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Data processing: artificial intelligence April category listing, related patent applications 04/11

20110099130 - Integrated learning for interactive synthetic characters: A practical approach to real-time learning for synthetic characters grounded in the techniques of reinforcement learning and informed by insights from animal training. The approach simplifies the learning task for characters by (a) enabling them to take advantage of predictable regularities in their world, (b) allowing them to make maximal... Agent: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology

20110099134 - Method and system for agent based summarization: A method and system for using a proxy agent based access to documents and the corresponding summaries and its subsequent usage is disclosed. The method and system provides for retrieving a document, generating or retrieving summary, generating statistical parameters to judge the summary quality, using text segmentation to judge the... Agent:

20110099131 - Pairwise ranking-based classifier: The present invention provides methods and systems for binary classification of items. Methods and systems are provided for constructing a machine learning-based and pairwise ranking method-based classification model for binary classification of items as positive or negative with regard to a single class, based on training using a training set... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20110099132 - Pay zone prediction: Implementations of pay zone prediction are described. More particularly, apparatus and techniques described herein allow a user to predict pay zones in wells. By accurately predicting pay zones, the user can perforate an existing well at predefined well depths to access hydrocarbon bearing strata while avoiding other undesirable strata (such... Agent: Schlumberger Technology Corporation

20110099135 - System, method and computer program product for evaluating a storage policy based on simulation: A computer implemented method for generating a storage policy for a storage system based on simulation results associated with a state of the storage system is provided. The method comprises receiving a target function applicable to a storage system, wherein the target function represents a measure of values associated with... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110099133 - Systems and methods for capturing and managing collective social intelligence information: A method for capturing and managing training data collected online includes: receiving a first dataset from one or more online sources; sampling the first dataset and generating a second dataset, the second dataset including the data sampled from the first dataset; receiving an annotated second dataset with predefined labels; and... Agent: Industrial Technology Research Institute

20110099136 - Method and system for concurrent event forecasting: A method and system for characterizing, detecting, and predicting or forecasting multiple target events from a past history of these events includes compressing temporal data streams into self-organizing map (SOM) clusters, and determining trajectories of the temporal streams via the clusters to predict the multiple target events. The system includes... Agent: Hrl Laboratories, LLC

20110099137 - Graphical user interface component classification: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with graphical user interface (GUI) component classification are described. One example method includes generating a first vector. The first vector may be generated based on image data describing a GUI component. The example method may also include assigning a GUI component classifier to the... Agent:

20110099138 - Gap reduction techniques for stochastic algorithms: In one exemplary embodiment of the invention, a method includes: receiving, by an input, input data descriptive of a stochastic scheduling optimization problem; generating, by a processor, at least one solution to the stochastic scheduling optimization problem using a one-step anticipatory algorithm, where the one-step anticipatory algorithm is configured to... Agent:

20110099139 - Standard based mapping of industry vertical model to legacy environments: A standard based mapping of industry vertical models to legacy environments to suggest points of enterprise application integration. A representation of a first domain comprising industry model instance data is generated in a standard-based format from an enterprise industry model. A representation in the standard-based format of a second domain... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110099140 - System and method for medical treatment hypothesis testing: A computer-implemented system and method of evaluating the effects of medical treatments, the method including receiving patient record data; identifying relevant characteristics for evaluation; identifying a first treatment; identifying a second treatment; assigning a weight to each patient case; determining the relative likelihood, using the assigned weights, that an identified... Agent:

20110099141 - Database rating index: Methods, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for determining the status of a clinical database in order to characterize the quality of the database. The status may be based on the proportion of outstanding items in relation to relative milestones. A database rating index for a database is determined from risk factors,... Agent: Accenture Global Services Gmbh

20110093413 - Apparatus, system, and method for defining normal and expected usage of a computing resource: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for defining normal usage of a computing system resource. A method for defining normal usage of a computing system resource includes receiving a repeating schedule that represents system usage of one or more computing resources and receiving one or more demand events that... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110093418 - Ai time machine: A method for an AI time machine to accept sequential input tasks from at least one user, manage tasks, and execute tasks simultaneously or sequentially. Tasks specified by a user can be accomplished in the virtual world or in the real world and includes extracting digital data from electronic devices... Agent:

20110093415 - Content recommendation apparatus and method: A content recommendation apparatus and method are provided. The content recommendation apparatus may record user history information of a user of a personal communication terminal where a web browsing service or mobile communication is possible. The user history information may be used to generate preference information of the user. Based... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110093414 - System and method for phrase identification: A phrase identification system and method are provided. The method comprises: identifying one or more phrase candidates in the electronic document; selecting one of the phrase candidates; numerically representing features of the selected phrase candidates to obtain a numeric feature representation associated with that phrase candidate; and inputting the numeric... Agent: 2167959 Ontario Inc.

20110093416 - Systems, methods, and media for performing classification: Systems, methods, and media that: implement a boosted classifier having a plurality of weak hypotheses that produce a classification, each of the plurality of weak hypotheses having at least one weight; receive testing data; receive at least one piece of training data subsequently to receiving the testing data; calculate corrective... Agent:

20110093417 - Topical sentiments in electronically stored communications: The present application presents methods for performing topical sentiment analysis on electronically stored communications employing fusion of polarity and topicality. The present application also provides methods for utilizing shallow NLP techniques to determine the polarity of an expression. The present application also provides a method for tuning a domain-specific polarity... Agent:

20110093419 - Pattern identifying method, device, and program: The purpose is to provide a pattern identifying method, a pattern identifying device and a pattern identifying program, which able to correctly identify a pattern even in a case where an outlier is existed. The identifying method includes: reading, as data, an input pattern to be identified and a learning... Agent:

20110093420 - Computer-processing system scoring subjects relative to political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental (pestle) factors, utilizing input data and a collaboration process, transforming a measurement valuation system regarding the value: A method for computing a universal sustainability index comprising the steps of creating a network, inviting participants to join the network, gathering participant data, imputing contributed data by the participants and transforming the contributed data via a computer to obtain a universal sustainability index or alphanumeric indicator. Participant data is... Agent:

20110093421 - Dynamic constraint satisfaction problem solver with sub-problem placeholder: A dynamic constraint solver for solving a constraint satisfaction problem network that includes a plurality of nodes and a plurality of constraints determines a cardinality for a set of sub-problems. The cardinality is a numeric domain that represents the minimum number of instances in a port. The solver determines if... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20110093423 - Intelligent trust management method and system: Intelligent Trust Management provides a centralized security facility that gives system components a flexible mechanism for implementing security policies. System components such as applications create a request describing an action that needs to be checked against an appropriate security policy. The request is given to a trust system that determines... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110093422 - Time-based conflict resolution: A conflict resolution mechanism collects statistical data regarding how much time certain common actions or waits take. For example, the mechanism may collect statistics on disk I/O for each disk device. Statistics may include the average access time, for example. Such statistics may be collected over a sliding window of... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20110093424 - Heat flow model for building fault detection and diagnosis: Systems and methods are described that provide a Heat Flow Model (HFM) graph modeling methodology. Embodiments automatically translate formal HVAC system descriptions from a Building Information Model (BIM) into HFM graphs, and compile the graphs into executable FDD systems. During an engineering phase, a user interface is used to enter... Agent: Siemens Corporation

20110093425 - Document image creation server and program thereof, and document browsing system: When a document image creation server receives a browsing request of a document, a conversion section starts to create document images. A 1st page of the document images which is created first is sent to a mobile phone to be browsed. When the document image creation server receives a change... Agent: Fujifilm Corporation

20110093428 - Automated filling of conditional probability data in a decision support apparatus that uses a bayesian belief network: A computer implemented method is provided to expand a limited amount of input to conditional probability data filling a Bayesian Belief network based decision support apparatus. The conditional probability data defines conditional probabilities of states of a particular network node as a function of vectors of state values of a... Agent: Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepastnatuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Tno

20110093426 - Fuzzy hash algorithm: An embodiment of the invention provides a method for and an apparatus for classifying a data object by use of a fuzzy hash. The method and apparatus can perform steps including: aligning a window in a target data object; reading content within the window; hashing the content within the window... Agent:

20110093427 - System and method for tagging signals of interest in time variant data: Disclosed herein are systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable storage media for tagging a known signal of interest. Initially, the system classifies the data from an input signal using a short-term classifier, wherein there are at least two classifications available, a first classification of the data as having no identified outputs... Agent: At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p.

20110093429 - Search device and search method: A search device includes an accelerator and a CPU. The accelerator includes a plurality of search cores and a scheduler. The scheduler is configured to distribute target text to the search cores in units of records ordered by record sequence number, and the search cores are configured to perform automaton... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110093430 - Massively scalable reasoning architecture: Techniques for reasoning data are disclosed. The techniques may include storing data in a data store which may be a semantic data store. A plurality of reasoning modules are used to reason the data in order to detect violations of one or more business policies. The reasoning modules may include... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20110093431 - Sat-based synthesis of a clock gating function: Clock gating circuit is determined by transforming a clock gating opportunity function to a non-Boolean function and constraining inputs of the non-Boolean function. The non-Boolean function may be a ternary function. Constraining the inputs may be achieved by introducing control variables and a cardinality constraint associated with their values. The... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110087624 - System and method for generating knowledge based radiological report information via ontology driven graphical user interface: A system and method are provided to generate knowledge-based radiological report information via an ontology driven graphical user interface. Even further, a system and method are provided that employ radiological report domain ontology to specify and model a graphical user interface knowledge that is used by the present invention to... Agent: Fujifilm Medical Systems Usa, Inc.

20110087626 - Product classification in procurement systems: Various embodiments provide solutions to assist in the classification of products in a procurement system. The tools provided by various embodiments include, without limitation, methods, systems, and/or software products. Merely by way of example, a method might comprise one or more procedures, any or all of which are executed by... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20110087625 - Systems and methods for automatic creation of agent-based systems: An agent-based system may be automatically generated from a specification provided by a user or third-party process. An agent generator may map the specification to a canonical model identifying one or more tasks to be performed by the agent-based system as ontological concepts. The agent generator may generate one or... Agent:

20110087627 - Using neural network confidence to improve prediction accuracy: Systems and methods may be provided for generating a prediction using neural networks. The system and methods may include training a plurality of neural networks with training data, calculating an output value for each of the plurality of neural networks based at least in part on input evaluation points, applying... Agent: General Electric Company

20110087628 - Methods for updating and training for a self-organising card: s

20110087629 - Techniques for processing ontologies: Techniques for processing ontologies include a computer-implemented method of processing an ontology. The method includes storing data in an ontology and partitioning the ontology into a plurality of partitions. The partitions are distributed among a plurality of reasoner instances. The reasoner instances are directed to reason the partitions and the... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20110082820 - Assessing an environmental footprint of an object: In a method for assessing an environmental footprint of an object, economic data and environmental data of the object is aggregated and complexity of the object is determined. In addition, the economic data, the environmental data, and the complexity of the object are correlated and a model of an environmental... Agent:

20110082819 - Systems and methods for decision pattern identification and application: A system for decision pattern identification and application in a software engineering project includes a decision pattern miner configured to locate a plurality of decisions in a search space; a decision pattern generator configured to generate a decision pattern from the located decisions; a decision pattern repository configured to store... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110082821 - Method of generating precedence-preserving crossover and mutation operations in genetic algorithms: A method for generating precedence-preserving crossover and mutations operations for genetic algorithms is provided. The method is based on the determination of activities' Forward Free Float (FFF) and Backward Free Float (BFF) values, utilizing these float values in randomly selected forward and backward paths, respectively. The method may be applied... Agent:

20110082822 - System and method for stimulating conciousness: A simulated consciousness method (10) for an improved human/computer interface. A computer system (12) is programmed to have a Digital Life Form (32) possessing a plurality of attributes (65). A plurality of actions (64) taken relative to objects (60) in the environment (30) contribute to simulated feelings (76) which ultimately... Agent:

20110082823 - Thought dynamo decision mapping model: The Thought Dynamo Decision (TDD) Mapping Model includes three overlapping 3-D grids that represent decisions from the perspectives of intellect, emotions and imagined outcomes. The continuums of the logic of intellect are power-powerless, good-evil and accuracy-intuitive. The logic of emotion has three continuums: trust-fear, honor-shame, freedom-bonding. And the imagined outcomes... Agent:

20110082824 - Method for selecting an optimal classification protocol for classifying one or more targets: A framework for comparison and optimization of classifiers and features for classification of targets includes preparing training and testing sets, applying a classifier to the training set to achieve a distinctly trained classifier for each classifier applied, applying each resulting trained classifier to the testing data set, selecting an optimal... Agent:

20110082825 - Method and apparatus for providing a co-creation platform: An approach is provided for providing a co-creation platform. A co-creation application extracts tags from a plurality of information sources reflecting the expertise of a user. The co-creation application creates a model of the user's expertise by applying a probabilistic analysis on the extracted tags. The co-creation application collects assignment... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20110082827 - Operation and method for prediction and management of the validity of subject reported data: A system for developing and implementing empirically derived algorithms to generate decision rules to predict invalidity of subject reported data and fraud with research protocols in surveys allows for the identification of complex patterns of variables that detect or predict subject invalidity of subject reported data and fraud with the... Agent: Invivodata, Inc.

20110082826 - Satisfiability techniques for detecting missing cases in incomplete business rule projects: A method, computer program product, and system for detecting a missing case of a fixed scope among a plurality of business rules of unrestricted forms are disclosed. According to one or more embodiments, the described detecting includes building a rules inhibition graph for the plurality of business rules representing a... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110082828 - Large scale probabilistic ontology reasoning: Techniques for computing a solution to a query formulated against a knowledge base (KB) are provided. The techniques include receiving a query formulated against a knowledge base, wherein the knowledge base comprises a set of one or more axioms, wherein each axiom is annotated with a specific probability value indicating... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110082829 - hybrid approach for equivalence reasoning: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with equivalence reasoning are described. One example method includes constructing a clique map that maps groups of equivalent resources to a representative canonical resource. The clique map is constructed by iteratively inputting batches of equivalence pairs from a semantic model to operating memory and... Agent: Oracle International Corporation