Data processing: artificial intelligence inventions 07/07

20070174220 - Mutually adaptive systems: A mutually adaptive system is disclosed. The mutually adaptive system enables a plurality of constituent systems to interact and mutually adapt to their interactions. Adaptive recommendations may be generated and delivered from a first constituent system to a second constituent system based, at least in part, on interactive behaviors between... Agent: Manyworlds, Inc.

20070174221 - Combining model-based and genetics-based offspring generation for multi-objective optimization using a convergence criterion: A system and method for combining the model-based and genetics-based methods are combined according to a convergence criterion. When the population is not converged, the genetics-based approach is used, and when the population is converged, the model-based method is used to generate offspring. The algorithm benefits from using a model-based... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070174222 - Method and system for estimating a quantity of particles emitted in the exhaust gas of a diesel engine for a motor vehicle: The inventive system for estimating quantities of pollution compounds emitted in the exhaust gas of a diesel engine for a motor vehicle comprises means for regenerating a solid particle filter and an electronic control unit which manages the engine operation and is provided with one or several data memories. Said... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070174223 - Method, system and program product for automated testing of changes to externalized rules: A method of testing changes to externalized rules is provided. The method comprises using a rules change management engine and receiving from it a test request for a rules change for a rule. Further, the method comprises providing regression test buckets for testing a version of a rule against each... Agent: Silvy Anna Murphy

20070174224 - Scriptable inference networks for sensor information fusion: A system for breaking down complex problems and evaluating by common continuous inference network (CINET) agents, includes a hierarchical script and a plurality of relational electronic documents wherein each electronic document includes: (a) a plurality of information input elements comprising data and confidences; (b) a fuzzy logic transfer function element;... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C Attn: Pennsylvania State University

20070174225 - Integration of process modules and expert systems in process plants: A process control system element for use in a process plant includes a process module, which represents a logical unit in the process plant, integrated with an expert module capable of detecting and/or mitigating abnormal situations associated with the logical unit. The process module may include a plurality of process... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20070174226 - Problem information analysis program, problem information analysis apparatus and problem information analysis method: A computer executable problem information analysis program for the purpose of being carried out by a problem information analysis apparatus, which searches problem information corresponding to a search condition, by referring to a problem information database storing problem information that includes a category, an occurrence condition and a source cause... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070174227 - Analog processor comprising quantum devices: Analog processors for solving various computational problems are provided. Such analog processors comprise a plurality of quantum devices, for instance qubits, arranged in a lattice, together with a plurality of coupling devices. The analog processors further comprise bias control systems each configured to apply a local effective bias on a... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070168309 - System, method and computer program product for dynamically extracting and sharing event information from an executing software application: A system, method and computer program product for dynamically extracting and sharing information indicative of the progress or performance of a user within a software application in an executing software application, such as a video game, without having to change and recompile the original application code or without having to... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c.

20070168305 - Learning machine that considers global structure of data: A new machine learning technique is herein disclosed which generalizes the support vector machine framework. A separating hyperplane in a separating space is optimized in accordance with generalized constraints which are dependent upon the clustering of the input vectors in the dataset.... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20070168306 - Method and system for feature selection in classification: Individuals in a population are paired together to produce children. Each individual has a subset of features obtained from a group of features. A genetic algorithm is used to construct combinations or subsets of features in the children. A classification algorithm is then used to evaluate the fitness or cost... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070168307 - System and method for optimally assigning groups of individuals to tasks: A system and method for optimally assigning groups of individuals to tasks, and in particular, a system and method for optimally assigning panels of reviewers to proposals, is disclosed. Information about an assignment problem to be solved acquired, such as the number of available reviewers in each panel, the number... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP

20070168308 - Systems and method for integrative medical decision support: A system for providing medical decision support for diagnosis and treatment of disease comprises a medical knowledge database comprising medical information, the medical information including probabilities of disease outcomes for a disease of interest, a memory device for storing a program, a processor in communication with the memory device, the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070168310 - Problem determination rules processing: A context-sensitive pre-evaluation analysis of a set of rules is performed based on the circumstance or the current state of a rule clause directed to an infrequently changing condition. A group of multiple-clause rules are identified which each have a clause defining an infrequently changing condition for evaluating a state... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070168311 - Method for controlling risk in a computer security artificial neural network expert system: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for monitoring system events and providing real-time response to security threats. System data is collected by monitors in the computing system. The expert system of the present invention compares the data against information in a knowledge base to identify... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070162410 - Systems, methods and apparatus for automata learning in generation of scenario-based requirements in system development: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some embodiments, automata learning algorithms and techniques are implemented to generate a more complete set of scenarios for requirements based programming. More specifically, a CSP-based, syntax-oriented model construction, which requires the support of a theorem prover, is complemented by model extrapolation,... Agent: Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center

20070162404 - Intrinsically stable neuromorphic motion controller: An intrinsically stable neuromorphic motion controller comprising of two an agonistic actuators coupled with paired torque and position sensors. Each mechanical linkage having at least one degree of freedom is actuated by two motors via two flexible tendons with built-in stretch (torque) sensors.... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070162405 - Characterizing and predicting agents via multi-agent evolution: A method of predicting the behavior of software agents in a simulated environment involves modeling a plurality of software agents representing entities to be analyzed, which may be human beings. Using a set of parameters that governs the behavior of the agents, the internal state of at least one of... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20070162406 - Adjusted sparse linear programming method for classifying multi-dimensional biological data: The invention relates to improved methods and computer-based systems and software products useful for deriving and optimizing linear classifiers based on an adjusted sparse linear programming methodology (A-SPLP). This methodology is based on minimizing an objective function, wherein the objective function includes a loss term representing the performance of the... Agent: Howrey LLP

20070162407 - Systems and methods for performing quantum computations: Apparatus and methods for performing quantum computations are disclosed. Such apparatus and methods may include identifying a first quantum state of a lattice having a system of quasi-particles disposed thereon, moving the quasi-particles within the lattice according to at least one predefined rule, identifying a second quantum state of the... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070162408 - Content object indexing using domain knowledge: A content object indexing process including creating a content object knowledge index, calculating a description vector of a target content object, and indexing the target content object by searching for the description vector in the content object knowledge database. It may be difficult to search for an exact content object... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070162409 - Creation and maintenance of ontologies: A method for creating and maintaining ontologies. The method includes transmitting a two dimensional table to a requestor. The table includes domain concepts and semantic primitives related to a domain. A data value in the table at an intersection of a domain concept and a semantic primitive indicates that the... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070162411 - System and method for scientific information knowledge management: The present invention relates to methods, systems and apparatus for capturing, integrating, organizing, navigating and querying large-scale data from high-throughput biological and chemical assay platforms. It provides a highly efficient meta-analysis infrastructure for performing research queries across a large number of studies and experiments from different biological and chemical assays,... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070156614 - Adaptive fuzzy network system and method: A system and method of adaptive fuzzy networks is disclosed. Fuzzy networks comprise a network of computer-based objects and relationships among the objects, where the relationships may be by degree. The adaptive fuzzy network system provides functions for user interactions with the fuzzy network, including functions to modify the fuzzy... Agent: Manyworlds, Inc.

20070156615 - Method for training a classifier: According to one aspect of the invention, there is provided a method for training a classifier. The method includes receiving a document submitted by an end user of the classifier at a server. Creating a training set of documents, the training set including the document submitted by the end user.... Agent: Attention: Mr. Ali Davar

20070156616 - Approximative methods for searching pareto optimal solutions in electronic configurable catalogs: This document describes an invention for searching methods for optimal solutions to configurable electronic catalogs. The document focuses on methods that take into account users' preferences and optimization constraints. These methods use constraint satisfaction techniques.... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070156617 - Partitioning data elements: We set out a graphical model for describing probability distributions over labeled partitions of an undirected graph which are conditioned on observed data. We show how to efficiently perform exact inference in these models, by exploiting the structure of the graph and adapting the sum-product and max-product algorithms. The method... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070156620 - Apparatus and method for the analysis of a process having parameter-based faults: An apparatus for the analysis of a process having parameter-based faults includes: a parameter value inputter configured for inputting values of at least one process parameter, a fault detector, configured for detecting the occurrence of a fault, a learning file creator associated with the parameter value inputter and the fault... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20070156618 - Embedded rule engine for rendering text and other applications: A computing apparatus includes a display to present human-readable information and a user input facility. A rule data store contains a statement of rules governing prescribed aspects of presenting data upon the display. These aspects include those aspects subject to variation by language whenever the following changes: type of data,... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070156619 - Temporary exclusions and alternatives of plants and products during sourcing: Methods and systems are provided for establishing an availability check framework. In one embodiment, a method is provided that comprises defining a plurality of inclusive rules, each inclusive rule specifying at least one of a location and a product to be checked for availability, and defining a plurality of exclusive... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20070156622 - Method and system to compose software applications by combining planning with semantic reasoning: A system and method for composing application services includes an indexing module configured to index words in a request and available application descriptions to create a semantic similarity map. A semantic matcher is configured to determine semantic similarity between concepts/terms in both domain-independent and domain-specific ontologies for the semantic similarity... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20070156623 - Thinking system and method: A thinking system and method is provided by the present invention. In the present invention, the “thinking” system is capable of accepting information from outside environment, analyzing the information, requesting additional information, and then resulting the problem. More particularly, the system can make new rules according to the information within... Agent: Qin Zhang # 304

20070156621 - Using estimated ad qualities for ad filtering, ranking and promotion: A system obtains a first parameter (QP1) associated with a quality of an advertisement among multiple advertisements, where the first quality parameter (QP1) does not include a click through rate (CTR). The system functionally combines the first quality parameter (QP1) with at least one other parameter and uses the functional... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070156624 - System and method of patient specific vital sign estimation: The system and method of patient specific vital sign estimation of the present invention includes an expert system having multiple parameters, equations and rules (expert rules) derived by medical experts. Influencing factors for a specific patient are entered in to the expert system, and expert system calculates an estimated blood... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20070156625 - Method for movie animation: A method for modeling human emotion for emulating human behavior, comprising the steps of recognizing the existence of a condition capable of being sensed at least in the abstract in a surrounding environment in which the human behavior is emulated. A first step comprises representing a plurality of human emotions,... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20070156626 - Patient initiated on-demand remote medical service with integrated knowledge base and computer assisted diagnosing characteristics: The present invention is a system and method of remote patient monitoring to allow a patient to initiate and activate sensing systems. In the system and method, standard parameters can be sensed, and the information can then be processed and sent to the physician or clinician. The clinician then has... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP