Data processing: artificial intelligence inventions

20090276381 - social knowledge system content quality: Techniques for automatically scoring submissions to an online question-and-answer submission system are disclosed. According to one such technique, an initial set of user submissions are scored by human operators and/or automated algorithmic mechanisms. The submissions and their accompanying scores are provided as training data to an automated machine learning mechanism.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090276380 - Computer-aided natural language annotation: The present invention uses a natural language understanding system that is currently being trained to assist in annotating training data for training that natural language understanding system. Unannotated training data is provided to the system and the system proposes annotations to the training data. The user is offered an opportunity... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090276382 - Detection of unknown scenarios: The present invention provides methods, systems and apparatus for detecting unknown scenarios in a data processing system. An example method includes the steps of: providing known scenario data describing one or more known scenarios in a database; generating element data depending on the known scenario data to form a set... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20090276377 - Network data mining to determine user interest: Mining information from network data traffic to determine interests of online network users is provided herein. A data packet received at a network interface device can be accessed and inspected at line rate speeds. Source or addressing information in the data packet can be extracted to identify an initiating and/or... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090276383 - Rules generation for it resource event situation classification: A computer processing device receives computer readable data to derive computer executable rules for mining and constructing situation categories. The received data is transformed into a predetermined standard format if the received data is not already in the predetermined standard format. The predetermined standard formatted data is parsed, and an... Agent: Stevens & Showalter, L.L.P.

20090276378 - System and method for identifying document structure and associated metainformation and facilitating appropriate processing: A system and method for processing documents by utilizing the textual content and layout of the documents, including visual indicators, to more efficiently and reliably process the documents across various document types. The system and method identifies visually distinguishable elements within the document, such as section and sub-section boundary indicators,... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20090276379 - Using automatically generated decision trees to assist in the process of design and review documentation: An embodiment of this invention is to use automatically generated decision trees to assist in the design and review process. In one embodiment, the decision trees are automatically extracted from data describing a system (in case of design process) or a review artifact (in case of review process). In a... Agent: Maxvalueip Consulting LLC

20090276384 - Methods and devices relating to estimating classifier performance: Methods and devices, including methods and devices for estimating classifier performance such as generalization performance, are disclosed. One method includes providing multiple samples. Each sample is characterized by one or more features. This method also includes associating a feature variability with at least one of the one or more features... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20090276385 - Artificial-neural-networks training artificial-neural-networks: A method of training an artificial-neural-network includes applying a training algorithm to a first artificial-neural-network using a first training set to generate a sequence of weight values associated with a connection in the first artificial-neural-network. The method also includes training a second artificial-neural-network to generate a weight value, where the... Agent: Stanley K. Hill

20090276386 - Control of real time services: A real time monitoring and control system (101) interfaces with service supply entities such as SMSC, MSC, GGSN, SGSN, and IP probe entities. A data manager (104) maintains account resource data associating each of a plurality of accounts with one or more services, in which at least one account is... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20090276387 - Hybrid fault reasoning and guided troubleshooting system: A fault reasoning system combines both a model-based reasoning approach based upon predicted root causes of a plurality of fault signals, and a case-based reasoner that looks at the actual root cause of actual cases.... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds/pratt & Whitney

20090276388 - System and method of load balancing using fuzzy logic: A system and method of load balancing using fuzzy logic and, more particularly, to a system and method of load balancing tasks over a grid environment including, for example, CPU utilization, traffic over a network and other functions. The method comprises defining cause and effect relations associated with input variables... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090276389 - Systems and methods for ranking nodes of a graph using random parameters: A ranking approach is used to determine rank-based relationships. In connection with various embodiments, the present invention is directed to a method for ranking nodes of a graph. A vector is provided as a function of a set of random parameters, and a probability matrix function is used, relative to... Agent: Crawford Maunu PLLC

20090276390 - Modeling support system, modeling support method, and modeling support program: A modeling support system is provided in which a model structure is extracted from stored models so as to improve a resulting prediction model using the extracted structure. In a modeling support system 1, when information processors 15a to 15c analyze a phenomenon using covariance structure for modeling and request... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090276391 - Creation of neuro-fuzzy expert system from online analytical processing (olap) tools: A method for automatic generation of a Neuro-Fuzzy Expert System (Fuzzy Logic Expert System implemented as a Neural Network) from data. The method comprising a Data Interface allowing description of location, type, and structure of the Data. The Interface also allows designation of input attributes and output attributes in the... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090276392 - Dynamic sequencing display protocols for medical imaging data: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a method for configuring a medical imaging system, the method comprising: permitting a user to interact with a display protocol, said display protocol further comprising a plurality of rules; allowing said user to select a target rule from said plurality of rules; and... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090271337 - Apparatus and method for input and output to process to be optimized: A computer system includes an optimization component for optimizing a solution to a problem using a computer and a display. The display includes a first user interface component adapted to elicit and receive information from a user. The computer system also includes a conversion component for converting the at least... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20090271339 - Hierarchical recognition through semantic embedding: Computer-implemented systems and methods, including servers, perform structure-based recognition processes that include matching and classification. Preprocessing subsystems and sub-methods embed a set of classes on which a loss function is defined into a semantic space and learn an input mapping between an input space and the semantic space. Recognition subsystems... Agent: Stattler - Suh PC

20090271340 - Method for the computer-aided learning of a control or adjustment of a technical system: A method for the computer-aided learning of a control of a technical system is provided. An operation of the technical system is characterized by states which the technical system can assume during operation. Actions are executed during the operation and convert a relevant state into a subsequent state. The method... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090271338 - Scalable feature selection for multi-class problems: In a feature filtering approach, a set of relevant features and a set of training objects classified respective to a set of classes are provided. A candidate feature and a second feature are selected from the set of relevant features. An approximate Markov blanket criterion is computed that is indicative... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090271341 - Optimization processing method using a distributed genetic algorithm: An optimization processing method comprises forming a plurality of islands each having a plurality of individuals and repeating crossover, mutation, evaluation and selection on the individuals until the desired condition has been satisfied by applying a genetic algorithm to each of the plurality of islands thereby obtaining an optimized solution,... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090271342 - Personalized medicine system: A method, program storage device and system for developing a Personalized Medicine System (100) for an individual or group of individuals that automates the operation, customization and coordination of computer systems, software, products, services, data and/or devices.... Agent: Asset Trust, Inc.

20090271343 - 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: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20090271344 - Method for computer-aided control or regualtion of a technical system: A method for computer-aided control of any technical system is provided. The method includes two steps, the learning of the dynamic with historical data based on a recurrent neural network and a subsequent learning of an optimal regulation by coupling the recurrent neural network to a further neural network. The... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090271346 - Library synchronization between definitions and instances: In an industrial control configuration, various instances can exist that are based upon a definition. A definition can be changed and thus it can be appropriate to alter related instances in accordance with the change. However, changing an instance can cause disruption in other actions even when the change is... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP Attention: Heather Holmes

20090271345 - Method and apparatus for declarative data warehouse definition for object-relational mapped objects: A data warehouse is constructed using the relational mapping of a transactional database without reconstructing the data relationships of the transactional database. First, an application programmer analyzes an object model in order to describe facts and dimensions using the objects, attributes, and paths of the object model. Each of the... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090271347 - Methods and systems for monitoring bioactive agent use: Methods, computer program products, and systems are described that include accepting at least one indication of a bioactive agent use by an individual and/or assigning an artificial sensory experience to monitor at least one side effect of the bioactive agent on the individual.... Agent: Iv - Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20090271350 - Apparatus and method for adaptively recommending service, system and method for adaptively recommending service, apparatus and method for recommending service based on user's favorite base: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for adaptively recommending service, the apparatus comprises: a semantic analyzing device which analyzes the query from a user semantically; a service selecting device which selects a service which corresponds to the semantically-analyzed query, and updates a service association database according to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090271348 - Determining the degree of relevance of alerts in an entity resolution system: An entity resolution system and alert analysis system configured to process inbound identity records and to generate alerts based on relevant identities, entities, conditions, activities, or events is disclosed. One process of resolving identity records and detecting relationships between entities may be performed using a pre-determined or configurable entity resolution... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ibm Svl

20090271349 - Determining the degree of relevance of alerts in an entity resolution system over alert disposition lifecycle: An entity resolution system and alert analysis system configured to process inbound identity records and to generate alerts based on relevant identities, entities, conditions, activities, or events is disclosed. One process of resolving identity records and detecting relationships between entities may be performed using a pre-determined or configurable entity resolution... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ibm Svl

20090271353 - Method and device for tagging a document: There are disclosed a method and a device for tagging a document. The method includes the steps of acquiring structural information of the document, retrieving a content block list corresponding to a user-input tag, comparing blocks in the structural information with blocks in the content block list, to obtain similar... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090271354 - Method and system for obtaining a combination of faulty parts from a dispersed parts tree: It is an object of the present invention to find out parts to be a highly possible cause of failure without searching all of part data of all of products. Dispersed parts data on a parts tree are sequentially accessed from a set of known failed products, and part attribute... Agent: Ibm - Bur Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20090271355 - Policy change processing program, policy change processing method, policy change processing apparatus: A policy change processing apparatus is used for controlling a system, and processes a change in a content of a plurality of policies specified so that contents of the policies do not conflict with each other. The policy change processing apparatus includes: a changeable scope storing unit that stores therein... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090271351 - Rules engine test harness: A system is provided. The system comprises a computer system, a builder component, and a test execution component. When executed by the computer system, the builder component promotes defining a plurality of test cases and a plurality of test scenarios. When executed by the computer system, the text execution component... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20090271352 - System, method and software for selecting among available connections for accessing content from a remote server using a client computing device: A computing device may have one or more physical connections and/or one or more virtual connections to computer network(s). A user of the computing device may desire access to data from a remote server. According to the present disclosure, the performance of accessing the remote server via the one or... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20090271356 - Situation-aware thresholding for recommendation: In one embodiment, data relating to usage patterns of the user is stored, wherein the data includes information as to items which were used and the context in which they were used. The data is then clustered into clusters of data points. Then a centroid is determined for each of... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20090271357 - Knowledge artifact analysis system and method: A knowledge tracking and analysis system and method. The method may include: an artifact evaluator that receives various use parameters for each knowledge artifact, operates on the received use parameters, and generates respective parameter scores; and a knowledge index calculator that compiles parameter scores and generates a knowledge index indicative... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090271358 - Evidential reasoning network and method: The present invention relates generally to expert systems that synthesize data from multiple disparate sources of evidential information. More specifically, the present invention relates to systems, methods, devices, and computer readable media for implementing evidential reasoning with multi-agent systems.... Agent: Arnold & Porter LLP Attn:IPDocketing Dept.

20090271359 - Statistical record linkage calibration for reflexive and symmetric distance measures at the field and field value levels without the need for human interaction: Disclosed is a system for, and method of, calculating parameters used to determine whether records and entity representations should be linked. The system and method use a symmetric and reflexive function to allow for linking records and entity representations whose field values differ. The system and method apply iterative techniques... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090265287 - Adaptive programmable template matching system: This invention pertains to adaptive programmable template matching systems. One or more templates are stored, either directly by a user, or by an unsupervised programming method, onto programmable memories, and in one mode of operation, the distance between a signal and the template is computed using a distance estimation circuit.... Agent: Alfred M. Haas

20090265288 - System and method for correlating events in a pluggable correlation architecture: A system for pluggable event correlation may include an input manager that receives a plurality of events and converts the events into a format compatible with one or more of a plurality of correlation engines. The correlation engines may then evaluate the converted events using various rules and generate correlated... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090265289 - System and method for monitoring weight and nutrition: A system for providing weight and nutritional information. The system involves input of subject data such as weight, body fat percentage, and expected activity levels. Users also may input an assessment of a subject, which can be used to generate a weight plan for the subject. The weight plan can... Agent: W. Edward Ramage

20090265291 - Information processing device and method, and program: An information processing device includes: a candidate generating unit employing a user evaluation matrix of evaluation values indicating evaluations as to multiple contents for multiple users to generate multiple estimated expression candidates which are candidates of an estimated expression employed for estimating an evaluation as to a content of a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090265290 - Optimizing ranking functions using click data: A system for optimizing machine-learned ranking functions based on click data. The system determines the weighting for each feature of a plurality of features according to a learning model based on the click data. The system selects an element from a plurality of elements for display on a web page... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090265292 - Optimizing operations of a hydrogen pipeline system: Embodiments of the invention provide a computerized optimization system configured to optimize the operations of a hydrogen generation, processing, and delivery network. Such a network typically includes a complex of physical equipment, plants, and pipelines, including both production and distribution facilities. A hydrogen optimization system provides a software system that... Agent: Air Liquide Intellectual Property Dept.

20090265293 - Access speculation predictor implemented via idle command processing resources: An access speculation predictor is provided that may be implemented using idle command processing resources, such as registers of idle finite state machines (FSMs) in a memory controller. The access speculation predictor may predict whether to perform speculative retrieval of data for a data request from a main memory of... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090265295 - apparatus and method for the analysis of a process having parameter-based faults: An apparatus for the analysis of a process having parameter-based faults includes: a parameter value inputter configured for inputting values of at least one process parameter, a fault detector, configured for detecting the occurrence of a fault, a learning file creator associated with the parameter value inputter and the fault... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20090265294 - Estimating device and method, and program: An estimating device includes: a predictive computing unit configured to estimate, based on an evaluation matrix made up of an evaluation value indicating an evaluation as to each of multiple evaluation targets for each of multiple users, and an estimated expression for estimating the evaluation value by computation employing the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090265296 - Scalable and interactive method of generating and modifying network configurations to enforce compliance with high-level requirements: A system and method provides a solution to the problem of applying end-to-end requirements of connectivity, security, reliability and performance to configure a network and ultimately assign network components to the network. All requirements are modeled as constraints and a constraint solver does the resolution Not every constraint to be... Agent: Telcordia Technologies, Inc.

20090265297 - data reduction method to adaptively scale down bandwidth and computation for classification problems: A method is provided for selecting features for classification that trades classification efficiency for computational resources. The method includes ranking a plurality of features of a training set according to how closely they are correlated to their corresponding classifications, receiving sensor data including a plurality of features, and selecting a... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090265298 - Pointer-oriented object acquisition method for tangible treatment of information of the computer system which is based on one natural language and in which a received signal reaction of this computer system of artificial intelligence of a cyborg or an and: A pointer-oriented object acquisition method for tangible treatment of information of the computer system of Artificial Intelligence of a cyborg or an android. The computer system of Artificial Intelligence is based on one natural language. With the pointer-oriented object acquisition method three pointers are created in the main memory (in... Agent: Mr. Boris Kaplan

20090265299 - Computing solutions to problems using dynamic association between abstract graphs: A device, system, and method for solving a plurality of sub-problems representing a main problem pertaining to an environment. An abstract graph corresponding to each of the sub-problems may be constructed in a computing system for each of the sub-problems. At least a first abstract graph of the abstract graphs... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090265300 - Methods and systems for semiconductor testing using a testing scenario language: Methods and systems for semiconductor testing. In one embodiment, a semiconductor testing method includes one or more of the following stages: defining a rule relating to semiconductor testing, validating the rule, bundling the rule with other rules, correlating the rule with other rules, publishing the rule, actualizing the rule, and... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP