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8917714

12146758

1. In a communications network having a plurality of nodes, a method of routing data through said network, said method comprising: programming a programmable traffic manager using at least one application level directive; and routing said data through said network using said programmable traffic manager, wherein said data is routed in accordance with said application level directive, and wherein said programmable traffic manager causes said data to be routed to one of said nodes, said programmable traffic manager programmed dynamically by at least a target application, wherein said target application dynamically programs said traffic manager to route said target application destined data traffic toward a second node, responsive to said target application determining that one or more of its quality of service criteria is not being met on a first node, a transformer transforming one or more routing strategies into a form executable by said programmable traffic manager.

9183436

13959724

1. A method performed at least in part on at least one computer processor, said method comprising: receiving an image to classify, said image being located within a text document; identifying a plurality of said text documents comprising said image; identifying a training set of examples from at least one of said text documents, said training set of examples comprising a subset of said text within said text documents that is classified based on a determination of a measure of proximity to said image; training a classifier using said training set; and classifying said text within said text document using said classifier to identify a group of text associated with said image.

8176085

12242322

1. A method in a computer environment for analyzing a regular tree pattern, the computer environment comprising at least one computer processor and computer-readable memory, the method comprising: receiving data comprising a regular tree pattern comprising each of at least one sequence and at least one set; determining a first machine corresponding to the at least one sequence; determining a second machine corresponding to the at least one set; creating a union of the first and second machines; determining a set of labeled acceptance states for the union of the machines; determining from the labeled acceptance states a sub-type relationship for the first and second machine; determining a root level machine comprising at least one transition to a labeled nest; creating a module corresponding to the labeled nest; placing a continuation state corresponding to the return of the labeled nest onto a stack; performing actions corresponding to the labeled nest; and when reaching an acceptance state for the labeled nest, popping the continuation state from the stack and resuming processing for the root level machine.

20050091530

10693061

1. A method for maintaining the security of a secured execution environment on a system comprising said secured execution environment and a second execution environment, comprising: accepting user input from a trusted input device; determining whether said secured execution environment is in a standard input mode; and if said secured execution environment is in a standard input mode, transferring at least a first portion of said user input to said second execution environment.

8437818

13662490

1. A superconducting integrated circuit, comprising: a first superconducting layer formed into a superconducting device, subject to alteration in superconducting device properties caused by at least hydrogen diffusion; a second superconducting layer having hydrogen diffused therein, providing a superconducting electronic path for communication with the first superconducting layer; and a diffusion barrier layer interposed between the first and second superconducting layers, formed from a composition which is superconductive or induced into superconductivity by proximity to the first and second superconducting layers, to thereby complete a non-switching superconducting path between the first and second superconducting layers, and which substantially blocks diffusion of hydrogen from the second superconducting layer to the first superconducting layer at temperatures below about 290K, such that the superconducting properties of the first superconducting layer remain stable after fabrication and storage at or below 290K, wherein the diffusion barrier layer is patterned together with the first superconducting layer in a common photolithographic mask step.

20070233342

11761575

1. A method for operating a remote programmer to provide a vehicle control system and a remote control device that operates the vehicle control system with updated feature programming data, comprising: receiving, at an input of the remote programmer, a request for updated feature programming data for the vehicle control system and the remote control device; sending the request, from a first external interface of the remote programmer, to a computer; receiving, at the first external interface, updated feature programming data for the vehicle control system and the remote control device, from the computer; storing, in a memory of the remote programmer, the updated feature programming data; receiving, at the input, a selection of an updated feature to be programmed into the vehicle control system and a selection of an updated feature to be programmed into the remote control device; and transmitting, from a transmitter of the remote programmer, data corresponding to the feature selected to be programmed into the vehicle control system to the vehicle control system and data corresponding to the feature selected to be programmed into the remote control device to the remote control device.

9894415

15188997

1. A computer-implemented method for analyzing media experiences comprising: receiving, by a presentation device, media content including media contextual data, the media contextual data identifying or defining the media content; presenting, by the presentation device, the received media content; receiving, by the presentation device, input from a first set of one or more devices, the input indicating at least one physical or physiological condition of a consumer of the presented content while the content is being presented; generating, by the presentation device, behavioral data based on the received input from the first set of one or more devices, the behavioral data indicating a change in the physical or physiological condition of the consumer in reaction to the presented content; receiving, by the presentation device, input from a second set of one or more devices, the input indicating one or more electronically measurable physical conditions during the presenting of the content; generating, by the presentation device, experiential data comprising the received input from the second set of one or more devices associated with the generated behavioral data; generating, by the presentation device, media experience data correlating the received media contextual data, the generated behavioral data, and the generated experiential data; generating, by the presentation device, a media event based on presenting the received media content and comprising the generated media experience data; providing, by the presentation device, the generated media event to a data management system in response to receiving and presenting the media content, the generated media experience data comprising an indication to the data management system of a preference of the consumer related to the media content and media event; receiving, by the data management system, the media event from the presentation device; analyzing, by the data management system, the received media event; generating, by the data management system, based on the media experience data of the analyzed media event, one or more connectedness values for the presented media, the connectedness values comprising indications of a degree of connection of the consumer with the content presented by the presentation device; and rendering, by the data management system, in one or more presentation forms, data that demonstrate qualitative and quantitative aspects of the connectedness values.

8527516

13404943

1. A computer-implemented method for identifying relationships between a plurality of digital text volumes in a corpus, the method comprising: comparing the plurality of digital text volumes in the corpus to produce volume similarity data describing similarities among pairs of digital text volumes; identifying a cluster of similar digital text volumes based on the volume similarity data; comparing pages of a pair of digital text volumes within the cluster to determine page similarity data indicating degrees of similarity between the compared pages; extracting signals from the volume similarity data and the page similarity data that describe a relationship between the pair of digital text volumes, the extracted signals including at least one of: a measure of linear page-to-page fit that models volume text uniformly distributed across pages of the pair of digital text volumes; and a measure of relative consecutive page correlation between pages of the pair of digital text volumes; classifying the relationship between the pair of digital text volumes based on the extracted signals; and storing classification data describing the relationship between the pair of digital text volumes.

20030140136

09161404

1. A status information providing system for sensing the status of an object terminal via a network of a general-purpose protocol and outputting information indicative of the sensed status to a prescribed output terminal, wherein said object terminal includes: status sensing means for sensing status of the terminal itself or status of a prescribed device located within the terminal; and transmitting means for transferring information, which relates to the status sensed, to a prescribed server on the network, and storing this information in storage means provided in said server; and said output terminal includes: readout means for reading information out of said storage means of said server; and output means for producing an output in accordance with the information read out of said storage means.

20150195768

14664641

1. A wireless apparatus operable in a wireless communication system, the apparatus comprising: a discovery engine configured to communicate with a near-area network (NAN) based on a profile, the profile having defined use parameters, receive an input from an application indicating a selection of the profile from a plurality of profiles, each of at least a subset of the profiles having a unique set of parameters selected for use for use in a predetermined context, receive one or more attributes from the application, and configure the profile using the one or more attributes, the attributes containing information to configure the profile to perform functions as defined by the application.

7657434

11421024

1. A computer-implemented method for interpreting a frame definition, the frame definition comprising at least one data field and at least one goal, to control a dialog with a user, the method comprising: receiving information input from the user; updating frame data associated with the frame definition dependent upon the information input from the user; determining that at least one goal of the frame definition is activated, wherein a goal is activated when at least one field referred to inside the goal has been modified; selecting a goal that has been determined to be activated; if the selected activated goal is satisfied: evaluating final rules of the frame definition; and completing the interpretation of the frame definition; and if the selected activated goal is not satisfied: selecting an unfilled data field in the goal; and generating an output to the user using information in the frame definition that is associated with the selected unfilled data field.

20130283153

13924201

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: laying out a plurality of floating objects in a layout space including computing a bottom edge property for individual floating objects; computing flow contours for left-floating and right-floating objects in the layout space; and using the flow contours to enable performance of one or more of content measuring operations or content insertion operations.

8819335

14015815

1. An intelligent solid state drive comprising: a solid state drive controller; a solid state drive host interface; and a flash memory; the solid state drive host interface being selected from the group consisting of: PCIe, NVMe, SATA, Fibre Channel, SAS, SCSI over PCIe, and Ethernet, the solid state drive controller configured to be in communication with the flash memory, and comprising: a hardware engine; and a microcontroller; the solid state drive configured to: receive, through the solid state drive host interface, a data query described by Map-Reduce functions; execute map and reduce tasks, in the solid state drive controller, to process the query; and return a query result through the solid state drive host interface.

9870372

14456380

1. A computer system; comprising: one or more processors; and one or more computer-readable hardware storage devices having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that are executable by the one or more processors and that cause the computer system to perform on-demand file staging by causing the computer system to: identify a virtual software application that is to be accessed by the computer system; detect that the virtual software application is attempting, for a first time, to access a data file located at a server computer system remotely from the computer system; in response to the first time attempt to access the data file, dynamically create a sparse data file at the computer system, wherein the sparse data file includes at least a file name and a file size that is created in a directory structure stored by the computer system; in response to a call for the data file by a local file system of the computer system, return a positive reply that the data file exists locally on the computer system, even though it does not yet exist locally on the computer system; and in response to a request for particular data contained in the data file, subsequent to the sparse data file being created, stream the particular data from the server computer system to the computer system.

9536445

13664713

1. A method for visually tracking a learned process, the method comprising: receiving user input utilized to generate the learned process, wherein the user input includes a title for the learned process; receiving user selected content; creating nodes to represent steps of the learned process in response to the user input and the user selected content; associating information contained in the user selected content with each of the nodes; connecting the nodes in an order for performing the learned process based on the user input and the user selected content; visually displaying the connected nodes as a trail for one or more users to perform the learned process, wherein the trail provides an answer to a particular question, and wherein visually displaying the trail is performed in response to receiving the particular question from the one or more users; receiving ratings for the trail; and enabling viewing of statistics including the ratings associated with the trail.

8327192

11349480

1. An apparatus comprising: a memory integrity hardware module to be included within a local computing system, the memory integrity hardware module to generate a memory integrity access request to a memory in a networked computing system without a call to a kernel executing in the local computing system, wherein the memory integrity access request is to initiate performance of a memory integrity function on the memory in the networked computing system in response to receiving the memory integrity access request, and wherein the memory integrity function includes a function selection from a group consisting of storing a snapshot of a first section of memory of the local computing system in the networked computing system for roll-back, storing a snapshot of contents from the networked computing system in the first section of memory in the local computing system for rollback, and storing values from the first section of memory in the local computing system to another section of memory in the local computing system for rollback, the memory integrity access request is to include a remote direct memory access (RDMA) with a reference to the first section of memory.

20160033947

14447854

1. A method for monitoring a building management system, comprising: monitoring an attribute of a building; monitoring an activity related to the attribute performed by an operator; and publishing the activity performed by the operator and the attribute of the building.

6154128

08861141

1. A method of creating, in a monitoring computer system, a test to detect a predetermined condition in a remotely monitored computer system, comprising: selecting, via interactions between a user and a graphical user interface, at least one system parameter from a list of available system parameters, each of the system parameters representing a hardware or software component of the remotely monitored computer system; selecting, via interactions between the user and the graphical user interface, at least one operator from a plurality of operators to operate on the at least one system parameter; connecting the at least one operator and the at least one system parameter, via interactions between the user and the graphical user interface, to generate a graphical representation of the test; and presenting by an appearance of a plurality of icons on a display, the test for the predetermined condition, each of the icons respectively corresponding to the at least one operator and the at least one system parameter.

20160139201

14541971

1. A system, comprising: resources within processor cores that are each in communication with a debug bus such that the cores receive packets over the debug bus, the cores executing transactions in response to the packets, the packets each being a type of packet selected from a group that includes Second Access Bus (SAB) packets and Debug Access Bus (DAB) packets, the resources including specified resources and non-specified resources, a core that executes a transaction in response to a DAB packet accesses a specified resource and a core that executes a transaction in response to a SAB packet accesses a non-specified resource, a debug specification identifies the specified resources as being accessible by a debug controller but does not identify the non-specified resources as being accessible by the debug controller.

20090240725

12050233

1. A method for persistently maintaining and exposing one or more previous object hierarchies to which an object belongs, comprising: maintaining said previous object hierarchies for said object across one or more hierarchy destroying operations; generating a user interface object that allows a user to select one of said persistent hierarchies; and responsive to said user selecting one of said persistent hierarchies, displaying said selected persistent hierarchy with said object as a currently selected object within said selected persistent hierarchy. put in dependent claims for having the object as latest (most recently received message), and the object is the founding object of the thread

9810511

14687744

1. A system for tracking at least one object being illuminated by a laser designator, the system being configured for use in conjunction with an optical apparatus configured for receiving a light beam scattered by the at least one object in response to illumination from the laser designator, the system comprising: a detector having a sensing surface divided into three sectors, each sector being adjacent to two sectors and all sectors meeting at a central point, the sensing surface of the detector being positioned with respect to the optical apparatus such that the laser beam is projected by the optical apparatus onto the sensing surface as an unfocused spot, and each sector being configured for generating a respective signal indicative of an energy of a portion of the spot illuminating the sector; a data processing apparatus configured for receiving the signals from the detector, and processing the signals to determine an orientation of the system with respect to the at least one target.

5471381

07967992

1. A neural network controller for a plant which has a desired plant performance parameter represented by a reference signal and which has an actual plant performance parameter represented by an actual performance signal, said neural network controller comprising: a first input port for inputting a controller weights adjust signal; a second input port for inputting a dumb control signal; neural network means coupled to said first and second input ports for receiving said inputted controller weights adjust signal and dumb control signal, and for processing said inputted dumb control signal in accordance with said inputted controller weights adjust signal to generate a plant control signal; an output port for outputting said plant control signal; and input signal combiner means coupled to said first input port for receiving and combining a reference signal and an actual performance signal and for providing in accordance therewith a first performance error signal, wherein said reference signal represents a desired plant performance parameter, said actual performance signal represents an actual plant performance parameter and said first performance error signal represents a first difference between said desired plant performance parameter and said actual plant performance parameter.

20070016699

11485285

1. A memory control apparatus comprising: generation means for generating a plurality of commands whose unit of data transfer is smaller than a unit of data transfer of a memory access request; and issue means for, when the memory access requests are transmitted from a plurality of request sources, issuing the plurality of commands to a memory in alternate order for each request source, wherein the plurality of memory access requests are executed by time division and concurrently.

20160224586

15096970

1. A method for dynamically updating contents of a folder on a user device, comprising: identifying a folder on the user device as a dynamic folder; determining at least one context parameter related to the dynamic folder; searching, based on the at least one context parameter, a plurality of resources of information to identify content items that that can be pushed to the dynamic folder; and causing, for each identified content item, a display of an icon in the dynamic folder, thereby dynamically updating contents of the dynamic folder with content items found through the search.

7689990

11090407

1. A data processing system implemented method for managing a plurality of data processing system executable tasks each having a script associated therewith, the method comprising: presenting a list of computer executable tasks; selecting, from the list of the computer executable tasks, a selection of tasks; receiving a user input designating an operation from a plurality of operations to be applied to the selection of tasks, wherein the plurality of operations are selected as a function of a state of selected tasks, wherein the state of the selected tasks and a status of the selected tasks is a unique range of values; presenting scripts corresponding to the selected selection of tasks and selecting at least one script from the presented scripts, wherein no more than one script corresponds to each task; editing the at least one selected script; executing the at least one edited script by the data processing system; and presenting the at least one executed script as at least one new executable task in the list of computer executable tasks for further operation.

20120174089

13416925

1. A method comprising: receiving a plan script comprising a plurality of instructions; translating, by a processing device, the plurality of instructions into a plurality of commands in a cross-platform language; and in response to a request, sending the plurality of commands in the cross-platform language to a plurality of servers.

20110280472

12780119

1. A method for determining calibration between a machine vision system and a robot, the method comprising: fixing one or more cameras in space, each of the one or more cameras having a field of view that covers at least part of a workplace for the robot; fixing a calibration object to an end effector of the robot; obtaining a plurality of images of the calibration object as the robot moves the calibration object to a plurality of different poses within the workplace for the robot; identifying transforms from each of the one or more cameras into a robot coordinate system, wherein a discrepancy between a set of observed features in the plurality of images and a set of predicted image features is optimized; and calibrating the machine vision system and the robot using the identified transforms.

20090097537

11973960

1. A system for detecting a plugged impulse line in a process measuring device, the system comprising: a sensor for detecting a pressure in a process line, the sensor providing a pressure signal indicative of the pressure; and one or more processors implementing a first statistical process monitoring (SPM) block, a second SPM block, and a plugged line diagnostic block; the first SPM block configured to calculate mean values from a plurality of pressure signal sample values collected during predefined sample windows, and the second SPM block configured to calculate standard deviation values from a plurality of pressure signal sample values collected during the predefined sample windows; and the plugged line diagnostic block configured to model the standard deviation values as a function of corresponding mean values, to predict standard deviation values based on mean values, compare predicted standard deviation values to corresponding calculated standard deviation values, and detect a plugged impulse line when a predicted standard deviation value differs from a corresponding calculated standard deviation value by more than a predefined amount.

20050273397

11129678

1. A collection command applicator process for applying computer commands to one or more collections, comprising the following steps: (a) obtaining a list of collections for processing, and (b) applying one or more computer commands to collections within said list of collections, thereby improving productivity of human workers by enabling them to automatically process large numbers of collections using significantly fewer collection command applicator commands, and thereby providing a solution to the general collection command applicator problem.

9244982

13721490

1. A method for performing static analysis of one or more query expressions embedded in programming language source code, the method comprising: extracting the one or more query expressions from the programming language source code, wherein extracting the one or more query expressions and performing the static analysis comprises reading the source code in which the one or more query expressions are embedded, parsing the source code in which the one or more query expressions are embedded, extracting query expression code for the one or more query expressions from the parsed source code, creating a procedure from the extracted query expression code, and compiling the created procedure; performing the static analysis on the extracted one or more query expressions, wherein performing the static analysis further comprises detecting a collision between triggers in the extracted one or more query expressions based on said analyzing and applying one or more user defined rules to the created procedure, the one or more user defined rules defining guidelines and conventions for the query expressions and in response to any of the extracted one or more query expressions violating the one or more user defined rules, generating an error or warning; and reporting results of performing the static analysis on the one or more query expressions, wherein the results relate errors and warning generated by performing the static analysis to the source code from which the one or more query expressions are extracted.

7516312

10817263

1. A processor comprising: a processor pipeline to output branch instruction addresses; a branch target buffer responsive to the branch instruction addresses, wherein the branch target buffer comprises branch target buffer records to map branch instruction addresses to branch target addresses associated with an entry location of a first code region, wherein the branch target buffer records comprise confidence counters to track a number of times branches associated with the branch target addresses are taken; and a presbyopic target buffer responsive to the branch target buffer, wherein the presbyopic target buffer comprises presbyopic target buffer records to map the entry location of the first code region to an entry location of a second code region; a cache memory to retrieve the instructions at the branch target addresses and the instructions at the subsequent branch target addresses; a fetch buffer to receive the instructions at the branch target addresses; a prefetch stream buffer to receive the instructions at the subsequent branch target addresses.

20160196222

14589185

1. A method of managing network processing on a processing unit including multiple cores, the method comprising; determining whether a processing core handling interrupts associated with network IO is overloaded; upon determining the processing core is overloaded, determining a bottleneck for the processing core; and steering an interrupt associated with network IO to at least a second processing core of the processing unit based at least in part on a determined bottleneck.

7523089

11241435

1. A method for servicing, by a computer, an image in an offline state, said image having a file-based image format, said method comprising: mapping the contents of the image to a directory with a file system filter driver; providing access to the contents of the image via a file access application; and displaying the contents of the image mapped to the directory for review by a user utilizing the file access application, wherein the file system filter driver monitors and intercepts calls from the file access application to the file system of the directory where the image is mapped, said file system filter driver thereby providing access to the contents of the image in a hierarchal directory structure without modification of the file access application.

7478378

10998850

1. A method for semantically adapting a software application to a device having specific constraint rules, said method comprising: (a) inputting a precedence of semantic adaptation of components of said software application, as a directed acyclic graph (DAG), where vertices correspond to said components and directed edges indicate order of precedence; (b) inputting a relationship table, each entry of said relationship table corresponding to one of said components/vertices of said DAG, wherein each entry in said relationship table includes: a pair of subcomponents having a binary relation or a single component having a unary relation; a relation comprising one of AND, XOR, OR, NAND, NOR, Equivalence, Implication, KEEP, DROP, and MODIFY, wherein said binary relation comprises one of AND, XOR, OR, NAND, NOR, Equivalence, and Implication, wherein said unary relation comprises one of KEEP and DROP; and an action, wherein in said MODIFY relation, said action includes actions taken on a second sub-component, in cases of KEEP or DROP of a first sub-component, or on said MODIFY relation of said first sub-component; (c) for each vertex in said DAG not having an incoming edge, evaluating rules for a vertex according to said relationship table, wherein said evaluate rules comprises: solving Boolean relations of said subcomponents or: in said cases of KEEP or DROP, acting on said second sub-component according to said MODIFY relation; (d) returning said evaluate rules to said vertex; (e) if said evaluate rules for said vertex is DROP, then processing a next vertex of said DAG; if said evaluate rules for said vertex is not DROP, then semantically adapting said vertex, wherein said semantic adaptation is specific to device constraint rules of memory size or screen size linked to a specific component, and if said specific component corresponds to said vertex being semantically adapted, then KEEPing or DROPing said specific component according to said device constraint rules and returning said specific component as KEEP or DROP to said vertex; if said specific component corresponds to said vertex not being semantically adapted, then applying an action to said vertex from said MODIFY rules and repeating said evaluate rules to produce an updated DAG; (f) updating all specific components/vertices in said updated DAG, as said returned KEEP or DROP; (g) removing said returned DROP components/vertices from said updated DAG; (h) continuing evaluating all components/vertices of said updated DAG, until said all components/vertices are removed for said evaluating; and (i) using said evaluated components/vertices of said updated DAG to produce a semantically adapted software application specific to said device constraint rules.

9277004

12033250

1. A system that facilitates connectivity within a peer-to-peer networking environment, comprising: one or more processors; one or more computer-readable storage devices with instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising: receiving, from a client, a request to connect with a host for peer-to-peer networking, the request comprising a game account associated with the client and defining connectivity criteria with the host; verifying the client based in part on the game account and generating a list that includes a plurality of hosts that match the request from the client; determining an estimation of network path quality (NPQ) by a predictor, the predictor is at least one of an Internet Protocol (IP) history predictor, a prefix history predictor, or a geography predictor; reducing the list by removing at least one matched host from the list based upon the estimation of the NPQ by the predictor; determining, based on the estimation of the NPQ by the predictor, a probing technique to employ for probing for the client and at least one other matched host in the list, wherein the probing technique comprises at least one probing operation between the client and the at least one other matched host from the reduced list, wherein the probing technique is at least one of the following: standard probing and limited probing; and implementing a probing for the client and the at least one other matched host from the reduced list based on the determined probing technique.

20030083863

10292335

1. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon a data structure comprising: a first data field containing data representing a first word and comprising an orthography subfield containing data representing an orthographic representation of the first word and a tag subfield containing data representing a tag, the tag encoding lexical information regarding the first word; and a probability data field containing data representing the probability of the first word occurring in a word sequence.

20050232494

11155998

1. A method for classification of an input image in picture or graphic classes using a combination classifier, comprising: a) performing a picture/graphics classifier on an input image using one or more one-dimensional color discreteness features; b) if the result of the picture/graphics classifier using one-dimensional color discreteness features is indeterminate, performing a picture/graphics classifier on the input image using one or more two-dimensional color discreteness features; and, c) if the result of the picture/graphics classifier using two-dimensional color discreteness features is indeterminate, performing a picture/graphics classifier on the input image using a three-dimensional color discreteness feature.

9104693

14041502

1. A method of visualizing versions of a hierarchically organized object, the method comprising the steps of: computing a respective similarity measure between each version and a unique standard version; clustering versions having identical hierarchies into respective sets of versions; organizing versions within each of the respective sets of versions according to the computed respective similarity measures; representing each version as a respective tree having labeled paths; constructing a vector space having multiple dimensions for each labeled path of every tree, wherein the step of constructing the vector space includes constructing each vector in the vector space to have first and second parameters for each respective labeled path, wherein the first parameter indicates a duration for completing work associated with a service and a respective labeled path, wherein the second parameter indicates a cost of providing the work, and wherein the object is a document that indicates a proposal for a service provider to provide the service to a client; generating a visualization having first and second areas that include first and second versions, respectively, wherein the first and second versions each include information from multiple levels of the respective trees; and generating the visualization so that the second version in the second area includes a visual cue that highlights a value of a dimension for a labeled path of the respective tree representing the second version, wherein based on the constructed vector space, the highlighted value differs from a corresponding value of a dimension for a labeled path of the respective tree representing the first version, wherein the step of computing the respective similarity measure includes computing the respective similarity measure between the first and second versions by normalizing a first vector associated with the first version, normalizing a second vector associated with the second version, and determining a product of the normalized first vector and the normalized second vector based on the first parameter indicating the duration and the second parameter indicating the cost, and wherein the steps of computing, clustering, organizing, representing, constructing, generating the visualization having first and second areas, and generating the visualization so that the second version in the second area includes the visual cue are performed by at least one computer.

20050123207

10728426

1. A method for encoding a video frame or picture, the method comprising: dividing up the video frame or the picture in portions of a first type and portions of a second type, wherein the portions of the first type are associated with a first scanning pattern, and the portions of the second type are associated with a second scanning pattern that is different from the first scanning pattern; transforming data corresponding to a predetermined of the portions of the video frame or picture into a two-dimensional array of transform coefficients, wherein a scanning order is defined among the transform coefficients by the scanning pattern of the predetermined portion, the scanning order assigning each transform coefficient a unique scanning position; precoding a predetermined of the transform coefficients in order to obtain a transform data unit; choosing one of a first and a second set of context models, depending on as to whether the predetermined portion is a portion of a type being associated with the first or the second scanning pattern, the first and the second set being different to each other; assigning one context model of the chosen one of the first and the second set of context models to the transform data unit based on the scanning position assigned to the predetermined transform coefficient, wherein each context model is associated with a different probability estimation; and arithmetically encoding the transform data unit or a sub-unit thereof into a coded bit stream based on the probability estimation with which the assigned context model is associated.

20090291667

12123606

1. A charging system for a communication system, the charging system comprising: a plurality of network elements ( 103 , 105 , 107 , 109 ) of a fixed network of the communication system; a plurality of user equipments ( 101 ) of the communication system, at least some of the plurality of network elements ( 103 , 105 , 107 , 109 ) and the plurality of user equipments ( 101 ) comprising a charging proxy ( 205 ); and a charging server ( 111 ) comprising: a topic controller ( 305 ) for initializing charging topics, each charging topic being associable with charging data, a publication controller ( 307 ) for, for each of the charging topics, registering proxies of the charging proxies as publishing proxies, a subscription controller ( 309 ) for, for each of the charging topics, registering proxies of the charging proxies as subscribing proxies, a receiver ( 301 ) for receiving charging data messages from proxies, a charging data receiver ( 311 ) for validating a first set of charging data belonging to a first charging topic in response to a first set of charging proxies registered as publishing proxies for the first charging topic, and a transmitter ( 313 ) for transmitting the first set of charging data to a second set of charging proxies registered as subscribing proxies for the first charging topic.

10009312

14823517

1. A system, comprising a server hardware computing device coupled to a network and comprising at least one processor executing computer-executable instructions within a memory which, when executed, cause the system to: run a domain name system (DNS) server; receive, from a client hardware computing device, an electronic message encoding a request to delegate at least one resource record for a domain name from a first DNS organization operating the server hardware computing device, to a second DNS organization; parse the at least one resource record from a zone file for the domain name; generate a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising: the at least one resource record; and a GUI control associated with each of the at least one resource record and configured to receive a selection of a resource record from among the at least one resource records to delegate the resource record from the first DNS organization to the second DNS organization; transmit the GUI to a client hardware computing device operated by the second DNS organization; receive, from the client hardware computing device, the selection; store, in association in a database, the resource record, and an Internet Protocol (IP) address associated in the database with the resource record and a second server hardware computing device operated by the second DNS organization; receive, from a second client hardware computing device, a DNS request; access, within the database, at least one DNS record comprising: a designation of the DNS server as an authoritative DNS server for the DNS request; and the resource record designating a secondary authoritative server running on the second server hardware computing device; transmit, to the second client hardware computing device, a DNS result according to the resource record; transmit, to the secondary authoritative server running on the second server hardware computing device, a second electronic message encoding a DNS query according to the resource record; receive, from the secondary authoritative server, a DNS query result; store the DNS query result within a cache stored within the server hardware computing device; and transmit, to the second client hardware computing device, the DNS query result.

7978891

11835487

1. A method for generating a medical image, comprising the steps of: providing a computerized processor, having a pan/zoom display function, with an acquired data set of anatomical organ to be depicted by implementing said pan/zoom display function with a pan/zoom display attribute selected from the group consisting of a magnification factor and an image section of the anatomical organ; storing a predetermined user preference for implementing said pan/zoom display function in a memory accessible by said computerized processor; in said processor, accessing said memory to retrieve said predetermined user preference from said memory, and automatically determining said display attribute dependent on said organ and dependent on said user preference; and from said processor, causing said data set of said anatomical organ to be visually displayed by implementing said pan/zoom display function in a display presentation embodying said automatically determined display attribute.

20100106356

12289325

1. A navigation and control system comprising: one or more position sensors configured to generate position signals indicative of the location and heading of a vehicle; one or more operation control mechanisms having inputs and producing outputs which control an operation of the vehicle; and a self-contained autonomous controller disposed remote from the operation control mechanisms, comprising, a processor configured to receive the position signals from the position sensors and to generate operation control signals defining an updated travel path for the vehicle, and a programmable interface providing communication among the position sensors, the operation control mechanisms, and the processor, and configured to normalize inputs to the processor from the position sensors and to generate compatible operation control signals applied as the inputs to the operation control mechanisms, whereby the self-contained autonomous controller is configurable for operation with a variety of different sensors and different operation control mechanisms.

20070266217

11382900

1. A method, comprising: providing a system memory, a storage device and a processor for receiving a plurality of data processing instructions; and decoding a first store instruction for storing data in the system memory at a predetermined address by decoding a first specifier within the first store instruction, the first specifier determining an allocation policy for the first store instruction wherein the allocation policy determines whether to store the data within the storage device when the predetermined address is not within the storage device.

20080091118

11825509

1. A system for analyzing and classifying neurophysiologic activity of a subject, the system comprising: a data input that receives a set of subject data representing a time series of neurophysiologic activity acquired by a multiplicity of spatially distributed sensors arranged to detect neural signaling in the subject during an eyes-open idle state; a data store that stores a plurality of templates classified according to various brain conditions, wherein each of the templates represents selected subsets of statistically-independent temporal measures among neural populations measured from at least one other subject known to present a given brain condition; a processor communicatively coupled to the data input and to the data store, and programmed to: process the set of subject data to obtain a dynamic model that represents temporal measures among neural populations in the subject; and compare at least a portion of the dynamic model with the plurality of templates to produce a classification of neurophysiologic activity of the subject when the dynamic model corresponds with at least one of the plurality of templates.

20120296627

13110484

1. A computer-implemented process for speeding up typing, comprising: inputting text in the form of a phonetic string received from a user; determining a context of the input phonetic string; generating a list of candidates to replace the phonetic string using the determined context of the input phonetic string, while performing spelling correction, word auto-completion, next word prediction and automatic script changing based on the context of the input string; ranking the candidates in the list of candidates; sending the ranked list of candidates back to the user; the user selecting one of the candidates on the ranked list of candidates to replace the input phonetic string; and replacing the input phonetic string with the user-selected candidate in the text the user is typing.

8316348

11835768

1. A framework, including at least one processor, for formatting and serving web content, comprising: a data conglomeration engine for receiving and processing data conglomeration requests, and for serving requested data conglomeration services, at least two of the requested conglomeration services being served using identical unformatted data that has been formatted differently from each other prior to serving; a services registration database for storing data conglomeration service metadata; a data conglomeration services module for maintaining a set of data conglomeration services, the data conglomeration services module interfacing with the data conglomeration engine via a data conglomeration services interface; a data conglomeration configuration repository for storing data conglomeration engine configurations and data conglomeration service configurations; and a source manager for interfacing with static and dynamic data sources that are accessed in response to the data conglomeration requests; wherein the data conglomeration engine is adapted to break down the data conglomeration requests, to translate requested method and parameters into a matching data conglomeration service call; wherein if a caller providing a data conglomeration service call is a web page, a resulting data format is encoded as a JavaScript string, and sent back to a corresponding client; and wherein if a caller providing a data conglomeration service is an application, the data conglomeration engine can encode a resulting data format into Web Service Extensible Markup Language (XML).

20130030650

13192900

1. A vehicle suspension control system, comprising: a plurality of ground engaging traction devices; a plurality of actuators, with at least one of said plurality of actuators correspondingly associated with each of said plurality of ground engaging traction devices; a plurality of sensors positioned about the vehicle; and a controller controllingly connected to each of said plurality of actuators, said controller receiving information from said plurality of sensors, said information relating to at least one of mass distributions of the vehicle and mass distributions of loads carried by the vehicle thereby defining distributed masses, said controller activating said plurality of actuators dependent upon said information and dependent upon a desired center of gravity of the vehicle to thereby alter a center of gravity of the vehicle, said controller computing what alteration of said actuators is needed to substantially reduce a value of a difference between said center of gravity of the vehicle and said desired center of gravity using a fuzzy relations control strategy.

20040261068

10601439

1. A method of preserving exceptions in code reordering, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of software instructions including a software instruction at a first location within the plurality of software instructions; determining if the software instruction is an excepting instruction; inserting a control speculative version of the software instruction at a second location within the plurality of software instructions if the software instruction is an excepting instruction; replacing the software instruction at the first location with a check instruction at the first location; and generating a recovery block which branches from the check instruction, the recovery block including a copy of the software instruction.

9940240

14514412

1. A persistent caching system, the system comprising: a client, wherein the client (a) includes a processor and a computer readable storage medium and (b) is configured to: i) access at least a portion of a data through a network, and ii) access at least a portion of virtual memory blocks through RDMA using one or more exported addresses; and a caching server of a storage system, wherein the caching server (a) includes a processor, a computer readable storage medium, and the data, and (b) is configured to: i) store the data in a number of virtual memory blocks, each of the virtual memory blocks referring to an associated memory-mapped file in a file system of the caching server, ii) export addresses of the virtual memory blocks to the client, and iii) page one or more virtual memory blocks being accessed by the client through RDMA to and/or from memory-mapped files associated with the accessed virtual memory blocks, wherein, after receiving an RDMA read request from the client at a network card of the caching server, the network card is configured to: i) issue a DMA operation to the network card, the DMA operation includes instructions to copy the virtual memory block that was indicated by the RDMA read request, and ii) to transmit the copied virtual memory block to the client that submitted the RDMA read request.

7873679

11862082

1. A system for use in communication by a computer comprising: a Business Object Documents (BOD) mapper employing at least one BOD as input and output data files for a computer, the at least one BOD conforming to an Open Applications Group Integration Specification (OAGIS) standard; at least one model object, being defined by a defined class, corresponding to data contained in the at least one BOD; a system logic in the computer for a local domain, the system logic configured to communicate with the BOD mapper through a BOD mapper application programming interlace (API), said system logic operating on the at least one model object; a BOD mapping configuration for relating elements of the at least one BOD to the at least one model object, mapping for a map call and parsing for a list call responsive to the defined class; and an addressing element communicating with the BOD mapper to define the mapping configuration for the at least one BOD operated on by the BOD mapper.

20130278811

13449731

1. A method for controlling a focus operation for an image-capturing device, the method comprising: receiving a focus instruction, wherein the focus instruction describes an object of focus; sending first context data to an external system; in response to sending first context data to the external system, receiving second context data from the external system, wherein the second context data comprises data associated with the object of focus; identifying the object of focus based on the received second context data; and determining a focus distance based on the identified object.

20120330872

13598915

1. A method of storing a spatiotemporal pattern, comprising: detecting the presence of a spatiotemporal pattern in an input data stream; extracting the spatiotemporal pattern; based on learning rules, storing the spatiotemporal pattern in an associative memory comprising plurality of electronic neurons having a layered neural net relationship with directional synaptic connectivity, wherein the learning rules provide the level of conductance of synaptic interconnections between the electronic neurons as a function of the spatiotemporal patterns; and upon being presented with a version of the spatiotemporal pattern, retrieving the stored spatiotemporal pattern from the associative memory.

4149716

05809621

1. Video game input apparatus for controlling and introducing by electrical connections electric signal input into prior art electric circuitry "game chips", the electric signal output of said "game chips" producing video display action on a television set video screen according to the interior electric circuitry of said "game chips" when electrically connected to said television set, by said input apparatus detecting and electrically processing neuron-firing electric impulses generated in human tissue by voluntary direction to the said human tissue by the brain of the operator, comprising: means for detecting said neuron-firing electric impulses generated in human tissue; means for amplifying the detected electric impulses; low pass filter means, having a cut-off frequency of between 150 and 200 hertz, for filtering the amplified impulses and for transmitting those components of the amplified pulses which are lower in frequency than the cut-off frequency, said low pass filter means comprising capacitive coupling means for blocking transmission of the direct current component of said amplified impulses; rectifier means for rectifying the filtered impulses; integrator means, responsive to the output of said rectifier means, for supplying a first output signal which varies with the time integral of the output of said rectifier; comparator means, having hysteresis properties, responsive to said first output signal for supplying a second output signal, said second output signal having either a high or low state, depending upon whether the first output signal is, respectively, increasing or decreasing for a time period and at a rate sufficient in combination to overcome the hysteresis properties; means for selectively connecting said first output signal and said second output signal to the said "game chips" as an electrical input thereto; the electrical output of said "game chips" being electrically connected to the electric input terminals of said television set; whereby the said video display action on said television set video screen is controlled, in accordance with the selective connection of said first and second output signals to said "game chips" and in accordance with the internal game rules of said "game chip", by the voluntary and involuntary generation of neuron-firing of said electric impulses by said operator.

7536371

11633455

1. An apparatus for the analysis of a process having parameter-based faults, comprising: a parameter value inputer configured for inputting values of at least one process parameter; a fault detector, configured for detecting the occurrence of a fault; a learning file creator associated with said parameter value inputer and said fault detector, configured for separating said input values into a first learning file and a second learning file, said first learning file comprising input values from a collection period preceding each of said detected faults, and said second learning file comprising input values input outside said collection periods; and a learning file analyzer associated with said learning file creator, configured for performing a separate statistical analysis of said first and second learning files, thereby to assess a process status.

20120101800

12908007

1. A computer-implemented method for executing a distributed application and verifying correctness of distributed system behavior, the method comprising: receiving one or more models that describe expected behavior of the distributed application; starting a model checking service online or offline that monitors execution of the distributed application to detect behavior of the application; collecting one or more traces that describe behavior of the application as a series of one or more events that occur at distributed components of the application; identifying one or more events based on the collected traces; checking the received one or more models against the identified events to determine whether any unexpected application behavior has occurred; and upon determining that a model check failed, identifying a root cause event related to the failed model check; and reporting an error based on the identified root cause and failed model check, wherein the preceding steps are performed by at least one processor.

5442553

07976750

1. A wireless diagnostic and software upgrade motor vehicle system, which system includes a vehicle with an engine and manual controls, the system comprising: a plurality of sensors positioned to sense a variety of dynamic data in the vehicle; a plurality of mechanical controls coupled to the vehicle and the engine for mechanically controlling the operation of various components thereof; a memory; a microprocessor coupled to the plurality of sensors and to the memory to receive the dynamic data and store the dynamic data in the memory, the microprocessor further being coupled to the plurality of mechanical controls and including programs to cause functioning of the mechanical controls in accordance with signals from the manual controls; and a transceiver coupled to the microprocessor to receive the dynamic data from the memory and transmit the dynamic data to a remote diagnostic station and to provide program upgrades to the microprocessor in response to signals received from the remote diagnostic station.

20110231279

13118847

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium, with instructions thereon, which when executed, cause a suitably configured computing system to: receive an indication of an event occurrence; store a representation of the event occurrence in a database including a date of the event occurrence; associate the event occurrence with one or more products represented in a product database; and recommend at least one of the one or more products associated with the event occurrence to a prospective purchaser within a period following the date of the event occurrence.

20180189570

15395511

1. A method comprising: by one or more computing devices, accessing a first feature vector representing a video-content object corresponding to a node in a social graph of a social-networking system, wherein: the video-content object comprises frames and audio and is associated with text; the first feature vector is based on one or more of the frames of the video-content object; and the social graph comprises a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes; by one or more computing devices, accessing a second feature vector representing the video-content object, wherein the second feature vector is based on at least some of the text; by one or more computing devices, accessing a third feature vector representing the video-content object, wherein the third feature vector is based on one or more portions of the audio; by one or more computing devices, determining a fourth feature vector representing the video-content object, wherein the fourth feature vector is based on a combination of the first, second, and third feature vectors; and by one or more computing devices, determining a context of the video-content object based on the fourth feature vector and social-graph information based at least in part on one or more nodes or edges connected to the node corresponding to the video-content object.

20010042642

09820242

1. An iterative drilling simulation method for enhanced economic decision making comprising: obtaining characteristics of a rock column in a formation to be drilled; specifying characteristics of at least one drilling rig system; and iteratively simulating the drilling of a well bore in the formation and producing an economic evaluation factor for each iteration of drilling simulation, wherein each iteration of drilling simulation is a function of the rock column and the characteristics of the at least one drilling rig system according to a prescribed drilling simulation model.

20100106686

12525746

1. A data management system for managing the storage of data on primary and secondary storage from a primary information source having original file content to be stored comprising virtual hierarchical storage management without stateful middleware and selected to provide the features of control channel, data channel, demigration requiring only data channel stateless server agents and no stateful middleware.

10148571

15186562

1. A method comprising: representing a routing table for a data network as a binary search tree of address prefixes ordered by prefix lengths, the binary search tree having a root node and two subtrees of nodes including parent nodes and descendant nodes disposed in hierarchical levels of the subtrees, the descendant nodes comprising leaf nodes; placing respective markers in the parent nodes to guide accessing the descendant nodes in the subtrees to search for a destination address of a data packet; associating destination descendant nodes with the markers, the destination descendant nodes being separated from the parent nodes by at least one intermediate hierarchical level; traversing the binary search tree in a direction from the root node to the leaf nodes to determine a longest prefix match between the markers and the destination address, wherein traversing the binary search tree comprises accessing the respective destination descendant nodes while avoiding accessing the descendant nodes of the at least one intermediate hierarchical level; and processing the data packet in the data network in accordance with an entry in the routing table that corresponds to the longest prefix match, wherein associating destination descendant nodes comprises: making a first determination that compatible descendant nodes in a selected subtree comprise address prefixes that are compatible with the marker of one of the parent nodes; making a second determination that one of the compatible descendant nodes is a leaf node or has additional compatible descendant nodes; and responsively to the second determination assigning the one compatible descendant node as the destination descendant node.

20090183165

12409028

1. A computer-implemented method of interpreting a user's input and implementing one or more task objectives, comprising: associating one or more task objectives from a hierarchy of task objectives with a first input received from a user, wherein each task objective is assigned a priority; determining an order of implementation of the associated one or more task objectives based on the priorities assigned to each of the task objectives associated with the first input; associating one or more task objectives from the hierarchy of task objectives with a second input received from a user; revising the order of implementation of the associated one or more task objectives based on the priorities assigned to each of the identified task objectives associated with the first and second inputs; and implementing the task objectives based on the revised order of implementation.

9513964

14583412

1. A machine-readable storage media having machine executable instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to perform operations comprising: receive a first request associated with a first process, the first request indicating a waiting period after which at least a portion of the first process is to be executed; receive a second request associated with a second process, the second request indicating a waiting period after which at least a portion of the second process is to be executed; and time coalesce execution of the first or second processes according to a criteria, wherein the time coalesce to determine a new time for at least one of the first and second requests.

20030056054

10283305

1. A system for executing a software application comprising a plurality of hardware independent bytecodes, the system comprising: a computing system that generates bytecodes; a virtual machine, remote to the computing system, comprising means for receiving a plurality of bytecodes from said computing system, and means for executing said plurality of bytecodes; means for testing said bytecodes against a set of predetermined criteria; and means for securely distributing said testing means between said virtual machine and said computing system so that the bytecode verification completed by the computing system is authenticated by the virtual machine prior to the execution of the bytecodes by said virtual machine.

8756079

13492276

1. A method comprising: accessing a free-form text documenting a patient encounter; analyzing the free-form text, using at least one processor, to extract a first set of one or more medical facts from a first portion of the free-form text, the analyzing comprising processing the free-form text to identify a set of one or more features of the first portion of the free-form text, correlating the set of features to one or more abstract semantic concepts, and generating computer-readable data that expresses the one or more abstract semantic concepts as the one or more medical facts extracted from the first portion of the free-form text; receiving, from a user documenting the patient encounter, a correction to the first set of medical facts extracted from the first portion of the free-form text; and applying the user's correction in extracting a second set of one or more medical facts from a second portion of the free-form text.

20080195509

11673434

1. An asset management system comprising: a repository comprising a plurality of assets, each asset comprising a reusable resource capable of assisting in providing a solution to a client request; and a rule enforcement mechanism in communication with the repository of assets, the rule enforcement mechanism comprising: a database of fundamental rules applicable to the composition and usage of all assets in the repository of assets; and a computing system in communication with the database of rules, the computing system capable of evaluating assets in the repository of assets for compliance with the fundamental rules.

6076086

09041620

1. An associate document retrieving apparatus that retrieves a document related to an inputted retrieval condition, comprising: a document information storing element that associates each of a plurality of documents with a keyword extracted from the document and stores the associated documents; a retrieval expression obtaining element that retrieves a retrieval expression; a number of documents calculating element that specifies a plurality of objective keywords from within the extracted keywords stored in the document information storing element, and calculating a first number of all the associated documents, a second number of documents, within the associated documents, matching the retrieval expression, a third number of documents, within the associated documents, containing each of the objective keywords and matching the retrieval expression, and a fourth number of documents, within the associated documents, containing each of the objective keywords; a degree of similarity determining element that determines a degree of similarity between the retrieval expression and each of the objective keywords based on a relationship between the first number, the second number, the third number and the fourth number for each of the objective keywords; and a degree of association determining element that obtains associate document information of a document containing any of the objective keywords as the extracted keyword, and determines a degree of association between the retrieval expression and each of the documents stored in the document information storing element based on the degree of similarity for each of the objective keywords obtained by the degree of similarity determining element and the associate document information.

20120185497

13431461

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: defining one or more personalized categories, wherein each personalized category comprises one or more terms; identifying one or more of said personalized categories that are associated with a user query; identifying one or more terms that are associated with said user query and with said personalized category; and adding said identified one or more terms to said user query.

20130198615

13562791

1. A method for creating a flexible structure description, the method comprising: obtaining an image of a document; detecting image objects on the image; matching by a processor the image objects to a predetermined document type, wherein image objects distinguish the document type from other document types, and wherein image objects include anchor elements; generating by the processor a flexible structure description corresponding to the predetermined document type based on the detected image objects, wherein the flexible structure description includes a set of search elements for each data field in the image of the document, each search element having an associated search criterion; searching, via a search algorithm, additional document images to determine a respective document type of the additional document images, wherein each of the additional document images are of a document type corresponding to the predetermined document type; modifying the flexible structure description based on said searching of additional document images, wherein the search algorithm is configured to detect data fields based on the flexible structure description, said data fields corresponding to the predetermined document type; and repeating said searching and modifying of the flexible structure description until a defined level of precision is achieved or exceeded.

20030149702

10068466

1. An operational data store, comprising: an insert table for storing new data; a history table for storing historical data; and transfer logic for periodically transferring new data from the insert table to the history table.

20160034447

14813551

1. An apparatus configured to provide translated content to a receiver, the apparatus comprising: a storage configured to store address book information comprising identification information identifying a user of the receiver; a user inputter configured to receive input comprising the identification information and content to be transmitted to the receiver; a controller configured to determine a language corresponding to the user of the receiver identified by the identification information based on the address book information and the identification information; and a communicator configured to transmit a request to translate the content into the determined language.

20050071561

10674926

1. An information processing system comprising: first and second of levels of a storage hierarchy, wherein accessing information in the first level consumes more energy than accessing information in the second level; and a processor for writing information to the second level of storage based on energy-conserving criteria.

8657605

13081725

1. A system for the virtual testing and inspecting of a virtual weldment, said system comprising: a programmable processor-based subsystem operable to execute coded instructions said coded instructions including: a rendering engine configured to render at least one of a three-dimensional (3D ) virtual weldment before simulated testing, a 3D animation of a virtual weldment under simulated testing, and a 3D virtual weldment after simulated testing, and an analysis engine configured to perform simulated testing of a 3D virtual weldment, and further configured to perform inspection of at least one of a 3D virtual weldment before simulated testing, a 3D animation of a virtual weldment under simulated testing, and a 3D virtual weldment after simulated testing for at least one of pass/fail conditions and defect/discontinuity characteristics: at least one display device operatively connected to said programmable processor-based subsystem for displaying at least one of 3D virtual weldment before simulated testing and a 3D animation of a virtual weldment under simulated testing and a 3D virtual weldment after simulated testing: and a user interface operatively connected to said programmable processor-based subsystem and configured for at least manipulating an orientation of at least one of a 3D virtual weldment before simulated testing a 3D animation of a virtual weldment under simulated testing and a 3D virtual weldment after simulated testing on said at least one display device; wherein said simulated testing includes at least one of simulated destructive testing and simulated non-destructive testing; and wherein said simulated destructive testing is selected from the group consisting of a simulated root bend test, a simulated face bend test, a simulated side bend test, a simulated tensile or pull test, a simulated break test, a simulated impact test, and a simulated hardness test.

6032133

08552586

1. A method for electronically paying a bill, the method comprising the steps of: forwarding a bill pay order to a first processor, said bill pay order including information identifying said biller, an amount owed, and a consumer-biller account number; determining whether said consumer has sufficient funds to cover said amount owed; comparing said information identifying said biller to a local biller file to determine a biller financial institution identification number for a financial institution designated to receive funds for said biller; generating a payment message including said information identifying said biller, said amount owed, said consumer-biller account number, and said biller financial institution identification number; forwarding said payment message to a network if said step of determining whether said consumer has sufficient funds is satisfied; and routing said payment message to said biller financial institution over said network using said biller financial institution identification number.

9213740

11871022

1. In a database system having an optimizer for selecting a query plan for executing a database query, a method for automatically tuning query performance to prevent query performance regression that may occur during upgrade of the database system from a prior version to a new version, the method comprising: in response to receiving a given database query for execution, specifying a query plan generated by the prior version's optimizer as a baseline best plan for executing the given database query; generating at least one new query plan using the new version's optimizer; learning performance for each new query plan generated by recording corresponding query execution metrics; if a given new query plan is observed to have better performance than the best plan previously specified, specifying that given new query plan to be the best plan for executing the given database query; if a given new query plan is observed to have worse performance than the best plan previously specified, specifying that given new query plan to be a bad plan to be avoided in the future; and automatically tuning future execution of the given database query by using the query plan that the system learned was the best plan.

9596189

14044774

1. A system for the migration of virtual machine instances in a virtual network, comprising: a computer system including a processor executing software code to implement a migration management service operable to: monitor a resource metrics of hosted virtual machine instances, wherein the hosted virtual machine instances correspond to hosted database functionality; determine, based on the monitored resource metrics of the virtual machine instances, a set of one or more target hosted virtual machine instances for migration; prioritize, based on additional information, the set of one or more target hosted virtual machine instances by: determining a minimum service level associated with each of the hosted virtual machine instances, determining whether a first hosted virtual machine instance is causing another hosted virtual machine instance to violate the minimum service level associated with the another hosted virtual machine instance, and prioritizing the set of one or more target hosted virtual machine instances at least partially on the determination of whether a first hosted virtual machine instance is causing another hosted virtual machine instance to violate the minimum service level associated with the another hosted virtual machine instance; and cause at least a portion of data associated with one virtual machine instance to be migrated according to the prioritized set of one or more target hosted virtual machine instances.

20120304177

13563957

1. A method comprising: a computing device identifying a request to be executed within a first executable code during execution time, wherein the request corresponds to a second executable code; the computer device, prior to execution of the second executable code, determining an execution mode to execute the second executable code, wherein the determining action comprises evaluating a performance metric determined from previous executions of the request by the computing device; the computing device, responsive to the determining of the execution mode, executing the second executable code either synchronously or asynchronously depending on whether the performance metric exceeds a threshold or not.

20080162421

11941524

1 ) A method comprising: a) receiving, into a provided memory readable and writable by a provided CPU, one or more sets of digital data for presentation in two-dimensions each set comprising i) at least two data values per data point organized in sequential addresses or at set intervals of addresses, ii) the number of data values per data point, iii) a specified starting address, iv) a specified number of data points, called the width, in the horizontal or x-direction, v) a specified number of data points, called the height, in the vertical or y-direction, b) the computation of a numerical similarity signature, referred to as the equivalence signature, for a set of two-dimensional digital data, as the Second Homotopy Group's invariant for the values of said data interpreted as a map from the two-dimensional presentation space into the space of the data, and c) the computation of a similarity distance between any two sets of two-dimensional digital data as the absolute value of the difference of their equivalence signatures.

8555130

13252340

1. A method for storing a data object in a dispersed storage network (DSN) comprises: generating a data object storage name for the data object; dividing the data object into a plurality of data segments; generating a data segment storage name for each of the plurality of data segments; for each data segment of the plurality of data segments: dispersed storage error encoding the data segment to produce a set of encoded data slices; generating a slice storage name for each of the set of encoded data slices; and generating a slice name for each of the set of encoded data slices to produce a set of slice names, wherein the slice name includes the data object storage name, the data segment storage name, and the slice storage name; and outputting a set of write requests to a set of dispersed storage (DS) units of the DSN, wherein a write request of the set of write requests includes a batch of encoded data slices and a corresponding batch of slice names, wherein the batch of encoded data slices includes encoded data slices that have slices names that have the data object storage name, a common slice storage name, and a different data segment storage name such that a DS unit of the set of DS units stores the batch of encoded data slices in a storage file.

20100191773

12360825

1. A computer-implemented method for providing default hierarchical training for social indexing, comprising: maintaining articles of digital information for social indexing; specifying a hierarchically-structured tree of topics, which each comprise a label comprising one or more words; identifying constraints inherent in the literal structure of the topic tree; for each topic in the topic tree, creating a topic model that comprises at least one term derived from the words in at least one of the labels; evaluating the topic models for the topic tree against the constraints; and identifying those of the topic models, which best satisfy the constraints.

20030018467

10246637

1. A sensor data process method for processing data obtained from a sensor, comprising the steps of: storing data groups in a database in which a word is attached to each of said data groups, said data groups being obtained by classifying inputs from said sensor directly or after processing; classifying an input from said sensor using said database to output a classification result; temporarily storing input data from said sensor as data of a new group after classifying said input data when it is determined that said input data does not belong to any of said data groups classified in said database; and attaching a word to said data of said new group temporarily stored to store said data of said new group in said database.

9626699

15162098

1. A system comprising one or more processors and a non-transitory storage medium comprising program logic for execution by the one or more processors, the program logic comprising: a native advertisement placement engine that: obtains a Document Object Model of an HTML document; identifies Document Object Model elements, of the Document Object Model, associated with native advertisement placement candidate containers; identifies, with the Document Object Model, HTML tag sequences that include at least L tags, where L is a specified number, repeat at least R times, where R is a specified number, and all correspond to a single element of the Document Object Model; constructs a suffix tree of a string of tags comprising all tags in the Document Object Model; performs a traversal of the suffix tree, beginning with a root node, and computes, for each node that is non-root and non-leaf, a number of leaf nodes of the each node; analyzes the Document Object Model by performing a recursion of the suffix tree; filtering determined candidate containers based on at least one of (1) candidate container size, (2) size of a meta-container associated with multiple candidate containers, (3) number of element types included within a candidate container, (4) anticipated display location of native advertisements associated with candidate containers, and (5) topology of the Document Object Model; and based at least in part on the analysis associated with the Document Object Model, and utilizing at least some of the identified elements, determines, within the Document Object Model, one or more native advertisement placement candidate containers.

9147200

14629158

1. A computer-implemented method for delivering content to a user, comprising: identifying previous impressions of content to a user, each previous impression including a time that the particular impression was previously presented to the user and a content item that was presented, wherein identifying impressions includes identifying impressions to the user accessing resources using two or more different requesting sources wherein the requesting sources are selected from the group comprising a device, a browser on a device, or an application on the device; storing impression data for the identified impressions in association with the user including storing impression data on a per requesting source basis per content item such that specific impressions of a content item that were received on a respective requesting source can be identified; storing requesting source characteristic information that characterizes a given requesting source in association with the impression data; identifying information including parameters that require limits on a number of impressions that are to occur in a time period for a particular type of requesting source for a given content item wherein the information includes frequency information for frequency of display of the content item, and wherein identifying impressions and storing impression data further includes identifying a number of impressions of each content item the user; receiving a request for content to be displayed on a particular requesting source associated with the user; and determining, using one or more processors, when impressions available for that type of requesting source have been satisfied based at least in part on the impression data and the parameters, and when not, enabling delivery of a content item associated with a campaign to the requesting source responsive to the received request.

9892367

15049975

1. A method for processing a corpus of documents having a multi-level transitive linkage structure with other documents, comprising: providing a computer-implemented generative model based on at least parameters estimated by probabilistic inference, which models a content of each document in the document database based on at least (i) an intrinsic content of each respective document; and (ii) a content of related documents linked to each respective document through the multi-level transitive linkage structure, the computer-implemented generative model representing the content of each respective document as at least a mixture over latent topics having topic distributions which are a mixture of distributions associated with the related documents comprising at least a mixture weighting of the intrinsic content of each respective document and the content of related documents linked to each respective document through the multi-level transitive linkage structure; at least one of representing, characterizing, clustering, summarizing, indexing, ranking, and searching the documents in the corpus of documents with at least one automated processor based on at least the computer-implemented generative model; and controlling a human machine interface of an information processing system to receive a user input, and selectively dependent on the user input and the at least one of representing, characterizing, clustering, summarizing, indexing, ranking, and searching of the documents in the corpus of documents, to output a representation of a relationship of a plurality of respective documents.

9753730

13200322

1. A data processing apparatus comprising: an instruction decoder configured to decode instructions; and a processor configured to process data in response to instructions decoded by said instruction decoder; said instruction decoder being configured to decode instructions from a plurality of different instruction sets, said instruction sets including a base instruction set and at least two further instruction sets; said base instruction set comprising a plurality of base instructions, each base instruction comprising a predefined operation code for uniquely identifying said base instruction, and each of said at least two further instruction sets comprising a plurality of further instructions, each further instruction comprising an operation code for identifying said further instruction within said at least two further instruction sets; said instruction decoder configured when operational to have access to a base set of decode rules independent of an indicator value, and further to have access to a set of decode rules determined by said indicator value, said indicator value being specified separately to the further instructions of said at least two further instruction sets and indicating which one of said at least two further instruction sets is currently being used in addition to said base instruction set, such that said instruction decoder is configured to decode a base instruction having one of said plurality of predefined operation codes according to said base set of decode rules, and to decode a further instruction having one of said operation codes of said at least two further instruction sets according to said set of decode rules determined by said indicator value, wherein each instruction has its operation code specified by a sequence of bits forming an encoding space, the encoding space including a base encoding space and an extension encoding space, and wherein said predefined operation codes for base instructions within said base set of instructions lie within the base encoding space and do not lie within the extension encoding space, and said operation codes for further instructions of said at least two further instruction sets lie within the extension encoding space and do not lie within the base encoding space, said indicator value indicating which one of said at least two further instruction sets is currently being represented within said extension encoding space.

20120030148

13269664

1. A method comprising: identifying, by a processor, a deformable object of an environment of a video game that is visible by an artificial intelligence (AI) character of the video game; requesting, by the processor, at least one speculative physics simulation each for a speculative action to be performed on the deformable object; and selecting, by the processor, one of a plurality of actions that can be taken by the AI character, wherein the selection is based at least in part on the at least one speculative physics simulation.

20160085543

14864695

1. A system for supporting patching in a multitenant application server environment, comprising: one or more computers, including an application server environment executing thereon, together with a plurality of deployable resources which can be used within the application server environment, one or more resource group templates, which define groupings of deployable resources within a domain, and one or more partitions, wherein each partition provides an administrative and runtime subdivision of the domain, and wherein the system can associate one or more partitions and resource group templates with a tenant, for use by the tenant; and wherein the system includes a patching feature that takes advantage of high availability features built into an application server environment to apply patches in a controlled manner that maintains a domain's ability to operate without interruption.

20020186768

09854511

1. A content editor, comprising: a video compression encoder that generates first and second feature data from a video sequence as part of a compression process resulting in a compressed version of video data; said first and second feature data being separate from said compressed version of video data; an analysis engine programmed to receive said first and second feature data and calculate at least a third feature datum from at least one of said first and second feature data; a playback selector programmed to edit said compressed version of video data responsively to said at least a third feature datum.

20100010962

12346053

1. A method for compiling a stored procedure in a database, the method comprising: invoking the stored procedure, the stored procedure comprising one or more statements; substituting run-time values for one or more variables in the statements; and creating an access plan for the statements having the substituted run-time values.

20110202763

13024783

1. A method of providing data backup, the method comprising: receiving at a virtual tape backup system a data image to be maintained; transmitting the contents of the data image to a secure storage appliance; processing the contents of the data image with the secure storage appliance to cryptographically split one or more blocks of data of the data image such that each of the one or more blocks of data is split into a plurality of secondary data blocks; and storing the plurality of secondary data blocks in a corresponding plurality of shares located on a plurality of physical storage devices.

9141307

14182755

1. A method for execution by a processing module of a storage unit of a dispersed storage network (DSN), the method comprises: receiving a plurality of encoded data slices for storage, wherein at least some of the encoded data slices of the plurality of encoded data slices have different data sizes; accessing memory container information of the storage unit, wherein the memory container information includes a listing of a plurality of virtual memory containers of the storage unit and, for each virtual memory container, bin identifier information, wherein physical memory of the storage unit is virtually divided into the virtual memory containers and each virtual memory contain is divided into a plurality of bins, wherein the plurality of bins of a virtual memory container of the plurality of virtual memory containers are of a substantially similar storage size, and wherein at least some of the plurality of virtual memory containers have different bin storage sizes; and mapping encoded data slices of the plurality of encoded data slices to virtual memory containers of the plurality of virtual memory containers based on data size of the encoded data slices and bin storage sizes of the virtual memory containers; and storing the encoded data slices in the virtual memory containers based on the mapping.

20120139926

13368616

1. A processor for graphics rendering, comprising: a plurality of processing units, each processing unit capable of executing at least one program element independently of the other processing units of the plurality; a plurality of local memories used by the plurality of processing units; an allocator shared among the plurality of processing units, the allocator operable to allocate space in the local memories for instances of program elements and create a mapping between the instances of the program elements and the allocated space in the local memories; a collector configured to collect instances of program elements into packets; and a distributor configured to distribute instances of program elements, obtained from the packets, to be executed on the plurality of processing units according to the mapping.

8909574

14132389

1. A system for producing one or more predicted target sparkle values of a target coating composition, said system comprising: (i) a computing device; (ii) an artificial neural network computing program product residing on said computing device or a host computer functionally coupled to said computing device, said artificial neural network computing program product comprising: a) an input layer having one or more input nodes for receiving inputs; b) at least one hidden layer having one or more hidden nodes; c) an output layer having one or more output nodes for producing outputs; (iii) an input device and an output device functionally coupled to said computing device; and (iv) a computer program product comprising computing codes functionally coupled to said computing device for performing a computing process, said computing process comprising the steps of: (1) receiving training data of a plurality of training coatings into said one or more input nodes of said artificial neural network computing program product, said training data comprising measured color characteristics, measured sparkle values and an individual training coating formulation associated with each of the training coatings, and (2) training said artificial neural network computing program product with said training data to produce a trained artificial neural network that is capable of producing a predicted sparkle value from said output nodes based on a coating formulation and color characteristics associated with said coating formulation, wherein said trained artificial neural network is trained based on said measured color characteristics, said measured sparkle values and said individual training coating formulation associated with each of the training coatings; wherein a sparkle value is a measure of a visual contrast between an appearance of a highlight on a particle of a gonioapparent pigment and an area adjacent to said pigment particle.

20080270822

12145540

1. A computer-implemented method for selecting replication nodes in a network of nodes, the method comprising the steps of: determining at least two eligible nodes in the network of nodes; determining a communication cost for each of the eligible nodes; determining a probability of a concurrent failure of the source node and each of the eligible nodes; and selecting at least one of the eligible nodes for replication of data located on the source node based on determined communication costs and probabilities of concurrent failure.

8588920

12744240

1. A visual neuroprosthetic device comprising an array of nanoscale waveguides disposed on a substrate, each nanoscale waveguide in the array having a photovoltaic material located between an internal conductor and an external conductor, wherein each nanoscale waveguide receives, propagates, and converts incident light into electrical neural signals, and wherein a site density of the nanoscale waveguides on the substrate is the same as or greater than the site density of photoreceptors in the human retina.

9069948

14139459

1. A method for measuring gesture-based password quality, the method comprising: receiving, using a hardware processor, a first image; receiving a proposed gesture-based password associated with the first image; identifying a plurality of points of interest in the received image, wherein the each of the plurality of points of interest is associated with at least one point of interest attribute; receiving a gesture selection function sequence, wherein the gesture selection function sequence comprises a plurality of gesture selection functions, wherein each gesture selection function is associated with a gesture type of a plurality of gesture types and at least one point of interest attribute, and wherein receiving the gesture selection function sequence comprises receiving a ranked list of gesture selection function sequences including a plurality of gesture selection function sequences ranked based on a probability that a user will use a password generated by the gesture selection function sequence as the proposed password; determining that a subset of the plurality of points of interest in the received image have point of interest attributes that correspond to attributes associated with the gesture selection functions of the gesture selection function sequence; generating a possible password for the first image based on the gesture selection functions in the gesture selection function sequence in response to determining that the subset of the plurality of points of interest correspond to the attributes associated with the gesture selection functions included in the particular gesture selection function sequence; determining whether the proposed password matches the possible password; determining a relative strength of the proposed password based at least in part on the determination of whether the proposed password matches the possible password; and causing the relative strength of the proposed password to be presented, wherein the proposed password includes at least three ordered gestures each of which is associated with a gesture type of the plurality of gesture types and at least one location in the first image, and wherein the proposed password includes at least three ordered gestures each of which is associated with a gesture type of the plurality of gesture types and at least one location in the first image.

8266199

11447472

1. A specialized processing block for a programmable logic device, said specialized processing block comprising: a plurality of fundamental processing units, each of said fundamental processing units including: a plurality of partial product generators, each respective one of said partial product generators having a respective pair of inputs different from inputs of each other one of said partial product generators and providing a respective plurality of vectors representing a respective partial product of said respective pair of inputs; compressor circuitry that compresses each respective plurality of vectors into a smaller number of vectors representing said respective partial product; circuitry for shifting said partial products represented by said smaller number of vectors prior to adding them; and circuitry for adding, in one operation, partial products represented by said smaller number of vectors produced by no fewer than all of said plurality of partial product generators; wherein: said circuitry for adding outputs only a sum of all partial products of all of said plurality of partial product generators; and each said respective partial product is unroutable to any output of said specialized processing block, thereby being unavailable for output, except after being added, by said circuitry for adding, to other of said respective partial products having said different inputs.

20160012106

14644811

1. A method for summarizing relevance of a document to a conceptual query, the method comprising: receiving the conceptual query, the conceptual query comprising one or more concepts; accessing concepts extracted from the document; computing a degree to which the conceptual query is related to each of the extracted concepts, the computing responsive to a metric that measures a relevance between the concepts in the conceptual query and the each of the extracted concepts; creating a summary by selecting a threshold number of the concepts having a greatest degree of relation to the conceptual query; and outputting the summary including the selected threshold number of concepts.

8325182

12347557

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: pre-computing 2-dimensional vertex pixel space positions of vertices associated with a batch of multiple graphics primitives prior to performing a sample culling operation; performing the sample culling operation on graphics primitives within a sample set of less than all of the graphics primitives of the batch, including applying a primitive-independent vertex-based cull code to the corresponding pre-computed 2-dimensional vertex pixel space positions; and determining to perform a batch culling operation on the batch of graphics primitives based on results of the sample culling operation.