Data processing: artificial intelligence inventions 04/09

20090112778 - Method and apparatus for leveraging end user terminals in self-learning networks: The invention includes a method and apparatus for configuring a self-learning network using feedback information received from an end user terminal communicating via the self-learning network. A method includes receiving feedback information from the end user terminal, generating configuration information for at least one network element of the self-learning network... Agent: Wall & Tong, LLP/ Alcatel-lucent Usa Inc.

20090112779 - Data scoping and data flow in a continuation based runtime: Described is a data model used in a continuation based runtime that executes activities. The data model provides for declaring parameters to define data flow direction (in, out or both in and out) with respect to activities. The model further allows for the declaring of variables to provide for data... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090112780 - Discovering optimal system configurations using decentralized probability based active sampling: A system and method for optimizing system performance includes applying sampling based optimization to identify optimal configurations of a computing system by selecting a number of configuration samples and evaluating system performance based on the samples. Based on feedback of evaluated samples, a location of an optimal configuration is inferred.... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090112781 - Predicting and using search engine switching behavior: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to predicting and using search engine switching behavior. In aspects, switching components receive a representation of user interactions with at least one browser. The switching components derive information from the representation that is useful in predicting whether a user will switch search... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090112782 - Facilitating a decision-making process: Systems and methods for facilitating a decision-making process are disclosed. In one aspect of the present disclosure, in response to receiving a request to facilitate a decision making process, the decision-making agent participates in a communications thread where users are attempting to reach a decision regarding a business to frequent... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20090112783 - Method and system of associating a runtime event with a component: A method and a system of associating a runtime event with a component. The method includes catching the runtime event; catching the context of the current running environment and determining the current component based on said context; and getting the associating policy of current component and determining the responsible component... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20090112785 - Smart button: The present invention provides for systems and methods that facilitate conveying user information between and among users effectively to thereby create a collaborative filtering environment with maintained user privacy. More specifically, the present invention allows user-profile building to occur coincident with user-browsing, for example. This can be accomplished in part... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090112784 - Tile architectural style for privacy-preserved distributed computing: A method and system for privacy-preserved distributed computing on large networks using a tile-based architecture is disclosed. An expression for a tile seed assembly characterizing a problem, such as an NP-complete problem, may be determined. The solution to the tile seed assembly is a full tile assembly including a plurality... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090112787 - Automated natural language formula translator and data evaluator: A method is provided wherein natural-language formulas are translated to obtain structured expressions or rules. When a query is received requiring analysis of data, the rules are evaluated to obtain a solution. The evaluation includes: obtaining the solution from a stack of existing solutions; searching a database of rule definitions... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090112786 - Method and system for information handling system diagnosis, rules, and actions: In an information handling system, IHS problem diagnosis and repair includes receiving configuration items of the IHS from a configuration management database, collecting a set of rules and corresponding actions relating to the configuration items of the IHS, the set of rules and corresponding actions collected from an expert system,... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090112788 - System and method for knowledge storage in an autonomic network: An indication of an occurrence of an event is received. A first ontology (124) is accessed and selected information associated with the occurrence of the event is obtained from the first ontology (124). A second ontology (122) is then accessed and at least one first rule associated with the occurrence... Agent: Motorola/fetf

20090106171 - Artificial intelligence platform: The present invention provides a new and unique platform for authoring and deploying interactive characters which are powered by artificial intelligence. The platform permits the creation of a virtual world populated by multiple characters and objects, interacting with one another so as to create a life-like virtual world and interacting... Agent: Mark J. Pandiscio

20090106172 - False discovery rate for graphical modles: The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that determines a number of non-spurious arcs associated with a learned graphical model. The system can include devices and mechanisms that utilize learning algorithms and datasets to generate learned graphical models and graphical models associated with null permutations of the datasets, ascertaining... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090106173 - Limited-memory quasi-newton optimization algorithm for l1-regularized objectives: An algorithm that employs modified methods developed for optimizing differential functions but which can also handle the special non-differentiabilities that occur with the L1-regularization. The algorithm is a modification of the L-BFGS (limited-memory Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno) quasi-Newton algorithm, but which can now handle the discontinuity of the gradient using a procedure that... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090106175 - Management of applicative streams in mobile networks: A method is provided for constructing at least one decision graph for managing at least one applicative stream assigned to a terminal and set up between the terminal and a correspondent via at least one communication network. The method includes a step of dynamically constructing at least one possible decision... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090106174 - Methods, systems, and computer program products extracting network behavioral metrics and tracking network behavioral changes: A network behavioral metric is extracted from a communication network based on a relevancy of the metric to network behavior by identifying a network metric x that is defined as a random variable that represents a quantitative measure of a network behavior accumulated over a period of time, selecting a... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20090106176 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: An information processing apparatus for generating an algorithm determining a similarity between a pair of data. The apparatus includes: a feature-quantity-extraction expression list generation mechanism generating a feature-quantity-extraction expression list including a plurality of feature-quantity-extraction expressions including a plurality of operators by updating the feature-quantity-extraction expression list of a preceding... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090106177 - Information processing device, information processing method, and program: An information processing device for generating a target feature amount computational expression for outputting a target feature amount corresponding to input data, comprising: a feature amount extraction expression list generating unit configured to generate and update a feature amount extraction expression list; a feature amount computing unit configured to input... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090106178 - Computer-implemented systems and methods for updating predictive models: Computer-implemented systems and methods for updating champion predictive models that operate within a production environment. A system and method can include evaluating the predictive model performance of a champion predictive model. Based upon an indication of decay of predictive model performance of the champion predictive model, a corrective action is... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20090106179 - System and method for the longitudinal analysis of education outcomes using cohort life cycles, cluster analytics-based cohort analysis, and probablistic data schemas: A computer implemented method, computer program product, and data processing system for performing analysis on a plurality of data stored in a database. In an illustrative method, a first cohort is generated from the plurality of data. An optimal control cohort is generated from the plurality of data. Generating is... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090106182 - Data flow analzying apparatus, data flow analyzing method and data flow analyzing program: A data flow analyzing apparatus includes an analysis rule storage which stores analysis rules having definitions of data types, a data flow analyzer which performs data flow analysis on an analysis target program as a target of analysis by using the analysis rules stored in the analysis rule storage to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090106180 - Health meter: Techniques for indicating the status or health of a software system in a simple and summarized manner. In one embodiment, a health meter is displayed that displays a status value indicating the status or health of the software system. The status or health of the system as indicated by the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090106181 - Procedural constraint engine: Various systems and methods for integrating procedural logic with a stateless constraint engine are disclosed. One method involves accessing a first set of values generated by a stateless constraint engine based upon a first set of inputs and then accessing a second set of values generated by the stateless constraint... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20090106183 - Extended finite state automata and systems and methods for recognizing patterns using extended finite state automata: Deterministic finite automata (DFAs) are popular solutions to deep packet inspection because they are fast and DFAs corresponding to multiple signatures are combinable into a single DFA. Combining such DFAs causes an explosive increase in memory usage. Extended finite automata (XFAs) are an alternative to DFAs that avoids state-space explosion... Agent: Lathrop & Clark LLP

20090106184 - Locating dense and isolated sub-graphs: Methods and apparatus for locating a dense and isolated sub-graph from a weighted graph having multiple nodes and multiple weighted edges are described. Each node in the weighted graph represents an object. Each weighted edge in the weighted graph connects two nodes and represents the relationship between the two objects... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20090099981 - Mainframe-based business rules engine construction tool: In various embodiments, a programmable apparatus for use in a computing environment is provided. The apparatus may include a business rules engine having at least one rule executable by a mainframe system and stored based on an extensible language; and, a business rules engine builder interface configured to access the... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090099982 - Self-modification of a mainframe-based business rules engine construction tool: In various embodiments, a programmable apparatus for use in a computing environment is provided. The apparatus may include a business rules engine having at least one rule executable by a mainframe system and stored based on an extensible language; and, a business rules engine builder interface configured to access the... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090099986 - Learning tradeoffs between discriminative power and invariance of classifiers: Systems and methods are described for learning the discriminative power-invariance tradeoffs for classification of input data (“tradeoff learning system”). In various embodiments, the tradeoff learning system receives multiple classifiers (“base classifiers”) and employs a learning technique to produce a combined classifier. Each received base classifier achieves a different level of... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20090099985 - Method and apparatus for improved reward-based learning using adaptive distance metrics: The present invention is a method and an apparatus for reward-based learning of policies for managing or controlling a system or plant. In one embodiment, a method for reward-based learning includes receiving a set of one or more exemplars, where at least two of the exemplars comprise a (state, action)... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan LLP IBM Corporation

20090099983 - System and method for authoring and learning: Provided is a training method comprising delivering a situation to a learner, the situation comprising an event; automatically inserting a still menu in order to simulate a pause in the delivering; while pausing, recording an action by the learner in response to the event; reviewing the action recorded by the... Agent: Dubois, Bryant, Campbell & Schwartz, LLP

20090099984 - Systems and methods for generating predictive matrix-variate t models: Systems and methods predict missing elements from a partially-observed matrix by receiving one or more user item ratings; generating a model parameterized by matrices U, S, V; and outputting the model.... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090099987 - Decomposed optimal bayesian stackelberg solver: Techniques are described for Stackelberg games, in which one agent (the leader) must commit to a strategy that can be observed by other agents (the followers or adversaries) before they choose their own strategies, in which the leader is uncertain about the types of adversaries it may face. Such games... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090099988 - Active learning using a discriminative classifier and a generative model to detect and/or prevent malicious behavior: A malicious behavior detection/prevention system, such as an intrusion detection system, is provided that uses active learning to classify entries into multiple classes. A single entry can correspond to either the occurrence of one or more events or the non-occurrence of one or more events. During a training phase, entries... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090099989 - System and method for cortical simulation: A cortical simulator optimizing the simulation scale and time through computationally efficient simulation of neurons in a clock-driven and synapses in an event-driven fashion, memory efficient representation of simulation state, and communication efficient message exchanges.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20090099992 - Bounded-deferral policies for guiding the timing of alerting, interaction and communications using local sensory information: The present invention relates to a system and method to facilitate communications of important messages, communications, or interactions. Policies are introduced that consider a user's current situation, including the cost of interrupting the user, or directly sensed surrogates for such a cost, and decide on a suitable time, within a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090099991 - Method and system for predicting process performance using material processing tool and sensor data: A method for constructing a process performance prediction model for a material processing system, the method including the steps of: recording tool data for a plurality of observations during a process in a process tool, the tool data comprises a plurality of tool data parameters; recording process performance data for... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090099990 - Object detection and recognition with bayesian boosting: An efficient, effective and at times superior object detection and/or recognition (ODR) function may be built from a set of Bayesian stumps. Bayesian stumps may be constructed for each feature and object class, and the ODR function may be constructed from the subset of Bayesian stumps that minimize Bayesian error... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090099994 - Enhanced rule engine: An enhanced rule engine, in which a rule-evaluated result that is received from an external rule engine based on a context transmitted to the external rule engine for evaluation by the rule and on a schema document serializing an automatically generated vocabulary transmitted to the external rule engine is output.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20090099993 - Method and apparatus for identifying and extracting meaning in documents: Systems and methods are provided for an expert search engine. In one embodiment, a method may employ a computer based system to define a meaning taxonomy including one or more meaning loaded entities, associate documents to the meaning taxonomy based on a set of expert rules and the syntactic structures... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20090099995 - System and method for automatic generation of user-oriented homepage: The present invention discloses a system and a method for automatic generation of a user-oriented homepage, said system comprises an active real-time artificial intelligence network server working with a traditional network server and a fast relational data processing method to track and determine from a webpage browsing log server a... Agent: Pai Patent & Trademark Law Firm

20090099997 - Force-sensing orthotic electric device controller: Control devices and kits of components of control devices are provided. The subject invention also provides systems for designing control devices and/or kits of components of control devices. A system user can provide data about an end user to an expert system via a user interface, and the expert system... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20090099996 - System and method for performing discovery of digital information in a subject area: A system and method for performing discovery of digital information in a subject area is provided. Each of topics in a subject area, training material for the topics, and a corpus comprising digital information are designated. Topic models for each of the topics are built. The topic models are evaluated... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20090099998 - Knowledge-based matching: A knowledge-based system and methods to matchmaking and social network extension are disclosed. The system is configured to allow users to specify knowledge profiles, which are collections of concepts that indicate a certain topic or area of interest selected from an. The system utilizes the knowledge model as the semantic... Agent: John P. O'banion O'banion & Ritchey LLP

20090094175 - Intrusive software management: Intrusion features of a landing page associated with sponsored content are identified. A feature score for the landing page based on the identified intrusion features is generated, and if the feature score for the landing page exceeds a feature threshold, the landing page is classified as a candidate landing page.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090094174 - Method, system and program product for on demand data mining server with dynamic mining models: The present invention in various implementations provides a method, system and computer program product for dynamically determining data mining results using a dynamic data mining model within a data mining system. The present invention, in accordance with various implementations, in part, creates a mining model for an event request that... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20090094176 - Pandemic remote access design: In one example embodiment, a system and method is illustrated that includes receiving user count information that includes a user count value and an address identifier. Further, an operation is executed that includes using the user count information to determine whether a limit variable has been exceeded. An operation is... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090094178 - Computer-based method and system for efficient categorizing of digital documents: A method, system and computer-readable medium are presented for computer-based supervised classification of digital documents that can exclusively identify an optimal category for the single class model by dividing a calculated score of each category into groups (thresholds can be automatically decided from the knowledge base) and can further predict... Agent: Dillon & Yudell, LLP

20090094177 - Method for efficient machine-learning classification of multiple text categories: A method, system and computer-readable medium are presented for performing multiple-category classification of digital documents using non-binary classification approach that is less computationally intensive and does not require the generation of extra parameters in execution. The method comprises calculating a category score for categories to which a digital document may... Agent: Dillon & Yudell, LLP

20090094179 - Classifying environment of a data processing apparatus: Data processing apparatus is disclosed comprising: a sensor module configured to sense a first profile comprised of one or more attributes of an environment of said data processing apparatus; and a classification module configured to assign a prediction factor to each of said one or more attributes of said first... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090094180 - Method of real-time crystal peak tracking for positron emission tomography (pet) avalanche-photodiodes (apd) detector: The present invention provides a method of real-time crystal peak tracking for avalanche-photodiode (APD) detectors on positron emission tomography (PET) scanners that satisfies the need to compensate for the significant gain drifting due to thermal variations in APD detectors on PET scanners.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090094182 - Automated methods and systems for the detection and identification of money service business transactions: The present disclosure provides an automated method for the detection and identification of money service business transactions, including: performing a preprocessing operation, wherein the preprocessing operation includes filtering a dataset; performing a feature extraction operation, wherein the feature extraction operation includes extracting predetermined features from a transaction signal; performing a... Agent: Clements Bernard Miller

20090094181 - Method of estimating salt contamination: A method of estimating a salt contamination is provided. The method includes preparing salt contamination data measured at a plurality of areas, preparing geographical factor data of areas for estimating, preparing rainfall amount data near the areas, setting a correlation expression having the geographical factor and the rainfall amount as... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090094183 - Predictive monitoring method and system: A method (300) for monitoring a data processing system is proposed. The method involves the measuring (306) of state parameters of the system. Indicators of the performance of the system are then inferred (324-330) from the state parameters by applying fuzzy-logic rules. The proposed solution is based on the idea... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090094184 - Method and apparatus for providing on-demand ontology creation and extension: A computer system and method providing on-demand extension of ontology in an ontology use process. A support module responds to a creation event in the ontology use process. The support module defines ontology specification for a newly created item, in the creation event, in a manner substantially free of disruption... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds

20090089236 - Method and system for identifying information related to a good: A method and a system identify information placed on a good to be processed, and the way of processing the good depends on this information. With regard to the method, the following steps are performed reading the information by an identifier and speaking the information as a voice message into... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090089235 - Pattern identification method, parameter learning method and apparatus: In a pattern identification method in which input data is classified into predetermined classes by sequentially executing a combination of a plurality of classification processes, at least one of the classification processes includes a mapping step of mapping the input data in an N (N≧2) dimensional feature space as corresponding... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090089237 - Method and system for remotely updating detection knowledge of systems: A method for remotely updating detection knowledge of a system is presented. The method includes remotely communicating a rule package to the system to incrementally update the knowledge base of the system, wherein the rule package comprises at least one or more rules. Further, the method includes verifying validity of... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20090089238 - Knowledge management portal for rapid learning and assessment of science: The present invention is related to a scientific knowledge management learning-portal system and method that provides appropriate levels of programming and feedback for allowing end-users to rapidly grasp science in its most-elemental and most-useful aspects, specifically the mastery of the tools for assessing, measuring, and improving scientific-value. The system and... Agent: Dr. Mishrilal Jain

20090089239 - System and method for building a rulebase: A method for building a rulebase includes receiving a plurality of rulebase components. The method also includes merging the rulebase components to create a consolidated rulebase.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090089240 - Method and system to segment an olap set: A segmentation management system manages segmentation of a set of members in a multi-dimensionally modeled data source. The segmentation management system comprises a segment definition manager, a segmentation engine and a segment application manager. The segment definition manager manages definitions of identifiable non-overlapping segments for a given base set of... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A.

20090089241 - Multidimensional expert behavior emulation system: An expert decision-making method is emulated based on a history of behaviors by experts in a variety of observed situations. The history of behaviors is built up from observations of actions taken by experts in analyzing a plurality of situations. Situation data representative of a situation to be processed is... Agent: Swanson & Bratschun, L.L.C.