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8788547 | 13733194 | 1 | 1. A method for managing global cache coherency and reducing contention and messaging traffic in a distributed shared caching for clustered file systems (CFS), the CFS having a file access component that includes a cache and a distributed shared memory (DSM) module in a computing environment, the method comprising: managing the access permissions to data segment space of the data segments shared between a cluster of nodes by using the file access component; partitioning CFS disk space into a plurality of regions and disk objects into a plurality of groups; assigning each of the plurality of regions and the plurality of groups to a CFS agent residing on each one of the cluster of nodes; modifying, by a CFS agent, those of the plurality of regions and the plurality of objects assigned to the CFS agent; and modifying, at an increased frequency, by the CFS agent, those of the plurality of regions and the plurality of objects assigned to the CFS agent as compared to those of the plurality of regions and the plurality of objects that are not assigned to the CFS agent. |
9974427 | 14541240 | 1 | 1. A surgical system comprising: an extended working channel sized for insertion into a working channel of a bronchoscope and to receive one or more instruments therethrough, the extended working channel having a proximal handle; a magnetic field generator; a locatable guide extendable through the extended working channel having a sensor associated with a distal end of the extended working channel for sensing a magnetic field generated by the magnetic field generator; a workstation including a display and operably connected to the sensor; a non-transitory computer readable recording medium associated with the workstation, the computer readable recording medium storing a software program that enables association of the sensed magnetic field with a location of the sensor and that generates one or more images including one or more fields for presentation on the display; and a remote control handle having a distal portion directly releasably coupled to the proximal handle of the extended working channel, the remote control handle in communication with the workstation enabling manipulation of the one or more fields generated by the software and presented on the display. |
8516468 | 12215983 | 1 | 1. A method including: locating a nested first IF statement and a nested second IF statement, wherein (a) the first IF statement includes a first conditional code portion that includes a first condition expression and a first loop, (b) the second IF statement includes a second conditional code portion that includes a second condition expression and a second loop, and (c) the first and second IF statements are not nested within one another; determining whether the first conditional code portion includes a first function call; determining whether the second conditional code portion includes a second function call; determining whether the first condition expression and the second condition expression are based on a common condition; and fusing the first loop with the second loop based on determining the first conditional code portion does not include the first function call, determining the second conditional code portion does not include the second function call, and determining the first condition expression and the second condition expression are based on the common condition. |
4514824 | 06355135 | 1 | 1. In a line support processor for controlling data transfer operations between a host computer and data terminal equipment connected via data communication lines, wherein said line support processor includes a plurality of line adapters, a data link interface unit and a microprocessor means, said microprocessor means having an I/O bus for data transfers and output control registers providing control data to each of said line adapters, a byte oriented line adapter system comprising: (a) a plurality of input/output circuit means connecting said data terminal equipment to a first driver switching means, and wherein said input/output circuit means can execute instructions from said microprocessor to operate synchronously or asynchronously during data transfer operations, each said input/output circuit means including: (a1) a USART receiver-transmitter means controlled by said microprocessor means for receiving serial bit data from said data terminal equipment and converting said serial data to parallel character-byte data for transmission to said microprocessor means, and/or receiving character-byte data from said microprocessor means and converting it to serial bit data for transmission to said data terminal equipment, said USART receiver-transmitter means, being connected to respond to control data from said microprocessor means, for selecting the character-byte data size from five bits-per-byte up to eight bits-per-byte; (a2) timing means, set by the said microprocessor means connected to said input/output circuit means, said timing means including: (a2a) first timing means for generating the baud rate of data transfer in said USART receiver-transmitter means; (a2b) second timing means connected to said microprocessor means for establishing programmed time-out periods and delayed response time for accepting data coming in on said data communication lines to said line adapter; (b) first driver switching means, controlled by said microprocessor means, for transferring data from said microprocessor means to a selected one of said input/output circuit means, or transferring data from said selected input/output circuit means to a multiplexor means; (c) multiplexor means, having an output to said I/O bus of said microprocessor means, for conveying data bytes to a buffer memory means or to said microprocessor means for subsequent transfer to a main host computer, said multiplexor means including: (c1) a group of n multiplexors, each multiplexor connected for conveying data from one bit-line of a data transfer bus means from said first driver switching means, said group of n multiplexors providing for parallel transfer of character bytes of up to eight bits; (c2) said data transfer bus means connecting said first driver switching means to said multiplexor means; (c3) a plurality of input information-data means connected to the input of each of said multiplexors, said information-data means being transferrable to said microprocessor means upon control instructions from said microprocessor means; (c4) input instruction means connected to said multiplexor means from said microprocessor means for selecting which of said information-data means shall be transferred to said microprocessor means; (d) buffer memory means, connected to said I/O bus, for temporarily buffering data being transferred between said microprocessor means and said data terminal equipment, said buffer memory means including: (d1) address input lines connected from said microprocessor means to said memory means to receive addresses from said microprocessor means; and (d2) a memory output bus connected to convey addressed data from said memory means to said microprocessor means. |
9193403 | 14038609 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method for controlling a robot during a fall to the ground, the method comprising: determining a state of the robot following a determination that a fall cannot be prevented; mapping, by a processor, the state of the robot to learned control parameters corresponding to the state of the robot, the learned control parameters indicating a learned stepping location of a free leg, a learned left shoulder angle for controlling a position of the left arm, and a learned right shoulder angle for controlling a position of the right arm, wherein the learned control parameters control the robot to impact the ground with a foot of the free leg and two hands such that the robot reaches a balanced position supported by the foot and the two hands that prevents its torso from impacting the ground; controlling the robot during the fall based on the learned control parameters to take a step with the free leg to the learned stepping location, to control the left arm to achieve the learned left shoulder angle, and to control the right arm to achieve the learned right shoulder angle; and after the free leg impacting the stepping location, locking the leg joints and locking the arm joints in a stretched position. |
7770119 | 11944221 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method of automatically re-arranging nodes in a display, the method comprising: (a) displaying a plurality of nodes in a first configuration on a display, each node having an association with at least one other node represented by a physical connector between the associated nodes on the display; (b) for each node in the plurality of nodes, positioning the node at each of a plurality of pre-determined positions, while maintaining the associations between nodes, and storing a position of the node at one of the pre-determined positions when a number of overlapping connectors between nodes is reduced; (c) iteratively adjusting a distance between each pair of nodes toward a target distance; and (d) repeating steps (b) and (c) until a total length of all physical connectors is minimized and a number of overlapping connectors is minimized. |
20160277442 | 15165636 | 0 | 1. A method for detecting targeted attacks from a network resource, comprising: obtaining, by a processor of a computing device, data from multiple computer systems and devices connected with one another in a communications network to determine a possibility of a targeted attack from the network resource, the data comprising information relating to the network resource and a set of parameters of each computer system or device in accessing the network resource; detecting discrepancies in the obtained data relating to the possibility of the targeted attack from the network resource from the multiple computer systems and devices; forming and sending queries, by the processor, to a group of computer systems and devices detecting the possibility of the targeted attack with the set of parameters of the group of computer systems and devices in accessing the network resource; and calculating a probability of the targeted attack from the network resource based at least upon information received from the group of computer systems and devices in response to the queries. |
20100257579 | 12419445 | 0 | 1. A computer implemented access control system, the system comprising: a database for storing a serialized version of an XACML permissions hierarchy; a memory for storing an original version of the XACML permissions hierarchy; and an XACML serialization engine configured to convert the XACML permissions hierarchy into the serialized version, wherein the serialized version contains a listing of at least a portion of the predicates possible in the XACML permission hierarchy and the effect on each of the portion of the predicates. |
20130054532 | 13215726 | 0 | 1. A method for a database system comprising a first instantiation of a columnar table in a volatile memory and a second instantiation of the columnar table in a persisted memory, the method comprising: receiving a transaction to change the columnar table; recording the transaction within a delta structure in the volatile memory; recording the transaction within a log of the persisted memory; receiving an instruction to merge the delta structure in the volatile memory with the first instantiation of the columnar table in the volatile memory; and in response to the instruction, merging the delta structure in the volatile memory with the first instantiation of the columnar table in the volatile memory to create a merged columnar table in the volatile memory, and not storing the merged columnar table in the persisted memory. |
20040249482 | 10838138 | 0 | 1. A method of predictive modeling, comprising: providing a description of infrastructure components that support one or more business solutions in a business enterprise; from the description, generating a predictive model that mathematically expresses dynamic characteristics and behavior of the infrastructure components; generating performance metrics from the predictive model for each of the infrastructure components; and translating the performance metrics into enterprise decision metrics or indicators that correspond to service, performance and financial states of the business enterprise. |
20020032852 | 09132042 | 0 | 1. A apparatus, comprising: a processor having a plurality of registers, the processor being capable of executing at least one selected instruction by backing out of an architectural register state. |
8837189 | 13459544 | 1 | 1. A content addressable memory (CAM) device, comprising: a non-volatile memory array having a plurality of non-volatile memory cells arranged in a plurality of NAND architecture memory cell strings; a search word register having an inverting and non-inverting output for each bit position of the search word register, wherein each output of the search word register is coupled to a plurality of word lines of the plurality of NAND memory cell strings; a source line coupled to one or more source-side connections of the plurality of NAND memory cell strings; and a plurality of match lines, each match line coupled to a drain-side connection of a NAND string of the plurality of NAND strings; wherein each NAND memory cell string of the plurality of NAND memory cell strings stores a data word in a plurality of CAM memory cell structures and where each CAM memory cell structure is formed from a paired first and second non-volatile memory cells of the NAND memory cell string; wherein a control gate of the first non-volatile memory cell of each CAM memory cell structure is coupled to a non-inverting output of a selected bit position of the search word register and a control gate of the second non-volatile memory cell is coupled to an inverting output of a selected bit position of the search word register; and wherein the CAM memory device is adapted to couple a voltage of the source line through a NAND memory cell string to its coupled match line when a data word stored in the NAND memory cell string matches an input data word stored in the search word register. |
20140215326 | 14153444 | 0 | 1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a detection unit for detecting, from a plurality of texts, quotations from other texts; a conversion unit for deleting or replacing with predetermined character strings the quotations in a plurality of the texts; and a text mining unit for executing text mining for a plurality of the converted texts. |
20110128779 | 12957286 | 0 | 1. An apparatus comprising: a memory cell including a variable resistance memory layer; and a semiconductor-oxide-based selector switch in direct contact with the memory cell. |
20160261615 | 14635064 | 0 | 1. A method for defending a communication network from adversarial attack using a distributed infrastructure that leverages coordination across disparate abstraction levels, comprising: at each of a plurality of node computing devices comprising a communication network, using a stored event list to detect at least one node event occurring at a machine code level which is known to have the potential to interfere directly with the internal operation of the node computing device; responsive to detecting the at least one node event at one of the plurality of network nodes, automatically selectively determining an optimal network-level defensive action involving a plurality of network nodes comprising the communication network, the network-level defensive action based on the at least one detected node event and upon a set of known communication requirements established for said network; and wherein the at least one node event is exclusive of an event within a network communication domain. |
9753708 | 14820998 | 1 | 1. A method for automatic conversion of a sequential array-based program to a parallel program, the method comprising: obtaining, by a processor, an Array static single assignment (SSA) representation of the sequential array-based program; transforming, by the processor, the Array SSA representation into a Lambda Calculus representation that includes a construct for representing loops; and replacing, by the processor, the loop construct with a plurality of operators to generate a plurality of unoptimized parallel programs comprising a plurality of operations; generating, by the processor, a plurality of optimized and executable parallel programs based upon the unoptimized parallel programs, wherein the plurality of optimized and executable parallel programs are configured for accessing a plurality of memory locations including at least two overlapping memory locations; grouping, by the processor, a plurality of operations performed by the optimized and executable parallel programs based upon the plurality of memory locations; ranking, by the processor, the optimized and executable parallel programs by applying the grouped plurality of operations to a customizable cost function; and performing a heuristic search, by the processor, to select one of the optimized and executable parallel programs from the plurality of optimized and executable parallel programs. |
20070129997 | 11262011 | 0 | 1. A method for assigning a monetary value to a search term, the method comprising: providing at least one first search term to at least one advertiser; receiving at least one bid from said advertiser on said first search term; deriving a similarity function between said first term and at least one second term; and assigning a monetary value to said second term based at least in part on said bid and said similarity function. |
9201850 | 13526373 | 1 | 1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums storing one or more sequences of instructions for executing a virtualized web browser, which when executed by one or more processors, cause: upon the virtualized web browser being instructed to display a web page having one or more portions of data, the virtualized web browser consulting a set of policies, defined in policy data, to dynamically identify from among one or more virtual machines, which virtual machines should be assigned the responsibility of retrieving and rendering the one or more portions of said web page, wherein said set of policies further identifies and assigns a different virtual machine in said one or more virtual machines for each portion of the web page that is associated with an iFrame, such that each of said different virtual machine retrieves and renders all content for its corresponding iFrame; the virtualized web browser instructing said identified one or more virtual machines to retrieve content for at least a portion of the web page; each of the one or more identified virtual machines (a) retrieving across a network a set of content whose retrieval was delegated to that identified virtual machine, and (b) rendering said set of content retrieved by that identified virtual machine, by generating a graphical representation from the retrieved content; and upon the virtualized web browser obtaining the rendered screen data content from the one or more virtual machines, the virtualized web browser displaying the web page using the obtained rendered screen data content. |
8326782 | 13047434 | 1 | 1. A special purpose processor comprising: a FPGA implementing a neural model, the neural model including multiple neural elements, the FPGA including multiple cores to implement neural elements, the cores processing data in parallel, the processing in the cores including presynaptic calculations using input values and weights, postsynaptic calculations to produce postsynaptic outputs using the results of the presynaptic calculations and plasticity calculations to modify the weights, the input values being provided to the cores by looping through a connection table to get pointers for an output storage table, the pointers indicating the inputs for the cores in a predefined order. |
8775344 | 12125219 | 1 | 1. A method for processing data associated with a data stream received by a data stream processing system, wherein the system comprises a plurality of processing elements, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining a data stream of input elements and a data stream of output elements associated with at least one processing element of the plurality of processing elements, wherein the data stream of input elements are obtained from at least one streaming data source, and wherein the data stream of output elements are generated by the at least one processing element in response to the data stream of input elements; computing one or more intervals for the at least one processing element, wherein the one or more intervals are computed using data representing observations of associations between the input elements and the output elements of the at least one processing element, wherein, for a given one of the computed intervals, one or more particular input elements contained within the given computed interval are determined to have contributed to a particular output element; and using the computed one or more intervals to determine a dependency function that enables a provenance of the particular output element to be determined in terms of the one or more particular input elements. |
20050131676 | 10733995 | 0 | 1. A method of evaluating the quality of voice input recognition by a voice portal, said method comprising the steps of: extracting a current grammar from the voice portal; generating a test input for the current grammar, the test input including a test pattern and a set of active grammars for the current grammar; providing the test input to the voice portal; analyzing the test pattern with respect to the set of active grammars with a speech recognition engine in the voice portal; and deriving a measure of quality of recognition for the current grammar. |
20130185093 | 13785729 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method of dynamically producing a diagnostic test procedure sequence to diagnose a disease or disorder of a patient, comprising: selecting a first plurality of diagnostic test procedures related to a symptom exhibited by the patient; arranging an order of the first plurality of diagnostic test procedures based on a probabilistic disease or disorder analysis and time required to perform each of the first plurality of diagnostic test procedures; formatting a step of a first diagnostic test procedure from among the first plurality of diagnostic test procedures for display on a display device; displaying the formatted step on the display device; arranging an order of a second plurality of diagnostic test procedures, which includes one diagnostic test procedure of the first plurality of diagnostic test procedures, during execution of the first plurality of diagnostic test procedures, and based on intermediate diagnostic test information obtained from execution of the first diagnostic test procedure; and displaying a step of a second diagnostic test procedure from among the second plurality of diagnostic test procedures on the display device, wherein each of the above steps is performed by a computer. |
20020143754 | 10007203 | 0 | 1. In a database system, a method for selective normalization of a query, the method comprising: receiving a query for processing; determining whether normalization of said query is advantageous; if normalization of said query is determined to be advantageous, normalizing said query; and otherwise, if normalization of said query is determined not to be advantageous, identifying prime implicates in said query and concatenating said prime implicates with said query to create a revised expression. |
8639641 | 13176552 | 1 | 1. An information processing device comprising: a processor; and a storage medium coupled to the processor and storing a program that, when executed by the processor, causes the device to implement: an input section configured to input a plurality of symbol strings and attribute information desired to be extracted from each symbol string; a feature quantity function generation section configured to randomly select a plurality of functions from a predetermined function group including a function for converting a symbol string into a numerical value, and generate a plurality of feature quantity functions for outputting a feature quantity from the symbol string by combining the plurality of functions; a feature quantity calculation section configured to input each symbol string input by the input section to each feature quantity function generated by the feature quantity function generation section and to calculate a feature quantity corresponding to each symbol string; an estimation function generation section configured to execute machine learning using the attribute information corresponding to each symbol string input by the input section and the feature quantity corresponding to each symbol string calculated by the feature quantity calculation section, and generate an estimation function for estimating the attribute information from the feature quantity; and an output section configured to output the feature quantity functions generated by the feature quantity function generation section and the estimation function generated by the estimation function generation section. |
20150288745 | 14248183 | 0 | 1. A system comprising: a notification server including: at least one processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to perform: receiving a notification from at least one of a plurality of notification nodes, the notification being associated with a target user; acquiring information related to the target user; acquiring information related to the plurality of notification nodes; ranking the plurality of notification nodes based on at least one of the information related to the target user or the information related to the plurality of notification nodes; selecting one or more notification nodes that satisfy one or more specified ranking criteria; formatting the notification based on at least one of the information related to the target user or information related to the one or more selected notification nodes; and transmitting the formatted notification to the one or more selected notification nodes. |
8666970 | 13010136 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a particular query plan comprising a plurality of query operations, the query plan selected by a user for evaluation; accessing, by one or more computers, one or more rules that identify query operations that degrade performance of a query plan or that render a query plan inoperable, wherein each of the one or more rules that identify query operations that degrade the performance of a query plan are associated with a single warning rating, and each of the one or more rules that identify query operations that render a query plan inoperable are associated with a single failing rating; evaluating, by the one or more computers, each of the plurality of query operations against the one or more rules; automatically identifying, by the one or more computers based on the evaluation of each of the plurality of query operations against the one or more rules, one or more query operations included in the particular query plan that violate one or more of the rules; determining, for each of the one or more identified query operations that violate one or more of the rules, whether the rule violated by an identified query operation indicates that the identified query operation degrades performance of the particular query plan, or that the identified query operation renders the particular query plan inoperable; assigning, for each of the one or more identified query operations that violate one or more of the rules, the rating associated with the rule violated by an identified query operation, wherein the assigned rating is (i) the single warning rating if the violated rule indicates that the identified query operation degrades performance of the particular query plan, or (ii) the single failure rating if the violated rule indicates that the identified query operation renders the particular query plan inoperable; assigning an overall rating to the particular query plan based on the rating assigned to each of the one or more identified query operations, the overall rating being one of the single warning rating or the single failing rating; generating a report that references: (i) the one or more identified query operations that violate one or more of the rules, (ii) the assigned rating for each of the identified one or more query operations that violate one or more of the rules, and (iii) the assigned overall rating for the particular query plan; and providing the report for output to the user; wherein the report further comprises: a reason for the rating assigned to each of the one or more identified query operations that violate one or more of the rules, wherein the reason includes the respective violated rule; and a hyperlink to a tip for each rating, the tip providing further information regarding the rating, the reason for the rating, and a recommendation for improving the respective identified query operation; and wherein the method further comprises: receiving a modified particular query plan that the user has selected for evaluation, wherein one or more of the identified query operations are modified based on the rating for the respective query operation, the reason for the rating for the respective query operation, and the recommendation for improving the respective query operation. |
20150258683 | 14209826 | 0 | 1. A learning controller apparatus for operating a robotic body, the learning controller apparatus comprising: a processor configured to operate an adaptive learning process in order to execute a task, the adaptive learning process characterized by a plurality of trials; an interface configured to provide at least one actuation output to the robotic body, the at least one actuation output comprising a first and a second portion configured to effectuate movement of a first and a second controllable element of the robotic body, respectively; and a first actuator and a second actuator each in operable communication with the processor, the first and the second actuators configured to provide the first and the second portions of the at least one actuation output, respectively; wherein: the adaptive learning process is configured to determine, during a trial of the plurality of trials, the at least one actuation output, the at least one actuation output having a first trajectory associated therewith; and the learning process is further configured to determine, during a subsequent trial of the plurality of trials, another actuation output having a second trajectory associated therewith, the second trajectory being closer to a target trajectory of the task than the first trajectory. |
20130247072 | 13863163 | 0 | 1. A method of operating in one of at least a first bandwidth allocation mode and a second bandwidth allocation mode, the method comprising: while operating in the second bandwidth allocation mode, detecting a first event associated with the first bandwidth allocation mode, and comparing a priority of the first bandwidth allocation mode with a priority of the second bandwidth allocation mode; and based on comparing the priority of the first bandwidth allocation mode with the priority of the second bandwidth allocation mode, either (i) continue operating in the second bandwidth allocation mode or (ii) switching to the first bandwidth allocation mode. |
20080144944 | 12039427 | 0 | 1. A method for obtaining information about an occupying item in a space in a vehicle, comprising: obtaining images of an area above a seat in the vehicle in which the occupying item is situated; and classifying the occupying item by inputting signals derived from the images into a trained neural network form which is trained to output an indication of the class of occupying item from one of a predetermined number of possible classes. |
8166347 | 11362304 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method comprising: providing, in connection with the testing of one or more applications, a function library comprising a plurality of functions and at least one tracking mechanism, each function associated with a user-activatable control element of a graphical user interface and corresponding to a single user action of the control element, each function further being independent of any process logic of the graphical user interface such that the function is used independently of any related graphical user interface objects, the graphical user interface forming part of a dynamic application in which a corresponding user interface is dynamically created depending on user interaction with the graphical user interface; assembling a test case of a plurality of test cases that comprises two or more functions from the plurality of functions in a desired order with requisite parameter values; and executing, independent of operation of the dynamic application, one or more user actions corresponding to the two or more functions of the test case, each function configured for use independently of a related user interface object within the graphical user interface, the execution of the one or more user actions being tracked by using the at least one tracking mechanism. |
8650513 | 13174531 | 1 | 1. A method for reducing X-pessimism, the method comprising: identifying a set of reconvergent inputs of a combinational block in a gate-level design; and in response to determining that the combinational block is expected to exhibit X-pessimism during gate-level simulation, adding, by computer, a correcting block to the gate-level design, wherein an output of the combinational block or the correcting block is selected based on the values of the set of reconvergent inputs. |
9331973 | 14701314 | 1 | 1. A computer-system-implemented method for aggregating topic content, the method comprising: providing a user-interface for an online social network website to one or more user computers for installation on the one or more user computers; receiving, at a transmission server for the provider of the online social-network website, one or more skills of users in the social network, wherein the one or more skills of each of the users is indicated in the profile of the user, and wherein the transmission server comprises a processor and a memory; receiving, at the transmission server, annotations associated with content in the social network, wherein each annotation associated with content indicates a feedback provided by a user in the social network regarding the content; storing the received one or more skills of a user in association with the profile of the user in a partitioned user profile data section of the memory; storing the received annotations associated with content in a partitioned content annotations data section of the memory; determining, using the processor, a set of topics based on an overlap between the received skills and the received annotations; using the processor, identifying experts knowledgeable about the set of topics among the users in the social network; transmitting, over a data channel, from the transmission server of the provider of the social network to the one or more user computers, one or more messages inviting the experts to aggregate and edit the topic content, wherein given topic content for a given topic in the set of topics includes a subset of the content; receiving over the data channel, at the transmission server from the one or more user computers, responses to the messages from at least a subset of the experts; providing over the data channel, from the transmission server to the one or more user computers associated with the subset of the experts, documents with suggested topic content and presentation formats for the topics in the set of topics; receiving over the data channel, at the transmission server, from the one or more user computers, from the subset of the experts, modifications to the documents; revising the documents based on the modifications; storing the revised documents in the memory associated with the transmission server; and transmitting one or more of the stored documents over the data channel, from the transmission server to a user computer, wherein the user computer is associated with a member of the social network, and wherein the transmitted document is available for display on the user computer using the user-interface for the social network application. |
20050086538 | 10972436 | 0 | 1. An unauthorized-access detecting apparatus that detects unauthorized access to a server that provides a service via a network, comprising: a storing unit that stores a series of process requests as an unauthorized-access event string, the process requests made by an unauthorized user via an unauthorized client; and a judging unit that compares a new process request with the unauthorized-access event string stored in the storing unit, and judges whether the new process request is the unauthorized access based on a result of comparison. |
9564140 | 14680360 | 1 | 1. A method for encoding an audio signal represented by a plurality of frames including a first frame, the method comprising: using at least one computer hardware processor to perform: obtaining an initial discrete spectral representation of the first frame; obtaining a primary discrete spectral representation of the initial discrete spectral representation at least in part by estimating a phase envelope of the initial discrete spectral representation and evaluating the estimated phase envelope at a discrete set of frequencies; calculating a residual discrete spectral representation of the initial discrete spectral representation based on the initial discrete spectral representation and the primary discrete spectral representation; encoding the residual discrete spectral representation using a plurality of codewords to obtain an encoded residual discrete spectral representation; and outputting parameters representing the primary discrete spectral representation and the encoded residual discrete spectral representation. |
20030063018 | 09866150 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: identifying in parallel one or more stuffed bits in a decoded data field of a received data stream using a six-bit sliding window; separating in parallel the one or more stuffed bits from a plurality of valid data bits in the decoded data field; and writing the plurality of valid data bits from the decoded data field into a variable sized bit-wise memory structure. |
7739739 | 12170079 | 1 | 1. A networked system, comprising: a database used to evaluate data for the presence of a virus; a plurality of tiered servers at a network level in communication with a network client, the plurality of tiered servers including first and second tiered servers, wherein the second tiered server is disposed in a higher level tier than the first tiered server; first program code resident in the first tiered server and configured to receive a metafile associated with data received by a network client, evaluate the metafile for a potential viral presence by correlating the metafile to fields within the database, and route at least a portion of the metafile from the first tiered server to the second tiered server; second program code disposed in the second tiered server and configured to further evaluate the metafile by correlating the portion of the metafile to at least one additional field within the database, wherein at least one of the first and second program code is configured to assign to the data a risk level from among a plurality of risk levels stored within the database, wherein the assigned risk level is indicative of the potential viral presence. |
20150106308 | 14053811 | 0 | 1. A distributed machine learning system, comprising: a plurality of distributed learning environments in communication over a network, wherein each environment comprises: a computing device having a memory and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor adapted to implement a learning environment via one or more agents in a rules-based system, wherein the agents learn to perform tasks in their respective learning environment; a storage in which knowledge comprising a plurality of rule sets developed by the agents for performing the tasks are stored, wherein the knowledge is tagged to facilitate identification, storage and retrieval; and an interface for sharing the tagged knowledge with other agents throughout the plurality of distributed learning environments. |
20040107210 | 10307190 | 0 | 1. A method for retrieving medical images from at least one imaging archive and creating at least one teaching file; the method including the steps of: (a) retrieving at least one medical image from the at least one image archive; (b) storing the at least one medical image in a database; (c) generating a database record for the at least one teaching file; (d) generating the teaching file; (e) saving the teaching file into the database; and (f) generating at least one index of the teaching files. |
20120143012 | 12957546 | 0 | 1. A method for providing a physiological event marker, the method comprising: receiving a physiological signal; monitoring using electronic processing equipment at least one value derived from the physiological signal, wherein the at least one value comprises a combination of pulse rate, pulse wave area, pulse statistical moment, and/or DC offset; determining using the electronic processing equipment that a physiological event has occurred based at least in part on the at least one value and based at least in part on at least one corresponding threshold; and storing the physiological event marker indicative of when the physiological event occurred. |
20120069935 | 13236410 | 0 | 1. A method for decoding a signal vector in a multiple-input multiple-output transmission scheme, comprising: receiving multiple signal vectors corresponding to a common transmit signal vector, wherein each of the received signal vectors is associated with a channel response matrix; combining the multiple received signal vectors into a combined received signal vector; combining the channel response matrices into a combined channel response matrix; and decoding the combined received signal vector based on the combined channel response matrix. |
8650240 | 12542324 | 1 | 1. A method, in a data processing system comprising a processor, for performing a complex matrix multiplication operation, comprising: performing, by the processor, a vector load operation to load a first vector operand of the complex matrix multiplication operation to a first target vector register of the data processing system, the first vector operand comprising a real part of a first complex vector value and an imaginary part of the first complex vector value; performing, by the processor, a complex load and splat operation to load a second complex vector value of a second vector operand and replicate the second complex vector value within a second target vector register of the data processing system, wherein the second complex vector value has a real part and an imaginary part; performing, by the processor, a complex cross multiply add operation on elements of the first target vector register and elements of the second target vector register to generate a partial product of the complex matrix multiplication operation; and accumulating, by the processor, the partial product of the complex matrix multiplication operation with other partial products of the complex matrix multiplication operation and storing a resulting accumulated partial product in a result vector register. |
20040064397 | 10256598 | 0 | 1. A system for performing trading of non-exchange traded financial instruments comprising: an electronic spreadsheet application, the electronic spreadsheet application containing at least one sheet, the sheet containing an identification of at least one non-exchange traded financial instrument; a Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) interface coupled to the electronic spread sheet application, the electronic spread sheet application transmitting a subscription request to the DDE interface with respect to the financial instrument; a financial instrument server coupled to the DDE interface; and a trading engine coupled to the financial instrument server, wherein real time data related to the financial instrument is provided to the electronic spreadsheet through the financial instrument server and the DDE interface. |
20140172886 | 14098124 | 0 | 1. A system for integrating a message-based system with a database-based system, comprising: a computer including a microprocessor; a data parsing component, which includes a plurality of parsers, wherein each of the plurality of parsers is configured to parse messages received from a message-based system having a particular message format, and a properties file which indicates properties and data definitions that define how the system is to parse messages from a source format of a source system, to a target format of a target system; wherein the data parsing component operates to read a message from a messaging topic at the source system, present values read from a header of the message to the properties file, select, using the properties file, a parser from the plurality of parsers to parse the message, parse, using the selected parser and the properties file, the message to determine transaction boundaries and operation types, and apply the parsed data as database operations at a database at the target system. |
20090225345 | 12397674 | 0 | 1. An image processing apparatus for outputting a document including a data group containing a plurality of data items, comprising: a storing part configured to store document definition data in which document kind data are defined in correspondence with output pattern data, the output pattern data including output method data and output condition data; a structured data fabricating part configured to fabricate structured data including the data group according to the document kind data; an image data fabricating part configured to fabricate image data of the document according to the structured data; an identifying part configured to identify target document definition data among the document definition data that correspond to designated document kind data; and an outputting part configured to output the image data according to the output pattern data corresponding to the document kind data defined in the target document definition data. |
20120324321 | 13523242 | 0 | 1. A co-hosted cyclical redundancy check (CRC) calculations device, comprising a read snoop unit that is arranged to snooped data read from a mirrored memory that has data stored using a mirrored address; and a CRC co-generator that is arranged to receive the snooped data read from the mirrored memory and to use the snooped data read from the mirrored memory to calculate a CRC result when the snooped data read from the mirrored memory is read using an address that falls within a range of addresses of the mirrored memory over which the CRC result is calculated. |
20120030685 | 13269893 | 0 | 1. A method of managing provisioning resources in a compute environment, the method comprising: analyzing a queue of jobs at a current time to yield an analysis, the analyzing comprising determining an availability of compute resources within the compute environment for each job in the queue of jobs based on an existing reservation of compute resources established for each job in the queue of jobs at the current time to yield reserved compute resources, the each job to consume the reserved compute resources at a future time, which is later than the current time, according to a first schedule of times; based on the analysis, determining an ability of the compute environment to satisfy a service level agreement associated with each job in the queue of jobs based on a current configuration of the compute environment; determining possible job scheduling changes in the compute environment to improve service levels for at least one job of the each job to be processed in the compute environment; determining a cost of the possible job scheduling changes; and if the possible job scheduling changes improve service levels within the compute environment taking into account the cost, then rescheduling at least one job of the queue of jobs in the compute environment prior to all jobs in the queue of jobs, consuming compute resources in the compute environment and according to a generated second schedule of times. |
20180189112 | 15897707 | 0 | 1. An apparatus comprising a processor and a storage to store instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising: receive, at a portal, and from a first remote device via a network, a first request to provide access via the network to an existing federated area to a second remote device, wherein: the portal is provided on the network to control access to federated areas by remote devices via the network; the existing federated area is maintained within one or more storage devices to store multiple objects; the multiple objects comprise multiple data sets, multiple job flow definitions, multiple task routines, multiple result reports and multiple instance logs; and each task routine of the multiple task routines comprises executable instructions to perform a task specified to be performed by a flow task identifier in a job flow definition of the multiple job flow definitions with a data set of the multiple data sets to generate a result report of the multiple result reports; examine a security credential associated with the first remote device to determine whether the first request is authorized; and in response to a determination by the processor that the first request is authorized, the processor is caused to perform operations comprising: allocate storage space within the one or more storage devices for a new private federated area, wherein the processor is caused to make a first object that is to be stored by the second remote device in the new private federated area accessible to the second remote device, and is caused to deny access to the first object to other remote devices, including the first remote device; maintain an inheritance relationship between the new private federated area and the existing federated area, wherein the processor is caused to make a second object of the multiple objects stored in the existing federated area as accessible to the second remote device as the first object stored in the new private federated area; and maintain a priority relationship between the new private federated area and the existing federated area as an exception to the inheritance relationship between the new private federated area and the existing federated area, wherein the processor is caused to: determine whether the first object is a task routine comprising executable instructions; determine whether the second object is a task routine comprising executable instructions; determine whether the first object and the second object share a first flow task identifier that indicates that the first object and the second object perform a first task when the instructions of the first object are executed and when the instructions of the second object are executed; and in response to determinations by the processor that the first object is a task routine, the second object is a task routine, and the first object and the second object share the first flow task identifier, the processor is caused to make the first object stored in the new private federated area accessible to the second remote device, and to prevent access by the second remote device to the second object stored in the existing federated area. |
8619022 | 12568111 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method for updating a task-management system by manipulating physical objects, the method comprising: receiving a notification at a computer system indicating that a physical icon (phycon) has been moved to a first physical location, wherein the phycon is a physical object that is associated with at least one of an element and an attribute of a task-management system, and wherein the notification comprises data for the first physical location and an image of the phycon; identifying, by using the image, an element of the task-management system that is associated with the phycon; identifying, by using the data for the first physical location, an attribute of the task-management system that is associated with the first physical location; and applying the attribute to the element in the task-management system. |
20080095100 | 11805113 | 0 | 1. A synchronous spectrum sharing system for use in a wireless communication system having a primary user node and a secondary user node, the system comprising: a frame detector configured to detect a frame of a broadcast waveform and to extract idle spectrum information associated with a dedicated network subchannel of the frame to the secondary user node. |
20140201571 | 13739831 | 0 | 1. A system for condition monitoring and fault diagnosis of a machine comprising: a control system operably coupled to the machine having a hierarchical arrangement of controllers, each comprising a processor and a memory, the hierarchical arrangement of controllers configured to implement: a data collection function that acquires time histories of selected variables for one or more machine components according to specified sampling parameters; a preprocessing function that calculates specified characteristics of each of the time histories individually; an analysis function for evaluating the specified characteristics of each of the individual time histories to produce one or more hypotheses of a condition of the one or more machine components; and a reasoning function for determining the condition of the one or more machine components from the one or more hypotheses, wherein at least one of the functions resides in a higher level of the hierarchical arrangement of controllers such that condition monitoring and fault diagnosis data are used at a level where intelligence to process the data is present. |
20100169066 | 12346017 | 0 | 1. A method of simulating an information technology (IT) system to produce parametric data, the method comprising: translating specifications of the IT system from a first modeling language to a second modeling language; incorporating component constraints into the translated specifications; simulating operation of the IT system based on the translated specifications and the component constraints; and generating a report of parametric data based on the simulation. |
20090164589 | 12004702 | 0 | 1. A computer implemented method of online networking based on exchange of virtual electronic cards between a plurality of users, comprising the steps of: providing an online networking environment; creating a personal profile by a user for creation of a virtual electronic card in said online networking environment; creating a company profile of a company by said user for creation of said virtual electronic card, wherein the user is an employee of said company; creating automatically the virtual electronic card, wherein the virtual electronic card is at least one of a personal electronic card and a company electronic card; establishing a personal contact network of the user in the online networking environment by exchanging personal electronic cards between the user and said plurality of users; and establishing a company contact network of the company of the user by exchanging company electronic cards between the company of the user and a plurality of companies; whereby said exchange of said virtual electronic cards enables said online networking between the plurality of users and said plurality of companies. |
20090271176 | 12108751 | 0 | 1. A method for multilingual administration of enterprise data, the method comprising: retrieving enterprise data; extracting text from the enterprise data for rendering from a digital media file, the extracted text being in a source language; identifying that the source language is not a predetermined default target language for rendering the enterprise data; translating the extracted text in the source language to translated text in the default target language; converting the translated text to synthesized speech in the default target language; and recording the synthesized speech in the default target language in a digital media file. |
8576622 | 13221162 | 1 | 1. A method for reading memory cells in an array of non-volatile memory cells, the method comprising: reading data from a memory cell using a set of hard decision voltages and at least a first set of soft decision voltages based on a single read command. |
10089382 | 14887096 | 1 | 1. A method for transforming a knowledge base into a machine readable format, comprising: clustering, by a processor of a knowledge base processing server, two or more documents of a plurality of documents in the knowledge base that are similar based upon a domain specific shingling function; identifying, by the processor, a pattern from each document of the plurality of documents that are clustered, wherein the pattern comprises a sequence of steps; aggregating, by the processor, the pattern of the each document of the plurality of documents that are clustered into a trie data-structure that is machine readable; receiving, by the processor, a request; and applying, by the processor, the trie data-structure to provide a solution to the request. |
20140310688 | 13860564 | 0 | 1. A method of using stack data and source code to rank program changes, the method comprising: a computer accessing a stack data of a program; the computer accessing a source code of the program; the computer searching for a first change made to the program, wherein the first change is one of a change to a method of the program, a change to a class of the program, a change to a method that is invoked by the program, or a change to a class containing a method that is invoked by the program; the computer identifying the first change that was made to the program; the computer determining a probability that the identified first change caused one or both of an error and a regression; the computer generating a ranked list of identified changes based, at least in part, on the probability that the identified first change caused one or both of an error and a regression. |
7617176 | 10889841 | 1 | 1. A computer implemented system that facilitates clustering of search results, comprising: a memory having stored therein computer-executable instructions configured to implement the clustering system, including: an input component that receives search results, wherein the search results are a ranked list of titles and snippets associated with documents; an analysis component that: utilizes a frequent itemset algorithm to extract keywords from the search results and identifies frequently occurring words as keywords, with keywords occurring in titles being weighted more heavily than keywords occurring in snippets, calculates properties for each keyword, wherein the properties include phrase frequency and inverted document frequency, phrase length, intra-cluster similarity, cluster entropy and phrase independence, applies a regression model learned from training data that is collected in advance to combine the properties into a salience score for each of the keywords, ranks the keywords in descending order according to their associated salience scores and selects the highest ranked keywords as salient keywords; and a clustering component that: generates one or more candidate clusters of the search results according to the saliency score, wherein the salient keywords are selected as names of the candidate clusters, the names of the candidate clusters being phrases when the salient keywords are merged with other salient keywords, merges the candidate clusters into one or more final clusters, merges a first cluster and a second cluster into a third cluster, when overlap of the first and second clusters exceeds a predetermined threshold, adjusts cluster names of the one or more final clusters to generate a new cluster name for the third cluster, and outputs the search results as a ranked list of associated documents. |
20090009821 | 12127145 | 0 | 1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a plurality of processing parts configured to execute different processes with respect to image data; and an executing sequence determination part configured to determine an executing sequence of the processing parts based on conditions related to a requested image processing; wherein the processing parts execute the processes according to the executing sequence. |
10007700 | 14753590 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a query comprising an extended group-by clause, the extended group-by clause comprising an extended group-by operator and a first set of group-by columns; wherein the query comprises one or more distinct aggregate functions and one or more non-distinct aggregate functions; constructing an initial subquery that generates a partially aggregated initial temporary (PAIT) table when executed, wherein the initial subquery comprises a GROUP BY clause that includes a second set of group-by columns comprising the first set of group-by columns of the extended group-by clause of the query and one or more columns specified by the one or more distinct aggregate functions; constructing one or more subqueries that compute groupings indicated by the extended group-by operator based on the PAIT table generated by the initial subquery; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices. |
20030154262 | 10329069 | 0 | 1. A sensor network comprising a plurality of nodes, wherein the plurality of nodes are coupled to communicate with at least one remote system via at least one coupling with components of a wide area network, wherein the nodes automatically organize to form the sensor network in response to information communicated among the nodes, wherein the automatic organizing comprises automatically controlling data transfer, processing, and storage within the sensor network, wherein functions of the nodes are remotely controllable and programmable via internetworking among the nodes, wherein at least one of the nodes includes an articulating sensor. |
20060149803 | 10985674 | 0 | 1. A multipurpose functional unit for a processor, the functional unit comprising: an input section configured to receive first, second, and third operands and an opcode designating one of a plurality of supported operations to be performed and further configured to generate a plurality of control signals in response to the opcode; a multiplication pipeline coupled to the input section and configurable, in response to the control signals, to compute a product of the first and second operands and to select the computed product as a first intermediate result; an addition pipeline coupled to the multiplication section and the test pipeline and configurable, in response to the control signals, to compute a sum of the first and second intermediate results and to select the computed sum as an operation result; an exponent pipeline coupled to the input section and configurable, in response to the control signals, to perform an exponent computation on one or more of the first, second, and third operands and to select a result of the exponent computation as an exponent result; and an output section coupled to receive the operation result and the exponent result and configurable, in response to the control signals, to generate a final result for the one of the supported operations designated by the opcode, wherein the plurality of supported operations includes a multiply-add (MAD) operation that operates on the first, second and third operands and a format conversion operation that converts the first operand from an input format to a target format. |
20150049944 | 13966691 | 0 | 1. A method comprising: accessing a hierarchical spatial index comprising a plurality of leaf nodes and a plurality of non-leaf nodes, each leaf node of the plurality of leaf nodes representing a bounding region containing a spatial object stored in a spatial database, each non-leaf node of the plurality of non-leaf nodes representing a bounding region at least partially containing one or more spatial objects associated with one or more leaf nodes, wherein any child node descending from any of the plurality of non-leaf nodes is at least partially contained within the bounding region of its ancestor non-leaf nodes; determining a plurality of selected nodes selected from the plurality of non-leaf nodes; for each particular node in the plurality of selected nodes, determining a weight, the weight being based on a number of spatial objects contained within the bounding region of the particular node; determining a spatial partitioning comprising a plurality of partitions containing the plurality of selected nodes; generating a spatial histogram based on the spatial partitioning and the weights of the plurality of selected nodes; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices. |
20080271037 | 11741134 | 0 | 1. A computer implemented method for balancing management loads, the computer implemented method comprising: responsive to receiving a notification from a hardware control point indicating that a new manageable data processing system has been discovered, analyzing loads for a plurality of hardware control points to form an analysis; selecting one of the plurality of hardware control points using the analysis to form a selected hardware control point; and sending a message to the selected hardware control point to manage the new manageable data processing system, wherein the selected hardware control point manages the new manageable data processing system. |
20060218169 | 11088256 | 0 | 1. A method of ordering data in a decision tree, the method comprising the steps of: a. identifying training data; b. identifying a set-of attributes, the set of attributes comprising: a target attribute; and allowable predictor attributes; c. characterizing the set of attributes; d. specifying constraints on the decision tree in terms of the characterized set of attributes; e. determining which of the allowable predictor attributes can be used in nodes of the decision tree for splitting at a region of the decision tree; f. determining the best splitter from the allowable predictor attributes that can be used in a specific node of the decision tree for splitting at the region; g. splitting any of the nodes at the region if the any of the nodes are splittable; h. incrementing the region of the decision tree by 1; and i. repeating steps e through h until there are no splittable nodes remaining. |
9703868 | 14311721 | 1 | 1. One or more computer-readable storage media storing computer-useable instructions that, when used by one or more computing devices, cause the one or more computing devices to perform a method for reconciling query results, the method comprising: at a computing device, receiving a search query comprising a word having a first spelling; comparing the first spelling to content stored locally on the computing device and, based on the comparison, generating a first alternate spelling suggestion; providing the first alternate spelling suggestion as an alternate search query against the content stored locally on the computing device and, based on the alternate search query and the content stored locally on the computing device, determining a first query result; receiving a second query result that is based on web-based content and on a spell-check tool associated with the web-based content; assigning confidence values to each of the first query result and the second query result, the confidence values representing a likelihood that the respective query result is reflective of an intent of the received search query, wherein the confidence values are assigned based on a search pattern associated with a user of the computing device; determining one of the first query result or the second query result is a more responsive query result for the search query; and providing for display a descriptor for the more responsive query result and an indication of whether the more responsive query result is associated with the content stored locally on the computing device or with the web-based content. |
20110118950 | 12973385 | 0 | 1. A method of measuring the health of an engine comprising h number of parameters, said method comprising: estimating unmeasurable (auxiliary) outputs of an engine; measuring engine parameters in a number less than said h number of parameters and estimating the impact of health deterioration on outputs of said engine. |
20040051718 | 10381997 | 0 | 1. An authoring system for assigning a geo-spatial position to sensory-effect data, said authoring system comprising an author interface for displaying a representation of a real geo-space, sourcing means for sourcing sensory-effect data and assigning means for enabling an author to assign said sensory effect data to a location within the representation corresponding to a real location within the geo-space at which delivery of the sensory-effect data is to be effected. |
10057136 | 15222654 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: receiving a request for visualized network operation and maintenance; generating a workflow for visualized network operation and maintenance according to the request for visualized network operation and maintenance, and creating a network modeling input; and performing, according to the workflow for visualized network operation and maintenance, the network modeling input, and original information of network modeling, analog simulation on a network determined by the network modeling input. |
20140222835 | 14251114 | 0 | 1. A method comprising, by one or more computing devices: receiving from a first user of an online social network an unstructured text query, the online social network being associated with a social graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes; parsing the text query to identify one or more n-grams; determining a score for each n-gram that the n-gram corresponds to an edge or a node; identifying one or more edges and one or more nodes based on their scores, each identified node and identified edge corresponding to at least one of the n-grams, each of the identified nodes being connected to at least one of the identified edges; and generating one or more structured queries that each comprise references to one or more of the identified edges and one or more of the identified nodes. |
9954972 | 15214583 | 1 | 1. An industrial controller, comprising: a memory that stores executable components; a processor, operatively coupled to the memory, that executes the executable components, the executable components comprising: a transformation component configured to modify raw data generated by an industrial control program executed by the industrial controller in accordance with at least one requirement of an industrial analytics application executing on a cloud platform to yield transformed data; a customer profile component configured to append customer-specific information to the transformed data to yield profiled data, wherein the customer-specific information comprises at least a customer identifier of an industrial enterprise associated with the industrial controller, device data identifying the industrial controller, and industry data identifying a type of industry that is a focus of the industrial enterprise; and a cloud gateway component configured to send the profiled data to the industrial analytics application, wherein the industrial analytics application performs a collective analysis on the transformed data in view of other data stored on the cloud platform, and the other data is selected by the industrial analytics application as a subset of stored data corresponding to the type of industry identified by the industry data. |
20140146893 | 14167515 | 0 | 1. An apparatus for predicting reference data transfer scheme for motion estimation, comprising: means for computing hypothetical rectangle region in reference frame containing all the predicting and reference data for doing motion estimation search around the region; means for utilizing overlap with previously fetched reference data, means for computing overlap with previously fetched reference data, and means for transferring needed data, wherein said means are utilized at least if the macroblock is not the first in a row; means for invalidating any predictor, wherein the predictor is not part of the fetched data; and means for regulating the motion estimation and setting the motion vector to an effective value based on the fetched and computed data. |
9755143 | 14455817 | 1 | 1. A switching device, comprising: a structure comprising a switching material, the structure overlies a first wiring structure and has a top region and a side region, the top region comprises a surface of the switching material; a dielectric layer that defines an opening and overlies the structure, the dielectric layer comprises a first dielectric material; a spacer structure disposed within the opening and in contact with a surface of the dielectric layer and a first portion of the surface of the switching material, the spacer structure defines a second opening and comprises a second dielectric material, the second opening exposes a second portion of the surface of the switching material, the first portion having larger surface area than the second portion; a conductive material that overlies the spacer structure and covers a portion of the second opening, the conductive material is in contact with the second portion of the surface of the switching material; and a second wiring structure that overlies the conductive material. |
20040243790 | 10449442 | 0 | 1. A data processor comprising: a set of special-purpose registers; a set of general-purpose registers; an execution unit for executing a superword transfer instruction for transferring data between memory and said set of special-purpose registers and said set of word-sized general-purpose registers so that some of the data transferred is located in one of said general-purpose registers and some other data transferred is located in said set of special purpose registers, said instruction specifying said general-purpose register explicitly and said set of special-purpose registers. |
9245109 | 13767294 | 1 | 1. A method of detecting a tampered application in an apparatus including a communication unit and a hardware controller, the method comprising: downloading, by the communication unit, an original package of an application, wherein the original package of the downloaded application is a package archive file comprising an execution code to be executed by at least one of a processor or a virtual machine; extracting and installing, by the hardware controller, the execution code from the downloaded original package of the application; re-extracting, by the hardware controller, the execution code from the original package of the application when an execution command of the application is received after the extracted execution code is installed; and comparing, by the hardware controller, the installed execution code with the re-extracted execution code for determining whether or not the installed execution code is tampered. |
8195655 | 11758024 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented search system, comprising: an extraction component configured to extract named entities from documents having corresponding document identifiers; an indexing component configured to create and store: a document index that indexes the named entities by the document identifiers to indicate whether the named entities occur in the documents; and an inverted index that indexes the document identifiers by word identifiers of words that occur in the documents, wherein the document index and the inverted index are at least partly created in advance of receiving a keyword query from a user; a document-based search component configured to: receive the keyword query from the user, the keyword query comprising keywords; and provide the keywords to the inverted index to identify individual document identifiers corresponding to individual matching documents that match one or more of the keywords of the keyword query; a retrieval component configured to: retrieve direct matching document entities that directly match at least one of the keywords of the keyword query; and provide the individual document identifiers to the document index and retrieve co-occurring related named entities from the document index, wherein the co-occurring related named entities do not directly match the keywords of the keyword query but occur in the individual matching documents with the direct matching document entities; and a scoring component configured to: compute aggregate relevance scores for the co-occurring related named entities that occur in the individual matching documents; and return one or more of the co-occurring related named entities in response to the keyword query based on the aggregate relevance scores; and at least one processing unit configured to execute one or more of the extraction component, the indexing component, the document-based search component, the retrieval component, or the scoring component. |
20020152246 | 09859341 | 0 | 1. A method to predict the reading of Japanese ideographs of Japanese words and/or sentences comprising the steps of: creating underlying readings for a data store having Japanese words with Japanese ideographs, said underlying readings created employing data comprising any of base kanji readings and quasi-phonological rules; generating a decision tree, said decision tree setting forth steps for predicting readings of said Japanese ideographs; and processing said Japanese words and/or sentences to provide readings of said Japanese ideographs of said Japanese words and/or sentences. |
20080010631 | 11859264 | 0 | 1. A computer program product for installation and execution on a computer system to thereby operate the computer system as an intelligent node in a distributed network, said computer program product comprising: a run-time environment for dynamically instantiating and executing software agents native to the run-time environment, in accordance with user-configured software agent definitions, wherein the software agents executing within the run-time environment define the distributed network behavior of the intelligent node and define the rules for advertising and sharing that distributed network behavior within the distributed network; an application control module for controlling specified third-party applications installed on the computer system, and for enabling the software agents executing within the run-time environment to interact with the specified third-party applications; and a communication engine for pulling or otherwise receiving user-configured software agent definitions into the intelligent node from elsewhere in the distributed network, for dynamic instantiation and execution within the run-time environment. |
8713029 | 11935216 | 1 | 1. A method for displaying geographic address element candidates at a user device, comprising: receiving a textual input from a user via an application; retrieving a profile metadata based on the textual input, wherein the profile metadata is generated based on data that is independent from the user, the profile metadata includes a total number of geographic street candidates in a first category and a total number of geographic street element candidates in a second category associated with the textual input, the geographic street element candidates are street attributes other than street candidates, and each of the total number is a positive integer greater than one; and generating a script based on the profile metadata for transmission of the script to the application, wherein the script is generated using the total number of the geographic street candidates in the first category when the total number of the geographic street candidates is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold that is a positive integer, and the script is generated using the geographic street element candidates in the second category when the total number of the geographic street candidates in the first category is more than the predetermined threshold, and the script executes auto-completion of information corresponding to the textual input using at least one of the geographic street element candidates in the second category to display the geographic address element candidates at the user device, wherein the textual input specifies geographic addressing information other than a geographic address element corresponding to the geographic address element candidates, and the script executes the auto-completion by displaying the geographic address element candidates prior to the user inputs any portion of the geographic address element. |
20150254284 | 14711406 | 0 | 1. A server comprising: a storage medium to store a plurality of images; and a processing circuit configured to execute instructions to receive at least one rectified image having at least one potential object of interest from a computing device for a visual search and to extract descriptors representing features of the at least one rectified image, wherein the extracted descriptors of the at least one rectified image are designed to be invariant to rotation, scale, and lighting without needing to be invariant to perspective or affine distortion. |
20120284249 | 13550657 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method of providing ordered search results within a search engine comprising: retrieving items from a network satisfying search criteria provided by a user; determining computer-related activities performed by the user, wherein the computer-related activities comprise social networking activities; ranking the retrieved items based on the computer-related activities, wherein the ranking of the retrieved items is dependent upon whether any retrieved item has been referenced by the social networking activities of the user; and providing the search results including the retrieved items in order of the ranking. |
7844929 | 12117381 | 1 | 1. A method of optimizing test code generation, comprising the steps of: (A) reading from a database to an apparatus (i) a plurality of assertions of a design under test, (ii) a model of said design under test and (iii) a target test coverage of said design under test; (B) generating in parallel (i) a plurality of first test vectors to test said assertions and (ii) a plurality of second test vectors to test said model; (C) identifying one or more redundant test vector sets between said first test vectors and said second test vectors; and (D) generating said test code to test said design under test, wherein (i) said test code comprises a subset of a sum of said first test vectors and said second test vectors and (ii) said subset excludes duplicate instances of said redundant test vector sets. |
9619237 | 15244741 | 1 | 1. A computer implemented method for branch handling for transaction abort, the method comprising: detecting a beginning of a current execution of a transaction, the transaction being one of a plurality of transactions in a lock elision transaction system; based on detecting the beginning of the transaction: disabling speculative execution based on branch prediction of an initial branch instruction of the transaction, determining whether the transaction is an out-of-line transaction or an in-line transaction, wherein the initial branch instruction branches to two paths, wherein the initial branch instruction comprises a mask branch instruction that is evaluated based on a condition code of the transaction, the condition code indicates whether the current execution of the transaction is a retry after abort, wherein a first path of the two paths comprises an abort handler, a second path of the two paths comprises a work section of the transaction, and wherein the abort handler sets a lock for the transaction, wherein based on the in-line abort type transaction being determined, the abort handler is executed if the mask branch instruction is not taken, and only speculatively executing the mask branch instruction based on the mask branch instruction being predicted taken to prevent a branch abort instruction from being speculatively executed, wherein based on an out-of-line abort type transaction being determined, the abort handler is executed based on the mask branch instruction being taken, and the branch abort instructions is not speculatively executed; disabling updating of a history table for the initial branch instruction based on the the mask branch instruction not having an entry in the history table; updating the history table for the initial branch instruction based on the mask branch being resolved as taken, and disabling the updating of the history table based on the mask branch instruction having an entry in the history table. |
9608882 | 14034755 | 1 | 1. A computer-implemented method to generate network health snapshots, the method comprising: receiving queries for network event data; counting the frequency for the received queries; generating network health snapshots that include the network event data for the queries that are received at a high frequency, wherein the network health snapshots provide a graphical indication of a change in the number for network events; and providing the network health snapshots for display to a client that issues queries similar to the received high frequency queries. |
20140280327 | 13841575 | 0 | 1. An electronic computer system for the automated annotation of genomic variants, the system comprising: an application server computer system configured to receive one or more variant files from a client computer system different from the application server computer system; an annotation processing computer system different from the application server computer system and the client computer system and configured to receive one or more variant files from the application server computer system; an annotation database accessible by both the application server computer system and the annotation processing computer system; wherein the annotation processing computer system is configured to annotate variants in the variant files received from the application server computer system and store variant annotation results in the annotation database; and wherein the application server computer system is configured to retrieve variant annotation results from the annotation database and deliver retrieved variant annotation results to the client computer system. |
8245212 | 12035602 | 1 | 1. A computing system that creates a frame accurate call tree subset for a thread, comprising: at least one processor; and a storage medium having stored computer-executable instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the computing system to implement the following: receiving an ordered stream of events, including a first event and a second event, determining a number of shared frames between call stacks associated with a first event and a second event by utilizing a break point set at a call site location, the number of shared frames between call stacks associated with the first event and the second event also being determined by comparing a call stack associated with the first event with a call stack associated with the second event based at least in part on a method identifier, the comparing occurring from a bottom up and utilizing a presence of a call site guard to indicate a similarity of frames between the call stacks associated with the first event and the second event, constructing a frame accurate call tree subset for the thread based at least in part on the break points set at the call site locations and information gleaned from an inspection of a call stack associated with the first event and a call stack associated with the second event, the constructing further comprising determining whether a method invocation associated with the first or second event corresponds with a method invocation associated with another event, and outputting the frame accurate call tree subset. |
9911409 | 15216121 | 1 | 1. A speech recognition apparatus comprising: a processor configured: to recognize a user's speech using any one or any combination of any two or more of a pronunciation dictionary comprising primitive words, and a language model comprising primitive words, the primitive words being formed of deconstructed compound words; and to correct word spacing in a result of speech recognition based on a word-spacing model, wherein spaces interposed between primitive words of deconstructed compound words are adaptively removed from the result of speech recognition to reconstitute the compound words. |
20170322725 | 15145560 | 0 | 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: identifying a storage volume comprising a plurality of files; calculating a file level input/output operations per second (IOPS) value for each of a subset of the plurality of files within the storage volume; creating a predictive model for the storage volume, using metadata determined for the subset of the plurality of files and the IOPS values calculated for each of the subset of the plurality of files within the storage volume; estimating file level IOPS values for each of the plurality of files in the storage volume, utilizing the predictive model; combining the estimated and calculated file level IOPS values and comparing the combined values to a calculated volume level IOPS value for the storage volume; conditionally adjusting one or more of the estimated file level IOPS values, based on the comparing; and returning the estimated file level IOPS values. |
20150282730 | 14746440 | 0 | 1. A device comprising: a first band including a first set of electrodes; and a second band including a second set of electrodes, wherein the first band and the second band are to be oriented in a first direction relative to a subject's head to obtain first neuro-response data from the subject, and the first band and the second band are to be oriented in a second direction relative to the subject's head to obtain second neuro-response data from the subject, the second direction substantially orthogonal to the first direction. |
10129607 | 13719414 | 1 | 1. A method for a policy engine running on a computing device to perform an action, the method comprising: receiving, by the policy engine, a policy; executing, by the policy engine, the policy, wherein executing the policy comprises invoking an analytical model and invoking a set of rules, the set of rules distinct from the analytical model, wherein the analytical model is updated by collecting and processing recent innovations affecting changes to the policy without the policy being directly changed; and based, at least in part, on executing the policy, performing, by the policy engine, an action. |
8880500 | 13159133 | 1 | 1. A search system architecture comprising: a search server, wherein the search server comprises a search services module, wherein the search services module is configured to apply one or more business rules to a user input, and the application of the one or more business rules to the user input constructs a search query, and a search engine adapter, wherein the search engine adapter is invoked to select a search engine of a plurality of search engines, and the search engine adapter is configured to execute the search query based on the selected search engine, the search services module and the search engine adapter are communicatively coupled to one another, the search services module is configured to communicate with a user interface on a client device, the user interface is a search center user interface, and the search engine adapter is configured to communicate with the search engine. |
9286191 | 14521586 | 1 | 1. A method for diagnosing an error associated with a software, the method comprising: receiving a stack trace associated with the error; fetching a source code associated with the received stack trace; parsing the fetched source code associated with the received stack trace; generating an abstract syntax tree (AST) based on the parsed fetched source code; inserting at least one logging call into the generated abstract tree; and recompiling the fetched source code based on the generated abstract tree with the at least one inserted logging call. |
20140032758 | 14045005 | 0 | 1. A method for managing applications having at least two execution modes, comprising: receiving, by an electronic mobile device, a managed application from an application server during a first communication, the managed application being constructed to operate in accordance with a first set of one or more policy files; receiving, by the device, the first set of one or more policy files from the application server during a second communication which is different than the first communication, the first set of one or more policy files being stored on the electronic mobile device separately from the managed application; running, by the processor, the managed application on the mobile device in a first execution mode, the managed application operating in accordance with the first set of one or more policy files in the first execution mode; and running, by the processor, the managed application on the mobile device in a second execution mode different from said first execution mode, the managed application operating in accordance with a second set of zero or more policy files in the second execution mode, wherein the second set of policy files is different from the first set policy files. |
20170090753 | 14868373 | 0 | 1. In a data storage device including a controller and a memory, a method for intelligent submission queue command fetching, the method comprising: collecting submission queue command statistics; monitoring resource state of the data storage device; using the submission queue command statistics and the resource state to select a submission queue from which a next data storage device command should be fetched; fetching the command from the selected submission queue; and providing the command to command processing logic. |
9262474 | 12895532 | 1 | 1. In a computer networking environment that includes one or more back-end servers providing services and including a plurality of computing systems each having a processor and a memory, with one or more computer systems requesting services from at least one of the back end servers when connected to the networking environment, a computer-implemented method for retrieving and providing features provided by one or more services offered by one or more of the back end servers, the method comprising acts of: executing a dynamic system model for communicating with one or more back-end servers in a network, the dynamic system model comprising metadata structures that define service features for one or more services provided by one or more of the back-end servers and, for each of the one or more of the back-end servers, define a back-end specific syntax understood by the each back-end server, the back-end specific syntax used to invoke and use the services provided by the each back-end server; connecting the dynamic system model to one or more of the back-end servers in the network at runtime, and dynamically updating the metadata structures at runtime to reflect current service features for one or more services offered by one or more of the back-end servers; receiving at a query expression module user input that is to be translated into a proper query syntax and included as part of a query expression used for retrieving service features for one or more services provided by one or more of the back-end servers; connecting the query expression module to the dynamic system model and dynamically building the query expression based on both the user input and information received from the dynamic system model as to available features provided by one or more of the services of one or more of the back-end servers as indicated at runtime by the dynamic system model; executing the dynamically built query expression by sending it to the dynamic system model where the dynamically built query is translated into the back-end specific syntax to run a query on at least one of the one or more of the back-end servers using the back-end specific syntax to retrieve, invoke, and provide the features of the service which are the subject of the query based on the user input and access data stored on the at least one of the one or more of the back-end servers; and the dynamic system model returning the results of the query to the user. |
9672442 | 14430082 | 1 | 1. Method for detecting differences between two images, wherein the method comprises the steps of: transforming the images by resizing the images in order to get identical image sizes, by aligning pixels of the images and by normalizing colours of the images, determining plural binary masks from the pixels of the transformed images, each binary mask being composed of one element per couple of pixels of the transformed images having same coordinates in the images, determining plural energy functions, each energy function being the sum of a first term which is representative of the transformed images and of one binary mask and of a second term which is only dependent on said one binary mask, minimizing the energy function over other plural energy functions, selecting the binary mask corresponding to the minimized energy function. |
20060217953 | 11422939 | 0 | 1. A method, performed in a character entry system, for interrelating character strings so that an incomplete input character string can be completed by selection of a presented character string, the method comprising: computing relationship scores for individual character strings in the system from documents present in the character entry system; in response to inputting of a string of individual characters that exceeds a specified threshold, identifying at least one selectable character string from among contextual associations that can complete the input character string in context based upon an overall ranking score computed as a function of at least two other scores; and providing the identified at least one selectable character string to a user for selection. |
9189759 | 13618377 | 1 | 1. A method comprising: providing, by a computer comprising a processor, a graphical user interface comprising a grid having a plurality of turfs as rows on the grid and a plurality of disciplines as columns on the grid within the graphical user interface, the plurality of disciplines comprising types of work orders performed by technicians in the plurality of turfs, each of the plurality of turfs represents one of a plurality of geographic areas; providing, by the computer via the graphical user interface, an hours column associated with each of the plurality of disciplines, wherein the hours column comprises a plurality of cells, each of the plurality of cells corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of turfs; receiving, by the computer via the graphical user interface, a first user selection of a cell of the plurality of cells of the hours column associated with a discipline of the plurality of disciplines, the cell of the plurality of cells corresponding to a select turf of the plurality of turfs and providing a number of hours of pending work orders and assigned work orders related to the discipline of the plurality of disciplines in the select turf; in response to receiving the first user selection, providing, by the computer, a first drop-down window comprising a job associated with an assigned work order and a technician assigned to the job; receiving, by the computer via the graphical user interface, a second user selection of the select turf of the plurality of turfs; and responsive to receiving the second user selection of the select turf, providing, by the computer, a second drop-down window positioned over the grid within the graphical user interface, the second drop-down window comprising contact information for a plurality of field supervisors assigned to the select turf, each of the plurality of field supervisors supervising the technicians for one of the plurality of disciplines. |
20120077514 | 13244257 | 0 | 1. A method for determining a real-time location of an object within a facility, the method comprising: transmitting a wireless signal from a communication device associated with an object; receiving the wireless signal at least one of a plurality of sensors positioned within a facility; and determining a real-time location of the object in the facility using an algorithm comprising a plurality of location sub-algorithms with a signal characteristic for the wireless signal received at the at least one of a plurality of sensors. |
20140070160 | 13714946 | 0 | 1. A nonvolatile memory device comprising: a first electrode; a second electrode; and a variable resistance layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode and containing impurity of a nonmetallic element, the impurity being at least one selected from the group consisting of S, Se, Te, F, Cl, Br, and I. |
20170161064 | 14960334 | 0 | 1. An apparatus, comprising: an execution unit comprising a multiply add computation unit, a first ALU logic unit and a second ALU logic unit, the execution unit to perform: a first instruction, said first instruction being a multiply add instruction; a second instruction, said second instruction to perform parallel ALU operations with the first and second ALU logic units operating simultaneously to produce different respective output resultants of the second instruction; a third instruction, said third instruction to perform sequential ALU operations with one of the ALU logic units operating from an output of the other of the ALU logic units to determine an output resultant of the third instruction; a fourth instruction, said fourth instruction to perform an iterative divide operation in which the first ALU logic unit and the second ALU logic unit operate to determine first and second division resultant digit values. |
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