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Data processing: artificial intelligence August inventions list 08/11

20110208675 - Brain imaging system and methods for direct prosthesis control: Methods and systems for controlling a prosthesis using a brain imager that images a localized portion of the brain are provided according to one embodiment of the invention. For example, the brain imager can provide motor cortex activation data using near infrared imaging techniques and EEG techniques among others. EEG... Agent: Colorado Seminary, Which Owns And Operates The University Of Denver

20110208676 - Configurable circuitry for solving stochastic problems: Techniques described herein may be used to solve a stochastic problem by dividing the stochastic problem into multiple fragments. In some cases, each fragment may be related to a random variable that forms a part of the problem, such that each fragment may produce samples from a probability distribution for... Agent: Navia Systems, Inc.

20110208677 - Intrusion detection system alerts mechanism: A system and method for analyzing Intrusion Detection System (IDS) alert data associated with a computer network is described. The method includes applying first association rules to obtained IDS alert data associated with a computer network and processing the obtained IDS alert data with the first association rules. Analyst feedback... Agent: Bank Of America Legal Department

20110208680 - Assisting with updating a model for diagnosing failures in a system: The method includes obtaining system model data representing a set of failures in a system including a plurality of components, a set of symptoms and relationships between at least some of the failures and symptoms. The system model data is used to create a Bayesian Network. Failure cases data is... Agent: Bae Systems PLC

20110208678 - Mechanical shock feature extraction for overstress event registration: An electronic system includes an accelerometer. A method for excessive mechanical shock feature extraction for overstress event registration and cumulative tracking includes obtaining a sample from the accelerometer. Feature extraction is performed on the sample using empirical mode decomposition (EMD) to produce a plurality of modes. A pattern classifier is... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20110208679 - Trouble pattern creating program and trouble pattern creating apparatus: A computer readable, non-transitory medium has stored therein a trouble pattern creating program. The program causes a computer to execute: (a) extracting, from a plurality of log messages that are output from an information system having a plurality of configuration items and that are output in a predetermined period of... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20110208681 - System and method for correlating past activities, determining hidden relationships and predicting future activities: A system and method of data correlation and analysis of past activities and prediction of future activity that includes establishing a database comprising structured metadata on at least one computer and a distributed system of networked computers having a plurality of access levels, configuring a database front-end to parse incoming... Agent: Sensis Corporation

20110208682 - Performance evaluating apparatus, performance evaluating method, and program: A performance evaluating apparatus for a rule is provided, which is capable of evaluating a business value of a rule applied to the operation and management of an information system through autonomous control. The performance evaluating apparatus for a rule collects, respectively before activation processing that is prescribed by a... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20110208684 - Collaborative networking with optimized information quality assessment: A method for implementing information quality assessment includes receiving a value relating to a predicted outcome of an event from each of an entity and at least one other entity and a reputation score for the entity and the other entity. The method also includes generating a collective prediction value... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110208686 - Mass spectrometry precursor ion selection: The present invention is concerned with methods for the selection of precursor ions of a sample polypeptide for fragmentation in mass spectrometry, together with methods for determining at least one putative amino acid sequence for a sample polypeptide, apparatus and computer programs for same.... Agent: Shimadzu Research Laboratory (europe) Limited.

20110208685 - Motion capture using intelligent part identification: Methods, systems, devices and arrangements are implemented for motion tracking. One such system for tracking at least one object articulated in three-dimensional space is implemented using data obtained from a depth sensor. The system includes at least one processing circuit configured and arranged to determine location probabilities for a plurality... Agent:

20110208683 - Optical test ordering in cascade architectures: Methods for optimizing the cost of executing a set of tests including finding the optimal ordering of the tests for some important cases such as set of tests having series-parallel structure with no statistical dependencies, and near-optimal orderings for the rest of the cases, such that the resources required for... Agent: Orbotech

20110208687 - Collaborative networking with optimized inter-domain information quality assessment: A method for implementing inter-domain information quality assessment includes calculating relationships among domains in a knowledge base by identifying features that respectively define each of the domains and identifying domains having correlating features. The method also includes assigning values to pairs of the domains that reflect a closeness of the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110208688 - Nearest neighbor methods for non-euclidean manifolds: Embodiments of the invention disclose a system and a method for determining a nearest neighbor to an input data point on a non-Euclidean manifold. The data points on the non-Euclidean manifold are clustered, projected into Euclidean sub-space nearest to the cluster and mapped from the Euclidean sub-space into a Hamming... Agent:

20110208689 - Community-driven map creation and access: Techniques for creating and enabling access to a community-augmented map are provided. The techniques include uploading user-generated content about one or more locations on a map, processing the user-generated content about one or more locations on the map and storing the user-generated content about one or more locations on the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110202483 - Analyzing events: Event analysis methods and apparatus in which sequences (44, 46) of one or more events are identified based on event records (20) describing the events. Respective distance values (28) representing distances between ones of the sequences (44, 46) are determined. A configuration of points in a target metric space is... Agent: Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

20110202484 - Analyzing parallel topics from correlated documents: Access is obtained to a parallel corpus including a problem corpus and a solution corpus. A first plurality of topics are mined from the problem corpus and a second plurality of topics are mined from the solution corpus. A transition probability from the first plurality of topics to the second... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110202486 - Healthcare information technology system for predicting development of cardiovascular conditions: Described herein is a framework for predicting development of a cardiovascular condition of interest in a patient. The framework involves determining, based on prior domain knowledge relating to the cardiovascular condition of interest, a risk score as a function of patient data. The patient data may include both genetic data... Agent:

20110202488 - Method and apparatus for creating state estimation models in machine condition monitoring: In a machine condition monitoring technique, related sensors are grouped together in clusters to improve the performance of state estimation models. To form the clusters, the entire set of sensors is first analyzed using a Gaussian process regression (GPR) to make a prediction of each sensor from the others in... Agent: Siemens Corporation

20110202485 - Pcc/qos rule creation: Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node and machine-readable storage medium including one or more of the following: receiving, at the PCRN, the application request message; determining at least one requested service flow from the application request message; for each requested service flow of the at... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Canada Inc.

20110202487 - Statistical model learning device, statistical model learning method, and program: A statistical model learning device is provided to efficiently select data effective in improving the quality of statistical models. A data classification means 601 refers to structural information 611 generally possessed by a data which is a learning object, and extracts a plurality of subsets 613 from the training data... Agent: Nec Corporation

20110202489 - Learning and auditory scene analysis in gradient frequency nonlinear oscillator networks: A method for learning connections between nonlinear oscillators in a neural network comprising the steps of providing a plurality of nonlinear oscillators, with each respective oscillator producing an oscillation distinct from the others in response to an input and detecting an input at an at least first oscillator of the... Agent: Florida Altantic University Research Corporation

20110202490 - Complex alert rules for a medical personnel alert system: A method, a system, and a computer-readable medium are provided for generating a complex alert. Values of a plurality of physiological characteristics of a patient are received. The received values are compared to a complex alert rule associated with a medical condition. The complex alert rule includes a plurality of... Agent:

20110202491 - Policy and charging rules node expired message handling: Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node and machine-readable storage medium including a policy and charging rules node (PCRN) receiving a plurality of related service requests from different devices. The PCRN may proceed to generate a policy and charging control (PCC) rule based on at least... Agent: Alcatel-lucent Canada Inc.

20110202492 - Probabilistic voxel-based database: A probabilistic database can including a set of geospatially referenced records and a probability engine. The geospatially referenced records corresponding to a real-world volumetric space indexed against voxels. Each voxel can have a unique identifier in the probabilistic database. Each voxel can corresponds to a volumetric unit of the real-world... Agent: Lockheed Martin Corporation

20110202493 - Translating user interaction with a touch screen into text: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for translating user interaction with a touchscreen into text. In one aspect, a device includes a touchscreen, a data store comprising one or more data storage devices storing a collection of local data, the local data including... Agent: Google Inc.

20110202494 - Method and apparatus for vehicle component health prognosis by integrating aging model, usage information and health signatures: A system and method for determining the health of a component includes retrieving measured health signatures from the component, retrieving component usage variables, estimating component health signatures using an aging model, determining an aging derivative using the aging model and calculating an aging error based on the estimated component health... Agent: Gm Global Technology Operations, Inc.

20110202495 - Adjustable alert rules for medical personnel: A method, a system, and a computer-readable medium are provided for adjusting an alert rule used to indicate a status of a patient. A first user interface window is presented. The first user interface window includes a plurality of values of physiological characteristics of a patient. An indicator of a... Agent:

20110202496 - Method, apparatus or software for construction of rules for use in a complex event processing system: A method, system and computer program product for specifying complex event processing (CEP) system rules. A rule construction interface is provided for constructing rules for a rule set of the complex event processing system, where the rules include definitions of one or more detected events and corresponding actions. In response... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110196816 - Money item acceptor: A method and system for accepting money items. The method for accepting money items comprises generating a money item signal that corresponds to a money item under test, determining a level of risk of a fraud attempt, and determining a fraud attempt based on the level of risk. The method... Agent: Money Controls Limited

20110196817 - Motor vehicle acceleration determining system: Systems and methods for analyzing acceleration as a road segment characteristic in a vehicle are provided for determining information about a route including for example, the estimated fuel consumption of the route. An example of a system includes a data storage medium for storing map data having road segments, a... Agent: Harman Becker Automotive Systems Gmbh

20110196818 - Infrastructure and architecture for development and execution of predictive models: A system that enables development and execution of predictive models comprises a centralized data management system, a data extraction tool a model validation tool and a model execution tool. In embodiments, a data management system includes a data management server that can be accessed via a web browser that stores... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.

20110196819 - Method for approximation of optimal control for nonlinear discrete time systems: A method for approximation of optimal control for a nonlinear discrete time system in which the state variables are first obtained from a system model. Control sequences are then iteratively generated for the network to optimize control variables for the network and in which the value for each control variable... Agent: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.

20110196820 - Robust filtering and prediction using switching models for machine condition monitoring: In a machine condition monitoring technique, a sensor reading is filtered using a switching Kalman filter. Kalman filters are created to describe separate modes of the signal, including a steady mode and a non-steady mode. For each new observation of the signal, a new mode is estimated based on the... Agent: Siemens Corporation

20110191270 - Intelligent decision supporting system and method for making intelligent decision: An intelligent decision supporting system and a method for making an intelligent decision are provided. The intelligent decision supporting system includes a multi-dimensional classifier comprising a plurality of classifiers that define different semantic standards and are trained based on the different semantic standards, for classifying a text by the semantic... Agent: Samsung Electronics (china) R&d Center

20110191271 - Image tagging based upon cross domain context: A method described herein includes receiving a digital image, wherein the digital image includes a first element that corresponds to a first domain and a second element that corresponds to a second domain. The method also includes automatically assigning a label to the first element in the digital image based... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110191272 - Methods and systems of effectively managing uv exposure: A system for managing a user's exposure to the ultraviolet radiation including a user input interface, display circuitry including a screen, control circuitry including at least one processor wherein the control circuitry is configured to communicate with the display circuitry and the user input interface, data storage means for storing... Agent:

20110191277 - Automatic data mining process control: A data mining system includes a planning and learning module which receives as input a knowledge model and a set of goals and automatically produces as output a plurality of plans. The system includes a data mining processing unit which receives the plans as instructions and automatically creates results which... Agent:

20110191274 - Deep-structured conditional random fields for sequential labeling and classification: Described is a technology by which a deep-structured (multiple layered) conditional random field model is trained and used for classification of sequential data. Sequential data is processed at each layer, from the lowest layer to a final (highest) layer, to output data in the form of conditional probabilities of classes... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20110191273 - Evaluating ontologies: A method for providing an evaluation/verification of the correctness of an ontology is described. The method includes loading a first ontology associated with a first rule set. an extended ontology and an extended rule set are generated based at least in part on the first ontology and the first rule... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20110191276 - Open information extraction from the web: To implement open information extraction, a new extraction paradigm has been developed in which a system makes a single data-driven pass over a corpus of text, extracting a large set of relational tuples without requiring any human input. Using training data, a Self-Supervised Learner employs a parser and heuristics to... Agent: University Of Washington Through Its Center For Commercialization

20110191275 - System and method to estimate region of tissue activation: A computer-implemented method for determining the volume of activation of neural tissue. In one embodiment, the method uses one or more parametric equations that define a volume of activation, wherein the parameters for the one or more parametric equations are given as a function of an input vector that includes... Agent: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

20110191278 - System and method for estimating long term characteristics of battery: A system for estimating long term characteristics of a battery includes a learning data input unit for receiving initial characteristic learning data and long term characteristic learning data of a battery to be a learning object; a measurement data input unit for receiving initial characteristic measurement data of a battery... Agent: Lg Chem, Ltd.

20110191279 - Apparatus and method for generating context-aware information using local service information: A context-aware information obtaining method and apparatus uses local service information. A communication apparatus may receive local service information associated with a location of the communication apparatus. The communication apparatus may interpret the local service information to generate context-aware information of the communication apparatus.... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20110191280 - Recording medium for data file management, apparatus for data file management, handling apparatus for image data, and image capturing system: When a shutter release operation is performed at an electronic still camera, an MPU records image data output from an image capturing element into a CF card. The MPU also stores the image data in a transfer buffer memory of an interface circuit. The image data stored in the transfer... Agent: Nikon Corporation

20110191281 - Apparatus and method for predicting channel status based on cognitive radio: There is provided an apparatus for predicting a channel status, the apparatus including: an input means for receiving information on previous status of a predetermined channel to be predicted; a parameter calculating means for calculating a model parameter that maximizes an occurrence probability of the received previous status; a likelihood... Agent: Electronicd And Telecommunications Research Institute

20110191282 - Evaluating statistical significance of test statistics using placebo actions: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for evaluating statistical significance using placebo actions. One method includes receiving exposure data and control data describing exposed and control subjects and determining a test statistic for each of a plurality of subject actions including a desired action... Agent: Google Inc.

20110191283 - Method and system for medical decision support using organ models and learning based discriminative distance functions: A method and system for providing medical decision support based on virtual organ models and learning based discriminative distance functions is disclosed. A patient-specific virtual organ model is generated from medical image data of a patient. One or more similar organ models to the patient-specific organ model are retrieved from... Agent: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

20110191284 - Temporal-influenced geospatial modeling system and method: A temporal-influenced geospatial modeling system and method forecasts the likelihood of desirable and undesirable events. In one aspect, the present invention designates at least one temporal feature, determines an intensity function representing an expected value of event type instances corresponding to the temporal feature, determines a time window break associated... Agent: