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Data processing: artificial intelligence July category listing 07/09

20090192953 - Load fuzzy modeling device and method for power system: A load fuzzy modeling device for the power system based on the causality diagram, the composite cloud generator and the improved T-S fuzzy model, comprising: a hardware device, including: the sensors, a signal conditioning and filter module, an A/D conversion module, a causality conversion module, a DSP module, a memory... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20090192954 - Semantic relationship extraction, text categorization and hypothesis generation: Embodiments of the present invention are generally related to systems, methods, computer readable media, and other means for extracting entities, determining the semantic relationships among the entities and generating knowledge. More particularly, some embodiments of the present invention are directed to generating a hypothesis and/or gaining knowledge by automatically extracting... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090192955 - Granular support vector machine with random granularity: Methods and systems for granular support vector machines. Granular support vector machines can randomly select samples of datapoints and project the samples of datapoints into a randomly selected subspaces to derive granules. A support vector machine can then be used to identify hyperplane classifiers respectively associated with the granules. The... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090192956 - Method and apparatus for structuring documents utilizing recognition of an ordered sequence of identifiers: A method is provided for operating a computing device to create a document structure model of a computer parsable text document utilizing recognition of at least one ordered sequence of identifiers in the document. The method includes converting a computer parsable text document of any format to an alternative structured... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090192957 - Computer-implemented data storage systems and methods for use with predictive model systems: Systems and methods for performing fraud detection. As an example, a system and method can be configured to contain a raw data repository for storing raw data related to financial transactions. A data store contains rules to indicate how many generations or to indicate a time period within which data... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20090192958 - Parallel processing device and parallel processing method: A parallel processing device that computes a hierarchical neural network, the parallel processing device includes: a plurality of units that are identified by characteristic unit numbers that are predetermined identification numbers, respectively; a distribution control section that, in response to input as an input value of an output value outputted... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090192959 - Analysis supporting apparatus, analysis supporting method, and analysis supporting program: An analysis supporting apparatus that supports a product analyzing operation, includes a model-data generating unit that generates model data regarding an analysis model of an analysis target component in association with component hierarchy data representing a hierarchy of components forming an analysis target product, and a advice-data generating unit that... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090192961 - Adapting media storage based on user interest as determined by biometric feedback: The present invention discloses a system, method, apparatus, and computer usable product code adapting a media stream based upon biometric feedback. The system can include one or more biometric sensor, a media handling component, an importance inference engine, and a media processing component. The biometric sensor can be able to... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090192966 - Cost-benefit approach to automatically composing answers to questions by extracting information from large unstructured corpora: The present invention relates to a system and methodology to facilitate extraction of information from a large unstructured corpora such as from the World Wide Web and/or other unstructured sources. Information in the form of answers to questions can be automatically composed from such sources via probabilistic models and cost-benefit... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090192960 - Efficient weighted consistent sampling: A method and a processing device may be provided for performing efficient weighted consistent sampling. A group of sets having multiple elements with associated weights may be provided. A single hash function may be applied to each of the elements of the group of sets to produce consistent uniformly distributed... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090192962 - Intelligent threat assessment module, method and system for space situational awareness system: Threat assessment modules are disclosed that intelligently review evidence of potential threats posed by detected objects within a region of exo-atmospheric space and generate a most probable threat scenario to facilitate administration of counterspace operations.... Agent: John S. Beulick (24691) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090192965 - Model-driven event detection, implication, and reporting system: An event analysis system monitors information available from both publicly and privately distributed networks of information for events that are relevant to the user's particular business concerns. Those concerns are defined in a customized model of the user's organization and external business environment. The system receives the information, detects events... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090192964 - System and method for comparing system features: Embodiments of the disclosed systems and methods establish quantitative and accurate relationships between system features and system objectives. In one embodiment, the systems and methods are particularly suitable to establish the predictive relationships between system fidelity and training objectives. These systems and methods can combine fidelity values defined by end-users,... Agent: John Brooks Law LLC

20090192963 - System and method for dynamically inferring data preconditions over predicates by tree learning: A system and method for inferring preconditions for procedures in a program includes formulating predicates based on inputs to a procedure, including formal arguments, global variables and external environment. Truth assignments are sampled to the predicates to provide truth assignments that lead to a feasible set of input values. Test... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090192967 - Discovering social relationships from personal photo collections: A method of categorizing the relationship of individuals from a collection of photos taken in multiple sets of events includes: searching the photo collection to identify individuals in the photo collection, determining the gender and age range of the identified individuals; and using the identified individuals, their occurrences and co-occurrences,... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20090192968 - Enhanced knowledge repository: Embodiments of the present invention relate to knowledge representation systems which include a knowledge base in which knowledge is represented in a structured, machine-readable format that encodes meaning.... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090192969 - Network operating system: Generally described, the present invention is directed to a network operating system that provides more effective ways of leveraging the connectivity of computer networks. In one embodiment, an XML virtual machine is implemented that accepts high-level application code written in an XML programming language as input. Functionality is provided to... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090192971 - Analysis supporting apparatus, analysis supporting method, and analysis supporting program: An analysis supporting apparatus that supports a product analyzing operation, includes a model-data generating unit that generates model data regarding an analysis model of an analysis target component in association with component hierarchy data representing a hierarchy of components forming an analysis target product; a model-data updating unit that reflects... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090192970 - Content and context based handling of instant messages: Instant message systems are enhanced by establishing at least one handling rule that is evaluated in an instant messaging environment, each established handling rule defining a condition based upon at least one of identified content or identified context, and a corresponding event handling action to be performed within the instant... Agent: Stevens & Showalter, L.L.P.

20090192972 - Methods and systems for creating a semantic object: Among other disclosure, a knowledge network and semcards enabling intelligent matching of offers and requests, involving all types of information and knowledge, including information such as classified ads, data about products and services, or knowledge, expertise, ideas, suggestions, opinions, and other forms of tacit knowledge is described.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090192973 - Multi-objective optimization using weight adjustment of initial and corrected solutions: A multi-objective optimization apparatus provides a weight adjustment apparatus, method, and computer program product, to perform optimization while reflecting user's demands. The multi-objective optimization apparatus for adjusting weights of a plurality of evaluation items includes a correction accepting unit for accepting an operation for correcting an initial solution as one... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20090192974 - Decomposing human behavior into quantified layers of perception: A method, computer program product, and system are provided for decomposing human behavior into quantifiable layers of perception. The method for decomposing human behavior into quantifiable layers of perception may be referred to as “DAP-E,” which is an acronym representative of four main phases of the method. Theses phases include... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090192975 - Echocardiographic measurements as predictors of racing success: The present invention relates to methods for selecting racehorse candidates. Provided herein are methods for increasing the likelihood of selecting candidates that will be high earners, while reducing the likelihood of selecting candidates that will be low earners, on the basis of certain cardiac measurements.... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20090192976 - Methods and systems for creating a semantic object: Among other disclosure, a knowledge network and semcards enabling intelligent matching of offers and requests, involving all types of information and knowledge, including information such as classified ads, data about products and services, or knowledge, expertise, ideas, suggestions, opinions, and other forms of tacit knowledge is described.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090187514 - Interactive web based experience via expert resource: A system providing an interactive web based experience via an expert resource is provided. In this system, virtual experts field questions from end users, letting the users have control over an information-on-demand experience.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Fox Entertainment Group

20090187518 - Automatically identifying an optimal set of attributes to facilitate generating best practices for configuring a networked system: A method and system for automatically identifying an optimal set of attributes of entities included in a networked system. Entity types are ranked based on information gain. A first classification accuracy relative to a first entity type is determined. The first entity type is the top-ranked entity type or a... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090187519 - Learning device interaction rules: Devices and methods are disclosed for establishing interaction among electronic devices of an environment. The device has a transmitter, receiver, memory for storing interaction rules, and a processor for learning the interaction rules in association with the transmitter, receiver, and other devices of the environment. The device also includes components... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Moazzam Attn: Patent Docketing

20090187517 - Modification of relational models: Described herein is a system that facilitates modifying a relational model. The system includes a first model component that is a relational model that includes a plurality of atoms. The system further includes a modifier component that automatically assigns values to a plurality of atoms in the relational model by... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090187515 - Query suggestion generation: Described herein is a system that facilitates assigning indications of usefulness to query suggestions. The system includes a query suggestion generator component that receives a query and generates a query suggestion based at least in part upon the received query. A model component outputs an indication of usefulness with respect... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090187516 - Search summary result evaluation model methods and systems: Methods and systems are provided herein for establishing and/or using an evaluation model that is adapted to determine a model judgment value based, at least in part, on measured summary feature values associated with a search result summary. The evaluation model may be established through a learning process based, at... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP

20090187520 - Demographics from behavior: A system and method for modeling online users' behavior for predicting demographic information is disclosed. The system allows advertisement providers to target anonymous users based on a user's browsing history, search queries, as broken down into behavioral targeting categories, as well as other features, such as behavioral targeting segments.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090187521 - Predictive monitoring for events at computer network resources: Computer resources in a computer network can be predictively monitored where those resources are conventionally monitored using a monitoring rule. For predictive monitoring, the current values of the parameters of the monitoring rule are tracked at regular intervals. The current values are used in an “inverted” or predictive form of... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090187522 - System and method for privacy preserving predictive models for lung cancer survival analysis: A computer-implemented method for privacy-preserving data mining to determine cancer survival rates includes providing a random matrix B agreed to by a plurality of entities, wherein each entity i possesses a data matrix Ai of cancer survival data that is not publicly available, providing a class matrix Di for each... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090187523 - Adaptive method and system with automatic scanner installation: A self-adaptive resource management method (200) is proposed. The system is based on an authority (105) that publishes multiple rules into a corresponding repository (115). Each rule defines a desired target configuration for a category of subjects (110); each category is specified by one or more attributes that are evaluated... Agent: Ibm Corp. (gig)

20090187524 - Collaborative reasoning in a cognitive tool: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to group cognition and provide a method, system and computer program product for collaborative reasoning. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for collaborative reasoning in a cognitive tool can be provided. The method can include arranging... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090187525 - System and method for network association inference, validation and pruning based on integrated constraints from diverse data: A network inference and validation engine is presented which combines data of different types into a network associations' inference and performs validation of existing networks based on constraints from several data sets or previously known linkages. The engine would assist scientists to integrate information from various sources into a network... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090187528 - Method and system for assessing risk: A system and method for assessing a risk outcome that is affected by other risks. The risks and risk outcome are identified, and a relationship among the risks are defined where all of the risks directly or indirectly influence the risk outcome. An influence of each risk on at least... Agent: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP

20090187527 - Payload estimation system and method: A method of payload estimation of weight bearing machinery, the method comprising the steps of: (a) creating a series of Kalman filter approximations to the weight bearing machinery for different levels of payload; (b) determining from the series an approximation to the current operating characteristics of the weight bearing machinery;... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20090187526 - Systems and methods for modeling consequences of events: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for decision making under uncertainty. A causality framework is provided to define relationships between an alternative (Ai) of a set of alternatives and at least one performance indicator of a set of performance indicators. A k-concurrent lottery (Li) associated with the alternative... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090187529 - Method of generating behavior for a graphics character and robotics devices: The present invention relates to a method for determining behaviour of an autonomous entity within an environment using a weighted memory of observed objects, including the steps of: processing the weighted memory; generating an image of the environment from the perspective of the entity; recognizing visible objects within the image... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090182690 - Detection and classification of light sources using a diffraction grating: A system mounted in a vehicle for classifying light sources. The system includes a lens and a spatial image sensor. The lens is adapted to provide an image of a light source on the spatial image sensor. A diffraction grating is disposed between the lens and the light source. The... Agent: The Law Office Of Michael E. Kondoudis, PC

20090182691 - Method and system of enhancing ganglion cell function to improve physical performance: A method and a system of enhancing ganglion cell function using a gaming environment corresponding to a physical activity. The method and system may be used to implement one or more processes to improve a person's visual processing profile. In particular, the method and system may be used to improve... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090182689 - Rule-based dynamic operation evaluation: A computer program may involve a dynamic operation, which may specify one of many types of methods based on the conditions of the invocation during runtime, such as the parameters provided to the dynamic operation. The appropriate performance of the dynamic method may be achieved by analyzing the conditions of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090182692 - System and computer readable medium for discovering gene regulatory models and genetic networks using relational fuzzy models: A system and computer readable medium for discovering gene regulatory models using relational fuzzy models. A system is providing that includes a data selection system that clusters gene expression data into a set of clusters and identifies a representative subset of genes from the set of clusters; and a relational... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090182693 - Determining stimulation design parameters using artificial neural networks optimized with a genetic algorithm: A method for generating an artificial neural network ensemble for determining stimulation design parameters. A population of artificial neural networks is trained to produce one or more output values in response to a plurality of input values. The population of artificial neural networks is optimized to create an optimized population... Agent: Robert A. Kent

20090182694 - Evaluation of acid fracturing treatments in an oilfield: The invention relates to a method for performing acid fracturing operations of an oilfield. The method includes obtaining a plurality of historical data of acid fracturing treatments of the oilfield, generating a neural network based on the plurality of historical data, identifying a stimulation parameter, in the neural network, associated... Agent: Schlumberger Information Solutions

20090182695 - Multi-objective optimal design support device and method taking manufacturing variations into consideration: A logical expression indicating a logical relation between arbitrary two or three objective functions, of a plurality of mathematically approximated objective functions is computed. A feasible region/sensitivity information display unit displays the feasible region in arbitrary objective space according to it. An inverse image computation unit computes a point or... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090182696 - Stacking schema for classification tasks: a method for improving stacking schema for classification tasks, according to which predictive models are built, based on stacked-generalization meta-classifiers. Classifications are combined to build a new scheme from at least two layers and multiclass classification problems are converted into binary classification problems. One-against-all class binarization and regression learners are... Agent: Kevin D. Mccarthy Roach Brown Mccarthy & Gruber, P.C.

20090182697 - Computer-implemented model of the central nervous system: Computer-implemented methods, computer-readable storage media, and systems for control of a plant provide a plurality of repeating interconnected structures that can reduce software coding complexity, a limbic module that can provide an operational change in a type of control resulting in improved control flexibility in unknown environments, and different hierarchical... Agent: Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20090182698 - Compilation of causal rules into continuations: A method of compiling causal rules into continuations for use in root cause analysis of a system comprising a plurality of inter-related elements, comprising defining observable events occurring on system elements; defining at least one of a cause and a result of each of the events; defining causal rules, each... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090182699 - System for delivering scenario specific, problem solving, decision support from non-intelligent computer systems: Computational decision making systems and methods are provided for delivering scenario specific information. A decision making scenario has a number of variables and associated values. Input variables may be matched to data objects to find a match or the closest match. Decision information embodying the outcome of a decision making... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090182700 - Method and system for a grass roots intelligence program: A system for gathering and assessing intelligence information comprises a credibility filter configured to assign a credibility value to intelligence information sent from a user. A data warehouse is coupled to the credibility filter and the data warehouse is configured to store intelligence information from the user. A predictive query... Agent: Norman P. Soloway Hayes Soloway, P.C.

20090182701 - Method and system for data classification in the presence of a temporal non-stationarity: A method and system for determining a feature of a particular pattern are provided. In particular, data records are received, and predetermined patterns that are associated with at least some of the data records are obtained. Using the system and method, particular information is extracted from at least a subset... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090182702 - Active lab: Various embodiments provide a tool, referred to herein as “Active Lab” that can be used to develop, debug, and maintain knowledge bases. These knowledge bases (KBs) can then engage various applications, technology, and communications protocols for the purpose of task automation, real time alerting, system integration, knowledge acquisition, and various... Agent: Sadler, Breen, Morasch & Colby, P.s.

20090177597 - Systems, methods and computer products for profile based identity verification over the internet: Systems, methods and computer products for profile-based identity verification over the Internet. Exemplary embodiments include a system including an activity classifier configured to receive Internet activity input including email, chat, browser and voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) logs/streams, an email profiler, a chat, a browser profiler, a voice over Internet... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090177598 - Method for building predictive models with incomplete data: A method that imputes missing values while building a predictive model. A population of solutions is created using a data set comprising missing values, wherein each solution comprises parameters of each of the predictive models and the missing values of a data set. Each of the solutions in a population... Agent: General Electric Company (pcpi) C/o Fletcher Yoder

20090177600 - System and method for coarse-classing variables in a predictive model: A technique is provided to coarse-class one or more customer characteristics used in a predictive model. A set of functions are used to represent partition points of the customer characteristic into smaller classes. Each of the final classes of the customer characteristic is represented separately in the predictive model. An... Agent: General Electric Company (pcpi) C/o Fletcher Yoder

20090177599 - System and method for developing a propensity model: A technique is provided for developing a propensity model for customer behavior. Multiple biased samples of customer characteristics and results from past activities are established. Initial propensity models are created for each biased sample. The propensity models established for each biased sample are processed separately from the propensity models established... Agent: General Electric Company (pcpi) C/o Fletcher Yoder

20090177601 - Status-aware personal information management: Described is a technology by which personal information that comes into a computer system is intelligently managed according to current state data including user presence and/or user attention data. Incoming information is processed against the state data to determine whether corresponding data is to be output, and if so, what... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090177602 - Systems and methods for detecting unsafe conditions: Systems and methods are disclosed to detect unsafe system states by capturing and analyzing data from a plurality of sensors detecting parameters of the system; and applying temporal difference (TD) learning to learn a function to approximate an expected future reward given current and historical sensor readings.... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090177603 - Location based services platform: System and methods are provided that facilitate integrated and seamless utilization of location data generated by multiple disparate positioning technologies adequate for outdoor or indoor positioning. Location data from multiple sources is selectively processed based on rules that account for availability, accuracy, cost, reliability of location data. Rules can be... Agent: Motorola- Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090177606 - Risk assessment in a pre/post security area within an airport: A risk assessment method and system. The method includes receiving by an inference engine, first sensor cohort data associated with a first cohort located within a pre/post security area within an airport. The inference engine receives first group technology inferences associated with the first cohort. The inference engine generates first... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090177605 - Risk assessment within an aircraft: A risk assessment method and system. The method includes receiving by an inference engine, first sensor cohort data associated with a first cohort located within an aircraft. The inference engine receives first group technology inferences associated with the first cohort. The inference engine generates first risk cohort inferences based on... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090177607 - Situation presentation system, server, and computer-readable medium storing server program: A situation presentation system includes a terminal and a server. The terminal includes a situation data acquisition device that acquires situation data and a terminal transmission device that transmits the situation data to the server. The server includes a server situation data storage device that stores the situation data transmitted... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090177604 - Telecommunications-based social-trust networks: A method of facilitating the construction, maintenance, and usage of social-trust networks is disclosed. The illustrative embodiment monitors the call processing details of communication events between users of a telecommunications system as the basis for estimating whether or not a relationship exists between the users that can be exploited in... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20090177610 - Information processing method and apparatus for business process analysis: An information processing method for a business process analysis includes identifying a processing target field in a record generated in an analysis target system and stored in a data storage; and identifying data representing probability that the processing target field corresponds to a time stamp of an event by using... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090177608 - Risk assessment in a gate area of an airport: A risk assessment method and system. The method includes receiving by an inference engine, first sensor cohort data associated with a first cohort located within a gate area of an airport. The inference engine receives first group technology inferences associated with the first cohort. The inference engine generates first risk... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090177609 - Risk assessment in an area external to an airport: A risk assessment method and system. The method includes receiving by an inference engine, first sensor cohort data associated with a first cohort located within a security perimeter area surrounding an airport. The inference engine receives first group technology inferences associated with the first cohort. The inference engine generates first... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090177612 - Method and apparatus for analyzing data to provide decision making information: Method and apparatus for analyzing data to provide decision making information. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving data corresponding to an agent for one or more predictor variables of a model, and calculating coefficients of the model based, at least in part, on a logistic regression analysis for a... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090177611 - Storage of stochastic information in stochastic information systems: A stochastic information system stores a coherent stochastic model corresponding to an uncertain variable in a data store. The coherent stochastic model is stored in a compressed format. The stochastic information system includes a calculation engine operable to calculate a result by performing a simulation using the coherent stochastic model.... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20090177613 - System and methods for providing integrated wellness assessment: A system for generating measurable indexes for providing a total wellness assessment of an individual is provided. The system can include a data communications interface for accessing a plurality of databases of population data derived from samplings of one or more populations. The system further can include an integration and... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090177614 - Risk assessment between aircrafts: A risk assessment method and system. The method includes receiving by an inference engine, first sensor cohort data associated with a first cohort located within a first aircraft. The inference engine receives first group technology inferences associated with the first cohort. The inference engine generates first risk cohort inferences based... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090177615 - Risk assessment between airports: A risk assessment method and system. The method includes receiving by an inference engine, first sensor cohort data associated with a first cohort located within a first airport. The inference engine receives first group technology inferences associated with the first cohort. The inference engine generates first risk cohort inferences based... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090177616 - Hardware security unit and multiple-valued logic operational method thereof: A hardware security unit and a multiple-valued logic operational method thereof are provided, which comprises at least a first and a second multiple-valued logic calculation units, an operational unit, a judgment unit and an execution unit. The first multiple-valued logic calculation unit and the second multiple-valued logic calculation unit are... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090171865 - Method and system for providing advisory information to a field service provider: A network advisory system that provides advisory information to a field service provider is disclosed. The network advisory system receives collected data from one or more destination facilities and analyzes the information to generate advisory information. The advisory information is used by the field service provider to provide a service... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20090171867 - Determining quality of tier assignments: Described herein is a method that includes receiving user history data and generating an indication of quality of a tier assignment used to store searchable digital items in a tiered storage system, wherein the indication is based at least in part upon a subset of the user history data. Also... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090171869 - Hot term prediction for contextual shortcuts: Subject matter disclosed herein may relate to predicting hot terms, and may also relate to creating contextual shortcuts based, at least in part, on the predicted hot terms.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP

20090171868 - Method and apparatus for early termination in training of support vector machines: Disclosed is a method for early termination in training support vector machines. A support vector machine is iteratively trained based on training examples using an objective function having primal and dual formulations. At each iteration, a termination threshold is calculated based on the current SVM solution. The termination threshold increases... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090171872 - Selection of head and neck cancer patients for treatment with drugs targeting egfr pathway: Methods using mass spectral data analysis and a classification algorithm provide an ability to determine whether a head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) patient is likely to benefit from a drug targeting an epidermal growth factor receptor pathway, including small molecule epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors (EGFR-TKIs)... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20090171866 - System and method for learning associations between logical objects and determining relevance based upon user activity: User activity streams are used to automatically learn associations between logical objects and form logical groups. Search results are sorted based upon their relevance to current user activity. Combined with a graphical user interface component and object database, the invention automatically retrieves and display groups and objects related to the... Agent: Elman Technology Law, P.C.

20090171870 - System and method of feature selection for text classification using subspace sampling: An improved system and method is provided for feature selection for text classification using subspace sampling. A text classifier generator may be provided for selecting a small set of features using subspace sampling from the corpus of training data to train a text classifier for using the small set of... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20090171873 - Determining the interestingness of content update notifications: A notification server rates the interest a first user has in notifications associated with events generated by a plurality of interactions with an online community. The notification server receives a plurality of notifications for a first user from a plurality of other users indicating an event has occurred in response... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20090171874 - Method and apparatus for configuring a communication channel: A method of configuring a communication channel prior to the transmission of an input signal along the communication channel, the communication channel comprising a plurality of sub-channels, the method comprising determining the strength of the input signal and in accordance with the determined signal strength, selecting a set of the... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20090171876 - Cover type controlled graph rewriting based parallel system for automated problem solving: The invention gives desired algorithmic solutions, even impossible to derive denumerably from preceding ones, as transducers for any kind of problem, e.g. groups of equations or construction puzzles with variables unlimited even by type. The invention treats problems as triples of a mother graph as the subject of the problem,... Agent: Seppo Ilari Tirri

20090171877 - Printer: A printer includes a use status computation section which collects statistics of a use status of an analyzed print job and computes a use frequency and an execution interval of a language translation program based on a result of the statistics, and a resident mode switching section which causes a... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090171878 - Provable data integrity verifying method, apparatuses and system: The present invention proposes a Provable Data Integrity (PDI) verifying method, in which data are firstly fingerprinted at a client, and the fingerprints are sent to an archive along with the data; when necessary, the client sends a “challenge” to the archive so as to determine the integrity of the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090171875 - Systems, methods and apparatuses for rank coordination: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to systems, methods, and apparatuses for rank coordination. In some embodiments, a host includes rank coordination logic. The rank coordination logic may include performance measurement logic to measure a performance of a memory channel and dwell period control logic to select a length... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090171880 - System and method for classifying and defining relationships between product information data: A system and method for classifying and defining relationships between product information data is provided. The method classifies the product information data to two different data types. Each data type includes a plurality of items. The items of each of the two types are arranged in a product information tree.... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090171879 - Systems and/or methods for prediction and/or root cause analysis of events based on business activity monitoring related data: In certain example embodiments of this invention, there is provided systems and/or methods for processing BAM-related data to predict when events of interest are about to happen and/or to identify the root causes of, or at least data correlated with, such events of interest. In certain example embodiments, key performance... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090171882 - Device, system, and method of knowledge propagation for logical platform creation: Device, system, and method of knowledge propagation for logical platform creation. For example, an apparatus includes: a Dynamically Composable Computing (DCC) engine to store DCC information; and a knowledge sharing manager to automatically exchange DCC information stored in the DCC engine with DCC information stored in another DCC engine of... Agent: Shiloh Et Al.

20090171883 - Extensible configuration engine system and method: Methods and systems are provided for facilitating decision making through an improved recommendation system. The data used in the system, such as the questions and business logic for navigating between questions, is stored in relational database tables that are easy to access and edit by users. A backend application program... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090171881 - Method and apparatus for modifying a process based on closed-loop feedback: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing a lesson learned through a client application. A lesson learned is information describing a task associated with a project. A rating value for the lesson learned is identified using a predefined level matrix. A workflow notification process is generated... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090171871 - Combination machine learning algorithms for computer-aided detection, review and diagnosis: This invention utilizes a number of Computational Intelligence (CI) techniques with different learning methods in a computer-aided detection, review and diagnosis (CAD) device. Specifically, an unsupervised learning method is used for clustering of types of abnormal findings. Then a number of classifiers for each type of findings are trained with... Agent: Three Palm Software LLC