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Data processing: artificial intelligence December patent applications/inventions, industry category 12/09

20090327169 - Combining predictive models of forgetting, relevance, and cost of interruption to guide automated reminding: The claimed matter provides systems and/or techniques that develop or use predictive models of human forgetting to effectuate automated reminding. The system includes the use of predictive models that infer the probability that aspects of items will be forgotten, models that evaluate the relevance of recalling aspects of items in... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090327168 - Playful incentive for labeling content: Embodiments are directed towards employing a playful incentive to encourage users to provide feedback that is useable to train a classifier. The classifier being associated with any of a variety of different settings, including but not limited to classifying: messages as ham/spam, images, advertising, bookmarking, music, videos, photographs, shopping, or... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090327172 - Adaptive knowledge-based reasoning in autonomic computing systems: A method, information processing system, and network select machine learning algorithms for managing autonomous operations of network elements. A state (404) of at least one problem (406) and at least one context associated with the problem are received as input. A machine learning algorithm (118) is selected (410) based on... Agent: Fleit, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090327173 - Method for predicting cycle time: A method for predicting cycle time comprises the steps of: collecting a plurality of known sets of data; using a clustering method to classify the known sets of data into a plurality of clusters; using a decision tree method to build a classification rule of the clusters; building a prediction... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090327170 - Methods of clustering gene and protein sequences: The invention relates to methods for clustering gene and protein sequences. In particular, it involves generation of networks of sequences where the interconnections are based upon a measure of similarity. The invention also provides methods of optimizing and improving the networks by re-wiring of the network based upon overlap of... Agent: Novartis Vaccines And Diagnostics Inc.

20090327175 - Pharmacokinetic modeling of mycophenolic acid: A method of providing a pharmacokinetic model to provide optimize pharmacokinetic data associated with administering a drug to a patient and a method of optimising pharmacokinetic data associated with administering a drug to a patient, data processing apparatus, recording medium and a pharmacokinetic model are disclosed.... Agent: Novartis Corporate Intellectual Property

20090327171 - Recognizing gestures from forearm emg signals: A machine learning model is trained by instructing a user to perform proscribed gestures, sampling signals from EMG sensors arranged arbitrarily on the user's forearm with respect to locations of muscles in the forearm, extracting feature samples from the sampled signals, labeling the feature samples according to the corresponding gestures... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090327176 - System and method for learning: A method of learning discriminant function for predicting label information by using computer includes: receiving training data including attribute data and label information, to create an initial prediction model based on the attribute data and the label information; calculating, based on the initial prediction model used as a discriminant function,... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090327174 - Task history user interface using a clustering algorithm: The aspects of the disclosed embodiments include clustering a set of discrete user interface states into groups; presenting the groups on a display of a device; and enabling selection of any state within a presented group, wherein selection of a state returns the user interface to the selected state.... Agent: Perman & Green, LLP

20090327178 - Concurrent two-phase completion genetic algorithm system and methods: A genetic algorithm architecture implements a two-stage completion genetic algorithm with respect to an evolving current population data set. The two-stage completion genetic algorithm that includes genotype and phenotype completion loops. The genotype completion loop operates to compete the current population data set based on genotype field fitness scores. The... Agent: Gerald B Rosenberg New Tech Law

20090327177 - Semi-exact algorithms for optimization: Described herein is a meta-algorithm adaptable to different types of optimization problems and different computing platforms. A problem space is (i) browsed using a heuristic that computes objectives locally and (ii) while constructing a solution, key decisions are performed globally. A simple data structure—a probabilistic cache—is used to efficiently store... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090327179 - Automatic translation of contracts to policies in policy-based networks: A system, method, and information processing system manage a network. At least one contract including one or more components is received at a network that uses a component based architecture. A first operation (422) in the set of operations associated with the contract (114) is mapped to a policy rule... Agent: Fleit, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090327180 - Storage system dynamic classification: The classification of data stored on a storage medium is dynamically modified without the data being relocated to another storage medium. Data stored on a plurality of storage mediums is classified independent of the physical location at which the data resides. Rather than moving data to storage media that possess... Agent: Sun Microsystems, Inc C/o Marsh Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20090327181 - Behavior based method and system for filtering out unfair ratings for trust models: Disclosed is a behavior-based method which uses each rater's rating behaviors as the criterion to judge unfair ratings. A behavior refers to the action that a rater gives certain rating under specific context. The behavior-based method regards the rating given by a rater with abnormal behavior as an unfair rating,... Agent: Sherr & Vaughn, PLLC

20090327183 - Analytical model solver framework: A solver framework for use with an analytical model. The analytical model includes multiple model parameters and includes definitions for analytical relationships between the model parameters. The solver framework coordinates the processing of multiple specialized solvers. In particular, the solver framework identifies which model parameters are input model variables and... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090327182 - Calendar based personalized recommendations: A method providing intelligent suggestions and recommendations for wearable attire and digital program recording, includes: receiving information for a user's apparel and accessory purchases; parsing the received information for storage in a database to form an inventory of the user's apparel and accessories; obtaining ancillary information from mass media sources,... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Burlington

20090327190 - Agent, method and computer system for negotiating in a virtual environment: A multi-agent system is described that uses software agents to represent objects in a chosen real world environment. Each agent has structure having certain characteristics where a relation with other agents can be established if the other agents have characteristics that are suitable to the requesting agent. The multi-agent system... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090327187 - Connectivity in a peer network: Improving connectivity in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network involves packet forwarding by infrastructure or peers. A system can achieve full connectivity and a setup for transactions that takes a fraction of a second. The system can include a routing table that is initially configured so that packets to peers are routed... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090327189 - Dynamic ontology-driven template selection: One aspect of the present invention includes dynamically selecting templates through the use of an ontology. In one embodiment, an ontology is defined to structure information system content, and an ontology classification is then assigned when content is provided to the information system. Based on this classification, the most appropriate... Agent: Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP

20090327191 - Magnetic screening system network: A magnetic screening system uses directional gradiometers with high resolution and accuracy to measure magnetic field signatures of target objects (e.g., gun, knife, cell phone, keys) in a volume of interest. The measured signatures can be compared to signatures of known objects stored in a local database. Various mathematical processes... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090327188 - Resonator: At least one resonator is disclosed having a plurality of nanoscale resonator elements, the at least one resonator having at least two, different resonant frequencies and configured to provide at least two signals in response to an input signal and at least two adders configured to weight the signals with... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090327186 - System and method for selecting candidates from a family of candidates: A technique facilitates selection of underground substance storage sites. Criteria are established to enable evaluation of a plurality of underground storage sites for storing a given substance. Optimal goals or targets are determined, and the potentially numerous and varied criteria are assessed against those optimal goals. A predetermined rational method... Agent: Schlumberger Canada Limited

20090327185 - Systems for structural clustering of time sequences: Arrangements are provided for performing structural clustering between different time series. Time series data relating to a plurality of time series is accepted, structural features relating to the time series data are ascertained, and at least one distance between different time series via employing the structural features is determined. The... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20090327184 - User support device, method, and program: A user support device which accurately judges that a user is in a confused state and supports the user is provided. The user support device includes: a confused state judging unit (107) which judges whether the user is in a confused state or not based on a tendency of variation... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090327193 - Apparatus, method and computer program product for filtering media files: An apparatus, method and computer program product are provided for filtering media files for inclusion in a user's profile. A user may define rules to prevent certain media files from being included in his/her profile and, if desired, to redirect the media files to another individual's profile. The recommendation service,... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090327192 - Automatic categorization of email in a mail system: A sender-driven framework for enhancing the categorization of emails, wherein the sender is able to create or define rules that refine or augment those at the receiver's end. Particularly, the sender is enabled, in accordance with at least one embodiment of the present invention, to add information relating to the... Agent: Ibm Corp. (gig)

20090327196 - Data logging in graph-based computations: At least one rule specification is received for a graph-based computation having data processing components connected by linking elements representing data flows. The rule specification defines rules that are each associated with one or more rule cases that specify criteria for determining one or more output values that depend on... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090327195 - Root cause analysis optimization: Root cause analysis is augmented by providing optimized inputs to root cause analysis systems or the like. Such optimized inputs can be generated from causality graphs by creating sub-graphs, finding and removing cycles, and reducing the complexity of the input. Optimization of inputs enables a root cause analysis system to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090327198 - System and method for applying rule sets and rule interactions: Described is a system and method for determining relationships between a plurality of existing rules in a rule set, wherein the relationships include cause interactions and effect interactions among the existing rules, creating a representation of the relationships including the cause interactions and effect interactions, receiving a new rule to... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20090327197 - System and method for dynamic profiling of user in one-to-one applications and for validation of user rules: A system and method for generating and validating a user profile (25) for a user based on a static profile (10) and a dynamic profile, (15) of the user. The method and system compresses the dynamic rules (15) into aggregated rules so that the user can view a comparatively small... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090327194 - Transforming a list of values based on a configurable rule: A method and system for transforming a starting list into a selection list by employing a configurable rule. Parameters of an item being processed by an application are received. A starting list of elements is generated. Each starting list element specifies a corresponding function performed by the application. A rule... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090327199 - Stateful, continuous evaluation of rules by a state correlation engine: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, related to stateful, continuous evaluation of event-condition-action rules by a state correlation engine. In general, one or more events may be determined to have occurred and an event-condition-action cycle may be caused to be processed for the events. The event-condition-action cycle may include... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20090327201 - Identification of power system events using fuzzy logic: A method for analyzing an electrical power system using fuzzy logic includes: (a) acquiring data representing a signal of interest of the power system; (b) analyzing the signal using at least one fuzzy logic rule; and (c) based on the analysis, detecting and classifying at least one power system event... Agent: Trego, Hines & Ladenheim, PLLC

20090327200 - Method and apparatus for ontology-based classification of media content: A method and apparatus for ontology-based classification of media content are provided. With the method and apparatus, initial confidence values of classifiers in a hierarchical classification structure are modified based on relationships between classifiers. A confidence value for a classifier is boosted by a boosting factor based on a correspondence... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090327202 - Prediction of functional availability of complex system: A method, system, and computer program product for predicting the functional availability of a complex system is provided. Parameters of the complex system are converted from a plurality of binary values to at least one prognostic vector. At least a portion of a binary input expression is converted into an... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090327203 - Homozygote haplotype method: To provide a method of efficiently searching for a disease sensitivity gene and an apparatus therefor. It is intended to provide: a method of determining a homoeologous region which comprises the polymorphism marker selection step of selecting a polymorphism marker usable as the subject of the homozygote determination, the homozygote... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20090327204 - Modeling and control for highly variable and nonlinear systems: The present invention relates generally to methods of modeling and handling of nonlinearities for application of automatic control to systems with high inter-process variance and nonlinearities. The variance and nonlinearities make these systems difficult to control. Variance is accounted for by replacing the mathematical model of the system with a... Agent: Terence Gilhuly

20090327205 - System, method and computer program for using a multi-tiered knowledge representation model: A method (system and computer program product) performs facet classification synthesis to relate concepts represented by concept definitions defined in accordance with a faceted data set comprising facets, facet attributes, and facet attributes hierarchies. Dimensional concept relationships are expressed between the concept definitions. Two concept definitions are determined to be... Agent: Miller Thompson, LLP

20090327206 - Forecasting by blending algorithms to optimize near term and long term predictions: Described is time-weighted blending of the results of time series algorithms in a manner that changes their relative weights based on the prediction time. The prediction values from each algorithm are mathematically blended into a forecast result corresponding to the desired time of prediction. In this manner, an ARTXP algorithm... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090327207 - Method and apparatus for assisting with construction of data for use in an expert system: A display device to display a representation of a set of states, each one of the states being associated with a corresponding variable. Each of the states displayed is designated as being a most significant state for the corresponding variable. Input representing a probability estimate to be associated with a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090327208 - Discovering transformations applied to a source table to generate a target table: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for discovering transformations applied to a source table to generate a target table. Selection is made of a source table comprising a plurality of rows and a target table resulting from a transformation applied to the rows of the source table.... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20090319448 - Method and system for positioning: A positioning method includes: first, receiving wireless signals respectively at the positions of a number of training positions so as to extract a number of signal characteristics; next, establishing a positioning database according to the relationship between the training positions and the corresponding positioning module; then, classifying the training positions... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090319451 - Pattern classification method: For assigning a test pattern to a class chosen from a predefined set of classes, the class membership probability for the test pattern is calculated as well as the confidence interval for the class membership probability based upon a number of training patterns in a neighbourhood of the test pattern... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090319450 - Protein search method and device: A protein search method for searching for, as a target protein, a protein having direct or indirect relevance to information based on protein representation profiling data acquired by means of proteome analysis includes: determining, as a target protein, a protein that is relevant to the information based on significance of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090319449 - Providing context for web articles: An overwhelming number of articles are available everyday via the internet. Unfortunately, it is impossible to peruse more than a handful, and it is difficult to ascertain an article's social context. The techniques disclosed herein address this problem by harnessing implicit and explicit contextual information from social media. By extracting... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090319452 - System and method for automatically learning mailbox configuration conventions: A system and method automatically learns mailbox configuration conventions. The validator module determines a valid set of configuration parameters used for accessing an electronic mailbox of a user within a mail domain after receiving configuration information from the user that is limited in the configuration parameters required for accessing the... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20090319454 - Automated learning of model classifications: A method of providing an automated classifier for 3D CAD models wherein the method provides an algorithm for learning new classifications. The method enables existing model comparison algorithms to adapt to different classifications that are relevant in many engineering applications. This ability to adapt to different classifications allows greater flexibility... Agent: Knoble, Yoshida & Dunleavy

20090319455 - Concurrent two-phase completion genetic algorithm multi-processor instance system: A genetic algorithm architecture implements a two-stage completion genetic algorithm with respect to an evolving current population data set. The two-stage completion genetic algorithm that includes genotype and phenotype completion loops. The genotype completion loop operates to compete the current population data set based on genotype field fitness scores. The... Agent: Gerald B Rosenberg New Tech Law

20090319453 - Sampling strategy using genetic algorithms in engineering design optimization: A sampling strategy using genetic algorithms (GA) in engineering design optimization is disclosed. A product is to design and optimize with a set of design variables, objectives and constraints. A suitable number of design of experiments (DOE) samples is then identified such that each point represents a particular or unique... Agent: Roger H. Chu

20090319456 - Machine-based learning for automatically categorizing data on per-user basis: Architecture that employs machine-based learning to automatically categorize data on a per-user basis. Auto-tagging reduces the burden on infoworkers by creating a machine learning model to learn from user tagging behavior or preferences. Once this information is obtained, a trained model for this specific user is used to assign tags... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090319458 - Compiler for probabilistic programs: A compiler for probabilistic programs is described. The inputs to the compiler are a definition of a model and a set of inference queries. The model definition is written as a probabilistic program which describes a system of interest. The compiler transforms statements in the probabilistic program to generate source... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090319457 - Method and apparatus for structural data classification: Techniques for classifying structural data with skewed distribution are disclosed. By way of example, a method classifying structural input data comprises a computer system performing the following steps. Multiple classifiers are constructed, wherein each classifier is constructed on a subset of training data, using one or more selected composite features... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090319459 - Physically-animated visual display: A physically animated visual display is a robotic device, capable of multiple degree-of-freedom motion, that is adapted to improve a user's emotional state, cognitive performance, and comfort level through reactive and goal-directed manipulation of the position of the display. The affective-cognitive system comprises a feature extraction subsystem for deriving physical... Agent: Norma E Henderson Henderson Patent Law

20090319463 - Color scheme and style controller system: A presenter and a style controller are provided that can be used to create a graphical user interface that have uniform characteristics throughout an application. The graphical user interface can be made from various controls that includes rules for various characteristics. The controls can include a button, a list, and... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20090319460 - Communication method: Initially a method for communication between a management information system, in which a field content is stored, and an execution system are disclosed, wherein the field content in Job Definition Format is transmitted from the management information system to the execution system, then a method for communication between a source... Agent: Ursula B. Day, Esq.

20090319461 - Determining satisfiability of a function with arbitrary domain constraints: A function can be represented as a canonical decision diagram structure. Each vertex of the diagram is associated with a respective function variable. The vertices include at least one vertex that represents a domain of more than two values for the variable associated with the vertex. The decision diagram is... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090319462 - Method and system for customization of a graphical user interface (gui) of a communication device in a communication network: A method and system is provided for customization of a graphical user interface (GUI) of a communication device in a communication network. The method includes customization of the GUI of the communication device based on one or more of user preferences and user interaction patterns pertaining to a plurality of... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090319464 - Method for message suppression in rule based expert system: One exemplary method for message suppression comprises: providing first and second rules, each having one or more preconditions and a conclusion, wherein the first rule also has a suppressed-by attribute and at least one of the second preconditions is suppressing; evaluating the one or more first and second preconditions; identifying... Agent: Exxonmobil Chemical Company

20090319465 - Method for solving optimization problems in structured combinatorial objects: The present invention is a method of solving the decision, searching, counting and optimization versions of the hamiltonian traversal (cycle and/or path) problem in class of combinatorial discrete objects.... Agent: Ignacio Reneses Ajenjo C/o Equinox Protection

20090319466 - Recommending contacts in a social network: A method and system for recommending potential contacts to a target user is provided. A recommendation system identifies users who are related to the target user through no more than a maximum degree of separation. The recommendation system identifies the users by starting with the contacts of the target user... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20090319467 - Simplifying the creation of user-defined custom elements for use in a graphical modeling application: The present invention can include a solution for capturing user-defined custom elements for use in a graphical modeling application. Such a system can include a graphical modeling application and a custom element definition tool. The graphical modeling application can be configured to create semantic models that contain a static graphical... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090313187 - Data pattern generation, modification and management utilizing a semantic network-based graphical interface: A plurality of pattern components is presented to a user. Each of the pattern components describe events and/or sub-events that, when combined, create emergent information that indicates the occurrence of a primary event. The user builds and then transmits a customized graphical event pattern, composed of one or more pattern... Agent: Law Office Of Jim Boice

20090313190 - Cognitive operating system: An operating system configured to support cognitive capable environments is described. The system comprises a memory structure and an I/O process configured to update inputs and outputs. The operating system further includes a process to determine changes to symbols within the symbol space due to the stimulus and create STM... Agent: John S. Beulick Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090313188 - Computationally efficient signal classifier: Methods provided by this description may include receiving input signals for classification, and deriving specified signal parameters from the input signals. These methods may also compare the specified signal parameter to signal parameters derived from training signals, with the training signals being associated with predefined signal classes. These methods may... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC

20090313189 - Method, system and apparatus for assembling and using biological knowledge: Disclosed are methods, systems and apparatus for constructing assemblies of biological knowledge constituting a biological knowledge base, and for subsetting and transforming life sciences-related data and information into biological models to facilitate computation and electronic reasoning on biological information. A subset of data is extracted from a global knowledge base... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20090313192 - Evolutionary facial feature selection: An evolutionary feature selection system and method that determines a feature space for a dataset. A system is disclosed that includes: a system for generating a plurality of chromosomes; an agglomerative K-means clustering system for clustering data into clusters, wherein each of the cluster spaces is associated with a different... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090313191 - Hardware design using evolution algorithms: The design of a hardware component such as a digital filter is optimized by taking an initial population of filter designs and encoding them as chromosomes. The fitness of each chromosome is then evaluated and parent chromosomes are then selected based on the fitness criteria. Offspring chromosomes are then generated... Agent: Kirschstein, Israel, Schiffmiller & Pieroni, P.C.

20090313193 - Hierarchical temporal memory system with higher-order temporal pooling capability: A temporal pooler for a Hierarchical Temporal Memory network is provided. The temporal pooler is capable of storing information about sequences of co-occurrences in a higher-order Markov chain by splitting a co-occurrence into a plurality of sub-occurrences. Each split sub-occurrence may be part of a distinct sequence of co-occurrences. The... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090313194 - Methods and apparatus for automated image classification: A system for automated classification of an image of an electronic document such as a facsimile document. The image is converted to a textual representation, and at least some of the terms in the textual representation may be associated with one or more predefined classification types, thereby enabling the document... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090313195 - Artificial neural network architecture: An artificial neural network apparatus comprising an array of neural units, each comprising a router, at least one neuron device and at least one synapse unit. The routers of respective neural units communicate with one another using data packets. The synapse units receive and create analogue signals, the routers converting... Agent: The Nath Law Group

20090313197 - Application customizable to enable administrators of loyalty programs to control communications to members: Application customizable to enable administrators of various reward/loyalty programs to control communications to members. In one embodiment, an administrator is enabled to configure various rules corresponding to an event with the application of the rules to a member information identifying which ones of multiple contents is to be sent to... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20090313199 - Decision making unit for autonomous platform: A decision making unit suitable for an autonomous platform. The decision making unit includes a receiving module configured to receive at least one ability request and a preconditioning module configured to precondition the received ability request. A filter is configured to filter the preconditioned ability request. A first generator is... Agent: Venable LLP

20090313196 - External scoping sources to determine affected people, systems, and classes of information in legal matters: When creating exhaustive, affected lists within a request scope, any legal risk due to failure to identify or leverage existing knowledge of a company about custody of evidence related to a legal matter is minimized. Accurate affected lists are constructed for an ongoing or impending litigation. Affected people, systems, or... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090313200 - Immigration application management apparatus, systems, and methods: Application management apparatus, systems, and methods to process government agency forms and applications such as, for example, immigration forms, petitions and applications to increase the likelihood of acceptance.... Agent: Caroline Nash Nash & Titus, LLC

20090313201 - Method and system for capturing business rules for automated decision procession: A rule packaging system and method to define and/or package parameters, attributes, enumerations of a prime rule in a reduced canonical form suitable for propositional logic manipulation using, for example, zero-suppressed binary decision diagrams. The reduced form of the prime rule is subsequently used by applying a series of user... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20090313198 - Methods and systems for performing root cause analysis: A root cause analysis engine uses event durations and gradual deletion of events to improve analysis accuracy and reduce the number of required calculations. Matching ratios of relevant rules are recalculated every time notification of an event is received. The calculation results are held in a rule memory in the... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090313202 - Systems and methods for automated search-based problem determination and resolution for complex systems: Systems and methods are provided to implement automated search-based problem determination and resolution systems in which a domain-specific data model for a class of complex systems, which is representative of structural relationships of entities within the class of complex systems, is utilized to provide enhanced domain-specific content searching and search... Agent: Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20090313203 - Predictive wiki optimization software application: A method, system, and device readable medium for running a predictive wiki optimization application is disclosed. The optimization application provides an improved decision-making or valuation method for formalizing and systematizing the decision-making or valuation process. The application leverages collective knowledge about a field of endeavor in order to yield better... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090313204 - Sample-based robust inference for decision support system: The present invention deals with sampling-based robust inference for decision support systems (DSS). The invention relates to a method of operating a decision support system comprising at least one Bayesian network, to a decision support system and to a computer program product for implementing the system. The system comprising at... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090313205 - Table structure analyzing apparatus, table structure analyzing method, and table structure analyzing program: A table structure analyzing apparatus extracts first row data and second row data in table data. Similarity between the data is computed based on Levenshtein distance or the number of characters. Further, similarity between the first row and the second row as a whole is determined. When the similarity is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090313206 - Apparatus and method for parsing of extensible media: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for parsing of extensible media. In the present invention, neo-data including additional media are extracted from meta data of the extensible media by analyzing the extensible media, and a neo-data track is extracted from the extensible media and transmitted to... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090307159 - Interactive computing advice facility: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for helping a user make a decision through the use of a computing facility, where the computing facility may be a machine learning facility. The process may begin with an initial question being received by the computing facility from the... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20090307162 - Method and apparatus for automated assistance with task management: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for assisting with automated task management. In one embodiment, an apparatus for assisting a user in the execution of a task, where the task includes one or more workflows required to accomplish a goal defined by the user, includes a task... Agent: Wall & Tong, LLP Sri International

20090307160 - Parallel generation of a bayesian network: A method for generating a Bayesian network in a parallel manner is based on an initial model having a plurality of nodes. Each node corresponds to a variable of a data set and has a local distribution associated therewith. The method includes assigning a plurality of subsets of the nodes... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090307161 - System and method to learn and deploy an optimal user experience in an online system: Methods and systems to learn an optimal user experience. The system receives a request over a network from a user. The request includes context information. The system identifies a response to the request is to be utilized to learn whether a first interface component included in a first plurality of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090307163 - Virtual measuring device and method: A virtual measuring device and a method for measuring the deposition thickness of amorphous silicon being deposited on a substrate is disclosed, where the method of measuring the deposition thickness of amorphous silicon includes predicting and adapting operations. In the predicting operation, during a process of depositing the amorphous silicon... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090307164 - Biometric security using neuroplastic fidelity: A system, method and program product for providing biometric security using neuroplastic fidelity. A method is disclosed that includes: receiving biometric data; analyzing the biometric data with a probabilistic neural network and outputting a chromosome containing a binary string; mapping the binary string to a selected extractor and a selected... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090307165 - Nerve equivalent circuit, synapse equivalent circuit and nerve cell body equivalent circuit: By mathematizing input/output relations of a nerve circuit, a synapse and a cell body, it is intended to provide a nerve equivalent circuit, a synapse equivalent circuit and a cell body equivalent circuit whereby electrical characteristics in accordance with the physiological functions and physical structures of nerve cells are faithfully... Agent: Mcglew & Tuttle, PC

20090307167 - Classification using support vector machines and variables selection: A method of deriving a classifier for classifying items using a plurality of variables for characteristics of the items, the method comprising determining a representative subset of the variables for use in said classifier.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090307169 - Distributable serializable finite state machine: A distributable and serializable finite state machine and methods for using the distributable and serializable finite state machine are provided wherein finite state machine instance can be location-shifted, time-shifted or location-shift and time-shifted, for example by serializing and deserializing each instance. Each instance can be located-shifted between agents, and a... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law, LLC

20090307166 - Method and system for automated integrated server-network-storage disaster recovery planning: An automated disaster recovery (DR) planning system for a computing environment is provided. A discovery module discovers servers, networks, and storage devices in a computing environment. An expert knowledge base module captures best practices in planning, and capabilities, interoperability, limitation and boundary values for different DR technologies. A match-making module... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. C/o Myers Andras Sherman LLP

20090307168 - Systems and methods for photo-based content discovery and recommendation: Described are systems and methods for photo-based content discovery and recommendation. The methods and systems disclosed provide a photo-based website for allowing users to discover places, people and activity of similar likes and preferences.... Agent: Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati

20090307171 - Automated design of computer system architecture: In certain embodiments, a method includes accessing a number of target values. Each target value may be associated with a respective design criterion of a computer system. The computer system may be associated with one or more domains. Each domain may be associated with a respective function of the computer... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090307172 - Retroactive policy enforcement: Disclosed herein is a system and method for enforcement of management policies by automatically trigging action-based processes that are mapped to the management policies. This may occur when: a new management policy is created; a final set of a management policy is modified; a new workflow is added to the... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090307173 - System, method and computer program product for dynamically enhancing an application executing on a computing device: A system is described that dynamically enhances a software application executing on a computing device without having to change and recompile the original application code. The system includes a staging environment that monitors the execution of the application and indexes each item of graphical and/or audio information generated by the... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Cpa Global

20090307170 - Visualization of data record physicality: Systems (and corresponding methodologies) that enable inferences to be drawn from the physicality of electronic information much like that of a visual inspection of physical records are provided. In other words, a user is able to draw inferences from parameters of electronic data such as quantity, regularity, age, condition, type,... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090307174 - Connection of value networks with information technology infrastructure and data via applications and support personnel: A method and a system for relating of a value network analysis of a mission to a knowledge base of dependencies of data objects, applications and information technology resources required for achieving of such mission, such method used for optimization of provisioning for information technology resources and for prioritizing of... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090307175 - Parallel pattern matching on multiple input streams in a data processing system: A method, system and computer program product for performing pattern matching in parallel for a plurality of input streams. The method includes calculating a memory address in a translation table responsive to a current input value, a current state and current state information. A transition rule is retrieved from the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Europe

20090307176 - Clustering-based interest computation: Data relating to usage patterns of the user are stored. The data includes a context portion having information as to the context in which items were used and an interest rating portion indicative of an interest of the user in one or more objects of interest. The data is clustered... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20090307177 - Call group management using the session initiation protocol: A method, apparatus, and electronic device for hierarchical communications are disclosed. A connection interface 1260 may receive a query. A processor 1210 may select an initial expert from the hierarchical expert tree based upon the query and direct the query towards the initial expert. A session initiation protocol server 418... Agent: Prass LLP

20090307179 - Genetic analysis: The present invention provides methods for generating genetic profiles or analyses. Included are methods for conducting comprehensive, dynamic genetic analysis. Also provided are methods for determining genetic health scores for specific phenotypes, such as diseases, disorders, traits, and conditions, as well as for organ systems, for certain medical specialties, and... Agent: Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati

20090307180 - Genetic analysis: The present invention provides methods for generating genetic profiles or analyses. Included are methods for conducting comprehensive, dynamic genetic analysis. Also provided are methods for determining genetic health scores for specific phenotypes, such as diseases, disorders, traits, and conditions, as well as for organ systems, for certain medical specialties, and... Agent: Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati

20090307181 - Genetic analysis: The present invention provides methods for generating genetic profiles or analyses. Included are methods for conducting comprehensive, dynamic genetic analysis. Also provided are methods for determining genetic health scores for specific phenotypes, such as diseases, disorders, traits, and conditions, as well as for organ systems, for certain medical specialties, and... Agent: Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati

20090307182 - Methods and apparatus for determining an identity of a user: Methods and apparatuses for determining the identity of the user detect a current user's electronic device activity pattern; compare the detected activity pattern against a plurality of user action identification profiles, wherein each user action identification profile is associated with a particular user; and use the comparing to identify the... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20090307178 - Utility monitoring systems and methods of use: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, and devices for monitoring one or more utilities consumed within a monitored area. At least certain disclosed methods include detecting an amount of a first utility consumed by a load associated with a device. An amount of a second utility consumed... Agent: Unr/dri Technology Transfer Office

20090299923 - Change management using collective data: A method for providing information associated with configuration changes to a computer system is provided. The method includes receiving a description of a starting configuration and a description of a configuration change. The method further includes linking the description of the starting configuration and the description of the configuration change... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090299925 - Automatic detection of undesirable users of an online communication resource based on content analytics: An exemplary processor-implemented method of determining whether a user of an online communication resource is an undesirable user includes the steps of building at least one model based on at least one feature of a feature set using at least one machine learning technique; and classifying the user by comparing... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090299924 - Intelligent human-machine interface: Embodiments in accordance with the present invention relate to methods and apparatus for an intelligent human-machine interface. By way of example, but not limited thereto, embodiments of methods and apparatus are presented of an intelligent human-machine interface for the operating room, and more particularly, to systems and processes for real-time... Agent: Paul J. Fordenbacher/berkeley Law & Technology Gro Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP

20090299927 - Integrated method of ensuring instant messaging security on confidential subject matter: An instant messaging system for securing chat sessions containing confidential subject matter during instant messaging from external entities, the system comprising: a rules engine module configured to continuously build and update a set of rules used to determine when a chat session between a first chat party and a second... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20090299926 - Methods for data classification: The present invention provides methods for classifying data and uncovering and correcting annotation errors. In particular, the present invention provides a self-organizing, self-correcting algorithm for use in classifying data. Additionally, the present invention provides a method for classifying biological taxa.... Agent: Medlen & Carroll, LLP

20090299928 - Method for optimizing inequality and equality constrained resources allocation problems in industrial applications: In industrial applications, the invention relates to various algorithms for determining optimal resources or assets allocations under various equality and inequality constraints. In particular, constrained quadratic or conic optimization problems of unique importance for portfolio asset allocation are seamlessly solved in analytic and efficient ways. In addition, by providing exact... Agent: Phil Kongtcheu Pfk Technologies

20090299930 - Method of measuring the thickness profile of a film tube: A method of measuring the thickness profile of a film produced in a blow film line having a rotatable pull-off rig in which a flattened film tube is scanned by performing individual measurements at measurement positions distributed over the width over the film tube and, in each individual measurement, the... Agent: Richard M. Goldberg

20090299929 - Methods of improved learning in simultaneous recurrent neural networks: Methods, computer-readable media, and systems are provided for machine learning in a simultaneous recurrent neural network. One embodiment of the invention provides a method including initializing one or more weight in the network, initializing parameters of an extended Kalman filter, setting a Jacobian matrix to an empty matrix, augmenting the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090299933 - Data processing apparatus, data processing method, and computer program: A data processing apparatus includes: predicting means for calculating a prediction value of time series data with respect to input of the time series data using a prediction model for predicting the time series data; determining means for determining a target value of the time series data on the basis... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090299934 - Harnessing information about the timing of a user's client-server interactions to enhance messaging and collaboration services: A system and method is provided to facilitate communication and collaboration by considering the timing of a user's activities on one or more clients via accessing, from a centralized server, information about the user's client-server interactions. The systems and methods can harness existing protocols and data exchange used in legacy... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090299931 - Problem shooting process intelligently adapted to fit user's skills: The present disclosure is directed to a method for automatically adapting the problem shooting steps to the user's skill level.... Agent: Ibm Corporation (swp)

20090299932 - System and method for providing a virtual persona: A method, system, and machine readable medium for providing a virtual persona are disclosed. User input directed to a life archive data of a particular virtual persona is received. One or more artificial intelligence files are determined in response to the user input. An output may be generated based on... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090299935 - Method and apparatus for digital forensics: A method and apparatus for digital forensics are provided. The apparatus for digital forensics includes a page file extractor for extracting a page file stored in a target storage medium, a stored-page feature extractor for extracting features of pages stored in the extracted page file, a page classifier for comparing... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090299936 - Policy creating apparatus, policy creating method, and computer product: A policy integrity validating unit validates whether a system model can achieve an objective set up in a policy without violating a constraint set up in the policy when a system model is operated according to a procedure set up in the policy. When the policy integrity validating unit determines... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090299939 - Distributed rule processing for ubiquitous computing environments: Methods and apparatus are provided for distributed rule processing in a sense and respond system. A method for identifying a candidate set of rules is disclosed, comprising the steps of: identifying one or more rules that receive information from one or more sensors to create a first candidate set of... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090299941 - Method and system for adding an aspect trigger to an aspect: A method within a computing execution environment for adding an aspect trigger for an aspect, an aspect being an application level abstraction relevant to a source or service, along with the execution environment, where the method includes defining service aspects; inserting or encapsulating the service aspects as named aspects into... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090299937 - Method and system for detecting and managing peer-to-peer traffic over a data network: The present invention relates to a method and system for detecting and managing Peer-To-Peer traffic over a data network. The system comprises: (a) a file identifier unit for searching the P2P network according to search criteria, and retrieving identifiers of files that are shared over said P2P network; (b) an... Agent: Kevin D. Mccarthy Roach Brown Mccarthy & Gruber, P.C.

20090299942 - Method for implementing a rules-based engine: Embodiments of the invention provide an RBE that uses a logical abstraction for a set of application rules that allows the rules to be implemented, presented and modified efficiently. For one embodiment, rules logic for implementing a set of application rules is stored. The rules logic is specified by a... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20090299940 - Rule-based system for client-side quality-of-service tracking and reporting: Server-side control of client-side quality-of-service tracking is provided. When an event occurs at a client, a measurement client collects event parameters and generates aggregated measurement data in accordance with aggregation rules that are provided to the measurement client from a server-side measurement service. The measurement client periodically reports the aggregated... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090299938 - Rules engine for aspect services: A service request is received from a client, the service request being directed to a web application, wherein a core concern of the web application is configured to perform a core operation upon receiving the service request. The service request is compared to a plurality of rules by a rules... Agent: Daniel E. Ovanezian Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090299943 - Concerned information recommendation system and method considering user's watching or listening time and maximum playing time of contents: A user-concerned information recommendation system and method considering user's watching or listening time and the maximum playing time of contents are disclosed. The user-concerned information provision system includes a plurality of user terminals to provide contents transmitted from an external server to a user, a user-concerned information inference server to... Agent: LexyoumeIPGroup, LLC

20090299944 - Method and system for application support knowledge transfer between information technology organizations: A computer network system for implementing a knowledge transfer process includes one or more local computers. The processors of the computers may access a knowledge database stored in local computer memory. The system also includes remote computers. The processors of the remote computers may access the knowledge database stored in... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20090299945 - Profile modeling for sharing individual user preferences: A computer-implemented method (FIG. 4), systems (FIG. 6) and data structures (420, 466) are disclosed for creating and exchanging a compact, machine-usable user taste profile (140,416,608). The method may include accessing an associational knowledge base “AKB” (124,406) that stores relationships among a catalog of items in computer-usable form. The AKB... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20090299946 - Data validation and classification in optical analysis systems: A method of classifying information in an optical analysis system includes obtaining calibration data defining a plurality of data points, each data point representing values for two or more detectors when sampling a material used to construct a multivariate optical element. Based on the calibration data, one or more validation... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20090299947 - Systems, methods and apparatus for adiabatic quantum computation and quantum annealing: Various adaptations to adiabatic quantum computation and quantum annealing are described. These adaptations generally involve tailoring an initial Hamiltonian so that a local minimum is avoided when a quantum processor is evolved from the initial Hamiltonian to a problem Hamiltonian. The initial Hamiltonian may represent a mixed Hamiltonian that includes... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090299948 - Identification and monitoring of systemic lupus erythematosus: A method for identifying or monitoring SLE in an individual is provided. The method includes quantitating complement component C4d on the surfaces of platelets and comparing the amounts of C4d to reference levels of C4d on platelets of individuals without SLE and/or on platelets of the individual obtained at a... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20090299949 - Limiting rule base modification: Various embodiments herein include one or more of systems, methods, data structures, and software operable to limit how rules, or components thereof, may be modified. Some embodiments include receiving a rule definition in a system, the rule definition including one or more rule components, each component including a reference to... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090299950 - Dynamic categorization of rules in expert systems: Various embodiments include one or more of systems, methods, software, and data structures for dynamic categorization of rules and collections of rules within a rule base, such as a rule base of an expert system. One embodiment provides a computerized method that includes receiving a selection of one or more... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090299951 - Failure-handling procedure knowledge forming apparatus and method thereof: A computer-readable storage medium contains instructions. The instructions, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform generating a new trouble-handling knowledge by using information regarding a work history read from a work-history storage unit that stores the information regarding the work history; and adding the new trouble-handling knowledge... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain