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Data processing: artificial intelligence

20130124435 - Knowledge discovery agent system: A system and method for processing information in unstructured or structured form, comprising a computer running in a distributed network with one or more data agents. Associations of natural language artifacts may be learned from natural language artifacts in unstructured data sources, and semantic and syntactic relationships may be learned... Agent:

20130124439 - Information extraction system, method, and program: An information extraction system includes: solution request sentence set acquisition means for acquiring a sentence set matching a positive example solution request pattern which represents a positive example of a sentence including a problem evoking expression and a sentence set matching a negative example solution request pattern representing an opposite... Agent: Nec Corporation

20130124438 - Method of recognizing patterns based on markov chain hidden conditional random field model: Provided is a method of recognizing patterns based on a hidden conditional random fields model to which full-Gaussian covariance has been applied. The method includes dividing a training input signal and outputting a frame sequence, extracting a feature vector from the frame sequence, calculating a parameter through a conditional random... Agent:

20130124436 - Profiling energy consumption: Embodiments for detecting anomalous consumption of energy are provided. Information associated with energy consumption over a designated period of time is received. A threshold value is received. A classifier based on an Auto-Regressive Moving Average model is applied to the information and a result representing the likelihood of an attack... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130124437 - Social media user recommendation system and method: Each user is represented by a mixture of topics, e.g., one or more topics, and a probability of interest in each topic in the mixture, and given the target user, one or more other users can be recommended, each user that is recommended to the target user is determined to... Agent:

20130124440 - Data mining technique with maintenance of fitness history: Roughly described, a computer-implemented evolutionary data mining system includes a memory storing a candidate gene database in which each candidate individual has a respective fitness estimate; a gene pool processor which tests individuals from the candidate gene pool on training data and updates the fitness estimate associated with the individuals... Agent: Genetic Finance (barbados) Limited

20130124441 - Method and system for electric vehicle adoption simulation with reasoning: A method and system for an agent-based evidential reasoning decision computer system for determining an adoption rate of a trend is provided. The system includes a plurality of nodes arranged in a tree structure. The plurality of nodes define an evidential reasoning algorithm where lower level nodes receive factors to... Agent: General Electric Company

20130124445 - Prioritizing repair of bridges and bridge sections: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed toward methods, systems, and computer-readable media for prioritizing bridge repairs. A bridge score is generated that represents various factors such as conditions, load issues, risk of failure, and importance. Repairs to bridges or bridge segments that pose a greater risk may be prioritized... Agent: Hntb Holdings, Ltd.

20130124444 - Service modeling impact analysis: A computer system includes a plurality of computer processor dependent nodes and a plurality of computer processor antecedent nodes. Each node includes a severity value relating to an operational state of the node. A dependent node and an antecedent node pair include a significance value relating to a criticality that... Agent: Ca, Inc.

20130124442 - 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.

20130124443 - Validation of laboratory test data: The present invention provides novel techniques for validating laboratory data values for properties of interest of products produced by a process system. In particular, samples of the product may be sent to a laboratory testing facility, where laboratory testing procedures may be used to obtain the laboratory data values for... Agent: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.

20130124446 - Detecting disallowed combinations of data within a processing element: Techniques are described for detecting disallowed combinations of data within a processing element. Embodiments of the invention may generally receive data to be processed using the processing element and determine whether the received data and a current working state violate one or more rules describing disallowed combinations of data. If... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124450 - Adaptive business process automation: A method, system and computer software product are provided for process automation. The method includes monitoring one or more workstations to obtain multiple sets of character and graphical information including user actions, times and durations associated with the user actions, user-entered data, and retrieved character and graphical screen data. The... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130124447 - Cognitive relevance targeting in a social networking system using concepts inferred from explicit information: A social networking system infers a user's present interests based on the user's recent actions and/or the recent actions of the user's connections in the social networking system. The social networking system also determines a set of concepts associated with each of a set of information items, such as advertisements.... Agent:

20130124448 - Method and system for selecting a target with respect to a behavior in a population of communicating entities: The method uses predictive analysis to determine a model based on past data including a first social network built between communicating entities for a first observation period and behavioral centrality measures derived from behavioral data observed in a following time period. The model thus determined is then applied to a... Agent: Kxen

20130124449 - Recommendations in a computing advice facility: According to various embodiments, a ratings matrix including matrix values is generated, each row of the ratings matrix identifying one of a plurality of users, each column of the ratings matrix identifying one of a plurality of items, and each of the matrix values corresponding to a known affinity rating... Agent: Ebay Inc.

20130124451 - Cluster systems and methods: Information cluster systems and methods are presented. In one embodiment, a cluster method comprises: performing an engine process including issuing requests to bring a resource online, offline, and monitor the resources, wherein the engine process is performed by an engine; performing a resource interaction process including interacting with a resource... Agent: Symantec Corporation

20130124452 - Model-theoretic approach to data anonymity and inference control: A system and method for secure data management is presented. The method comprises receiving a query, performing the query and obtaining answers to it, creating certain formulas representing the answers; and determining whether there is a minimum number of distinct models of these formulas conjoined with the relevant anonymity predicates... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20130117201 - Evolution of a user interface based on learned idiosyncrasies and collected data of a user: A user interface evolves based on learned idiosyncrasies and collected data of a user. Learned idiosyncrasies and collected data of the user can be stored in a knowledge base. Information from the surrounding environment of the user can be obtained during learning of idiosyncrasies or collection of data. Thought-based statements... Agent:

20130117203 - Domains for knowledge-based data quality solution: The subject disclosure relates to a knowledge-driven data quality solution that is based on a rich knowledge base. The data quality solution can provide continuous improvement and can be based on continuous (or on-going) knowledge acquisition. The data quality solution can be built once and can be reused for multiple... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117204 - Inferring procedural knowledge from data sources: A procedural inference system is described herein that infers procedural knowledge from various data sources to help a user complete one or more tasks for which the data sources provide information. The system understands users' queries, identifies a task at hand, provides recommendations on the steps to take and the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117202 - Knowledge-based data quality solution: The subject disclosure relates to a knowledge-driven data quality solution that is based on a rich knowledge base. The data quality solution can provide continuous improvement and can be based on continuous (or on-going) knowledge acquisition. The data quality solution can be built once and can be reused for multiple... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130117205 - Method of identifying a protocol giving rise to a data flow: Method of identifying a protocol at the origin of a data flow. The method of identifying a protocol giving rise to a packet flow comprises the following steps: a capture of the flow of the protocol to be identified, statistical classification of the flow, comprising an extraction of the classification... Agent: Thales

20130117206 - Dynamic training and tagging of computer code: System, method, device and article of manufacture are provided wherein software code is sorted between optional pools using attributes of software in the target pools. Training for subsequent sorts can take place when attributes of already sorted code is considered and used when sorting previously unclassified code. Manual intervention may... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130117207 - Method of classifying input pattern and pattern classification apparatus: A method of classifying an input pattern and a pattern classification apparatus are provided. The method includes enabling an artificial neural network to learn based on learning input data received by an input layer of the artificial neural network, determining classification of an input pattern received by the input layer... Agent:

20130117208 - Predictive service for third party application developers: Disclosed is an apparatus, method and computer program device which send a prediction request to a prediction service to construct a prediction result, receives a prediction result and an estimation of accuracy of the prediction result from the prediction service and configures an application to adapt to at least one... Agent: Nokia Corporation

20130117209 - Method and apparatus for using memory in probabilistic manner to store synaptic weights of neural network: Certain aspects of the present disclosure support a technique for utilizing a memory in probabilistic manner to store information about weights of synapses of a neural network.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130117210 - Methods and apparatus for unsupervised neural replay, learning refinement, association and memory transfer: neural component replay: Certain aspects of the present disclosure support techniques for unsupervised neural replay, learning refinement, association and memory transfer.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130117212 - Methods and apparatus for unsupervised neural replay, learning refinement, association and memory transfer: neural associative learning, pattern completion, separation, generalization and hierarchical replay: Certain aspects of the present disclosure support techniques for unsupervised neural replay, learning refinement, association and memory transfer.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130117211 - Methods and apparatus for unsupervised neural replay, learning refinement, association and memory transfer: neural component memory transfer: Certain aspects of the present disclosure support techniques for unsupervised neural replay, learning refinement, association and memory transfer.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130117213 - Methods and apparatus for unsupervised neural replay, learning refinement, association and memory transfer: structural plasticity and structural constraint modeling: Certain aspects of the present disclosure support techniques for unsupervised neural replay, learning refinement, association and memory transfer.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130117214 - Behavioral fingerprinting via derived personal relation: Disclosed herein are example embodiments for behavioral fingerprinting via derived personal relation. For certain example embodiments, at least one indication of personal relation for at least one authorized user may be derived via at least one user-device interaction, and the at least one indication of personal relation may be incorporated... Agent: Elwha LLC, A Limited Liability Corporation Of The State Of Delaware

20130117215 - Constraint satisfaction problem solving using constraint semantics: A computer-implemented method, apparatus and product for solving a Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP). The computer-implemented method, performed by a computerized device, comprising: obtaining the CSP comprising a set of variables, a set of corresponding domains, and a set of constraints; and solving the CSP by iteratively: limiting the domains to... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130110749 - Control device and method for calculating an output parameter for a controller: A control device in a vehicle includes a unit for calculating, during operation of the vehicle, on the basis of at least one input variable ascertained during operation, at least one output variable for a control system of functions of the vehicle. The control device performs the calculation of the... Agent: Robert Bosch Gmbh

20130110746 - Identification of entities likely to engage in a behavior: To entities that are likely to engage in a behavior, a behavior discrimination threshold for each of a plurality of behavior variables is determined. Variable values for each entity of a plurality of target entities and for each of the behavior variables are compared to the relevant behavior discrimination threshold... Agent: Accenture Global Services Limited

20130110750 - Online temporal difference learning from incomplete customer interaction histories: In one embodiment, an indication that a decision has been requested, selected, or applied with respect to one or more users may be obtained. After the indication that a decision that has been requested, selected, or applied is obtained, a value function may be updated, where the value function approximates... Agent: Causata Inc.

20130110748 - Policy violation checker: Methods and systems for identifying problematic phrases in an electronic document, such as an e-mail, are disclosed. A context of an electronic document may be detected. A textual phrase entered by a user is captured. The textual phrase is compared against a database of phrases previously identified as being problematic... Agent: Google Inc.

20130110747 - Relational learning for system imitation: Technologies pertaining to learning a computer-executable imitation system that imitates behavior of an existing computer-executable system are described herein. Behavior of an existing computer-executable system can be monitored through monitoring data input to the existing computer-executable system and data output by the existing computer-executable system responsive to receipt of the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20130110745 - Rule generation for event processing system: A computer receives a plurality of input events, each input event comprising one or more factors. The computer processes each input event based on event processing rules that cause the computer to evaluate the one or more factors and assign each input event a Boolean output value. The computer generates... Agent: International Business Machines Incorporated

20130110751 - Computational device implemented method of solving constrained optimization problems: A computational device implemented method utilizes a genetic algorithm and modifies the offspring of the genetic algorithm that fall outside of the feasible search space after crossover so that the offspring will be within the feasible search space. To place the offspring in the feasible search space, NFC and HSQPC... Agent: Taif University

20130110752 - On demand multi-objective network optimization: Implementations of the present disclosure include methods, systems, and computer-readable storage mediums for selecting an on-demand technology configuration, including receiving a request, the request including a plurality of properties, processing the request using a plurality of classifiers to generate a plurality of request classes associated with the plurality of properties,... Agent: Sap Ag

20130110753 - Combining multivariate time-series prediction with motif discovery: Multivariate time-series prediction is combined with motif discovery. Multivariate time-series prediction is performed on measured (past) data points to generate or determine predicted data points. One or more motifs are discovered or determined within the combined measured data points and the predicted data points. The motifs within the measured data... Agent:

20130110754 - Factor-graph based matching systems and methods: Systems and methods are provided for matching one or more first entities with one or more of second entities. Factor graph representations of the first entities and a plurality of second entities are stored. The factor graph representation of the plurality of second entities includes an identity variable referencing each... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130110756 - Short-term load forecast using support vector regression and feature learning: In a support vector regression approach to forecasting power load in an electrical grid, a feature learning scheme weights each feature in the input data with its correlation with the predicted load, increasing the prediction accuracy. The kernel matrix for the input training data is computed such that features that... Agent: Siemens Corporation

20130110755 - System and method for rendering decision support information to medical workers: Decision support information rendering systems and processes. A request for pre-authorization of a medical procedure for a medical condition is received. Data describing the request for pre-authorization is received. A recommendation regarding approval of the request for pre-authorization is received, the recommendation being generated by evidence based decision intelligence system.... Agent: Wellpoint, Inc.

20130110759 - Inference device and inference method: An inference device is disclosed including a rule base including a graph data structure corresponding to a table formed from columns, each column corresponding to a symbol, and one or more rows including cells, each cell arranged in a position of a column and storing a value for forming a... Agent: The Bank Of Tokyo - Mitsubishi Ufj, Ltd.

20130110758 - Methods and systems for scalable extraction of episode rules using incremental episode tree construction in a multi-application event space: Methods and systems for scalable extraction of episode rules using incremental episode tree construction in a multi-application event space comprise compiling events from multiple, different domain logs into in a universal log file, rolling domain-dependent and domain-independent windows through the universal log file to identify distinct event-pattern episodes, adding episodes... Agent: Xerox Corporation

20130110757 - System and method for analyzing attribute change impact within a managed network: A method and system for analyzing attribute change impact within a managed network by analyzing an attribute modification according to one or more rules to determine thereby a negative impact level associated with the attribute modification, where the rules include rules initially identified as relevant to the attribute and rules... Agent:

20130110762 - Method of location estimation and tracking using distributed message passing of heterogeneous observation data accompanied with low-complexity data-fusion scheme: The present invention provides a method of location estimation and tracking. An absolute positioning scheme and a relative positioning scheme are combined. The present invention is accompanied with low-complexity multiple heterogeneous data fusion. A multiple observation data algorithm is thus formed. The present invention improves accuracy of positioning result obtained... Agent: National Central University

20130110761 - System and method for ranking anomalies: Probable anomalies associated with at least one data metric may be detected across a series of windows of time series data by comparison of data to a threshold. An estimated probability of anomalies for each of the windows of time series data may be determined based on the detected probable... Agent:

20130110760 - User experience adjustment in controllable events: A method for adjusting a user's experience of a controllable event including determining a user somatic state, using a computer device, from user sensor data collected from at least one physiological sensor; determining a user cognitive state, using the computer device, from user experience data collected from the user; determining... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130110763 - Programmatic access to terminologies expressed in hierarchical form: The described implementations relate to expressing terminologies in a hierarchical form. One implementation can receive a terminology that can include concept-code pairs. For example, each of the concept-code pairs can include a concept and a code that is assigned to the concept by the terminology. The implementation can map the... Agent:

20130103616 - Computing predicted data according to weighted peak preservation and time distance biasing: A value corresponding to an adjustable control element is received. Predicted data is computed from seasonal data, where the computing is according to applying preservation of peaks in the seasonal data and applying time distance biasing in which more recent data points in the seasonal data are weighted higher than... Agent:

20130103622 - Automated control-schedule acquisition within an intelligent controller: The current application is directed to intelligent controllers that initially aggressively learn, and then continue, in a steady-state mode, to monitor, learn, and modify one or more control schedules that specify a desired operational behavior of a device, machine, system, or organization controlled by the intelligent controller. An intelligent controller... Agent: Nest Labs, Inc.

20130103619 - Composite production rules: A method for forming and using a composite production rule may include compiling, by a computer system, a decision table or a decision tree to generate a composite production rule. The method may also include generating the composite production rule and selecting, by the computer system, an algorithm for compiling... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130103623 - Computer-implemented systems and methods for detection of sentiment in writing: Systems and methods are provided for the detection of sentiment in writing. A plurality of texts is received from a larger collection of writing samples with a computer system. A set of seed words from the plurality of texts are labeled as being of positive sentiment or of negative sentiment... Agent: Educational Testing Service

20130103617 - Computer-implemented systems and methods for forecasting and estimation using grid regression: Systems and methods are provided for estimating a value for a target variable. A plurality of known entities are assigned to cells of a grid, where the known entities are assigned to the cells based upon attribute data. A determination is made as to whether each cell has at least... Agent:

20130103618 - Decision making with analytically combined split conditions: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with decision making with analytically combined split conditions are provided. In one embodiment, a method for classifying data is provided. An input data sample is received for classification as belonging to one of two possible classes. The input data sample includes a set of... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20130103620 - Feature vector classification device and method thereof: Disclosed is a feature vector classification device which includes an initial condition setting unit; a variable calculating unit configured to receive a training vector and to calculate an error and a weight according to setting of the initial condition setting unit; a loop deciding unit configured to determine whether re-calculation... Agent: Electronics And Telecommunications Research Institute

20130103625 - Information processing apparatus and method, and program thereof: There is provided an information processing apparatus including: evaluation information extracting means extracting evaluation information from evaluation of every user for an item; preference information creating means for creating preference information indicating a preference of every user on the basis of the evaluation information extracted by the evaluation information extracting... Agent: Sony Corporation

20130103621 - Intelligent controller providing time to target state: The current application is directed to intelligent controllers that continuously, periodically, or intermittently calculate and display the time remaining until a control task is projected to be completed by the intelligent controller. In general, the intelligent controller employs multiple different models for the time behavior of one or more parameters... Agent: Nest Labs, Inc.

20130103624 - Method and system for estimating response to token instance of interest: Estimating a response to a token instance of interest, including the steps of: receiving token instances to which a user was exposed, receiving a total response of the user to the token instances; receiving attention levels of the user in the token instances; selecting the token instance of interest from... Agent:

20130103626 - Method and apparatus for neural learning of natural multi-spike trains in spiking neural networks: Certain aspects of the present disclosure support a technique for neural learning of natural multi-spike trains in spiking neural networks. A synaptic weight can be adapted depending on a resource associated with the synapse, which can be depleted by weight change and can recover over time. In one aspect of... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130103627 - Method for predicting the properties of crude oils by the application of neural networks: r

20130103629 - Automated entity identification for efficient profiling in an event probability prediction system: A computer-implemented method and system for automated entity identification for efficient profiling in an event probability prediction system. A first subset of entities belonging to one or more entity classes is defined. At least one historical profile is constructed for each entity in the subset of entities based on a... Agent:

20130103628 - User activity dashboard for depicting behaviors and tuning personalized content guidance: User activity dashboards and methods for tuning recommendation models are provided herein. Exemplary methods may include exposing, to an end user device, a current preference model used by a recommendation engine to provide recommendations to the end user, receiving a modification to the current preference model, generating a modified preference... Agent: Sidebar, Inc.

20130103632 - Composite production rules: A method for forming and using a composite production rule may include compiling, by a computer system, a decision table or a decision tree to generate a composite production rule. The method may also include generating the composite production rule and selecting, by the computer system, an algorithm for compiling... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130103630 - Fuzzy inference methods, and apparatuses, systems and apparatus using such inference apparatus: A health monitoring system for complex networked apparatus includes a number of neuro-fuzzy inference apparatuses feeding inference results into a data fusion hierarchy. At each level in the hierarchy, fuzzy inference is applied to generate a desired output signal by processing selected input signals in accordance with a knowledge base... Agent: University Of Leicester

20130103631 - Procedural constraint engine for product configuration: Various systems and methods for integrating procedural logic with a stateless constraint engine are disclosed. One method involves accessing a first set of values generated by a stateless constraint engine based upon a first set of inputs and then accessing a second set of values generated by the stateless constraint... Agent: Oracle International Corporation

20130103634 - Recommendation system: A recommendation system is disclosed that in one aspect offers item recommendations to users based on one or more items known to be liked by the users. An item may be recommended to a user if a similarity indicator for the item, established by determining how much more likely than... Agent: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC

20130103635 - Rule correlation to rules input attributes according to disparate distribution analysis: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for visualizing rule input attributes with a rule according to disparate rule attribute distributions. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for visualizing rule input attributes with a rule according to disparate rule attribute distributions has... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130103636 - Rule correlation to rules input attributes according to disparate distribution analysis: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for visualizing rule input attributes with a rule according to disparate rule attribute distributions. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for visualizing rule input attributes with a rule according to disparate rule attribute distributions has... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130103633 - System and method for dating gelatin silver paper: A system and method for dating gelatin silver photographic paper is provided. The system and method includes providing a database management system having temporal physical characteristic profiles. Each temporal physical characteristic profile consists of a pulp composition percentage characteristic; a fiber composition characteristic; a thickness characteristic; and an optical brightening... Agent: