Abstract: The methods and systems for providing real-time business intelligence using national language queries facilitate a user to search within a data warehouse using a natural language question. Such business intelligence platform may receive a natural language based question, extract one or more key words from the natural language based question, determine a first dependency graph of the one or more key words based on a relationship among the one or more key words, determine a second dependency graph of the one or more key words based on previously stored search indices, merge the first and the second dependency graphs to generate an integrated dependency graph, and generate a formatted search string based on the integrated dependency graph.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to transform attribute data about assets in a source system data model into attribute data about the same assets in a target system data model. The first step is to extract the necessary attribute data from attribute data collected about inventory assets of a business entity needed to populate the attributes in objects representing those inventory assets in a target system data model. Transformation rules are written which are designed to make all conversions necessary in semantics, units of measure, etc. to transform the source system attribute data into attribute data for the target system which has the proper data format. These transformation rules are executed on a computer on the extracted attribute data and the transformed attribute data is stored in an ER model. In the preferred embodiment, the transformation rules are object-oriented in that transformation rules for subtypes can be inherited from their parent types or classes.

Abstract: A method is provided for backing up and restoring a web applications platform. The method includes backing up web applications platform databases to a backup system. A search index of the web application platform is backed up. An application programming interface (API) is queried to discover internet information services (IIS) virtual directories associated with the web applications platform. Discovered IIS virtual directories associated with the web applications platform are backed up to the backup system. IIS configuration data, IIS metabase data and registry data for the web applications platform are then backed up to the backup system. A similar process enables the restoration of this data to allow for disaster recovery for the web applications platform.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are enterprise applications and platforms that manage databases containing documents and may employ search systems that allow users to retrieve documents based on queries. The search systems may be configured to retrieve data from several different data sources and may be associated with many of the applications. Furthermore, the search systems may include a faceted interface based on database or document attributes for further search refinement. The faceted interface may be template-based and modular, allowing reconfiguration of the interfaces without substantial rewriting of the application code base.

Abstract: A contextual index compendium that includes contextual index item generation rules that define document index entry generation transforms usable to transform text of the documents into embedded document index entries of document indexes within the documents is obtained by a processor. Using the document index entry generation transforms defined within the contextual index item generation rules in association with a document that includes embedded document index entries that are both embedded at locations of associated text distributed throughout the document and added as part of a document index within the document, new text of the document is programmatically transformed into at least one new document index entry in response to determining that at least one portion of the new text includes candidate text that is not already indexed within the existing embedded document index entries and the document index within the document.

Abstract: A search system includes a query receiver, a live scrape system, and a content provider. The query receiver is configured to receive a first query related to a first application state of a first application. The first query is based on a user-requested search from a user device. The live scrape system is configured to operate a device including an operating system in which an instance of the first application executes. The live scrape system is configured to, responsive to the first query, and within the device, (i) navigate to the first application state in the instance of the first application and (ii) extract content from the instance of the first application. The content provider is configured to provide the extracted content to the user device for presentation to a user of the user device in real time.

Abstract: A distributed computing application is described that provides a highly elastic and multi-tenant platform for Hadoop applications and other workloads running in a virtualized environment. Deployments of a distributed computing application, such as Hadoop, may be executed concurrently with a distributed database application, such as HBase, using a shared instance of a distributed filesystem, or in other cases, multiple instances of the distributed filesystem. Computing resources allocated to region server nodes executing as VMs may be isolated from compute VMs of the distributed computing application, as well as from data nodes executing as VMs of the distributed filesystem.

Abstract: Methods, devices and systems to make compressed backup copies of in-use compressed database indices are described. In general, an “oldest” time at which index pages in working memory had been updated is identified. Compressed index pages may be directly copied without the need to bring them into working memory or uncompressing them. The identified “oldest” time is then associated with the compressed backup copy. In some embodiments, an entire compressed backup copy may be associated with a single point in time (e.g., the identified “oldest” time). In other embodiments, a compressed backup copy may be associated with multiple points in time (e.g., one time for each portion of the compressed index that is being backed-up). Compressed indices copied in accordance with the invention may be used during restore operations to reconstruct database indices using the identified “oldest” time and database log files.

Abstract: The present application provides a method, a means and a system for processing service data. A method comprises: a receiving means sends to a processing means a query request carrying labeling information to query said processing means whether there locally exists data carrying the labeling information, the labeling information being for identifying data needed by the receiving means to provide a target service. The receiving means receives query result information sent by the processing means. If the query result information indicates that the processing means does not have data carrying the labeling information, the receiving means provides the target service based on the received data carrying labeling information. The present application can determine the completeness of data and ensure the successful provision of services.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments relate to techniques for determining social networking or messaging user affinity and engagement coefficients (e.g., a measure of the connectedness between two people in a network). The described techniques are particularly well-suited to cases in which only limited information is available, such as when a new user joins a network and only the user's contacts list is available. The available information may be used to determine a group of existing users to which the new user is connected. Some embodiments relate to calculating scores among these existing users in order to infer an affinity for the new user to the existing users. Other embodiments involve calculating bilateral scores that reflect a degree of mutual affinity between two users.

Abstract: A computing system transforms variable values in a dataset using a transformation flow definition applied in parallel. The transformation flow definition indicates flow variables and transformation phases to apply to the flow variables. A computation is defined for each variable and for each transformation phase. A phase internal parameter value is computed for each defined computation from observation vectors read from the dataset. A current variable, a first variable value, a first transformation phase, the phase internal parameter value, and a current transformation phase are selected based on an observation vector read from the dataset. A result value is computed by executing the transformation function with the phase internal parameter value and the first variable value. The computed result value is output to a transformed input dataset. The process is repeated for each variable, transformation phase, and observation vector.

Abstract: Media items may be obtained. The media items may be characterized by capture information indicating a capture time and a capture location of individual media items. The media items may be clustered into scenes based on proximity of the capture times of the media items. The scenes may be clustered into collections based on proximity of the capture times and/or the capture locations of the media items within the scenes. The collections may be iteratively clustered into higher collections based on proximity of the capture times and/or the capture locations of the media items within the collections. One or more collections may be identified for inclusion in a media compilation based on a size of the identified collection(s). A media compilation, including one or more of the media items included in the identified collection(s), may be generated.

Abstract: The present approach assigns a code to each node class of a data tree modeling a database. The node class codes may be used to generate a node class path for each node class. This class path may be used as a discriminator to reference a given node class or portion of the tree including the class path and may be stored in a field of the database and/or cached. Use of the class path in query operations reduces the complexity of certain queries, thereby speeding up query performance.

Abstract: A search tool is used to execute a method of designating documents to associate with a search session. The search tool opens a search session in response to a request received from a client computer. The search tool receives from the client computer an indication of documents. Then, the search tool uses storage to find information in storage that links the documents to other documents found in the storage. At that point, the search tool sends a suggestion to the client computer to associate the newly-found documents to the search session.

Abstract: Described is a system for extracting multi-scale hierarchical clustering on customer observables (COs) data in a vehicle. The system selects a parameter for a set of incident data of COs data. Simplicial complexes are generated from the COs data based on the selected parameter. Face networks are generated from the simplicial complexes. For each face network, a set of connected components is extracted. Each connected component is transformed to a cluster of related COs, resulting in a first extracted relation between COs. The first extracted relation is used to automatically generate an alert at a client device when a second extracted relation different from the first extracted relation results from the transformation.

Abstract: Managing data in a file system with a verification engine that may obtain a user identifier associated with a user, an object identifier, and a target object. The verification engine may determine target identities associated with two or more file system protocols based on the user identifier. The verification engine may determine permission entries associated with the two or more file system protocols associated and the target object. The verification engine may employ the target identities and the permission entries to directly verify access rights to the target object for the user. Accordingly, the verification engine may provide a report that includes the target identities, the permission entries, or the access rights.

Abstract: According to an example, in a method for managing storage of data from an input table, a projection definition that includes an expression to be executed on data contained in a column of the input table may be accessed. The expression on the data contained in the column of the input table may be executed to obtain results data, which may be stored in an expression projection, in which the expression projection includes a column that provides physical storage for the results data. The results data may be stored in the expression projection, segmented, and encoded. In addition, the expression projection may be stored in a node.

Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a memory having an instance of a distributed shared memory and a processor operatively coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to instantiate a first instance of a front-end application and receive, at the first instance of the front-end application, and input signal associated with a state of the first instance of the front-end application. The processor is configured to insert a value into a field data structure defined in the instance of the distributed shared memory and associated with an event source configured through a second instance of the distributed shared memory. The processor is configured to generate an event object indicative of the value inserted into the field data structure and send a signal to update the second instance of the front-end application.

Abstract: Disclosure includes system, method and architecture for selecting supplemental digital content using visual appearance. Digital content that is visually similar, or dissimilar, to digital content requested by a user can he identified and provided for presentation with the requested content. The additional digital content is visually congruent, or visually incongruent, with content requested by a user, such that the additional content is similar, or dissimilar, to the requested content from a visual standpoint. In a presentation of the requested content, the presentation position of each additional content item relative to the presentation position of each requested content can be identified using visual congruence, or visual incongruence.

Abstract: A data handling system enables the unsupervised creation of an information extraction dictionary by expanding upon a word or phrase included within an expansion query. Prior to receiving the expansion query, the data handling system performs an unsupervised learning of an information corpus which includes text to assign a corpus vector to each word and phrase of the text. After the expansion query, the data handling system compares the expansion query to the corpus vectors. The data handling system ranks the corpus vectors by similarity to the expansion query and provides a ranked list of words or phrases associated with the ranked corpus vectors. The ranked list may be subsequently utilized as the information extraction dictionary.