Abstract: A method and system for generating a monotonic classifier are disclosed. A plurality of feature vectors may be mapped to a plurality of ordered classes. Each feature vector may map to a corresponding class. For each class other than the lowest-ordered class, a binary classifier may be trained to distinguish between the class and a directly preceding class in the order. The binary classifiers may be ordered based on the class corresponding to each classifier. The binary classifiers may be ordered in the form of a decision tree, which may be either balanced or unbalanced. A new feature vector pertaining to an individual may then be classified using the binary classifiers.

Abstract: A method for analyzing documents is disclosed. The method compares concepts consisting of groups of terms for similarity within a corpus of document, clusters documents that contain certain concept term sets together. It may also rank the documents within each cluster according to the frequency of term co-occurrence within the concepts.

Abstract: A system for classifying a genre of an electronic document may include a network processor configured to receive an electronic document and convert the electronic document to rich text format (RTF). The processor may be configured to parse the RTF document into lines of text ordered from top to bottom and left to right and assign tokens to each line of text based on content of the line and to line separators based on space between blocks of lines. The network processor may be configured to sequence the tokens, parse the tokenized document with a number of pre-defined document grammars, determine a probability for each genre corresponding to the electronic document, and classify the electronic document as the genre with the highest probability.

Abstract: A system for electronically distilling information from a business document uses a network scanner to electronically scan a platen area, having a business document thereon, to create a bitmap. A network server carries out a segmentation process to segment the scan generated bitmap into a bitmap object, the bitmap object corresponding to the scanned business document; a bitmap to text conversion process to convert the bitmap object into a block of text; a semantic recognition process to generate a structured representation of semantic entities corresponding to the scanned business document; and a document generation process to convert the structured representation into a structure text file.

Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods of electronic trading. Embodiments involve presenting real-time financial market data in a user interface, wherein the real-time financial market data includes a plurality of adjacent cells containing proposed trade quantities with associated prices; and presenting historical trade quantity and price information in the GUI; wherein the historical information scrolls on the screen as new real-time financial market data is refreshed.

Abstract: The present invention is a method and apparatus for processing image data to accomplish tuning or adjustment of images, so as to modify at least the darkness thereof, using compact, efficient methods and designs.

Abstract: The present invention is a method and apparatus for applying magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) technology to enable the embedding of coded information within text characters of a document.

Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for electronic trading. In embodiments, the systems and methods involve providing a computer program with a user interface for presenting an item of information, wherein the item of information changes positions in the user interface; and associating the cursor with the item of information, so that the cursor tracks the movement of the item in the user interface.

Abstract: The present invention relates to electronic trading systems and methods. In embodiments, the systems and methods involve providing software for allowing a user to establish a target trading book; evaluating the user's pending trading contracts to determine an actual trading book at a point in time; determining a differential between the target trading book and the actual trading book; and identifying at least an action to transition from the actual trading book to the target trading book.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for adding captions to photographs. An apparatus for adding captions to photographs includes a medium for storing a photograph image. A microphone is provided for receiving user spoken words. A voice recognition system is coupled to the microphone for generating text unit instructions. A caption generation unit is coupled to the voice recognition system for storing a caption with the photograph image on said medium. Both a film camera system and a digital camera system are used for adding captions to photographs. In the film camera system, the caption is simultaneously stored with the photograph image on photographic film. In the digital camera system, the caption can be simultaneously stored with the photograph image on digital storage medium or can be added at an earlier time or a later time.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for implementing communications in a communications network. The apparatus for implementing communications includes a system interface to the communications network. A scheduler schedules enqueued cells and enqueued frames to be transmitted. A segmenter segments frames and cells in into cells or frames applied to a media adaptation block for transmission in a selected one of multiple modes.

Abstract: A method and Gigabit Ethernet communications adapter are provided for implementing communications in a communications network. A transmission queue is defined of data to be transmitted. A transmission rate is set for the transmission queue. Data to be transmitted are enqueued on the transmission queue. The transmission queue can be subdivided into multiple priority queues, for example, using time wheels, and a transmission rate is set for each transmission queue.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for scheduling the transmission of cells of a plurality of data streams in a communications network. An earliest deadline first (EDF) scheduler is provided for scheduling the transmission of cells of a plurality of data streams in a communications network to ensure that the connection or data stream with the earliest deadline is transmitted first. Each of the multiple data streams has a delay bound or deadline. Data of each data stream is enqueued to a corresponding data cell queue. A timing wheel time slot based on an identified target transmission time for each data cell queue is calculated utilizing an addition of a maximum delay value. A move forward timing mechanism includes a scan forward feature to identify a succession of virtual connection or data stream cell queues for transmission. A multiple tier cell scheduler is provided that includes at least two scheduling timing wheels.

Abstract: A process for purifying a crude material containing one or more desired compounds in impure form id described. The process comprises the steps of (1) passing the crude material through a chromatography column packed with a particulate absorbent solid using a solvent comprising at least one fluorine containing compound selected from the (hydro)fluorocarbons and the (hydro)fluorocarbon ethers to transport the said crude material through the packed column, and (2) collecting the one or more desired compounds as they emerge from the column as a solution in the solvent.

Abstract: A process for purifying a crude material containing one or more desired compounds in impure form is described. The process includes the steps of (1) passing the crude material through a chromatography column packed with a particulate absorbent solid using a solvent comprising at least one fluorine containing compound selected from the (hydro)fluorocarbon ethers to transport the said crude material through the packed column, and (2) collecting the one or more desired compounds as they emerge from the column as a solution in the solvent.