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20180124072

15339437

1. A system for monitoring states of operation of assets in a network of computer devices, the system comprising: one or more servers communicatively coupled to a computer network, the one or more servers include: a controller engine configured to identify a target asset of the computer network; an asset profiling engine configured to: establish a communication link with a computing device associated with the target asset; determine a first set of parameters for profiling the target asset; transmit, via the communication link, a first query for the first set of parameters to the computing device; receive, from the computing device via the communication link, one or more first parameter values corresponding to the first set of parameters responsive to the query; compare the one or more first parameter values to one or more first criteria or threshold values; and determine a state of operation of the target asset based on comparing the one or more first parameter values to the one or more first criteria or threshold values, the state of operation indicative of an abnormal behavior associated with the target asset.

20080195560

12028830

1. A method for determining a licensing/billing fee for computer security software deployed in a host computer for protecting the host computer against a vulnerability attack, the method comprising the steps of: (a) collecting host attributes, characterizing performance of the security software in protecting the vulnerability attack, during a billing period for the security software; (b) determining an effective vulnerability protection measure of the host computer based on the attributes collected prior to the step (b); and (c) determining the licensing/billing fee for the security software based on the effective vulnerability protection measure.

20140098086

13651218

1. A method, comprising: receiving a ray of a set of rays, the ray having an origin and a direction; sorting the rays into a directional group of a plurality of directional groups, each directional group having a corresponding directional range and comprising rays of the set of rays having directions within the corresponding directional range; and intersecting the rays with a scene hierarchy to make an image.

9098833

12365758

1. A system for the management of network address books, comprising: a network address book (NAB) manager including a processor, a transceiver and data storage within a core network, said NAB manager being configured to manage network storage of content information of a plurality of users, wherein content information corresponding to respective ones of said plurality of users is stored in separate NABs in data storage; said NAB manager being configured to populate said data storage within said separate NABs with content information received from user devices; said NAB manager being configured to transmit at least some of said content information obtained from a first NAB in data storage that is associated with a first user, based on authorization of the first user, to another NAB in a second data storage that is located within said core network or within another network and that is associated with a second user; and said NAB manager being configured to receive a query from the second user for information related to the first user and to obtain said information from said first NAB without burdening wireless traffic by requiring wireless communications from individual wireless user devices; wherein said NAB manager is configured to receive user Contact Information Discovery queries from individuals via wireless user devices and to transmit said information based on user authorization, and wherein said NAB manager is configured such that in response to such queries from wireless user devices Contact Information is transmitted from one NAB to another NAB based on said user authorization via a wireline connection; further including said NAB manager being configured to provide a plurality of levels of settings governing how much information is transmitted from said one NAB to said another NAB based on the user selecting certain of said settings so as to designate how much information the user wants to share with other users, said levels of settings governing how much information is transmitted from said one NAB to said another NAB including personal information and business information settings; further including said NAB manager being configured to provide selective synchronization between a Network Address Book of a user stored in the core network and a Local Address Book (LAB) in a user device of the user such that the NAB Manager will transmit only certain fields or portions of content information data contained within the user's NAB to the LAB in the user device for which a user selection has been received in order to accommodate limited storage capacity of the LAB; and where said NAB manager is configured to store information within a user's NAB related to the location of the user and wherein said NAB manager is configured to enforce user policies based on the location of the user, including denying contact from a specified user based on a location policy.

8621076

13586513

1. An apparatus, comprising: a memory storing machine readable instructions; and a processor to execute the instructions to perform operations comprising: in response to receiving a request to evaluate a newsgroup server, measuring a completion rate for the newsgroup server by: identifying a number of multipart articles associated with the newsgroup server; and determining a percentage of the number of multipart articles that have all respective parts available on the newsgroup at a particular time; and comparing the percentage to a threshold to assess a completion grade for the newsgroup server.

10102852

14686670

1. A computer-implemented method for generating synthesized, spoken acknowledgments of voice queries using personalized pronunciations, the method comprising: receiving, by a front end component of a voice query processing system that includes (a) the front end component, (b) an automated speech recognizer that is configured to transcribe given audio inputs to terms, (c) a pronunciation generator that is separate from the automated speech recognizer and that is configured to generate sequences of phones that correspond to given audio inputs without mapping the sequences of phones to terms, (d) a text-to speech component, and (e) a voice action engine, audio data encoding a voice query from a user; providing, by the front end component of the voice query processing system, the audio data to both (i) the pronunciation generator that is separate from the automated speech recognizer and that is configured to generate, while the automated speech recognizer begins transcribing the audio data into terms, sequences of phones that correspond to given audio inputs without mapping the sequences of phone to terms, and (ii) the automated speech recognizer that is configured to transcribe given audio inputs to terms; obtaining, from the pronunciation generator that is separate from the automated speech recognizer and based on the pronunciation generator processing the audio data before the automated speech recognizer has completed transcribing the audio data, a sequence of phones that reflects the user's pronunciation of a particular term of the voice query; after obtaining the sequence of phones that reflects the user's pronunciation of the particular term of the voice query from the pronunciation generator, obtaining, from the automated speech recognizer, a transcription of the voice query from the audio data, wherein the transcription includes the particular term; after (i) obtaining the sequence of phones that reflects the user's pronunciation of the particular term of the voice query from the pronunciation generator and (ii) obtaining, from the automated speech recognizer, the transcription of the voice query from the audio data, determining that a spoken acknowledgment that is to be generated for the voice query should use the user's pronunciation for the particular term; generating, by the text-to-speech component of the voice query processing system, the spoken acknowledgment of the voice query, wherein, when output, the particular term is spoken in accordance with the user's pronunciation for the particular term based at least on the sequence of phones that was generated from the audio data by the pronunciation generator; providing, by the text-to-speech component of the voice query processing system, the spoken acknowledgment for output; and after providing the spoken acknowledgement for output, providing the voice query for execution by the voice action engine.

9354001

13775648

1. A method comprising: determining at least one combination of parameters that optimizes at least two performance metrics of a heat exchanger, the determining comprising: ascertaining at least one non-variable parameter of the heat exchanger and two variable parameters comprising a configuration of one or more of a coolant channel, a finstock, and a manifold of the heat exchanger; ascertaining at least one boundary condition for the heat exchanger comprising a condition of a system in which the heat exchanger is installed; obtaining, by at least one processor, at least two performance metrics for the at least one boundary condition for at least two possible heat exchanger configurations of the heat exchanger that include different combinations of the at least one non-variable parameter and at least two variable parameters; and using the at least one processor in determining which of the at least two possible heat exchanger configurations optimizes the at least two performance metrics for the at least one boundary condition, the determining facilitating ascertaining at least one combination of the at least two variable parameters that optimizes the at least two performance metrics of the heat exchanger.

9552587

14701874

1. A method of generating a representation of an environment in which a triggered device receives signals from a Broadcasting Device (BD), comprising: receiving over one or more communication networks one or more environmental data sets (EDSs), at least one of the EDSs including information relating to the environment, at least one of the EDSs being obtained from a triggered device located in the environment and which receives signals from a BD associated with the environment, the triggered device including a mobile communication device associated with a first user; determining at least one preference of a second user by accessing a previously stored representation that is generated during a prior visit by the second user to the environment; organizing into a first representation of the environment at least some of the information included in the one or more EDSs in accordance with said at least one preference of the second user, wherein organizing into the first representation of the environment further includes organizing into the first representation additional information concerning the at least one preference of the second user, the additional information being obtained at least in part from the previously stored representation; and causing the first representation to be rendered on at least one rendering device.

20120191698

13010136

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a query plan; automatically identifying, by one or more computers, one or more operations included within the query plan that may degrade the performance of a query; and providing a report that identifies the identified operations as performance degrading operations.

20120239546

13471352

1. A method comprising: receiving, by a computer device, a first request associated with a first trading strategy, wherein the first request represents a request to lean on a first quantity of a tradable object; determining, by the computer device, a first estimated price for the first quantity of the tradable object for use by the first trading strategy, wherein the first estimated price is determined based on market information for the tradable object received from an electronic exchange; providing, by the computer device, the first estimated price for the first quantity of the tradable object for use in relation to the first trading strategy, wherein the first estimated price is used to generate an order to buy or sell a second tradable object based on a definition of the first trading strategy; receiving, by the computer device, a second request associated with a second trading strategy, wherein the second request represents a request to lean on a second quantity of the tradable object; determining, by the computer device, a second estimated price for the second quantity of the tradable object for use by the second trading strategy, wherein the second estimated price is determined based on the market information for the tradable object and further based on the first quantity at the first estimated price determined for use by the first trading strategy associated with the first request; and providing, by the computer device, a second estimated price for the second quantity of the tradable object for use in relation to the second trading strategy, wherein the second estimated price is used to generate an order to buy or sell a third tradable object based on a definition of the second trading strategy.

4229725

05905377

1. A system to detect a wind shear condition encountered by an aircraft having a pitot pressure sensing tube for measuring air speed comprising in combination: pitot pressure sensing means; pressure change measuring means connected to said pressure sensing means operable to produce a signal proportional to the rate of change of pressure in said pitot tube; a reference means calibrated to represent the maximum acceleration capability of said aircraft; and indicating means connected to said pressure change measuring means and said reference means so as to display the signal therefrom relative to the reference means.

20120144041

13308906

1. A resource management apparatus for supporting cloud-based communication between ubiquitous objects, the resource management apparatus comprising: a service classification unit configured to classify a service requested by a ubiquitous object based on properties of the requested service; a resource search unit configured to search for cloud resources available for services that are classified by the service classification unit; a resource management unit configured to synchronize the ubiquitous object with the cloud resources that are found by the resource search unit.

9740985

14295514

1. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program stored therein, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computing device, causes the computing device to: receive an input question; generate one or more candidate answers from a corpus of knowledge using a pipeline of software engines, wherein the pipeline of software engines generates a plurality of features extracted from the question, the one or more candidate answers, or the corpus of knowledge; generate a question difficulty score based on the plurality of features using a machine learning model, wherein the machine learning model maps features to assigned weights for scaling the difficulty score; store the question difficulty score in association with the input question to form a stored set of questions; receive a question policy, wherein the question, policy comprises a target difficulty level and a threshold; and select a set of questions from the stored set of questions, wherein the set of questions have a difficulty within the threshold of the target difficulty level.

20100185984

12629774

1. A method for configuring the presentation of a plurality of presentation elements in a visual representation on a user interface, the presentation elements having both temporal and spatial parameters, the method comprising the steps of: defining a time bar with a time scale having time indicators as subdivisions of the time scale and having a first global temporal limit and a second temporal global limit of the time scale for defining a temporal domain of the presentation elements, defining a focus range of the time bar such that the focus range has a first local temporal limit and a second local temporal limit wherein the first local temporal limit is greater than or equal to the first global temporal limit and the second local temporal limit is less than or equal to the second global temporal limit; defining a focus bar having a focus time scale having focus time indicators as subdivisions of the focus time scale and having the first and second local temporal limits as the extents of the focus time scale, such that the focus time scale is an expansion of the time scale; and displaying a set of presentation elements selected from the plurality of presentation elements based on the respective temporal parameter of each of the set of presentation elements is within the first and second local temporal limits.

20070050398

11486059

1. A file processor which couples a plurality of files to create one coupled file comprising: a file selector that designates a plurality of files to be coupled; a security setting information extracting part that extracts security setting information which includes a setting item which is relevant to security being set to each of the files to be coupled; a coupled file creating part that couples the plurality of files to be coupled to create newly one coupled file; and, a security setup part that creates new security setting information based on the extracted security setting information and add new security setting to the coupled file based on the new security setting information.

20160350211

15164821

1. A system comprising: a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising: receiving compilable code that, when compiled, results in target executable code; determining, based on the compilable code, an N th state of the target executable code, wherein N is an integer; executing the target executable code on a target device to the N th state; performing an input to the target executable code for the N th state; determining, in response to resuming execution of the target executable code subsequent to performing the input for the N th state, a change in behavior of the target executable code as a result of employing the input for the N th state; and enabling access to information related to the change in the behavior of the target executable code as a result of employing the input for the N th state.

20060143592

11024084

1. A computer program product for implementing a pluggable model framework in an application that has a model-view-controller (MVC) architecture, the computer program product being tangibly embodied in an information carrier, the computer program product comprising instructions that cause a computer to: define the pluggable model framework, the pluggable model framework comprising elements that relate to one or more of a development tool for an application, a metamodel that defines development objects associated with the application, a generator for generating code based on the metamodel, and an application run-time, the pluggable model framework comprising an extension point that corresponds to at least one of the elements; and interface a plug-in to the pluggable model framework through the extension point, the plug-in containing data for use with a model used by the application, the data for interfacing to an external system.

7933965

11169310

1. In a computer network comprising: a first device; and a second device disparate from said first device, said first and second devices able to at least intermittently communicate over the network, a computer program code device configured to be transmitted from the first device for receipt and processing on the second device disparate from said first device, said computer program code device comprising: a collection of managed objects or managed object representations comprising an integrated definition of an application and associated data, said collection of managed objects or managed object representations comprising a plurality of nodes storing data and being configured to control the processing of multiple data types, said nodes providing device control instructions and node processing instructions even in the absence of reliable communication between devices, said collection being effective to complete the processing of a plurality of data types at said second, disparate device independently of the state of the communication link between the first device and the second device, thereby allowing the efficient transmission of data and operation instructions between the first and second devices even in the absence of a robust communication link between the first and second devices.

10108852

14031907

1. A computer-implemented method for facial analysis comprising: collecting a series of images of a face; evaluating an image from the series of images with a classifier; flipping the image to create a flipped image; evaluating the flipped image with the classifier; comparing results from the evaluating of the image and the evaluating the flipped image; identifying an asymmetrical expression on the face based on the comparing; inferring mental states based on the asymmetrical expression wherein the mental states include a mental state of disbelief; and scoring the asymmetrical expression based on the comparing, wherein the left and right sides of the face are different, and wherein the scoring provides a probability of a facial expression occurring, wherein the scoring includes: providing a histogram computed from the image to a classifier to produce a first output; providing a histogram computed from the flipped image to a classifier to produce a second output: and computing a difference between the first output and the second output by subtracting the second output from the first output.

20160330402

15148881

1. A convertible telepresence robot system comprising: a monitor, monitor bracket, right column top portion, right drive column, lower-rear safety bumper, left drive column, upper rear safety bumper, left column top portion, camera, support panel, a left and a right primary wheel, and at least one secondary wheel; the support panel being supported at a first end by the left drive column, and a second end, opposite the first end, by the right drive column; the lower-rear safety bumper connected to a lower rear portion of a bottom end of the left drive column to a lower rear portion of a bottom end of the right drive column; the upper-rear safety bumper connected to an upper rear portion of a top end of the left drive column and to an upper rear portion of a top end of the right drive column; a first primary wheel rotatably connected to a front portion of the bottom end of the left drive column and a second primary wheel rotatably connected to a front portion of the bottom end of the right drive column; a monitor bracket engaging a top portion of the support panel; a monitor supported by the monitor bracket; the left column top portion supported by a top surface of the left drive column, the right column top portion supported by a top surface of the right drive column; and a camera engageable with a top surface of at least one of the left column top portion and the right column top portion.

20120010732

13179252

1. An Engine Control Unit (ECU) for controlling an engine of a vehicle, comprising: an input for receiving a input signal; an output for providing a control output to an actuator of an engine; a memory for storing a compiled control algorithm; a controller coupled to the memory for executing the compiled control algorithm, wherein the controller is configured to receive the input signal, and based on the compiled control algorithm, provide the control output to the actuator of the engine; and wherein the compiled control algorithm implements a generalized model predictive control template that is configured into a specific model predictive controller configuration for the controller by reference to a calibration dataset, wherein the compiled control algorithm is an instance of the specific model predictive controller configuration.

8018332

11669239

1. An emergency event reporting apparatus for transmitting emergency event messages via satellites associated with a search and rescue system to a ground-based satellite monitoring center of the search and rescue system, the emergency event reporting apparatus comprising: means for detecting an emergency event; means for generating an emergency event message upon detection of the emergency event, where the emergency event message contains information regarding the emergency event; means for storing a unique identification number that uniquely identifies the emergency event reporting apparatus and is associated with one of a plurality of private third-party emergency event monitoring service providers designated to receive and process emergency event messages transmitted from emergency event reporting apparatuses that are relayed through the ground-based satellite monitoring center; and means for transmitting a beacon signal containing the emergency event message and the unique identification number to the satellites associated with the search and rescue system, whereby the ground-based satellite monitoring center can determine, based on the unique identification number contained in the emergency event message, which one of the plurality of private third-party emergency event monitoring service providers is to receive the emergency event message for processing.

20080246636

11783069

1. A computer based system for processing data during decompression, comprising: a back buffer for receiving a data stream, wherein the data stream comprises one or more data segments; a parser module for generating parsed forms within the back buffer for one or more encountered data segments of the data stream; an annotation storage means for storing annotation information, wherein the annotation information comprises a representation of a parsed form for a data segment and location information within the back buffer for a generated parsed form of the data segment; and referencing means for referencing the annotation information to obtain the parsed form for an occurrence of a previously encountered data segment within the data stream.

9165309

14336542

1. A system for providing a predetermined set of functionality to a plurality of primary applications, comprising: a primary application interface operating on a processor and a memory including computer executable instructions which when executed by the processor causes the processor to receive a user identifier, primary application configuration data, and an application identifier associated with one of the primary applications from any one of the plurality of primary applications, wherein the user identifier and the application identifier for each of the primary applications are different; a feature functionality system operating on the processor and the memory including computer executable instructions which when executed by the processor causes the processor to alter one or more features of a mini-game to match each of the plurality of primary applications, the feature functionality system configured to provide the mini-game to a user associated with the user identifier in coordination with each of the primary applications and to transfer a primary application currency amount to the primary application upon completion of the mini-game by the user; and a billing system interface operating on the processor and the memory including computer executable instructions which when executed by the processor causes the processor to unlock feature functionality for a certain number of interactions or a certain time period; wherein the mini-game is configured to provide a common in-game currency for each of a plurality of primary applications.

20150193441

14150272

1. A method, in a data processing system comprising a processor and a memory, for ingesting a document from a corpus of documents for use by a Question and Answer (QA) system, the method comprising: receiving, by the data processing system, a document from a corpus of documents; generating, by the data processing system, a title for the document based on an analysis of content of the document; generating, by the data processing system, a score value for the title based on a measure of a degree to which the title represents the content of the document; storing, by the data processing system, the score value in association with the title as document metadata associated with the document; and outputting, by the data processing system, the document and document metadata to the QA system, wherein the QA system utilizes the document metadata and document to generate a candidate answer to an input question.

20150153906

13927533

1. A method, comprising: identifying a task; identifying a plurality of how-to videos related to the task; determining a confidence measure for each of one or more of the plurality of how-to videos; selecting a how-to video from the plurality of how-to videos based on the confidence measure; determining a plurality of video segments of the how-to video; identifying task attributes included in the selected how to video, each of the task attributes related to one or more aspects of the task; and associating, for each of one or more of the video segments, one or more task attributes with the video segment.

20160321220

15211685

1. A management server for a datacenter, the management server comprising: a memory device including processor-executable code; and a processor configured to execute code to: display a hierarchical overview of the datacenter, the hierarchical overview including a first depiction of a first virtualized environment having a first resource, a second depiction of a second virtualized environment having a second resource, and a third depiction of a virtualization capable system, the virtualization capable system being deployed as a stand-alone system of the datacenter, the first, second, and third depictions and the first and second resource information being arranged according to a hierarchy of elements of the data center; receive a first selection of one of the first and second depictions; receive a second selection of one of the first and second resources; and deploy the virtualization capable system to the selected virtualized environment and to deploy the selected resource to the selected virtualized environment in response to receiving the first and second selections.

20090171871

12053600

1. A method for utilizing Computational Intelligence (CI) techniques with different learning methods in a computer-aided detection, review and diagnosis (CAD) system comprising: cluster types of abnormal findings using unsupervised learning method; train a number of classifiers with appropriate learning algorithms; combine in three different manners to produce one classifier; the classifier can be operated at three different operating points; use a fuzzy system to map the findings to diagnostic reports; calculate the finding statistics based on Bayesian probability.

10133762

14699777

1. A method for providing content of a publish-subscribe topic tree, the method comprising: receiving a path for a requested topic, wherein the path specifies topic names leading from highest to lowest level topic names in the path, wherein the topic tree includes topic names and an added node identifier associated with each respective topic name of the topic tree, wherein certain digits of the node identifiers for parent nodes in the tree correspond to certain digits of node identifiers of child node(s) of each respective parent; searching a hash table for the topic names specified in the path, wherein the hash table also includes the topic names of the topic tree and includes the node identifier associated with each respective topic name of the topic tree; finding, in the hash table, the topic tree node identifiers for the topic names specified in the path; designating a highest level topic in the path as a current highest level topic; performing parent-child node matching for the node identifiers found in the hash table, including matching certain digits of the found node identifier(s) for the current highest level topic in the path to corresponding digits of the found node identifier(s) for a next lower level topic in the path to find a matching next level node, and then designating a next topic after the current highest level topic in the path to be a new, current highest level topic; repeating the parent-child node matching for each successive topic in the path, in order to find the node identifier for the lowest level node in the path; and retrieving content in the topic tree only for matching topic names that match the lowest level topic name in the requested topic path independently of whether the matching topic names are on the requested topic path in the tree, including retrieving the content in the topic tree for the matching topic name(s) no later than at least partly in concurrence with the parent-child node matching; and sending, for a requestor, the content retrieved for only the one topic name that matches the lowest level topic name in the requested topic path and for which the topic tree node was identified as the lowest level node in the path by the parent-child node matching.

20070011355

11390963

1. A method for enabling a transcoding proxy server to utilize an annotation rule set in order to transcode a web page for a portable computing device, said method comprising the steps of: (a) a transcoding proxy server receiving a web page request from a portable computing device; (b) said transcoding proxy server transmitting said web page request to a server computer coupled to said transcoding proxy server; (c) said transcoding proxy server receiving from said server computer a web page element corresponding to said web page request; (d) said transcoding proxy server locating a first annotation rule set that corresponds to said web page request, wherein said first annotation rule set is distinct from a transcoding functionality utilized by said transcoding proxy server; and (e) said transcoding proxy server transcoding said web page element for said portable computing device by following said first annotation rule set and utilizing said transcoding functionality.

20120197705

13424226

1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having embodied thereon instructions executable by a processor to present an offer for a good or service, the method comprising: identifying the location of both a buyer and a plurality of merchants associated with offers for one or more goods or services; selecting a plurality of offers based on the identified location of both the buyer and the plurality of merchants; identifying a classification of the buyer, wherein the classification is based upon at least a previous purchase of the buyer and a category associated with the previous purchase; presenting an offer to the buyer from the plurality of offers based on the classification of the buyer, wherein the offer presentation includes: a map for a particular geographic area and identifies the location of a merchant for the offer, a retail list price of the good or service associated with the offer, and a time of expiration of the offer, and wherein a price paid for the good or service is discounted from the retail list price; and sharing the offer with one or more members of a social network, wherein at least one interaction between the one or more members of the social network are recorded, wherein the recording tracks a connection between the one or members of the social network with respect to the offer.

8577881

13308833

1. A method comprising: under control of one or more processors configured with executable instructions: receiving a search query; in response to receiving the search query, performing a plurality of searches, wherein at least one search of the plurality of searches includes the search query and a keyword added to the search query, and configuring a plurality of results of the plurality of searches for concurrent display via a user interface (UI), the configuring comprising concurrently displaying results obtained from a first of the plurality of searches and results obtained from a second of the plurality of searches, wherein the results obtained from the first of the plurality of searches are grouped separately from the results obtained from the second of the plurality of searches.

9946520

15054989

1. A method comprising: automatically deploying World Wide Web services from a function written in an interpretive computer language, wherein automatically deploying comprises: providing an on-demand process to automatically scan selected source code to identify one or more entry function names and parameters to dynamically extend a service name map; automatically creating a new cloud workspace for the function written in an interpretive computer language; receiving the function and storing it in the cloud workspace; establishing an interpreter for the interpretive computer language; allowing for execution of the function by the interpreter via the internet or an intranet; scanning a source code tree for matching functions using specified filters and automatically converting each matching function into a persistent web service; and wherein allowing for execution of the function comprises an element selected from the group consisting of WIDE UI and REST API.

20070239716

11694490

1. A method of generating specialized search results in response to patterned queries, comprising: receiving, for a specialized query category, a query pattern for which specialized results are to be displayed; receiving, for the specialized query category, a specialized results pattern to be used in response to receiving a query matching the query pattern; and storing the query pattern and the specialized results pattern in a record associated with the specialized query category.

9692933

15153284

1. An image forming apparatus that shares information with a plurality of other image forming apparatuses, the image forming apparatus comprising: a communication circuit that ensures communication with the plurality of other image forming apparatuses; a set value management circuit that distributes, when a set value of the image forming apparatus is changed and the image forming apparatus has a master authority as an authority for distributing the changed set value to a plurality of slave image forming apparatuses of the plurality of other image forming apparatuses, the changed set value to the plurality of slave image forming apparatuses of not having the master authority; a storage circuit that, when the distribution to a first one of the slave image forming apparatuses fails, stores a distribution hold list including a combination of: an identifier of the first slave image forming apparatus where the distribution has failed, and an item name and value of the changed set value where the distribution has failed; and a distribution hold list management circuit that manages the stored distribution hold list.

20170232981

15347328

1. A wheel-rail lubrication and noise fleet management system configured to control the lubrication needs of a fleet of rail-based vehicles comprising: a. at least one central fleet management server comprising a lubrication application; b. a plurality of lubrication systems remote from the at least one central fleet management server; and c. a plurality of lubrication controllers remote from the at least one central fleet management server, wherein each of the plurality of lubrication controllers is associated with and is configured to control at least one of the plurality of lubrication systems, wherein each of the plurality of lubrication controllers is further configured: i. to communicate with the associated at least one of the plurality of lubrication systems; ii. to communicate with at least one sensor; and iii. to communicate with the central fleet management server, wherein the lubrication application of the at least one central fleet management server is configured to control the operation of and receive communications from the plurality of lubrication controllers.

20130013392

13176668

1. A computer-implemented method for high performance advertisement serving by exploiting processor thread assignments in a processor having multiple threads, the method comprising: receiving, in memory, at least two digital advertisements, an instance of the digital advertisement corresponding to a plurality of decision trees, evaluation of a decision tree resulting in a tree score; determining, from the processor, a number of cores within the processor; iteratively assigning, to a next one of the number of cores, a next decision tree to calculate the tree score; and iteratively accumulating a plurality of the tree scores to form a tree score subtotal.

20030217170

10146192

1. A system for providing a multi-tier enterprise level application, the system comprising: a server having a data layer, wherein the server is connected to a communication mechanism; a client having a presentation layer for use in providing a broadcast, wherein the client is connected to the communication mechanism; and an interface layer that selectively interacts with the data layer and the presentation layer, wherein control over the broadcast is experienced locally at the client and disseminated remotely.

8929991

11737673

1. A method for treating a mood and/or anxiety disorder in a patient, comprising: engaging the patient suffering from the mood and/or anxiety disorder in a function controlled at least in part by a target neural population; positioning at least one electrode below the patient's skull above the dura matter over the target neural population of the frontal lobe and applying electromagnetic signals to the target neural population via the at least one electrode; adjusting a target parameter in accordance with which the electromagnetic signals are applied to the patient, based at least in part on a characteristic of the patient's performance of the function; applying the electromagnetic signals to the patient with the adjusted target parameter; evaluating the patient's response to the electromagnetic signals, including the characteristic of the patient's performance; and based at least in part on the evaluation of the patient's response: (a) determining whether to apply further electromagnetic signals to the patient; (b) establishing a value of the target parameter for applying further electromagnetic signals to the patient; and/or (c) adjusting another target parameter in accordance with which the electromagnetic signals are applied to the patient, wherein the method further comprises: determining a parameter limit based at least in part on a value of the target parameter when the characteristic of the patient's performance of the function changes by or to a target level; and applying additional electromagnetic signals to the patient as treatment for a neurological dysfunction, with a value of the target parameter at or below the parameter limit; wherein the target neural population is a first target neural population, and wherein applying additional electromagnetic signals to the patient includes applying the additional electromagnetic signals to a second target neural population different than the first.

8179402

11979074

1. A method for generating a colorimetric color appearance profile and a colorimetric color device profile from spectral data and user input, comprising the steps of: accessing a spectral profile containing spectral data together with normalized colorimetric values; accessing a user input provided by a user on a viewing condition, light source and a medium; determining whether the user input corresponds to a predesignated standard input; if the user input corresponds to the predesignated standard input, populating the colorimetric color appearance profile based on the normalized colorimetric values, and populating the colorimetric color device profile based on the normalized colorimetric values; and if the user input does not correspond to the predesignated standard input, accessing a media module to obtain a spectral reflectance on another medium, predicting a spectral reflectance of color patches on the medium based on the obtained spectral reflectance on the other medium, and based on an interaction between the medium and material of the color patches, generating the colorimetric color appearance profile based on the user input, and generating the colorimetric color device profile based on the user input, the predicted spectral reflectance, and the spectral data.

9686409

15383867

1. A method, comprising: at an interactive voice response (IVR) system: receiving an inquiry message from a user device comprising a sample of voice audio provided from the user of the user device; applying at least one user preference to the inquiry message processing application; matching the at least one user preference to a pre-recorded audio segment; transmitting the pre-recorded audio segment to a user device based on the matching of the at least one user preference; and transmitting menu options to the user device based on the applied at least one user preference.

9990232

14876632

1. A method comprising: receiving, by a processing device, a job request to allocate one or more resources in a resource environment to a job, the job being related to an application, the job request specifying the job using a first description language; extracting one or more tags from the job request, the one or more tags describing at least one of a handling parameter of the job or a feature of the application, wherein the one or more tags are in a second description language different from the first description language, wherein the second description language is in a declarative tag format with language that describes the at least one of the handling parameter or the feature of the application without quantifying a specific quantity of resources to be used in the resource environment; translating the one or more tags into a resource requirement in a second format that can be processed by a job scheduler executing by the processing device, wherein the translating comprises using mapping information that maps the one or more tags into the resource requirement that can be processed by the job scheduler; and allocating, by the job scheduler, one or more resources in the resource environment to the job in view of the resource requirement, wherein allocating one or more resources in the resource environment to the job in view of the one or more tags comprises: determining whether one or more tags indicate data for the job is secure data; instantiating a container for the job if one or more tags indicate that the data for the job is not secure data; and instantiating a virtual machine for the job if one or more tags indicate that the data for the job is secure data.

8160969

11852743

1. A system for ordering pre-purchased consumables comprising: a peripheral device capable of printing that utilizes at least one consumable; an entitlement system established between a user of said peripheral device and a supplier of at least one pre-purchased consumable, wherein said supplier maintains a number of said at least one pre-purchased consumable for subsequent delivery to said user on an as-needed basis; said peripheral device automatically communicating with said supplier to request delivery of said at least one pre-purchased consumable pursuant to said entitlement system when said consumable utilized by said peripheral device is at a low state; said entitlement system reducing said number of said pre-purchased consumables yet to be delivered by said supplier when said supplier performs said requested delivery of said at least one pre-purchased consumable to said user pursuant to said entitlement system; and said peripheral device notifying said user of said device when said number of said pre-purchased consumables maintained by said supplier falls below a predetermined threshold value, wherein said at least one pre-purchased consumable is purchased prior to notification that said consumable is at said low state.

20130139163

13752005

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising; a communication section configured to acquire application programs from an external apparatus; a memory that stores at least an application program and information relevant to said application program; an application execution section, controlled by said external apparatus via said communication section, configured to execute said application program stored in said memory; and a control section configured to output application programs recommended during execution of said application program in said application execution section, wherein said control section acquires information on said recommended application programs based on said information relevant to said application program, which is related to said application program being executed by said application execution section, from said external apparatus by way of said communication section, and outputs said information on said recommended application programs as application-program recommending information, which is based on context information of said application program being executed by said application execution section, said context information including an indication of a selected-content state of said application program.

9519775

14044937

1. A method of predicting probable malicious behavior on a mobile computing device, comprising: receiving, via a processor of the mobile computing device, a pathway configuration database from a server computing device, wherein the received pathway configuration database includes information identifying: a configuration pattern; a pathway between configurations that lead to a non-benign configuration; and a probability value that identifies the possibility that the pathway will lead to a non-benign behavior; determining, via the processor, operations scheduled for execution on the mobile computing device; determining, via the processor, a probability that execution of scheduled operations will result in the non-benign behavior in the mobile computing device based on the information included in the received pathway configuration database; and implementing preventative measures in response to determining that the probability that the execution of scheduled operations will result in the non-benign behavior exceeds a threshold value.

20160138819

14543354

1. A method for heating ventilation air conditioning (HVAC) analysis, comprising: detecting a thermostat of an HVAC system being set to a target temperature; upon detecting the thermostat being set to the target temperature, detecting a current indoor condition and a current outdoor condition; and calculating an estimated runtime of an HVAC heating or cooling cycle for the target temperature, the estimated runtime being based on the target temperature, the current indoor and outdoor conditions, and on a result of querying a correlation database, the correlation database comprising data points for a plurality of previous HVAC heating and cooling cycles.

20120304076

13113448

1. A method for presenting contextual data to a participant in a collaboration, comprising: determining, by a first computing device, that a first participant associated with the first computing device is participating in a communications session with a second participant associated with a second computing device; determining, by the first computing device, a first plurality of contextual keys; receiving, by the first computing device, a second plurality of contextual keys from the second computing device; identifying, by the first computing device, a plurality of contextual items based on the first plurality of contextual keys and the second plurality of contextual keys; and effecting presentation, by the first computing device, of a user interface depicting a plurality of contextual item references, each contextual item reference corresponding to one of the plurality of contextual items.

8352262

13162128

1. An accelerator for calculating distances for a speech recognition circuit, the accelerator comprising: a calculating circuit for calculating distances indicating the similarity between a feature vector and a plurality of predetermined acoustic states of an acoustic model, wherein the feature vector comprises a plurality of extracted and/or derived quantities from an audio signal during a defined audio time frame; first and second storage circuits, each for storing calculated distances for at least one said audio time frame, and for making said stored distances available for use by another part of the speech recognition circuit; and a control circuit for controlling read and write access to the first and second storage circuits, said control circuit being configured to allow writing to one said storage circuit while the other said storage circuit is available for reading, to allow first calculated distances for one audio time frame to be written to one said storage circuit while second calculated distances for an earlier audio time frame are made available for reading from the other said storage circuit.

20080177770

12050267

1. A method for optimizing a federated database and data structure management system having a federated database server and a plurality of data source servers comprising the steps of: a) determining schema and metadata configurations of the data source servers; b) enumerating available resources; c) enumerating security and confidentiality requirements; d) calculating an optimal federated database and data structure management system design based on the schema and metadata, the enumerated available resources, and the enumerated security and confidentiality requirements at both; requester level Institutional, department or external overriding constraints e) facilitating testing data structure availability and handling exceptions, comprising the steps of: 1) testing data structure availability, 2) testing server availability, 3) testing data availability and data state including schema, namespace, table, column, row, locking, and isolation or file level, 4) testing access credentials including no access, limited access, full access, de-identified access, access purpose (research vs. clinical development vs. pre-clinical) and overriding institutional, department, and external constraints, 5) determining data schema availability and accessibility, and 6) handling exceptions and deviations, f) designing an optimal federated database and data structure management system based on flags, indicators, syntax modifications determined in step e)-6); and g) providing functionality for user input including user heuristics and data inputs.

20030174711

10268668

1. A process of filtering packet data in a network device, said process comprising: applying at least one mask to a portion of an incoming packet; extracting a field from the portion of the incoming packet; searching a rules table for a matching value for the extracted field; recording a search result as one of a hit and a miss depending on the matching value; accessing a combination table based on the at least one mask; combining said one of the hit and the miss with another search result to obtain a combined search result; and executing one of a hit action and a miss action from the combination table based on the combined search result.

7779323

12222931

1. An apparatus for providing ordered capture clocks to detect or locate faults within N clock domains and faults crossing any two clock domains in an integrated circuit or circuit assembly in scan-test or self-test mode, where N>1, each clock domain having one capture clock and a plurality of scan cells, each capture clock comprising a plurality of capture clock pulses; said apparatus comprising: (a) means for generating and shifting-in N test stimuli to all said scan cells within said N clock domains in said integrated circuit or circuit assembly during a shift-in operation; (b) means for applying an ordered sequence of capture clocks to all said scan cells within said N clock domains, the ordered sequence of capture clocks comprising at least a plurality of capture clock pulses from two or more selected capture clocks placed in a sequential order such that all clock domains are never triggered simultaneously during a capture operation; and (c) means for analyzing output responses of all said scan cells to locate any faults therein.

9027051

13090760

1. A method comprising: receiving, by a computing device, at least one advertisement; inserting, by the computing device, a plurality of advertisement identification markers into the at least one advertisement to create a marked at least one advertisement, the plurality of advertisement identification markers being inserted at predetermined locations in the at least one advertisement, a first marker of the plurality of advertisement identification markers including information associated with a desired region for broadcasting the at least one advertisement, and a second marker of the plurality of advertisement identification markers including information associated with desired channel information for broadcasting the at least one advertisement; and sending, by the computing device, the marked at least one advertisement for insertion into a broadcast stream, the marked at least one advertisement being compared to airing parameters of the at least one advertisement using one or more predefined airing specifications, to determine whether the marked at least one advertisement aired in accordance with the one or more predefined airing specifications, the airing parameters being determined based on the plurality of advertisement identification markers and the predetermined locations of the plurality of advertisement identification markers, and the airing parameters including a duration of the at least one advertisement.

20130185044

13740095

1. A method of characterizing chemical composition of crude oil comprising: given a crude oil having certain crude oil characterization data, in a processor: i) determining respective segment type and segment number range of classes of hydrocarbon constituent molecules based on physical and chemical property data on each class of hydrocarbon constituent molecules and on crude oil physical and chemical property data; and ii) based on the certain crude oil characterization data, determining relative ratio of each class of hydrocarbon constituent molecules that forms a chemical composition representative of the given crude oil, such that the chemical composition of the given crude oil is characterized; and displaying, as output to an end-user, the characterized chemical composition of the given crude oil.

8706770

11726546

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage media including a plurality of exemplar structures created by a computer, each exemplar structure denoting at least one example of a property of an object selected by a user of the computer from a collection of objects having the same property, each exemplar structure including: the user selected object; an exemplar associated with the selected object and the property, wherein the exemplar represents one of a plurality of possible meanings of a property; at least one broader term assigned to the exemplar to set the exemplar in a particular context, wherein the context defines which of the plurality of possible meanings the exemplar represents, and the user selects the broader term from a predefined database of broader terms; a plurality of attributes associated with the exemplar, which are distinguishing features of the exemplar; and a plurality of synsets associated with the attributes, wherein at least one synset and a corresponding rank are displayed by the computer for selection by the user each time one of the attributes is associated with the exemplar, and each synset is a cluster of like-meaning words representing one sense of a word.

20150063598

14018818

1. A method comprising: receiving, at a first device from a second device, a first message that at least indicates a first frequency of a first sound of the second device; determining whether a second sound produced by the first device could interfere or interferes with the first sound based, at least in part, on the first frequency, after receiving the first message; and modifying the second sound to avoid interfering or to no longer interfere with the first sound in response to determining that the second sound could interfere or interferes with the first sound.

7860928

11728316

1. A computer-implemented method for providing feedback in a real-time messaging system, the method comprising: sending from the real-time messaging system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs executed by the one or more processors at least a portion of target messages from a plurality of real-time incoming messages to respective users of a plurality of users based at least in part on selection criteria and filtering criteria of the respective users; receiving at the real-time messaging system from the respective users feedback data regarding at least one of: the received target messages and respective authors of the received target messages; and processing the feedback data, through execution of the one or more programs, for providing respective feedback results to at least some of the respective authors, wherein the respective feedback results for the respective authors are provided with messages that are targeted based at least in part on selection criteria and filtering criteria of the respective authors.

20140040079

14046837

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: determining a location of a computing device; transmitting first data indicative of the location of the computing device to a server; receiving second data indicative of a plurality of locations of a plurality of transportation entities; displaying a graphical user interface comprising a map of a geographical area that includes the location of the computing device; displaying a first icon representing the location of the computing device on the graphical user interface; and displaying additional icons representing the plurality of locations of the plurality of transportation entities on the graphical user interface.

9026978

14062807

1. A computer-implemented method for more rapidly and reliably optimizing a circuit design, the method comprising: receiving a boundary specification for a circuit design region; deriving a reduced netlist comprising circuitry within the circuit design region and all external circuitry that is outside the circuit design region but that is connected to circuit paths crossing the specified boundary, including all connected non-critical-path circuitry up to a first clocked respective storage element, with the external circuitry described by a reverse interface logic model; using a computer, optimizing the reduced netlist with a circuit simulator tool under full circuit design constraints, wherein changes made to the reduced netlist are retained for coordinated optimizations of other circuit design regions; and outputting optimization results.

6102958

08835539

1. In a power plant, a planning and control system for determining output trajectories of a predefined output behavior and input control commands for achieving the predefined output behavior, the system comprising: (a) means for acquiring data related to at least one process variable of the power plant; (b) means for organizing the acquired data and generating at least one state input-output string therefrom; (c) means for fusing the strings into associative clusters, the clusters forming a function oriented, goal-independent provisional model of the power plant; (d) means for generating a multiresolutional data structure based upon the associative data clusters for transforming the provisional model into at least one level of resolution incorporating embedded local dynamics of the power plant; (e) means for searching the multiresolutional data structure at varying levels of resolution to determine an optimal trajectory of operation for achieving the predefined output behavior; and (f) means for generating control signals for controlling at least one operational variable of the power plant such that the power plant operates according to the optimal trajectory.

9164179

13666572

1. A portable device, comprising: a wireless interface configured to receive a set of position signals; and a processor, communicating with the wireless interface to receive a set of position coordinates and a corresponding set of timestamp values based on the set of position signals and to receive a set of Doppler speed values based on the set of position signals, the processor being configured to generate a first position-based speed value representing a speed of the portable device based on the set of position coordinates and the corresponding set of timestamp values, filter the first position-based speed value to generate a second position based speed value representing a filtered position-based speed of the portable device, filter a first Doppler-based speed value to generate a second Doppler based speed value representing a filtered Doppler-based speed of the portable device, compare the second position-based speed value and the second Doppler based speed value, and generate a compensated speed value representing the speed of the portable device based on the comparison.

20030229522

10327518

1. A method for use in providing employee benefit management services, the method comprising: providing an application operable to perform one or more employee benefit functions using an associated relational database configured to store employee benefits management plan data, wherein the employee benefits management plan data comprises at least one benefit plan derived from at least one benefit plan design creation template, wherein the at least one benefit plan design creation template comprises at least a plurality of selectable benefit plan details quotable by more than one benefit provider of a plurality of benefit providers, and further wherein the application comprises a plurality of presentation panels for use in providing information to a user, wherein the presentation panels are configured to provide at least one of user perceivable graphical elements and user interaction graphical elements, and further wherein the at least one benefit plan design creation template is configured as at least one presentation panel; providing at least one application portal to allow at least one authorized user access to the application, wherein the at least one application portal is extendable to one or more additional authorized users by the at least one authorized user to permit the one or more additional authorized users access to all or a limited portion of at least one of the presentation panels and the employee benefits management plan data; and accessing, by an authorized user, the application such that the authorized user through a plan creator user interface provided by the at least one presentation panel can create a benefit plan using the benefit plan design creation template, wherein at least a plurality of the selectable benefit plan details of the benefit plan design creation template are provided to the authorized user in a dynamic, multi-level format such that selection by the authorized user of one or more of a plurality of options associated with at least one selectable benefit plan detail displayed to the authorized user determines a plurality of selectable benefit plan details and one or more associated benefit plan options to be subsequently displayed to the authorized user.

9914462

15007595

1. A method for preconditioning various subsystems of an electrified vehicle, comprising: automatically preconditioning a battery pack, an interior cabin, a transmission, and an engine of the electrified vehicle prior to a next expected usage time based at least on a weather forecast, wherein the preconditioning is controlled by a vehicle control system and includes preconditioning the battery pack first, then preconditioning the interior cabin, then preconditioning the engine, and then preconditioning the transmission.

20060248440

11370194

1. A system for automatically processing a textual document, comprising: means for identifying occurrences of a piece of text having a predetermined format in the textual document; means for determining a depth-of-treatment value for each piece of formatted text in the textual document, the depth-of-treatment value indicating a depth of treatment in the textual document afforded to the particular piece of formatted text; means for associating an abstract with each piece of formatted text in the textual document; and means for generating a data record containing each identified piece of formatted text from the textual document, the depth-of-treatment value and the abstract associated with each piece of formatted text in the textual document.

20120290508

13291057

1. A system for generating an emotional profile of the user and deriving inference from the analytics of profile comprising: a client device having a detector to capture user's inputs; an interface allowing user to interact with online events or content; a module to collect the emotional footprint of the user to generate an emotional score corresponding to the events or content; a repository to store the emotional score of associated content or event; and a server configured with a plurality of client devices in a network to communicate the emotional score to networked devices.

20080059356

11513893

1. A method for creating a stock index for a group of investment management companies, the method comprising: obtaining first trade information for each security representative of the group of investment management companies during a first time period; aggregating the first trade information for a predetermined time period; storing the aggregated first trade information; calculating from the aggregated first trade information an index for the group of investment management companies; determining a standardized measure of the index based on the aggregated first trade information; and recalculating the index based on second trade information for each security representative of the group of investment management companies during a second time period.

9268654

14589874

1. A method of centralizing storage operations for a plurality of hosted client systems, comprising: receiving at a central server a first storage operation request relating to a first application on a first one of the hosted client systems; calling a first agent by the central server to perform a first application task on the first application, by using an application programming interface shared by the central server and the first agent, such that the central server need not be aware of a first application protocol used by the first application; performing the first storage operation on the network storage facility used by the first application; receiving at the central server a second storage operation request relating to a second application on a second one of the hosted client systems, wherein the second storage operation is to be performed on a network storage facility used by the second application, wherein the second application is different from the first application; calling a second agent by the central server to perform a second application task on the second application responsive to the second storage operation request; and performing the second storage operation on the network storage facility used by the second application.

20160283462

14666767

1. A method for language prediction of a social network post comprising: generating a social network graph which includes nodes connected by edges, some of the nodes being user nodes representing users of a social network, at least some of the users being authors of social network posts, and some of the nodes being social network post nodes representing social network posts of the authors, at least one of the social network post nodes being unlabeled, the edges of the graph being associated with respective weights; predicting language labels for the at least one unlabeled social network post node, including propagating language labels through the graph using label propagation as a function of the respective weights; and predicting a language of the social network post based on the predicted language labels generated for the social network post node representing that social network post, wherein at least one of the generating of the social network graph, propagating language labels, and predicting the language of the social network post is performed with a processor.

20110313964

13061050

1. A utility data processing system for processing data relating to consumption of a utility, the system comprising: a fact memory for storage of facts relating to utility consumption received from fact sources; at least one fact source module for deriving facts from utility consumption data and adding the derived facts to the fact memory; an inference module for inferring new facts relating to utility consumption from one or more facts stored in the fact memory; and an interface module.

6052641

08807908

1. System for actuating the brakes of at least one wheel of a vehicle, said system comprising detection means for detecting at least one variable representing wheel motion, detection means for detecting vehicle state variables comprising steering angle .delta. and at least one of vehicle longitudinal velocity v.sub.1, transverse acceleration ay and yaw velocity .omega., calculation means for calculating a driving dynamics variable (.DELTA..omega., fzstab.sub.ist) based on said vehicle state variables, which driving dynamics variable represents the driving dynamics of the vehicle, generation means for generating an instability value ISS based on at least one of said variables representing wheel motion and said driving dynamics variable, and actuation means for changing the brake pressure as a function of the instability value.

8996506

13073235

1. A computer-implemented method for a host controller system, the method comprising: maintaining, by the host controller system monitoring operation of a plurality of virtual machines, a list of a plurality of queries in association with a plurality of client devices, the plurality of queries specifying the plurality of virtual machines hosted by a plurality of host computers in a virtual machine system, the plurality of queries being continuously re-executed to refresh up-to-date information about the plurality of virtual machines that is presented on the plurality of client devices; receiving, by the host controller system, a new query from a first client device that is different from any of the plurality of client devices, the new query specifying one or more of the plurality of virtual machines; determining, by a processing device of the host controller system, whether the new query is similar to any of the plurality of queries previously received from the plurality of client devices other than the first client device, wherein the determining comprises comparing the one or more virtual machines in the new query to virtual machines in the plurality of queries previously received from the plurality of other client devices; if the new query is similar to any of the plurality of queries previously received from the plurality of other client devices, associating a similar query with the first client device in the list, and providing data pertaining to a result of a last execution of the similar query to the first client device; and if the new query is not similar to any of the plurality of queries previously received from the plurality of other client devices, adding the new query to the list in association with the first client device, executing the new query, and providing a result of an execution of the new query to the first client device, the result of the execution of the new query providing up-to-date information pertaining to operation of the one or more of the plurality of virtual machines in the virtual machine system.

20110131026

12979280

1. An in-vehicle driving simulation system comprising: a simulation computer with software simulating a virtual driving environment, the simulation computer being coupled to an audio-visual device serving to present the virtual driving environment to a user; an on-board electronic computer-to vehicle interface of a drive-by-wire vehicle, the computer-to-vehicle interface coupled to the simulation computer via a vehicle onboard interface bus; wherein when the in-vehicle driving simulation system is in operation, the vehicle is immobilized; a torque-of a steering wheel of the vehicle is mechanically disconnected from the wheels of the vehicle, and wherein the embedded vehicle sensors are used for reading a real time state of vehicle's controls.

9497220

13274913

1. A method, comprising: receiving a request to add to a mobile device an enterprise application for accessing an enterprise account; in response to detection of a parameter or a pattern associated with an account setting, retrieving a security policy from a resource server for the enterprise account; in response to the request to add the enterprise application and the detection of the parameter or the pattern associated with the account setting, generating, by the mobile device, a new logical separation of resources associated with the enterprise application and other enterprise resources on the mobile device, wherein the new logical separation of resources prevents applications on the mobile device external to the new logical separation of resources from accessing resources associated with the new logical separation of resources; receiving, from the resource server, a client certificate for establishing a secure channel with an enterprise; assigning the client certificate to the new logical separation of resources; when the new logical separation of resources is unlocked, granting access between the other enterprise resources and the enterprise application and granting the external resources on the mobile device to access the enterprise application and the other enterprise resources on the mobile device, wherein an unlock state allows applications to access files in a file system domain; when the new logical separation of resources is soft locked, granting access and operations between the other enterprise resources and the enterprise application while preventing user interactions with the enterprise application the external resources on the mobile device from accessing the enterprise application and the other enterprise resources on the mobile device, wherein the soft locked state allows applications running on the mobile device to access the files in the file system domain and locks an user interface on the mobile device; and when the new logical separation of resources is hard locked, preventing access between the other enterprise resources and the enterprise application while preventing the external resources on the mobile device from accessing the enterprise application and the other enterprise resources on the mobile device, wherein a hard lock state prohibits applications from accessing the files in the file system domain and locks an underlying encryption domain.

20090319771

12121571

1. A method for establishing layered semantic security between a near communication device and a far communication device, comprising: collecting contextual information regarding a selected one of the near and far communication devices; characterizing a security vulnerability based upon the contextual information; selecting a cryptographic protocol based upon the security vulnerability characterization; and establishing a trust relationship with a far communication device employing the selected cryptographic protocol.

20120072295

12886060

1. A system for facilitating multi-channel purchasing of FSA eligible items, comprising: a retail store located point-of-sale (POS) device; a retail POS system in communication with the POS device having an associated retail system data repository, the retail system data repository storing data indicative of a plurality of items and corresponding Flexible Spending Account (FSA) purchasing eligibility for the plurality of items, the retail POS system being Inventory Information Authentication System (IIAS) certified whereby, upon one or more items being presented for purchase at the POS device, the retail POS system identifies the one or more items and uses the data stored in the retail system data repository to validate the one or more items as being FSA-eligible for purchase with a customer's FSA linked debit card; and an online retail system in communication with the retail POS system for presenting via an online channel items available for purchase, for indicating when items are FSA-eligible for purchase, for receiving payment information, including FSA linked debit card information, in response to a customer's indicated desire to purchase one or more items via the online channel, and for communicating the payment and item information to the retail POS system whereby the retail POS system identifies the one or more items and uses the data stored in the retail system data repository to validate the one or more items as being FSA-eligible for purchase with a customer's FSA linked debit card.

8641511

13338539

1. A method comprising: opening, by a computer system, a wagering account for a client that may be used to place wagers; establishing, by the computer system, an amount of consideration in the wagering account; after opening the wagering account and establishing the amount of consideration, authorizing, by the computer system, the client to access the wagering account from a mobile device by verifying login credentials of the client received from the mobile device; determining, by the computer system, a set of events on which the client is authorized to wager; allowing, by the computer system, the client to establish a self-imposed limit on wagering activity using the wagering account, in which the self-imposed limit includes at least one of a loss of an amount of consideration, a loss of an amount of consideration over a time period, a loss of a percentage of total consideration in the wagering account, and a loss of a percentage of total consideration in the wagering account over a time period; presenting, by the computer system, to the client through the mobile device, a display of at least some of the set of event, in which the display includes a respective odds associated with wagers on each of the at least some of the set of events; receiving, by the computer system, a first offer from the client to enter into a wager on an event; receiving, by the computer system, a second offer from another client to enter into an opposite side of the wager on the event; matching, by the computer system, the first offer and the second offer in response to receiving the first offer and the second offer; in response to matching the first offer and thee second offer, forming, by the computer system, one wager with the client against a house and forming one other wager with the other client against the house; and managing, by the computer system, the amount of consideration in the wagering account based on placement of the one wager and an outcome of the one wager.

20110145933

12639888

1. An apparatus comprising: one or more processors; and one or more modules executable by the one or more processors, the one or more modules comprising: a mediator module configured to: receive user session data from a mashup maker; and provide access to the one or more services to the mashup maker in response to a determination that the one or more services are associated with the user session data based on one or more of a policy and a role.

7801804

11974169

1. A method for implementing a call auction by a central market organizer computer, the method comprising: a) receiving by the central market organizer computer a set of orders submitted by a set of market participants; b) calculating by the central market organizer computer from the received orders a quantity of accepted bids for each of the orders; and c) communicating by the central market organizer computer to the market participants the calculated quantity of accepted bids for each of the orders; wherein each order includes: i) a specification by a participant of contingent claims on outcomes of a future event upon which the participant is placing a bid, ii) a limit bid price indicating a maximum price the participant is willing to pay for the bid, and iii) a limit quantity indicating a maximum number of bids containing the contingent claims the participant is willing to buy at or below the limit bid price; wherein calculating by the central market organizer computer the quantity of accepted bids for each of the orders received by the central market organizer computer comprises maximizing an objective function given by an approximate profit to the market organizer plus a weighted logarithmic penalty function.

7542869

11791295

1. Apparatus, for adaptively tracking the position of an object in a volume of interest, the apparatus comprising: at least one transmitter, coupled with said volume of interest, for transmitting a multiple axis, time variant, electromagnetic field through said volume of interest; at least one sensor assembly, said at least one sensor assembly including at least three sensors, said at least three sensors arranged in a fixed configuration at different predetermined locations and orientations, said at least one sensor assembly being coupled with said object, each of said at least three sensors respectively measuring a respective component of said electromagnetic field; and a tracking processor, coupled with said at least one transmitter and said at least one sensor assembly; and at least three respective analog to digital converters, one for each of said at least three sensors, for converting each said measurement of a respective component of said electromagnetic field into a respective second digital representation of a signal; wherein said tracking processor produces and adapts a mathematical field model describing said electromagnetic field, said mathematical field model is at least based on said multiple axis, time variant, electromagnetic field, said fixed configuration of said at least three sensors and said measured respective components of said electromagnetic field; wherein said tracking processor further produces and adapts a mathematical sensing model, for compensating the effect of the translational and rotational velocity of each of said at least three sensors; wherein said tracking processor estimates said position of said object from said measured respective components of said electromagnetic field, said field model and said sensing model; wherein said tracking processor stores calibration parameters associated with said at least one sensor assembly; and wherein said position of said object includes the physical location of said object and the orientation of said object.

6021202

08994636

1. A method for allowing distributed production of an encrypted document, comprising providing a computer network having a first and a second workstation and being capable of transferring an electronic document between the workstations, providing each of the workstations with an editor capable of modifying an electronic document to include blocks of information including a content block representative of content, and a signature block representative of a signature signal associated with the content block, and having a hash operator for processing data to generate a hash signal, allowing a user at the first workstation to operate the respective editor to modify a first electronic document to include a first content block and an associated first signature block, and to employ the hash operator to generate a first hash signal as a function of the first content block and to insert the first hash signal within the first signature block and to generate a first signature hash signal as a function thereof, transferring the first electronic document to the second workstation, allowing a user at the second workstation to operate the respective editor to modify the first electronic document to include a second content block and an associated second signature block, and to employ the hash operator to generate a second hash signal as a function of the second content block and to insert the second hash signal within the second signature block and to generate a second signature hash signal as a function thereof, and allowing a third user to operate the editor to generate a third signature signal as a function of the first signature hash signal and the second signature hash signal.

9405343

13250438

1. A data processing device comprising: a display screen for displaying a social interaction hub, the social interaction hub including a collection of records, wherein particular ones of the records are generated from textual posts created by acquaintances of a user of the data processing device to a first social network and are displayed on the display screen in chronological order with particular ones of the records generated from textual posts that are created by other acquaintances of the user of the data processing device to at least one social network, wherein the first social network includes services that receive textual posts from posting members and provide content of the posts to other members who have a relationship with the posting members, the data processing device having access to: an initial sender identifier that identifies on a display of the data processing device an initial sender who created a past social interaction event, a mode indicium that identifies a mode by which the past social interaction event with the initial sender occurred, the mode selected from a plurality of modes of communication that include textual posts to a social network that are broadcast to members of the social network, and a collection of mode indicia that each identify a mode by which a future, outgoing social interaction event with the initial sender can occur, wherein the collection of mode indicia is based on a current user status of the initial sender regarding modes of interaction by which a user of the data processing device is determined to be currently capable of communicating with the initial sender independent of the mode by which the past social interaction event occurred, the collection determined by selecting a subset of modes from all possible modes of communication available to the data processing device by way of the social interaction hub and which include communication through the first social network, wherein the counterparty identifier, the mode indicium, and the collection of mode indicia are associated with one another in the records of the social interaction hub.

8700515

10862247

1. A system, comprising: a first database that contains financial securities data comprising data relating to a financial instrument issued by a business entity, wherein said first database employs a financial security identifier as a key to access said financial securities data; a second database that contains business entity data comprising data relating to said business entity, wherein said second database employs an entity identifier uniquely assigned to said business entity as a key to access said business entity data; a master data file that contains corporate family tree linkage information for said business entity; and a computer that executes instructions, configured to: obtain said financial securities data from said first database; match said financial securities data to said business entity data in said second database; associate, from said match, a financial security identifier for said financial instrument with an entity identifier for said business entity, thus yielding a cross-reference between said data relating to said financial instrument and said data relating to said business entity; store said cross-reference in said master data file; utilize said cross-reference and said corporate family tree linkage information from said master data file to identify a corporate structure of said business entity and securities related to said business entity through said corporate structure; and assess risk of said business entity based on said securities related to said business entity through said corporate structure as a measure of risk dispersion.

20050145214

11019890

1. A method for controlling an internal combustion engine, the method comprising: predefining a first variable on the basis of a signal of one of a combustion chamber pressure sensor and a structure-borne noise sensor, the first variable characterizing a combustion process in a combustion chamber of at least one cylinder of the internal combustion engine; reading a second variable from at least one characteristics map, a manipulated variable for influencing the combustion process being predefinable on the basis of the second variable; and adapting at least one of the characteristics map and the second variable read from the characteristics map as a function of at least one feature determined on the basis of the first variable.

8615427

13277152

1. A method comprising, prior to distributing a coupon: receiving, from a coupon provider that provides a product or service to which the coupon pertains, budget data that indicates an amount to spend, by the coupon provider, on coupon services relating to the issuance of the coupon; receiving redemption data that indicates a number of anticipated redemptions of the coupon; and based on the budget data and the redemption data and data about one or more previous coupon campaigns, computing, by a coupon distributor that is different than the coupon provider, a particular value of the coupon; establishing, by the coupon distributor, the particular value as the value of the coupon in a coupon campaign that is to be initiated by the coupon provider; sending the particular value to the coupon provider; wherein computing is performed by one or more computing devices.

20130231918

13412479

1. A method comprising: analyzing a string of text that was generated based on audio data; based on one or more criteria, identifying a plurality of text segments, wherein each segment of the plurality of text segments comprises one or more words in the string of text, wherein at least one text segment of the plurality of text segments comprises a plurality of words; organizing the plurality of text segments into a list of items, wherein each text segment is a separate item in the list; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.

20090241096

12407435

1. A method of dynamic software tracing, the method comprising: identifying one or more critical patterns of a software code which can influence its execution; allocating a software logging metric to each identified critical pattern; searching for one or more critical patterns in the software code to determine one or more actual critical patterns; and attributing the software logging metric associated with each identified critical pattern to the actual critical pattern to discover areas in the software code that may impact performance.

9313158

14696839

1. A method of registering an electronic-mail (e-mail) sender for the purpose of sending e-mail messages to an e-mail recipient, the method comprising: receiving an e-mail sent by the e-mail sender to the e-mail recipient; executing instructions stored in memory, wherein execution of the instructions by a processor of an independent third-party auditor generates a challenge message in response to an e-mail message received by the e-mail recipient, wherein the challenge message does not invite a response to the challenge message from the e-mail sender; sending the challenge message to the e-mail sender; receiving a bounce error message associated with the challenge message within a predetermined period of time after the sending of the challenge message, wherein the bounce error message is evaluated by the independent third-party auditor; and sending a report generated by the independent third-party auditor to the e-mail recipient, the report indicating receipt of the bounce error message during the predetermined period of time, wherein the e-mail recipient classifies e-mail messages from the e-mail sender based on the report.

20030046689

09964224

1. A method for providing user specific articles or services in an electronically connected environment, comprising: storing profile information for a plurality of users; periodically offering articles and services to each user based on said individual profile information; electronically receiving orders from said plurality of users for articles or services offered or for different ones; purchasing specifically ordered articles from retailers to sell to users; receiving a payment directly from said plurality of users for said articles or services; ordering items in blocks in order to obtain volume discounts.

20080098031

11551773

1. A method of customizing a customizable theme of a user interface of a computer system, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a base theme comprising a plurality of layers, each of said layers comprising at least one object, at least some of said at least one object having one or more graphical properties; mapping each of a plurality of screens for the user interface to each of said layers, each of said screens having at least one screen attribute associated therewith; mapping each respective screen attribute to the graphical properties related to the respective screen attribute, said mapped screens and screen attributes defining the customizable theme of the user interface; receiving a user input to modify said at least one screen attribute corresponding to a first screen to customize the customizable theme; and modifying the graphical properties related to the modified screen attribute.

8594672

13332538

1. An apparatus comprising: memory; at least one processor; a program of instructions, configured to, with the memory and the at least one processor, configure the apparatus to perform actions comprising at least: monitoring load metric information relating to loads affecting one or more nodes of a network comprising at least a first subset of nodes that employ almost blank subframes and a second subset of nodes; and updating almost blank subframe proportioning to create an updated proportioning based on the load metric information, wherein load metric information of at least one node in the second subset comprises load metric information relating to almost blank subframes; wherein updating almost blank subframe proportioning comprises: calculating a first sum of the load metrics pertaining to the first subset of network nodes; calculating a second sum of the load metrics of nodes in the second subset relating to almost blank subframes; and determining an updated almost blank subframe proportion as a function of the first sum, and the second sum.

4237344

06031924

1. A rapid-response health care communication system for a health care facility having a plurality of rooms for patient care comprising: a central health-care console adapted for use by a health care coordinator, said console having a plurality of personnel location display means for displaying the location of various types of health care personnel in the facility; a personnel location designating means at a plurality of preselected locations in the health care facility including said patient rooms connected to said personnel location display means, each of said designation means including a plurality of designator switches, each of said designator switches corresponding to one of a plurality of types of health care personnel, said designator switches selectively operable by the health care personnel at each location to cause a corresponding one of said personnel location display means to provide an indication to the health care coordinator of the type of health care personnel at each of said location designation means; coordinator/personnel intercommunications-means extending between said central console and each location; said coordinator personnel intercommunication means having a coordinator communication-interface at said central console and a personnel communication-interface at said locations whereby the coordinator and personnel at a selected location may communicate with one another; and coordinator/patient intercommunication-means extending between said central console and each patient room, aid coordinator/patient intercommunication-means having a coordinator communication-interface at said central console and a patient communication-interface at each of said patient rooms whereby the hospital health care coordinator at the central console and the patient at the patient room may communicate with one another; whereby the health care coordinator, in response to a request by a patient through the coordinator/patient intercommunication-means, may determine the location of selected types of health care personnel from said display means, communicate with selected ones of the health care personnel through the coordinator/personnel intercommunicationmeans, and direct the selected health care personnel to the patient room location.

7965201

12133831

1. A method in a processor device for identifying conditions conducive to the formation of ice, comprising: comparing, by the processor device, a static temperature value, representative of a static temperature external to an aircraft, to a first threshold temperature and a second threshold temperature higher than the first; comparing at least one of (a) a liquid water content value of air in an air collection passage, representative of a liquid water content external to the aircraft, to a threshold liquid water content, and (b) a dew point temperature of air in the air collection passage, representative of a dew point temperature external to the aircraft, to a threshold dew point temperature; and if the static temperature value is at or above the first threshold temperature and at or below the second threshold temperature, and at least one of (a) the liquid water content value is at or above the threshold liquid water content, and (b) the dew point temperature is below the static temperature, directing an action associated with conditions conducive to ice formation.

20090191951

12352590

1. (canceled)

20140155173

13693991

1. A method of using a message-oriented protocol in a gaming machine comprising: generating, by a processing circuit of the gaming machine, a topic subscription request by a first application on the gaming machine; sending the topic subscription request to a message broker; receiving, at the processing circuit, a message published to a topic corresponding to the topic subscription request, the message being published to the topic by a second application; and altering the execution of the first application on the gaming machine based in part on the received message.

7991606

10405836

1. A method comprising: receiving instructions for entering a hardware design including one or more embedded logic analyzers in a system level interface, the instructions specifying one or more embedded logic analyzer nodes in the hardware design where the one or more embedded logic analyzers are provided to capture signals, wherein the system level interface is integrated with an electronic design automation (EDA) system configured to design programmable chips and compile designs for the programmable chips; receiving at the system level interface parameter information for parameterizing the one or more embedded logic analyzers, wherein the parameter information is used to select particular capture bits with a mask block specifying the most significant bit and the least significant bit bounding the selected particular capture bits; receiving a command entered in the system level interface for converting the hardware design, with the one or more embedded logic analyzers, to a Hardware Design Language (HDL) representation of the hardware design, including the one or more embedded logic analyzers; converting the hardware design specifying the one or more embedded logic analyzers to the HDL representation, wherein the HDL representation is compiled by the EDA system to create a compiled hardware design, the compiled hardware design including compiled instructions for implementing the one or more embedded logic analyzers.

9604781

14797222

1. A method of filing orders, comprising: storing a plurality of inventory receptacles in an automated warehouse, at least some of said inventory receptacles having a plurality of different types of inventory items in that inventory receptacle; maintaining a queue of orders to be filled in a computer system, each of said orders including at least one inventory item, each of the orders comprising an individual order or group of individual orders; selecting at least one order from the queue with the computer system and assigning that at least one order to a pick station; said computer system retrieving at least one inventory receptacle from said automated warehouse having at least one inventory item for the selected order and supplying the at least one receptacle to the pick station; and said computer system identifying to an operator which inventory item in the retrieved inventory receptacle or receptacles is to be segregated with the selected order in at least one put receptacle; wherein said at least one put receptacle receives inventory items for at least one individual order and including directing the at least one put receptacle to a secondary order processing station and including separating items into individual orders at said secondary order processing station.

20090143872

12267039

1. An adaptive process controller for controlling one or more devices within a process plant, the adaptive process controller comprising: a controller having a prediction unit that uses a prediction model to determine a prediction signal for a set of one or more process variables, a prediction error unit that combines the prediction signal with a set point signal to produce a prediction error signal, and a combiner that multiplies the prediction error signal by a controller gain signal to produce a change in a control signal and that uses the change in the control signal to develop a control signal for controlling one of the set of process variables; a process model estimation unit communicatively coupled to one or more devices within the process plant to collect process data during the on-line operation of the process plant and that determines a new process model representing the operation of a portion of the process plant from the collected process data, the new process model including a set of model parameters defining characteristics of the portion of the process plant; and a controller adaptation unit that uses a closed form equation that expresses a new controller gain signal as a function of at least one of the set of process model parameters of the new process model to calculate the new controller gain signal and that adapts the controller to use the new controller gain signal while the controller is operating on-line to control the portion of the process plant.

20080059185

11642132

1. A speech recognition system for a mobile terminal, the system comprising: an acoustic variation channel unit for transforming a speech signal into feature parameters and Viterbi-decoding the speech signal to produce a varied phoneme sequence by using the feature parameters and predetermined models; and a pronunciation variation channel unit for Viterbi-decoding the varied phoneme sequence to produce a word phoneme sequence by using the varied phoneme sequence and a predetermined DHMM (Discrete Hidden Markov Model) based context-dependent error model.

20140286473

14222635

1. A method for inspection, comprising: capturing an optical image of one or more features on a surface of a sample; irradiating an area of the sample containing at least one of the features with an X-ray beam; measuring an intensity of X-ray fluorescence emitted from the sample in response to the irradiating X-ray beam; processing the optical image so as to extract geometrical parameters of the at least one of the features and to compute a correction factor responsively to the geometrical parameters; and applying the correction factor to the measured intensity in order to derive a property of the at least one of the features.

9762390

15050090

1. A computer-implemented method for scheduling tasks using queue protocols to control data access, the method comprising: receiving one or more first communications from a first user device, the one or more first communications corresponding to a first request for retrieving ticket data from a database, and the ticket data corresponding to an event; receiving one or more second communications from a second user device, the one or more second communications corresponding to a second request to access ticket data from the database; accessing a queue protocol that identifies a first processing phase and a second processing phase, the first processing phase occurring prior to the second processing phase, and the queue protocol enabling electronic tickets corresponding to the ticket data to be assigned responsive to requests during the second processing phase, but not the first processing phase; determining that each of the one or more first communications and the one or more second communications are received during the first processing phase; determining, based at least in part on the queue protocol, that the one or more first communications correspond to authentication data associated with completion of an authentication process; determining, based at least in part on the queue protocol, that the one or more second communications do not correspond to the authentication data; during the first processing phase: transmitting interface data to the first user device based on the determination that the one or more first communications correspond to the authentication data, the interface data causing an interface to be displayed at the first user device, the interface enabling the first user device to register for the event, registering for the event enabling the first user device to transmit a third request for one or more electronic tickets to the event during the first processing phase, receiving an indication that the first user device has registered for the event using the interface, receiving the third request from the first user device during the first processing phase, the third request including a first constraint for querying the database, and the first constraint being stored in association with the first user device during the first processing phase, and inhibiting the interface data from being transmitted to the second user device based on the determination that the one or more second communications do not correspond the authentication data, and inhibiting the interface data from being transmitted to the second user device preventing the second user device from being registered for the event during the first processing phase; and during the second processing phase: performing a first query of the database based on the first constraint, the first query being responsive to the third request, and the first query resulting in identification of at least one first electronic ticket that satisfies the first constraint, transmitting a third communication to the first user device, the third communication corresponding to a first identifier of the at least one first electronic ticket, transmitting the interface data to the second user device, the interface data causing the interface to be displayed at the second user device, and the interface enabling the second user device to transmit a fourth request for the one or more electronic tickets to the event, receiving the fourth request from the second user device, the fourth request corresponding to a second constraint for querying the database, performing a second query of the database based on the second constraint, the second query being responsive to the fourth request and being performed after the first query, and the second query resulting in identification of at least one second electronic ticket to the event, and transmitting a fourth communication to the second user device, the fourth communication corresponding to a second identifier of the at least one second electronic ticket.

7797321

11349370

1. A method of assisting a user in browsing in an electronic catalog of media items, the method comprising: (a) obtaining access to co-concurrency metric values derived from a knowledge base of mediasets associated with the electronic catalog; wherein the metric values reflect a level of co-concurrency for each of the pairs of media items within the knowledge base of mediasets and the co-concurrency metric values are independent of the content of the media items; and further wherein the co-concurrency metric values indicate, for each pair of media items (i,j), how many times item i and item j appear together within any of the mediasets of the knowledge base, so that the co-concurrency metric values are not affected by any descriptor, characteristic, rating, classification or attribute of the media items' content; (b) receiving from the user an initial selection of at least one media item from the catalog to define an initial input media set; (c) for each item of the initial input media set, generating at least one navigation list based on the co-concurrency metric values; (d) communicating the generated navigation list to the user; (e) receiving from the user an instruction to edit the navigation list; (f) editing the navigation list as instructed by the user to define a new input set; (g) for each item of the new input media set, generating a new navigation list based on the co-concurrency metric values; and (h) communicating the new navigation list to the user.