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20110295877

12789980

1. A method comprising: receiving, over a network, from a user, data comprising a graphic representation resulting from the user interacting with a user interface operating on a user device, the graphic representation corresponding to a portion of a desired graphic character of a graphic character set; analyzing, using at least one computing device, the graphic representation to select a plurality of graphic characters of the graphic character set that are a probable match of the graphic representation; transmitting, over the network, the plurality of probable graphic characters to the user; receiving, over the network, from the user a selection of one of the plurality of probable graphic characters; receiving, over the network, from the user, an indication that the selected one of the plurality of probable graphic characters is to be used as a search term to conduct an internet search; conducting an Internet search using the search term.

7711673

11238349

1. A computer-implemented method for handling an email message received through a communication network, said email message including a target document, said target document involving an encoding scheme, the method comprising: training, using a plurality of text document samples that have been encoded with different encoding schemes and selected for training purposes to obtain a set of machine learning models, said different encoding schemes pertaining to charset encoding for transmission over a network, said training including using SIM (Similarity Algorithm) to generate said set of machine learning models from feature vectors converted from said plurality of text document samples, said feature vectors are grouped by charsets, wherein said training including generating fundamental units from said plurality of text document samples for charsets of said plurality of text document samples and extracting a subset of said fundamental units to form a set of feature lists, said feature vectors are converted from said set of feature lists and said plurality of text document samples, said extracting said subset of said fundamental units includes filtering said fundamental units to obtain fundamental units that are more discriminatory in describing differences among said different encoding schemes; applying said set of machine learning models against a set of target document feature vectors converted from said target document, said applying including analyzing said set of target document feature vectors using said set of machine learning models to compute similarity indicia between said set of target document feature vectors and said set of machine learning models associated with said different encoding schemes, said similarity indicia including at least a set of cross-angles between said set of target document feature vectors and said set of machine learning models, wherein a first encoding scheme associated with said set of machine learning models is designated as said encoding scheme if characteristics of said first encoding scheme as represented by said set of machine learning models are computed to be most similar, relative to other encoding schemes of said different encoding schemes, to said set of target document feature vectors; decoding said target document to obtain decoded content of said document based on at least said first encoding scheme; determining whether said email message is a spam message based on at least said decoded content of said document; and preventing said email message from reaching an email user if said email message is determined to be spam according to said determining.

20020031260

09871272

1. A text mining method for extracting features of documents using a term-document matrix consisting of vectors corresponding to index terms representing the contents of the documents, wherein contributions of the index terms act on respective elements of the term-document matrix, said method comprising: a basis vector calculating step of calculating a basis vector spanning a feature space, in which mutually associated documents and terms are located in proximity with each other, based on a steepest descent method minimizing a cost; a feature extracting step of calculating a parameter for normalizing the features using the term-document matrix and the basis vector and extracting the features on the basis of the parameter; and a term-document matrix updating step of updating the term-document matrix to a difference between the term-document matrix, to which the basis vector is not applied, and the term-document matrix, to which the basis vector is applied.

20140033168

12567594

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a request to create a modeled component; based at least in part on receiving the request to create the modeled component, using one or more processors, creating, as separate components within the modeled component: a style component as a direct child of the modeled component, the style component defining an aspect of a user interface, and an entity component representing a data type, the entity component including a property that includes an attribute referencing the style component, the reference to the style component applying the aspect of the user interface defined by the style component to the property of the entity component.

9386950

14585253

1. A computer-implemented method comprising a plurality of software operations, each software operation being performed using at least one network-connected computer-based system, the method determining a user's risk of dyslexia and comprising: identifying, based on an input received from an input device of the computer-based system, an age category associated with the user; rendering, on a display screen of the computer-based system, a plurality of query pages, each query page being generated from data received by the computer-based system from a remote server over a data communications channel and stored in a memory device of the computer-based system, and each query page comprising a plurality of non-verbal answers that are determined based on the identified age category and are selectable by the user; rendering, via a speaker of the computer-based system, a plurality of auditory queries, each auditory query being rendered as audible sounds and generated from a sound data file corresponding to a non-verbal query, each auditory query being associated with one or more of the plurality of query pages; identifying, via the input device of the computer-based system, a plurality of electronic input selections from the user, each electronic input selection identifying a non-verbal answer from a query page; identifying, via a timer of the computer-based system, timing data associated with the plurality of electronic input selections, the timing data indicating time intervals between the rendering of each of the plurality of auditory queries and the detection of electronic input selections from the user corresponding to each of the auditory queries; assigning weighted scores to each of the electronic input selections from the user, the weighted scores being determined based on the identified age category and the time intervals, wherein time intervals above a first threshold receive a first weighting factor and time intervals below the first threshold receive a second weighting factor; and rendering, on the display screen of the computer-based system, an assessment in a graphical user interface, the assessment identifying a risk of dyslexia for the user based on whether the weighted scores exceed a predefined threshold associated with the plurality of query pages.

20030033347

09853191

1. A computer system having one or more memories and one or more central processing units (CPUs), the system comprising: one or more multimedia items, stored in the memories, each multimedia item having two or more disparate modalities, the disparate modalities being at least one or more visual modalities and one or more textual modalities; and a combining process that creates a visual feature vector for each of the visual modalities and a textual feature vector for each of the textual modalities, and concatenates the visual feature vectors and the textual feature vectors into a unified feature vector.

8135576

11718129

1. A method for creating a sentence in a natural language understanding interface, said method comprising: providing, by a computer system, at least one base sentence; providing, by said computer system, at least one condition; providing, by said computer system, at least one connective; appending, by said computer system, said at least one base sentence to said at least one connective; and appending, by said computer system, said base sentence and connective to said at least one condition to create a composite sentence, wherein said composite sentence is an object in a natural language understanding interface.

20110096144

12911533

1. An interactive, electronic method of authoring annotated traversals through visual data, the method comprising: displaying the visual data, wherein the visual data; interactively defining a traversal of the displayed visual data by positioning a resizable overlay window relative to the displayed visual data, wherein said resizable overlay window is resizable while the visual data is being displayed, said traversal comprising a subset of motion video that specifies a time-based sequence of frames of said motion video, each of said frames comprising the visual data delineated by the overlay window, wherein the displaying said visual data comprises displaying the visual data in a cylindrical layout, and wherein said positioning of the overlay window is defined by a field of view of a virtual camera located centrally to said cylindrical layout; annotating the traversal; and storing a persistent record of the annotated traversal.

4481582

06545819

1. A method of enabling the following up of the development of an error in a computation sequence during an operation in progress, in which each computation gives a partial result, and the partial results taken together give a final result, and in which there is included a series of transfers of binary information words between a plurality of processing units which from a received information word a new information word is formed for transfer to a subsequent processing unit, said method comprising adding a marking label to an information word which initiates a computation sequence to be investigated, in each processing unit to which said labelled word is subsequently supplied, removing the label and storing the same and then adding the label to the resulting information word formed in the associated processing unit, sensing each information word transferred between the processing units and copying the labelled information words transferred between the processing units into a memory, and displaying said information words which have been copied in said memory whereby to enable determining whether the words in the sequence of labelled information are correct.

9628620

15204072

1. A method for providing captioned telephone service, the method comprising: initiating a first captioned telephone service call; during the first captioned telephone service call, creating a first set of captions using a human captioner; simultaneous with creating the first set of captions using a human captioner, creating a second set of captions using an automated speech recognition captioner; comparing the first set of captions and the second set of captions using a scoring algorithm; in response to the score of second set of captions being within predetermined range of scores, continuing the call using only the automated speech recognition captioner; and in response to the score of second set of captions being outside of a predetermined range of scores, continuing the call using a human captioner.

20100033765

12185904

1. A method of identifying original document type for scanned documents, comprising: extracting text in a document page; classifying text objects as a function of text object size; classifying page orientation as a function of statistics of text aspect ratio and neighboring character distance; generating a text column structure index; determining whether the document page was originally created using a slide show presentation application, or one of a word processing application and a spreadsheet application, as a function of one or more of the object size classification, text size classification, page orientation classification, and the text column structure index.

7991785

12538486

1. A computer-implemented method for providing an extended interface to a human interface infrastructure (HII) database in an extensible firmware interface (EFI) environment, the method comprising computer-implemented operations for: receiving a request to store the contents of a package in an HII database maintained in the EFI environment; in response to the request, identifying a HII component stored in the package; computing extended information regarding the identified HII component, wherein the HII component comprises a string and the extended information comprises the length of the string in Unicode characters; storing the extended information regarding the identified HII component in the HII database; and exposing a method for retrieving the extended information from the HII database.

20100161326

12506705

1. A speech recognition system, comprising: a speed level classifier for measuring a moving speed of a moving object by using a noise signal at an initial time of speech recognition to determine a speed level of the moving object; a first speech enhancement unit for enhancing sound quality of an input speech signal of the speech recognition by using a Wiener filter, if the speed level of the moving object is equal to or lower than a specific level; and a second speech enhancement unit enhancing the sound quality of the input speech signal of the speech recognition by using a Gaussian mixture model, if the speed level of the moving object is higher than the specific level.

8667063

13323737

1. A method comprising: monitoring a social networking system for actions associated with users connected to a target user; identifying an action associated with a user connected to the target user; determining the relevance of the identified action to the target user; responsive to the determined relevance exceeding a pre-determined threshold: displaying the identified action and the identity of the connected user as a feed story in a newsfeed interface, the feed story comprising the identified action, the identity of the connected user, and information related to the context of the identified action and the connected user; and displaying the identified action and the connected user as a ticker story in a news ticker interface, the ticker story comprising the identified action and the identity of the connected user; and responsive to the determined relevance failing to exceed the pre-determined threshold: displaying the identified action and the connected user as a ticker story in a news ticker interface, the ticker story comprising the identified action and the identity of the connected user.

20080133570

11566492

1. A computer-implemented method for generating a database query, comprising: receiving a collection of query conditions to include in the database query, wherein each query condition specifies a database field and a comparison value; identifying one or more groups of query conditions, wherein each group includes query conditions specifying the same database field; and generating the database query by connecting the query conditions within each identified group using a logical “OR” operator, and connecting the identified groups of query conditions using a logical “AND” operator.

7801731

11929656

1. A method for reviewing inputted voice instructions in a vehicle-based telematics control unit, the method comprising: recording voice instructions from a user; performing speech recognition processing of the recorded voice instructions; generating a voice signal based on the performed speech recognition processing; receiving a signal indicating a condition of the vehicle; altering the output of the generated voice signal over an output device in response to the indicated vehicle condition, said altering operable to selectively configure the content of the voice signal; outputting the generated voice signal over the output device; and receiving an instruction from the user to indicate approval or disapproval of the generated voice signal.

8719192

13081391

1. A computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to perform acts comprising: preparing a new domain to receive classification knowledge from one or more source domains by populating the new domain with preliminary query patterns extracted from a search engine log; preparing the classification knowledge in at least one source domain for transfer to the new domain; and transferring the classification knowledge from one or more source domains to the new domain, the transferring comprising: computing similarity distances between a plurality of source domains and the new domain; discarding at least one of the plurality of source domains with a similarity distance that is greater than a predefined distance threshold to generate the one or more source domains; selecting one or more query patterns of the one or more source domains for the new domain based at least on consistency between the one or more query patterns and the preliminary query patterns; and transferring the one or more query patterns that are selected to the new domain.

9684709

14106762

1. A computer-implemented method of improving a search engine's ability to output results for a given query by generating an enhanced token stream used to index a document stored in a knowledge base, the computer-implemented method being performed by one or more processors executing computer executable instructions for the computer-implemented method, and the computer-implemented method comprising: receiving at a knowledge discovery module a document; wherein when the received document is not in a plain text format, preprocessing the received document by removing article tags and other extraneous document data to format the received document in a plain text format; once the received document is formatted in a plain text format, inputting the received document to an analyzer module that processes the received document to generate an enhanced token stream for the received document, by performing the following: at a tokenizer, converting the plain text into smaller atomic units that represent tokens corresponding to words or phrases and wherein the tokens form a token stream; enhancing the token stream by applying a plurality of filters to the token stream, wherein the plurality of filters comprise: (i) one or more canonicalization filters that perform at least one of the following: expand one or more camel-case words into corresponding constituent words added to the token stream; identify for one or more tokens a value type which is added to the token stream; and generate and add to the token stream a lower case version of an identified token; (ii) a truncation filter that removes from the token stream one or more frequently occurring common words represented by one or more tokens; (iii) an expansion filter that performs the following: identification of words in the token stream that are related to each other and are identified as at least two distinct tokens in the token stream, wherein identifying words in the token stream that are related to each other comprises: determining if a token in the token stream exists as an entity in a named entity list; determining if a next token in the token stream exists as a connected entity in the named entity list when the token is determined to exist in the named entity list; repeating the steps until the next token does not exist as a connected entity in the named entity list; and combining the at least two distinct tokens into a single token in the token stream; (iv) a normalization filter that returns corresponding words for one or more tokens to a base form; indexing the document with the enhanced token stream in a knowledge database; and using the indexed document to provide a response to a given query.

9183367

14291059

1. A computer-implemented method for authenticating a user, wherein the computer includes: a memory; a processor communicatively coupled to the memory; and a user authentication module coupled to the memory and the processor, wherein the user authentication module is configured to perform the steps of a method comprising: transmitting to the user a question prompt requiring the user to speak out a voice segment part and an answer to a dynamic question part, wherein the voice segment part has a corresponding text dependent speaker verification model enrolled before an authentication, and wherein the question prompt requires the user to speak out the voice segment part and the answer to a dynamic question part in a preset order; segmenting, in response to receiving a voice answer, the voice segment part and the answer to a dynamic question part out from the voice answer; and verifying a boundary smoothness between the voice segment part and the answer to a dynamic question part within the voice answer.

20150161258

14330185

1. (canceled)

20080120279

11604123

1. A computer-implemented method for performing a search in a database, the method comprising: in response to a request to search a search term in the database, performing the search in the database based on semantics relationships of the search term and an entity in view of one or more transactions associated with the entity; and presenting a search result of the search, the search result including one or more documents associated with the one or more transactions.

20030070061

10271203

1. A method of dynamically transforming graphical user interface widgets to allow migration between heterogeneous device platforms, the method comprising: a) identifying a platform independent graphical user interface widget to be transformed within a platform independent presentation model; b) prioritizing a plurality of transformation rules applicable to the identified platform independent graphical user interface widget; and c) transforming the identified platform independent graphical user interface widget with a highest priority transformation rule.

9317116

12556411

1. A method, comprising: receiving, at a computing device, input data representing a series of input selections, the input selections comprising characters, words, or phrases; ascertaining, by the computing device, at least one text entry suggestion generated based on the received input data; determining, by the computing device, a confidence level associated with each text entry suggestion; identifying, by the computing device, a haptic effect from a plurality of potential haptic effects based at least in part on the confidence level; and outputting, by the computing device, at least one haptic signal configured to cause an actuator to generate the identified haptic effect.

20170144304

15424369

1. A computer-implemented method of feedback-enabled user-robot collaboration, comprising: obtaining a robot capability that models at least one functionality of a robot for performing one or more task actions; specializing the robot capability with an information kernel to provide a specialized robot capability, wherein the information kernel encapsulates a set of task-related parameters associated with the one or more task actions; providing an instance of the specialized robot capability as a robot capability element that controls the at least one functionality of the robot based on the set of task-related parameters; obtaining one or more user interaction capability elements based on one or more user interaction requirements of the robot capability element, wherein the robot capability element receives user input and provides user feedback via the one or more user interaction capability elements; controlling, based on the set of task-related parameters, the at least one functionality of the robot to perform the one or more task actions in collaboration with the user input, wherein the robot capability element generates task-related information associated with the one or more task actions; and providing the user feedback including the task-related information.

20150154196

14558179

1. A method comprising: disambiguating, by a disambiguation computer, a document feature from an electronic document by way of: extracting, via a feature extraction computer, the document feature from the electronic document, and linking, by the linking computer, the extracted document feature, to a set of document features having a primary document feature and a secondary document feature stored in a knowledge database of document features of a plurality of electronic documents, the secondary document feature including a proximity cluster of co-occurring features in the plurality of electronic documents; and adding, by an in-memory database computer, the disambiguated document feature to the knowledge database of co-occurring document features when the disambiguated document feature matches a document feature of interest in an alert database based at least in part on the linked set of document features including the proximity cluster; and generating, by a computer, an electronic user alert regarding the matching.

20110179023

13034000

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: identifying, at a server, a plurality of documents responsive to a search query; accessing, at the server, usage information associated with the plurality of documents, the usage information including, for each document: a frequency of visit value based on a number of times the document was visited during a time period; and a unique visit value based on a number of unique visitors to the document; determining, at the server, for each document, a usage score from the frequency of visit value and the unique visit value associated with the document; and determining, at the server, an organization for the documents based on the usage scores for the documents.

20030078778

10298494

1. A speech recognition system for recognition of spoken speech of a language, the speech recognition system comprising: a vocabulary including a multitude of words of said language recognizable by said speech recognition system, the vocabulary comprising entries identical to legal words of said language and entries that are constituents of legal words of said language, said constituents being arbitrary sub-components of said legal words according to their orthography, wherein said constituents are not required to be related to speech recognition units and are selected to achieve a compression of said vocabulary.

8566938

13668349

1. A server implemented method for analyzing electronic messages for phishing detection, comprising: receiving, by the server, an email message by a recipient/recipient organization from a sender/sender organization; obtaining, by the server, email characteristics by parsing the received email message based on a set of predetermined email characteristics; comparing, by the server, the email characteristics of the received email message with the email characteristics associated with the recipient/recipient organization, and/or the sender/sender organization; declaring, by the server, the received email message by the recipient/recipient organization as a phishing electronic message based on the outcome of the comparison; wherein the email characteristics are selected from the group consisting of network path used to reach a recipient/recipient organization, geography associated with IP address, email client software used by the sender/sender organization, email client software version used by the sender/sender organization, date, day of week, time, time period of the email, time zone of the sender/sender organization, presence and details of digital signatures in the email, meta data present in header portion of the email, character set used in content of the email, format of the email, email length and subject length, character case of the email, character case of the subject, style of introduction at the top of the email, style and content of the sender/sender organization's signature in the body of the email, other recipient/recipient organizations included in the email, to, and copy circulated (cc'd) email addresses, sender/sender organizations name, sender/sender organizations from and reply to email address, senders organization name, senders domain name, sender's organization's Domain Name Service (DNS) settings including SPF records, sender organization's mail server information, including server ip address, sender/sender organization server network path, sender/sender organization email server software and software version. DKIM signature, spam scoring from spam software, message ID, volume of email sent by the sender/sender organization, volume of email sent by sender's organization, volume of email received by the recipient, volume of email received by recipient organization, details associated with URLs or attachments in the email, whether the recipient/recipient organization has responded to this specific email, and number of interactions between sender and recipient associated with the email and the like; and allowing an administrator to select desired email characteristics to be included in the set of characteristics used for comparing the characteristics of the received email message and to assign a weight of how much each characteristic should influence the likelihood that a new message is a phishing message.

5442738

08160765

1. A computer implemented method of presenting logical structures on a computer display screen, comprising the steps of: providing a logical description of a plurality of objects that defines relationships between the plurality of objects; parsing the logical description to identify the relationships between the plurality of objects; extracting a plurality of delimiters which define the relationships between the plurality of objects; and displaying the relationships with nested windows on the computer display as defined by the delimiters where the relationships having a higher order of precedence are arranged in windows on top of other windows that represent lower order of precedence.

8701081

13220080

1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media holding executable instructions that when executed on a processing device replaces functions in model code, the media holding one or more instructions for: identifying a pattern in model code, where: the model code is associated with a graphical model having executable semantics, the pattern is associated with a function in the model code, and the function performs operations when the model code is executed; selecting, for the identified pattern, a hardware specific function that performs an operation equivalent to an operation performed by the function in the model code; replacing the function in the model code with the selected hardware specific function, wherein conceptual arguments of the selected hardware specific function match argument properties of the function, and wherein argument properties of the selected hardware specific function do not exactly match function properties of the function; and storing the model code.

20160171236

14567508

1. A method, comprising: upon determining that a received query requests values of sensitive data stored in a secure database table of a database: computing a security score for the received query based on a determined specificity of a selection predicate of the received query; and upon determining that the security score exceeds a security threshold, performing a predefined operation to restrict access to the requested values of the sensitive data.

9905222

15215710

1. A method comprising: mapping, via one or more processors, call-types between a first spoken dialog system and a second spoken dialog system using a set of labeled data, to yield mapped call-types; training, via the one or more processors, a model using information based on the mapped call-types; and routing incoming calls based on the model.

20070006190

11518573

1. A method for dynamically integrating a business logic rule into an application, the method comprising the steps of: stating the business logic rule as an expression in a functional language that utilizes defined operators, functions and keywords, and parameters that correspond to lookup fields in an associated database; parsing the expression to produce an executable routine; and providing the executable routine to the application.

20150339294

14817343

1. A method implemented on a computer having at least one processor, storage, and a communication platform for providing translated web content, comprising the steps of: receiving a request, via a public network connection, from an online user for consuming content in a second language to be translated from content in a first language; obtaining, upon receiving the request, the content in the first language from an Internet source that hosts the content in the first language; dividing the obtained content in the first language into a plurality of translatable components; determining, with respect to at least some of the plurality of translatable components, whether each of the at least some of the translatable components is to be translated into the second language via human translation or machine translation; scheduling for human translation of each translatable component determined to be translated via human translation; and translating, via machine translation, each translatable component determined to be translated via machine translation.

20060288038

11157553

1. A computer-implemented method for generating a component of an information retrieval system, the method comprising training a data mining classification model to statistically account for a set of query-to-asset associations.

9678949

14106667

1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media including computer instructions for performing a method comprising: using a central processing unit (CPU) connected via a network to a remote storage device, to process requirements documents stored in the remote memory device; identifying, using the CPU, one or more of a plurality of strings consisting of one or more words in a requirements document as corresponding to at least one of a plurality of lexico-syntactic structural patterns; querying a first database contained in a second memory device, to obtain a list of lexico-syntactic structural patterns associated with ambiguity and interpretive uncertainty arising in the cognitive functions invoked in a reader in reading the text; annotating, using the CPU, the plurality of strings consisting of one or more words as one of at least a pointer, a linker, and a situator as the structural elements of the lexico-syntactic structural patterns linked to ambiguity and interpretive uncertainty in the cognitive functions invoked in a reader in reading the text; querying a second database contained in a third memory device, to obtain a set of one or more risk patterns associated with the lexico-syntactic structural patterns, the second database comprising a plurality of risk patterns having at least one of the plurality of known strings consisting of one or more words susceptible to ambiguity and misinterpretation and the plurality of lexico-syntactic structural patterns, the plurality of risk patterns being separate from the plurality of lexico-syntactic structural patterns; creating, using the CPU, a network having a plurality of nodes corresponding to the sets of lexico-syntactic structural patterns and risk patterns and weighted links between the sets of lexico-syntactic structural patterns and risk patterns; utilizing, using the CPU, machine learning algorithms to build risk assessors to identify lexico-syntactic structural patterns as risk elements that invoke ambiguity and interpretive uncertainty within the cognitive functions invoked in a reader in reading a text incorporating the lexico-syntactic structural patterns; constructing, using the CPU, at least one explication that specifies alternative strings consisting of one or more words comprising salient terms from a risk elements; and displaying, using the CPU, the explications within a user interface to be selected by a user to address ambiguities and misinterpretations within at least one requirements document.

9165043

12625889

1. A method of processing a query, comprising: providing a pre-defined logical schema to a user of a database system, wherein the pre-defined logical schema is mapped to at least two relational database entities of different databases storing data therein; receiving a logical query for data stored in the databases from the user, wherein the logical query is written in an object-oriented query language utilizing the pre-defined logical schema, and comprises two or more predicates and an operator specifying an action to take with one or more of the predicates; in response to receiving the logical query, interpreting the logical query using the pre-defined logical schema to determine which of the relational database entities is a subject of the logical query, and which of the relational database entities is associated with each predicate; requesting the database of each determined relational database entity of the logical query to: translate each of the associated predicates of that database in the logical query into a query language specific to that database, wherein at least two different databases translate an associated predicate; and apply an authorization rule with each of the associated predicates of that database in the logical query, wherein the authorization rule identifies unauthorized data: receiving a translated predicate query for each determined predicate of the logical query from its associated database of the relational database entity, wherein each translated predicate query is written in a relational query language specific to the associated database and is a translation of one of the object-oriented predicates in the logical query; combining each translated predicate query received from the databases of the determined relational database entities into a master query using the operator; executing the master query against the databases of the relational database entities that are subjects of the logical query; in response to executing the master query, receiving a query result set from the databases of the relational database entities that are subjects of the logical query; and providing the query result set to the user, wherein the query result set lacks the unauthorized data.

9684885

13325317

1. A method for creating OWL (Web Ontology Language) ontology from a UBL (Universal Business Language) process diagram, the method comprising: extracting, by a data converting computing device, at least one of one or more processes, one or more partitions, one or more activities, or one or more objects from the UBL process diagram; creating, by the data converting computing device, a first OWL class corresponding to the one or more processes assigned as instances to the first OWL class, a second OWL class corresponding to the one or more partitions assigned as instances to the second OWL class, a third OWL class corresponding to the one or more assigned as instances to the third OWL class, and one or more object properties, wherein the one or more object properties correspond to the one or more activities; assigning, by the data converting computing device, a domain and a range corresponding to each of the one or more object properties, wherein assigning the range to each of the one or more object properties comprises determining an object associated with each of the one or more object properties assigning the object as the range to each of the one or more object properties; generating, by the data converting computing device, an OWL ontology by adding the first OWL class, the second OWL class, the third OWL class, and the one or more object properties; and associating, by the data converting computing device, one or more rules with the one or more object properties, wherein the one or more rules capture the sequence of the one or more activities.

9190055

13828759

1. A system comprising: a computer-readable memory storing executable instructions; and one or more processors in communication with the computer-readable memory, wherein the one or more processors are programmed by the executable instructions to at least: obtain usage data regarding prior usage, by a user, of a natural language processing system; train, based at least partly on the usage data, a personal model for use in named entity recognition, the personal model comprising a conditional random field model; interpolate the personal model and a general model to obtain a composite model, the general model comprising a conditional random field model, wherein interpolation of the personal model and the general model comprises interpolation of an element of the personal model with a corresponding element of the general model; receive audio data regarding an utterance of the user; generate a transcription of the utterance using automatic speech recognition; process, based at least partly on the composite model, the transcription with a named entity recognition module to determine at least one named entity from the transcription; and generate a response based at least partly on the at least one named entity.

20130246098

13782048

1. A method comprising: processing a free-form narration, of an encounter with a patient, narrated by a clinician, using a natural language understanding engine implemented by one or more processors, to extract at least one clinical fact corresponding to a mention of an orderable item from the free-form narration, wherein the processing comprises distinguishing between whether the at least one clinical fact indicates an intent to order the orderable item or does not indicate an intent to order the orderable item; and in response to determining that the at least one clinical fact indicates an intent to order the orderable item, generating an order for the orderable item.

8346765

12802816

1. A method for generating ranked search results, comprising: receiving a plurality of matching information items that match a search request; ranking at least some of the plurality of matching information items using a linear ranking model that linearly combines a first plurality of feature values to obtain a first set of ranked results, wherein the linear ranking model combines the first plurality of feature values in a linear fashion using weight coefficients corresponding to the first plurality of feature values; ranking at least some of the first set of ranked results using a nonlinear ranking model that nonlinearly combines a second plurality of feature values to obtain a second set of ranked results, wherein the nonlinear ranking model combines the second plurality of feature values in a nonlinear fashion using weight coefficients corresponding to the second plurality of feature values; and providing a search response based on the second set of ranked results.

7940273

12844147

1. A method comprising: under control of one or more processors executing computer-executable instructions: receiving an indication of at least one command relating to text that contains at least one first glyph; determining that the at least one first glyph maps to multiple corresponding Unicode representations, the multiple corresponding Unicode representations defining a collision; resolving the collision such that the at least one first glyph maps to only a single Unicode representation of the multiple corresponding Unicode representations; converting the at least one first glyph to the single corresponding Unicode representation in response to the command; performing the command on the single Unicode representation of the at least one first glyph; creating at least one further glyph for the single Unicode representation of the at least one first glyph; and mapping the at least one further glyph element to the at least one first glyph via a glyph substitution table.

9727537

14223956

1. A method, in which each step is executed by a computer, comprising: creating a design environment for a user, wherein said design environment: (i) displays an editable representation of a design from a first encoding of the design inside the design environment; and (ii) allows said user to apply a design font to a portion of text in said design; accepting a mapping from said user, wherein said mapping maps said design font to a set of target fonts; generating a markup language representation of said design; and applying said mapping to said design, at least in part, by generating a script to modify an object model of said design after said object model has been instantiated, and said object model of said design is instantiated after said applying step; wherein: said portion of text in said design is not displayed using said target font while said design is edited in said design environment; said portion of text in said markup language representation is displayed using said target font while said design is rendered outside of said design environment in an external player or inside said design environment in a virtual external player instantiated within said design environment; said first encoding links said design font to said portion of text in said editable representation of said design; a second encoding exported from the design environment links said set of target fonts to said portion of text in said markup language representation of said design; and said first encoding and said second encoding are different encodings.

8564721

13596106

1. A method for synchronizing text with audio in a preexisting multimedia file, comprising the steps of: receiving the multimedia file and parsing the audio from the multimedia file while maintaining the timeline synchronization between the video portions and audio portions of the multimedia file; receiving closed-captioned data associated with the multimedia file, where the closed-captioned data contains closed-captioned text, each word of which is associated with a corresponding word spoken in the audio portion; generating text representations of parsed audio of the input multimedia file where each word of the text representation is associated approximately with the corresponding words spoken in the video portion; generating a probabilistic model predicting a next item in a sequence to compare each word of the closed-captioned text with a plurality of words of the text representation until a match is found; synchronizing each closed-captioned word with a respective point on the timeline in which each matched word is spoken in the audio and occurs within the video, where each matched word is associated with the accurate point on the timeline; providing the accurate, time-based text output to a database and associating said output with the original multimedia file.

20030048844

10145072

1. A method of decoding coded digital signals representative of audiovisual data and available in the form of a continuous bitstream in view of the binary description of a scene to be rendered on a displaying device, said method comprising a processing operation based on an evolutive syntactic language and provided for extracting from said bitstream, in a first step, distinct elements called objects according to the structure of said scene, defining in a second step an individual animation of said elements of the scene, defining in a third step particular interactions between a user and said elements, and organizing in a fourth step specific relations between said scene elements and corresponding individual animations and/or user interactions according to various classes of applications, said method being further characterized in that said processing operation also includes an additional step for describing a complex scene, built from any kind of bidimensional and tridimensional objects, according to a framework integrating both bidimensional and tridimensional features and unifying the composition and representation mechanisms of the scene structure.

20060251338

11246434

1. A method for displaying images to a user, the method comprising: for stored data corresponding to a captured image, supplementing the stored data with metadata that identifies one or more objects in the captured image; and rendering the captured image using the stored data and the metadata so that the one or more objects are each selectable; and performing an action in response to detecting a selection of a given one of the one or more objects.

9729496

14835181

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: automatically generating, by computer, a digital representation of a first person based on one or more of an appearance, a voice, or a behavior of the first person; automatically, by computer, engaging with a second person to render a song on behalf of the first person using the computer-generated digital representation of the first person, the rendering of the song being based on an automated analysis of one or more of a musical style, a musical ability, and a musical behavior of the first person; and on behalf of the first person and using the computer-generated digital representation of the first person, while rendering the song with the second person, providing, by computer, a natural language response to a question or statement from the second person based on information received from or about the first person.

20130117267

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.

10146774

14249779

1. A method, comprising: receiving, from a user, an identification of a folder including a plurality of documents selected by the user, from a user's corpus; analyzing content of the selected documents; determining a plurality of content groups of documents from a plurality of repositories associated with the user based on text of each document, wherein each content group contains documents having similar content as categorized by the text of each document; determining a target content group, from the plurality of content groups, based on the content of the selected documents, the target content group comprising documents from the plurality of repositories associated with the user; searching the plurality of repositories associated with the user to identify additional content, within the target content group, related to the content of the selected documents; storing the additional content in the folder; locating a relevant document based on the additional content related to the content of the selected documents; presenting the relevant document to the user: and wherein the target content group is selected from a plurality of predetermined sub-content groups that are automatically generated based on clustering of documents of a content group into subgroups that are similar to each other.

9489654

14213113

1. A bill of material (BOM) management system for processing a product data or configuration change of a product between a plurality of BOMs, each BOM with a corresponding functional domain, comprising: a plurality of product elements associated with each BOM, each product element defining at least one assembly, each assembly having at least one component of a corresponding assembly, both the assembly and the component being listed in a corresponding BOM as a product element of the product; a dynamic link that maps and connects each component of the assembly in a first BOM disposed in a first file server of a first functional domain to a corresponding component of the assembly in a different, second BOM disposed in a second file server of a second functional domain; a semantic network having a product knowledge that interacts with the corresponding BOM using a computing network connecting the first and second file servers, the product knowledge having information about the dynamic link; and a Decompose/Recompose/Multi-arrange (DRM) process module that manages product configuration information of the product, the DRM process module having a computer processor, executing computer-executable instructions, to perform a decompose process, a recompose process, and a multi-arrange process, wherein, using the computer processor, the DRM process module detects a changed product having the product data or configuration change of the product in each BOM of the corresponding functional domain, the DRM process module transmits product information relating to the product data or configuration change, including the dynamic link, from the first BOM to the second BOM so that each component of the changed product in the first BOM is linked to the corresponding component of the second BOM, wherein, using the computer processor, the DRM process module performs the decompose process by grouping the product elements based on the product knowledge of the semantic network, performs the recompose process by regrouping the product elements in a selected domain context, and performs the multi-arrange process by rearranging the product elements to propagate the product data or configuration change of a product structure in the first BOM of the first functional domain to another product structure in the second BOM of the second functional domain via the computing network, and wherein, using the computer processor, the DRM process module automatically creates and adds a new dynamic link in the product knowledge for the propagation for reflecting the same product data or configuration change of the changed product in the first BOM into the second BOM based on determining that the product data or configuration change of the changed product in the first BOM does not exist in the second BOM.

8239265

12695639

1. One or more computer-storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed by a computing device, perform a method for providing contextual advertisements presented to a user in association with electronic books, the method comprising: receiving information to be included in a contextual advertisement for presentation to the user; identifying an electronic book including a plurality of pages; identifying content associated with each one of the plurality of pages; receiving a user profile associated with the user; comparing the information to be included in the contextual advertisement with content of a target page of the plurality of pages, the user profile, and content of one or more pages preceding the target page to determine whether the information to be included in the contextual advertisement corresponds with the content of the target page, the user profile, and the content of one or more pages preceding the target page; and based on determining that the information to be included in the contextual advertisement corresponds with the content of the target page, the user profile, and the content of one or more pages preceding the target page, presenting the contextual advertisement to the user.

8433573

12029316

1. A prosody modification device comprising: a real voice prosody input part that receives real voice prosody information extracted from an utterance of a human; a modification section determining part that determines a modification section that includes the phoneme or the phoneme string which are to be modified in the real voice prosody information, based on a kind of a phoneme string of the real voice prosody information; a regular prosody generating part that generates regular prosody information having a regular phoneme boundary that determines a boundary between phonemes and a regular phoneme length of a phoneme by using data representing a regular or statistical phoneme length in an utterance of a human with respect to the modification section; and a real voice prosody modification part that resets a real voice phoneme boundary of the phoneme or the phoneme string to be modified in the real voice prosody information by using the regular prosody information generated by the regular prosody generating part so that the real voice phoneme boundary and a real voice phoneme length of the phoneme or the phoneme string to be modified in the real voice prosody information are approximate to an actual phoneme boundary and an actual phoneme length of the utterance of the human, thereby modifying the real voice prosody information.

9864744

14559540

1. A method, performed by a computing device, for mining translation pairs for training in-domain machine translation engines, comprising: obtaining one or more sources of potential translation pairs comprising one or more content items, wherein the one or more sources of potential translation pairs are in an identified domain for which a machine translation engine is to be trained; generating one or more potential translation pairs from the obtained one or more sources of potential translation pairs by applying one or more automated filtering techniques to the obtained one or more sources of potential translation pairs, wherein one of the one or more automated filtering techniques applied to a selected obtained source of potential translation pairs is configured based on a type of the selected obtained source of potential translation pairs, and wherein each of the one or more potential translation pairs comprises at least two language snippets; selecting at least one actual translation pair from the generated one or more potential translation pairs, said selecting comprising: extracting characteristics from each of the two language snippets of at least one of the one or more potential translation pairs; determining that the two language snippets of the at least one of the one or more potential translation pairs are translations of each other by comparing the extracted characteristics; and training the machine translation engine using the selected at least one actual translation pair.

9565521

14826332

1. A method comprising: recognizing an activity performed at a first place based on sensor data of an electronic device, wherein the first place comprises an unlabeled semantic place without an assigned semantic place label; determining a location for the first place by performing localization for the electronic device; determining an observed mapping between the activity and the location for the first place; determining a typical mapping between the activity and a second place, wherein the second place comprises a labeled semantic place with an assigned semantic place label; based on the observed mapping and the typical mapping, assigning the same sematic place label assigned to the labeled semantic place to the location for the first place; and updating a semantic place map to include the semantic place label assigned to the location for the first place.

9626455

14267340

1. A method for providing for display an estimated relevance indicator for a result set of documents, the method comprising: receiving, at a computer comprising a processor and a memory component, a search query, wherein the search query includes a plurality of query terms; searching a database using the search query to identify the result set of documents, wherein the result set of documents are identified based on the search query; calculating an estimated relevance score for the result set of documents, wherein the estimated relevance score is indicative of a degree to which the result set of documents are relevant to the search query; providing for display on a graphical user interface a results feedback element and an estimated relevance element comprising the estimated relevance indicator based on the estimated relevance score, wherein the estimated relevance indicator provides a visual indication of the degree to which the result set of documents are relevant to the search query; updating the results feedback element based on the result set of documents; and updating the estimated relevance element to display the estimated relevance indicator based on the estimated relevance score.

20170220562

15391354

1. A method comprising: receiving, using a processor, a plurality of respective candidate target texts which are generated by translation of a source text in the first language into a target text in the second language different from the first language as candidates for the target text in the second language; specifying, using the processor, combinations of phrase pairs used to generate the respective candidate target texts among phrase pairs contained in a phrase table, the phrase table stored in a server and containing the phrase pairs each being a pair of a phrase in the first language and a phrase in the second language; and recording, using the processor, combination information in the server, the combination information identifying the combinations of phrase pairs.

8359570

12056160

1. A method of implementing in a computer, having memory, an adaptive scripting tool application, said method comprising: defining a common interface for an application framework, the application framework including a client side interface and a server side interface configured according to the common interface; providing a plurality of different scripting languages to cooperate with said common interface, said scripting languages all sharing said common interface of said framework; defining at least one scripting command associated with one of said scripting languages; and responsive to a message received from the client side interface, selecting, by the server side interface, a scripting tool from a plurality of scripting tools to execute the at least one scripting command, said selection based on an interface definition of the at least one scripting command.

9563737

14318488

1. A computer implemented method for checking or verifying shapes in an electronic design, comprising: using a computer system to execute a process, the process comprising: identifying or determining a dictionary for an electronic design; reducing, at a sliced line module stored at least partially in memory and including or function in conjunction with one or more microprocessors of the computer system, dimensionality of design data in a region at least by identifying or determining a first sliced line for the region in the electronic design, wherein the first sliced line includes one or more projected boundaries of the region; and checking or verifying the electronic design to identify one or more non-conforming shapes by using at least the first sliced line.

20070139680

11313397

1. A method for variable data differential gloss font image comprising: selecting a font character; sub-sampling the selected font character into a sub-sample result; scaling the sub-sample result back up to a desired full size result; selecting a first halftone cell having a first anisotropic structure orientation; selecting a second halftone cell having a second anisotropic structure orientation; and applying the first halftone cell to the desired full size result and applying the second halftone cell to a background field for the desired full size result to produce a variable data differential gloss font image.

8515828

13483037

1. A computer-implemented method for providing product recommendations based on identification of negative sentiment key phrases in customer reviews, the method comprising: receiving, by a computer, a request for product information defining at least a product or product category; identifying, by the computer, product reviews matching the product or product category to generate a review analysis set; identifying, by the computer, negative sentiment key phrases in each review of the review analysis set; calculating, by the computer, a weight for each identified negative sentiment key phrase by determining a relative frequency of the identified negative sentiment key phrase in the customer reviews of the review analysis set and calculating an inverse of the relative frequency; correlating, by the computer, the negative sentiment key phrases with product characteristics using a classification rubric, wherein the classification rubric defines which negative sentiment key phrases are associated with a product characteristic; calculating, by the computer, for each product characteristic, a score based on the weights of the negative sentiment key phrase or phrases correlated to the product characteristic; generating, by the computer, an identity of each product reviewed in the review analysis set and, for each product, a summary of scored product characteristics; and communicating, by the computer, at least a portion of the identities of each product reviewed in the review analysis set and the corresponding summary of scored product characteristics.

20030184452

10266632

1. In a data processing system having at least two input detectors, a method that permits a user, using the fingers of a single hand, to produce defined outputs, such as generating characters and executing commands, comprising: (a) generating a first single output with single activation of any one of the input detectors; (b) generating a second single output with sequential activation of any two of the input detectors based on first timing conditions; and (c) generating a third single output and a fourth single output with sequential activation of any two of the input detectors based on second timing conditions.

9103741

12869822

1. A method comprising: receiving, at a processing system, at least one vibration response parameter associated with an airfoil, wherein the at least one vibration response parameter comprises at least one of an airfoil excitation frequency, an airfoil vibration amplitude, and an airfoil structural damping; using the processing system for: computing a modal stress intensity factor (SIF) of at least one cracked airfoil finite element model using fracture mechanics based finite element analysis; and computing a vibratory SIF based, at least in part, on the modal SIF and a scaling factor comprising a variable number based on the at least one vibration response parameter; and computing a residual life indicator of the airfoil based, at least in part, on the vibratory SIF.

9809185

13602493

1. A system comprising: a processor configured to: control a vehicle system; receive a command including a subjective element; retrieve a user-specific meaning for the subjective element from a user-associated mapping; implement the command based on the user-specific meaning, such that the vehicle system is adjusted in accordance with the user-specific meaning; detect a user-implemented manual change to the vehicle system, following adjustment based on the command; and update the mapping based on the manual change.

7580831

10379880

1. A healthcare dictionary system providing a term repository accessible for use in supporting the operation of a healthcare enterprise, comprising: an input processor for acquiring healthcare transaction message data including data for communication from a first healthcare facility to at least a second different healthcare facility in at least one of a plurality of different communication protocol data formats and being communicated between different facilities of a healthcare enterprise; a data processor for, parsing said acquired transaction message data to identify a communication protocol data format of said transaction message and extracting a term from said acquired transaction message data, comparing said extracted term to terms in a first term repository, said first term repository including at least one of, (a) definitions indicating meaning of a plurality of healthcare terms used by a particular healthcare facility and (b) synonyms of a plurality of healthcare terms used by a particular healthcare facility and updating said first term repository to include said extracted term in response to a determination, said extracted term is absent from said first term repository; and a communication processor for intermittently processing content of said first term repository to be suitable for communication to a second term repository including definitions of a plurality of healthcare terms used by a different healthcare facility.

10109139

15695719

1. A platen for an automated teller machine comprising: a generally planar substrate including an upper portion and lower portion, the lower portion sloping at an angle relative to the upper portion, the lower portion having a lower edge having a central edge section extending generally laterally along the lower edge and having a first end edge section tapering from the central edge toward the upper portion, and a second end edge section tapering from the central edge toward the upper portion opposite the first end edge section, where the first and second end edge sections each include a flange extending from each of the end edge sections toward a rear face of the platen, and where the substrate defines a generally longitudinally extending channel between the upper portion and the lower portion.

20170141914

14939141

1. A processing system comprising: a processing core; and a hardware accelerator communicatively coupled to the processing core, the hardware accelerator comprising: a message scheduling module selectively operating in one of a SHA mode or an SM3 mode to generate a sequence of message words based on an incoming message; and a round computation module selectively operating in one of the SHA mode or the SM3 mode to perform at least one of a message expansion or a message compression based on at least one message word of the sequence of message words.

20090177621

11971525

1. In a computer system having a relational database system, a method comprising: creating a number of materialized query tables (MQTs) within the database system; defining one or more database table specifications; receiving an incoming query at the database system; when the incoming query references a first subset of a set of tables, identifying an MQT with a definition query that references the set of tables, wherein said first subset includes one of: (a) a number of fact tables and a group of dimension tables; (b) a number of source tables and a group of dependent tables; and (c) a number of referencing tables and a group of referenced tables; and determining when the MQT is a candidate match for the incoming query; wherein said identified MQT is evaluated as a candidate match for the incoming query based on the first subset being within the set of tables referenced by the definition query of the MQT, and wherein said candidate match is a match that is able to provide a reliable and accurate set of data results for the incoming query. <<We can replace this paragraph with two paragraphs on accumulating the candidate MQTs and selecting the optimal MQT among the candidate MQTs.>>

7836460

11531233

1. A method for operating a Web Services search method in a networked environment, wherein a Service Provider registers Web Services at a Service Broker, and wherein a Service Broker is inquired by a Service Consumer for offering Web Services, and a Service Provider provides an inquired Web Service to the Service Consumer, wherein the Service Broker maintains a service model comprising Web Service description data and wherein the service model is created by the Service Broker according to Web Service data offered by the Service Provider, and wherein the service model is used by the Service Broker to process inquiries issued by the Service Consumer, comprising: retrieving data mining input data relating to description details of the inquired Web Services from respective Service descriptions of the inquired Web Services; performing a data mining function on said data mining input data, wherein a clustering is performed with a distance calculation function including said description details, wherein the distance calculation includes the degree of interaction between said Web Services, and wherein the clustering yields a cluster model comprising a plurality of clusters and a mapping for each Web Service to one of said clusters, wherein Web Services having a similar semantic meaning are collected in a single cluster, yielding a data mining result; adding cluster information according to said data mining result to said service model resulting in an extended service model, thus associating each service with the cluster it is assigned to in the data mining result and storing this extended service model in a database; and offering search response data based on said extended service model in response to Web Services search operations.

10108678

14960300

1. A method of analyzing data, comprising: generating, by an entity, a query based at least in part on a topic of interest; executing the query on a plurality of data sources, at least one of the plurality of data sources comprising data for summarization; selecting, by the entity, a data source from the plurality of data sources for monitoring based on a correlation between the data source and the topic of interest, the correlation determined based on results of the executed query; monitoring, based on a set schedule, the data source for matches to the query to extract data from the data source when at least an update to stored data matches the query, newly added data matches the query, or a combination thereof; extracting data from the data source when at least the update to the stored data matches the query, the newly added data matches the query, or the combination thereof; determining an extraction rate for extracting the data, the extraction rate indicating an amount of the data that is extracted over a first time period; determining a first processing rate for processing the extracted data with a number of parallel processors, the first processing rate indicating an amount of extracted data that is processed over a second time period; dynamically adjusting the number of parallel processors for analyzing the extracted data based on the extraction rate to obtain a second processing rate that is greater than the first processing rate; analyzing, with the parallel processors, the extracted data to determine at least one of a sentiment, an index, a pattern, or a combination thereof; establishing a two-way communication channel, between at least the entity that selected the data source for monitoring and a user device of a user that provided the data to the data source, based on the analysis of the extracted data; transmitting, from the entity via the two-way communication channel, a first message directed to the user device based on the analysis of the extracted data; and receiving, from the user device via the two-way communication channel, a second message in response to the first message directed to the user device.

9275636

13463055

1. A computer-implemented method for estimating the accuracy of a transcription of a voice recording, comprising: transcribing the voice recording into the transcription of the voice recording; receiving the transcription of the voice recording; providing a customer specific dictionary; providing a dictionary of common language words; determining a number of inaccurate words in the transcription; determining a number of accurate words in the transcription; determining a total number of words in the transcription; calculating an accuracy number by dividing the number of accurate words by the total number of words; assigning a greater weight to at least one word exceeding a predefined number of characters as compared to at least one other word below the predetermined number of characters; retrieving, from a data structure, a set of axioms associated with at least one of the words in the transcription, wherein the set of axioms comprises a computer-parsable definition of a relationship of data to the at least one of the words; and assigning a confidence level to each axiom of the set of axioms based on an output of a Gaussian function applied to a result of the dividing and the assigning of weight.

8097024

12566511

1. A dynamic spinal implant adapted for use in spinal stabilization for a spine comprising: a bone screw having a longitudinal axis, a distal end adapted to engage a bone and a proximal end; a housing at a proximal end of the bone screw; the housing having an internal bore aligned with the longitudinal axis of the bone screw and terminating in a pocket; the housing having an external surface with a plurality of surface features adapted to engage a device mounted on the external surface to prevent rotation of the device relative to the housing; a post having a longitudinal post axis, a proximal end extending from the bore of said housing and a distal end terminating in a retainer pivotably secured within the pocket; and a compliant member positioned within the internal bore between the post and the housing to flexibly align the longitudinal post axis of the post with the longitudinal axis of the bone screw, said compliant member is adapted to align the longitudinal post axis of the post with the longitudinal axis of the bone screw as the spine applies a load on the dynamic spinal implant for spinal stabilization.

20150278833

14336422

1. A computing device configured to identify a concept of a good or service for an unmet market potential, the device comprising: a processor; a storage device; a program stored in the storage device, wherein execution of the program by the processor configures the computing device to perform functions, including functions to: read a Global User Search Data (GUSD) file comprising information related to a search object; identify a morpheme combination in the search object from the GUSD; compare the morpheme combination to a first set of pre-existing terms; assign a first score to the search object based on the comparison, wherein a higher first score is assigned if the morpheme combination is not found in the first set of pre-existing terms; determine an un-successfulness of the search object; assign a second score based on the un-successfulness, wherein a higher second score is assigned the more un-successful the search object is; compare an aggregate of all the scores for a search term to a predetermined threshold; and identify the search term as indicative of the concept if the aggregate of all the scores is above the predetermined threshold.

20110320190

13230254

1. A method comprising: identifying a communicative goal in a speech input of a user; generating, via a processor, a plurality of sentence plans based on the communicative goal and a dialog history database, wherein each sentence plan of the plurality of sentence plans is a viable and potentially usable prompt in response to the speech input of the user; ranking the plurality of sentence plans to yield ranked sentence plans; and outputting at least one ranked sentence plan to yield an output sentence plan, wherein the output sentence plan provides a closest match to the communicative goal among the ranked sentence plans.

9152721

14520161

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving, at a search system from a user device associated with a user, user input comprising one or more characters of a partial search query; determining a location of the user device; determining a predicted query for the one or more characters of the partial search query, the predicted query comprising the one or more characters of the partial search query and a name of the location of the user device; and providing the predicted query to the user device for presentation to the user prior to the user submitting a search query to the search system.

9292495

14184903

1. A method for updating an existing document using natural language processing (NLP), the method comprising: receiving information about a subject-matter domain; identifying a portion of the existing document, wherein the portion corresponds to the subject-matter domain by including at least a threshold number of references to a category identified in the subject matter domain; lemmatizing, using a processor and a memory, a group of words from the portion to use in a search query, wherein the search query returns a result set, the result set including current information corresponding to the subject-matter domain, the current information being recent as compared to an age of the portion; forming, using the processor and the memory, natural language (NL) update content by processing the current information through an NLP application; associating with the NL update content a confidence rating, the confidence rating being indicative of a provenance of a data source that supplied the current information; and updating, by changing the portion of the existing document in a document repository, the existing document using the NL update content and the confidence rating.

8171393

12104297

1. A method for producing and organizing electronically stored information, the method comprising: identifying, with one or more processors associated with one or more computer systems, a plurality of documents from the electronically stored information as satisfying similarity criteria; identifying, with the one or more processors associated with one or more computer systems, a first document in the plurality of documents as a pivot document for the plurality of documents that satisfy the similarity criteria, the pivot document being representative of the plurality of documents that satisfy the similarity criteria; generating, with the one or more processors associated with one or more computer systems, information configured to display a graphical user interface that enables users of the graphical user interface to associate review content with each pivot document in a collection of pivot documents visually represented in the graphical user interface; receiving, at the one or more computer systems, the review content that is indicative of textual information or one or more annotations provided by a user of the graphical user interface; associating, with the one or more processors associated with one or more computer systems, the review content indicative of the textual information or the one or more annotations with the pivot document; and propagating, with the one or more processors associated with one or more computer systems, the review content indicative of the textual information or the one or more annotations from the pivot document to one or more documents in the plurality of documents that satisfy the similarity criteria.

20050106541

10716339

1. A word isolator device comprising: a thin, elongated base portion having a medially disposed aperture therethrough to define a viewing window through said base portion and to permit observation from a point above said base portion through said aperture of a location below said base portion, a thin, elongated slide member sized and dimensioned to substantially fully occlude said viewing window when positioned in general alignment with said viewing window, said base portion and said slide member being positionable and complementarily engageable with one another to permit slidable movement therebetween between a first position in which the viewing window is substantially fully occluded by said slide member and a second position in which the viewing window is substantially fully unoccluded by said slide member, said viewing member being partially occluded at intermediate positions, said engaged base portion and slide member being positionable to rest upon a generally flat surface to encompass within the outline of said viewing window text appearing on said generally flat surface and to uncover the text encompassed within the outline of the viewing window as said slide member is slidably moved relative to said base portion from said first position to said second position.

7783625

11256440

1. A method of optimizing execution of a query that accesses data stored in one or more base tables in a database of a computer system, comprising: performing a first query that accesses the data stored in the base tables, in order to create at least one materialized query table (MQT); using data stored in the MQT as statistics data for determining an optimal execution plan for a second query that accesses the data stored in the base tables; and performing the second query using the optimal execution plan to access the data stored in the base tables in the database for presentation to a user.

20010011241

09217257

1. In a computer, a method for translating a first currency value to a second currency value, comprising the steps of: providing a first currency value, a second currency, and translation rules; storing conversion rules to be applied to the first currency value; customizing the conversion rules in response to the first currency value and the translation rules before application to the first currency value; and, converting the first currency value to a second currency value using the customized conversion rules.

8719713

12471017

1. A method for displaying a user-interactive collection of content associated with text on a web page, the method comprising: accessing an entity database storing a plurality of entity definitions associated with a plurality of text phrases, wherein each entity definition specifies a contextual category associated with a corresponding text phrase; parsing text on a web page; identifying entities in the entity database related to the parsed text; utilizing a geographic location to classify a meaning of text on the web page; filtering the entities based on the meaning of the text; providing an indication to visually identify the text on the web page; receiving an indication of a trigger event from a user; requesting and receiving web content related to the text; displaying the web content in a window rendered as an overlay on top of the web page, wherein the window displays options for interacting with the web information; and adjacent to the UI window, displaying an advertisement window with a web advertisement contextually related to a portion of the web information.

7747434

11554411

1. A method for processing a speech portion of audio signals from multiple speakers in a broadcast program signal comprising the steps of: (a) receiving said audio signal from said broadcast program signal comprising at least a speech portion, wherein said speech portion of said audio signal is not previously processed by a human operator for syntax or context; (b) processing said speech portion of said audio signal for a speaker without any input from a human operator; (c) converting said speech portion of said audio signal for said speaker to text without any input from a human operator; (d) transmitting said text to a first closed caption channel; (e) translating said text in real time to produce translated text for said speaker; (f) transmitting said translated text to a second closed caption channel; and (g) converting said translated text to an audio signal comprising speech generated for said speaker according to said translated text.

7925678

11623010

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving event data in a log file; transforming the event data into attribute/value pairs; generating an index mapping at least one of the attribute/value pairs to a reference pointer that references an instance of event data in the log file, the instance of event data in the log file including a textual message from which the attribute/value pair was transformed; generating an attribute co-occurrence data structure, the attribute co-occurrence data structure identifying a relationship between a first attribute in the attribute/value pairs and a second attribute in the attribute/value pairs, where existence of the relationship between the first attribute and the second attribute indicates that reports for finding a textual message including both the first attribute and the second attribute are allowable; and in response to a query including the first attribute, generating a report based on the attribute co-occurrence data structure and the attribute/value pairs in the index, including: identifying the second attribute based on the relationship identified in the attribute co-occurrence data structure; identifying an attribute/value pair that includes the second attribute; and generating the report, including providing access to the event data in the log file using a reference pointer that is mapped to the identified attribute/value pair in the index, where the method is performed by one or more processors.

7617447

10731900

1. A computer-implemented method of formatting a selection of text from a document as an Extensible Markup Language (XML) formatted selection such that the selection of text carries formatting properties particular to the selection of text for use in another document, comprising: receiving the selection of text in the document; identifying an XML markup specifying one or more formatting properties associated with the selection of text; applying the XML markup to the selection of text, wherein applying the XML markup to the selection of text includes applying an XML tag to the selection of text; associating the XML markup with the selection of text for designating that the selection of text is formatted according to the XML markup independent of an other XML markup associated with the other document into which the selection of text is inserted; inserting the selection of text into the other document by: receiving the selection of an XML node associated with the selection of text from an XML structure pane, the XML structure pane showing a markup language structure applied to the document, the markup language structure comprising a plurality of markup language nodes associated with portions of text in the document; and in response to a user input, moving the XML node to an XML structure pane showing a markup language structure applied to the other document to insert the XML markup and the selected text into the other document along with style and formatting properties defined in the markup language structure; parsing the other document for formatting properties required for the other document after inserting the selection of text into the other document; avoiding a conflict between the XML markup associated with the selection of text and the other XML markup associated with the other document by causing the XML markup associated with the selection of text to be carried with the selection of text when the selection of text is inserted into the other document to maintain the application of the XML markup data to the selection of text in the other document independent of the other XML markup associated with the other document; and providing a framework for an annotation of the XML markup by associating the selection of text with at least one XML schema file attached to the document, the at least one schema file providing a definition of the XML markup applied to the selection of text and providing XML parsing application rules for understanding and using the XML tag.

20080215562

11681333

1. A computer-implemented method comprising: retrieving a candidate name; identifying a cultural classification that corresponds to the candidate name; retrieving one or more culture-specific regularization rules corresponding to the cultural classification; applying one or more of the culture-specific regularization rules to the candidate name, resulting in a regularized candidate name; and storing the regularized candidate name.

20150220778

14686644

1. A method, comprising: invoking a user input interface on a mobile device; invoking an optical input extension of the user input interface; capturing optical input via one or more optical sensors of the mobile device; determining textual information from the captured optical input; and providing the determined textual information to the user input interface.

20040210599

10841401

1. A method of parsing an XML data stream comprising: receiving an XML data stream containing a namespace prefix and an associated element tag name, the element tag name being associated with an element tag; converting the namespace prefix and the element tag name into a token that uniquely represents a namespace specification that is associated with the namespace prefix and the element tag; defining a stack that is configured to receive one or more tokens during parsing of the XML data stream; and placing a token on the stack, said acts of receiving, converting, defining and placing being configured to permit parsing of the XML data stream to begin without requiring an XML tree structure, comprising an XML document embodied by the XML data stream, to be built.

8010681

12559841

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium embodying a program of instruction executable by a computer for performing a method of communicating between an application program of a resolution protocol and a server process on a same node to manage peer-to-peer identities, comprising the steps of: providing, on the same node, an application program interface for use by the application program of the resolution protocol to manage peer-to-peer identities; receiving, at the server process on the same node, via the application program interface, a peer identity create call having a plurality of call parameters comprising a classifier, a peer-to-peer friendly name, a handle to a container in which a key pair exists, and a pointer to a location to which an identity name should be returned, wherein the key pair includes a private key and a public key, and wherein the key pair and the classifier are used to generate the identity name; parsing, at the server process, the peer identity create call to retrieve the plurality of call parameters; returning to the application program a value indicative of the success/failure of the peer identity create call; receiving, at the server process on the same node, via the application program interface, a peer identity management call corresponding to the identity name corresponding to peer identity create call, and the peer identity management call having one or more corresponding call parameters; parsing, at the server process, the peer identity management call to retrieve the one or more corresponding call parameters; and returning to the application program a value indicative of the success/failure of the peer identity management call.

20160217807

15082959

1. A method for monitoring the emotional states of conversation participants, the method comprising: monitoring a conversation between a plurality of participants; determining an emotional state of one or more of the participants during one or more portions of the monitored conversation; displaying a timeline of a segment of the monitored conversation, wherein the timeline indicates the determined emotional state of the one or more participants during the segment of the monitored conversation.

9830376

14084890

1. A system, comprising: a data source stored in a memory having one or more records categorized using language tags as metadata attributes; a processor unit; and logic executable by the processor unit to: access a standardized language tag repository to identify changes in repository language tags; search the records of the data source to identify language tags present in the records of the data source; analyze the records of the data source to determine whether the language tags present in the records of the data source are inconsistent with the repository language tags; responsive to determining that the language tags present in the records of the data source are inconsistent with the repository language tags, determine a language tag update policy for the data source; responsive to determining that the language tag update policy indicates preserving an integrity of a first set of the records of the data source, create a reference metadata based on the repository language tags; link the reference metadata to the respective first set of records having inconsistent language tag metadata attributes while maintaining the first set of data records intact with the inconsistent language tag metadata attributes; and perform a language tag update process for a second set of the records having inconsistent language tag metadata attributes according to the language tag update policy to replace the inconsistent language tag metadata attributes with language tag metadata attributes based on the repository language tags.

4503426

06373362

1. A visual communication device which comprises: a keyboard having alphabetic keys for entering multiple words in a preset syntax, one character at a time, in order to form sentences; an addressable vocabulary storage memory for storing words in both a base language and a target language, such words being grouped at addresses within the memory according to their morphological functions; means responsive to the actuation of said keys for addressing said vocabulary storage memory and for fetching therefrom the words and corresponding addresses which equate to the ordered combinations of characters keyed in; a sentence pattern storage memory which is used to store the morphologically-related addresses of the base-language words, which comprise a particular sentence, in a predetermined syntactical order; means for reordering the addresses of the the base language words selected from the keyboard in accordance in with the morphological and syntactical rules for the grammar of the target language; a means responsive to said means for reordering, for fetching from the vocabulary storage memory, the words of the target language corresponding to the reordered addresses; and a means for displaying and fetched words of the target language.

8892441

13311512

1. A method comprising: overgenerating potential pronunciations by converting portions of symbolic input into a number of possible lexical pronunciation variants based on an established set of conversion rules, wherein the symbolic input comprises labeled speech data; identifying, via a processor of a computing device, potential pronunciations in a speech recognition context to yield identified potential pronunciations; and storing the identified potential pronunciations in a lexicon.

20080162513

11810574

1. A method of parsing an address for automated processing, the method comprising: receiving an input address; determining a relevant locale for the input address; selecting an applicable local address format specification based on the relevant locale; selecting an applicable local address component rules specification based on the relevant locale; applying the local address format specification and the local address component rules to a parsing engine to determine one or more potential parsed addresses based on compliance of the input address with formats embodied in the local address format specification and the local address component rules specification.

8122433

11738874

1. A computer-implementable method comprising: receiving a portion of computer software code selected by a user of a computer system; inserting one or more association keys in at least one line of said portion of computer software code selected by said user, wherein said one or more association keys are used to identify a portion of computer software documentation that corresponds with said computer software code; receiving computer software documentation from said user corresponding to said portion of computer software code selected by said user; inserting one or more association keys in at least one line of said computer software documentation received from said user, wherein said one or more association keys are used to identify a portion of computer software code that corresponds with said computer software documentation; receiving a portion of text selected by a user; retrieving association keys in said portion of text selected by said user; determining whether said portion of text selected by said user comprises computer program code or documentation; in response to determining that said portion of text selected by said user comprises computer software code: searching for computer software documentation with at least one matching association key; and altering the display of said computer software documentation with said at least one matching association key; and in response to determining that said portion of text selected by said user comprises computer software documentation: searching for computer software code with at least one matching association key; and altering the display of said computer software code with said at least one matching association key.

9785855

14972481

1. A method for license plate, recognition, said method comprising: generating a neural network having a plurality of convolutional filters and at least one fully connected layer and wherein said neural network ends in a plurality of independent classifiers, wherein although said classifiers among said plurality of independent classifiers are independent of one another, said classifiers are capable of being trained jointly together with remaining parameters of said neural network; training said neural network in a coarse-to-fine manner to perform generic text recognition utilizing a plurality of training samples; iteratively learning and adapting said neural network; and applying said neural network to a cropped image of a license plate in order to recognize text associated with said license plate and produce a license plate transcription with respect to said license plate.

9378187

10734764

1. A method for creating a presentation document, the method comprising: creating, in dependence upon an original document, a structured document comprising one or more structural elements; and creating a presentation grammar for the structured document, wherein the presentation grammar for the structured document comprises a data structure that includes grammar elements each of which includes: a presentation action identifier; a key phrase for invoking a presentation action; a structural element identifier for at least one structural element of the structured document; and a parameter type to be used in parsing received speech, wherein the parameter type identifies a type of a parameter, wherein the parameter is received from a user after the key phrase and controls a presentation control instruction corresponding to the presentation action that is invoked by the user speaking the key phrase.

8306335

13075978

1. A method for analyzing an input image x with K 1 ×K 2 pixels x (r,s) where (r,s) denotes the pixel location with r=1, 2,. .. , K 1 indicating the image row, and s=1, 2,. .. , K 2 indicating the image column, the input image being one of a digitized image stored in a memory or a scanned image from a scanner, comprising: using a processor to form a feature image z from the input image x by: dividing the input image x into a plurality of blocks of pixels each block having a block size of g 1 ×g 2 pixels, where g 1 denotes a number of image rows in a block and g 2 denotes a number of image columns in a block, associating each block of pixels in the input image x with a single pixel in the feature image z, with the feature image z consisting of K 1 /g 1 ×K 2 /g 2 pixels, and outputting the feature image z for further analysis or storage in a memory, wherein the feature image z is a two-channel image with feature pixels z (m,n) =[f (m,n) , b (m,n) ] , for m=1, 2,. .. , K 1 /g 1 and n=1, 2,. .. , K 2 /g 2 , wherein f (m,n) and b (m,n) denote, respectively, the foreground and background components of a feature pixel z (m,n) , wherein the foreground and background components of a feature pixel z (m,n) are respectively defined as follows: f (m,n) =min{ x (r,s) ;( m −1) g 1 <r≦mg 1 ,( n −1) g 2 <s<ng 2 } b (m,n) =max{ x (r,s) ;( m −1) g 1 <r≦mg 1 ,( n −1) g 2 <s≦ng 2 } where min and max are the minimum and maximum operators, and wherein the processor detects pages according to: d ( m , n ) = { 1 for ⁢ ⁢ b ( m , n ) - f ( m , n ) < θ ⁢ ⁢ and ⁢ ⁢ b ( m , n ) > ϑ 0 otherwise. where θ and α are tunable parameters used to evaluate a similarity between a foreground and a background in input image x and identify pixels with high contributions of background and foreground components, and wherein d (m,n) is a pixel in a binary map d of dimensions identical to that of the feature image z, and the value d (m,n) =1 indicates that the location (m,n) in the feature image z corresponds to a page area.

20090028437

12178482

1. A document extracting method for extracting specific document data from stored document data, the method comprising steps of: storing a document index, indicating a document including a plurality of pages, in association with document data corresponding to each page included in the document; storing feature data, calculated based on a feature point extracted from document data and indicative of a feature of the document data, in association with the document data; obtaining input document data serving as new document data; extracting a feature point from the obtained input document data; generating feature data indicative of a feature of the input document data based on the extracted feature point; comparing the generated feature data with the stored feature data, thereby judging similarity between the document data associated with the stored feature data, and the input document data; obtaining a document index associated with document data judged as document data highly similar to the input document data; and extracting a plurality of pieces of document data corresponding to a plurality of pages included in a document indicated by the obtained document index.

8175333

12208526

1. A method for analyzing an object being tracked in a sequence of video frames, comprising: receiving a representation of the tracked object, as depicted by a current video frame, of the sequence of video frames; evaluating, by operation of one or more computer processors, the representation of the tracked object using at least a first classifier and a second classifier, wherein the first classifier is configured to determine a first classification score indicating whether the tracked object depicts an instance of a first classification type, and wherein the second classifier is configured to determine a second classification score indicating whether the tracked object depicts an instance of a second classification type; adding the first classification score to a first rolling average, wherein the first rolling average provides an average of the first classification score determined for the tracked object for each of a specified number of previous video frames, of the plurality of; adding the second classification score to a second rolling average, wherein the second rolling average provides an average of the second classification score determined for the tracked object for each of a specified number of previous video frames, of the plurality, wherein the final classification value is determined from the first rolling average and the second rolling average; determining a final classification value for the tracked object in the current video frame, based on the first and second rolling averages; and passing the final classification value for the tracked objects to a machine learning engine configured to identify patterns of behavior engaged in by the tracked object, based at least in part on the final classification value.

20060265207

11131991

1. A computer method for localizing programming models, comprising the steps of: given a model having one or more elements, each element having an element name and each element name being in a language of an author of the model, for each element name, storing corresponding character strings for generating the element name in different languages; and during display of the given model in a certain locale, obtaining respective character strings of each element name in a language of the certain locale, and using the obtained character strings to display each element name in the language of the certain locale.

6044337

08960289

1. A method for determining superwords and meaningful phases, comprising the steps of: determining superwords from a set of generated candidate phrases contained in a database of observed sequences of words, symbols and/or sounds, the database having a perplexity value based on a language model; determining meaningful phrases based on commonality measurements; and incorporating the determined meaningful phrases from the database into the language model.