Data processing: artificial intelligence inventions 07/08

20080183642 - Method for threshold migration based on fuzzy logic triggers: Automigration mechanisms having fuzzy-logic based automigration control mechanisms for implementing control schemes controlling start, stop and/or bandwidth of the automigration process are provided. The automigration control mechanisms read, into a memory of an automigration controller circuit, configuration parameters characterizing the hardware and software properties of the source storage and target... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080183643 - System and method for creating and processing data validation rules for environmental or non-anthropogenic data: A system and method for validation of data about non-anthropogenic processes acquired without human input. The method includes comparisons of data relating to physical processes or known limiting factors, or of similar measurements at other representative locations. The present invention provides a graphical user interface to allow the definition of... Agent: Pitts And Brittian P C

20080183647 - 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: Fenwick & West LLP

20080183646 - Effective multi-class support vector machine classification: An improved method of classifying examples into multiple categories using a binary support vector machine (SVM) algorithm. In one preferred embodiment, the method includes the following steps: storing a plurality of user-defined categories in a memory of a computer, analyzing a plurality of training examples for each category so as... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080183644 - Lightweight physical design alerter: A lightweight physical design alerter can analyze a workload and determine whether a comprehensive tuning session would result in a configuration improvement over the current configuration. The alerter provides a low-overhead procedure that can run during normal operation of a database management system and produce a notification if a current... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080183645 - Media continuity service between devices: A system that provides the ability to monitor, capture and recreate states of media consumption (e.g., channel, timing) is provided. More specifically, the innovation provides for the ability to identify a context in which a plurality of components collaboratively participate in decisions of transferring a media. In accordance with the... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080183648 - Methods and systems for interactive computing: Methods and systems for creating a synthetic surrogate fitness function. User decisions are received representing fitness for a plurality of solutions. A partial ordering of the plurality of solutions is provided based on the received user decisions, wherein at least some of the plurality of solutions are represented to have... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080183649 - Apparatus, method and system for maximum entropy modeling for uncertain observations: A method for performing conditional maximum entropy modeling includes constructing a conditional maximum entropy model, and incorporating an observation confidence score into the model to reduce an effect due to an uncertain observation... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080183650 - Document management apparatus and document management method: It is an object to manage a document including deadline information and to notify the deadline information to a user before a deadline date, and there are included a deadline metadata acquisition unit to acquire metadata relating to a deadline from an electronic document created by electronic data, a deadline... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080183651 - Automatic configuration and control of devices using metadata: Particular embodiments generally relate to automatically controlling an item. For example, items may include electronic devices, such as televisions, lights, etc, and/or virtual devices, such as applications, etc. In one embodiment, items may be configured using metatags. When a device is connected for operation, one or more metatags for the... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080183652 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method and computer program: An information processing apparatus that constructs an information analysis processing configuration to be applied to information analysis processing in a target area including uncertainty is disclosed. The apparatus includes a data processing section that performs processing of automatically creating a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) model from the input... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. C/o Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080183653 - Knowledge base with clustered data objects: A knowledge base is first characterized by an association-grounded semantics collapsed language. In response to the receipt of a query of the knowledge base, the collapsed language is used to determine whether there is an indication that the knowledge base contains knowledge requested in the query. Thereafter, the collapsed language... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 76615

20080177679 - Conditional probability tables for bayesian belief networks: An apparatus for making probabilistic inferences based on a belief network includes a processing system configured to receive as input one or more parameters of a causal influence model. The belief network has a child node Y and one or more parent nodes Xi (i=1, . . . , n)... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080177680 - Resilient classification of data: A classification system is described for resilient classification of data. In various embodiments, the classification system divides a full set of the training data into a positive subset and a negative subset. The positive subset contains all training data with a positive classification value and the negative subset contains all... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080177682 - Autonomic smt system tuning: Methods, systems, and media are disclosed for autonomic system tuning of simultaneous multithreading (“SMT”). In one embodiment, the method for autonomic tuning of at least one SMT setting for an optimized processing, such as via throughput, latency, and power consumption, of a workload on a computer system includes calling, by... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson Pllc

20080177681 - Data spiders: Data spiders, provide an automated system that can take a file or file store of historic transaction data and create the best set of variables from that data, where “best” means highly predictive. Genetic algorithms are used to parameterized transactions to form groups, which are subjected naïve Bayes score ranking.... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080177683 - Method and apparatus for mobile intelligence: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for processing sensor data. A network data processing system contains a server, and a plurality of mobile clients. Each mobile client executes on a node using an artificial intelligence process and a memory model located at the node. Each mobile... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080177684 - Combining resilient classifiers: A classification system is described for resiliently classifying data. In various embodiments, the classification system constructs a combined classifier based on multiple classifiers that are constructed to classify a set of training data. The combined classifier can be constructed in parallel with the multiple classifiers and applied to classify data.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080177685 - Artificial psychology dialog player with aging simulation: The invention is embodied in a computer program of a dialog player. An artificial psychology dialog player is a software program that picks a sentence line from a repertoire according to probabilistic rules and artificial personality states. The personality for the purpose of this invention optimally has four motivational dimensions,... Agent: Faisal L. Kadri

20080177686 - Apparatus and method for predicting a metric associated with a computer system: An objective function is dynamically chosen from a pool of available objective functions, and a prediction model is dynamically chosen from a pool of available prediction models. Points of inflection are determined for the chosen objective function, based on past values of a metric, to obtain a set of equations... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080177688 - System and method for managing a chaotic event by providing optimal and adaptive sequencing of decision sets with supporting data: A method for determining a sequence of decisions related to a chaotic event. A plurality of decisions related to the chaotic event is received. A mathematical optimization algorithm is used to select a sequence in which the plurality of decisions are to be considered. The mathematical optimization algorithm takes as... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080177687 - System and method for optimal and adaptive process unification of decision support functions associated with managing a chaotic event: A method for displaying information related to a chaotic event. A mathematical optimization algorithm is used to select a first optimal decision set for a user. The mathematical optimization algorithm takes as input a decision template, chaotic event information, at least one constraint, and a user profile. A heuristic algorithm... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080177689 - Method and apparatus for using meta-rules to support dynamic rule-based business systems: Meta-Rules are a special set of business rules whose purpose is to enable business rules selection and subsequent rule invocation by a business rules manager. Contained within a Meta-Rule are business policy and other information that enables the selection of a business rule used by a business application. Meta-rules allow... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.c.

20080177691 - Correlation and analysis of entity attributes: Methods and systems for operation upon one or more data processors for assigning a reputation to a messaging entity by analyzing the attributes of the entity, correlating the attributes with known attributes to define relationships between entities sharing attributes, and attributing a portion of the reputation of one related entity... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080177690 - Rules engine for enterprise system: An example embodiment provides a process relating to an inference engine for enterprise systems and enterprise contracts. In the example, the inference engine receives a fact and stores it in an input queue. Then the inference engine retrieves the fact from the input queue and routes the fact to a... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080172347 - Method and sysem for utilizing an expert system to determine whether to alter a firewall configuration: A method and system for utilizing an expert system to determine whether to alter a firewall configuration. The expert system receives message flow data associated with a message packet blocked by a firewall. The packet is blocked based on an associated message flow not being permitted by a set of... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080172348 - Statistical determination of multi-dimensional targets: Users are enabled to use statistical prediction algorithms to set key performance indicator targets based on a variety of considerations allowing them to take into account more quantitative factors in prediction, increase return-on-investment of data assets, increase consistency, and save time and cost in the target setting process. Upon selection... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080172349 - Neural network controller with fixed long-term and adaptive short-term memory: A controller for a plant having a fixed-weight recurrent neural network with at least one external input signal representative of a desired condition of the plant and actual condition of the plant, and an output connected as a control signal to the plant. The fixed recurrent neural network includes a... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle, Anderson & Citkowski, P.C.

20080172351 - Identifying associations using graphical models: Computer-executable instructions for identifying associations are described herein. By way of example, a method for facilitating developing a treatment can include employing computer-executable instructions stored on one or more computer-readable media to determine correlations and utilizing at least some of the determined correlations to develop a treatment.... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080172350 - Method and apparatus for rule-based transformation of policies: A logical expression of a policy is generated from another logical expression of a policy, for example, via a set of transformations, each of which comprises an input sub-expression and an output sub-expression. Any sub-expression of the input expression which matches an input sub-expression of a transformation rule is replaced... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080172352 - System and method for managing a chaotic event by optimizing decision subdivisions subject to multidimensional constraints: A method for optimally selecting a subset of decisions from a first plurality of decisions related to management of a chaotic event. The first plurality of decisions related to the chaotic event is received. A heuristic algorithm is used to eliminate a first subset of decisions. The first subset of... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080172353 - Querying data and an associated ontology in a database management system: A method, apparatus, and computer program for querying data and an associated ontology in a database. An ontology is associated with data in database. Responsive to receiving a query from a requester, relational data in the database is identified using the query to form identified relational data. Ontological knowledge in... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080168010 - Distributable and serializable finite state machine: A distributable and serializable finite state machine and methods for using the distributable and serializable finite state machine are provided wherein finite state machine instance can be location-shifted, time-shifted or location-shift and time-shifted, for example by serializing and deserializing each instance. Each instance can be located-shifted between agents, and a... Agent: George A. Willinghan Attorney-at-law

20080168011 - Methods and systems for automatic selection of classification and regression trees: The present invention provides a method and system for automatically identifying and selecting preferred classification and regression trees. The invention is used to identify a specific decision tree or group of trees that are consistent across train and test samples in node-specific details that are often important to decision makers.... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20080168012 - Electrical package analysis gateway: A method and system is provided for analyzing a package having components. The package may include electrical or computer components. The method and system uses a computer program to receive inputted data and extract data from files. The computer program also selects the best sub-program to analyze the data to... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080168014 - Catalyst discovery through pattern recognition-based modeling and data analysis: The present invention is a method to determine catalyst structures by correlating experimental conditions and directing agent characteristics to catalyst products. The correlating step is carried out by a performance model such as a neural net.... Agent: Exxonmobil Research And Engineering Company

20080168013 - Scalable pattern recognition system: An efficient method of searching large databases for pattern recognition is provided. The techniques disclosed illustrate how a large database of arbitrary binary data might be searched at high speed using fuzzy pattern recognition methods. Pattern recognition speed enhancements are derived from a strategy utilizing effective computational decomposition, multiple processing... Agent: Crockett & Crockett

20080168015 - Multiple criteria decision making (mcdm) method for maintaining complex technology: The invention relates to a method of multiple criteria decision making. In particular, a method of maintaining a complex article is described that includes the steps of; (a) taking a set of options for replacing each of a plurality of components of the complex article, (b) identifying an optimum solution... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080168016 - Plant control apparatus: A plant control apparatus has a measurement signal DB, an operation signal DB, a numerical value analysis executing unit, a numerical value analysis result DB, a model for estimating a value of a measurement signal for an operation signal, learning unit using the model, a learning information DB, a control... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080168018 - Fault diagnostics: A method of fault diagnostics in a case based reasoning system, wherein said case based reasoning system comprises a plurality of cases, each case having an associated solution and a case weight, said method comprising the steps of: receiving data associated with a fault; determining a case match indicative of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080168017 - Method and apparatus for configuration modelling and consistency checking of web applications: A method, system and article are provide for treating consistency checking of a configuration of an information technology system by developing a model of the configuration based on common criteria functional requirements, extending the common criteria to model the configuration, imposing a set of constraints on the configuration model, converting... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080168019 - Document clustering based on entity association rules: For each document in a document set, entities are identified and a set of association rules, based on appearance of the entities in the paragraphs of the documents in the set, are derived. Documents are clustered based on the association rules. As documents are added to the clusters, additional association... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080168020 - Relational bayesian modeling for electronic commerce: The present invention provides a language, method and system to formulate and evaluate relational Bayesian networks in an c-commerce environment. The present invention employs a specific language for constructing synthetic variables used to predict events in the Bayesian networks. The present system and language allow for efficient and accurate representation,... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080168021 - Reliability evaluation program and reliability evaluation device: A computer-readable recording medium storing a program to make a computer execute a process, the process including generating normal/abnormal patterns of paths between a start point node of application procedure and a reliability verification point node based on a node information that stores an object related to a fact confirmation... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080168022 - Heuristic organization and playback system: A multimedia organization and playback system intelligently organizes media objects, such as music files, and plays back their contents. The system considers and analyzes multiple media object attributes to determine groups of similar songs. As a result, the system delivers a consistent selection of media to the listener despite wide... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080162386 - Fully bayesian linear regression: A simple yet powerful Bayesian model of linear regression is disclosed for methods and systems of machine learning. Unlike previous treatments that have either considered finding hyperparameters through maximum likelihood or have used a simple prior that makes the computation tractable but can lead to overfitting in high dimensions, the... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20080162384 - Statistical heuristic classification: Heuristic classification is integrated with statistical classification to classify an input data set. Heuristic conditions or rule are assigned heuristic rule identifiers, which are inserted into the feature list of a statistical classifier. In this manner, the heuristic rule identifiers are treated as statistical features, the counts for which are... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, Llc

20080162385 - System and method for learning a weighted index to categorize objects: An improved system and method is provided for learning a weighted index to categorize objects using ranked recall. In an offline embodiment, a learning engine may learn a weighted index for classifying objects using ranked recall by training during an entire initial pass of a training sequence of a collection... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20080162388 - Adaptive system for fan management: A system may include construction of observation vectors based on a plurality of power samples indicating past power consumption of a device and a plurality of temperature samples indicating past temperatures of the device, determination of an estimated temperature of the device based on fuzzy reasoning models comprising the observation... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar Llc

20080162387 - Method, system, and computer program product for adaptively learning user preferences for smart services: A method, system, and computer program product are described for adaptively learning user preferences for smart services. According to an exemplary embodiment, a method for adaptively learning user preferences for smart services includes modeling an availability of a subscriber for responding to an event associated with a service in terms... Agent: Scenera Research, Llc

20080162389 - Hybrid architecture for acquisition, recognition, and fusion: A method comprises the steps of: producing one or more signals representative of a feature of a target or area of interest, statistically processing the signals to produce one or more first hypotheses of the target or area of interest, comparing the first hypotheses to one or more templates in... Agent: Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP

20080162390 - Systems and methods for processing data flows: A flow processing facility, which uses a set of artificial neurons for pattern recognition, such as a self-organizing map, in order to provide security and protection to a computer or computer system supports unified threat management based at least in part on patterns relevant to a variety of types of... Agent: Strategic Patents P.c..

20080162391 - Solving the distal reward problem through linkage of stdp and dopamine signaling: In Pavlovian and instrumental conditioning, rewards typically come seconds after reward-triggering actions, creating an explanatory conundrum known as the distal reward problem or the credit assignment problem. How does the brain know what firing patterns of what neurons are responsible for the reward if (1) the firing patterns are no... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080162393 - Computerized medical diagnostic and treatment advice system: A system and method for providing computerized, knowledge-based medical diagnostic and treatment advice. The medical advice is provided to the general public over a telephone network. Two new authoring languages, interactive voice response and speech recognition are used to enable expert and general practitioner knowledge to be encoded for access... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080162392 - Method and apparatus for formalizing information technology (it) business decision making: A method, framework, and system for providing formalized Information Technology (IT) business decision making, which includes determining a relationship between at least one Information Technology (IT) environmental element and at least one Information Technology (IT) performance metric, and determining a business value based on the at least one Information Technology... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, Pllc

20080162394 - 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

20080162395 - Systems and methods for automatic detection and processing of instances of business rules: A method for processing instances of business rules, includes providing a business rule, parsing the business rule to extract entities used as rule parts, creating a hierarchical entity buffer indicating the entities used as the rule parts and identifying instances of each of the entities and real data corresponding to... Agent: Richard F. Jaworski Cooper & Dunham LLP

20080162396 - Transaction data processing system: A system (1) has an analysis engine (2) for analysing transaction data (20) received in real time at an interface (3). A context generation engine—(25) directly receives transaction data (20) from the interface (3) and also macro data (26). Queue listeners (52) pull data from a shared memory queue (50(a),... Agent: Jacobson Holman Pllc

20080162397 - Method for analyzing activities over information networks: The present invention is a method for analyzing large volumes of network information for the purpose of identifying particular patterns of behavior in a plurality of connections. It enables identifying unique digital fingerprints of particular users, be it individuals, groups or organizations, and tracks their activities in large scale information... Agent: Fleit Kain Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco

20080162398 - Method to efficiently process and present possible arrangements of a set of contiguous peer-to-peer links: A method for displaying nodes within a set of nodes, stored as a set of linked pairs, indulging the steps of: providing a set of nodes each configured for being selectable as at least one of a root node, an antecedent node and a descendent node; choosing interactively any node... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080162399 - Consumer marketing platform: In some embodiments, a system and method for consumer marketing is illustrated. A system is illustrated that includes a receiver residing on a server to receive a rules set, a generator residing on the server to generate a rules model, a transmitter residing on the server to transmit a solicitation... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.