Data processing: artificial intelligence inventions 10/08

20080262983 - Method and apparatus for displaying and interacting with hierarchical information and time varying rule priority: A graphical interaction and authoring system is provided that combines textual and graphical information to display hierarchical information via an interactive visual mechanism for the composition and manipulation of syntactic structures, enabling business users to view, operate, and compose information in a way that not only graphically preserves the structure... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20080262982 - System for therapy: The invention is a system for remotely conducting psychotherapy between a client having and a therapist over the internet. The system includes a first web enabled computer device operated by the client, said first computer device having a web browser and being operatively coupled to the Internet. The system further... Agent: Elias C. Borges

20080262984 - Field-programmable gate array based accelerator system: Accelerator systems and methods are disclosed that utilize FPGA technology to achieve better parallelism and flexibility. The accelerator system may be used to implement a relevance-ranking algorithm, such as RankBoost, for a training process. The algorithm and related data structures may be organized to enable streaming data access and, thus,... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080262986 - Method for training a classifier: A method for training a classifier which forms part of a search engine comprises: receiving a document submitted by an end user of the search engine at a server; creating a training set of documents, the training set including the document submitted by the end user; training the classifier using... Agent: Norman M. Cameron

20080262987 - Obtaining a value via a rule engine implemented by a collection object: A system and computer program product for obtaining a value via a rule engine implemented by a collection object associated with an object-oriented application. A request for the value includes a key, is received from the application, and is directed to a method of the collection object. The collection object... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080262985 - Systems, methods, and media for generating sanitized data, sanitizing anomaly detection models, and/or generating sanitized anomaly detection models: Systems, methods, and media for generating sanitized data, sanitizing anomaly detection models, and generating anomaly detection models are provided. In some embodiments, methods for generating sanitized data are provided. The methods including: dividing a first training dataset comprised of a plurality of training data items into a plurality of data... Agent: Wilmerhale/columbia University

20080262988 - Vertical curve system for surface grading: A method is disclosed that generates design profiles and a surface therefrom that promote water drainage from soil in an area of interest. Topographical data describing an initial surface of the area of interest are used to form initial profiles. The method generates the design profiles using the initial profiles... Agent: Ian C. Mcleod Ian C. Mcleod, P.C.

20080262989 - Multiplex data collection and analysis in bioanalyte detection: Method and device to collect multiplex data simultaneously in analyte detection and analyze the data by experimentally trained software (machine-learning) is disclosed. Various ways (magnetic particles and microcoils) are disclosed to collect multiple reporter (tag) signals. Multiplex detection can increase the biomolecule analysis efficiency by using small sample size and... Agent: Client 21058 C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080262990 - 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..

20080262991 - 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..

20080262992 - Type inference for object-oriented languages: Systems and methods facilitate type inference in a computer-programming environment. Type inference can be applied to generic method or function invocation in object-oriented languages to determine a type argument list left implicit by a programmer. One or more type arguments can be identified as a parameter type to which all... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080262983 - Method and apparatus for displaying and interacting with hierarchical information and time varying rule priority: A graphical interaction and authoring system is provided that combines textual and graphical information to display hierarchical information via an interactive visual mechanism for the composition and manipulation of syntactic structures, enabling business users to view, operate, and compose information in a way that not only graphically preserves the structure... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20080262982 - System for therapy: The invention is a system for remotely conducting psychotherapy between a client having and a therapist over the internet. The system includes a first web enabled computer device operated by the client, said first computer device having a web browser and being operatively coupled to the Internet. The system further... Agent: Elias C. Borges

20080262984 - Field-programmable gate array based accelerator system: Accelerator systems and methods are disclosed that utilize FPGA technology to achieve better parallelism and flexibility. The accelerator system may be used to implement a relevance-ranking algorithm, such as RankBoost, for a training process. The algorithm and related data structures may be organized to enable streaming data access and, thus,... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080262986 - Method for training a classifier: A method for training a classifier which forms part of a search engine comprises: receiving a document submitted by an end user of the search engine at a server; creating a training set of documents, the training set including the document submitted by the end user; training the classifier using... Agent: Norman M. Cameron

20080262987 - Obtaining a value via a rule engine implemented by a collection object: A system and computer program product for obtaining a value via a rule engine implemented by a collection object associated with an object-oriented application. A request for the value includes a key, is received from the application, and is directed to a method of the collection object. The collection object... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080262985 - Systems, methods, and media for generating sanitized data, sanitizing anomaly detection models, and/or generating sanitized anomaly detection models: Systems, methods, and media for generating sanitized data, sanitizing anomaly detection models, and generating anomaly detection models are provided. In some embodiments, methods for generating sanitized data are provided. The methods including: dividing a first training dataset comprised of a plurality of training data items into a plurality of data... Agent: Wilmerhale/columbia University

20080262988 - Vertical curve system for surface grading: A method is disclosed that generates design profiles and a surface therefrom that promote water drainage from soil in an area of interest. Topographical data describing an initial surface of the area of interest are used to form initial profiles. The method generates the design profiles using the initial profiles... Agent: Ian C. Mcleod Ian C. Mcleod, P.C.

20080262989 - Multiplex data collection and analysis in bioanalyte detection: Method and device to collect multiplex data simultaneously in analyte detection and analyze the data by experimentally trained software (machine-learning) is disclosed. Various ways (magnetic particles and microcoils) are disclosed to collect multiple reporter (tag) signals. Multiplex detection can increase the biomolecule analysis efficiency by using small sample size and... Agent: Client 21058 C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080262990 - 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..

20080262991 - 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..

20080262992 - Type inference for object-oriented languages: Systems and methods facilitate type inference in a computer-programming environment. Type inference can be applied to generic method or function invocation in object-oriented languages to determine a type argument list left implicit by a programmer. One or more type arguments can be identified as a parameter type to which all... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080256005 - Method for programming by rehearsal: A system (100), apparatus (106 107), and method are provided for an end-user to program-by-rehearsal an Ambient Intelligence environment comprising an Ambient Narrative of at least one beat (104). The end-user's rehearsal actions are visualized on a screen 106) of a portable device (101) that the end-user carries and uses... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080256006 - Clinical trial phase simulation method and clinical trial phase simulator for drug trials: A clinical trial phase simulation method for drug trials, which method allows to predict the trend of the results of a clinical trial phase of a drug with the steps of providing a database comprising for each of a certain number of individuals a predefined number of independent variables each... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

20080256008 - Human artificial intelligence machine: A method of creating human 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 a... Agent: Mitchell Kwok

20080256007 - Learning a* priority function from unlabeled data: A technique for increasing efficiency of inference of structure variables (e.g., an inference problem) using a priority-driven algorithm rather than conventional dynamic programming. The technique employs a probable approximate underestimate which can be used to compute a probable approximate solution to the inference problem when used as a priority function... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080256009 - System for temporal prediction: Described is a system for temporal prediction. The system includes an extraction module, a mapping module, and a prediction module. The extraction module is configured to receive X(1), . . . X(n) historical samples of a time series and utilize a genetic algorithm to extract deterministic features in the time... Agent: Tope-mckay & Associates

20080256011 - Generalized reduced error logistic: The present disclosure is directed to a method for Generalized Reduced Error Logistic Regression (Generalized RELR). The method overcomes significant limitations in prior art logistic regression and non-generalized Reduced Error Logistic Regression (RELR) methods. The method is applicable to all current applications of logistic regression, but has significantly greater reliability... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20080256010 - Neural networks within a network management system: Preferred embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods to observe one or more network elements associated with a network, receive an indication of an event relating to one or more network element configurations associated with the network, observe a potential outcome associated with the network, store the potential outcome... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080256013 - Algorithmic trading: Systems and methods of evaluating rules. Other embodiments are also described.... Agent: Dean P. Alderucci

20080256012 - Dynamically generating and delivering information in response to the occurrence of an event: A facility for generating information in response to the occurrence of events is described. The facility detects the occurrence of one of a plurality of defined events. The facility matches the detected event occurrence against a set of scenarios. Each scenario specifies one or more matching rules, content, and a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080256014 - Editing and compiling business rules: A computation is tested by receiving a rule specification including a set of rule cases, receiving a set of test cases, each test case containing a value for one or more of the potential inputs, and for each test case, identifying one of the rule cases that will generate an... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080256015 - Matching educational game players in a computerized learning environment: A system for matching users of learning application programs is provided. As one example, a learning service program can assess the performance of a user based on their interaction with at least one learning application program. Where the user requests an interactive session with other users for a particular learning... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080256016 - Bayes-like classifier with fuzzy likelihood: A method, system, and computer program product for building a classifier based on the concepts similar to a Bayesian classifier, but using fuzzy theory provides better understanding and an improved approach to modeling the data. The concept of prior information about the class is eliminated, and focuses on the likelihood... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080256017 - Information evaluation system and method for evaluating information: A system includes: a preference model generating unit that generates a preference model by learning and storing the preference model for a user based on a behavior history that indicates history of behavior of the user; an evaluation list generating unit that calculates probability of a plurality of recommended candidates... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080249967 - Adaptive recommendation explanations: A method and system for generating adaptive explanations for associated recommendations is disclosed. The adaptive explanations comprise a syntactical structure and associated phrases that are selected in accordance with usage behaviors and/or inferences associated with usage behaviors. The phrases included in an adaptive explanation may be selected through application of... Agent: Manyworlds, Inc.

20080249966 - Method and system of classifying, ranking and relating information based on networks: What is disclosed is an automatic method of classification, qualification and relation of information that is based on a network built starting from the semantic, numeric, conceptual, etc. relationships between elements of different sets that are structurally alike. Through the topological properties of the network, we generate a vector of... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20080249968 - Adaptive computer-based personalities: A method and system for adapting computer-based personalities, as manifested by textual or audio communications, is disclosed. The communications comprise one or more phrases that may be selected non-deterministically. The frequency distribution of the plurality of potential phrases is updated based on the behaviors of the communications recipients. Thus, the... Agent: Manyworlds, Inc.

20080249969 - Intelligent agent for distributed services for mobile devices: Mobile devices, mobile device systems and methods applying to mobile devices are provided that employ intelligent agents in combination with a wide array of remote utilities and information sources to facilitate improving a mobile device user's experience. By collecting contextual information from numerous information sources related to the mobile device... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080249970 - Method and computer program product for selecting among multiple provisioning mechanisms in a self-managing computer system: A computer implemented method and a computer program product provide a provisioning system for automated provisioning of a computing infrastructure by providing relationship factories with resources of the computing infrastructure. The relationship factories include information necessary for establishing relationships within the computing infrastructure. The provisioning system ranks relationship factories according... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080249971 - Process and heuristic statistic for prospect selection through data mining: Method, system, and article of manufacture for selecting prospects for a product promotion though data mining. An initial set of prospects in a customer database is identified, by data mining, as initially identified prospects based on predetermined selection criteria. The number of initially identified prospects is compared to a target... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080249972 - Software framework that facilitates design and implementation of database applications: An intelligent framework is provided that is disposed between a high-level language environment and a database system environment. According to one embodiment, a software framework infers the need for one or more integrity constraints. The software framework programmatically receives (a) information regarding definitions of a multiple data structures associated with... Agent: Michael A Desanctis Hamilton Desanctis & Cha LLP

20080249973 - System for managing multi-field classification rules relating to ingress contexts and egress contexts: The present invention relates to a system for managing a plurality of multi-field classification rules. The system provides a first table that includes a plurality of entries corresponding to a plurality of rules relating to an ingress context and a second table that includes a plurality of entries corresponding to... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080249974 - Method, apparatus and computer program for registering a respective target network system state form each one of a plurality of programs: It is disclosed a method comprising registering a respective target network system state from each one of a plurality of programs, each of the plurality of programs comprising a first program state, detecting a current network system state, selecting one or more of the plurality of programs based on a... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20080249975 - System and method of adaptive generation of problem determination decision procedures: System, method, and program storage device for adaptive generation of problem determination decision procedures are provided. The decision procedures may be used, for example, for isolating problems and determining solutions to the problems in complex systems, such as IT systems and consumer electronics products. In one aspect, an optimal decision... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080243727 - Distributed collaborative knowledge generation system: System and method related to a distributed collaborative knowledge generation system are disclosed. The distributed collaborative knowledge generation system includes one or more databases configured to store content information related to the distributed collaborative knowledge generation system, a search services module configured to search for the content information, a web... Agent: Yahoo C/o Mofo Palo Alto

20080243731 - Generalized sequential minimal optimization for svm+ computations: A system and method for support vector machine plus (SVM+) computations include selecting a set of indexes for a target function to create a quadratic function depending on a number of variables, and reducing the number of variables to two in the quadratic function using linear constraints. An extreme point... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20080243729 - Leveraging user-to-user interactions in a knowledgebase using a forum interface: Systems and methods provide a self-learning knowledgebase in which the ranking and/or order of topic and thread items may be dynamically and automatically adjusted based on self-learning by the knowledgebase. The knowledgebase includes threaded conversations comprising thread topics and thread items within the thread topics. Lists of thread topics and... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080243728 - Recursive feature eliminating method based on a support vector machine: Method, apparatus and system are described to perform a feature eliminating method based on a support vector machine. In some embodiments, a value for each feature in a group of features provided by a training data is determined. At least one feature is eliminated from the group by utilizing the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080243730 - Training a machine learning system to determine photoresist parameters: To train a machine learning system, a set of different values of one or more photoresist parameters, which characterize behavior of photoresist when the photoresist undergoes processing steps in a wafer application, is obtained. A set of diffraction signals is obtained using the set of different values of the one... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080243732 - Form-based user interface tool for specifying time-based, distributed algorithms for distributed systems: An apparatus for performing a distributed algorithm on a distributed system that comprises a plurality of components coupled together by a communication medium, comprises a user interface for permitting a user to enter a distributed algorithm specification that includes a time scale and tasks the components are to perform at... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080243734 - Method for computer-assisted processing of measured values detected in a sensor network: There is described a method for computer-assisted processing of measured values detected in a sensor network, with the sensor network comprising a plurality of sensor nodes, which each feature one or more sensors for detection of the measured values, with the measured values of a number of adjacent sensor nodes... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080243733 - Rating media item recommendations using recommendation paths and/or media item usage: A media item recommendation rating system and method. A recommendation rating for media items is established and dynamically updated in response to media items being recommended to other users. A recommendation server or other device receives a report of a media item recommendation and updates a recommendation rating in response.... Agent: Concert Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20080243735 - Active sampling collaborative prediction method for end-to-end performance prediction: Active sample collaborative prediction method, system and program storage device are provided. A method in one aspect may include determining approximation X for matrix Y using collaborative prediction, said matrix Y being sparse initially and representing pairwise measurement values; selecting one or more unobserved entries from said matrix Y representing... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080243736 - Club dictionaries: A mobile communication apparatus including means for enabling the mobile communication apparatus for character input, comparing inputted characters with words in a list, prioritizing and listing matches of the comparison in a priority list depending on current context. Further, displaying the priority list, enabling selection from the displayed priority list... Agent: Perman & Green

20080243737 - Club dictionaries: A mobile communication apparatus including means for enabling the mobile communication apparatus for character input, comparing inputted characters with words in a list, prioritizing and listing matches of the comparison in a priority list depending on current context. Further, displaying the priority list, enabling selection from the displayed priority list... Agent: Perman & Green

20080243738 - Game dictionaries: A mobile communication apparatus including means for enabling the mobile communication apparatus for character input, comparing inputted characters with words in a list, prioritizing and listing matches of the comparison in a priority list depending on current context. Further, displaying the priority list, enabling selection from the displayed priority list... Agent: Perman & Green

20080243739 - Remote hit predictor: In one embodiment, a first node comprises at least one memory request source and a node controller coupled to the memory request source. The node controller comprises a remote hit predictor configured to predict a second node to have a coherent copy of a block addressed by a memory request... Agent: Lawrence J. Merkel Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080243740 - Calibrating a tester using esd protection circuitry: An apparatus includes a circuit element that requires calibration, a calibration circuit for use in calibrating the circuit element, and a damping diode electrically connectable in a first path that includes the calibration circuit and electrically connectable in a second path that excludes the calibration circuit. The first path is... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080243741 - Method and apparatus for defining an artificial brain via a plurality of concept nodes connected together through predetermined relationships: A method for defining a network of nodes is provided, each representing a unique concept, and making connections between individual concepts through unique relationships to other concepts. Each of the nodes is operable to store a unique identifier in the network and information regarding the concept in addition to the... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20080243743 - Apparatus for dynamically determining primary adapter in a heterogeneous n-way adapter configuration: A method and apparatus are provided for dynamically determining a primary adapter in a heterogeneous N-way adapter configuration. Each of the adapters generates information about itself and exchanges the information with all other adapters. First a decision-making adapter is identified. Then the decision-making adapter compares the adapter-generated information of all... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20080243742 - Method and apparatus for predicting future behavior of data streams: Techniques are disclosed for predicting the future behavior of data streams through the use of current trends of the data stream. By way of example, a technique for predicting the future behavior of a data stream comprises the following steps/operations. Statistics are obtained from the data stream. Estimated statistics for... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080243744 - Adaptive multi-channel answering service for knowledge management systems: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to inquiry resolution for KM systems and provide a method, system and computer program product for multi-channel answering services for inquiry resolution in a KM system. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, a method for multi-channel answering... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul LLP Attn: Steven M. Greenberg, Esq.

20080243746 - Compact decision diagrams: In one embodiment, a method includes determining an initial projected size of a BDD representing data for storage. The projected size corresponds to an initial projected number of decision nodes composing the BDD. The method includes determining an initial node structure for the decision nodes of the BDD according to... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080243745 - 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

20080243747 - Property description coverage measuring apparatus: A design automaton extractor extracts a design automaton from design description data, and a property automaton extractor extracts a property automaton from property description data corresponding to the design description data. A matched state detector counts all states of the design automaton, detects matched states matching the property automaton from... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080243748 - Rule set partitioning based packet classification method for internet: The present invention provides a rule set partitioning based packet classification method for Internet. The method comprising: performing Horizontal Cut for the rule set, determining the field for partitioning a rule layer based on a target algorithm and selecting the partition manner of the Horizontal Cut, performing Horizontal Cut according... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080243749 - System and method for multiple volume segmentation: The invention relates to a method of performing oilfield operations for an oilfield, the oilfield having a subterranean formation. The method includes collecting a first volume data set of seismic data and a second volume data set of seismic data, co-rendering a visually-melded scene directly from the first volume data... Agent: Osha . Liang L.L.P. / Slb

20080243750 - Human artificial intelligence software application for machine & computer based program function: A method of creating human artificial intelligence in machines and computer software is presented here, as well as methods to simulate human reasoning, thought and behavior. A new human artificial intelligence software application for machines & computer based program function, which generally comprises computer based software code and programming as... Agent: Mitchell Kwok