Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080209310 | ANNOTATION VALIDITY USING PARTIAL CHECKSUMS - Embodiments of the present invention generally provide a system, method and article of manufacture for validating annotations describing one or more portions of a data object. In general, prior to displaying a requested annotation, a current change detection value may be calculated from current data extracted from portions of the data object described by the annotation. The current change detection value may be compared to a previously saved change detection value calculated from data extracted from the portions of the data object at the time the annotation was generated. A mismatch in the current change detection value and the previously saved change detection value indicates a change in the annotated portions of the data object, which may render the annotation invalid. The annotated portions of the data object may be continuous or discontinuous. | 08-28-2008 |
20100251179 | RADIAL MENU SELECTION WITH OVERSHOOT CAPABILITY - Embodiments of the invention are generally related to graphical user interfaces (GUIs), and more specifically to selecting items from a radial menu. More specifically, embodiments of the invention provide a complex set of gestures which, when performed using a screen pointer, facilitate fast and accurate selection of radial menu items from a radial menu. The gestures may generally involve a first movement of the screen pointer to activate a desired radial menu item, and a second predefined movement of the screen pointer to select the radial menu item. | 09-30-2010 |
20100251180 | RADIAL MENU SELECTION WITH GESTURES - Embodiments of the invention are generally related to graphical user interfaces (GUIs), and more specifically to selecting items from a radial menu. More specifically, embodiments of the invention provide a complex set of gestures which, when performed using a screen pointer, facilitate fast and accurate selection of radial menu items from a radial menu. The gestures may generally involve a first movement of the screen pointer to activate a desired radial menu item, and a second predefined movement of the screen pointer within a predefined selection zone to select the radial menu item. | 09-30-2010 |
20110066981 | PLACEMENT OF ITEMS IN CASCADING RADIAL MENUS - Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for placing menu items in a cascading radial menu. A cascading radial menu may be displayed upon receiving a gesture that causes a screen pointer to select a radial menu item in a first radial menu. The first radial menu item may be associated with a second radial menu. One or more second radial menu items may be placed in the second radial menu based on a direction of movement of the screen pointer in the gesture to select the radial menu item in the first radial menu. | 03-17-2011 |
20120215582 | EXECUTING WORKFLOWS BASED ON SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS - Techniques are disclosed for modeling costs when editing a workflow process model. A request may be received to assign a cost factor to a workflow process step of the workflow process model, where the cost factor depends on a property of a processing environment that executes the workflow process model. Responsive to the request, the cost factor may be assigned to the workflow process step, such that a traversal of the workflow process step by a transaction invoking the workflow process model results in the cost factor being included in a total cost to be charged for executing the transaction. | 08-23-2012 |
20120215723 | DETERMINING COSTS FOR WORKFLOWS - Techniques are disclosed for modeling costs when editing a workflow process model. A request may be received to assign a cost factor to a workflow process step of the workflow process model. Responsive to the request, the cost factor may be assigned to the workflow process step, such that a traversal of the workflow process step by a transaction invoking the workflow process model results in the cost factor being included in a total cost to be charged for executing the transaction. | 08-23-2012 |
20120221346 | Administering Medical Digital Images In A Distributed Medical Digital Image Computing Environment - Administering medical digital images including receiving a request for an image processing transaction to process the medical digital image; creating a medical image business object representing the business transaction; storing the medical image business object in the medical image metadata database; storing the medical image in the medical image repository; selecting, in dependence upon workflow selection rules and the attributes of the medical image business object, one or more clinical workflows to process the medical image; processing the medical image of the request with the clinical workflows, thereby creating a resultant business object and resultant medical image; routing the resultant medical image to a destination. | 08-30-2012 |
20130046547 | Processing System Using Metadata For Administering A Business Transaction - Administering a business transaction, including: receiving a request for a business transaction, the request containing data to be processed by the business transaction and metadata describing the data and the request; creating, in dependence upon classification rules, the data to be processed by the business transaction, and the metadata describing the data and the request, a business object representing the business transaction; selecting, in dependence upon workflow selection rules and attributes of the business object, one or more workflows to process the data to be processed by the business transaction; processing the data to be processed by the business transaction with the workflows, thereby creating a resultant business object and resultant data; and routing, in dependence upon content routing rules and the attributes of the resultant business object, the resultant data to a destination. | 02-21-2013 |
20130096978 | DETERMINING COSTS FOR WORKFLOWS - Techniques are disclosed for modeling costs when editing a workflow process model. A request may be received to assign a cost factor to a workflow process step of the workflow process model. Responsive to the request, the cost factor may be assigned to the workflow process step, such that a traversal of the workflow process step by a transaction invoking the workflow process model results in the cost factor being included in a total cost to be charged for executing the transaction. | 04-18-2013 |
20140057241 | Evaluating Candidate Answers To Questions In A Target Knowledge Domain - Evaluating candidate answers to questions in a target knowledge domain, including: identifying, by a question answering module, a plurality of evidence items in the target knowledge domain; identifying, by the question answering module, a plurality of answers to questions in the target knowledge domain; determining, by the question answering module, associations between each evidence item and one or more of the answers; receiving, by the question answering module, a question; receiving, by the question answering module, values for the one or more evidence items; and providing, by the question answering module, an answer to the question in dependence upon the associations between each evidence item and one or more of the answers and the values for the one or more evidence items. | 02-27-2014 |
20140172755 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL FEATURE MERGING FOR SUPPORTING EVIDENCE IN A QUESTION AND ANSWERING SYSTEM - Method, system, and computer program product to analyze a plurality of candidate answers identified as responsive to a question presented to a deep question answering system, by computing a first feature score for a first feature of an item of evidence, of a plurality of items of evidence, the first feature score being based on at least one attribute of the first feature, the item of evidence relating to a first candidate answer, of the plurality of candidate answers, and computing a merged feature score for the first candidate answer by applying the first feature score to a second feature score for a second feature of the item of evidence. | 06-19-2014 |
20140172879 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL FEATURE MERGING FOR SUPPORTING EVIDENCE IN A QUESTION AND ANSWERING SYSTEM - Method, system, and computer program product to analyze a plurality of candidate answers identified as responsive to a question presented to a deep question answering system, by computing a first feature score for a first feature of an item of evidence, of a plurality of items of evidence, the first feature score being based on at least one attribute of the first feature, the item of evidence relating to a first candidate answer, of the plurality of candidate answers, and computing a merged feature score for the first candidate answer by applying the first feature score to a second feature score for a second feature of the item of evidence. | 06-19-2014 |