Data processing: artificial intelligence inventions 06/09

20090164394 - Automated creative assistance: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates generating a suggestion for a creative work. An interface component can receive a portion of a creative work. A muse component can evaluate the portion of the creative work utilizing a machine learning technique, wherein the muse component... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090164395 - Modeling, detecting, and predicting user behavior with hidden markov models: Mechanisms model, detect, and predict user behavior as a user navigates the Web. In one embodiment, mechanisms model user behavior using predictive models, such as discrete Markov processes, where the user's behavior transitions between a finite number of states. The user's behavior state may not be directly observable (e.g., a... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090164396 - Network analyzer: This invention relates to using artificial intelligence for analyzing real-life collected data from an operation system, modeling the collected data to identify characteristics of events, analyzing the models to conclude an optimal solution for maximizing the performance of the operation system.... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20090164397 - Human level artificial intelligence machine: A method and system for creating exponential human artificial intelligence in robots, as well as enabling a human robot to control a time machine to predict the future accurately and realistically. The invention provides a robot with the ability to accomplish tasks quickly and accurately without using any time. This... Agent: Mitchell Kwok

20090164398 - Signal processing apparatus, signal processing method, signal processing program and learning apparatus: Disclosed herein is a signal processing apparatus for carrying out signal processing to convert input data into output data with a quality higher than the quality of the input data, the data processing apparatus including: a first data extraction section; a nonlinear feature quantity computation section; a processing-coefficient generation section;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090164399 - Method for autonomic workload distribution on a multicore processor: A multiprocessor system which includes automatic workload distribution. As threads execute in the multiprocessor system, an operating system or hypervisor continuously learns the execution characteristics of the threads and saves the information in thread-specific control blocks. The execution characteristics are used to generate thread performance data. As the thread executes,... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Austin

20090164401 - Methods and systems for inducing behavior in a population cohort: Avatars, methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out identifying a member of a population cohort; and inducing at least one behavior in the member of the population cohort based on an association between the population cohort and at least one cohort-linked avatar.... Agent: Searete LLC

20090164400 - Social behavior analysis and inferring social networks for a recommendation system: Systems and methods are provided for determining items or people of potential interest to recommend to users in a computer-based network. Implied social networks may be determined based at least in part on obtained social behavior information. Items or people of potential interest to users may be determined based at... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090164404 - Method for evaluating patents: A method includes extracting a plurality of patent parameters from each patent asset of a first data set comprising a first set of patent assets. The plurality of patent parameters of each patent asset of the first data set is fed to a decision tree tool. A decision tree involving... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20090164403 - Methods and systems for indicating behavior in a population cohort: Avatars, methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out identifying a member of a population cohort; and indicating at least one behavior in the member of the population cohort based on an association between the population cohort and at least one cohort-linked avatar.... Agent: Searete LLC

20090164405 - Online sparse matrix gaussian process regression and visual applications: An online sparse matrix Gaussian process (OSMGP) uses online updates to provide an accurate and efficient regression for applications such as pose estimation and object tracking. A regression calculation module calculates a regression on a sequence of input images to generate output predictions based on a learned regression model. The... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20090164402 - System and method for annotating and ranking reviews with inferred analytics: The present invention is directed towards methods and computer readable media for annotating and ranking user reviews on social review systems with inferred analytics. A reference framework is provided by creating context according to previous activity, bias, or background information of a given reviewer. The method of the present invention... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20090164406 - Item banking system for standards-based assessment: An computer item banking system for standards-based assessments has test items used in standards-based assessments wherein a plurality of item specifications are developed using a specification building feature to create new, edit, move, and delete specifications and to assign specifications to one or more standards; a plurality of test items... Agent: Donald W. Marks

20090164407 - Monitoring a service oriented architecture: Monitoring a service oriented architecture (SOA) comprising a plurality of components. The method may include providing at least one monitoring unit for at least one of the plurality of components. The method may further include providing data concerning an operation of the at least one component as input data to... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090157570 - Role/persona based applications: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates managing data within an environment. An interface component can receive a role-based model reflective of at least one position within an environment, wherein the environment includes two or more entities within an organized hierarchy. The role-based model can... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090157574 - Method and apparatus for analyzing web server log by intrusion detection system: e

20090157571 - Method and apparatus for model-shared subspace boosting for multi-label classification: A computer program product includes machine readable instructions for managing data items, the instructions stored on machine readable media, the product including instructions for: initializing a plurality of base models; minimizing a joint loss function to select models from the plurality for a plurality of labels associated with the data... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090157572 - Stacked generalization learning for document annotation: A document annotation method includes modeling data elements of an input document and dependencies between the data elements as a dependency network. Static features of at least some of the data elements are defined, each expressing a relationship between a characteristic of the data element and its label. Dynamic features... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090157573 - System and method for grading electricity distribution network feeders susceptible to impending failure: A machine learning system creates failure-susceptibility rankings for feeder cables in a utility's electrical distribution system. The machine learning system employs martingale boosting algorithms and Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithms to generate a feeder failure prediction model, which is trained on static and dynamic feeder attribute data. Feeders are dynamically... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090157575 - Device and a method to process audio data , a computer program element and computer-readable medium: An audio data processing device (100) comprises an audio redistributor (101) adapted to generate a first number of audio data output signals (102; Z1 . . . ZM) based on a second number of audio data input signals (103; X1 . . . XN), and an audio classifier (104) adapted... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090157576 - Measuring and limiting distractions on computer displays: Techniques are described herein for determining a distractibility measure for an item to be displayed on a display. The distractibility measure for an item is determined based on the individual distractibility measures for one or more of: the static distraction of the item, the onset response of the item, the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090157577 - Method and apparatus for optimizing models for extracting dose and focus from critical dimension: A method includes defining a reference model of a system having a plurality of terms for modeling data associated with the system. A reference fit error metric is generated for the reference model. A set of evaluation models each having one term different than the reference model is generated. An... Agent: Scott F. Diring Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.C.

20090157578 - System and method for generating a classifier model: Generally, the present invention provides a method and computerized system for generating a classifier model, wherein the classifier model is operative to classify web content. The method and computerized system includes a first step of defining a plurality of predictive performance measures based on a leave one out (LOO) cross... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20090157579 - System and method of forecasting print job related demand: A print demand forecasting system is provided for use with a print production system in which print demand data is collected for each print job processed during a selected time interval. The print demand data is processed with a computer implemented service manager to obtain a first demand series with... Agent: Patent Documentation Center Xerox Corporation

20090157581 - Data classification methods and apparatus for use with data fusion: Methods and apparatus for classifying data for use in data fusion processes are disclosed. An example method of classifying data selectively groups nodes of a classification tree so that each node is assigned to only one of a plurality of groups and so that at least one of the groups... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20090157580 - Smart containers: Smart containers are disclosed. A definition is received of a logical structure configured to manage associated content. A policy or operation specified by the definition is applied to an item of content associated with an instance of the logical structure.... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Emc Corporation

20090157584 - Feature selection: A method of feature selection applicable to both forward selection and backward elimination of features is provided. The method selects features to be used as an input for a classifier based on an estimate of the area under the ROC curve of each of the classifiers. Exemplary applications are in... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090157585 - Method for predicting citation counts: A computerized process to predict citation counts of articles comprising the steps of receiving an article through an input, obtaining, through the input, a selected set of articles exclusive of the article, storing in a memory the set of articles and the article, extracting through a computer processor an article... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090157582 - Method of organizing software design decision instances: A method of organizing received decision instances based on reference architecture, including determining a respective particular project phase attribute for each of the decision instances, classifying the decision instances, determining a respective scope attribute for each of the decision instances, categorizing the decision instances in accordance with each of the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Europe

20090157583 - Route transfer between devices: A user can intend to travel between different locations and employ different traveling manners to reach an intended travel destination. At different points, different devices can be employed for disclosing a route. For instance, as a user walks, a route can be integrated into a personal electronic device, such as... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090157587 - Context aware system and context aware method thereof: A context aware system and a context aware method thereof perform a reasoning to be aware of contexts in ubiquitous environments. The context aware method includes procedures of modeling a knowledge base describing context information including constraints; classifying the context information described in the knowledge base according to the constraints;... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090157586 - Object oriented rule-based system and method: An object oriented rule-based system and method that combines rule-based technology and object-oriented programming in order to provide an efficient approach for adding decision-making and inferencing capabilities to different applications. The rule-based system can include a RETE match algorithm, which can be modified to support pure object-based variable pattern matching.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090157588 - Apparatus and method for evaluating the predictability of a pass phrase: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to identify sub-string repetition in a pass phrase. A sub-string index is generated. The number of bits required to represent each character in the pass phrase is determined. An entropy value is assigned to each character in the pass phrase. A total... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20090157589 - System for opinion reconciliation: A system is disclosed for reconciling opinions generated by agents with respect to one or more predicates. The disclosed system may use observed variables and a probabilistic model including latent parameters to estimate a truth score associated with each of the predicates. The truth score, as well as one or... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090157590 - Systems and methods for optimization of real time production operations: Systems and methods for optimization of real time production operations. In one embodiment, a moving time horizon based parametric model provides fast predictions for production optimization in a short-term framework. In another embodiment, multiple technologies are selected in connection with asset performance workflows that are uniquely implemented in a multi-phase... Agent: Crain, Caton & James

20090150311 - Action based learning: A set of sequences of sensed input patterns associated with a set of actions is generated by performing at least a first action on data derived from a real-world system. A subset of the sequences of sensed input patterns that form a group associated with the first action is determined.... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090150308 - Maximum entropy model parameterization: Described is a technology by which a maximum entropy model used for classification is trained with a significantly lesser amount of training data than is normally used in training other maximum entropy models, yet provides similar accuracy to the others. The maximum entropy model is initially parameterized with parameter values... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090150310 - Portable communication device, in-vehicle communication device, and communication system: A communication system has: a portable communication device; and an in-vehicle communication device that communicates with the portable communication device through synchronous communication. The potable communication device transmits dummy signals simulating the vehicle information to the in-vehicle communication device in a first period. The in-vehicle communication device learns and records... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090150309 - System and method for training a multi-class support vector machine to select a common subset of features for classifying objects: An improved system and method is provided for training a multi-class support vector machine to select a common subset of features for classifying objects. A multi-class support vector machine generator may be provided for learning classification functions to classify sets of objects into classes and may include a sparse support... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20090150312 - Systems and methods for analyzing disparate treatment in financial transactions: Systems and methods are provided for analyzing disparate treatment in financial transactions. Data processing software instructions may be used to process lending-related data to identify a plurality of primary factors and one or more secondary factors for use making a lending-related decision. Model facilitation software instructions may be used to... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20090150313 - Vectorization of dynamic-time-warping computation using data reshaping: A method for comparing data sequences includes accepting first and second data sequences of data elements. A distance matrix is computed. The matrix includes rows and columns of matrix elements, describing distances between the data elements of the first sequence and the data elements of the second data sequence. The... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090150314 - System and method for real-time recognition of driving patterns: System and method for real-time, automatic, recognition of large time-scale driving patterns employs a statistical pattern recognition framework, implemented by means of feed-forward neural network utilizing models developed for recognizing, for example, four classes of driving environments, namely highway, main road, suburban traffic and city traffic, from vehicle performance data.... Agent: Novak Druce And Quigg LLP (volvo)

20090150317 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program: An information processing apparatus includes a target storage means, a control means, a decision means, a prediction means and a generating means, in which the decision means, when determining that the system state makes a transition to a state represented by the target value in accordance with the output of... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090150316 - Methods and systems for evaluating behavior in relation to ethical values: Methods and system for evaluating the behavior of users in relation to one or more ethical values are provided. The methods can comprise obtaining inputs from stakeholders or proxies rating the performance of the user in relation to the one or more ethical values. The inputs can be processed so... Agent: Fox Rothschild LLP

20090150315 - Neoplastic disease-related methods, kits, systems and databases: In one embodiment, the invention provides methods for predicting a clinical outcome of a patient's neoplastic disease comprising: (a) determining a predictor value algorithmically using patient sample values for (1) at least one tumor marker or at least one immune marker, and (2) at least one marker that is (i)... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090150319 - Analytic model and systems for business activity monitoring: Methods, systems, and computer program products for monitoring, aggregating, and correlating business events in real time and acting on the results with near zero latency, wherein each event is processed in the first order relative to the event density, are described herein. In an embodiment, the method operates by receiving... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090150318 - Method of enhancing expert system decision making: 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

20090150320 - Multi-module authentication platform: Embodiments of the disclosure generally relate to systems and methods for authenticating users of an entity system. In embodiments, an authentication platform receives a request for authentication. The authentication platform interacts with one of several authentication modules to authenticate the user. Each authentication module may use different information or procedures... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090150321 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for developing and utilizing user pattern profiles: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for generating and utilizing a user pattern profile. In this regard, the user pattern profile can include information regarding service selections made on a user node and movements of a user. The generated user pattern profile can compared to a threshold... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090150323 - Method and system for knowledge discovery: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for simultaneously processing different sources of test data into informational data and then processing different categories of informational data into knowledge-based data. The knowledge-based data can then be communicated between nodes in a system of multiple computers according to rules for a... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20090150322 - Predicting candidates using information sources: Embodiments are configured to provide one or more candidates based in part on an input. In an embodiment, a system includes a prediction engine which can be configured to provide one or more ranked candidates using one or more configurable data sources and/or candidate providers. Each data source can be... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090150324 - Accurately inferring physical variable values associated with operation of a computer system: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that monitors a physical variable associated with an electronic component within a computer system. During operation, the system receives telemetry signals of the physical variable which are collected by one or more physical sensors associated with the electronic component. The system... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090150327 - Calculating web page importance based on a conditional markov random walk: An importance system calculates the importance of pages using a conditional Markov random walk model rather than a conventional Markov random walk model. The importance system calculates the importance of pages factoring in the importance of sites that contain those pages. The importance system may factor in the importance of... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20090150326 - Smart agent for examination of an application: A system, method, and article for profiling an applicant, an examiner, and agency or examination group for the purposes of examination of an application that undergoes a regulated or structured examination. One aspect of the invention can provide a greater degree of predicting success or potential success based on identifying... Agent: Computer Patent Annuities North America, LLC C/o Cpa Global

20090150325 - System and method for root cause analysis of the failure of a manufactured product: A system, method and computer program product for the root cause analysis of the failure of a manufactured product is disclosed. The present invention includes the development of a knowledge model, based on information obtained from historical warranty claim forms and various manufacturing data sources. The invention also includes processing... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090144210 - Method and apparatus for determining the variable dependency: A method and an apparatus for determining variable dependency are disclosed. In the present invention, a variable dependency is determined in advance arbitrarily; partial variables are selected from the current variable dependency, and a legitimate superior variable set is re-selected for each of the partial variables, and the new variable... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20090144209 - Sequence prediction system: a generation section 102 generating a different plurality of data subsets from the data sets; and a learning section 104 generating a hypothesis for each of the individual data subsets, applying the hypotheses respectively to second data sets composed of biopolymer sequences independent of the data sets, to thereby derive... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090144211 - Dynamic representation of group activity through reactive personas: Embodiments are directed towards managing an adaptive media object to dynamically represent a persona reflecting a group's (or individual's) online and/or offline activities and behaviors. The group selects the adaptive media object to represent their persona digitally. The group may indicate which activities, actions, and/or behaviors are to be used... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090144212 - Enhanced learning and recognition operations for radial basis functions: Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to pattern identification and pattern recognition. In some particular implementations, the invention provides a flexible pattern recognition platform including pattern recognition engines that can be dynamically adjusted to implement specific pattern recognition configurations for individual pattern recognition applications. In some implementations, the present invention also... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20090144214 - Data processing system and method: Embodiments of the invention relate to a method of selecting events for prediction, the method comprising determining candidate events for prediction; determining, for each candidate event, a network of cause events associated with the candidate event; determining, for each cause event, a probability of occurrence in respect of the associated... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090144213 - Graph pattern recognition interface: In some example embodiments, a system and method are illustrated as including receive pattern data that includes transaction data relating to transactions between persons. Next, the system and method may include building at least one secondary network based upon the pattern data. Additionally, the system and method may include displaying... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090144215 - System and method for providing intelligent pre-staging of data in a compute environment: A system, computer-readable medium and method for performing intelligent data pre-staging for a job submitted to a cluster environment. The method aspect comprises determining availability of compute resources including availability timeframes to process the submitted job, determining data requirements for processing the job and determining a co-allocation in time reservation.... Agent: Thomas M. Isaacson Novak, Druce & Quigg LLP

20090144216 - Intrusion detection system alerts mechanism: A system and method for analyzing Intrusion Detection System (IDS) alert data associated with a computer network is described. The method includes applying first association rules to obtained IDS alert data associated with a computer network and processing the obtained IDS alert data with the first association rules. Analyst feedback... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20090144217 - System and methods for managing rules: A method of automatically determining firing priority in a plurality of rules. The method includes the steps of determining a level of dependency of each rule; and generating a hierarchy of rules in response to the level of dependency of each rule, wherein the firing priority corresponds to the hierarchy... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090144218 - Method and apparatus for performing probabilistic inference and providing related solution methods: A method, apparatus and computer program product for performing probabilistic inference and providing related solution methods is presented. At least one state space (SS) is obtained for variables of interest relating to a problem of interest. None or more densities (D) defining pure functions over locations in the at least... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20090144219 - Rules collector system and method: A rules collector system and method. The system and method enables a process of capturing an expertise of an individual in a formalized manner, and which may update rules and knowledge databases with information based on the interaction with the individual. The system includes a rules retrieval coordinator responsive to... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC