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Data processing: artificial intelligence November recently filed with US Patent Office 11/09

20090292657 - Acquisition and association of data indicative of an inferred mental state of an authoring user: A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: acquiring data indicative of an inferred mental state of an authoring user; and associating the data indicative of the inferred mental state of the authoring user with an electronic message. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20090292658 - Acquisition and particular association of inference data indicative of inferred mental states of authoring users: A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: acquiring a first inference data indicative of an inferred mental state of a first authoring user in connection with a particular item of an electronic message, acquiring a second inference data indicative of an inferred mental state of a second... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20090292659 - Acquisition and particular association of inference data indicative of inferred mental states of authoring users: A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: acquiring a first inference data indicative of an inferred mental state of a first authoring user in connection with a particular item of an electronic message, acquiring a second inference data indicative of an inferred mental state of a second... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20090292656 - Method, apparatus and system for collecting, receiving, and distributing information from multiple channels: Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with collecting, receiving, and distributing information from multiple channels of information are disclosed.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP

20090292660 - Using rule induction to identify emerging trends in unstructured text streams: A method for identifying emerging concepts in unstructured text streams comprises: selecting a subset V of documents from a set U of documents; generating at least one Boolean combination of terms that partitions the set U into a plurality of categories that represent a generalized, statistically based model of the... Agent: Ibm - Arc Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20090292661 - Compact circuits and adaptation techniques for implementing adaptive neurons and synapses with spike timing dependent plasticity (stdp).: This invention pertains to compact synaptic circuits and networks comprising compact synaptic circuits that exhibit functional characteristics of biological synapses and networks of synapses including, but not limited to, spike timing dependent plasticity (“STDP”). Temporal coincidence of pre- and post-synaptic action potentials across the synapses of the present invention induces... Agent: Alfred M. Haas

20090292662 - Time-series data analyzing apparatus, time-series data analyzing method, and computer program product: Sets of integrated data including history data and time-invariant data grouped for each analysis target are classified based on an inclusion between an amount of change of a time-varying item included in sets of integrated data and a numerical range expressed by an event sequence and also based on a... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20090292663 - Fuzzy rule handling: A method to add expression level fuzzy rule processing capability to existing crisp rule engine without requiring extensive modifications to such rule engine. A system and computer implemented method receive a data set at a crisp rule engine. If the data set involves a fuzzy rule, a callback to a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090292664 - Service management system and method of operation thereof: A service management system and method. In one embodiment, the service management system includes: (1) a service description repository configured to contain service descriptions that define services in terms of a set of systems and devices that assume roles based on at least one of capabilities and attributes thereof and... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Alcatel-lucent

20090292665 - Computer system and computer-facilitated method for nucleic acid sequence alignment and analysis: The present invention relates to a computer system and methods of computer-facilitated data analysis for providing reliable DNA alignments. More specifically, the invention relates to the automation of alignment and naming of mitochondrial DNA sequences for use in forensic analysis. The methods of the present invention provide consistency of sequence... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20090292666 - Acquisition and presentation of data indicative of an extent of congruence between inferred mental states of authoring users: A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: acquiring a first inference data indicative of an inferred mental state of a first authoring user in connection with a particular item of an electronic document, acquiring a second inference data indicative of an inferred mental state of a second... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20090292667 - Automatic updating apparatus, automatic updating method, and programmable storage medium embodying program to perform method for automatic updating: An automatic updating apparatus includes a start instructing unit that outputs an analysis start signal at given intervals, an access count analysis unit that calculates an access count for each of menus indicated in a menu list on a network in response to the analysis start signal, calculates predictive evaluated... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090287617 - Client-side rule engine for executing business rules in rich internet applications: A client-side business rule engine for executing business rules, at a client, in a rich internet application is disclosed. A set of business rules and a fact base are compiled at a server in accordance with a platform definition model, such that the compiled rules and facts are formatted to... Agent: Fountainhead Law Group P.C. Chad R. Walsh

20090287618 - Distributed personal spam filtering: Embodiments are directed towards using a community of weighted results from local and global message classifiers to determine whether a message is spam. Each local classifier may receive a message that is to be evaluated to determine whether it is spam. A local classifier receives the message and performs a... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090287619 - Differentiated, integrated and individualized education: A computer-based learning system uses knowledge points organized with a predefined multilevel arrangement. Each knowledge point has an information set which may include a knowledge content, an evaluation content and a solution content. For a given knowledge point, the learning system provides the knowledge content and evaluation content, analyzes the... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090287621 - Forward feature selection for support vector machines: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for training a Support Vector Machine (SVM) on a subset of features (d′) of a feature set having (d) features of a plurality of training instances to obtain a weight per instance, approximating a quality for the d features of the... Agent: Trop, Pruner & Hu, P.C.

20090287622 - System and method for active learning/modeling for field specific data streams: A system and method for determining whether at least one data point is interesting may be provided. The system may include, among other things, a memory for the at least one data point and a query-by-transduction module configured to assign a plurality of labels to the at least one data... Agent: George Mason University Office Of Technology Transfer, Msn 5g5

20090287620 - System and method for object detection and classification with multiple threshold adaptive boosting: Systems and methods for classifying a object as belonging to an object class or not belonging to an object class using a boosting method with a plurality of thresholds is disclosed. One embodiment is a method of defining a strong classifier, the method comprising receiving a training set of positive... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20090287623 - Method and apparatus for using bayesian networks for localization: The invention is a technique for performing sampling in connection with Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations in which no attempt is made to limit the selected samples to a selected slice of the entire sample domain, as is typical in Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling. Rather, samples are taken from... Agent: Fox Rothschild LLP Princeton Pike Corporate Center

20090287624 - Spatio-temporal pattern recognition using a spiking neural network and processing thereof on a portable and/or distributed computer: A system and method for characterizing a pattern, in which a spiking neural network having at least one layer of neurons is provided. The spiking neural network has a plurality of connected neurons for transmitting signals between the connected neurons. A model for inducing spiking in the neurons is specified.... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20090287625 - Method and device for coding a structured document and method and device for decoding a document so coded: s

20090287626 - Multi-modal query generation: A multi-modal search system (and corresponding methodology) is provided. The system employs text, speech, touch and gesture input to establish a search query. Additionally, a subset of the modalities can be used to obtain search results based upon exact or approximate matches to a search result. For example, wildcards, which... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090287629 - Assignments of places: A method of assigning a place to a customer, including the steps of: determining a set of business rules associated with the provision of the place to the customer; determining a set of available places, the or each of the set of available places having one or more attributes; determining... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20090287628 - Method and system for accelerated stream processing: Disclosed herein is a method and system for hardware-accelerating various data processing operations in a rule-based decision-making system such as a business rules engine, an event stream processor, and a complex event stream processor. Preferably, incoming data streams are checked against a plurality of rule conditions. Among the data processing... Agent: Thompson Coburn LLP

20090287627 - Policy-based managment in communications network: A method and system for policy based management in a communication system, comprising at a policy enforcement point (101) associated with policy decision points (102,103,104). The enforcement point (101) transmits a request for a decision from the decision points (102,103,104). A policy strategy point (105) is configured with a decision... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090287630 - Building a knowledgebase of associated time-based events: Technologies are described herein for building a knowledgebase of associated time-based events and displaying the associations between the events to a user. A chronology knowledgebase application is implemented that maintains a knowledgebase of facts and events that captures both the details of each event and the associations between them. The... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090287631 - Computer-implemented method and computer system for identifying organisms: To identify organism types from a target gene sequence, a server receives (S1) a target reference from a user via a telecommunications network. From a plurality of type-specific profiles, defining informative sequence regions for differentiating individual organisms, selected (S2) automatically is a profile having a highest correlation with the target... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090287633 - Semantic to non-semantic routing for locating a live expert: A system and method of semantic to non-semantic routing for locating an expert. An inquiry-type database has a first layer of inquiry types organized from underlying criteria groupings, (humanly understandable descriptors). Additional layers are associated in a one-to-one correspondence with the first layer of inquiry types. Experts, having individualized knowledge,... Agent: Thomas G. Carulli Kaplan, Von Ohlen & Massamillo LLC

20090287632 - System and method for selecting a package structural design: A system and method of selecting a package model may include maintaining a data structure of a plurality of package models. Each package model may have a plurality of package model attributes including at least a size and a style. A user input may be received that is descriptive of... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20090276381 - social knowledge system content quality: Techniques for automatically scoring submissions to an online question-and-answer submission system are disclosed. According to one such technique, an initial set of user submissions are scored by human operators and/or automated algorithmic mechanisms. The submissions and their accompanying scores are provided as training data to an automated machine learning mechanism.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090276380 - Computer-aided natural language annotation: The present invention uses a natural language understanding system that is currently being trained to assist in annotating training data for training that natural language understanding system. Unannotated training data is provided to the system and the system proposes annotations to the training data. The user is offered an opportunity... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090276382 - Detection of unknown scenarios: The present invention provides methods, systems and apparatus for detecting unknown scenarios in a data processing system. An example method includes the steps of: providing known scenario data describing one or more known scenarios in a database; generating element data depending on the known scenario data to form a set... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20090276377 - Network data mining to determine user interest: Mining information from network data traffic to determine interests of online network users is provided herein. A data packet received at a network interface device can be accessed and inspected at line rate speeds. Source or addressing information in the data packet can be extracted to identify an initiating and/or... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090276383 - Rules generation for it resource event situation classification: A computer processing device receives computer readable data to derive computer executable rules for mining and constructing situation categories. The received data is transformed into a predetermined standard format if the received data is not already in the predetermined standard format. The predetermined standard formatted data is parsed, and an... Agent: Stevens & Showalter, L.L.P.

20090276378 - System and method for identifying document structure and associated metainformation and facilitating appropriate processing: A system and method for processing documents by utilizing the textual content and layout of the documents, including visual indicators, to more efficiently and reliably process the documents across various document types. The system and method identifies visually distinguishable elements within the document, such as section and sub-section boundary indicators,... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20090276379 - Using automatically generated decision trees to assist in the process of design and review documentation: An embodiment of this invention is to use automatically generated decision trees to assist in the design and review process. In one embodiment, the decision trees are automatically extracted from data describing a system (in case of design process) or a review artifact (in case of review process). In a... Agent: Maxvalueip Consulting LLC

20090276384 - Methods and devices relating to estimating classifier performance: Methods and devices, including methods and devices for estimating classifier performance such as generalization performance, are disclosed. One method includes providing multiple samples. Each sample is characterized by one or more features. This method also includes associating a feature variability with at least one of the one or more features... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20090276385 - Artificial-neural-networks training artificial-neural-networks: A method of training an artificial-neural-network includes applying a training algorithm to a first artificial-neural-network using a first training set to generate a sequence of weight values associated with a connection in the first artificial-neural-network. The method also includes training a second artificial-neural-network to generate a weight value, where the... Agent: Stanley K. Hill

20090276386 - Control of real time services: A real time monitoring and control system (101) interfaces with service supply entities such as SMSC, MSC, GGSN, SGSN, and IP probe entities. A data manager (104) maintains account resource data associating each of a plurality of accounts with one or more services, in which at least one account is... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20090276387 - Hybrid fault reasoning and guided troubleshooting system: A fault reasoning system combines both a model-based reasoning approach based upon predicted root causes of a plurality of fault signals, and a case-based reasoner that looks at the actual root cause of actual cases.... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20090276388 - System and method of load balancing using fuzzy logic: A system and method of load balancing using fuzzy logic and, more particularly, to a system and method of load balancing tasks over a grid environment including, for example, CPU utilization, traffic over a network and other functions. The method comprises defining cause and effect relations associated with input variables... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090276389 - Systems and methods for ranking nodes of a graph using random parameters: A ranking approach is used to determine rank-based relationships. In connection with various embodiments, the present invention is directed to a method for ranking nodes of a graph. A vector is provided as a function of a set of random parameters, and a probability matrix function is used, relative to... Agent: Crawford Maunu PLLC

20090276390 - Modeling support system, modeling support method, and modeling support program: A modeling support system is provided in which a model structure is extracted from stored models so as to improve a resulting prediction model using the extracted structure. In a modeling support system 1, when information processors 15a to 15c analyze a phenomenon using covariance structure for modeling and request... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090276391 - Creation of neuro-fuzzy expert system from online analytical processing (olap) tools: A method for automatic generation of a Neuro-Fuzzy Expert System (Fuzzy Logic Expert System implemented as a Neural Network) from data. The method comprising a Data Interface allowing description of location, type, and structure of the Data. The Interface also allows designation of input attributes and output attributes in the... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090276392 - Dynamic sequencing display protocols for medical imaging data: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method for configuring a medical imaging system, the method comprising: permitting a user to interact with a display protocol, said display protocol further comprising a plurality of rules; allowing said user to select a target rule from said plurality of rules; and... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd