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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180712 | Methods and apparatus for determining whether a media presentation device is in an on state or an off state Methods and apparatus for determining whether a media presentation device is in an on state or an off state are disclosed. A disclosed example method comprises determining first and second characteristics of a signature associated with a signal representative of med... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8140444 | Method of measuring a large population of web pages for compliance to content standards that require human judgement to evaluate Embodiments herein provide a method, computer program product, etc. of measuring a large population of web pages for compliance to content standards that require human judgment to evaluate. The method performs an automated analysis of a web space, comprising gatheri... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140445 | Fuzzy rule handling A method to add expression level fuzzy rule processing capability to existing crisp rule engine without requiring extensive modifications to such rule engine. A system and computer implemented method receive a data set at a crisp rule engine. If the data set involve... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8027937 | Systems, devices, and methods for providing multiple services to premises over communication networks Methods, systems, and devices for providing one or more virtual networks for a plurality of services are disclosed. The device may include a secure access node coupled to a wide area communication network and a premises communication network. The secure access node ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8005765 | Method for scheduling and usage of data communication bandwidth A method for scheduling and usage of bandwidth wherein data is transmitted to an artificial intelligence model for analysis and assigned a ranking. An event resource allocation model analyzes the ranking and determines how to compress the associated video. The event... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7953674 | Fuzzing system and method for exhaustive security fuzzing within an SQL server Systems and methods that incorporate fuzzing capabilities within an SQL server to facilitate penetration testing. A fuzzing component associated with the SQL server provides an entry point for accessing the fuzzing system to update explicit user specified parameters... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7882119 | Document alignment systems for legacy document conversions A method for aligning documents which may be in different XML formats includes inputting source and target leaves of a source and documents in first and second tree structured formats and assigning a cost to each of a plurality of matches. Each match may include a s... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7853538 | Fuzzy logic-based surveillance in information technology and business service management systems A method and apparatus are disclosed for monitoring all levels of information technology and computing resources from low-level hardware up to enterprise level applications and their relation to business processes and business services, and alerting responsible pers... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7849022 | Optical functional sheet, and display device The present invention provides an optical functional sheet and a display device that are capable of keeping a given degree or more of front luminance and are capable of substantially reducing brightness nonuniformity. To this end, the optical functional sheet has a ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7835997 | System for therapy The invention is a system for remotely conducting psychotherapy between a client having and a therapist over the internet. The system includes a first web enabled computer device operated by the client, said first computer device having a web browser and being opera... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7836081 | Event notification verification and escalation Documents to be accessed over a computer network are stored in network data storage such that each document is associated with a document archive and a task is associated with each stored document. An escalation list is created for each task and is associated with t... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7822693 | Logic arrangement, data structure, system and method for multilinear representation of multimodal data ensembles for synthesis, recognition and compression A data structure, method, storage medium and logic arrangement are provided for use in collecting and analyzing multilinear data describing various characteristics of different objects. In particular it is possible to recognize an unknown individual, an unknown obje... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7809655 | Method for scheduling and usage of satellite bandwidth A method for scheduling and usage of satellite bandwidth wherein data is transmitted to an artificial intelligence model for analysis and assigned a ranking. An event resource allocation model analyzes the ranking and determines how to compress the associated video.... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7783580 | Control method combining fuzzy logic control with sliding mode control for ideal dynamic responses The invention provides a novel control method combining fuzzy logic control with gain auto-tuning sliding mode control. A control error signal e(t) from the detection mechanism and an error change signal ce(t) are combined together as a sliding variable s(t)=ce(t)+Î... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7765170 | Data segmentation algorithm using a decrementing sliding walker chunking approach A method for segmenting a data set is disclosed. The method consists of setting a maximum walker size and setting a walker size. Then, a first segment of data from the data set is obtained, wherein the first segment of data is the size of the walker. Then, a second ... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7725407 | Method of measuring a large population of web pages for compliance to content standards that require human judgement to evaluate Embodiments herein provide a method, computer program product, etc. of measuring a large population of web pages for compliance to content standards that require human judgment to evaluate. The method performs an automated analysis of a web space, comprising gatheri... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7711659 | Adaptive system for fan management A system may include construction of observation vectors based on a plurality of power samples indicating past power consumption of a device and a plurality of temperature samples indicating past temperatures of the device, determination of an estimated temperature ... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7664712 | Method and system for impact analysis using a data model Systems and methods for determining the impact of an asset on an enterprise architecture using a data model are disclosed. These systems and methods may determine the impact of a particular asset on the enterprise architecture represented by the data model, where de... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7644047 | Semantic similarity based document retrieval A method and apparatus are provided for generating, from an input set of documents, a word replaceability matrix defining semantic similarity between words occurring in the input document set. For each word, distinct word sequences of predetermined length are identi... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7624074 | Methods for feature selection in a learning machine In a pre-processing step prior to training a learning machine, pre-processing includes reducing the quantity of features to be processed using feature selection methods selected from the group consisting of recursive feature elimination (RFE), minimizing the number ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7603323 | Logic arrangement, data structure, system and method for multilinear representation of multimodal data ensembles for synthesis recognition and compression A data structure, method, storage medium and logic arrangement are provided for use in collecting and analyzing multilinear data describing various characteristics of different objects. In particular it is possible to recognize an unknown individual, an unknown obje... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7526455 | Trusted decision support system and method Methods and apparatus for providing a comprehensive decision support system to include predictions, recommendations with consequences and optimal follow-up actions in specific situations are described. Data is obtained from multiple disparate data sources, depending... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7398255 | Neural prosthesis with fuzzy logic control system A neural prosthesis for providing a signal indicative of a predicted event from a cycle of events includes a signal-acquisition system for receiving a neural signal, and a fuzzy-logic inference system for receiving, from the signal acquisition system, a signal indic... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7373332 | Methods and apparatus for detecting temporal process variation and for managing and predicting performance of automatic classifiers Techniques for detecting temporal process variation and for managing and predicting performance of automatic classifiers applied to such processes using performance estimates based on temporal ordering of the samples are presented. ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7365674 | Airborne weather profiler network Apparatus and methods for remotely sensing meteorological conditions and for building models from the sensed conditions. More particularly, networks and systems are provided for gathering remotely sensed profiles of the meteorological conditions and for building the... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7365675 | Measuring wind vectors remotely using airborne radar Airborne meteorological radars and related networks and models. In one embodiment a network for creating a meteorological model includes a mobile sensing node and a modeling node. The sensing node includes a meteorological RADAR that senses the wind velocity. Data f... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7346592 | Method and an apparatus for predicting intake manifold pressure of an internal-combustion engine A method and an apparatus for predicting intake manifold pressure are presented, to compensate for a large lag or a large time delay without producing an overshot or discontinuous behaviors of a predicted value. The method comprises the step of obtaining a differenc... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7333923 | Degree of outlier calculation device, and probability density estimation device and forgetful histogram calculation device for use therein Degree of outlier of one input data is calculated by an amount of change in a learned probability density from that before learning as a result of taking in of the input data. This is because data largely differing in a tendency from a so far learned probability den... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7330876 | Method and system of automating internet interactions A method and system of implementing recorded data for automating interactions which occur across the Internet includes storing data at a central Web server adapted for maintaining a database. Responsive to a program script requesting data, computer program code at t... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7308339 | System and method for tuning a raw mix proportioning controller A system and method for tuning a raw mix proportioning controller used in a cement plant. A fuzzy logic supervisory controller tracks the performance of a cement plant simulator to target set points for attaining a correct mix and composition of raw materials. A gen... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7302375 | Simulation of processes, devices and circuits by a modified newton method Roughly described, a method for numerically solving a system of equations of the form 0=F(X), for a solution vector X which involves choosing a starting value X0 and iterating Xn+1=X | 11/27/2007 |
| 7296018 | Resource-light method and apparatus for outlier detection Outlier detection methods and apparatus have light computational resources requirement, especially on the storage requirement, and yet achieve a state-of-the-art predictive performance. The outlier detection problem is first reduced to that of a classification learn... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7296236 | Appliance control identification system employing user interface scan matrix A universal controller is employed in a domestic appliance including a user interface. In order to determine the particular user interface utilized and, correspondingly, the available cycles, features and options of the appliance, a scan of a keypad matrix associate... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7293070 | Method and system for deploying web components between portals in a portal framework Disclosed are embodiments of a method, system and computer program product for deploying components of a site between systems in a portal framework. In one embodiment, file assets as well as non-file assets of at least one component of a site designated for export a... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7286704 | Imaging fire detector An imaging fire detector is used to detect a fire from a recorded image sequence. Either a video camera or an infrared camera is used as an imaging device. Characterizing parameters of a fire are either analyzed individually or in combination. In order to detect cha... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7280985 | Logic arrangement, data structure, system and method for multilinear representation of multimodal data ensembles for synthesis, recognition and compression A data structure, method, storage medium and logic arrangement are provided for use in collecting and analyzing multilinear data describing various characteristics of different objects. In particular it is possible to recognize an unknown individual, an unknown obje... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7266559 | Method and apparatus for adapting a search classifier based on user queries A method and computer-readable medium are provided for constructing a classifier for classifying search queries. The classifier is constructed by receiving a query from a user and applying the query to a classifier to identify the task. An unsupervised mapping betwe... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7257569 | System and method for determining community overlap A system and method for evaluating an information aggregate. A metrics database stores document indicia including document attributes and associated person. A query engine responsive to a user request and the metrics database aggregates documents having same, unique... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7251638 | Intelligent robust control system for motorcycle using soft computing optimizer A Soft Computing (SC) optimizer for designing a Knowledge Base (KB) to be used in a control system for controlling a motorcycle is described. In one embodiment, a simulation model of the motorcycle and rider control is used. In one embodiment, the simulation model i... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7249123 | System and method for building social networks based on activity around shared virtual objects A system and method for determining a social network. A metrics database stores virtual object indicia including document attributes, activities, and associated persons. A query engine responsive to a user request and the metrics database infers individual connectio... | 07/24/2007 |
