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Data processing: artificial intelligence August inventions list 08/09

20090216689 - System and method for variant string matching: A method, computer program product, and system for variant string matching. A computer implemented method for variant string matching may comprise comparing with a computing device two unidentical strings in a training variant string pair. The two unidentical strings may represent the same item from training data, which may be... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20090216690 - Predicting candidates using input scopes: Embodiments are configured to provide one or more candidates based in part on an input identifier associated with an input interface. In an embodiment, a system includes an input method editor (IME) that can be configured to provide one or more candidates based in part on a prediction model and... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090216691 - Systems and methods for generating and implementing an interactive man-machine web interface based on natural language processing and avatar virtual agent based character: An interactive virtual agent (avatar) system includes a plurality of databases configured to store at least one of client specific information and non-client specific information, internal resources configured to provide access to information sources, the character interface configured to receive information from a user, and respond to the user with... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20090216693 - Classification method and apparatus: A method for building a classification model for classifying unclassified documents based on the classification of a plurality of documents which respectively have been classified as belonging to one of a plurality of classes, said documents being digitally represented in a computer, said documents respectively comprising a plurality of terms... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090216692 - Information processing apparatus and method, and program: The invention relates to an information processing apparatus and method and a program which can provide an item suitable for a feeling (mood) of a user. A user data acquisition section 72 acquires a result of decision by the user regarding whether or not an item is appropriate to a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090216694 - Maximization of sustained throughput of distributed continuous queries: A system, method, and computer readable medium for optimizing throughput of a stream processing system are disclosed. The method comprises analyzing a set of input streams and creating, based on the analyzing, an input profile for at least one input stream in the set of input streams. The input profile... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090216695 - System and method for constructing cognitive programs: The present invention is directed to a method to search for a solution to a problem in a domain. The method may comprise obtaining a plurality of agents each operable to produce one or more numerical bids and to propose one or more actions and a plurality of nodes each... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090216696 - Determining relevant information for domains of interest: Techniques are described for determining and using relevant information related to domains of interest. In at least some situations, the techniques include automatically analyzing documents, terms and other information related to a domain of interest in order to automatically determine information about relevant themes within the domain and/or about which... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group Pllc

20090216697 - Method for predicting problematic configurations and recommending safe configurations: A system and method for method for assessing configurations includes steps or acts of: receiving configuration data related to configuration items and problem data related to problem tickets; classifying the configuration data into configuration classes; computing a class probability of the configuration classes; associating each configuration class with the problem... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.a.

20090216699 - Apparatus and method for hierarchical decomposition of planning, scheduling, and other decision-making problems: A system includes a coordinator configured to generate a first offer representing a possible solution to a problem being solved. The coordinator is configured to generate the first offer using a first model. The system also includes multiple cooperators each configured to receive the first offer and to determine if... Agent: Anthony Miologos Honeywell International Inc.

20090216698 - Temporal events analysis employing tree induction: An events analysis method comprises: optimizing respective to a set of training data a set of branching transition likelihood parameters associating parent events of type k with child events of type k′ in branching processes; inferring a most probable branching process for a set of input data comprising events based... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090216700 - Temporal events analysis employing tree induction: An events analysis method comprises: optimizing respective to a set of training data a set of branching transition likelihood parameters associating parent events of type k with child events of type k′ in branching processes; inferring a most probable branching process for a set of input data comprising events based... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090216701 - Propagation of don't cares for efficient theory combination: Relevancy propagation for efficient theory combination is described. In one implementation, an efficient SMT solver dynamically applies relevancy propagation to limit propagation of unnecessary constraints in a DPLL-based solver. This provides a drastic increase in speed and performance over conventional DPLL-based solvers. The relevancy propagation is guided by relevancy rules,... Agent: Lee & Hayes, Pllc

20090216702 - Mechanism to abstract fact types from a rule engine: Some embodiments of a fact type abstraction mechanism of a rule engine have been presented. In one embodiment, a fact type abstraction layer is provided to a rule engine core to allow the rule engine core to access facts of multiple different types. Further, the rule engine core is used... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090216703 - Semantically validating print product definitions: A method provides a knowledgebase having a set of existing print product classes into which print product descriptions are classified. The method receives the new print product class from a user and maps the representation of new print product class conditions to be semantically consistent with the representation of existing... Agent: Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, Llc

20090216704 - Learning transportation modes from raw gps data: Described is a technology by which raw GPS data is processed into segments of a trip, with a predicted mode of transportation (e.g., walking, car, bus, bicycling) determined for each segment. The determined transportation modes may be used to tag the GPS data with transportation mode information, and/or dynamically used.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090216705 - Method for predicting sugar chain structure: An object of the present invention is to provide a method for conveniently analyzing sugar chain (isomer) structure using a sample of approximately 1 picomole, which is generally subjected to analysis in proteomics without using any sugar chain preparation. The present invention relates to a method for analyzing sugar chain... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20090216706 - Multiple user computer system and method for modifying display parameters thereof: An exemplary multiple user system is provided. The multiple user system includes a display module, a storage module, and a control module. The display module displays data and graphics according to default display parameters. The storage module stores different user accounts information and different display parameters associated with each user... Agent: Pce Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090210360 - Computing the values of configuration parameters for optimal performance of associated applications: Computing the values of configuration parameters for optimal performance of associated applications. In one embodiment, a rules data is maintained indicating a corresponding rule for each of the configuration parameters of an application sought to be optimized. Each rule specifies the manner of calculation of the corresponding configuration parameter based... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20090210361 - Multi-platform control system for controlling machines: Provided is a multi-platform control system, comprising a machine with a first artificial-intelligence module, a terminal machine with a second artificial-intelligence module, a first server with a third artificial-intelligence module, and a second server with a fourth artificial-intelligence module; wherein the first server is connected between the second server and... Agent: Matthias Scholl

20090210364 - Apparatus for and method of generating complex event processing system rules: A novel and useful mechanism enabling a standard learning algorithm to generate rules for complex event processing (CEP) systems. The method creates rules that infer previously defined output events by creating input event feature vectors for each targeted output event. In addition, a method for automatically generating CEP system rules... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090210362 - Object detector trained using a working set of training data: An object detector that includes a number of weak classifiers can be trained using a subset (a “working set”) of training data instead of all of the training data. The working set can be updated so that, for example, it remains representative of the training data. A decision to update... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090210365 - System and method for combining hetergeneous predictors with an application to survival anaylsis: A method, a system, and a computer-readable medium for predicting a risk in a survival analysis for a plurality of individuals characterized by at least one predictor are disclosed. A method for estimating risk order of an individual, given information about a set of individuals, characterized by one or many... Agent: Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo

20090210363 - Systems, methods and computer program products for supervised dimensionality reduction with mixed-type features and labels: Systems, methods and computer program products for supervised dimensionality reduction. Exemplary embodiments include a method including receiving an input in the form of a data matrix X of size N×D, wherein N is a number of samples, D is a dimensionality, a vector Y of size N×1, hidden variables U... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090210367 - Method for automatically characterizing the behavior of one or more objects: Automatically characterizing a behavior of an object or objects by processing object data to obtain a data set that records a measured parameter set for each object over lime, providing a learning input that identifies when the measured parameter set of an object is associated with a behavior, processing the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090210366 - Method of optimizing multiple parameters by hybrid ga, method of data analysys by pattern matching, method of estimating structure of materials based on radiation diffraction data, programs, recording medium, and various apparatus related thereto: The present invention provides a Hybrid GA (HGA) in which local optimization operation is performed to only a few individual with lower fitness selected from each population of widely distributed generations in genetic algorithm (GA). Since this HGA shows very powerful global searching ability even in a vast multi-dimensional parameter... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090210368 - System and method for real time pattern identification: A method for near real time patterns identification, in one example embodiment, comprises receiving a data stream containing information associated with a transaction and participants of the transaction and receiving an Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithm trained to score data in the data stream. The method may further comprise receiving metadata... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090210371 - Data adaptive prediction function based on candidate prediction functions: In one embodiment, a method for predicting an outcome is provided. The method comprises: determining a known data set of data, the known data set of data including an input variable and an output variable; determining a plurality of candidate prediction functions, each prediction function adapted to determine a candidate... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20090210370 - Method for determining the permitted working range of a neural network: A method for checking whether an input data record is in the permitted working range of a neural network in which a definition of the complex envelope which is formed by the training input records of the neural network, and of its surroundings as the permitted working range of a... Agent: Norris, Mclaughlin & Marcus

20090210369 - Systems and methods of predicting resource usefulness using universal resource locators: A method, system and apparatus are provided to train a usefulness prediction model to generate a usefulness prediction in connection with a given universal resource locator (URL), the training of the usefulness prediction model being based on a training set of URLs and a count of negative URLs and a... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090210376 - Alert management system and method: A system and related method for automating alert decision-making in a computer network are disclosed. The system and method act to receive an alert request from an event management system, and then carries out operations using several sets of inference rules, associating the alert request to a generic conceptual data... Agent: John A. Jordan, Esq.

20090210374 - Methodology and computer program product for effecting rule evaluation in policy based data management: The invention relates to a system and method for providing efficient policy rule updates in policy-based data management. More particularly, the invention relates to a system and method for restraining the size of the set of data objects to be examined after a policy rule evaluation.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20090210375 - Methodology and computer program product for effecting rule evaluation in policy based data management: The invention relates to a system and method for providing efficient policy rule updates in policy-based data management. More particularly, the invention relates to a system and method for restraining the size of the set of data objects to be examined after a policy rule evaluation.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20090210372 - Rule-based programming languages for entities in environments: A rule-based programming language may be devised for programming an entity in an environment. Computer systems may therefore be configured to program the entity with at least one rule comprising at least zero language conditions representing an action condition, at least one language verb representing an action, and at least... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090210373 - System architecture and process for seamless adaptation to context aware behavior models: A surveillance system implements an architecture and process to support real-time abnormal behavior assessment operations in a distributed scalable sensor network. An automated behavior model builder generates behavior models from sensor data. A plurality of abnormal behavior scoring engines operating concurrently to generate abnormal behavior assessment models by scoring the... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20090210377 - System and method for performing dependency management in support of human reasoning in collaborative reasoning networks: A dependency manager in a collaborative reasoning system tracks dependencies between and within users' reasoning by recording chains of reasoning as established by users. Elements of reasoning needing reassessment are deduced from the recorded chains of reasoning. In turn, the dependency manager propagates awareness of changes in reasoning and the... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds

20090210378 - Trusted decision support system and method: Methods and apparatus for providing a comprehensive decision support system to include predictions, recommendations with consequences and optimal follow-up actions in specific situations are described. Data is obtained from multiple disparate data sources, depending on the information deemed necessary for the situation being modeled. Some embodiments perform complex systems modeling... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090204554 - Direction-aware proximity for graph mining: A method and system for graph mining direction-aware proximity measurements. A directed graph includes nodes and directed edges connecting the nodes. A direction-aware proximity measurement is calculated from a first node to a second node or from a first group of nodes to a second group of nodes. The direction-aware... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ws Attn: Patent Docketing

20090204553 - Feature reduction method for decision machines: A method for feature reduction in a training set for a learning machine such as a Support Vector Machine (SVM). In one embodiment the method includes a step (35) of receiving input training data vectors xi of a training set. The input training data vectors are typically derived from a... Agent: John Alexander Galbreath

20090204556 - Large scale manifold transduction: A method for training a learning machine for use in discriminative classification and regression includes randomly selecting, in a first computer process, an unclassified datapoint associated with a phenomenon of interest; determining, in a second computer process, a set of datapoints associated with the phenomenon of interest that is likely... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090204557 - Method and system for analysis of flow cytometry data using support vector machines: An automated method and system are provided for receiving an input of flow cytometry data and analyzing the data using one or more support vector machines to generate an output in which the flow cytometry data is classified into two or more categories. The one or more support vector machines... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090204555 - System and method using hidden information: A method and system for use in describing a phenomenon of interest. The method and system computes a decision rule for use in describing the phenomenon of interest using training data relating to the phenomenon of interest, labels for labeling the training data, and hidden information about the training data... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090204558 - Method for training a learning machine having a deep multi-layered network with labeled and unlabeled training data: A method for training a learning machine having a deep network with a plurality of layers, includes applying a regularizer to one or more of the layers of the deep network; training the regularizer with unlabeled data; and training the deep network with labeled data. Also, an apparatus for use... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090204559 - Bounding error rate based on a worst likely assignment: Given a set of training examples—with known inputs and outputs—and a set of working examples—with known inputs but unknown outputs—train a classifier on the training examples. For each possible assignment of outputs to the working examples, determine whether assigning the outputs to the working examples results in a training and... Agent: Eric Bax

20090204562 - Configurable multi-lingual advisory system and method thereof: The present invention provides a configurable multi-lingual advisory system (100). The advisory system include a database (110) a rule builder (120) and a rule analyzer (130). The rule builder (120) operationally receives and processes pre-defined inputs (160) for storing in the database (110). Upon receiving attribute value inputs (170), the... Agent: Lawrence Y.d. Ho & Associates Pte Ltd

20090204560 - Method for determining validity of command and system thereof: Provided is a method of determining command line validity, including: a step of maintaining a block network address database including block network address information; a step of receiving a command line from a terminal of a user; a step of extracting network address information included in the command line; a... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20090204561 - System configuration analysis: In accordance with one embodiment, a method for detecting potential problems in the configuration or components of a complex system comprises comparing first configuration data for a first system with second configuration data compiled from analyzing a plurality of systems in a selected population; and reporting anomalies associated with the... Agent: CenturyIPGroup, Inc. [ibm Il] C/o IBM Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090204563 - Generic ai architecture for a multi-agent system: The invention relates to architecture of a computer program in order to implement a multi-agent system. The architecture enables the agents to interact with a simulation or game world on a first plane and/or with robots in the real world. Said architecture has a second and third plane. Said second... Agent: Maryam Imam

20090204564 - System for managing outcome information based on uri, and method for same: A system for managing outcome information based on URI comprises an outcome information managing unit that registers and manages outcome information; a URI managing unit that is connected to the outcome information managing unit and imparts a URI to the outcome information through a URI server so as to manage... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20090204554 - Direction-aware proximity for graph mining: A method and system for graph mining direction-aware proximity measurements. A directed graph includes nodes and directed edges connecting the nodes. A direction-aware proximity measurement is calculated from a first node to a second node or from a first group of nodes to a second group of nodes. The direction-aware... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ws Attn: Patent Docketing

20090204553 - Feature reduction method for decision machines: A method for feature reduction in a training set for a learning machine such as a Support Vector Machine (SVM). In one embodiment the method includes a step (35) of receiving input training data vectors xi of a training set. The input training data vectors are typically derived from a... Agent: John Alexander Galbreath

20090204556 - Large scale manifold transduction: A method for training a learning machine for use in discriminative classification and regression includes randomly selecting, in a first computer process, an unclassified datapoint associated with a phenomenon of interest; determining, in a second computer process, a set of datapoints associated with the phenomenon of interest that is likely... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090204557 - Method and system for analysis of flow cytometry data using support vector machines: An automated method and system are provided for receiving an input of flow cytometry data and analyzing the data using one or more support vector machines to generate an output in which the flow cytometry data is classified into two or more categories. The one or more support vector machines... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090204555 - System and method using hidden information: A method and system for use in describing a phenomenon of interest. The method and system computes a decision rule for use in describing the phenomenon of interest using training data relating to the phenomenon of interest, labels for labeling the training data, and hidden information about the training data... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090204558 - Method for training a learning machine having a deep multi-layered network with labeled and unlabeled training data: A method for training a learning machine having a deep network with a plurality of layers, includes applying a regularizer to one or more of the layers of the deep network; training the regularizer with unlabeled data; and training the deep network with labeled data. Also, an apparatus for use... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20090204559 - Bounding error rate based on a worst likely assignment: Given a set of training examples—with known inputs and outputs—and a set of working examples—with known inputs but unknown outputs—train a classifier on the training examples. For each possible assignment of outputs to the working examples, determine whether assigning the outputs to the working examples results in a training and... Agent: Eric Bax

20090204562 - Configurable multi-lingual advisory system and method thereof: The present invention provides a configurable multi-lingual advisory system (100). The advisory system include a database (110) a rule builder (120) and a rule analyzer (130). The rule builder (120) operationally receives and processes pre-defined inputs (160) for storing in the database (110). Upon receiving attribute value inputs (170), the... Agent: Lawrence Y.d. Ho & Associates Pte Ltd

20090204560 - Method for determining validity of command and system thereof: Provided is a method of determining command line validity, including: a step of maintaining a block network address database including block network address information; a step of receiving a command line from a terminal of a user; a step of extracting network address information included in the command line; a... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20090204561 - System configuration analysis: In accordance with one embodiment, a method for detecting potential problems in the configuration or components of a complex system comprises comparing first configuration data for a first system with second configuration data compiled from analyzing a plurality of systems in a selected population; and reporting anomalies associated with the... Agent: CenturyIPGroup, Inc. [ibm Il] C/o IBM Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090204563 - Generic ai architecture for a multi-agent system: The invention relates to architecture of a computer program in order to implement a multi-agent system. The architecture enables the agents to interact with a simulation or game world on a first plane and/or with robots in the real world. Said architecture has a second and third plane. Said second... Agent: Maryam Imam

20090204564 - System for managing outcome information based on uri, and method for same: A system for managing outcome information based on URI comprises an outcome information managing unit that registers and manages outcome information; a URI managing unit that is connected to the outcome information managing unit and imparts a URI to the outcome information through a URI server so as to manage... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20090198635 - Optical metrology of structures formed on semiconductor wafers using machine learning systems: A structure formed on a semiconductor wafer is examined by obtaining a first diffraction signal measured using a metrology device. A second diffraction signal is generated using a machine learning system, where the machine learning system receives as an input one or more parameters that characterize a profile of the... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090198636 - Method and apparatus for a responsive learning program: A method for a responsive learning program in which a skills and knowledge base of an employee to successfully perform at his/her employment are utilized to determine various criteria of steps by which to manage, and improve the quality and efficiency of the employee's skill set and knowledge is presented.... Agent: Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C.

20090198637 - Methods and programs for use case management across domains: A method for generating a repository of use cases for developing a solution or evaluating a solution, or both, in a first domain includes the steps of obtaining a first plurality of use cases for the first domain, obtaining a second plurality of use cases for a second domain, and... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090198638 - Presence combining apparatus and presence combining method: converting means for converting the items of presence information collected by the collecting means into items of primary presence information in a common format that does not depend on the presence sources; storage means for storing the items of primary presence information obtained by conversion performed by the converting means;... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090198639 - Business process analyzer: A system and method for analyzing enterprise applications driven by business processes is provided. The method for analyzing business processes comprises the steps of obtaining process data, serializing the process data, identifying patterns in the serialized process data, creating analyzed process data based on the identified patterns, and publishing the... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090198640 - Fuzzy-learning-based extraction of time-series behavior: Systems and methods for extracting or analyzing time-series behavior are described. Some embodiments of computer-implemented methods include generating fuzzy rules from time series data. Certain embodiments also include resolving conflicts between fuzzy rules according to how the data is clustered. Some embodiments further include extracting a model of the time-series... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090198641 - System and method for forecasting real-world occurrences: A method of predicting the occurrence of crime is provided, where information relating to prior transactions is provided, and where each transaction is a past incident where law enforcement units were involved. A set of analysis parameters relating to details associated with the incident may be selected and conditions associated... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090198642 - Method and system for generating an ontology: A method of generating an ontology includes determining plural concepts from a data set by using a first predetermined pattern, using a second predetermined pattern to determine a relationship between the plural concepts, and between a concept and a concept token in the plural concepts, and generating the ontology based... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC