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10775749

1. A method for facilitating full text searching of a set of data, the method comprising: obtaining keyword data corresponding to a set of data; generating an inverted keyword index and a separate inverted keyword attribute index corresponding to the obtained keyword data, the generated inverted keyword attribute index including information from at least one category within a group consisting of language information, sentence information, ranking information, document timestamp information, and metadata information; storing the inverted keyword index and the inverted keyword attribute index in a shared process memory, wherein storing the inverted keyword index includes dynamically adjusting at least one memory pointer of the stored inverted keyword index to correspond to an address of a query processing component; obtaining a keyword query from a first process; and processing the obtained keyword query by the query processing component, the query processing component accesses the inverted keyword index and the inverted keyword attribute index stored in the shared process memory via the at least one dynamically adjusted memory pointer of the stored inverted keyword index.

20090099831

12328595

1. A method of obtaining a function value of tree based device table model for a circuit simulation, comprising: (a) determining if the current bias voltage point is at least one of inside or outside the last visited leaf partition; (b) at least one of proceeding to step (e), if the bias voltage point is in inside the last visited leaf partition; or, determining if the current partition is in the immediate parent node partition, if the current bias voltage point is outside the last visited leaf partition; (c) at least one of repeating step (b), if the current bias voltage point is not in the parent node partition; or, searching for a child partition of the immediate parent node partition relevant to the current bias voltage point, if the current bias voltage point is in the immediate parent node partition; (d) determining if the child partition is a leaf and repeating step (c) if the child partition is not a leaf and proceeding to step (e) if the child partition is a leaf; and (e) performing multi-linear interpolation.

20070055118

10571430

1. An optical measurement apparatus for a living body comprising a light source for generating a light to be irradiated onto an object to be examined, a light measurement means that detects a light transmitted inside the object and generates hemoglobin signals corresponding to hemoglobin changes in the subject, an assessing means that analyzes feature amounts of the hemoglobin signals and assesses a disease of the object from the analyzed feature amount, and a display means for displaying disease information of the object.

20030150919

10338812

1. A transaction card assembly comprising: a sheet having a transaction card portion and an auxiliary portion, the transaction card portion separated from the auxiliary portion by a line of weakness so that the transaction card portion is separable from the auxiliary portion by hand and without the use of tools, the transaction card portion being usable as a transaction card by an issuee of the card in a transaction; at least one of the transaction card portion and the auxiliary portion having a shaped edge that conforms to at least a portion of a shape of a trademark carried on the transaction card portion or auxiliary portion.

9275138

14658551

1. A system for generating a media recommendation, comprising: a central server operably connected to a network, the central server comprising: at least one processor; memory containing software executable by the at least one processor whereby the central server is configured to: receive information identifying a user associated with a requesting device; identify profile information based on the information identifying the user; receive a media recommendation request from the requesting device, the media recommendation request comprising seed information comprising information identifying a media item and a current location of the requesting device; determine at least one related media item based on at least the information identifying the media item and the profile information; and provide information identifying the at least one related media item to the requesting device.

20080140346

11609392

1. A system for processing a stream of data events based on shifts, comprising: a real time statistical processing system for updating a statistical summary each time a new data event is obtained, wherein the statistical summary is calculated based on the new data event and a previously calculated statistical summary; an analysis system that analyzes the statistical summary after it is updated; and a shift system that maintains separate statistical summaries for each of a plurality of different shifts associated with the stream of data events.

20160150130

14860875

1. An apparatus that generates image data regarding an image region including a plurality of partial regions based on synchronization signals generated at a predetermined time interval, the apparatus comprising: a memory; a first processor coupled to the memory; and a second processor coupled to the first processor, wherein the first processor is configured to generate a first instruction, based on a first synchronization signal, the first instruction instructing that first partial image data regarding N (N is a natural number) partial regions of the plurality of partial regions are to be generated, the second processor is configured to generate the first partial image data based on the first instruction, the first processor is configured to determine a natural number M based on a time when the generation of the first partial image data is completed and a time when a second synchronization signal which is subsequently issued to the first synchronization signal is generated, and is configured to generate, based on the second synchronization signal, a second instruction instructing that second image data regarding M partial regions of the plurality of partial regions are to be generated, and the second processor is configured to generate the second partial image data based on the second instruction.

20140068167

13601642

1. A state machine engine, comprising: a storage element configured to: receive a result of an analysis of data; store the result in a particular portion of the storage element based on a characteristic of the result; and store a result indicator corresponding to the result.

8091078

12116628

1. An information handling system comprising: a plurality of heterogeneous processors; a common memory shared by the plurality of heterogeneous processors; a first processor selected from the plurality of processors that sends a request to a second processor, the second processor also being selected from the plurality of processors, wherein the first processor corresponds to a first instruction set and the second processor corresponds to a second instruction set; a local memory corresponding to the second processor; a Direct Memory Access (DMA) controller associated with the second processor, the DMA controller transferring data between the common memory and the second processor's local memory; and a loading tool to load software code to execute on one of the processors, the loading tool including software effective to: analyze a source program for one or more program characteristics, the program characteristics selected from the group consisting of data locality, computational intensity, and data parallelism; compile the source program into two object files, a first object file corresponding to a first instruction set and a second object file corresponding to a second instruction set; store the program characteristics in each of the object files; receive a request to execute a software task corresponding to the source program; select one of the processors to execute the software task, by comparing one or more characteristics of the software task with the program characteristics stored in the first object file and the second object file; in response to selecting the first processor: load the first object file into the common memory; and execute the loaded first object file by the first processor; and in response to selecting the second processor: load the second object file into the common memory; and execute the loaded second object file by the second processor.

9785538

14842784

1. An integrated circuit, comprising a processor core; a context management circuit coupled to the processor core; and a debug support circuit coupled to the context management circuit, wherein: the context management circuit is configured to halt a thread running on the processor core and save a halted thread context for that thread into a context memory distinct from the processor core, wherein the halted thread context comprises a fetched instruction as the next instruction in the execution pipeline; the debug support circuit is configured instruct the context management circuit to modify the halted thread context in the context memory by inserting an arbitrary instruction; and the context management circuit is further configured to cause the thread to resume, using the modified thread context to execute the arbitrary instruction.

20180113628

15331582

1. A system comprising: a first memory module; a second of memory module coupled to the first memory module via a first interface; and a host processor coupled to the first memory module via a second interface different from the first interface, wherein the host processor is configured to cache data in the first memory module, and wherein the first memory module is external to the host processor; wherein the system is configured to: transfer data between the host processor and the first memory module via the second interface; transfer data between the first memory module and the second memory module via the first interface without consuming bandwidth on the second interface; and send a retry signal from the first memory module to the host processor responsive to the host processor requesting data that is not stored in the first memory module, wherein the retry signal causes the host processor to resend a request to the first memory module at a later point in time.

20120317644

13156726

1. In a computing environment, a method performed at least in part on at least one processor, comprising, receiving a malware-related query at a backend service, processing data associated with the malware-related query at the backend service, including via updateable detection logic that is not revealed outside of the backend service, to determine whether the data associated with the malware-related query corresponds to detected malware, and returning a corresponding result in response to the query indicating whether the data associated with the malware-related query corresponds to detected malware.

8670246

13404888

1. A computer, comprising: an undiced semiconductor wafer comprising a multitude of microchips, each of the multitude of microchips including one or more core microprocessors configured to allow the microchip to function independently and including independent communication capabilities; an outer chamber including a Faraday Cage; at least one inner chamber inside said outer chamber; said outer chamber and said inner chamber being separated at least in part by an internal sipe; and wherein said internal sipe is formed by at least part of an inner surface of said outer chamber and at least part of an outer surface of said inner chamber which oppose each other and are separate from each other and therefore can move relative to each other; and at least a portion of said opposing surface parts are in contact with each other in a unloaded condition; and each of the multitude of microchips includes at least one internal hardware firewall.

20120254719

13075418

1. A computer-implemented method for mapping an object type to a document type, the method comprising: storing, by a computing system, configuration templates that each identify a mapping of an object type to a markup language document type, each of the configuration templates including a database table that identifies, for each of at least some attributes of the object type, an associated markup language attribute or element of the markup language document type; displaying, by the computing system, a graphical user interface that permits a user of the computing system to select a first configuration template from a displayed set of the configuration templates; receiving, by the computing system, first user input that selects the first configuration template; displaying, by the computing system and in the graphical user interface, a list of the at least some attributes and, for each of the at least some attributes, the associated markup language attribute or element that is identified by the first configuration template; receiving, by the computing system, second user input that changes an association of one of the attributes in the list so that the one attribute in the list is instead associated with a different markup language attribute or element than the markup language attribute or element that is identified by the first configuration template for the one attribute; storing, by the computing system and in response to receiving the second user input, an updated mapping of the object type to the markup language document type, the updated mapping including the association between the one attribute and the different markup language attribute or element; receiving, by the computing system, third user input that requests generation of a first markup language document representation of a first object that is of the object type, wherein the first object is one of multiple objects that are of the object type; and generating, by the computing system and using the updated mapping in response to receiving the third user input, the first markup language document.

10089715

15724594

1. A method in a computing system that comprises at least one processor and a display, the method comprising, by the at least one processor: rendering a character object as a two-dimensional character on the display, wherein the character object comprises one or more part objects which are each rendered on the display as a corresponding geometric shape, and wherein each of the one or more part objects comprises a vector graphic object that defines a size of the corresponding geometric shape as a percentage change from an initial size of the corresponding geometric shape; and, for at least one geometric shape rendered on the display, receiving an input to change a scale of the at least one geometric shape, in response to the input, modifying the part object, to which the at least one geometric shape corresponds, by adjusting the percentage change, defined in the vector graphic object of the part object, according to the change in scale, and updating the at least one geometric shape rendered on the display to reflect the modification to the part object to which the at least one geometric shape corresponds.

9313266

14572446

1. A computer-program product tangibly embodied in a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, the computer-program product including instructions operable to cause a computing device to perform operations including: transmit, from a distribution thread, a command via a network to a data storage cluster for each data transfer thread of a multitude of data transfer threads executed within the data storage cluster to request assignment of a data transfer from the distribution thread at a network address specified in the command; await receipt of a request for assignment from a data transfer thread of the multitude of data transfer threads via the network; compare a quantity of threads of the multitude of data transfer threads to a quantity of threads of a multitude of computation threads executed within a data processing cluster; assign to the data transfer thread an exchange of a block of data with a single computation thread of the multitude of computation threads in response to receipt of the request for assignment and in response to the multitude of data transfer threads comprising a greater quantity of threads than the multitude of computation threads, the single computation thread to perform one or more computations on the block of data; and assign to the data transfer thread exchanges of multiple blocks of data with multiple computation threads of the multitude of computation in response to receipt of the request for assignment and in response to the multitude of data transfer threads comprising a lesser quantity of threads than the multitude of computation threads, wherein the multiple blocks of data comprises the block of data, the multiple computation threads to each perform one or more computations on one or more of the multiple blocks of data.

9756161

14558476

1. A voice recognition apparatus comprising: a context model created by modeling recognition target context; a model creator configured to classify the recognition target context according to a length of syllables, and to create a context model for each length of syllables; and a voice recognizer configured to create a candidate group corresponding to a received voice signal based on an acoustic model and the context model for each length of syllables, calculate a length of a user's speech based on a Begin of Speech (BoS) and an End of Speech (EoS), and apply a high reliability weight value to a candidate having a length of syllables corresponding to the length of speech.

6151706

09097715

1. A method to perform speculative code motion within a single static form partial redundancy elimination (SSAPRE) optimization, within an compiler, comprising the steps of: (1) accessing a static single assignment (SSA) representation of a computer program; (2) obtaining an SSA graph of the hypothetical variable from said SSA representation of said computer program, wherein said SSA graph comprises a plurality of connected components; (3) using a heuristic to determine a plurality of points to enable speculation within each of said plurality of connected components of said SSA graph; and (4) performing the SSAPRE optimization whereby setting a down.sub.-- safety flag to true for a .PHI. function of each of said determined plurality of points within each of said plurality of connected components of said SSA graph; whereby the compiler can produce more efficient executable program code from said SSA graph by speculating at each of said determined plurality of points where said down.sub.-- safety flag is true.

8850599

12352761

1. A method for document processing comprising: generating a document to be processed; attaching, to the document to be processed, a set of digital rights specifications, the digital rights specifications specifying security constraints on the processing of the document; submitting, the document to be processed, to a workflow device for determining a workflow of devices to serially process the document; selecting, by the workflow device, a set of candidate devices, for processing the document to be processed, from a plurality of devices; determining, by the workflow device, for each candidate device of the set of candidate devices, if the candidate device meets the security constraints of the digital rights specifications; assigning, by the workflow device, a set of selected devices to create a workflow of devices to serially process the document from the set of candidate devices that meet the security constraints of digital rights specifications; submitting, by the workflow device, the document to a first device of the set of selected devices; printing, by the first device of the set of selected devices, a hardcopy of the document; post-printing non-printing processing, by a second device of the set of selected devices, the document printed by the first device of the set of selected devices; determining, by the workflow device, if a device of the set of selected devices has failed; selecting, by the workflow device, a replacement device from the set of candidate devices that meet the security constraints of digital rights specifications; and assigning, by the workflow device, the replacement device to the set of selected devices to create a new workflow of devices to serially process the document.

20020010805

09870951

1. In a computer capable of interoperating with a network, a method for transferring a plurality of data packets between a link layer device driver and a transport layer driver via an abstract interface therebetween, wherein the transfer of said plurality of data packets occurs without transmitting an individual receive packet request for each data packet thereby reducing undesirable intermittent interruptions in processing, said method comprising the acts of: a physical device associated with the computer receiving a plurality of data packets from the network; said link layer device driver transmitting to said abstract interface a single receive request to transfer said plurality of data packets, said single receive request comprising all information needed by said transport layer driver to access said plurality of data packets; and in response to said single receive request, said abstract interface mediating a transfer of said plurality of data packets to said computer via said transport layer driver.

8780108

13287621

1. A mobile computing device comprising: a processor configured to generate a virtual representation of a physical interaction with a material selected from a database modeling real-world deformation characteristics of a plurality of materials based on the modeled deformation characteristics of the selected material and data representative of the physical interaction; and a touchscreen adapted to (i) display the virtual representation of the material; (ii) receive as input from a user the data representative of the physical interaction, wherein the user inputs the data representative of the physical interaction by interacting with the displayed virtual representation of the material, and (iii) display, in real-time, the virtual representation of the physical interaction with the material.

8832663

12623741

1. A computer program product, comprising: a computer-usable storage medium having stored therein computer-usable program code that, when executed by a computer, performs runtime analysis on a multithreaded computer program, the computer-usable storage medium comprising: computer-usable program code that identifies threads of a computer program to be analyzed; computer-usable program code that with a supervisor thread, controls an execution of the identified threads; computer-usable program code that monitors the execution of the identified threads to determine a status of the identified threads and comprises computer-usable program code that instruments the computer program to track events for each of the identified threads of the computer program; and computer-usable program code that performs runtime analysis on the tracked events; and computer-usable program code that presents in a user interface that is presented on a display at least one indicator corresponding to the determined status of the identified threads, wherein the computer-usable storage medium is not a transitory, propagating signal per se.

20050034068

10940508

1. A method for editing an electronic document of text and graphic objects, said method comprising: displaying said electronic document of said text and said graphic objects in a first display object, said graphic objects being positioned in spaces in said text; creating a second display object, including separating said graphic objects from said electronic document such that said graphic objects are positioned in one of said first and second display objects and said electronic document is positioned in the other display object of said first and second display objects; modifying said electronic document in said other display object; and placing at least one of said graphic objects back in said spaces in said text of said electronic document in said other display object.

9170850

14068394

1. A method for minimizing workload migrations during cloud maintenance operations, the method comprising: receiving, by a cloud controller, an indication that a scheduled maintenance operation on designated cloud hardware and software will occur at a specified time; uploading, by the cloud controller, maintenance binaries associated with said scheduled maintenance operation in response to receiving said indication; analyzing, by the cloud controller, said maintenance binaries to evaluate requirements of maintenance packages and dependencies associated with said scheduled maintenance operation; generating, by the cloud controller, a matrix to identify classes of hardware implementing said designated cloud hardware and software that will be disrupted by said scheduled maintenance operation based on said analysis; consolidating workloads running on said classes of hardware identified in said matrix so as to idle one or more hardware components in said classes of hardware identified in said matrix prior to said scheduled maintenance operation; starting said scheduled maintenance operation at said specified time; updating said one or more idle hardware components prior to updating non-idle hardware components in said classes of hardware identified in said matrix in response to starting said schedule maintenance operation; and migrating, by the cloud controller, workloads running on said non-idle hardware components across said one or more idle components after updating said one or more idle hardware components.

20030028500

09885079

1. A collection knowledge system process for delivering knowledge to application programs, comprising the following steps: (a) receiving a knowledge request to provide requested knowledge, (b) building a set of search rules to guide a search for said requested knowledge, (c) performing a knowledge search for said requested knowledge using said set of search rules, and (d) returning knowledge search results to the request originator, thereby providing a solution to the scalable knowledge delivery problem, and thereby enabling application programs to obtain arbitrary processing knowledge in a fully-automated, scalable way that was not previously available.

7657505

11624964

1. A computer-implemented system that facilitates management of data store queries, through use of data shapes that include eager loading policies and filter policies that are applied to the data store queries, to provide a consistent view of a data store and to increase data retrieval efficiency, comprising: a processor; and one or more physical computer readable storage media operatively coupled to the processor, the computer readable storage media having stored thereon computer executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, implement the following components: a data shape generation component that generates at least one data shape based at least in part upon a specification, wherein the specification includes at least one eager loading policy that directs eager loading of data, and at least one filter policy that is configured to restrict queries, and wherein the data shape includes the eager loading policy and the filter policy; a data shape set component that maintains a data shape set that enables data shapes to be applied across multiple queries, wherein the data shape set is capable of maintaining a plurality of data shapes, including the data shape; a query generation component that receives the input query requesting data from the data store and, in response, obtains the data shape from the data shape set component, determines a consistent data view associated with the input query from at least the eager loading policy and the filter policy, and generates a plurality of output queries used to retrieve the data from the data store, wherein at least one output query of the plurality is generated based the eager loading policy, and wherein at least one output query of the plurality includes at least one restriction based on the filter policy; and a data retrieval component that executes the plurality of output queries to retrieve the data from the data store in accordance with the consistent data view.

9792583

12837709

1. A method of providing learning courses comprising: receiving a first signal indicative of an entity and a product identifier associated with the entity, the entity being at least one of an individual, educational concern and business concern; identifying a practice area associated with the entity; based upon the practice area, automatically identifying a subset of learning courses from a database comprising a set of available learning courses, each learning course in the set of available learning courses in the database having an associated description and an associated practice area identifier, and said learning courses comprising tax professional development content; transmitting a second signal indicative of the subset of learning courses, said subset of learning courses presented in a listing on a graphical user interface of a personalized learning portal, wherein the listing further comprises a hyperlink indicating the title of the course, a course sponsor name, a format of the course, an indication as to whether the course is entitled to any credits, and an expiration date for each learning course of the subset of earning courses; receiving a third signal indicative of a selection of a learning course from the subset of learning courses; in response to the third signal, incrementing a count in a counter; automatically comparing the count to a pre-defined number associated with the product identifier, wherein the pre-defined number identifies a total number of learning courses allocated to the entity; transmitting a fourth signal for providing the subset of learning courses for assignment to at least one participant associated with the entity if the first count does not exceed the pre-defined number; identifying at least one of the subset of learning classes as being a mandatory class or an optional class for the at least one participant; and allowing the at least participant to assign the at least one of the subset of learning classes to the participant if the at least one of the subset of learning classes is identified as an optional class.

20170034089

14813184

1. A method of attracting and harvesting spam messages, the method comprising: simulating, by one or more processors, a message relay server; receiving, by the one or more processors, one or more messages for the message relay server; relaying, by the one or more processors, to its target destination, a first message that is included in the one or more messages based, at least in part, on a determination that a pattern of the first message matches, at least in part, a first identification pattern for probe messages; capturing, by the one or more processors, for a relayed probe message, a second message that originated from an IP address of the relayed probe message; and processing, by the one or more processors, the one or more messages and the second message to generate an identification pattern that identifies potential spam messages.

4471163

06308248

1. A system for limiting reproduction of an electrically representable process comprising: process means for storing symbols U representative of a series of operations performable by a plurality of electrical signals U'; symbol generating and storage means for generating and storing a plurality of test symbols V representative of a go/no-go test and performable by a plurality of signals V'; storage means responsive to said process means and said symbol generating and storage means for storing a composite W of symbols U and V; first translation and memory means for translating said symbols W, stored by said storage means into digitally encoded electrical signals W', including signals U' and V', representative of symbols U and V, respectively, and storing these signals; key generating means comprising means responsive to symbols having, in part, a common derivative to that of said test symbols V for generating key symbols K; second translation and memory means for translating symbols K, from said key generating means, into electrical signals K' and storing same; signal processing means responsive to the receipt of said signals U' for the performance of said series of operations; coupling means responsive to a selected input signal for coupling said signals U' from said first translation and memory means to said signal processing means; and a process limiting means comprising: correlation means including means for effecting a selected correlation between aspects of said signals V', from said first translation and memory means, and signals K', from said second translation and memory means, and for providing a correlation output signal which is a function of said correlation; and signal means responsive to a selected output of said correlation means for providing an input signal to said coupling means; whereby, upon said selected output of said correlation means, the performance of said series of operations is enabled.

20040194141

10395679

1. A method of searching electronic program guide (EPG) data, comprising: receiving a text search string; normalizing the text search string, wherein the normalizing includes removing or converting symbols in the text search string to make searchable terms; separating the searchable terms into text terms and attribute terms; performing a search in the EPG data for each text term and each attribute term; and performing one of combining, ranking, and filtering results from the searches for display of programs conforming to the search string.

8098032

12339829

1. A control system for a rotary machine, the control system driving a switching element of a power converter to control a difference between a current actually flowing in the rotary machine and a command value therefor within an allowable range, the control system comprising: a calculating means that calculate a direction of change in the difference during an operating condition of the power converter being set to a zero vector; and a drive means comprising a reverse control means that switches, based on the calculated direction of change and the difference as inputs, a switching mode of the power converter phase by phase to drive the switching element in accordance with a switching pattern in which the operating condition of the power converter is shifted from a specified non-zero vector to the specified non-zero vector via the zero vector, thus controlling the difference such that the difference is shifted in a direction opposite to the direction of change in the difference, wherein a plurality of voltage vectors express the operating condition, the plurality of voltage vectors define a plurality of regions around a point at which the difference is zero, and when a steady-state condition in that: one voltage vector whose starting point is the point at which the difference is zero defines one boundary of one of the plurality of regions, and the difference is located out of the allowable range is met, the reverse control means: sets the one voltage vector to a first switching vector, the one voltage vector being the closest to a subtraction of the actually flowing current from the command value in the plurality of voltage vectors, the one of the plurality of regions containing a vector in the direction of change; sets, to a second switching vector, an alternative one voltage vector in some of the plurality of voltage vectors except for the one voltage vector, the some of the plurality of voltage vectors defining the boundary of the one of the plurality of regions; and controls the difference based on a switching pattern in which a switching vector is shifted in a order of the first switching vector, the second switching vector, and the first switching vector.

8140524

12194431

1. A method for scoring likelihood of success of revised queries suggested for an original query, the method comprising: maintaining log files of user clicks on results provided in response to the revised queries suggested for the original query, the log files including data representing features associated with the original query and the revised queries, and a respective feature value for each feature; selecting a condition, wherein the condition specifies one or more feature values for a corresponding one or more features; selecting the revised queries that, for a particular feature, are associated with a feature value that matches one or more of the feature values specified by the condition for the particular feature; collecting click data for the selected revised queries from the log files, the click data including click length data, wherein a long click on a result for a particular revised query in the log files is taken as indicating a success of the particular revised query; analyzing the click data for the selected revised queries to determine a weight for the condition; formulating a rule by one or more computers, wherein the rule includes the condition and the weight; and adding the rule to a predictive model, wherein the model includes a set of rules that contribute to a prediction of a respective likelihood of success for the revised queries.

7653675

11199576

1. A method for performing a convolution operation in a multi-mode wireless processing system, the method comprising: loading an initial value and a stride value into an address generator; generating an address based on the initial value and the stride value; supplying the generated address to a series of memories; loading input data into a series of registers, the series of registers being equal in number to the series of memories, each register being associated with one memory; multiplying contents of each register with a value stored at the generated address in the memory associated with each register and generating a series of products; adding the series of products and producing a product sum; and generating an output stream from the product sum.

8612646

12871854

1. A system for providing a plurality of services to premises over one or more communication networks, the system comprising: (i) one or more secure access nodes having one or more secure access node processors, one or more secure access node storage devices, and one or more secure access node software applications; (ii) a primary server coupled to the one or more secure access nodes over one or more communication networks, the primary server having one or more primary server processors, one or more primary server storage devices, and one or more primary server software applications wherein: (a) the primary server provides and controls one or more primary services delivered to an end user using one or more terminal devices through the secure access node; (b) the primary server allows one or more secondary services from one or more secondary servers to be delivered to one or more terminal devices through a secure access node; (c) the one or more software applications in the primary server and one or more software applications in the secure access node: (A) provide the primary server and one or more secondary servers access to one or more terminal devices to deliver one or more primary services and one or more secondary services; (B) control one or more service functions of each primary service and secondary service; and (C) generate cross-service functional data from processing service data received one or more end point devices; (D) reduce cross-service interference among services including the one or more primary services and one or more secondary services by providing one or more virtual machines in each of the primary server and the one or more secure access nodes, each virtual machine corresponding to at least one service and a common operating system and common security functions wherein each virtual machine includes a virtual machine operating system, and virtual machine security functions; (E) provide a management function including maintenance, diagnostics and administration; (F) wherein plurality of services are provided in real-time and are active simultaneously; (d) the cross-service interference among services is reduced by one or more virtual machines implemented by the primary server, one or more virtual machines implemented by the one or more secure access nodes, and by using a service segregation software module in the primary server and a service segregation software module in the one or more secure access nodes each service segregation module implemented using fuzzy logic rules; (e) the software applications in the service segregation software module use fuzzy logic rules to determine integrity of service messages and service information flowing from a service to other services, and each violation of the fuzzy logic rules is flagged and reported to primary server's management function; (f) the primary server's management function updates the fuzzy logic rules in primary server and one or more secure access nodes based on one or more flagged violations.

20090281851

12437418

1. A method for determining a topical on-line influence of a commentor, comprising steps of: (a) matching and tagging content with a selected topic to generate tagged content; (b) extracting viral properties for the tagged content; (c) identifying a commentor from said tagged content; and (d) determining the topical on-line influence of said commentor; wherein said topical on-line influence of said commentor is characterized by a topical influence value of the commentor; and said topical influence value of the commentor is calculated from a commentor influence model based on the extracted viral properties.

20150293932

14394224

1. A digital information analysis system comprising: a target selection unit that selects target digital information to be investigated which is stored in an information processing apparatus; a combination storage unit that stores each of a plurality of word combinations related to a predetermined specific item; a search unit that searches whether the plurality of word combinations stored in the combination storage unit are included in the target digital information selected by the target selection unit; a relation determination unit that determines the relation of the target digital information to the predetermined specific item on the basis of a morphological analysis result when at least one of the plurality of word combinations stored in the combination storage unit is included in the target digital information; and a determination result setting unit that associates the determination result of the relation determination unit with the target digital information.

20100223045

12659686

1. A system for multilanguage text input in a handheld electronic device, said system comprising: at least one application implemented in said handheld electronic device, said at least one application comprising a text input application requiring access to language data usable thereby; at least one language database containing language data from a plurality of different languages usable by at least one of said at least one application including said text input application; and an interface providing said at least one application with access to at least some of said different languages of said language data of said at least one language database, in order that said at least one application including said text input application receives said different languages.

8532112

13241470

1. A method of interleaving a sequence of bits by a transmitting device in a wideband code division multiple access (W-CDMA) system, comprising: determining, by an interleaver of the transmitting device, based on a received length of an input vector from the sequence of bits, a nonpruned interleaving vector having a length N, wherein the length N is at least equal to the received length of the input vector; padding, by the interleaver, the input vector; generating, by the interlayer, a pre-pruned interleaved vector having a length equal to the length N, wherein the prepruned interleaved vector is a function of the padded input vector and the non-pruned interleaving vector; and pruning, by the interleaver, one or more elements from the pre-pruned interleaved vector, wherein the pruning further comprises: when an index corresponding to the element equals one or more predetermined values, looking up, by the interleaver, a corresponding pruning indication in a pruning indication table and pruning the associated element based on the corresponding pruning indication, thereby reducing processing of the pre-pruned interleaved vector such that processing is only performed when pruning is possible as indicated when the index corresponding to the element equals one or more predetermined values, providing, by the interleaver, a pruned interleaved vector as a portion of the interleaved sequence of bits to a rate matching module of the W-CDMA system; and transmitting, by the rate matching module, a rate-matched version of the interleaved sequence of bits over one or more transport channels to a receiving device.

9552392

13340665

1. A computer-implemented method of optimizing a nested database query that includes at least one inner sub-query, at least one outer subquery, one or more window functions in the at least one inner sub-query, and one or more filtering operations in the at least one outer sub-query, wherein evaluation of the inner and outer sub-queries requires construction of one or more intermediate tables, and wherein the computer-implemented method comprises: obtaining the nested database query for processing by a database system; evaluating the obtained nested database query by at least the following: (i) determining that the inner sub-query includes a sampling operation, and (ii) determining that the nested database query includes at least one inner join operation joining at least two inner sub-queries, wherein at least one of the inner sub-queries includes one or more window functions; determining based on the evaluating whether to represent the one or more filtering operations of the at least one outer sub-query as one or more corresponding qualification operations associated with the one or more window functions in the at least one inner sub-query, (iii) wherein it is determined not to represent the one or more filtering operations as the one or more corresponding qualification operations when it is determined that the inner sub-query includes a sampling operation; and (iv) wherein it is determined to represent at least one filtering operation of an outer sub-query as a qualification operation of one or more window functions in either one of the inner sub-queries when it is determined that the query includes at least one inner join operation joining at least two inner sub-queries; effectively representing the one or more filtering operations of the at least one outer sub-query as the one or more corresponding qualification operations associated with the one or more window functions in the at least one inner subquery when the determining determines to represent the one or more filtering operations as the one or more corresponding qualification operations; obtaining a modified database query which is equivalent to the nested database query but is evaluated with intermediate tables that are reduced in size with respect to the one or more intermediate tables that are required to evaluate the database query in its original form and; evaluating the modified database query with the intermediate tables that are reduced in size with respect to the one or more intermediate tables that are required to evaluate the database query in its original form, in order to process that obtained nested database query.

20120179879

12986528

1. An intra-die collective messaging device, comprising: a collective unit on an integrated circuit die; and a plurality of shared memory coherence domains on the integrated circuit die, each coherence domain including a plurality of cores and shared memory for communication between the plurality of cores within the coherence domain, each of the plurality of shared memory coherence domains connected to the collective unit for performing collective operations between the plurality of shared memory coherence domains.

20130232248

13856089

1. A method for receiving and executing, on one of a plurality of servers, a system command from a software application program, the method comprising: receiving a system command from a command-line interface of a server management system, the server management system including the command-line interface, a virtual server client, and virtual server agents, each virtual server agent running on a respective server; translating the system command to an abstract system command, the abstract system command being indifferent to operating systems used by the servers running the virtual server agents; receiving, at the virtual server client, the abstract system command; and instantiating the abstract system command by: identifying, by the virtual server client, a target server to receive the abstract system command and a corresponding virtual server agent associated with the target server, transmitting the abstract system command to the corresponding virtual agent for translation of the abstract system command into an operating system-specific system command for execution on the target server, executing the operating system-specific system command under permissions determined as a function of the target server, an identity of a user of the command-line interface, and a role assigned to the identity, and receiving execution results from the corresponding virtual server agent.

8776105

13730656

1. A method, comprising: in a media device comprising an automatic content recognition application programming interface, the media device being operable to play video content: generating via the automatic content recognition application programming interface, one or more video fingerprints that correspond to video content that displays on the media device; communicating via the automatic content recognition application programming interface, the one or more video fingerprints to an automatic content recognition backend system for a determination of whether the one or more video fingerprints matches one or more stored video fingerprints; receiving from the automatic content recognition backend system via the automatic content recognition application programming interface, one or more interactive event identifiers associated with the one or more video fingerprints, if the match occurs; communicating the one or more interactive event identifiers to an application server; receiving from the application server one or more interactive events and an event timeline associated with the one or more interactive event identifiers; and generating a break structure related to the video content utilizing the event timeline, wherein one or more of the interactive events are associated with one or more playback times in the video content.

9651396

14668737

1. A system comprising: at least one processor; and a memory device including instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to: receive a request from a user of a mapping application executing on a client device; determine mapping data corresponding to at least one geographic region derived at least in part from information in the request, the mapping data including at least graphical information for rendering a map display for the at least one geographic region; based at least in part upon the at least one geographic region, determine point of interest (POI) data associated with the mapping data, the POI data including one or more POIs; analyze the request to identify a specified area of interest; determine a value of a distance function based at least in part of the specified area of interest; determine a ranking score of each POI in the POI data based at least in part on the distance function applied as a multiplier to a baseline score of the each POI within the specified area of interest; select a portion of the POI data corresponding to a current view in the mapping application based at least in part upon the ranking score of the each POI of the POI data corresponding to the current view; and provide the portion of the POI data for display.

9158575

13377428

1. A hardware array processor that implements multi-threaded processing comprising: one or a plurality of thread coordinators; one or a plurality of self-routing switch fabrics; an array of addressable heterogeneous function blocks; said self-routing switch fabric or each of said plurality of self-routing switch fabrics comprising: one or a plurality of input ports; one or a plurality of output ports; one or a plurality of queue memory blocks comprising a plurality of thread queues; said one or plurality of queue memory blocks further comprising one or a plurality of queue memories, wherein a queue memory of said one or plurality of queue memory blocks is selectively partitioned to form one or a plurality of independent thread queues among the plurality of thread queues; and an array of multiplexers that route tokens received on a self-routing switch fabric input port to a selected queue memory, data output from a queue memory forming a self-routing switch fabric output; wherein: an addressable heterogeneous function block of the array of addressable heterogeneous function blocks, comprises at least: one or a plurality of input ports, an output port, an addressable heterogeneous function block input port being connected directly to an output port of a self-routing switch fabric, and the addressable heterogeneous function block output port being connected to a self-routing switch fabric input port; wherein: said one or plurality of queue memory blocks further comprise: queue maintenance and thread synchronisation logic and a queue control block for the plurality of thread queues; the queue maintenance and thread synchronisation logic comprises: a thread queue scheduler and a programmable circuit; and wherein: each of the plurality of thread queues has at least an empty flag output, the empty flag outputs configured into groups of any combination via the programmable circuit to form one or more groups of coupled thread queues; the thread queue scheduler is configured to simultaneously read tokens from selected thread queues and transfer them to a connected addressable heterogeneous function block; and each addressable heterogeneous function block is configured to perform operations upon input data, format resultant data as a token by appending a routing tag to the resultant data, and transfer said token via one or a plurality of the self-routing switch fabrics to a thread coordinator or an addressable heterogeneous function block.

9858046

14745689

1. An implementation unit comprises: an input/output module operably coupled to receive application requirements and parameters wherein the input/output module is configured to provide connectivity to another computing entity; and a processing module operable to implement production of application code in an iterative manner using one or more implementation tools and using: an architecture code level design phase to produce code component architecture artifacts of at least a portion of the application code based on one or more of: the application requirements, the parameters, or architecture phase feedback, wherein the architectural code level design phase includes an architectural level design phase loop; a high-level design (HLD) phase to produce code HLD artifacts based on one or more of the code component architecture artifacts, the application requirements, the parameters, or HLD phase feedback, wherein the HLD phase includes an HLD phase loop; a low-level design (LLD) phase to produce code LLD artifacts based on one or more of the code component architecture artifacts, the code HLD artifacts, the application requirements, the parameters, or LLD phase feedback, wherein the LLD phase includes an LLD phase loop; and an application code level development phase to produce code artifacts based on one or more of: the HLD artifacts, the LLD artifacts, the application requirements, the parameters, or code development phase feedback, wherein the application code level development phase includes an application code level development phase loop, and wherein a plurality of the one or more implementation tools is used in one or more of the architectural code level design phase loop, the HLD phase loop, the LLD phase loop and the application code level development phase loop, and wherein a first implementation tool of the one or more implementation tools is used in one iteration of one of the architectural code level design phase, the HLD phase, the LLD phase and the application code level development phase, and a second implementation tool of the one or more implementation tools is used in another iteration of the one of the architectural code level design phase, the HLD phase, the LLD phase and the application code level development phase.

20100268891

12427598

1. A computing system, comprising: a multi-core processor comprising individual processor cores; a cache that is accessible to the individual processor cores; and a core controller associated with the multi-core processor, the core controller configured to allocate a memory space within the cache to the individual processor cores accessing the cache.

6131083

09219773

1. A speech encoding method of encoding speech parameters representing the spectral envelope of an input speech signal comprising the steps of: obtaining an autocorrelation coefficient from the input speech signal; obtaining first LSF (line spectral frequency) parameters represented by F(k) (k=1, 2,. .. , N; N is the order of the LSF parameters) on the basis of the autocorrelation coefficient; obtaining second LSF parameters f(k) by performing on the first LSF parameters a transformation defined by EQU f(k)=log C(1+A.times.F(k)) (A, C=positive constant); quantizing the second LSF parameters to obtain third quantized LSF parameters fq(k) and first codes representing the third LSF parameters; and obtaining fourth LSF parameters Fq(k) by performing on the third LSF parameters an inverse transformation defined by EQU Fq(k)=(C.sup.fq(k) -1)/A.

20080171932

11970875

1. A method for detecting lymph nodes using multiple complementary magnetic resonance (MR) sequences, comprising: extracting anatomical landmarks in a first MR sequence; determining a search area in at least one second MR sequence based on the anatomical landmarks extracted in said first MR sequence; and detecting lymph nodes in said search area of said at least one second MR sequence.

9857868

13052050

1. A human interface device, comprising: a stereo camera configured to receive image information for user action; a processor; a display; and a memory directed to store a software application; wherein the software application directs the processor to: generate depth maps from the image information received by the stereo camera; utilize a color-based tracking algorithm to provide real-time skin segmentation; localize at least one active part from the image information, wherein: the active part is a body part of a user; and the body part of the user includes fingertips; utilize a model-based tracking algorithm to develop a three-dimensional model of the active parts of a user's body; localize the fingertips of the user using a plurality of methods including: an optical flow algorithm; shape and appearance descriptor identification; a sliding window detector; or a voting-based identification algorithm; monitor the active part for a predetermined initiation gesture wherein the predetermined initiation gesture is the simultaneous touching of the user's left thumb to left index finger and the user's right thumb to right index finger; activate additional options upon the use of the predetermined initiation gesture; receive a first predetermined range of motion for the active part; determine a second range of motion for the at least one active part, wherein the second range of motion is substantially less than the first predetermined range of motion of the at least one active part; allowing for a manner by which to input the second range of motion by the user, and the second range of motion is chosen to allow use of the at least one active part to provide input to the device; and generate a three-dimensional virtual workspace on the display wherein the three-dimensional virtual workspace: represents a space including the second range of motion; includes at least one virtual surface; provides visual cues defining the location of the at least one virtual surface; maps the active part onto the virtual workspace as a three-dimensional cursor containing anthropomorphic detail; and provides a first type of response if the cursor is within the second range of motion and second type of response if the cursor is outside the second range of motion wherein the second type of response is less responsive than the first response.

20030028557

10112406

1. A computerized method of constructing a data document represented as a tree from an existing data document and a document fragment comprising: identifying an update location using a navigation path, wherein the update location is a node in one of the existing data document and the document fragment; and attaching a set of child nodes at the update location in accordance with an update command, wherein the set of child nodes is selected from at least one of the existing data document and the document fragment.

8239348

12191785

1. A method comprising: automatically archiving data items from a backup image stored in backup storage, wherein the automatically archiving is performed without restoring the data items from the backup image, and the automatically archiving comprises mounting the backup image, wherein the backup image is not archived, generating a mapping of the backup image, wherein the mapping is generated based on the backup image subsequent to the backup image being mounted, extracting at least one data item of the data items from the backup image using the mapping of the backup image, wherein extraction of the at least one data item does not restore the at least one data item, and the mapping indicates a location of the at least one data item within the backup image, migrating the at least one data item to an ingest interface, and archiving the at least one data item into an archive database, wherein the ingest interface is configured to archive the at least one item into the archive database.

20140359543

14462187

1. A method implemented by a computer for obtaining a preferred layout for a lithographic process, the method comprising: identifying an initial layout including plurality of features; performing one or both of splitting certain ones of the features into two or more discrete features and joining two or more of the features into a single feature; reconfiguring the features with a set of changes to the features; and determining if a termination condition is satisfied with the set of changes to the features, thereby obtaining the preferred layout; wherein the determining comprises, using the computer, evaluating a cost function that measures how a lithographic metric is affected by the set of changes to the features for a plurality of lithographic process conditions, and expanding the cost function into a series of terms at least some of which are functions of characteristics of the features.

3984671

05502138

1. A method of producing classification maps from multispectral data comprising the following steps: a. transforming multispectral data into a binary format wherein said data is arranged in a predetermined spacial pattern; b. encoding the transformed data onto an optical film medium by varying the optical characteristics of the film medium to provide binary coding and preserving said spacial pattern in the transformed data when encoded onto said optical medium; and c. holographically correlating the encoded transformed data with correlating data representing a selected spectral signature to produce a single-class classification map, said holographic correlating step comprising the cross correlating of data for a single resolution element of a multispectral element with all of the resolution elements of said scanner and wherein said single-class classification maps are photographed on high gamma photographic film using controlled development so that only light intensities above a predetermined threshold value representing a selected minimum holographic cross-correlating will expose the film and so that above said threshold the light intensities will expose the film in proportion to the value of the intensity, said film being subsequently developed and projected so that the brightness of each spot will be an indication of the degree to which the corresponding resolution element belongs to the particular class.

8630822

13025620

1. A method for designing a data center, the method comprising the steps of: a computer receiving a design specification for a proposed facility of the data center; the computer determining a requirement of the data center based on the design specification; the computer receiving an equipment component input for the data center; the computer receiving a first attribute of the equipment component input; the computer determining a second attribute based on one or more of the design specification, the requirement of the data center, a previously received equipment component input, and the first attribute; the computer determining efficiency information for the data center; the computer determining an estimated number of hours of free cooling based on one or more of the equipment component input and the design specification; the computer determining changes in the efficiency information based on the estimated number of hours of free cooling; and the computer determining estimated potential savings contributable to free cooling.

8045486

12153273

1. A method for discovering an active directory (AD) domain controllers (DC) comprising: mapping a topology of a network; creating a lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) connection by binding to a LDAP endpoint; using LDAP commands to perform a LDAP data search for the AD DC using the created LDAP connection, and returning at least one fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of a discovered AD DC; and unbinding from the LDAP endpoint, wherein the mapping the topology of the network comprises searching for nodes in a pre-defined number of internet protocol (ip) addresses and repeating the search for a predefined number of hops.

7668816

11317381

1. A method in a computing device having a processor for inputting a search request from a user, the method comprising: displaying a text box; receiving from the user characters input into the text box such that the characters received from the user are displayed in the text box; when a character is received from the user, identifying by the processor quick match items that contain a word that begins with characters received so far from the user; generating proposed search strategies based on characters received so far from the user; and displaying a first list of the identified quick match items and a second list of the generated proposed search strategies wherein the displayed lists are dynamically updated based on the identified quick match items and the generated proposed search strategies as the user enters characters; upon receiving from a user a selection of a quick match item that is currently being displayed in the first list, displaying information relating to the selected quick match item; upon receiving from the user a selection of a proposed search strategy that is currently being displayed in the second list, initiating by the processor a search for items that match the selected proposed search strategy to identify search results of items; displaying in a search result pane the identified search results to the user that includes indications of the identified items; and upon receiving from the user a selection of an item of the identified search results, accessing by the processor content associated with the selected item; and upon receiving from the user an indication to conduct a search based on the characters currently displayed in the text box, identifying search results for a search comprising the characters received from the user; displaying in a search result pane the identified search results to the user; and upon receiving from the user a selection of an item of the identified search results, accessing information associated with the selected item.

7702647

10326380

1. A method of representing information, said method comprising: generating, using a processor on a computer, a first software object comprising a first node; generating a second software object comprising a second node, using said processor; generating a third software object comprising a nexus that connects said first node and said second node, using said processor, said nexus being a type of link or an extension of a hypergraph link; performing at least one of the following, using said processor: generating a fourth software object as a third node, said third node comprising said first node, said second node, and said nexus; and generating a fifth software object as a fourth node, said fourth node comprising said nexus; and directing said at least one of said fourth and fifth software objects to a memory for storage; wherein said first node, said second node, and said third node serve as respective information containers directly addressable by a user and each of the nodes has a format as a tuple: S =[Label], N, C>, where the label comprises a name which is optional, and N and C comprise two collections of nexus representing, respectively, a neighborhood and a content of S.

20090244084

12416236

1. A method executable in a digital processor operable to generate a synthetic image, the method comprising: selecting a rank-1 lattice corresponding to points in the synthetic image to be generated; generating a data structure for efficient access of data stored in points of the rank-1 lattice the data structure comprising the number n of lattice points, generator vector g, s basis vectors, and indices of the basis vectors, wherein the basis vectors are lattice points, and generating, using the rank-1 lattice, digital output representative of a synthetic image, wherein the generating comprises using the layout of rank-1 lattice points to represent textures of arbitrary dimension.

20070185717

11733129

1. A method of interacting through speech with a web-connected server using a browser program, the method comprising the steps of: providing a speech recognition engine configured to generate recognized speech queries from an utterance; wherein said speech recognition engine can be configured to permit partial or full recognition of said utterance at a client device and/or a server device; presenting one or more web pages to the browser program, such that data content for said one or more web pages transmitted to the browser program is controlled by said recognized speech query.

20130321066

13487336

1. A semiconductor structure comprising: a device configured to receive an input data-word, the device comprising: a logic structure configured to generate an encrypted data-word by encrypting the input data-word through an encrypting operation; and an eFuse storage device configured to store the encrypted data-word as eFuse data by blowing fuses in accordance with the encrypted data-word.

20030204831

10016731

1. A method for designing a semiconductor circuit arrangement, comprising: providing a deconfigurable and extendible reference-chip development platform that is programmable, and that includes a programmable circuit and a plurality of functional block macros; using a collection of functional block macros at least one of which is obtained from the deconfigurable and extendible reference-chip development platform; and extending the deconfigurable and extendible reference-chip development platform, including communicatively coupling at least one external device with the reference-chip development platform, and therein providing an extended deconfigurable and extendible reference-chip development platform that enables co-development and co-validation of hardware and software.

20090073893

12281622

1. A routing method in an ad hoc network between a source node (S) and a destination node (M), wherein, to guarantee a required quality of service level between the source node and the destination node, the method comprises the steps of: in a preliminary step: (a) evaluating at each node of the network a quality of service level for each connection between said node and the neighbor nodes; (b) establishing a cost function (F g ) representative of the cost in terms of resources necessary to guarantee a given quality of service level on a connection between a node and each of the neighbor nodes; the source node (S) sending a route request to the network, said request containing said required quality of service level and an initial value of said cost function (F g ); a node receiving a route request sent by a neighbor node then: (a) refusing said request if said node is not able to guarantee said required quality of service level; (b) sending over the network a route request containing said required quality of service level and a value of said cost function combining a value of the cost function received from a previous neighbor node and a value of the cost function calculated on a connection with a neighbor node; the destination node (M) sending a route response step by step to the source node (S) containing the cumulative value of said cost function (F g ) corresponding to a route formed by successive connections between the source node (S) and the destination node (M); and the source node choosing the route between the source node (S) and the destination node (M) having the best cumulative cost function.

7831630

11779514

1. A method for providing access to an electronic database for business intelligence, comprising: receiving a request to create a new universe to interface with the electronic database to access the electronic database for business intelligence, wherein the new universe maps terms used by a business intelligence application to the electronic database; receiving an input of a first set of universe details to populate the new universe, wherein the universe details include classes for the terms used by the business intelligence application, and the classes describe groups of data in the electronic database, the universe details further including objects describing data elements or fields and their associated data tables in the electronic database that are associated with the classes, and joins between the data tables based on values; executing at least a first application macro to populate the new universe with the received first set of universe details by calling the business intelligence application to create the new universe with the populated first set of universe details; and providing the created new universe as a metadata layer that interfaces with the electronic database to provide access to the electronic database, wherein the interfacing with the electronic database includes interfacing with the new universe using at least one of the classes, objects and joins in the new universe to execute a query in the electronic database associated with at least one of the terms used by the business intelligence application.

9866784

13299388

1. A method, comprising: storing, in a memory device, electronic associations between multiple programming events and a package of programming; generating, by a processor coupled to the memory device, an electronic programming guide as a programming grid of cells, the electronic programming guide causing display of a wrapper that simultaneously highlights only the cells in the programming grid of cells that are associated with the multiple programming events associated with the package of programming, the wrapper displaying a title that is common to the multiple programming events in the package of programming; generating, by the processor, a package mode of operation associated with the electronic programming guide, the package mode of operation responding to navigational inputs to a navigator that scroll from the title displayed by the wrapper to a different title displayed by a different wrapper associated with a different package of programming; and linking, by the processor, an entry in a cell of the cells associated with the package of programming to a prerecorded event stored in the memory device.

9468848

14105043

1. A method for assigning a gesture dictionary, comprising: determining a characteristic of a user that is independent of a motion or pose made by the user; correlating the characteristic of the user to a first gesture dictionary of a plurality of gesture dictionaries, each gesture dictionary of the plurality of gesture dictionaries identifying a set of input commands to a computer that may be invoked by a performance of a corresponding gesture; assigning the first gesture dictionary to the user, the first gesture dictionary corresponding to the characteristic; and processing captured data with the first gesture dictionary to identify whether a second motion or pose by the user in the captured data invokes an input command to the computer.

20110199291

12706585

1. In a system comprising a computing environment coupled to a capture device for capturing user position, a method of generating pose information for use in determining whether a user has performed a given gesture, the method comprising: (a) detecting via the capture device a location of a first skeletal joint of the user position; (b) detecting via the capture device a location of a second skeletal joint of the user position that is not a joint adjacent to the first skeletal joint; and (c) generating the pose information, including the location of the first skeletal joint relative the location of the second skeletal joint, for use in determining whether a user has performed a given gesture.

8234523

12845589

1. A system for refining a repair probability of a corrective action for a complex system, comprising: a network; a first local computing device configured to report an operating status of the complex system and to transmit failure mode data presented by the complex system over the network; a second local computing device configured to transmit repair action data to and receive repair data over the network, the repair action information and the repair data being related to the failure mode; and a reasoner in operable communication with first local computing device and the second local computing device, the reasoner being configured to: correlate the operating status of the complex system, the repair action information and the repair data, and update the repair probability of the repair action based at least in part on the correlation.

8549504

12890639

1. An apparatus for optimizing code comprising: a memory to hold program code; and a processor including, hardware resources adapted to support transactional execution and to provide a representation of an availability of the hardware resources; and execution logic adapted to execute the program code to cause the processor to dynamically resize a transactional region including an optimized portion of the program code based on the representation of the availability of the hardware resources.

6064979

08752136

1. A system for finding and serving information pertaining to a particular consumer product and the manufacturer thereof on the Internet, said system comprising: (1) an Internet database serving subsystem operably connected to the infrastructure of the Internet and including (1A) an information storage subsystem for storing first and second sets of information, said first set of information being representative of (i) a plurality of manufacturer identification numbers (MINs) assigned to a plurality of manufacturers of consumer products, each said MIN being assigned to one of said plurality of manufacturers of consumer products, and (ii) a plurality of home-page specifying URLs symbolically linked to said plurality of MINs, each said home-page specifying URL being symbolically linked to one of said plurality of manufacturers of consumer products and specifying the location of a manufacturer World Wide Web (WWW) site located on the Internet, having a home page on the WWW and being related to one of said plurality of manufacturers of consumer products, and said second set of information being representative of (i) a plurality of universal product numbers (UPN) assigned to a plurality of consumer products made by said plurality of manufacturers, each said UPN being assigned to one of said plurality of consumer products, and (ii) a plurality of product-information specifying URLs symbolically linked to said plurality of UPNs, each said product-information specifying URL including one of said plurality of MINs, and being symbolically linked to one of said plurality of consumer products and specifying the location of an information resource located on the Internet related to at least one of said plurality of consumer products, and (1B) request servicing means for servicing a request for information about one of said plurality of products located on the Internet, made by a client subsystem operably connected to the Internet, wherein said request is transmitted to said Internet database serving subsystem for processing and includes information representative of the UPN assigned to said consumer product on which product-related information located on the Internet is being sought by a consumer using said client subsystem, wherein said request servicing means automatically compares the UPN included in said request against said plurality of MINs stored in said information storage subsystem, and (i) automatically returns to said client subsystem, the home-page specifying URL symbolically linked to the MIN contained within the UPN included in said request if, at the time said request was made, no product-information specifying URLs have been symbolically linked to the UPN included in said request, within said information storage subsystem, and (ii) automatically returns to said client subsystem, one or more of URLs symbolically linked to said UPN included in said request, if, at the time said request was made, one or more product-information specifying URLs have been symbolically linked to the UPN included in said request, within said information storage subsystem; and (2) a plurality of product-information containing servers, each said product-information containing server being connected to the Internet and storing product-related information resources related to at least one of (i) one or more of the WWW sites of said plurality of manufacturers of consumer products, and (ii) one or more of said plurality of consumer products, wherein the location of each said product-related information resource on the Internet is specified by one said plurality of product-information specifying URLs, and wherein the location of the home page of each said WWW site is specified by one of said plurality of home-page specifying URLs, and wherein said client subsystem can use (i) the one or more product-information specifying URLs returned by said request servicing means to access product-related information from said one or more of said plurality of product-related information containing servers, and (ii) the home-page specifying URL returned from said request servicing means to access the home-page of the manufacturer's WWW site from one or more of said plurality of product-related information containing servers.

20080255822

11735510

1. A method for automatically creating compliance test suites for a processor, comprising the steps of: constructing a generic model set for a plurality of implementations of a processor architecture, said generic model set comprising one or more parametric models being adapted to a model-based test generator, wherein said processor architecture permits selection among multiple options for said implementations, and said implementations each exhibit a respective alternative behavior corresponding to selected ones of said options; based on said generic model set, establishing specific model sets to correspond to said respective alternative behavior of said implementations by setting respective values of parameters for said parametric models; producing test specifications using said parametric models and said values; submitting said test specifications to said test generator; and generating respective architectural compliance test suites for said implementations with said test generator using said test specifications, wherein said test generator is cooperative with said parametric models using said values to predict expected outcomes in an execution of said respective architectural compliance test suites by said implementations.

9535913

13791661

1. A method for file conversion from an original file to a page description language (PDL) file, comprising: obtaining the original file comprising a graphics object delimited by a tag, wherein the tag in the original file specifies a type of the graphics object and a formatting attribute of the graphics object; translating the graphics object into an image based on the type and formatting attribute in the tag; generating object composition metadata for the graphics object based on a composition rule corresponding to the tag, wherein the object composition metadata comprises a description of the graphics object in the original file; adding the image to a visible layer of the PDL file; adding the object composition metadata for the graphics object to an invisible layer of the PDL file, wherein the image in the visible layer and the description in the invisible layer overlap, wherein the object composition metadata is searchable in the PDL file but is not visible when the PDL file is displayed, and wherein the PDL file does not have the tag; receiving a search request specifying the description of the graphics object; identifying, in response to the search request, a location of the description in the invisible layer of the PDL file; and displaying a portion of the visible layer comprising the image in response to the portion of the visible layer overlapping the location.

8676963

11881997

1. A system, including: a processor; and a memory coupled with the processor, wherein the memory is configured to provide the processor with instructions which when executed cause the processor to: set an option in a first ICMP query to a first state; set the option in a second ICMP query to a second state, wherein the first state of the option and the second state of the option are different; send the first and the second ICMP queries to the target computer; receive responses associated with the first and second ICMP queries from the target computer; and determine an attribute of the target computer comprising an indication of the behavior of the target computer with respect to the option at least in part by matching the received responses to a behavior classification in a set of candidate behavior classifications.

20160112511

14518683

1. A client computing device that is in network communication with a server computing device, the client computing device comprising: a processor; and a memory that comprises an application that is executed by the processor, the application comprises: an interaction detector component that is configured to construct a command based upon a detected interaction with respect to a visualization presented on a display of the client computing device, the visualization having a first visualization state that describes the visualization, the command indicating that the visualization is to be updated to have a second visualization state; a pre-fetch cache that comprises transformations received by the client computing device from the server computing device, wherein each transformation in the transformations is labeled with a respective visualization state that results from execution of a transformation; a cache analyzer component that is configured to determine whether a transformation that is configured to update the visualization to the second visualization state is included in the pre-fetch cache based upon the command and the first visualization state; and a visualization updater component that, responsive to the cache analyzer component determining that the transformation is included in the pre-fetch cache, is configured to update the visualization based upon the transformation such that the visualization has the second visualization state.

8175987

12058854

1. A method of computing a change plan, the method comprising: identifying a model of a current configuration, said model including modeled system assets and modeled tasks; receiving a request to change the current configuration to a new configuration; applying said request to change the current configuration to generate a plurality of valid strategies to be used in a genetic programming parse tree corresponding to modeled assets and modeled tasks of said model; applying said request to change the current configuration to at least one of said valid strategies to generate a plurality of potential change plans; and evolving, according to genetic programming principles, between at least two of said plurality of change plans to a preferred change plan to migrate from the current configuration to a desired configuration; wherein said request to change the current configuration to a new configuration is selected from the group consisting of receiving a provisioning request for provisioning a resource within an environment; receiving a request to build a brand new configuration using an inventory of assets from an empty configuration having no assets and wherein said preferred change plan comprises an inventory purchase plan; receiving a request to change the current configuration to a new configuration is in response to a compliance violation and wherein said preferred change plan comprises a remediation plan for said compliance violation; receiving a request to change the current configuration to a new configuration is in response to an error condition and wherein said preferred change plan comprises a remediation plan for said error condition; receiving a request to perform data migration; receiving a request to perform application provisioning; receiving a request as part of a life cycle management process and wherein said change plan incorporates said life cycle management requirement; receiving a request to add a resource; receiving a request to remove a resource; and provisioning a virtual machine in a virtualized environment including assigning compute, memory, and capacity.

20060059156

10939768

1. A method enabling access to portions of a library shared by each of a plurality of applications, comprising: receiving a request from an applcation for at least one information element in a shared library; storing said at least one information element in a library instance associated with the requesting application; and appending, to a location parameter associated with said requesting application, a location of said library instance.

9661018

15167645

1. A network device comprising: a memory storage device; and a hardware controller operating in cooperation with one or more virtual machines that are based on software modules stored within the memory storage device, the hardware controller to (i) select an orchestration pattern based on a type of data received over a network for analysis, the orchestration pattern identifies at least one or more ports accessible by at least a first virtual machine of the one or more virtual machines during processing of the data and coordinates network activities by the one or more virtual machines based on the selected orchestration pattern, (ii) monitor behaviors of at least the first virtual machine of the one or more virtual machines processing data received over the network, (iii) identify at least one anomalous behavior that includes either a communication anomaly or an execution anomaly, and (iv) detect, based on the identified at least one anomalous behavior, a presence of malware in the first virtual machine in response to identifying the at least one anomalous behavior that includes one or more accesses of a port other than the one or more ports identified by the orchestration pattern.

7869887

11834263

1. A system for automatic configuration of activities within an industrial automation environment, comprising: an interpretation component that receives a desired end result expressed in a natural language format, understands the desired end result, and partitions the desired end result into a first activity and at least a second activity; and a distributed network control component that assigns responsibility of completing the first activity to a first agent and the at least a second activity to a second agent, the first agent and second agent are located in an industrial automation environment, the distributed network control component further monitors performance of the first activity and the at least a second activity, the distributed network control component reassigns the first activity to another agent if performance of the first activity does not meet a predetermined performance expectation level.

9696813

14723435

1. A gesture interface robot (GIR) comprising a platform having wheels; a main computer; a video vision sensor module to sense gestures of a user; a universal infrared receiver transmitter; a micro controller board; a puzzle cell map virtual keyboard control program (PCMVKCP); a plurality of motor modules controllable by the micro controller board; and one or more display monitors or projectors; wherein the main computer, the video vision sensor module, the universal infrared receiver transmitter, the micro controller board, the plurality of motor modules and the one or more display monitors or projectors are attached to the platform; wherein the PCMVKCP divides an three-dimensional virtual workspace zone into a puzzle cell row-column formation; wherein the PCMVKCP divides the three-dimensional virtual workspace zone into a first, second and third selectable gate zones along a direction perpendicular to a surface of the puzzle cell row-column formation wherein the first selectable gate zone is to unlock a selected key gate zone; wherein the second selectable gate zone is to select a virtual key zone; and wherein the third selectable gate zone is to click a selected zone.

20020188213

10210418

1. A system for prioritizing multiple health disorders for use in automated patient care, comprising: a comparison module comparing at least one recorded physiological measure from a plurality of monitoring sets to at least one other recorded physiological measure to quantify a change in patient pathophysiological status for equivalent patient information; an analysis module ordering each patient pathophysiological status change in temporal sequence from least recent to most recent, categorizing a plurality of health disorder candidates using quantifiable pathophysiologies indicative of each health disorder, and identifying the health disorder candidate having the pathophysiology substantially corresponding to the patient pathophysiological status changes which occurred substantially least recently.

20120054435

12861863

1. A method comprising: setting an indicator to indicate that all of a plurality of most significant bytes of characters in a character array are zero; receiving a first index and an input character comprising a first most significant byte and a first least significant byte; storing the first most significant byte at a first storage location and the first least significant byte at a second storage location, wherein the first storage location and the second storage location have non-contiguous addresses; and if the first most significant byte does not equal zero, setting the indicator to indicate that at least one of a plurality of most significant bytes of the characters in the character array is non-zero, wherein the character array comprises the first most significant byte and the first least significant byte.

9276840

14067586

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving an Interest packet by a network node, wherein the Interest packet includes a name or a name prefix associated with one or more target entities for the Interest, and includes access control information; determining that the Interest packet includes a payload, wherein the payload includes instructions or data for configuring a network node; determining an operation to perform for processing the payload; processing the payload by performing the determined operation, wherein processing the Interest's payload involves: determining whether the access control information grants the Interest packet permission to reconfigure the network node; and responsive to determining that the access control information grants permission to the Interest packet, executing the instructions to reconfigure the network node.

9530113

14017861

1. A computer-implemented method for business process behavior conformance checking, the method comprising: obtaining a plurality of electronically-stored empirical process models, each empirical process model reflecting at least one of a plurality of logs; obtaining a plurality of electronically-stored theoretical process models; matching each empirical process model to a theoretical process model, wherein the matching comprises: generating an empirical transition matrix for each empirical process model; generating a theoretical transition matrix for each theoretical process model; and determining a decision matrix for each pair consisting of an empirical transition matrix and a theoretical transition matrix, wherein the determining a decision matrix comprises calculating a plurality of fuzzy NOT XOR values; obtaining a log for a particular process instance, wherein activities in the log for the particular process instance are unlabeled; identifying activity labels for the particular process instance; matching the log for the particular process instance to a particular empirical process; determining a particular theoretical process model that matches the particular empirical process model; computing, using at least one of the particular empirical process model and the particular theoretical process model, a diagnostic for the log for the particular process instance using an electronic processor; and outputting in human readable form the diagnostic.

20080077257

11525221

1. A method of analyzing a solution from a multivariable predictive controller, comprising: obtaining a solution from a multivariable predictive controller having a steady-state optimizer that results in different variable constraint statuses, wherein the solution includes controlled variables that are predicted from manipulated variables; and operating on the solution to obtain a relationship between constrained variables and unconstrained variables to determine how unconstrained variables respond to changes in constrained variables.

8786600

12539360

1. A method for constructing a displacement-mapped surface representation, the method comprising: defining, by a processor, a plurality of local vectors emanating from the displacement-mapped surface, each local vector extending from a local position disposed on the displacement-mapped surface at an local angle relative to the displacement-mapped surface at said local position; determining, for a first subset of the plurality of the local vectors, a first global vector, the first global vector determined as a function of the local positions and the local angles of the first subset of local vectors, wherein said first subset maintains an initial distribution of local vectors comprising said first subset; determining, for a second subset of the plurality of the local vectors, a second global vector, the second global vector determined as a function of the local positions and the local angles of the second subset of local vectors, wherein said second subset maintains an initial distribution of local vectors comprising said second subset; and utilizing the first and second global vectors to form a representation of the displacement-mapped surface.

10048826

15724029

1. A system for providing an interactive visualization of a convolutional neural network, the system comprising: a processing device; and a memory device on which instructions executable by the processing device are stored for causing the processing device to: display, via a display device, a graphical user interface comprising a matrix having rows and columns of symbols indicating feature-map values that represent likelihoods of particular features being present or absent at various locations in an input to a convolutional neural network, each column in the matrix having feature-map values generated by convolving the input to the convolutional neural network with a respective filter for identifying a particular feature in the input; detect, via an input device, an interaction with the graphical user interface indicating that the columns in the matrix are to be combined into a particular number of groups; and in response to detecting the interaction: cluster the columns into the particular number of groups using a clustering method; for each group of columns, determine a plurality of average feature-map values, each average feature-map value being determined by averaging the feature-map values represented in a respective row of the columns; and display an updated version of the matrix within the graphical user interface by visually representing each respective group of columns as a single column of symbols within the matrix, each symbol in the single column of symbols having visual characteristics representing an average feature-map value, from among the plurality of average feature-map values, that corresponds to a row in which the symbol is positioned.

9412358

14275938

1. A method comprising: receiving speech from a user as part of a dialog between the user and a dialog system; identifying, via a processor configured to perform speech analysis, an identity of the user using characteristics of the speech, to yield a user identification; generating a personalized natural language generation model based on a stylistic analysis and the user identification, wherein the stylistic analysis is performed on a literary narrative, and wherein the stylistic analysis identifies connections between a personality independent quotation lattice, personality independent attributes, personality dependent attributes, and speakers within the literary narrative; and applying the personalized natural language generation model while performing, as part of the dialog, one of automatic speech recognition and natural language generation.

20080195634

11673349

1. In a computing environment, a method of converting data to an appropriate format for use with a service, the method comprising: receiving a message including data expressed using dynamic language data expressions; and expressing the data expressed using dynamic language data expressions in an XML data structure, wherein the XML data structure preserves the original organization for the data.

8108654

12033038

1. A method of scheduling execution of an instruction in a processor having at least one cascaded delayed execution pipeline unit having four or more execution pipelines that execute instructions in a common issue group in a delayed manner relative to each other, the method comprising: receiving an issue group of instructions; implementing a first prioritization scheme for the issue group of instructions using a class type priority by prioritizing classes of instructions in the order of, from highest to lowest priority: load instructions, floating point instructions, ALU instructions, store instructions, compare instructions, branch instructions, and remaining instructions; determining if at least one load instruction is in the issue group and, if so, scheduling the at least one load instruction in a first available pipeline; determining if at least one floating point instruction is in the issue group and, if so, scheduling the floating point instruction in a next available pipeline following the determination of at least one load instruction; determining if at least one ALU instruction is in the issue group and, if so, scheduling the at least one ALU instruction in a next available pipeline following the determination of at least one floating point instruction; implementing a second prioritization scheme for each class of instructions resulting from the first prioritization scheme, in the priority order of the first prioritization scheme, the second prioritization scheme comprising scheduling multiple instructions of the class in a sequential order; forming target dependencies of all instructions and instruction queues; prioritizing the target dependencies in an upper left most of an instruction queue ensemble; determining a number of pipeline bubbles in undelayed pipelines as from the target dependencies; shifting a pipeline number right until the number of pipeline bubbles becomes less than zero; and executing the issue group of instructions in the cascaded delayed execution pipeline unit.

5546554

08190872

1. A method, comprising the steps of: providing a plurality of virtual register addresses; providing a plurality of physical register addresses; providing a map that maintains a mapping between each of the plurality of virtual register addresses and a corresponding one of a subset of the plurality of physical register addresses; dispatching a sequence of instructions; generating a sequence of mapped instructions in response to receiving the sequence of instructions, wherein the step of generating a sequence of mapped instructions comprises: generating a new mapping for a particular virtual register address whenever that virtual register address is specified as a destination register address by one of the sequence of instructions; and generating a mapped instruction using the new mapping, the mapped instruction including the new mapping and a previous mapping of the particular virtual register address; executing the sequence of mapped instructions such that younger mapped instructions occurring later in a program order are allowed to complete execution before older mapped instructions occurring earlier in the program order complete; and storing a result for each mapped instruction that successfully completes execution, the result being stored at the physical register address indicated by the new mapping of that mapped instruction.

20020038451

09779453

1. A method for supporting development of content independent of a run-time platform, comprising the steps of: storing processing blocks that define content; and storing an application graph that expresses the identity of the stored processing blocks and data connectivity between the stored processing blocks; whereby, the application graph can be traversed by a graphical application platform at run-time to execute appropriate processing blocks on a run-time platform.

20160005225

14789893

1. A system for automated conversion of two-dimensional hydrology vector models into valid three-dimensional hydrology vector models, comprising: a vector extraction engine comprising a plurality of programming instructions stored in a memory and operating on a processor of a computing device, and configured to retrieve vectors from, and send vectors to, a vector storage such as a vector database; a DSM server comprising a plurality of programming instructions stored in a memory and operating on a processor of a computing device, and configured to retrieve a DSM from a DSM storage, and further configured to compute a DSM from stereo disparity measurements of a stereo pair retrieved from a raster storage; a rendering engine comprising a plurality of programming instructions stored in a memory and operating on a processor of a computing device, and configured to receive a plurality of data from other components of the system and create visual representations of the data for review by a human user.

9031947

11691597

1. A method for identifying elements of a system, the method implemented by at least one computer processor coupled to at least one data storage device and comprising: providing a system element store comprising machine-readable representations of system models comprising system elements classified as a whole element of a whole-part relationship, an entity element of an entity-relation-entity relationship, a pair of entity elements of an entity-relation-entity relationship, or a relation element of an entity-relation-entity relationship; electronically receiving a graphical user interface input identifying a system model as a selected electronic representation of the system; in response to the graphical user interface input, extracting corresponding system elements of the identified system model from the system element store, and automatically formulating a query from the extracted system elements, wherein the extracted system elements represent a set of system objectives; searching one or more mereological and functional relationship databases using a knowledge search engine, the one or more merelogical and functional relationship databases including one or more general document repositories that are semantically indexed and contain non-hierarchical database structures and additional one or more knowledge bases selected from the group consisting of: one or more locally accessible knowledge bases, one or more knowledge bases containing corporate knowledge, and one or more publicly accessible knowledge bases; using the query to retrieve component elements useful to form the extracted system elements and identify functional interactions between the component elements, wherein the component elements represent parts of entity-relationship-entity relationships represented in the identified system model; and storing and displaying the retrieved component elements and identified functional interactions as search results in association with the extracted system elements, wherein the search results are represented as user-selectable options indicating design alternatives to satisfy the set of system objectives of the system.

20090133100

12211860

1. A method for controlling access rights to dynamically instantiated portal applications in a portal environment, wherein new instances of a portal application and respective access control information on resources used in the application are generated dynamically from an automated programmed mechanism, and wherein a user-application role mapping is demanded for the portal application by a respective runtime access control function implemented at the portal environment, comprising: assigning an individual user-to-application role mapping to a respective individual one of the created instances of the portal application, wherein for each incoming user request to one of the created instances the runtime access control function checks a target application instance identifier, which identifies an individual application instance desired to be addressed by the incoming request; and granting access rights to incoming user requests according to the application roles as they are defined for the target application instance.

20090204031

12378486

1. A method for estimating and tracking joint angles of a multi-segment linkage, the method comprising: a) measuring inertial data as a function of time using a single inertial measurement unit positioned at a distal end of the multi-segment linkage; b) computing from the measured inertial data estimated joint angles of the multi-segment linkage as a function of time using a nonlinear state space estimator.

8687891

12949455

1. A method comprising: generating an image pyramid of an image frame; detecting a plurality of interest points within the image pyramid; and extracting, via a processor, feature descriptors for each respective interest point, wherein extracting the feature descriptors includes extracting the feature descriptors that are rotation invariant and generated without determining orientations.

20050108207

10715313

1. A collaborative computing method comprising the steps of: providing a collaborative computing system comprising at least one instant messaging client; initializing said instant message client within a graphical user interface of said collaborative computing system; receiving a search initializing action from said graphical user interface; responsive to said receiving step, presenting search input fields within said graphical user interface; receiving input via said input fields that specifies a search pattern; searching at least one record source for online entities that satisfy said search pattern; and displaying a search result from said searching step within said graphical user interface.

20110144795

12827509

1. A management system for machine tools, comprising: at least one machine tool; and a remote monitoring host connected to at least one machine tool via a network, and the remote monitoring host comprises: a storage unit recording a transaction database which comprises a plurality of transaction data, wherein each transaction data records a plurality of parameters corresponding to a failure category, and the failure category is one of a plurality of predefined failure categories when an abnormality occurs in the at least one machine tool, in which the failure category is corresponded to the abnormality, and the parameters are the parameters whose parameter values are retrieved from the at least one machine tool, having the abnormality, by the remote monitoring host according to the failure category; and a processing unit determining a specific failure category according to a current abnormality when the current abnormality occurs in one of at least one machine tool, and generating at least one suggested combination of parameters according to the specific failure category and the transaction database, wherein the specific failure category is one of the predefined failure categories, and each suggested combination of parameters comprises a plurality of associated parameters, which are commonly retrieved for the specific failure category.

8028229

11951973

1. A method of merging a first document with at least a second document to generate a third document, each of the first and second documents including one or more data units, each data unit being associated with a unit identifier and an edit identifier, the method comprising: obtaining the unit identifiers associated with the data units of the first document; obtaining the unit identifiers associated with the data units of the second document; comparing the unit identifiers of each of the first and second documents to the unit identifiers of the other of the first and second documents to determine whether each of the unit identifiers is a matching unit identifier or a non-matching unit identifier, wherein each of the matching unit identifiers indicates corresponding data units of the first and second documents, and wherein each of the non-matching unit identifiers indicates a data unit of one of the first and second documents that does not correspond with any data unit of the other of the first and second documents; comparing edit identifiers of the data units associated with the matching unit identifiers to ascertain matching edit identifiers, each of the matching edit identifiers indicating the data unit of one of the first and second documents matches the corresponding data unit of the other of the first and second documents; inserting directly into the third document data units of the first and second documents that are associated with non-matching unit identifiers; inserting directly into the third document data units of the first and second documents that are associated with matching unit identifiers and matching edit identifiers; and merging into the third document data units of the first and second documents that are associated with matching unit identifiers and non-matching edit identifiers.

7853639

11531175

1. A method comprising: receiving from a task layout optimizer a migration event at a plurality of compute nodes connected via a global combining network, wherein the migration event comprises a specification of a first compute node and a specification of a second compute node and a request to swap a first process that executes at the first compute node with a second process that executes at the second compute node, wherein the task layout optimizer selected the first process and the second process; performing a plurality of allreduce XOR operations at the plurality of compute nodes, wherein, in response to the migration event, the plurality of allreduce XOR operations swap the first process at the first compute node with the second process at the second compute node, wherein the performing further comprises each of the plurality of compute nodes contributes respective input to the plurality of allreduce XOR operations and receives respective output from the plurality of allreduce XOR operations, wherein the performing further comprises performing a first allreduce XOR operation on the first and the second process, wherein the first allreduce XOR operation generates a first result and storing the first result at the first compute node, wherein the performing removes the first process from the first compute node and removes the second process from the second compute node; and after the performing, executing the first process at the second compute node and executing the second process at the first compute node.

9516343

14691674

1. A decoder to decode information, wherein the decoder comprises a regular decoding engine and a bypass decoding engine, the regular decoding engine for arithmetic decoding using a context, the bypass decoding engine for arithmetic decoding which does not use the context, and wherein the decoder is configured to: decode a flag via the regular decoding engine for a prediction mode of a current block based on a most probable mode list of prediction modes and a not most probable mode list of prediction modes, wherein the most probable mode list comprises one or more prediction modes of one or more adjacent blocks of the current block, and wherein the not most probable mode list is different from the most probable mode list; and select the prediction mode according to a value of the flag, wherein when the value of the flag is equal to 1, the prediction mode is selected from the most probable mode list of prediction modes using a first information decoded via the bypass decoding engine, and wherein, when the value of the flag is equal to 0, the prediction mode is selected from the not most probable mode list of prediction modes using a second information decoded via the bypass decoding engine.