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20130110843 | 13594432 | 0 | 1. A computer system for analyzing an electronic claim file, comprising: an indexing database storing groups of synonyms, each synonym associated with a concept, wherein each concept forms an element in a vector; an indexing engine, receiving an electronic claim file for analysis and comparing data in said electronic claim file to said elements in said vector to determine whether said electronic claim file contains said element; and a scoring engine, in communication with said indexing engine and to generate a score associated with said electronic claim file based on said comparison and to compare said score with a threshold to determine a destination of said electronic claim file. |
8850429 | 13253426 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, at a first server executing desktop virtualization software, state information for a desktop virtualization system comprising a plurality of desktop virtualization servers, said plurality of desktop virtualization servers including the first server; receiving, by the desktop virtualization software of the first server, a request to create one or more virtual machines in the desktop virtualization system corresponding to a first virtual machine template; executing, by the desktop virtualization software of the first server, a load balancing algorithm based on the desktop virtualization system state information, wherein executing the load balancing algorithm comprises: (a) identifying a plurality of desktop virtualization servers storing a first virtual machine base image corresponding to the first virtual machine template; (b) determining a load balancing action corresponding to a determination to allocate one or more new virtual machines corresponding to the first virtual machine base image in a memory of at least one desktop virtualization server in the desktop virtualization system; (c) identifying a current resource capacity for each of the plurality of desktop virtualization servers storing the first virtual machine base image; and (d) determining at least one target server corresponding to the at least one desktop virtualization server at which to allocate the one or more new virtual machines corresponding to the first virtual machine base image, wherein the determination of the at least one target server is based on the current resource capacity of the plurality of desktop virtualization servers storing the first virtual machine base image; determining, by the desktop virtualization software of the first server, whether the first server is the target server to perform the load balancing action; and based on a determination that the first server is the target server to perform the load balancing action, performing the load balancing action at the first server. |
9769499 | 14823269 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: identifying an input block from a current frame from an input video stream; super-transform coding the input block using the input block as a current block, wherein super-transform coding includes: in response to a determination to encode the current block using a prediction block size corresponding to a size of the current block: determining a prediction block corresponding to the current block, the prediction block having a prediction block size corresponding to the size of the current block; and generating a transform block based on the prediction block using a transform having a transform size within the prediction block size, in response to a determination to encode the current block using a prediction block size smaller than the size of the current block: identifying a plurality of sub-blocks from the current block for prediction coding the current block, wherein a first sub-block from the plurality of sub-blocks is spatially adjacent to a second sub-block from the plurality of sub-blocks in the current block; in response to a determination to encode the current block using a transform having a transform size smaller than the size of the current block, super-transform coding each sub-block from the plurality of sub-blocks using the respective sub-block as the current block; and in response to a determination to encode the current block using a super-transform having a super-transform size corresponding to the size of the current block, generating, as the transform block, a super-transform block by transforming a super-prediction block for the current block using the super-transform, wherein the super-prediction block for the current block has a super-prediction block size corresponding to the size of the current block, and wherein generating the super-transform block includes generating the super-prediction block for the current block by super-prediction coding the current block, wherein super-prediction coding includes: for each sub-block from the plurality of sub-blocks: in response to a determination to encode the sub-block using a prediction block size corresponding to a size of the sub-block, determining a prediction block for the sub-block based on a motion vector associated with the sub-block, in response to a determination to encode the sub-block using a prediction block size smaller than the size of the sub-block: identifying a plurality of partitions from the sub-block for prediction coding the sub-block, wherein a first partition from the plurality of partitions is spatially adjacent to a second partition from the plurality of partitions in the sub-block; and generating, as the prediction block, a super-prediction block for the sub-block, wherein the super-prediction block for the sub-block has a super-prediction block size corresponding to the size of the sub-block, wherein generating the super-prediction block for the sub-block includes super-prediction coding the sub-block using the sub-block as the current block and using the plurality of partitions as the plurality of sub-blocks, generating a filtered prediction block by filtering at least a portion of the prediction block based on a spatially adjacent prediction block from the super-prediction block for the current block, and including the filtered prediction block in the super-prediction block for the current block, and including the transform block in an output bitstream; and transmitting or storing the output bitstream. |
20060026078 | 11096704 | 0 | 1. A method in a computing system for processing a distinguished text capture operation, comprising: receiving text captured from a distinguished rendered document in the distinguished text capture operation; receiving supplemental information distinct from the captured text; and determining an action to perform in response to the distinguished text capture operation based upon both the captured text and the supplemental information. |
8855825 | 12603382 | 1 | 1. An HVAC data processing and communication network, comprising: an active subnet controller configured to control networked devices via a data bus and configured to be addressed over said data bus; an environmental sensor configured to provide environmental data to said active subnet controller and configured to be addressable over said data bus independent of addressing said active subnet controller; and a user interface configured to provide access by an operator to said network and configured to be addressable over said data bus independently of addressing said active subnet controller and said environmental sensor; wherein said active subnet controller is located in an enclosure with at least one of said environmental sensor and said user interface, and said network further includes an inactive subnet controller, that is a different controller than said active subnet controller, configured to operate as said active subnet controller when said active subnet controller malfunctions. |
20120271927 | 13467785 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: receiving at a cloud manager an instruction to initiate a group of hosts on a remote server; receiving a group profile at the cloud manager from a database, the group profile comprising a set of group definitions and configurations corresponding to one or more hosts; transmitting from the group manager to the remote server a command to initiate a group controller residing on the remote server; and at the remote server, initiating the one or more hosts in response to and at the direction of the group controller. |
8521556 | 12747545 | 1 | 1. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising a program that is configured to emulate cardiopulmonary function of a patient comprising computer-executable instructions for: providing a generic model of the cardiopulmonary system of the patient, said model including pulmonary circulation, systemic circulation, 4-heart chambers, autonomic nervous system, metabolism, gas exchange, lung mechanism, and reflex; measuring cardiopulmonary variables of the patient; displaying relevant cardiopulmonary variables that are reflective of a current health condition of the patient; simulating functioning of the cardiopulmonary system; receiving patient data and inserting the patient data into the model; representing the model as a plurality of interrelated differential equations that are solved to determine expected values for the cardiopulmonary variables; and comparing the expected values to measured values of the cardiopulmonary variables to determine a difference there between; outputting decision support data for consideration by a user when diagnosing or treating the patient; and feeding the decision support data back into the model to update the model and include the patient in a patient population for future model simulations. |
9547645 | 14597308 | 1 | 1. A machine translation apparatus comprising: a memory and; at least one processor coupled to the memory, the at least one processor configured to: obtain a first translated sentence generated by translating a first input sentence and a second translated sentence generated by translating a second input sentence, the second input sentence being a sentence into which the first input sentence is rewritten; acquire a difference between the first translated sentence and the second translated sentence; specify a first word in the first translated sentence corresponding to the difference, a second word in the second translated sentence corresponding to the difference and a related word that has a predetermined relationship with the first word and the second word, the related word being included in both of the first translated sentence and the second translated sentence; acquire a first appearance frequency and a second appearance frequency, the first appearance frequency indicating an appearance frequency of a combination of the first word and the related word with the predetermined relationship in a plurality of example sentences, the second appearance frequency indicating an appearance frequency of a combination of the second word and the related word with the predetermined relationship in the plurality of example sentences; generate, when the second appearance frequency is larger by a predetermined value than the first appearance frequency, a translation rule for replacing the first word with the second word; translate an input sentence entered by a user based on the generated translation rule; and output the translated input sentence. |
9354629 | 12389026 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: loading an interpretable system-level vendor-independent first script defining a physical topology and control of a process control system including multiple process controllers and process control devices, the first script including tokens that have a type and value to define attributes of the multiple process controllers and process control devices, the topology representing physical communicative couplings between the multiple process controllers and the process control devices; and compiling the first script to form a second script with vendor-specific configuration language by identifying one or more lexemes contained in the first script, identifying the tokens contained in the first script based on the identified one or more lexemes, identifying one or more first expressions based on grammatical relationships between the identified tokens, identifying vendor-specific information associated with the process control system from a device database associated with the process control system, and forming the second script based on the identified one or more first expressions and the identified vendor-specific information, to configure the multiple process controllers and process control devices for control. |
8825632 | 12677575 | 1 | 1. A method of interrogating or modifying a database that includes a plurality of tables, each with fields, and relationships between the fields of various tables, the method comprising the steps of: creating an initial query in an initial format that includes solely: a single privileged table, at least one input field in another table, different from said privileged table, for which data are sought or to be modified, and at least one input filter pertaining to a field of another table, different from said privileged table, for selection of the data sought or to be modified, the at least one input filter including an identification of at least one field; converting said initial query into a full SQL request in an appropriate SQL format by, based on knowledge of the relationships between the fields of the various tables in the database established from a data model of the database, performing the sub-steps of: identifying, using the at least one input field and the at least one field associated with the at least one input filter, tables in the database containing these fields, identifying, using the at least one input field and the at least one field associated with the at least one input filter, relationships in the database between these fields, and formulating, from said initial query, said identified tables, and said identified relationships, a full SQL query to the database by stating in full: fields for which data are sought or to be modified, one or more filters, including said at least one input field and/or field(s) associated with the at least one input filter, and including said identified tables containing these fields in accordance with said identified relationships, and joins representative of said identified relationships between the fields of various tables; and applying said full SQL query to the database. |
8286152 | 11842986 | 1 | 1. A just in time compilation method for a virtual machine environment coupled to a memory, comprising: identifying a program structure for compilation; creating a low optimization compiled version of the program structure that is relocatable in the memory, wherein the low optimization compiled version of the program structure does not have a fixed address and is not directly executable; storing into a persistent cache the low optimization compiled version of the program structure that is relocatable; relocating the low optimization compiled version of the program structure into a virtual machine address space in the memory, wherein relocating the low optimization compiled version of the program structure includes transforming the low optimization compiled version to a compiled version with fixed addresses in the memory that can be executed; responsive to a determination that a relocatable code version of the program structure already exists in the persistent cache, loading the relocatable code version of the program structure from the persistent shared cache; and relocating the loaded relocatable code version of the program structure into a current address space, including transforming the low optimization compiled version of the program structure to a compiled version of the program structure with fixed addresses in the memory that can be executed; assigning a priority to the program structure, wherein a higher initial compilation optimization level is assigned a lower priority and a lower initial compilation optimization level is assigned a higher priority; placing the an entry associated with the prioritized program structure in a queue; and retrieving the prioritized program structure from the queue in response to a compilation thread processing the assigned priority, wherein the memory includes a plurality of fixed addresses, each fixed address of the plurality of fixed addresses capable of being transformed regardless of where in the memory the low optimization compiled version of the program structure is loaded. |
20110114615 | 12775729 | 0 | 1. A method of quantifying a weld's quality by monitoring an electric arc welder as the welder performs a selected arc welding process by creating actual welding parameters between an advancing wire and a workpiece, said selected process controlled by command signals to a power supply of said welder, said method comprising: (a) generating a series of rapidly repeating wave shapes, each wave shape constituting a weld cycle with a cycle time; (b) dividing said wave shapes into states; (c) measuring a plurality of selected weld parameters occurring in one or more of said states at an interrogation rate over a period of time repeatedly during said welding process; and (d) calculating a plurality of quality parameters for each of said states based on said measurements of said selected weld parameters during said welding process, wherein said quality parameters represent an overall quality measurement of said weld. |
9372874 | 14115891 | 1 | 1. A content processing apparatus comprising: a processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable medium having executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed by said processor, cause said content processing apparatus to function as: a content acquiring unit configured to acquire target content that is content to be processed; a content analysis unit configured to extract at least two objects included in the target content and feature information indicating features of the objects, and specify context information based on analytical information and the extracted feature information, the context information indicating contexts of the objects and including attribute information, the analytical information being information for specifying the contexts of the objects, and the attribute information being information for supplementing the features of the objects and including relationship information indicating a relationship between the objects; a processing control unit configured to control processing performed on the target content; a candidate process extracting unit configured to extract at least one candidate process that is executable on the target content among pre-set candidate processes based on the context information and processing priority; and an output unit configured to output a notification regarding a processing status of the candidate process, wherein the process control unit is configured to calculate the processing priority of each of the objects based on the attribute information included in the context information, the candidate process extracting unit is configured to extract at least one candidate process based on the context information and the processing priority, the processing control unit is configured to, before or after execution of the candidate process extracted by the candidate process extracting unit, cause the output unit to output information indicating whether or not the candidate process is executed as the notification, and the processing control unit is configured to, when the two objects are people and one of the two objects is an object of interest, increase the processing priority of an object having a high degree of closeness with the object of interest based on the relationship information indicating a degree of closeness between the objects. |
8141070 | 11136643 | 1 | 1. A data processing system for bridging class loader name spaces comprising: a plurality of different class loaders disposed within a single run-time environment; and, a class loader bridge executing in memory by a processor of the data processing system and programmed to moderate access to said different class loaders in response to a request to load an object from one of two programming models containing objects concurrently in said single run-time environment. |
8219511 | 12391511 | 1 | 1. One or more computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed on one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform acts comprising: selecting a first set of elements from a group of elements for labeling by one or more human users; receiving a label of each element of the first set of elements from the one or more human users; determining a sample selection bias of the first set of elements; training a model for predicting labels based at least in part on the received labels of the selected first set of elements, and the sample selection bias of the first set of elements; determining a sample selection bias of a second set of elements; selecting the second set of elements from a group of elements for labeling by one or more human users, the selecting based at least in part on the sample selection bias of the second set of elements; receiving a label of each element of the second set of elements from the one or more human users; training a model for predicting labels based at least in part on the labels of each element of the second set of elements, and the sample selection bias of the second set of elements; and repeating the determining of the sample selection bias, the selecting of a set of elements, the receiving, and the training until a trained model satisfies a stop condition, wherein the stop condition comprises a predefined number of elements being labeled by the one or more human users or an error threshold is reached. |
20120245924 | 13052774 | 0 | 1. An authoring assistant comprising: a parser which identifies opinion expressions in an input text; an opinion review component which generates an analysis of the text based on the identified opinion expressions, the opinion review component computing an effective opinion of the text as a function of a measure of polarity associated with the identified opinion expressions; a representation generator which generates a representation of the analysis for display on an associated user interface, the representation of the analysis including a representation of the effective opinion; and a processor which implements the opinion review component and representation generator. |
20100235732 | 12404198 | 0 | 1. A method for interacting with a computing device, comprising: presenting a first mode of a touch interface, wherein the touch interface is configured as a user interface of the computing device, wherein the touch interface comprises a status display portion and a command portion, wherein the status display portion comprises at least one status icon arranged in a first arrangement, wherein the command portion comprises at least one command icon, wherein selecting a command icon initiates a corresponding command action within the computing device, and wherein in the first mode, the at least one status icon is not selectable by touch input and the at least one command icon is selectable by touch input; receiving, from a user using the computing device, a first input indicating a desire to switch from the first mode to a second mode of the touch interface; and in response to receiving the first input, presenting the user with the second mode of the touch interface, wherein in the second mode, the at least one status icon is selectable by touch input, and wherein the at least one status icon displays a corresponding status of the computing device. |
8996433 | 12287600 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method for processing data using natural language relationships, comprising: receiving a plurality of natural-language relationships; translating said plurality of natural-language relationships to obtain a database of structured rules for input to an evaluator; receiving a query from a user requesting analysis of data in accordance with the structured rules input to the evaluator; searching the database of structured rules for applicable explicit definitions of a variable; evaluating the applicable explicit definitions using the data to obtain one or more solutions and creating a stack of available solutions; searching the database of structured rules for the applicable implicit definitions if the applicable explicit definitions do not provide solutions; evaluating the applicable implicit definitions using the data to obtain one or more solutions and creating a stack of available solutions; selecting one or more best solutions, according to the solution data type, from the stack of available solutions; outputting the selected solutions to an output format selected by the user; and outputting the structured rules relied upon to obtain the selected solutions to an output format. |
20140258555 | 14286216 | 0 | 1. A device, comprising: a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising: receiving an identifier from a data store; determining a network application that communicates with the device and is not associated with a data request based at least on the identifier; and at least partially disabling a data exchange that is not associated with the data request based on a logical combination of configurable rules that defines a percentage of data exchanges, including the data exchange, that are at least partially disabled. |
9465113 | 14146485 | 1 | 1. A method of determining an absolute position of a first machine, the first machine including a locating device and a controller with a processor and a memory component, the method comprising: generating with the locating device, and receiving with the processor, a location signal indicative of a first absolute position estimate of the first machine and a first uncertainty measure, the first uncertainty corresponding to the first absolute position estimate; receiving with the processor, from a second machine, relative pose information determined by the second machine, a second absolute position estimate of the second machine, and a second uncertainty measure, the second uncertainty measure corresponding to the second absolute position estimate; determining with the processor that the first uncertainty measure is higher than the second uncertainty measure; determining with the processor, at least in part in response to determining that the first uncertainty measure is higher than the second uncertainty measure, the absolute position of the first machine, and a first machine absolute uncertainty measure; based, at least in part, on the first absolute position estimate, the relative pose information, the second absolute position estimate, and the second uncertainty measure; and storing the absolute position of the first machine in the memory component. |
20130182945 | 13744916 | 0 | 1. An image processing apparatus, comprising: a receiving unit to receive an image comprising color information of pixels and an initial disparity map comprising disparity information of the pixels, wherein disparity information for at least some of the pixels in the initial disparity map is undetermined; a constraint determining unit to determine a constraint; and a generating unit to generate a final disparity map by assigning similar disparities to two pixels that are adjacent to each other and that have similar colors, among the pixels, under the determined constraint, the final disparity map comprising a disparity value for each of the pixels. |
9753897 | 14704604 | 1 | 1. A method for building a custom publication comprising: receiving a selection of units of content for inclusion in a custom publication, each unit of content selected from source publications; accessing a library of electronic source publications, the library having defined units of content within the same publications and storing source publication metadata for the defined units of content, wherein the custom publication includes references to defined units of content associated with the selected units of content; creating a set of custom publication units for an unpublished custom publication, wherein creating the set of custom publication units comprises copying the selected units of content and associating the copied, selected units of content with the unpublished custom publication; including additional content in at least one of the set of custom publication units of content; publishing the unpublished custom publication, wherein publishing the unpublished custom publication comprises: for common structural elements in the custom publication units, including the at least one custom publication unit including the additional content, determining corresponding structural element type, and applying consistent styling to each of the common structural elements in the set of custom publication units of content, including the at least one custom publication unit including the additional content, based upon the determined structural element type, to create a published custom publication with consistent styling; and providing the published custom publication in an electronic format. |
20130114878 | 13288576 | 0 | 1. A method of performing automated defect detection by utilizing prior inspection data, the method comprising: providing an image capture device for capturing and transmitting at least one current image of an object; providing a database for storing at least one prior image from prior inspections; registering the at least one current image with the at least one prior image; comparing the registered at least one current image with the at least one prior image to determine a transformation therebetween; and updating the database with the at least one current image. |
10082983 | 15091198 | 1 | 1. A system for monitoring a plurality of storage systems comprising: an interface, the interface specifying a common set of methods for performing storage commands on the plurality of storage systems; an implementation of the interface for each of the plurality of storage systems, the plurality of storage systems comprising at least two different types of storage systems, wherein a first implementation of the interface for a first one of the at least two different types of storage systems and a second implementation of the interface for a second one of the at least two different types of storage systems are configured to process a plurality of requests received from one or more applications that are directed to the at least two different types of storage systems by utilizing the common set of methods for performing storage commands on the at least two different types of storage systems; and a performance monitor configured: to monitor performance of requests for at least one of a plurality of classes of requests; to generate an alert characterizing performance of at least one of the plurality of classes of requests for at least one of the plurality of storage systems; and to provide the alert to at least one of the one or more applications to dynamically switch an application workload of said at least one application between two or more of the plurality of storage systems; wherein the interface is key-value based and the performance monitor is implemented as an extension of the key-value interface by using a same computer code to implement the performance monitor for monitoring the first and second storage systems; wherein the same computer code used to implement the performance monitor for monitoring the first and second storage systems comprises a constructor that takes as input a first parameter indicating a given one of the plurality of storage systems and a second parameter indicating a number of data points to keep for each of the plurality of classes of requests; and wherein the system is implemented using at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory. |
20060080663 | 11247441 | 0 | 1. A method for mapping threads or tasks to CPUs in a parallel computer, wherein at least one parallel program is running in said parallel computer which starts tasks or threads, said method comprising the steps of: providing a mapping description at runtime, wherein said mapping description specifies at least one mapping strategy of tasks or threads to CPUs; distributing said mapping description to all tasks; determining for each task or thread its assigned CPU based on said specified mapping strategy; and calling a function for binding each of said tasks or threads to its assigned CPU. |
20140278337 | 13840028 | 0 | 1. A method for selecting an operator graph configuration for a stream-based computing application, comprising: performing a first simulated processing of the stream-based computing application using a first simulation condition, the first simulation condition specifying a first operator graph configuration; performing a second simulated processing of the stream-based computing application using a second simulation condition, the second simulation condition specifying a second operator graph configuration, the second simulation condition being distinct from the first simulation condition; each simulated processing including inputting a stream of test tuples to the stream-based computing application, the stream-based computing application operating on one or more compute nodes, each compute node having one or more computer processors and a memory to store one or more processing elements, each processing element having one or more stream operators; monitoring each simulated processing to determine one or more performance metrics; sorting the first and second simulated processings based on a first performance metric to identify a simulated processing having a first rank; and selecting an operator graph configuration associated with the simulated processing having the first rank if the first performance metric for the simulated processing having the first rank is within a processing constraint. |
9142213 | 13140301 | 1 | 1. A method executed on a computer for generating a vocal interface code for a software application, said method comprising: receiving in a computer system an entity-relationship data model of said software application, said entity-relationship data model describing data of said software application and including classes, class attributes, and relations between classes; and analyzing the entity-relationship data model to automatically produce code of a voice-enabled wizard for acquiring by user interaction one or more values of respective class attributes of classes described in said entity-relationship data model, said code of the voice-enabled wizard being expressed in a dialog-oriented language, said code of the voice-enabled wizard being produced by: collect all the classes in the data model and loop on all the classes collected; and for each class read from the entity-relationship model, identified as being neither a class used for an interface of the software application nor an abstract class, creating, from the class descriptions of the entity-relationship model, a structure of a dialog unit code as a respective form in said dialog-oriented language for acquisition of values for the corresponding attributes of the respective class; collect all the attributes of the current class and its ancestors and loops on all the attributes; and for each attribute of an identified class read from the entity-relationship model, if the identified class has a single relationship to one other class or if the identified class has a multiple relationship to other classes but the multiple relation does not apply to the respective attribute, creating in the dialog unit code corresponding to the identified class, code in said dialog-oriented language for a direct acquisition of value for the respective attribute else, creating in the dialog unit code, a sub-dialog code in said dialog-oriented language for enabling selection of a dialog unit code of the other classes; and for each form created in said dialog-oriented language, identifying whether the created form is an entry form or an internal form by reading the relationships associated to the corresponding class in the entity-relationship model, and adding the created form to the voice-enabled wizard as an entry form or as an internal form according to the identification; wherein creating in the dialog unit code, code for a direct acquisition of value for the attribute comprises: create a prompt code for direct acquisition fo value for the attribute; read the attribute type form the entity-relationship model. |
20090232094 | 12258581 | 0 | 1. A method for maintaining mapping between entities within a media-independent handover (MIH) environment, the method comprising: accessing a mapping table to obtain at least one transport address corresponding to a peer MIH function, wherein the at least one transport address is used by a MIH transport protocol; and invoking an operation regarding a mapping of the at least one transport address in the mapping table based on a change of a status of the peer MIH function. |
7665127 | 11052677 | 1 | 1. A method for providing access to application data stored on a protected resource computer, the method comprising the steps of: validating a request for an application received from a user computer wherein the request includes authenticated credentials and an IP address of the user computer; generating an identification token for each validated request; storing an association between the identification token, the credentials, and the IP address in a computer-readable memory communicatively connected to the protected resource computer; sending the requested application and the identification token to the user computer, wherein the requested application is stored locally on the user computer; receiving a request for credentials from the requested application stored locally on the user computer, wherein the request for credentials includes an identification token and an IP address, and wherein the request for credentials is generated upon execution of the requested application; verifying that the identification token and the IP address received from the requested application match the identification token and the IP address stored in the computer-readable memory; and sending the credentials to the requested application stored locally on the user computer, wherein the credentials allow the requested application to submit one or more requests for application data stored on the protected resource computer without requiring the user to input authentication information for each request. |
20060150148 | 11305060 | 0 | 1. A visual software development system, comprising: a first adapter to generate descriptions for a first software system, the first software system built in accordance with a first platform of a plurality of software platforms, the first adapter being associated with the same software platform as the first software system, the first adapter interrogating at least one element of the first software system utilizing the first platform and generating at least one description corresponding to an element of the first software system without altering or extending the first software system, the first adapter having a user interface to initiate interrogation; an integrated development environment (IDE) to build a design using the descriptions, the IDE having a user interface to graphically select descriptions and create the interconnections, the design comprising user-selected descriptions and interconnections between descriptions and graphical icons representing the user-selected descriptions and interconnections, the user-selected descriptions and interconnections together defining a user-defined algorithm; and a loader to enable the user-defined algorithm to be effected in response to the descriptions and interconnections. |
20170334459 | 15161608 | 0 | 1. An autonomous vehicle pictoral language system comprising: a plurality of sensors; a driver preferences database; a human-machine interface; and processing circuitry configured to receive output from the plurality of sensors, receive a driver model from the driver preferences database, the driver model predicting driver action in a plurality of driving situations based on a safety margin defined in the driver preferences, and display a pictoral language via the human-machine interface in response to the output from the plurality of sensors and the driver model. |
7917720 | 11655077 | 1 | 1. A logical volume rearranging method used in a storage network environment including at least one storage subsystem and at least one server, said at least one storage subsystem including means for moving a logical volume in said at least one storage subsystem to a parity group in said at least one storage subsystem or to a parity group in a different storage subsystem, said method comprising the steps of: acquiring server/storage mapping information of said at least one storage subsystem from each said at least one server and acquiring performance information of said logical volume and said parity group from each said at least one storage subsystem; acquiring a required I/O performance and a rearranging rule for said logical volume; determining a rearranging destination parity group of said logical volume designated by a user, based on said server/storage mapping information, said performance information, said required I/O performance, and said rearranging rule, wherein the rearranging destination parity group is determined so as to optimally reduce the required I/O performance of a predetermined high priority application; and balancing I/O load between parity groups in said storage network environment by moving said logical volume to said rearranging destination parity group based on said server/storage mapping information, said performance information, said required I/O performance, and said rearranging rule. |
8503525 | 12084443 | 1 | 1. A method, comprising: performing, by a computing device, a bitstream analysis of a media file having a plurality of segments to determine a number of non-zero inverse discrete cosine transform (IDCT) coefficients of each of the plurality of respective segments, or input parameter values of a motion compensation (MC) task function associated with the respective segments, or both; determining, by the computing device, a predicted number of processor cycles for playing the media file based on a result of the bitstream analysis, including determining, for the respective segments, predicted numbers of variable length decoding (VLD) task cycles from the number of non-zero IDCT coefficients of the respective segments; and generating and saving in the media file at a position preceding each respective segment of the media file, by the computing device, metadata comprising the predicted number of processor cycles for each respective segment of the media file for subsequent playing of the media file, wherein a size of a segment in the plurality of segments is based on the predicted number of processor cycles for the segment. |
9535167 | 14387950 | 1 | 1. An imaging system, comprising: a radiation source that emits radiation that traverses an examination region; a paralyzable photon counting detector that detects photons traversing the examination region and arriving at an input photon rate and that generates a signal indicative thereof; high flux electronics that produce a total time over threshold value each integration period based on the signal; a reconstruction parameter identifier that estimates the input photon rate based on the total time over threshold value and identifies a reconstruction parameter based on the estimate; and a reconstructor that reconstructs the signal based on the identified reconstruction parameter. |
8812433 | 11541891 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: determining a first structure of a data surrogate of application data, wherein the first structure is a B+ tree structure, and the data surrogate is generated in part by shadowing the application data at servers providing services associated with the application data; parsing items of the data surrogate using information of the first structure; storing the data surrogate using at least one utility server including at least one processor and coupled to the servers providing the services; dynamically transforming the data surrogate by systematically reading the data surrogate according to the first structure using a raw read method and using the first structure to organize the items into a second, different structure that preserves a hierarchy of the first structure, wherein the second structure is a directory structure; and extracting metadata of at least one of the items, the first structure, the data surrogate and the second structure during the parsing and the transforming to generate a searchable component comprising information of the parsed and the transformed data surrogate, the searchable component providing a plurality of applications access to the information of the parsed and transformed data surrogate using the at least one utility server; and providing access to at least a portion of the items in the second structure using a second protocol that is different from a first protocol used to access the data surrogate according to the first structure. |
7865873 | 11645205 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method of defining object classes, comprising: on a computer, executing the method of: programming the computer with a browser-based classification editor having a first tier functionality and a second tier functionality; wherein said first tier functionality is operable to enable a user of said computer to create a new class having a first group; select and associate one or more attributes with said first group; and define and modify one or more conditions to said first group, wherein said first group comprises objects having said one or more attributes that meet at least one of said one or more conditions; and wherein said second tier functionality is operable to enable said user to manipulate an expression comprising said first group. |
8260779 | 12561547 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method to provide clinical terminology services, said method comprising: accessing an initial controlled medical vocabulary including at least one external terminology via a vocabulary management server; processing local clinical content including unstructured local clinical content provided via an importer framework; analyzing and extracting the unstructured local clinical content using a text analyzer and extraction tool to generate one or more proposed terms by: ranking a granularity of a medical term; determining a popularity of a term; and evaluating a relationship to similar terms, wherein analyzing results in one or more proposals regarding where to place the local clinical content and representations of the local clinical content in the controlled medical vocabulary; identifying one or more synonyms for the one or more proposed terms; placing the one or more synonyms into a queue to be added to the controlled medical vocabulary; reviewing the one or more synonyms placed into the queue; and adding the one or more synonyms to the controlled medical vocabulary with placement and relationship based on analyzing and extracting unstructured local clinical content to automatically map between the at least one external terminology and the local clinical content to supplement the controlled medical vocabulary with the local clinical content and provide the controlled medical vocabulary to one or more vocabulary consumers. |
8255680 | 08883636 | 1 | 1. A method for providing communication protocol layer independent security for data transmitted between a first process, executing on a first network node, and a second process, executing on a second network node, wherein the first network node and the second network node each support at least one common communication protocol layer, the method comprising the steps of: establishing a Java secure channel between the first network node and the second network node; establishing a first Java stream between the first process and the Java secure channel; establishing a second Java stream between the second process and the Java secure channel; in response to the data being written to the first Java stream, encrypting the data to generate encrypted data, the encrypting of the data being performed independent of any communication protocol layers used to transport the encrypted data from the first network node to the second network node; causing the encrypted data to be transmitted from the first network node to the second network node according to the at least one communication protocol layer supported by the first and second network nodes; and in response to the encrypted data being read from the second Java stream, decrypting the encrypted data to recover decrypted data which is identical to the data on the first network node before the data was written to the first Java stream, the decrypting of the encrypted data being performed independent of any communication protocol layers used to transport the encrypted data from the first network node to the second network node. |
20160204993 | 14968883 | 0 | 1. A server, comprising: a computer comprising at least a memory and a processor and further comprising programmable instructions stored in the memory and operating on the processor, the instructions adapted to implement a servlet API for Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) and executing on a virtual machine for servicing the XMPP entity; and a XMPP servlet container supporting the servlet API for XMPP for handling network transport, streams and stanzas specific to the XMPP; wherein the API provides a mechanism that allows messages to be correlated to specify how containers associate application data with subsequent messages processed in an application instance; wherein the XMPP servlet container further comprises: a network point at a transport layer for listening, routing and managing network connections with the XMPP entity; an XMPP service layer for managing XMPP sessions and streams with the XMPP entity via the network point; an application layer for managing XMPP stanzas with the XMPP entity via the XMPP service layer; and an application router to select an XMPP servlet application; wherein the application router services an initial request; and wherein the initial request contains an attribute and the application router selects an appropriate application based on the value of the attribute. |
6026432 | 09078268 | 1 | 1. A method for retrieving information in a computer network system having at least one network server device and a user device, said user device and said network server having established a successful network session so that they are in processing communication with one another; said method comprising: displaying a target page on a screen connected to said user device, said target page including a plurality of first level link references for selection by any user where each first level link reference further includes subsequent level link references; providing a string of words; searching all reference links provided by said target page and all subsequent pages to identify only those references including said provided string of words. |
20140201171 | 14152549 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method of performing a storage operation in a distributed, deduplicated storage system, comprising: during a period of availability of a first deduplication database server of a plurality of deduplication database servers and during a period of availability of a second deduplication database server of the plurality of deduplication database servers, the first deduplication database server designated as a failover deduplication database server for the second deduplication database server, the plurality of deduplication database servers storing signatures of data blocks stored in secondary storage which correspond to data blocks received from primary storage: receiving at one or more secondary storage computing devices and as part of a first secondary copy operation a first set of one or more signatures corresponding to one or more data blocks stored in primary storage; identifying the second deduplication database server as the deduplication database server assigned to store the first set of signatures; determining that the first set of signatures match a second set of signatures comprising one or more signatures that were stored in the first deduplication database server during a previous period of unavailability of the second deduplication database server; and with the one or more secondary storage computing devices, querying one of the first deduplication database server and the second deduplication database server for the first set of signatures based at least on a storage policy. |
9570160 | 14967157 | 1 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a plurality of non-volatile memory cells; and a control circuit connected to the non-volatile memory cells, the control circuit configured to program data to a first set of the memory cells and terminate programming of the data to the first set of the memory cells prior to completing programming of the data to the first set of the memory cells if a defect condition exists, the control circuit configured to program the data to a second set of the memory cells after terminating programming of the data to the first set of the memory cells. |
8584102 | 11964956 | 1 | 1. A computer storage media storing computer-executable instructions, which when executed perform actions, comprising: obtaining a first computer code encoded in a first computer programming language, the first computer code being translated from a second computer code encoded in a second computer language, the first computer programming language being a higher level language than the second computer language; via a user interface, receiving changes in the first computer programming language to the first computer code, the changes to the first computer code thereby creates a third computer code encoded in the first computer programming language and the changes include inserting helper computer code and new features to the first computer code; translating the third computer code encoded in the first computer programming language into a fourth computer code encoded in the second computer programming language; creating a delta that indicates changes in the second computer code of the second computer language by comparing the second computer code to the fourth computer code to identify changes in the second and fourth computer code encoded in the second programming language, the changes comprise actions that are to occur before, during, after, or instead of actions indicated by the first computer code; and linking an application to the fourth computer code to access the new features, the linking comprising: receiving, at the helper computer code from the application, a call to access a new feature, the helper computer code includes application programming interfaces (API) that correspond to each respective new feature; and in response to the access call, the helper code using the delta to determine which feature's API to invoke for the requesting application without causing the application to be rebuilt. |
9571666 | 14984400 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: receiving data relating to at least one of a dip rate or dip volume that is associated with a toll-free telecommunications number; receiving social media data relating to usage of the toll-free telecommunications number; analyzing the combined data and social media data to create a valuation metadata tag that is associated with the toll-free telecommunications number, wherein the valuation metadata is a quantitative summary of the demand associated with the toll-free telecommunications number; and distributing a communication to an entity regarding the current valuation of the toll-free telecommunications number. |
20170063625 | 14493018 | 0 | 1. A router in a Network on Chip (NoC) comprising a plurality of routers, the router comprising: a plurality of ports, each of the plurality of ports configured with one or more virtual channels (VCs), each of the one or more VCs associated with a separate buffer, each of the one or more VCs configured to connect to specified one or more other ports or VCs of the plurality of ports based on a membership specified by a specification; wherein a number of the plurality of ports and a number of the one or more VCs for the each of the plurality of ports is specified by the specification; wherein a size of each of the one or more VCs and a size of the buffer is specified by the specification; wherein the connectivity between each of the one or more VCs is specified by the specification; wherein the one or more VCs are configured to operate in different clock domain as specified by the specification. |
9449097 | 14231176 | 1 | 1. A system comprising: a commerce database storing item data for a plurality of items offered for sale; a search criteria database storing search criteria associated with a user, the search criteria including search frequency information indicating frequency of a search update to be performed using the search criteria; a search server to retrieve the search criteria from the search criteria database and to perform an update search of the commerce database, the search being performed using the search criteria and in accordance with the search frequency information; and a notification engine to identify an update to a previous search result based on the update search and to generate a notification of the update to the previous search result. |
8402435 | 11952266 | 1 | 1. A computer implemented method, comprising: separating a file comprising source code into a plurality of subroutines and a plurality of data elements; determining a relationship between a first subroutine, a second subroutine of the plurality of subroutines, and at least one of the plurality of data elements; creating a first signature of the first subroutine and a second signature of the second subroutine, the first and second signatures based on the at least one of the plurality of data elements; storing the first signature and the second signature in a data structure, the data structure configured to indicate the relationship between the first subroutine, the second subroutine, and the at least one data element; comparing the first signature to a new first signature based on a modification of the first subroutine; and determining whether the relationship between the modified first subroutine and the second subroutine has changed and, if the relationship has changed, updating the data structure with the new first signature based on the changed relationship; and determining whether to recompile the second subroutine based on the data structure and the new first signature. |
20110201977 | 13124571 | 0 | 1. A device for desynchronizing a neuronal activity, the device comprising: a first stimulation unit configured to produce electrical first stimuli that suppress pathologically synchronous activity of neurons in at least one of the brain and the spinal cord of a patient; a second stimulation unit configured to produce second stimuli that are at least one of optical, acoustic, tactile and vibratory stimuli; and a control unit configured to control the first and the second stimulation units to produce the first and second stimuli in a first or a second mode of operation, wherein, in the first mode of operation, the control unit is configured to actuate the first and second stimulation units such that at least 60% of the second stimuli are produced during the time that the first stimuli are produced, and wherein, in the second mode of operation, the control unit is configured to actuate the first and second stimulation units such that at least 60% of the second stimuli are produced during the time that the first stimuli are not produced. |
20130298192 | 13559692 | 0 | 1. A reputation scoring system for generating and displaying a hierarchical representation of a reputation score of a subject, the system comprising: a reputation broker configured to: process a query for a reputation score of the subject received at a trust broker from a service provider; and dispatch a request to a trust orchestrator to generate a hierarchical reputation score for the subject, wherein the trust orchestrator is configured to process a received request for a hierarchical reputation score by: initiating a plurality of directed queries to information management systems internal or external to an organization to interrogate attributes associated with the subject; analyzing received query responses; receiving a generated hierarchical reputation score for the subject based on a calculus of risk; and sending the received hierarchical reputation score for the subject to the reputation broker, wherein the trust orchestrator is further configured to: receive a reputation token from the reputation broker for the subject in response to the dispatched request; and send the reputation token to the service provider as a response to the query. |
20100260487 | 12421529 | 0 | 1. A computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program for use with a computer simulation, the computer program adapted to cause a processor based system to execute steps comprising: generating metadata that corresponds to replay data, wherein the replay data is generated in response to an execution of the computer simulation, and wherein the metadata includes textual descriptions of one ore more events that occurred during the execution of the computer simulation; and storing the generated metadata in a searchable text file. |
20060007124 | 10879905 | 0 | 1. A method for providing an input to an application executing on a computer system having an interactive display surface, comprising the steps of: (a) determining an identifying code selected to be detectable by the interactive display surface when the identifying code is positioned adjacent to the interactive display surface by a user engaging the interactive display surface; (b) selecting an article, the article being configured to be removably affixed to at least a portion of a user's hand so that the article need not be grasped by the user when engaging the interactive display surface; and (c) providing the identifying code on the article, such that when the article is positioned adjacent to the interactive display surface by the user appropriately moving the at least the portion of the user's hand, the interactive display surface detects the identifying code. |
20090070552 | 12209887 | 0 | 1. A coarse grain reconfigurable signal processing device adapted for simultaneous processing of at least two process threads in a multiprocessing manner, the device comprising; a plurality of functional units capable of executing word- or subword-level operations on data; routing resources for interconnecting the plurality of functional units, the routing resources supporting a plurality of dynamically switchable interconnect arrangements, at least one of the interconnect arrangements interconnecting the plurality of functional units into at least two non-overlapping processing units each with a pre-determined topology, each of the processing units being configured to process a respective one of the process threads; a plurality of configurations being stored in the coarse grain reconfigurable signal processing device, wherein the configurations control the behavior of the coarse grain reconfigurable signal processing device by selecting operations and by controlling routing resources; and at least two control modules, each control module being assigned to one of the processing units for control thereof. |
20070185772 | 11735174 | 0 | 1. A computation apparatus for computing an exchange rate used in exchanging one or more shop points into one or more common points, the shop points being issued for each shop and usable for payment to the shop, and the common points being usable for payment common to each shop, the computation apparatus comprising: a shop point storage unit that stores, in association with each shop, a used house point (UHP) and an active general point (AGP), the used house point (UHP) representing a portion of shop points issued by the shop and has been already used for payment to the shop, and the active general point (AGP) representing a portion of common points that is exchanged from shop points issued by the shop and has not been yet used for payment to any shop; a function storage unit that stores, for each shop, a function for an exchange rate that a) when the used house point (UHP) of the shop is larger, computes an exchange rate with which shop points of the shop are exchanged into a larger number of common points, and b) when the active general point (AGP) of the shop is larger, computes an exchange rate with which shop points of the shop are exchanged into a smaller number of common points; and an exchange rate computation unit that, for each shop, computes an exchange rate, based on the used house point (UHP) and the active general point (AGP) of the shop stored in the shop point storage unit and by using the function of the shop stored in the function storage unit. |
20040175687 | 10319623 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: applying an essay to a plurality of trait models; determining a plurality of trait scores based on said plurality of trait models, each trait score generated from a respective trait model; and determining a score based on said plurality of trait scores. |
8631039 | 12773889 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method for normalizing an in-memory representation of stored data for faster superscalar processing, the method comprising: accessing stored data that includes multiple columns, each column having a data type; selecting a column in the accessed data to determine an appropriate in-memory representation; determining a data type of the selected column; determining whether row data associated with the selected column can be normalized based at least in part on the determined data type of the selected column; determining a fixed size value for a normalized data representation, wherein the fixed sized value is sized such that it can be processed by a superscalar processor as a single instruction; and upon determining that the row data can be normalized, converting the row data associated with the selected column into the normalized data representation, wherein the normalized data representation is a format that allows performing parallel processing of multiple instances of the normalized data representation using the superscalar processor and that represents multiple data types as the determined fixed size value that can be processed by the superscalar processor in the single instruction, wherein the preceding steps are performed by at least one processor. |
20140143325 | 13680048 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: maintaining a profile for a user of a social networking system, the profile including one or more information items associated with data describing characteristics of the user and a set of unknown information items not associated with data; obtaining a plurality of questions associated with one or more information items, each question having a response probability indicating a likelihood of receiving a response to a question when presented; determining a data acquisition value for each of a plurality of the unknown information items in the set of unknown information items, the data acquisition value of an unknown information item based at least in part on a value to the social networking system of associating data with the unknown information item; selecting an unknown information item from the set of unknown information items based at least in part on the data acquisition values; and selecting a question associated with the selected unknown information item for presentation to the user based at least in part on the response probabilities of one or more questions associated with the selected unknown information item. |
8504555 | 12145522 | 1 | 1. A method for searching content stored on a local computing device of a user, the method comprising: publishing at least some of the content as one or more subsets of private rich internet application data, personal to the user, to a corresponding one or more respective per-rich internet application public storage areas, each of the one or more subsets of private rich internet application data corresponding to a respective rich internet application having at least a portion installed locally on the local computing device, each of the one or more subsets of private rich internet application data being stored in a respective private rich internet application storage area that is not accessible outside the respective rich internet application, the published one or more subsets of private rich internet application data being stored on and publically available for access on the local computing device; publishing a relative link to one or more given items of at least one of the one or more subsets in the private rich internet application data; notifying a search engine of the publication of the one or more subsets of private rich internet application data and the relative link to the one or more given items; and in response to the notification, crawling the one or more per-rich internet application public storage areas, and generating and storing on the local computing device by a local search engine executing on the local computing device, a search index of data, including the published one or more subsets of private rich internet application data and the relative link to the one or more given items. |
8719519 | 13436745 | 1 | 1. A processor for executing computer instructions, the computer instructions comprising: reading a portion of a data word by a computer processor, wherein the data word includes a plurality of syllables and the reading of the portion of the data word includes: reading a first syllable of the plurality of syllables from a first memory; and reading a second syllable of the plurality of syllables from a second memory, wherein bits of the second syllable are less critical than bits of the first syllable, and the second memory is distinct from the first memory based on at least a physical attribute. |
20050256920 | 11130472 | 0 | 1. An apparatus in a microprocessor, for accomplishing modular multiplication operations, comprising: translation logic, configured to receive a Montgomery multiplication instruction from a source therefrom, wherein said Montgomery multiplication instruction prescribes generation of a Montgomery product, and configured to translate said Montgomery multiplication instruction into a sequence of micro instructions specifying sub-operations required to accomplish generation of said Montgomery product; and execution logic, operatively coupled to said translation logic, configured to receive said sequence of micro instructions, and configured to perform said sub-operations to generate said Montgomery product. |
20150244642 | 14677169 | 0 | 1. A method for maintaining a plurality of dialog sessions of a multi-modal dialog application in a server, the method comprising: storing session state information for at least one suspended dialog session of a plurality of dialog sessions with the multi-modal dialog application in the server, the session state information including a unique identifier; reducing an amount of the session state information stored; releasing resources associated with at least the amount reduced; and automatically resuming the at least one suspended dialog session with the reduced session state information stored based on the unique identifier and a detected interaction with the multi-modal dialog application. |
6100825 | 09224268 | 1 | 1. A method for compressing a plurality of data sets, each data set having a data set context and a history context, the compression method comprising: grouping a plurality of data set contexts into a plurality of data set context clusters; grouping a plurality of history contexts into a plurality of history context clusters; varying the groupings within the data set context clusters and the history context clusters until a minimum total cost is achieved. |
20120232841 | 13416516 | 0 | 1. A system comprising: a component manipulator structured to position a component in response to a positioning algorithm; a surface scanner capable of producing an electromagnetic radiation directed at a surface of the component, detecting the electromagnetic radiation from the surface of the component, and producing a reflectivity signal in response to the detecting; and a processor structured to: apply a fuzzy logic algorithm to the reflectivity signal and determine a solution set in response to the reflectivity signal; and produce a grain structure characterization in response to the solution set. |
8275774 | 12842622 | 1 | 1. A streaming query method for extensible markup language, comprising: receiving and analyzing a user-input XPath (Extensible Markup Language Path Language) document; receiving a result obtained by analyzing the XPath document, and building an abstract syntax tree accordingly, wherein the building of the abstract syntax tree comprises the steps of: establishing a single tree structure according to the result obtained by analyzing the XPath document; and dividing the single tree structure into independent and undividable tree-structure components; receiving an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document, and parsing nodes of the XML document; generating an index of the XML document according to the result obtained by analyzing the XML document; and receiving the abstract syntax tree and the index, performing a format computation and obtaining a query result accordingly; wherein the establishing the single tree structure comprises the steps of: when receiving a query string input by a user, loading one line of the query string at a time; extracting an axis of the loaded query string; generating an operator; performing a node test; retrieving an operand, and assigning an unspecified variable to the operand; establishing a tree structure according to the operator and the operand; and determining whether a backward axis exists in the operand, and if the backward axis exists in the operand, reversing the tree structure, otherwise maintaining the original tree structure. |
20090112893 | 11981090 | 0 | 1. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon a data structure that defines the format and content of a communicable electronic file for a localization project, comprising: a first data structure portion that contains data representing a plurality of references to localization files; and a second data structure portion associated with said first data structure portion that contains data representing a plurality of references to standard files, wherein said localization files and said standard files are used to create said communicable electronic file. |
20070136415 | 11299450 | 0 | 1. A method for efficiently encoding navigational state in a Portal, wherein said Portal is running in a server system, wherein said server system includes a communication component which allows communication between said Portal and client's browser via a communication channel, wherein said Portal determines the layout of the requested Portal page, invokes rendering of the various page elements belonging to said Portal page, and transmits said Portal page to the client's browser for displaying, wherein at least one page element of said Portal page provides an URL functionality for initiating rendering a new page or new page element by said Portal, wherein each user interaction by clicking said URL at said page element generates a new navigational state at said Portal side, wherein the latest navigational state describes the current view of said Portal as the result of all previous navigational interactions of a particular client, wherein said at least latest navigational state is saved by said Portal, wherein in response to a client request for a new Portal page said method is characterized by the steps of: creating a base navigational state which describes that part of the latest navigational state that is identical across all URLs of said new Portal page, creating for each URL included in said new Portal page to be rendered and not contained in said base navigational state an URL specific delta navigational state which describes the state transition of said specific URL when said specific URL is invoked, encoding said base navigational state into the header of said Portal page once, encoding each URL specific delta navigational state into its assigned URL being part of said Portal page, and generating and transmitting a response to said client's browser including said new Portal page for displaying by said client's browser. |
20150334716 | 14713749 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a request associated with initiating a communication session in a network, the request identifying a source endpoint and a destination endpoint of the communication session and a value of a computational resource associated with the communication session; determining a measure of the computational resource for at least one network element in a path from the source endpoint to the destination endpoint; applying at least one rule to determine whether to allow the communication session to be initiated at the value, wherein the at least one rule identifies values; and generating, based on the at least one rule, an instruction to initiate the communication session. |
20050177262 | 10774220 | 0 | 1. A method of creating a sketch-based eggcrate substructure for manufacturing composite parts, said method comprising: creating an input model from a plurality of inputs; and launching a batch job of said created input model. |
20060080443 | 10931349 | 0 | 1. A method to form a connection between listeners and worker process in a server, the server including a process manager, a first listener to support requests in a first protocol and a second listener to support requests in a second protocol, the method comprising: receiving information associating applications to application pools; receiving a request for an application, the request conforming to the first protocol; determining whether the requested application is one of the applications; and obtaining an application pool identifier of an application pool associated with the requested application. |
7904646 | 12155411 | 1 | 1. A method for sending/receiving data in a storage system, the storage system comprising: a first storage device; and a second storage device, the first storage device comprising: a port, a port control unit to control the port, a storing device to store a data, a control unit; and a memory, wherein the method comprises the step of: generating a target task including a plurality of processes to execute a first process which receives data from the second storage device based on a demand received by the first storage device from the second storage device; generating an initiator task including a plurality of processes to execute a second process which transfers data from the first storage device to the second storage device based on a demand by the control unit; and controlling the port so as to execute in a timesharing manner the plurality of the processes included in the first process and the second process by changing executions of the generated plurality of processes included in the target task and the plurality of the processes included in the initiator task. |
7570374 | 11131274 | 1 | 1. A document generation apparatus that generates document data with a font that can include a character font based on original document data, comprising: a comparator that compares a type of language of the original document data and a terminal language type of provided at a reproduction terminal that reproduces the original document data; and a generator that generates document data with a font based on the original document data that does not include a character font when results of the comparison performed by the comparator indicate that both types of languages match, and generates document data with a font based on the original document data that does include a character font used in the original document data when the results of the comparison performed by the comparator indicate that both types of language do not match, wherein the document data is attachment data to be attached to an e-mail, and if a top level domain of a recipient's domain name of the e-mail is a country code, said comparator employs a type of language corresponding to the country code as the terminal language type, and if the top level domain of the recipient's domain name of the e-mail is not a country code, said comparator employs a type of language input by a user as the terminal language type. |
8713542 | 11679236 | 1 | 1. A method for pausing or resuming a VoiceXML dialog processed by a multimodal application, the method implemented with the multimodal application operating on a multimodal device supporting multiple modes of interaction including a voice mode and one or more non-voice modes, the multimodal application operatively coupled to a VoiceXML interpreter, the VoiceXML interpreter interpreting the VoiceXML dialog to be paused, the method comprising: providing a script variable to hold a pause keyword or a resume keyword that a script evaluates to when at least a portion of a user utterance is received via the multimodal application, and matches one or more words in a pause control grammar specified by the multimodal application; generating a pause event when the VoiceXML interpreter evaluates the script to the pause keyword; wherein generating the pause event is supported by utilizing a VoiceXML Form Interpretation Algorithm (FIA); wherein the FIA interprets the dialog instructions sequentially to identify the dialogs operating under one or more non-voice modes or one or more voice modes; responsive to the pause event, temporarily pausing the VoiceXML dialog by the VoiceXML interpreter; generating a resume event when the VoiceXML interpreter evaluates the script to the resume keyword; and responsive to the resume event, resuming the VoiceXML dialog. |
20120297381 | 13112446 | 0 | 1. A system for managing a storage array having a set of storage components, comprising: a storage array controller, the storage array controller including: a first instance of a controller firmware on a virtual machine in a privileged domain, the privileged domain having access to hardware of the storage array, the privileged domain including a host port virtualization agent; and a second instance of the controller firmware on a separate virtual machine in a first non-privileged array domain, wherein the privileged domain is configured to inspect an Input/Output (I/O) request and determine whether a target of the I/O request is an existing non-privileged array domain, the privileged domain is configured to initiate launch of the first non-privileged array domain array when the I/O request does not relate to an existing non-privileged array domain, and the privileged domain is configured to present available storage components to the first non-privileged array domain when the I/O request relates to the first non-privileged array domain. |
9280602 | 13937968 | 1 | 1. A method for searching content stored on a local computing device of a user, the method comprising: publishing at least some of the content as one or more subsets of private application data, personal to the user, to a corresponding one or more respective application public storage areas, each of the one or more subsets of private application data corresponding to a respective application having at least a portion installed locally on the local computing device, each of the one or more subsets of private application data being stored in a respective private application storage area that is not accessible outside the respective application, the published one or more subsets of private application data being stored on and publically available for access on the local computing device; publishing a relative link to one or more given items of at least one of the one or more subsets in the private application data; notifying a search engine of the publication of the one or more subsets of private application data and the relative link to the one or more given items; and in response to the notification, crawling the one or more application public storage areas, and generating and storing on the local computing device by a local search engine executing on the local computing device, a search index of data, including the published one or more subsets of private application data and the relative link to the one or more given items. |
8930708 | 14246435 | 1 | 1. A method for performing a security authentication, the method comprising: transmitting, by a computing device to a destination device, a name of a user, N sequences of digits, and encrypted values respectively corresponding to the digits in the N sequences, each sequence including a same M unique digits, each sequence beginning with a different digit of the M digits, the digits in each sequence being sequenced in a same order as the digits in each other sequence subject to the first digit in each sequence being considered as sequentially after the last digit in each sequence, N being at least 2, M being at least 3; after the transmitting, receiving, by the computing device from the destination device, N encrypted values of the transmitted encrypted values respectively corresponding to the digits in the N sequences, wherein an I th received encrypted value of the N received encrypted values corresponds to one of the digits selected by the user, at an electronic device, from a respective I th sequence of the N sequences (I=1, 2,. .. , N); and determining, by the computing device, N digits respectively corresponding to the received N encrypted values and that the determined N digits form a number matching a PIN associated with the name of the user, which authenticates the user to access a resource. |
9536225 | 15002499 | 1 | 1. A method for designing an architectural solution, the method comprising: receiving, by a computer, functional requirements and nonfunctional requirements; responsive to receiving the functional requirements and nonfunctional requirements, producing, by the computer, first level outputs; receiving, by the computer, further input through a guided questionnaire, wherein the guided questionnaire is based on the first level outputs; and responsive to receiving the further input, producing, by the computer, a list of client specific components and subcomponents, a client specific solution reference architecture, and a set of reference links, wherein the architectural solution is designed within the constraints of a business analytics and optimization reference architecture and customer information technology environment, wherein the business analytics and optimization reference architecture comprises a predefined architectural pattern and supporting artifacts to enable use of the predefined architectural pattern, wherein the predefined architectural pattern comprises a set of layers, a set of cross layers, or both the set of layers and the set of cross layers, wherein the predefined architectural pattern comprises the set of cross layers, wherein the set of cross layers comprises a business process management cross layer, a service management cross layer, an information governance cross layer, a collaboration cross layer, a security, privacy, and compliance cross layer, a transport and delivery cross layer, and infrastructure cross layer, wherein the business process management cross layer includes a management approach based on continually improving and optimizing business processes using business value and technology as drivers, wherein the service management cross layer includes a set of disciplines that aligns technology investments with business objectives, wherein the information governance cross layer defines data in a consistent, coherent, and comprehensive way to achieve business objectives, wherein the collaboration cross layer enables finding people and information, wherein the security, privacy, and compliance cross layer describes policies, practices and controls used to mitigate risk and protect data assets, wherein the transport and delivery cross layer enables information sharing, authoring, and analytics in a collaborative manner, and wherein the infrastructure cross layer includes a listing of hardware, and software needed to build the architectural solution. |
8572016 | 12533616 | 1 | 1. A method of recognizing a specified group of patterns in a data stream, the method comprising: identifying a multi-pattern rule for said specified group of patterns in the data stream; using a first array of finite state machines to scan the data stream for at least some of the patterns in the specified group; for patterns in the specified group that are found in the data stream by the first array of finite state machines, sending pattern identifiers to a second array of finite state machines; and using the second array of finite state machines for determining if the specified group of patterns is in the data stream in accordance with the identified multi-pattern rule by, at least in part, using said pattern identifiers. |
7600256 | 11051808 | 1 | 1. At a computer system, a computer implemented method for configuring platform code to simplify checks for security problems, the computer implemented method comprising: a programming language class providing a container for security critical data, the programming language class also including a plurality of methods for interacting with security critical data in the container, a processor selectively controlling whether the security critical data is treated as security critical depending on what interaction with the security critical data is being requested by distinguishing some methods of the set container as being security critical, such that the security critical data can only be accessed via the methods with elevated permissions, including: marking methods that access the security critical data through a property on the class as security critical methods, and indicating that methods that access an actual field pointing to the programming language class are not security critical methods such that the existence or initialization of the security critical data can be checked in a non-critical manner without actually accessing the security critical data. |
20100063802 | 12554619 | 0 | 1. A method of transceiving an audio signal, the method comprising: providing low band spectral information comprising a plurality of spectrum coefficients; predicting a high band extended spectral fine structure from the low band spectral information for at least one subband, the high band extended spectral fine structure comprising a plurality of spectrum coefficients, wherein predicting comprises preparing the spectrum coefficients of the low band spectral information, defining prediction parameters for the high band extended spectral fine structure and index ranges of the prediction parameters; and determining possible best indices of the prediction parameters, determining comprising minimizing a prediction error between a reference subband in high band and a predicted subband that is selected and composed from an available low band; and transmitting the possible best indices of the prediction parameters. |
20050074102 | 10679982 | 0 | 1. A method, comprising: assigning a unique telephone number to an advertiser; providing an advertisement on a media channel on behalf of the advertiser, the advertisement including one of the unique telephone number and a reference to the unique telephone number; monitoring telephone calls to the unique telephone number; and billing the advertiser for the advertisement in response to each telephone call to the unique telephone number. |
9396440 | 13796949 | 1 | 1. A method of operation of a computational solver system to solve a problem, the method comprising: defining an objective function by a digital computer, the objective function operable to receive a bit string as an input and produce a real number as an output; defining a permutation network by a digital computer, wherein the permutation network comprises a plurality of inputs, a plurality of outputs, a plurality of switches, and a plurality of paths, and wherein each path maps a respective input to a respective output through a respective combination of switches; mapping the permutation network from the digital computer to a quantum processor, the quantum processor which comprises a plurality of qubits, wherein mapping the permutation network from the digital computer to a quantum processor includes controlling the state of at least one switch in the permutation network by the state of at least one qubit of the plurality of qubits; generating a permutation from the permutation network by the quantum processor, wherein the permutation corresponds to a configuration of at least one of the plurality of switches that produces an arrangement of at least one of the plurality of outputs; returning the permutation by the quantum processor to the digital computer, wherein returning the permutation by the quantum processor to the digital computer includes reading out the state of the at least one qubit in the plurality of qubits; determining a characteristic of the permutation by the digital computer by evaluating the objective function using the permutation as the input to produce a result comprising a real number as the output, wherein the characteristic of the permutation is based at least in part on the result; evaluating the characteristic of the permutation against a set of at least one solution criterion by the digital computer; and in response to the characteristic of the permutation not satisfying the set of at least one solution criterion, repeating the generating a permutation, determining a characteristic of the permutation, and evaluating the characteristic of the permutation until the set of at least one solution criterion is satisfied. |
20070054331 | 11449648 | 0 | 1. A computer system for recommending an optimal treatment protocol comprising: a model of biological processes related to a disease; a treatment protocol generator for generating a plurality of treatment protocols for treating a disease using drugs; and a selector adapted to select an optimal treatment protocol from said plurality of treatment protocols based on the model the model further comprising: a pharmacokinetics macro module adapted to analyze interactions between a ligand and a population of target cells at a tissue level; a pharmacokinetics micro module adapted to analyze interactions between the ligand and a cell at an individual cell level; the micro module adapted to model behavior of the ligand and receptors related to single cell level of ligand-cell interactions, as a stochastic process. |
20110196984 | 12702575 | 0 | 1. A method for discovery, comprising, grouping a set of nodes including redundant information; after a first discovery stage, selecting a portion of the set of nodes to perform an additional discovery stage based on a decision of each node; and performing the additional discovery stage with the portion of the set of nodes wherein each node makes a decision whether to perform the additional discovery stage. |
9424364 | 13396400 | 1 | 1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having an integration software module stored thereon that when executed on a processor is configured to cause the processor to: provide an integrated data connection between a webpage and a social network, the integration software module further configured to cause an automatic search for data relevant to a portion of content of the webpage selected by a user, wherein the integration software module behaves at least in part according to a third-party custom software cartridge that modifies a behavior of the integration software module to take actions in addition to search, including at least two of changing search results font, downloading files, presenting a user interface on a target webpage, accessing a database, acquiring user input, and playing multimedia files; and a display area integrated with the webpage and configured by the integration software module to display search results generated by the integration software module. |
9071668 | 14106051 | 1 | 1. A system comprising a set of one or more servers for adaptive-rate content streaming of videos stored on a storage device for playback on remotely-located end user stations, wherein a plurality of different copies of a same single video is stored on the storage device, each of the different copies encoded at a different bit rate and each divided into a plurality of streamlets that collectively store data to playback the entire video but that individually store data to playback only a portion that starts at a unique time index and whose duration is less than the entire playback duration of the single video, wherein the time indexes of the streamlets are the same for the different copies such that the streamlets with the same time indexes from the different copies independently yield the same portions of the single video, and wherein each of the streamlets of each of the pluralities is a separate content file that is independently playable by the end user stations, wherein the system comprises: a web server, to be executed on the set of one or more servers, wherein the web server is configured to: receive, for a set of one or more initial and sequential ones of the time indexes, at least one streamlet request over a network connection from a requesting one of the end user stations to retrieve the separate content files storing the portions of the single video starting at the set of time indexes from one of the different copies; retrieve from the storage device the requested content files from the one copy; send the retrieved content files from the one copy to the requesting one of the end user stations over the network connection; receive, for each subsequent time index, at least one streamlet request over the network connection from the requesting one of the end user stations to retrieve the separate content files storing the portion of the single video starting at that time index from one of the different copies currently selected, wherein the requesting one of the end user stations selects the currently selected one of the different copies dependent upon ongoing determinations to shift the playback quality to a higher or lower quality one of the different copies, wherein the shifts in playback quality occur at the time indexes; retrieve from the storage device the requested content files from the currently selected one of the different copies; and send the retrieved content files from the currently selected one of the different copies to the requesting one of the end user stations over the network connection. |
5390125 | 08019540 | 1 | 1. A system for determining an estimate of the position of a vehicle based on pseudoranges derived from a vehicle positioning system and prior position estimates, the system comprising: (a) first means for receiving signals from a plurality of satellites, responsively determining respective pseudoranges from said satellites to the vehicle, and deriving a first position estimate of the vehicle's position as a function of said pseudoranges; (b) second means responsive to said first means for receiving the prior position estimates and responsively determining a vehicle path model using a best fit algorithm; (c) third means responsive to said second means, said third means for extrapolating a second position estimate from said vehicle path model; and (d) fourth means responsive to said third means, said fourth means for setting said first position estimate equal to said second position estimate if said second position estimate is more accurate. |
8589731 | 13015763 | 1 | 1. A method of rolling back software in an automatic teller machine wherein the automatic teller machine comprises at least one computer and at least one software program running on the at least one computer, the at least one software program comprising at least one virtual environment, the method comprising: detecting the failure of at least software component of the software program running on the at least one computer and in response to the failure of the one software component, restoring a previous version of the software program restoring the previous version of the software program comprising maintaining operation of the software program by switching the computer to run on a stored previous version of the virtual environment. |
9697101 | 15271030 | 1 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving a user action script, a first callback queue, and an asynchronous operation queue generated based on a first execution instance of a web application in a first computing environment; simulating, by operation of a computer processor, the first execution instance of the web application, comprising: invoking a second execution instance of the web application in a second computing environment, different than the first computing environment; simulating, during the second execution instance of the web application, each user action of a plurality of user actions specified in the user action script, based on a plurality of callback functions specified in the first callback queue; simulating, during the second execution instance of the web application, each asynchronous operation of a plurality of asynchronous operations specified in the asynchronous operation queue based on the plurality of callback functions specified in the first callback queue; and generating, during the second execution instance of the web application, a second callback queue based on the simulated plurality of user actions and asynchronous operations; and upon determining that an order of the plurality of callback functions specified in the first callback queue matches an order of a plurality of callback functions specified in the second callback queue, returning an indication that the simulation of the first execution instance of the web application was successful. |
8479150 | 12540739 | 1 | 1. An article of manufacture, comprising: a non-transitory computer readable medium; and instructions stored on the non-transitory computer readable medium that when executed by a processor cause the processor to modify a modeling element palette of a modeling tool by: configuring the modeling tool to operate with a graphical user interface (GUI) application (GAP) in a user selected isolation mode that defines whether or not the GAP and the modeling tool run in a same process space, where the user selected isolation mode is based on the GAP; receiving a graphical user interface (GUI) object definition of a GUI object selected in the GUI application (GAP) external to the modeling tool; generating a GUI modeling element compatible with the modeling tool from the GUI object definition; and adding the GUI modeling element into the modeling element palette. |
20040250051 | 10765867 | 0 | 1. Apparatus for processing data, said apparatus comprising: data processing logic operable to perform data processing operations; and an instruction decoder operable to decode program instructions to control said data processing logic to perform said data processing operations, wherein said instruction decoder is responsive to a predication instruction to control said data processing logic to either execute or not execute one or more associated program instructions in dependence upon one or more condition states of said apparatus for processing data set by execution of one or more program instructions other than said predication instruction. |
20170212885 | 15003743 | 0 | 1. A computer implemented language interpretation platform comprising: a processor that determines available languages for which language interpretation resources are currently available based on at least one user criterion and language interpreter availability, wherein the processor also determines available modalities for the available languages; and a routing engine that receives, via an Application Programming Interface, a request, from a computing device being used by the user, for the available languages and sends the available languages and the available modalities to the computing device such that the computing device displays the available languages and, after receiving a user selection of one of the available languages, displays the available modalities for the user selected language, wherein the request includes the at least one user criterion. |
20070038446 | 11500770 | 0 | 1. A system for obtaining a textual phrase from a series of audio contents, comprising: an output module outputting the audio contents; an input module receiving a speech input from a user; a buffer temporarily storing the audio contents within a desired period and the speech input; and a recognizing module performing a speech recognition between the audio contents within the desired period and the speech input to generate an audio phrase and the corresponding textual phrase matching with the speech input. |
20150350311 | 14819394 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: identifying changes to a test bed machine after an application is installed on the test bed machine; identifying changes to the test bed machine after the application is executed on the test bed machine; generating stream enabled application pages and a stream enabled application install block to form a streamed application set based on the changes to the test bed machine after installation and execution of the application; receiving, at a software license management server, a request to execute the application at a client device; providing, from an application server, the stream enabled application install block to the client device; providing, from the application server, a subset of the stream enabled application pages to the client device for continued execution of a stream-enabled version of the application at the client device. |
20080016064 | 11545969 | 0 | 1. A method of a content platform, comprising: fetching a dynamic index algorithm of a digital content module when a native markup language file and a format data of the native markup language file associated with the dynamic index algorithm are processed in the digital content module; automatically creating a plurality of index data referencing a plurality of segment data of the native markup language file using the dynamic index algorithm; storing the plurality of index data and the native markup language file in the digital content module; and accessing at least one of the plurality of segment data when a query data generated by a user of the digital content module matches with any one of the plurality of index data. |
20150112988 | 14589366 | 0 | 1. A method for fast updating of a search database, the method comprising: storing signatures of a real time database update in sequential order as received in a buffer on a user device; sending the signatures from the user device to a remote database without locks; and updating a remote database with the signatures of the real time update. |
8032711 | 11644358 | 1 | 1. An integrated circuit comprising: a first die to be stacked with a second die, wherein a through-silicon die-to-die via is coupled between the first die and the second die, the first die having: a static random access memory (SRAM); a bus; and a plurality of processor cores coupled to one another by the bus, the plurality of processor cores to further couple to a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) of the second die via the bus and the through-silicon die-to-die via, wherein the bus to experience a level of usage by the plurality of processors, the plurality of processor cores having a first processor core including: an L1 cache; instruction processing logic to generate a prefetch hint associated with a first load instruction, wherein the instruction processing logic to generate the prefetch hint in response to detecting an instruction pointer history, the prefetch hint representing a level of confidence that two or more load instructions subsequent to the first load instruction are likely to request data from a same cache page, the instruction processing logic further to send the prefetch hint in response to a miss of the L1 cache; and prefetch logic coupled to the instruction processing logic, the prefetch logic to compare to one another the level of confidence represented in the prefetch hint and an indication of the level of usage experienced by the bus, the prefetch logic further to determine, based on the comparing, whether or not to prefetch data, and where the prefetch logic determines to prefetch data, the prefetch logic further to transfer two or more cache lines from an open page in the DRAM to the SRAM, wherein data of the two or more cache lines is transferred by way of the through-silicon die-to-die via and the bus, wherein the DRAM provides a level of cache and the SRAM provides a next higher level of cache. |
20100302582 | 12759462 | 0 | 1. An image forming apparatus, comprising: a controller unit configured to control an operation of, and/or input or output of data with, at least a printer unit and a scanner unit responsive to instructions from an application; an application management unit configured to detect a restricted function of which use by a given user is inhibited from among a plurality of functions within the application; and a function monitoring unit configured to register the restricted function detected by the application management unit, intercept instructions sent from the application to the controller unit, determine whether an intercepted instruction requests the restricted function, and responsive to determining that the intercepted instruction does request the restricted function, inhibit the user from executing the restricted function. |
8654715 | 12582514 | 1 | 1. A method for use by a remote unit in an Evolution Data Optimized (EVDO) network, the method comprising: transmitting a plurality of transmissions to a base station from a single wireless device, each of the transmissions corresponding to a respective one of a plurality of hypotheses of multiple antenna usage for the single wireless device; receiving feedback from the base station in response to the plurality of transmissions, the feedback being uninformed of multiple antenna usage; using the feedback to select at least one of the hypotheses; and transmitting data using a multiple-antenna scheme associated with the selected at least one of the hypotheses. |
9235611 | 13912042 | 1 | 1. A database management system comprising: a plurality of computing nodes each computing node configured to store logical collections of data on one or more storage devices; and one or more memories having stored thereon computer-readable instructions that, upon execution, cause the system at least to: determine a maximum of current capacity utilization values for the plurality of computing nodes, wherein a capacity utilization value is based at least in part on storage capacity utilized by a computing node storing logical collections of data; determine an average length of time for the capacity utilization values of computing nodes in the plurality of computing nodes to reach the maximum of the current capacity utilization values; assign one or more computing nodes in the plurality of computing nodes to a subset of the plurality of computing nodes based at least in part on a length of time for the capacity utilization value of the one or more computing nodes to reach the maximum of current capacity utilization values exceeding the average length of time; and store a logical collection on one of the subset of computing nodes. |
20020061091 | 09070150 | 0 | 1. A message switching apparatus, comprising: message receiving means for receiving a particular message and a destination address of a receiver of the particular message from a sender operating a sender's communication terminal or information terminal; motive-procedure set storing means for storing a plurality of motive-procedure sets, each motive-procedure set being composed of a motive and a message processing procedure with condition, the motive being expressed by an event, the event determining a start of an operation of one message processing procedure with condition corresponding to the motive, the occurrence of the event being expressed by the firing of the motive, the message processing procedure with condition being composed of both a message processing procedure and a condition of the performance of the message processing procedure, and the message processing procedure indicating a procedure of a processing performed for a message; motive firing judging means for identifying the receiver according to the particular message received by the message receiving means, retrieving a plurality of specific motive-procedure sets corresponding to the receiver from the motive-procedure set storing means, identifying a plurality of specific motives corresponding to the specific motive-procedure sets, detecting the occurrence of a particular event expressing a particular motive among the specific motives, selecting a particular motive-procedure set corresponding to the particular motive from the plurality of specific motive-procedure sets, and judging the firing of the particular motive; message processing procedure performing means for performing a particular message processing procedure with condition of the particular motive-procedure set in cases where it is judged by the motive firing judging means that the particular motive is fired and a particular condition of the particular message processing procedure with condition is satisfied; and message transmitting means for receiving the particular message and the destination address of the receiver from the message receiving means, transmitting the particular message to a receiver's communication terminal or information terminal indicated by the destination address of the receiver in cases where a particular message processing performed by the message processing procedure performing means indicates the transmission of the particular message to the receiver. |
20150304327 | 14788515 | 0 | 1. A method for enhancing capabilities of a communications device to enable generating trust relationships based on dynamically created maps of network trust relationships established among network devices, the method comprising: receiving, at a server computer, one or more authentication protocol messages from an authenticator computer device to authenticate a supplicant computer device; transmitting, from the server computer, the one or more authentication protocol messages to an authentication computer server; displaying on a digital computer display device a trust topology map as a graphical diagram and comprising information about trusted and untrusted links, encrypted and unencrypted links, authenticated and unauthenticated users, policies applied on the links, and roles associated with endpoints of the links; after sending one or more corresponding response messages comprising one or more responses to the one or more authentication protocol messages, updating the trust topology map with information reflecting security policy data that indicates a secure link between the authenticator computer device and the supplicant computer device, and changes in one or more security trust relationships between the authenticator computer device and the supplicant computer device based on the authentication protocol messages and the response messages, and in which links and paths are coded according to encryption capabilities, security properties and other characteristics identified in the response and the security policy data. |