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8285312

11567260

1. A method for deriving presence information of a mobile device at a presence node in a wireless system, the method comprising: analyzing a message sent from the mobile device to determine whether a message type is interactive or non-interactive, the message type being interactive when message generation is user-initiated and the message type being non-interactive when the message is automatically generated by the mobile device, the message including a time value indicating an amount of time since the mobile device was actively used, the message including added information, the added information being a single bit to indicate if the message is interactive or not interactive; assigning a connected state to the mobile device when the message sent from the mobile device is determined to be a non-interactive message and when the time value indicates that a predetermined amount of time has elapsed since the mobile device was actively used, the connected state indicating that the mobile device is currently connected to the wireless system but has not been actively used for at least the predetermined amount of time; assigning an active state to the mobile device when the message sent from the mobile device is determined to be an interactive message; and assigning a disconnected state to the mobile device when no messages are sent from the mobile device during a timeout period.

20100019508

12502876

1. An inverter generator having a generator unit that is driven by an internal combustion engine whose throttle valve is moved by an actuator and generates alternating current, a converter that is connected to the generator unit and converts the alternating current to direct current, an inverter that is connected to the converter and converts the direct current to alternating current with switching elements to supply to an electrical load, comprising: a voltage/current detector that detects voltage and current supplied to the electrical load; a power factor calculator that calculates a power factor based on the detected voltage and the current; a load power estimator that estimates a power of the load based on at least the detected current and the calculated power factor; a desired engine speed determiner that determines a desired speed of the engine based on the estimated power of the load; and an actuator controller that controls operation of the actuator such that an engine speed becomes equal to the desired engine speed.

8706551

10923034

1. A method performed by one or more server devices, the method comprising: providing, by one or more processors associated with the one or more server devices, a secret key to an advertiser; receiving, from the advertiser, a request associated with a conversion, the conversion being defined by the advertiser as one of one or more particular user actions; sending, to the advertiser, information comprising a first identifier and a first hash value computed using the secret key; receiving, from at least one client device, a plurality of conversion requests; generating, by the one or more processors, a conversion event message based on each conversion request of the plurality of conversion requests, each conversion event message comprising a second identifier and a second hash value computed using the secret key; matching, by the one or more processors, the first identifier with the second identifier, and the first hash value with the second hash value; detecting, by the one or more processors, at least one of the plurality of conversion requests as at least one valid conversion corresponding to a user action, based on the first identifier matching the second identifier and based on the first hash value matching the second hash value; detecting, by the one or more processors, at least one of the plurality of conversion requests as at least one invalid conversion corresponding to a user action when at least one of: the first identifier does not match the second identifier, or the first hash value does not match the second hash value; generating, by the one or more processors and in response to detecting that at least one of the plurality of conversion requests is at least one valid conversion and at least one of the plurality of conversion requests is at least one invalid conversion, one or more reports that include statistics for the advertiser based on each of the conversion requests, including the at least one valid conversion request and the at least one invalid conversion request, related to at least one advertisement of the advertiser; and providing, by the one or more processors, the one or more reports to the advertiser.

20160246935

15044825

1. A method for adjusting a therapy parameter for a medical device, the method comprising: presenting, by a computing device a range of available parameter values for the therapy parameter via a circular track; indicating, by the computing device, a present parameter value for the therapy parameter via the circular track; receiving, by the computing device, via a user interface (UI), user input specifying a target parameter value for the therapy parameter; indicating, by the computing device, the target parameter value in conjunction with the present parameter value via the circular track; receiving by the computing device, via the UI, user input activating an adjustment from the present parameter value to the target parameter value; and in response to receiving the user input activating the adjustment, controlling, by the computing device, the medical device to adjust the therapy parameter value from the present parameter value to the target parameter value.

20070100520

11261929

1. A technical information management device configured for implementation with a vehicle diagnostic tool, comprising: a database containing vehicle technical information; an information manager configured to access the database and retrieve a segment of the information; a user interface builder configured to prepare an information display including the segment of the information; and a component selection feature configured to allow a user to select a vehicle component for which to retrieve information, wherein the component selection is stored throughout a component functional test session, during which the information manager is further configured to retrieve only information corresponding to the component selection.

20130191086

13356760

1. A method comprising: determining an anticipated usage pattern for an information technology system; determining a desired service level for the information technology system; determining a utilization saturation point for the information technology system; selecting a number of servers in the information technology system; calculating, with a processor, one or more performance characteristics for the information technology system based on the anticipated usage pattern, the desired service level, the utilization saturation point, and the number of servers; and comparing the one or more performance characteristics for the information technology system with one or more desired performance characteristics for the information technology system.

20060190448

11064158

1. A method for creating navigation views, comprising: tracking pages navigated by a user through a site to provide tracking data; generating a complete site view displaying all pages in the site; generating a reduced site view based on the tracking data and at least one filtering parameter, wherein the reduced site view displays a set of the pages navigated by the user, filtered by the at least one filtering parameter; and creating a custom navigation view based on the reduced site view.

8762406

13309466

1. A computer-implemented method comprising steps of: receiving, at a database server, a data request from a client; in response to the data request: selecting, from a database, actual data that satisfies criteria specified by the data request; retrieving the actual data from the database; the database server redacting the actual data, thereby generating redacted data, using a redaction policy that is mapped, via a stored mapping, to an identifier of the client; wherein the redaction policy is stored in a data dictionary of said database, said data dictionary being stored along with said actual data in said database; returning the redacted data to the client as a reply to the data request; and wherein the steps are performed by one or more computing devices.

7692399

10405774

1. A method of controlling a DC motor, comprising: determining a thermal power dissipation from a motor input and a motor velocity, wherein the motor input comprises an applied voltage; determining a motor temperature based on a thermal model using the thermal power dissipation; and adjusting a usage of the motor, taking the motor temperature into account, wherein determining the thermal power dissipation from the motor input and the motor velocity comprises: determining the applied voltage to the DC motor based on the motor input; determining a voltage generated by the DC motor based on a motor back-EMF constant and the motor velocity; and determining the thermal power dissipation based on the applied voltage, the voltage generated by the DC motor, a known motor winding resistance, and a known motor driver circuit resistance.

20170024963

15289667

1. A method comprising: during play of an instance of a game, a gaming server device using a first alias to represent activity of a client entity to the client entity, while using a second alias to represent the activity of the client entity to all other non-server entities involved in the first instance of the game; recording, by the gaming server device, a set of events occurring during the first instance of the game, wherein the events represent the client entity with both the first alias and the second alias; and after completion of the first instance of the game, providing, by the gaming server device, a version of the set of events to all of the other non-server entities involved in the instance of the game, wherein the version of the set of events uses the second alias to represent the activity of the client entity, and wherein the gaming server device does not reveal the first alias to any of the other non-server entities.

20040243664

10858684

1. A method for communications in connection with a computer-based notification system, comprising: initiating a notification communication to a personal communications device associated with a party; and during the notification communication, receiving a response from the party's personal communications device, indicating that the party associated with the personal communications device has received notice.

7472822

11233704

1. A method for adding value to a customer account, comprising: distributing to a merchant an identifier associated with a value for distribution to a customer, the identifier being redeemable with a plurality of providers, including a specific provider, the identifier also being usable to add the value to an account associated with a first communication device, the account being with the specific provider; receiving at a central processor a request to activate the identifier from the merchant, the request resulting from a purchase of the identifier; activating the identifier at the central processor and sending an activation notification to the merchant; receiving at the central processor a request via short message service (SMS) to add the value to the account associated with the first communication device, the request being received from a specific communication device, the request being input by a user of the specific communication device, wherein the specific communication device may be the first communication device, and wherein the specific communication device facilitates insertion of value into the account associated with the first communication device, the request comprising: the identifier associated with the value; and account identification information associated with the account associated with the first communication device, wherein body of the SMS message comprises the account identification information; passing to the specific communication device a SMS message to confirm that the request was received and to verify that the value will be added to the account associated with the first communication device; upon receiving a confirmation message at the central processor from the specific communication device verifying the account, identifying at the central processor the value associated with the identifier based on the request; identifying at the central processor the specific provider and the account associated with the first communications device based on the SMS message; causing the value to be added to the account; and passing to the first communication device a confirmation that the value was added to the account.

8886705

10609921

1. A system for distributed data storage, the system comprising: a plurality of computing nodes, wherein each node of the plurality of computing nodes includes memory and one or more processors, the each node of the plurality of computing nodes is configured to execute storage management software that causes the system to converge toward a system-wide storage goal, wherein the storage management software is configured to implement role-based addressing such that the plurality of nodes do not need to maintain information regarding a global state of the system, the memory of each respective node of the plurality of computing nodes stores program instructions executable by the one or more processors of the respective node to determine a local state of the respective node, and at least one node of the plurality of computing nodes is associated with a corresponding exclusive role of a plurality of exclusive roles and at least two nodes of the plurality of computing nodes are associated with a shared role; and a goal-oriented storage manager configured to select a first node group from a plurality of node groups, wherein the first node group corresponds to the local state of the respective node, and the first node group is associated with a resource role, add the respective node to the first node group, receive information regarding each node group of the plurality of node groups, determine states of other nodes of the plurality of computing nodes based on the information regarding each node group, and depending upon the local state of the respective node and the states of the other nodes relative to the system-wide storage goal, perform an action to modify the local state of the respective node to conform the local state to the system-wide storage goal such that an optimal state for the distributed data storage system is identified, wherein the optimal state is defined by at least one goal metric, the plurality of exclusive roles are defined to represent a range of utilization of a plurality of node resources, and the distributed data storage system converges towards the optimal state based on the system-wide storage goal.

20080114547

11579175

1. A method for determining total hydrocarbons carbon density value (CDV) in a multiphase environment, the method characterized by the steps of: logging a wellbore for information, including carbon/oxygen log data; using the information from the wellbore to calculate apparent individual hydrocarbon saturations independently of individual hydrocarbons CDVs; calculating a total hydrocarbons saturation using the apparent individual hydrocarbon saturations; and determining the total hydrocarbons CDV using the total hydrocarbons saturation calculated from the apparent individual hydrocarbon saturations and the carbon/oxygen log data.

20080005779

11595626

1. A computer-readable recording medium storing an access rights management program for managing access rights to an electronic document, the access rights management program causing a computer to function as: access policy-storing means for storing a first access policy containing information on a first distributee to which the electronic document is distributed, and information on second distributees, which is indicative of a range within which the first distributes is permitted to distribute the electronic document, as well as information on use rights that permit the second distributees to use the electronic document with a defined scope of authority; storage means for storing a distribution target indicative of the second distributees; access policy-confirming means operable when a distributee specifying request for permission to grant the use rights to a specific distributes is received from the first distributee, to refer to the distribution target to confirm whether or not the specific distributee is included in the second distributees; registration means operable when it is confirmed by said access policy-confirming means that the specific distributes is included in the second distributees, to register a second access policy associating the specific distributee with the information on the use rights, in said access policy-storing means; and use rights-confirming means operable when a use request for permission of use of the electronic document is received from the specific distributes, to refer to the second access policy to permit the specific distributes to use the electronic document using the use rights.

9495646

14297595

1. A method comprising: determining a system-independent statistical model; determining a healthy system model based on data representing vibrations of multiple healthy dynamic systems and the system-independent statistical model and speaker recognition techniques; obtaining vibration data from a particular dynamic system; and determining whether the particular dynamic system is healthy based on the vibration data from the particular dynamic system and the system-independent statistical model and the healthy system model and speaker recognition techniques.

8994698

13485535

1. A method, comprising: performing, by a computer: modeling a brush tool representing an erodible media as a height map and the brush tool model including a stiffness parameter; collecting information about a user manipulation of a stylus representing a stroke made on a virtual canvas with the brush tool; determining a mark to be made on the virtual canvas dependent on the brush tool model, the collected information, and the stiffness parameter; rendering the determined mark; determining a change in the height map of the brush tool due to the stroke dependent on the brush tool model, the collected information, and the stiffness parameter; and rendering one or more subsequent marks in response to manipulation of the brush tool dependent on the determined change in the height map.

9432407

12978981

1. A system, comprising: one or more memory units; and one or more processing units operable to: access instantiation request data for establishing, from a plurality of computing resources available for use by a plurality of entities, a subset of the plurality of computing resources to be designated for use by a first entity in association with processing and storing intercepted communication data associated with the first entity in a manner compliant with a standard, wherein the standard provides a framework for providing the intercepted communication data to a second entity, the instantiation request data specifying the standard; determine configuration data according to the accessed instantiation request data, the configuration data for configuring the subset of the plurality of computing resources designated for use by the first entity to implement functionality for complying with the standard; configure the subset of the plurality of computing resources designated for use by the first entity according to the determined configuration data; receive intercepted communication data associated with the first entity at the subset of the plurality of computing resources, wherein the intercepted communication data is intercepted by the first entity from a communication session and the instantiation request data specifies a type of the communication session; convert the intercepted communication data from a first format to a second format via the subset of the plurality of computing resources, wherein the second format is compliant with the standard; store, in the one or more memory units, the intercepted communication data in the second format, wherein the one or more memory units are part of the subset of the plurality of computing resources designated for use by the first entity; store, in one or more memory units, audit data providing a record of a chain of custody of the intercepted communication data, the audit data associated with a conversion of the intercepted communication data from the first format to the second format; and provide access to a portion of the stored intercepted communication data in the second format to the second entity, the second entity comprising an entity authorized to access the intercepted communication data.

9015198

12785993

1. A virtual data storage system comprising: at least one computing device operative to execute a virtual storage application, the virtual storage application configured to: generate at least one virtual storage layer in operable communication with at least one logical storage layer configured to logically store a plurality of data objects within at least one logical storage container, the logical storage layer being in operable communication with at least one physical storage layer configured to physically store the plurality of data objects; generate a plurality of virtual containers within the at least one virtual storage layer; store at least one object reference in at least one of the plurality of virtual containers, the at least one object reference configured to reference at least one of the plurality of data objects; and provide access to at least one of the plurality of data objects responsive to access of the at least one object reference, wherein access to the at least one object reference is based on an access policy of a virtual container storing the at least one object reference.

10037024

14997854

1. An automated method for identifying quality-predictive features of a repeatable process, the method comprising: measuring raw time series data during the repeatable process using a set of sensors, wherein the raw time series data describes multiple parameters of the repeatable process; receiving, via a first controller, the raw time series data from the set of sensors; stochastically generating candidate features from the raw time series data using the first controller, wherein the candidate features are predictive of a quality of a work piece manufactured via the repeatable process; determining, via a genetic or evolutionary programming module employing mathematical tools with a symbolic manipulator for stochastic optimization, a predictive features set of the generated candidate features that is more predictive of the quality of the work piece than a predictive candidate features set of the generated candidate features; and executing a control action with respect to the repeatable process via a second controller using only the predictive features set, the control action including determining the quality of the work piece by applying a rule to the predictive features set, and modifying at least one of the work piece and a parameter of the repeatable process based on the determined quality.

20070285305

11811016

1. An obstacle detection system for a vehicle capable of detecting objects as obstacles existing around a vehicle based on a detection signal irradiated toward and reflected from the objects per predetermined detecting period of scanning the detection signal, comprising: an object sensor configured to detect existence/non-existence and a position of an object within a predetermined detection range outside of the vehicle based on the detection signal received; probability distribution determining means configured to determine an existence probability distribution of the obstacle in a detecting direction toward the obstacle from the object sensor, and a maximum value in the existence probability distribution being used as a maximum probability of position of the obstacle, and the existence probability distribution having a range gradually decreased before and after the maximum probability of position of the obstacle in the detecting direction; primary probability relationship making means configured to make a primary existence probability relationship representing a primary probability of existence of the obstacle in a horizontal plane coordinate using a plurality of the existence probability distributions throughout the entire of the predetermined detection range; combining means configured to make a combined existence probability relationship by combining the primary existence probability relationship obtained in a current detecting period and a secondary existence probability relationship estimated based on a previous detection signal in a previous detecting period corresponding to the primary existence probability relationship of the current detecting period; speed calculating means configured to calculate an estimated moving speed of the obstacle during a period from the detecting period of two times before to the previous detecting period based on the combined existence probability relationship obtained in the previous detecting period and the combined existence probability relationship obtained in the detecting period of two times before; and secondary probability relationship making means configured to make the secondary existence probability relationship based on the estimated moving speed of the obstacle and the combined existence probability relationship during the previous detecting period.

20060293148

11514070

1. A power transmission device for a motor vehicle, comprising: a torque biasing system having a clutch pack disposed between first and second rotary members; a motor operable to manipulate engagement of said clutch pack based on a control signal, said motor having a position sensor operable to generate a position signal, a temperature sensor operable to generate a temperature signal and a current sensor operable to generate a current signal, and a control system operable to generate said control signal based on a torque command and a calculated torque, wherein said calculated torque is determined based on a model of said torque biasing system, and wherein said calculated torque is determined based on at least one of said position signal, said temperature signal and said current signal.

20120005132

12826962

1. A computer-based method for predicting escalations for web-based searching, comprising: extracting one or more escalation features from a webpage using a processor in a computing device; running the one or more escalation features through a classifier trained to estimate a likelihood of escalation; and generating an escalation likelihood result from running the trained classifier, the escalation likelihood result comprising one of: an estimation that a subsequent search query will comprise an escalation when compared to a previous search query; and an estimation that a subsequent webpage selection will comprise an escalation when compared to a previous webpage selection.

20110153577

13040220

1. A query processing method, performed by a search engine server system, comprising: receiving, from a client system distinct from the search engine server system, a search query having one or more query terms; identifying a set of documents in accordance with the search query; generating a content snippet corresponding to content in a respective document of the identified set of documents, the content snippet associated with at least one query term of the one or more query terms in the search query; and returning to the client system a response to the search query, the response including information identifying at least the respective document and including the content snippet of the respective document; wherein generating the content snippet comprises: receiving a set of first token identifiers from a compressed document repository, the set of first token identifiers having a range of positions in the compressed document repository corresponding to positions at which a subset of the respective document is stored in the repository; performing a first decompression operation by applying one or more first mappings to the set of first token identifiers to provide a set of second token identifiers; and performing a second decompression operation by applying a second mapping to the set of second token identifiers to recover uncompressed content comprising a portion of the respective document.

20050144624

11059894

1. A method for the automated implementation of a hierarchical event relationship network for correlation analysis in a distributed computing environment, comprising the acts of: inputting event handling information for each event type to be monitored; customizing a plurality of rule templates for each event type within an event source; verifying that the plurality of event relationship network rules do not violate an event protocol; generating a hierarchical class definition structure and naming structure from the plurality of event relationship network rules for each event source; and generating a plurality of event management rules for each event type automatically from the event relationship network rules and the rule templates.

8078325

11982001

1. A method, comprising: receiving a request for an additional period of heating ventilation and air conditioning system services from a requesting system user, the requesting system user being one of a plurality of system users; maintaining a data structure in an on board memory of a programmable thermostat, the data structure including a list of time entries, each time entry associated with one of the plurality of system users; and updating the data structure by adding a duration in units of time to the time associated with the requesting system user.

9128773

13533517

1. A method for correlating events in data processing resources processing a workload, comprising: starting, by one or more processors, a provider side monitoring gateway on a provider side data processing system in a first cloud, wherein the provider side monitoring gateway is located on a provider side of a firewall that separates the provider side from a consumer side of a hybrid cloud, and wherein the provider side monitoring gateway collects provider side monitored data from a provider processing monitoring agent associated with provider data processing resources; starting, by the one or more processors, a consumer side monitoring gateway on a consumer side data processing system in a second cloud, wherein the consumer side monitoring gateway is located on the consumer side of the firewall that separates the provider side from the consumer side of the hybrid cloud, and wherein the consumer side monitoring gateway provides the provider side monitored data from the provider side monitoring gateway to a consumer side monitoring infrastructure within the consumer side data processing system, and wherein the consumer side monitoring gateway collects consumer side monitored data from a consumer processing monitoring agent associated with consumer data processing resources; establishing, by the one or more processors, a secure connection through the firewall between the provider side monitoring gateway associated with the provider data processing resources and the consumer side monitoring gateway associated with the consumer data processing resources, wherein the secure connection through the firewall enables the consumer side monitoring gateway to pull the provider side monitored data corresponding to the provider processing resources from the provider side monitoring gateway and prevents the provider side monitoring gateway to push data through the firewall into the consumer side monitoring gateway to maintain security of the consumer data processing resources; pulling, by the one or more processors, the provider side monitored data from the provider side monitoring gateway into the consumer side monitoring gateway using the secure connection; pushing, by the one or more processors, the provider side monitored data pulled into the consumer side monitoring gateway and the consumer side monitored data to the consumer side monitoring infrastructure; detecting, by the one or more processors, an occurrence of an event that defines a pattern over a specified time period in the provider side monitored data associated with the provider side processing resources in the first cloud and the consumer side monitored data associated with the consumer side processing resources in the second cloud using the consumer side monitoring infrastructure of the consumer side processing resources; sending, by the one or more processors, the event as input to an event correlation and aggregation function that aggregates and correlates received events over periods of time; determining, by the one or more processors, that a series of received events has occurred indicating the consumer side processing resources and the provider side processing resources are in an overload or underutilization condition using the event correlation and aggregation function; responsive to the one or more processors determining that the series of received events has occurred, generating, by the one or more processors, an event based service request to modify a resource configuration of the hybrid cloud using a service desk ticketing function; sending, by the one or more processors, the event based service request to a workload manager that accesses the consumer side processing resources and the provider side processing resources to modify the resource configuration of the hybrid cloud to respond to the overload or underutilization condition; and generating, by the one or more processors, a service fulfillment response to the event based service request using the workload manager and sending the service fulfillment response to the service desk ticketing function.

20170156657

15403549

1. A computer-implemented method of assessing a mental state of a subject, the method comprising: receiving, as input, a heartbeat record of the subject, which comprises a sequence of heartbeat data samples obtained over a time span which includes a pre-sleep period, a sleep period having a sleep onset time and a sleep conclusion time, and a post-sleep period; identifying, within the heartbeat record, at least the sleep onset time and the sleep conclusion time; accessing a knowledge base comprising data obtained via expert evaluation of a training set of subjects and embodying a computational model of a relationship between mental state and heart rate characteristics; using information in the knowledge base, applying the computational model to compute at least one metric associated with the mental state of the subject, and to generate an indication of mental state based upon the metric; and providing, as output, the indication of mental state.

20030033039

09919650

1. In a design tool, a method of presenting a schedule for a design including one or more loops, the method comprising: displaying in a Gantt chart a top-level schedule; and displaying a first loop schedule for a first loop, wherein timing within the first loop schedule is presented relative to the first loop schedule.

20130331778

13828958

1. An ambulatory infusion pump, comprising: a housing; a delivery mechanism at least partially contained within the housing and adapted to facilitate delivery of fluid to a user; a user interface adapted to receive user inputs; a memory for storing operating parameters and data relating to operation of the delivery mechanism; and a processor disposed in the housing and configured to process user inputs received at the user interface and to control the delivery mechanism based on the user inputs, the processor further configured to: place the device in an operating mode; control the delivery mechanism in response to user inputs received while in the operating mode; detect pump: parameter and data values when the user inputs are received; and write the user inputs received and pump parameter and data values into the memory.

4785169

06939905

1. A method of correcting errors in the position of the earth's horizon as sensed by a horizon sensor caused by radiance variations which occur in accordance with the geographic location and season when the horizon sensor views the earth comprising the steps of: viewing the earth with a first and second adjacent detector means in a horizon sensor mounted in a satellite orbiting the earth, determining a first-order indication of the position of the earth's horizon from a first relationship between detector signals generated by said first and second detector means, determining the radiance of the earth horizon using a different relationship between the detector signals generated by said first and second detector means, computing a second-order correction to the earth's horizon position from a preestablished function of the earth's horizon radiance which includes establishing a functional relationship between the secondary order correction to the earth's horizon position from a set of horizon profiles in the carbon dioxide band for different latitudes and seasons, and deriving a corrected earth horizon position by applying said second-order correction to said first-order indication of the earth horizon position.

20100070899

12558304

1. A computer-readable storage medium storing a plurality of instructions for controlling a processor, the plurality of instructions comprising: instructions that cause the processor to identify, from a set of content elements contained by a web page loaded in a browser, a first content element to be made sharable; and instructions that cause the processor to make the first content element sharable.

20090192021

12010337

1. A control method of a exercise machine, the control method comprising: setting personal physical parameters in the exercise machine; receiving a mode selection command; determining whether the exercise machine being operated in either an automatic operating mode or a manual operating mode; entering the automatic operating mode; receiving a program selection command and selecting one of multiple training programs being stored in the exercise machine; generating an automatic operating command based on the personal physical parameters and the selected training program; and outputting the automatic operating command to activate the exercise machine based on the automatic operating command.

20100082303

12562866

1. A method of automatically generating a simulation model for evaluating performance characteristics of an automotive propulsion system that includes a plurality of subsystems, the method comprising: capturing automotive propulsion information from a first simulation environment indicative of an existing simulation model characteristic of an associated automotive propulsion system, the system including a plurality of automotive subsystems and at least one level; converting the automotive propulsion information from a first format to a second format; storing the automotive propulsion information in the second format in at least one file; selecting a plurality of subsystems for inclusion into a second simulation model, the plurality of subsystems being characterized in the at one least file; converting the automotive propulsion information from the second format to at least a portion of a third format; building the second simulation model in a second simulation environment from the information; and analyzing performance characteristics of the constructed simulation model, thereby enabling determination of a desired form of the automotive propulsion system.

8667381

12053386

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: modifying with a computer one or more elements of an executable block diagram comprising a plurality of elements to produce a modified block diagram; creating a first change record and a second change record, the first change record and the second change record including one or more change entries, the one or more change entries associated with the one or more modified elements, the first change record and the second change record further identifying one or more modifications applied to one or more elements to produce the one or more modified elements; receiving one or more commentaries related to the one or more modifications; associating at least one of the one or more commentaries with at least one of the one or more change entries in the first change record and the second change record; associating the first change record and one or more unchanged first elements with a first revision of the block diagram; associating the second change record and one or more unchanged second elements with a second revision of the block diagram; maintaining a first selection of the first revision of the block diagram while concurrently receiving a second selection of the second revision of the block diagram; identifying differences between the first selected revision of the block diagram and the second selected revision of the block diagram, wherein both the first selected revision of the block diagram and the second selected revision of the block diagram are concurrently selected; selecting indications for displaying the identified differences in the selected revisions; displaying the selected indications; displaying concurrently at least a portion of: the first revision of the block diagram, the first revision including: one or more modified first elements associated with the first change record, one or more unchanged first elements, and one or more first commentaries of the one or more commentaries, the one or more first commentaries proximate to the displayed one or more modified first elements; the second revision of the block diagram, the second revision including: one or more modified second elements associated with the second change record, one or more unchanged second elements, and one or more second commentaries of the one or more commentaries, the one or more second commentaries proximate to the displayed one or more modified second elements; and concurrently executing the first revision of the block diagram and the second revision of the block diagram, wherein said displaying the selected indications comprises concurrently displaying results of the execution of the selected revisions.

20160239350

14620591

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: distributing a load of a task to a first node in a cluster of nodes using a routing table; storing information to indicate the first node from the cluster of nodes is assigned to perform the task; detecting a failure condition for the first node; and moving the task to a second node from the cluster of nodes to perform the task for the first node upon occurrence of the failure condition.

20180063666

15249497

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: obtaining a model representing a system, wherein the model is a computerized digital model, wherein the system is a real world physical system; receiving an indication of a physical component of the system being subject to engagement by a user; automatically determining a model component corresponding to the physical component; and controlling an interaction of the user with the model component performed via a mobile device operated by the user based on at least one of the model and data obtained through engagement with the physical component.

9330356

13875234

1. A method of generating machine executable instructions configured to operate a parallel network via a computerized processing apparatus, the method comprising: based at least in part on an evaluation of a code element of an integrated network design comprising a general purpose language portion and a network description portion by the processing apparatus, causing generation of: responsive to at least an indication by the evaluation that the element corresponds to the general purpose language portion of the network design, a first plurality of machine executable instructions; and responsive to at least an indication by the evaluation that the element corresponds to the network description portion of the network design, a second plurality of machine executable instructions; wherein: individual ones of the second plurality of machine executable instructions are configured to be executed by the processing apparatus; the second plurality of machine executable instructions is implemented in a specific hardware platform of the parallel network and comprises a reference to at least one instruction of the first plurality of instructions; the code element comprises the network description portion and the general purpose language portion associated with the network description portion; the general purpose language portion comprises a network object definition; the network object definition characterized by at least a first memory location configured to store a reference to the code element corresponding to the general purpose language portion of the network description; and the network description portion comprises an instantiation of at least one network object configured based on the network object definition.

8443049

10923334

1. A method for processing an incoming message for delivery to a recipient, the message originating from a source, comprising the steps of: a) determining a trust score for said incoming message based on a messaging pattern of messages from the source, the messaging pattern comprising data relating to the following: (1) a number of messages sent by the source, (2) a number of messages received by the source, (3) where the message is a phone call an average length of phone calls made by the source, (4) where the message is a phone call an average length of phone calls received by the source, (5) where the message is an electronic message a ratio of electronic messages sent by the source to electronic messages received by the source; b) obtaining at least one threshold trust score based on a type of the incoming message, said threshold trust score being associated with a message processing instruction; and c) performing processing of said incoming message in accordance with said trust score, said threshold trust score and said associated message processing instruction.

20120215337

13033413

1. A method, comprising: gathering advanced process control (APC) data from a subset of available wafers and a subset of available processing chambers; establishing a matrix that contains a plurality of cells, the cells each corresponding to one of the available wafers and one of the available processing chambers, wherein the establishing the matrix includes partially filling the matrix by populating cells for which the APC data has been gathered; determining a plurality of chamber-coverage-rate (CCR) parameters associated with the matrix; optimizing the CCR parameters through an iteration process to obtain optimized CCR parameters; and predicting an APC data value for a designated cell of the matrix based on the optimized CCR parameters, the designated cell being an empty cell before the predicting and being populated by the predicting.

9035958

12722347

1. A scanning control apparatus which is configured to communicate with a server computer via a network, and which is configured to cause a scanner to scan a paper document, the scanning control apparatus comprising: a first receiving unit configured to receive, from the server computer via the network, user interface information which provides a user interface for enabling a user to designate a scan parameter to be used for scanning of the paper document; a display unit configured to display the user interface based on the user interface information received from the server computer via the network; a first sending unit configured to send, to the server computer via the network, the scan parameter designated by the user via the displayed user interface; a second receiving unit configured to receive, from the server computer via the network, a scanning command to cause the scanner to scan the paper document, the received scanning command being based on the scan parameter sent by the first sending unit; and a control unit configured to cause the scanner to scan the paper document in accordance with the received scanning command, to generate electronic data.

20030101258

09995121

1. A method for monitoring replication latency in a computer system comprising a plurality of servers connected by a plurality of data links, and wherein the servers periodically replicate object updates with one another and maintain an update sequence number that is increased upon update to the server's replica of a database, the method comprising: first maintaining, by each of the plurality of servers, a timestamp that is posted upon each update to the server's database; second maintaining, by each of the plurality of servers, a replica partner vector table that includes for each other server from which the server replicates, the update sequence number of such other server at a time of a most recent replication from such other server or the timestamp of the last successful replication attempt with such other server; initiating, by a local server, replication with a remote server by transmitting a copy of the replica partner vector table of the local server to the remote server; comparing, by the local server, the update sequence numbers and timestamps in the replica partner vector table received from the local server to the update sequence numbers and timestamps in the replica partner vector table of the remote server; updating, by the local server, the replica partner vector table received from the local server; transmitting, by the remote server, a copy of the updated replica partner vector table and object updates to the local server; improving, by the local server, upon receiving the updated replica partner vector from the remote server, update sequence numbers or timestamps in the partner vector table of the local server; and calculating, by the local server, a difference between the timestamp for each server in the replica partner vector and a current time.

20170262190

15609572

1. A method comprising: identifying, by a computer processor of a computing system, representations for software activities with respect to a file system, wherein said software activities are associated with software of an endpoint computing system linked to said file system comprised by a disk storage device; defining, by said computer processor, objects associated with said file system, wherein said objects are associated with functions and features of said software activities, wherein said objects impact available free space on a logical disk of said disk storage device; logically linking, by said computer processor, each software activity of said software activities with at least one associated object of said objects, wherein said objects logically linked to said software activities define a behavior of an associated software activity causing changes to associated objects on said file system; populating, by said processor, said logical disk with said objects logically linked to said software activities; periodically monitoring, by said processor, a size of said objects; determining, by said computer processor based on results of said periodically monitoring, an amount of disk space of said logical disk of said disk storage device occupied by each object of said objects, wherein said determining said amount of disk space comprises: tracking changes associated with properties of said objects, wherein said properties comprise object name properties, object file system paths, object patterns and object associated metadata; and tracking interaction types between said software activities and said objects, wherein said interactions comprise object based: creation interactions, modification interactions, access interactions, deletion interactions; analyzing, by said computer processor, an impact of each object of said objects with respect to an amount of available free disk space of said logical disk of said disk storage device, wherein said analyzing comprises determining that available storage space in said logical disk falls below a pre-defined limit; and determining, by said computer processor based on results of said linking and said analyzing, a specific cause for said file system exceeding said available free space.

7770146

11436613

1. A method comprising: defining, at service provider computer system comprising at least one processor, a meta-model describing at least a core service and a compound service, the core service supporting a fine granularity of operations that allows single operation manipulation of as little as one attribute of a requested service without accessing other attributes of the service, and the compound service supporting a large granularity of operations that allows single operation manipulation of all attributes or a set of attributes but is prevented from individually accessing the attributes of the service; creating a model for the core service based on the meta-model, the model providing a service-specific model access interface corresponding to the core service; implementing the core service on the service provider computer system based on the model; implementing the compound service on the service provider; providing, at the service provider computer system, a generic access interface on the service provider computer to provide, for the service consumer, access to the compound service and to a second core service for which no model has been created; implementing a new core service on the service provider computer system; and configuring a repository storing the meta-data on the service provider computer system to make the new core service available to the service consumer.

8145845

11606494

1. A computer system implemented method comprising: receiving from a client a request for data stored in a lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) repository that is coupled to an LDAP directory server, wherein the request pertains to a virtual LDAP attribute of at least one entry in the LDAP repository; determining, by the computer system that the virtual LDAP attribute relating to the request is indexed in an LDAP index in the LDAP directory server; determining whether the LDAP index has an expired time-to-live indicator corresponding to the virtual LDAP attribute relating to the request; returning the data to the client in response to a determination that the LDAP index does not have an expired time-to-live indicator corresponding to the virtual LDAP attribute; and rebuilding the LDAP index in response to a determination that the LDAP index has an expired time-to-live indicator corresponding to the virtual LDAP attribute relating to the request.

8102858

12499543

1. A reorder engine for reordering a plurality of out-of-order data items, received from a plurality of sources, to correspond to a transmitted order from each of the plurality of sources, the reorder engine comprising: a plurality of sets of context memories operatively coupled to a plurality of pipelined stages, where one of the plurality of sets of context memories stores state information associated with a state of reordering of data items transmitted by one of the plurality of sources; and a pipeline that includes the plurality of pipelined stages, the pipeline to: receive a data item, determine a particular source, of the plurality of sources, from which the data item was transmitted, based on source identification information obtained from the data item or based on source identification information read from one or more context memories of the plurality of sets of context memories, identify a particular set of context memories, of the plurality of context memories, based on the determination of the particular source, of the plurality of sources, and determine a position for the data item, relative to other data items transmitted by the particular source, of the plurality of sources, based on particular state information obtained from at least one context memory of the particular set of context memories, and order the data item, based on the determined position for the data item, with respect to the other data items transmitted by the particular source of the plurality of sources.

8613094

13717240

1. A method, comprising: in an application distribution server: performing, by the server, an application distribution process for an application, wherein the application distribution process comprises a plurality of phases that comprise a developer account creation phase, a risk assessment phase, an application upload phase, an application publication phase, an application promotion phase and an application download phase in sequence; detecting, at each of the plurality of phases, whether a particular behavior corresponding to use of the application to distribute undesirable software occurs; and when an occurrence of the particular behavior is detected at a certain phase in the application distribution process, continuing, utilizing a trap system, one or more subsequent phases after the certain phase for the application, without communicating information on the detection of the occurrence of the particular behavior.

20110219028

12715409

1. A computer-implemented data service component that performs a computer-implemented method, the method comprising: receiving an indication of a data entity, wherein the indication references a first data tag element that includes a first data vector that identifies a location in a first database where data corresponding to the first data tag is stored; and utilizing a computer processor that is a component of a computing device to automatically refer to the indication of the data entity and generate a corresponding query statement that is indicative of the location in the first database.

20100100595

12253104

1. A method for selective publication of e-mail account access frequency, the method comprising: determining access frequency data for different e-mail accounts of a first e-mail user in a messaging data processing system; receiving a request from a second e-mail user in the messaging data processing system for the access frequency data; applying publication rules for the first e-mail user to the second e-mail user to determine whether or not to publish the access frequency data to the second e-mail user; and, publishing at least part of the access frequency data to the second e-mail user if permitted by the application of the publication rules.

8473324

12831104

1. A data movement system for assessing inherent risk associated with a project that involves moving first data from a first jurisdiction and second data from a second jurisdiction, the system comprising: a rules repository configured to store rules associated with the regulations of the first jurisdiction and the regulations of the second jurisdiction; and a workflow manager comprising a processor and configured to: determine jurisdictional complexity of the project as a function of the regulations of the first jurisdiction and the second jurisdiction, wherein the first jurisdiction and the second jurisdiction each have corresponding regulations that restrict the movement of data out of that jurisdiction and wherein at least some portion of the regulations involve data privacy, data secrecy, and data outsourcing; determine jurisdictional exposure of the project as a function of an organization's exposure to the first jurisdiction and the second jurisdiction, wherein at least some portion of the organization's exposure involves the organization's volume of business activity in the first jurisdiction and in the second jurisdiction; and determine the risk of the project as a function of the jurisdictional complexity of the project and the jurisdictional exposure of the project.

8627328

12618474

1. A system for deploying and managing software services, comprising: a computing environment that includes a plurality of virtualized and non-virtualized machines, which are organized into resource pools, wherein each of the resource pools includes a collection of virtualized resources; a plurality of software services, wherein each of the plurality of software services includes one or more software applications which are manageable as a unit and deployable to one of the resource pools; a plurality of agents, wherein each of the plurality of agents resides on one of the plurality of virtualized and non-virtualized machines, manages software applications and resources on the one of the plurality of virtualized and non-virtualized machines, and exposes the resources to the resource pools for use by the computing environment; a system controller that communicates with the plurality of agents to determine resources available on the plurality of virtualized and non-virtualized machines and to select a resource pool for deploying a software service, based on one or more of remaining capacity of the resource pool, dependencies of the software service, a service level agreement (SLA) of software services already deployed on the resource pool, and a priority for the software service; and a rules engine that compares administrator defined constraints with runtime metrics, wherein an administrator defined constraint is a user defined SLA that is captured a metric or state derived from meta data or other metrics and the runtime metrics are provided to the rules engine by a monitor service, and generates events when a constraint is violated by a metric of the runtime metrics, each event generated by the rules engine carries with it information necessary to handle the event including the scope of a constraint failure that caused the event.

8424013

11540458

1. A method of mapping an interrupt to one or more of a plurality of instances, comprising: registering a plurality of instances to run on a current CPU; running a first instance of the plurality of instances on the current CPU; for each of at least two instances of the plurality of instances, being different from the first instance, registering an interrupt service routine thereof that is able to handle an interrupt, wherein each of the at least two instances has a corresponding code context, and wherein, for each of the at least two instances, the interrupt service routine registered therewith, if executed, runs using the corresponding code context of the instance with which the interrupt service routine is registered; receiving the interrupt at the current CPU; in response to receiving the interrupt, storing context information relating to the first instance; identifying one of the at least two instances as a second instance of the plurality of instances, the second instance having the interrupt service routine that is registered to handle the interrupt, wherein the second instance is identified by selecting the second instance from among all instances of the plurality of instances that: (i) have the interrupt service routine that is registered to handle the interrupt, (ii) are registered to run on the current CPU and (iii) are not actively running on another CPU; running the interrupt service routine of the second instance using the corresponding code context of the second instance and using the current CPU; after completing the interrupt service routine, restoring the context information relating to the first instance; registering each of the plurality of instances to run on one of a plurality of CPUs, a subset of the plurality of CPUs, or all of the plurality of CPUs; and delivering the interrupt to a union of all CPUs that any of the plurality of instances comprising the interrupt service routine for that interrupt are registered to run on.

8694328

11956073

1. A method of selecting a vehicle for acquisition comprising: generating a profile of an individual interested in purchasing a vehicle, where the profile is based, at least in part, upon information obtained from the individual; identifying target vehicles based at least in part, upon the generated profile of the individual, wherein the target vehicles define vehicle types that may be of interest to the individual and that can satisfy vehicle requirements of the individual; iteratively repeating until a predetermined stopping condition is met: electronically retrieving by a computer processing device, vehicle data for at least selected ones of the target vehicles; identifying at least one candidate vehicle from the identified target vehicles, where each candidate vehicle corresponds to a specific instance of a target vehicle; performing an evaluation of at least one candidate vehicle to obtain both objective and subjective evaluation data comprising: temporarily installing a data logging device into the evaluated candidate vehicle to electronically collect objective data including data that is uniquely associated with the operation of the corresponding evaluated candidate vehicle at the time of the specific evaluation, and electronically storing subjective data that captures the impressions of the individual with regard to the individual's interaction with the corresponding evaluated vehicle; and deriving by the computer processing device, a corresponding acceptance rating for each evaluated candidate vehicle, where each acceptance rating is based at least in part upon the objective data and the subjective data collected from the evaluation of the corresponding selected candidate vehicle; deriving by the computer processing device, a ranking of the evaluated candidate vehicles based upon their derived acceptance rating; and conveying a vehicle acquisition recommendation based upon the ranking of the evaluated candidate vehicles.

8775202

12651102

1. Non-transitory computer storage media storing computer-useable instructions that, when used storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to perform a method for analyzing a set of records of a healthcare entity's patient population with respect to a piece of clinical knowledge embodied in executable code, comprising: receiving a public health informational publication from a third-party publication source recognized by the healthcare entity as an authority for medical or healthcare-related clinical knowledge; analyzing the public health informational publication for a relevant piece of clinical information comprising an alert about a specific public health situation; extracting the relevant piece of clinical information from the public health informational publication; transforming the relevant piece of clinical information into executable code; distributing a uniform resource indicator (URI) to at least a portion of the executable code to the healthcare entity, wherein selection of the URI by the healthcare entity initiates execution of the at least the portion of the executable code against a set of structured electronic patient records of the patient population of the healthcare entity to register matches of the relevant piece of clinical information with data contained in the set of structured electronic patient records, wherein the matches correspond to a portion of the patient population; and queuing and ranking patients within the portion of the patient population according to a degree of matching between the relevant piece of clinical information and the each patient's data contained in the set of structured electronic patient records.

20140118800

13662321

1. A device for managing content consumption, the device comprising: an image sensor configured to record images of printed content; a data store configured to store computer-executable instructions; and a processor in communication with the data store and the image sensor, wherein the processor, when executing the computer-executable instructions, is configured to: cause the image sensor to record an image of a book identifier of a printed book; transmit the book identifier and a user identifier to a content access management system, the user identifier identifying a user; receive position data regarding a current position within the printed book, the current position within the printed book based at least in part on a current position within an electronic version of the printed book, wherein the current position within the electronic version of the printed book is associated with the user; present the current position within the printed book to the user.

8498846

12712790

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: analyzing, by using a processor, a connectivity of a model comprising an arbitrary mix of one or more rigid links and one or more soft links, wherein the analyzing includes triangles as input; separating one or more connections of the triangles of the joint aware model into at least a first component and a second component; segmenting the first component and the second component to determine at least one intersection or at least one contact surface between the first component and the second component; in response to the segmenting, utilizing vertices of the at least one intersection or the at least one contact surface to compute a slippable motion between the first component and the second component, wherein the slippable motion computation results in a determination of one or more degrees of freedom between the first component and the second component; and mapping the one or more degrees of freedom to one or more joint types.

10042362

15355658

1. A method for maneuvering a vehicle, the method comprising: generating, by one or more processors, a route for a trip from a first location to a destination using map information, the map information including roadway segments defining the shape and location of roadways, the map information also identifying at least one no-go roadway segment defining roadway segments where the vehicle is not able to drive in an autonomous mode; identifying, by the one or more processors, from the map information, a set of no-go roadway segments relevant to the route from the plurality of no-go roadway segments; determining, by the one or more processors, a local region around a current location of the vehicle, the local region corresponding to a geographic area including both locations that the vehicle is able to reach from the current location within a pre-determined period of time as well as a region behind the vehicle at the current location; identifying, by the one or more processors, a local map region by performing a graph cut on the map information, the local map region including roadway segments of the map information; filtering, by the one or more processors, the set of the plurality of no-go roadway segments from the roadway segments of the local map region; assigning, by the one or more processors, a cost value to each roadway segment of the filtered roadway segments of the local map region; using, by the one or more processors, any assigned cost values to determining a plan for maneuvering the vehicle for a predetermined period of time into the future; and maneuvering, by the one or more processors, the vehicle according to the plan.

20060294459

11460133

1. An information processing system for creating an XML document for publishing using object dependency graphs, the system comprising: a dispatcher servlet for managing: a file system interface for storing a plurality of reusable content objects; a content editor for receiving using input to define a first XML document and a second XML document based upon the reusable content objects, whereby at least one of the content objects includes at least one object dependency graph that identifies content object dependency across the first XML document and the second XML document using one or more edges denoting relationships between one or more of the content objects so as to provide synchronization of the content objects across the first XML document and the second XML document; and a content manager interface to a page assembler for building the first XML document so as to form a self-contained accumulation of the content objects in accordance with the object dependency graph, and the second XML document so as to form a self-contained accumulation of the content objects in accordance with the object dependency graph; and whereby in response to a value of the content objects being modified, a change is made across one or more output pages concurrently by automatically invoking an XSL transformation engine so as to produce the output pages.

20180014006

15204185

1. An electronic device comprising: a SPAD array and readout circuitry coupled thereto and configured to generate a depth map having a first resolution, with the depth map corresponding to a plurality of distance observations to an object, and generate a signal count map having a second resolution greater than the first resolution, with the signal count map corresponding to a plurality of intensity observation sets of the object, with each intensity observation set comprising a plurality of intensity observations corresponding to a respective distance observation in the depth map; and an upscaling processor coupled to said readout circuitry and configured to calculate a plurality of upscaling factors for each intensity observation set so that each distance observation has a respective plurality of upscaling factors associated therewith, and upscale the depth map from the first resolution to the second resolution based on the respective plurality of upscaling factors.

20110023063

12508503

1. A computerized method for personalizing video content comprising: receiving, by a computing device, a request for digital video content, the request including authentication data associated with a user of a client device; generating, by the computing device, personalized data to be inserted into the requested video content; and combining, by the computing device, the personalized data and the requested video content by replacing one or more frames of requested video content with the personalized data to generate personalized video content.

7756584

10260720

1. A method of effectuating a neural-function of a patient, comprising: selecting a stimulation site by (a) generating an intended neural activity by triggering a neural signal from an impaired body part affected by neural dysfunction of the patient's brain, wherein triggering a neural signal includes moving, stimulating or moving and stimulating the impaired body part, (b) detecting a cortical region of the brain in which a response to neural activity occurs in reaction to the neural signal, the detected cortical region being at a cortical location of the brain different than a normal cortical location of the brain where neural activity typically occurs to carry out a function of the impaired body part, and (c) selecting the stimulation site to be within the detected cortical region; positioning at least a first electrode at the stimulation site; and applying an electrical potential to pass a current through the first electrode.

7711732

11408550

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving first query terms from a user; automatically selecting, based at least in part on the first query terms, and from among a set of documents, first documents; automatically generating second query terms based at least in part on anchor text that is contained within links that occur within the first documents; automatically selecting, based at least in part on the second query terms, and from among the set of documents, second documents; wherein the first documents differ from the second documents; automatically generating third query terms based at least in part on anchor text that is contained within links that occur within the second documents, and not based on any input from said user; and automatically selecting, based at least in part on the third query terms, and from among the set of documents, third documents; wherein the third documents differ from the first documents and the second documents; determining a first number that is a number of documents in an intersection of (a) a set consisting of the first documents and (b) a set consisting of the second documents; determining a second number that is the first number divided by a number of documents in the set consisting of the second documents; determining whether the second number is at least as great as a specified percentage; and in response to determining that the second number is not at least as great as the specified percentage, automatically generating the third query terms based at least in part on anchor text that is contained within links that occur within the second documents; wherein the step of generating the third query terms is performed by one or more computing devices; and wherein said first and second documents are not displayed to said user.

20100153224

12633590

1. A group account management system configured to provide financial transaction-related controls, privileges, tracking, and/or reporting for one or more users, members, and/or sub-groups, the group account management system comprising: a payments manager for receiving and/or responding to a transaction request associated with a group financial account; a rules manager for determining whether the transaction request can be authorized, restricted, and/or rejected according to user-managed one or more account-related rules for a transaction-related action by a user, a member, and/or a sub-group associated with the group financial account, wherein the user-managed one or more account-related rules may be created, managed, and/or enforced based on a type of a merchant, a particular name of the merchant, a particular location of the merchant, a type of a transaction initiator, a time-based rolling parameter, and/or other relevant parameters; and a rules and accounts information data storage for storing the user-managed one or more account-related rules and one or more user-related privileges, wherein the one or more user-related privileges can define who or which entity is authorized to modify the user-managed one or more account-related rules for the group financial account.

8904283

12793236

1. An Advanced Function Presentation (AFP) system configured to generate an AFP document for output, the system comprising: an AFP application generator configured to add an AFP component to the AFP document, and to identify a meta-data object (MDO) for the AFP component; wherein the AFP application generator is further configured to insert a Map Data Resource (MDR) structured field corresponding to the AFP component into the AFP document, wherein the MDR specifies the name of the MDO associating the MDO with a specified scope of objects in the AFP component and further includes a processing mode field indicating whether the MDO is descriptive and does not affect the presentation of the AFP component on an output device or indicating whether the MDO is operational and does affect the presentation of the AFP component on the output device; and an output device configured to determine that the processing mode field, wherein if the MDO is descriptive, then the MDO is ignored, and if the MDO is operational, then at least one of the following is performed: masking a presentation of the AFP component; eliminating a presentation of the AFP component; and partially presenting the AFP component on the output device based on the determination.

20060041429

11200808

1. A Text-To-Speech system comprising: means for storing a plurality of speech segments; means for creating a plurality of phonetic transcriptions for each word of an input text; and means coupled to the storing means and to the creating means for selecting preferred phonetic transcriptions by operating a cost function on the plurality of speech segments.

20160350139

14724663

1. A method comprising: launching, at a computing device, an operating system setup wizard, wherein an operating system of the computing device prevents inter-process communication between two or more applications unless each of the two or more application has been launched previously; launching, from the operating system setup wizard, a carrier-specific setup wizard; and presenting, from within the carrier-specific setup wizard, a setup interface for each of a plurality of carrier applications, wherein the plurality of carrier applications are identified according to a uniform resource indicator (URI) scheme and a package name associated with the carrier, wherein the plurality of carrier applications are arranged in an ordered list, wherein the setup interfaces for the plurality of carrier applications are presented according to an order in the ordered list, and wherein at least one carrier application is setup based on information provided in the setup interface of the at least one carrier application and based on information provided in the setup interface of a previous carrier application preceding the at least one carrier application in the ordered list.

9547846

13034493

1. A method for processing data relating to communications events in a telephony device, the method comprising: storing a set of user-editable calendar workspace items and user-editable contact workspace items; in response to an incoming communications event at the telephony device, the telephony device: detecting a correspondence between a telephone number relating to the incoming communications event and a telephone number associated with an attendee of a meeting identified in a calendar workspace item stored in the set of calendar workspace items; detecting a correspondence between the telephone number and at least one characteristic of a contact workspace item stored in the set of contact workspace items; detecting a correspondence between at least one characteristic of the contact workspace item and at least one characteristic of the calendar workspace; and configuring a notification for the incoming communications event on the basis of the detected correspondence, the notification including information relating to the calendar workspace item associated with the telephone number relating to the incoming communications event.

20130013236

13603498

1. A battery state prediction system for predicting a capacity maintenance ratio of a battery under control of a computer, comprising: storage means, wherein said storage means stores: data relating to an observation model for calculating said capacity maintenance ratio on the basis of basic data representing an internal state of said battery, and data relating to a transition model for mapping a temporally preceding internal state and deterioration environment onto a current internal state; and means for determining a current internal state of said battery by finding out a transition path of said internal state having the minimum sum of squares of differences between predictive values calculated from said observation model and said transition model and an actual value, on the basis of a value of said battery measured at each time step.

20140330420

13326298

1. A method for planning, designing, analyzing, and manufacturing composite parts from conceptual design to the final design specifications comprising: creating manufacturing strategies; creating the conceptual grid; map the topology to stacking or laminate; analyze the grid for manufacturing; determine the optimum stacking; and create virtual stacking with specific strategies; whereby a common approach is used allowing the designer to make educated decisions or use automation to project the manufacturing requirements for the composite part.

20040199923

10819514

1. A method of associating attributes with digital media assets, the method comprising: identifying a digital media asset; associating at least one digital media asset attribute with the digital media asset as an association, wherein the at least one digital media asset attribute is classified according to at least one of significance of affinity, self narrating audience generated content classification, defined topologies, time sensitive sequencing, and collective/collaborative classification; and storing the association of the digital media asset with the at least one digital media asset attribute.

20060069805

10903875

1. A computer readable medium having computer executable instructions for performing steps comprising: (a) accessing a target response of a target system, the target response being at least a portion of a reply to a test probe; (b) comparing the target response with a signature response of a basis system having a first role; (c) associating the first role with the target system based on the comparison of the target response and the signature response.

20110055215

12939815

1. A method comprising: accessing, at a first query processing server, a query for data of a table comprising a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows, wherein: the table has been partitioned into a plurality of column chunks by independently partitioning each column of the table into two or more column chunks; and the plurality of column chunks have been distributed and stored across a plurality of storage servers; transforming, by the first query processing server, the query into a plurality of sub-queries; distributing, by the first query processing server, the plurality of sub-queries to a plurality of second query processing servers; receiving, at the first query processing server, the data from the plurality of second query processing servers; and transmitting, by the first computing device, the data in response to the query.

20110184725

12802930

1. A multi-stage method for morphing together bodies of text comprising: stage-one text morphing comprising: identifying pairs of phrases that each have a phrase (Phrase A) from a first body of text (Text A) and a phrase (Phrase B) from a second body of text (Text B); wherein a phrase is a text string containing one or more words, abbreviations, numbers, or combinations thereof; wherein Phrase A can be used as a phrase synonym for Phrase B; and wherein a phrase synonym is one phrase that can be substituted for another phrase in text use without causing significant changes in the meaning of the text or creating grammatical errors; and then substituting, within each pair of phrases, Phrase A for Phrase B, in Text B; and stage-two text morphing comprising: identifying pairs of text segments that each have a segment (Segment A) from Text A and a segment (Segment B) from Text B, wherein Segment A and Segment B start with phrases that are synonyms of each other and end with phrases that are synonyms of each other; and then substituting, within each pair of text segments, all or part of Segment A for all or part of Segment B, in Text B.

8768929

13517824

1. A system for clustering vertices in a streaming graph, comprising: a structural sampler comprising a processor configured to receive a stream of graph updates including insertions and deletions of edges and vertices to the streaming graph, the structural sampler comprising: a reservoir manager configured to receive the stream of graph updates and create a structural reservoir and a support reservoir, wherein the creation of the structural reservoir and support reservoir comprises: assigning a random ranking to each received edge; discarding each received edge with the random ranking greater than a sampling rate; and adding each of the received edges with the random ranking less than a sampling rate to the structural reservoir; and a graph manager configured to receive the structural reservoir from the reservoir manager and to create a sampled graph from the structural reservoir, wherein the sampled graph includes one or more clusters that each include one or more connected vertices, wherein creating the structural reservoir further comprises based on determining that adding a graph update to the structural reservoir caused the one or more clusters of the sampled graph have a size that exceeds the maximum cluster size, moving one or more graph updates from the structural reservoir to the support reservoir.

5481642

08287636

1. In a communication system, a method for encoding an input signal to form a set of output signals, said method comprising the steps of: transducing an acoustic signal to generate said input signal; generating one or more predictor parameter signals, including one or more long term predictor parameter signals, for said input signal; generating a plurality of candidate signals, each of said candidate signals being synthesized by filtering a coded excitation signal in a filter characterized by said predictor parameter signals, each of said coded excitation signals having an associated index signal, and each of said coded excitation signals being amplitude adjusted in accordance with the value of a gain control signal prior to said filtering; comparing each of said candidate signals with said input signal to determine a degree of similarity therebetween; jointly selecting a coded excitation signal and a value for said gain signal such that said degree of similarity is maximized, subject to the constraint that said value for said gain signal be chosen such that a predefined first function of the level of the input signal relative to the candidate signal exceeds a predefined threshold function; for each of said input signals, selecting said predictor parameter signals, said index signal corresponding to said selected coded excitation signal and said selected value for said gain signal as said set of output signals which represent said input signal.

7869981

10991471

1. A configuration method for a room, the method comprising: selecting from a client device a pre-configured consumer application from a plurality of pre-configured consumer applications accessible from the client device, the consumer applications respectively reflecting different decorating styles that may be selected for the room, with each pre-configured consumer application having an associated plurality of room components; storing in a memory module data defining a plurality of attributes for each of the plurality of components associated with the room for the selected pre-configured consumer application, wherein the data are organized in a frame/slot hierarchy, wherein the plurality of components are each represented as a first and second set of frames and the plurality of attributes are each represented as slots of the first and second set of frames, respectively; selecting a user-specified attribute for at least one of the plurality of the room components, wherein selection of invalid attributes is prevented, comprising: performing in a processor-based system an attribute-based inference operation that identifies within the frame/slot hierarchy available attributes and invalid attributes for the at least one of the plurality of room components, wherein the available attributes are identified based on the selected pre-configured consumer application and the at least one of the plurality of room components; providing the available attributes for selection; and selecting the user-specified attribute from the available attributes provided; and generating an image comprising the at least one of the plurality of room components with the user-specified attribute within the room.

20060085494

10969301

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: accepting input that indicates an amount of allocated unmanaged memory; associating the input with a managed object on a heap; and adjusting a collection strategy for collecting the managed object based on the input.

20040189694

10395533

1. A shell browser comprising: a window which displays a group of items, wherein the window also displays metadata values associated with one or more of the displayed items; and an edit control which permits user modification of at least a portion of the metadata values displayed in the window.

8615575

12253197

1. A device comprising: a controller; and memory, coupled to the controller, the memory having executable instructions stored thereon that when executed by the controller cause the controller to effectuate operations comprising: grouping customers for rearrangement, wherein groupings comprise users in a home, business location, users in a neighborhood, users in a collections of neighborhoods, users in a metro area, and users in a region; generating multiple alternative options for a particular group using policy rules; using policy rules for the particular group to evaluate each option using common metrics, the common metrics comprising a measure of performance based on connectivity, a measure of performance based on bandwidth, a measure of performance based on a specific quality of service, a measure of performance based on delay, and a measure of performance based on jitter; using policy rules to select the best option for the particular group, wherein the best option for the particular group comprises at least one of moving a call connected to a cellular network to a WIFI network or moving a call connected to a WIFI network to a cellular network; and implementing the best option for the particular group.

20130157658

13763882

1. A method for providing a tracking area identity list in a communications network, comprising: maintaining, at a mobility management entity, a tracking area transition likelihood, wherein the tracking area transition likelihood is indicative of a likelihood that a user equipment device moves from one tracking area to another tracking area; maintaining, at the mobility management entity, a tracking area group transition likelihood, wherein a tracking area group includes at least one tracking area, and wherein the tracking area group transition likelihood is indicative of a likelihood that the user equipment device moves from a first tracking area in a first tracking area group to a second tracking area in a second tracking area group; recording, at the mobility management entity, a mobility number, wherein the mobility number is indicative of a number of times a tracking area identity has changed for the user equipment device during a period of time; recording, at the mobility management entity, a paging number, wherein the paging number is indicative of a number of times the user equipment device is paged during a period of time; determining a category associated with the user equipment device based on the recorded mobility number and the recorded paging number; and generating the tracking area identity list for the user equipment device based on the category associated with the user equipment device and one or both of the tracking area transition likelihood and the tracking area group transition likelihood.

8831330

12689821

1. A parameter determination assisting device for an image processing device configured to obtain a processing result by performing a process using a set of parameters defined in advance on image data obtained by imaging a measuring target object, the parameter determination assisting device comprising: an input unit configured to accept the image data and an expected result corresponding to the image data, wherein the expected results each includes an expected class indicating whether the corresponding measuring target object is a non-defective article or a defective article; a candidate generation unit configured to generate a plurality of parameter candidates in which at least one parameter value contained in the set of parameters is different from each other, wherein at least one of the plurality of the parameter candidates is length of processing time; an acquiring unit configured to acquire a plurality of processing results respectively using the plurality of parameter candidates on the image data according to a condition; an evaluation unit configured to generate an evaluation result for each of the plurality of processing results by comparing each of the plurality of processing results with the corresponding expected result; and an output unit configured to output the evaluation result for each of the plurality of parameter candidates, wherein the input unit is configured to accept the plurality of image data respectively acquired from a plurality of measuring target objects and the expected results respectively corresponding to the plurality of image data, and the acquiring unit is configured to acquire a processing result group including the evaluation results on the plurality of image data for the plurality of parameter candidates respectively, the acquiring unit includes: a portion configured to calculate a characteristic amount on the image data by performing the process on the image data; and a portion configured to generate the processing result by comparing the characteristic amount with a threshold value provided in advance, and the output unit is configured to output the condition; output the evaluation result with a mark indicating a match between the processing result and the expected result in a different manner from a mark indicating a mismatch between the processing result and the expected result; and output an area for displaying the mark indicating the match between the processing result and the expected result in a different manner from another area.

20110004863

11695349

1. A method for assembling processing graphs in an information processing system, comprising: performing, in an offline manner, translating a plurality of component descriptions into a planning language and performing reasoning on the plurality of component descriptions during the translation; and performing, in an online manner, receiving a processing request that specifies a desired processing outcome; translating the processing request into a planning goal; and assembling a plurality of processing graphs, each of the processing graphs including a plurality of the translated and reasoned components that satisfy the desired processing outcome.

9591008

14688914

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored therein, wherein the instructions, when executed by a processor of a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations responsive to a determination that a verification with a user is desired responsive to detection of activity indicative of a possible insider threat, wherein the computing device is to be communicatively coupled to a traffic capture and analysis module (TCAM), wherein the TCAM is to be coupled between a set of one or more client end stations and a set of one or more server end stations to analyze network traffic being sent between them, wherein the set of server end stations is to store enterprise resources including an enterprise application and enterprise data, wherein the possible insider threat comprises the use of one or more of a user account and a client end station to access the enterprise resources, and wherein the determination that the verification with the user is desired was based on one or more of the network traffic, current event data, and stored historical data, wherein the current event data describes an access to one of the enterprise resources that was detected and reported on by the TCAM, the operations comprising: determining whether a number of detections of activity indicative of the possible insider threat caused by a rule exceeds a predetermined threshold within a predetermined period of time; when the number of detections of activity indicative of the possible insider threat caused by the rule exceeds the predetermined threshold within the predetermined period of time, notifying an administrator and forgoing the verification; otherwise, performing the following, selecting a target role and a target user for the verification based on an activity context and an enterprise context repository, wherein the activity context describes the activity by identifying the rule used to make the determination and by identifying one or more of the current event data and relevant historical data, wherein the enterprise context repository identifies roles within the enterprise and the users in those roles, the selecting including: selecting the target role from a plurality of target roles based on the activity context, wherein the plurality of target roles includes two or more of an owner of the client end station, an owner of the user account, an owner of a particular part of the enterprise data, and a position at the enterprise; selecting the target user in the selected target role based on the enterprise context repository, wherein the selected target role and the selected target user in that selected target role is intended to be the user of the enterprise having the requisite knowledge to confirm whether or not the activity is indicative of the possible insider threat, wherein the selected target user is a different individual than the owner of the user account and the administrator; determining whether a number of verifications with the target user exceeds another predetermined threshold within another predetermined period of time; when the number of verifications with the target user exceeds the another predetermined threshold within the another predetermined period of time, notifying the administrator and forgoing the verification; otherwise, performing the following, causing a verification request to be sent to the selected target user, wherein the verification request describes the activity and allows the selected target user to effectively confirm whether or not the activity is indicative of the possible insider threat; and generating an alert when a verification result, which is based on the verification request and any verification response, indicates that the activity is indicative of the possible insider threat.

20070150597

11679653

1. A method for configuring a data center that has a plurality of geographically distributed facilities that provide network services to a plurality of different company subscribers, the method comprising: providing a user interface via computer network, wherein the user interface presents an administrative hierarchy of topology objects, wherein the topology objects include a global data center object that represents the data center as a whole, wherein the topology objects include a set of facility objects that represent the distributed facilities of the data center, wherein the topology objects include a set of subscriber objects that represent the different company subscribers, wherein the topology objects include a set of device objects that represent physical devices located at the facilities of the data center; receiving configuration input through the user interface from an administrator; and launching, in response to the configuration input, a service application that operates within a context of one of the topology objects in the administrative management hierarchy.

20120191827

13349645

1. An apparatus management device connected via a network to an apparatus, the apparatus management device comprising: a storage unit configured to store a default value for a parameter of the apparatus and a table including coefficients associated with counter values indicating operational status of the apparatus; an apparatus information obtaining unit configured to obtain apparatus information including a counter value indicating the operational status from the apparatus; a parameter value calculation unit configured to obtain one of the coefficients that corresponds to the counter value in the obtained apparatus information by referring to the table, and to calculate an update value for the parameter of the apparatus by multiplying the default value by the one of the coefficients; and a setting unit configured to set the parameter of the apparatus at the update value.

10042747

14539234

1. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations including: inspecting contents of a product-under-test, including source code of the product-under-test and source code of a test case, including property files associated with the test case and the product-under-test, wherein the test case tests the product-under-test, wherein the inspection of the source code of the test case includes inspection of each source code file included within the test case; identifying at least one characteristic of a test machine and at least one characteristic of a resource required to execute the test case correctly based upon the inspection of the source code of the product-under-test and the source code of the test case, wherein the at least one characteristic of the resource required to execute the test case correctly includes one or more foreign language support packages and wherein the at least one characteristic of the test machine includes a location of the test machine in a limited network coverage environment including one or more of a shielded room and a cage; compiling a list of requirements for the test case to execute correctly based upon, at least in part, the at least one characteristic of the test machine and the at least one characteristic of the resource identified based upon the inspection of the source code of the product-under-test and the source code of the test case, wherein the list of requirements for the test case to execute correctly include hardware and operating system requirements identified based upon the inspection of the source code of the product-under-test and the source code of the test case; saving the list of requirements for the test case to execute correctly within the property files as a reference to past requirements to execute the test case correctly; and executing the test case, based upon, at least in part, the list of requirements, on at least one test machine that includes the at least one characteristic of the test machine and at least one resource that includes the at least one characteristic of the resource required to execute the test case correctly.

7756997

11523764

1. A machine-implemented method comprising: a) obtaining network packets; b) grouping the collected network packets into a plurality of flows; c) for each of the plurality of flows, i) determining a content characteristic by characterizing content of the flow using bit-stream level statistics, and ii) determining at least one of (A) content-independent flow characteristics, (B) port-independent flow characteristics, and (C) application header-independent flow characteristics; and d) enforcing a policy on at least one of the flows using both (1) the determined content characteristic and the (2) determined at least one of (A) content-independent flow characteristics, (B) port-independent flow characteristics, and (C) application header-independent flow characteristics, wherein the content characteristic is selected from a group of characteristics consisting of (A) packets of the flow include text content, (B) packets of the flow include bitmap content, (C) packets of the flow include wave content, (D) packets of the flow include zip content, (E) packets of the flow include JPEG content, (F) packets of the flow include MP3 content, (G) packets of the flow include encrypted content, and (H) packets of the flow include compiled machine instructions.

7587370

11406150

1. A method for facilitating the bartering of publicly traded securities on a computerized system, comprising: receiving on the computerized system a first barter order from a user comprising: a first security comprising a quantity thereof to be sold in said first barter order, a second security different from the first security to be purchased in said first barter order concurrent with the sale of the first security, and a condition relating to the value of said first barter order under which condition said first barter order is available to be executed; comparing on the computerized system said first barter order to a list comprising multiple barter orders, each of said multiple barter orders comprising: a first security comprising a quantity thereof to be sold in a barter, a second security different from the first security to be purchased in said barter concurrent with the sale of the first security, and a condition relating to the value of said barter under which condition said barter is available to be executed; determining, on the computerized system, from said list a plurality of selected barter orders which, if executed, will consummate said first barter order and one or more of said plurality of selected barter orders; transmitting from the computerized system to said user, based on said determining, an indication that said first barter order is available to be executed; and receiving by the from said user a request to execute said first barter order.

20080255817

12061252

1. A method for performing a drilling operation for an oil field, the oil field having a subterranean formation with geological structures and reservoirs therein, comprising: creating a finite-difference model to simulate behavior of a drilling assembly used to drill a wellbore in the drilling operation; performing a simulation of the drilling operation using the finite-difference model; analyzing a result of the simulation; and selectively modifying the drilling operation based on the analysis.

20020115489

09989258

1. A method for playing an interactive distributed game, the method comprising: transmitting a play prediction to a scoring database; determining an actual play outcome; transmitting an actual play outcome representation to a remote terminal; and scoring said play prediction based on said actual play outcome.

9916388

14328639

1. A software system encoded on one or more non-transitory computer readable mediums, the system comprising: a module database comprising a plurality of module types expressed as at least web code; and a formatting interface comprising: a selection menu presenting the plurality of module types for selection, a layout field to include one or more modules, each module being a copy of one of the plurality of module types, and a save control that, upon activation, a web code on at least one web page of a website is altered and an appearance of the at least one web page reflects a placement of the one or more modules in the layout field, wherein the website comprises a hierarchy of web pages organized by branches, each of the branches comprises a template displayed in the layout field, the template comprising one or more modules, and wherein, upon activation of the save control, when a template for a specific branch of the hierarchy of web pages is displayed in the layout field, (1) web code for pages associated with the specific branch are altered and appearances of the web pages reflect the placement of the one or more modules in the template displayed in the layout field, and (2) web code on pages not associated with the specific branch remain unaltered, wherein the specific branch of the hierarchy of web pages includes web code pertaining to subforums that are altered upon activation of the save control.

20120233145

13477972

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having executable computer program instructions embodied therein, comprising: instructions for receiving a search query from a user; instructions for saving the search query in a persistent storage medium; instructions for transmitting the search query to a remote network search service; instructions for receiving a first search result set from the network search service based on the search query; instructions for retransmitting the saved search query to the network search service to obtain an updated search result set; instructions for identifying search results of the updated search result set that were not present in the first search result set; instructions for providing at least the identified search results to the user; instructions for determining a count of the search results of the updated search result set that were not present in the first search result set; instructions for computing a search backoff time based at least in part on the count; and instructions for waiting the computed search backoff time before retransmitting the saved search query to the network search service.

8793283

13452275

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: maintaining data in a distributed computing system, the data describing a graph representing relationships among items, having a plurality of vertices representing the items, and having a plurality of edges connecting the plurality of vertices representing the relationships among the items, at least one vertex of the plurality of vertices having a set of label values indicating the at least one vertex's strength of association with a set of labels, the set of labels describing possible characteristics of an item represented by the at least one vertex, at least one edge of the plurality of edges having a set of label weights for influencing label values traversing the at least one edge; and executing a label propagation algorithm for the plurality of vertices in the graph in parallel for a series of synchronized iterations to propagate labels through the graph, wherein operations of the label propagation algorithm for a respective vertex of the plurality of vertices include: receiving an incoming message including a weighted label value; updating a label value for a first label in the set of labels of the respective vertex based on the weighted label value included in the received message to produce an updated label value for the first label; determining a new weighted label value by weighting the updated label value by a respective label weight for an edge of the plurality of edges that connects the respective vertex and a target vertex of the plurality of vertices; and sending an outgoing message to the target vertex, the outgoing message including the new weighted label value; assigning labels from the set of labels to the plurality of vertices based on label values associated with the plurality of vertices; and outputting the assigned labels of the plurality of vertices.

20090248698

12060149

1. A computer readable medium including program code for providing a message-based interface for performing an internal service request service, the service exposing at least one service as defined in a service registry, wherein upon execution the program code executes in an environment of computer systems providing message-based services and comprises: program code for receiving, from a service consumer, a first message for executing the necessary steps to carry out all related data changes in a backend system for a request that a user makes using a form to reply to or approve a request or change master data; program code for invoking an internal service request business object, wherein the business object is a logically centralized, semantically disjointed object for a request that a user makes using a form to reply to or approve a request or change master data, and comprises data logically organized as: an internal service request root node; and a property valuation subordinate node; and program code for initiating transmission of a message to a heterogeneous second application, executing in the environment of computer systems providing message-based services, based on the data in the internal service request business object, the message comprising an internal service request enterprise resource planning create request message entity, a message header package, and an internal service request package.

20160140207

14542165

1. A computer-implemented method for aggregating information-asset classifications, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising: identifying a data collection that includes a plurality of information assets; identifying a classification for each of two or more of the information assets; deriving, based at least in part on the classifications of the two or more of the information assets, an aggregate classification for the data collection; associating the aggregate classification with the data collection to enable a data management system to enforce a data management policy based on the aggregate classification.

20110196879

13021618

1. A system for propagating classification decisions, comprising: text marked within one or more unclassified documents that is determined to be responsive to a predetermined issue, wherein the one or more unclassified documents are selected from a corpus of unclassified documents; a query generator to generate a search query from the responsive text and to identify result documents, comprising: a same search module to identify same result documents by applying inclusive search parameters to the query, by applying the search query to the corpus, and by identifying the documents that satisfy the query as the same result documents; and a similar search module to identify similar result documents from the corpus by adjusting a breath of the query by applying less inclusive search parameters and by identifying documents from the corpus that satisfy the query as the similar result documents; a propagator to automatically assigning a responsive classification code to the same result documents for classification as responsive documents; and a document feeder to provide the similar documents to the user and to receive a responsive classification decision from the user for at least one of the similar documents for classification as the responsive documents.

20100192114

12362084

1. A method to verify a property for a circuit design, wherein the property is defined using a set of state variables, wherein each state variable is associated with a sequential element in the circuit design, wherein the length of a path between two sequential elements is based in part on the number of sequential elements in the path, and wherein the distance between two state variables is equal to the length of a shortest path between two sequential elements that are associated with the two state variables, the method comprising: determining a first counter-example for the property using a first abstract model of the circuit design, wherein the first abstract model includes at least all state variables whose distance from a state variable in the set of state variables is less than or equal to a lower-bound-distance; and verifying the property using an abstraction-refinement technique which comprises: determining an upper-bound-distance for a second abstract model of the circuit design, wherein the upper-bound-distance is equal to the largest distance in a set of distances, and wherein the set of distances includes distances between a first state variable in the set of state variables and a second state variable in the second abstract model; and in response to determining that the lower-bound-distance is greater than or equal to the upper-bound-distance, determining a second counter-example for the property without performing a reachability analysis on the second abstract model.

20030126246

10029148

1. A multi-stratum multi-timescale control system for a network, said system comprising: routing means operating at a first stratum on a first timescale for providing routing functions; resource allocation means operating at a second stratum on a second timescale for providing resource allocation functions; provisioning means operating at a third stratum on a third timescale for providing provisioning functions; each successive timescale being coarser than its preceding timescale; and wherein a lower stratum network function provides network information to a higher stratum network function, said higher stratum network function making control decisions based on said network information.

7831576

11615842

1. A method, comprising: providing, with a computer including a processor, a file plan including hierarchically arranged containers for classifying record information objects, wherein each container provides management information for the record information objects assigned to the container, wherein the record information objects represent documents, wherein the file plan includes at least a first segment comprising a first container and children of the first container and a second segment comprising a second container and children of the second container; associating the first segment of the file plan at a first records management system with one or more file plan object stores at a second records management system; propagating the first segment from the first records management system to the one or more file plan object stores at the second records management system; associating the second segment of the file plan at the first records management system with one or more file plan object stores at a third records management system; propagating the second segment from the first records management system to the to the one or more file plan object stores at the third records management system; in response to receiving updates to the first segment, propagating the updates to the first segment from the first records management system to the one or more file plan object stores at the second records management system; and in response to receiving updates to the second segment, propagating the updates to the second segment from the first records management system to the one or more file plan object stores at the third records management system.

20080186312

12003771

1. A method of determining whether models enveloped by model primitives collide with each other, the method comprising: determining whether the model primitives collide with each other at a current time; determining whether paths reflecting movement of the model primitives between the current time and a previous time overlap each other when the model primitives do not collide with each other at the current time; determining whether the model primitives collide with each other at an arbitrary time between the current time and the previous time when the path primitives overlap each other; and recognizing that the models collide with each other at the arbitrary time when the model primitives collide with each other at the arbitrary time.