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20060136439

11352666

1. A computing system comprising one or more computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the computing system, implement a method for modifying a schema for a database, wherein the method comprises: setting a deactivation flag attribute of a first schema object of the schema to indicate that the first schema object is deactivated, the first schema object having a primary identifier, an internal identifier, and a first attribute; and creating a second schema object of the schema to supersede the first schema object, the second schema object having a primary identifier that is the same as the primary identifier, an internal identifier that is different from the internal identifier of the first schema object, a deactivation flag attribute that is set to indicate that the second schema object is active, and a second attribute corresponding to the first attribute but defined differently from the first attribute.

8725770

13676592

1. A method of improving performance for a secure search, the method comprising: generating indexing information for a document of a plurality of documents, wherein the document includes a set of document authorization attributes which include an access control list and the access control list includes one or more access control list entries, wherein the indexing information comprises information about content of the document and information about security access requirements for accessing the document; storing, in an index, the indexing information generated for the document; receiving a set of user identity attributes and a query on behalf of a user, the query including a set of search keywords, wherein an identity management system is used to determine the set of user identity attributes based on the set of document authorization attributes and the access control list entities, wherein the set of document authorization attributes comprises zero or more attributes, each attribute corresponding to one or more attribute values, and an attribute value corresponding to at least one attribute of the set of document authorization attributes specifies at least one of a group, role, or project associated with the user and an attribute of the set of document authorization attributes is one of a grant or a deny attribute, and an attribute value comprises a global universal identifier (GUID); in response to the query, using the index to identify a set of identified documents; and returning search results based on the set of identified documents.

8880583

11933818

1. A method for permitting news content specific to a geographic location to be rated by users in the geographic location and by users in other geographic locations concentrically located from the geographic location, for providing the most relevant news content in an ordered rank to the users in the geographic location and in the other geographic locations, the method comprising: (a) providing news content from national news feeds, web file uploads or mobile devices; (b) determining that the news content pertains to the geographic location from the news content itself or from information associated with the news content; (c) assigning the news content to at least one server associated with the geographic location based on the determining performed in step (b); (d) making the news content available to users in the geographic location over global computer networks; (e) permitting the users in the geographic location to rate the news content using computers to form first user responses; (f) providing the first user responses to a ranking engine, the ranking engine weighting the first user responses based on time parameters and the geographical distances between the users in the geographic location and the news content, for determining a first level rank for the news content based on the weighted first user responses; (g) repeating steps (e) and (f) to modify the first level rank to form a revised first level rank, the revised first level rank being used to determine whether to automatically display the news content more prominently to the users in the geographic location; (h) permitting users in the other geographic locations to experience the news content and to rate the news content to form second user responses; (i) providing the second user responses to the ranking engine, the ranking engine weighting the second user responses based on time parameters and the geographical distances between the users in the other geographic locations and the news content, for determining a second level rank based on said weighted second user responses; (j) repeating steps (h) and (i) to modify the second level rank to form a revised second level rank, the revised second level rank being used to determine whether to automatically display the news content more prominently to the users in the other geographic locations than news content that is pertinent only to the other geographic locations.

20130109339

13725048

1. An electronic device, comprising: an audio broadcast receiver configured to receive a live audio broadcast; an audio output device configured to output audio data; a power source configured to provide power to the electronic device; and processing logic configured to initiate buffering of the live audio broadcast at a first time and to initiate the playback of the buffered audio broadcast data at a second time subsequent to the first time, wherein the processing logic comprises: encode/decode logic configured to encode the live audio broadcast using a codec during buffering and to decode the buffered audio broadcast using the codec during playback; and low power management logic configured perform one or more low power actions when the electronic device is operating in a low power state, wherein the one or more low power actions comprises stopping at least one of buffering the live audio broadcast or playing back the buffered audio broadcast data.

5497452

07844345

1. An apparatus for generating a two- or three-dimensional geometric model comprising: means for generating bidirectional dependency relation expressions from geometric constraints between a plurality of geometric elements; means for obtaining a dependency condition of said geometric elements using said bidirectional dependency relation expressions; means for determining an attribute value for each said geometric element from said dependency condition; and means for generating a two- or three-dimensional model from said geometric elements and said attribute values thereof.

6078005

09316807

1. An apparatus for editing multimedia events including musical events and visual events arranged in synchronization to the musical events, the apparatus comprising: a storage device that stores music information which can be processed to provide a progression of the musical events, image progression information which can be created to determine a sequence of the visual events, and visual event information which represents the visual events to be sequentially reproduced according to the image progression information, the sequence of the visual events being composed of a sub sequence of primary visual events representative of scenes and another sub sequence of secondary visual events representative of at least visual effects applied to the scenes and visual changes used to connect the scenes; a helper device that provides a plurality of scenarios, each of which determines a sub sequence of secondary visual events; and a selector device operable when the image progression information is created for allotting one of the scenarios to the music information such that the sub sequence of the secondary visual events determined by the allotted scenario is combined with the sub sequence of the primary visual events contained in the image progression information to constitute the sequence of the visual events.

20170230417

15015871

1. A distributed server system for monitoring user authenticity during user activities in a user session on at least one application server, the distributed server system comprising: one or more processors; and one or more memories comprising program code that, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the one or more processors to: transfer user activity data based on the user activities from the at least one application server to at least one user-model server; perform, by the at least one user-model server, a user-modeling process in which a user model is adapted session-by-session based on the user activity data to generate adapted user-model data; transfer the adapted user-model data from the at least one user-model server to the at least one application server; and perform, by at least one application server, a user-verification process comprising: comparing the user model with features extracted from the user activities in the user session on the at least one application server, determining a total risk-score value on the basis of the comparison, and in response to the total risk-score value exceeding a given threshold, performing a corrective action selected from the group consisting of (i) signing out the user, (ii) requesting a two-factor authentication from the user, (iii) locking the user, and (iv) initiating an alert function, wherein the user-verification process is performed using the adapted user-model data transferred from the at least one user-model server.

20030204511

10136883

1. A method for mapping hierarchical data from a relational table comprising: providing a schema for a hierarchical data structure wherein the schema defines a hierarchical relationship of data elements; identifying from the schema a node within the hierarchical data structure corresponding to a column in the relational table; copying data from the relational table to the hierarchical data structure when the schema indicates that the mapping is not hidden.

9852128

14246861

1. A system for validating a translation memory against a terminology dictionary, wherein said terminology dictionary comprises source terms and corresponding target terms, wherein a target term is a translation of a source term found in said terminology dictionary, wherein said translation memory comprises source segments and corresponding target segments, wherein said source segments are a combination of source terms plus additional words, wherein target segments are translations of source segments, and wherein said system comprises: a rule match hardware engine for identifying, for each source term, occurrences of a particular source term within source segments, wherein a context of each of the occurrences is determined according to grammar rules; a fuzzy match hardware engine for calculating, for each identified source term occurrence in a source segment, a closeness score between said each identified source term occurrence and a corresponding occurrence of a corresponding target term in a target segment; a report generator for reporting each identified occurrence of a source term in a source segment, and a closeness score, for said each identified source term occurrence, between said each identified source term occurrence and a corresponding target term in a target segment; and one or more processors, wherein said one or more processors predict whether an expected target term corresponding to a particular source term is in the target segment based on: a percentage of characters common to sub strings in the target term and the target segment exceeding a common character minimum percentage, wherein a common sub string is a same set of characters used in the target term and the target segment; a quantity of chunks from the target term found in the target segment being below a maximum chunk number, wherein a chunk is a portion of the target term, wherein portions of the target term are separated by non-target term words in the target segment to form one or more chunks; and a quantity of characters in any common chunk between the target term and the target segment being above a chunk length minimum; and a rendering hardware engine for rendering a style sheet, wherein the style sheet provides a visual tool to allow visual identification of problematic areas by providing side by side comparison of source segments and target segments that both contain a same highlighted dictionary term.

20090064254

12035769

1. A method of transmitting coded data, representing a digital video, from a server to a plurality of clients, at least one subset of the clients using congestion control algorithms, said method using a plurality of signals for passing from a coded representation of the video at a given quality level to a coded representation at least one quality level different from the given level, the sending of at least one of said passage signals at least to said subset of clients being a function of information representing the behavior of the congestion control algorithms used by said subset of clients.

20090327179

12163323

1. A method for managing a network, the method comprising: receiving, at a network that uses a component based architecture, at least one contract comprising one or more components, wherein the contract is a collection of fundamental behaviors with each behavior being further refined and/or protected by a set of operations associated with the contract; mapping a first operation in the set of operations associated with the contract to a policy rule event associated with at least one policy rule; mapping a second operation in the set of operations associated with the contract to at least one policy rule condition associated with the policy rule; mapping a third operation in the set of operations associated with the contract to a policy rule action associated with the policy rule wherein the policy rule action triggers an implementation of at least one other policy rule, wherein the policy rule action is associated with the policy rule event of the other policy rule; and mapping a fourth operation in the set of operations associated with the contract to a policy rule condition associated with the other policy rule.

8700434

13429003

1. A method for identifying potential liability sources for medical expenses associated with automobile accidents implemented by at least one processor comprising: querying via the processor a first database that contains multiple data records containing information about automobile accidents to isolate a specific data record associated with a specific automobile accident; querying via the processor a second database that is different from said first database and that also contains multiple data records containing information about automobile accidents to isolate a specific data record in said second database that has commonality with said specific automobile accident; validating via the processor data in said isolated data record in said first database and in said isolated data record in said second database by comparing the data within said isolated data record in said first database against the data within said isolated data record in said second database; extracting via the processor automobile accident data about said specific automobile accident from one or more of: said isolated data record in said first database; or said isolated data record in said second database; creating a unique accident identifier for said specific automobile accident via the processor; generating via the processor a new data record that contains said unique accident identifier and said extracted automobile accident data; generating an automobile accident information database that includes said newly generated data records; validating via the processor said new data records within said automobile accident information database by comparing said new data records to a third database containing multiple data records containing information about one or more of: registered motor vehicles; registered drivers; and individuals with a government issued identification; extracting data via the processor from said automobile accident information database about persons involved in said specific automobile accident; storing via the processor said extracted data about said persons involved in said specific automobile accident wherein data particular to persons injured in said specific automobile accident will be flagged to identify said injured persons; comparing via the processor said stored extracted data about persons involved in said specific automobile accident with a fourth database to identify any of said persons involved in said specific automobile accident that received an medical services and to identify any medical claims paid for any medical services provided to any of said persons wherein said fourth database includes information about medical services provided to individuals, the costs associated with said medical services, and claims paid for said medical services; compiling via the processor data about any of said persons identified as receiving medical services and data about any of said medical claims paid or said medical services provided to said persons into a claims paid data record wherein said claims paid data record comprises: the identity of persons identified as receiving medical services; data about medical claims paid for said medical services provided to said persons identified as receiving medical services; data elements about said specific automobile accident; comparing via the processor data in said automobile accident information database with a fifth database containing insurance data about drivers and vehicles to isolate insurance data about drivers and vehicles involved said specific automobile accident; extracting via the processor said isolated insurance data and storing said extracted insurance data in said automobile accident information database; analyzing via the processor said automobile accident information database to identify the party “at fault” for said specific automobile accident; extracting via the processor data specific to said “at fault” party and storing said extracted “at fault” party data to an “at fault” data record foe said specific automobile accident; identifying via the processor insurance information for said “at fault” party for said specific automobile accident; comparing via the processor said claims paid data record to said identified insurance information for said “at fault” party to determine if any financial responsibility possibly existed for payment of any medical claims associated with said specific automobile accident; and analyzing via the processor said determination of potential financial responsibility and extracting said identified insurance information for said “at fault” party and said correlating claims paid data record and storing said extracted data into a third party potential liability database.

20100158169

12317024

1. An electronic apparatus, comprising: one or more wireless interface devices; and a processing unit to control one or more tone shiftable RFI sources, in response to detecting RFI from the sources, to reduce their presence in active RF bands of the one or more wireless interface devices.

8532401

12499857

1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a dividing unit that divides an object image into regions; a first extracting unit that extracts image features of the regions generated by the dividing unit; a first storage device that stores information relating to clustering of each set of image features; a quantizing unit that quantizes the image features extracted by the first extracting unit; a generating unit that generates an expected value of an occurrence probability of each topic variable corresponding to a topic defined in an LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) model and indicating similar images from the quantized image features corresponding to words defined in the LDA model, using a correlation between the image features quantized by the quantizing unit and the topic variables; and an image output unit that outputs an image of a defective portion in the object image, using the expected values of the occurrence probabilities of the topic variables generated by the generating unit, wherein the quantizing unit quantizes the extracted image features, using the information relating to clustering stored in the storage device, and wherein the information relating to clustering of each set of image features is calculated by clustering each set of image features of the regions in a predetermined pathological change image database.

8457992

12899179

1. A computer implemented method for determining compliance with contracted pharmacy reimbursement rates, comprising: storing in a computer memory pharmacy reimbursement contract information, the pharmacy reimbursement contract information being comprised of information regarding a plurality of contracts between a payor and a pharmaceutical product provider (“PPP”); receiving, via an electronic communications network, and storing in a computer memory a plurality of claims, each claim being comprised of claim information; comparing, via a computer processor, one or more of the plurality of received claims with at least one of the plurality of contracts by: identifying, via a computer processor, one or more of the plurality of contracts having pharmaceutical reimbursement contract information that is common with one or more of the received claims; if only one contract is identified, then associating the one contract with one or more of the received claims; storing in the computer memory an indication of the association of the one identified contract with one or more of the received claims; receiving, via the electronic communications network, pharmaceutical product information including a price of the pharmaceutical product; determining, by the computer processor, for each of the received claims and associated contract, a contracted claim amount, wherein the contracted claim amount is determined according to the terms of the contract and the pharmaceutical product information; determining, by the computer processor, whether the claim amount is different than the contracted claim amount; determining, by the computer processor, for each of the received claims and associated contract, if the received claim is a maximum allowable cost (MAC) exception; a. if the claim is a MAC exception, determining the MAC exception value, the MAC exception value being the greater of the difference between: i. the MAC rate for the received claim and the pharmaceutical product revenue; ii. the federal upper limit (FUL) for the pharmaceutical product and the pharmaceutical product revenue; and iii. the actual profit for the claim and a predetermined minimum value, the actual profit being the difference between the pharmaceutical product revenue and the pharmaceutical product acquisition cost; and b. storing in a computer memory an indication of the MAC exception value of the received claim and associated contract transmitting an indication of the difference between the claim amount and the contracted claim amount to the pharmaceutical product provider.

8667061

12959915

1. A computer implemented method for retrieving a mapping rule based on a first parameter, wherein the mapping rule enables mapping a first message in a first message format to a second message in a second message format, the second message format being different from the first message format, the method comprising: identifying a first parameter associated with the first message in response to receiving the first message from a first application, wherein the first message format is associated with the first application; identifying a first value of the first parameter; identifying a first variation associated with the first parameter; identifying the mapping rule for the first variation, wherein the mapping rule provides a second variation associated with the first variation; identifying a second parameter associated with the second variation, wherein the second parameter is associated with the second message format; populating the second parameter with the first value; and generating the second message in the second message format based on the second parameter populated with the first value.

20080270979

11739561

1. A method for using type analysis to generate an implementation of a type, the method comprising the steps of: (a) identifying a request to generate a first implementation of a type; (b) receiving a type model associated with the type; (c) identifying a second implementation of the type model as suitable for a high-performance implementation; (d) generating the second implementation on a target processor; and (e) representing the second implementation as the first implementation.

5434775

08146929

1. A method of assisting a user in allocating an inventory of a plurality of devices among a plurality of locations, comprising providing a network of communication links each of which corresponds to a location of said plurality of locations, providing each one of said devices in said inventory with a tag that identifies a said device with respect to other said devices in said inventory, said tag being connectable to a said communication link when said device is disposed at the location to which said communication link corresponds, detecting each said tag that is connected to each said communication link, generating, based on said detecting, information that indicates the location of each one of said devices in said inventory, and providing said information to the user in a manner that enables the user to determine how said devices are allocated among said locations and determine whether some of said devices should be reallocated among said locations.

8788313

11335488

1. A system including: a non-transitory memory to store a workflow model having at least one version, the at least one version being executable by an execution engine as a specific workflow instance, the specific workflow instance associated with context information, the context information comprising model information identifying the workflow model and version information identifying the at least one version of the workflow model; and a processor to implement a workflow data monitor to receive and associate audit information with an object processed by an execution engine in terms of the specific instance of the workflow model, the audit information comprising the context information and execution information, the workflow data monitor further to receive an audit request with respect to the object processed in terms of a specific workflow instance and, responsive to receipt of the audit request with respect to the object is to: retrieve the associated audit information associated with the object; retrieve further audit information from at least one of the workflow model and the execution engine; and compare the associated audit information with the further audit information.

20170056671

15244571

1. A method for detecting a tamponade condition of a patient's heart after attachment of a leadless cardiac pacemaker to the patient's heart, the leadless cardiac pacemaker having an accelerometer that produces an accelerometer signal, the method comprising: monitoring the accelerometer signal of the leadless cardiac pacemaker; determining if a tamponade condition of the patient's heart is indicated based at least in part on the monitored accelerometer signal; and in response to determining that the tamponade condition is indicated, providing a notification of the tamponade condition for use by a physician to take corrective action.

20140040222

12573319

1. A method, comprising: providing sequential access to a plurality of portions of a stored digital media asset; receiving a selection of raw analyzer modules, the respective raw analyzer modules to produce respective sets of raw analyzer result data; using one or more processors, accessing the stored digital media asset and playing back the respective portions of the stored digital media asset while concurrently executing the selection of the raw analyzer modules to analyze the portions of the digital media asset to produce the respective sets of raw analyzer result data; and storing in a data cache the sets of raw analyzer result data in a file associated with the digital media asset, wherein each of the sets of raw analyzer result data is linked to a particular one of the raw analyzer modules.

20080140806

11638061

1. A computer readable medium having instructions therein that when executed by a processor provide a user interface for inputting configuration information for configuring a search engine results page, wherein the configuration information includes position information and content information, the user interface comprising: a first region to input position information pertaining to one or more particular positions within the search engine results page to position environment specific content; and a second region to input content information that describes at least one of: information to derive environment specific content to be displayed in a selected position of the one or more particular positions; and environment specific content to be displayed in a selected position of the one or more particular positions.

9171277

13101082

1. A method, the method comprising: (a) storing a model for each object of a plurality of objects, each model comprising a weight, a center of gravity and a shape of the associated object, wherein the plurality of objects comprises a plurality of irregularly-shaped objects; (b) storing a plurality of parameters associated with a container, wherein the container is at least one of a storage space, a staging space, a transportation space, and a manufacturing space; (c) selecting a set of irregularly-shaped objects, from the plurality of irregularly-shaped objects, to be loaded into the container; (d) generating an optimized sequence for loading the set of irregularly-shaped objects into the container, based on at least the weight, the center of gravity, the shape of each of the irregularly-shaped objects in the set, and the plurality of parameters associated with the container; and (e) generating an optimized sequence for loading cribbing into the container between one or more of the set of irregularly shaped objects such that the set of irregularly shaped objects are secured in place.

9961138

15044238

1. A system for providing network access and distributed workload processing using a fiber-based network, the system comprising: broadband gateways located at different premises, each broadband gateway at a respective premises and combining a gateway processor and a computing processor, wherein, for each broadband gateway, the gateway processor and the computing processor share a single multi-host network controller connecting the respective broadband gateway to the fiber-based network, the gateway processor configured to provide access to the Internet to one or more devices at the respective premises via the fiber-based network by providing data packets from the fiber-based network to the one or more devices; and the computing processor configured to process distributed workloads at the respective premises and communicate via the fiber-based network; and a distributed workload controller for controlling the processing of distributed workloads using the broadband gateways accessed via the fiber-based network, wherein performance of a workload is distributed to be performed by multiple computing processors of broadband gateways at multiple premises.

20090055160

12128727

1. A translation apparatus that integrates both phrase-based and free-form speech-to-speech translation approaches using probability models, comprising: a housing; a first communication member embedded in the housing, the first communication member configured to receive vocal communication from a user speaking in a source language; an input audio buffer operably connected to the first communication member, the input audio buffer configured to store the vocal communication transferred from the first communication member; a speech recognition module configured to recognize a plurality of preset sentences and a plurality of free-form sentences, the speech recognition module further configured to receive the vocal communication from the input audio buffer and decipher the content of the vocal communication; a multilingual dictionary module operably connected to the speech recognition module, the multilingual dictionary module configured to locate a corresponding translation of the vocal communication provided a preset sentence exists in the speech recognition module for the vocal communication; a translation module operably connected to the speech recognition module, the translation module configured to translate the vocal communication into the target language provided there is no corresponding translation located in the multilingual dictionary module; a synthesis module operably connected to the translation module, the synthesis module configured to synthesize text to speech (TTS) for the translated target language; an output audio buffer operably connected to the multilingual dictionary module and the synthesis module, the output audio buffer configured to store prerecorded speech sounds from the multilingual dictionary module corresponding to the translated vocal communication and further configured to store the synthesized speech sounds from the synthesis module corresponding to the translated target language; and a second communication member embedded in the housing and operably connected to the output audio buffer, the second communication member configured to receive and play the stored sounds in the output audio buffer.

20010027451

09753427

1. An information processing apparatus for performing a process for searching for a file stored in a memory, the apparatus comprising: file information obtaining means for obtaining predetermined information from the file; right information obtaining means for obtaining right information indicating a user who can access the file; index storing means for storing an index in which information obtained by the file information obtaining means is associated with right information obtained by the right information obtaining means; keyword inputting means for accepting keyword input for searching for the file; user specifying means for specifying a user who input the keyword; search query generating means for generating a search query from a keyword input from the keyword inputting means and information indicating a user specified by the user specifying means; and searching means for searching the index storing means for an index corresponding to a search query generated by the search query generating means.

7653711

10548930

1. A method for information distribution, said method implemented via execution by a computer of a set of program instructions stored on a storage medium and read from the storage medium, said method comprising: specifying a group delivery sequence for sending a message to each group of a cascade of groups, said cascade of groups consisting of at least two groups, each group of the cascade of groups comprising at least one member, the at least one member of each group of the cascade of groups differing from the at least one member of each other group of the cascade of groups, said group delivery sequence being a sequential ordering of the groups of the cascade of groups; specifying a message configured to be sent to each group of the cascade of groups one group at a time in accordance with the specified group delivery sequence; receiving a response to the message from a first member of a group G of the cascade of groups, said message having been sent to the group G from a member of an originating group of the cascade of groups, said specifying the group delivery sequence message and said specifying the message having been performed before the message has been sent to any group of the cascade of groups, said originating group not comprising the first member, said response falling into a first response class of a plurality of response classes; and assigning to the first member a category of membership in the originating group resulting in the first member becoming a member of the originating group in accordance with the category of membership, said category of membership being based on the first response class, said originating group configured to receive a subsequent message such that each member of the originating group receives the subsequent message.

9854026

14319806

1. A method, comprising: receiving in a context of a display page of a calling application an indication to invoke a companion application, wherein a plurality of calling applications can invoke the companion application; determining based on the calling application of the plurality of calling applications a filtered set of data values to be sent to a remote service, wherein the filtered set of data values includes a filtered set of HTML tags and corresponding data values, and configuration data associated with a URL of the display page, wherein the corresponding data values include a state of the display page, wherein the filtered set of HTML tags are filtered from a set of HTML tags comprising the display page; sending to the remote service a call comprising the filtered set of HTML tags and the corresponding data values, and the configuration data associated with the URL of the display page, wherein the remote service is configured to use the filtered set of HTML tags and the corresponding data values, and the configuration data associated with the URL of the display page to generate a request, wherein the request comprises a URL associated with the companion application; receiving from the remote service the request with content useable by the calling application to invoke the companion application; and in response to receiving the request, invoking the companion application, wherein the companion application is configured to display a page comprising data based in part on the filtered set of HTML tags.

9280802

13800404

1. A method for storing information of a picture, comprising: presenting a file of the picture to be edited, wherein the picture file to be edited at least comprises original data of the picture; editing the picture file to be edited with an interface engine, and integrating rendering information of the edited picture file according to a preset picture file format; and storing the original picture data and the rendering information of the picture, wherein the rendering information comprises at least rendering texture mode information, blend rendering mode information and picture data offset information, and the preset picture file format comprises at least a rendering texture mode information field, a blend rendering mode information field, and a picture data offset information field; and wherein the integrating of the rendering information of the edited picture file according to the preset picture file format comprises sequentially adding the rendering texture mode information, the blend rendering mode information and the picture data offset information of the edited picture file according to a field sequence in the preset picture file format.

7813945

10425733

1. A process for underwriting an insurance application based on a plurality of previous insurance applications and their associated underwriting decisions, the process implemented using a computer readable medium and the process performed by a computer, the process comprising: creating, by the computer, a plurality of binary classifiers based on a structured methodology of multivariate adaptive regression splines (“MARS”), where the plurality of binary classifiers are arranged in a parallel network; identifying, by the computer, a relevant set of MARS variables and parameters based on the plurality of previous insurance applications and their associated underwriting decisions; performing, by the computer, at least one cross-validation technique and at least one re-sampling technique on the plurality of previous insurance applications and their associated underwriting decisions; modifying, by the computer, the plurality of binary classifiers based on the performance of the at least one cross-validation technique and the at least one re-sampling technique; outputting, by the computer, a classification assignment for the at least one new insurance application utilizing a validated parallel network; and performing processing on the classification assignment for the at least one new insurance application to generate an underwriting assessment of the at least one new insurance application.

9575643

14975758

1. A computing device comprising: a display; processing hardware; storage hardware storing applications installed on an operating system, the operating system configured to manage execution of the applications and manage displaying windows of the applications on the display; the storage hardware further storing instructions executable by the processing hardware and configured to cause the processing hardware to: respond to a group-forming event by automatically: (i) identifying whichever of the applications had respective windows displayed on the display at the time of the group-forming event and obtaining arrangement information indicating an arrangement aspect of the windows of the respectively identified applications on the display at the time of the group-forming event, and (ii) storing, in the storage hardware, an application group comprising application identifiers of the identified applications and comprising the arrangement information, provide the application group to a user interface element, wherein when the user interface element is displayed the user interface element comprises user-selectable graphic application indicators, wherein a first graphic application indicator represents the application group and is displayed in the user interface element with other graphic application indicators that represent single respective applications other than the identified applications, respond to interactive selection of the first graphic application indicator by using the application identifiers and arrangement information from the application group to display, on the display, in an arrangement based on the arrangement information, windows of whichever applications are identified by the application identifiers, and respond to interactive selection of one of the other graphic application indicators by displaying a corresponding window of the selected other graphic application indicator.

20090041327

12058803

1. A method for verification of image linear structure in medical imaging applications, comprising: providing a configurable linear structure verifier in a medical imaging system; selecting parameters for the linear structure verifier from a plurality of different parameter generating sources; configuring the verifier according to selected parameters; and verifying linear structure using cascade rules.

7620629

11440739

1. A file search apparatus tat searches for a file based on one or more searched-keywords associated with object files and one or more searching-keywords selected by a user, the file search apparatus comprising: a display unit that displays an image; an installation module to which a storage medium storing object files is installed; a setting module that sets the searching-keywords according to an instruction by the user; an acquisition module that, when the searching-keywords are set by the setting module and the storage medium is installed to the installation module; acquires the searched-keywords associated with object files from the storage medium; a collation module that performs collation as to whether each of the searching-keywords set by the setting module matches any of the searched-keywords acquired by the acquisition module; a display control module that controls the display unit to display in a manner that results of the collation by the collation module is recognizable; an information storage module that stores icons in association with the respective searched-keywords; wherein the display control module reads an icon associated with a searched-keyword corresponding to each of the searching-keywords that are selected from the searched-keywords, from the information storage module, and displays the read icons as the searching-keywords.

9459190

13667669

1. A method for predicting a quantity of a contaminant in a fuel tank at the end of a time period, the method comprising the steps of: determining a quantity of the contaminant in the fuel tank at the start of the time period; determining at least one operating condition of the fuel tank during the time period which affects the quantity of the contaminant in a known manner; using information relating to the at least one operating condition of the fuel tank to generate a predicted quantity of the contaminant accumulated in the fuel tank during the time period; and calculating, based upon the quantity of the contaminant at the start of the time period and the predicted quantity of the contaminant accumulated during the time period, a predicted quantity of the contaminant at a future point of time at the end of a time period.

9748771

13445645

1. A method comprising: providing an electrical load scheduling mechanism; placing the electrical load scheduling mechanism in communication with an appliance; the electrical load scheduling mechanism comprising an object which is separable from the appliance and which transmits electrical power between an electrical grid and the appliance, wherein the appliance plugs into the electrical load scheduling mechanism and wherein the electrical load scheduling mechanism connects to the electrical grid; assessing electrical grid load conditions from the electrical load scheduling mechanism; accepting user input at a user interface of the electrical load scheduling mechanism, wherein said user input comprises at least one user-specified time constraint related to a time frame of delivery of electrical power to the appliance and user-specified time windows associated with at least one alternative energy source, wherein the at least one alternative energy source is different than the electrical grid; and scheduling delivery of electrical power to the appliance via the electrical load scheduling mechanism from the at least one alternative energy source; said scheduling comprising altering a predetermined delivery of electric power to the appliance based on the assessed electrical grid conditions and on the accepted user input.

20150195768

14664641

1. A wireless apparatus operable in a wireless communication system, the apparatus comprising: a discovery engine configured to communicate with a near-area network (NAN) based on a profile, the profile having defined use parameters, receive an input from an application indicating a selection of the profile from a plurality of profiles, each of at least a subset of the profiles having a unique set of parameters selected for use for use in a predetermined context, receive one or more attributes from the application, and configure the profile using the one or more attributes, the attributes containing information to configure the profile to perform functions as defined by the application.

20060123482

11005638

1. A method of operating a data network including a first network device and a second network device the method comprising: providing data for distribution from the first network device to the second network device; providing a first risk factor associated with the data; providing a second risk factor associated with the second network device; assessing a risk of distribution based on consideration of the first and second risk factors; and blocking the distribution of data to the second network device if the risk of distribution exceeds a threshold.

8819013

13666811

1. A method comprising: receiving user feedback items and corresponding support solutions; identifying, using clustering techniques, associations between the user feedback items and the corresponding support solutions wherein using clustering techniques includes filtering a corpus of user feedback items against a domain-specific dictionary; storing the identified associations as an items-solutions model that correlates the user feedback items with the corresponding support solutions; receiving a new user feedback item; automatically determining, using the items-solutions model, at least one support solution that corresponds to the new user feedback item; and providing the at least one support solution in response to the received new user feedback item.

20120066167

12880357

1. A method for assessing trust in information, wherein the method comprises: collecting information from one or more information sources; detecting one or more inconsistencies in one or more statements from the information collected from the one or more sources; assigning a penalty to each information source involved in an inconsistency and a reward for each statement not involved in any inconsistencies; and using each assigned penalty and reward to perform an aggregation to assess trust in the collected information.

9996391

15206385

1. A parallel computer system comprising: a parallel computing device including a plurality of information processing devices that are connected to form a two-dimensional mesh network, the information processing device arranged at an end point being set to an origin; and a management device managing the parallel computing device, the management device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor executes a process including: storing therein an assignment table, storing valid bits with each valid bit indicating that a job is assigned to corresponding information processing device when the valid bit is on, including first assignment information for the information processing devices on the two-dimensional mesh network and second assignment information for virtual information processing devices, the virtual information processing devices are arranged at termination ends of the two-dimensional mesh network of the information processing devices against information processing devices arranged on the X-axis or Y-axis, the valid bits of the second assignment information being set on; executing processing of selecting information processing devices in an order from an information processing device, a connection distance from an information processing device as an origin is maximum toward the information processing device as the origin in a predetermined axial direction while changing a connection distance in another axial direction; determining whether a job is assigned to the information processing device selected at the executing, using the assignment table; searching regions in which idle information processing devices assigned with no job are arranged continuously, using the first assignment information and the second assignment information stored in the assignment table; specifying a region appropriate for assignment of a job as an assignment target among the regions searched by the searching; and assigning the job to information processing devices included in the region specified by the specifying, when the determining includes determining that no job is assigned to the selected information processing device, the searching includes searching regions in which the selected information processing device is set to a base point, using a search result of regions in which another information processing device that is connected to the selected information processing device and of which the connection distance from the origin in any axial direction is larger than a connection distance of the selected information processing device is set to a base point.

20030083073

10004346

1. A system for managing a network using a processor, the system configured to generate display elements comprising: geographic elements having geographic characteristics; network elements having network characteristics and generated for display in relation to the geographic elements; and sectored performance elements having sectored performance characteristics, each generated for display proximal to a corresponding network element.

9219752

14126700

1. A data leak prevention system, comprising: a client device; an application resident on the client device, the application having source code that is unavailable or non-modifiable; a system call emittable by the application as a result of an action that is able to export a document out of the client device, the system call to take place before a data leak event can occur, and the action involving the document and i) latest full contents of the document, ii) metadata of the document, or iii) a combination of the latest full contents and the metadata; a system call interceptor agent resident on the client device, the system call interceptor agent including a system call interceptor to intercept the system call emitted by the application and to suspend the system call; and a policy decision engine to perform a deep scan, according to a policy condition, of at least some of i) the latest full contents of the document, ii) the metadata of the document, or iii) the combination of the latest full contents and the metadata to determine a real-time document sensitivity and to determine whether a policy applies to the document that is attempted to be exported out of the client device, and implement a policy action based upon the real-time document sensitivity.

20060136928

11018684

1. A system, comprising: a plurality of computing containers having processing resources for executing software workloads; a plurality of management processes for controlling access to said processing resources according to workload policy definitions; a data container for storing a plurality of workload policy definitions and associations between said plurality of workload policy definitions and said plurality of computing containers; and a configuration process for communicating workload policy definitions from said data container to said plurality of management processes.

6123259

09070373

1. An electronic personal shopping system for use in a retail facility including a store computer configured to transmit and receive data via the RF spectrum, the electronic personal shopping system comprising: a mobile terminal, further including: a microprocessor based control unit; an individually addressable RF communication transceiver, connected to the control unit, the transceiver communicating data between the mobile terminal and the store computer; a portable scanner configured to read item code data, the transceiver transmitting said code data to the store computer on command of the control unit as a customer inputs the code data for items being purchased; a reader/writer unit for interfacing with a personal memory store; a memory storage unit; and a display; wherein, the personal shopping system includes an item database, the database being organized to hold store merchandise item entries, each merchandise item entry comprising at least a store item indicia and an associated item location information, each merchandise item being identified by said item code data, the location information associated to an item being assigned as a customer's current location as the customer inputs the code data of that item, the personal shopping system further including means for calculating a direction and distance to a destination item relative to the customer's current location.

20090064000

11846230

1. A method of providing an auto-completion feature in a graphical user interface, the method consisting of: providing a user configurable auto-completion application operating in the background of a computer operating system and executing on a computing device, the auto-completion application monitoring and archiving user activities, wherein certain actions by the user are parsed and indexed; analyzing the parsed and indexed actions of the user to determine at least one of relationships, user interactions, user statistics, various states of the user's actions over time, and images or video of the user's interaction to create an index of the user's typical interactions with the system; and providing a fast-forward functionality based on the index such that a tree structure is presented to the user on a display device of the computing device, the tree structure indicating the user's current state in the system and one or more future states the user typically takes based on past actions, wherein the auto-completion application includes instructions to: query the indexed actions of the user to locate auto-completion options based on similar application states; compare an application and a user context to a prior context; and present auto-completion options that match a state of the application and the user context.

6085165

08763668

1. A computer implemented process for customizing features of an electronic device at an end user's level based on a user's desired outcomes such that the device's features are optimally configured, said process including the steps of: (a) defining desired outcome data for a specific electronic device, said desired outcome data including a plurality of device specific desired outcomes, each of said desired outcomes defining a benefit of value, said desired outcomes free from any solution or specification, each of said desired outcomes remaining stable over time; (b) defining predictive metric data for said electronic device, said predictive metric data including a plurality of device specific predictive metrics, each of said predictive metrics being defined as a parameter that can be measured and controlled for satisfying at least one desired outcome, each of said predictive metrics predicting with certainty satisfaction of at least one desired outcome; (c) defining a predictive relationship value for each desired outcome and predictive metric combination; (d) defining customizable feature data for said electronic device, said customizable feature data including a plurality of configurable device features, each of said predictive metrics having at least one specific configurable device feature associated therewith; (e) defining a customization relationship value for each predictive metric and device feature combination; (f) user assigning an importance value to each desired outcome; (g) prioritizing said desired outcomes in accordance with said assigned importance values; (h) prioritizing said predictive metrics, wherein the prioritizing of said predictive metrics is directly related to the prioritization of said desired outcomes and said predictive relationship values; (i) prioritizing said configurable device features, wherein the prioritizing of said configurable device features is directly related to the prioritization of said predictive metrics and said customization relationship values to establish a prioritized set of configurable features including customization values and commands for customizing the electronic device to an optimized configuration based on a user's desired outcome preferences; (j) transferring said customization values to said electronic device via a data transfer means wherein said device receives said customization values and adjusts said configurable device features in accordance with said customization values to provide the optimized configuration for the electronic device.

8639448

12782414

1. A method for recognizing an object that has a plurality of expressions of abstract object characteristics, and is associated with an object characteristic class of a hierarchical system of object characteristic classes stored in a first memory; said method comprising: 1.1) observing at least one location at which the object is presumed to be present, using a plurality of sensors in a sensor suite, each of said sensors responding to at least one object characteristic, and accordingly emitting a sensor signal; 1.2) checking whether each of the emitted sensor signals exceeds a specified threshold value for the sensor signals, accepting sensor signals which exceed the threshold value, and storing the accepted sensor signals in a second memory; 1.3) pairing combinations of the sensor characteristics for the accepted sensor signals obtained in 1.2) to form identification characteristic pairs; 1.4) comparing the identification characteristic pairs obtained in 1.3) to the object characteristic classes stored in the first memory; and 1.5) identifying the object, based on the object characteristic class, whose object characteristic pairs are identical to the identification characteristic pairs obtained in 1.3).

20070299779

11476990

1. A method for authorizing a software product to be used on a computer system, the method comprising: receiving authorization information at a database from a point of sale system located at a retailer, wherein the authorization information is associated with the software product; and modifying a database entry in the database to indicate that use of the software product is authorized, wherein the database entry is associated with the software product.

9396177

14177033

1. A method for elastic graph-based hierarchical analysis of a text document, comprising: at least one computer processor identifying a sector for the text document; the at least one computer processor retrieving a customization library for the text document based on the sector; the at least one computer processor analyzing a structure of the text document using the customization library, whereby a plurality of markers in the text document are identified; and the at least one computer processor generating an elastic graph for the text document based on the plurality of markers.

20110270882

12897963

1. An RDF (Resource Description Framework) network construction device using an ontology schema, comprising: an ontology schema storing module that stores an ontology schema defining a relationship system between concepts; a class managing module that connects and stores, in a set, authority data composed of classes, terms classified by the classes, identifiers of the terms, representative terms, and identifier of the representative terms; a mining rule managing module that connects and stores, in a set, a property of the ontology schema, one mining pattern corresponding to the properties, and one or more RDF triples corresponding to the mining patterns; a mining pattern creating module that is linked with the class managing module, recognizes terms from an input text document and represents the terms into corresponding classes and properties representing relationships between classes, and converts the text document, which represents the classes into properties, into a mining pattern; and an RDF triple creating module that is linked with the mining rule managing module and creates an RDF triple by comparing the mining pattern stored in the mining rule managing module with the mining pattern of the text document, wherein the class of the class managing module is set by a key value and the property of the mining rule managing module is set by a key value.

9032419

13329196

1. A system comprising: at least one programmable processor associated with an application server; and a machine-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one programmable processor to perform operations comprising: generating an instance of an application function; generating an executor for the application function; requesting an instance of a component class of the application function from a package manager of a database system; accessing a void pointer associated with the instance of the component class, and a wrapper function address associated with the application function, the void pointer and wrapper function address comprising runtime parameters of the application function the accessing comprising: defining an interface to an interface registry stored in a component instance manager; receiving the interface to the interface registry; and adding the void pointer to the interface registry via the interface; and executing the application function by the executor according to the runtime parameters.

20130254348

13874035

1. An interface device for facilitating transfer of medical information between a patient implantable medical device (PIMD) and a remote network server via public network infrastructure using any of a plurality of generic network access devices having disparate communication protocols, the interface device comprising: first communication circuitry configured to receive medical information from a patient implantable medical device (PIMD); second communication circuitry configured to effect communication with the first communication circuitry and a generic network access device; a processor coupled the first communication circuitry and the second communication circuitry, and the processor configured to: control transmission of the medical information to the generic network access device; and condition the medical device data in compliance with a predetermined medical information regulatory standard governing the PIMD.

8510330

12357193

1. A data retrieval system including a configurable search engine, said system comprising: a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory configured to store instructions that when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: allow a user to select for a searcher, a set of configuration settings from a plurality of configuration settings; enable the searcher to personalize the search engine based on the set of configuration settings selected by the user, wherein allowing the user to select the set of configuration settings comprises allowing the user to: select, from a plurality of search engine related options, a set of search engine related options available for the searcher to personalize the search engine; and specify an extent to which the searcher can personalize the set of search engine related options, wherein the set of search engine related options comprises: options related to an appearance of the search engine and a function available to the searcher when performing a search; and an option to select a set of search fields and behavior of the set of search fields available to the searcher for the search; enable the searcher to perform the search using the search engine as personalized by the searcher, wherein the user has a first level of access and the searcher has a second level of access to the data retrieval system; and enable the user to select other configuration settings from the plurality of configuration settings for configuring the search engine, wherein the other configuration settings comprise one or more of: a setting to set security rules for the searcher; a setting for specifying whether a search section of the search engine is initially collapsed or expanded when a search page is opened; a setting for specifying whether the searcher is capable of accessing a basic or advanced search; or a setting for specifying a maximum number of visible rows from a search results grid that can be viewed at one time.

20140067099

13600380

1. In combination, an electronic device and an application program residing at least partially therein and run at least partially thereby: the electronic device being from the group including a cell phone, a smart phone, a digital audio recorder, and a computer, and comprising: an input receiver for enabling selection of application program functions; an audio receiver; an audio to digital converter; a first-in-first-out digital memory; a data storage; and a digital output; the application program comprising: a trigger selecting function by which an audible trigger is user-selected via the input receiver; a temporary recording function by which an audio signal is continuously received by the audio receiver, converted to a primary digital record by the audio to digital converter, and stored into the first-in-first-out memory, the temporary recording function having a first predetermined time period after which the receiving, converting and storing are performed in a first-in-first-out loop having a length equal to the first predetermined time period; a monitoring function through which one of the received audio signal and the converted digital record is monitored in real time for a first occurrence of the user-selected audible trigger in the audio signal; a transfer function through which the contents of the first-in-first-out memory are transferred to the data storage upon recognition of an occurrence of the user-selected audible trigger by the monitoring function; an appended memory function through which the audio signal is further received by the audio receiver, converted to a secondary digital record by the audio to digital converter, and appended to the primary digital record in the data storage for a secondary predetermined time period after the first occurrence to create an extended digital record; and an output function through which the extended digital record is output via the digital output.

20100100393

12641644

1. A method for processing orders for “own use” discount pharmaceuticals, said method comprising the steps of: receiving an order comprising a request from a buyer for a quantity of a type of pharmaceutical; receiving an associated report summarizing the “own use” pharmaceutical needs of at least one patient who is supplied with pharmaceuticals by said buyer; comparing said order with said associated report; and if said associated report supports said order, making a status determination that said buyer qualifies for purchasing said quantity of said type of pharmaceutical at a price reduced by an “own use” discount.

20160104480

14675932

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, by a first computing device, audio data that corresponds to an utterance; before beginning automated speech recognition processing on the audio data, processing the audio data using a classifier that classifies audio data as including a particular hotword or as not including the particular hotword; determining, based on the processing of the audio data using the classifier that classifies audio data as including a particular hotword or as not including the particular hotword, a first value that reflects a first likelihood that the utterance includes the particular hotword; receiving a second value that reflects a second likelihood that the utterance includes the particular hotword, as determined by a second computing device; comparing the first value that reflects the first likelihood that the utterance includes the particular hotword and the second value that reflects the second likelihood that the utterance includes the particular hotword; and based on comparing the first value that reflects the first likelihood that the utterance includes the particular hotword to the second value that reflects the second likelihood that the utterance includes the particular hotword, determining whether to begin performing automated speech recognition processing on the audio data.

20060010138

10886571

1. A method for managing dialogue interaction comprising: generating a hierarchical tree representation of a set of hierarchical data entities; and identifying a leaf node in the hierarchical tree representation.

7693910

10075283

1. A computer implemented service of searching documents wherein servers comprising document databases and programs to manipulate said databases are dispersed over a network and a client connected to said servers performs a document search, said service providing a document search method comprising the steps of: making a first search input of a set of keywords, fragments of a document or any desired set of documents to a first document database; conducting a first search of said first document database based on said first search input; retrieving at least one document from said first document database as a result of said first search; selecting and inputting at least one of said at least one retrieved document to said first document database; making a weighted term list, whereby each term is given a first weight, from said at least one inputted document, the first weight of each term reflecting the importance of the term in the first document database; wherein a user interface is provided in which any of said at least one document retrieved by said first search is selected or deselected, and a set of said at least one document that is selected via said interface is used in making the first weighted term list; and selecting at least one term from said weighted term list, conducting a second search of a second document database which differs from said first document database using said at least one term selected from said weighted term list as a second search input for performing said second search; retrieving at least one document from said second document database as a result of said second search, calculating a second weight of each term used as the second search input, which reflects the importance of each said term, to each document retrieved from the second document database by the second search; finding out a relevance of each document retrieved from the second document database by calculating an overall weight on both said weighted term list and the calculated second weights for each document with respect to terms common in both; and displaying results of said finding step on a display unit.

20130151502

13323530

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: accessing in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, a database created in an application level language and comprising a row store table and a column store table having a column dictionary; iterating records in the row table; causing a column engine to reference the column dictionary to obtain a join condition, including creating an intermediate structure comprising location information indicative of a location of first data stored in the column store table and location information indicative of locations of corresponding rows in the row store table containing the first data, thereby providing a mapping between a value from the column store table and a row identification from the row store table; and returning matched records to create a join table comprising data from the row store table and the column store table in a native state.

9679338

13675969

1. A method for organizing and classifying users and user associated media content in a virtual space, comprising: tagging all content in the virtual space; assigning co-ordinates to the tagged content in the said space; assigning every user a coordinate in the virtual space; and determining user affiliation with the content in the virtual space, wherein said determining further comprises: causing the said user and the said content item to travel with respect to each other through the same virtual space, wherein the said travel with respect to each other is based on the user rating of the content such that a high user rating causes the user and the rated content item to move closer together in the virtual space and a low user rating causes the user and the rated content item to move farther apart in the virtual space; and maintaining number of ratings each media content item receives, wherein the greater the number of ratings received, the less the rated content item is caused to travel with each subsequent rating.

20110234543

13072328

1. A computing device, comprising: a display; a sensor subsystem for detecting off-surface objects; memory having instructions stored on it which when run on a processor, causes the processor to perform the steps of: detecting an off-surface object using the sensor subsystem; determining a position and a shape of said detected off-surface object; matching the determined position with a set of reference zones and the determined shape with a set of reference poses to thereby determine a gesture state; detecting changes in the determined position and shape using the sensor subsystem; matching said changes in the determined position with transitions between said reference zones and matching said changes in determined shapes with transitions between said reference poses to thereby determine a transition between gesture states; and, instructing a user interface to provide feedback based on the determined transition between gesture states.

9215282

14317213

1. A method, executing on one or more computing devices, the method comprising: receiving, by the one or more computing devices, a request to designate verified preferred status of a user; designating verified preferred status by updating a profile of the user to include the verified preferred status; receiving, by the one or more computing devices, a request to couple a first client device to a communication server including a communication session, wherein the request includes user identification information that includes a first identifier of the first client device that sent the request and a second identifier of a user associated with the first client device; determining, by the one or more computing devices, a number of client devices coupled to the communication session; comparing, by the one or more computing devices, the number of client devices coupled to the communication session to a maximum number of client devices to determine whether the maximum number of client devices are coupled to the communication session; when fewer than the maximum number of client devices are coupled to the communication session, coupling, by the one or more computing devices, the first client device to the communication session; when the maximum number of client devices are coupled to the communication session, determining, by the one or more computing devices, whether the user associated with the first client device is a verified preferred user based on at least the user identification information by: querying, by the one or more computing devices, at least one data store based on at least the user identification information to retrieve user status information for the user associated with the first client device; and determining, by the one or more computing devices, a user status of the user associated with the first client device based at least in part on the retrieved user status information; when the user is determined to be a verified preferred user and the maximum number of client devices are coupled to the communication session, coupling, by the one or more computing devices, the first client device to the communication session even though the maximum number of client devices are coupled to the communication session, wherein the communication session enables communication between the first client device and one or more additional client devices coupled to the communication session; sending, by the one or more computing devices, a notification to at least one of the one or more additional client devices indicating the request to join; and when the user is determined not to be a verified preferred user, rejecting, by the one or more computing devices, the request to couple the first client device to the communication session.

20040193894

10397789

1. A method of processing data associated with one of an individual and an entity, the method comprising the steps of: capturing multiple data streams associated with one of the individual and the entity, the multiple data streams representing at least one of biometric and behavioral characteristics associated with one of the individual and the entity; parsing the multiple data streams so as to generate at least one data context sequence; and selecting at least one set of components from the at least one data context sequence, which idiosyncratically represents one of the individual and the entity, so as to generate at least one transformed data context sequence.

20130104080

13276404

1. A method, by a computing device, comprising: accessing a sequence of video frames; analyzing frames of the sequence of video frames to identify one or more social network objects; determining a value of the frames of the sequence of video frames based on the one or more identified social network objects; and selecting one or more of the frames of the sequence of video frames based on respective values of the frames.

8335701

13359078

1. A method, comprising: storing, by a computing device, placement information for insurance policies placed with multiple insurance companies; receiving, by the computing device, a request from a first one of the insurance companies for data corresponding to a first subset of the insurance policies meeting policy criteria selection information, wherein at least a portion of the policy criteria selection information is unique to the first insurance company; determining, by the computing device, a second subset of the first subset of insurance policies that are one of (a) scheduled to expire within a predetermined time frame, (b) scheduled to renew within the predetermined time frame and (c) scheduled for submission to insurance companies; within the predetermined time frame; determining, by the computing device, historical information for the first subset of insurance policies including performance metrics for the first insurance company and performance metrics for other insurance companies from the multiple insurance companies, corresponding to the participation of or results of the insurance companies in various stages of the sales process for insurance policies in the first subset; and providing insurance policy data for the second subset of insurance policies and the historical information to the first insurance company, wherein the insurance policy data and historical information is organized based on the policy criteria selection information received from the first insurance company.

9348911

10348610

1. A method for searching for items via the Internet, comprising: creating, by a system including a processor, an index of items, the items being available via the Internet at information sources, wherein the index of items comprises a plurality of descriptive packets, each of the plurality of descriptive packets comprising: an information source search language; an information source search template; an information source protocol; and information source product hierarchy information in which the items are arranged in a hierarchy according to categories and sub-categories of the items at a respective information source; receiving, by the system, a request to search for a product via the Internet, the request to search including search criteria received with the request, the search criteria being received from an end user device based on user input; transforming, by the system, the request to search into an inquiry suitable to the index of items based on the plurality of descriptive packets; searching, by the system, the index of items using the inquiry to produce a first set of information sources corresponding to a first subset of items related to the inquiry according to the product hierarchy information; accessing, by the system, search methodologies that are associated with the first set of information sources generating, by the system, a modified inquiry for each of the first set of information sources, wherein the modified inquiry is translated according to the information source search language and the information source search template; searching, by the system, each of the first set of information sources according to the modified inquiry for the first subset of items of the first set of information sources via an information source protocol of the first set of information sources and according to the information source product hierarchy information of the information source that match the modified inquiry for each of the first set of information sources; and responding to the request to search for items by providing results from each of the first set of information sources related to the first subset of items.

20110066752

12878881

1. A computer implemented method for dynamic bandwidth throttling, comprising the steps of: a sender configured to track an approximation of network bandwidth by watching how fast data gets to a receiver at an other end of the network from said sender and back again, said approximation comprising a metric determined according to the processor implemented steps of: sending time-stamped information from said sender to said receiver; said receiver time-stamping said information and returning said information to said sender; said sender calculating a baseline value for bandwidth from said information based upon said sender's time stamp and said receiver's time stamp; and said sender sending additional time-stamped information to a receiver to determine network bandwidth relative to said baseline and to generate a metric therefrom which comprises said bandwidth approximation; and said sender limiting a rate of data transmission according to said approximation.

20080019285

11458749

1. A method comprising: receiving at least one rule for determining an availability of a first user for participating in a communication session of interest at a first telecommunications endpoint, wherein said at least one rule specifies a first availability condition that is based on the number of communication sessions already occurring in which said user is involved; and determining said availability based on said first availability condition.

6162982

09491432

1. An automatic composition apparatus comprising: a piece-of-music-independent template supplying device that supplies a plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates containing various information independent of pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music; a piece-of-music-dependent template supplying device that supplies a plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates containing various information dependent on the pieces of music, to generate melodies of the pieces of music; a piece-of-music-independent template selecting device that selects a piece-of-music-independent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-independent templates; a piece-of-music-dependent template selecting device that selects a piece-of-music-dependent template from the supplied plurality of piece-of-music-dependent templates; and a melody generating device that generates a melody of a piece of music based on information contained in the selected piece-of-music-independent template and piece-of-music-dependent template.

20100211412

12388218

1. A method for processing insurance claims using a set of adjudication rules, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a claim for processing, the received claim having claim content including a claim date; accessing the set of adjudication rules appropriate to the received claim, the set of adjudication rules structured in a plurality of containers including a primary rule container and a plurality of secondary rule containers, each of the plurality of secondary rule containers being coupled to the primary rule container by a respective container reference, each of the plurality of secondary rule containers containing one or more adjudication rules adapted for processing the claim content of the received claim, each of the one or more adjudication rules being coupled to their respective secondary container by a respective rule reference, the set of adjudication rules defining a rule hierarchy; processing the content of the received claim with the one or more adjudication rules facilitated by an execution order defined by the ordering of the container references in the primary rule container; wherein the result of the processed claim is used to determine subsequent settlement of the received claim.

8549065

12819601

1. A method for communication between a client and a server in a client/server system using an OPC UA protocol, comprising: making a OPC UA service call for interaction between an OPC UA client and an OPC UA server; and carrying out communications between the OPC UA client and the OPC UA server via transactions integrated in OPC UA service calls in a transaction context using a transaction management component, such that OPC UA clients arranged to carry out transactions each communicate with an OPC UA server using transactions wherein for communication between an OPC UA client and an OPC UA server using transactions: configuring an OPC UA session; calling a method for starting a transaction by the OPC UA client; receiving, at the transaction management component of the OPC UA server, information relating to the start of a transaction; manipulating data at the OPC UA client and checking the permissibility of the manipulation by the transaction management component; and calling, in order to conclude the transaction, via the OPC UA client, a method for confirming the transaction and, after corresponding checking by the transaction management component, inducing the manipulation of data in an addressed device.

20070147304

11681676

1. Method of re-establishing connection by a mobile node after a shut down comprising: after recovering from the shut down, examining a binding update table to determine whether the table includes any entry; determining whether the mobile node is in a new foreign network; for each entry in the binding update table, sending an update message to an identified node in the entry; and replacing the entry from the binding update table with a new entry corresponding to the update message.

20060111860

11323841

1. A method for determining a state of stability of an electrical grid having n nodes, comprising the steps of: a. embedding load flow equations (L) representing the electrical grid in a holomorphic embedding (L(s)) that goes continuously from a no load case (L(0)), in which all voltages are equal to the normal or designed voltage level and there is no energy flow in links of the grid, to an objective case (L(1)) representative of the grid in a condition for which stability is to be determined; b. developing in power series, values of the load flow equations' unknowns in the parameters of the holomorphic embedding (L(s)) in a neighborhood of the no load case value of each parameter; c. computing an n-order algebraic approximant (for instance a continued fraction approximation) to the power series produced in step b; d. evaluating the n-order algebraic approximant produced in step c for the power series produced in step b to provide a solution to the load flow equations (L); and e. displaying the solution to the load flow equations as a measure of a state of stability of the electrical grid.

9468371

14249645

1. A method for determining a prescription (Rx) for a person, comprising: providing aberrometric data characterizing wavefront errors of the person's eye, the aberrometric data being obtained using a wavefront sensor and comprising one or more coefficients characterizing the wavefront errors; determining the prescription (Rx) for the person's eye based on the one or more coefficients and on predetermined information relating aberrometric data for a plurality of people's eyes and corresponding subjective refraction data for the plurality of people's eyes, the corresponding subjective refraction data comprising subjectively determined corrections for the plurality of people's eyes; and reporting the prescription (Rx) to an eye care professional, wherein the predetermined information is determined based on i) estimated corrections for the plurality of people's eyes, each of the estimated corrections being characterized by one or more coefficients derived from the aberrometric data for the plurality of people's eyes and one or more scaling factors corresponding to each of the one or more coefficients; and ii) the corresponding subjectively determined corrections for the plurality of people's eyes, the predetermined information comprises values for the one or more scaling factors, the scaling factors have been varied in a previous process to take on values that minimize differences between the estimated corrections for the plurality of people's eyes and the corresponding subjectively determined corrections for the plurality of people's eyes, and determining the prescription (Rx) comprises scaling the one or more of the coefficients characterizing the wavefront errors with the values of the one or more scaling factors that minimize differences between the estimated corrections for the plurality of people's eyes and the corresponding subjectively determined corrections for the plurality of people's eyes.

20060190315

11240741

1 ) A method comprising: Identifying travel data related to one of future or past travel data for one or more travelers; Identifying one or more unused travel purchase; and generating a value for the unused travel purchase, the value corresponding to the one or more travelers, the respective values based at least in part on the travel data of the one or more travelers; and presenting to at least one of the one or more travelers, one or more options of unused travel purchases and the respective generated values.

20080010589

11473376

1. A chart data layout system for processing chart data in a report, the chart data layout system comprising: a query module for decomposing required data into required data queries; a chart layout module for rendering a chart based upon chart data received from the queries; a category module for displaying category aggregate information in a category location of the chart; and a series module for displaying series aggregate information in a series location of the chart.

10134204

15162660

1. A method comprising: determining, by a mobile sensor included in a mobile device, first sensor data and second sensor data while the mobile device is located on or within a machine; determining, by the mobile device and based on at least one of the first sensor data or the second sensor data, a first dynamic characteristic of the machine; connecting wirelessly the mobile device to an external computing platform; transmitting, by the mobile device, information identifying the first dynamic characteristic to the external computing platform; determining, by the mobile sensor included in the mobile device, third sensor data and fourth sensor data while the mobile device is located on or within the machine; determining, by the mobile device and based on at least one of the third sensor data or the fourth sensor data, a second dynamic characteristic of the machine; transmitting, by the mobile device, information identifying the second dynamic characteristic to the external computing platform; determining, based on the first dynamic characteristic and the second dynamic characteristic, a dynamic change of the machine, the dynamic change being a profile of vibrational frequencies of the machine over time; and determining, based on the profile of vibrational frequencies, an operation performed by the machine.

20080288243

12121620

1. An information processing apparatus for analyzing text data, comprising: acquisition means for acquiring said text data; morpheme information registration means for registering morpheme information for use in analyzing said text data morphologically; morphological analysis means for analyzing said text data acquired by said acquisition means in accordance with said morpheme information registered by said morpheme information registration means, and creating morphological analysis information in the form of a table of morphemes constituting said text data; compound word processing rule registration means for registering compound word processing rules for creating a compound word not registered in said morpheme information registration means; and compound word processing means, by use of said compound word processing rules registered in said compound word processing rule registration means, for combining said morphemes included in said morphological analysis information created by said morphological analysis means, into said compound word not registered in said morpheme information registration means and detecting the created compound word.

20100087933

12247132

1. A method of controlling a set of process variables within a process, the method comprising: storing a set of process variable set points for the process variables; storing a process model for the process; receiving a set of measured process variable values for the process variables; implementing a multiple-input/multiple-output control procedure using the set of process variable set points and the set of measured process variable values to develop a control signal for use in controlling the process, including; using a first objective function and the stored process model to develop a feedforward control component, the first objective function using the set of process variable set points; using a second objective function and the stored process model to develop a feedback control component, the second objective function using the set of measured process variable values; and combining the feedforward control component and the feedback control component to produce the control signal; and using the control signal to control the set of process variables.

20150213360

14162962

1. A computer-implemented method of labeling items comprising: issuing, over a communications network, a labeling task to a plurality of workers participating in a crowdsourcing system; receiving, over the communications network, labels assigned to the issued task by two or more of the workers; sending the received labels and task data to inference components arranged to jointly infer both worker characteristics and characteristics of worker communities of which the workers are members, by assuming relationships between workers; and receiving inference results from the inference components, the inference results comprising an aggregated label for the task, the aggregated label taking into account the inferred worker characteristics and the inferred worker community characteristics.

20030232318

10414436

1. A method of taking a course offline, the method comprising: selecting the course; determining metadata associated with the course; loading the metadata; processing a state associated with the course; downloading the course to a storage; and activating an offline player to present the course from the storage.

20130183259

13685206

1. A human sebum mimetic comprising: a wax ester derived from interesterification of: a refined jojoba oil; and a refined botanical oil comprising palmitoleic acid; a phytosterol; and phytosqualene.

9241665

14599221

1. A computer-implemented method of assessing pain experienced by users, the method comprising: determining, by a computing device, a sound threshold level for a user, wherein the determined sound threshold level for the user represents a minimum auditory characteristic that the user is able to hear; receiving, at the computing device, input from the user that identifies one or more sound characteristics that match one or more aspects of a pain experienced by the user, wherein receiving the input comprises: outputting an audible sound to the user, and receiving, through a user interface, user input that indicates a response regarding at least one characteristic of the audible sound; and determining, by the computing device, a measurement of the pain experienced by the user based, at least in part, on the audible sound output to the user, the determined sound threshold level for the user, and the response from the user as matching the one or more aspects of the pain.

20090150810

11951459

1. A method comprising: automatically determining when a toolbar pane of a toolbar being displayed in a Web browser window is to be changed; accessing a set of rules identifying which of multiple toolbar panes are to be displayed under different conditions; automatically determining, based at least in part on the set of rules, one toolbar pane of the multiple toolbar panes; and displaying the one toolbar pane in the toolbar of the Web browser window, the one toolbar pane including multiple toolbar buttons.

10049335

12973599

1. A method for allocating and configuring a network of data processing devices, the method comprising: displaying to a user of a computer system, via a display element, a user interface that allows a user to characterize electronic data processing demand of the network; receiving, from the user, via one or more input devices, input characterizing data processing demand; comparing, utilizing one or more processors and one or more memory elements of a computer system, qualities of electronic data processing demand to attributes of ensembles comprising implementations of reusable patterns, the qualities of electronic data processing demand being categorical metrics and being based at least in part on the received input characterizing electronic data processing demand, wherein the comparing includes correlating a fit between the qualities associated with electronic data processing demand and the attributes associated with ensembles using one or more statistical inference techniques and calculating a value corresponding to a level of fit for each ensemble based on such correlation; wherein the reusable patterns contain application patterns; wherein an application pattern includes a functional pattern that define the application; wherein the patterns represent reusable code; determining, utilizing one or more processors and one or more memory elements of the computer system, based on said comparing step, one or more recommended ensembles, the one or more recommended ensembles being determined based on their calculated level of fit values; wherein the ensembles are estimated by mapping an application to one or more electronic data processing activities; wherein performance indicators and electronic data processing demand characteristics predict an optimal quality profile of the demand characteristics; wherein the ensemble includes an application quality profile; wherein the application quality profile is synthesized from electronic data processing activity quality profiles for all of the electronic data processing activities the application has been mapped to in an associated application pattern; automatically generating, based on said comparing and determining steps, utilizing one or more processors and one or more memory elements of a computer system, one or more visualizations comparing the recommended one or more ensemble to electronic data processing demand; displaying to the user, via a display element, the one or more visualizations; and generating, for each visualization, a data processing configuration blueprint, the data processing configuration blueprint comprising information for use by one or more users in implementing an ensemble of servers, storage devices, and network communications accessories; wherein the blueprint comprises a reference system architecture and design pattern which define functionality and represent data processing requirements, wherein the blueprint represents a data processing configuration transformation of the network of data processing devices; wherein the blueprint further includes a portfolio of computer applications; wherein the blueprint further profiles workload distribution utilizing functional patterns; allowing the user to select, via a user interface displayed via a display element, the recommended ensemble or one of the other possible ensembles and receiving, from a user, input selecting a first one of the recommended ensemble or the other possible ensembles; and reconfiguring the network of data processing devices according to the selected ensemble and corresponding data processing configuration blueprint.

20120246689

13236161

1. A method of presenting content to a wireless mobile computing device, comprising: receiving multiple video streams depicting a live event; wirelessly transmitting the multiple video streams to a first set of mobile computing devices during the live event; and transmitting to the first set of mobile computing devices first information that identifies a first subset of the video streams for the first set of mobile computing devices to buffer for replay mode playback.

8271947

12188089

1. A program product, comprising: a computer storage medium; and program code stored on the computer storage medium and executable by a computer, wherein the program code includes: pattern search program code that, when executed by the computer, causes the computer to search data storage storing information on patterns of design applicable in respective stages of a software life cycle including a modeling stage, a development stage, a testing stage and an operation stage to find a pattern applied to each of the stages of the software life cycle; and pattern application program code that, when executed by the computer, causes the computer to of apply the pattern found by searching to each of the stages of the software life cycle and control operation in an execution environment in the stage.

20110016094

12610180

1. A computer-implemented method for maintaining a transaction history of an electronic-design-automation (EDA) environment, comprising: receiving an indication that a first transaction has started; receiving one or more user inputs that are associated with a sequence of EDA operations that modifies data, stored in a computer-readable medium, wherein the data is associated with a circuit design; receiving an indication that the first transaction has ended; associating a first transaction's name with the sequence of EDA operations; and storing the first transaction's name in the transaction history.

8893093

13101955

1. A method for automated performance testing in a multi-tenant environment in a multi-tenant database system, the method comprising: revising code, stored on one or more non-transitory computer readable media associated with a host system having a processor system including one or more processors, the revising of the code being performed by the host system based on a list of changes to make to the code; within an environment associated with the host system, by the processor system, invoking the code after the revising of the code therein causing the code to run on the host system within the environment; collecting information indicative of performance of the code, the information being based on performance metrics that are independent of the environment; and storing the performance metrics for later retrieval and analysis, wherein the collecting of the information indicative of the performance of the code including at least collecting information related to memory usage, the information related to memory usage includes at least information about requests placed for retrieving information from a set of physical memory locations, information about requests placed for retrieving information from a set of physical memory locations, information about requests placed for adding information to a set of physical memory locations, and information about memory usage of a memory location set aside for an application exchange.

20140280382

13796847

1. A method comprising: ascertaining, in a data processing system, a set of heterogeneous storage objects provisioned for a storage consumer, the heterogeneous storage objects categorized by storage object hierarchy levels; identifying, in the data processing system, an association between the storage consumer and a storage object hierarchy level; and accounting for storage object consumption of the storage consumer, in the data processing system, by normalizing storage consumption data at the storage object hierarchy level across the set of the heterogeneous storage objects.

9384783

14141417

1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a recording unit configured to record a plurality of video information on a recording medium; an output unit configured to output a menu display for a user to select video information to be reproduced from among the plurality of video information recorded on the recording medium by the recording unit; and a reproducing unit configured to reproduce the selected video information read out from the recording medium, wherein a first area and a second area are displayed within the menu display, the first area being configured to display at least first indication associated with a first group of video information for a first classification and second indication associated with a second group of video information for a second classification different from the first classification, the second area being configured to display thumbnails corresponding to video informations recorded on the recording medium by the recording unit, wherein, when the first indication shown in the first area is selected, a first group of thumbnails corresponding to the first group of video information is displayed in the second area, wherein, when the second indication shown in the first area is selected, a second group of thumbnails corresponding to the second group of video information is displayed in the second area, wherein, even if one video information recorded on the recording medium included in both the first group of video information and the second group of video information is deleted from the first group of video information, the one video information continue to be included in the second group of video information.

9390289

14247165

1. A computer-executable method, comprising: generating, by a computing device, an advertisement of a collection of content objects stored at the computing device, wherein a name included in the advertisement is a hierarchically structured variable length identifier which comprises contiguous name components ordered from a most general level to a most specific level, wherein a last component of the name for the advertisement is a first hash that is based on a key of the computing device, wherein the first hash is a hash of one or more segments of a manifest representing the collection of content objects, wherein a segment of a manifest is distinct from a content object associated with the collection; and receiving a request for a content object associated with the collection based on a name of a received interest of data from a remote node, wherein the last component of the name of the received interest is the first hash.

9183316

12571129

1. A method comprising: receiving, by one or more server devices, from a client device, and without further interaction by a user of the client device, a request for one or more action links that are to be inserted into a document previously requested and received by the client device; identifying, by the one or more server devices, the one or more action links based on information that identifies one or more action services previously defined by the user and that is previously stored by the one or more server devices, the one or more action services including at least one of one or more email services or one or more social networking services, and each of the one or more action links providing an opportunity for the user associated with the client device to share the document by using one of the one or more action services; generating, by the one or more server devices, content that includes the one or more action links; and providing, by the one or more server devices and to the client device, the content for presentation within the document.

8880595

13708909

1. An knowledge sharing system comprising a remote electronic device comprising distribution means configured to automatically determine that one or more sender constraints are met for a plurality of first data entities; wherein the one or more sender constraints comprise an enabling constraint requiring that the plurality of first data entities meets one or more of the following conditions: the plurality of first data entities comprises one or more keywords and/or keyphrases, the plurality of first data entities meets one or more semantic rules; push the plurality of first data entities to an electronic device, and the electronic device comprising data gathering means configured to allow the reception of the plurality of first data entities from the remote electronic device, subject to one or more recipient constraints; and store the received plurality of first data entities in a database of the electronic device; matching means configured to identify a relevance of one or more of the plurality of first data entities when generating a new data entity on the electronic device; wherein identifying the relevance of a first data entity from the plurality of first data entities comprises determining that a correlation between content of the new data entity and the first data entity exceeds a pre-determined correlation threshold; display means configured to display one or more of the identified first data entities when generating the new data entity; and editing means configured to use data from one or more of the displayed first data entities for generating the new data entity.

20090100036

11870759

1. A method for determining a page element based on a set of search results, comprising: (a) determining a set of result classifications based on the set of search results, wherein each result classification includes a result category and a result score; and (b) determining the page element based on the set of result classifications.

7487030

11737211

1. Article of manufacture, comprising a storage medium having machine-executable program encoded therein to minimize energy loss of an internal combustion engine, the program comprising: code to monitor engine operating conditions; code to estimate a future energy loss; code to determine a power loss and a rate of change in the estimated future energy loss; code to determine an engine operating point which minimizes the power loss and the rate of change in the estimated future energy loss during engine warm-up; and, code to operate the engine at the engine operating point which minimizes the power loss and the rate of change in the estimated future energy loss during engine warm-up.

10048758

15350414

1. A haptic effect enabled flexible display device comprising: a flexible touch surface configured to receive touch input; a display coupled to the flexible touch surface; a sensor coupled to the flexible touch surface and configured to generate a bending characteristic signal based on a bend radius of the flexible touch surface; a kinesthetic haptic output device configured to provide kinesthetic feedback in response to the bending characteristic signal; and a drive circuit electrically coupled to an actuator and configured to cause the actuator to produce a haptic effect in response to the bending characteristic signal.

7873201

11271196

1. A method of operating an inspection system adapted to acquire an array of measurements, each measurement representative of a region of a plurality of regions of an item under inspection, the method comprising: a) moving the item under inspection relative to an X-ray data acquisition system to acquire the array of measurements; b) with a computer, forming an array of computed values, each computed value representative of a region of the plurality of regions, the array formed according to a method: i) comprising, for each measurement, computing a plurality of weighting coefficients, the weighting coefficients computed so that the measurement is represented by a combination of a plurality of basis functions, each of the basis functions being weighted in the combination by a respective weighting coefficient of the plurality of weighting coefficients; ii) wherein: A. the plurality of basis functions comprises at least three basis functions, each basis function defining a relationship between a measured parameter and a parameter of operation of the X-ray data acquisition system; and B. each computed value in the array of computed values comprises a weighting coefficient computed for a measurement in the array of measurements, the weighting coefficients in the array being computed for the same basis function of the plurality of basis functions; c) making an inspection decision concerning the item under inspection based at least in part on the at least one array of computed values.

20130061022

13223489

1. A method for providing intrinsic supports for a digital signal processing (DSP) processor with very long instruction word (VLIW) architectures and distributed register files, the DSP processor comprising a plurality of clusters, each cluster comprising a plurality of functional units, a plurality of local register files connected to one of the plurality of functional units, and at least one global register file, each of the at least one global register files comprising a plurality of global banks connected to one of the plurality of functional units, the method comprising the steps of: generating a program representation with cluster information on instructions of the DSP processor, wherein the cluster information is provided by a program with cluster intrinsic coding; identifying data stream operations indicating parallel instruction sequences applied on different data sets in the program representation; identifying data sharing relations indicating data shared by the data stream operations in the program representation; identifying data aggregation relations indicating results aggregated from the data stream operations in the program representation; and performing register allocation for the DSP processor according to the identified data stream operations, the data sharing relations and the data aggregation relations.

6047260

08869504

1. An intelligent planning system for calendars for dynamically detecting and correcting plan errors caused by calendar changes, comprising: a computer system comprising an input module, a storage module, a planning module and an output module; said input module further comprising means for receiving a plurality of task descriptions, each task description describing a task to be performed by the user of the system and including fixed tasks and floating tasks, the floating task having a duration that is less than the time period between an earliest start time and a latest stop time, wherein a planned start time of the floating task is determined by said planning module and is within the interval between the earliest start time and the latest stop time of the floating task minus the duration of the floating task; said storage module further comprises means for receiving said task descriptions from said input module and means for storing a current plan comprising the plurality of task descriptions; said planning module further comprising means for automatically detecting and correcting errors in the current plan that occur whenever the current plan is modified, the planning module further comprising means for adjusting one or more of the planned start time and the duration of the floating task to correct errors in the current plan; and said output module further comprising means for presenting the current plan information to the user.