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20030107599

10021728

1. A computer-implemented method for creating a graphical program, the method comprising: receiving user input specifying one or more nodes to include in the graphical program; including the one or more specified nodes in the graphical program; and providing one or more suggested nodes to include in the graphical program, based on the one or more nodes specified by the user input.

9904849

15608894

1. A system for simplified generation of systems for broad area geospatial object detection comprising: an object model creation module comprising a processor, a memory, and a plurality of programming instructions stored in the memory and operable on the processor, wherein the plurality of programming instructions: receives a plurality labeled positive training orthorectified geospatial images in at least some of which an object of interest has been identified; retrieves a plurality of labeled negative training orthorectified geospatial images where objects that are not the object of interest, at least one of which closely resembles the object of interest, have been identified; programmatically isolates features found in the objects of interest but not in the irrelevant training objects; and creates at least one object of interest classification model using the features unique to the object of interest; a machine learning classifier training and verification computer comprising a processor, a memory, and a plurality of programming instructions stored in the memory and operable on the processor, wherein the plurality of programming instructions: accepts at least one classification model; retrieves a plurality of labeled and unlabeled orthorectified geospatial training images each comprising the object of interest; trains a plurality of pre-built machine learning classifier elements, each running a pre-programmed machine learning protocol parameterized with the classification model, using the plurality of labeled and unlabeled orthorectified geospatial training images each comprising the object of interest; and for each trained machine learning classifier element, verifies performance in classifying the object of interest using a plurality of unlabeled orthorectified geospatial training images comprising the object of interest and a plurality of unlabeled orthorectified geospatial training images that do not contain the object of interest; and a model-based object classifier comprising a processor, a memory, and a plurality of programming instructions stored in the memory and operable on the processor, wherein the plurality of programming instructions: retrieve the plurality of trained machine learning elements for the object of interest; analyzes a plurality of resolution scale-corrected, unanalyzed orthorectified geospatial image segments for presence of at least one object of interest; and reports the presence and location of any objects of interest found.

20080025221

11605947

1. A system for managing an Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS), the system comprising: (a) a network operations, administration, maintenance, and provisioning (OAM&P) entity for communicating with an operator's network; (b) a system OAM&P entity associated with the network OAM&P entity; and (c) at least one message processing entity associated with the system OAM&P entity and for processing signaling information and implementing at least one application; wherein the system OAM&P entity is adapted to receive OAM&P information from the at least one message processing entity and communicate at least some of the received OAM&P information to the network OAM&P entity, and wherein the network OAM&P entity is adapted to receive the OAM&P information from the system OAM&P entity and to communicate at least some of the received OAM&P information to the operator's network.

8176210

11562668

1. A method of invoking a set of services corresponding to plug-ins currently installed for an image handling device, comprising: launching a host application of the image handling device, the host application including host application services; accessing a configuration file of the image handling device to determine which plug-ins are currently installed for the image handling device, the configuration file including an identification of each currently installed plug-in and an identification of a corresponding set of services provided by each plug-in; launching each plug-in determined to be currently installed for the image handling device, each plug-in providing the corresponding set of services in an integral fashion to the host application; and presenting a unified graphical interface displaying the host application services and the corresponding set of services of each installed plug-in.

6044211

08212908

1. A method for graphically designing a digital device, comprising the steps of: identifying a fixed and limited number of descriptors which behaviorally describe any digital device to be designed; placing symbolic icons representing at least two of said descriptors upon a graphic display and operationally connecting said icons with an arc placed therebetween; and using a pull-down menu activated from said placed icons, thereafter defining a list of attributes to said icons, wherein said attributes include both data path and control path information for a digital device graphically designed from said placed icons.

8396554

13362785

1. A method comprising: monitoring at least one signal generated by a sensor as a function of at least one of activity or posture of a patient during delivery of a therapy to a patient from a medical device according to therapy parameters that change over time according to a plurality of therapy parameter sets; periodically identifying a posture of the patient based on the at least one signal; for each therapy parameter set in the plurality of therapy parameter sets, associating each of the identified postures that occurred during the delivery of the therapy to the patient according to that individual therapy parameter set with that individual therapy parameter set; and for each therapy parameter set in the plurality of therapy parameter sets, displaying for a user the postures identified during the delivery of the therapy to the patient according to that individual therapy parameter set in a manner that is indicative of efficacy of that individual therapy parameter set.

9635431

14928031

1. An apparatus comprising: a client device comprising a processor coupled to a memory and configured to obtain a plurality of playlists for a given item of media content from one or more servers over a network; the playlists comprising at least a sliding-window playlist and an on-demand playlist for the given item of media content with each such playlist identifying a plurality of media segments of the given item of media content; the client device being further configured to play back portions of the given item of media content utilizing respective ones of the sliding-window and on-demand playlists; the client device further comprising: a display screen configured to present media content output; a set of navigational controls associated with the display screen; and an application program stored in the memory and executed by the processor and configured to control playback operations of the client device responsive to activation of particular ones of the navigational controls; wherein the application program implements a navigation state machine that controls switching of the client device between playback of media segments from the sliding-window playlist and playback of media segments from the on-demand playlist responsive to user navigation within a timeline of the given item of media content using one or more of the navigational controls; wherein the navigation state machine comprises a live mode navigation state in which the client device plays back media segments from the sliding-window playlist and an on-demand mode navigation state in which the client device plays back media segments from the on-demand playlist; and wherein responsive to user navigation to a playback point within the timeline that is outside of a time window of the on-demand playlist but inside a specified go-live time window in the on-demand mode navigation state, the navigation state machine transitions from the on-demand mode navigation state to the live mode navigation state.

9595016

13136724

1. A machine comprising: a) a staff database storing staff data for each worker from a plurality of potential staff members; b) a computer configured to dynamically optimize a workforce by, based on detecting a discrepancy between a projected level of staff demand during a shift and an updated level of staff demand during the shift determined based on real time data provided by a workforce management system, performing a set of tasks comprising: I) determining one or more actions for addressing the detected discrepancy between the projected level of staff demand during the shift and the updated level of staff demand during the shift, wherein the computer is configured to determine the one or more actions by matching the detected discrepancy against at least one business rule specifying an action to be taken based on a time urgency for the detected discrepancy, wherein the time urgency for the detected discrepancy is a parameter representing: A) a magnitude for the detected discrepancy relative to a threshold magnitude from the at least one business rule; B) a duration for the detected discrepancy relative to a threshold duration from the at least one business rule; or C) a time of day for the detected discrepancy relative to a time period from the at least one business rule; II) generating an optimized call out list by identifying one or more workers from the plurality of potential staff members to provide with personalized requests to perform actions from the one or more actions for addressing the detected discrepancy between the projected level of staff demand during the shift and the updated level of staff demand during the shift; III) dynamically determining terms for one or more personalized requests based on comparing staff data from the staff database for each worker from the one or more workers with selection criteria corresponding to the one or more actions determined by matching the detected discrepancy against the at least one business rule, wherein the one or more personalized requests comprise a personalized request for each worker from the one or more workers, wherein the terms for each personalized request comprise identification of an action from the one or more actions for addressing the detected discrepancy between the projected level of staff demand during the shift and the updated level of staff demand during the shift; and IV) sending, to each worker from the one or more workers, the personalized request for that worker; wherein the computer is further configured to: i) on an ongoing basis after sending the personalized requests to the one or more workers, obtain current updated levels of staff demand during the shift; and ii) each time a response is received from one of the identified one or more workers and the response accepts the personalized request sent to that worker, selectively implementing the action identified in the personalized request based on concurrency controls and the then current updated levels of staff demand during the shift.

8453084

12204777

1. A method of approximate functional matching comprising: identifying one or more subsets of a description of an integrated circuit or software program either having similar functionality to the one or more subsets or having functionality similar to a given template; assigning combinations of logic values to control inputs of the subsets; capturing a plurality of co-factors performed by the subsets for each of the assigned combinations of logic values, wherein the co-factors represent functions performed by the subsets based on the assigning; performing functional matching using the plurality of co-factors of the subsets, applying one or more hash functions to the plurality of co-factors; matching the plurality of co-factors with hash functions of equal or similar values to avoid having to consider all pairs of co-factors; constructing intermediate representations of the plurality of co-factors; and applying the one or more hash functions on the intermediate representations of the co-factors, wherein at least one of the identifying, assigning, capturing, performing, applying, matching, constructing, and applying is performed using a processor.

20030051544

10126012

1. A method for estimating a friction coefficient between a tire of a vehicle and a road surface comprising: (a) obtaining state variable data representing conditions of the vehicle by using RPM sensors equipped on the vehicle; (b) correcting part of the state variable data including noise by means of a Kalman Filter; (c) obtaining a turbine torque based on mathematical modeling having the state variable data as input data; (d) estimating a driving torque based on the turbine torque and the state variable data; (e) calculating a slip ratio based on the state variable data; and (f) estimating the friction coefficient based on the state variable data, the slip ratio, and the driving torque as input data.

20060036404

11205745

1. A process variable transmitter for coupling to a process and providing an indication of a variable of the process over a communication bus, the process variable transmitter comprising: a process variable sensor coupleable to the process to provide an analog indication of the variable; an analog-to-digital converter coupled to the process variable sensor and providing digital information indicative of the analog indication provided by the sensor; and output circuitry configured to provide an output related to the process variable; a microprocessor system coupled to the analog-to-digital converter and configured to calculate power spectral density of the digital information and responsively generate diagnostic information based on the power spectral density.

7818668

11109415

1. A method for transforming bibliographic data via an application, the method comprising: interpreting a field via a field interpreter by: ascertaining a field type of the field, the field type including a transform reference configured to indicate that a raw data reference parameter points to raw data to be extracted by a raw data extractor and transformed by a transformation engine prior to presentation to a user; and acquiring a plurality of parameters of the field, the plurality of parameters including at least the raw data reference parameter and a parameter to identify the transformation engine; extracting, via the raw data extractor, the raw data for the field from a first file portion responsive to the interpreting, wherein the raw data is configured in accordance with an extensible markup language (XML); transforming, via the transformation engine, the raw data prior to presentation of the field using a second file portion for presentation into a first citation style via a first set of presentation rules; and replacing the first set of presentation rules with a second set of presentation rules after presentation via the first citation style by using the second file portion for presentation into a second citation style; wherein the first file portion and the second file portion are separate from the application and are part of a word processing document file that contains a change history including at least a record of previous changes to the presentation rules; and wherein the field represents a bibliographic citation for a source; the raw data includes bibliographic data for the source; and transformed raw data produced by the transforming comprises at least a portion of the bibliographic data after filtering, ordering, and formatting by the transforming.

20100273557

12431236

1. A method for minimizing bandwidth cost for a participant in an online game, the method comprising: querying the game participant to determine a network service charge model; selecting a role for the game participant based on the determined network service charge model and a position of the participant in a network topology; and positioning the game participant into the selected role within the network topology of the online game.

9967089

14005223

1. A method to obtain an identifier for a current collection of assets associated with a computing environment, the method comprising: obtaining current asset parameters, each current asset parameter being a parameter of a respective asset of the current collection of assets; processing the current asset parameters and a fingerprint in accordance with a pre-determined function to obtain codeword symbols for the identifier, wherein the pre-determined function maps the current asset parameters and the fingerprint to the codeword symbols of the identifier the fingerprint being associated with the computing environment, the fingerprint being based on an original collection of assets of the computing environment and codeword symbols for an original identifier, wherein the codeword symbols for the original identifier are codeword symbols of an error-correction algorithm; and applying the error-correction algorithm to the codeword symbols for the identifier to obtain the identifier.

20090010235

12168827

1. A wireless local access network management procedure, the management procedure comprising: receiving one or more event request frames each of which includes zero or more event request elements, wherein each of the event request elements comprises an event type field for specifying the event type of an event request; moving to a different Extended Service Set (ESS); and canceling all outstanding event requests of the event request frames and deleting all pending event report frames and event data.

20140074548

13963022

1. A method, comprising: receiving information from one of a plurality of sources; generating an intermediate output file having a predetermined format; comparing, using a processor, portions of the intermediate output file with a set of risk data to determine a risk relevancy of information in the intermediate output file; tagging the portions of the intermediate output file having a desired risk relevancy; and storing the tagged portions of the intermediate output file in a database.

8170906

10533541

1. A method implemented by an information resource manager executed in a memory by a processor of a data processing system to conduct an information survey of an information resource that represents at least a single informational entity, the method comprising: initializing, by a processor a survey niche having a set of at least one predicate, wherein the predicate represents at least one of a property, attribute, trait, characteristic, function, relation, relationship, measurement, constraint, semantic property, action, coding sequence, objective, goal, and criteria of an information survey problem; transforming, by said processor, the survey niche by applying a first computable function to the initial set of predicates to produce a transformed set of predicates not identical to the initial set and not a proper subset of the initial set such that the transformed set is not satisfiable when evaluated against the information resource, wherein not satisfiable means that no entities of the information resource satisfy all predicates in the transformed set of predicates; and executing an algorithm, by said processor, to identify a characterized partition of the transformed survey niche where said partition is a survey lattice element wherein the survey lattice represents a partial order of subsets of the transformed set of predicates; repeat executing an algorithm, by said processor, to generate the survey lattice element that is a satisfiable subset of the transformed set of predicates that results in at least one entity of the information resource that satisfies all predicates in subset, and identifying at least a portion of the characterized partition of the transformed survey niche the as an option to the information survey problem.

20150374986

14750087

1. A fitting assessment system for assessing potential fitting processes for a cochlear implant patient, the system comprising: a test stimulation generator that delivers to the cochlear implant patient a test stimulation sequence at a given test frequency, the test stimulation sequence including: i. a plurality of jittered stimulation periods in which the test frequency varies due to a jitter variation component, and ii. a plurality of unjittered stimulation periods in which the test frequency is constant without a jitter variation component; a response measurement module that measures in parallel at least two different responses of the cochlear implant to the test stimulation sequence, the response measurement module including: i. an objective measurement submodule that measures an objective electrophysiological response, and ii. a subjective measurement submodule that measures a subjective psychophysical response; and a correlation evaluation module that evaluates a correlation between the different responses to determine an appropriate fitting process for the cochlear implant patient.

8438489

12359983

1. A method for collecting and converting sketches carried by a digitally enabled paper product into electronic markups for a document in portable document format, implemented on at least one computer, the method comprising: overlaying at least one active palette on the digitally enabled paper product, the active palette having an area for receiving handwritten labels that are interpretable by a handwriting recognition program; for handwritten labels misinterpreted by the handwriting recognition program, generating a list for correction confirmation of the handwritten label, said list comprises at least one alternative interpretation that is selectable by a user; applying portable document format information to at least a portion of a digital ink pattern on the digitally enabled paper product, which includes a legend having operations that are selectable with a digital pen; selecting at least one operation from the legend by choosing a checkbox on the active palette, wherein choosing the checkbox includes supplying one of a spoken or ink command; adding markups to the digitally enabled paper product using the digital pen such that the markups are stored digitally; uploading the stored markups such that the markups are stored as a portable document format annotation object, and; distributing the digitally enabled paper product having the portable document format annotation object embedded for review and revision by more than one person, wherein the review and revision is conducted at least contemporaneously wherein selection of the checkbox and correction confirmation by the user triggers subsequent ink designates a location of the type specified by the confirmed handwritten label.

9064276

13115047

1. A server system comprising one or more computing devices and computer storage, said computer storage storing executable code that, when executed, enables the server system to perform a process that comprises: providing a service module for inclusion into mobile applications developed by external developers, the service module configured to add in-application purchasing functionality to a mobile application that runs on mobile computing devices of users, the in-application purchasing functionality enabling a user to purchase and download add-on digital content items for the mobile application through execution of the mobile application on a mobile computing device; receiving one or more files defining a first mobile application that includes the service module; providing the first mobile application for download to mobile computing devices through an electronic catalog; generating a first application-specific digital store for the first mobile application on a content management system, the first application-specific digital store configured to communicate over a network with the service module to enable users, via mobile computing devices having the first mobile application stored thereon, to purchase and download add-on digital content items for the first mobile application from within the first mobile application; providing access to the first application-specific digital store to mobile computing devices that have the first mobile application stored thereon, the access provided via the service module, the mobile computing devices being distinct from the content management system; providing access to add-on digital content items for the first mobile application via the first application-specific digital store, the first application-specific digital store enabling resale of add-on digital content items by the users of the first mobile application via mobile computing devices of the users, thereby making the add-on digital content items available to other users of the first mobile application via the first application-specific digital store; and in response to a first user purchasing, using a first instance of the service module, one of the digital content items from a second user via the electronic catalog, causing the purchased digital content item to be (1) removed from a second mobile computing device of the second user by a second instance of the service module and (2) provided to a first mobile computing device of the first user by the first instance of the service module.

9436620

13785173

1. A method comprising: establishing a data connection between a computerized unit and a server device through a data network; receiving, by the server device from the computerized unit, values of each of one or more features of a particular connection between the computerized unit and a peripheral device; determining, by the server device and based on the values of each of the one or more features of the particular connection, a respective score for each of the one or more features of the particular connection; comparing, by the server device, the respective score for each of the one or more features to a probability density function for a corresponding feature from the one or more features; determining, by the server device and based at least in part on the comparison, whether the particular connection between the computerized unit and the peripheral device is problematic; responsive to determining that the particular connection is problematic, generating, by the server device, a problematic peripheral device report including a descriptor of the peripheral device; and sending, by the server, the problematic peripheral device report.

8843560

11380874

1. A mobile device, comprising: a memory component for storing data; and a processing component for executing data that enables actions, including: accessing a list of contacts of a user of the mobile device; receiving social networking information, including a real time aggregation of current vitality information of at least a subset of contacts of the list of contacts, the current vitality information is received from a plurality of third party sources separate from the plurality of mobile devices; generating for display at least one integrated live contact list comprising, for each of the subset of contacts, the current vitality information received from the plurality of third party sources, the integrated live contact list is further configured for producing at least one integrated live view upon the user's request; integrating into the integrated live contact list communications exchanged by at least one of the subset of contacts with the user of the mobile device; and displaying the integrated live contact list comprising the vitality information and the exchanged communications on the mobile device.

20090082980

11903906

1. A load estimation method, comprising: measuring a line current via a power monitoring device coupled to a plurality of circuit breakers each connectable to a respective load; calculating, based on said line current and a voltage corresponding to said line current, a total power consumption measured by said power monitoring device to produce a first total power value; receiving an indication that a state of a first of said plurality of circuit breakers has changed from on to off thereby disconnecting said load associated with said first circuit breaker; responsive to said receiving said indication, automatically calculating a total power consumption measured by said power monitoring device to produce a second total power value; computing a power consumption of said load associated with said first circuit breaker by subtracting said second total power value from said first total power value to produce a delta power value; and storing said delta power value in a memory.

20120030249

12848948

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: providing a framework for generating a plurality of problem situations in a computer game, wherein the framework comprises a data structure representing: (i) a plurality of candidates associated with the plurality of problem situations, (ii) a plurality of fact patterns associated with the plurality of candidates, and (iii) a designation of at least one of the plurality of candidates as a solution to a problem situation of the plurality of problem situations; wherein each of the plurality of fact patterns includes at least one property used for determining an association in the data structure, wherein the data structure comprises a chain of inference between the designation and each candidate of the plurality of candidates, wherein each chain of inference comprises at least one of the plurality of fact patterns; and generating, from the data structure and by operation of one or more computer processors, a representation of the problem situation by determining a subset of the plurality of fact patterns of the data structure to include in the representation of the problem situation, wherein the representation of the problem situation comprises the chain of inference between the designation and a candidate of the plurality of candidates, whereby the chain of inference designates the candidate as at least part of the solution to the problem situation in the computer game.

20090240348

12478927

1. A system for implementing state-based control in an industrial automation environment, comprising: a hierarchically structured data model representing an industrial system, the data model comprising at least one object that implements state-based control of the industrial system; and an editor that facilitates user configuration of deployment and lifecycle data for the object, the deployment data comprising a deployment service and an associated deployment event, and the lifecycle data comprising at least one lifecycle state and an associated lifecycle event.

20120021796

13206260

1. A method for conducting a multi-user communication session between at least three participating terminals, at least some of the participating terminals having incompatible media characteristics, the method comprising: employing at least one processor for: (a) at any given time, granting permission to only one of the participating terminals to send a media stream to other participating terminals; (e) upon another participating terminal joining the multi-user communication session, and upon a participating terminal leaving the multi-user communication session: (b) determining incompatible media characteristics between the participating terminals; (c) provided the incompatible media characteristics have been determined, updating description of the multi-user communication session for at least one of the participating terminals so as to accommodate media capabilities of the participating terminals; and (d) transcoding media streams between the participating terminals according to respective updated descriptions of the multi-user communication session for the participating terminals.

8589178

12207975

1. An extensible therapy delivery system for an individual comprising: a development environment comprising a computer system having a simulation module; a deployed environment comprising an electronic device configured to be provided to the individual and integrated with a mobile deployed application which is operatively connected to the computer system in the development environment by a network connection, the mobile deployed application having: a clinical rules module comprising one or more existing clinical rules and which is configured to be extensible by receiving from the computer system of the development environment one or more new validated clinical rules; a domain module further comprising existing individual-specific clinical data and existing base logic, the domain module is configured to be extensible by receiving from the computer system of the development environment new individual-specific clinical data and additional logic to the existing base logic to support the one or more new validated clinical rules, wherein the one or more new validated rules are configured to be provided by the simulation module which is configured to simulate one or more physiological conditions of the individual and to validate the one or more new validated clinical rules via use of test data, wherein the simulation module is configured to validate the new clinical rules prior to integration into the clinical rules module by identifying detrimental health outcomes to the simulated physiological conditions of the individual caused by a simulated delivery of the therapy determined by the new clinical rules; and a messaging architecture having a data request interface operably connected to the clinical rules module and the domain module, wherein the messaging architecture comprises an existing messaging framework and is extensible to receive one or more new messaging frameworks to support requests for information made by the one or more new validated clinical rules to determine therapy for the individual, and wherein the clinical rules module is programmed to make a request for information to the data request interface according to the one or more existing clinical rules and the one or more new validated clinical rules in order to determine therapy for the individual, and the data request interface is programmed to forward the request to the domain module, which is programmed to answer the request using the new individual-specific clinical data and additional logic, if the existing individual-specific clinical data and the base logic are unable to answer the request, wherein the data request interface further comprises a failsafe module defining one or more therapy limitations independent of the one or more existing clinical rules and the one or more new validated clinical rules for substantially preventing delivery of determined therapy outside of the therapy limitations, and wherein the mobile deployed application is configured to deliver to the individual the therapy determined by the clinical rules module from using the answer to the request provided by the domain module, where the system comprises a clinical rule editing tool, a clinical rule compiler, a development tool, and a deployment tool employed in the development environment.

20120303416

13114389

1. A system, comprising: at least one computing device; and a revenue optimization service executable in the at least one computing device, the revenue optimization service comprising: logic that obtains a plurality of transaction records associated with a customer and a merchant, each of the transaction records identifying a corresponding purchase of a quantity of one of a plurality of items by the customer from the merchant at a corresponding unit purchase price; logic that generates a normalized unit purchase price for each of the transaction records by normalizing the respective unit purchase price relative to a respective unit retail price at a time of the purchase; and logic that generates a demand curve for the customer for the items based at least in part on the transaction records and the normalized unit purchase prices, the demand curve identifying a quantity of units that the customer is predicted to purchase at a range of normalized unit purchase prices.

20060009869

10531428

1. An apparatus for generating and managing production processing structure in a production management system of a factory implemented through a management computer that makes instructions to produce a product and manages production information and terminal computers disposed at production line of the factory, comprising: a. registering means for, when structure of the factory comprising at least a name for identifying the factory, a name for identifying the product to be produced at the factory or operation to be implemented at the factory, a name of the line in which the product is to be produced or the operation is to be implemented, and names of process points obtained by dividing the line, is inputted by a developer, hierarchically registering the names in a storage device of the management computer; b. registering means for, when one of the terminal computers and devices to be used in the production or operation of the production line are identified by the developer, registering them as terminal devices in the storage device; c. registering means for, when a task or tasks for achieving the operation or processing to be executed in the respective process points from among the tasks prepared in advance and stored in a disk of the management computer, is selected and inputted in a sequence of execution for the respective process points by the developer, registering the task or tasks in the storage device; d. registering means for, when definition information that correlates the registered terminal devices with the operation or processing to be implemented in each of processing steps is inputted by the developer, registering the definition information in the storage device; and e. task execution means for, when the terminal computers of the terminal devices are activated, allowing the management computer to execute the registered tasks based on the registered definition information to collect production record information of the product and to accumulate the collected production record information.

9607617

13855117

1. A system comprising: at least one computer processor; and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to perform: processing, by an automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine, a first speech input to produce a first speech recognition result; generating a first natural language concept item comprising a first plurality of information fields, wherein each information field of the first plurality of information fields comprises information associated with the first speech recognition result, and the first natural language concept item is associated with a first natural language application; processing, by the ASR engine, a second speech input to produce a second speech recognition result; generating, based on the second speech recognition result, a second natural language concept item comprising a second plurality of information fields, wherein the second natural language concept item is associated with a second natural language application; determining that a first information field of the first plurality of information fields corresponds to a second information field of the second plurality of information fields; and refining a time field value in the second information field based on a time field value in the first information field.

20070136666

11296897

1. A method of performing a spreadsheet calculation in a workflow, comprising: calling a spreadsheet activity in the workflow; calculating a value in the spreadsheet associated with the spreadsheet activity; and providing a cell-based notification based on a predetermined condition.

20060085395

10965188

1. A method for creating a page, wherein the page when interpreted comprises: displaying a search graph, wherein the search graph comprises an axis, and wherein the axis represents a search criteria; and displaying an icon representing a search term at a position on the search graph, wherein the position specifies a value of the search criteria for the search term.

8423338

12542943

1. A method of constructing an image of a petroleum reservoir, from dynamic data measured within the reservoir, comprising the steps of: a) generating with a computer at least two independent realizations of the reservoir from at least two Gaussian white noises; b) defining at least one region within the at least two independent realizations and defining a parameter allowing size and shape of the at least one region to be modified; c) generating a new realization of the reservoir from a linear combination of the Gaussian white noises with linear combination coefficients dependent on the parameter allowing the at least one region to be modified; d) calculating a local objective function measuring, within the at least one region, a difference between dynamic data simulated from the new realization and the measured dynamic data; and e) constructing the image of the reservoir with a computer by modifying the parameter for minimizing the local objective function and the generation of the new realization of the reservoir in accordance with step c).

7532899

10984618

1. In a system for providing telecommunication services between multiple mobile devices and multiple network access points, the system comprising: at least one location server coupled with at least some of the multiple network access points; at least one database coupled with the location server, wherein the at least one database includes location information regarding points of interest, wherein at least some of the points of interest are associated with point of interest categories, and wherein the at least one database further includes point of interest records associated with at least some of the multiple mobile devices, wherein each of the point of interest records includes at least one user-defined set of two or more point of interest categories; and wherein the location server is configured to: receive a command via one of the network access points, wherein the command is based on a single command from a user's mobile device to locate current points of interest closest to a current geographic location of the user's mobile device, wherein each of the current points of interest are associated with one of the two or more point of interest categories in a point of interest record associated with the user's mobile device; obtain the current geographic location of the user's mobile device; query the at least one database for location information for points of interest that a) are closest to the current geographic location of the user's mobile device, and b) are associated with the two or more point of interest categories in the user-defined set; provide, to the user's mobile device, a list of points of interest for each point of interest category in the user-defined set that are closest to the current geographic location of the user's mobile device; and provide additional options to the user based on the list of points of interest.

7477253

10441194

1. A machine implemented method of displaying an animation image of a user model using fitting information, said method comprising preparing an animation program which when executed, causes a processor to perform displaying an animation image of a standard model; fitting the standard model to a user model by affine-transformation of three-dimensional coordinates at first target vertices of the standard model to three-dimensional coordinates at corresponding second target vertices of the user model to generate fitting information; and executing the animation program prepared for the standard model, by using data of the standard model fitted to the user model based on the generated fitting information to display on a display device an animation image of the user model, the step of fitting the standard model to the user model including: specifying pairs of the first target vertices of the standard model and second target vertices of the user model; dividing a distance between the first and second target vertices of each of the specified pairs into a predetermined number of divided distances; gradually bringing coordinates of the first target vertices of the standard model closer to coordinates of the second target vertices of the user model by affine transformation of each of said divided distances individually; casting a ray from a protruding vertex having a normal vector, of the standard model to the user model in the direction of the normal vector to set an intersection of the ray and the user model as a new vertex of the standard model; and generating fitting information based on the first target vertices, of the standard model, brought closer to the specified second target vertices of the user model, including the new vertex of the standard model.

9449104

13540104

1. A method for deriving trustful metadata for a software application for a mobile device, the method comprising: crawling, via a processor, online for the software application for the mobile device, wherein a pre-existed meta-data is associated with the software application; analyzing, via the processor, the software application to determine a function of the software application, wherein the analyzing comprises analyzing an application behavior and usage from a dynamic analysis to determine the function of the software application for generating the trustful meta-data, wherein the determining the function of the software application comprises determining: a processing capacity used by the software application, a memory capacity used by the software application, whether a sensor of the mobile device is used by the software application, and a network protocol used by the software application; generating, via the processor, the trustful meta-data as a fingerprint for the software application without relying on the pre-existed meta-data for the software application based upon the function of the software application, wherein the trustful meta-data describes how the software application functions, wherein the trustful meta-data is stored as an additional metadata file for the software application; receiving, via the processor, a user query and a filter criterion provided by a user; generating, via the processor, a search result in response to the user query, wherein the generating the search result is performed by applying the filter criterion on the trustful meta-data associated with the software application; and presenting, via the processor, the search result to the user in accordance with the filter criterion that is predefined by the user.

20160085772

14491371

1. A system, comprising: a configuration designer of a heterogeneous storage service, and a deployment coordinator, wherein the configuration designer is configured to: determine a plurality of service requirements of a client of the heterogeneous storage service via a programmatic interface, wherein the plurality of service requirements comprise one or more of: (a) a performance requirement for one or more types of storage operations to be performed at a storage group, (b) an availability requirement, (c) a data durability requirement, or (d) an access interface requirement; provide, to the client, an indication of one or more candidate storage group configurations that can meet at least a subset of the plurality of requirements, wherein the one or more candidate storage group configurations include a first storage group configuration comprising a plurality of data store instances and a first log-based transaction manager, wherein the first log-based transaction manager is configured to accept write requests for commit based at least in part on an analysis of a write record log indicating previously-committed writes, and wherein the plurality of data store instances includes a first data store instance implementing a first access interface and a second data store instance implementing a different access interface; and wherein, in response to an indication of an approval by the client of a pricing policy associated with the first storage configuration, the deployment coordinator is configured to: instantiate the plurality of data store instances and at least the first log-based transaction manager; and determine access metadata enabling the client to submit requests for a particular type of storage operation of the one or more types of storage operations.

8301328

11498447

1. A method for monitoring at least one characteristic of a particular engine, the method comprising: generating a data set wherein said data set includes data responsive to the at least one characteristic, said data generated by collecting at least one engine fluid of the engine after the engine has been in operation and at a predetermined interval, and analyzing said engine fluid; storing said data on a storage device; comparing said data set against predetermined parametric data; creating trend line data with a slope by a computer processor for the particular engine for a plurality of said data sets of the collected engine fluid of that engine; and analyzing said trend line data with the slope by the computer processor. .. based on said trend line data with the slope outside of a routine maintenance schedule.

8966436

13275200

1. A method for customizing a virtual event platform, the method comprising: receiving a template at a virtual event platform system configured to generate an interactive virtual event for presenting a multimedia content to one or more users, the virtual event virtually simulating at least a portion of a real-world event in which the one or more users are participating, the template comprising code defining customizations for the virtual event platform; parsing the template to identify template content comprising the multimedia content; modifying functionality of the virtual event platform system based on the multimedia content to generate custom virtual booth functionality within the virtual event platform system by: defining an application programming interface call within the template to access the functionality of the virtual event platform system; and modifying the functionality to generate the custom virtual booth functionality; and generating the interactive virtual event by: executing the custom virtual booth functionality to generate a virtual booth corresponding to the at least the portion of the real-world event.

9721098

14722270

1. A method for detecting malicious code insertion in data, the method comprising: detecting, at an application executing using a processor and a memory in a data processing system, a script that has been inserted in a mix of code and content; removing, to form a remaining script structure, from the script a content-related portion, the content-related portion referring to the content in the mix; selecting, from the remaining script structure, a code construct, wherein the code construct comprises a function call, and wherein the function call comprises any call to any function in the remaining script structure; replacing, to form a normalized construct, the code construct with an alphanumeric string; determining whether the normalized construct matches, within a tolerance, a second normalized construct in a corpus of normalized scripts; and concluding, responsive to the normalized construct matching the second normalized construct within the tolerance, that the script is malicious.

20100325394

12490005

1. A method comprising: using a computer to perform: decoding an instruction to determine an instruction type associated with the instruction; determining whether there are any restrictions on a type of execution unit on which the instruction can be executed, dependent on the determined instruction type; selecting an execution unit on which the instruction is to be executed from among two or more execution units, wherein said selecting is dependent on at least one of: a determined restriction, or a history of assignments to the two or more execution units; assigning the instruction to the selected execution unit for subsequent scheduling for execution; and updating the history of assignments to reflect said assigning.

6041318

08905676

1. An object-oriented rating system, comprising: at least one carrier contract object comprising an instance of a carrier contract class, the carrier contract object operable to receive a rating request and operable for use on a computer; a qualification engine associated with the carrier contract object, the qualification engine operable to receive qualification data associated with the rating request and determine whether the carrier contract object is applicable to the rating request; and a service engine operable to calculate a service rate in response to the rating request, the service engine comprising an instance of an object class that inherits, either directly or indirectly, from a base service engine object class.

8954468

13253102

1. A method for extracting a meaningful frequent itemset from a database in which a plurality of records each containing an itemset consisting of one or more items is stored by calculation processing of a computer, the plurality of items in the database having an order in which the items are arranged, the method comprising the steps of: (a) if there exist one or more items after a last item in an order of items in an old itemset, wherein the old itemset is an immediately preceding investigation target, deciding, by the computer, a new itemset that is a new investigation target by adding one of the one or more items after the last item to the old itemset in descending order, wherein the old itemset has an initial value of an empty item φ being the first item in the order; (b) registering, by the computer, a frequency of occurrence of the new itemset in a table prepared on a memory of the computer on the condition that the frequency of occurrence of the new itemset is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold; (c) in response to the registration in the table, determining, by the computer, using a value in the table, whether there is a correlation between each item in the new itemset and a subset of remaining items and in which that item is removed from the new itemset, wherein the correlation is determined if each item in the new itemset occurs in cooperation with the occurrence of the remaining items exclusive of that item, and wherein the determination of correlation is made by determination of whether an expression |T|×T(Y)|≧α×|T(Y−{y})|×|T({y})| is satisfied, where |T| denotes a total number of records, |T(Y)| denotes a frequency of occurrence of a new itemset Y, |T({y})| denotes a frequency of occurrence of any item y in the new itemset Y, |T(Y−{y})| denotes a frequency of occurrence of a subset of remaining items in which that item y is removed from the new itemset Y, and α denotes a predetermined threshold larger than one; (d) registering, by the computer, the new itemset in a set of the meaningful frequent itemsets on the condition that the determination is positive for each of all the items in the new itemset; and (e) in response to the registration in the set of the meaningful frequent itemsets, by the computer, setting the new itemset to the old itemset and repeating the step (a) before deciding a new itemset on the basis of the original old itemset.

9355126

12564666

1. A computer-implemented method for automatically auditing database objects in a database, comprising: receiving a set of audit rules, wherein an audit rule defines search criteria used to identify a database object that is desired to be audited; searching through a set of database objects in the database to identify one or more database objects which satisfy the set of audit rules; generating an audit command for auditing an identified database object that satisfies the set of audit rules, without receiving a user audit command that explicitly specifies the identified database object; and in response to determining that the identified database object is updated: determining that the identified database object does not satisfy the set of audit rules; and removing the audit command.

8902068

14141636

1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having embodied thereon computer-useable instructions which, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform a method for automatically and without human intervention transitioning a patient's clinical care room from a first scene to a second scene in order to facilitate completion of a medication-administration process, the method comprising: presenting the first scene in the clinical care room, the clinical care room having one or more zones comprising a clinician zone, a patient zone and a family zone, and the first scene being associated with a first group of settings for components within the one or more zones, the components comprising at least a patient bed in the patient zone; automatically and without human intervention receiving an input from a medication dispensing station indicating that a clinician has initiated a medication-administration process for the patient in the clinical care room, wherein the input is received upon the clinician retrieving medication(s) associated with the patient from the medication dispensing station; and incident to receiving the input that the medication-administration process has been initiated, automatically and without human intervention transitioning to a second scene in the patient zone to facilitate the completion of the medication-administration process, wherein transitioning to the second scene in the patient zone comprises implementing a second group of settings for the components within the one or more zones including implementing a second group of settings for the patient bed such that a position of the patient bed is modified.

20040223543

10709441

1. A method for designing a frequency-shaping equalizer to compensate for the frequency response of an existing system, said method comprising: a. providing a performance block diagram defining one or a plurality of input-output channels for performance tradeoff, said performance block diagram comprising a plurality of blocks representing the dynamics of said equalizer to be designed, the dynamics of said existing system, and the dynamics of one or a plurality of selected performance weighting filters; b. defining a set of performance tradeoff equalities relating to the frequency response of said input-output channels at a set of selected frequencies, each of said tradeoff equalities being defined at each of said set of selected frequencies; c. computing the magnitudes of the frequency response of said equalizer at said set of selected frequencies, by solving each of said tradeoff equalities independently; d. generating the phases of said equalizer at said set of selected frequencies from said magnitudes, said phases and said magnitudes corresponding to the frequency response of a stable system at said set of selected frequencies; e. providing a set of equalizer coefficients for implementation, said equalizer coefficients being derived from said magnitudes and said phases of said frequency response of said equalizer at said set of selected frequencies.

20130329973

13911913

1. A method of analyzing medical image data of a region of interest in a sample tissue, the method comprising: obtaining, at a computer system, the medical image data of the region of interest, the medical image data containing image segments; identifying, at the computer system, one or more candidate physiological, metabolic, molecular and/or biologic parameters that may indicate an abnormal or disease phenotype condition within the region of interest; analyzing, in a subvolume analysis engine, each of the image segments using an algorithm to determine, for each image segment, a probability function for each of the identified one or more candidate physiological, metabolic, and/or biologic parameters; and modeling the image segments, in the subvolume analysis engine, and analyzing the resulting model to identify the abnormal or disease phenotype condition within the region of interest, where the identification produces a diagnostic determination of the region of interest, a prognostic determination of the target tissue, or a predictive determination of the target tissue.

20090234850

12047704

1. A system to synchronize metadata for a plurality of applications comprising: content administration rules programmed to define policies for updating metadata in a master database and policies for propagating updates of the metadata in the master database to the plurality of applications, the metadata describing at least one asset represented as data residing in at least one of the plurality of applications; and a rules engine that is programmed to apply at least a first set of the content administration rules to a metadata record received from a first application of the plurality of applications to control updating corresponding metadata stored in the master database, changes in the corresponding metadata made to the master database being propagated to at least one second application of the plurality of applications according to a second set of the content administration rules that is predefined for each of the at least one second application.

20120322035

13596638

1. A method for assisting a person in learning a language, the method comprising: recording speech data from the operation of a speech recognition application during each of a plurality of language learning sessions, wherein the operation of the speech recognition application during each of the plurality of language learning sessions corresponds to a user speaking and the speech recognition application generating text data that provides a recognition of what words the user spoke during that language learning session; wherein the recorded speech data comprises (i) the text data, and (ii) one or more confidence values to indicate a determination of accuracy of the recognition provided by the text data; and analyzing the speech data from the plurality of language learning sessions in determining an overall performance level of the user speaking for the speech recognition application during at least one or more of the language learning sessions.

7716191

11283246

1. A method of setting a categorization for a digital asset in a distributed computing environment, the method comprising: (a) receiving, from a first computing device, an asset identification tag and a first taxonomy tag having a first categorization associated with a digital asset; (b) receiving, from a second computing device, the asset identification tag and a second taxonomy tag having a second categorization associated with the digital asset; (c) comparing a first policy associated with the first taxonomy tag and a second policy associated with the second taxonomy tag; (d) selecting, based in part on a result of the comparison of the first and second policy, one of the first taxonomy tag and the second taxonomy tag to associate with the digital asset as the active taxonomy tag, wherein selecting one of the first taxonomy tag and the second taxonomy tag to associate with the digital asset as the active taxonomy tag includes: unionizing the first taxonomy tag received from the first computing device and the second taxonomy tag received from the second computing device to form a unionized taxonomy tag as the active taxonomy tag, the first taxonomy tag and the second taxonomy tag being present within the unionized taxonomy tag, ranking the first policy relative to the second policy, and identifying (i) the first categorization of the first taxonomy tag as the categorization of the digital asset when the first policy is ranked ahead of the second policy and (ii) the second categorization of the second taxonomy tag as the categorization of the digital asset when the second policy is ranked ahead of the first policy; (e) deleting the first taxonomy tag from the first computing device and saving, on the first computing device, the unionized taxonomy tag as the active taxonomy tag associated with the digital asset in place of the first taxonomy tag; and (f) deleting the second taxonomy tag from the second computing device and saving, on the second computing device, the unionized taxonomy tag as the active taxonomy tag associated with the digital asset in place of the second taxonomy tag.

9336524

13934631

1. A method comprising: collecting data of multiple transactions in which consumers, as non-issuers of gift cards, in a secondary market, resell the gift cards for use by other consumers for at least one of cash, goods and services to yield collected data, wherein gift card issuers and merchants do not participate in secondary market transactions; aggregating, via a computing processor, the collected data to yield aggregated data; and presenting, via a user interface on a computing device, a report comprising at least a portion of the aggregated data.

20050158888

11078630

1. A system for predicting yield of integrated circuits comprising: a) at least one type of characterization vehicle including at least one feature which is representative of at least one type of feature to be incorporated into a final integrated circuit product; b) a yield model which embodies a layout as defined by the characterization vehicle, said yield model having been subjected to at least one of the process operations making up the fabrication cycle to be used in fabricating the integrated circuit product; c) a product layout; and d) an extraction engine for extracting predetermined layout characteristics from the product layout, which characteristics are used in connection with the yield model to produce a yield prediction.

8015131

12062818

1. A method performed by a computing system for learning tradeoffs between discriminative power and invariance of classifiers, comprising: receiving two or more classifiers, each classifier for classifying data and having associated therewith a kernel with corresponding kernel weight, the kernel specifying an attribute for its associated classifier; employing a learning technique to produce a combined classifier based on the two or more received classifiers by decreasing a function of the kernel weights to learn tradeoffs between discriminative power and invariance; generating by the computing system a base kernel for each of the received two or more classifiers; and selecting one of the generated base kernels by solving a convex optimization problem having a linear objective and quadratic inequality constraints.

20020049755

09934185

1. A data processing apparatus which enables a plurality of filtering systems to execute a process for filtering an item, said data processing apparatus comprising: a first acquiring means for acquiring a request for executing a process for filtering said item; an instructing means for instructing said plurality of filtering systems to execute said filtering process against said item based on said request acquired via said first acquiring means; a second acquiring means for acquiring results of said filtering process for said item from said plural filtering systems; a third acquiring means for acquiring antecedents related to utilization of said item on the part of an individual user; and an evaluation value computing means for computing an evaluation value related to said process for filtering said item executed by said plural filtering systems based on antecedents of utilization of said item acquired via said third acquiring means and also based on result of said process for filtering said item acquired via said second acquiring means.

20050257042

11186844

1. A system comprising means for: while booting a computer and prior to allowing a user to logon to the computer, arranging for a markup language rendering engine to be loaded at the beginning of an operating system initialization procedure; and providing markup language code suitable for use with the markup language rendering engine, the markup language being capable of soliciting at least one user input when rendered by the markup language rendering engine, the user input being associated with a user logon process configured to selectively allow a user to logon to the computer.

8009678

11084463

1. A computer-implemented method for execution on a computing device for generating a dynamic prioritized contact list, the computer-implemented method comprising: determining a current time interval on the computing device; accessing a communication history database, wherein the communication history database stores contact frequencies of contact identifiers that occurred in the past; determining the contact frequencies of the contact identifiers for past time intervals that correspond to a same time interval of the current time interval; causing a processor to prioritize contact identifiers based on the contact frequencies during the past time intervals that correspond to the current time interval, wherein a contact identifier with the greatest contact frequency is indicated with a highest priority; and generating a display of a prioritized contact list based on the prioritized contact identifiers determined from the past time intervals.

7559022

11805762

1. A method of communicating information between parties comprising: automatically creating a content-dependent just-in-time application file for an electronic authored work based on the content assembled together in the authored work created by an author, wherein the file includes code for: information contained in the authored work, wherein at least a portion of the information may be stored remotely from a networked device processing the just-in-time application for presenting the authored work, creating or invoking at least one first application for presenting the content of the authored work on a networked device, disseminating the file through a computer network; and forwarding the disseminated file to a distribution channel for presenting the authored work to a recipient on a networked device, wherein upon receiving the file on the networked device, the just-in-time application file is processed creating and/or invoking the at least one first application for presenting the authored work based on the content of the authored work.

7577923

10922635

1. A computer-implemented method for selecting a file view mode from a plurality of available file view modes for one or more items in a screen display, the method comprising: providing a graphical depiction of a current file view mode on a button control in the screen display; storing a preferred setting for each one of the plurality of available file view modes; obtaining a single user input indicative of a selection of an available file view mode selected from one of the plurality of available file view modes, the single user input occurs on a portion of the button control; mapping the single user input to the selected file view mode; mapping the single user input to the stored preferred setting for the selected file view mode; and providing a graphical depiction of the selected file view mode on the button control, wherein the selected file view mode defines a presentation scheme in the screen display for the one or more items.

9217188

12491650

1. A system, comprising: a separation system for separating waste constituents of a solid waste stream including separating plastics from fiber materials and forming a first type comprising predominately plastics and forming a second type comprising predominately fiber materials; a first bunker for storing the first type comprising predominately plastic materials; a second bunker for storing the second type comprising predominately paper materials; wherein the waste constituents of the first type are differentiated from the waste constituents of the second type based on moisture content and based on how a blended feed stock comprising a combination of the waste constituents from the first and second bunkers affects a total quantity of heat released by a combustion process when said blended feed stock is converted in said combustion process; and a control unit configured to control a rate of withdrawal of a first amount of the waste constituents of the first type from the first bunker based on information associated with a moisture content of the waste constituents of the first type, the control unit configured to control a rate of withdrawal of a first amount of the waste constituents of the second type from the second bunker based on information associated with a moisture content of the waste constituents of the second type, the first amount of the waste constituents of the first type and the first amount of the waste constituents of the second type for combining into the blended feed stock.

20120197610

13500431

1. The method for obtaining information from an amplification curve of a target nucleic acid sequence, comprising the steps: (a) defining at least one model function that describes the amplification curve and that contains at least one parameter that is related to a physical quantity that has an impact on the signals recorded, (b) fitting said model function to the amplification curve, (c) obtaining information with respect to said physical quantity by identifying the value of said parameter that results in the best fit of the model function.

20050197742

11123541

1. An automated method for the management of a bulk electric power market, comprising: implementing a set of inter-related automated process streams relating to the bulk electric power market; implementing a plurality of automated processes for each process stream contained in said set of inter-related process streams, at least one process of each process stream serving as an input to, or output from, at least one other process stream, each process having at least one of: (i) automated inputs; (ii) automated activities; (iii) and automated outputs; and utilizing the process streams to manage a bulk electric power market and control an electric power grid.

20150302303

14638809

1. A computer system for generating suggestions integrated into business applications, the system comprising: an application repository comprising a plurality of business applications; a dynamic database storing parameters for generating suggestions relating to the plurality of business applications; at least one processor coupled to the application repository and the dynamic database, the at least one processor configured to: generate at least one suggestion relating to a given business application of the plurality of business applications currently being used by a user, the at least one suggestion generated using the parameters stored in the dynamic database; integrate the at least one suggestion into a user interface of the given business application; monitor input of the user into the given business application, including input reflecting whether the at least one suggestion has been actioned by the user; and update the parameters stored in the dynamic database based on the monitored input so that generation of future suggestions may be refined.

20100217670

12392033

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: determining for a first user of a social network one or more second users of the social network having an acquaintance relationship with the first user; receiving at a server from the first user a first request to rebroadcast a first sponsored content item that was displayed on the social network to the first user to a second user of the determined one or more second users; receiving at the server a second request to display at least one sponsored content item to the second user when the second user accesses an electronic document associated with the social network; retrieving the first sponsored content item for rebroadcast from one or more sponsored content items indicated for rebroadcast to the second user; and outputting the first sponsored content item to the second user of the social network in response to the second request to display the at least one sponsored content item and without requiring the second user to select the first sponsored content item for display.

9571983

14811120

1. A method for freight vehicle monitoring, comprising: obtaining historical telecommunications data; performing vehicle location identification using the historical telecommunications data, wherein performing the vehicle location identification comprises using a machine learning based algorithm to determine one or more meaningful vehicle locations; identifying, based on the one or more meaningful vehicle locations, if one or more telecommunications devices are those of a freight vehicle occupant; and tracking a location of the one or more telecommunications devices identified as those of a freight vehicle occupant; wherein determining the one or more meaningful vehicle locations comprises: analyzing the historical telecommunications data to estimate a frequency that one or more telecommunications devices associated with one or more possible freight vehicles visited one or more locations; and selecting the one or more locations at which the one or more telecommunications devices associated with the one or more possible freight vehicles visited most frequently relative to other locations as a meaningful vehicle location; and wherein the obtaining, performing, identifying, and tracking steps are performed via a processing device and a memory.

8594284

13754163

1. A tangible computer-readable storage device, for use in a voicemail system, comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising: receiving, from a context device positioned at a venue, a context message generated by the context device and comprising: a subscriber identification associated with a mobile terminal that provided the subscriber identification to the context device, by way of a short-range communication; and a context tag relating to the venue; and selecting, based on the context tag received, from the context device positioned at the venue, with the context message, an applicable voicemail greeting of a plurality of voicemail greetings associated with a voicemail account associated with the subscriber identification of the context message.

20130173768

13340817

1. A datacenter management server, comprising: a memory device including processor-executable code; and a processor operable to execute code to implement: a datacenter operations manager that compiles datacenter hierarchy information for a datacenter, the datacenter hierarchy information including: first identity information for a virtualized environment of the datacenter; and second identity information for a virtualization capable system of the datacenter, wherein the virtualization capable system is deployed as a stand-alone system of the datacenter; and a datacenter infrastructure manager including an infrastructure viewer and an asset deployment tool, wherein the datacenter infrastructure manager: receives the datacenter hierarchy information from the datacenter operations manager; directs the infrastructure viewer to display a hierarchical overview of the datacenter, wherein the hierarchical overview includes a first depiction of the virtualized environment and a second depiction of the virtualization capable system, and the hierarchical overview is based on the first and second identity information; receives a selection from a user, the selection being of the first and second depictions; and in response to receiving the selection, directs the asset deployment tool to deploy the virtualization capable system to the virtualized environment.

20080029439

11777240

1. A method for sorting waste items, the method comprising: providing a plurality of container compartments, each container compartment configured to receive a removable container; providing a plurality of removable containers; wherein the removable containers are configured to be placed within the container compartments, wherein each of the removable containers is associated with at least one of a plurality of waste categories, providing a handheld scanner configured to determine a information associated with a waste item; providing a control system that compares information obtained from the handheld scanner with waste item classification information; assigning the waste item to at least one waste category; and identifying one of the removable containers based on the waste category; opening the identified removable container to move to the open position to permit disposal of said waste item; and restricting access to the identified removable container after receipt of a waste item.

20140095524

13631768

1. A computer-implemented method for providing assertions in response to a travel item query, the method comprising: as implemented by one or more computing devices configured with specific executable instructions, receiving usage data reflective of user activity on a travel service, the user activity comprising a plurality of queries for travel items offered for by the travel service; for a set of search criteria, determining an assertion based at least in part on the usage data, wherein the assertion is associated with a modified set of search criteria determined based at least in part on a user activity, wherein the user activity is reflective of user action taken in response to a query corresponding to the set of search criteria; receiving, from a user computing device, a query corresponding to the set of search criteria; transmitting the determined assertion to the user computing device; receiving selection of the assertion by the user computing device; automatically modifying the query in accordance with the modified set of search criteria; and transmitting results of the modified query to the user computing device.

9043221

13461756

1. A method performed by a computer system comprising: obtaining, by the computer system, economic data relating to costs of a plurality of different initial agricultural cellulosic biomass materials; obtaining, by the computer system, economic data relating to prices that would be paid for a plurality of output products that are not found in, but that are derived from: the initial agricultural cellulosic biomass materials; performing calculations by the computer system based on the obtained economic data relating to costs and the obtained economic data relating to prices in order to determine an optimum amount, for maximum profit, of each of the plurality of output products that are not found in the initial biomass materials; and controlling, by the computer system, a plurality of biomass-conversion machinery processes that generate the plurality of output products from the initial biomass materials based on the calculations, wherein the plurality of biomass-conversion machinery processes include a control mechanism that controls a flow of materials through the plurality of biomass-conversion machinery processes.

9158606

12692332

1. A system for avoiding failure repetition in data processing, comprising: a storage device configured to store of a number of sequences of circumstances leading up to a previous failure; a monitor for monitoring circumstances in a current process and matching a sequence of circumstances in the current process to one of the stored sequences of circumstances; and a rules engine for applying rules to determine if the current process should proceed based on output from the monitor, wherein matching the sequence of circumstances in the current process to the one of the stored sequences of circumstances comprises applying generic rules for similar circumstances.

20130055191

13663755

1. A method comprising: receiving results of simulating one or more circuit designs used in an integrated circuit (IC); using the simulation results to compute a respective individual failure rate for one or more circuit devices used in the one or more circuit designs, wherein the individual failure rate for a given circuit device indicates an expected failure rate for a single instance of the given circuit device in a single instance of the respective circuit design in which the given circuit device is used; for each respective circuit device of the one or more circuit devices, computing a scaled failure rate for the respective circuit device based on the individual failure rate for the respective circuit device and a number of instances of the circuit design in which the respective circuit device is used; and predicting a failure rate of the IC based on the scaled failure rates of the one or more circuit devices.

8510399

13109923

1. A method, comprising: at a server system having one or more processors and a memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors so as to perform the method: storing a hosted conversation having a plurality of participants, the participants including one or more special-purpose automated participants that operate in accordance with instructions to perform one or more predefined operations in response to detecting predefined trigger criteria and one or more standard participants that respond dynamically to changes in the conversation; receiving a request to modify the conversation from a first participant; determining a set of edits that update the conversation in accordance with the request to modify the conversation; and sending the set of edits to a second participant that update the conversation to an updated state; wherein: when the first participant is a standard participant: the request includes an indication of preliminary edits that were performed on the conversation by the first participant; determining the set of edits includes updating the conversation in accordance with the preliminary edits that were performed on the conversation by the first participant; and the set of edits include concurrency-resolved edits that transform the conversation to the updated state; when the first participant is a special-purpose automated participant: the request includes a request to perform an operation on the conversation; determining the set of edits includes performing the operation on the conversation; and the set of edits include edits that update the conversation, in accordance with the operation, to the updated state; and when the first participant is the special-purpose automated participant: the first participant is in communication with a third-party; the request to perform the operation on the conversation is a request to add third-party content to the conversation; and the set of edits that are sent to the second participant update the conversation by adding the third-party content to the conversation.

20160253323

14434227

1. A method for semantic data projection, comprising: selecting, from a first database, a first subset of one or more first semantic formulae based on a comparison of respective weights of each of the one or more first semantic formulae and a predetermined threshold weight value; selecting, from a second database, a second subset of one or more second semantic formulae that are semantically relevant to the first subset of the one or more first semantic formulae; and generating one or more third semantic formulae based on the first subset of the one or more first semantic formulae and the second subset of the one or more second semantic formulae.

20110219338

12945773

1. A computer program product embodied on a tangible computer readable medium, comprising: computer code for identifying a record of a multi-tenant on-demand database system; computer code for displaying one or more actions associated with the record; computer code for performing one of the actions associated with the record, based on a selection of one of the actions.

20100192204

12753495

1. An interoperability network configured to facilitate messaging and mediate policy differences among a plurality of independent service providers and users having associated client machines, the interoperability network comprising one or more computing devices configured to: receive a request for a first service to perform a particular task involving a second service on behalf of a first user, wherein the first and second services are in communication with the interoperability network and are provided by first and second ones of the independent service providers, respectively; determine whether the first user has provided first set of credentials that defines access information for the second service, the first set of credentials being included among a plurality of sets of credentials stored on one or more storage media accessible through the interoperability network; determine whether the first service provider is authorized to act on behalf of the first user with respect to the second service with reference to one or more of a plurality of permissions stored on the one or more storage media; and where the first user has provided the first set of credentials, and where the first service provider is authorized to act on behalf of the first user with respect to the second service, retrieve the first set of credentials from the one or more storage media, and provide the first set of credentials to the second service for authentication to facilitate performance of the particular task.

20030097365

10101059

1. A content repository system comprising a storage device for a plurality of persistent data entities including metadata each entity having a predetermined level of scope such that within a set of related data entities, the scope of an entity at a higher level encompasses the scope of related entities at a lower level of scope, wherein at least one entity includes metadata that identifies a sequential relationship between one or more entities within the scope of said one entity, each of said entities including metadata defining a position within said sequential relationship.

20100086317

12573530

1. An image forming apparatus including a maintenance function for maintaining the image forming apparatus in a given operating condition, comprising: an operation screen unit useable for conducting maintenance on the image forming apparatus, the maintenance being categorized into service-maintenance work conductable by a service engineer within a range of service operations (service-operation content) and user-maintenance work conductable by a user within a range of user-allowed operations (user-allowed-operation content), wherein the operation screen unit includes a user-specific operation screen that displays the user-allowed-operation content, with which the user-maintenance work is conductable for adjusting the maintenance function within the user-allowed-operation content, wherein the user-allowed-operation content and the service-operation content are different.

9731615

14667311

1. A method for managing a demand response (DR) event request comprising: dividing a geographic region into a plurality of units, wherein each unit is associated with a specific utility provider; issuing a DR event request from the specific utility provider for at least one particular unit of the plurality of units; determining which of a plurality of vehicles are in the at least one particular unit; determining a subset of the plurality of vehicles that meet qualifying criteria of the DR event request; and sending a vehicle to grid (V2G) request to the subset of the plurality of vehicles to participate in the DR event request.

20020138813

10101648

1. A method of performing a design rule check on a layout for an integrated circuit (IC) comprising the steps of: (a) providing at least a first set of design rules for a first region of the layout; (b) providing at least a second set of design rules for a second region of the layout; wherein said first region and said second region correspond to different types of circuitry to be embodied in the IC; (c) processing a layer of the layout such that any said first region is checked in accordance with at least said first set of design rules, and said second region is checked in accordance with at least said second set of design rules.

9967299

15414035

1. A method, comprising: automatically establishing a data stream of a conference session, wherein establishing said automated data stream includes: data streaming a multiparty conference session to listen-only participants thereby enabling listen-only participants to connect to the multiparty conference session without using additional conference ports and/or conference resources; and maintaining data for the conference session, the data comprising at least one of an identification of the listen-only participants, a communication device for each of the listen-only participants, and a status of at least one connection line for each of the listen-only participants.

20080051979

10561039

1. An intake air amount control system for an internal combustion engine, which variably controls an amount of intake air drawn into a cylinder via a variable intake valve timing device that changes valve timing of an intake valve, as desired, comprising: estimated intake air amount-calculating means for calculating an estimated intake air amount as an estimated value of the amount of intake air drawn into the cylinder; target intake air amount-setting means for setting a target intake air amount as a target to which the intake air amount is to be controlled; identification means for identifying, based on a controlled object model to which a control command value for controlling the variable intake valve timing device is inputted and from which the estimated intake air amount is outputted, all model parameters of the controlled object model, with a predetermined identification algorithm; control command value-calculating means for calculating the control command value based on the identified all model parameters such that the estimated intake air mount converges to the target intake air amount; and control means for controlling the variable intake valve timing device according to the calculated control command value.

9858698

15393424

1. A computer system for modifying text embedded within an image, the computer system comprising: one or more computer processors, one or more computer-readable storage media, and program instructions stored on one or more of the computer-readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more processors, the program instructions comprising: one or more computer-readable storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more computer-readable storage media, the program instructions comprising: program instructions to receive user preferences; program instructions to receive a document, wherein the document includes an image; program instructions to utilize optical character recognition to determine that the image contains text; program instructions to determine that the text does not satisfy the user preferences; program instructions to determine that the text is embedded in the image; program instructions to extract the embedded text; program instructions to utilize photo correction software to fill in one or more portions of the image that have been corrupted as a result of the extraction of the embedded text; program instructions to modify the embedded text to satisfy the user preferences; program instructions to determine that the modified embedded text conflicts with the image by determining that the modified embedded text does not fit an original footprint of the text within the image; and program instructions to prompt a user selection to overlay the modified embedded text in a position that includes at least one of: within the original footprint of the text within a scrollable text box and within a text box outside of the image while utilizing indicators to identify the original footprint of the text.

20040210900

10841092

1. A method in a computer system having a plurality of processors for scheduling the execution of threads of a plurality of computer programs, the method comprising: accessing a schedule for at least one of the processors that specifies, for each of a series of recurring intervals, the identity of a computer program that is to be executed during the recurring interval in satisfaction of a reservation submitted on behalf of the specified computer program, and that further specifies, for at least a portion of the recurring intervals, the identity of a thread of the specified computer program that is to be executed during the recurring interval in satisfaction of a time constraint submitted on behalf of the specified thread; and iterating through the series of recurring intervals, for each recurring interval visited: if the recurring interval specifies the identity of a thread of the specified computer program that is to be executed during the recurring interval in satisfaction of a time constraint submitted on behalf of the specified thread, selecting for execution the thread whose identity is specified by the visited recurring interval, and if the recurring interval does not specify the identity of a thread of the specified computer program that is to be executed during the recurring interval in satisfaction of a time constraint submitted on behalf of the specified thread, selecting for execution a thread of the computer program whose identity is specified by the visited recurring interval, such that selecting a thread for execution are performed in a bounded amount of time that is independent of the number of threads and computer programs being scheduled.

20080069481

11532578

1. A method of handling at least one document from a plurality of financial documents, the at least one document subject to an exception, the method comprising: receiving images and data describing the plurality of financial documents; loading an image and data of the at least one document, into a document processing system; decisioning the at least one document with reference to substantially only the image and data from the at least one document; and dispatching the image and data for the at least one document in a plurality of formats subject to the decisioning.

8086487

11770994

1. A method, implemented in a computer-based information gathering system, of providing an incentive award to a user for visiting a participating web site, the method comprising: registering, at the information gathering system, a user with the information gathering system, including generating a database record to store the user's profile in a profile server, wherein the information gathering system maintains an award point account associated with the user and wherein award points are specific to the information gathering system and are redeemable for a product or a service; allocating, at the information gathering system, award points to a web site proprietor in response to a request to purchase award points, wherein the request is transmitted to a central provider operating in the information gathering system, wherein the web site proprietor operates the participating web site, wherein the participating web site is operated independently of the information gathering system; awarding, at the information gathering system, a selected amount of award points to the registered user for a visit to the participating web site in response to receiving a message from the participating web site, including updating the database record associated with the registered user to allocate the selected amount of award points to the award point account of the registered user, wherein the visit conforms to a business rule; and in response to receiving a redemption order from the registered user, wherein the redemption order requests a product or a service in exchange for a certain amount of award points: (i) placing, at the information gathering system, a purchase order corresponding to the redemption order with the web site proprietor, and (ii) automatically deducting, at the information gathering system, the certain amount of award points from the award account.

8066972

12173579

1. A method comprising: a) administering to a first mammal a pharmaceutical agent of interest; b) providing training to said first mammal and to a control mammal of the same species under conditions sufficient to produce maximal levels of long-term memory formation in said first mammal and said control mammal, wherein said maximal levels of long-term memory formation are not further increased by additional training; and c) determining whether the pharmaceutical agent of interest is capable of modulating long-term memory formation through the STAUFEN pathway by measuring the difference in long-term memory formation between the mammals in step b), and assessing modulation of STAUFEN function in the mammals in step b), wherein the modulation of STAUFEN function is selected from the group consisting of: a change in the level of STAUFEN protein, a change in the level of staufen mRNA, a change in the level of a downstream product regulated by STAUFEN protein, a difference in the translocation of STAUFEN protein into dendrites, and a difference in the distribution of neural granules.

7480634

10122763

1. In a system wherein a credit card is used to charge a purchase amount for purchases, a method for allowing a user to save a specified savings amount when using the credit card, the method comprising the computer-implemented acts of: associating the credit card with an investment account for the user, the investment account including a pooled account that aggregates funds from a plurality of users that have been issued cards associated with a savings program thereby increasing the pool of total funds that can be invested by the plurality of users issued cards associated with the savings program, the pooled account enabling each of the plurality of users issued cards associated with the savings program and that do not individually submit savings amounts sufficient to meet minimum investment amounts for registered securities to invest along with the other plurality of users issued cards associated with the savings program in order to meet the minimum investment requirements for the registered securities; receiving from the user an indication of registered security allocations, the registered security allocations indicating how any separate savings amounts submitted on behalf of the user are to be invested in corresponding registered securities associated with the established investment account; receiving an indication that the user made a purchase using the credit card for a specified purchase amount; prior to billing the indicated credit card purchase: a computer calculating a separate savings amount to loan to the user for investment in the user's indicated registered security allocations, the calculation of the separate savings amount triggered by the purchase, the separate savings amount based on the purchase amount of the purchase, the separate savings amount being less than the minimum investment amount for the user's indicated security allocations; the computer loaning the separate savings amount to the user for investment in the user's indicated registered security allocations such that the loaned savings amount can be invested on behalf of the user prior to billing for payment for the loaned savings amount from the user, wherein the loaned savings amount is charged to the credit card along with the purchase amount and not as a charge associated with a separate credit account; and the computer adding the loaned savings amount to the pooled account in the name of the user prior to receiving payment for the loaned savings amount so that the loaned savings amount can be pooled with savings amounts of the other plurality of users issued cards associated with the savings program in order to meet the minimum investment amounts for the user's indicated registered securities.

20040048627

10333234

1. A method for transmitting a message ( 611 ) in a mobile communication system ( 10 ) from an originating party ( 101 ) to a receiving mobile station ( 102 ), where a validity period ( 610 ) is associated with said message ( 611 ); characterised in the method comprising: transmitting both said message ( 611 ) and said associated validity period ( 610 ) to said receiving mobile station ( 102 ).

20060059122

10931729

1. A method for name searching within an employee records database comprising: receiving a full name as a text string; searching an employee records database for an exact match of the full name; forming a first selection group of names from the employee records database using an exact searching algorithm; forming a second selection group of names from the first selection group using a fuzzy searching algorithm; displaying the second selection group as a ranked list of names to the user; and allowing a user to select a name from the displayed ranked list of names.

20160124770

14532127

1. A parallel computing method performed by a parallel computing system comprising a plurality of central processing units (CPUs), the parallel computing method comprising: executing a main process; executing a task priority queue update process to maintain a task priority queue that ranks tasks whose results may be needed by the main process wherein the ranking is based on (i) probabilities that the task results will be needed by the main process and (ii) time limits for executing the tasks; executing tasks in parallel with the executing of the main process on CPUs not used in executing the main process and with execution order of the tasks being in accordance with the task priority queue; and storing, in a completed task results cache, results of tasks whose execution is completed on CPUs not used in executing the main process; wherein the main process is configured to retrieve completed task results from the completed task results cache when needed by the main process.

20090077536

12170893

1. A computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions for providing a language processing environment, said instructions comprising instructions for: providing at least one handle base class available for subclassing by users of the language processing environment; receiving a definition of at least one handle subclass created by subclassing the at least one handle base class; providing a single syntax for defining all classes including handle classes and non-handle classes; and storing in memory an object corresponding to an instance of the at least one handle subclass.

20160087437

14839943

1. A method for controlling a voltage in a near direct current area, wherein the method is applied in a control of an automatic voltage control system in a master station of a power system and comprises following steps: collecting measured values of parameters as initial values of prediction values of the parameters, wherein the prediction values comprise voltage prediction values of pilot buses, a voltage prediction value of a bus in a convertor station, a first active power prediction value which is a sum of active power prediction values of loads in the convertor station, a first reactive power prediction value which is a sum of reactive power prediction values of the loads in the convertor station, an input amount of capacitors and reactors in the convertor station, terminal voltage prediction values of generators participating in a voltage control, active power prediction values of the generators and reactive power prediction values of the generators; inputting the initial values into a preset control model for optimizing a model predictive control, wherein the preset control model comprises an objective function and constraint conditions, the objective function is a function established according to the voltage prediction values of the pilot buses and the terminal voltage prediction values of the generators, and configured to optimize terminal voltage setting values of generators, the constraint conditions comprise a first constraint condition of the reactive power prediction values of the generators, a second constraint condition of the voltage prediction values of the pilot buses, the voltage prediction value of the bus in the convertor station, the terminal voltage prediction values of the generators, a third constraint condition of the input amount of the capacitors and reactors in the convertor station, a fourth constraint condition of an input amount of filter capacitors under a constant reactive power mode, a fifth constraint condition of a number of actions of the capacitors and reactors and a sixth constraint condition of a system voltage, the reactive power prediction values of the generators and the input amount of the capacitors and reactors in the convertor station; solving the preset control model to obtain a solution sequence of the terminal voltage setting values of the generators within a time window; sending first values in the solution sequence to the generators, such that the voltage control in the near direct current area is realized.

9112934

13589507

1. An apparatus for managing a content delivery network to transmit media content to a user, the apparatus comprising: a request receiver configured to receive a network configuration request and network configuration information, from a service provider that provides the content, wherein the network configuration information is needed to provide a service of the service provider; a resource manager configured to manage resource information including information about available resources required for configuring the network; and a controller configured to set a plurality of network nodes for configuring a transfer path for content delivery in a content delivery overlay network, based on the resource information and the network configuration information, wherein the content is delivered from a content source to a user terminal via the network nodes along the configured transfer path.

8626489

12754180

1. A method for processing text data, the method comprising: receiving, at a processor, text data including a story; generating, at the processor, a character profile with respect to a character in the story; generating, at the processor, a narrator profile with respect to a narrator in the story; and generating, at the processor, emotion information corresponding to development of a situation of the story, the emotion information relating to the character profile, the narrator profile, emotion change information of a character in the story, and tension information of the story; wherein the character profile includes a character name, a characteristic of the character, a speech style being changed based on a function of a text-to-speech (TTS) system, a relationship with another character, a speed of speech, an intensity of speech, and a pitch of speech, and wherein the narrator profile includes a narrator name, a speech style being changed based on a function of a text-to-speech (TTS) system, a degree of applying a tension of the story, a speed of speech, an intensity of speech, and a pitch of speech.

8301320

12592716

1. A method for managing vehicle operational mode data, comprising: determining a compliance state for a vehicle traveling via a particular route or area and/or traveling during a temporal travel period which are subject to a given administrative standard, wherein the compliance state corresponds to an accrued benefit pursuant to the given administrative standard; providing user-access to information regarding a preferred consequential result that is different from the accrued benefit, which preferred consequential result correlates with one or more optional vehicle operational modes; accepting and implementing user-selection of at least one optional vehicle operational mode sufficient to attain the preferred consequential result, wherein accepting user-selection is precipitated by one or more of the following type of control actions: voice command, tactile touching, gesture, hand manipulation, foot manipulation; and confirming implementation of the at least one optional vehicle operation mode based on updated vehicle operational mode data from a vehicle monitoring or detection device.

20130178289

13810531

1. A virtual world processing apparatus for enabling interoperability between a virtual world and a real world or interoperability between virtual worlds, the virtual world processing apparatus comprising: an input unit to receive an input of sensed information sensed by a bio sensor relating to biometrics of a user in the real world; and an adapting unit to adapt the sensed information in accordance with a sensor capability associated with the bio sensor.

20120254912

13490932

1. A method, comprising: transmitting content to a first user device; receiving a first message that is intended to activate a feature related to the content; and transmitting a second message to a second user device, wherein the second message instructs the second user device to present the feature related to the content.

20150032953

13952297

1. A method for communication between a host and a plurality of tape drives of different types via a single physical control unit (CU), said method comprising: providing a plurality of model types L of tape drives, each said model type being of a different generation, and a number of tape drives Q L for each model type; issuing feature codes for a plurality N of logical control units (LCUs) for a customer for the single physical CU; entering the feature codes into the physical CU to enable configuration of N LCUs; configuring the physical CU to support N LCUs, each LCU supporting communication with a single model type and a maximum of M tape drives; based on the number of model types L and the number of tape drives for each model type Q L , mapping the model types to the N LCUs with priority given in the mapping to the newer generation model types and the model types where Q L is greater than M; and assigning individual tape drives to the LCUs based on model type.

9665565

14982365

1. A semantic similarity evaluation method, comprising: performing word vectorization processing separately on words in a first sentence and a word in a second sentence to obtain a first word vector and a second word vector, wherein the first sentence comprises at least two words, wherein the first word vector comprises word vectors of all words in the first sentence, wherein the second sentence comprises at least one word, and wherein the second word vector comprises word vectors of all words in the second sentence; performing, in a preset word vector compression order, compression coding processing on the first word vector according to a first compression coding parameter to obtain a first statement vector; using, when the second sentence comprises one word, the second word vector as a second statement vector; performing, in the preset word vector compression order when the second sentence comprises at least two words, compression coding processing on the second word vector according to a second compression coding parameter to obtain a second statement vector; determining a vector distance between the first statement vector and the second statement vector by obtaining, by calculating a formula sim ⁡ ( υ 1 , υ 2 ) = ( υ 1 - υ 2 ) ⁢ ( υ 1 - υ 2 )  υ 1 * υ 2  , the vector distance between the first statement vector and the second statement vector, wherein υ 1 is the first statement vector, υ 2 is the second statement vector, and sim(υ 1 ,υ 2 ) is the vector distance; evaluating a semantic similarity between the first sentence and the second sentence according to the vector distance; and providing a translated text with the first sentence to a user when the semantic similarity meets a preset condition.

3984923

05503782

1. An audio-visual system for presenting a sequence of questions having selectable correct and incorrect answers to a person for detecting possible learning handicaps, said system comprising: an audio-visual station having a portion for viewing a sequence of visual information and a portion for listening to a sequence of associated audio information; said audio and visual information providing said questions having the selectable answers; means for presenting a sequence of visual information and associated audio information to said person at said audio-visual station; person activatable means by which an answer selected by said person to presented audio-visual information may be indicated to said system; means for detecting any of a plurality of abnormal responses by said person to presented audio-visual information including means for detecting a failure by said person to indicate an answer selection within a predetermined time interval and means for detecting an incorrect answer selection; and means operative upon detection of an abnormal response and operative in association with said presenting means for altering the sequence of presentation of the visual and associated audio information in accordance with characteristics of the detected abnormal response, including means for providing encouragement information to said person in response to detection of a failure by said person to indicate an answer selection after said predetermined time interval, and means for causing the presentation of an indication of a correct answer upon detection of an incorrect answer.