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...Chester Carlson was a patent agent who tired of having to make multiple copies of patent applications using the only duplication method available at the time: carbon paper. In 1959 he came up with a new copying system and took it to IBM for evaluation. The "experts" at IBM determined potential sales to be only 5,000 units because people wouldn't want to use a bulky machine when they had carbon paper. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, the company founded on the system is Xerox.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120130819 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING CUSTOMIZED CONTENT USING EMOTIONAL PREFERENCE A system and method for providing customized content using emotional preference is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises a web analytics server, at least one website server and at least one user device all communicating through a network. The web analytics ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130927 | Shipping System and Method with Taxonomic Tariff Harmonization A system, method and computer-readable medium for providing a harmonized classification code for a good based on input including a database adapted to store content including a harmonized tariff classification code module for storing a data structure representing a harm... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130928 | EFFICIENT STORAGE OF INDIVIDUALS FOR OPTIMIZATION SIMULATION Candidate solutions to an optimization problem comprise a set of potential values that can be applied to variables in a problem description. Candidate solutions can be large because of the complexity of optimization problems and large number of variables. The population... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130925 | DECOMPOSABLE RANKING FOR EFFICIENT PRECOMPUTING Methods and computer storage media are provided for generating an algorithm used to provide preliminary rankings to candidate documents. A final ranking function that provides final rankings for documents is analyzed to identify potential preliminary ranking features, s... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130926 | NETWORK CLASSIFICATION LINK SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER RECORDING MEDIUM A network classification link system, method, and computer recording medium are presented. The system includes: an operation interface, for providing an execution item menu and a network sheet; an input unit, for obtaining a first operation signal and a second operation... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120109860 | Enhanced Training Data for Learning-To-Rank Training data is used by learning-to-rank algorithms for formulating ranking algorithms. The training data can be initially provided by human judges, and then modeled in light of user click-through data to detect probable ranking errors. The probable ranking errors are ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109859 | Scalable Ontology Extraction Techniques for facilitating learning of one or more ontological rules of a resource description framework database are provided. The techniques include obtaining ontology vocabulary from a resource description framework database, generating a rule hypothesis by incremen... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109745 | NEWS COMMENT RELATED ONLINE ADVERTISING Techniques are provided relating to online advertising in connection with news comments. Information may be obtained indicating that an online user is engaged in news comment viewing or interaction activity, including interacting one or more comments, such as user comme... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109716 | ANALYZING UTILITY CONSUMPTION Consumption levels are monitored over a period of time and analyzed. In response to a determination that a monitored consumption level is above a threshold that is defined based on consumption levels of an associated reference group, a notification may be provided. A pl... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120110393 | METHOD AND APPARATUS PROVIDING FAILOVER FOR A POINT TO POINT TUNNEL FOR WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK SPLIT-PLANE ENVIRONMENTS A method, apparatus and computer program product for providing failover for a point to point tunnel for wireless local area network split-plane environments is presented. A second network switch learns first data associated with a third network switch and the second net... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109861 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROCESSING METHOD THEREFOR, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM An information processing apparatus creates, for each of a plurality of nodes, a query to be executed for a learning pattern input to the node; inputs a plurality of learning patterns to a root node of the plurality of nodes; executes, for the learning pattern input to ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109862 | USER DEVICE AND METHOD OF RECOGNIZING USER CONTEXT A method and user device for recognizing a user context are provided. The method includes: recognizing at least one behavior generated from an object by analyzing a signal obtained by at least one sensor from among a plurality of sensors included in a user device; and r... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120109858 | Search with Joint Image-Audio Queries Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing joint image-audio queries. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from a client device, a joint image-audio query including query image data and query ... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084239 | Methods and Systems for Constructing Bayesian Belief Networks Methods and systems are described for simplifying a causal influence model that describes influence of parent nodes Xi (i=1, . . . , n) on possible states of the child node Y. The child node Y and each one of the parent nodes Xi (i=1, . . . , n) ar... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084292 | RECOMMENDING MOBILE DEVICE ACTIVITIES Techniques for recommending mobile device activities, such as accessing mobile applications and/or mobile Web pages, are described. Some embodiments provide an Activity Recommendation System (“ARS”) configured to recommend relevant activities for a user to perform w... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084236 | Recording medium storing decision tree generating program, decision tree generation method and decision tree generating apparatus A constraint condition DB storing a constraint condition that stipulates a structure of a decision tree is referenced, and a decision tree is generated from a case set where values of a plurality of attributes and a conclusion are associated with one another so that the... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084237 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM A data processing device includes a state value calculation unit which calculates a state value of which the value increases as much as a state with a high transition probability for each state of the state transition model, an action value calculation unit which calcul... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084235 | STRUCTURED PREDICTION MODEL LEARNING APPARATUS, METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM A structured prediction model learning apparatus, method, program, and recording medium maintain prediction performance with a smaller amount of memory. An auxiliary model is introduced by defining the auxiliary model parameter set θ(k) with a log-linear mod... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120084238 | System and Method to Enable Training a Machine Learning Network in the Presence of Weak or Absent Training Exemplars Described is a system and method for training a machine learning network. The method comprises initializing at least one of nodes in a machine learning network and connections between the nodes to a predetermined strength value, wherein the nodes represent factors deter... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072381 | Method and Apparatus for Segmenting Context Information An approach is provided for segmenting context information. A context segmenting platform determines context information associated with a device. The context segmenting platform determines context information associated with a device. The context segmenting platform th... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072029 | INTELLIGENT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING AND DIAGNOSING FAULTS IN HEATING, VENTILATING AND AIR CONDITIONING (HVAC) EQUIPMENT A system and a method for detecting and diagnosing faults in heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment is described. The system comprises a sensor; a classifier modelling a normal behaviour of the HVAC equipment in situ in the installed operation enviro... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072166 | DEDUCED RECKONING NAVIGATION WITHOUT A CONSTRAINT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORIENTATION OF A SENSOR PLATFORM AND A DIRECTION OF TRAVEL OF AN OBJECT Systems, methods, and apparatus for performing deduced reckoning navigation without a constraint relationship between orientation of a sensor platform and a direction of travel of an object are described herein. A sensor fusion component can be configured to receive dat... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072000 | MODELLING OF A PROPERTY OF PAPER, PAPERBOARD OR BOARD Properties of an end product, such as paper, paperboard or board, are important for the user of the end product. To be able to manufacture an end product of desired quality, it is important to know what kind of paper pulp used for manufacturing the end product results i... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120072380 | REGULAR EXPRESSION MATCHING USING TCAMS FOR NETWORK INTRUSION DETECTION A method is provided for implementing regular expression matching using ternary content-addressable memory devices. The method includes: receiving a set of regular expressions (REs) that specify data elements to be extracted from data packets; constructing a determinist... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054042 | ID-VALUE ASSESSMENT DEVICE, ID-VALUE ASSESSMENT SYSTEM, AND ID-VALUE ASSESSMENT METHOD An ID-value assessment device includes: an assessment calculation section that calculates a value assessment of a user to be assessed by using an assessment function of outputting the value assessment, which represents values of the corresponding user, in response to in... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054133 | METHOD OF CONFIGURING A SENSOR-BASED DETECTION DEVICE AND A CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM AND ADAPTIVE DEVICE This method of configuring a device for detecting a situation from among a set of situations in which it is possible to find a physical system observed by a least one sensor, comprises the following steps: receiving (102) a training sequence corresponding to a de... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054130 | RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS AND METHODS EMPLOYING PROBABILISTIC CROSS-MEDIA RELEVANCE FEEDBACK In a retrieval application, a document relevance scoring function comprises a weighted combination of scoring components including at least one of a pseudo-relevance scoring component and a cross-media relevance scoring component. Weights of the document relevance scori... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054131 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRAINING A SELF-LEARNING NETWORK USING INTERPOLATED INPUT SETS BASED ON A TARGET OUTPUT Embodiments relate to systems and methods for training a self-learning network using interpolated input sets based on a target output. A database management system can store sets of operational data, such as financial, medical, climate or other information. A user can i... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054040 | Adaptive Targeting for Finding Look-Alike Users A method for adaptive display of internet advertisements to look-alike users using a desired user profile dataset as a seed to machine learning modules. Upon availability of a desired user profile, that user profile is mapped other look-alike users (from a larger databa... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054132 | Sorted Inbox with Important Message Identification Based on Global and User Models A server system receives a message associated with a user. The server extracts message signals from the message, the extracted message signals including a first plurality of message signals. The server generates an importance weight for each message signal of the first ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054129 | METHOD FOR CLASSIFICATION OF OBJECTS IN A GRAPH DATA STREAM A method for classifying objects in a graph data stream, including receiving a training stream of graph data, the training stream including a plurality of objects along with class labels that are associated with each of the objects, first determining discriminating sets... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047096 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CLASSIFYING APPLICATIONS USING THE COLLECTIVE PROPERTIES OF NETWORK TRAFFIC In one embodiment, the present disclosure is a method and apparatus for classifying applications using the collective properties of network traffic. In one embodiment, a method for classifying traffic in a communication network includes receiving a traffic activity grap... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047097 | Secure Handling of Documents with Fields that Possibly Contain Restricted Information A method, system and computer program product for processing documents containing restricted information. One aspect concerns identifying which sections of a document may be critical, non-critical or possibly critical.... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047098 | METHOD FOR COMPUTING AND STORING VORONOI DIAGRAMS, AND USES THEREFOR A method of producing and storing a Voronoi diagram includes: a) selecting a desired site Pk and a desired point p in the site; b) selecting a plurality of subfaces corresponding to a manifold around said point p; c) for each desired subface selecting a plura... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120041902 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSIGNING USER PREFERENCE SETTINGS FOR A CATEGORY, AND IN PARTICULAR A MEDIA CATEGORY A system and method for assigning user preference settings for fields in a category using selected settings for only a subset of the media category fields is disclosed. A subset of fields for a media category is defined. A base setting for each field in the subset of th... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120041911 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING A NEUROPSYCHIATRIC CONDITION OF A HUMAN SUBJECT A method for assessing a neuropsychiatric condition (such as, but not limited to, a risk that a subject may attempt to commit suicide or repeat an attempt to commit suicide, a risk that terminally ill patient is not being cared-for or treated according to the patient's ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120041904 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CONTINUED ATTENTION TO DISTANCE-LEARNING CONTENT Management of a user's continued attention to distance learning content using a general purpose computer having a central processing unit and an operating system configured to run multiple program applications concurrently. A memory stores the distance learning content.... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120041908 | Predictive Radiosensitivity Network Model This invention is a model that simulates the complexity of biological signaling in a cell in response to radiation therapy. Using gene expression profiles and radiation survival assays in an algorithm, a systems model was generated of the radiosensitivity network. The n... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120041905 | Supervised Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Supervised nonnegative matrix factorization (SNMF) generates a descriptive part-based representation of data, based on the concept of nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) aided by the discriminative concept of graph embedding. An iterative procedure that optimizes sug... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120041906 | Supervised Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Supervised kernel nonnegative matrix factorization generates a descriptive part-based representation of data, based on the concept of kernel nonnegative matrix factorization (kernel NMF) aided by the discriminative concept of graph embedding. An iterative procedure that... | 02/16/2012 |
