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Data processing: artificial intelligence November recently filed with US Patent Office 11/10

20100299287 - Monitoring time-varying network streams using state-space models: In one embodiment, a statistical model is generated based on observed data, the observed data being associated with a network device, online parameter fitting is performed on parameters of the statistical model, and for each newly observed data value, a forecast value is generated based on the statistical model, the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100299288 - Rule-based vocabulary assignment of terms to concepts: Methods and systems are described that involve rule-based vocabulary assignment of terms to concepts. Instead of assigning individual terms to each concept in a conceptualization of a domain, such as taxonomy, ontology, and so on, production rules are defined and assigned to each concept. The production rules produce at least... Agent: Sap Ag

20100299289 - System and method for obtaining information about biological networks using a logic based approach: A system and method of obtaining information concerning the structure-function relationship of biological networks can be studied holistically through the ensemble characterization of all the networks that realize a given biological function. A logic-based approach enables significant advances in computability and concept development (minimality and reducibility). The approach is applied... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20100299290 - Web query classification: A query phrase may be automatically classified to one or more topics of interest (e.g., categories) to assist in routing the query phrase to one or more appropriate backend databases. A selectional preference query classification technique may be used to classify the query phrase based on a comparison between the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20100299291 - Cruncher - an mip solver accelerator: Methods and systems are provided for solving an optimization problem using a model expressed in a mixed integer programming (MIP) language. The problem is constrained within a space of valid solutions by a plurality of MIP variables. A skeleton set of the variables are designated as eligible for fixed value... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20100299292 - Systems and methods for application-level security: A system and method for application-level security is disclosed. Application-level security refers to detecting security threats from functional user behavior. Information about functional user behavior is transformed into a behavior session. The behavior session is transformed into a behavior pattern. The behavior pattern is correlated with evaluation patterns to detect... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20100299293 - Computer-implemented land planning system and method designed to generate at least one conceptual fit solution to a user-defined land development problem: A computer-implemented land planning system is designed to generate at least one conceptual fit solution to a user-defined land development problem. The system electronically creates at least one candidate solution to the land development problem. The candidate solution incorporates a number of engineering measurements applicable in development of an undeveloped... Agent: Schwartz Law Firm, P.C. Southpark Towers

20100299294 - Apparatus, system, and method for determining a partial class membership of a data record in a class: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for determining a partial class membership of a data record in a class. The apparatus includes a record set acquisition module that receives a set of reference records having the same independent variables and belonging to a known class within a group of... Agent: Kunzler Needham Massey & Thorpe

20100299295 - Message routing using cyclical neural networks: A system for routing business-to-business (“B2B”) messages includes a cyclical neural network. The cyclical neural network contains neurons for determining a needed destination of a message based on content type of the message, for example. Neurons are monitored to establish a “state of understanding” of the network during processing, and... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Jw Attn: Patent Docketing

20100299296 - Electronic learning synapse with spike-timing dependent plasticity using unipolar memory-switching elements: According to embodiments of the invention, a system, method and computer program product producing spike-dependent plasticity in an artificial synapse. In an embodiment, a method includes: receiving a pre-synaptic spike in an electronic component; receiving a post-synaptic spike in the electronic component; in response to the pre-synaptic spike, generating a... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. C/o Myers Andras Sherman & Zarrabian LLP

20100299297 - System for electronic learning synapse with spike-timing dependent plasticity using phase change memory: A system, method and computer program product for producing spike-dependent plasticity in an artificial synapse is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method for producing spike-dependent plasticity in an artificial neuron comprises generating a pre-synaptic spiking event in a first neuron when a total integrated input to the first neuron... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. C/o Myers Andras Sherman & Zarrabian LLP

20100299299 - Identifying self-conscious program: s

20100299298 - Method for making optimal selections based on multiple objective and subjective criteria: A method for making optimal decisions includes the ability to consider and weigh multiple factors, where those factors might be numeric, or non-numeric, objective or subjective. Further, the method ensures that factors are not prematurely eliminated. This contrasts with behavior common to decision-tree based approaches. The method further allows for... Agent: Roger Frederick Osmond

20100299300 - Runtime interpretation of declarative programs: Embodiments are directed to interpreting declarative program types at runtime without compiling and mapping between a declarative type and a dynamic runtime type. A computer system accesses a portion of a declarative program, where the declarative program includes fully modeled activity types. The computer system dynamically constructs a dynamic activity... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20100299301 - System and method for automatically predicting the outcome of expert forecasts: Systems and methods are provided that predict the accuracy of expert forecasts based on a corpus of prior expert forecasts. Expert forecasts (also referred to as opinions) are analyzed and processed to determine an opinion and related positions expressed by the expert. Each opinion is combined with relevant industry information... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20100299303 - Automatically ranking multimedia objects identified in response to search queries: Construct a statistical model for a plurality of multimedia objects identified in response to a search query, the statistical model comprising a plurality of probabilities, wherein each of the multimedia objects uniquely corresponding to a different one of a plurality of sets of feature values, each of the feature values... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20100299302 - Traffic discovery: Discovering communication traffic in a computer network is useful to administrators of computer networks. Communication packets from a communication transaction on the network are read to determine a source computing device and to determine whether the communication transaction contains a data pattern match to one of a plurality of defined... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100293117 - Method and system for facilitating batch mode active learning: A method and system for performing batch mode active learning to train a classifier. According to embodiments of the present invention, unlabeled documents are selected from a corpus based on rewards associated with each unlabeled document. The reward is an indication of the increase to the accuracy of a classifier... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler PC

20100293115 - Method, system and apparatus for real-time classification of muscle signals from self -selected intentional movements: A new method, system and apparatus is provided that enables muscle signals that correspond to muscle contractions to be mapped to one or more functions of an electronic device such as a prosthetic device or gaming apparatus. Muscle signals are classified in real-time from self-selected intentional movements. A self-training protocol... Agent: Miller Thompson, LLP

20100293118 - Methods and systems for predicting protein-ligand coupling specificities: The invention provides methods and systems for predicting or evaluating protein-ligand coupling specificities. A pattern recognition model can be trained by selected sequence segments of training proteins which have a specified ligand coupling specificity. Each selected sequence segment is believed to include amino acid residue(s) that may contribute to the... Agent: Wyeth LLC Patent Law Group

20100293116 - Url and anchor text analysis for focused crawling: Systems and methods of URL and anchor text analysis for focused crawling are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, a method may include training a focused crawler by: obtaining a training set of at least URL's or anchor text for a website, computing a score for the training set, and extracting... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20100293123 - Complex situation analysis system: A system for generating a representation of a situation is disclosed. The system comprises one or more computer-readable media including computer-executable instructions that are executable by one or more processors to implement a method of generating a representation of a situation. The method comprises receiving input data regarding a target... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20100293122 - Systems and methods for an application program interface to an evolutionary software program: Systems and methods may include an application program interface that enables a user to: specify parameters associated with an evolutionary algorithm, where an execution of the evolutionary algorithm is in accordance with the specified parameters; define a chromosome data structure that includes a plurality of variables that are permitted to... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20100293120 - Systems and methods for box fitness termination of a job of an evolutionary software program: Systems and methods may include receiving a respective plurality of objective function values for each chromosome data structure of a population, where the respective plurality of objective function values are obtained based upon an evaluation of each chromosome data structure; mapping the respective objective function values to respective epsilon values,... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20100293119 - Systems and methods for parallel processing optimization for an evolutionary algorithm: The systems and methods may include receiving an initial population of parent chromosome data structures, where each parent chromosome data structure provides a plurality of genes; selecting pairs of parent chromosome data structures; applying at least one evolutionary operator to the genes of the selected pairs to generate a plurality... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20100293121 - Systems and methods for parallel processing with infeasibility checking mechanism: Systems and methods may include obtaining an input population of parent chromosome data structures, where each parent chromosome data structure provides having a plurality of genes representative of variables in which associated values are permitted to evolve; selecting pairs of parent chromosome data structures from the input population; allocating the... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20100293124 - Method and system for data classification in the presence of a temporal non-stationarity: A method and system for determining a feature of a particular pattern are provided. In particular, data records are received, and predetermined patterns that are associated with at least some of the data records are obtained. Using the system and method, particular information is extracted from at least a subset... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20100293125 - Knowledge discovery system with user interactive analysis view for analyzing and generating relationships: A knowledge model discovery system is configured to provide an interactive view having simultaneously displayed sub-views that include a relational data element view and a geophysical view. Using the interactive view, a user may perform search and analysis of information organized with a knowledge management tool in conjunction with geographic... Agent: Accenture C/o Murabito, Hao & Barned LLP

20100293126 - Automated job application system including applicant hints: An automated job application system includes a processor coupled to a display and to a user input device, wherein the automated job application system executes one or more instructions for accepting signals from the user input device to determine responses to questions in a job application; comparing the responses to... Agent: TrellisIPLaw Group/oracle

20100293127 - Controlled constraint sharing in parallel problem solvers: Controlled constraint sharing in parallel problem solvers is described. In embodiments, constraint sharing in a problem solver is controlled by comparing a total number of shared constraints obtained in a time interval to a target, and regulating the subsequent number of shared constraints obtained from other problem solvers accordingly. Embodiments... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20100293128 - Syslog message routing systems and methods: A syslog message routing system can include multiple syslog sources, a syslog message routing module, and multiple syslog parsers. The syslog message routing module can receive a syslog message from one of the syslog sources, identify a particular syslog parser to handle the syslog message, and send the syslog message... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C. - Novell

20100293129 - Dependency between sources in truth discovery: A method and system for truth discovery may implement a methodology that accounts for accuracy of sources and dependency between sources. The methodology may be based on Bayesian probability calculus for determining which data object values published by sources are likely to be true. The method may be recursive with... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Jw Attn: Patent Docketing

20100293130 - Genetic analysis systems and methods: The present invention provides methods of determining a Genetic Composite Index score by assessing the association between an individual's genotype and at least one disease or condition. The assessment comprises comparing an individual's genomic profile with a database of medically relevant genetic variations that have been established to associate with... Agent: Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati

20100293131 - Method for adaptively modifying the observed collective behavior of individual sensor nodes based on broadcasting of parameters: A method for continually controlling the collective behavior of a set of computing devices in a distributed data processing system. A gateway node disseminates a specification request comprising a set of parameters to a set of computing devices. The gateway node may be unaware of the number and identity of... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20100293132 - Methods, systems, and products for detecting maladies: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for detecting and/or predicting maladies in humans and animals. Electronic copies of second order output are collected and compared to a symptoms database storing data ranges describing symptoms. When the second order output lies outside a data range, a symptom associated with the data... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Sz Attn: Patent Docketing

20100293133 - System and method for automatic return letter generation: Systems and methods for automatically generating a return letter are disclosed. The system may include a computer usable medium in communication with a processor. The processor may determine whether a source document with contact information includes one or more fields requiring data. In response to the determining, a response document... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20100293134 - System for inductive determination of pattern probabilities of logical connectors: The invention relates to a system for the inductive determination of pattern probabilities of 16 dyadic logical convectors. Said system is especially useful for technically predicting human behavior, e.g. inclusion fallacies, and is therefore useful for controlling of technical systems and for data mining, search engines or human-machine interfaces.... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20100287128 - Anomaly detection for link-state routing protocols: Disclosed herein is an anomaly detection method for link-state routing protocols, a link-state routing protocol providing for link-state update (LSU) messages to be exchanged between nodes in a packet-based network, wherein each link-state update message includes link-state advertisement (LSA) message(s) each having a respective header. The method comprises monitoring the... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20100287126 - Battery learning system: A fuel battery system is comprised of a power source circuit, a rotating electrical machine that is a load, a memory device and a control unit. Here, a battery learning system corresponds to an arrangement including a fuel battery that is a structural component of the power source circuit, a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20100287124 - Hierarchical temporal memory utilizing nanotechnology: Methods and systems are presented for constructing biological-scale hierarchically structured cortical statistical memory systems using currently available fabrication technology and meta-stable switching devices. Learning content-addressable memory and statistical random access memory circuits are detailed. Additionally, local and global signal modulation of bottom-up and top-down processing for the initiation and direction... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20100287125 - Information processing unit, information processing method, and program: The classifier 21i (i=1 to n) substitutes an input vector x into a classification function fi (x) to output a scalar value yi. The mapper 22i substitutes the scalar value yi provided from the classifier 21i into a mapping function gi(yi) found through a learning process described later to convert... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100287127 - Self-learning engine for the refinement and optimization of surgical settings: The present invention pertains to a system (or engine) that monitors a system's performance during a surgery, analyzes that performance, and makes recommendations to the user/surgeon for changes in his settings and/or programs that will result in more effective and time-efficient surgeries. Further, the system may comprise one or more... Agent: Abbott Medical Optics, Inc.

20100287129 - System, method, or apparatus relating to categorizing or selecting potential search results: Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and systems associated with categorizing or selecting potential search engine results are disclosed.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP

20100287130 - Signal management system for building systems: A system and approach for efficient algorithmic signal management for buildings. When a set of signals is received, attributes of the signals may be extracted from a database. The attributes of the signals may be matched against the rule conditions in the database. The matches may be compared to the... Agent: Honeywell/cst Patent Services

20100287131 - System and method for dynamic multi-platform handler assignment: According to one embodiment, an intelligent contact handler management system can proxy contact inquiry requests, aggregate contact handler availability, capability and expertise and dynamically select, reserve and assign an optimal contact handler from a group of contact handlers to the contact inquiry. An intermediate communications proxy mediates customer inquiry requests... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20100287133 - Identification device, identification method, and identification processing program: There are provided an identification device, an identification method and an identification processing program, which are capable of significantly reducing a processing burden. An identification device 1 can judge the magnitude relation between an occurrence probability value of a class 0 and an occurrence probability value of a class 1... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20100287132 - System, method and computer readable medium for recording authoring events with web page content: A web page that includes content form fields may be modified to include an event observer module and an authored content module. The authored content module adds a hidden “events observed” field to the form fields. Events generated during the authoring of content by a user are recorded by the... Agent: Rg & Associates

20100287134 - System, method and computer readable medium for placing advertisements into web pages: Selection of web page advertisements for placement into a web page may use attention data that ranks the elements of the web page according to the attention the elements receive from users during interactions with the web page. The content of ads can be matched to the content of the... Agent: Rg & Associates

20100280977 - System, program, and method for representation, utilization, and maintenance of regulatory knowledge: A knowledge based system, program, and method for regulatory knowledge representation, utilization, and maintenance is presented. The system, program, and method support advanced reasoning concerning entities and events in order to determine their adherence to regulations and policies, with the specific ability to identify violations of regulations that govern industries... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20100280979 - Machine learning hyperparameter estimation: A method of determining hyperparameters (HP) of a classifier (1) in a machine learning system (10) iteratively produces an estimate of a target hyperparameter vector. The method comprises the steps of selecting from the random sample the hyperparameter vector producing the best result in the present and any previous iterations,... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20100280980 - System and method for resolving gamma ray spectra: A system for identifying radionuclide emissions is described. The system includes at least one processor for processing output signals from a radionuclide detecting device, at least one training algorithm run by the at least one processor for analyzing data derived from at least one set of known sample data from... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20100280978 - System and method for utility usage, monitoring and management: Systems and methods are provided for collecting waveform data for a plurality of appliances that may be found in a residential or commercial setting using multi-port outlet monitoring devices to obtain power consumption profiles that indicate power consumption on a per-appliance and/or per-location basis and/or per user basis. The plurality... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20100280981 - Information filtering system, information filtering method and information filtering program: A string matching unit 110 specifies a category of an input document 801 by string matching of the input document 801 and a classifying keyword shown by matching condition information 109. Learning data 209 shows statistic information of each category. A classifying unit 220 specifies the category of the input... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20100280982 - Watershed memory systems and methods: An emotional memory control system and method for generating behavior. A sensory encoder provides a condensed encoding of a current circumstance received from an external environment. A memory associated with a regulator recognizes the encoding and activates one or more emotional springs according to a predefined set of instructions. The... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC Patent Attorneys

20100280983 - Apparatus and method for predicting user's intention based on multimodal information: Disclosed are an apparatus and method of deducing a user's intention using multimodal information. The user's intention deduction apparatus includes a first predictor to predict a part of a user's intention using at least one piece of motion information, and a second predictor to predict the user's intention using the... Agent: North Star Intellectual Property Law, PC

20100280985 - Method and system to predict the likelihood of topics: The present invention relate to a method and system to predict the likelihood of data topics that may occur from data sources. The likelihood of the data topics may be predicted over other dimensions of time or over other dimensions. In the present invention, a topic means a defining characteristic,... Agent: John Brooks Law LLC

20100280984 - Method for analyzing a multimedia content, corresponding computer program product and analysis device: A method is provided for analyzing a piece of multimedia content including a time series of elementary entities, in order to check whether or not the piece of multimedia content includes at least one piece of reference content referenced in a content base. The method includes, for at least one... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20100280987 - Methods and gene expression signature for assessing ras pathway activity: Methods, biomarkers, and expression signatures are disclosed for assessing the regulation status of RAS pathway signaling in a cell sample or subject. More specifically, several aspects of the invention provide a set of genes which can be used as biomarkers and gene signatures for evaluating RAS pathway deregulation status in... Agent: Merck

20100280986 - Systems and methods for tailoring acute and chronic viral infection treatments to increase the probability of \"cure\" for a given subject: In various embodiments, systems and methods are provided for increasing the likelihood of a sustained virological response or “cure” using a model of patient physiology incorporating a subjects race, gender, age, weight, concomitant medicines and disease state, immune response status, and responsiveness to drug therapies to simultaneously characterize the change... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20100280988 - Detecting, representing, and interpreting three-space input: gestural continuum subsuming freespace, proximal, and surface-contact modes: Systems and methods for detecting, representing, and interpreting three-space input are described. Embodiments of the system, in the context of an SOE, process low-level data from a plurality of sources of spatial tracking data and analyze these semantically uncorrelated spatiotemporal data and generate high-level gestural events according to dynamically configurable... Agent: Gregory & Martensen LLP

20100280989 - Ontology creation by reference to a knowledge corpus: A computer-implemented method and computer readable media for creating an ontology for a domain by reference to a knowledge corpus comprising linked documents and a category hierarchy wherein each document can be contained in one or more categories and wherein categories can contain one or more other categories. In some... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration