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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185490 | Class-specific iterated subspace classifier A method is provided for calculating a class-specific iterated subspace for a classification system utilized in a computing system. Training data in the specific class for the class-specific iterated subspace is collected. A linear orthogonal transform is applied tr... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180722 | Method and apparatus for data mining within communication session information using an entity relationship model Methods and apparatus are provided for analyzing user activity and for recording such user activity in an entity relationship model. A network is searched for materials associated with a user and content analysis techniques are performed on the associated materials ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8166047 | Systems, devices, and/or methods for managing data Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a method, which can comprise automatically storing and computing a sketch of a dataset that supports an automatically determined estimator of properties of a dataset. The dataset can be related to any population. For example... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165984 | Decision service for applications A decision service is described that provides a decision making process for an application. The decision service includes a runtime interface, a resolver interface, and an inference engine. The runtime interface is configured to receive a request from an application... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165983 | Method and apparatus for resource allocation among classifiers in classification systems Methods and apparatus for optimizing resource allocation among data analysis functions in a classification system are provided. Each of the data analysis functions is characterized as a set of operating points in accordance with at least one of resource requirements... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8156068 | Predictive ephemeral points-of-interest (PEPOI) Predicted ephemeral Points of Interest (PEPOI) are provided to wireless application users, as are likelihood maps. Wireless application users are provided with the ability to record locations and retrieve maps of past locations and predicted future locations of PEPO... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150791 | Benefits services privacy architecture A system and method of presenting benefits to a user of a computing device is provided. The method may include detecting user activities via a computer program executed on the computing device, storing a list of detected user activities in a user history in the comp... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150792 | System and method for performing activities based on proximity A system and method applies events to a set of rules, and such rules can produce still other events that can be provided to the same or different set of rules. Rules may have attributes, and all rules or only those with attributes corresponding to an object may be s... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8140539 | Systems, devices, and/or methods for determining dataset estimators Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a method, which can comprise automatically storing a sketch of a dataset that supports automatic determination of an estimator of properties of a dataset. The automatic determination can be based upon computed adjusted weigh... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140462 | Method and system for approximate string matching A method and system for approximate string matching are provided for generating approximate matches while supporting compounding and correction rules. The method for approximate string matching of an input pattern to a trie data structure, includes traversing a trie... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140461 | System and method for identifying conflicting network access rules and creating a resolved consequence A method of selectively identifying conflicting network access rules within a knowledge base containing a plurality of network access rules, each rule having a condition portion and a consequence portion, and creating a corresponding resolved consequence, including ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8126835 | Pattern detection Apparatus for detecting a pattern in a data stream comprises a pattern matching device for receiving the data stream. The pattern matching device comprises one or more rule engines, each rule engine operating under a plurality of state transition rules encoding a pl... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8112380 | Situation-aware thresholding for recommendation In one embodiment, data relating to usage patterns of the user is stored, wherein the data includes information as to items which were used and the context in which they were used. The data is then clustered into clusters of data points. Then a centroid is determine... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8103674 | E-matching for SMT solvers Embodiments are introduced which provide for creation of an E-matching code tree index which works on E-graphs to make E-matching more efficient. Use of the E-matching code tree allows performing matching of several patterns simultaneously. Embodiments are also desc... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8095495 | Exchange of syncronization data and metadata Systems and methods that disclose alternative patterns for exchange of synchronization data and/or metadata, e.g., ‘knowledge’, to enhance performance of synchronization processes are disclosed. Accordingly, the innovation discloses synchronization mechanisms th... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8086554 | Pattern matching in a multiprocessor environment Pattern matching in a plurality of interconnected processing engines includes: accepting a stream of input sequences over an interface and storing the input sequences; storing instructions for matching an input sequence to one or more patterns in memory accessible b... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8078564 | Controlling forward chaining execution in a rules system Detailed herein is a technology which, among other things, provides for forward chaining in a ruleset. In one approach to this technology, a first rule is examined, to identifying a data object associated with it. A second rule is identified, also associated with th... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8073804 | System and method for type 2 KASER (Knowledge Amplification by Structured Expert Randomization) A KASER (Knowledge Amplification by Structured Expert Randomization) engine reaches conclusions in a semantic format or which take the form of a series of rules. The conclusions are parsed into an array structure having a hierarchical order of validity. A set of ins... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8073803 | Method for matching electronic advertisements to surrounding context based on their advertisement content A system for selecting electronic advertisements from an advertisement pool to match the surrounding content is disclosed. To select advertisements, the system takes an approach to content match that focuses on capturing subtler linguistic associations between the s... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8065259 | Pattern matching in a multiprocessor environment Pattern matching in a plurality of interconnected processing engines includes: accepting a stream of input sequences over an interface and storing the input sequences; storing instructions for matching an input sequence to one or more patterns in memory accessible b... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060512 | Hybrid tensor-based cluster analysis What is disclosed is a novel system and method for analyzing multi-dimensional cluster data sets to identify clusters of related documents in an electronic document storage system. Digital documents, for which multi-dimensional probabilistic relationships are to be ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8051028 | Method and apparatus for generating configuration rules for computing entities within a computing environment using association rule mining A method and apparatus for generating computer configuration rules comprising receiving configuration data regarding a plurality of computers, analyzing the configuration data to determine associations within the configuration data, and generating configuration rule... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046322 | Methods and framework for constraint-based activity mining (CMAP) A method of mining data to discover activity patterns within the data is described. The method includes receiving data to be mined from at least one data source, determining which of a number of specified interests and constraints are associated with the mining proc... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041668 | Methods and apparatus for capturing and detecting inconsistencies in relational data using conditional functional dependencies Methods and apparatus are provided for detecting data inconsistencies. Methods are disclosed for determining whether a set of conditional functional dependencies are consistent; determining a minimal cover of a set of conditional functional dependencies and detectin... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8037005 | Device and method for a system analysis and diagnosis A device and a method for the analysis and troubleshooting of a system, based on the use of a model of the system, with application in particular in the area of industrial installations controlled by automatic control systems of the programmed or wired logic type. T... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8037007 | Situation-aware thresholding for recommendation In one embodiment, data relating to usage patterns of the user is stored, wherein the data includes information as to items which were used and the context in which they were used. The data is then clustered into clusters of data points. Then a centroid is determine... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8037006 | Sound classification system and method capable of adding and correcting a sound type A sound classification system for adding and correcting a sound type is disclosed. When the add/correct command processor receives a command to add or correct a sound type, the data in the first database is stored in the second database, and the type adding/correcti... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8032476 | Method and apparatus for efficient indexed storage for unstructured content A method and apparatus for efficient indexed storage for unstructured content have been disclosed. ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8019713 | Commonsense reasoning about task instructions A system and method enable an autonomous machine such as an indoor humanoid robot to systematically process user commands and respond to situations. The method captures distributed knowledge from human volunteers, referred to as “commonsense knowledge.” The comm... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8019714 | Thinking system and method A thinking system and method is provided by the present invention. In the present invention, the “thinking” system is capable of accepting information from outside environment, analyzing the information, requesting additional information, and then resulting the ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8005781 | Connection of value networks with information technology infrastructure and data via applications and support personnel A method and a system for relating of a value network analysis of a mission to a knowledge base of dependencies of data objects, applications and information technology resources required for achieving of such mission, such method used for optimization of provisioni... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005780 | Taxonomy engine and dataset for operating an appliance A control system for controlling the operation of a useful system comprises at least one controller configured to control an operation of the useful system in response to a well formed command from a group of well formed commands. At least one taxonomy engine of the... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7996353 | Policy-based management system with automatic policy selection and creation capabilities by using singular value decomposition technique A statistical approach implementing Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) to a policy-based management system for autonomic and on-demand computing applications. The statistical approach empowers a class of applications that require policies to handle ambiguous conditi... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7984007 | Proactive problem resolution system, method of proactive problem resolution and program product therefor A proactive problem resolution system, method of proactive problem resolution and program product therefor. User sensors extract data from user interaction with a computer terminal and pass extracted data to a sniffer agent. The sniffer agent checks for an indicatio... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7984008 | Evaluating the predictability of a pass phrase Computer readable storage medium, computer-implemented method, and computer system for identifying substring repetition in a pass phrase. A sub-string index is generated. The number of bits required to represent each character in the pass phrase is determined. An en... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7979378 | Medical device user interface automatically resolving interaction between programmable parameters This document discusses, among other things, a user interface capable of resolving interactions between programmable parameters for operation of a personal medical device. Programming these devices is a difficult task when many parameters are involved. The medical d... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7966277 | Partition-based pattern recognition system Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to pattern identification and pattern recognition. In some particular implementations, the invention provides a flexible pattern recognition platform including pattern recognition engines that can be dynamically adjusted to ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7962437 | Data comparison using different time periods in data sequences Data for a first time period in a primary data sequence is compared with data for a second time period in each of a set of secondary data sequences. The durations of the first and second time periods are correlated, and the first time period is different from the se... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7958077 | Rules engine for enterprise system An example embodiment provides a process relating to an inference engine for enterprise systems and enterprise contracts. In the example, the inference engine receives a fact and stores it in an input queue. Then the inference engine retrieves the fact from the inpu... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7958078 | Clustering triz analysis method The TRIZ decision process of the clustering method proposed by this invention uses the characteristics and invention rules from the contradiction matrix table resulting from massive quantities of patent inferences to find a similar or approximate character group and... | 06/07/2011 |
