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Data processing: artificial intelligence February patent applications/inventions, industry category 02/11

20110047105 - Use of machine learning for classification of magneto cardiograms: The use of machine learning for pattern recognition in magnetocardiography (MCG) that measures magnetic fields emitted by the electrophysiological activity of the heart is disclosed herein. Direct kernel methods are used to separate abnormal MCG heart patterns from normal ones. For unsupervised learning, Direct Kernel based Self-Organizing Maps are introduced.... Agent: Law Office Of Jay R. Yablon

20110047106 - Constuction of targeted adaptive designs and maximum likelihood learning for adaptive designs: In one embodiment, a method for targeted adaptive design processing is provided. The method comprises: determining data for a first stage of an adaptive design, each stage of the adaptive design being a set of experiments that are adapted based on a design mechanism, the data for a stage including... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20110047109 - Brain-based device having a cerebellar model for predictive motor control: A mobile brain-based device (BBD) includes a mobile platform with sensors and effectors, which is guided by a simulated nervous system that is an analogue of the cerebellar areas of the brain used for predictive motor control to determine interaction with a real-world environment. The simulated nervous system has neural... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20110047107 - Method and device for recognizing state of noise-generating machine to be investigated: A statistical basic classification model of acoustic features generated for at least one reference object is automatically adapted by a data processing unit based on acoustic features of a noise generated by an object to be investigated to obtain an individually adapted statistical classification model. The data processing unit then... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20110047108 - Method for managing obesity, diabetes and other glucose-spike-induced diseases: Disclosed is a method for managing obesity, diabetes, hair loss, aging, cardiovascular, or other blood glucose-spike-induced diseases by reducing the post-prandial blood glucose spike, or the glucose shock. The blood glucose spike, or the glucose shock is reduced by generating a person-specific glucose profile for at least one significant meal... Agent: Tapantosh Chakrabarty

20110047110 - Overcoding-and-paring: a bufferless chunking process and uses thereof: The invention provides a computer-implemented chunking process (named “OP”) to assign and physically associate unique spatial representations (“chunk codes”) in one representational (coding) space (“chunk coding space”) with unique temporal sequences of spatial codes (“items”) in another coding space (“item coding space”). OP differs from all prior chunking processes in... Agent: Mccarter & English, LLP Boston

20110047112 - Method for detecting airplane flight events, mobile communication device, and computational unit therefor: A method for detecting airplane flight events using at least one acceleration sensor associated with a mobile communication device includes obtaining at least one acceleration signal from the at least one acceleration sensor; pre-processing the obtained at least one acceleration signal to remove redundant information present in the at least... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd. (frankfurt Office)

20110047111 - Use of neural networks for annotating search results: A system for generating annotations of a document, including a plurality of neurons connected as a neural network, the neurons being associated with words, sentences and documents. An activity regulator regulates a minimum and/or maximum number of neurons of the neural network that are excited at any given time. The... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20110047113 - Method and apparatus for the prediction of order turnaround time in an information verification system: A method and apparatus for the prediction of order turnaround time in an information verification system is disclosed. An information verification order comprises several and diverse instances of different types of elementary verification/validation/search services. Each of these services is characterized by its own turnaround time (TAT) statistical distribution function which... Agent: Arnold & Porter LLP Attn:IPDocketing Dept.

20110047114 - Method, apparatus and computer program for enabling management of risk and/or opportunity: The invention relates to a method for enabling management of at least one opportunity having a maximum opportunity level and to which one or more exploits that realise the opportunity can be applied, the method comprising: (i) determining the total opportunity improvement of all exploits applicable to at least one... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20110047115 - Expert system integrated with remote performance management: The disclosure relates to troubleshooting process issues using an Expert System. Remote Performance Management (RPM) data based on Distributed Control System (DCS) information is transmitted to an Expert System and subsequently translated. The Expert System determines a solution along with an associated confidence level. The Expert System may prioritize the... Agent: Honeywell/uop Patent Services

20110047118 - Secure virtual private network utilizing a diagnostics policy and diagnostics engine to establish a secure network connection: A secure virtual private network (VPN) is described herein. The secure VPN implements standard VPN software with diagnostics to ensure a client device coupling to the VPN is secure. The diagnostics include a policy, a library and an engine where the policy determines what the requirements are for permitting the... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20110047117 - Selective content block of posts to social network: Mechanisms are provided herein which are directed toward monitoring a user's interaction with a website when the user is utilizing an enterprise device to conduct the interaction. The monitoring of the interaction can lead to the generation of one or more automated responses to control the interaction in accordance with... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20110047116 - Utilizing presence in conjunction with other information to determine an appropriate communications modality: Even with SIP and the varied communications options available to users, the monitoring of presence itself may not provide sufficient information to determine a most appropriate contact modality for a communication. Therefore, there is a need for a more complete method of generating a landscape of recent activity from which... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20110047120 - Anticipated query generation and processing in a search engine: A search system monitors the input of a search query by a user. Before the user finishes entering the search query, the search system identifies and sends a portion of the query as a partial query to the search engine. Based on the partial query, the search engine creates a... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP/google

20110047119 - Computer reputation-based message boards and forums: System and method for operating reputation-based communication or content service. Method includes obtaining metric related to first user contributor reputation; identifying communication or content having association with first user contributor; and processing communication or content to generate processed communication or content based on the obtained objective contributor reputation. Service is... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20110047121 - Analysis of the mirror neuron system for evaluation of stimulus: The human mirror neuron system includes neurons that fire both when an individual performs an action and when the individual observes the action being performed by another. Neuro-response data involving the mirror neuron system is collected as a subject is exposed to stimulus material. The stimulus material may include individuals... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20110047122 - Electronic document callback trigger creation: Systems and methods relating to callback triggers for mobile or electronic documents are provided. In general, a callback trigger defines a triggering event and a callback action to be performed in response to an occurrence of the triggering event during consumption of the electronic document by an end user. As... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20110047123 - System and method for building and merging a rulebase with object oriented software: A method for building a rulebase includes receiving a plurality of rulebase components. The method also includes merging the rulebase components to create a consolidated rulebase.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20110040705 - Ensuring high availability of services via three phase exception handling: Described herein are systems and methods for three phase exception handling ensuring high availability of services. Via unified application program interface (API), one or more inspector instances are observing the behavior one or more services. The three phase exception handling is triggered upon observing an abnormal service behavior. Phase one... Agent: Sap Ag

20110040712 - Extensions to semantic net: A semantic network includes a number of nodes are interconnected to one another through links (e.g., in a subject/verb/target form) representing relationships between the nodes and one or more of the links have one or more variants representing qualifications of the relationships between the nodes. For each link having one... Agent: Banner & Witcoff , Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007412

20110040707 - Intelligent music selection in vehicles: A method of intelligent music selection in a vehicle includes learning user preferences for music selection in the vehicle corresponding to a plurality of driving conditions of the vehicle. Input is received that is indicative of a current driving condition of the vehicle. And, music is selected and played based... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20110040708 - Multiple entry point network for stream support in a rule engine: Some embodiments of a multiple entry point network for stream support in an exemplary rule engine have been presented. In one embodiment, a stream of events is asserted into a working memory of a rule engine, which supports event processing. The rule engine, running on a server, processes the stream... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20110040709 - Pattern behavior support in a rule engine: Some embodiments of pattern behavior support in a rule engine have been presented. In one embodiment, a behavior builder registry is stored on a computer-readable storage device in a server. The behavior builder registry includes a set of behaviors supported by a rule engine and a set of builders associated... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20110040706 - Scalable traffic classifier and classifier training system: A traffic classifier has a plurality of binary classifiers, each associated with one of a plurality of calibrators. Each calibrator trained to translate an output score of the associated binary classifier into an estimated class probability value using a fitted logistic curve, each estimated class probability value indicating a probability... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Wt

20110040710 - Structured differential learning: A method and information processing system train a control system using structured differential learning. A set of features extracted from a set of input data is analyzed by a plurality of analyzing components. An output response is generated by each analyzing component in the plurality of analyzing components for each... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20110040711 - Training a classifier by dimension-wise embedding of training data: A classifier training method and apparatus for training, a linear classifier trained by the method, and its use, are disclosed. In training the linear classifier, signatures for a set of training samples, such as images, in the form of multi-dimension vectors in a first multi-dimensional space, are converted to a... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20110040713 - Medical system, apparatus and method: There is provided a method of generating a pulmonary index value of a patient, which includes receiving two or more measured patient parameters, wherein at least one of the measured parameters originates from a pulmonary sensor; and computing the pulmonary index value based on the two or more measured patient... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, PLLC

20110040714 - Knowledgebase partitioning: Some embodiments of knowledgebase partitioning for implementing parallelization in a rule engine have been presented. In one embodiment, a compiler divides a knowledgebase into a set of virtual partitions. The knowledgebase includes a network constructed according to rules added to the knowledgebase. A rule engine may execute the virtual partitions... Agent: Red Hat/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20110040715 - Systems and methods for calculating a distribution: Systems and methods are provided for calculating a distribution of a quantity over a number of receiver objects. In one implementation, a data processing system is provided that comprises a number of application programs, each of the application programs being adapted to generate a distribution request, storage means for storing... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20110040716 - Information terminal device and function use method: An information terminal apparatus generates and holds, for each operation of the user, operation record information which is representative of an association between information indicating operating states of the information terminal apparatus which correspond to operations of the user, information indicating functions of the information terminal apparatus which are to... Agent: Mr. Jackson Chen

20110040717 - Process for ranking semantic web resoruces: Disclosed is a process for ranking semantic web resources, comprising the steps of; establishing an RDF knowledge base using diverse tools that support the establishment of ontologies; setting, by class, object and subject weights for an object type attribute and a weight for a data type attribute on the schema... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20110040719 - Failure detection system risk reduction assessment: A process includes determining a probability of a failure mode of a system being analyzed reaching a failure limit as a function of time to failure limit, determining a probability of a mitigation of the failure mode as a function of a time to failure limit, and quantifying a risk... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20110040721 - Modification of relational models: Described herein is a system that facilitates modifying a relational model. The relational model is modified based at least in part upon an identity of a user, and the modified relational model is used to predict queries or advertisements that are of interest to the user. Examples of relational models... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110040720 - System and method for making decisions: Systems and methods are disclosed that assist in making decisions, valuing a choice or action, promoting creative solutions, and reducing risks. Among other situations, the systems and methods consider situations where the user or users are evaluating a possible single choice or several alternative choices. The criteria to evaluate the... Agent: Mayer & Williams PC

20110040718 - System and method for precaching information on a mobile device: A system and method for precaching information on a mobile device. A precaching strategy is built for a mobile device The strategy defines a forecast of data types a user is predicted to request after the occurrence of one or more data refresh conditions. The precaching strategy is built by... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20110040722 - Predicate selection in event filtering: An apparatus, method and computer program for evaluating an event in a data processing system, wherein the event comprises a plurality of predicates, the apparatus comprising: a receive component operable for receiving the event; an analyze component, operable for analyzing a plurality of first relationships between the plurality of predicates... Agent: Ibm Corp. (aus/rcr) C/o Rolnik Law Firm, P.C.

20110035343 - Method and system of determining a prioritized list of users related to a given goal: A method and system of determining a prioritized list of one or more users related to a given goal obtaining a set of places, determine one or more future places an expert associated with a given goal is predicted to visit to accomplish the given goal, obtain a history of... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20110035345 - Automatic classification of segmented portions of web pages: Exemplary methods and apparatuses are provided which may be used for classifying and indexing segmented portions of web pages and providing related information for use in information extraction and/or information retrieval systems.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP

20110035344 - Computing mixed-integer program solutions using multiple starting vectors: An optimization engine includes a mixed-integer programming (MIP) solver that receives a programming model, an outcome objective, and a group of start vectors. Each of the MIP start vectors in the group specify one or more restrictions to apply to the programming model. The MIP solver uses the programming model... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20110035346 - Method and system for data analysis and synthesis: A system (100) for analysing and synthesising a plurality of sources of sample data (310, 320) by automated learning and regression. The system includes data storage (110) with a stored multi-task covariance function, and an evaluation processor (102) in communication with the data storage (110). The evaluation processor (102) performs... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20110035347 - Systems and methods for identifying provider noncustomers as likely acquisition targets: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for predicting one or more desired properties of external nodes or properties of their relations with internal nodes, based on a selected group of nodes about which it is known whether the nodes have the desired properties, or it is known... Agent: Ostrow Kaufman LLP Susan Formicola

20110035348 - System for automated integration of events: A system for automated integration of events, configured for use in a building with a network system, includes a plurality of surveillance systems, a processing center connected to the surveillance systems through the network system and a user device connected to the processing center through the network system. The surveillance... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20110035349 - Knowledge management environment: According to one embodiment, a computer-readable medium has computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computer, are configured to define a plurality of management services according to a model. The model structures operations among the plurality of management services according to a knowledge configuration. A knowledge service is defined according... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20110035351 - System and a method for an online knowledge sharing community: A method for an online community, wherein the community members share their knowledge fields, together, thereby forming a collective knowledge pool which can be browsed and searched through by members and non-member online knowledge seekers and instantly connecting between people and groups wishing to share knowledge. The method includes subscribing... Agent: Eyal Levy

20110035350 - System for personalized term expansion and recommendation: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for providing a set of recommended annotations. A set of tags associated with a content item within a content sharing system is identified, where the content item is associated with a user of the content sharing system. A set of global tag co-occurrences within the... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson - Yahoo!

20110035352 - System and method for processing radiological information utilizing radiological domain ontology: The present invention is directed in general to a system and method that employs radiological domain ontology to specify and model radiological information as knowledge. A system and method are provided that allow for consulting the ontology in the context of the model that the ontology fulfills. The result of... Agent: Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP

20110029463 - Applying non-linear transformation of feature values for training a classifier: A collection of labeled training cases is received, where each of the labeled training cases has at least one original feature and a label with respect to at least one class. Non-linear transformation of values of the original feature in the training cases is applied to produce transformed feature values... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20110029465 - Data processing apparatus, data processing method, and program: A data processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain time-series data from a wearable sensor, an activity model learning unit configured to learn an activity model representing a user activity state as a stochastic state transition model from the obtained time-series data, a recognition unit configured to recognize... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20110029466 - Supervised rank aggregation based on rankings: A method and system for rank aggregation of entities based on supervised learning is provided. A rank aggregation system provides an order-based aggregation of rankings of entities by learning weights within an optimization framework for combining the rankings of the entities using labeled training data and the ordering of the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20110029464 - Supplementing a trained model using incremental data in making item recommendations: Incremental training data is used to supplement a trained model to provide personalized recommendations for a user. The personalized recommendations can be made by taking into account the user's behavior, such as, without limitation, the user's short and long term web page interactions, to identify item recommendations. A trained model... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20110029467 - Facility for reconciliation of business records using genetic algorithms: A facility for the reconciliation of data records pertaining to business entities. One or more fitness functions are applied to fields contained in two conflicting data records to assess the similarity of each field. The results of the fitness functions are then weighted and combined to assess the likelihood that... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20110029468 - Method of generating an optimized, diverse population of variants: The present disclosure relates to methods of rapidly and efficiently searching biologically-related data space to identify a population set maximally diverse and optimized for sets of desired properties. More specifically, the disclosure provides methods of identifying a diverse, evolutionary separated bio-molecules with desired properties from complex bio-molecule libraries. The disclosure... Agent: Codexis, Inc.

20110029469 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program: An information processing apparatus, which performs setting of a mixture model function representing a mixture model along with adaptively adjusting the number of model components mixed in the mixture model, includes an acquisition section configured to acquire a first data sample and a second data sample, both of which are... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20110029470 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for reconstruction of 3-d object morphology, position, orientation and texture using an array of tactile sensors: Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided using signals from a set of tactile sensors mounted on a surface to determine the three-dimensional morphology (e.g., size, shape, orientation, and/or position) and texture of objects of arbitrary shape. Analytical, numerical, and/or neural network approaches can be used to interpret the sensory data.... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20110029471 - Dynamically configurable, multi-ported co-processor for convolutional neural networks: A coprocessor and method for processing convolutional neural networks includes a configurable input switch coupled to an input. A plurality of convolver elements are enabled in accordance with the input switch. An output switch is configured to receive outputs from the set of convolver elements to provide data to output... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20110029473 - Match engine for detection of multi-pattern rules: Methods, systems and computer program products are disclosed for detecting patterns in a data stream that match multi-pattern rules. One embodiment of the invention provides a method of recognizing a specified group of patterns in a data stream. The method comprises identifying a rule for said specified group of patterns... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20110029472 - Method and apparatus for run-time user control of system-generated content: Methods and apparatus are provided for run-time user control of system-generated content. A user is presented with the system-generated content and can configure one or more rules at run-time. The rules identify one or more automated actions to perform upon the system-generated content when one or more conditions are satisfied.... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20110029474 - Inferring user-specific location semantics from user data: Determining semantics for locations based on user data such as user activities and/or user communications. The user data is captured and analyzed to identify keywords including locations. Location data describing the locations is obtained and associated with the user and keywords. The associations represent user context for the locations. The... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110029475 - Taxonomy-driven lumping for sequence mining: Methods and apparatus are described for modeling sequences of events with Markov models whose states correspond to nodes in a provided taxonomy. Each state represents the events in the subtree under the corresponding node. By lumping observed events into states that correspond to internal nodes in the taxonomy, more compact... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson - Yahoo!

20110029476 - Indicating relationships among text documents including a patent based on characteristics of the text documents: Plural characteristics of text documents are extracted, where the plural characteristics include citations to or from other text documents and at least one other characteristic. At least one of the text documents is a patent. Each of the text documents is associated with a corresponding collection of the plural characteristics.... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20110029477 - Information similarity and related statistical techniques for use in distributed computing environments: Embodiments of methods, systems and/or apparatuses relating to data processing in distributed computing environments are disclosed. In particular, methods, systems, and/or apparatuses for determining information similarly and/or performing related statistical techniques which may be implemented or operated in a distributed computing environment are disclosed.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP