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20060152803 | 11033186 | 0 | 1. A system and device for enhancement of depth perception in a viewer of a two-dimensional image comprising: a) a two-dimensional image with one or more monocular depth cues displayed on an image surface; and b) at least one visually identifiable object placed in front of said image surface to create a combined scene with said two-dimensional image, said visually identifiable object being: 1) substantially within the depth of field of focus of said viewer's eyes when said two-dimensional image is in focus for said viewer, 2) without substantially interfering with the view of the viewer of said two-dimensional image, and 3) a sufficient distance from the two-dimensional image to induce disparate binocular retinal images in the eyes of the viewer; having the effect of enhancement of the viewer's depth perception in viewing said two-dimensional image by and/or with the fusion of said binocular images of the combined scene in the viewer. |
9922433 | 14821703 | 1 | 1. A method for detecting a probability of a biomarker in a tissue of a patient based on generating a probability map, the method comprising: determining, by an imaging system, a dimension of a moving window from a subset of tissue samples stored within a big data database; determining, by the imaging system, a width of a computation voxel based upon the dimension of the moving window, wherein the computation voxel is a unit of the probability map that is obtained from an image of the tissue of the patient; moving, by the imaging system, the moving window across the image in a predetermined direction at fixed intervals, wherein the computation voxel is contained within a number of stops of the moving window; obtaining, by the imaging system, multiple measures of multiple imaging parameters for every stop of the moving window on the image, wherein two neighboring ones of the stops of the moving window are partially overlapped with each other; obtaining, by the imaging system, multiple first probabilities of the biomarker for the stops of the moving window by matching the multiple measures of the multiple imaging parameters to a classifier defined from the big data database; obtaining, by the imaging system, multiple second probabilities of the biomarker for the computation voxel based on information associated with the first probabilities to obtain the probability map; and determining the probability of the biomarker in the tissue of the patient at the computation voxel from the probability map, wherein the biomarker provides an indication of an event. |
20140314323 | 14320092 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: determining a first intermediate computation based on even pixels of an image vector associated with a first image, wherein the first intermediate computation includes calculating a box filter value for an even pixel; determining a second intermediate computation separate from the first intermediate computation and based on odd pixels of the image vector, wherein the second intermediate computation includes calculating a box filter value for an odd pixel; combining the first intermediate computation and the second intermediate computation into a Hessian matrix computation; and matching the first image to a second image based at least in part on the Hessian matrix computation. |
10134175 | 15717041 | 1 | 1. A computer graphics method, comprising: receiving or generating texture space gradient values for one or more primitives based on a non-orthonormal grid of sample points in a screen space with a texture unit of a graphics processing unit; and applying a transformation to the texture space gradient values with the texture unit, wherein the transformation is configured to generate corresponding ortho-normal texture space gradient values corrected for the non-orthonormality of the sample points in screen space with the texture unit. |
20020191577 | 10004370 | 0 | 1. A method for estimating data received from a plurality of data signals in a code division multiple access communication system, the data signals transmitted in a shared spectrum at substantially a same time, the method comprising: receiving and sampling a combined signal of the transmitted data signals over the shared spectrum; estimating a channel response for the transmitted data signals; and estimating data of the data signals using the samples, the estimated channel response and a fourier transform based data estimation approach and iteratively reducing an error in the data estimation introduced from a circulant approximation used in the fourier transform based approach. |
20090313245 | 12499574 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method for layout independent recognition of a document, the method comprising: receiving an electronic document; rendering the electronic document to produce a first document using a first layout; storing the electronic document and the first document; rendering the electronic document to produce a second document using a second layout; performing layout independent recognition of the second document by comparing it to the first document. |
20130108263 | 13651213 | 0 | 1. A data center network, comprising: a plurality of nodes interconnected with one another to form the network, the network having a current network state, at least two of the plurality of nodes each having a local controller; and a central controller communicably coupled to each local controller, wherein the central controller is operative to provide one or more end-to-end forwarding topologies to each local controller, each end-to-end forwarding topology identifying one or more network segments for forwarding traffic through the network, and wherein each local controller is independently operative to utilize the end-to-end forwarding topologies to deterministically arrive at a consistent end-to-end forwarding configuration for the network as a function of the current network state. |
9977916 | 15388301 | 1 | 1. A computer implemented method comprising: receiving, by a computer device, executing at least part of a functional logic tier of an application, a request from a user for one or more objects present in the functional logic tier; determining that a type of one of the one or more requested objects is associated with an object representative of instance level security; in response to determining that the type is associated with the object representative of instance level security, determining access is authorized to at least some of the one or more objects, determining access comprising: obtaining a first data access statement configured to obtain data associated with the one or more objects from a data store, obtaining a second data access statement configured to access an instance level security feature in the data store, generating a third data access statement comprising combining the first data access statement and the second data access statement, and accessing, by a computer device executing at least part of a data tier of the application, a linking data structure in the data tier of the application that links the access authorized user with at least some of the one or more objects using the third data access statement; and providing the at least some of the one or more objects to the access authorized user; wherein multiple objects representative of instance level security are associated with the same type of object; and wherein securing the object using the object representative of instance level security does not require change to a user interface accessing the business object. |
8671412 | 13418462 | 1 | 1. A method for carbon offset computing, the method comprising: determining via a processor a resource consumption amount associated with performing a specified computing task by a computational device in part by using the execution time required for the completion of that task within a data center; and the processor calculating an amount of carbon offset required to compensate for the determined resource consumption amount that is associated with the performance of the specified computing task by the computational device as a function of stored resource consumption data by: invoking a carbon offset level in response to a selection via an interface of the computational device prior to the performance of the processing task by the computational device: querying a policy table containing a plurality of possible computational device resource considerations as a function of invoked carbon offset level; displaying an available subset of the plurality of possible carbon offset levels to a user as a function of the querying of the policy table; implementing at least one of the available subset possible carbon offset levels for the computational device to perform the specified processing task in response to a selection of the implemented at least one possible carbon offset levels; and displaying a carbon offset function as a function of the at least one selected carbon offset level. |
20070220062 | 11378842 | 0 | 1. A method for synchronizing access permissions across at least two disparate database systems, the method comprising: coupling a source database system with at least one destination database system, wherein the source database system and the destination database system have distinct access control mechanisms associated therewith; distributing at least one self-contained synchronization rule for synchronizing access permissions from the source database system to the destination database system to two or more processing engines; retrieving at least one processing rule for at least one of the processing engines based upon the self-contained synchronization rule being distributed thereto; and applying the at least one processing rule to at least one record in the destination database system, thereby altering an access control mechanism associated with the record. |
20020004743 | 09780995 | 0 | 1. An in-contents advertising method, wherein advertisement information provided beforehand is included in contents, based on information contained within contents indicating that advertisements may be inserted within said contents. |
20070005525 | 11129062 | 0 | 1. A method for controlling a process with spatially dependent conditions for producing a product with spatially dependent properties, the method comprising: providing input data to a neural network, wherein the input data comprise a plurality of input data sets, each comprising values for a set of one or more input parameters, wherein each input parameter in the set comprises a respective process condition or product property, and wherein the input data preserve spatial relationships of the input data; and the neural network generating output data in accordance with the input data, wherein the output data comprise a plurality of output data sets, each comprising values for a set of one or more output parameters, each output parameter comprising a predicted process condition or product property, wherein the output data preserve spatial relationships of the output data, and wherein the spatial relationships of the output data correspond to the spatial relationships of the input data; wherein the output data are useable by a controller or operator to control the process. |
10116647 | 15601832 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: determining, based on a user role associated with an identity of a user, an account enabling the identity to access a first resource, wherein the first resource is accessible from a first device using a first application, wherein the first device is registered for the identity of the user; configuring, by a computer system, the first application with connection information that enables the first application to connect the first device to a first target system based on the account, wherein the first target system provides access for the first resource according to the account; configuring, by the computer system, the first application with access information that permits the first application to access the first resource, wherein the access information is based on access permitted to the identity by the account; and transmitting the first application to the first device upon configuring the first application with the connection information and the access information. |
9501281 | 14557372 | 1 | 1. A cellular phone comprising: a random access memory (RAM); a wireless transceiver; and a processor coupled to the RAM and the wireless transceiver, the processor comprising: a plurality of levels of cache including a Level 1 (L1) cache; a plurality of integer registers; a plurality of registers in which to store floating-point data elements including 128-bit packed double operands that are to have two 64-bit double floating-point data elements; a plurality of status registers; an instruction pointer register; an instruction prefetcher to fetch instructions; a decoder to decode the fetched instructions including an instruction to perform a shift and exclusive OR (XOR) operation, wherein the instruction to perform the shift and XOR operation has a first source operand identifier to identify a first source operand, a second source operand identifier to identify a second source operand, an immediate field to specify a shift amount, and a field to identify the first and second source operands as being one of 32-bit source operands and 64-bit source operands; and an execution unit coupled to the decoder, the processor, in response to the instruction to perform the shift and XOR operation, is to: shift the first source operand by the shift amount that is to be specified by the immediate field, wherein the first source operand is to include all data to be shifted in response to the instruction, and wherein the first source operand is a scalar value, XOR the shifted first source operand with the second source operand, and store a resulting shifted and XOR′ed value in a destination register, wherein the destination register is a scalar register; and a floating-point unit to operate on floating-point data elements. |
7860839 | 11499250 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, while a current view of an application's user interface is displayed in an application window, a first user input requesting that a history view of the application's user interface be displayed; displaying the history view of the application's user interface in a presentation window distinct from the application window in response to the first user input, the history view including at least a visual representation of a first snapshot of a past user interface of the application, where the visual representation of the first snapshot represents the application's user interface as the user interface appeared at a time in the past and includes visual representations of elements of the user interface from the time in the past, and where the visual representation includes a visual representation of a first element; receiving, while the visual representation is displayed, a second user input requesting that the current view of the application's user interface be modified according to the visual representation, at least with regard to the first element; and modifying, in response to the second user input, the current view of the application's user interface according to the visual representation, at least with regard to the first element. |
8738558 | 14024567 | 1 | 1. A method of operating a computer to provide a response to a received user input, the method comprising: automatically with the computer: (a) in response to receiving, from a user's device, a partial user input signifying a portion of an answerable statement, before receiving a full user input representing the entire answerable statement, calculating for each of a plurality of predefined answerable statements, a metric that is, at least in part, based on a frequency with which the predefined answerable statement had been selected by previous users; and (b) (1) if the metric for one of the predefined answerable statements exceeds a threshold, sending, to the user's device, information representing a response associated with said one of the predefined answerable statements, and (2) if part (b)(1) does not apply, sending, to the user's device, information representing at least one of the predefined answerable statements, which predefined answerable statements are selected based on the respective associated metrics. |
20090136155 | 11945283 | 0 | 1. A system for evaluating a view, the system comprising: a first mapper configured to encode an image of a view according to a first parameter to create a first map comprising a plurality of defined areas; a second mapper configured to encode said image according to a second parameter to create a second map comprising a plurality of defined areas; an overlap mapper configured to combine said maps to create an overlap map; a tabulator configured to measure areas in said overlap map corresponding to overlapping ones of any of said defined areas, thereby creating a set of measurements of said image; and an analyzer configured to perform an analysis of said set of measurements of said image and a learning set of measurement groups with associated values to compute an estimated value associated with said image wherein said estimated value relates to said set of measurements of said image in the same manner that each value in said learning set relates to its associated measurement group. |
10055266 | 15676618 | 1 | 1. A system for implementing zero-configuration messaging on a computing system using an active messaging broker, the system comprising: at least one processor; memory including instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations to: generate a shared program object; establish a communication channel between the shared program object and a first application program; receive a subscription request from the first application; determine a set of services corresponding to the first application; maintain a catalog for the set of services, wherein the catalog includes a message contract and a data contract, wherein the message contract includes a structural definition for a message corresponding to a member of the set of services, and wherein the data contract includes a data type for the message; facilitate communication, via the shared program object, between a service of the set of services corresponding to the first application and a second application, the second application being subscribed to the shared program object, wherein the communication between the service and the second application includes version information; receive a message contract configuration option via a graphical user interface; modify the message contract using the message contract configuration option; and reconfigure facilitated communication between a service of the set of services corresponding to the message contract and the second application. |
7565416 | 10824276 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: applying, with a network device, changes to candidate configuration data of the network device; applying an implementation-specific configuration policy to validate the changed candidate configuration data for compliance with specific operational requirements of the particular networks within which the network device operates, wherein the implementation-specific configuration policy comprises a set of user-defined rules representing the specific operational requirements; and selectively committing the changed candidate configuration data to operational configuration data based on a result of the validation. |
20080228461 | 11815829 | 0 | 1. Method for simulating a complex system including at least one processor executing a set of functions under the control of a hierarchised set of schedulers, wherein said method includes a step of constructing an architectural model of the complex system including a hierarchised set of components, each of the components being an instance of an object class belonging to the group including: a first class, called “Processor” class, representing an abstract model of any processor included in the complex system, each instance of the “Processor” class being called modelled processor; a second class, called “Function” class, representing an abstract model of any function executed by the complex system, each instance of the “Function” class being called modelled function; a third class, called “Scheduler” class, representing an abstract model of any scheduler included in the complex system, each instance of the “Scheduler” class being called modelled scheduler and being responsible for managing components, modelled function(s) and/or other modelled scheduler(s), which are internal thereto; each instance being initialised with at least one attribute characterising its required behaviour. |
20150178273 | 14136919 | 0 | 1. A method of training a relation detection model without supervision, the method comprising the acts of: searching a knowledge source for entity pairs associated by a relation defined by a knowledge graph; processing snippets returned by the knowledge source that contain both entities from the entity pair to generate training data; labeling the training data with the relation to produce annotated training data; and training the relation detection model using the annotated training data. |
9911055 | 15064167 | 1 | 1. A method for the detection and classification via an image processor of license plates displayed in images captured by an image-capturing unit, said method comprising: capturing an image of a vehicle utilizing an image-capturing unit that communicates with an image processor; locating a license plate region in said image of said vehicle after capturing said image with said image-capturing unit by extracting a set of candidate regions from said image utilizing a weak classifier of said image processor; ranking said set of candidate regions utilizing a secondary strong classifier of said image processor; and classifying said image according to a confidence driven classification based on classification criteria determined by said weak classifier and said secondary strong classifier, thereby automatically identifying and eliminating un-readable images from human review. |
8095329 | 10919744 | 1 | 1. A method for determining the linearity of data points using a computer comprising the steps of: ascertaining an actual concentration (Y) of an analyte in a sample; measuring the sample to generate a result (X); computing with a computer, a value of Z from the following formula: Z = ∑ i = 1 N X i 2 ( X i - X _ ) 2 ∑ i = 1 N X i ( X i - X _ ) computing with a computer, a nonlinear term (X−Z) 2 from each value of X; regressing X and (X−Z) 2 against Y with a computer, to generate test statistics having values; evaluating the values of the coefficients of X and (X−Z) 2 with a computer, to determine if the nonlinear term exceeds a threshold value to determine if nonlinearity exists. |
20150012624 | 13935903 | 0 | 1. A method for updating hardware and software components of a cloud computing environment, the method comprising: monitoring usage statistics of said hardware and software components of said cloud computing environment; receiving user-selected thresholds for usage statistics of one or more of said monitored hardware and software components to be used to determine when to apply a patch; and applying, by a processor, said patch to a hardware or software component of said cloud computing environment in response to a monitored usage statistic of said hardware or software component meeting a user-selected threshold for said monitored usage statistic. |
20120012915 | 13244839 | 0 | 1. A semiconductor memory cell comprising: a floating body region configured to be charged to a level indicative of a state of the memory cell; a first region in electrical contact with said floating body region; a second region in electrical contact with said floating body region and spaced apart from said first region; a gate positioned between said first and second regions; and a back-bias region configured to inject charge into or extract charge out of said floating body region to maintain said state of the memory cell. |
20030229500 | 10422368 | 0 | 1. A detector comprising: a sensor; control circuitry coupled to the sensor; voice recognition circuitry coupled to the control circuitry in response to at least one verbal command recognized by the recognition circuitry, the control circuitry initiates one of a selected non-test function or a test; an output device, coupled to the control circuitry which indicates a test result; and a housing which contains the sensor, the circuitry and the output device. |
10152507 | 15077260 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method for finding a target document in a spoken language processing, the target document extracted in real-time during a verbal exchange between a first entity and a second entity via a communication device, the method comprising: creating a log file having log data related to the verbal exchange between the first entity and the second entity via the communication device, the log data including training data and validation data, where the validation data and the training data includes a plurality of call logs, the call logs being different for each call log data set between the validation data and the training data; calculating, before the verbal exchange ends, using a processor, a score of each document in a document set, in response to receiving first n words from the real-time verbal exchange between the first entity and the second entity via an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system, wherein n is greater than or equal to 0; storing the score of each document in the document set in a document score database; reading a prior distribution of each document in the document set from a memory device; updating, for each document in the document set, the score, using the prior distribution and a weight for interpolation, wherein the weight for interpolation is calculated based on a confidence score of output of the ASR system; and finding a target document among the document set, before the verbal exchange ends and based on the updated score of each document derived from the training data and the validation data, by examining a subset of the verbal exchange to reduce score computations. |
9098217 | 13849381 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, at a server computing device, a request for a scannable form from a client computing device; in response to receiving the request, generating the scannable form at the server computing device, the scannable form including an identifier that identifies the scannable form; transmitting the scannable form to the client computing device; receiving, at the server computing device, a scanned form, corresponding to the scannable form, transmitted from the client computing device, the scanned form including input data; detecting, at the server computing device, the identifier on the scanned form; accessing a database based on the identifier to determine one of a catalog service, a subscription service, a configuration service, an education service, or a document archive service, associated with the scanned form, to process the input data of the scanned form; and transmitting the scanned form to the determined service for processing. |
20150100274 | 14046584 | 0 | 1. A method of assessing environmental performance, the method comprising: receiving, by a processing device, input data related to aspects of an energy industry operation; estimating a first environmental impact of the operation based on the input data; selecting an alternative implementation of the operation; estimating a second environmental impact of the alternative implementation; comparing the first environmental impact and the second environmental impact; and generating an output based on the comparison, the output indicating a change in environmental impact associated with replacing the operation with the alternative implementation. |
20080177989 | 11625898 | 0 | 1. An article of manufacture comprising: at least one computer usable medium having computer readable program code logic to define a handle for a trace of a processing environment, said computer readable program code logic for execution by a computer for performing a method comprising: obtaining at least a portion of the trace; and generating a key based on contents of the at least a portion of the trace, wherein the key is a handle for the trace, said handle being indifferent to memory location of the trace. |
8903520 | 12423756 | 1 | 1. A method, comprising: receiving Sequential Function Chart (SFC) logic comprising Steps and Transition on a physical computing device; converting the Steps and Transitions of the Sequential Function Chart logic to function block logic on the physical computing device; and uploading the function block logic from the physical computing device to a controller, wherein converting the Steps and Transitions of the SFC logic comprises converting the Steps and Transitions of the Sequential Function Chart logic to the function block logic using a block library stored on both the physical computing device and in the controller, the block library comprising a plurality of specific function blocks implementing SFC functionality that provide executable code to convert Steps and Transitions of the SFC logic to the function block logic; and executing the function block logic in the controller by using the block library stored in the controller. |
9846839 | 14925227 | 1 | 1. A system for making real-time forecasts of a monitored system, comprising: a data acquisition component communicatively connected to a sensor configured to acquire real-time data output from the monitored system; a power analytics server communicatively connected to the data acquisition component, comprising: a virtual system modeling engine configured to generate predicted data output for the monitored system utilizing a virtual system model of the monitored system; an analytics engine configured to monitor the real-time data output and the predicted data output of the monitored system, and update the virtual system model based on the difference between the real-time data output and the predicted data output of the monitored system; an adaptive prediction engine configured to generate an estimated data output corresponding to the real-time data output based on a neural network algorithm, and minimize a measure of error between the real-time data output and the estimated data output by automatically self-adjusting internal weighting factors of the neural network algorithm, wherein said adjusting includes utilizing a back-propagation algorithm by continually adjusting network weights to minimize a sum-squared error function using the following formulation: E ( w ij ) = 1 2 ∑ p ∑ j ( target i p - out j ( 2 ) ) 2 , the adaptive prediction engine further configured to forecast at least one aspect of the monitored system based on the neural network algorithm; a client terminal communicatively connected to the power analytics server, the client terminal configured to display the at least one forecasted aspect; and a central analytics server configured to control an aspect of a monitored system, when its corresponding analytics server is out of operation, wherein the central analytics server is further configured to take over functionality of the analytics server and to modify operating parameters of one or more sensors that are interfaced with the monitored system. |
20040254779 | 10463057 | 0 | 1. A method for processing a hardware description language (HDL) testbench describing an electronic device under test (DUT), describing a time-varying behavior of a plurality of test signals, and identifying a plurality of probe points within the DUT, to determine how response signals appearing at the identified probe points would behave if the test signals were to be applied as inputs to the DUT, the method comprising the steps of: a. providing a plurality of first emulation resources for emulating portions of the DUT, wherein each first emulation resource produces output signals in response to input signals with logical relationships between each first emulation resource's input and output signals being controlled by programming data supplied as input to that first emulation resource; b. providing first signal paths between the first emulation resources so that they can transmit output signals to and receive input signals from one another; c. providing a packet routing network for conveying packets; d. connecting a first transaction device to the packet routing network and to each of the first emulation resources, wherein each first emulation resource has associated therewith a unique network address; and e. transmitting a packet to the first transaction device via the packet routing network, wherein the packet includes a network address identifying one of the first emulation resources, a command, and data, and wherein the first transaction device responds to the command by communicating with the identified first emulation resource via at least one of its input and output signals. |
9881214 | 15209628 | 1 | 1. A computing device comprising: a memory; one or more processors communicatively coupled to the memory; one or more instructions stored in the memory, executed by the one or more processors, and configured to cause the one or more processors to perform: obtaining a first pixel map for a predicted agronomic yield of a particular field wherein each pixel of the first pixel map represents an agronomic yield of a crop at a physical location within the particular field; obtaining a second pixel map for a measured agronomic yield of the particular field wherein each pixel of the second pixel map represents an agronomic yield of a crop at a physical location within the particular field; generating, from the first pixel map, a first vector of values; generating, from the second pixel map, a second vector of values; generating a matrix of metric coefficients wherein each row of the matrix of metric coefficients corresponds to a first pixel location of the first pixel map, each column of the matrix of metric coefficients corresponds to a second pixel location of the first pixel map, and each value in the matrix of metric coefficients is computed using a spatial distance between the first pixel location and the second pixel location for the value; computing a particular difference metric that specifies a difference between the first pixel map and the second pixel map based on the first vector of values, the second vector of values, and the matrix of metric coefficients; computing, from the particular difference metric, a particular normalized difference metric comprising a quotient of the difference metric with a sum of the metric coefficients in the matrix of metric coefficients; generating and sending, to a field manager computing device, one or more field management recommendations based, at least in part, on the particular normalized difference metric. |
20140114647 | 13969834 | 0 | 1. A non-transitory processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions that when executed cause a processor to: select, based on a statistic indicative of a tone associated with a real-world event, a narrative tone type; select, based on a narrative content type associated with the real-world event, a narrative template that includes a set of phrases; select, based on the selected narrative tone type, a phrase variation from a set of phrase variations associated with a first phrase from the set of phrases; select, based on the selected narrative tone type, a phrase variation from a set of phrase variations associated with a second phrase from the set of phrases; and send a signal indicative of a narrative content portion that includes the phrase variation associated with the first phrase and the phrase variation associated with the second phrase. |
7493477 | 11479592 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: receiving data during an execution of an application by a first processor core, wherein the data indicates a number of executions of the application performed by the first processor core; determining to disable the first processor core based on the data and on a determination that the number of executions of the application performed by the first processor core is greater than a maximum number of executions associated with the application; and activating a second processor core to execute the application based on the maximum number of executions associated with the application and on a number of executions already performed by the second processing core, wherein the number of executions of the application performed by the first processor core is greater than the number of executions already performed by the second processing core. |
20070083358 | 11244921 | 0 | 1. A method for synchronizing data languages, executable programs, and user interfaces, comprising: storing data enumerations in a database in a first language; mapping in a configuration file language neutral tags to said data enumerations; operating a user interface responsive to said language neutral tags to present to a user interface view selected data enumerations in said second language; responsive to user selection at said user interface view of a data enumeration in said second language corresponding to a selected language neutral tag, accessing said configuration file to retrieve a corresponding data enumeration in said first language; and returning said corresponding data enumeration to said database. |
8438342 | 12653162 | 1 | 1. A computer implemented method of provisioning storage for an application comprising: receiving a request to provision object-based storage for the application in a data storage system, the request identifying the application and being received from a user interface interacting with the data storage system at a specified one of a plurality of user levels, each of said plurality of user levels being associated with a different level of abstraction with respect to first processing performed in implementing the request; and performing said first processing to provision object-based storage for the request, said first processing being determined in accordance with the application and including a level of automation varying in accordance with the specified one user level at which the user interface interacts with the data storage system, said automation including selecting one or more default options in accordance with best practices of the application, wherein when the specified one user level is a first of the plurality of levels, the request is not allowed to customize metadata automatically included in objects subsequently created in a designated virtual storage pool, and when the specified one user level is a second of the plurality of levels, said second level indicating a level of skill higher than said first level, the request is allowed to customize metadata automatically included in objects subsequently created in the designated virtual storage pool, wherein the request includes at least one hint that is user-specified when interacting at the second level and said at least one hint is not specified when interacting at the first level, said at least one hint indicating any of an average size of an object in the designated virtual storage pool and an expected frequency of object use for objects of the designated virtual storage pool, wherein said first processing uses said at least one hint in selecting any of a file system and physical device used for provisioning storage for the request. |
8538800 | 11804944 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: conducting, by a business management system implemented on a computer, different types of Internet-based marketing campaigns for a business, wherein the different types of Internet-based marketing campaigns comprise two or more of: an email campaign, a search engine marketing campaign, an Internet advertising campaign, and an electronic coupon campaign; analyzing, by the business management system, a web site of the business; receiving, by the business management system, key performance indicator (KPI) data for different key performance indicators of the web site of the business, wherein the different key performance indicators comprise two or more of: a number of visitors to the web site, a page rank of the web site, a number of sales, a product inventory, and a number of communications from consumers received by the business; receiving, by the business management system, event data for each of the different types of Internet-based marketing campaigns, wherein the event data comprises: an action taken by the business, timing of the action, and an amount spent in taking the action; evaluating, by the business management system, impact of the different types of Internet-based marketing campaigns on the different key performance indicators based on the KPI data and the event data; generating, by the business management system, a report that includes statistics related to return on investment that the different types of Internet-based marketing campaigns had on the different key performance indicators and one or more recommended actions related to Internet-based marketing based on return on investment; and presenting, by the business management system, a window to display the KPI data and the event data on a screen of the computer, the window comprising: a graph of the KPI data and the event data showing each different key performance indicator as a function of time and the timing of actions taken by the business in connection with the different types of Internet-based marketing campaigns for displaying the impact of the different types of Internet-based marketing campaigns on the different key performance indicators, a listing of the actions taken by the business in connection with the different types of Internet-based marketing campaigns for allowing a user of the computer to select an action and obtain further information about the selected action, and a link to a new window for allowing the user to create a new Internet-based marketing campaign and take one or more actions related to the new Internet-based marketing campaign based on the report and the one or more recommended actions. |
5491644 | 08116887 | 1 | 1. A computer-based machine for determining wireless communications transfer characteristics between a transmitter location and a receiver location within and around an architectural structure based upon a floor plan of said architectural structure, material parameter and said transmitter and receiver locations, comprising: means for receiving inputs; means for determining from said inputs said floor plan of said architectural structure, said transmitter location and said receiver location within said floor plan, and respective relative permittivity and conductivity values of walls within said floor plan; means for determining said transfer characteristics for a communications channel between said transmitter and receiver locations by mathematically combining said transmitter location, said receiver location, said relative permittivity values, and said conductivity values; and means for displaying said transfer function. |
10019990 | 14414621 | 1 | 1. A method for recognizing speech, the method comprising: capturing speech input in an environment by a physical sensor on a device; determining a value for an environment variable related to the environment in which the speech was captured; receiving the speech input and the value of the environment variable as inputs into a variable component deep neural network (VCDNN) having one or more weighting matrices, one or more biases, at least one hidden layer having a one or more outputs, and one or more activation functions of one or more nodes, wherein at least one of the one or more weighting matrices, the one or more biases, the one or more outputs of the hidden layer, and the one or more activation functions are modeled as a function of the environment variable; executing the function based on the speech input and the value of the environment variable; generating an output vector from the VCDNN for speech input based on executing the function; and producing an output of recognized speech, by the device, based on the function generated output vector for the speech input. |
20130166749 | 13515052 | 0 | 1. A method for optimizing resource utilization in a collection of devices having a plurality of hierarchical network layers, the method comprising: identifying a plurality of packets exchanged between a plurality of processes executed on collections of server computers, wherein the plurality of hierarchical network layers couple the collections of server computers; determining a plurality of virtual machine groups based on the identified plurality of packets, wherein each of the plurality of virtual machine groups identifies one or more virtual machines configured on the collections of server computers to execute one or more of the plurality of processes, and wherein the plurality of virtual machine groups are configured to increase data traffic in a lower layer in the plurality of hierarchical network layers and to decrease the data traffic in a higher layer in the plurality of hierarchical network layers; and relocating the virtual machines between the collections of server computers according to the plurality of virtual machine groups. |
20130054569 | 13202172 | 0 | 1. A method of query based on a vertical search, the method comprising: receiving a user query; obtaining a first category model from a category model warehouse based on the user query to generate a first query result, the first category model including one or more commodity categories that correspond to one or more keywords in the user query; obtaining one or more commodity categories corresponding to the user query from a commodity warehouse to generate a second query result; and generating a final query result by combining the first query result and the second query result. |
9569700 | 14573892 | 1 | 1. A system for analyzing an image in real-time using artificial intelligence comprising: a catalog database comprising images and associated item attributes; and a server system configured to: receive an image from a user device; identify a type of item depicted in the image using a categorizer deep belief network (DBN), wherein the identified type of item is associated with a first confidence level, and wherein the categorizer DBN is trained using a plurality of annotated images of items; select a first item DBN based on the identified type of item and the first confidence level; determine a plurality of attributes depicted in the image using the first item DBN, wherein individual attributes of the plurality of attributes are associated with a second confidence level; identify a first subset of attributes in the plurality of attributes, wherein the first subset comprises attributes in the plurality that are associated with a second confidence level greater than a threshold value; transmit an identification of the attributes in the first subset to the user device; receive a second subset of attributes from the user device based on the transmission of the identification of the attributes in the first subset; and store the image and the second subset of attributes in the catalog database. |
8953775 | 13623267 | 1 | 1. A method, comprising: providing a first work flow to a first work assignment algorithm; providing the first work flow to a second work assignment algorithm; analyzing, by a microprocessor executable behavior analysis module, a contact center behavior in response to the first work assignment algorithm processing the first work flow; analyzing, by the microprocessor executable behavior analysis module, the contact center behavior in response to the second work assignment algorithm processing the first work flow; and based on the analysis of the contact center behavior in response to both the first and second work assignment algorithms processing the first work flow, identifying, by the microprocessor executable behavior analysis module, at least one discrete point in time where the first work assignment algorithm performs an adaptive function and the second work assignment algorithm does not perform the adaptive function, wherein the adaptive function, when performed, prevents violation, by the contact center, of a performance objective that would be violated by the contact center in the absence of performance of the adaptive function. |
20070147672 | 11320153 | 0 | 1. A method of medical image processing, comprising: receiving data representing a medical image; and generating the medical image based on a model, the model characterizing the medical image as a composition of at least two components having processing constraints. |
8244530 | 13249136 | 1 | 1. A method of processing documents, comprising: at a computer system comprising one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors so as to perform the method: grouping a set of documents into a plurality of clusters, wherein each cluster includes one or more documents of the set of documents and a respective cluster of the plurality of clusters includes a plurality of documents including a first document and a second document; compressing the plurality of documents in the respective cluster to generate compressed cluster data, wherein compressing the plurality of documents includes: determining that the second document includes duplicate data that is duplicative of corresponding data in the first document; eliding the duplicate data from compressed cluster data; and storing document data from which the first document and the second document can be reconstructed, the document data including document reconstruction data; and generating an index of the compressed cluster data. |
8228731 | 13009697 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: activating, by access circuitry of a digital memory device at a first time, a CMOS-compatible non-volatile storage element configured to hold a charge corresponding to a binary value, wherein: the CMOS-compatible non-volatile storage element is coupled to an access transistor in series; the CMOS-compatible non-volatile storage element is coupled to a storage capacitor via a storage node; and said activating causes a storage voltage to be applied to the storage node by the CMOS-compatible non-volatile storage element; fixing, by the access circuitry at a second time later than the first time, a row select voltage on a row line coupled to the access transistor, wherein the storage capacitor is configured to substantially hold the storage voltage driven to the storage node for a period of time greater than or equal to an elapsed time between the first and second times; and sensing, by the access circuitry at the second time, the storage voltage. |
20160070704 | 14478063 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving, by an application store server, at least one term as a search request from a client device associated with a user, wherein the application store server provides a plurality of applications and digital content for digital distribution to devices associated with a first plurality of users; determining, by the application store server, a plurality of applications that are associated with the at least one search term based on a word matching technique; for each of the plurality of applications, determining an associated plurality of users, each of which is associated with a device on which the each of the plurality of applications is installed; computing a reputation score for each user of each associated plurality of users, wherein the reputation score represents an indication of an influence of the user based on at least a post count and number of followers for a social network site; computing a trust score for each user of each associated plurality of users, wherein the trust score indicates a degree of separation between the user of the client device and one user of at least one of the associated plurality of users; and generating a list of recommended applications based on the plurality of applications that are associated with the at least one search term, the reputation score, and the trust score. |
7792639 | 11149438 | 1 | 1. A system for processing positioning signals, the system comprising; a tracker hardware interface configured to receive positioning information including raw GPS positioning data; a memory comprising a GPS library comprising a user interface, a tracker interface, and an operating system interface, the tracker interface comprising at least one tracker interface function for communicating over the tracker hardware interface and the user interface comprising at least one user interface function associated with a restart mode; and a processor configured to execute the tracker interface function by transmitting the raw GPS positioning data to a positioning engine configured to determine a position from the positioning data; wherein the positioning engine is configured to execute on the processor separately from a user program that executes on the processor, the user program displaying location information derived from the raw GPS positioning data. |
20160307059 | 14690274 | 0 | 1. A computer implemented method, the method comprising: receiving a scan request, wherein the scan request includes a plurality of text images, each text image representing a portion of a text document, wherein the plurality of text images includes a first text image and a second text image that at least partially overlap; for each text image of the plurality of text images: rectifying the text image to generate a text image with parallel image lines, generating a plurality of word bounding boxes that enclose one or more connected components in the text image, wherein each word bounding box is associated with a respective word, and generating, for each respective word in the text image, a plurality of points that represent the respective word; combining the plurality of text images to form a single text document including combining the first text image of the plurality of text images and the second text image of the plurality of text images by matching a first set of points associated with the first text image and a second set of points associated with the second text image; and providing the combined image as a scannable document. |
9858080 | 14213692 | 1 | 1. A method of implementing a reduced size register view data structure in a microprocessor, the method comprising: receiving an incoming instruction sequence using a global front end; grouping instructions from the incoming instruction sequence to form instruction blocks; tracking instruction destinations by populating the register template with block numbers corresponding to the instruction blocks, wherein the block numbers corresponding to the instruction blocks indicate interdependencies among the instruction blocks, wherein the tracking comprises an incoming instruction block writing its respective block number into fields of the register template corresponding to destination registers referred to by the incoming instruction block, and wherein further the register template is updated by an arrival of the incoming instruction block; the incoming instruction block reading fields of the register template corresponding to its register sources to retrieve its instruction sources; populating a register view data structure, wherein the register view data structure stores the instruction destinations corresponding to the instruction blocks as recorded by the register template; and using the register view data structure to track a machine state for use after a branch miss-prediction in accordance with the execution of the instruction blocks, wherein the register view data structure is a reduced size register view data structure only storing register template snapshots containing branches. |
9438520 | 14546729 | 1 | 1. One or more computer hardware storage device having stored computer-executable instructions which, when executed by at least one computer hardware processor, cause a load balancer to implement a method that includes the following: monitoring a plurality of destination hosts for changes in an arrangement of the plurality of destination hosts; maintaining a destination host array that maps flow identifiers to destination hosts; prior to each array update, copying the destination host array to an old version of the destination host array; updating the destination host array at periodic intervals; providing the destination host array and the old version of the destination host array to a plurality of muxes; monitoring the plurality of muxes for changes; maintaining a primary ownership array mapping the flow identifiers to primary owner muxes; maintain a backup ownership array mapping the flow identifiers to backup owner muxes; providing the primary ownership array and the backup ownership array to the plurality of muxes; wherein each of the plurality of muxes is configured for: receiving packets from a router; formulating a flow identifier for each received packet based on information contained in the packet; identifying an appropriate destination host, from among the plurality of destination hosts, for the packet; and sending the packet to identified appropriate destination host. |
8099421 | 11962974 | 1 | 1. A file system for searching for a file, the file system comprising: a conversion unit for converting a name of a target file into memory block information about a specific memory block; a storage unit including a plurality of memory blocks, which contains a memory block corresponding to the memory block information, and at least one memory block storing data corresponding to the target file; a data management unit for selecting the memory block corresponding to the memory block information, and when a selected memory block has stored detailed information about the target file and memory block information about the at least one memory block having stored the data corresponding to the target file, reading the data corresponding to the target file from the at least one memory block having stored the data; and an output unit for outputting the read data, wherein, when the selected memory block has stored detailed information about a specific file and memory block information about at least one memory block having stored data corresponding to the specific file, the data management unit extracts a name of the specific file from the detailed information about the specific file, and compares an extracted file name with the name of the target file, thereby determining if the selected memory block corresponds to a memory block containing information about the target file. |
20090248688 | 12056027 | 0 | 1. A method for clustering digital media files, comprising: sorting a plurality of digital media files, said digital media files each including time metadata and location metadata associated therewith, said digital media files being sorted into chronological order based on the time metadata; determining a time difference between consecutive digital media files in the chronological order based on the time metadata; determining a location difference between consecutive digital media files in the chronological order based on the location metadata; grouping the sorted digital media files into event clusters based on the determined time difference and the determined location difference, wherein each event cluster contains one or more digital media files in chronological order; wherein at least one of following conditions is true (1) the time difference between two consecutive digital media files within each event cluster is less than a time threshold and (2) the location difference between two consecutive digital media files within each event cluster is less than a location threshold; and wherein the chronological order of the digital media files is maintained across the event clusters such that subsequent event clusters do not contain digital media files earlier in time than the digital media files of previous event clusters. |
20120185953 | 13432488 | 0 | 1. A method, comprising: storing, by one or more processors, confidential data in a confidential section of virtual memory, wherein storing the confidential data in the confidential section of virtual memory comprises: mapping the confidential section of virtual memory to an address space in a first physical memory device; storing the confidential data in the first physical memory device; and marking the address space in the first physical memory device as having confidential data; receiving a request to copy data stored in the address space in the first physical memory device to a second physical memory device, wherein the second physical memory device has more capacity and slower memory access speed than the first physical memory device; determining that the address space in the first physical memory device has been marked as having confidential data; and denying the request to copy in response to determining that the address space in the first physical memory device has been marked as having confidential data. |
9916058 | 14257583 | 1 | 1. One or more non-transitory hardware devices storing computer-useable instructions that, when executed by a computing device, facilitate performance of a series of tasklets comprising: providing a tasklet based on a user context, the tasklet including at least one result entity, the tasklet being an application that can perform an activity associated with a task; providing selectors for one or more second layer tasklets, each second layer tasklet corresponding to a result entity having a result-specific context; receiving an indication of a selection of a second layer tasklet; associating the user context and the corresponding result-specific context with the selected second layer tasklet; utilizing the user context and at least a portion of the result-specific context in association with the second layer tasklet; and providing the selected second layer tasklet in accordance with the user context and the at least the portion of the result-specific context. |
20150178013 | 14502554 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: at a data storage device that includes a controller and a memory, performing: in response to a first write command corresponding to first data and a first context which is identifiable with a first identifier and to a second write command corresponding to second data and a second context identifiable with a second identifier, determining whether the first identifier of the first context matches the second identifier of the second context; if the first identifier of the first context is determined to match the second identifier of the second context, forming a compression group of data including the first data and the second data; and generating compressed data corresponding to the compression group of data. |
20020001382 | 09030935 | 0 | 1. An encryption system comprising: a monoid key establishment apparatus responsive to an input monoid, a private element, and a combined input monoid list; a combinatorial action unit connected to said monoid key establishment apparatus responsive to an input message and having an encrypted output. |
20120271829 | 13093263 | 0 | 1. A data aggregation apparatus, comprising: a communication device to receive data from a plurality of remote data sources, the received data being associated with a plurality of search terms; a processor coupled to the communication device; and a storage device in communication with the processor and storing instructions configured to be executed by the processor to: analyze the received data to identify a trending search term; compare the trending search term with a whitelist; determine that the trending search term is relevant to a predetermined topic; query a content database using the trending search term to identify a caption to be associated with the trending search term; append the caption to the trending search term; and store the trending search term and the caption in a database. |
20090179251 | 11972949 | 0 | 1. A device structure for a non-volatile random access memory formed on an insulating layer, the device structure comprising: a semiconductor body in contact with the insulating layer, the semiconductor body including a source, a drain, and a channel between the source and the drain; a control gate electrode in contact with the insulating layer; a floating gate electrode in contact with the insulating layer, the floating gate electrode disposed between the control gate electrode and the channel of the semiconductor body; a first dielectric layer between the channel of the semiconductor body and the floating gate electrode, the first dielectric layer composed of a first dielectric material that electrically isolates the floating gate electrode from the channel; and a second dielectric layer between the floating gate electrode and the control gate electrode, the second dielectric layer composed of a second dielectric material that electrically isolates the floating gate electrode from the control gate electrode. |
7512537 | 11086880 | 1 | 1. A natural language illustration system comprising: a language processor component that analyzes natural language input that comprises at least one action from a user to determine a logical form of the input and translates the logical form into an output, the output comprising at least one of an actor, action, object, and background, wherein the natural language input comprises a plurality of sentences; and an animation engine that selects at least one image, applies at least one template to the at least one image and generates for each sentence an animation dynamically based on the at least one image and the at least one template, wherein each animation is linked to the sentence for which the animation was generated and conveys the meaning of the sentence, the animation engine arranges the animations in a same order as the sentences are provided in the natural language input and playing the animations in order to simulate a movie, wherein upon the user changing the order of the sentences the animation engine changes the order of the animations to match the changed order of the sentences without re-analyzing the natural language input and without generating new animations. |
20050181808 | 10778461 | 0 | 1. A method of operating a cell phone network to control the functionality of cell phones of said network; said method comprising the steps of: creating a restriction data base defining restrictions associated with at least one possible geographical location of a cell phone in said cell phone network, each restriction specifying one or more cell phone functions; transmitting restrictions applicable to said cell phone currently in said at least one location; and controlling the operation of said cell phone in said one location in response to the receipt of said restrictions. |
7506131 | 10632215 | 1 | 1. A system, comprising: a processor executing an application; a peripheral device coupled to the processor; memory containing an application data structure accessible by said application, wherein accesses to said application data structure and accesses to said device are formatted differently, and wherein data can be written to, or read from, the peripheral device via the application data structure; and reformat logic coupled to the processor and memory, the reformat logic dynamically reformats an access from the application targeting the application data structure to a format that comports with the device, thereby permitting said application to manage the peripheral device without the use of a device driver, wherein the reformat logic includes alignment logic that implements a read-modify-write operation to write a value from the application data structure across byte boundaries in a display buffer. |
20130343571 | 13531211 | 0 | 1. A microphone array processing system, comprising: a beamformer configured to perform adaptive beamforming on gain-compensated signals received from a plurality of microphones, said adaptive beamforming including dynamic range compression and diagonal loading of a sample correlation matrix based on order statistics; and a postfilter configured to receive an output of said beamformer and reduce noise components remaining from said beamforming. |
20180181817 | 15128403 | 0 | 1. A vehicular lane line data processing method, comprising: acquiring at least two consecutive original images of a vehicular lane line and positioning data of the original images; calculating, using a deep neural network model, a pixel confidence for a conformity between a pixel characteristic in the original images and a vehicular lane line characteristic; determining an outline of the vehicular lane line from the original images and using the outline of the vehicular lane line as a candidate vehicular lane line; calculating a vehicular lane line confidence of the candidate vehicular lane line based on the pixel confidences of pixels in the candidate vehicular lane line; filtering the candidate vehicular lane line based on the vehicular lane line confidence of the candidate vehicular lane line; recognizing, for the filtered vehicular lane line, attribute information of the vehicular lane line; and determining map data of the vehicular lane line based on the attribute information of the vehicular lane line and the positioning data during shooting of the original images. |
20080140957 | 11608698 | 0 | 1. In a computing system comprising one or more computer processors and computer memory for storing data, a method for protecting stored data from unintended changes, the method comprising: allocating computer storage memory for critical data by using an operation enabled to designate memory as critical; storing data, within the computer storage memory allocated having used the operation enabled to designate memory as critical, using a critical_store operation enabled to verify the store of the data; and loading data from the location to which data was stored using an operation enabled to verify the load such that the data loaded by using operation enabled to verify the load is guaranteed to be the value last stored using the operation enabled to verify the store. |
20150317442 | 14266306 | 0 | 1. An automated method for aneurysm analysis, comprising: extracting shape descriptors from test vessel data; generating an aneurysm probability map for the test vessel data using the shape descriptors; detecting the presence of the aneurysm on the test vessel data; localizing the aneurysm in the probability map; and separating the aneurysm from the probability map. |
9886468 | 13295540 | 1 | 1. A method, within an application server, of accessing an original first data entity, comprising: determining whether a copy of the original first data entity is within an intra-transactional cache associated with a first client; upon the copy being within the intra-transactional cache, re-reading the original first data entity from a repository separate from the intra-transactional cache; after the original first data entity is re-read from the repository, removing a lock entry in an inter-transactional cache; and providing, to the first client, access to the intra-transactional cache. |
20150205588 | 14157732 | 0 | 1. A method for providing computing services, comprising: allocating a respective virtual machine to each of a plurality of clients of a cloud computer service, each virtual machine having a respective set of defining parameters; wherein a first virtual machine of a first client of said plurality of clients includes a just-in-time compiler supporting execution of at least one application on said first virtual machine, said just-in-time compiler generating executable code for execution on said first virtual machine, said executable code generated by said just-in-time compiler being optimized according to the set of defining parameters of said first virtual machine; receiving a request from said first client to alter the set of defining parameters of said first virtual machine; altering the set of defining parameters of said first virtual machine responsive to said request from said first client to create an altered first virtual machine; responsive to altering the set of defining parameters of said first virtual machine, causing at least one code module of an application executing in said first virtual machine which was previously compiled by said just-in-time compiler to be recompiled by said just-in-time compiler, the executable code generated by recompilation being optimized according to the set of defining parameters of the altered first virtual machine. |
9602954 | 14705514 | 1 | 1. A mobile terminal comprising: a first sensor to sense at least one of a plurality of external terminals each having a second sensor operating within the range of the first sensor; a display to display an icon corresponding to the first sensor and an icon for each at least one external terminal, respectively; and a controller to control the transmission of a control signal to select an external terminal from among the at least one external terminal based on a first user input involving the displayed icon corresponding to the first sensor and the displayed icon corresponding to the selected external terminal, wherein the selected external terminal is a first external terminal, and wherein the controller further controls the transmission of a second control signal to a second selected external terminal, the second control signal controlling the function of a sensor in the second external terminal when a condition associated with the function of a sensor in the first external terminal is not satisfied. |
7702878 | 11057460 | 1 | 1. A method for processing data samples, the method comprising: partitioning the data samples in a first set of data bits and a second set of data bits; utilizing at least a portion of said first set of data bits and at least a portion of said second set of data bits while operating under a first condition, wherein said first condition is a normal operating condition; and utilizing only at least a portion of said first set of data bits while operating under a second condition, wherein said second condition is a performance restricted condition. |
8359275 | 12599346 | 1 | 1. An electronic-network based system for knowledge creation, said electronic-network based system comprising: at least one computer processor account subsystem, Said at least one computer processor account subsystem having a plurality of user accounts; at least one computer processor exchange subsystem; at least one computer processor governance subsystem for governing activities of said at least one computer processor exchange subsystem; said at least one computer processor governance subsystem being a system self-governed through said plurality of said user accounts; wherein said exchange subsystem is internetworked with said computer account system and said computer governance subsystem; and wherein said computer exchange subsystem is configured by said computer governance system to operate in accordance with said self-governing system to: receive through each of said plurality of user accounts, an election of at least one person responsible for said computer exchange subsystem; elect at least one person responsible for said computer exchange subsystem according to said received elections; receive first user's knowledge deposited through a first user account of said plurality of user accounts of said computer account subsystem; receive a second user's offer for purchasing a view of said knowledge deposit, said offer being sent through a second user account of said plurality of user accounts of said computer account subsystem; accept said second user's offer; and distribute said knowledge deposit view to said second user account of said plurality of user accounts of said computer account subsystem in exchange for receiving, from said second user's account, money revenue for purchases; further comprising a Dispute Resolution subsystem, internetworked with said computer exchange subsystem; and wherein said exchange subsystem is further configured to: log particulars of said second user's offer to purchase said view, said acceptance of said second user's offer; and said distribution of said purchased view to said second user account; log a receipt of said particulars in at least one of said first user account and said second user account; and wherein said dispute resolution subsystem is configured to: resolve a dispute between user accounts based on said logged particulars and logged receipt in response to receiving input from at least one of said first user account and said second user account whereby the ability to pay legal fees is equalized such that a user with greater financial resources cannot unjustly prevail over users with fewer financial resource. |
9128967 | 13279566 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by one or more devices, graph data representing a graph, the graph data comprising vertex data describing one or more vertices in the graph and edge data describing one or more edges in the graph; assigning, by the one or more devices, one or more vertex rows within a column-oriented data store, each vertex row, of the one or more vertex rows, being assigned to one vertex of the one or more vertices; assigning, by the one or more devices, one or more edge rows within the column-oriented data store, each edge row, of the one or more edge rows, being is assigned to one edge of the one or more edges; assigning, by the one or more devices, a properties vertex column family within each vertex row, the properties vertex column family comprising at least one properties column, each at least one properties column comprising at least one sub-row, each at least one sub-row being to store at least row type data; populating, by the one or more devices, the at least one sub-row of the at least one properties column with the row type data; and populating, by the one or more devices, at least one vertex row and at least one edge row based on the graph data. |
20170153959 | 15384378 | 0 | 1. A digital data processor comprising: an instruction memory storing instructions each specifying a data processing operation and at least one data operand field; a central processing unit core including: an instruction decoder connected to said instruction memory for sequentially recalling instructions from said instruction memory and determining said specified data processing operation and said specified at least one operand, and at least one functional unit connected to said data register file and said instruction decoder for performing data processing operations upon at least one operand corresponding to an instruction decoded by said instruction decoder and storing results; a streaming engine connected to said instruction decoder operable in response to a stream start instruction to recall from memory a stream of an instruction specified sequence of a plurality of data elements, said streaming engine including an address generator for generating stream memory addresses corresponding to said stream of an instruction specified sequence of a plurality of data elements, a stream buffer receiving and temporarily storing data corresponding to said stream memory addresses, a stream head register storing a data element of said stream next to be used by said at least one functional unit; wherein said at least one functional unit is responsive to a stream operand instruction to receive at least one operand from said stream head register; and said streaming engine configured to upon occurrence of a fault reading data from the memory identifying said data element triggering said fault, and signaling said fault to said central processing unit core only upon said at least one functional unit receiving said identified data element as an operand. |
20130263210 | 13850999 | 0 | 1. A method of controlling application usage and document access in a plurality of computers the method comprising: evaluating at least one rule pertaining to an occurrence of an event; wherein the at least one rule is among a plurality of rules stored on a first computer; wherein the at least one rule contains at least one expression used by the evaluating step to decide whether to perform an action; communicating with a plurality of computers as indicated by the at least one rule; and instructing the plurality of computers to perform an action as indicated by the at least one rule. |
20050259776 | 10848343 | 0 | 1. A method for serializing events, comprising: receiving meta information defining the structure of a data stream; evaluating the data stream using the meta information to detect events within the data stream; and serializing the events into one or more desired formats. |
7698284 | 11320790 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method for managing a provider-tenant system where a provider communicates with a plurality of tenants over a network, the method comprising: receiving at a provider a plurality of data structures corresponding to a first tenant; analyzing, using a processor, attributes of the plurality of data structures; based on the analysis, determining which of the plurality of data structures are specific to the first tenant and which of the plurality of data structures are shared by the plurality of tenants; appending designations to the plurality of data structures, based on the determination; generating a tenant template that stores at least one of the plurality of data structures having an appended designation, the at least one data structure being specific to the first tenant; using the tenant template to generate a tenant database corresponding to the first tenant; storing the at least one appended data structure specific to the first tenant in the tenant database; and storing a data structure that is specific to the first tenant at a second location in the provider. |
20040249487 | 10484880 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method for creating and processing a human interface description, the method comprising the steps of: providing a predefined application specific human interface description; and transforming the application specific human interface description into a standardized human interface description. |
RE42935 | 11963680 | 1 | 1. A method of processing information representing a source signal conveying content intended for human perception, the method comprising: receiving first spectral components that were generated by application of an analysis filterbank to the source signal, wherein the first spectral components represent spectral content of the source signal expressed in a first subspace of a multidimensional space; deriving one or more first intermediate components from at least some of the first spectral components, wherein at least some of the first intermediate components differ from the first spectral components from which they are derived; forming a combination of the one or more first intermediate components according to at least a portion of one or more impulse responses to obtain one or more second intermediate components; deriving one or more second spectral components from the one or more second intermediate components, wherein the second spectral components represent spectral content of the source signal expressed in a second subspace of the multidimensional space that includes a portion of the multidimensional space not included in the first subspace; obtaining estimated measures of magnitude or phase using the first spectral components and the second spectral components; and applying an adaptive process to the first spectral components to generate processed information generating encoded audio information using the first spectral components , wherein the adaptive process generating step is responsive to the estimated measures of magnitude or phase. ; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices. |
9442965 | 13972490 | 1 | 1. A method of efficiently representing ranged data sets in a memory system, the method comprising: storing, in the memory system, a data structure comprising one or more nodes, wherein: the data structure comprises a binary tree data structure; each of the one or more nodes represents a unique range of numeric values by storing an upper bound and a lower bound of the range of numeric values; none of the ranges of numeric values represented by the one or more nodes overlap; and none of the ranges of numeric values represented by the one or more nodes are adjacent; receiving, at a computer system coupled to the memory system, a first range of numeric values to add to the data structure or to remove from the data structure; altering, by the computer system, the upper bound or lower bound of at least one node in the one or more nodes to represent the addition or removal of the first range of numeric values such that: none of the ranges of numeric values represented by the one or more nodes overlap; and none of the ranges of numeric values represented by the one or more nodes are adjacent; and receiving, at the computer system coupled to the memory system, a second range of numeric values to add to the data structure. |
7783567 | 11245643 | 1 | 1. A system for migrating electronic bill payments, including: a computing system; a computing system processor, the computing system processor implementing at least part of a process for migrating electronic bill payments; the process for migrating electronic bill payments comprising: providing a payment module to store payment objects having payment information for a bill payment and to submit a transaction based on a payment object; providing a source payment processor, in communication with the payment module, having at least one payment object representing a static payment and at least one payment object representing a pending payment, the source payment processor to manage the transaction and return a confirmation to the payment module; and providing a migration module, in communication with the source payment processor, to replicate the at least one payment object representing a static payment and the at least one payment object representing a pending payment from the source payment processor to a target payment processor, the migration module configured to determine a payment state of each transaction, and migrate data related to transactions having a static payment state to the target payment processor, and track a transaction having a pending payment state at the source payment processor, until the transaction reaches a completed payment state, and migrate data related to the transaction having a pending payment state to the target payment processor once confirmation is obtained that indicates the transaction is in a static payment state. |
20110066807 | 12559122 | 0 | 1. A system for protecting computers against cache poisoning, the system comprising: a cache-entity table configured to maintain a plurality of associations between a plurality of data caches and a plurality of entities, wherein each of said caches is associated with a different one of said entities; and a cache manager configured to receive data that is associated with any of said entities and store said received data in any of said caches that said cache-entity table indicates is associated with said entity, and receive a data request that is associated with any of said entities and retrieve said requested data from any of said caches that said cache-entity table indicates is associated with said requesting entity, wherein any of said cache-entity table and cache manager are implemented in either of computer hardware and computer software embodied in a computer-readable medium. |
7827476 | 10872123 | 1 | 1. In a storage area network, a method for executing tasks associated with storage area network management comprising: enumerating a plurality of tasks which have previously been scheduled for execution by the storage area network, the tasks corresponding to a plurality of applications for performing management operations on manageable entities in the storage area network; organizing the tasks according to a hierarchical structure indicative of related tasks and manageable entities affected by the tasks and organizing the tasks according to a plurality of attributes, wherein the same task is identifiable by each of the plurality of attributes and wherein the attributes include status, logs, and affected manageable entities; and presenting a plurality of display panes on a display screen, each of the display panes operable to display task management information; wherein a first of the plurality of display panes comprise an ordered display of the tasks, the ordered display dynamically responsive to user requests and indicative of the organized hierarchical structure; wherein a second of the plurality of display panes, separate from the first display pane, comprises a selection tree pane which displays a hierarchical selection tree indicative of tasks; wherein a third of the plurality of display panes, separate from the first and second display panes, comprises a context details pane which displays context specific details corresponding to a selected row icon in the task list pane. |
20060217979 | 11086880 | 0 | 1. A natural language illustration system comprising: a language processor component that analyzes natural language input to determine a logical form of the input and translates the logical form into an output, the output comprising at least one of an actor, action, object, and background; and an animation engine that selects at least one image, applies at least one template to the at least one image and generates an animation dynamically. |
9970769 | 14876318 | 1 | 1. A method for updating and accessing map attributes stored by a navigation database having flexible organization, the method comprising: receiving, by a mobile device comprising a processor and a communication interface, a request for geographic data; identifying, by the mobile device, a map attribute from the request; querying, by the mobile device, a metatable corresponding to the flexible organization of the navigation database with the map attribute; retrieving, by the mobile device, a binary large object entry address from the metatable based on the querying of the metatable with the map attribute, wherein (a) the metatable includes a plurality of map attributes and corresponding binary large object entry addresses, and (b) each binary large object entry address corresponds to a binary large object stored in a computer-readable memory and includes data for the corresponding map attribute; accessing, by the mobile device, the navigation database using the binary large object entry address for the binary large object including data for the map attribute; and generating, by the mobile device, a map command including the data for the map attribute. |
20140101329 | 14106051 | 0 | 1. A system for adaptive-rate content streaming videos for playback on end user stations, the system comprising a set of one or more servers including, a storage device to store a plurality of different copies of a same single video each encoded at a different bit rate and each divided into a plurality of streamlets that collectively store data to playback the entire video but that individually store data to playback only a portion that starts at a unique time index and whose duration is less than the entire playback duration of the single video, wherein the time indexes of the streamlets are the same for the different copies such that the streamlets with the same time indexes from the different copies independently yield the same portions of the single video, and wherein each of the streamlets of each of the pluralities is a separate content file that is independently playable by the end user stations, and a web server, to be executed on the set of servers, wherein the web server is configured to: receive, for a set of one or more initial and sequential ones of the time indexes, at least one streamlet request over a set of one or more network connections from a requesting one of the end user stations to retrieve the separate content files storing the portions of the single video starting at the set of time indexes from one of the different copies; retrieve from the storage device the requested content files from the one copy; send the retrieved content files from the one copy to the requesting one of the end user stations over the set of network connections; receive, for each subsequent time index, at least one streamlet request over the set of network connections from the requesting one of the end user stations to retrieve the separate content files storing the portion of the single video starting at that time index from one of the different copies currently selected, wherein the requesting one of the end user stations selects the currently selected one of the different copies dependent upon ongoing determinations to shift the playback quality to a higher or lower quality one of the different copies, wherein the shifts in playback quality occur at the time indexes; retrieve from the storage device the requested content files from the currently selected one of the different copies; and send the retrieved content files from the currently selected one of the different copies to the requesting one of the end user stations over the set of network connections. |
8768313 | 12855996 | 1 | 1. In a distributed processing method that includes performing an operation on stimuli captured by a camera or microphone sensor of a user's mobile device, by using a combined system that includes both processing hardware in the mobile device and processing hardware remote from the mobile device, an improvement wherein: the operation comprises an image or audio recognition operation, and the method comprises: identifying, using a hardware processor, a set of component functions that should be executed by said combined system to perform said recognition operation; and determining one or more of said identified component functions that should be performed by the processing hardware remote from the mobile device; wherein said identifying the set of component functions is based on physical attributes of said processing hardware, and is also based on one or more circumstance or context factors selected from the group consisting of: (a) information about mobile device power availability or usage; (b) information about a needed function response time; (c) information about a routing constraint; (d) information about a state of hardware resources within the mobile device; (e) information about mobile device connectivity; (f) information about a geographical consideration; (g) information about a pipeline stall risk; (h) information about turnaround time or cost associated with the remote processor; and (i) information about a user preference regarding remote processing; and wherein, at a first time, one set of component functions is identified to perform said recognition operation, and at a second time, a different set of component functions is identified to perform said recognition operation, due to a difference in one of said factors between the first and second times. |
9052835 | 14136351 | 1 | 1. A method of executing an abort command in a system including a host communicating with a storage device, the method comprising: storing an input/output (I/O) command in an I/O submission queue located in system memory; receiving an abort command with respect to the I/O command placed on the I/O submission queue; setting a “poison bit” flag within the I/O command placed on the I/O submission queue indicating that the I/O command should be aborted; fetching, by a storage device controller included as part of the storage device, the I/O command from the I/O submission queue; aborting execution of the I/O command in response to the bit indicating the I/O command should be aborted; and returning a result indicating the abort was successful to an I/O completion queue located in the system memory. |
8073287 | 12036780 | 1 | 1. A correlation filter for determining if a physical test target in at least one test image obtained using an imaging device matches a physical training target in at least one training image, comprising: a) a conjugate transpose module configured to generate a conjugate transpose S H of an image matrix S that includes at least one training image vector, each of the at least one training image vector including a vectorized representation of the at least one training image; b) a power spectrum module configured to generate a power spectrum matrix D x using at least one test image vector x, each of the at least one test image vector x including a vectorized representation of the at least one test image; and c) a correlation processor configured to generate correlation-peak-strength and distance-from-origin data using the conjugate transpose SH and power spectrum matrix D x according to h=(D x +εI) −1 S[S H (D x +εI) −1 S] −1 d; and wherein: i) ε is a regularization constant; ii) I is an identity matrix; and iii) D x is a vector desired response with elements corresponding to at least one of the at least one training image vector in matrix S. |
20090254891 | 12098496 | 0 | 1. A computer-readable medium encoded with a computer program for a system that uses dynamic data flow analysis to automatically reverse engineer an input data format, the system comprising: a binary program component that selects a binary program file for use in the input data analysis; an input data component that selects an input data source for analysis; a binary program translator component that simulates binary program execution in combination with the selected input data source; and a data flow engine component that analyses the simulated binary program execution and further comprises a grammar inference component that generates a grammar based on the analysis. |
20090083019 | 12237948 | 0 | 1. A computer system for modeling a topology of an electrical power system, the topology divided into a plurality of power system components, the computer system comprising: a processor; a memory coupled to the processor, the memory configured to maintain a component database, a component control engine, and a power system topology modeling engine; a display device coupled to the processor and configured for displaying the topology of the electrical power system; and an input device coupled to the processor; the input device being operative to: select one of the plurality of power system components stored in the component database as a selected component, position the selected component within a framework, and interface the selected component with other selected components within the framework the processor being operative to: execute instructions within the component control engine to control the position of the selected components within the framework, and execute instructions within the power system topology modeling engine to render the topology of the electrical system after the selected components have been positioned. |
9311680 | 13345401 | 1 | 1. An emotion information generating apparatus comprising: a processor; a function detector configured to detect an execution state of a first function of a plurality of functions executed by a terminal; an emotion detector configured to detect an interaction of a user with the terminal while the first function is being executed, and convert the detected interaction into emotional data comprising an emotional state of the user of the terminal; a mapping unit configured to map the emotional state of the user to at least one of the first function executed by the terminal and information included in the first function executed by the terminal; a storage unit configured to store the first function in association with the mapped emotional state of the user, wherein the storage unit additionally stores each of the plurality of functions executed by the terminal in association with a corresponding emotional state of the user mapped to each of the plurality of functions; and an output device configured to visually, acoustically, or tactually output a function recommendation based on the emotional state. |
20160371251 | 15122354 | 0 | 1. An English input method, comprising: receiving an input English character string having an original length; calculating a target length based on the original length of the English character string; looking up a target English word having a length between the original length and the target length; calculating a longest common length between the target English word and the English character string, where the common length refers to a length of identical letters; and returning the target English word when the longest common length is equal to N times the target length, where N is a positive number less than or equal to 1. |
9826412 | 14062605 | 1 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising: evaluating a network condition of network conditions, wherein the network condition is associated with network devices of a self-organizing network, and wherein the evaluating comprises evaluating weather-related event traffic; and changing a value of a target of a key performance indicator from a first value to a second value based on a change in the network condition from a first network condition to a second network condition, wherein the changing the value of the target is further based on a third value associated with a first executing process and a fourth value associated with a second executing process and the second value is based on averaging the third value and the fourth value of the target of the key performance indicator. |
9483549 | 14231891 | 1 | 1. A computer system comprising; a remote data store; one or more processors; one or more computer-readable storage media having thereon computer-executable instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing system to operate with an architecture that tracks a user's navigation among various interface elements having a hierarchal relationship to one another, and saves one or more states representing the user's navigation in order to permit the one or more states to be later restored; and wherein the architecture comprises: a user interface presentation component for presenting an interface having multiple interface elements comprised of both parent interface elements and child interface elements, with each parent interface element having a corresponding hierarchy of contained child interface elements; a navigation component that detects navigation through the multiple interface elements of the interface; an edit component that provides for editing of any of the multiple interface elements of the interface; a hierarchical storage agent that: (i) in response to notification of the navigation through the multiple interface elements detected by the navigation component, determines a state that is to be persisted for one or more navigations through the multiple interface elements, and wherein the determined state of the one or more navigations represents a corresponding part of the hierarchal relationship traversed during a given navigation; and (ii) in response to notification from the edit component of changes to one or more interface elements, updates any state that is to be persisted for a given navigation in which an interface element was edited; and an application program interface that receives each state that is to be persisted and communicates each received state to the remote data store, in order to enable any of the stored states to be recalled from the remote data store and then used in all of the following scenarios: (i) an application restart scenario using an interface on a display which is the same as the display used when first navigating the multiple interface elements and determining the stored state; (ii) a roaming scenario that permits a given user to recall at a second display device a state stored as a result of the given user's navigation of the multiple interface elements at a different display device; and (iii) a sharing scenario in which a given user's navigation resulting in one or more stored states permits recall of the given user's one or more stored states by a user other than the given user. |
8121960 | 12365201 | 1 | 1. A method for portal performance optimization, the method comprising: receiving a request for a portal page, the portal page comprising a plurality of portlets; determining a current system load; determining, based on the current system load, whether a performance rule is triggered; and in the event a performance rule is triggered, deactivating at least one of the plurality of portlets. |
7783932 | 11735299 | 1 | 1. A method of operating a system, the method comprising: generating a microcore file according to a microcore specification, the microcore file being a subset of a full core dump; dynamically defining, at runtime of the system, the microcore specification with information provided by results of an event that triggers generation of the microcore file; and dumping data from a region of a system memory of the system into the microcore file according to the microcore specification. |
20100076921 | 12557137 | 0 | 1. A similar image providing device comprising: a lesion region extracting unit that extracts a lesion region from a subject diagnostic image; a local image feature extracting unit that divides the lesion region into local images, and extracts local image features that characterize the respective local images; a quantizing unit that quantizes the local image features and outputs quantized data; a lesion classifying unit that, on the basis of the quantized data outputted from the quantizing unit, classifies a lesion; a storing unit storing, per type of lesion, correlation coefficients between local image features and topic variables expressing degrees of progression or degrees of seriousness of lesions; an expected value estimating unit that acquires, from the storing unit, correlation coefficients between topic variables and respective local image features corresponding to the lesion classified by the lesion classifying unit and that are extracted by the local image feature extracting unit, and, by using the acquired correlation coefficients, estimates, for each topic variable, the expected value of the probability that the topic variable generated the local feature within the lesion; an image storing unit that stores, in association, diagnostic images and expected values of topic variable probabilities that are computed in advance for the diagnostic images; and a providing unit that provides, as similar images and from among the diagnostic images stored in the image storing unit, diagnostic images corresponding to expected values of topic probabilities that best approximate the expected values of the topic probabilities that are estimated by the expected value estimating unit. |
7840413 | 11801572 | 1 | 1. A method for providing a web page for posting ideas integrated with an on-demand service, the method comprising: receiving, at a host system, at least one vote for at least one of a plurality of ideas that were displayed, by a client machine, to a user, on the webpage for posting ideas; determining, by the host system, a weighting for the at least one vote received from the client machine, based at least in part upon information about the user retrieved from the on demand service; determining a Total Qualitative Management Criterion (TQMC) for the idea by applying the weighting from the on-demand service to the at least one vote; and sending, to the client machine, a display of the webpage having at least one idea ranked based on the TQMC. |