Abstract: A method for a deterministic selection of a sensor from a plurality of sensors, having a control unit and multiple sensors connected to the control unit by means of a three-wire bus, wherein the sensors are connected to the three-wire bus through at least two lines in parallel to one another, and a protocol frame in conformity with the SENT specification is used between the control unit and the sensors for a data exchange, and a particular sensor is selected within the protocol frame by the control unit through the predefined duration of a selection signal, wherein the duration of the selection signal is determined by the interval between a first falling signal edge and a second falling signal edge.

Abstract: Initiating data transactions on a system bus is disclosed. In some implementations, a controller receives first information from a first peripheral requesting a first data transaction. The first information is received over a first communication link between the controller and the first peripheral. The controller receives second information from a second peripheral requesting a second data transaction. The second information received over a second communication link between the controller and the second peripheral. The controller determines first and second ranks for the first and second data transactions, respectively, based on the first and second information, and initiates based on the first and second ranks, the first and second data transactions on a system bus.

Abstract: A system and method for communicating data between a first software and a second software located on first and second devices, respectively, has a hardware driver and memory associated with each device. Each communication of data from the first software to the second software allocates memory to manage data to be communicated from the first software to the second software, provides memory allocation information to the hardware driver associated with the first software, and transmits the data from the first hardware driver to the second hardware driver for delivery to the second software via the memory associated with the second software.

Abstract: In this disclosure, equations to be solved in the model predictive control are transformed by using an off-line algebraic simplification method into a matrix operational expression representing a product of a coefficient matrix and a vector regarding solution inputs within a control horizon is equal to a function vector regarding target values of output states and the output states. The size of the coefficient matrix is reduced compared with the conventional matrix. Then, the matrix operational expression is solved in an online plant control apparatus with present output states and present target values of the output stats of a plant to be controlled, by the direct method, to output the solution to the plant.

Abstract: During data resampling, bad samples are ignored or replaced with some combination of the good sample values in the neighborhood being processed. The sample replacement can be performed using a number of approaches, including serial and parallel implementations, such as branch-based implementations, matrix-based implementations, and function table-based implementations, and can use a number of modes, such as nearest neighbor, bilinear and cubic convolution.

Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for preserving conceptual distance within unstructured documents by characterizing conceptual relationships. Natural language processing is applied to content in a plurality of documents to identify topics and subjects. Analytic analysis is then applied to the identified topics and subjects to identify concepts. The content in each of the plurality of documents is partitioned into a first structured hierarchy, preserving at least one structure in each document inherent in the each document. Access is then provided to the content through a first index based upon utilizing the first structured hierarchy and through a second index utilizing a second structured hierarchy. The conceptual relationship criteria are based upon a directed graph with weights based upon a similarity and a distance based upon concepts.

Abstract: A method for generating a content map. The method may include, by a content processor, receiving a selection of a first URL for a first content segment. The method may include receiving a selection of a second URL for a second content segment. The method may include grouping the first and second content segment into a first dimension group. The method may include receiving a selection of a third URL for a third content segment. The method may include receiving a selection a fourth URL for a fourth content segment. The method may include grouping the third and fourth content segment into a second dimension group. The method may include relating the first and second URL in the first dimension group and the third and fourth URL in the second dimension group to generate a content map. The method may include causing the content map to be displayed.

Abstract: To display a news feed in a social network environment, a social networking system generates news items regarding activities associated with a user of a social network environment. The social networking system may also attach an informational link associated with at least one of the activities to at least one of the news items, limit access to the news items to a predetermined set of viewers, and assign an order to the news items. The news items may be displayed in the assigned order to at least one viewing user of the predetermined set of viewers, and the number of news items displayed may be dynamically limited.

Abstract: A conversion tool enables XPS documents to be automatically converted into the Open XPS format and for Open XPS-formatted documents to be automatically converted into the XPS format. The conversion tool may convert content types, package-level relationships, part-level attributes, and image parts into a format supported by either document format.

Abstract: Mechanisms for performing a duration-based operation are provided. At least one document is received having a plurality of associated dates and/or times and concepts associated with the dates and/or times. The at least one document does not explicitly specify a duration between the dates and/or times. Dates and/or times in the at least one document having similar associated concepts are correlated and, for the correlated dates and/or times, an implicit duration is calculated based on the dates and/or times. The concepts are associated with the implicit duration and a first document in the at least one document is annotated with an implicit duration annotation that specifies the implicit duration and the associated concepts. A duration based operation is then performed based on the implicit duration annotation.

Abstract: In embodiments of statistics time chart interface row mode drill down, a first interface is displayed in a table format that includes columns each having a column heading comprising a different value, each different value associated with a particular event field, and includes rows each with a time increment and one or more aggregated metrics, each aggregated metric representing a number of events having a field-value pair that matches the different value represented in one of the columns and within the time increment over which the aggregated metric is calculated. A row that includes the time increment and the aggregated metrics can be emphasized in the first interface, and in response, a menu is displayed with selectable options to transition to a second interface based on a selected one of the options.

Abstract: In embodiments of statistics value chart interface cell mode drill down, a first interface displays in a table format that includes columns each with field values of an event field, and each column having a column heading of a different one of the event fields, and includes rows each with one or more of the field values, each field value in a row associated with a different one of the event fields, and having an aggregated metric that represents a number of events with field-value pairs that match all of the field values listed in a respective row and the corresponding event fields listed in the respective columns. A cell can be emphasized that includes one of the field values in a row that corresponds to one of the different event fields in a column, and in response, a menu displays options to transition to a second interface.

Abstract: A system, method and computer-readable storage devices for providing unsupervised normalization of noisy text using distributed representation of words. The system receives, from a social media forum, a word having a non-canonical spelling in a first language. The system determines a context of the word in the social media forum, identifies the word in a vector space model, and selects an “n-best” vector paths in the vector space model, where the n-best vector paths are neighbors to the vector space path based on the context and the non-canonical spelling. The system can then select, based on a similarity cost, a best path from the n-best vector paths and identify a word associated with the best path as the canonical version.

Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for processing logical relationships in natural language content. A logical parse of a first parse of a natural language content is generated by identifying latent logical operators within the first parse indicative of logical relationships between elements of the natural language content. The logical parse comprises nodes and edges linking nodes. At least one knowledge value is associated with each node in the logical parse. The at least one knowledge value of at least a subset of the nodes in the logical parse is propagated to one or more other nodes in the logical parse based on propagation rules. A reasoning operation is performed on the logical parse to generate a knowledge output indicative of knowledge associated with one or more of the logical relationships between elements of the natural language content.

Abstract: Techniques for streaming big data in a process plant are disclosed. Generally, these techniques facilitate storage or communication of process control data, including alarms, parameters, events, and the like, in near real-time. Receivers of big data, such as big data historians or devices requesting specific data, are configured via an initial set of metadata, and thereafter receive updated metadata upon requesting it from the transmitting device, such as when the receiving device encounters an identifier in the data, which identifier was not defined in the metadata previously received.

Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for processing logical relationships in natural language content. A logical parse of a first parse of the natural language content is generated by identifying latent logical terms within the first parse indicative of logical relationships between elements of the natural language content. The logical parse comprises nodes and edges linking nodes. At least one knowledge value is associated with each node in the logical parse. The at least one knowledge value associated with at least a subset of the nodes in the logical parse is propagated to one or more other nodes in the logical parse based on propagation rules. The propagating of the at least one knowledge value generates transaction records in a transaction knowledgebase data structure. A reasoning operation is executed based on the transaction knowledgebase data structure.

Abstract: A computer obtains a command history and a plurality of file histories. The command history includes command logs of executed commands. The plurality of file histories each include timing information and a character string indicating a storage location of each file. The computer extracts key commands from the command history on basis of contents of the executed commands. The computer extracts first file histories corresponding to each of the key commands on basis of timing information included in a command log of each of the key commands and timing information included in the plurality of file histories. The computer stores the first file histories in association with a first key command corresponding to the first file histories. The computer selects characteristic words from first character strings included in the first file histories. The computer stores the characteristic words in association with the first key command.

Abstract: An incoming string is received and an initial segmentation is generated based upon separators in the incoming string. The segment values in the initial segmentation are validated by determining whether they are found in a data store. Where a segment in the initial segmentation is not found, subsequent segments, and corresponding separators, are iteratively concatenated to find segment values. Where a segment is still not found, after iterative concatenation, the initial segment in the concatenation is output as an unfound segment and the subsequent segments are processed further.

Abstract: A method for providing a sensitive text alert includes monitoring a key selected on a keyboard of a computer system. The key selected is reported to a key-logger application executing on the computer system. The reported key selected is appended to a string file. At least one portion of the string file is compared to a database of sensitive words/phrases. An alert is generated when it is determined that the compared at least one portion of the string file matches an entry in the database of sensitive words/phrases. The generated alert is superimposed on a display device of the computer system.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for natural language understanding (NLU) processing based on user-specified interests. Information specifying a weight for each of a plurality of domains is received via a user interface. The plurality of domains each relates to a potential area of interest for the user, and the weight for a domain from among the plurality of domains indicates a level of interest for the user in the domain. A ranking classifier used to rank NLU hypotheses generated by an NLU engine is trained using training data from which features are, at least in part, based on the information specifying a weight for each of the plurality of domains.

Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for processing logical relationships in natural language content. Natural language content is received, upon which a reasoning operation is to be performed. A first parse representation of the natural language content is generated, by a parser, by performing natural language processing on the natural language content. A logical parse of the first parse is generated by identifying latent logical operators within the first parse indicative of logical relationships between elements of the natural language content. A reasoning operation on the logical parse is executed to generate a knowledge output indicative of knowledge associated with one or more of the logical relationships between elements of the natural language content.

Abstract: Systems, methods and apparatus providing language translation of a media stream by deriving, at a media routing device, an initial language plaintext representation of audio information associated with an input media stream, translating the initial language plaintext representation to provide a target language plaintext representation, applying text-to-speech processing to the target language plaintext representation to provide corresponding target language audio information associated with the input media stream, combining the corresponding target language audio information with the received media stream to provide thereby an output media stream.

Abstract: A method and system for indexing, searching, and retrieving information from timed media files based upon relevance intervals. The method and system for indexing, searching, and retrieving this information is based upon relevance intervals so that a portion of a timed media file is returned, which is selected specifically to be relevant to the given information representations, thereby eliminating the need for a manual determination of the relevance and avoiding missing relevant portions. The timed media includes streaming audio, streaming video, timed HTML, animations such as vector-based graphics, slide shows, other timed media, and combinations thereof.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a request for information about a term from a user; obtaining, at one or more processors, one or more characteristics of the user; obtaining, at the one or more processors, a template including a plurality of attributes associated with the term; generating, at the one or more processors and based on the one or more characteristics of the user, a response, the response including a respective description for each attribute of the plurality of attributes in the template; and providing for output, data representing the response.

Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for preserving conceptual distance within unstructured documents by characterizing conceptual relationships. Natural language processing is applied to content in a plurality of documents to identify topics and subjects. Analytic analysis is then applied to the identified topics and subjects to identify concepts. The content in each of the plurality of documents is partitioned into a first structured hierarchy, preserving at least one structure in each document inherent in the each document. Access is then provided to the content through a first index based upon utilizing the first structured hierarchy and through a second index utilizing a second structured hierarchy. The conceptual relationship criteria are based upon a directed graph with weights based upon a similarity and a distance based upon concepts.

Abstract: A method relates to receiving, by a processing device, a document comprising a first topic to be imported into a content management system, calculating a first signature of the first topic in view of content associated with the first topic, determining whether the first topic of the document is substantially similar to at least one of a plurality of topics stored in the content management system by comparing the first signature with a respective signature of the plurality of topics stored in the content management system, and in response to a determination that the first topic of the document is not substantially similar to any of the plurality of topics stored in the content management system, adding the first topic and the content associated with the first topic to the content management system.

Abstract: A system and method for improved navigation of available titles for a streaming media service is disclosed herein. After entering a discovery mode, a list of categories is presented to a user. Once a user selects a category, a list of criteria specific to the selected category is presented. After a user selects a criteria, a list of categories can be shown to the user, limited to those categories available after the criteria was selected. After a second category is selected, then a list of criteria, specific to the previously selected criteria and to the second category, is presented. Each time a user selects a new criteria, the number of titles available to a user is reduced. Such a process can be repeated, further limiting the number of titles shown to the user, until a user finally chooses a media file to view. Other embodiments are also disclosed herein.

Abstract: The invention provides a system and method for integrating multimedia descriptions in a way that allows humans, software components or devices to easily identify, represent, manage, retrieve, and categorize the multimedia content. In this manner, a user who may be interested in locating a specific piece of multimedia content from a database, Internet, or broadcast media, for example, may search for and find the multimedia content. In this regard, the invention provides a system and method that receives multimedia content and separates the multimedia content into separate components which are assigned to multimedia categories, such as image, video, audio, synthetic and text. Within each of the multimedia categories, the multimedia content is classified and descriptions of the multimedia content are generated. The descriptions are then formatted, integrated, using a multimedia integration description scheme, and the multimedia integration description is generated for the multimedia content.

Abstract: Custom communication alert techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a triggering condition is detected by one or more computing devices that is found by searching data using one or more extraction rules of a late-binding schema. Responsive to the detection of the triggering condition of the alert, a communication is formed by the one or more computing devices that corresponds to the alert and that includes one or more tokens based on one or more values of the data taken from fields defined by the one or more extraction rules. The communication is caused to be transmitted by the one or more computing device via a network for receipt by at least one computing device of an intended recipient of the communication.

Abstract: A document ranking apparatus ranking electronic documents (Di) on a file path of a file system taking into account relevance of the documents to a search term (t), the apparatus including: a semantic description generating module generating a semantic description (SDi) of a document using the document contents and to store the description in a semantic description repository; a similarity-based scoring module computing a similarity score based on similarity between the SDi of a document and the term (t); a quality indicator-based scoring module computing a quality score of a document based on completeness, correctness and freshness of the document; a combining module accepting user input for relative weighting of the similarity and quality scores combining the resultant relatively-weighted similarity score and quality score to give a final score for a document; and a ranking module ranking the documents on the file path based on the final score.

Abstract: The subject matter discloses a method for exploring the most relevant data items, or pieces of information from data sources of various forms and sizes, using the accumulated formalized and clustered behavior of previous users combined with an effective analysis and learning system. According to some embodiments, users are presented with data items that may interest them and are encouraged to rank these data items in order to improve the system's suggestions. The system may also pose the user a selection of questions, meant to further discern the user's preferences.

Abstract: A document curation system facilitates finding previously-created objects, such as text and charts, in electronic business documents, such as word processing documents and slide presentations files stored in documents of a separate document storage system. The document curation system enables a user to search for objects, without a priori knowledge of which documents might contain the objects. The system presents found objects, as well as objects that are similar to the found objects, and allows the user to select one or more of the presented objects. The system harmonizes display aspects of the user-selected objects and generates a new document from them. A user can query the document curation system, and the system accesses an index, which stores normalized versions of objects from the document storage systems to fulfill the query.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for ranking channel pages of a host system. Content channels may comprise content relating to a particular category or having a commonality. Explicit data provided by user input, and/or implicit data derived or received from a user device or third party may be used to generate explicit and/or implicit parameters. Based on the parameters, content channels may be ranked and displayed in an order based on the ranking, and/or a home content channel may be identified. The host system may therefore target a user with relevant content.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-executable instructions described herein generally relate to increasing user productivity in reviewing query results by surfacing a set of documents ranked by their relative value calculated as a tabulation of how often they are cited for a specific purpose. A database management system can access an index of metadata corresponding to a set of content items in a corpus/corpora of electronically stored content. A sub-system is configured to receive a query request entered by a user in said interactive GUI.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining when to search a native application corpus for native applications and insert native application search results into a set of general web search results in response to receiving a query.

Abstract: In embodiments of statistics value chart interface row mode drill down, a first interface is displayed in a table format that includes columns each with field values of an event field, and each column having a column heading of a different one of the event fields, and includes rows each with one or more of the field values, where each field value in a row is associated with a different one of the event fields, and each row includes an aggregated metric that represents a number of events having field-value pairs that match all of the one or more field values listed in a respective row and the corresponding event fields listed in the respective columns. A row can be emphasized in the first interface, and in response, a menu is displayed with selectable options to transition to a second interface that displays a listing of the events based on a selected one of the options.

Abstract: A portable electronic device is disclosed comprising: data processing means; data repository containing data records representative of locations relevant to or within a digital map; and display means. The device further comprises means for monitoring a free text search string as it is input by a user of the device; querying the data repository for matching records and generating suggestions selectable by a user to adjust the search, based on the search string as it is input; displaying at least some of any matching records and suggestions on the display; and, in response to receipt of user input indicating a selection of a matching suggestion, adjusting the search accordingly.

Abstract: A hardware accelerator 2 for performing queries into, for example, an indexed text log files is formed of plurality of hardware execution units (text engines) 4, each executing a partial query program upon the same full set of input data. These partial query programs may switch between different query algorithms on up to a per-character basis. The sequence of data when loaded into a buffer memory 16 for querying may be searched for delimiters as the data is loaded. The hardware execution units may support a number match program instruction which serves to identify a numeric variable, and to determine a value of that numeric variable located at a variable position within a sequence of characters being queried.

Abstract: A method performed by an infotainment providing system for providing personalized position-based infotainment in a vehicle is disclosed. The infotainment providing system determines at least a first infotainment category of interest. The infotainment providing system further determines a current position of the vehicle. The infotainment providing system searches at least a first online information source, based on the at least first infotainment category of interest and taking into consideration the determined vehicle position. Then, the infotainment providing system retrieves at least a first piece of media content which falls under the at least first infotainment category of interest and which is associated with the determined vehicle position. The infotainment providing system provides the at least first piece of media content while the vehicle is in the vicinity of the determined vehicle position.

Abstract: An improved apparatus and method for performing snapshots of a logical volume within a block-level storage devices is disclosed. When a snapshot is created, the logical volume manager determines the blocks in the relevant volume that are not allocated and lists those blocks in an exception table. Upon receiving a write request, the volume manager checks the exception table to determine whether the specific block in question is unallocated. If it is allocated, the volume manager performs a copy-on-write for the block for the snapshot. If it is unallocated, the volume manager does not copy the block. This results in significant efficiency, since copy-on-write operations will not be performed for unallocated blocks within a snapshot volume.

Abstract: System and methods to present activity across multiple devices are herein disclosed. A request to access a web page is received from a first device associated with a user. The request includes user credentials for a user account of the user. A second request to access the web page is received from a second device associated with the user. The second request including user credentials for the user account of the user. Session data is received, the session data including data pertaining to user interactions performed by the user with respect to the web page displayed on the first device and the second device. A visualization page is generated using the received session data. And presentation of the visualization page is caused.

Abstract: Systems and techniques for storing, managing and/or displaying industrial data are presented. A controller component stores configuration data associated with a plurality of product types for a product generated based on at least one manufacturing process in a nested data structure. A data interface component manages data corresponding to the configuration data stored in the nested data structure for a data table associated with a spreadsheet application.

Abstract: In one embodiment, contextual information pertaining to a user's context may be ascertained. A request for suggested search queries pertaining to the user's context may be received via a device. One or more key words that are pertinent to the context may be ascertained. One or more suggested search queries may be provided based, at least in part, upon the one or more key words, wherein the one or more suggested search queries are provided for presentation via the device prior to receiving input from the user via a search box of the device.

Abstract: Methods and devices for connecting a mobile device with different data storage devices located either locally or remotely are provided. The device may apply one or more rules to create a hierarchical virtualization of the several data storage devices. The virtualization may then be provided to the user as a single, hierarchical file system. Further, a monitoring system may monitor the file system to determine if any new applications have been installed or if applications are currently being executed. If a connection is made to a secure network, the system may provide the information derived from the monitoring to the secure network. The secure network can then analyze the information to determine if any of the applications should be uninstalled from the device or should be stopped while the device is connected to the network.

Abstract: In one embodiment of the present invention, one or more computer processors create update commands that describe a state change of a resource and include the update commands in a change event for the resource in a change log. Embodiments of the present invention can obviate the need for an indexer to retrieve all triples of a changed resource via HTTP GET requests, and obviate the need for the indexer to replace all triples of a prior version of a changed resource with newly obtained triples.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for logging system events within an electronic machine using an event log structured as a collection of tree-like cause and effect graphs. An event to be logged may be received. A new event node may be created within the event log for the received event. One or more existing event nodes within the event log may be identified as having possibly caused the received event. One or more causal links may be created within the event log between the new event node and the one or more identified existing event nodes. The new event node may be stored as an unattached root node in response to not identifying an existing event node that may have caused the received event.

Abstract: According to embodiments of the present invention, machines, systems, methods and computer program products for hardware acceleration are presented. A plurality of computational nodes for processing data is provided, each node performing a corresponding operation for data received at that node. A metric module is used to determine a compression benefit metric pertaining to performance of the corresponding operations of one or more computational nodes with recompressed data. An accelerator module recompresses data for processing by the one or more computational nodes based on the compression benefit metric indicating a benefit gained by using the recompressed data. A distribution function may be used to distribute data among a plurality of nodes.

Abstract: Computer tool characterised in that it comprises: a working memory (206) to receive input data, an auxiliary memory (204) to store several approximation dictionaries, a reducer (202) arranged for the iterative calculation of the approximation data of the input data, where the successive iterations are of the “matching pursuit” type, a selector (200) arranged to choose an approximation dictionary in the auxiliary memory based on a selection rule based on at least some of the preceding iterations, in which the reducer (202) calls the selector (200) in each iteration, and uses the dictionary thus selected in the adaptive matching.

Abstract: A file accessing system and a file accessing method thereof are provided. The file accessing system includes a storing unit and a processing unit. The storing unit stores a file accessing table which has a file record item. The file record item has a block point field and a key field. The processing unit: decides a storing block and a key of a file, where the storing block stores a data record table having a data record item which has a corresponding key field and a data allocation field; records a block identification of the storing block and the key into the block point field and the key field respectively; stores the file into a segment of the storing block; and records the key and the segment into the corresponding key field and the data allocation field respectively.

Abstract: A system for replicating a filesystem running on multiple nodes comprising an originator system and a replica system. The originator system includes a plurality of nodes. The replica system includes a plurality of nodes and a processor. The plurality of nodes of the replica system are paired with the plurality of nodes of the originator system. The processor is configured to receive an indicator of a node of the plurality of nodes of the replica system finishing replication for a view of a filesystem at a point in time. The processor is further configured to indicate that replication for the view of the filesystem is complete in the event that all replica system nodes have received their indication for the view.