computer software source code procedures, a repository storing results of the analyses, a target profile analyzer analyzing a target service description of a Service Oriented Architecture and formulating a query therefrom, a search module querying the repository to identify source code elements that match the target service description, and combining any matches within a predefined distance from each other within the source code, a ranking engine ranking the combined matches in accordance with predefined heuristics, and a procedure aggregator aggregating the combined matches by their location in propinquity to the procedures, comparing interface definitions defined for the service description to entry and exit points of the procedures to identify candidate procedures having similar input and output parameters, and producing a ranked list of candidate procedures that map into the target element. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222430 | Apparatus and Method for Content Recommendation - A content recommender executes a method wherein a set of attributes are provided for a plurality of content items. A number of recommendation parameters are defined as a function of attribute values for a subset of attributes and for each content item, recommendation values are determined based on the definitions. A multi-dimensional clustering is applied to the recommendation values for the content items to generate a plurality of content clusters. Each dimension of the clustering corresponds to a recommendation parameter. The content recommender then selects a set of content clusters from the content clusters and a recommendation set of content items is generated by selecting at least one content item from each selected content cluster. The invention may allow improved recommendations to be generated and may in particular allow recommendations to be generated which reflect a number of different and possibly conflicting considerations. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222431 | SYSTEM AND/OR METHOD FOR PERSONALIZATION OF SEARCHES - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system and/or method for providing enhanced content search results based on metrics indicating user affinity for an information site such as a web site. Information on user visits to a particular web site may be accumulated, for example, in connection with a beacon or other tracker placed on the publisher web site. The enhanced content may be provided by the publisher web site or may be generated otherwise. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222432 | Geo Tagging and Automatic Generation of Metadata for Photos and Videos - Photo/video is geo tagged with GPS coordinates corresponding to the place of capture of said photo/video. ‘Geo-information’ metadata corresponding to GPS coordinates is automatically generated and attached to corresponding photo/video. The ‘geo-information’ metadata comprises of date &time of capture, geo information metadata such as local weather, local attractions, local events etc. at the time of capture of corresponding photo/video. According to another aspect, a search engine is provided with means to crawl through one or more database comprising of ‘geo-information’ metadata attached to photos/videos and generate result comprising of photos/videos with ‘geo-information’ metadata corresponding/relevant to query input. According to another aspect, present invention discloses apparatus, means and methods to attach one or more local advertisements to photos/videos and display advertisement in conjunction with corresponding photo/video on communication devices. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222433 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SEARCHING DATA BASED ON ENTITIES RELATED TO THE DATA - Systems and methods classify, organize, and retrieve data from a variety of applications based on entities associated with the data. A data classification module is configured to retrieve stored information from a repository. The data classification module is configured to receive a request to retrieve the stored information. The data classification module is configured to search the repository based on the request. Based on the search, the data classification module is configured to retrieved stored information from the repository The data classification module is configured provide the retrieved information to a requester of the information. For example, the data classification module can be configured to provide the retrieved information in a series of interactive cascading menus. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222434 | INCLUSION OF METADATA IN INDEXED COMPOSITE DOCUMENT - Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for searching business objects. According to one embodiment, a method of searching one or more business objects can comprise receiving a set of search criteria and identifying attributes of the business object that match the search criteria by searching an indexed composite document representing the business object based on the search criteria. The indexed composite document can comprise an indication of a value of one or more attributes of the business object and metadata associated with at least one of the values. Searching the indexed composite document can comprise performing a keyword search on the metadata of the composite document based on the search criteria. An indication of the identified attributes of the business object can be returned ordered by relevance to the search criteria. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222435 | LOCALLY COMPUTABLE SPAM DETECTION FEATURES AND ROBUST PAGERANK - The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates reducing spam in search results. An interface can obtain web graph information that represents a web of pages. A spam detection component can determines one or more features based at least in part on the web graph information. The one or more features can provide indications that a particular page of the web graph is spam. In addition, a robust rank component is provided that limits amount of contribution a single page can provide to the target page. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222436 | PROBLEM ISOLATION THROUGH WEIGHTED SEARCH OF KNOWLEDGE BASES - A computer program product for problem isolation through a weighted search of knowledge bases includes computer useable program code that generates an aggregate relevance index which ranks the search results. The aggregate relevance index is calculated using a measure of relevance of each of said pertinent documents across all keyword searches. A method for problem isolation through the weighted search of knowledge bases comprises searching knowledge bases using extracted keywords to identify pertinent documents contained within said knowledge databases; and generating a global rank associated with each of the pertinent documents, the global rank being calculated using a measure of the relevance of each of the pertinent documents across all keyword searches and a measure of the relevance of each of the keywords to the records as a whole. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222437 | CROSS-LINGUAL SEARCH RE-RANKING - Cross-lingual search re-ranking is performed during a cross-lingual search in which a search query of a first language is used to retrieve two sets of documents, a first set in the first language, and a second set in a second language. The two sets of documents are each first ranked by the search engine separately. Cross-lingual search re-ranking then aims to provide a uniform re-ranking of both sets of documents combined. Cross-lingual search re-ranking uses a unified ranking function to compute the ranking order of each document of the first set and the second set of documents. The unified ranking function is constructed using generative probabilities based on multiple features, and can be learned by optimizing weight parameters using a training corpus. Ranking SVM algorithms may be used for the optimization. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222438 | Method, system, and apparatus for location-aware search - Performing location-aware search involves intercepting a network request targeted for an Internet-based search engine. The network request includes a location-dependent query containing a location term, and the location term cannot be used by the search engine to positively determine a target location. A location descriptor that can be used by the search engine to positively determine a target location is determined via a location database. The location database may include a location sensor such as GPS. The network request is modified to replace the location term with the location descriptor, and the modified network request is sent to the search engine. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222439 | Name-based filters utilized in full-text search engine - Techniques for filtering a full-text search result in a full-text search engine level are described herein. According to one embodiment, a filter is defined via a definition statement a filter using a filter name which identifies a filter object representing an implementation of the filter. In response to a search query received at the ORM system from an application client, where the search query identifying the filter via the filter name, a full-text search engine is invoked to perform a full-text search in a database based on one or more keywords in the search query. The filter object is identified based on the filter name extracted from the search query and the filter object associated with the search query is invoked using the filter name of the filter object to filter a search result generated from the full-text search engine. Other methods and apparatuses are also described. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222440 | SEARCH ENGINE FOR CARRYING OUT A LOCATION-DEPENDENT SEARCH - The invention relates to a search engine for carrying out a search for internet pages, for which a geographic origin criterion input by the user as a search item is fulfilled. The search engine comprises: a device for carrying out a multitude of internet pages; a device for extracting geographic data from the searched pages, the extracted data describing the geographic origin of the page or of the page provider; a device for forming a database in which geographic data extracted from these internet pages are assigned to a multitude of searched internet pages; an input interface for inputting a search inquiry by the user, the input interface enabling the user to input a geographic origin criterion in addition to other search items; searching the database and outputting those internet pages for which the geographic origin criterion and the additional search items are fulfilled by comparing with the contents of the internet pages and with the geographic data assigned thereto. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222441 | System, Method and Computer Program Product for Performing Unstructured Information Management and Automatic Text Analysis, Including a Search Operator Functioning as a Weighted And (WAND) - Disclosed is a system architecture, components and a searching technique for an Unstructured Information Management System (UIMS). The UIMS may be provided as middleware for the effective management and interchange of unstructured information over a wide array of information sources. The architecture generally includes a search engine, data storage, analysis engines containing pipelined document annotators and various adapters. The searching technique makes use of a two-level searching technique. A search query includes a search operator containing of a plurality of search sub-expressions each having an associated weight value. The search engine returns a document or documents having a weight value sum that exceeds a threshold weight value sum. The search operator is implemented as a Boolean predicate that functions as a Weighted AND (WAND). | 2009-09-03 |
20090222442 | USER-DIRECTED NAVIGATION OF MULTIMEDIA SEARCH RESULTS - A method and apparatus for timed tagging of content is featured. The method and apparatus can include the steps of, or structure for, obtaining at least one keyword tag associated with discrete media content; generating a timed segment index of discrete media content, the timed segment index identifying content segments of the discrete media content and corresponding timing boundaries of the content segments; searching the timed segment index for a match to the at least one keyword tag, the match corresponding to at least one of the content segments identified in the segment index; and generating a timed tag index that includes the at least one keyword tag and the timing boundaries corresponding to the least one content segment of the discrete media content containing the match. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222443 | Method and system for matching organizations based on profile and criteria - A means of matching diverse organizations with relevant partners such as retailers with suppliers, manufacturers with distributors, and universities and government agencies with service providers. Provides a bilateral match where the needs of 2 matched organizations are met based on specific organizational profile and desired partner criteria. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222444 | QUERY DISAMBIGUATION - A search query is resolved prior to being submitted to one or more search engines. The query is resolved such that the query unambiguously corresponds to a category included in a query ontology that relates search queries to query categories. The query may be resolved by supplementing the query with additional information corresponding to the category. For example, the query may be formatted into a canonical form of the query for the category. Alternatively or additionally, the query may be supplemented with one or more keywords that are associated with the category and that represent words or phrases that appear in a high percentage of search results for queries from the category. Resolving the query yields search results that more closely reflect search results desired by a user submitting the query. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222445 | AUTOMATIC SEARCH QUERY CORRECTION - A first search query is received from a user, the first search query having one or more characters, and a search result is determined based on the first search query. Based on the search result, the first search query is determined to have an incorrect input mapping. A first keyboard layout is identified for the first search query, and a second keyboard layout is identified. A corrected search query is generated from the first search query by mapping characters from the first keyboard layout to characters in the second keyboard layout. A corrected search result is determined based on the corrected search query, and the corrected search result is presented to the user. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222446 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT IDENTIFICATION THROUGH RESONANCE FREQUENCIES ANALYSIS - The present invention discloses a system and a method for identifying input images of three-dimensional objects using at least one mathematical method, which enables calculating the resonance frequencies (also known as the natural frequencies) of a three-dimensional object. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222447 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A matching device includes a matching unit that selects a pattern consistent with data to be compared, based on a rule by which a correspondence relation between patterns of data described in a markup language is defined; and a variable control unit that substitutes, when a pattern including a variable is selected, the data to be compared located at a position corresponding to a position of the variable in the selected pattern into the variable. The variable control unit substitutes, when the data to be compared is data described in a markup language, and when the data to be compared located at the position corresponding to the position of the variable in the selected pattern, is a fragment including a plurality of nodes, the fragment into the variable. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222448 | ELEMENTS OF AN ENTERPRISE EVENT FEED - An enterprise-based social networking application. The events pool for the social networking application may be automatically populated without requiring direct individual participation in the social networking application. Furthermore, networks may be established automatically, without an expressed invitation. The default network may be based on a participant's communication history and/or organization context within the enterprise. The participant may then edit or expand the network without necessarily requesting permission for the individuals being added, and without necessarily being part of that individual's network. | 2009-09-03 |
20090222449 | CONTROLLING ACCESS TO A DATABASE USING DATABASE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL AUTHORIZATION INFORMATION - Techniques for using both database internal and database external authorization information to control access to a database are disclosed. Corporate accounts which are generally used in many corporate environments (e.g., operating system accounts) can be defined as “external” database accounts with database external authorization information that define database external access privileges for a database. The database external access-privileges are used in conjunction with a set of complementary database “internal” access privileges defined for database internal accounts. An integrated access-privilege set is generated and used as a single source to authorize access to a database regardless of whether database internal or external accounts are used to access the database. As a result, databases can be integrated with various non-database entities (e.g., corporate computing systems). | 2009-09-03 |