Data processing: artificial intelligence inventions 01/07

20070022061 - Optimizing solutions using local virtual forces: Described are methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for optimizing solutions using local attractive and/or repulsive virtual forces. In one aspect, a first virtual force is defined that is associated with an attractive characteristic and has a weighting parameter. A second virtual force is defined that is associated with... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20070022062 - Method computer program with program code means, and computer program product for determining a future behavior of a dynamic system: An approximation is determined for the future system behavior by a similarity analysis using a previously known behavior of the dynamic system, whereupon the future system behavior is determined by using the approximation for the future behavior of the dynamic system as well as a neuronal network structure, especially a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070022064 - Methodology for the configuration and repair of unreliable switching elements: A universal logic gate apparatus is disclosed, which include a plurality of self-assembling chains of nanoparticles having a plurality of resistive connections, wherein the plurality of self-assembling chains of nanoparticles comprise resistive elements. A plasticity mechanism is also provided, which is based on a plasticity rule for creating stable connections... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez. PLLC Patent Attorneys

20070022063 - Neural processing element for use in a neural network: A neural processing element for use in a modular neural network is provided. One embodiment provides a neural network comprising an array of autonomous modules (300). The modules (300) can be arranged in a variety of configurations to form neural networks with various topologies, for example, with a hierarchical modular... Agent: David S. Resnick

20070022065 - Clustering apparatus, clustering method and program: There is provided with a clustering apparatus including: an initial cluster generator configured to divide multi-dimensional data to generate a plurality of clusters each including one or more data pieces; a cluster recorder configured to record the clusters generated; a cluster selector configured to calculate parameters of a previously given... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070022066 - Computational intelligence system: A method of computational intelligence is disclosed.... Agent: Bell, Boyd, & Lloyd LLC

20070022067 - Statistical priors for combinatorial optimization: efficient solutions via graph cuts: Methods of statistical learning for Bayesian inference in the context of efficient optimization schemes for image restoration are presented. Second and third order priors that may be learned while maintaining graph representability are identified. A framework to learn and impose prior knowledge on the distribution of pairs and triplets of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070022068 - Neural networks for prediction and control: Neural networks for optimal estimation (including prediction) and/or control involve an execution step and a learning step, and are characterized by the learning step being performed by neural computations. The set of learning rules cause the circuit's connection strengths to learn to approximate the optimal estimation and/or control function that... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20070022069 - Sequential conditional generalized iterative scaling: A system and method facilitating training machine learning systems utilizing sequential conditional generalized iterative scaling is provided. The invention includes an expected value update component that modifies an expected value based, at least in part, upon a feature function of an input vector and an output value, a sum of... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070022070 - Forgetful logic for artificial neural networks: An embodiment includes a plurality of tangible electronic elements interconnected to form a forgetful latch. The forgetful latch includes a pass element operable to receive input pulses; a biasing element coupled to the pass element and operable to bias a storage node charged by at least one of the input... Agent: Ormiston & Mckinney Suite 400

20070022073 - Building plans for household tasks from distributed knowledge: A system and a method are disclosed that provide plans for autonomous machines such as humanoid robots to perform indoor task. Human subjects contribute plans to a knowledge database. Information in the knowledge database is pre-processed to identify task steps and characterize them as action-object pairs, from which a plan... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20070022071 - Context based work environment: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for providing a context based work environment. In some embodiments, a computer system is configured to mine relationships to capture references relevant to a context. In other embodiments, a computer system adds a reference to a context. In yet... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070022072 - Text differentiation methods, systems, and computer program products for content analysis: Provided are improved methods, apparatus, and computer program products for text differentiation which involves identifying differences between documents with similar content, not merely similar terms, and generating results. Text differentiation provides the ability to find non-similar, or different, content hidden within documents with similar overall content, but not exactly the... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070022074 - Inference information creating device: An inference information creating device includes a measured value acquiring unit, a measured value acquiring unit, an inputting unit, a user input data acquiring unit, and an inferring unit. The measured value acquiring unit acquires a measured value from at least one sensor. A user inputs data on an inference... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070022075 - Precomputation of context-sensitive policies for automated inquiry and action under uncertainty: Learning, inference, and decision making with probabilistic user models, including considerations of preferences about outcomes under uncertainty, may be infeasible on portable devices. The subject invention provides systems and methods for pre-computing and storing policies based on offline preference assessment, learning, and reasoning about ideal actions and interactions, given a... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070022076 - Programming toolkit with aligning clipper windows for use in the development of knowledge enhanced electronic programs: A graphical programming interface for use in developing computer programs uses a structure of graphically displayed elements representing positions, arguments and linkages to enable the development of computational decision making programs. The present invention provides new functionality to a clipper element that allows for simple division of a range of... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson Newholm Stein & Gratz, S.c.

20070022077 - Startup and control of graph-based computation: An approach to performing graph-based computation uses one or both of an efficient startup approach and efficient control using process pools. Efficient startup of a graph-based computation involves precomputing data representing a runtime structure of a computation graph such that an instance of the computation graph is formed using the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070022078 - Commonsense reasoning about task instructions: A system and method enable an autonomous machine such as an indoor humanoid robot to systematically process user commands and respond to situations. The method captures distributed knowledge from human volunteers, referred to as “commonsense knowledge.” The commonsense knowledge comprises classes such as steps for tasks, responses to situations, and... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20070022079 - Trusted decision support system and method: Methods and apparatus for providing a comprehensive decision support system to include predictions, recommendations with consequences and optimal follow-up actions in specific situations are described. Data is obtained from multiple disparate data sources, depending on the information deemed necessary for the situation being modeled. Some embodiments perform complex systems modeling... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070016540 - Intelligent multimedia user interfaces for intelligence analysis: Multimedia user interfaces provide an intelligent interaction paradigm that helps analysts to better formulate, validate and manage analyses hypotheses. Spatial-temporal metaphors are proposed to organize and present requested information, and all the information are gradually accumulated based on analysis flow. The analysis flow and the information flow are tightly coupled... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C.

20070016541 - Planning method and system for use in cognitive programs: A system for achieving a desired goal in a domain. The system may comprise a device operable to receive information and simulate the domain therefrom; a device operable to simulate one or more effects due to one or more operators; a device operable to specify a number of items and/or... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070016542 - Risk modeling system: A system including a general-purpose decision support and decision making predictive analytics engine that is able to find patterns in many types of digitally represented data. Given data that represents a random collection of points, the system finds these internal patterns employing an inductive principle called structural risk minimization that... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20070011105 - Trusted decision support system and method: Methods and apparatus for providing a comprehensive decision support system to include predictions, recommendations with consequences and optimal follow-up actions in specific situations are described. Data is obtained from multiple disparate data sources, depending on the information deemed necessary for the situation being modeled. Some embodiments perform complex systems modeling... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070011106 - Trusted decision support system and method: Methods and apparatus for providing a comprehensive decision support system to include predictions, recommendations with consequences and optimal follow-up actions in specific situations are described. Data is obtained from multiple disparate data sources, depending on the information deemed necessary for the situation being modeled. Some embodiments perform complex systems modeling... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070011107 - Trusted decision support system and method: Methods and apparatus for providing a comprehensive decision support system to include predictions, recommendations with consequences and optimal follow-up actions in specific situations are described. Data is obtained from multiple disparate data sources, depending on the information deemed necessary for the situation being modeled. Some embodiments perform complex systems modeling... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070011108 - Trusted decision support system and method: Methods and apparatus for providing a comprehensive decision support system to include predictions, recommendations with consequences and optimal follow-up actions in specific situations are described. Data is obtained from multiple disparate data sources, depending on the information deemed necessary for the situation being modeled. Some embodiments perform complex systems modeling... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070011109 - Immortal information storage and access platform: Immortal information storage is leveraged to provide an interactive means to retrieve information associated with a physical artifact. The information persists for a substantial portion of the life of the artifact. This allows users to interact with an artifact that symbolically represents an entity, where the entity can be an... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070011110 - Building support vector machines with reduced classifier complexity: Support vector machines (SVMs), though accurate, are not preferred in applications requiring great classification speed, due to the number of support vectors being large. To overcome this problem a primal system and method with the following properties has been devised: (1) it decouples the idea of basis functions from the... Agent: Brown, Raysman, Millstein, Felder & Steiner LLP

20070011111 - Method and device for the genetic representation and evolution of networks: A method for the genetic representation of a network (100), the network having one or more devices (20, 30, 70, 80), each device comprising at least one terminal (21, 22, 23; 71, 72) connected to at least one other terminal (21, 22, 23; 71, 72, 61) by a link with... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20070011112 - Method of determining movement sequence, alignment apparatus, method and apparatus of designing optical system, and medium in which program realizing the designing method: A determining method of movement sequence and a positioning apparatus of the invention are arranged in such a manner that, in order to measure positions of plural marks as being measurement targets provided on a wafer within a shorter time, a group including executable movement sequences is generated out of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070011113 - System and methods for assessing risk using hybrid causal logic: A hybrid causal framework applies properties of probabilistic models, such as Bayesian belief networks, to causal logic models, such as fault trees and event sequence diagrams. The probabilistic model establishes a joint probability distribution of causal relationships between events and conditions in the logic models. The probability of the events... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070011114 - Ensembles of neural networks with different input sets: Methods of creating and using robust neural network ensembles are disclosed. Some embodiments take the form of computer-based methods that comprise receiving a set of available inputs; receiving training data; training at least one neural network for each of at least two different subsets of the set of available inputs;... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070011115 - Well logging with reduced usage of radioisotopic sources: Logging systems and methods are disclosed to reduce usage of radioisotopic sources. Some embodiments comprise collecting at least one output log of a training well bore from measurements with a radioisotopic source; collecting at least one input log of the training well bore from measurements by a non-radioisotopic logging tool;... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070011118 - Addressing scheme for neural modeling and brain-based devices using special purpose processor: A special purpose processor (SPP) can use a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) to model a large number of neural elements. The FPGAs or similar programmable device can have multiple cores doing presynaptic, postsynaptic, and plasticity calculations in parallel. Each core can implement multiple neural elements of the neural model.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer, LLP

20070011119 - Device for the autonomous bootstrapping of useful information: A discovery system employing a neural network, training within this system, that is stimulated to generate novel output patterns through various forms of perturbation applied to it, a critic neural network likewise capable of training in situ within this system, that learns to associate such novel patterns with their utility... Agent: Husch & Eppenberger, LLC

20070011116 - Method of updating revocation list: This invention proposes a method, system, and device to update a revocation list, receive an update for the revocation list, and make a random decision to either update the list with the update or to ignore it.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070011120 - Pulse signal circuit, parallel processing circuit, pattern recognition system, and image input system: A synaptic connection element for connecting neuron elements inputs a plurality of pulsed signals from different neuron elements N1 through N4, effects a common modulation (time window integration or pulse phase/width modulation) on a plurality of predetermined signals among the plurality of pulse signals, and outputs the modulated pulse signals... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070011117 - Training with heterogeneous data: Systems and methods are provided for training neural networks and other systems with heterogeneous data. Heterogeneous data are partitioned into a number of data categories. A user or system may then assign an importance indication to each category as well as an order value which would affect training times and... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070011121 - System and method for learning rankings via convex hull separation: providing an ordering E={(P,Q)|APAQ} of at least some training data sets where all training samples xiεAP are ranked higher than any sample xjεAQ, solving a mathematical optimization program to determine the ranking function ƒ that classifies said feature points x into sets A. For any two sets Ai, Aj, AiAj,... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070011122 - Method for simulation of human response to stimulus: A method is provided for simulating customer reaction to stimulus based on historical observable customer outcomes. Embodiments of the invention describe a series of steps that when taken together accomplish a predictive outcome of customer simulation from a plurality of source inputs without prior assumptions of relationship between inputs and... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20070011124 - Method and apparatus for structured detection and handling of problems occurring in a computerized system: In a method and apparatus for structured detection and handling of problems occurring in a computerized system, data storage contains multiple data sets, each data set concerning a known problem that can occur in the system and each data set containing at least one solution approach to solve the problem... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20070011123 - System and method for time-aware path finding: A method for obtaining solutions to combinatorial problems by way of a discrete state-based search approach utilizes a node evaluation function based both on solution quality and distance in search steps to a goal. The method considers the problem as finding the shortest path between an initial state and a... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070011125 - Inference machine: The invention relates to an inference machine which is used to answer questions relating to predetermined data with the aid of an ontology, which is used to structure data, and a declarative system of rules, which reproduces additional knowledge. During the evaluation of a query, inference protocols, relating to the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070011127 - Active learning method and active learning system: A learning data memory unit stores a set of learning data that are composed of a plurality of descriptors and a plurality of labels. When positive cases, in which the values of desired labels are desired values, are few in number or nonexistent in the learning data memory unit, a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070011128 - Problem solving process based computing: A computer implemented problem solving system utilizing an information storage infrastructure and a flexible development environment for data storage, includes a stored, user modifiable program including a problem solving rule set relevant to a problem to be solved, a stored, user modifiable set of vocabularies related to a problem to... Agent: Beem Patent Law Firm

20070011126 - Service-oriented architecture: A Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and accompanying method. In one embodiment, the SOA includes one or more service requesters coupled to one or more service providers via a bus. The bus includes runtime-binding functionality to facilitate interaction between the one or more service requesters and the one or more service providers.... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070005520 - Systems and methods for visualizing arguments: Hypotheses are questions of interest to an observer. Evidence are facts that establish or disprove hypotheses or sub-hypotheses. Inferences are logical links that connect facts to hypotheses as evidence. An argument is a set of facts linked by inferences to support or disprove a given hypothesis. Hypotheses, sub-hypothesis, facts, evidence,... Agent: Lathrop & Clark LLP

20070005521 - Method and system for conditioning of numerical algorithms for solving optimization problems within a genetic framework: A system for conditioning algorithms to achieve optimum execution time is disclosed. The system defines a computer programmable framework that can be used to efficiently find a global optimization vector. The system provides a precise execution sequencing of operations in order to achieve a speedy conclusion and a genetic receipt... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070005522 - Resource assignment optimization using direct encoding and genetic algorithms: This invention provides a means to minimize the costs of technical and business processes. These processes are comprised of resources and tasks requiring resources. The optimization consists of the best assignment of resources to tasks to minimize the costs. In the resource assignment optimization method disclosed herein, Genetically Adapted Search... Agent: Mark A. Litman & Associates, P.A.

20070005523 - System and method for evidence accumulation and hypothesis generation: A methodology, a system, and an apparatus is defined for performing evidence-based decision-making about matching a given entity against one or more of a set of known or reference entities. A satisfactory decision is achieved as a function of both potentiality and plausibility, where plausibility refers to the full set... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070005524 - Connected online reactive advertising lite board: An advertising display kiosk device of various configurations in size and application that passively and proactively dispense advertising to target subjects in the immediate local environment of the display device. An apparatus, process and method for acquiring sensory information from the local environment and processing the information in a AI... Agent: Walter Iwachiw

20070005528 - Fault detection system and method using approximate null space base fault signature classification: A system and method for fault detection is provided. The fault detection system provides the ability to detect symptoms of fault in turbine engines and other mechanical systems that have nonlinear relationships between two or more variables. The fault detection system uses a neural network to perform feature extraction from... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070005527 - Model reduction system and method for component lifing: A model reduction system and method that facilitates improved component lifing is provided. The model reduction system and method uses a range of operating conditions and system identification techniques to reduce a physics-based component model. Specifically, system identification techniques are used to create a reduced component model. The reduced component... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070005525 - Neural network using spatially dependent data for controlling a web-based process: System and method for controlling a process with spatially dependent conditions for producing a product with spatially dependent properties, e.g., a web/sheet-based process for producing a web/sheet-based product. Input data comprising a plurality of input data sets are provided to a neural network (analog or computer-based), each data set comprising... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070005526 - Scenario representation manipulation methods, scenario analysis devices, articles of manufacture, and data signals: Scenario representation manipulation methods, scenario analysis devices, articles of manufacture, and data signals are described according to some aspects. In one aspect, a scenario representation manipulation method includes accessing a graphical representation comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of associations of the nodes, wherein the nodes and the... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20070005529 - Cross descriptor learning system, method and program product therefor: A cross descriptor learning system, method and program product therefor. The system extracts descriptors from unlabeled exemplars. For each unlabeled exemplar, a cross predictor uses each descriptor to generate labels for other descriptor. An automatic label generator also generates labels for the same unlabeled exemplars or, optionally, for labeled exemplars.... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Peterson, Jr. Yorktown

20070005532 - Plasticity-induced self organizing nanotechnology for the extraction of independent components from a data stream: A system for independent component analysis includes a feedback mechanism based on a plasticity rule, and an electro-kinetic induced particle chain, wherein the feedback mechanism and the electro-kinetic induced particle chain is utilized to extract independent components from a data set or data stream. The electro-kinetic induced particle chain is... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC Patent Attorneys

20070005530 - Selecting grid executors via a neural network: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, send units of work to grid executors, create training data based on the performance of the grid executors, and train a neural network via the training data. The training data includes pairs of input and output data, where the... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070005531 - Trainable hierarchical memory system and method: Memory networks and methods are provided. Machine intelligence is achieved by a plurality of linked processor units in which child modules receive input data. The input data are processed to identify patterns and/or sequences. Data regarding the observed patterns and/or sequences are passed to a parent module which may receive... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070005533 - Method and apparatus for improving efficiency of constraint solving: Techniques are presented for identifying blockable subsets. Blockable subsets can increase the efficiency by which solutions to a constraint set representation (CSR) can be found. Nodes of a blockable subset can be marked as “blocked” and learning or implication procedures, used as part of a CSR solving process, can be... Agent: Jonathan T. Kaplan Attorney At Law

20070005534 - Reformulation of constraint satisfaction problems for stochastic search: A computer-implemented method for solving a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP), which is defined by variables and constraints applicable to the variables, and which has states corresponding to respective sets of values of the variables. The method includes assigning cost functions to the constraints so that the states have respective costs... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070005537 - Handwriting recognition using a comparative neural network: Handwriting recognition techniques employing a personalized handwriting recognition engine. The recognition techniques use examples of an individual's previous writing style to help recognize new pen input from that individual. The techniques also employ a shape trainer to select samples of an individual's handwriting that accurately represent the individual's writing style,... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070005538 - Lagrangian support vector machine: A Lagrangian support vector machine solves problems having massive data sets (e.g., millions of sample points) by defining an input matrix representing a set of data having an input space with a dimension of n that corresponds to a number of features associated with the data set, generating a support... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20070005536 - Method, system and program product for managing a customer request: Under the present invention, a request for a composite service is received from a customer. Based on the request, a delivery task list including one or more tasks required to fulfill the request is defined. The tasks are each then assigned to a service provider for performance, and a schedule... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070005535 - System and methods for it resource event situation classification and semantics: An off-line knowledge acquisition process takes IT resource messages, in CBE format generated natively or using generic log adapter, and use a variety of mining techniques and technologies to automatically generate a set of rules used to provide situation categories for the resource messages/events. The off-line knowledge acquisition process also... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070005540 - Interactive video training of perceptual decision-making: An interactive video training method is provided for targeting and enhancing cognitive recognition in a rapid response performance skill is provided. The method comprises identifying a cognitive component of performance skill requiring a rapid response in a limited time, developing video occlusion techniques for measuring cognitive expertise of an individual... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20070005539 - Method for constructing autonomic advisors and learning procedural knowledge from scored examples: A system for and method of constructing an executable reusable procedure which includes determining an executable procedure from at least one scored trace of a procedure execution.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070005541 - Methods for validation and modeling of a bayesian network: This invention patent application describes mathematical methods to evaluate and validate the numbers in the conditional probability tables of a Bayesian network. Using the methods described here, the nodes of interest in the network could be evaluated for validity of the information they contain and errors could be detected by... Agent: Sarmad Sadeghi

20070005542 - Apparatus, system, and method for regulating error reporting: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for automatically maintaining a rule matrix. A download module downloads a rule. A destination module determines an intended storage device for the rule. A modification module modifies a rule matrix of the intended storage device with the rule.... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20070005546 - Attribute engine: An attribute engine matches incoming data against one or more matching attributes to set one or more target attributes of one or more rules. Each rule is characterized by a rule shape and a matchset. A template is defined for each rule shape and target attribute. Templates associated with a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070005544 - Discovery, maintenance, and representation of entities in a managed system environment: Discovery, maintenance, and representation of entities in a managed system environment are described. Apparatus described herein includes one or more agents that run on respective serves that are managed within a management system, and that generate discovery data in response to a discovery rule. The apparatus also includes a management... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070005545 - Method and system for providing performance analysis using fuzzy logic: A fuzzy telecommunications performance analysis system for analyzing performance of a telecommunications system is disclosed. A performance analyzer analyzes the performance of telecommunications systems and resources (e.g., switches, processors, memories, I/O devices, etc.) by collecting system and resource performance data, fuzzifying the data, computing and combining linguistic variable values using... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070005547 - Method for fast decision-making in highly distributed systems: An embodiment includes a prediction system for initiating a data transfer to a decision system. The prediction system is configured to identify a decision, the decision being a result of a computation of the decision system according to a set of predefined rules and input data. The prediction system is... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/sap

20070005543 - System and method for rule-based data object matching: Rule based data object matching to determine if two or more objects are similar to allow the objects to be merged into one master data object. The rules explicitly state what conditions are required to consider two or more objects equal. The certainty of the rule may be specified. Examples... Agent: Dalina Law Group, P.C.