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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100057730 | CONTACT INFORMATION QUERYING System and method for querying of contact information are disclosed. An aspect of the invention includes a method for querying contact information. The method includes receiving a query language including relationship information of a plurality of contacts with unknown ... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057727 | DETECTION OF RECURRING NON-OCCURRENCES OF EVENTS USING PATTERN MATCHING Techniques for detecting recurring non-occurrences of an event. In one embodiment, techniques are provided for detecting the non-occurrence of an event within each of a series of time periods following the occurrence of another event. Language extensions are provided th... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057577 | System And Method For Providing Topic-Guided Broadening Of Advertising Targets In Social Indexing A computer-implemented system and method for providing topic-guided broadening of advertising targets in social indexing is provided. Articles of digital information and one or more social indexes are maintained. Each social index includes topics that each relate to one... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057724 | SERVER DEVICE FOR CREATING LIST OF GENERAL WORDS TO BE EXCLUDED FROM SEARCH RESULT A server device of the present invention includes a control unit collecting texts stored in a storage unit in response to an instruction from the outside or when a predetermined time is reached, extracting words from the collected texts, determining, as a general word, ... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057726 | Collaborative Search A collaborative search is disclosed. The collaborative search includes receiving a search request of a mobile terminal. Searching based on the search request to obtain search results. Obtaining a relationship list associated with an identifier of the mobile terminal. Ob... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057729 | System, Method, and Computer Program Product for a Geometric Search of a Configurable Product Structure A method for searching a bill of materials (BOM) in a data processing system, a data processing system configured to perform a corresponding method, and a computer program product encoded with instructions for performing the method. The method includes retrieving BOM da... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057718 | System And Method For Generating An Approximation Of A Search Engine Ranking Algorithm A system and method for determining a ranking function for a search engine. A training data processor receives training data, the training data including at least a first page, a first label, a second page and a second label. A feature extraction processor receives the ... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057717 | System And Method For Generating A Search Ranking Score For A Web Page A system and method for generating a search ranking score for a web page. The system comprises a training data processor effective to receive training data including at least a first page, a first label, a second page and a second label. The system further comprises a f... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057721 | Information Providing Server, Information Providing Method, and Information Providing System According to one embodiment, a record information storage module stores record information related to content recorded by an external apparatus in association with a keyword representing the content and user information. A search information storage module stores a sear... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057723 | PROVIDING ANSWER TO KEYWORD BASED QUERY FROM NATURAL OWNER OF INFORMATION A type of search engine (referred to as the “Get Engine”) receives one or more keywords, semantically formulates a question being asked from the keywords, generates specifications for the query, and searches a website index to determine websites that are likely owne... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057714 | SEARCH RESULTS RANKING METHOD AND SYSTEM A ranking method and system. The method includes receiving by a computing system, from a user, a keyword associated with a search for information. The computing system generates a results list comprising links to files comprising data associated with the keyword. The co... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057711 | EXTRACTION OF CRITICAL INFORMATION FROM DATABASE Some embodiments of extraction of critical information from a database in a networked system have been presented. In one embodiment, a subset of data from the database in the networked system is extracted. The subset of data is indexed to generate an index. Using the in... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057728 | ITERATIVE AND INTERACTIVE CONTEXT BASED SEARCHING The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for iteratively and interactively searching for information. Embodiments of the invention can provide a user with relevant location-specific information in response to a query from the user... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057731 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, REPRODUCTION DEVICE, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM An information processing apparatus includes a communication unit configured to receive, from a reproduction device that reproduces content recorded on a loaded recording medium, content forming information regarding the structure of the content; a degree-of-similarity ... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057719 | System And Method For Generating Training Data For Function Approximation Of An Unknown Process Such As A Search Engine Ranking Algorithm A system and method for generating training data for a machine learning system. A training data generator server sends at least one keyword to a search engine. The training data generator server receives at least a first and a second page from the search engine in respo... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057725 | INFORMATION RETRIEVAL DEVICE, INFORMATION RETRIEVAL METHOD, AND PROGRAM In an exemplary aspect, the present invention includes a control unit that when a keyword for search is entered, collects texts containing that keyword from texts stored in a storage unit, extracts a noun of collected first texts, determines a noun partially matching wi... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057715 | Prevention of a User Mimicking Another User in a Virtual World Methods and apparatus associate a computed difference factor to avatars that are to interact with one another in a simulated environment. Applying a difference factor to the avatars enables identification of similar avatars in order to avoid mistaken identities among th... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057716 | System And Method For Providing A Topic-Directed Search A system and method for providing a topic-directed search is provided, which advantageously harnesses user-provided topical indexes and an ability to characterize indexes according to how articles fall under their topical organizations. A corpus of articles and an index... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057539 | Internet-based location intelligence system An internet-based location intelligence system comprising,
| 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057720 | AUTOMATIC LEXICON GENERATION SYSTEM FOR DETECTION OF SUSPICIOUS E-MAILS FROM A MAIL ARCHIVE A system for generating a lexicon of words, organized into weighted categories, from a user defined set of example documents for detecting suspicious e-mails from a mail archive is provided. The system uses a set of example documents and e-mails given by the user to pro... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057483 | Software tool for developing patent submissions A computer readable medium configured to store instructions for executing the following steps (A) accepting a first number of user parameters to be organized as a patent idea, (B) accepting a second number of user parameters to add to the patent idea, and (C) automatica... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057722 | Image processing apparatus, method, and computer program product The target content selecting unit selects a first image from the content storage unit. The relevance calculating unit calculates relevance of second images to the first image by use of the metadata. The display content selecting unit identifies a second image selected b... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057583 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ORDERING VIDEO CONTENT USING A LINK A method and system for ordering content includes a content processing system and a device in communication with the content ordering system. The device displaying a link corresponding to content and accessing a content ordering system by selecting the link. The content... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057712 | INTEGRATED COMMUNITY-BASED, CONTRIBUTION POLLING ARRANGEMENT Disclosed are apparatus and methods for facilitating online user polling over a computer network. In general, a particular web property is a web service or site that is related to a particular type of subject matter or service. A user of a particular web property can se... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057644 | INTERACTIVE DIGITAL VIDEO LIBRARY A system for increasing user interaction with a digital video library. In response to receiving a question by an interactive digital video library server from a user regarding course material being presented from a digital video library, it is determined whether the que... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057710 | GENERATION OF SEARCH RESULT ABSTRACTS The subject matter disclosed herein relates to generating an abstract of an electronic document based at least in part on a utility metric associated with a group phrases as well as on a ranked order of sentences.... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100057713 | ENTITY-DRIVEN LOGIC FOR IMPROVED NAME-SEARCHING IN MIXED-ENTITY LISTS According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for name searching in mixed-entity lists is provided which comprises dividing a mixed list of entities into a plurality of entity-specific lists. A name to be searched is then categorized into a category and... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100049707 | System And Method For The Structured Display Of Items A system and method for displaying items by receiving a query, identifying query feature values for similarity features associated with the query, identifying items each having item feature values for similarity features thereof, for each of the identified items and for... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049706 | WORK HISTORY MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREOF There is a need for facilitating configuration of the right to reference varied work histories and searching for work histories. A work history management apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention includes: a work history classification section that classifi... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049708 | System And Method For Scoring Concepts In A Document Set A system and method for scoring concepts in a document set is provided. Concepts including two or more terms extracted from the document set are identified. Each document having one or more of the concepts is designated as a candidate seed document. A score is calculate... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049705 | DOCUMENT SEARCHING DEVICE, DOCUMENT SEARCHING METHOD, AND DOCUMENT SEARCHING PROGRAM The present invention relates to a document search apparatus for searching a predetermined corpus for a document file whose content is related to text for searching. The apparatus stores index information that indicates the position in a document and the position in a m... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049862 | Personalized streaming digital content A method for generating personalized streaming content, the method including the steps of analyzing a digital library of a user associated with a user account, generating recommended digital media based on analysis of the digital library, generating personalized streami... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049684 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY Provided are methods and systems for knowledge discovery utilizing knowledge profiles.... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100050237 | GENERATING USER AND AVATAR SPECIFIC CONTENT IN A VIRTUAL WORLD Generation of user and avatar specific content in a virtual world may include generating a local attribute object. The local attribute object may comprise attributes identifying at least one of the user's real world location and the user's avatar's virtual world locatio... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049703 | METHOD FOR SUMMARISING KNOWLEDGE FROM A TEXT The present invention relates to a method for summarising knowledge from text and in particular to a method and system for summarising knowledge from text such as scientific or research papers. The continuing growth of the published literature has created a fundamental ... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100049704 | Map information processing apparatus, navigation system, and map information processing method A map information processing apparatus includes: a map information storage portion in which multiple pieces of map information can be stored; an accepting portion that accepts a map output instruction and a map browse operation sequence; a map output portion that reads ... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100042615 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AGGREGATING CONTENT ON A USER-CONTENT DRIVEN WEBSITE One or more items submitted by user-contributors of a website may be aggregated according to aggregation criteria. The aggregation criteria may specify a topic or type of item to be included in the aggregation. The aggregation criteria may be generated a priori by a use... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042614 | DEFERRED 3-D SCENEGRAPH PROCESSING Processing a scenegraph for a client, including: creating a stack of filters, wherein each filter of the stack of filters is configured to edit or create a property on an object within the scenegraph; presenting a query by the client to the stack of filters for a first ... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042616 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SELECTING AND PRESENTING REPRESENTATIVE CONTENT OF A USER Representative content of a user may be selected from the content submitted by the user and available on a website. The content may be rated and the selection of the representative content may be based upon the user ratings. The ratings may be submitted by other users a... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100042612 | Method and system for ranking journaled internet content and preferences for use in marketing profiles A method and system for ranking and categorizing journaled internet data sources for use in marketing and advertising. Journaled internet data sources are identified and examined. Journal data is retrieved from one or more of the data sources and a voting algorithm is a... | 02/18/2010 |
