Abstract: A system for executing database queries comprises a computer system including at least one computer processor and one network interface component. The computer processor is configured to determine that at least a portion of data requested by a query is remote data stored at a remote network source. The network interface component of the computing system retrieves the remote data from the remote network source. The retrieved remote data is pre-processed using application domain logic coresiding with the network interface component to generate a result set based on one or more parameters of the query and the query result is returned to the computer processor. The application domain logic may be implemented in a graphics processor unit (GPU), a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), or an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC).

Abstract: A system for executing database queries comprises a computer system including at least one computer processor and one network interface component. The computer processor is configured to determine that at least a portion of data requested by a query is remote data stored at a remote network source. The network interface component of the computing system retrieves the remote data from the remote network source. The retrieved remote data is pre-processed using application domain logic coresiding with the network interface component to generate a result set based on one or more parameters of the query and the query result is returned to the computer processor. The application domain logic may be implemented in a graphics processor unit (GPU), a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), or an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC).

Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for phrase substitution within chunks of substantially similar content. The method includes: retrieving from content files a first and a second content chunk which are identical above a predetermined threshold; identifying a candidate for substitution, wherein the candidate for substitution is a string of characters in the second content chunk that is not identical to a corresponding string of characters in the first content chunk; comparing the candidate for substitution with a synonym database to find a match, wherein the synonym database provides a plurality of synonym suggestions to convert the candidate for substitution in the first content chunk and the second content chuck to an identical string of characters; replacing the candidate for substitution with a reference to the identical string of characters; and storing a single copy of the identical string of characters in a common repository.

Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for performing automatic document analysis. For instance, one or more computing devices may obtain a plurality of documents for analysis. The one or more computing devices may then analyze the documents to determine a respective comparative breadth score representing a breadth of each document, a respective comparative portion count score representing a number of documents portions included in each document, and a respective comparative differentiation score representing differentiation between the documents portions included in each document. In some instances, the one or more computing devices determine each of the scores based on comparing the respective breadth, respective number of document portions, and respective differentiation for each of the documents under analysis. The one or more computing devices can then determine a comprehensive score for each document using the respective scores, and generate a user interface that includes the overall scores.

Abstract: A computer implemented method, apparatus, system, and computer usable program product for managing a database. The process receives a request for a list of members for a given group of objects in the database. The process identifies a set of static members for the given group based on a set of records in a membership table in the database. The set of static members includes all direct static members and all indirect static members of the given group. The process identifies a set of dynamic members for the given group of objects based on a reference in a group table in the database. The set of dynamic members includes all direct dynamic members of the given group and all indirect static members of the given group. The process generates the list of members.

Abstract: Various examples are directed to systems and methods for managing a database organized according to a schema. The database may comprise a database file corresponding to a table described by the schema. The database file may comprise a first row entry corresponding to a first row of the table. The first row entry may comprise at least one data item. A command may be received. The command may modify a first data item in the first row of the table. An indication of the modified value for the first data item may be written to a change location at the first file. The first entry may be modified to include a pointer to the indication of the modified value for the first data item.

Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for managing source annotation metadata. The metadata management technique may include maintaining a set of metadata, maintaining data/metadata relationships between individual units of the metadata and individual units of the source data, and maintaining metadata/metadata relationships between individual units of the metadata. The metadata/metadata relationships define two or more intersecting search pathways through the metadata that intersect at one or more metadata units belonging to more than one search domain.

Abstract: A storage system stores objects and copies of objects on the storage system and other storage systems external to the storage system. The storage system stores the copies in storage pools of volumes, which are organized into one or more tiers. The configuration settings of each tier and each pool within the tier may be configured according to a user's preferences. In one example, the number of copies of data content and the number copies of metadata associated with the data content an individual pool stores may be specified. When objects are migrated between tiers, the objects are stored among the storage pools of the tiers. If the number of data content copies or metadata copies is increased, the data or metadata is copied from a determined copy source and if the number of copies decreases, the data is removed from the volumes in the pools.

Abstract: An information processing method and an electronic apparatus are provided, for solving a technical problem of a weak capability of the electronic apparatus to process information. The method includes: acquiring M variation messages by monitoring variations of files in a file system of an electronic apparatus, where M is a positive integer; determining N files based on the M variation messages, where N is an integer less than or equal to M; identifying the N files respectively to determine at least one of the N files which meets a preset condition; and deleting the at least one file to reduce the amount of data stored in the electronic apparatus.

Abstract: Methods and system for determining a similarity relationship between a plurality of digital assets and a target digital asset comprises creating a normalized semantic feature vector associated with a search query, discovering the target asset based on the normalized semantic feature vector, generating a normalized latent feature vector associated with the target asset, comparing the normalized semantic feature vector with semantic feature vectors for each of the digital assets to generate a semantic comparison value, comparing the normalized target latent feature vector with latent feature vectors for each of the digital assets to generate a latent comparison value, blending the semantic comparison vector value with the latent feature comparison vector value to create a target comparison value for each of the digital assets, and reporting the digital assets having the highest target comparison values to the user or group of users.

Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for modifying a hierarchical tree data structure. An initial hierarchical tree data structure is received and treelets of node neighborhoods in the initial hierarchical tree data structure are formed. Each treelet includes n leaf nodes and n?1 internal nodes. The treelets are restructured, by a processor, to produce an optimized hierarchical tree data structure.

Abstract: The present inventor devised, among other things, an information retrieval system that determines whether a query is ambiguous or not and based on this determination either continues or aborts a search process. One query evaluation extracts word pairs from an input query and uses features of the extracted word pairs, for example the number of word pairs and their frequencies within a document collection, to determine if the query is ambiguous or not. Another evaluation measures topical convergence, using query related caselaw headnotes that are associated with topics in a legal taxonomy. And yet another checks topical convergence through the lens of full caselaw documents and secondary legal documents, such as law review articles, specifically the minimum number of case law and secondary legal documents that are necessary to span a set of top ranked topics identified using the query.

Abstract: A system comprising a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to receive a record of data describing user engagement with content items in an online service; prepare the record of data for generating a model characterizing a network effect of a user interaction with a content item in the online service; generate the model characterizing the network effect of the user interaction with the content item in the online service; generate a predicted network effect score for a plurality of content items based on the model; organize the plurality of content items based on the predicted network effect score; and transmit the plurality of organized content items for presentation to a user. The disclosure also includes similar methods and computer program products.

Abstract: In an example embodiment, a fuzzy join operation is performed by, for each pair of records, evaluating a first plurality of features for both records in the pair of records by calculating term frequency-inverse term frequency (TF-IDF) for each token of each field relevant to each feature and based on the calculated TF-IDF for each token of each field relevant to each feature, computing a similarity score based on the similarity function by adding a weight assigned to the TF-IDF for any token that appears in both records. Then a graph data structure is created, having a node for each record in the plurality of records and edges between each of the nodes, except, for each record pair having a similarity score that does not transgress a first threshold, causing no edge between the nodes for the record pair to appear in the graph data structure.

Abstract: Computer implemented methods for database hierarchy-independent data drilling are presented including: a. selecting one of at least two database structures each having data, where the at least two database structures include, at least two distinct paths that lead from a first of the at least two database structures to a second of the at least two database structures, where a path logically relates at least two data structures which are otherwise directly unrelated using data structures and data structures' relations, and a database information schema that provides information about the at least two database structures including information regarding relations between data structures; b. setting the selected database structure as a current data drilling state; and c. finding at least one related data structure corresponding with the selected database structure for the current data drilling state utilizing the database information schema.

Abstract: A method of generating congruous metadata is provided. The method includes receiving a similarity measure between at least two multimedia objects. Each multimedia object has associated metadata. If the at least two multimedia objects are similar based on the similarity measure and a similarity threshold, the associated metadata of each of the multimedia objects are compared. Then, based on the comparison of the associated metadata of each of the at least two multimedia objects, the method further includes generating congruous metadata. Metadata may be tags, for example.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with tripoint arbitration for data classification are described. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a query data point for classification, an arbiter point, a first set of classified data points belonging to a first class and a second set of classified data points belonging to a second class. A class-aggregated similarity metric for the query data point and each set is determined based, at least in part, on tripoint arbitration coefficients for data point pairs that include the query data point and a classified data point in the set, as calculated using the arbiter point. The query data point is classified based on a comparison of the similarity metric determined for the first set and the similarity metric determined for the second set.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for managing variations in a product structure for a product. In one illustrative embodiment, a product management system for managing variations in a product structure for a product comprises a model. The model comprises a primary hierarchical organization and a number of optimized product variant structures. The primary hierarchical organization comprises a group of domain master objects. The number of optimized product variant structures comprises a group of domain configuration objects in which each domain configuration object in the group of domain configuration objects represents a configuration for a component represented by a corresponding domain master object in the group of domain master objects.

Abstract: Systems and methods for search result replication in a search head cluster of a data aggregation and analysis system. An example method may comprise maintaining a replication count corresponding to how many replicas of a result of a particular map-reduce search exist in a search head cluster comprising a plurality of search heads that are each configured to enable them to manage a reduce phase of a map-reduce search, determining that the replication count is less than a target replication count, selecting, based the determining, a target search head from the search head cluster to receive a replica of the search result, initiating a replication of the search result from a source search head in the search head cluster to the selected target search head, receiving an indication that the replication is complete, and based on receiving the indication, increasing the replication count corresponding to the search result.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described that recommend images, items, and/or metadata based at least in part on a reference color palette or reference color name. A color name can be converted into a representation of the color name in a color space. The reference color can be used to identify images that contain the reference color. The identified images and associated metadata can be analyzed, sorted and provided as an ordered list of items. Systems and methods are also described that identify items that contain colors affiliated with the reference color. Systems and methods are also described that validate color identifier information in metadata associated with an image. Systems and methods are also described that identify non-color specific keywords associated with the reference color.