Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080208893 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE CONTENT PROCESSING AND CLASSIFICATION IN A HIGH-AVAILABILITY ENVIRONMENT - The embodiments of the invention provide a systems, methods, etc. for adaptive content processing and classification in a high-availability environment. More specifically, a system is provided having a plurality of processing engines and at least one server that classifies data objects on the computer system. The classification includes analyzing the data objects for the presence of a type of content. This can include assigning a score corresponding to the amount of the type of content in each of the data objects. Moreover, the server can remove a data object from the computer system based on the results of the analyzing. The results of the analyzing are stored and the computer system is updated with feedback information. This can include allowing a user to review the results of the analyzing and aggregating reviews of the user into the feedback information. | 08-28-2008 |
20080222723 | MONITORING AND CONTROLLING APPLICATIONS EXECUTING IN A COMPUTING NODE - A method and system for monitoring and controlling applications executing on computing nodes of a computing system. A status request process, one or more control processes, an untrusted application and one other application are executed on a computing node. The status request process receives and processes requests for the statuses of the untrusted and the other application. A first control process controls the execution of the untrusted application. A second control process controls the execution of the other application. The execution of the untrusted application terminates based on a failure of the untrusted application. A capability of the status request process to receive and process the requests for statuses, and a capability of the second control process to control the execution of the other application are preserved in response to the termination of the untrusted application. | 09-11-2008 |
20090248614 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING TARGETED RANKING FROM MULTIPLE INFORMATION SOURCES - Embodiments of the invention provide a system and method for determining preferences from information mashups and, in particular, a system and method for constructing a ranked list from multiple sources. In an exemplary embodiment, the system and method tunably combines multiple ranked lists by computing a score for each item within the list, wherein the score is a function of the associated rank of the item within the list. In one exemplary embodiment, the function is equal to 1/(n̂(1/p)), where p is a tuning parameter that enables selection between responsiveness in the combined ranking to one candidate ranked highly in one source versus responsiveness in the combined ranking to a candidate with lower but broader support among the various sources ranking the candidates. | 10-01-2009 |
20090248690 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING PREFERENCES FROM INFORMATION MASHUPS - A system and method for determining preferences from information mashups and, in particular, for determining preferences from cross-modality information based on a social welfare function is disclosed. An exemplary embodiment of the invention uses a social welfare function (SWF) to identify a vote computing method from among a group of vote computing methods. The SWF embodies subjective values, e.g. business objectives. The embodiment uses the SWF to identify the vote computing method that combines cross-modality information into a single information mashup in a manner that is most congruent with the subjective values relative to the other vote computing methods. The information mashup may be in the form of a single, merged ranked list. | 10-01-2009 |
20100114895 | System and Method for Administering Data Ingesters Using Taxonomy Based Filtering Rules - A method, system, and article are provided for management of a data ingester and associated content collected by the data ingester. The computer system is configured with a taxonomy together with rules and policies for ingesting and classifying the collected data. Based upon the classification of the collected data with respect to the taxonomy, the data is assigned to a location in the taxonomy. | 05-06-2010 |
20100223226 | SYSTEM FOR MONITORING GLOBAL ONLINE OPINIONS VIA SEMANTIC EXTRACTION - A system for transforming domain specific unstructured data into structured data including an intake platform controlled by feed back from a control platform. The intake platform includes an intake acquisition module for acquiring data building baseline data related to a domain and problem of interest, an intake pre-processing module, an intake language module, an intake application descriptors module, and an intake adjudication module. The control platform includes a control data acquisition module, a control data consistency collator, a control auditor, a control event definition and policy repository, an error resolver, and an output that outputs results of the workflow into structured data enabled to be used in data analytics. | 09-02-2010 |
20100223292 | HOLISTIC DISAMBIGUATION FOR ENTITY NAME SPOTTING - A method resolves ambiguous spotted entity names in a data corpus by determining an activation level value for each of a plurality of nodes corresponding to a single ambiguous entity name. The activation levels for each of the nodes may be modified by inputting outside domain knowledge corresponding to the nodes to increase the activation value of the nodes, spotting entity names corresponding to the nodes to increase the activation value of the nodes, searching the data corpus to spot newly posted entity names to increase the activation value of the nodes, and searching the data corpus to reduce or deactivate the activation value of the nodes by eliminating false positives. The ambiguous entity name is assigned to the node determined to have the highest activation level and is then outputted to a user. | 09-02-2010 |
20110191114 | PERSONALIZED ELECTRONIC HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT - A personalized electronic healthcare management system and computer-implemented method thereof. The system includes a user interface configured to receive user profile information associated with a user as input by the user, and a server interfacing with the user interface. The server retrieves healthcare information from at least one external source, and provides the retrieved healthcare information to the user at the user interface. The healthcare information may be personalized to the user's needs. The server further retrieves social service program information from at least one host site, provides the retrieved social service program information to the user, and applies to at least one social service program of the at least one host site using the user profile information, when desired by the user, and retrieves interactive information to be presented to the user at the user interface. | 08-04-2011 |
20110219455 | RANDOM INJECTION-BASED DEACTIVATION OF WEB-SCRAPERS - A computer-implemented method and system for disabling scraping of electronic data. The method includes receiving an encoding of electronic data to be protected from scraping and adding random redundant code around the encoding of the electronic data upon each request for the electronic data. The electronic data having the redundant code added around the encoding thereof being rendered the same on a display as the encoding without the redundant code added. | 09-08-2011 |
20120078719 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLUSTER AUGMENTATION OF SEARCH RESULTS - Systems and associated methods for clustering a plurality of nodes based on connectivity among the plurality of nodes, determining relevant content of the clusters, and applying knowledge regarding the relevant content are described. The nodes can include for example web-based documents such as web pages. The clusters can include for example groups of web pages that are linked together, as via hyperlinks. The relevant content can include one or more topics associated with the web page, as for example determined via text mining. Applying the knowledge regarding the relevant content can include for example using the one or more topics associated with the web pages to augment search results and/or conduct contextual advertising. | 03-29-2012 |
20120087551 | DECONVOLUTION OF DIGITAL IMAGES - A method for deconvolution of digital images includes obtaining a degraded image from a digital sensor, a processor accepting output from the digital sensor and recognizing a distorted element within the image. The distorted element is compared with a true shape of the element to produce a degrading function. The degrading function is deconvolved from at least a portion of the image to improve image quality of the image. A method of indirectly decoding a barcode includes obtaining an image of a barcode using an optical sensor in a mobile computing device, the image comprising barcode marks and a textual character. The textual character is optically recognized and an image degrading characteristic is identified from the textual character. Compensating for the image degrading characteristic renders previously undecodable barcode marks decodable. A system for deconvolution of digital images is also included. | 04-12-2012 |
20120197848 | VALIDATION OF INGESTED DATA - Methods and systems for validating ingested data are disclosed. In accordance with the methods and systems, data elements can be received for storage in slots of an individual descriptor in a storage medium. In addition, at least one validation test can be selected based on a weighting of the data elements that indicates a respective degree of importance of the data elements. The selected validation test or tests can be applied to the data elements stored in the slots to generate respective validation results. Further, a validation score indicating a sufficiency of the stored data elements can be generated based on the validation results. | 08-02-2012 |
20120197902 | DATA INGEST OPTIMIZATION - Methods and systems for optimizing the retrieval of data from multiple sources are described. A slot map including slots for the storage of data elements can be obtained. The data elements associated with the slots can be prioritized by weighting values with costs of retrieving the data elements from respective data sources. Each value can be associated with a different data element and can indicate a respective degree of importance of the associated data element. Further, the systems and methods can direct the retrieval of data elements from the respective data sources in an order in accordance with the priority of the data elements to optimize the quality of data obtainable within a critical time constraint. In addition, the retrieved data elements can be stored in corresponding slots on a storage medium. | 08-02-2012 |
20120330901 | VALIDATION OF INGESTED DATA - Methods and systems for validating ingested data are disclosed. In accordance with the methods and systems, data elements can be received for storage in slots of an individual descriptor in a storage medium. In addition, at least one validation test can be selected based on a weighting of the data elements that indicates a respective degree of importance of the data elements. The selected validation test or tests can be applied to the data elements stored in the slots to generate respective validation results. Further, a validation score indicating a sufficiency of the stored data elements can be generated based on the validation results. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330972 | DATA INGEST OPTIMIZATION - Methods and systems for optimizing the retrieval of data from multiple sources are described. A slot map including slots for the storage of data elements can be obtained. The data elements associated with the slots can be prioritized by weighting values with costs of retrieving the data elements from respective data sources. Each value can be associated with a different data element and can indicate a respective degree of importance of the associated data element. Further, the systems and methods can direct the retrieval of data elements from the respective data sources in an order in accordance with the priority of the data elements to optimize the quality of data obtainable within a critical time constraint. In addition, the retrieved data elements can be stored in corresponding slots on a storage medium. | 12-27-2012 |
20130054268 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ABSTRACTING IMAGE AND VIDEO DATA - Systems and methods for removing or suppressing information in images and video frames is described herein. In particular, systems and methods provide for removing information from images capable of identifying individuals related to the image. For example, embodiments provide for the removal of protected health information (PHI) from source images, including medical images, video frames, and documents converted to images or video frames. In addition, embodiments operate on actual images and video frames as opposed to data extracted from such sources. In particular, embodiments provide for the creation of a PHI filter for an individual of interest comprised of identifying information. Images are filtered using the PHI filter and information potentially identifying the individual of interest is located and removed from the image. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054625 | AUTOMATED INFORMATION DISCOVERY AND TRACEABILITY FOR EVIDENCE GENERATION - Described herein are methods, systems, apparatuses and products for automated information discovery and traceability for evidence generation. An aspect provides for accessing a mapping of a plurality of connected nodes stored in a memory device, said mapping being discovered via a network scan based on a seed set, said plurality of connected nodes storing a plurality of archived healthcare records; accessing content stored in a memory device and ingested from said plurality of connected nodes; and determining a longitudinal healthcare record from the mapping and the content ingested from said plurality of connected nodes. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 02-28-2013 |
20140359625 | DETECTION AND CORRECTION OF RACE CONDITIONS IN WORKFLOWS - A race condition in a workflow representation is detected and corrected. First and second contracts are retrieved for respective first and second analytics of the workflow representation, wherein the contracts specify input types and output types of their analytics. Both contracts include information required to execute their respective analytics by a workflow executor. It is determined that the output type of the first analytic matches the input type of the second analytic based on a comparison of the first contract and the second contract, and that the workflow representation does not include a directed edge connecting the first analytic to the second analytic. The inclusion of a directed edge in the workflow representation connecting the first analytic to the second analytic will correct the race condition in the workflow representation. | 12-04-2014 |