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20050273789 | 11192953 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: providing an input on a software object for use in a media processing filter graph, the input being coupled to a media source, to receive content from the media source; and providing, on the software object, a dynamically determined plurality of outputs, each responsive to the input and coupled to a source processing chain, to provide each of the source processing chains with their requested respective disparate media type source clips a single instance of the media source in accordance with a user defined media processing project, wherein said object is configured to parse the media source content into the respective disparate media type source clips provided by said single instance of the media source. |
8606797 | 12708176 | 1 | 1. An information processing apparatus comprising: circuitry configured to: store function attribute information, user operation information, and recommendation degree information are recorded so as to be associated with one another, the function attribute information indicating an attribute about a function of a predetermined device, the user operation information indicating content of a predetermined user operation input to the predetermined device, and the recommendation degree information indicating a recommendation degree which serves as a reference for outputting, on a priority basis, display for recommending use of the function to a display apparatus; update, when a user operation that matches the user operation information associated with a piece of function attribute information is input, the recommendation degree information to increase the recommendation degree associated with the piece of function attribute information; determine, based on the pieces of recommendation degree information recorded, a function with a highest recommendation degree as a recommended function, from among functions whose respective pieces of function attribute information are stored; cause the display apparatus to provide recommendation display for recommending use of the determined recommended function; add up a number of executions of a recommended function which indicates a number of times a function in relation to the recommendation display is executed by a user operation within a predetermined period of time; calculate a function usage rate which indicates a rate of a number of functions for which a usage history exists with respect to a number of all functions recorded; and adjust a recommended function standard in accordance with fluctuations in the number of executions of a recommended function and the function usage rate, the recommended function standard defining a number of functions selectable as a recommended function. |
10142205 | 14946191 | 1 | 1. A method for optimizing event alerts in an information technology (IT) infrastructure management system, comprising: tracking, by a processor of an alert optimization system, one or more event alerts, triggered by monitoring tools, in the IT infrastructure management system; determining, by the processor, a probable usage for at least one configuration item associated with the one or more event alerts based on the tracking; determining, by the processor, a probable threshold value for each of the at least one configuration item based on the probable usage and capacity data; creating, by the processor, a mapping of at least one season to each of the at least one configuration item; computing, by the processor, a final threshold value for each of the at least one configuration item based on the probable threshold value, seasonality data, the mapping of the at least one season to each of the at least one configuration item, and semantic context data, wherein the final threshold value for each of the at least one configuration item is within a predefined feasibility range for the probable threshold value determined for each of the at least one configuration item, and wherein the predefined feasibility range associated with each of the at least one configuration item is determined based on maximum processing capacity and processing capacity currently utilized by a background program for an associated configuration item from the at least one configuration item; determining, by the processor, a time interval based on the number of event alerts generated in the past for the at least one configuration item, wherein the time interval is associated with the final threshold value based on the probable threshold value and the seasonality data; and optimizing, by the processor, the event alerts by filtering at least one unwanted event alert from the one or more event alerts based on the final threshold value and the time interval. |
9858299 | 14749396 | 1 | 1. A system for automatically generating a JSON schema from a JSON stream, including a computer including one or more microprocessors; a software application executing on the computer, wherein the software application includes a plurality of data type parsers, a factory class, a plurality of record schema generation logic components, and a record schema concatenator; wherein when receiving a JSON stream, the software application operates to determine a data type of each record in the JSON stream, determine a data type of each element of a plurality of elements in the record, use the factory class to select, from the plurality of data type parsers, a particular data type parser to generate a schema node for each of the plurality of elements in the record, select, based on the determined data type of the record, a corresponding record schema generation logic component to combine each schema node to generate a record schema for that record, and use the record schema concatenator to join each record schema to create a schema for the JSON stream. |
20040236667 | 10793139 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method for calculating pricing information of a financial instrument comprising a plurality of underlying financial instruments, the method comprising: calculating in a computer system, a default time vector for each of a plurality of default scenarios wherein each default time vector includes a measure of a likelihood of default for each of said plurality of underlying financial instruments; calculating in the computer system, one or more cash flows for a subset of said default scenarios; training in the computer system, a neural network with said subset of said default scenarios; and using said neural network in the computer system, to estimate one or more cash flows for a remaining number of said plurality of default scenarios. |
20160141869 | 14711498 | 0 | 1. A demand response device, comprising: a microprocessor; a global positioning system (GPS) module coupled to the microprocessor; a thermal sensor coupled to the microprocessor; and a network interface coupled to the microprocessor, wherein the microprocessor is configured to correlate ambient temperature information received from the thermal sensor with geolocation data provided by the GPS module, and wherein the microprocessor is further configured to perform operations comprising: sending, via the network interface, a temperature report to a remote server, wherein the temperature report comprises the ambient temperature information and the geolocation data; and receiving, via the network interface, a comparison report from the remote server, wherein the comparison report includes comparative thermostat setting information for one or more proximately located demand response devices. |
10113196 | 13335043 | 1 | 1. A method for establishing whether an alleged father is the biological father of a fetus that is gestating in a pregnant mother, the method comprising: obtaining genotypic measurements of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) alleles at a plurality of polymorphic loci on genetic material from the alleged father; obtaining fetal and maternal genotypic measurements of SNP alleles at the plurality of polymorphic loci from genetic material isolated from a blood sample from the pregnant mother, wherein the blood sample comprises a mixture of free floating DNA of fetal origin and free floating DNA of maternal origin, wherein the obtaining of fetal and maternal genotypic measurements comprises amplifying the plurality of polymorphic loci from the free floating DNA of fetal origin and the free floating DNA of maternal origin together in a single reaction and measuring the genotypes of the SNP alleles in the amplified DNA by a technique selected from the group consisting of quantitative PCR, digital PCR, SNP microarrays, DNA microarrays, and sequencing; determining a probability that the alleged father is the biological father of the fetus by calculating a test statistic for the alleged father and the fetus, wherein the test statistic for the alleged father and the fetus indicates a degree of genetic similarity between the alleged father and the fetus, and wherein the test statistic for the alleged father and the fetus is based on the genotypic measurements of SNP alleles made from genetic material from the alleged father and the genotypic measurements of SNP alleles made from genetic material isolated from the blood sample from the pregnant mother; determining a distribution of test statistics for a plurality of unrelated individuals and the fetus, where each of the test statistics for the plurality of unrelated individuals and the fetus indicates a degree of genetic similarity between an individual unrelated to the fetus and the fetus, wherein the test statistic is based on genotypic measurements of SNP alleles made from genetic material from the unrelated individual and the genotypic measurements of SNP alleles made from genetic material isolated from the blood sample from the pregnant mother; determining if the test statistic for the alleged father and the fetus belongs to the distribution of the test statistics for the plurality of unrelated individuals and the fetus; and outputting that the alleged father is the biological father of the fetus if the test statistic for the alleged father and the fetus does not belong to the distribution of the test statistics for the plurality of unrelated individuals and the fetus. |
20150265175 | 14338478 | 0 | 1. A method for predicting risk of sudden cardiac death for a subject through analysis of surface electrocardiographic data recorded for the subject, the method comprising: processing a continuous surface electrocardiogram (EKG) signal received for the subject over a predetermined period of time to identify and extract a plurality of cardiac repolarization phase curves from the EKG signal in which each extracted cardiac repolarization phase curve represents an interval in the EKG signal extending between a corresponding feature of a respective cardiac cycle embodied in the EKG signal and the corresponding feature of a respective next sequential cardiac cycle embodied in the EKG signal; assigning each of the extracted cardiac repolarization phase curves into one of a plurality of groups based on a time duration of the cardiac repolarization phase curve between the corresponding feature of the respective cardiac cycle and the corresponding feature of the respective next sequential cardiac cycle; generating a respective graphical representation for each of the plurality of groups in which the cardiac repolarization phase curves assigned to the group are superimposed with one another in the respective graphical representation for the group; and evaluating the graphical representations generated for the plurality of groups to assess a risk of sudden cardiac death for the subject based on a classification of cardiac repolarization instability indicated by variations in voltage levels between the cardiac repolarization phase curves superimposed within the graphical representations. |
20130050210 | 13507968 | 0 | 1. A computer implemented method for directly determining parameters defining a Weierstrass-Mandelbrot (W-M) analytical representation of a rough surface scalar field with fractal character, embedded in a three dimensional space, utilizing pre-existing measured elevation data of a rough surface in the form of a discrete collection of data describing a scalar field at distinct spatial coordinates, comprising applying an inverse algorithm to the elevation data to thereby determine the parameters that define the analytical and continuous W-M representation of the rough surface. |
20060101013 | 11316090 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method for graphical construction of filter queries, the method comprising: receiving a signal to filter a table; analyzing a context of a selection of data; displaying a menu of filters based on the context; receiving a filter selection from said menu of filters; and generating a filter query. |
20140040867 | 13566149 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: retrieving data identifying software system processes impacted by software system changes, for each impacted software system process the retrieved data including data representative of software system components impacted by the software system changes, and for each impacted software system process, a list of test cases that test the respective software system process; generating a test plan including test cases to test at least some software system processes impacted by the software system changes, the generating of the test plan comprising: categorizing impacted software system processes into categories based on a plurality of test plan preferences, at least one test plan preference identifying software system processes that are not to be executed and at least one test plan preference identifying a software system process that must be executed; generating a list of test plan test cases including test cases associated with software system processes categorized as must be executed, excluding test cases associated with software system processes categorized as not to be executed, and including test cases associated with processes categorized other than as must be executed and must not be executed; when a test plan preference specifies a requirement for either manually or automatically executed test cases, excluding test cases from the list of test cases that are not compliant; and when a test plan preference specifies a preference for either manually or automatically executed test cases, for each software system process that includes both manually and automatically executed test cases associated therewith, excluding test cases from the list of test cases that are not compliant with the manually or automatically executed test case preference; and outputting the test plan including a representation of the test cases that have not been excluded from the test plan list. |
20040012820 | 10415500 | 0 | 1. Method of inserting supplementary information in a set of data representing physical quantities, the data having been processed by the steps of: partitioning (E 2 ) the set into subsets, entropic coding (E 4 ) of each of the subsets, selecting (E 8 ), for each of the subsets, a compression rate and distortion pair according to a global compression rate or a global distortion, writing, for each of the subsets, an index (T ij ) representing the selected compression rate and distortion pair, in a file containing the coded subsets, characterised in that it also includes a step (E 11 ) of modifying the selected compression rate and distortion pairs, according to the supplementary information (w m ). |
9838083 | 14337002 | 1 | 1. A system, comprising: a plurality of transmitters, a respective transmitter of the plurality of transmitters comprising an antenna array and one or more communications components, wherein: the antenna array of the respective transmitter is configured to transmit radio frequency (RF) waves that are transmitted so that they constructively interfere and provide pocket-forming energy in proximity to a respective receiver in a set of respective receivers coupled to respective electronic devices, the one or more communications components of the respective transmitter is configured to: receive device data from each receiver in the set of receivers, the device data comprising data that indicates at least respective charge levels for the respective electronic devices coupled to the respective receivers, and communicate transmitter data associated with the respective transmitter and device data received by the respective transmitter to a respective power server of a plurality of power servers via a first network; the plurality of power servers, the respective power server coupled via the first network to a set of one or more transmitters of the plurality of transmitters and coupled via a second network to a remote server, and configured to: receive device data and transmitter data from the respective transmitter in the set of one or more transmitters, generate, based on (i) the received device data that indicates respective charge levels for the respective electronic devices and (ii) the received transmitter data from the respective transmitter, a charging schedule for the respective transmitter that specifies when and to which respective receivers additional RF waves should be transmitted, wherein the respective transmitter controls transmission of the additional RF waves so that they constructively interfere in proximity to respective receivers in accordance with the charging schedule; communicate the received data and the generated charging schedule to the remote server; and the remote server, operatively coupled to each respective power server in the plurality of power servers via each second network for each respective power server, wherein the remote server is configured to process communicated data to determine a status report for the system. |
9165183 | 14169243 | 1 | 1. An estimating apparatus comprising: a memory that stores computer executable instructions; and a processor, coupled to the memory, that executes the computer executable instructions to perform operations, comprising: acquiring an image; extracting human feature quantity from the image; calculating, from the feature quantity, a first likelihood which indicates a degree of likelihood that the feature quantity belongs to for each of attribute classes, which comprises segments of consecutive attribute values relating to a person; designating one of the attribute classes as a target class, designating two or more of the attribute classes near the target class as selected, and summing up the first likelihood of the target class and the first likelihoods of selected classes to obtain the second likelihood of the target class; specifying one of the attribute classes as a specific attribute class, which has the highest second likelihood, from among the second likelihoods respectively for the attribute classes; calculating an estimated attribute value of the specific attribute class and estimated attribute values of the selected classes by setting the specific attribute class as the target class, respectively by using the feature quantity; and applying the second likelihood of the specific attribute class on the estimated attribute value of the specific attribute class as a weight to obtain a first value, applying the second likelihoods of the selected classes respectively on the estimated attribute values of the selected classes as weights to obtain a second value, and summing up the first value and the second value to obtain a corrected attribute value of the specific attribute class. |
20100290346 | 12516766 | 0 | 1. A network traffic anomaly detector ( 30 ) comprising: a network interface ( 50 ) connecting to a network ( 10 ) to be monitored to extract multiple network traffic statistics ( 52 ), each as a time series; a first analyzer ( 54 ) receiving the network traffic statistics ( 52 ) to characterize a variability of the network traffic statistics; a second analyzer ( 68 ) receiving the network traffic statistics ( 52 ) to characterize a correspondence between different network traffic statistics; and a detection unit ( 44 ) receiving the variability and correspondence characterizations ( 58 , 76 ) from the first and second analyzer ( 54 , 68 ) to provide an output ( 66 ) indicating a likelihood of a network anomaly. |
8281034 | 12502124 | 1 | 1. A method for a first device to negotiate servicing of subscriptions to real-time information feeds from a network including peer devices, wherein the real-time information feeds comprise real-time information that is delivered to subscribers on an ongoing basis as such real time information becomes available, the method for the first device comprising: identifying a first set of real-time information feeds, wherein the first set of real-time information feeds corresponds to one or more of the real-time information feeds to which the first device is subscribed; distributing the first set of real-time information feeds to the network for reception by one or more of the peer devices; identifying a second set of real-time information feeds for subscription by the first device, wherein the second set of real-time information feeds corresponds to one or more real-time information feeds to which the first device is not subscribed; receiving one or more requests from the network for information feeds from the first set, wherein each request is associated with a peer device; and in response to a received request: providing a requested information feed from the first set to the network for reception by a requesting peer device in exchange for a real-time information feed in the second set for a period of time; receiving the real-time information feed in the second set from the requesting peer device during the period of time; determining a value of continued information feed exchange with the requesting peer device as a function of a volume of data transfer corresponding to the real time information feed in the second set per unit of time during the period of time, wherein the function assigns higher values to feeds having larger data volumes per unit of time, and wherein the volume of data transfer per unit of time provides a measure of data transfer demand on the requesting peer device pursuant to servicing a subscription to the real-time information feed in the second set; assigning a priority level to the requesting peer device, wherein the assigned priority level: is higher for requesting peer devices having access to one or more real-time information feeds from the second set than for requesting peer devices failing to have access to one or more real-time information feeds in the second set; is assigned at least in part according to the determined value of continued information feed exchange with the requesting peer device; and providing requested information feeds from the first set to the network for reception by one or more requesting peer devices based at least in part on assigned priority levels of the one or more requesting peer devices. |
5435564 | 08173643 | 1 | 1. An electronic word building dictionary machine comprising: keyboard means to input a user determined set of letters, a set of words in memory, comparison means to compare said input set of letters with said set of words in memory to provide a set of matching words from said set of words in memory, said comparison means including means for treating said variable letter member as a sequence of letters of the alphabet, said sequence at least one letter of the alphabet and said set of matching words comprising words which consist only of a subset of letters from said input set of letters, ranking means to provide a predetermined score for each of said words in said set of matching words, display means to display on said machine each of said words in the sequence of value of said score together with the score value of the word being displayed, wherein said keyboard means has a second input key representing a variable number of letters to provide a variable letter member of said user determined set of letters. |
20130110498 | 13369912 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: receiving text data items; receiving a set of classes into which the text data items are to be classified; selecting a phrase-based classifier to classify the text data items into the set of classes; applying the phrase-based classifier to classify the text data items into the classes, the applying including: creating a controlled vocabulary pertaining to classifying the text data items into the set of classes; building phrases based on the text data items and the controlled vocabulary; and classifying, using at least one processor, the text data items into the set of classes based on the phrases. |
20080224903 | 11685161 | 0 | 1. A method for sharing compression histories among a plurality of devices to improve compression of data transmitted via a plurality of connections, the method comprising: (a) transmitting, by a first device to a second device, a first data stream, the first data stream compressed according to a first compression history shared between the first device and the second device; (b) receiving, by the first device, a second data stream intended for a third device; (c) identifying, by the first device, that a portion of the second data stream matches a portion of the first compression history; and (d) transmitting, by the first device to the second device, information identifying the portion of the first compression history. |
8648875 | 12120492 | 1 | 1. A system comprising: a data storage device comprising a data structure of an object, the data structure comprising at least one tag to identify one or more levels of enhancement rendering; an augmentation attribute database comprising at least one augmentation attribute that defines how the object is rendered, the at least one augmentation attribute being linked to at least one of the one or more levels of the enhancement rendering; a tag interpreter configured to determine a total number of the one or more levels of the enhancement rendering that are available for the object; a mechanism configured to allow a user to make a selection of at least one of the total number of the one or more levels of the enhancement rendering; and a computer infrastructure configured to control the enhancement rendering of the object in a virtual universe by providing the at least one augmentation attribute to the at least one tag of the object based on the selection by the user and a user status related to one or more actions taken by a user within the virtual universe, the user status comprising how much money the user has spent in the virtual universe. |
9020664 | 13862633 | 1 | 1. A system for displaying flight procedure information to an aircrew member of an aircraft, the system comprising: a moving map display subsystem configured to display a map that moves in a manner that corresponds with a movement of the aircraft; a position detecting subsystem that detects a current location of the aircraft with respect to a ground surface and to generate a first signal indicative of the current location of the aircraft; an electronic data storage unit that stores a plurality of flight path navigation procedures associated with a corresponding plurality of geographic locations, each of the plurality of flight path navigation procedures comprising a line segment or a plurality of connected line segments; a flight path analysis subsystem that automatically determines a preferred flight path and generates a second signal indicative of a current flight path of the aircraft, wherein the flight path analysis subsystem determines the preferred flight path automatically based at least in part on one or more of the following: an estimated fuel consumption required to fly the flight path, an estimated flight time required to fly the flight path, an estimated cost required to fly the flight path; and a processor operatively coupled with the moving map display subsystem, the position detecting subsystem, the flight path analysis subsystem, and the electronic data storage unit, wherein the processor receives the first signal from the position detecting subsystem and receives the second signal from the flight path analysis subsystem, to retrieve a subset of the plurality of flight path navigation procedures from the electronic storage unit that correspond with the current location of the aircraft and the current flight path of the aircraft, and the processor further commands the moving map display subsystem to display a graphic depiction of each of the subset of the plurality of flight path navigation procedures on the moving map display subsystem, wherein the processor cooperates with the flight path analysis subsystem to determine the preferred flight path from among the subset of the plurality of flight paths, and wherein the preferred flight path is automatically displayed with a pre-established visual cue for displaying the preferred flight path that visually differentiates the line segment or the plurality of connected line segments of the preferred flight path from the lines segment or the plurality of connected line segments of others of the subset of the plurality of flight paths. |
20180152707 | 15880772 | 0 | 1. A decoder for decoding a video encoded in a data stream, wherein the video is predictively decoded by motion compensated prediction using motion vectors and motion vector differences, the decoder comprising: an entropy decoder configured to, for horizontal and vertical components of each of the motion vector differences, obtain, from the data stream, fixed-length binary codes and an Exp-Golomb code, decode each of the fixed-length binary codes using context-adaptive binary entropy decoding with exactly one context associated with the respective fixed-length binary code, wherein the context is shared by the horizontal and vertical components of the motion vector difference, and decode the Exp-Golomb code using a bypass mode, to obtain the horizontal and vertical components of the motion vector difference; and a reconstructor configured to reconstruct the video based on the horizontal and vertical components of the motion vector differences. |
7636422 | 12342355 | 1 | 1. An X-ray CT apparatus comprising: an X-ray radiation/detection device comprising an X-ray tube configured to apply X-rays and an X-ray detector configured to detect the X-rays applied by said X-ray tube; and an X-ray tube current setting unit configured to set an X-ray tube current based on an index related to image noise and a BMI of a subject. |
20110131551 | 12629107 | 0 | 1. A computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions that when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform a method, the method comprising: capturing a first image of a graphical user interface (GUI) of an application in response to detecting a user generated input to the application through the GUI; identifying, based at least in part on the first image of the GUI, a GUI element through which the user generated input was received; and providing data describing the GUI element. |
9123331 | 13967965 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: determining a first compressed word frequency by raising a first uncompressed word frequency to a power, wherein the power is greater than or equal to 0 and less than 1; determining a second compressed word frequency by raising a second uncompressed word frequency to the power; selecting sample utterance-to-text-string mappings from a corpus of utterance-to-text-string mappings based on the first and second compressed word frequencies; and training an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system with the sample utterance-to-text-string mappings. |
20130054498 | 13598124 | 0 | 1. A method for inferring the preferences of a user in relation to a population, comprising the steps of: identifying a preference distribution of said population comprising a plurality of ranked lists and a weight of each of said plurality of ranked lists; comparing a revealed preference of said user to one of said plurality of ranked lists; assigning an affinity weight between said user and each of said plurality of ranked lists; and taking a weighted average of each of said affinity weights. |
20100145897 | 12607080 | 0 | 1. A method for obtaining a database of malignant melanoma genomic subgroups, the method comprising the steps of: (a) obtaining a plurality of m samples comprising at least one MM cell; (b) acquiring a data set comprising copy number alteration information from at least one locus from each chromosome from each sample obtained in step (a); (c) identifying in the data set samples contaminated by normal cells and eliminating the contaminated samples from the data set, wherein the identifying and eliminating comprises: (1) applying a machine learning algorithm tuned to parameters that represent the differences between tumor and normal samples to the data; (2) assigning a probability score for normal cell contamination to each sample as determined by the machine learning algorithm; (3) eliminating data from the data set for each sample scoring 50% or greater probability of containing normal cells; (d) estimating a number of subgroups, r, in the data set by applying an unsupervised clustering algorithm using Pearson linear dissimilarity algorithm to the data set; (e) assigning each sample in the data set to at least one cluster using a modified genomic Non-negative Matrix Factorization (gNMF) algorithm, wherein the modified gNMF algorithm comprises: (1) calculating divergence of the algorithm after every 100 steps of multiplicative updating using the formula: D ( V WH ) = ∑ i = 1 n ∑ j = 1 m ( V ij log V ij ( WH ) ij - V ij + ( WH ) ij ) ( 11 ) wherein the V ij is the i th row and j th column of matrix V, (WH) ij is the i th row and j th column of matrix (W*H), i runs from 1 to n and n is the number of segments in the data set, and j runs from 1 to m and m is the number of samples in the data set; (2) stopping the algorithm if the divergence calculated in step (e) (1) does not decrease by more than about 0.001% when compared to the divergence calculated for the previous 100 steps of multiplicative updating of the algorithm; (3) randomly repeating the algorithm for a selected number of runs and calculating a Pearson correlation coefficient matrix of H for the each of run the algorithm using the formula: C i , j = ρ ( H , i , H , j ) = 1 r - 1 ∑ k ( H k , i - H _ , i ) ( H k , j - H _ , j ) S H , i S H , j ( 12 ) wherein C is a correlation matrix, C i,j is an row and j th column in matrix C, H ,i and H ,j are an i th and j th column vector in matrix H, ρ(H ,i , H ,j ) is a Pearson correlation coefficient between H ,i and H ,j , i and j run from 1 to m, m is the number of samples in the data set, k runs from 1 to r, and r is the number of subgroups from step (d); (4) averaging the Pearson correlation coefficient matrices for each run of the algorithm obtained from step (e)(3) to arrive at an average correlation matrix; (5) assigning tumors and cell lines in the data set into r subgroups by applying a unsupervised clustering algorithm using 1 minus the average correlation matrix determined in step (e)(4) and cutting the dendrogram into r clusters; (f) applying a Cophenetic correlation, Bayesian Information Criterion or a combination thereof to provide a final number of clusters from the data set, wherein each final cluster defines a genomic subgroup for each tumor or cancer cell line sample; and (g) optionally evaluating the stability of the final number of clusters selected in step (f) using a ten-fold stability test. |
8010541 | 11540406 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: utilizing one or more processors to execute one or more modules of executable code, the one or more modules of executable code being configured for: accepting input at least in the form of input string data comprising one or more strings from a database, each of the one or more strings comprising one or more symbols; constructing one or more pseudo-strings based on the input string data; said constructing step comprising: converting each of the one or more strings into at least one template, the at least one template comprising at least one probabilistic template; and creating the one or more pseudo-strings based on the at least one template; storing a relative probability of the one or more symbols a given position from each group in said input string data; and storing a conditional probability of the one or more symbols for adjacent positions in said input string data; wherein said step of creating the one or more pseudo-strings comprises: employing the stored relative and conditional probabilities; employing a relative probability to generate a first position in at least one of the one or more pseudo-strings; and employing at least one conditional probability to iteratively generate adjacent, positions in at least one of the one or more pseudo-strings; wherein the first position and the adjacent positions preserve one or more characteristics of the input string data, the one or more characteristics including one or more of composition and an order of intra-string distances; wherein the one or more pseudo-strings preserve important characteristics of the input string data while providing privacy preservation of the input string data. |
20150067626 | 14476320 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method for generating a layout of a design, the method comprising: invoking the computer to receive a schematic representation of the design; generating a connection graph associated with the design; comparing the connection graph to a plurality of connection graphs stored in a database to identify a match; and selecting a layout associated with the matching connection graph in generating the layout of the design. |
20160227440 | 14610079 | 0 | 1. An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code, where the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to at least: determine a level of benefit to at least one of a user equipment and a network to aggregate data traffic to or from the user equipment over more than one carrier; and based on the determining, indicate a traffic classification of the data traffic to or from the user equipment, wherein the traffic classification identifies the level of the benefit to aggregate the data traffic to or from the user equipment over the more than one carrier. |
20040122307 | 10471315 | 0 | 1. A system for improving the quality of medical images comprising: means for providing a list of a plurality of sub optimal image situations; for each sub-optimal image situation, means for providing a list of at least one possible reason for said sub-optimal image situation, wherein the list of at least one possible reason is sorted by the probability the reason being the actual cause of the sub-optimal image; and for each reason in the list of at least one possible reason, means for providing a list of at least one remedy for said reason. |
9978360 | 15049579 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: detecting, via a machine learning algorithm modeling human perception and trained with acoustic parameters from each syllable in a word, incorrect stress patterns in selected acoustic units representing speech to be synthesized, wherein the selected acoustic units comprise phonemes and come from a database of energy-normalized acoustic units that are normalized on a sentence basis; performing a word level analysis of the incorrect stress patterns, a phrase level analysis of the incorrect stress patterns and a sentence level analysis of the incorrect stress patterns to yield analyses, wherein the analyses are performed in series; and modifying, via a processor and prior to waveform synthesis, the incorrect stress patterns in the selected acoustic units according to the analyses, to yield corrected stress patterns. |
9501823 | 14419237 | 1 | 1. A method for performance by a computer, for automatically processing an image including the junction between a cornea and an iris, the method comprising: defining a region of interest (ROI) in the image; deriving an estimated position of said junction within the region of interest; defining a second region of the image based on the estimated position of the junction; extracting features of the second region of the image; and inputting the extracted features to an adaptive model, the adaptive model outputting at least one variable characterizing the junction; wherein the estimated position of the junction is found by: binarizing the ROI, selecting a connected region of the binarized region of interest by a criterion which selects a connected region which has said junction as one of its corners, and deriving the estimated position of the junction from the connected region; and wherein the connected region is selected by: calculating a plurality of pixel numbers N and a plurality of center coordinates (Cx, Cy) of a plurality of connected regions of the binarized ROI, for each of the connected regions calculating a corresponding weight Nw from the plurality of pixel numbers and the plurality of center coordinates, and selecting the one of the connected regions of the ROI with the highest value of the weight Nw. |
8577872 | 12578502 | 1 | 1. One or more computer-readable storage media that store executable instructions to select photos, wherein the executable instructions, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform acts comprising: for each photo in a database configured to contain a plurality of photos: determining whether a user has tagged a first person in said photo; determining whether said user has been tagged in said photo by said first person; and increasing a score associated with said first person based on whether said user has tagged said first person in said photo, based on whether said user has been tagged by said first person in said photo, or based on whether said user and said first person appear in a photo together, and said score increasing by a greater amount for said user's tagging, or being tagged by, said first person than for said user's appearing in said photo with said first person; identifying a first set of people that comprises the people in said photos whose score exceeds a threshold; selecting a second set of said photos, wherein each photo in said second set is selected based on the fact that said photo contains a person from said first set of people; and displaying said second set of photos. |
8046209 | 12116888 | 1 | 1. A method in an electronic design automation environment, comprising: co-simulating a design using at least a software simulator and a hardware simulator including a plurality of simulation models; simulating a first transfer of data from a first simulation model, which is implemented in the software simulator or the hardware simulator, to a second simulation model, which is implemented in the software simulator or the hardware simulator, by simulating a transfer protocol to transfer data between the first and second simulation models; and simulating a second transfer of data from the first simulation model to the second simulation model by writing the data from the first simulation model to a coherent state storage, which is a memory that is not part of the design being simulated, and loading the data from the coherent state storage into the second simulation model, wherein the first simulation model and the second simulation model have access to the coherent state storage for communicating there between, wherein the first transfer of data occurs over a simulated data bus extending between the first and second simulation models and the second transfer of data occurs without using any simulated data bus. |
7847684 | 12401339 | 1 | 1. A system that provides a location-based service to a mobile user for alerting and directing the user to at least one person sharing a common interest, comprising: an input device structured for the user to input user-changeable information into a computer, the user-changeable information including at least one interest; a location determining system for obtaining user location information representing a location of a mobile wireless device of the user; a memory for storing person information about the at least one person; a computer data analysis system adapted for analyzing the person information based on criteria specified by the user, and outputting a person representation when the analyzing indicates that the person information contains data representing the at least one interest and meeting the specified criteria, the specified criteria including user-definable location-based information concerning a selected geographic area; and, a display device connected to the mobile wireless device for providing an indication when a person representation exists. |
8504440 | 11529895 | 1 | 1. An electronic shopping system for use in a retail facility for updating user food tastes and recommending recipes based on the updated user food tastes, the electronic shopping system comprising: a database storing an objective description of a user's food taste, the objective description being represented via a taste vector having N fields associated with N chemical components found in food, each of the N fields storing a value representing a current preference for the corresponding chemical component, wherein N>0; a terminal configured to receive identification information of at least one of a plurality of food items selected for purchase by a user; and a network computer coupled to the terminal, the network computer being configured to: retrieve the taste vector representing the user's food taste from the database; update the taste vector representing the user's food taste based on the at least one of the plurality of food items selected for purchase, wherein the updating includes modifying one or more of the values stored in the taste vector representing the current preference for the one or more of the N chemical components based on the at least one of the plurality of food items selected for purchase, and storing the one or more of the modified values in the taste vector; select a set of recipes based on the updated taste vector; and provide at least one of the identified recipes to the user. |
5439426 | 08073050 | 1 | 1. A speed change control apparatus for a vehicular automatic transmission having a plurality of transmission stages, including an operating condition detecting device for detecting operating conditions of a vehicle, which changes a transmission stage position of the automatic transmission in accordance with an output value of the operating condition detecting device, said speed change control apparatus comprising: first transmission stage setting means for setting an optimum transmission stage of the automatic transmission by fuzzy inference based on the output value of the operating condition detecting device; failure detecting means for detecting a failure of the operating condition detecting device; fuzzy inference inhibiting means for inhibiting the first transmission stage setting means from setting the optimum transmission stage by the fuzzy inference when the failure of the operating condition detecting device is detected; and transmission stage fixing means for fixing the transmission stage to a predetermined transmission stage when the failure is detected. |
20160174831 | 14963782 | 0 | 1. An ophthalmic apparatus comprising: an image acquiring unit configured to acquire an eye fundus image of an eye to be examined; a candidate acquiring unit configured to acquire a plurality of candidate points for a photoreceptor cell in the eye fundus image based on brightness values of the eye fundus image; a first acquiring unit configured to acquire a first feature value of a first candidate point included in the plurality of candidate points based on a distance between the first candidate point and a second candidate point included in the plurality of candidate points; and a determining unit configured to determine whether the first candidate point is a point representing the photoreceptor cell or not based on the first feature value. |
8775138 | 12579514 | 1 | 1. A method for withdrawing a fluid stream from a petroleum, petrochemical, or chemical manufacturing facility using a linear programming model of the facility, the method comprising: (a) providing a reference model of the manufacturing facility, the reference model operating on a first vector of rank n of inputs {I} to produce a second vector of rank m of outputs {K}, wherein (i) n ≧1 and m ≧1, (ii) at least one of the inputs simulates an input fluid stream, (A)the input fluid stream having a total mass flow rate {FI} to the reference model, (B) the input fluid stream including at least one molecular component, (C) each of the molecular components having a mass flow rate to the reference model, the sum of the component mass flow rates being substantially equal to the total mass flow rate {FI}; and (iii) the reference model includes at least one simulated intermediate fluid stream, one of the intermediate streams being a designated intermediate stream, (A) the designated intermediate stream having a total mass flow rate {F} within the reference model, (B) the designated intermediate stream including a third vector of rank j of molecular components {C}, j ≧1, and (C) each of the j molecular components of the designated intermediate stream having a corresponding mass flow rate {CF j } within the reference model, the sum of each of the component mass flow rates {CF j } being substantially equal to the total mass flow rate {F}; and (iv) at least one of the outputs simulates an output fluid from the reference model, (A) the output fluid having a total mass flow rate {FO} from the reference model, (B) the output fluid including at least one molecular component, (C) the molecular component having a total mass flow rate from the reference model, the sum of the component mass flow rates being substantially equal to the total mass flow rate {FO}; (b) specifying an initial value {I n i } for each of the n elements of {I} and operating the reference model on the {I n i } to produce (i) initial outputs {K m i } for each of the m elements of {K}, (ii) an initial {F i } for the intermediate stream, (iii) initial {C j i } for each of the j components of {C}, and (iv) initial {CF, j i } for each of the j components of {CF}; (c) providing j simulated streams {S}, each of the {S j } being of substantially the same composition as its corresponding {C j } over the range of j, each of the {S j } having a mass flow rate, each of the mass flow rates being substantially equal; (d) adding to and then removing from the designated intermediate stream each of the j simulated streams {S j } in sequence and recording any change in a designated element {K m } of vector {K} from the reference model during the adding of each of the j streams {S j }, the adding, removing, and recording being conducted while holding the reference model and the vector {I i } substantially constant, in order to produce a vector of rank j of partial derivatives {dK m /dS j }, the jth partial derivative being determined by dividing the recorded change in the designated element {K m } by the mass flow rate of stream {S j }; (e) simulating a diversion of a weight fraction {W} of the entire designated intermediate stream away from the reference model; (f) deriving the linear programming model from the reference model, the linear programming model being expressed as K m f −K m i =W*Σ j -1*CF j i *dK m /dS j , and then using a computer to solve the linear programming model to determine a final value {K m f } for the designated element {K m } resulting from the diversion of step (e); and then (g) withdrawing a weight fraction {W} of the intermediate fluid stream from the manufacturing facility in order to change the mass flow rate of the output fluid from the facility to a final value, the final value being substantially equal to the corresponding K m obtained in step (f). |
8181856 | 12277876 | 1 | 1. A method of communicating notifications of a cash handling device, comprising: receiving, by a cash handling device alert system, an indication that a triggering event has occurred at the cash handling device, the cash handling device being a cash recycler configured to receive cash, including at least one currency note, and dispense cash, including the received at least one currency note; transmitting, by the cash handling device alert system, a first notification of the triggering event to a responsible entity; transmitting, by the cash handling device alert system, a second notification of the triggering event to the cash handling device; determining, by the cash handling device alert system, a priority associated with the triggering event; and transmitting, by the cash handling device alert system, at least a third notification of the triggering event to the responsible entity if the determined priority associated with the triggering event is equal to a predetermined value. |
9125082 | 14550939 | 1 | 1. An apparatus for communicating in a wireless multi-carrier system comprising: a transmitter; and a controller unit coupled to the transmitter, wherein: the controller unit is configured for setting in the transmitter an initial number of carriers and an initial symbol rate at which symbols are transmitted from the transmitter to a receiver; the transmitter is configured for transmitting a first group of symbols using the initial number of carriers and the initial symbol rate; the controller unit is further configured for changing in the transmitter the rate at which symbols are transmitted from the transmitter to the receiver from the initial symbol rate to a subsequent symbol rate that is different than the initial symbol rate by changing a frequency that is used to clock a serial to parallel converter, a divide by N counter coupled to an iFFT, and a parallel to serial converter by changing a multiplexer output, thereby selecting a different circuit capable of generating the subsequent symbol rate rather than a previous circuit capable of generating the initial symbol rate; and the transmitter is further configured for transmitting a second group of symbols using the initial number of carriers and the subsequent symbol rate. |
7846100 | 11885723 | 1 | 1. A medical imaging system including: means for receiving a plurality of echo signals indicative of a response of a body part to a plurality of ultrasound pulsed waves having different acoustic pressures, the body part including a tissue being perfused with a contrast agent, and means for discriminating in the echo signals a contribution of a first type of contrast agent from a contribution of a second type of contrast agent and/or of the tissue, at least one harmonic component of the contribution of the first type of contrast agent having an acoustic power changing according to a first dependency law on the acoustic pressure and the at least one harmonic component of the contribution of the second type of contrast agent and/or of the tissue having an acoustic power changing according to at least one second dependency law on the acoustic pressure, wherein the means for discriminating includes means for significantly reducing the at least one harmonic component of the contribution of the second type of contrast agent and/or of the tissue with respect to the at least one harmonic component of the contribution of the first type of contrast agent according to the corresponding dependency laws. |
20080235164 | 11787906 | 0 | 1. A method, comprising: providing a hierarchical multi-level decision tree structure comprised of internal nodes and leaf nodes, the decision tree structure representing a task; and navigating, using information derived from detected mental states of a user, through levels of the decision tree structure to reach a leaf node to accomplish the task. |
8521666 | 13536239 | 1 | 1. For the purpose of acquiring cases for an incremental Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) system having a model defining a hierarchy of concepts and their relationships, the model being used among other things to formalize the structure and content of cases used in the CBR system, the CBR system also having a component for storing information acquired from a user of the CBR system into a session case in such a manner that the acquired information is represented in the session case in terms defined by the model, a computer-based case-acquisition system comprising: a processor; a memory; a first component configured to determine a plurality of applicable potential information acquisition actions, the input to the first component comprising the session case and the model; a second component configured to present the potential information acquisition actions to a user and providing means for the user to choose from the said actions; wherein the information acquired by the CBR system as the result of performing the chosen information acquisition action is stored into the session case using the information storing component of the CBR system; wherein the first and second components are employed one or more times in order to complete the acquisition of the session case. |
20060285724 | 11156508 | 0 | 1. A method of identifying objects with salient motion in a scene, said method comprising of the steps of: a) identifying a region of change within a scene; b) determining optical flow for said region; c) identifying seed pixels moving in a common direction in said region; d) expanding identified said seed pixels, pixel clusters being formed from expanded said seed pixels; and d) fusing results of steps (a), (b) and (c), fused said results identifying objects having salient motion. |
20160182949 | 14582067 | 0 | 1. A method, comprising: generating a digital video asset comprising a plurality of segments, wherein each segment of the plurality of segments comprises a portion of the digital video asset, wherein the digital video asset lacks duplicate segments, and wherein each segment of the plurality of segments is associated with one of a plurality of age rating levels; identifying sets of segments, wherein each set of segments is associated with one of the plurality of age rating levels; generating first data indicative of the sets of segments and indicative of age rating levels for the sets of segments; and providing the digital video asset and the first data to a manufacturer, wherein the manufacturer produces storage media comprising the digital video asset and the first data. |
8001109 | 12110674 | 1 | 1. A computer program device including, a computer-readable medium for automatically determining data partitioning for given workload in a parallel database, the medium bearing instructions which when executed by the processor cause the processor to: recommend least one candidate partition for at least one data table; evaluate the candidate partition based in part on a workload of query statements to determine a cost of the workload of query statements by replacing original partitions in the workload of query statements with the candidate partition; determine at least one statistic associated with the database; determine whether the statistic is an index statistic or a table statistic, wherein; if the statistic is a table statistic, calculate a ratio between a number of nodes in the original partition and a number of nodes in the candidate partition, scale a per-node cardinality and number of leaf pages according to the ratio to render a new number of leaf pages, and adjust a number of index levels based on the new number of leaf pages; if the statistic is an index statistic, calculate a ratio between a number of nodes in the original partition and a number of nodes in the candidate partition, scale a per-node row identifiers (RIDs) and a per-node key count to render a new per-node key count and a new number of RIDs, estimate a new number of leaf pages based in the new per-node key count and the new number of RIDs, and adjust a number of index levels based on the new number of leaf pages. |
20120010927 | 13151146 | 0 | 1. A method for rating webpages for safe advertising, the method comprising: extracting one or more features from a piece of web content; applying a plurality of statistical models to the extracted features to generate a plurality of ordinomial estimates, wherein each ordinomial estimate represents a probability that the web content is a member of one of a plurality of severity groups; determining a posterior ordinomial estimate for the web content by combining the plurality of ordinomial estimates; generating a risk rating that encodes severity and confidence based on the determined posterior ordinomial estimate, wherein the risk rating identifies whether the web content is likely to contain objectionable content of a given category; and providing the risk rating for determining whether an advertisement should be associated with the web content. |
20090089125 | 12240817 | 0 | 1. A web-based system for processing customs information, comprising: a server device connected to a communication network, said server device having a communication server module for communicating over said network; said server device receiving a declaration pertaining to a consignment, including identification of specific goods in said consignment and predetermined parameters of said consignment; and said server device including an application program module that verifies said declaration, conducts a risk analysis of the received information, calculates an amount of customs duty and taxes for said consignment, and determines whether or not to initiate an inspection process based on said risk analysis. |
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20070003028 | 11165932 | 0 | 1. A telecommunications system, comprising: a user database storing user information; a text-to-speech generator; and means for generating a default user greeting based on a text-to-speech conversion of user information using said text-to-speech generator. |
20060055946 | 10940076 | 0 | 1. A method of determining an inverse transfer function of a limited bit depth output device having N primaries, the method comprising: accessing an N-dimensional hypercube that has been tessellated into a set of simplices; and navigating through the set of simplices to select a subset that defines a one-to-one mapping of device-independent color space to device primary space. |
20040049299 | 10241350 | 0 | 1. A process control system for controlling a process, comprising: a multiple-input/multiple-output controller adapted to produce, during each operational cycle of the process control system, multiple control outputs configured to control the process based on multiple measured inputs from the process and based on a set of target values provided to the multiple-input/multiple output controller during each operational cycle of the process control system; and an optimizer adapted to develop the set of target values for use by the multiple-input/multiple-output controller during each operational cycle of the process control system. |
20070129321 | 11506200 | 0 | 1. An array comprising: a substrate surface, wherein the substrate surface comprises virus binding sites and also sites which do not bind virus, wherein the virus binding sites on the substrate surface each have a shape and a size; and one virus particle disposed on each of the binding sites, wherein the shape and the size of the virus binding site provides that only one virus particle is disposed on each binding site. |
8346703 | 12549555 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: analyzing a plurality of communication-related conditions selected from the group consisting of: location, orientation, date, time, weather, ambient light, digital-imaging information, audio information, radio frequency information, and radar information; determining availability of a plurality of communication options selected from the group consisting of: a cellular radio, a satellite telephone, an audio system, a horn, and a lighting system; determining a status condition for the available communication options; determining one or more types of optimum communication options based on: the plurality of communication-related conditions, the availability of communication options, and the corresponding status of available communication options. |
20140206323 | 14159418 | 0 | 1. A communication device for automated filtering based on mental state decisions, comprising: a brainwave sensing device, positioned on a user and having at least one sensor; a signal conditioner, having a sensor interface hardware, a state detector, a controller, a mental state predictor, a mental state database, a mental state log database, a memory and a transceiver; wherein said at least one sensor of said brainwave sensing device has a signal that passes through said signal conditioner; wherein said transceiver of said signal conditioner communicates said signal to a portable electronic device; wherein said portable electronic device further communicates with a telecommunication system over a channel; and wherein said channel can be interrupted or allowed to said portable electronic device based on said signal. |
9008833 | 13594750 | 1 | 1. A method of operating a cluster tool comprising: receiving recipe time data; receiving transfer time data; receiving process programs and associated substrate lots wherein the process programs include a plurality of sequences; determining cluster tool chambers associated with sequences that are bottleneck sequences; setting equipment constant values for components of the cluster tool to implement transfer priorities wherein the chambers associated with bottleneck sequences are given highest priority; executing a next sequence based on the transfer priorities; and repeating determining, setting and executing for each remaining sequence. |
20070005317 | 11174170 | 0 | 1. In an electronic device, a method of simulating a system that comprises a plurality of chemical reactions, comprising the steps of: determining a reaction occurrence time for a first chemical reaction using a first probability distribution associated with the first chemical reaction, wherein the first chemical reaction is a non-mass action chemical reaction; and determining a reaction time for a second chemical reaction using a second probability distribution associated with the second chemical reaction. |
20110302120 | 13047434 | 0 | 1. A special purpose processor comprising: a FPGA implementing a neural model, the neural model including multiple neural elements, the FPGA including multiple cores to implement neural elements, the cores processing data in parallel, the processing in the cores including presynaptic calculations using input values and weights, postsynaptic calculations to produce postsynaptic outputs using the results of the presynaptic calculations and plasticity calculations to modify the weights, the input values being provided to the cores by looping through a connection table to get pointers for an output storage table, the pointers indicating the inputs for the cores in a predefined order. |
20150254946 | 13873727 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: measuring multiple location readings on a tactile input device at multiple times; determining true location values corresponding to the measured multiple location readings on the tactile input device at the multiple times; and storing a table mapping the measured multiple location readings to the true location values. |
20050203393 | 10796834 | 0 | 1. A trigger extraction system for obtaining an event trigger for an event occurring in a region of interest, the trigger extraction system comprising: a processor; a memory coupled to the processor; and a trigger extraction program stored in the memory for execution by the processor, the trigger extraction program comprising instructions for accessing ultrasound trigger data obtained from a trigger region, analyzing the trigger data for a trigger characteristic, and storing an event trigger based on the trigger characteristic. |
20110130957 | 12627691 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: importing a floor map of a monitored area onto a workstation; configuring the floor map; and generating an optimal guidance route map for providing a user with at least one route from the workstation to a designated device in the monitored area. |
9825858 | 14553772 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a flow at a flow-based chain selector (FBCS) in a virtual network function (VNF), the FBCS in an original network function chain, from a previous network function in the original network function chain; at the FBCS, substituting an entry for the FBCS in the original network function chain represented in a data packet header associated with the received flow, with another entry for an intermediate network function in the VNF to create a modified network function chain representation; and transmitting by the FBCS, an instruction to the previous network function in the original network function chain to substitute the modified network function chain for the original network function chain for subsequent data packets in the flow; the substitution bypassing the FBCS in the VNF and directing the flow to the intermediate network function in the VNF. |
20150319479 | 14586732 | 0 | 1. A system for delivering advertisements associated with styles of media content, comprising: a media server including a microprocessor, and a media server application executing thereon and adapted to receive requests from media devices for media content; a media streaming logic adapted to provide the media content in response to the requests from the media devices; a media style repository that stores one or more analytical and descriptive data describing the media content to be provided to the media devices; and a targeting logic which selects an advertisement or other sponsor-directed content to be delivered in conjunction with particular items of media content, based at least partly on the analytical and descriptive data associated with those particular items of media content. |
8834367 | 13658156 | 1 | 1. A method of assessing blood glucose levels, comprising providing a patient with a blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus, the blood glucose and lifestyle factors tracking apparatus comprises: a foldable substrate having a front side including a plurality of regions for tracking blood glucose values; a second side including a portion having a plurality of instructions for using the plurality of regions for tracking blood glucose values; and a foldable portion, wherein the plurality of instructions for using the plurality of regions for tracking blood glucose values are printed on the second side of the foldable substrate in a manner that folding the foldable portion causes the plurality of instructions on the second side to overlap the plurality of regions for tracking blood glucose values of the front side in a manner to instruct the patient to input blood glucose and lifestyle factors into the plurality of regions for tracking blood glucose values on the front side. |
10133715 | 14825069 | 1 | 1. A computing device to provide a semantic based document editor in conjunction with a document processing application, the computing device comprising: a memory configured to store instructions associated with the document editor; one or more processors coupled to the memory, the one or more processors configured to: in response to a request to generate a new document, retrieve a plurality of suggested semantic styles from semantic styles recently used by a user associated with a recent document and a styles library provided by the document processing application or a trusted external resource provider; sort the plurality of suggested semantic styles retrieved from the semantic styles recently used by the user and the styles library based on a frequency of use by the user; provide to be displayed, on a display device, a plurality of previews representing the sorted plurality of suggested semantic styles, wherein the plurality of previews are ordered based on a high frequency of use of an associated semantic style to a low frequency of use of another associated semantic style; generate the document with sections formatted based on a selected style among the plurality of suggested semantic styles; receive content to be entered into a section of the document, wherein a classification of the section is identified on the section; provide to be displayed, on the display device, one or more style commands to change a semantic style of the section; receive a selection of one of the style commands; and apply the semantic style corresponding to the selected one of the style commands to the content in the section. |
20170277905 | 15097260 | 0 | 1. A system for live editing and publishing of documents within a content management system using a hybrid draft authorization workflow, comprising: a content workflow server computer comprising a processor, a memory, and a plurality of programming instructions stored in the memory and operable on the processor, wherein the plurality of programming instructions is configured to: (a) assign permissions for device protocols and accessibility to pages; (b) create a page from a draft template, a blank page or an existing page as specified; (c) store the page for future use in a draft database or a published database; (d) organize pages in a hybrid-draft hierarchy of a draft stack or a published stack; (e) access the draft stack or the published stack of stored pages from the draft database or the published database for editing, the draft stack or the published stack of stored pages accessed using a version control database; and (f) publish pages to the content management system; wherein the content workflow server allows creation of content directly as a published document and allows live editing of published documents in real time. |
8756163 | 13109931 | 1 | 1. A system for ranking a set of relevant users based on relevancy scores associated with a particular user in an online social network, the system, comprising: a processor; an interaction manager module that works in coordination with the processor to identify a set of social interactions that occur among multiple users in the online social network, the set of social interactions being initiated by the multiple users via user devices; a representation generator that works in coordination with the processor to generate a representation of the set of social interactions, the representation including an origin node that corresponds to the particular user, the origin node corresponding to a set of origin node-connecting edges, intermediary nodes that correspond to the multiple users, each intermediary node having a frequency counter, and node-connecting edges that correspond to the set of social interactions; a node traversing module that works in coordination with the processor to: select an origin node-connecting edge from the set of origin node-connecting edges; identify a connected intermediary node with which the origin node-connecting edge connects from the origin node; increase the frequency counter associated with the connected intermediary node; and for a number of occurrences, continuously select the node-connecting edges of each connected intermediary node with which a previously selected node-connecting edge is connected and increment the frequency counters associated with at least a portion of the connected intermediary node, wherein the frequency counters are incremented for the connected intermediary nodes selected at odd number occurrences of the number of occurrences; a score generator module that works in coordination with the processor to generate a relevancy score for each of the multiple users based on the frequency counter associated with each of the multiple users; a selection module that works in coordination with the processor to select a set of relevant users based on the relevancy score; and a presentation module that works in coordination with the processor to send one or more of the set of relevant users to a user device for presentation to the particular user. |
8051022 | 11952028 | 1 | 1. A hardware processor comprising an integrated circuit chip processor, said integrated circuit chip processor comprising programmable intelligent search memory for content search, wherein said programmable intelligent search memory simultaneously performs regular expression based search and signature pattern based search, said programmable intelligent search memory for content search using a plurality of regular expressions, said regular expressions comprising a plurality of symbols or characters, said plurality of regular expressions further comprising a plurality of interval symbols, said regular expressions converted into a plurality of finite state automata(FSA) representing the functionality of said regular expressions for programming in said programmable intelligent search memory, said finite state automata comprising a plurality of states, said states derived from said symbols or characters of said regular expressions, said content comprising a plurality of input symbols provided as input to said programmable intelligent search memory, said programmable intelligent search memory comprising a plurality of FSA rule blocks to program said plurality of finite state automata and to search said content using said plurality of finite state automata to detect a match of said regular expressions in said content, said FSA rule block of the plurality of FSA rule blocks to program a finite state automata of said plurality of finite state automata and to search said content using said finite state automata to detect a match of a regular expression of said plurality of regular expressions in said content, said regular expression corresponding to said finite state automata, said FSA rule block further comprising: a) an interval symbol evaluation circuit to store and evaluate said plurality of interval symbols; b) a plurality of state blocks for evaluating state transitions and to generate a plurality of partial state transition signals; c) a state control block to store a current state vector, said current state vector to represent the current state of the evaluation of said finite state automata; and d) a match detect block to detect match of said regular expression with said content. |
10147049 | 14840270 | 1 | 1. A method, comprising: for a system or application used by a plurality of users, providing an access to a memory device storing user data samples for all users of the plurality of users; selecting a target user from among the plurality of users; and using a processor on a computer and using data samples for the target user and data samples for other users of the plurality of users, generating a normal sample data set and an abnormal (anomalous) sample data set to serve as a training data set for training a model for an anomaly detection monitor for the target user such that the data samples of the target user are used to derive a normal sample data set for the training set and the data samples of other users are used to derive an abnormal sample data set for the training set. |
20100185640 | 12356168 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method of assisting users in the management of avatars in a virtual environment, comprising: storing a plurality of avatar profiles, each profile defining attributes for a respective avatar; collecting information about a virtual experience of a user controlling an avatar in the virtual environment comprising virtual locations, virtual objects, and other avatars; wherein the avatar has a first profile of the plurality of profiles applied thereto; creating associations between the first profile and the collected information to define profile management criteria; while monitoring the avatar interacting with the virtual environment, determining when one or more of the profile management criteria are satisfied based on a current state of the avatar relative to the virtual environment; and upon determining that one or more of the profile management criteria are satisfied, dynamically selecting a second profile to be applied to the avatar and replace the first profile. |
20130159419 | 13763743 | 0 | 1. A method to conduct a 3-D virtual collaboration session by use of a 3-D server, comprising: selecting, by use of a processor, participants and meeting location for the 3-D virtual collaboration session; receiving confirmation that a gateway instance has been established by one or more of the selected participants; notifying the 3-D server of the selection of participants and a meeting location; scanning one or more of the participants for characteristic information; instructing the 3-D server to start and to load the characteristic information; instructing the 3-D server to take participants to the meeting location and begin the 3-D virtual collaboration session in a 3-D virtual collaboration environment. |
10013614 | 15197174 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: receiving, by one or more processors of a match-merge system, a subject video; identifying, by the one or more processors of the match-merge system, within the subject video a set of one or more dynamic segments, wherein dynamic segments are segments having content that varies more than a threshold amount over a period of time; identifying, by the one or more processors of the match-merge system, within the subject video a set of one or more semi-static segments, wherein semi-static segments are segments having content that varies less than the threshold amount over a period of time; determining, by the one or more processors of the match-merge system, matches between the one or more dynamic segments and one or more reference dynamic segments; determining, by the one or more processors of the match-merge system, matches between the one or more semi-static segments and one or more reference semi-static segments; and generating, by the one or more processors of the match-merge system, a match merge list including one or more entries, each entry indicating: a grouped segment including a sequential occurrence of a dynamic segment and a semi-static segment, and a reference grouped segment of a reference video including a sequential occurrence of a reference dynamic segment and a reference semi-static segment, wherein the reference dynamic segment matches the dynamic segment and the reference semi-static segment matches the semi-static segment. |
20080205729 | 11908294 | 0 | 1. A data processing unit for the iterative reconstruction of the attenuation coefficients μ j (j=1. .. N) of a tomographic image from projection measurements m i (i=1,. .. P), wherein m i = R ( p i ) and ( 1 ) p i = [ A μ _ ] i = ∑ v A iv μ v ( 2 ) with a given measurement function R and a given weighting matrix A=[A ij ], the data processing unit being adapted to determine the update μ j n+1 (n=1,. .. ) of the attenuation coefficient μ j n in the n-th iteration step according to the following equation: μ j n + 1 = μ j n + λ ∑ i ∈ I n V ( A ij μ j n p i n ) · W i ( A , p i n ) · A ij δ i n ( 3 ) |
20100207938 | 12388301 | 0 | 1. A system for simultaneous real-time three-dimensional geometry and color texture acquisition of an object, comprising: a system processor for generating at least three phase shifted black and white fringe patterns by a three-step phase shifting algorithm; a light projector adapted to project the at least three phase shifted black and white fringe patterns onto the object, the light projector being electrically connected with the system processor; and a color camera for capturing the at least three phase shifted black and white fringe patterns reflected from the object to generate at least three raw fringe images; wherein the raw fringe images acquired by the color camera are processed by the system processor for simultaneous real-time three-dimensional geometry and color texture acquisition. |
8938459 | 13744635 | 1 | 1. A system comprising: a peer network node; a provided peer-to-peer network connected to the peer network node and configured to interoperate with the peer network node; and wherein the peer network node includes logic for executing software to: parse a document into separate keywords in a search term list; rank order the keywords within the search term list; for each of the rank-ordered keywords in the search term list: (i) create a list of addresses referring to one or more web pages that include at least one instance of the rank ordered keyword; (ii) rank order the list of addresses by relevance; and (iii) reduce the list of addresses to k-most relevant addresses, where k is a predetermined number; create a set of query index terms from the search term list, the set of index query terms comprising at least one of a keyword from the search term list and a combination of keywords from the search term list; remove from the set of query index terms at least one combination of keywords that represents a shorter keyword combination; and for each of the remaining query index terms in the set: (i) identify the query index term as a primary query index term; determine a unique node identifier corresponding to a hosting node in the peer network, the hosting node configured to: store an inverted index entry including the primary query index term and identifiers corresponding to the k-most relevant addresses for that query index term; and store a string in a Bloom filter data structure stored on the hosting node; (ii) identify one or more secondary query index terms; (iii) store the primary query index term and identifiers corresponding to the k-most relevant addresses for that query index term in the inverted index of the hosting node; and (iv) store the one or more secondary query index terms and their respectively associated k-most relevant addresses in the Bloom filter data structure. |
7849044 | 11262522 | 1 | 1. An electronic interaction system for automatically prioritizing electronic communications received from other parties, comprising: a contact center, performed by an electronic system, for receiving the communications; a monitoring module, performed by an electronic system, for monitoring an order of the communications selected by each agent according to a judgment of priority made by each agent, wherein the agent performs one or more actions in responding to the selected communications and the actions are determined by the communications' type; a decision engine, performed by an electronic system, for determining a priority code for each of the received communications, wherein the decision engine is a learning system that uses feedback from the monitoring performed by the monitoring module to adjust how the priority code is determined, so that the priority code for each of the received communications is determined automatically from the judgment of priority made by each agent; and at least one queue, in an electronic system, for storing the prioritized communications in order of their priority code to allow the agents to more efficiently identify and process the communications having higher priority codes; thereby automatically prioritizing the electronic communications received from other parties by the electronic interaction system. |
9988237 | 15363306 | 1 | 1. A method for smart elevator car destination management according to probabilistic destination determination, the method comprising: predicting a set of passengers requesting use of an elevator car in a bank of elevator cars in a building; determining a probability for each of the passengers that each passenger will select as a destination a particular floor in the building; grouping ones of the passengers in the set according to a common floor determined to be probable for the grouped ones of the passengers; and, displaying in connection with the bank of elevator cars an assignment of the grouped ones of the passengers to one of the elevator cars in the bank. |
9047591 | 12165566 | 1 | 1. A computer implemented method comprising: presenting, via a computing device, an option to recall a search previously saved by a first user; responsive to a selection of the option to recall the search previously saved, presenting, via the computing device, a user interface element and a listing having geographic location information, wherein the user interface element and the listing having geographic location information are presented in a list of bookmarked listings, the bookmarked listings received from a source remote from the computing device that stores a plurality of listings, each listing of the plurality of listings corresponding to one or both of a respective business and a respective event, the source remote from the computing device also storing statistics of user interest in each of the plurality of listings; responsive to a selection of the user interface element, adding, via the computing device, to an event plan a reference to the listing having geographic location information to represent a first location of the event plan, and specifying a first time period associated with the first location represented by the reference to the listing having geographic location information; presenting, via the computing device, an option to search near the first location of the event plan; responsive to a selection of the option to search near the first location of the event plan, identifying a business listing corresponding to a business having a second location near the first location of the event plan; presenting, via the computing device, an option to add to the event plan a reference to the business listing to represent the second location of the event plan; and responsive to a selection of the option to add to the event plan the reference to the business listing, adding, via the computing device, to the event plan the reference to the business listing to represent the second location of the event plan and associating a second time period with the second location represented by the reference to the business listing, the second time period being adjacent in time to the first time period. |
8626460 | 11732487 | 1 | 1. A chip diagnostics client comprising: a diagnostic manager that: associates observed device failures detected when testing an integrated circuit device with physical locations within a die layout for the integrated circuit device using physical layout data for the integrated circuit device and scan instance information associated with the device failures, for a plurality of the observed device failures, generates a failure location occurrence relationship between physical locations and a device failure frequency associated with respective device failures, and for a particular observed device failure selected using the failure location occurrence relationship, (i) obtains gate identifying information associated with one or more logical defect candidates associated with that particular observed device failure, and (ii) obtains candidate physical location information associated with a candidate defect location within the die layout using the gate identifying information; and a diagnostic manager viewer that displays the candidate physical location information for that particular observed device failure together with a graphical representation of at least a portion of the die layout, the portion of the die layout that is displayed being correlated with a selected access privilege. |
20030016857 | 09883715 | 0 | 1. A method for grading the dispersibility of particulate material, said method comprising the steps of: (a) obtaining an image, in digital form, of a sample of particulate material; (b) performing a blob analysis to determine information relating to the distribution of particles in said sample; (c) comparing the result of said blob analysis with data in a database; (d) determining the grade of said sample of particulate material by means of said comparison. |
7836392 | 11063000 | 1 | 1. A method of providing layout information to be used in generating a display of data in a graphical user interface by storing schema definitions in an XML Schema Definition (XSD) schema, the method comprising: in a computer system that is configured to contain a repository of schema definitions according to UN/CEFACT Core Components Technical Specification (CCTS) for several data components, storing, within a schema definition for a data component from the repository of schema definitions for data components, layout information for the data component, each of the data components configured for defining semantics, according to CCTS, of portions of data included in an electronic communication from a sending business entity received at a receiving business entity, the electronic communication including a portion of data associated with the data component that specifies semantics of the portion of data according to CCTS, the layout information comprising XHTML, XFORMS, XSLT, or XSL-FO to define a visual appearance of the portion of data when the portion of data is presented to the receiving business entity, the visual appearance including at least one user interface element for presenting the portion of data; and outputting, for display, the portion of data with a visual appearance defined by the layout information. |
20100220686 | 12780409 | 0 | 1. A method for determining need for a communication policy in a cognitive radio, comprising: operating the cognitive radio using a first communication policy in a current geographical domain; determining a current location and mobility of the cognitive radio; computing an estimated time at which the cognitive radio enters a new geographical domain based on the current location and mobility of the cognitive radio; in response to expiry of the estimated time, determining that a policy change is to be implemented for the cognitive radio in the new geographical domain; acquiring information related to a new communication policy in response to determining that the policy change is to be implemented; and operating the cognitive radio using the new communication policy in the new geographical domain. |
9603691 | 14676971 | 1 | 1. A method for estrus detection, comprising: generating signals by a plurality of identification devices positioned within a free stall pen; triangulating the signals to determine location information associated with a dairy livestock; storing the location information associated with the dairy livestock, the location information comprising a plurality of coordinate locations of the dairy livestock within the free stall pen at each of a plurality of times during a time period including a first time and a second time, wherein the plurality of coordinate locations comprises at least a first (X, Y, Z) location of the dairy livestock at the first time and a second (X, Y, Z) location of the dairy livestock at the second time; determining, based on at least the first and second (X, Y, Z) locations, a turn index parameter indicating a number of times the dairy livestock reverses directions during the time period; and determining whether the dairy livestock is likely to be in estrus based at least in part upon whether the determined turn index parameter is in excess of a baseline turn index parameter by more than a first predefined amount. |
20150295925 | 14409027 | 0 | 1. A secure method of processing data wherein evaluation of a function (F) described as a linear combination of sub-functions (f i ) with two binary inputs is performed, wherein a client (C) and a server (S) respectively have a binary code (X), comprising n indexed bits (x 1 ,. .. x n ), and a binary code (Y), comprising n indexed bits (y 1 ,. .. , y n ), the method comprising evaluation of the function (F) with the binary codes of the client (X) and of the server (Y) as inputs, without either the client (C) or the server (S) obtaining information on the code of the other, the method being characterized in that it comprises the following steps: d) the server randomly generates n indexed values (r i ) and calculates the linear combination (R) of these values with the same linear combination as that applied to the sub-functions (f i ) to obtain the function (F), e) for each bit (y i ) of its binary code (Y), the client employs a technique of oblivious transfer to obtain from the server an intermediate datum comprising the randomly generated value (r i ) of the same index as the bit (y i ) of the code of the client, added to the value of the corresponding sub-function evaluated in the bit of the same index of the code of the server and in said bit of its binary code (f i (x i ,y i )), and f) the client performs a linear combination of the intermediate data for all the bits (y i ) of its binary code, with the same linear combination as that applied to the sub-functions to obtain the function (F), so as to obtain a final result (RF) comprising the linear combination (R) of randomly generated values (r 1 ,. .. , r n ) added to evaluation of the function in both binary codes. |
8122009 | 12409193 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method for modifying physical data comprising a plurality of physical entities and having a particular physical data representation in a database, the method comprising: receiving a selection of an abstract modification operation; receiving a selection of a model entity definition on which to perform the abstract modification operation, the model entity definition comprising two or more logical fields each corresponding to a separate physical entity in the database, wherein each logical specifies at least one access method that maps the logical field to the separate physical entity storing data in the database corresponding to a respective logical field; based on at least the received selections, generating at least two physical modification statements, each modifying one of the two separate physical entities of the physical data; ordering the at least two physical modification statements; and executing, by operation of one or more computer processors, modification operations according to the physical modification statements, whereby the data is modified. |
20080243790 | 12007444 | 0 | 1. A method for storing and accessing related data files in a data space within a database comprising the steps of creating a set of data space blocks within a database, base each said data space block characterized by predetermined metadata said metadata comprising a plurality of dimensions and a specified range of predetermined characteristics or values for said dimensions, storing data having characteristics or values consistent with said predetermined ranges within said data space blocks, and wherein said data space blocks comprise a range structured database and then searching said dataspace by submitting a query. |
20090138147 | 11945382 | 0 | 1. A method for detecting faulty low frequency persistent oscillations signals generated by a Flight Control System malfunction that causes faulty persistence aircraft surface oscillations comprising: sensing flight parameters relating to Yaw Rate, Roll Rate, Pitch Rate, Angle of Attack Rate, Angle of Attack, Sideslip Angle, Mach Number, Airspeed, Dynamic Pressure, Flap Angle, Slat Angle, Horizontal Stabilizer Position, Rudder Position, and Elevator Position; computing a tail load estimate signal by means of formulae and tables whose inputs are said flight parameters; submitting said tail load estimate to a band-pass filter to provide a filtered tail load estimate signal; integrating said filtered tail load estimate signal with a first integration function to provide a first integration result, with a second integration function to provide a second integration result and with a third integration function to provide a third integration result; comparing said first integration result with a first threshold; comparing said second integration result with a second threshold; comparing said third integration result with a third threshold; and detecting an oscillatory fault occurrence as per each of said comparisons. |
20020169782 | 10141078 | 0 | 1. A method for communicating information between users of an online network, the method comprising: receiving, from a first user, an identification of a second user of an online network and an indication of an association level of the second user; receiving, from the first user, first information having an association level different from the second user and second information having an association level corresponding to the second user; and transmitting, to the second user, only the second information based on the association level |
20150371386 | 14727514 | 0 | 1. A method of detecting at least one chemical species comprising: obtaining at least a first image from a first electromagnetic radiation detector, the first image including a first plurality of pixels, each pixel having an associated intensity value; obtaining at least a second image from a second electromagnetic radiation detector, the second image including a second plurality of pixels, each pixel having an associated intensity value; generating at least a first resultant image, the first resultant image including a plurality of resultant pixels, each pixel having an associated intensity value; determining one or more regions of interest based, at least in part, on the first resultant image; determining correlation between the first image, the second image, and the first resultant image for at least one of the one or more regions of interest using a correlation coefficient algorithm to: calculate a first correlation coefficient using the intensity values of a first subset of pixels from the first plurality of pixels and a corresponding subset of resultant pixels from the plurality of resultant pixels within at least one of the one or more regions of interest, and calculate a second correlation coefficient using the intensity values of a first subset of pixels from the second plurality of pixels and the corresponding subset of resultant pixels from the plurality of resultant pixels within the corresponding region of interest; and determining the presence of at least one chemical species based, at least in part, on the first correlation coefficient and the second correlation coefficient. |
20110179370 | 13000315 | 0 | 1. In a data visualization system, a method of creating a visual representation of data points from metric data, wherein the method includes the steps of: a data retrieval module retrieving the metric data from a data storage module in communication with the data visualization system, a determination module determining the data points based on the retrieved metric data, and a display module arranging the data points for displaying on a display device according to a predetermined visual representation, arranging the data points into plurality of meta groups in a hierarchical manner, and arranging the meta groups into a plurality of layers, where each layer represents the data points at different levels of granularity, and a statistical distance determination module determining a statistical distance between items in the meta groups, and the display module arranging the items within the meta groups based on the determined statistical distance, and arranging the data points to be evenly distributed among all groups within a single layer. |
7725816 | 11588928 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method for delivering a customized Internet document to a client, the method comprising: identifying a fixed portion and a variable portion of a customizable Internet document; isolating the variable portion of the customizable Internet document, wherein isolating the variable portion of the customizable document comprises: extracting a plurality of string literals from the customizable document; and storing the string literals as symbols; storing a plurality of customized versions of the variable portion of the customizable Internet document in a directory hierarchy as a function of one or more characteristics of the customized versions; generating a plurality of encoded versions for each customized version, wherein the encoded versions represent Double Byte Character Set (DBCS), Universal Code Character Set (Unicode), 8-bit Unicode Transformation Format (UTF-8) versions of a customized version; storing the encoded versions in distinct subdirectories within the directory hierarchy; receiving a request for the customized Internet document from the client; in response to the received request issued by the client, selecting at least one of the plurality of customized versions as a function of at least one of a language and a location attributable to the client, said selecting further comprising selecting at least one of the plurality of encoded versions for each selected customized version based on the received request; generating the customized Internet document by combining the fixed portion and the selected at least one of the plurality of customized encoded versions; and transmitting the generated customized Internet document to the client. |
8381226 | 12367140 | 1 | 1. A method for fixing errors in concurrent programs stored on a memory device, comprising: inputting a concurrent program with at least two threads; and efficiently exploring the state space of the concurrent program by analyzing only those inter-leavings of threads comprising the concurrent program that form quasi-monotonic sequences of thread operations; generating witness traces for errors in the concurrent program detected through the state space search; modifying the source code of the concurrent program to fix the errors based on the witness traces. |
20140088820 | 14035049 | 0 | 1. A method of using vehicle location information in a mining environment, the method comprising: generating, at a processor of a computer, a timeline having an expanded portion adjoining and not overlapping a compressed portion, the compressed portion representing more time per unit length than the expanded portion, the timeline having a first end corresponding to a first location of a first work function and a second end corresponding to a second location of a second work function; displaying the timeline on a display of the computer via the processor responsive to executable instructions stored in a memory accessible by the computer; receiving a location, a direction, and speed information from a work vehicle at the computer; determining a destination of the work vehicle as one of the first location and the second location; calculating an estimated travel time for the work vehicle to reach the destination; and displaying an icon showing the location of the work vehicle at a point on the timeline corresponding to the estimated travel time remaining for the work vehicle to reach the destination. |
20070068879 | 11276880 | 0 | 1. A method for treating wastewater comprising the acts (steps) of: treating a first influent in a blackwater treatment train, the blackwater treatment train comprising the acts (steps) of: screening the first influent in a blackwater screening zone, clarifying a blackwater screening zone effluent in a clarifying zone, reducing sludge from the clarifying zone in a sludge reduction zone, filtering clarification zone effluent in a blackwater filtration zone, advanced oxidation of a blackwater filtration zone effluent (permeate) in a blackwater advanced oxidation zone, and discharging a blackwater advanced oxidation zone effluent. treating a second influent in a graywater treatment train, the graywater treatment train comprising the acts (steps) of: screening the second influent in a graywater screening zone, treating screened solids from the graywater screening zone in the sludge reduction zone, filtering a graywater screening zone effluent in a graywater filtration zone, treating filtered solids (retentate) from the graywater filtration zone in the sludge reduction zone, advanced oxidation of a graywater filtration zone effluent (permeate) in a graywater advanced oxidation zone, and reusing an advanced oxidation zone effluent. |
20130029768 | 13540339 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: causing displaying to a first user, through a web page of a first social network provider that provides a first social network, first contest data that indicates a first online contest that is in a locked state; receiving, at a particular entity, first input that indicates an intention by the first user to participate in the first online contest; sending, from the particular entity, first request data that indicates a first request, by the particular entity, for one or more permissions allowing the particular entity to access information from the first social network provider about the first user; after sending the first request data, receiving, at the particular entity, first acceptance data that indicates that the first user accepts the first request; in response to receiving the first acceptance data, causing the first user to be entered in the first online contest; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices. |
9897084 | 14339594 | 1 | 1. Apparatus comprising: a signal processor or processing module configured at least to: receive signaling containing information about an adaptive or self-calibrating set point control curve and a varying equivalent system characteristic curve based at least partly on an instant pump pressure and a flow rate using an adaptive moving average filter, and associated signaling containing information about an equilibrium point of pump differential pressure and system pressure formulated in a hydronic domain by utilizing pump and system characteristic curve equations so as to yield system pressure and flow at any particular load and time in a pump hydronic system, determine equivalent hydronic system characteristics associated with the instant pump pressure and the flow rate to corresponding motor power and speed reconstructed and remapped using a discrete numerical approach; and determine corresponding signaling containing information about an adaptive pressure set point, based at least partly on the signaling and associated received. |
9721070 | 14135216 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: obtaining a control catalyst set having a plurality of members each having a control characteristic, wherein the control characteristic comprises catalytic activity, catalyst productivity, catalyst selectivity, or combinations thereof, wherein the members of the control catalyst set comprise a transition metal and an organic ligand, wherein the organic ligand comprises a diphosphino aminyl moiety or an N 2 -phosphinyl amidine moiety; selecting an intermediate formed during a catalytic cycle of each member of the control catalyst set; geometrically and energetically optimizing a structure of the intermediate, wherein the geometrically and energetically optimized intermediate comprises a 5-membered metallacycle, a 7-membered metallacycle, or a 9-membered metallacycle; determining one or more characteristics of the geometrically and energetically optimized structure of the intermediate, wherein the one or more characteristics comprise a phosphorus-nitrogen-phosphorus (PNP) bite angle or a phosphorus-nitrogen (PN) bite angle; determining a mathematical relationship between the control characteristic and the one or more characteristics of the geometrically and energetically optimized structure of the intermediate; utilizing the mathematical relationship to identify one or more members of a sample catalyst set having the control characteristic within a desired range, wherein the one or more members of the sample catalyst set forms an intermediate comprising a 5-membered metallacycle, a 7-membered metallacycle, or a 9-membered metallacycle during a catalytic cycle; contacting the identified sample catalyst with ethylene under conditions suitable for the formation of a mixture of 1-hexene and 1-octene; and recovering the mixture of 1-hexene and 1-octene. |
20140137240 | 13677121 | 0 | 1. A method for maintaining network security, the method comprising: sensing network telemetry information at plural network resources; communicating the network telemetry information to an active memory interfaced with a processor, the processor executing plural network security modules, each network security module having an input specification, an output specification and a logic specification, the logic specification defining a memory allocation in the active memory for each of the security modules; and maintaining network security by investigating network telemetry information with one or more of the security modules using the telemetry information stored in the active memory to detect network security threats and by neutralizing the detected network security threats with one or more of the security modules in response to detecting of predetermined network telemetry information in the active memory. |