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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190545 | Method and apparatus for adding skills to a database of skills by determing if new issues are similar previous issues that were resolved A system thinker application receives a first issue, a first resolution to the first issue, and a first plurality of skills. The system thinker application searches a system environment electronic profile for a second issue, a second resolution to the second issue, ... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8180727 | Method and apparatus for navigating modeling of a building using nonparametric user input building design data A system and method of navigating modeling of a building, including: receiving nonparametric user input building design data, organizing the nonparametric user input building design data, and globally editing the non-parametric data element in multiple objects withi... | 05/15/2012 |
| 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 |
| 8175991 | Business optimization engine that extracts process life cycle information in real time by inserting stubs into business applications A system and method for optimizing enterprise applications driven by business processes is provided. The system includes a data repository, an extractor to perform real time extraction of process life cycle information from business solutions integrating heterogeneo... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175992 | Methods and systems for compound feature creation, processing, and identification in conjunction with a data analysis and feature recognition system wherein hit weights are summed Methods and systems for creation, processing, and use of compound features during data analysis and feature recognition are disclosed herein. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention functions to apply a new level of data discrimination during data analysis ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170964 | Method for planning a semiconductor manufacturing process based on users' demands using a fuzzy system and a genetic algorithm model A method for planning a semiconductor manufacturing process based on users' demands includes the steps of: establishing a genetic algorithm model and inputting data; establishing a fuzzy system and setting one output parameter representing percent difference of each... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170969 | Automated computation of semantic similarity of pairs of named entity phrases using electronic document corpora as background knowledge An overall semantic similarity score value between pairs of named entities in a text corpus is obtained by calculating for at least one pair of named entities a plurality of corresponding pair similarity score values according to a first and at least a second classi... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170961 | Text edit tracker that categorizes communications, determines distances between templates, codes templates in color, and uses a morphing score based on edits A method for monitoring edits to a template for responding to an incoming communication includes categorizing the incoming communication into a category associated with the template for a response to the incoming communication. The method also includes determining d... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165982 | Method and apparatus for limiting how rule components can be modified using tag definitions and verbs Various embodiments herein include one or more of systems, methods, data structures, and software operable to limit how rules, or components thereof, may be modified. Some embodiments include receiving a rule definition in a system, the rule definition including one... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160981 | Event-based anticipation systems, methods and computer program products for associative memories wherein times of future events occurring are predicted A time of occurrence of an interest event of multiple events is anticipated based on time intervals between at least two previously occurring events and a previous occurrence of the interest event and based on a new occurrence of at least one of the events. For a re... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160979 | Method and apparatus for providing a virtual service agent that receives queries, compares questions to a set of queries, and allows a user to confirm a closest match A virtual agent is disclosed. The virtual agent may receive a question from a user, and compare the question against a list of queries contained in a database. The virtual agent may then assign a point value to the question, determine which of a set of ranges the po... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8156062 | Method for constructing database to deduce disease and providing U-health service using a subset of ontologies A method for constructing a database to deduce a disease and constructing a Bayesian network for U-Health application, the method including the steps of analyzing U-Health information, which includes a disease, a symptom, and a treatment, and constructing a pluralit... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150786 | Method for performing data analysis of samples that calculates a number of samples and associates traits with samples Various aspects provide for receiving data associated with a plurality of samples. A sample generally includes data associated with one or more events. One or more traits may be determined, where a trait may be a set of or associated with one or more events. General... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8140451 | Supervised learning using multi-scale features from time series events and scale space decompositions Disclosed herein is a method, a system and a computer program product for generating a statistical classification model used by a computer system to determine a class associated with an unlabeled time series event. Initially, a set of labeled time series events is r... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8141166 | Content access rights management system which embeds restricted metadata into a picture An apparatus comprises a content item receiver which receives a content item such as a digital photo or an audio or video clip. A user preference model generates data indicative of user preferences for content item access. An access rule processor determines a set o... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135656 | Online management service for identification documents which prompts a user for a category of an official document An online identification document management service includes a host server having a web-based interface adapted to facilitate secure customer access to the host server. The host server is configured to receive identification data communicated from the customer thro... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135653 | Power plant control device which uses a model, a learning signal, a correction signal, and a manipulation signal A control device for a plant includes a manipulation signal generation section for generating the manipulation signal to the plant, a model adapted to simulate a characteristic of the plant, a learning section for generating an input signal of the model so that an o... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131659 | Field-programmable gate array based accelerator system Accelerator systems and methods are disclosed that utilize FPGA technology to achieve better parallelism and processing speed. A Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) is configured to have a hardware logic performing computations associated with a neural network trai... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126830 | Method for ensuring privacy while querying a database by using quantum superposition and multiple responses In a database query operation, a quantum private query (QPQ) protocol allows a user to determine whether the database provider has been trying to obtain information about their query by performing quantum superpositions of different queries in addition to performing... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121964 | State machine method for editing requirements using transition systems, a sub-state mechanism, and a partial behaviors mechanism in order to reduce complexity and the number of states A method for providing writing requirements for a structured transition system employing state machines. The requirements employ a plurality of structuring mechanisms, namely, sub-state based structuring, abstraction based structuring and partial behavior structurin... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8108330 | Generating composite trust value scores, and atomic metadata values and associated composite trust value scores using a plurality of algorithms An approach is provided in which atomic trust scores are computed using a atomic trust factors that are applied to a plurality of metadata. A first set of composite trust scores are computed using some of the atomic trust scores. The composite trust scores are compu... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103610 | Dynamic categorization of rules in expert systems wherein a profile definition yields classification data that classifies rules and allows for rules to be searchable Various embodiments include one or more of systems, methods, software, and data structures for dynamic categorization of rules and collections of rules within a rule base, such as a rule base of an expert system. One embodiment provides a computerized method that in... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8103607 | System comprising a proxy server including a rules engine, a remote application server, and an aspect server for executing aspect services remotely A service request is received from a client, the service request being directed to a web application, wherein a core concern of the web application is configured to perform a core operation upon receiving the service request. The service request is compared to a plu... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8099380 | Blind evaluation of nearest neighbor queries wherein locations of users are transformed into a transformed space using a plurality of keys Systems and techniques are described for blind evaluation of nearest neighbor queries. Locations of multiple users in an original space are received. The locations in the original space are encoded into encoded locations in a transformed space. A relative proximity ... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8090675 | HVAC system that controls an asset via a wide area network in accordance with a business strategy using predictor and responder data points Included are embodiments for asset commissioning. At least one embodiment of a method includes classifying at least one data point of an environment controlling asset as a responder data point and classifying at least one other data point of the environment controll... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090671 | Dynamic performance modeling of computer application services using a serial parallel queueing network (SPQN) modeler A generic queueing network model of a Web services environment is introduced. The behavior of a service is abstracted in three phases: serial, parallel and dormant, thus yielding a Serial Parallel Queueing Network (SPQN) model with a small number of parameters. A me... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8078558 | Method for optimizing inequality and equality constrained resources allocation problems in industrial applications In industrial applications, the invention relates to various algorithms for determining optimal resources or assets allocations under various equality and inequality constraints. In particular, constrained quadratic or conic optimization problems of unique importanc... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8078551 | Decision-support expert system and methods for real-time exploitation of documents in non-english languages A method for real-time exploitation of documents in non-English languages includes processing an input document in into a processed input document, extracting ontology elements from the processed input document to obtain a document digest (DD), statistically scoring... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8065251 | Dynamic management of a process model repository for a process control system A method of managing a process model history having process models stored therein, includes organizing the process models according to first and second priority criteria, wherein each process model is represented according to a combination of a value in connection w... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8055599 | Pattern recognition using cycles or traces in an associative pattern memory (APM), vertical sensors, amplitude sampling, adjacent hashes and fuzzy hashes Pattern recognition based on associative pattern memory (APM) and properties of cycles generated by finite cellular automata. APM addresses (e.g., positions in a two dimensional array) represent states. Cycles are repeating sequences of addresses. Each state is mapp... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8036999 | Method for analyzing and classifying process data that operates a knowledge base in an open-book mode before defining any clusters Process data mining system and method. The system analyzes data from complex process plants or systems and operates in open-book and closed-book modes. In closed-book mode, the system monitors incoming data sets against pre-defined clusters of data values and genera... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8024277 | Reconstruction of gene networks and calculating joint probability density using time-series microarray, and a downhill simplex method Gene regulation network is reconstructed using time series microarray data under the method of the Bayesian network. Particular power-law function is used to calculate the joint probabilities among genes across time points. This invention discloses the use of the do... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7996343 | Classification via semi-riemannian spaces Described is using semi-Riemannian geometry in supervised learning to learn a discriminant subspace for classification, e.g., labeled samples are used to learn the geometry of a semi-Riemannian submanifold. For a given sample, the K nearest classes of that sample ar... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7499892 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program An information processing apparatus includes a first learning unit adapted to learn a first SOM (self-organization map), based on a first parameter extracted from an observed value, a winner node determination unit adapted to determine a winner node on the first SOM... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7499903 | Semantic to non-semantic routing for locating a live expert A system and method of semantic to non-semantic routing for locating an expert. An inquiry-type database has a first layer of inquiry types organized from underlying criteria groupings, (humanly understandable descriptors). Additional layers are associated in a one-... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7483865 | System for classification of small collections of high-value entities A system for classifying small collections of high-value entities with missing data. The invention includes: collecting measurement variables for a set of entity cases for which classifications are known; calibrating standard weights for each measurement variable ba... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7475051 | System and method for the cascading definition and enforcement of EDI rules An efficient organizer of companion guide rules is created by a validation application from the common set of rules among an industry's implementation guide and the rulebooks, such as companion guides of one or more entities, such as payers. The organizer of compani... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7475048 | Pre-processed feature ranking for a support vector machine A computer-implemented method is provided for ranking features within a large dataset containing a large number of features according to each feature's ability to separate data into classes. For each feature, a support vector machine separates the dataset into two c... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7467122 | System for aiding the design of product configuration While a base model has been determined for a product, in a system for performing a configuration designing operation of the product by setting a specification value to a specification item of the product, a product configuration design aiding system aids that a conf... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7467120 | System for supporting user's behavior Provided is a system 10 which supports a user's behavior by generating a behavioral decision function indicating behavior to be adopted to a certain target. The system 10 includes: a data acquiring section 110 which acquires a cost caused as a r... | 12/16/2008 |
