Data processing: artificial intelligence inventions 12/08

20080319928 - Method, computer, and recording medium storing a program for computing an optimal solution to engine design variables: A method, computer, and recording medium storing a program are provided which, based on local optimal solutions, more efficiently calculate an optimal global optimal solution in a global operating area. System calculates the global optimal solution by solving, using a genetic algorithm based on the local optimal solutions and the... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20080319929 - Automated action-selection system and method , and application thereof to training prediction machines and driving the development of self-developing devices: In order to promote efficient learning of relationships inherent in a system or setup S described by system-state and context parameters, the next action to take, affecting the setup, is determined based on the knowledge gain expected to result from this action. Knowledge-gain is assessed “locally” by comparing the value... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080319930 - Information processing apparatus and method, and program: An information processing apparatus includes: strength estimation means for calculating an operation frequency for each predetermined time period from an operation history, and estimating a time period of the operation frequency which exceeds a predetermined value as a time period over which the user has a strong desire to adjust;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080319931 - System for supporting user's behavior: Provided is a system 10 which supports a user's behavior by generating a behavioral decision function indicating behavior to be adopted to a certain target. The system 10 includes: a data acquiring section 110 which acquires a cost caused as a result of adopting each of a plurality of behaviors... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20080319932 - Classification using a cascade approach: A system and method that facilitates and effectuates optimizing a classifier for greater performance in a specific region of classification that is of interest, such as a low false positive rate or a low false negative rate. A two-stage classification model can be trained and employed, where the first stage... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080319933 - Architecture, system and method for artificial neural network implementation: An architecture, systems and methods for a scalable artificial neural network, wherein the architecture includes: an input layer; at least one hidden layer; an output layer; and a parallelization subsystem configured to provide a variable degree of parallelization to the input layer, at least one hidden layer, and output layer.... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20080319934 - Neural network, a device for processing information, a method of operating a neural network, a program element and a computer-readable medium: A neural network (100) comprising a plurality of neurons (101 to 106) and a plurality of wires (109) adapted for connecting the plurality of neurons (101 to 106), wherein at least a part of the plurality of wires (109) comprises a plurality of input connections and exactly one output connection.... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080319935 - Systems & methods to reduce wait time in the service sector and just in time demand management: Systems and Methods are provided to actively manage waiting time in the service sector where there is volatility in determining when exactly the service will be performed. In the service sector where buyers are waiting for service (for example Physician's Office, Hospital, Automobile Repair Shops, Restaurants, DMV offices, etc.), this... Agent: Sanjeev Chandak

20080319936 - Engineering expert system: An expert system aids engineering personnel working in a manufacturing or other industrial environment by answering questions relating to machines, processes, systems or other elements of the environment. Users can interact with the system using kiosks in the relevant areas of the plant to enter queries and receive answers. A... Agent: Ciba Vision Corporation Patent Department

20080319937 - Properties of data elements: Methods and computer program products relating to properties of data elements. A computer-implemented method for identifying a property of a data element includes receiving a request for at least one sought property of a data element. The data element is configured for use in semantically identifying information portions in electronic... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080313107 - Data management apparatus and method: Data elements are classified into a plurality of folders in accordance with classification conditions on the basis of each of a plurality of metadata elements. Data elements in each of the folders are further classified into a plurality of folders on the basis of a metadata element different from the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080313106 - System and method for interactive browsing: The present invention provides a system and method for achieving interactive browsing. Said system is coupled to a knowledge base and a document database, said knowledge base stores a plurality of terms and information relating to each term, and said document database stores a plurality of documents. Said system comprises... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080313108 - System and method for obtaining subtextual information regarding an interaction between an individual and a programmable device: The system contains an output device in communication with the programmable device. The output device produces output information from the programmable device to the individual. An input device is in communication with the programmable device. The individual communicates a responsive act to the programmable device through the input device. The... Agent: Hayes, Soloway P.C.

20080313111 - Large scale item representation matching: A two-phase process quickly and accurately identifies representations of the same items within a collection of item representations. In the first phase, referred to as a “blocking phase,” frequency information indicating the frequency with which terms appear within the collection of item representations is used to quickly identify “candidate pairs”... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080313112 - Learning machine that considers global structure of data: A new machine learning technique is herein disclosed which generalizes the support vector machine framework. A separating hyperplane in a separating space is optimized in accordance with generalized constraints which dependent upon the clustering of the input vectors in the dataset.... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20080313110 - Method and system for self-calibrating project estimation models for packaged software applications: An estimation system for deriving multi-dimensional project plans for implementing packaged software applications with self-calibration and refinement of project estimation models, the system includes: a view layer configured to act as a user interface for user inputs and system outputs; a model and control layer configured to implement rules based... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080313109 - System, method and computer program product for eveluating a storage policy: A method for generating a storage policy, the method includes: receiving a storage system target function; and generating, by a machine learning entity, the storage policy in response to: (a) a set of file-related storage operation requests, (b) a state of the storage system before responding to the set of... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20080313113 - Method and apparatus for an algorithm development environment for solving a class of real-life combinatorial optimization problems: The invention pertains to an algorithm development environment for solving a class of combinatorial optimization problems. Many practical real-life applications can be formulated as combinatorial optimization problems. Over the years, there have been many well-known algorithms proposed to solve these problems. The effort in customizing algorithms to fulfill a particular... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080313114 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for recursive quantum computing algorithms: A recursive approach to quantum computing employs an initial solution, determines intermediate solutions, evaluates the intermediate solutions and repeats using the intermediate solution, if the intermediate solution does not satisfy solution criteria. A best one of the intermediate solutions may be employed in the recursion.... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080313115 - Behavioral profiling using a behavioral web graph and use of the behavioral web graph in prediction: A method for predicting demographic phenomena has steps for (a) determining behavioral characteristics of a specific population group related by one or more of interest or behavior; (b) creating one or more browsing software agents incorporating behavioral characteristics from step (a) and enabled to browse a network graph; (c) executing... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080313117 - Methods and systems for creating a behavioral web graph: A method for creating a behavioral network graph has steps for (a) establishing a static network graph with intersections representing connectivity between nodes in a network; (b) determining behavioral characteristics of a person or group of persons in navigating the static network graph; (c) creating software agents mimicking the navigation... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080313116 - Parameterized statistical interaction policies: A method and apparatus are disclosed for selecting interaction policies. Values may be provided for a group of parameters for user models. Interaction policies within a specific tolerance of an optimal interaction policy for the user models may be learned. Up to a predetermined number of the learned interaction policies,... Agent: Prass LLP

20080313119 - Learning and reasoning from web projections: A system and method that facilitates and effectuates making an inference related to objects of interest within a context. A web projection component can generate sub graphs by projecting objects o interest onto a web graph representing a superset or partially overlapping set of objects to the objects of interest.... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080313118 - Method and apparatus for component association inference, failure diagnosis and misconfiguration detection based on historical failure data: A method (which can be computer implemented) fox inferring component associations among a plurality of components in a distributed computing system includes the steps of obtaining status information fox each pertinent component of the plurality of components, forming an N by D matrix, X, based on the status information, and... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080313120 - Enabling validation of data stored on a server system: Enabling validation of data stored on a server system. According to an aspect of the invention, a portion of the data is received at a client system and processed based on a rule to generate a result. The generated result is used to determine the compliance of the received portion... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20080313122 - Method and system for generating an offer and transmitting the offer to a wireless communications device: A system for a system for generating and transmitting an offer to a wireless communications device (WCD) in response to an order, including: an interface element, for at least one specially programmed general-purpose computer, arranged to receive an order from a WCD, the order including a first item or service... Agent: Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

20080313121 - Method and system for managing enterprise operations: Disclosed is a method, a system and a computer program product for assisting users in managing operations in an enterprise. An input is received from a user in the enterprise. The input is associated with an exception in an operation. The exception indicates occurrence of a fault in the operation.... Agent: Jay M. Schloff Intellipex PLLC

20080313123 - Using a browser plug-in to implement a behavioral web graph: A method for creating a behavioral network graph has steps for (a) creating a program for tracking and reporting network navigation activity; (b) installing the program on a plurality of network-capable appliances operated by a plurality of persons; (c) tracking the network navigation activity of the persons operating the appliances;... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080313124 - Organically ranked knowledge categorization in a knowledge management system: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to expert modeling in a KM system and provide method, system and computer program product for organically ranked knowledge and categorization for a KM system. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for organically ranked knowledge and... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul LLP Attn: Steven M. Greenberg, Esq.

20080313125 - Paths and distance in the web using a behavioral web graph: A method for determining distance between two nodes in a network has steps for (a) creating a map of nodes in the network, the map having points representing pairs of nodes; (b) determining a probability at individual points that an entity connected to one of the nodes of the pair... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080313126 - Method for a distributed control system: In an arrangement, functions and/or structures in a distributed control system (24) that works with a first protocol (28) are analysed and/or monitored. A first unit (23) is connected or can be connected to the control system, which first unit, due to its compatibility with the first protocol, receives and/or... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080313127 - Multidimensional timeline browsers for broadcast media: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that effectuates selective viewing of multimedia audio and/or visual content. The disclosed system can include a component that obtains multimedia audio or visual content from a broadcast server, categorizes the multimedia audio or visual content, and associates index tags to categorized... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080306886 - Graphical user interface adaptation system for a point of sale device: A system for controlling a graphical user interface (GUI) for a point of sale device (POSD), including: a tracking element, in a processor for at least one specially-programmed computer, to track, using an interface element in the computer, respective responses, by end users, to a plurality of implementations of at... Agent: Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

20080306887 - Method for machine learning with state information: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for the online convex optimization problem, in which the decision maker has knowledge of the all past states and resulting cost functions for his previous choices and attempts to make a new choice that results in minimum regret. The method does not... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20080306891 - Method for machine learning with state information: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for the online convex optimization problem, in which the decision maker has knowledge of the all past states and resulting cost functions for his previous choices and attempts to make a new choice that results in minimum regret. The method does not... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20080306890 - Plant control apparatus: A plant control system includes: a numerical calculation execution part which calculates the operation characteristic of the plant; a model for simulating the plant control characteristic according to information on the numerical calculation result; a learning part which learns the plant operation method by using the model; a learning information... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080306888 - Stochastic control optimization for sender-based flow control in a distributed stateful messaging system: A method and system for controlling message flow in distributed stream processing. State transition probabilities in a Markov model having one state per staleness value of data are determined for sending or withholding updates of data to subscribers using expected message rates from an information provider. A cost function annotates... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080306889 - System for supporting user's behavior: Provided is a system 10 which supports a user's behavior by generating a behavioral decision function indicating behavior to be adopted to a certain target. The system 10 includes: a data acquiring section 110 which acquires a cost caused as a result of adopting each of a plurality of behaviors... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080306892 - Multiphase flow meter for electrical submersible pumps using artificial neural networks: A multiphase flow meter used in conjunction with an electrical submersible pump system in a well bore includes sensors to determine and transmit well bore pressure measurements, including tubing and down hole pressure measurements. The multiphase flow meter also includes at least one artificial neural network device to be used... Agent: James E. Bradley Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20080306893 - Methods and systems for predicting occurrence of an event: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and systems for training a neural network having weighted connections for classification of data, as well as embodiments corresponding to the use of such a neural network for the classification of data, including, for example, prediction of an event (e.g., disease).... Agent: Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 35437

20080306894 - Computer-implemented methods and systems for identifying and reporting deviations from standards and policies for contracts, agreements and other business documents: A computer-implemented method may include steps of providing a plurality of business document templates; providing a plurality of deviation rules and associating at least some of the plurality of deviation rules with each of the business document templates; storing the plurality of business document templates and the associated plurality of... Agent: Young Law Firm, P.C.

20080306896 - Detection of epidemic outbreaks with persistent causal-chain dynamic bayesian networks: A method for determining a probability of a hidden variable from an observed variable in a Dynamic Bayesian Network is presented. The method includes identifying the network based on predetermined criteria, determining a number of hidden variables in a time slice of the network, determining a number of the time... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080306895 - Method and system for predicting personal preferences: The invention provides techniques for building multiple predictive models of individuals' affinities for attributes of objects and/or services. The accuracies of multiple predictive models are measured and the models are combined based on the measurements, resulting in a more accurate predictive model of individual-specific affinities for attributes of the objects... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080306897 - System for providing healthcare operation specific user interface display images: A system provides a user interface for viewing nursing problems with multiple levels of granularity in a knowledge base and rendered in an application that are dependent on context of problems, patient demographic information and information needed by a user interface image. A user interface system presents patient medical problem... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080306898 - Method for reliable classification of samples in clinical diagnostics using an improved method of classification: A system for classification of a test object using a training set comprising a plurality of objects, each of which is assigned as a member of a class. Collectively, the objects in the training set are members of at least two classes. A computer system is configured as a probabilistic... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080301070 - Kernels and methods for selecting kernels for use in learning machines: Learning machines, such as support vector machines, are used to analyze datasets to recognize patterns within the dataset using kernels that are selected according to the nature of the data to be analyzed. Where the datasets possesses structural characteristics, locational kernels can be utilized to provide measures of similarity among... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080301072 - Robot simulation apparatus: A robot simulation apparatus including: a display section which displays models of at least a conveyance apparatus, an object, and a robot respectively laid out at predetermined positions; a movement condition designating section which designates a direction and a speed of movement of the object; a imaging condition designating section... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080301071 - Support vector inductive logic programming: A computer implemented method of particular, although not exclusive application to analysing a plurality of molecules which comprises computing a kernel function for each pair of the plurality of molecules, the kernel function being representative of the number of features present in both molecules of the pairs and using the... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080301069 - System and method for learning balanced relevance functions from expert and user judgments: The present invention relates to systems and methods for determining a content item relevance function. The method comprises collecting user preference data at a search provider for storage in a user preference data store and collecting expert-judgment data at the search provider for storage in an expert sample data store.... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080301073 - Method for wafer analysis with artificial neural network and system thereof: A method for wafer analysis with artificial neural network and the system thereof are disclosed. The method of the system of the present invention has several steps, including: first of all, providing a test unit for wafer test and generating a plurality of test data; next, transmitting the test data... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080301074 - Systems, methods, and software for hyperlinking names: Hyperlinking or associating documents to other documents based on the names of people in the documents has become more desirable. Although there is an automated system for installing such hyperlinks into judicial opinions, the system is not generally applicable to other types of names and documents, nor well suited to... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080301075 - Method of training a neural network and a neural network trained according to the method: A neural network comprises trained interconnected neurons. The neural network is configured to constrain the relationship between one or more inputs and one or more outputs of the neural network so the relationships between them are consistent with expectations of the relationships; and/or the neural network is trained by creating... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080301077 - System and method for medical predictive models using likelihood gamble pricing: A method for predicting survival rates of medical patients includes providing a set D of survival data for a plurality of medical patients, providing a regression model having an associated parameter vector β, providing an example x0 of a medical patient whose survival probability is to be classified, calculating a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080301076 - Systems and methods for analyzing information technology systems using collaborative intelligence: An information technology (IT) system of interest is analyzed using collaborative, community-based sharing of expert knowledge, analysis and advice through user-submitted analysis rules and/or user-submitted report templates. Users may submit rules that have been found to be useful in analyzing or managing IT systems. A rule may analyze a particular... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080301078 - Method and apparatus to abstract away rule languages: Some embodiments of a method and an apparatus to abstract away rule languages from a rule engine have been presented. In one embodiment, rules written in a first rule language are parsed into descriptor classes, which are used to model concepts that can be expressed in a rule engine. An... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080301079 - Method and apparatus to define a ruleflow: Some embodiments of a method and an apparatus to define ruleflows for a rule engine have been presented. In one embodiment, a graphical user interface (GUI) is generated to allow a user to graphically specify an execution order of some rules. Then the rule engine is used to execute the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080301080 - Method for rule compliance situation checking and related checking system: A method for rule compliance situation checking is provided. The method in one aspect, includes the steps of: a) building a rule model for predefined rules and building a business operational model for business processes; b) normalizing vocabularies in the rule model and the business operational model; c) checking whether... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080301081 - Method and apparatus for generating configuration rules for computing entities within a computing environment using association rule mining: A method and apparatus for generating computer configuration rules comprising receiving configuration data regarding a plurality of computers, analyzing the configuration data to determine associations within the configuration data, and generating configuration rules from a result of the analysis.... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group/symantec Corporation

20080301082 - Knowledge base comprising executable stories: Systems and methods are provided for assisted decision-making. A knowledge base comprises a plurality of executable stories. A given story comprises a belief network containing at least one associated hypothesis and evidence associated with the at least one hypothesis. The system further comprises at least one decision algorithm having respective... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20080301083 - System and method for generating new concepts based on existing ontologies: A system and a method for automatically generating new concepts based on existing ontologies are provided. The system creates new concepts in existing ontologies based on new concept descriptions expressed in a natural language format, and comprises: a normalizer for receiving and parsing the new concept descriptions so as to... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP