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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120130933 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING TO MAKE INVENTION Method and system for making an invention are disclosed. Invention spaces are provided to support one to make pioneer-type or improvement inventions. An imaginary invention space is formed based on two circles disposed at both ends of an axis respectively. Each of the c... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130931 | BOOTSTRAPPING RECOMMENDER SYSTEM AND METHOD Bootstrapping a recommender system that makes item recommendations. The bootstrapping identifying questions for use in interviewing a user, e.g., a new user to the recommender system, to obtain user information, e.g., user profile information, for use in predicting item... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130932 | SYMBOLIC FINITE AUTOMATA Described are symbolic finite automata for symbolically expressing and analyzing regular expression constraints, such as for use in program analysis and testing. A regular expression or pattern is transformed into a symbolic finite automaton having transitions that are ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130934 | SMART SURVEY WITH PROGRESSIVE DISCOVERY Embodiments of the invention collect data or information from a dynamic and adaptive target group selection. Sets of experts are selected that each have higher value metrics scores relative to scores of other, unselected experts of a population of known experts, and whe... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120130935 | Conservation dependencies Given a set of data for which a conservation law is an appropriate characterization, “hold” and/or “fail” tableaux are provided for the underlying conservation law, thereby providing a conservation dependency whereby portions of the data for which the law approx... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120109868 | Real-Time Adaptive Output The subject disclosure relates to a technology by which output data in the form of audio, visual, haptic, and/or other output is automatically selected and tailored by a system, including adapting in real time, to address one or more users' specific needs, context and i... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120084242 | COUPLING OF RATIONAL AGENTS TO QUANTUM PROCESSES The present invention provides devices, methods, and systems for coupling a rational agent to a quantum process. In particular, the present invention provides rational agents configured to influence a quantum process, or to derive information from a quantum process, and... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120072385 | TECHNIQUE FOR SOLVING OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM A method for solving an optimization problem includes: causing a cylindrical algebraic decomposition (CAD) processing unit to carry out a projection processing for a first expression that appears in a quantifier elimination problem equivalent to the optimization problem... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120054141 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SELECTING GENES AND PROTEINS The present invention provides a device, method and program for selecting genes or proteins from a set of candidate genes or proteins so that the selected genes or proteins have a stronger relevance to a specific subject. The device of the present invention contains a s... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054140 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM There is provided an information processing apparatus for presenting knowledge information that is similar to inputted knowledge information, by using a knowledge system including relation information between a plurality of knowledge information items, the apparatus com... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054137 | System and a Method for Selecting a Type of a Curve Sole out of a Limited Group of Types of Curved Sole, to Match a Person A system for selecting a type of a curve sole out of a limited group of types of curved soles, to match a person, the system includes: (a) a center of gravity determination unit, which is adapted to determine a current center of gravity of the person; and (b) a processo... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054138 | CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION PROBLEM SOLVER A CSP is modified to include an auxiliary variable. A component of a constraint of the CSP is modified to refer to the auxiliary variable instead of referring to a pair of variables. A domain for the auxiliary variable may be defined based on domains of the pair of vari... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054139 | Method for Scheduling the Operation of Power Generators An optimal conditional operational schedule for a set of power generators is determined by constructing states and transitions of a factored Markov decision process (fMDP) from a target electrical demand and generator variables. A cost function for the fMDP is construct... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120047100 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING AT LEAST ONE APPLICATION DESCRIPTION An application description is generated with a plurality of application blocks. First, at least one basic document is read in and analyzed. During the analysis of the basic document, a knowledge base is constructed with knowledge elements, wherein the knowledge elements... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120041916 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SUPERVISING THE TREATMENT OF A CROP A method for supervising the treatment of a crop combines a field record, models of plants, diseases or insects and active substances coupled together, and includes, at least once, the following steps:
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| 20120041917 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ADAPTING A USER ENVIRONMENT A method of adapting an environment of a terminal (2) includes: —receiving data (27) from an external source at the terminal (2); —receiving monitoring data from a system for monitoring at least one user in the environment; and —controlling at... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120036080 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRACKING ONLINE SOCIAL INTERACTIONS Systems and methods of tracking online social interactions. In various instances, tracking may include any of the following inter-alia: ranking user accounts, identifying corresponding user accounts, noting online roles of user accounts and/or calculating the alternativ... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120030159 | Recommender Systems and Methods A system and method of providing personalized item recommendations in a communication system comprising a server and a plurality of client devices. At the server, a plurality of user rating vectors are received from a plurality of client devices and aggregated into a ra... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120024605 | DRILL HOLE PLANNING Forming a sequence plan for a machine to travel to a series of specified locations is described. An initial cost table (414) and a pattern of locations (412) is inputted to a Sequential Ordering Problem (SOP) solver (402). The resulting sequence ( 02/02/2012 | |
| 20120030163 | SOLUTION RECOMMENDATION BASED ON INCOMPLETE DATA SETS In accordance with one aspect of the present exemplary embodiment, a system determines a solution based on received data. An intake component receives an incomplete data set from one or more sources. A recommendation system transforms the incomplete data set into a sema... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120022910 | INTELLIGENT MANAGEMENT OF VIRTUALIZED RESOURCES FOR CLOUD DATABASE SYSTEMS Systems and methods are disclosed to manage resources in a cloud-based computing system by generating a model of a relationship between cloud database resources and an expected profit based on cloud-server system parameters and service level agreements (SLAs) that indic... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023044 | Issue Resolution in Expert Networks Techniques are provided for improved issue resolution in an expert network. For example, a method comprises the following steps. Information is extracted comprising: content of one or more historical records associated with resolutions of one or more previous issues; an... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023054 | Device and Method for Creating a Process Model A method and device for creating a process model, wherein the process model has great expressive power and is intuitively understandable for a human user and is processable by a machine. Creation of the process model is performed by providing a concrete process model, a... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120016830 | INSTANTIATING AN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICE IN LIGHT OF MAINTENANCE REQUIREMENTS In a method of instantiating an information technology (IT) service in light of maintenance requirements, maintenance window instances are determined. The maintenance instance windows are associated with reusable service instances available in a datacenter. The maintena... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120016817 | Predicting Life Changes of Members of a Social Networking System To predict a life change event for a user of the social networking system, such as a change in marital status, relationship status, employment status, etc., the disclosed system generates a training set of data comprising historical data of other users who have gone thr... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120016827 | BIOMETRICS WITH MENTAL/ PHYSICAL STATE DETERMINATION METHODS AND SYSTEMS Methods and systems for determining whether a particular individual is to be granted, among other things, access to information, access to a particular room or other space, or permission to perform a given act or transaction are disclosed. For example, disclosed is an e... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120016825 | DETECTOR CONFIGURATION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM A detector configuration apparatus for configuring a detector that performs detection through a plurality of detection stages with different resolutions capable of objectively determining a detection target modality type to be detected in each stage. The detector is con... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120005142 | FAST ADAPTATION IN REAL-TIME SYSTEMS According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for online convex optimization is provided. The method includes performing a step that relies on the selection of x at a time t (xt), where x is a variable involved with the step. A resulting cost... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120004925 | HEALTH CARE POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND EXECUTION Technology is described for developing health care policies for use in a health care facility. In one example method, a health care policy can be applied in a health care software application and stored in a health care database. A correlated feature set can be correlat... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120005143 | Model and algorithm for automated item generator of the graphic intelligence test A model for automated item generator of the graphic intelligence test solves the tremendous time consuming problem for manually devising the graph intelligence item. At the same time, the invention can automated generate more complicated, more transformations and better... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110320386 | EXTRAPOLATING EMPIRICAL MODELS FOR CONTROL, PREDICTION, AND OPTIMIZATION APPLICATIONS The present disclosure provides novel techniques for defining empirical models having control, prediction, and optimization modalities. The empirical models may include neural networks and support vector machines. The empirical models may include asymptotic analysis as ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110307437 | Local Causal and Markov Blanket Induction Method for Causal Discovery and Feature Selection from Data In many areas, recent developments have generated very large datasets from which it is desired to extract meaningful relationships between the dataset elements. However, to date, the finding of such relationships using prior art methods has proved extremely difficult es... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110307435 | EXTRACTING STRUCTURED KNOWLEDGE FROM UNSTRUCTURED TEXT Embodiments of the present invention relate to knowledge representation systems which include a knowledge base in which knowledge is represented in a structured, machine-readable format that encodes meaning. Techniques for extracting structured knowledge from unstructur... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110302111 | MULTI-LABEL CLASSIFICATION USING A LEARNED COMBINATION OF BASE CLASSIFIERS Multi-label classification is performed by (i) applying a set of trained base classifiers to an object to generate base classifier label prediction sets comprising subsets of a set of labels; (ii) constructing a set of second level features including at least one second... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110302121 | Environment-Responsive People Matching System and Method An environment-responsive people matching system and method matches people in accordance with inferences of mutual interests based, at least in part, on environmental conditions local to the people being matched. Other behavioral information, proximity, and mobility inf... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110302128 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISAMBIGUATING NON-UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS USING INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM DISPARATE COMMUNICATION CHANNELS The disclosure describes systems and methods for disambiguating a non-unique identifiers of real world entities (RWEs) detected by a computing network by dynamically identifying relationships between RWEs known to the network. The relationships are determined based on s... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110302455 | TARGETED BLACK BOX FUZZING OF INPUT DATA Technologies are described herein for performing targeted, black-box fuzzing of input data for application testing. A dataflow tracing module traces an application while it reads and processes a set of template data to produce operation mapping data that maps data locat... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110295785 | MOBILE E-LEARNING METHOD AND APPARATUS BASED ON MEDIA ADAPTED LEARNING OBJECTS A method, apparatus and system of a mobile e-learning method and apparatus based on media adapted learning objects are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes processing an e-learning course based on a set of executable files and a number of auxiliary files asso... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110295786 | BELIEF PROPAGATION PROCESSOR A processor includes a first memory module for storing a first set of storage values each representing a respective input, and a second memory module for storing a second set of storage values in analog form. An analog module is coupled to the first and the second memor... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110295787 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including an evaluation information extraction section configured to extract evaluation information including an object targeted to be evaluated and an evaluation of the object targeted to be evaluated from a lingu... | 12/01/2011 |
