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20140223408 | 13761660 | 0 | 1. A method for supporting definition of a service in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), the method comprising: defining a plurality of templates, each template comprising code defining a process, a task, or a component available for use in one or more services, the code including one or more variables; defining one or more wizards, each wizard comprising a routine presenting a defined interface and directing definition of values for variables within one or more of the plurality of templates; and associated the one or more wizards with one or more of the plurality of templates. |
20040073947 | 09775393 | 0 | 1. A method of conserving storage space, the method comprising: receiving media content that includes a plurality of portions, the plurality of portions including both one or more highlight portions and one or more non-highlight portions; and saving, to a storage device, only the one or more highlight portions. |
20120243670 | 13069591 | 0 | 1. A method for automatically providing updated meeting information, wherein the method comprises: facilitating receipt of a message pertaining to a meeting; automatically interpreting the message to determine if the message requires that meeting information be changed; automatically updating the meeting information if a change is required from the message; and automatically sending a message to each meeting participant informing each participant of the updated meeting information. |
8042116 | 11661273 | 1 | 1. A processor that cyclically executes a plurality of tasks in accordance with an execution time period allotted to each of the tasks, the processor comprising: a storage unit operable to store pieces of execution control information respectively corresponding to each of the tasks; a plurality of register groups; an execution unit operable to sequentially use one of the register groups to execute a task based on the execution control information held in the register group being used; a selection unit operable to select a next task to be executed among the tasks; a restoration unit operable to, while a current task is being executed for an execution time period allotted thereto, restore a piece of the execution control information corresponding to the next task from the storage unit into one of the register groups other than the register group being used by the current task; a detection unit operable to detect a suspension cause for the current task being executed; and a control unit operable to, (i) if the suspension cause is detected before the restoration starts, have the execution unit suspend the execution of the current task and execute a previous unfinished task based on a piece of the execution control information held in one of the register groups other than the register group having been used for the execution of the current task, and (ii) if the register group holding the piece of the execution control information corresponding to the previous unfinished task is the register group the restoration into which is to be started, have the restoration unit cancel the restoration. |
9619792 | 14225338 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a request, at a mobile device, to add a first account to a payment proxy card, wherein the payment proxy card is a payment card that is associated with a plurality of accounts via a database stored at a computer system, wherein the payment proxy card is associated with a user, wherein the payment proxy card is capable of use to initiate an electronic payment, based on a selected account of the plurality of accounts, by being read by a card reader associated with a point-of-sale (POS) system, and wherein the POS system and the computer system are not a same physical system; providing, by the mobile device, a user interface that enables use of the mobile device to take a photo of a card that includes an image that represents the first account; capturing, by the mobile device, the photo of the card by use of the user interface to produce a captured image that represents the first account; determining, at the mobile device or the computer system, account information for the first account based on an analysis of the captured image, wherein the analysis includes performing optical character recognition on the captured image to enable the account information to be determined, wherein the mobile device determines the account information for the first account based on the analysis after the analysis was performed by the computer system; causing the first account to be added to a set of accounts that constitute the plurality of accounts, to enable the payment proxy card to be capable of use to initiate an electronic payment based on the first account; in response to input by the user, sending a message, by the mobile device, to the computer system, to cause a selection policy to be customized for the user, wherein the selection policy is for use to determine which of the plurality of accounts to use for an electronic payment that is initiated based on use of the payment proxy card at a POS system; receiving a message, by the mobile device, from the computer system, that indicates that the user used the payment proxy card at a POS system of a payee to initiate a payment in association with a financial transaction; receiving a partial payment message, by the mobile device, from the computer system, that indicates that the computer system selected, based on the selection policy, the first account for use for a first portion of the payment; based on the partial payment message, displaying, by the mobile device, information associated with a second account associated with the proxy payment card to enable the user to indicate, while at the POS system, a selection of the second account for use in association with the payment; and based on the selection of the second account, sending a message, by the mobile device, to the computer system, to cause funds for a second portion of the payment to be obtained based on the second account. |
9171099 | 13570071 | 1 | 1. A method for updating a web extension of an online document, the method comprising: receiving a selection of a range of data within the online document to be used in the web extension; binding the selected range of data to the web extension; storing the binding in a remote computing device; and in response to a detected interaction with the selected range of data: sending the selected range of data to the remote computing device; and sending an updated range of data to the online document such that the web extension is updated to display information corresponding to the updated range of data, wherein the updated range of data is updated based on the detected interaction. |
20060287861 | 11416217 | 0 | 1. A method for updating a Concatenative Text-To-Speech (CTTS) system with a speech database from a base version to a new version of a given target application, comprising: identifying segments of recorded speech, comprising segments of natural speech; dissecting the recorded speech into a plurality of synthesis units, wherein speech is synthesized by the CTTS system by a concatenation and modification of the synthesis units using a base speech database that comprises a base plurality of context classes derived from the base text; determining a new text corpus subset not completely covered by the base speech database, wherein the new text corpus is associated with a target application; creating new context classes for the target application based upon context classes derived from the base text; and automatically adapting the base speech database for the target application using the new context classes. |
20070011187 | 11174697 | 0 | 1. A data mining method, comprising: providing a computing system comprising a computer readable medium and computing devices electrically coupled through an interface apparatus, wherein a data mining modeling algorithm is stored on said computer readable medium, wherein each of said computing devices comprising at least one central processing unit (CPU) and an associated memory device, wherein data has been divided by the computing system into a plurality of data subsets, wherein each of said associated memory devices comprises a data subset from said plurality of randomly placed data subsets; selecting a technique for generating a data mining model applied to each of said randomly placed data subsets; running simultaneously, on each of said computing devices, said data mining modeling algorithm using said selected technique to generate an associated data mining model on each of said computing devices; and determining, a best data mining model from said generated data mining models in accordance with said selected technique. |
20070203591 | 11363474 | 0 | 1. A method of monitoring progress in a sports draft, the method comprising: determining a team with a next selection in the sports draft; and automatically determining, during the sports draft, a best available player for a position on the team with the next selection in the sports draft based on personnel needs of the team. |
7693771 | 11404973 | 1 | 1. A computer implemented method for identifying recurring payments comprising: obtaining historical payment data associated with a user for a selected time period; defining at least one potential recurring payment identification parameter for identifying potential recurring payments; using a processor to analyze the historical payment data associated with the user to attempt to identify potential recurring payments in the historical payment data based on the at least one potential recurring payment identification parameter; identifying potential recurring payments in the historical payment data; and generating a potential recurring payments report, the potential recurring payments report comprising a list of the identified potential recurring payments. |
20110208569 | 13099424 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: determining whether a particular customer hoarded products of a particular product category during a past promotion by a retail establishment; based on determining that the particular customer hoarded the products of the particular product category during the past promotion, determining whether the hoarding by the particular customer during the past promotion was of a type that the retail establishment encourages or a type that the retail establishment discourages; and determining, by one or more computers, whether to offer a future promotion to the particular customer based on determining whether the hoarding by the particular customer during the past promotion was of a type that the retail establishment encourages or a type that the retail establishment discourages. |
5404488 | 08131018 | 1 | 1. A realtime engine for interfacing one or more data feeds with an application, each one of said one or more data feeds having an associated group of items for each member of which that data feed delivers realtime data, the interface comprising: means for caching data values most recently received from a selected one of said one or more data feeds for at least some members of the associated group of items for the selected data feed, wherein said caching means caches a data value that is most recently received for any given item by replacing a previously received data value for said given item with the most recently received data value for said given item; means for retrieving at least some of said cached data values in response to a request for updates from the application; and means for sending the retrieved data values to the application in response to the request for updates, wherein said caching means updates its cached data values with realtime data received from said selected data feed when said realtime data is received from said selected data feed and wherein said caching means performs said updating automatically and on an ongoing basis irrespective of whether the application has requested any updates, and wherein said retrieving means comprises means for determining which of said cached data values for a given set of items are different in value from data values for that set of items last sent to the application by said sending means, and wherein said retrieving means retrieves and said sending means sends only those cached data values having values that are determined to be different from the last sent data values for that set of items. |
4783831 | 06777724 | 1 | 1. A method of producing a standard pattern comprising: successively selecting and storing in a memory of plurality of local patterns different in position and equal in size to a standard pattern to be obtained from an image of an object being examined; obtaining a distribution of pattern detail in picture elements constituting each local pattern; and chosing a standard pattern from said plurality of local patterns which has a distribution of pattern detail in picture elements most closely in conformity with a predetermined distribution of pattern detail. |
20120209692 | 13449980 | 0 | 1. A method performed by a network infrastructure to support advertising interactions with a plurality of user devices via Internet, the method comprising: providing first interface data to a first software application of a first promoter system, the first interface data including first user interface data from which the first software application presents a visual promotion capture interface to a first promoter on the first promoter system; receiving first promotion data captured via the visual promotion capture interface of the first promoter system, the first promotion data having first web page link data, a first dispensing limitation, a first geographical data, and a first price reduction offer; storing in a database the first promotion data and at least second promotion data; gathering and storing first information via a first user device of the plurality of user devices, the first information relating to a first user, the first information including a first geographical element; providing second interface data to a second software application of the first user device, the second interface data including second user interface data from which the second software application produces a visual promotion review interface on the first user device, the visual promotion review interface interacts with the database to provide a visual promotion element that includes the first identifier code, the interaction including both a consideration of the first dispensing limitation and a comparison of the first geographical element and the first geographical data; delivering a first email addressed to the first user, the first email being based at least in part on content stored in the database; dispensing a first promotion element to the first user device in response to first interaction with the first user via the first user device, the first promotion element being based on the first promotion data; supporting a first secure interface with the first promoter system through which the first promotion data can be modified by the first promoter, activity associated with the first promotion data can be viewed by the first promoter, and the first promoter can verify data relating to a redemption attempt relating to the first promotion element; and collecting a payment for services related to the first promotion data. |
20120330926 | 13525124 | 0 | 1. A method of obtaining data from a database, the method comprising: obtaining model database statistics for the database, the model database statistics being based on expected utilization information for a tenant supported by the database; and providing the model database statistics to the database, wherein a query plan generated by the database to obtain the data is influenced by the model database statistics. |
9998789 | 14280554 | 1 | 1. A method for increasing audience engagement with a performance, comprising: utilizing a band worn by a user to collect sensor data to monitor the user's natural reactions to the performance without a need for other data collection apparatus, the natural reactions determined based on motion data; receiving user choice data from the user, the user choice data comprising deliberate input by the user, the user choice data made in connection with the performance; receiving the sensor data at a user mobile device, and transmitting the sensor data, including the user motion data and the user choice data from the user mobile device to a server utilizing a transceiver system; generating a user's current state, based on the sensor data and the user choice data; and providing at least one of a current reaction and a current choice of another user to the user through the band worn by the user; and providing feedback based on the user's reactions and choices through the transceiver system, the feedback designed to increase engagement of the user with the performance. |
7793255 | 11069609 | 1 | 1. A computer program product having a computer readable storage medium operable to store computer program logic embodied in computer program code encoded thereon for updateable partial binding comprising: computer program code for creating associations between document objects in a markup language and managed objects in a content tree, the document objects corresponding to a class hierarchy structure; computer program code for selectively modifying the managed objects; and computer program code for updating, by traversing the created associations, the document objects corresponding to the modified managed objects, the updating occurring in a lossless manner which preserves unmodified data in the document objects; wherein the document objects in the markup language correspond to a first view from an application program, and the managed objects in the content tree correspond to a second view from the application program; wherein creating comprises unmarshalling the document objects in the markup language to create the managed objects, wherein unmarshalling includes identifying a class structure in a document object model having a set of instances of the document objects; compiling the identified class structure to generate a second class structure corresponding to the managed objects; and matching tags and attributes corresponding to the markup language objects to the managed objects. |
9400641 | 13409052 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: determining, by a processing device executing a middleware layer, capabilities of a computing device in response to receiving a request for an application; determining, by the middleware layer, a service level agreement of an application level service used by the application; selecting one or more services of the middleware layer to assign to the application in view of the service level agreement of the application level service used by the application, a service level agreement that specifies an obligation of the one or more services of the middleware layer with respect to the application, and whether a remote computing device has available resources to satisfy the service level agreement that specifies the obligation of the one or more services of the middleware layer with respect to the application; determining whether to install the one or more services on at least one of the computing device or on the remote computing device in view of the service level agreement of the application level service used by the application, the capabilities of the computing device and a resource specification of the one or more services; in response to a determination that the capabilities of the computing device are insufficient to satisfy a requirement of a first service of the one or more services, installing a proxy for the first service on the computing device; and installing the first service on the remote computing device, wherein the application interfaces with the proxy; determining that the first service invokes a second service on the remote computing device; migrating the first service and the second service from the remote computing device to an additional computing device; determining that the first service is divisible; and in response to a determination that the first service is divisible, dividing the first service into a plurality of components, causing an installation of a first component of the plurality of components on the computing device, and causing an installation of a second component of the plurality of components on an additional computing device. |
9138143 | 12857719 | 1 | 1. A method for annotating large volumes of medical data represented by binary decision diagrams comprising, by one or more processors associated with one or more computer systems: accessing a plurality of set of samples of sensor data recording a plurality of medical measurements taken by one or more medical sensors, wherein each set of the one or more sets of samples corresponds to an annotation used to categorize the sensor data; representing each data value of the set of samples as a minterm to yield a set of minterms, each minterm within the set of minterms comprising a logical expression of one or more variables allocated to the data value of the sample; generating a characteristic function from the set of minterms, the characteristic function being represented by a reduced ordered binary decision diagram indicating whether a given minterm is a member of the set of minterms, the reduced ordered binary decision diagram being stored compactly in a BDD library; receiving a search query for a search of a set of samples of sensor data wherein the query indicates one or more requested values of one or more sensor parameters, the search query being represented by a query function corresponding to the requested values; identifying one or more minterms of the set of minterms that are associated with a given medical annotation by combining the query function and the characteristic function through logical operations, the identified minterms counting the number of instances where the data value represented by the minterm of the set of minterms is equal to the one or more requested values; and reporting the results of said identifying as search results, through an interface. |
20150088398 | 14034615 | 0 | 1. A method of estimating soot loading in a diesel particulate filter (DPF) in a vehicle exhaust system, the method comprising: estimating an engine-out soot rate using a first neural network that has a first set of vehicle operating conditions as inputs; wherein the engine-out soot rate is for an engine in exhaust flow communication with the DPF; and estimating DPF soot loading using a second neural network that has the estimated engine-out soot rate from the first neural network and a second set of vehicle operating conditions as inputs; wherein said estimating the engine-out soot rate and said estimating DPF soot loading are performed by an electronic controller that executes the first and the second neural networks; and wherein the first and second neural networks are stored on the electronic controller. |
20140172695 | 14109017 | 0 | 1. A system for providing personal payment transactions comprising: a processor; and a storage device storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to perform operations comprising: generating a first interface for a payer to effect a personal payment transaction; receiving, from the payer via the first interface, identifying information about a payee; generating a second interface including one or more suggested recipients for receiving a payment from the payer based on the payee identifying information; receiving an identification of an identified payee from the payer via the second interface; generating a third interface including one or more options to fund the personal payment from the payer to the identified payee; generating a fourth interface including one or more payment routing options for the payer to route the payment associated with the personal payment transaction; generating a fifth interface including one or more payment receipt options for the identified payee to receive the payment associated with the personal payment transaction; and generating a sixth interface including one or more channels for the payer to communicate with the payee regarding the personal payment transaction. |
8295951 | 12740849 | 1 | 1. A method for real-time electronic control of a plant, the method comprising: obtaining output signals representing parameter values of the plant; determining, by an MPC controller, an integral-state vector based at least in part on the output signals and set point values associated with the output signals; determining, by the MPC controller with a prediction model, a future output value and a future state value of the plant based at least in part on the output signals, a current state vector of the plant, and the integral-state vector, the prediction model including an integral-state equation; and generating, by the MPC controller, a plant control signal based at least in part on a performance index associated with the prediction model, the performance index including an integral-state cost term, wherein the determined plant control signal corresponds to a minimum value of the performance index. |
20120150919 | 13004572 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving information defining entities of an insurance agency management system; receiving content structure of a content management system; receiving mapping data indicative of mappings between the entities of the insurance agency management system and the content structure; automatically generating a data structure based on the mappings; storing the content structure in the data structure corresponding to the mappings; and automatically synchronizing with changes of the entities of the insurance agency management system, the synchronizing based on information indicative of the changes of the entities of the insurance agency management system. |
7660437 | 12039427 | 1 | 1. A method for obtaining information about an occupying item in a space in a vehicle, comprising: arranging an image-obtaining device in the vehicle in a position in which it obtains images of the space when operating; using the image-obtaining device, obtaining images of an area in the vehicle in which the occupying item may be situated, the area being part of the space in the vehicle in which the occupying item may be situated; and using a processor coupled to the image-obtaining device, classifying the occupying item by inputting signals derived from the images obtained by the image-obtaining device into a trained neural network form embodied in the processor, the trained neural network form being trained to output an indication of a class of occupying item from one of a predetermined number of possible classes of occupying items, the class of the occupying item constituting information about the occupying item. |
20160062469 | 14473909 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: processing a plurality of data frames, each data frame of the plurality of data frames comprising one or more body point locations of each of a plurality of collaborating users that are interfacing with an application at each of a plurality of time intervals; defining a spatial volume for each of the plurality of collaborating users based on the plurality of processed data frames; detecting a gesture performed by a first collaborating user of the plurality of collaborating users based on the plurality of processed data frames; determining the gesture to be an input gesture based on the gesture being performed by the first collaborating user in a first spatial volume; interpreting, by a machine having a memory and at least one processor, the input gesture based on a context of the first spatial volume, the context of the first spatial volume comprising one or more of a role of the first collaborating user and an intersection volume between the first spatial volume and a second spatial volume for a second collaborating user; and providing an input command to the application based on the interpreted input gesture. |
20150149782 | 14612093 | 0 | 1. A system comprising a smart card configured for performing actions for initializing the smart card, the smart card comprising a processor and memory, the actions comprising: receiving, by the smart card, an modifier that is encrypted with a data key, where the encrypted modifier is configured for being decrypted using a key of a computing device; storing, on the smart card, the encrypted modifier; receiving, by the smart card, an identification number calculated based on the modifier combined with another number provided by a user; and storing, on the smart card, an identification number calculated based on an unencrypted version of the modifier and on a number provided by a user. |
20090024659 | 11779514 | 0 | 1. A method for providing access to an electronic database for business intelligence, comprising: receiving a request to create a new universe to interface with the electronic database to access the electronic database for business intelligence; receiving an input of a first set of universe details to populate the new universe; executing at least a first application macro to populate the new universe with the received first set of universe details by calling a business intelligence application to create the new universe with the populated first set of universe details; and providing the created new universe as a metadata layer that interfaces with the electronic database to provide access to the electronic database. |
20140095636 | 14037004 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, over a network, a selection of a stored video to send in a message to at least one recipient, the selection received with data identifying a sender; receiving, over the network, input designating the at least one recipient the message is to be sent to; receiving, over the network, input to send the message to the at least one recipient; for each of the at least one recipients, generating and storing a recipient-video identifier in association with the selected video, the respective at least one recipient, and identifying data of the sender; sending, over the network, the message to each of the at least one recipients, the message to each recipient including a network address including the recipient-video identifier; receiving, over the network, a video request including a particular recipient-video identifier; and based on the recipient-video identifier included in the video request: retrieving the requested video, recipient data, and data identifying the sender; sending the retrieved video, over the network, in response to the video request; and generating and sending, over the network, a message to the sender based on the retrieved data identifying the sender, the message including retrieved recipient data and indicating the recipient as having viewed the video. |
8145634 | 10059948 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method for displaying patent marking information, the method comprising: programmatically detecting one or more resources coupled to or comprised in a computer system; retrieving, from a memory medium, patent marking information corresponding to each of said one or more resources based on said programmatically detecting, wherein the patent marking information comprises information identifying patents that are applicable to technology of the one or more resources; and displaying said patent marking information on a display device. |
7962496 | 11188371 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising migrating a personality of a computing environment from a source machine platform to a target machine platform, said source machine platform and said target machine platform both having Common Information Model objects extracted on a Common Information Model based system management infrastructure, the migrating step comprising steps of: a) providing in a database, migration rules of Common Information Model objects between a plurality of platforms; b) extracting from the database the migration rules of Common Information Model objects between said source machine platform and said target machine platform; c) extracting Common Information Model objects related to said personality of the computing environment from said source machine platform according to the extracted migration rules; d) extracting from the target machine, platform Common Information Model objects corresponding to the extracted Common Information Model objects of the source machine platform according to the extracted migration rules; e) generating migration tasks to be executed on the extracted Common Information Model objects of the target machine platform according to the extracted migration rules; and f) executing the generated migration tasks on the extracted Common Information Model objects of the target machine platform; g) issuing a migration request by a user, wherein the source machine platform and the target machine platform involved in the migration as well as the user data are specified in the migration request; and when an application on the target machine platform is invoked, h) generating a translucent UI (user interface) on the UI of the application, said translucent UI being identical to the double-face UI of the corresponding application on the source machine platform which has similar functions with those of the application on the target machine platform. |
9809184 | 14936574 | 1 | 1. A method implemented by one or more computing devices in an environment in which sensors are included with parts of automobiles, detect usage events that result from automobile usage, and produce sensor data indicative of the usage events, the method further implemented to generate recommendations that are based on the automobile usage, the method comprising: obtaining the sensor data, by the one or more computing devices, for an automobile associated with a user that describes the usage events detected by auto part sensors of the automobile; analyzing the obtained sensor data to compute statistics that summarize usage of the automobile; determining, by the one or more computing devices, at least one of a product or service that is pertinent to the user based on both the statistics that summarize the usage of the automobile and interaction data associated with the user that describes interactions of the user with other sensor-configured objects; generating one or more recommendations to suggest the determined product or service by presenting the one or more recommendations to the user via output interfaces of the automobile; and communicating, by the one or more computing devices, the generated one or more recommendations to the automobile for presentation via the output interfaces. |
20140114849 | 14050325 | 0 | 1. A system for market-based settlement of transactions within an electric power grid network comprising: a settlement processor for market-based financial settlements comprising a server and/or a processor operatively coupled with a memory, and a database constructed and configured for electrical connection and IP-based communication via a network with at least one active grid element; wherein each active grid element is registered to participate within the electric power grid; and wherein the settlement processor provides automated messaging used for a market-based financial settlement based upon revenue grade metrology data and a kilowatt packet (KWP) unit; wherein each KWP unit provides a quantifying market rate for monetization for any unit of kilowatts with respect to time. |
8619984 | 12557538 | 1 | 1. A method for providing differential privacy comprising: receiving user rating data at a correlation engine through a network, the user rating data comprising ratings generated by a plurality of users for a plurality of items; removing per-item global effects from the user rating data by: calculating an average rating for each item rated in the user rating data; determining a plurality of fictitious ratings for each item rated in the user rating data, wherein each fictitious rating of an item is set to the calculated average rating of the item; calculating a stabilized average rating for each item rated in the user rating data using the ratings in the user rating data for the item and the plurality of fictitious ratings for the item; and for each rating in the user rating data, subtracting the calculated stabilized average rating for the rated item from the rating; generating correlation data from the user rating data by the correlation engine, the correlation data identifying correlations between the items based on the user generated ratings; generating noise by the correlation engine; and adding the generated noise to the generated correlation data by the correlation engine to provide differential privacy protection to the generated correlation data. |
9566021 | 14024502 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, by a computer system, first sensor data related to motion by an actor over a first time period and second sensor data related to motion by an actor over a second time period; determining, by the computer system and based on the first sensor data and the second sensor data, a plurality of motion characteristics; identifying, based on the plurality of motion characteristics, an athletic maneuver associated with both the motion by the actor during the first time period and the motion by the actor during the second time period; synchronizing the first sensor data with a visual display of the athletic maneuver performed during the first time period; synchronizing the second sensor data with a visual display of the athletic maneuver performed during the second time period; and simultaneously presenting, by the computer system, the visual display of the athletic maneuver performed during the first time period and the visual display of the athletic maneuver performed during the second time period; wherein identifying the athletic maneuver includes comparing the plurality of determined motion characteristics to one or more motion characteristics associated with a known athletic maneuver; and wherein identifying the athletic maneuver includes determining a level of similarity between the plurality of determined motion characteristics and the motion characteristics associated with the known athletic maneuver. |
7987495 | 11964471 | 1 | 1. A method for multi-context policy management, comprising: generating multiple security contexts relating to a computing device communicating with a networked computing infrastructure, wherein the multiple security contexts include a first security context based on one or more first security attributes relating to the computing device communicating with the computing infrastructure and a second security context based on one or more second security attributes relating to the computing device communicating with the computing infrastructure; receiving a request to access one or more elements in the computing infrastructure from the computing device; receiving one or more security policy definitions that define one or more conditions associated with accessing the one or more elements in the computing infrastructure; determining whether to grant the computing device access to the one or more elements in the computing infrastructure based on the first security context, the second security context, and the one or more security policy definitions; and sending a response indicating that the computing device has not been granted the requested access to the one or more elements in the computing infrastructure, wherein the response includes one or more remediation messages that instruct the computing device to alter anti-virus protection associated with the computing device or increase an authentication level associated with the computing device by re-challenging a user with one or more secure authentication methods prior to any further requests to access the one or more elements. |
20140379674 | 13925126 | 0 | 1. A method for efficient use of a relational database by a processor device in a computing environment, the method comprising: executing a plurality of concurrent transactions on the single database schema using a single concurrent transaction database infrastructure, wherein the single database schema is a single concurrent transactional relational database. |
20020128728 | 10090779 | 0 | 1. A remote maintenance system comprising: a center server that is located in a service center for performing maintenance of an electrical appliance; and a home server that is located in each house and monitors a status of an electrical appliance in a house, wherein the center server and the home server are connected via a communication line, the home server includes: a status value acquiring unit operable to acquire a status value of each electrical appliance; a failure model receiving unit operable to receive from the center server a failure model which is information defining a method for deriving a decision whether the electrical appliance is failed or not from the status value; and a failure deciding unit operable to decide whether the electrical appliance is failed or not based on the acquired status value and the received failure model using qualitative reasoning, and the center server includes a failure model updating unit operable to update the failure model and send the updated failure model to the home server. |
20090240692 | 12433647 | 0 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, at a server, a plurality of candidate tags from a plurality of users indicating particular aspects of multimedia content; determining whether a particular candidate tag, of the plurality of candidate tags, reflects the particular aspects of the multimedia content; upon determining that the particular candidate tag does not reflect the aspects of the multimedia content, discarding the particular candidate tag; and upon determining that the particular candidate tag does reflect the aspects of the multimedia content, storing the particular candidate tag; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices. |
7525955 | 11082361 | 1 | 1. A system, comprising: an Internet Protocol (IP) phone coupled to a server, wherein said IP phone is configured to receive contextual information from said server, wherein said IP phone comprises: a memory unit operable for storing a computer program for performing contextual searches; a processor coupled to said memory unit, wherein said processor, responsive to said computer program, comprises: circuitry for receiving a command to perform a contextual search; circuitry for receiving search criteria; circuitry for submitting said search criteria to said server; and circuitry for receiving from said server a list of merchants matching said search criteria and information regarding each of said merchants in said list; wherein a user of said IP phone completes a transaction with at least one of said merchants listed without the need to generate a voice call; wherein said information received by said user of said IP phone comprises a variety of offers, wherein said user selects one of said variety of offers associated with said one of said merchants listed, wherein said selected offer is transmitted to said one of said merchants listed electronically; and wherein said user's contact and payment information is not transmitted to said one of said merchants listed, wherein said user's contact and payment information is available to said one of said merchants listed. |
5398298 | 08198478 | 1 | 1. An electronic control means for cyclically controlling the supply of power to an electric motor having a rotor and a stator to perform cycles of accelerating said rotor to a maximum speed and bringing said motor to rest, said control means including a. power supply means provided to supply power to said motor at a desired rate; b. speed setting means operable to set a desired speed of rotation of said rotor and a desired acceleration time for said motor from rest to said desired speed; c. incremental step setting means to set an initial series of incremental steps, each successive step corresponding to an increase in the level of power supplied to said motor over the level of power supply reached in the previous step, said steps being estimated to be sufficient to enable sufficient energy to be supplied to said motor to reach said desired speed in said acceleration time; d. speed determining means to determine the speed of said motor; e. switching means to switch off the power supply to said motor; f. adjusting means responsive to control signals from said speed determining means to adjust the number and/or size of said incremental steps to adjust the supply of energy to said motor to adjust the acceleration and thereby change said motor speed towards said desired speed during a next cycle of operations. |
9576294 | 13468931 | 1 | 1. A method, comprising: linking, by a computer based system, a transaction account of a user with a first third party broadcast platform and a second third party broadcast platform, wherein the transaction account of the user is associated with first profile information for the first third party broadcast platform and second profile information for the second third party broadcast platform; receiving, by a broadcast monitoring module of the computer based system residing with a broadcast channel, a first set of broadcasts from the first third party broadcast platform; identifying, by the broadcast monitoring module of the computer based system and based on the offer indicator, a first subset of broadcasts from the first set of broadcasts; wherein a broadcast in the first subset of broadcasts comprises the offer indicator, wherein the offer indicator is associated with an offer, wherein the offer indicator is associated with offer information that defines the offer, wherein the offer is converted to be configured for use in the broadcast, and receiving, by the broadcast monitoring module of the computer based system, a second set of broadcasts from the second third party broadcast platform; identifying, by the broadcast monitoring module of the computer based system and based on the offer indicator, a second subset of broadcasts from the second set of broadcasts; wherein a broadcast in the second subset of broadcasts comprises the offer indicator, parsing each broadcast of at least one of the first set of broadcasts or the second set of broadcasts, by the computer based system, to identify the offer indicator and a source of the broadcast; correlating, by the computer based system and in response to the identifying the offer indicator and based on the associating the transaction account of the user and at least one of the first profile information or second profile information, the offer with the transaction account of the user and the source of the broadcast, wherein the user is the source of the broadcast; associating, by the computer based system, the offer defined by the offer indicator to the transaction account of the user in response to the correlating; generating, by the computer based system, notification instructions, wherein the notification instructions are provided to at least one of the first third party broadcast platform or the second third party broadcast platform, and wherein the at least one of the first third party broadcast platform or the second third party broadcast platform transmits a notification of the offer and the offer based on the notification instructions to the user in the at least one of the first third party broadcast platform or the second third party broadcast platform; receiving, by the computer based system, transaction information associated with the transaction account of the user; comparing, by the computer based system, the offer to the transaction information; and crediting, by the computer based system, an amount associated with the offer to the transaction account of the user based on the broadcast, in response to the transaction information satisfying the offer information. |
7533348 | 11054302 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented calendar customization system, comprising the following components stored in a computer memory: an interface component that receives responses to one or more questions relating to selecting a calendar type from a plurality of calendar types associated with one or more of a Gregorian calendar, a fiscal calendar, a reporting calendar, a manufacturing calendar or an ISO8601 calendar, the interface component comprising a question presentation component that determines a sequence of questions to be presented to a user wherein a second question in the sequence depends upon response to first question and a third question depends upon responses to the first and second question, the questions comprising type of a desired calendar, language in which to present the calendar, hierarchy of the calendar, first day of the calendar, beginning of a fiscal year, first day of the week, a month in which a fiscal year begins, a month in which reporting is to begin and particular periods of time within data in the calendar, the received responses determines a desired calendar type and parameterization of a desired calendar structure; a machine-learning utility that generates inferences regarding automatic selection of a calendar type from the plurality of calendar types based on analysis relating to one or more of user history or user context; and an execution engine that automatically generates a multi-dimensional structure for the selected calendar type, wherein the structure is generated as at least one of a function of the responses or the automatic selection. |
20060085294 | 10940658 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: storing, in a record of inventory, a first value for a plurality of articles in a first unit of measure, said first value measured at a first time; storing, in a record of inventory, a second value for the plurality of articles in a second unit of measure, said second value measured at the first time, there being a variable conversion factor between the first unit of measure and the second unit of measure; receiving an order, after storing the first and second values, for a first quantity of an article of the plurality of articles in either the first unit of measure or the second unit of measure; specifying a second quantity of the article to fill the order in either the first unit of measure or, based on estimation, in the second unit of measure; receiving a third value for the second quantity of the article in the first unit of measure, said third value measured at a second time, after receiving the order; receiving a fourth value for the second quantity of the article in the second unit of measure, said fourth value measured at the second time; and determining a valuation of the second quantity of the article in a valuation unit of measure, based on either the third value or the fourth value. |
20100324967 | 12833103 | 0 | 1. An apparatus for requesting and assessing a locate operation, the locate operation comprising identifying, in response to a locate request ticket, a presence or an absence of at least one underground facility within a dig area, wherein at least a portion of the dig area is planned to be excavated or disturbed during excavation activities, the apparatus comprising: a communication interface; a memory to store processor-executable instructions; and a processing unit coupled to the communication interface and the memory, wherein upon execution of the processor-executable instructions by the processing unit, the processing unit: A) generates the locate request ticket identifying the dig area, the locate request ticket including or having electronically associated therewith first image data associated with the dig area, wherein the first image data includes at least one of: a marked-up image of a geographic area including the dig area, the marked-up image including at least one dig area indicator to provide an indication of the dig area; and geographic information relating to the at least one dig area indicator; B) controls the communication interface to transmit the locate request ticket to at least one entity associated with the locate operation; C) controls the communication interface to receive a completed locate request ticket, the completed locate request ticket including second image data and/or non-image data relating to the locate operation as performed pursuant to the locate request ticket; D) processes the completed locate request ticket so as to provide a quality assessment of the locate operation; and E) controls the communication interface and/or the memory to electronically transmit and/or electronically store information relating to the completed locate request ticket and/or the quality assessment so as to provide a searchable electronic record of the locate operation. |
20060200546 | 10977497 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method for identifying computer resource utilization issues, the method comprising: accessing resource utilization data for a computer system for a particular period of time wherein: the resource utilization data for the particular period of time is based on resource utilization data collected while processes were running on the computer system, and the resource utilization data for the particular period of time includes measurements of a metric of operation of a component of the computer system, with each measurement being associated with a period of time; performing statistical analysis on the resource utilization data to identify a range of normal measurements for the metric for the particular period of time included in the resource utilization data; and comparing measurements of the metric of the resource utilization data for the particular period of time with the identified range of normal measurements to identify measurements that are outside of the identified range of normal measurements. |
9323474 | 13784189 | 1 | 1. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program stored therein, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computing device, causes the computing device to: create, by a zone control service executing in the computing device, logical zoning definitions in memory for each client session within a plurality of concurrent client sessions, wherein each client session attempts to make changes to a fabric, wherein creating logical zoning definitions comprises flagging a zone member added to or removed from a zone or alias, flagging an alias added to or removed from a zone, flagging a zone set that is created or deleted, or flagging a zone added to or removed from a zone set, and wherein flagging a zone member causes all scoping zones to be flagged, wherein flagging a zone member causes all scoping aliases to be flagged, and wherein flagging an alias causes all scoping zones to be flagged; and responsive to the zone control service receiving a request to commit a session from a given client and changes made by the given client during the session not conflicting with changes made by another client in a concurrent session based on the logical zoning definitions, apply, by the zone control service, the changes made by the given client during the session to the fabric, wherein applying the changes made by the given client during the session to the fabric comprises starting a zone control session between the zone control service and the fabric, applying the changes made by the given client using the zone control service with the fabric, and committing, by the zone control service, the zone control session with the fabric. |
20130335777 | 13971516 | 0 | 1. A method of rendering documents in a distributed system comprising a local client computer and a server computer, the method comprising: identifying a list of tasks to be performed in association with an input, wherein said list of tasks comprises one or more tasks for printing one or more documents; building one or more commands comprising instructions designed to, when executed on one of the local client computer or the server computer, accomplish said list of tasks; sizing said one or more commands in comparison to a threshold size, wherein those smaller than said threshold size are marked as small jobs and the others are marked as large jobs; in response said one or more commands being marked a small job, rendering said one or more documents suitable for printing via said server computer executing said one or more commands associated with said small job, and sending said document to a printer associated with said local client computer; and in response to said one or more commands being marked a large job, sending said one or more commands associated with said large job to said local client computer for rendering and printing locally. |
20130128321 | 13743603 | 0 | 1. A non-transitory computer readable medium having computer executable instructions for performing a method comprising the steps of: receiving an image of a document, the document being of no predefined format and containing numerical information; processing the image of the document to extract the numerical information from the image; and creating report information from the extracted numerical information. |
7539904 | 11268221 | 1 | 1. A method, comprising: subjecting a system under test (SUT) to a workload; injecting a disturbance into the SUT; determining that the SUT has automatically detected a problem that has occurred in response to the disturbance; and determining an autonomic computing (AC) capability of the SUT at least partially based on a time between injecting the disturbance into the SUT and determining that the SUT has automatically detected the problem. |
9407761 | 13008105 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: at a telephony device, determining that a software application invoked by the telephony device is attempting to contact an E.164 number; determining that the E.164 number matches at least one predetermined criterion, wherein the determination comprises a comparison of a segment of the digits comprising the E.164 number against entries in a database, wherein the segment of the digits compared is less than all of the digits; in response to the determination that the E.164 number matches the at least one predetermined criterion, sending a query to a reputation server, the query including information identifying the software application; receiving a response from the reputation server, the response including a reputation relating to the reputation of the software application as a legitimate application, the reputation indicating whether or not the software application's status as a legitimate application is suspicious or unknown; and on the basis of the received reputation relating to the software application, taking further action. |
20170104773 | 14878145 | 0 | 1. A method, comprising: analyzing, by a device in a network, data indicative of a behavior of the network using a supervised anomaly detection model; determining, by the device, whether the supervised anomaly detection model detected an anomaly in the network from the analyzed data; and training, by the device, an unsupervised anomaly detection model, based on a determination that no anomalies were detected by the supervised anomaly detection model. |
20060129959 | 11298120 | 0 | 1. A method for refining an abstract model, the method comprising: receiving an abstract model which is a subset of a logic design which can be represented using a set of variables and a set of Boolean functions; receiving a safety property for the logic design which is desired to be proven; receiving a set of counter-examples, wherein a counter-example is a sequence of states that violates the safety property, wherein a state is an assignment of values to the variables, wherein the variable values are determined using the set of Boolean functions and the variable values in the previous state; determining a set of cooperative variables using the set of counter-examples, wherein a cooperative variable is a variable that can help invalidate a counter-example; and refining the abstract model using the set of cooperative variables. |
7793100 | 12350327 | 1 | 1. A method, in a data processing system, for authorizing information flows between elements of the data processing system, the method comprising: associating, by a reference monitor in the data processing system, the elements of the data processing system with security data structures in the reference monitor; receiving, by the reference monitor, an information flow request from a first element to authorize an information flow from the first element to a second element; retrieving, by the reference monitor, a first security data structure associated with the first element; retrieving, by the reference monitor, a second security data structure associated with the second element, wherein the first security data structure and the second security data structure are labelsets, wherein each labelset comprises a labellist element providing one or more labels of the labelset, wherein the labels in the labellist element are composed of a policy type and a value, and wherein the policy type identifies a security policy to be applied to the labelset and the value identifies a value to be used in evaluating the security policy identified by the policy type; and performing, by the reference monitor, at least one set theory operation on the first security data structure and the second security data structure to determine if the information flow from the first element to the second element is to be authorized. |
9069954 | 13699030 | 1 | 1. A method of determining a security threat comprising: storing security events associated with network devices; storing an actor category model including a plurality of levels arranged in a hierarchy, wherein each level is associated with a subcategory for a category of the actor category model, wherein the actor category model comprises an attribute for users, and the actor category model comprises parent-child relationships between the plurality of levels, and child levels inherit rules from their parent levels; correlating security events with the actor category model, wherein the correlating of the security events with the actor category model includes identifying a user for each security event; determining the actor category model is applicable to the user for each security event and any of the security events associated with the user by matching the attribute for users in the actor category model with a user attribute of the user in a user data model; and identifying a level in the actor category model associated with the user for each security event; and determining, by at least one processor, whether the security threat exists based on the correlating, wherein the determining of whether the security threat exists based on the correlating includes determining a security rule for the identified level; and determining whether the security threat exists by applying the security rule. |
20110307338 | 13212844 | 0 | 1. A point-of-interaction terminal, comprising: memory to store data related to communicating with a consumer when the consumer is located in a zone; and a processor coupled to access the memory and configured to implement a method comprising: forming a first electronic transmission, addressed to an auctioneer, of an option to receive the data, the first electronic transmission including a merchant indicator usable to determine a return address of a merchant and further including an announcement condition for forming a bid for the option, the announcement condition including presence of the consumer within the zone; when the announcement condition is satisfied, forming the bid, wherein the bid is addressed to the auctioneer; and when the bid is a winning bid, receiving the data at the return address. |
20080031469 | 11789798 | 0 | 1. A method for multi-channel echo compensation, comprising: receiving a first audio input signal from a first channel, and receiving a second audio input signal from a second channel; de-correlating the first and second audio input signals to generate a first de-correlated audio signal and a second de-correlated audio signal, respectively; providing the first de-correlated audio signal to a first loudspeaker to generate a first loudspeaker signal and providing the second de-correlated audio signal to a second loudspeaker to generate a second loudspeaker signal; detecting the first and second loudspeaker signals and a desired signal, by a microphone to generate a microphone output signal; and adaptively filtering the microphone output signal to generate an echo compensated signal, where the de-correlating is controlled based on a state of the adaptive filtering. |
5485372 | 08252333 | 1 | 1. In a grammar checking system, a system for establishing a correct lexical entry for a word in a sentence to permit unambiguous dictionary lookup of said word by identifying if said word is intrinsically capitalized comprising: pre-processing means for providing a modified training corpus having words that are not proper nouns or intrinsically capitalized words converted to lower case even if they are at the beginning of a sentence; means for generating two versions of said sentence in which said word appears in each version in capitalized and uncapitalized form respectively; means coupled to said modified training corpus for establishing which of said two versions is the more likely; and, means responsive to said two versions for determining by said more likely version of said sentence if said word is an intrinsically capitalized word. |
9743253 | 14837330 | 1 | 1. A method for locating an electronic mobile device capable of wireless communication, the method comprising: obtaining a probability map structure for an area of interest, said probability map structure associating environment data values with location data; obtaining a number of probabilistic temporospatial motion models for different types of motion, said models at least partly defining transition probabilities between location estimates relative to time; obtaining at least environment data captured or determined by the mobile device at a plurality of sequential time instances; and determining the most probable location estimate of the mobile device based on combining probability data from both the probability map structure and said motion models, wherein the at least environment data is best fitted in the motion models and probability map structure according to predefined criteria. |
8311659 | 12556071 | 1 | 1. Within a system comprising a processor and a memory, a method of analyzing integrated circuit (IC) product yield, the method comprising: storing, within the memory, parametric data from a manufacturing process for an IC; determining a measure of non-random variation for at least one parameter of the parametric data using a pattern detection technique; comparing, by the processor, the measure of non-random variation to a randomness criterion; and selectively outputting a notification indicating that variation in the at least one parameter is non-random according to the comparison of the measure of non-random variation to the randomness criterion; wherein determining a measure of non-random variation further comprises: determining a mean value for at least one parameter of the parametric data for each of a plurality of wafers, wherein each wafer comprises a plurality of the ICs; for each of a plurality of successive wafer pairs, determining whether the mean value for a second wafer of the successive wafer pair increases or decreases from the mean value of a first wafer of the successive pair of wafers; storing an indication of whether the mean value increases or decreases for each successive wafer pair as a sequence of indications; and calculating a measure of non-random variation according to the sequence of indications. |
20130110770 | 13662182 | 0 | 1. A computer implemented method for migrating a database comprising: polling an intermediary database for a migration request for migrating a first database in a first environment to a second database in a second environment; detecting the migration request in response to the polling; creating a link between the first database and the intermediary database; migrating data from the first database into the intermediary database; and removing the link between the first database and the intermediary database, wherein the data from the intermediary database is loaded thereafter into the second database. |
7584395 | 11399730 | 1 | 1. A method of synthesizing a state event for a test data stream, comprising: accessing a stream of test data, the test data comprising 1) a number of state events that update a current test state and 2) a number of data events interspersed with the ones of the state events; upon accessing one of the data events, determining if the data event is in conformity with the current test state; if the data event is in conformity with the current test state, publishing the data event; and if the data event is not in conformity with the current test state, buffering a number of additional data events; and if the number of additional data events imply that a state event should have been received and a state change should have occurred, prior to accessing the data event, A) synthesizing and publishing the state event that should have been received, in conformity with the implied state change; B) updating the current test state in accord with the implied state change; and C) then, publishing the data event. |
8055508 | 10748745 | 1 | 1. An article processing system, including hardware configured to execute modules, comprising: a memory and a processor; a database that stores article identification information and article location information for a plurality of articles; a first module that determines at least a shipment date when a pending user order is to be shipped, wherein the pending order was placed via a computer network during a first network session; a second module that, based at least in part on information retrieved from the database, identifies at least a first article that can be added to the pending order within a first amount of time without delaying the shipment date of the pending order; and a third module that causes a notification to be presented to the user, wherein the notification indicates that the user can add at least the first article to the pending order without delaying the pending order shipment, wherein the notification includes a link, wherein if the user activates the link after the first amount of time, the user is provided a message indicating that the first amount time to add articles to the pending order has expired. |
7620207 | 12017382 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: a video display processor displaying a first image corresponding to a field of view of at least one camera, providing a user interface that allows a user to: identify a first region of the first image at which objects may disappear from the image, identify a second region of a second image at which objects may appear in the other image, and define a first likelihood that an object that disappears from the first region will appear in the second region, and an object linker subsequently identifying a target object in the first image, and determining whether the target object appears in the second image based on the first likelihood and an object similarity measure. |
20110173199 | 12964869 | 0 | 1. A method for computer system performance analysis, comprising: receiving a computer system performance log file; clustering instructions involved in the computer system performance log file at flexible granularity to identify code clusters; and outputting a result of computer system performance analysis based on the code clusters. |
9251236 | 14144251 | 1 | 1. A method, comprising: providing a data feed associated with a collaboration document that is updated by an external database and a plurality of collaboration users, wherein the collaboration document is synchronized based on updates provided by the plurality of collaboration users and the external database; storing a table name of a table of the external database that corresponds to a feed name of the data feed defined in configuration data, wherein the table name and the feed name are stored in a queue; in response to detecting a database change to the table of the external database updated by an external application, locating the table name of the changed table in the queue; using the table name of the changed table to identify the feed name of the data feed that is associated with the collaboration document; and pushing the database change to the collaboration document via the feed name for viewing by the plurality of collaboration users; and in response to detecting a collaboration change made by one of the plurality of collaboration users to the collaboration document, using the feed name of the data feed associated with the collaboration document to identify the table name of the table of the external database; and pushing the collaboration change to the table of the external database for viewing by the external application. |
20180004079 | 15200195 | 0 | 1. A method of seeding an optical proximity correction (OPC) process, the method comprising: receiving, at an input device of a computer, a subject pre-OPC design-signature for a subject pre-OPC design package; selecting, by the processor and via interaction with an OPC database operatively connected to the computer, one amongst archived post-OPC design packages based on relatedness between the subject pre-OPC design-signature and archived post-OPC design-signatures corresponding to the archived post-OPC design packages, and thereby retrieving the selected archived post-OPC design package; and generating one or more seeds for the OPC process based on the selected archived post-OPC design package. |
10000577 | 15510942 | 1 | 1. A method of treating otitis media in a subject, comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of an Actin-Related Protein 2/3 Complex (Arp2/3) inhibitor. |
20060089995 | 11257009 | 0 | 1. A system for remote conversion between machines, said system comprising; a) a machine conversion engine; and b) a job management engine operatively coupled to said machine conversion engine. |
8639636 | 12192748 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: tracking user behavior across multiple modalities for interacting with a device; storing representations of the user behavior in a log as descriptors, each descriptor associated with a modality, the descriptors comprising a first descriptor associated with a first modality and a second descriptor associated with a second modality, wherein the first modality and the second modality are distinct modalities; normalizing the descriptors, wherein the first descriptor and the second descriptor are normalized based on: (1) the first modality, (2) the second modality, (3) the device, and (4) a format associated with the device, to yield normalized descriptors; merging the normalized descriptors into a unified click stream; generating a behavioral model by analyzing the unified click stream; and upon receiving user input associated with modifying a presentation of search results associated with a search, dynamically modifying the presentation by using the behavioral model to generate the search results. |
8416710 | 12413970 | 1 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a femto access point comprising a processor, a directive to scan a wireless environment and a scan configuration associated with the directive; scanning, by the femto access point, the wireless environment, wherein the scanning comprises scanning in accordance with the scan configuration, in response to the scan configuration being determined to be compatible with an operation of the femto access point and scanning the wireless environment in accordance with a modified scan configuration generated by modifying the scan configuration, in response to the scan configuration being determined to be incompatible with the operation of the femto access point; and collecting, by the femto access point, macro-network operation data that comprises data related to a first measurement obtained from a first frequency band associated with a first network operated by a first service provider and a second measurement obtained from a second frequency band associated with a second network operated by a second service provider, based on the scanning. |
20150092610 | 14039512 | 0 | 1. A method for determining policy information associated with an emergency call, the method comprising: at a policy and charging rules function (PCRF) separate from an emergency services routing proxy (ESRP), wherein the PCRF includes at least one processor and a memory: receiving, from the ESRP, a request for one or more policy rules regarding an emergency call, wherein the request includes an intended destination of the emergency call; and determining, using the intended destination, one or more policy rules. |
20120177264 | 13423345 | 0 | 1. A method of surgical modeling, comprising: displaying a set of related two-dimensional (2D) anatomical images; identifying a plurality of anatomical landmarks on the set of related 2D anatomical images; scaling a three-dimensional (3D) representation of at least one prosthesis to match a scale of the 2D anatomical images based at least in part on a relationship between the anatomical landmarks; utilizing 3D information from the at least one prosthesis along with information based on at least one of the plurality of anatomical landmarks to create procedure-based information; and determining a patient's predicted range of motion at one or more locations. |
20130167230 | 13692857 | 0 | 1. A method for determining the trustworthiness of a remotely located, subject device, the method comprising: receiving data representing one or more attacks by one or more perpetrating devices; receiving a request for a reputation of the subject device through a computer network; determining whether the subject device is one of the perpetrating devices; retrieving data representing one or more of the attacks that are associated with the subject device; quantifying a measure of trustworthiness of the subject device from the data representing one or more of the attacks that are associated with the subject device; and sending data representing the measure of trustworthiness of the subject device in response to the request. |
20040051720 | 10065089 | 0 | 1. A method for providing a cutting file for a computer numerical control robotic tool to a customer, the method comprising the steps of: providing at a site remote from the customer a generic model for a particular product to be made by the customer; displaying to the customer a representational image of the product corresponding to the particular product and default design parameters for the image; allowing the customer to modify at least one default design parameter and to select final design parameters for the model; receiving data corresponding to the final design parameters at the site remote from the customer; generating at the remote site using the generic model for a particular product a cutting file that incorporates the final design parameters; and making the cutting file available to the customer. |
20110246406 | 13157936 | 0 | 1. A method for creating a predictive model to select an object from a group of objects that can be associated with a requested web-page, wherein a configuration of the requested web-page defines a subgroup of one or more selected objects from the group of objects, the method comprising: collecting information from a plurality of requests to the web-page that were responded by a web-page that included the object and collecting information on the results of presenting the object; defining a plurality of predictive factors to be extracted from the collected information; extracting, per each collected request, a value per each predictive factor; defining one or more bins, wherein each bin is associated with a range of values of one or more predictive factors, and wherein the bins are defined based on their explained variance; creating a bins table by defining per each collected request a value per each bin; and processing the bins table with a predictive model engine configured to generate a predictive model based on data stored in the bins table. |
20110208821 | 13032461 | 0 | 1. A method for tracking displays of digital content objects, the method comprising; receiving, by a computer-implemented tracking system, one or more indications that one or more containers comprising one or more digital content objects have been displayed as parts of one or more electronic messages; and updating, by the computer-implemented tracking system, one or more counting records associated with the one or more digital content objects to reflect the one or more containers having been displayed. |
20030045318 | 09935525 | 0 | 1. In a wireless communication system, a method for deriving power control decisions, comprising: processing a received signal to derive soft-decision symbols for power control commands transmitted from a plurality of transmission sources; combining the soft-decision symbols for each power control period based on a particular combination scheme to provide a metric for the power control period; and deriving a power control decision from each metric. |
9396438 | 14695243 | 1 | 1. A method for detecting the presence of an activity, the method comprising the steps of: (a) calculating, using a processor, for each entity in a plurality of entities: (i) a peer comparison score for the activity for the entity; (ii) a self comparison score for the activity for the entity; (iii) a truth comparison score for the activity for the entity; and (iv) an activity confidence score for the entity; and (b) selecting, using the processor, a first entity from the plurality of entities, wherein the selecting is based at least in part on the activity confidence score for the first entity, wherein the calculation of the self comparison score includes the steps of: (A) generating, using the processor, an individual model for the first entity wherein the individual model is based on at least one of a data stream for the first entity and an impact variable for the first entity; (B) calculating, using the processor, a forecast data stream for the first entity, wherein the forecast data stream is based at least in part on the individual model for the first entity; (C) calculating a difference, using the processor, between the individual model for the first entity and the forecast data stream for the first entity; (D) calculating, using the processor, a time period for which the calculated difference is greater than a predetermined threshold; and (E) assigning, using the processor, the self comparison score to the first entity based on at least one of the calculated difference and the time period; and wherein the calculation of the truth comparison score includes the steps of: (F) providing a ground truth data stream for the activity; (G) comparing, using the processor, the ground truth data stream with a data stream model for the first entity; and (H) assigning a truth comparison score to the first entity based at least in part on a result of the comparison of the ground truth data stream with the data stream model for the first entity. |
9959482 | 14945780 | 1 | 1. A classifying method of classifying an article into one of a plurality of groups based on an evaluation value for an image of the article, the method comprising: a creating step of creating, based on sample images, which are images of a plurality of samples each of which has already been classified into one of the plurality of groups, a list of at least one image feature estimated to have been used to classify each sample; a determining step of determining an evaluation method for obtaining the evaluation value, the evaluation method using a feature amount of the at least one image feature included in the list as a parameter; a first obtaining step of obtaining evaluation values for the sample images by the determined evaluation method; a changing step of changing the evaluation method by changing in the list, so that an evaluation value of at least one sample image having a singular evaluation value among the sample images is changed, and a degree of dissimilarity in an evaluation value range for sample images between the plurality of groups is increased; and a second obtaining step of obtaining the evaluation value for the image of the article based on the changed evaluation method, and classifying the article into one of the plurality of groups based on the obtained evaluation value for the image of the article. |
7899646 | 10979387 | 1 | 1. A method for measuring comprising: measuring a physical property to obtain a measured value; calculating a distribution of actual values for the physical property; calculating an error distribution of the measured value; calculating a penalty associated with an erroneous decision to be made based at least in part on the measured value; and determining a margin of error in the measured value to be accounted for in making said decision based at least in part on the measured value, said determining based on an expected loss from selecting at least one possible actual value as a function of the calculated distribution of actual values, the calculated error distribution of the measured value, and the calculated penalty associated with an erroneous decision. |
9173245 | 13615577 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: discovering, by a first wireless device, a second wireless device in a wireless mesh network; accessing, by the first wireless device, a social interest metric for the second wireless device, the social interest metric indicating a plurality of social characteristics of a user of the second wireless device; determining whether the social interest metric meets a predetermined criteria; determining a number of hops between the first wireless device and the second wireless device; if the social interest metric meets the predetermined criteria and the second device is within a predetermined number of hops of the first wireless device, enabling messaging communications to be exchanged between the first wireless device and the second wireless device; and if the social interest metric does not meet the predetermined criteria, disabling, by the first wireless device, messaging communications from being exchanged between the first wireless device and the second wireless device. |
20090079416 | 11761452 | 0 | 1. An electric energy monitor device for measuring the electrical energy usage of an electrical load powered by load conductors connected to a power source, comprising a body, the body being configured to allow at least one load conductor to pass through at least one opening in the body to couple to the power source, at least one current sensor for detecting a level of current, the current sensor being in communication with the load conductor extending through the opening in the body when coupled to the power source, a controller for receiving signals from the current sensor, and transmitting data either to a display for displaying data relating to electrical energy usage of the load, or to a remote data processing device for recording data relating to electrical energy usage of the load, or to both. |
20160295347 | 15092559 | 0 | 1. A method implemented in a proximity services (ProSe) function, the method comprising: receiving a discovery request message including a ProSe application identifier; determining whether or not the ProSe function can retrieve a valid ProSe application code corresponding to the ProSe application identifier; and transmitting a reject-type discovery response message conditioned on the determining that a valid ProSe application code is not available to the ProSe function. |
20150149602 | 14089699 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method for collecting configuration data from one or more sources, the method comprising: beginning a parallel process of collecting configuration data from a configuration model from multiple identified sub-models and identified sources in a target network concurrently; creating a partitioned configuration result store for a selected sub-model and source; invoking the selected sub-model against the selected source to collect configuration data related to the selected sub-model stored at the selected source; receiving at a repository server configuration data from the selected sub-model and source based upon one or more requests defined within the selected sub-model; and storing the received configuration data in the created partitioned configuration result store for the selected sub-model and source, wherein the preceding steps are performed by at least one processor. |
8825082 | 14084576 | 1 | 1. A system for monitoring movement of two-way wireless terminals within a defined local space (DLS), the system comprising: a mathematically characterized defined local space (DLS) architecture, including: i) an array of at least four receivers that together identify a volume of the DLS; ii) at least one processor in communication with the array of receivers; the array of at least four receivers being operable with: i) at least one two-way wireless terminal; and ii) wherein the at least one two-way wireless terminal is operable with a base station, the base station being associated with a wireless service provider system, the base station being operable to periodically broadcast a series of request signals, the request signals being intended for one or more of the at least one wireless terminal; wherein the DLS architecture is operable: i) during a first time interval to: (1) determine a first sampling of return signals intercepted with the array of at least four receivers, the first sampling of return signals transmitted by at least a first wireless terminal of the at least one wireless terminal while physically within the DLS during the first time interval in response to one or more of the request signals; and (2) log initial location information for the at least first wireless terminal within the DLS based on the first sampling of return signals; ii) during subsequent time intervals to: (1) determine at least one subsequent sampling of return signals intercepted with the array of at least four receivers, the at least one subsequent sampling of return signals being transmitted by the first wireless terminal while physically located within the DLS during one or more of the subsequent time intervals in response to one or more of the request signals; and (2) log subsequent location information for the first wireless terminal within the DLS based on the at least one subsequent sampling of return signals; and iii) to compare said initial location information to said subsequent location information to ascertain tracking movement of wireless terminals within the DLS. |
7747132 | 10926612 | 1 | 1. A method of displaying multiple recorded media content instances during a single viewing session, said method comprising: displaying a recorded program list graphical user interface (GUI), said recorded program list GUI listing a number of recorded media content instances; selecting one of said recorded media content instances to be displayed on a display device; displaying said selected media content instance and one or more additional recorded media content instances during said single viewing session for concatenated playback; and displaying a progress bar during said playback, said progress bar graphically representing a consecutive playback schedule of said selected media content instance and said one or more additional recorded media content instances within a single timeframe, said progress bar comprising a progress indicator configured to graphically represent a current position within said playback schedule. |
8739286 | 13906252 | 1 | 1. A method performed by one or more data processing apparatus, the method comprising: maintaining one or more application profiles, each application profile associated with one or more network activities in a network and corresponding to an application configured to execute on one or more devices in the network; detecting one or more network activities in the network associated with a device, the one or more activities directed outside the network; determining that an application corresponding to a predetermined application profile is executing on the device based at least in part on the one or more detected network activities associated with the device directed outside the network substantially matching network activities associated with the predetermined application profile; and denying access by the device to one or more resources within the network based upon the determination. |
6023565 | 08805378 | 1 | 1. A method for off loading work from a computer while generating a netlist representing a circuit for a programmable IC, said netlist being compiled from a design file in accordance with parameters selected by a user, said design file comprising a parameter selection, the method comprising the following steps: a) on a first computer, displaying said parameter selection on a screen display in table-based format; b) on said first computer, receiving a selection of parameters from a user, said parameters being specified by the user based on said screen display; c) on said first computer, entering said parameters in said design file, thereby configuring said design file in accordance with said parameters; d) transmitting said design file from said first computer to a second computer over a data communications link; e) remotely compiling on said second computer, said design file to generate said netlist; and f) transmitting said netlist from said second computer to said first computer over said data communications link. |
10142959 | 15607952 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: determining, by one or more processors, that a wireless access point model does not meet a predetermined quality threshold for a set of stored wireless access point data; in response to determining that the wireless access point model does not meet the predetermined quality threshold, identifying, by the one or more processors, a given wireless access point associated with the wireless access point model; generating, by the one or more processors, a request for current scan information of the given wireless access point, the request for current scan information including an inducement for travel to a location within a wireless communication range of the given wireless access point; transmitting the request to one or more mobile communication devices not currently within the wireless communication range, the request requesting each mobile communication device to travel within the wireless communication range of the given wireless access point to collect the current scan information; verifying, by the one or more processors, that at least one of the one or more mobile communication devices has traveled within the wireless communication range of the given wireless access point to collect the current scan information in response to the transmitted request; receiving, by the one or more processors, the current scan information from the verified at least one mobile communication device; in response to receiving, by the one or more processors, the current scan information, providing, by the one or more processors, the inducement to the at least one of the one or more mobile communication devices for redemption; and modifying, by the one or more processors, the wireless access point model in accordance with the received current scan information by updating the set of stored wireless access point data. |
9047405 | 13572083 | 1 | 1. A method, comprising: determining a capability of a virtual machine (VM) configured to execute a host application in a runtime environment; instrumenting a function in user script code developed for execution in the host application with a guard based upon the capability of the VM, the instrumenting comprising at least one of: instrumenting the function with the guard at a location in the user script code, the location determined based upon the capability of the VM; or instrumenting the function with a number of guards determined based upon the capability of the VM, the number of guards comprising the guard; executing the user script code in the runtime environment; and responsive to detecting an explicit debugging gesture using the guard, transforming the function to generate debuggable script code. |
9411666 | 14051160 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: identifying a problem computing component in a computing system; identifying all proximate computing components in the computing system, wherein each proximate computing component is within a predetermined physical proximity of the problem computing component; determining whether the proximate computing components are executing one or more critical jobs, wherein the one or more critical jobs are not executing on the problem computing component; and responsive to determining that the proximate computing components are executing one or more critical jobs migrating the one or more critical jobs to distant computing components in the computing system, wherein each distant computing component is not within the predetermined physical proximity of the problem computing component. |
7773460 | 10287256 | 1 | 1. A method for communicating a medical regimen to a patient, the method comprising: providing a scheduling device comprising a scheduling graph fixed to a supporting substrate, a reference chart positioned on the substrate in close proximity to the scheduling graph, the scheduling graph having a shape corresponding to a clock face representing at least one of a 12-hour, circular, analog clock and a 24-hour, circular, analog clock, the scheduling graph, further comprising markings spaced to divide an area thereof into regions corresponding to hours of a day, the scheduling graph further being fixed to be non-rotating with respect to a support underlying the scheduling graph, the reference chart further comprising a plurality of fields sized and shaped to receive therein labels affixed thereto, the reference chart, wherein each field of the plurality of fields further comprises an information region and at least one frequency region corresponding thereto, the information region and frequency region being distinguished from one another by at least one of size and shape, providing a sheet comprising a plurality of sets of labels, each set thereof comprising members, each being a label selectively removable from the sheet and comprising a material adherent to at least one of the scheduling graph and the reference chart, a visual feature unique to the each set and shared by the members of the set, the members, further comprising an information label having a surface prepared to receive an identification of a medication, and shaped to match the shape of the information region of a field of the reference chart, the members, further comprising a plurality of frequency labels, each specifying at least one day, being shaped to match the shape of the frequency region of a field of the reference chart and distinct from the shape of the information label, the members, further comprising a plurality of timing labels, each timing label being distinguished from both the information label and each of the frequency labels by at least one of size and shape; and providing instructions to a caregiver of the patient, effective to prepare the sheet, imprinted with information, reflecting the medical regimen, on at least one of the sets of labels. |
20030146823 | 10239760 | 0 | 1. A system for evaluating the development of a hazard situation within a space or an area with the aid of hazard level concepts and, upon the occurrence of a hazard situation, creating conditions whereby the hazard level of the hazard situation can be obtained on the basis of information relating to the development of said hazard situation deriving from a plurality of sensors that function in respect of mutually the same or mutually different criteria, characterised in that information relating to the time-wise variation of output signals related to the hazard situation and obtained from a first sensor and also relating to at least the time-wise variation of similar output signals obtained from a second sensor can be stored; in that a comparison between the current or momentary values of the output signals and/or measured time-related changes generate a hazard level value for the occurring hazard situation through the medium of a calculating circuit; and in that solely the hazard level values that exceed a first hazard level of an indicated hazard situation are chosen to follow the development of the hazard situation by means of the output signals from said sensors and to calculate the geographic location of the hazard. |
9519864 | 14967678 | 1 | 1. A computer implemented method for processing a data structure representing a dependency matrix having a plurality of columns representing respective first components and a plurality of rows representing respective second components, the method comprising: assigning each cell of the matrix a value indicative of the level of dependency or indicative of an unknown dependency of a pair of first and second components forming the cell; assigning each component of the first and second components an affiliation vector f u and f i respectively indicative of the strength of affiliation of the component to N predefined initial clusters of cells of the matrix, and initializing the affiliation vectors with predefined values; determining a probability model using the affiliations vectors f u and f i as parameters, wherein the probability model presents the probabilities for a first component of the first components to depend on a second component of the second components; estimating the parameters of the probability model for a plurality of different numbers of clusters starting from the initial number N of clusters using the matrix; computing a score for the parameters of the probability model estimated for each of the plurality of different numbers of clusters; selecting the parameters of the probability model with the highest computed score; using the selected parameters of the probability model to identify cells of unknown dependencies pairs of first and second components that depend on each other. |
9022860 | 14465812 | 1 | 1. A method of conducting a game of chance on an electronic gaming machine comprising a display, and a memory unit, and in communication with a processor, said method comprising: said processor accepting an initial investment from a player to participate in said game of chance on said electronic gaming machine; wherein said processor is within a game hardware module; wherein said game of chance is based on a random number generated by a random number generator; using said random number to select a probability distribution curve for parameter value for winning event; said processor crediting said player's account on said electronic gaming machine an amount equivalent to said initial investment; said processor receiving a first threshold time value for triggering prize or reward; said processor receiving a second threshold time value for warning said player; said processor receiving a definition of non-peak hour periods from a time database; a time recorder keeping a time for a total log-in time for said player on said electronic gaming machine for accumulation of said non-peak hour periods for said player; storing said total log-in time for said accumulation of said non-peak hour periods for said player in a first memory unit; said processor receiving said total log-in time for said accumulation of said non-peak hour periods for said player from said time recorder through said first memory unit; if said first threshold time value for triggering prize or reward minus said total log-in time for said accumulation of said non-peak hour periods for said player is less than said second threshold time value for warning said player, then giving a notice to said player; displaying said notice to said player on said display; recording said notice on said player's card, or on a central database via said player's card; said processor receiving a first predetermined amount of time; if said player comes back and logs in to said electronic gaming machine or a particular casino within said first predetermined amount of time since last time said player logged out, a card reader or ticket printer reading said total log-in time for said accumulation of said non-peak hour periods for said player from said player's card, or from said central database via said player's card; tracking said player's logging events by a machine aggregator module, located within a casino aggregator module; recording said aggregations on a casino reporting device; wherein said card reader or ticket printer is within or connected to said electronic gaming machine; if said player further logs in another period of time of said non-peak hour periods equal or more than said first threshold time value for triggering prize or reward minus said total log-in time for said accumulation of said non-peak hour periods for said player, then said electronic gaming machine presenting said player with a prize, reward, game option, free play, coupon, lunch ticket, show ticket, hotel room ticket, cash, or discounted or free service, through a winning determinator device. |
9118549 | 13942965 | 1 | 1. A system, comprising: a context analyzer configured to associate one or more Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) transactions of a web application with a web session; an extensible document parser configured to parse a document included in the one or more HTTP transactions; and a library of parser additions used by the context analyzer to generate context-full replay instructions, wherein the context analyzer chooses a parser addition from the library of parser additions, and wherein each of the one or more parser additions provides a parser extension for recording in a script. |
8838423 | 12915212 | 1 | 1. A method for managing an infrastructure, said method comprising: simulating a utilization of each of a plurality of different combinations of infrastructure components in performing an objective, wherein the infrastructure components include a plurality of servers and the objective comprises a computational workload based upon at least one of historical data and future objective demand predictions, wherein the simulating of the utilization includes simulating a placement of the computational workload on the different combinations of the plurality of servers subject to at least one constraint associated with the different combinations of the plurality of servers performing the objective; determining a resource demand for the infrastructure associated with each of the simulated utilizations of the plurality of different combinations of infrastructure components; simulating supply of resources by a plurality of available sources to meet each of the determined resource demands, wherein each of the plurality of available sources is to supply resources to each of the infrastructure components; determining, using a processor, at least one metric associated with each of the determined resource demands and the simulated supply of resources by the plurality of available sources; and determining, by the processor, which of the plurality of different combinations of infrastructure components results in the at least one metric being optimized. |
20060288308 | 11452119 | 0 | 1. An information processing device, comprising: basic menu displaying means for displaying an image representative of a basic menu item list which includes one or more predetermined basic menu items, in a first displaying area; basic menu item selecting means for selecting one of the basic menu items from the one or more basic menu items as a selected basic menu item; first relevant information menu creating means for obtaining, from a relevant information table which stores each of the basic menu items and its relevant information so as to be associated with each other, relevant information associated with the selected basic menu item, as information on one or more first relevant information menu items, and creating a first relevant information menu item list which includes the one or more first relevant information menu items; first relevant information menu displaying means for displaying an image representative of the first relevant information menu item list, in the first displaying area; and basic menu redisplaying means for displaying at least a part of the image representative of the basic menu item list in a second displaying area which is different from the first displaying area. |
20160364413 | 14053626 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: identifying users of a network; identifying images accessible to said network; receiving from a first user the identifications of which users of said network appear in an image accessible to said network; displaying said identifications to a second user of said network, whereby users can share information about which said users of said network existing in said images accessible to said network. |
9900656 | 15300887 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by a computing system, information indicative of one or more television viewing activities of a user; receiving, by the computing system, information indicative of both first social media activity of a social media account of the user and second social media activity of one or more other social media accounts; determining, by the computing system, respective weighted values for each of the one or more television viewing activities and for each of the first and second social media activities; based on the determined weighted values, identifying, by the computing system, a video content package that includes television channels related to each of (i) the one or more television viewing activities of the user, (ii) the first social media activity of the social media account of the user, and (iii) the second social media activity of the one or more other social media accounts; making, by the computing system, a determination of whether the user is subscribed to one or more of the television channels; based on the determination, performing, by the computing system, an action, wherein if the determination is that the user is subscribed to one or more of the television channels, then the action comprises offering an a la carte list of the television channels to the user for purchase, and if the determination is that the user is not subscribed to one or more of the television channels, then the action comprises offering the video content package to the user for purchase. |