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Data processing: artificial intelligence December patents, inventions by USPTO category 12/07

20070299793 - Computer implemented cover process approximating quantifier elimination: A computer implemented cover process is disclosed for use in program analysis and verification techniques where existential quantifier elimination is not possible. The cover process allows an accurate assessment of the viability of a theory. Where a theory can be described using quantifier-free formulas, it can be shown that the... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20070299794 - Neural network-based node mobility and network connectivty predictions for mobile ad hoc radio networks: A self managed ad hoc communications network nodes and node mobility management. Nodes include an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) that determines connection to other network nodes. The ANN may use free space propagation link life estimation, inverse modeling for partition prediction, Stochastic Approximation, and/or coarse estimation. The node includes storage... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Peterson, Jr. -- Boeing

20070299795 - Creating and managing activity-centric workflow: A system that can identify, create, update and/or process a workflow based upon a current, past or future activity is disclosed. A ‘workflow’ can be defined as an activity flow that includes interaction with, or assignment of work to, people, devices, or services by a single individual or a group... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070299796 - Resource availability for user activities across devices: A system that can integrate activities across machines and/or devices is disclosed. The innovation can be used in an “asynchronous” manner that enables a user to move or direct a set of activities and/or tasks within an activity from one device to another. Further, the system can facilitate adapting user... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070299798 - Time series data prediction/diagnosis apparatus and program thereof: A time series data prediction/diagnosis apparatus includes a first creator creating a model series using time series data items sequentially input, a first calculator calculating a prediction error for the model series at each input of a new time series data item, a second creator creating a plurality of model... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070299797 - Nonlinear associative memories using linear arrays of associative memory cells, and methods of operating same: Associative memories include associative memory cells. A respective cell includes a sensor input, a prior association representation, a next association representation and an associative output. The cells are serially interconnected to form a linear array, such that the sensor inputs, the prior association representations and the next association representations of... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070299799 - Methods, software, and systems for knowledge base coordination: The present invention provides computer program products, systems, and related methods of coordinating a knowledge base.... Agent: Quine Intellectual Property Law Group, P.C.

20070299800 - Industrial information technology (it) on-line intelligent control of machines in discrete manufacturing factory: The invention contemplates a system and method offering control and management of manufacturing resources (Machine 1, Machine 2 . . . Machine n) to obtain optimal manufacturing capacities and to avoid manufacturing down-time currently realized through manual operation and control of manufacturing resources. In an illustrative implementation, the present invention... Agent: Paul Katterle Abb Inc.

20070299801 - Learning enhanced simulated annealing: A Learning Enhanced Simulated Annealing (LESA) method is provided. Based on a Simulated Annealing (SA) framework, this method adds a Knowledge Base (KB) initialized at the beginning of the search and updated at each iteration, which memorizes a portion of the search history and guides the further search through a... Agent: Lumen Intellectual Property Services, Inc.

20070299802 - Human level artificial intelligence software application for machine & computer based program function: A method of creating human level artificial intelligence in machines and computer software is presented here, as well as methods to simulate human reasoning, thought and behavior. The present invention serves as a universal artificial intelligence program that will store, retrieve, analyze, assimilate, predict the future and modify information in... Agent: Mitchell Kwok

20070294196 - Computer method for solving sparse linear constraints: A computer implemented method for solving linear arithmetic constraints that combines a solver for difference constraints with a general linear arithmetic constraint solver. When used to solve sparse linear arithmetic constraints, the time and space complexity of the process is determined by the difference constraint component.... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20070294198 - Delayed policy evaluation: The evaluation of a policy can be delayed until all rules criteria needed for evaluation are available. Also, new types of rules criteria can be registered without requiring changes to a rules engine. A policy manager allows rules to be evaluated and decisions made at different stages of the request... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070294197 - System for method for providing intelligent pre-staging of data in a compute environment: A system, computer-readable medium and method for performing intelligent data pre-staging for a job submitted to a cluster environment. The method aspect comprises determining availability of compute resources including availability timeframes to process the submitted job, determining data requirements for processing the job and determining a co-allocation in time reservation.... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20070294199 - System and method for classifying text: A system and method for classifying text includes a pre-processor, a knowledge base, and a statistical engine. The pre-processor identifies concepts in the text and creates a structured text object that contains the concepts. The structured text object is then passed to a statistical engine, which applies statistical information provided... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP

20070294200 - Automatic data categorization with optimally spaced semantic seed terms: A method and system for automatic data categorization in response to a user query. A document set is retrieved in response to the user query. A semantic parser parses the document set and produces semantic term-groups by parsing a semantic network of nodes. A seed ranker produces a plurality of... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20070294201 - Software tool for training and testing a knowledge base: A software tool for creating, training and testing a knowledge base of a computerized customer relationship management system is disclosed. The software tool includes corpus editing processes for displaying and editing text-based corpus items, and assigning selected categories to individual corpus items. Knowledge base construction processes construct a knowledge base... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP

20070288404 - Dynamic interaction menus from natural language representations: Natural language dialog elements may be dynamically generated in a virtual world when an interaction is initiated between a user and a computer-controlled character. The dialog elements may be generated by combining abstract semantic representations from a knowledgebase of a computer-controlled character involved in the interaction, with abstract semantic representations... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070288405 - Problem solving mechanism selection facilitation apparatus and method: An autonomic computational processor can be provided with both at least one substantially closed loop problem solving mechanism (such as, but not necessarily limited to, an abductive algorithm-based problem solving mechanism (101)) and at least one substantially open loop problem solving mechanism (such as, but not necessarily limited to, a... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070288408 - Method and apparatus for resource allocation among classifiers in classification systems: Methods and apparatus for optimizing resource allocation among data analysis functions in a classification system are provided. Each of the data analysis functions is characterized as a set of operating points in accordance with at least one of resource requirements and analysis quality. An operating point for each of the... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070288410 - System and method of using genetic programming and neural network technologies to enhance spectral data: A signal transformation method that transforms an input signal obtained from a subject under a first value of a parameter to an output signal obtainable from said subject under a second value of said parameter is disclosed. The method creates a plurality of neural networks and subjects them to learn... Agent: EagleIPLimited

20070288411 - Method and apparatus for developing cognitive skills: System and method for developing cognitive skills in a student, utilizing a computing device to present stimuli and to record responses. A stimulus may be graphically presented to the student via the computing device, and the student may be required to respond to the stimulus. A determination may then be... Agent: Huffman Law Group, P.C.

20070288412 - Method, system and program product for generating an implementation of a business rule including a volatile portion: A method, apparatus and computer-usable medium for implementing business rules. According to one embodiment, a computer-implementable method includes receiving one or more business rules for an upper level business model, enabling designation of at least a portion of a particular business rule among the one or more business rules as... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070288414 - System and method for selection of prediction tools: A system and method for data analysis are disclosed. Data analysis may include a step of filtering the data to produce filtered data. The method may include processing a plurality of prediction algorithms to produce prediction values, the prediction values having associated historical and expected prediction confidence intervals. The method... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

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20070288419 - Method and apparatus for augmenting data and actions with semantic information to facilitate the autonomic operations of components and systems: A system includes object construction logic [700] and semantic augmentation logic [705]. The object construction logic receives events and data. It also identifies whether managed objects exist in a predefined set of at least one information model [205] and at least one ontology [240] corresponding to the events and data.... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070288406 - Method for determining relationships through use of an ordered list between processing nodes in an emulated human brain: A method for emulating human cognition in electronic form is disclosed. Information is received in the form of a textual or voice input in a natural language. This is parsed into pre-determined phrases based on a stored set of language rules for the natural language. Then, the parsed phrases are... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20070288407 - Information-processing apparatus, method of processing information, learning device and learning method: An information-processing apparatus has a recurrent neural network containing an input node that allows data to be input, an output node that outputs data based on the data input through the input node, context input and output nodes, a context loop that returns a value indicating internal state in the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070288409 - Nonlinear neural network fault detection system and method: 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. The fault detection system uses a neural network to perform a data representation and feature extraction where the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070288413 - Vehicle information processing system, vehicle information processing method, and program: An information processing system includes a content providing device (20) providing content appropriate for a user. The content providing device (20) includes: a model storage unit (40) containing a plurality of different models depending on the user attribute; a model determining unit (34) for selecting a model corresponding to the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070288415 - Decision construct for configuring a networked computing environment: A decision construct provides a system and method of configuring/managing/controlling a networked computing environment, such as a learning technology/platform. The construct provides one or more permission levels associated with one or more users of the system, such as independent permission levels for a provost, a dean, a department chair, a... Agent: Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP Attn: Gregory M Stone

20070288416 - Asynchronous network collaboration method and apparatus: A method for a computer system including a memory includes storing statements comprising statements from users in response to a phenomena, selecting a first statement set, and sending the first statement set to a first user to review, receiving a first selection of statements by the first user, selecting a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070288417 - Methods and apparatus for generating decision trees with discriminants and employing same in data classification: Methods and apparatus are provided for generating a decision trees using linear discriminant analysis and implementing such a decision tree in the classification (also referred to as categorization) of data. The data is preferably in the form of multidimensional objects, e.g., data records including feature variables and class variables in... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070282767 - Method for evaluating reliance level of a virtual metrology system: A method for evaluating reliance level of a virtual metrology system is disclosed. In this method, a reliance index (RI) and a RI threshold value are calculated by analyzing the process data of production equipment, thereby determining if the virtual metrology result is reliable. Besides, in this method, a global... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070282768 - Artificial intelligence analyzer and generator: This invention relates to using artificial intelligence for analyzing real-life collected data from an operation system, modeling the collected data to identify characteristics of events, analyzing the models to conclude an optimal solution for maximizing the performance of the operation system.... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20070282772 - Separate learning system and method using two-layered neural network having target values for hidden nodes: Disclosed herein is a separate learning system and method using a two-layered neural network having target values for hidden nodes. The separate learning system of the present invention includes an input layer for receiving training data from a user, and including at least one input node. A hidden layer includes... Agent: Brown & Michaels, PC 400 M & T Bank Building

20070282776 - Method and system for service oriented collaboration: A system and method for one entity to have a collaboration model for guiding the interaction with any number of entities to standardize that interaction. The collaboration model in at least one embodiment includes at least one conversation model that provides the mapping of actions to system/application of other entities... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20070282777 - Automatic fault classification for model-based process monitoring: A computer implemented method, system and program product for automatic fault classification. A set of abnormal data can be automatically grouped based on sensor contribution to a prediction error. A principal component analysis (PCA) model of normal behavior can then be applied to a set of newly generated data, in... Agent: Kris Fredrick Honeywell International Inc.

20070282778 - Policy-based management system with automatic policy selection and creation capabilities by using singular value decomposition technique: A statistical approach implementing Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) to a policy-based management system for autonomic and on-demand computing applications. The statistical approach empowers a class of applications that require policies to handle ambiguous conditions and allow the system to “evolve” in response to changing operation and environment conditions. In the... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070282780 - System and method for retrieving and intelligently grouping definitions found in a repository of documents: A system and method for retrieving and intelligently grouping definitions with common semantic meaning is disclosed. In response to a user's textual query for the definition of a term or phrase, a set of documents is retrieved from a repository of structured documents. The retrieved documents are labeled with a... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070282765 - Method for substituting an electronic emulation of the human brain into an application to replace a human: A method for emulating human behavior and actions in an expert mode to control and execute a defined task. The first step is to define a task based application having a task associated therewith that is operable to receive goals and conditions and which goals define the desired results to... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20070282766 - Training a support vector machine with process constraints: System and method for training a support vector machine (SVM) with process constraints. A model (primal or dual formulation) implemented with an SVM and representing a plant or process with one or more known attributes is provided. One or more process constraints that correspond to the one or more known... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070282769 - Guided navigation system: A navigation system is used in combination with a data retrieval system to more effectively locate the correct answers or information in search content. The navigation system provides taxonomies that identify different information categories and sub-categories (facets). Classifiers automatically classify the search content by identifying the content corresponding with associated... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070282771 - Method and apparatus for interpreting information: A method of processing data relating to a plurality of examples using a data classifier arranged to classify input data into one of a number of classes, and a rule inducer, comprising the steps of: (i) inputting a series of inputs to the data classifier so as to obtain a... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20070282770 - System and methods for filtering electronic communications: A system and method is provided for filtering anomalous electronic communications, for example spam. In particular the method provides for detecting behavior data or behavioral characteristics of a source of the electronic communication, processing of the behavioral characteristic data to determine anomalous communications and filtering anomalous communications. Beneficially source behavior... Agent: Nortel Networks Limited

20070282773 - Method and system of monitoring and prognostics: A neural network learns the operating modes of a system being monitored under normal operating conditions. Anomalies can be automatically detected and learned. A control command can be issued or an alert can be issued in response thereto.... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20070282775 - Method for ordinal ranking: A method for generating a list of cases that are ranked by desirability (i.e. an ordinal ranking) based on attributes defined by a decision maker, and providing tools to assist the decision maker in statistically analyzing both the data inputted into a decision problem, the outcomes of the ranking process... Agent: Osha Liang LLP / Vincent

20070282774 - Method, system and apparatus for generating decision trees integrated with petro-technical workflows: A method and associated system and program storage device and computer program is disclosed for generating a decision tree, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of modeling scenarios representing a corresponding plurality of workflows; and generating a decision tree in response to the plurality of modeling scenarios.... Agent: Schlumberger Information Solutions

20070282779 - System and method for automated problem analysis and solution: A method for analyzing system-problems, comprising the steps of: accepting from a user an input describing a system having a problem; parsing the user input to create a boolean representation of the system, the boolean representation comprising a series of equations; determining that the boolean representation comprises an unsatisfiable series... Agent: Sonnabendlaw