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Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| 8180725 | Method and apparatus for selecting links to include in a probabilistic generative model for text Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that selects links while updating a probabilistic generative model for textual documents. During operation, the system receives a current model, which contains terminal nodes representing words and cluster n... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8160992 | System and method for selecting a package structural design A system and method of selecting a package model may include maintaining a data structure of a plurality of package models. Each package model may have a plurality of package model attributes including at least a size and a style. A user input may be received that i... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160993 | System and methods for evaluating inferences of unknown attributes in a social network A method and system for determining a probability of inferring an unknown attribute value for an attribute of interest for a target node in a social network. The method comprises the steps of receiving as an input attribute values and link relationships for a plural... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8161066 | Methods and systems for creating a semantic object Among other disclosure, a knowledge network and semcards enabling intelligent matching of offers and requests, involving all types of information and knowledge, including information such as classified ads, data about products and services, or knowledge, expertise, ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8135660 | Semantic network methods to disambiguate natural language meaning A computer implemented data processor system automatically disambiguates a contextual meaning of natural language symbols to enable precise meanings to be stored for later retrieval from a natural language database, so that natural language database design is automa... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8126837 | Methods and apparatus related to document processing based on a document type In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a portion of text from a document. A document type is associated with the document based on at least one of the portion of text or an identifier associated with the document. The method also includes selecting, based on... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8090673 | Scoring content recommendations for user-specified topics via trust ratings A recommendation network is described. In some embodiments, the recommendation network includes recommenders that explicitly or implicitly recommend, rate or refer items and recommendation receivers that receive the recommendations. In some embodiments, the recommen... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8078568 | Properties of data elements Methods and computer program products relating to properties of data elements. A computer-implemented method for identifying a property of a data element includes receiving a request for at least one sought property of a data element. The data element is configured ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8060519 | Ontology-integration-position specifying apparatus, ontology-integration supporting method, and computer program product Attribute mapping information is stored, in which a superclass of an associated class in an integration-source ontology already associated with an integration-destination ontology, an attribute of the superclass, and an integration destination attribute of a class i... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8041669 | Topical sentiments in electronically stored communications The present application presents methods for performing topical sentiment analysis on electronically stored communications employing fusion of polarity and topicality. The present application also provides methods for utilizing shallow NLP techniques to determine th... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8027948 | Method and system for generating an ontology A method of generating an ontology includes determining plural concepts from a data set by using a first predetermined pattern, using a second predetermined pattern to determine a relationship between the plural concepts, and between a concept and a concept token in... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8019715 | Data partitioning and critical section reduction for bayesian network structure learning In a parallel system, multiple threads operate in parallel to perform network structure learning. A global score cache is partitioned into multiple split score caches, which may in one embodiment include associating a score cache with a node of the structure to be l... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7941449 | Data structure versioning for data management systems and methods In one of many possible implementations, an exemplary system includes a data integration subsystem configured to maintain a baseline data structure representing a base set of data relationships. The data integration subsystem in further configure to maintain a mappi... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7933856 | System and method for knowledge based matching of users in a network A knowledge-based system and methods to matchmaking and social network extension are disclosed. The system is configured to allow users to specify knowledge profiles, which are collections of concepts that indicate a certain topic or area of interest selected from a... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7925610 | Determining a meaning of a knowledge item using document-based information Systems and methods that determine a meaning of a knowledge item using related information are described. In one aspect, a knowledge item is received, related information associated with the knowledge item is received, at least one related meaning based on the relat... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7895148 | Classifying functions of web blocks based on linguistic features A classification system trains a classifier to classify blocks of the web page into various classifications of the function of the block. The classification system trains a classifier using training web pages. To train a classifier, the classification system identif... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7877345 | Topical sentiments in electronically stored communications The present application presents methods for performing topical sentiment analysis on electronically stored communications employing fusion of polarity and topicality. The present application also provides methods for utilizing shallow NLP techniques to determine th... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7860819 | Extensions to semantic net A semantic network includes a number of nodes are interconnected to one another through links (e.g., in a subject/verb/target form) representing relationships between the nodes and one or more of the links have one or more variants representing qualifications of the... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7853551 | Natural language knowledge processor using trace or other cognitive process models A computer implemented method for process data management displays a set of natural language questions and provides an organizational framework for passively and actively collecting natural language information so users can coordinate problem-solving and project dev... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7853618 | Methods and apparatus for generic semantic access to information systems A method of providing information from at least one information resource. A semantic query is received that includes one or more generic constructs referencing an ontology relating to a domain of the information resource(s). A representation of the semantic query in... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7849044 | System and method for automatic task prioritization A system and method for automatic task prioritization comprises one or more task queues, a monitoring module, and a decision engine. The decision engine receives tasks and assigns a priority code to each task. Each task is inserted into one of the task queues accord... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7844566 | Latent semantic clustering An embodiment of the present invention provides a computer-based method for automatically identifying clusters of conceptually-related documents in a collection of documents, including the following steps: generating a document-representation of each document in an ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7831538 | Evolutionary spectral clustering by incorporating temporal smoothness Systems and methods are disclosed for clusterizing information by determining similarity matrix for historical information and similarity matrix for current information; generating an aggregated similarity matrix (aggregated kernel); and applying evolutionary spectr... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7822701 | Lexicon generation methods, lexicon generation devices, and lexicon generation articles of manufacture Lexicon generation methods, computer implemented lexicon editing methods, lexicon generation devices, lexicon editors, and articles of manufacture are described according to some aspects. In one aspect, a lexicon generation method includes providing a seed vector in... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7818279 | Event detection based on evolution of click-through data A method and system for detecting events based on query-page relationships is provided. The event detection system detects events by analyzing occurrences of query-page pairs generated from a user selecting the page of the pair from a search result for the query of ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7805451 | Ontology-integration-position specifying apparatus, ontology-integration supporting method, and computer program product Attribute mapping information is stored, in which a superclass of an associated class in an integration-source ontology already associated with an integration-destination ontology, an attribute of the superclass, and an integration destination attribute of a class i... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7801841 | Method, system and software arrangement for reconstructing formal descriptive models of processes from functional/modal data using suitable ontology A method, system and software arrangement in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention are provided to extract descriptive narrative from numerical experimental data augmented with ontological controlled vocabulary. One exemplary application o... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7783642 | System and method of identifying web page semantic structures The disclosure presents a method, system and computer-readable medium related to automatically analyzing structure for a web page. The method embodiment comprises building a training corpus comprising a broad stylistic coverage of web pages, segmenting a web page in... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7761399 | Recommendation networks for ranking recommendations using trust rating for user-defined topics and recommendation rating for recommendation sources A recommendation network is described. In some embodiments, the recommendation network includes recommenders that explicitly or implicitly recommend, rate or refer items and recommendation receivers that receive the recommendations. In some embodiments, the recommen... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7734562 | Voice to text conversion with keyword parse and match to semantic and transactional concepts stored in a brain pool state machine using word distance to generate character model interaction in a plurality of dramatic modes A system and method is disclosed that supervises the behavior of interactive characters using dynamic, fuzzy, social rules. These characters, called Protags, resemble human beings and are modeled after universal characters and story motifs. Protags respond to input ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7711672 | Semantic network methods to disambiguate natural language meaning A computer implemented data processor system automatically disambiguates a contextual meaning of natural language symbols to enable precise meanings to be stored for later retrieval from a natural language database, so that natural language database design is automa... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7644057 | System and method for electronic communication management A system and method for classifying text includes a pre-processor, a knowledge base, and a statistical engine. The pre-processor identifies concepts in the text and creates a structured text object that contains the concepts. The structured text object is then passe... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7636702 | Intersection ontologies for organizing data An intersection ontology may comprise a root node, representing an entire data set, and a second “layer” of nodes, groups of which may be used to represent different types of classifications of the data set. The intersection ontology may then contain one or more... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7613675 | Hierarchical computing modules for performing recognition using spatial distance and temporal sequences A hierarchy of computing modules is configured to learn a cause of input data sensed over space and time, and is further configured to determine a cause of novel sensed input data dependent on the learned cause. The hierarchy is further configured to associate a fir... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7603334 | Code coverage of declarative objects Generating coverage information identifying tested elements of a declarative data structure. A method includes exercising a first element of a declarative data structure. Information is gathered about the effects of exercising a first element of a declarative data s... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7590612 | Blog map for searching and/or navigating the blogosphere A blog map for searching and/or navigating the blogosphere is provided. In accordance with one method for generating a blog map, a number of blog posts within the blogosphere are accessed. Each of the blog posts is converted to a feature vector, which represents the... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7536374 | Method and system for using voice input for performing device functions A computer implemented data processor system automatically disambiguates a contextual meaning of natural language symbols to enable precise meanings to be stored for later retrieval from a natural language database, so that natural language database design is automa... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7526465 | Human-machine interactions Digital technology utilizing a cognitive model based on human naturalistic decision-making processes, including pattern recognition and episodic memory, can reduce the dependency of human-machine interactions on the abilities of a human user and can enable a machine... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7526466 | Method and system for analysis of intended meaning of natural language A computer implemented data processor system automatically disambiguates a contextual meaning of natural language symbols to enable precise meanings to be stored for later retrieval from a natural language database, so that natural language database design is automa... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7523085 | Topical sentiments in electronically stored communications The present application presents methods for performing topical sentiment analysis on electronically stored communications employing fusion of polarity and topicality. The present application also provides methods for utilizing shallow NLP techniques to determine th... | 04/21/2009 |
