Did You Know...
...that the Slinky toy was the result of a failed attempt by engineer Richard James to produce an antivibration device for ship instruments? His goal was to develop a spring that would instantaneously counterbalance the wave motion that rocks a ship at sea. Instead, he developed the Slinky.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120323537 | DETECTING IMPACT OF EXTRINSIC EVENTS ON A TIME SERIES In one embodiment, an event impact signature detector may analyze a time series with external events. A data interface 250 may receive a data set 310 representing the time series with external events. A processor 220 may fit the data set 310 ... | 12/20/2012 |
| 20110295567 | MIXTURE MODELING WITH COMPONENT-DEPENDENT PARTITIONS Described are variational Expectation Maximization (EM) embodiments for learning a mixture model using component-dependent data partitions, where the E-step is sub-linear in sample size while the algorithm still maintains provable convergence guarantees. Component-depen... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20100083103 | Phrase Generation Using Part(s) Of A Suggested Phrase Real-time query expansion (RTQE) is a process of supplementing an original query with addition terms or expansion choices that are ranked according to some figure of merit and presented while users are still formulating their queries. As disclosed herein, phrases may be... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20090313572 | PHRASE BUILDER Real-time query expansion (RTQE) is a process of supplementing an original query with additional terms or expansion choices that are ranked according to some figure of merit and presented while users are still formulating their queries. As disclosed herein, individual t... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20090313573 | TERM COMPLETE Real-time query expansion (RTQE) is a process of supplementing an original query with additional terms or expansion choices that are ranked according to some figure of merit and presented while users are still formulating their queries. As disclosed herein, individual t... | 12/17/2009 |
| 20080217075 | DUAL JOYSTICK DIRECTIONAL TEXT INPUT The claimed subject matter provides for character selection based on two orthogonal directional inputs associated with two input controllers. Such character selection can include a dual-input selection component comprising two independent input directional controllers, ... | 09/11/2008 |
| 20080140519 | ADVERTISING BASED ON SIMPLIFIED INPUT EXPANSION Match criteria are provided to specify when advertisements will be shown, for instance in a search environment. Input such as search queries can be represented in a simplified form such as an implicit and/or explicit wildcard expression. Advertisers or other entities ca... | 06/12/2008 |
| 20080010043 | Efficient gradient computation for conditional Gaussian graphical models The subject invention leverages standard probabilistic inference techniques to determine a log-likelihood for a conditional Gaussian graphical model of a data set with at least one continuous variable and with data not observed for at least one of the variables. This pr... | 01/10/2008 |
| 20070255552 | DEMOGRAPHIC BASED CLASSIFICATION FOR LOCAL WORD WHEELING/WEB SEARCH Systems and methods that create a classification of sentences in a language, and further construct associated local versions of language models, based on geographical location and/or other demographic criteria—wherein such local language models can be of different lev... | 11/01/2007 |
| 20070164782 | Multi-word word wheeling The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that expand input data. An interface can obtain input data and a wildcard insertion component can modify the input data to include at least one implicit wildcard inserted at an end of each intended word. Additio... | 07/19/2007 |
| 20070168469 | Server side search with multi-word word wheeling and wildcard expansion The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that expand input data. An interface can obtain input data and a wildcard insertion component can modify the input data to include at least one implicit wildcard inserted at an end of each intended word. Additio... | 07/19/2007 |
| 20070136533 | Pre-storage of data to pre-cached system memory System(s) and method(s) that facilitate utilizing pre-cached disk space. Pre-cached memory space within a storage device is identified, and a subset of the pre-cached memory space is pre-populated with data so that the data can be selectively and dynamically accessed. D... | 06/14/2007 |
| 20060290535 | Using language models to expand wildcards A method of inputting text is provided in which a first portion of an input string is received from a user, the first portion of the input string including at least one keystroke representing a wildcard character of the input string. A second portion of the input string... | 12/28/2006 |
| 20060293899 | Compressing language models with Golomb coding A method of compressing a language model is provided. A list of numerical values is generated from elements of a user input. The list of values is sorted. Differences between adjacent integer values in the list are calculated. Each calculated difference is encoded using... | 12/28/2006 |
| 20060129395 | Gradient learning for probabilistic ARMA time-series models The subject invention leverages the conditional Gaussian (CG) nature of a continuous variable stochastic ARMAxp time series model to efficiently determine its parametric gradients. The determined gradients permit an easy means to construct a parametric struct... | 06/15/2006 |
| 20060106560 | Anomaly detection in data perspectives The present invention leverages curve fitting data techniques to provide automatic detection of data anomalies in a “data tube” from a data perspective, allowing, for example, detection of data anomalies such as on-screen, drill down, and drill across data anomalies... | 05/18/2006 |
| 20050288883 | ANOMALY DETECTION IN DATA PERSPECTIVES The present invention leverages curve fitting data techniques to provide automatic detection of data anomalies in a “data tube” from a data perspective, allowing, for example, detection of data anomalies such as on-screen, drill down, and drill across data anomalies... | 12/29/2005 |
| 20050267717 | Determining near-optimal block size for incremental-type expectation maximization (EM) algrorithms Determining the near-optimal block size for incremental-type expectation maximization (EM) algorithms is disclosed. Block size is determined based on the novel insight that the speed increase resulting from using an incremental-type EM algorithm as opposed to the standa... | 12/01/2005 |
| 20050234960 | Automatic data perspective generation for a target variable The present invention leverages machine learning techniques to provide automatic generation of conditioning variables for constructing a data perspective for a given target variable. The present invention determines and analyzes the best target variable predictors for a... | 10/20/2005 |
| 20050027665 | Dynamic standardization for scoring linear regressions in decision trees The present invention relates to a system and method to facilitate data mining applications and automated evaluation of models for continuous variable data. In one aspect, a system is provided that facilitates decision tree learning. The system includes a learning compo... | 02/03/2005 |
