Data processing: artificial intelligence inventions 08/07

20070203869 - Adaptive semantic platform architecture: An adaptive shared infrastructure that can be easily utilized to enable natural interaction between user(s) and machine system(s) is provided. Additionally, the novel innovation can provide interactive techniques that produce accurate intent-to-action mapping based upon a user input. Further, the innovation can provide novel mechanism by which assets (e.g., documents,... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070203870 - Graph generating method, graph generating program and data mining system: The invention has the object of obtaining, at a high rate of success, graphs indicating the relationships between variables indicating the states of observed items which are the subjects of data mining, and improving the reliability of the outputted graphs. A method for generating a graph showing the relationships between... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070203862 - Control apparatus and control method: There is provided a control apparatus including a function of generating an operation signal applied to a control subject and a model that simulates characteristics of the control subject, a function of receiving an evaluation value signal calculated based on a measurement signal obtained by applying the operation signal to... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070203861 - Support vector machine: A method for operating a computer as a support vector machine (SVM) in order to define a decision surface separating two opposing classes of a training set of vectors. The method involves associating a distance parameter with each vector of the SVM's training set. The distance parameter indicates a distance... Agent: Monique A Morneault Wallenstein Wagner & Rockey

20070203863 - Meta learning for question classification: A system and a method are disclosed for automatic question classification and answering. A multipart artificial neural network (ANN) comprising a main ANN and an auxiliary ANN classifies a received question according to one of a plurality of defined categories. Unlabeled data is received from a source, such as a... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20070203864 - Process model error correction method and system: A method is provided for a virtual sensor system. The method may include establishing a first process model indicative of interrelationships between a plurality of input parameters and a plurality of output parameters and establishing a second process model indicative of interrelationships between at least the plurality of input parameters... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070203865 - Apparatus and methods for an item retrieval system: An apparatus (440) for use in an information retrieval system is described. The apparatus comprises a processor (500) and a memory (410) storing a plurality of information elements. The memory (410) stores a plurality of connections (117; 313, 315, 317) between at least two of the plurality of information elements... Agent: 24ip Law Group Usa, PLLC

20070203866 - Method and apparatus for obtaining and using impact severity triage data: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving data for a vehicle involved in an accident, analyzing the data for classification of damaged components and operations to be performed on the vehicle, and generating a triage decision for the vehicle based on a rules-based analysis of the classification and the operations.... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20070203867 - Data object visualization: A fact repository stores objects. Each object includes a collection of facts, where a fact comprises an attribute and a value. A set of objects from the fact repository are designated for analysis. The presentation engine presents the facts of the objects in a user interface (UI) having a table.... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070203868 - Object categorization for information extraction: A system and method for categorizing objects on the basis of the existence of the facts describing those objects. Objects may be stored in the collection regardless of their category, and each object may have any number of facts associated with it. The objects are then categorized on the basis... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070203871 - Method and apparatus for reward-based learning of improved systems management policies: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method for reward-based learning of improved systems management policies. One embodiment of the inventive method involves supplying a first policy and a reward mechanism. The first policy maps states of at least one component of a data processing system to selected management... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan LLP IBM Corporation

20070203872 - Affinity propagation in adaptive network-based systems: Adaptive applications of affinity propagation are described to facilitate effective and computationally efficient means of clustering computer-based objects such as items of content, and/or to determine exemplars associated with a set of objects. Affinity propagation is also applied by the present invention to define system user affinity groups and/or exemplar... Agent: Manyworlds, Inc.

20070198444 - Interaction device: The present invention provides an interaction device adapted for setting own controller for maximizing expectation of information defined between a hypothesis about an interaction object and own input/output. Thus, the social robot can judge by using only simple input/output sensor whether or not the human being is present or absent... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070198445 - Techniques to organize test results: Techniques to organize test results are described. In one embodiment, for example, vectors with failure information may be generated from test result files. Nodes for a self-organizing map may be trained with multiple vectors. Vector groups may be formed for multiple nodes with the self-organizing map. Other embodiments are described... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070198446 - System and method for exploiting a good starting guess for binding constraints in quadratic programming with an infeasible and inconsistent starting guess for the solution: The present invention provides an algorithm that does not relax the problem at the very onset, even if xf is infeasible. Instead, it solves the EQP with the initial guess for the active set without relaxing the problem. If this solution to the first EQP is not optimal, but nevertheless... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20070198447 - Classifying text in a code editor using multiple classifiers: Multiple independent classifiers of a code editor are used to classify a range of text. Each classifier is an independent classifier and can independently classify any given range of text. Classifiers can be added and merged during run time of the code editor. Adding a classifier does not require modification... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070198448 - Scalable ontology reasoning: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for scalable ontology reasoning. A method of generating a summarized ontology includes loading an ontology from a store, eliminating relationships in the ontology, the eliminating relationships including an insertion of new relationships that simplify the ontology, eliminating individuals in the ontology, the eliminating... Agent: Michael J. Buchenhorner

20070198449 - Method and apparatus for safe ontology reasoning: The present invention is a method and apparatus for safe ontology reasoning. In one embodiment, a method for building safe sub-ontology that includes one or more elements of a given ontology includes designating at least one the elements as a sensitive element, where a sensitive element is an element not... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan LLP IBM Corporation

20070198450 - System and method for providing terrorism intelligence indications and warnings: The present invention provides a system and method for providing terrorism intelligence indications and warning consisting of multiple tasks that create warning products on a Website and in which the associated computer program maintains a Webpage that tracks and displays each analyst's pending tasks based on their assigned responsibilities in... Agent: Peacock Myers, P.C.

20070198452 - Method and system for decision oriented systems engineering: A method for efficiently engineering large, complex systems is provided. The method uses a uniquely defined decision model to lead the design effort by structuring and analyzing decision making needs of the people who will use the system before any design efforts can constrain the solution. While other methods may... Agent: Michael E. Buckley

20070198451 - Support for object search: A fact repository supports searches of facts relevant to search queries comprising keywords and phrases. The repository responds to requests from object requesters by sending a feed containing matching facts from the repository and, optionally, facts associated with the same object as the matching facts.... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070192264 - Attention in a hierarchical temporal memory based system: A hierarchy of computing modules is configured to learn a cause of input data sensed over space and time, and is further configured to determine a cause of novel sensed input data dependent on the learned cause. Further, the hierarchy has a first level of computing modules and a second... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070192266 - Apparatus for identification of performance scenario and methods thereof: The present technique is an apparatus and method evaluating software performance. The method identifies performance scenarios using a knowledge base and selects the performance scenarios from a context module using operational laws. The system analyzes performance criticality of an application workload. Furthermore, the system comprises a context module that ranks... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070192271 - Belief propagation in a hierarchical temporal memory based system: A hierarchy of computing modules is configured to (i) learn a cause of input data sensed over space and time, and (ii) determine a cause of novel sensed input data dependent on the learned cause. The hierarchy has a first level of computing modules and a second level of at... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070192268 - Directed behavior using a hierarchical temporal memory based system: A hierarchy of computing modules is configured to learn a cause of input data sensed over space and time, and is further configured to determine a cause of novel sensed input data dependent on the learned cause. In some cases, the cause of the input data is visual or acoustic... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070192269 - Message passing in a hierarchical temporal memory based system: A hierarchy of computing modules is configured to learn a cause of input data sensed over space and time, and is further configured to determine a cause of novel sensed input data dependent on the learned cause. Further, the hierarchy has a first level of computing modules and a second... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070192270 - Pooling in a hierarchical temporal memory based system: A hierarchy of computing modules is configured to learn a cause of input data sensed over space and time, and is further configured to determine a cause of novel sensed input data dependent on the learned cause. The hierarchy is further configured to associate a first pattern in the input... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070192261 - Resource allocation using relational fuzzy modeling: A system and method for allocating computing resources among a plurality of units in a distributed network. A system is provided that includes: a relational fuzzy modeling system for providing a relational fuzzy model based on historical resource parameter data and historical system parameter data, and for predicting and allocating... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070192262 - Hierarchical temporal memory based system including nodes with input or output variables of disparate properties: An hierarchical temporal memory network having at least one node configured to receive at least two variables of different properties. The at least two variables have different data types, different data sizes, or represent different physical or logical properties in the hierarchical temporal memory network. By using the node receiving... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070192263 - System, method and product for rostering using genetic algorithms: A genetic algorithms rostering system (20) with a workload and shift setting optimizer (22), a GA rostering engine (24) and a storage medium (26) is described. The GA rostering engine (24) dynamically shifts one or more shift lists of an initial shift list matrix based upon a shifting factor associated... Agent: Lawrence Y.d. Ho & Associates Pte Ltd

20070192265 - System and method for rendering data: A method of viewing information associated with data in a spreadsheet, includes providing a document including data and information associated with the data, parsing the document to retrieve the associated information, processing the associated information to break the associated information down into at least one sentence, categorizing the at least... Agent: Richard F. Jaworski Cooper & Dunham LLP

20070192267 - Architecture of a hierarchical temporal memory based system: A hierarchical temporal memory (HTM) based system may be provided as a software platform. The software platform includes: a runtime engine arranged to run an HTM network; a first interface accessible by a set of tools to configure, design, modify, train, debug, and/or deploy the HTM network; and a second... Agent: Wasif H. Qureshi

20070192272 - Method and computer program product for converting ontologies into concept semantic networks: A method and computer program product for producing a concept semantic network (CSN) from an ontology. Each class, subclass, object, restriction, and property of the ontology is converted into a concept of the CSN. Each hierarchy in the ontology is converted to a concept hierarchy of the CSN.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070185823 - Load prediction based on-line and off-line training of neural networks: A method and system is provided for predicting loads within a power system through the training of on-line and an off-line neural networks. Load data and load increments are used with an on-line load prediction scheme to generate predicted load values to optimize power generation and minimize costs. This objective... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070185824 - Heuristic method of classification: The invention concerns heuristic algorithms for the classification of Objects. A first learning algorithm comprises a genetic algorithm that is used to abstract a data stream associated with each Object and a pattern recognition algorithm that is used to classify the Objects and measure the fitness of the chromosomes of... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070185825 - Learning system and method, recognition device and method, creation device and method, recognition and creation device and method, and program: A learning system is provided, which includes network storage means for storing a network including a plurality of nodes, each of which holds a dynamics; and learning means for self-organizationally updating the dynamics of the network on the basis of measured time-series data.... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070179918 - Hierarchical system for object recognition in images: Object recognition techniques are disclosed that provide both accuracy and speed. One embodiment of the present invention is an identification system. The system is capable of locating objects in images by searching for local features of an object. The system can operate in real-time. The system is trained from a... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20070179917 - Intelligent design optimization method and system: A method is provided for a computer based design system. The method may include selecting a first plurality of sets of design parameters of a design model representing a design application and individually simulating the design model for each set of the first plurality of sets of the design parameters... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070179920 - Handling of satisfaction and conflicts in a quantified boolean formula solver: In order to provide for more efficient QBF satisfiability determination, the formula to be checked is transformed into one formula which is equi-satisfiable, and one which is equi-tautological. The conjunction or disjunction of these two formulas, then, is used to determine satisfiability, with the result being that a determination of... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070179919 - Method and apparatus for evaluating robustness of proposed solution to constraint problem and considering robustness in developing a constraint problem solution: In an embodiment of a method of evaluating robustness of a proposed solution to a constraint problem, operational output data for at least first and second modified versions of the proposed solution is generated. The first modified version has at least one control variable of the proposed solution perturbed in... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070179921 - Object instance recognition using feature symbol triplets: A feature symbol triplets object instance recognizer and method for recognizing specific objects in a query image. Generally, the recognizer and method find repeatable features in the image, and match the repeatable features between a query image and a set of training images. More specifically, the recognizer and method finds... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20070179922 - Apparatus and method for forecasting control chart data: A computer-readable medium to direct a computer to function in a specified manner includes executable instructions to construct a control chart containing business data values and defined control limits. A forecast is then made for the control chart and the results of the forecast are then specified.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070179923 - Transactional 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

20070179924 - Solution recommendation based on incomplete data sets: In accordance with one aspect of the present exemplary embodiment, a system determines a solution based on received data. An intake component receives an incomplete data set from one or more sources. A recommendation system transforms the incomplete data set into a semantic data set via latent semantic indexing, classifies... Agent: Patrick R. Roche Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070179925 - Expert system for prescribing and tracking physical activity programs for patients with coronary artery disease and method of creating same: An expert system for assigning and tracking physical activity programs for patients with coronary artery disease provides user interfaces for recruiters who screen and enroll the patients as program participants in the physical activity programs; for coaches who monitor program participants and guide them through the physical activity program; and... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP