Abstract: Described herein are methods and systems allowing a company to market and advertise its brands, products and/or services in a mobile platform by use of an application converting a user input into a corresponding branded icon, logo or image and displaying the same. The user input is in the form of a text entry from the device keyboard, e.g., a brand name or a generic search word, or a voice or sound input or audio demand from the device speaker. By providing various menu functions associated with the displayed icons, logos or images, the application combines mobile texting with online search or browsing to provide for a much simpler and more convenient mobile experience.

Abstract: Described herein are, among other things, techniques, devices, and systems for generating one or more trained machine-learning models. Also described herein are techniques, devices, and systems for applying a consumption history of a particular user to the trained model(s) to generate score data indicating a correlation between each content-item title and the consumption history. The techniques then determine a ranked list of content items having a highest correlation to the consumption history, which may be used to retrieve videos associated with the most-correlated content items for generating a compilation video composed of these retrieved videos.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer storage media are provided for presenting a preview of a customized landing page at a search engine are provided. The search engine may provide search results that comprise a preview of the customized landing page, where a user may interact with the customized landing page while at the search engine. The user may select a landing-page link provided by the customized landing page using the preview at the search engine. Based on selecting the landing-page link, the user is navigated directly from the search engine to a webpage associated with the landing-page link. A customized landing page may be generated for display at the preview of the search engine, where the customized landing page includes a user-specific element, such as information specific to the user, which may be based on a user identifier communicated from the search engine to a customizable landing-page website.

Abstract: The invention relates to search for cases in a database. According to the proposed method and apparatus, similarity matching is performed between an input case and a set of cases in an initial search to receive similar cases by using a given matching criterion. Then statistics on image and/or non-image-based features associated with the similar cases are calculated and presented to the user with the similar cases. In a search refinement the similar cases are refined by additional features that are determined by the user based on the statistics. The search refinement can be iterative depending on the user's need.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer storage media for providing data operations using hard links (hard link operations) for files in a file system are provided. Accessing files using hard link operations is based on File_Name-to-File_ID mappings and File_ID-to-File_Object mappings stored in hard link data structures. In operation, a file name for file content is received to perform a data operation. The file content is accessed using the file name. The file name is associated with a hard link data structure having a File_Name-to-File_ID mapping and a File_ID-to-File_Object mapping. The file name is also associated with an alternate file name for the file content. The alternate file name is associated with an alternate hard link data structure having an alternate File_Name-to-File mapping and the File_ID-to-File_Object mapping. The alternate file name is received. The file content is accessed using the alternate file name to perform an alternate data operation on the file content.

Abstract: The present invention may be a method, a computer system, and/or a computer program product. An embodiment of the present invention provides a computer-implemented method for obtaining one or more candidates for a relationship type and its label. The method comprises the following steps: analyzing a document annotated with entity types, the analysis comprising counting the number of pairs of co-occurring entity types in each sentence in the document, and judging whether there exists, in the document, a candidate for a label of a relationship type which shows relationship between or among the co-occurring entity types and, if the judgment is positive, storing a candidate for the relationship type and a candidate for its label; and outputting a result of the analysis. The method may further comprise, if the judgment is negative, storing a candidate for the relationship type without a candidate for its label.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for associating a media content clip(s) with other media content clip(s) having a different modality by determining first embedding vectors of media content items of a first modality, receiving a media content clip of a second modality, determining a second embedding vector of the media content clip of the second modality, ranking the first embedding vectors based on a distance between the embedding vectors and the second embedding vector, and selecting one or more of the media content items of the first modality based on the ranking, thereby pairing media content clips based on emotion.

Abstract: A navigation data source is provided that includes an object data set including object data indicating a spatial vacancy and/or occupancy of sub-regions of a spatial region by one or more structural objects in the spatial region. The object data references the sub-regions based on a linear order of the sub-regions in the spatial region. The object data may include interval information about an at least partially occupied interval, such as a lower interval border and/or an upper interval border. The at least partially occupied interval indicates a group of, according to the linear order, one or more successional sub-regions, at least a part of which are spatially occupied. The object data includes an occupancy sequence indicating a spatial vacancy and/or occupancy of the successional sub-regions of the at least partially occupied interval.

Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for presenting an interactive narrative. An apparatus includes a user interface. The apparatus also includes one or more processors operatively coupled to the user interface and a non-transitory computer-readable medium. The non-transitory computer-readable medium stores instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to present a first piece of content corresponding to a given narrative via the user interface. The given narrative includes one or more characteristics. The one or more processors are caused to receive user input via the user interface. The one or more processors are caused to classify the user input into one of a plurality of response models. The one or more processors are caused to dynamically respond to the user input by presenting a second piece of content. The second piece of content is based on a selected response model corresponding to the user input.

Abstract: Techniques for cloning, writing to, and reading from file system metadata. Cloning involves identifying a first set of pointers included in a first root node in a file system metadata tree structure that stores file system metadata in leaf nodes of the tree structure, creating a first copy of the first root node that includes the first set of pointers, creating a second copy of the first root node that includes the first set of pointers, associating the first copy with a first view, and associating the second copy with a second view. Reading generally involves traversing the tree structure towards a target leaf node that contains data to be read. Writing generally involves traversing the tree structure in the same manner, but also creating copies of any nodes to be modified if those nodes are deemed to have a different treeID than a particular root node.

Abstract: Implementations are described for determining, based on a user-assembled collection of electronic content items, at least one actual purpose for the assembled collection. Those implementations are further directed to selecting an additional electronic content item based on the at least one actual purpose being assigned to the additional electronic content item in an electronic database. Those implementations are yet further directed to, responsive to the selecting, causing a suggestion for the additional electronic content item to be rendered at a client device associated with a user account that is assigned to the user-assembled collection.

Abstract: Techniques for clustering non-stationary data are disclosed. In embodiments, a method is disclosed comprising initializing a plurality of functional centroids; partitioning a non-stationary data set, using the functional centroids, into partitions, the number of partitions being equal to the number of functional centroids; generating a set of fitted functional centroids for each of the partitions; replacing at least one of the functional centroids with a corresponding fitted functional centroid if a computed energy of the corresponding fitted functional centroid is less than an energy of the at least one functional centroid; computing a summation of the energies associated with each of the functional centroids; and outputting the functional centroids upon determining that a termination condition is met.

Abstract: Multi-resolution encoded files are stored on a plurality of disk drives using systematic network coded storage. In some embodiments, the stored files are used to provide video streaming services for users.

Abstract: Computing resources consumed in performing computerized sequence-mining can be reduced by implementing some examples of the present disclosure. In one example, a system can determine weights for data entries in a data set and then select a group of data entries from the data set based on the weights. Next, the system can determine a group of k-length sequences present in the selected group of data entries by applying a shuffling algorithm. The system can then determine frequencies corresponding to the group of k-length sequences and select candidate sequences from among the group of k-length sequences based on the frequencies thereof. Next, the system can determine support values corresponding to the candidate sequences and then select output sequences from among the candidate sequences based on the support values thereof. The system may then transmit an output signal indicating the selected output sequences an electronic device.

Abstract: Managed materialized views may be generated from across heterogeneous data sources. A request to create a materialized view may be received and performed by a materialized view management platform, which may obtain and generate the materialized view from different data sources and store the materialized view in a target system. Changes to the data sources may be obtained at the materialized view management platform and updates to the materialized view may be determined. The materialized view in the target system may be updated.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method of providing unique identification information for an element in a tree data structure where the element does not have an independent, unique identifier associated therewith by which it can be identified without reference to any further element. The method comprises determining (130) identification information uniquely identifying an element in a structure model, by reference to another element in the structure having a unique identifier associated therewith by which the other element can be uniquely identified without reference to any further element in the structure. The unique identification information comprises a unique identifier of the other element by which said other element can be uniquely identified in the structure without reference to any further element in the structure, and path information uniquely identifying the element in the structure relative to the other element.

Abstract: A virtual file organization system, method and program product are disclosed. Included is a system that assigns classification tags to files stored within a storage system based on a natural language processing (NLP) context analysis of each file; and a virtual smart folder that is viewable within a user interface, wherein: opening the virtual smart folder causes a set of virtual subfolders to be displayed in which each virtual subfolder includes a category title; opening of a virtual subfolder causes a set of files residing at disparate locations in the storage system to be displayed; and the files displayed by opening the virtual subfolder each include an assigned classification tag that is associated with the category title of the virtual subfolder.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing knowledge panels with search results. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining search results that are responsive to a received query. A factual entity referenced by the query is identified. Content is identified for display in a knowledge panel for the factual entity. The content includes at least one content item obtained from a first resource and at least one second content item obtained from a second resource different than the first resource. Data is provided that causes the identified search results and the knowledge panel to be presented on a search results page. The knowledge panel presents the identified content in a knowledge panel area that is along side at least a portion of the search results.

Abstract: Technologies for management of data layers in a heterogeneous geographic information system (GIS) map are disclosed. A compute device may maintain a GIS database that includes geo-quads that represent physical locations of various scales. Data layers and layer tracks may be dynamically added to the GIS database at different scales, allowing for an extensible framework that enables a mechanism for integrating additional functionality. In the illustrative embodiment, a graph database is used to store the GIS database, allowing for a flexible structure. In some embodiments, entries in layer tracks may include binary large objects that may have properties and associated methods, allowing for application-specific functionality.

Abstract: The invention is directed to an image search device including a search condition input unit that receives a search condition for searching for an image, a query generation unit that generates a first query based on the search condition, an image search unit that searches for an image in a database based on the first query, a relevance estimation unit that estimates relevance between a plurality of images selected by a predetermined operation among images hit by a search, a query correction unit that generates a second query based on the relevance between the plurality of images, and a function of displaying the second query generated by the query correction unit on an interface.