Data processing: artificial intelligence inventions 11/08

20080294578 - Diagnosing intermittent faults: A method and system for diagnosing any combination of persistent and intermittent faults. The behavior of a system under test is obtained by measuring or probing the system at a particular location(s). The predicted behavior of a modeled system corresponding to the system under test is investigated by drawing inferences... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Parc

20080294577 - Efficient estimation of events with rare occurrence rates using taxonomies: Methods for predicting the click-through rates of Internet advertisements placed into web pages are disclosed. Specifically, a click-through rate prediction is generating using a hybrid system with two terms. The first term is constructed using a machine learning model that incorporates a limited number of important factors. The second term... Agent: Stattler - Suh PC

20080294579 - Low-power analog-circuit architecture for decoding neural signals: A microchip for performing a neural decoding algorithm is provided. The microchip is implemented using ultra-low power electronics. Also, the microchip includes a tunable neural decodable filter implemented using a plurality of amplifiers, a plurality of parameter learning filters, a multiplier, a gain and time-constant biasing circuits; and analog memory.... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080294580 - Neuromorphic device for proofreading connection adjustments in hardware artificial neural networks: A hardware-implemented method for proofreading updates of connections in a hardware artificial neural network (hANN) includes computing a draft weight change independently at a connection between neuroids and at a corresponding dedicated special purpose nousoid, determining whether the draft weight changes agree, and executing a weight change at the connection... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080294584 - Customized electronic newspapers and advertisements: This invention relates to customized electronic identification of desirable objects, such as news articles, in an electronic media environment, and in particular to a system that automatically constructs both a “target profile” for each target object in the electronic media based, for example, on the frequency with which each word... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080294581 - Device comprising a sensor arrangement and an estimator: Devices (1) comprising sensor arrangements (2) for providing first field information defining at least parts of first fields and for providing second field information defining first parts of second fields are provided with estimators (4) for estimating second parts of the second fields as functions of mixtures of the first... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080294582 - Dynamic domain abstraction through meta-analysis: A modeled-based reasoning system and method including dynamic domain abstraction, includes the use of an abstraction determining module configured to identify an appropriate abstraction level for a system model of a real-world system to be analyzed, from a plurality of potential abstraction levels. A system reasoning module is configured to... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Parc

20080294583 - Similarity matching of a competitor's products: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for identifying a classification scheme associated with product attributes of a grouping of products of an entity, receiving a record of data relating to an item of a competitor to the entity, the classification of which is uncertain, receiving a... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080294586 - Enforcing application and access control policies in an information management system with two or more interactive enforcement points: A method and apparatus for controlling document access and application usage using centrally managed rules. The rules are stored and manipulated in a central rule database via a rule server. Policy enforcers are installed on client systems and/or on servers and perform document access and application usage control for both... Agent: Aka Chan LLP

20080294588 - Event capture, cross device event correlation, and responsive actions: Correlating security event data according to one or more rules to initiate one or more actions is disclosed. Security event data is received, via an event pipeline, that defines an occurrence of an event. Each type of source of event data may have its own pipeline. Event objects are created... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20080294585 - Real-time business process triggering system and method using rfid: Provided is a real-time business process triggering system (RBPTS) using a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and a method thereof. The RBPTS is to provides interface to a corporation information system by generating an RFID event proper to a specific domain by giving the RFID data a business meaning to apply... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080294587 - System and method for rule set validation: A system, method, and computer program for validating a rule set for applicable checks of a part, comprising querying a validation rule set; correlating a part data to said validation rule set; comparing a part against said part data; and whereby said part is approved at an event, and appropriate... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080294589 - System and methods for evaluating inferences of unknown attributes in a social network: A method and system for determining a probability of inferring an unknown attribute value for an attribute of interest for a target node in a social network. The method comprises the steps of receiving as an input attribute values and link relationships for a plurality of additional nodes in the... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20080294590 - Reluctant episodic memory (rem) to store experiences of everyday interaction with objects: A method and system for storing episodic sequences (events and actions). The system learns episodic sequencing by observing real-world events and actions or by receiving fact data from a database storing common sense facts. The episodic sequences are classified into events and actions, processed to indicate correlations and causality between... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20080288424 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product providing improved identification of suspect entries in transaction data: The exemplary embodiments of the invention provide apparatus, systems, methods and computer program products for scoring entities in order to use the scoring for such tasks as identifying and prioritizing those entities that are candidates for further investigation, for example, from an audit or business control perspective. In an exemplary... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080288425 - Methods and apparatus for reasoning about information fusion approaches: Methods and apparatus for reasoning about information fusion approaches are described according to some aspects. In one aspect, a method for reasoning about information fusion approaches comprises selecting one or more information fusion approaches for evaluation, and applying the approaches to two or more sets of data. The selection of... Agent: Battelle Memorial Institute Attn:IPServices, K1-53

20080288427 - Forming a signature of parameters extracted from information: t

20080288428 - Method of interaction with an automated system: Methods of analyzing data are provided. An expert system receives input from at least a first source. Data is imported and analyzed by an expert system, wherein the expert system makes at least one first decision, which characterizes the data based on a rule base. The at least one first... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080288429 - Adaptable clinical workflow: Method of generating a number of steps constituting an adaptable clinical workflow based on a recursive approach in which for each step of the workflow the following steps are executed: Selecting a number of knowledge bases to be included in a reasoning step on the basis of (a) goal(s), generating... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20080288430 - System and method to infer anomalous behavior of members of cohorts and inference of associate actors related to the anomalous behavior: Inferring a probability of a first inference absent from a database at which a query regarding the inference is received. The first inference relates to identifying anomalous behavior of cohorts members, which identification can be used to identify crimes that are particularly difficult to detect, such as identity theft. Each... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080288435 - Context conflict resolution and automatic context source maintenance: Techniques are disclosed for detecting and resolving conflicts in context information from various sources. That information may be used to automatically update one or more context sources and/or to validate or invalidate (until further notice or for a period of time) input from one or more context sources. Or, the... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20080288432 - Device and method of fixing wireless network problems: A method is used to fix wireless network problems. The method comprises receiving at least one parameter relating to a wireless network. The method comprises comparing the at least one parameter with a database of problem identities. Each problem identity has a set of criteria. The at least one parameter... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080288434 - Domain-independent architecture in a command and control system: In one aspect, a command and control (C2) system includes a domain-independent architecture comprising an ontology model. The ontology model includes a resource aspect configured to receive entities specific to a domain, a responsibility aspect configured to receive actions specific to the domain and performed by the entities, a rules... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20080288431 - Method and system for monitoring innovation activity: A computer based method for monitoring innovation activity including: accumulating first metadata associated with a first plurality of intellectual knowledge files; extracting a first plurality of patterns from the first plurality of intellectual knowledge files; creating a first plurality of concept spaces, using rules-based processing, the first metadata, and the... Agent: Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

20080288433 - System and method for employing decision activities for providing inferences in a process execution environment: A set of decision activities can be provided to a business process management and design software tool. The tool can be used to define various processes that contain one or more activities linked by transitions. During process design time, a business analyst can identify process-relevant data of the process to... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080288436 - Data pattern matching to reduce number of write operations to improve flash life: A processing engine examines data to determine whether the received data is a sector filled with zero value data that may be mapped to a physical storage location already filled with zero value data. If the management software does not find the received data to be just zeros, the data... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080288437 - Perspective-based knowledge structuring & discovery agent guided by a maximal belief inductive logic: An inductive logic discovery process provides collective knowledge repository uniquely structured as a representative of a collection of knowledge elements in which representations, from which contexts are derived. The contexts lead to specific perspectives, and each perspective offers a specific point of view from which to study an idea. A... Agent: Nath & Associates

20080281764 - Machine learning system: A method for training a classifier to classify elements of a data set according to a characteristic is described. The data set includes N elements with the elements each characterized by at least one feature. The method includes the steps of forming a first labeled subset of elements from the... Agent: Robert Platt Bell Registered Patent Attorney

20080281765 - Method of ranking politically exposed persons and other heightened risk persons and entities: A method for ranking politically exposed persons and/or other persons and entities that pose a heightened risk based on their importance wherein an exposure index is determined for each person in the population as a function of the existence or absence of a relationship with each of the other members... Agent: Levine & Mandelbaum

20080281766 - Time machine software: A method and system for creating human robots with psychic abilities, as well as enabling a human robot to access information in a time machine to predict the future accurately and realistically. The present invention provides a robot with the ability to accomplish tasks quickly and accurately without using any... Agent: Mitchell Kwok

20080281767 - Method for training neural networks: The present invention provides a method (30) for training an artificial neural network (NN). The method (30) includes the steps of: initialising the NN by selecting an output of the NN to be trained and connecting an output neuron of the NN to input neuron(s) in an input layer of... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080281768 - Method and system for conducting a compliance audit: In an embodiment of the invention, a method related to conducting a compliance audit, including accessing a database, the database including a rule set formulated from at least one requirement, wherein the database includes a knowledge base, accepting input regarding circumstance data, the circumstance data regarding a subject of the... Agent: Chowdhury & Georgakis, P.c

20080281769 - Systems and methods for community tagging: An embodiment relates generally to a method of organizing information. The method includes providing for a knowledgebase and providing for a first set of tags configured to be applied to items in the knowledgebase. The method also includes providing for a second set of tags configured to be applied to... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080281770 - Classification method and system for small collections of high-value entities: A method and system for classifying small collections of hi-value entities with missing data. The invention includes: collecting measurement variables for a set of entity cases for which classifications are known; calibrating standard weights for each measurement variable based on historical data; computing compensating weights for each entity case that... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080281771 - Data partitioning and critical section reduction for bayesian network structure learning: In a parallel system, multiple threads operate in parallel to perform network structure learning. A global score cache is partitioned into multiple split score caches, which may in one embodiment include associating a score cache with a node of the structure to be learned. With a split score cache, the... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080275827 - Parallelization of bayesian network structure learning: A master computing node directs parallel structure learning with intelligent computational task distribution. The master computing node may determine what families are to be used to score neighbors in a neighbor scoring process, and determine if the families have scores in a score cache. Families to be scored for the... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080275828 - Method and system for independently observing and modifying the activity of an actor processor: A system, method, and computer program product for observing and modifying activity in an actor processor are presented. An observer module is provided for observing a physical property of an actor processor. The observer module comprises a property-observing sensor for detecting and sampling a physical property of the actor processor... Agent: Tope-mckay & Associates

20080275829 - System and method for obfuscation of data across an enterprise: A system for obfuscating data across an enterprise, comprising a rule evaluator; an active rule editor; and an active rule editor repository; wherein the rule evaluator evaluates active rules and optimizes its behavior based on both user-specified guidance and properties learned during system execution; wherein the active rule editor provides... Agent: Antoinette M. Tease, P.l.l.c.

20080275830 - Annotating audio-visual data: A method of annotating audio-visual data is disclosed. The method includes detecting a plurality of facial expressions in an audience based on a stimulus, determining an emotional response to the stimulus based on the facial expressions and generating at least one annotation of the stimulus based on the determined emotional... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080275831 - Bipedal walking simulation: An artificial multiped is constructed (either in simulation or embodied) in such a way that its natural body dynamics allow the lower part of each leg to swing naturally under the influence of gravity. The upper part of each leg is actively actuated in the sagittal plane. The necessary input... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20080275832 - Electronic synapse device: An electronic synapse device comprising a substrate formed from semiconductor material; a first input for receiving a weighting signal; a second input for receiving a signal from a pre-synaptic neuron device; an insulating layer provided between the first and second inputs and the semiconductor material; and an output, the second... Agent: Nath & Associates

20080275833 - Link spam detection using smooth classification function: A collection of web pages is considered as a directed graph in which the pages themselves are nodes and the hyperlinks between the pages are directed edges in the graph. A trusted entity identifies training examples for spam pages and normal pages. A random walk is conducted through the directed... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080275834 - 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: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080275835 - Method for decision support licensing and micropayments: A method of increasing the quality of healthcare provided by health care professionals is provided. The method includes providing a computer system comprising a server including a database, downloading a decision support system onto the database, the decision support system includes a plurality of sets of rules, and accessing the... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (12553 - 1000)

20080275836 - Dynamic user prompting for pertinent clinical information: A method for dynamically prompting a caregiver for pertinent information about a patient uses a computer or processor operating as a rule-based system. The method includes receiving a first data input triggering a rule in a first rule queue requiring both a first data input and at least a second... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (12553 - 1000)

20080275837 - Method and system for approximate string matching: A method and system for approximate string matching are provided for generating approximate matches whilst supporting compounding and correction rules. The method for approximate string matching of an input pattern to a trie data structure, includes traversing a trie data structure to find approximate partial and full character string matches... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080275838 - Conflicting rule resolution system: A method for identifying conflicting and duplicate rules in a decision support system is provided. The method includes establishing a first subsystem including a protocol of existing rules, each existing rule includes an input feature. The method also includes creating a new rule that includes an input feature, and comparing... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (12553 - 1000)