Reporting, Knowledge Discovery (kd) Systems Patents (Class 707/603)
  • Patent number: 8468121
    Abstract: In one example embodiment, a method can include determining resource time data for an update contact data record corresponding to a state of a given resource in a distributed contact center system. A repository can be queried for conflicting data records associated with the given resource based on the resource time data. Any inconsistency for the resource time data can be resolved based on results to the querying and the update contact data record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: ShoreTel, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerry Prusa, Jayaprakash Krishnan, Bhupendra Singh, Raju Viswambharan
  • Patent number: 8463816
    Abstract: The method of administering a knowledge repository described herein establishes combining data input with concurrent data analytics in order to improve the quality and relevance of data entries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michal Skubacz, Sonja Zillner
  • Patent number: 8458119
    Abstract: A people matching system and method matches people in computer-implemented communities in which users subscribe to information generated by other users. The computer-generated suggested matches may be based on inferences of mutual interests, as well as on factors such as proximity and environmental conditions. The inferences of mutual interest may be based on behaviors such as subscriptions and physiological responses. Explanations for the suggested matches may be delivered to users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: ManyWorlds, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Dennis Flinn, Naomi Felina Moneypenny
  • Patent number: 8458121
    Abstract: A method and system are presented in which predisposition predictions are generated for an individual with respect to an attribute indicated in a query. The predictions are based on the identification of predisposing attribute combinations within the attribute profile of the individual and statistical results that indicate the strength of association of the identified attribute combinations with the query attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Expanse Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Alexander Kenedy, Charles Anthony Eldering
  • Patent number: 8458118
    Abstract: The different advantageous embodiments provide a dynamic configuration system comprising a number of networks, a number of imaging devices, and a dynamic host configuration protocol server. The dynamic host configuration protocol server is configured to execute a dynamic configuration process to place the number of imaging devices into the number of networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Gordon L. Hale, Rudy Charles Wells
  • Patent number: 8458120
    Abstract: A people matching system and method matches people in response to a search request. The computer-generated suggested matches may be based on inferences of mutual interests, as well as on factors such as proximity and environmental conditions. The inferences of mutual interest may be based on behaviors such as subscriptions and physiological responses. Explanations for the suggested matches may be delivered to users, including behavioral information on which the suggested matches are based.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: ManyWorlds, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Dennis Flinn, Naomi Felina Moneypenny
  • Patent number: 8453053
    Abstract: A method is provided for generating reports for a computer monitored or aided environment that has a server-side module, a client-side module and a database, the server-side module, client-side module and database being interconnected, The method includes creating a report layout, the report layout containing a predefined number of dynamic fields at predetermined positions; associating, at the server-side, each dynamic field with a data source; collecting, at the server-side, information for each dynamic field according to the associated data source; storing the information in the database; and displaying the information for each dynamic field on a display according to the report layout. The report layout is shared universally for the generation of a displayed report and a printed report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: ECAVA Sdn. Bhd.
    Inventors: Kwee Hui Lee, Foot Yow Wong, Kin Hoon Wong, Kok Peng Lee
  • Patent number: 8452725
    Abstract: The present invention discloses methods, systems, and tools for knowledge processing by building maps of ontological subjects for compositions or the contents accompanying a request for service by a user. In one embodiment of the invention the method assigns and calculates an ontological subject power spectrum to each composition or ontological subject. The resulting power spectrum and the adjacency matrix of the map are used to evaluate the merits of the compositions in the context of reference universes. It is also used as a research guiding tool for knowledge discovery. The invention serves knowledge seekers, knowledge creators, inventors, discoverer, as well as general public by assisting and guiding users to assess their work, identify their unknowns, optimize their research trajectory, and provide higher quality contents. The method and system, thereby, is instrumental in increasing the speed and efficiency of knowledge acquisition, discovery, retrieval, as well as faster learning and problem solving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Hamid Hatami-Hanza
    Inventor: Hamid Hatami-Hanza
  • Patent number: 8452724
    Abstract: Techniques for generating reports from cached data are provided. When a report is requested, a date and time when data in the report data cache was generated is compared with a date and time when data was collected by each of one or more data collectors that gather data used to generate the report data. If one of the data collectors has collected data since the data for the report in the report data cache has been updated, the data for the requested report will be regenerated from the data collected from each of the data collectors associated with the report and the regenerated data inserted into the report data cache. Subsequent requests for the report can be satisfied by generating the report using the data stored in the report data cache rather than regenerating the report data each time a request for a report is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Prakash Menon, Saravanan Ramasamy
  • Publication number: 20130124455
    Abstract: A method for hybrid Discovery Library Adapter (DLA) book processing identifies a first logical group in a first DLA book, the first DLA book including a first set of objects constructed according to a Common Data Model (CDM) specification to represent a first set of corresponding instances of resources at a first time, the first logical group being a grouping of related subset of the first set of objects. A first value corresponding to the first logical group, and usable for ascertaining a difference between the first logical group and a second logical group in a second DLA book, is computed. A second value corresponding to the second logical group is computed and matched with the first value. If matched, a change in the first logical group as compared to the second logical group is identified and output to a DLA delta book.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: ERIC E. GOODSON, William Paul Hampel, Santiago D. Ortega, Lorin E. Ullmann
  • Patent number: 8442936
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for generating a table comprising generating means for generating a table which contains at least a column or line depicting one or more first categories and at least a column or line depicting first values associated with said first categories and wherein the system further comprises selecting means for selecting one of said first categories by a user and adding means for enlarging the table upon selection of a category by said selecting means, said adding means being adapted to enlarge the table by adding a new column or line which comprises second categories into which said selected first category may be subdivided as well as second values associated with said second categories and wherein said new column or line does not comprise categories into which non selected first categories may be subdivided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Inventor: Nicolas Bissantz
  • Publication number: 20130117218
    Abstract: An electronic discovery (eDiscovery) application is used in managing an electronic discovery process across different electronic data sources using a central interface. The eDiscovery application assists in managing: authentication support for the different data sources; accessing the different data sources; placing holds on content across the different data sources; searching and filtering content across the different data sources; gathering data across the data sources; and the like. The eDiscovery application may be configured as an application on premise, a cloud based service and/or a combination of a cloud based service and an application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: John D. Fan, Adam David Harmetz, Sridharan Venkatramani Ramanathan, Julian Zbogar-Smith, Thottam R. Sriram, Zainal Arifin, Anupama Janardhan, Ramanathan Somasundaram, Jessica Anne Alspaugh, Bradley Stevenson, Michal Piaseczny, Quentin Christensen
  • Publication number: 20130117219
    Abstract: The subject disclosure relates to a knowledge-driven data quality solution that is based on a rich knowledge base. The data quality solution can provide continuous improvement and can be based on continuous (or on-going) knowledge acquisition. The data quality solution can be built once and can be reused for multiple data quality improvements, which can be for the same data or for similar data. The disclosed aspects are easy to use and focus on productivity and user experience. Further, the disclosed aspects are open and extendible and can be applied to cloud-based reference data (e.g., a third party data source) and/or user generated knowledge. According to some aspects, the disclosed aspects can be integrated with data integration services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joseph Malka, Elad Ziklik, Efim Hudis, Meir Raviv, Gadi Peleg, Ronen Yaari
  • Patent number: 8437906
    Abstract: A method for creating a maintenance release (MR) record containing operational status information for a mobile platform. The method may involve electronically accessing a database to acquire operational items relating to operational worthiness of the mobile platform, displaying the selected operational items to the user; and performing a synchronization check of the database system. The synchronization check verifies that the selected operational items represent the most recently stored information in the database system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Steven J. Yukawa, Rajit Jain, Tim W. Anstey
  • Publication number: 20130103638
    Abstract: A method analyzes event patterns in multi-dimensional data and based on this analysis of the event patterns computes a hierarchical event pattern query from another hierarchical event pattern query. The method executes the hierarchical event pattern query on the multi-dimensional data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Inventors: Chetan Kumar Gupta, Song Wang, Abhay Mehta, Mo Liu, Elke Rundensteiner
  • Patent number: 8429119
    Abstract: A method includes classifying a relationship between a first party and each of one or more additional parties based on at least one of a number of communications between the first party and each of the one or more additional parties over a time period and a frequency of the communications between the first party and each of the one or more additional parties over the time period. The method includes generating first social network data based on the relationship between the first party and each of the one or more additional parties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Sreenivasa Gorti, Robert Dailey, Ankur Mukerji, Scott Thomas
  • Patent number: 8423502
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for permitting an upgrade of extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes, independent of a customization performed by a user. In operation, one or more ETL processes are identified. Additionally, a user is permitted to customize the one or more ETL processes. Further, an upgrade of the one or more ETL processes is permitted and enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Amdocs Software Systems Limited
    Inventors: Elad Degany, Yossi Levin
  • Patent number: 8423503
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a knowledge annotation result checking system and method. The knowledge annotation result checking system comprises: a receiving unit for receiving a knowledge annotation result; and a checking unit, for comparing the received knowledge annotation result with information within a tag registration database to obtain comparison information. According to the present invention, inconsistent tag information can be detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: NEC (China) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Qiangze Feng, Toshikazu Fukushima, Hongwei Qi
  • Patent number: 8412541
    Abstract: An Intelligent Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis (IQQA) system and method is disclosed that allows a user to specify certain identifying information used to search and obtain medically-related information from different sources. The medically-related information may be of different types and may be dynamically fused, when needed, to generate matrices of diagnostic information. Medical decisions such as a diagnostic decision may be made based on such matrices of diagnostic information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Edda Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jianzhong Qian, Guo-Qing Wei, Li Fan
  • Patent number: 8412736
    Abstract: Systems and methods that extend the use of data mining to identify students academically at risk of performing poorly or withdrawing from school altogether. In doing so, academically at-risk students are identified early and guided to resources to improve their academic performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Kimberly E. Arnold, John P. Campbell
  • Patent number: 8407179
    Abstract: A method of determining influence of a member within an overall dataset may include functions which capture, aggregate, analyze and visually present the relationships and influence that members of a dataset or collection, such as individual persons, websites, applications and/or machines, exercise over one another based on interaction, behavioral and demographic factors, etc. The calculated results of influence may be employed for the tracking of content and/or marketing, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: TRUEANTHEM Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Hart, Joseph Chandra Wilkerson
  • Patent number: 8402098
    Abstract: A computing system for intelligence gathering and analysis includes a computer-based remote avatar rendering and maintenance module, a self-directed data gathering and communication module, a remote personalized data stream analysis module, and a database. The avatar rendering and maintenance module provides an indicator for users to select targeted data streams presented as weapon icons that includes user-selected analysis priorities and threshold attributes of the targeted data. The self-directed data gathering and communication module provides administration programs that coordinate and control the timing and execution of commercially available web search, crawler, and messaging applications. The personalized data stream analysis module provides administration programs that coordinate and control the timing and execution of data consolidation, workflow and scoring programs related to the analysis module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Inventor: Clark C. Dircz
  • Patent number: 8401992
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention may provide a computing platform, a business rules engine, a method, a system, and a user interface for building a computing platform, where each is based on a hierarchy of nested data structures and an application programming interface defining functions. The functions comprise at least one function for nesting one or more data structures within the contents of an enclosing data structures such that nesting the one or more data structures within the contents of the enclosing data structures results in a hierarchy of nested data structures; at least one function for removing one or more data structures from the contents of the enclosing data structures; at least one function for retrieving one or more data structures from the contents of the enclosing data structures; and at least one function for modifying the contents of one or more data structures. Each of the functions may receive a data structures as a parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: IT Actual, Sdn. Bhd.
    Inventor: Greg Hamel
  • Patent number: 8401991
    Abstract: An un-indexed, partitioned temporary table and an exchange table are used in the inferencing of semantic data in a relational database system. The exchange table has the same structure as a semantic data table storing the semantic data. In the inferencing process, a new partition is created in the semantic data table. Inference rules are executed on the semantic data table, and any newly inferred semantic data generated is added to the temporary table. Once no new data is generated, the inferred semantic data is copied from the temporary table into the exchange table. Indexes that are the same as indexes for the semantic data table are built for the exchange table. The indexed data in the exchange table is then exchanged into the new partition in the semantic data table. By use of the un-indexed, partitioned temporary table, incremental maintenance of indexes is avoided, thus allowing for greater efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Zhe Wu, George Eadon, Souripriya Das, Eugene Inseok Chong, Vladimir Kolovski, Melliyal Annamalai, Jagannathan Srinivasan
  • Patent number: 8396828
    Abstract: Distributed and local processes analyze usage data and transform it into objects including timestamps and dimensions. Objects include a position vector to represent dimension analysis and additional attributes associated with measurements of different types. The objects are stored in a multidimensional database indexed on the vector and timestamp attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Ball, Chinna Polinati, Chenlei Guo, Pravjit Tiwana
  • Patent number: 8392358
    Abstract: A method/system considers the phenomenon of slowly changing dimensions in the process of reporting on facts of a collection of facts organized as, or otherwise accessible according to, a dimensionally-modeled fact collection. A report query specifies a temporal mode, and the specified temporal mode is processed to determine a time extent descriptor (e.g., in view of at least one of a context, in which the report query is made, and at least one dimension coordinate constraint). A processed result of querying the dimensionally-modeled fact collection includes appropriate indications of dimension coordinates in view of the time information from the time extent descriptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: NICE Systems Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Todd O. Dampier, Robert Todd Hunter, III, William Banks Shulman
  • Patent number: 8392359
    Abstract: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to analyze a query associated with a report to identify query clauses. The query is applied against a data source that does not have a specified time dimension. An optimized audit log is formed from an existing audit log to store data changes of interest at the data source and temporal values associated with the data changes, where each data change corresponds to a query clause. A state table is constructed to specify the state of each query clause. Records in the optimized audit log are processed by temporal value to produce updated state tables. Transition tables are derived from the updated state tables to associate temporal values with data changes at the data source that impact a result produced by the query. Trend data is then supplied from the transition tables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventors: Tony O'Donnell, Louay Gargoum
  • Patent number: 8381167
    Abstract: A business service discovery (BSD) system, implemented as programming on a processor, provides for discovering, formatting, and storing configuration information related to a business service. The BSD system uses a discovery engine to create a search methodology used for discovering the configuration information. The discovery engine controls a number of discovery components, each of which includes a definition of a corresponding BSD class model. The BSD system further includes a universal configuration management database (uCMDB) graph engine that creates a uCMDB graph representing a system discovered by the discovery component, and an input module that receives hints and conditions related to one or more elements of the business service, wherein a completed discovery search produces a business service structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Emil Shmul
  • Patent number: 8374996
    Abstract: An indication of a topic of interest is received. Multiple pieces of content are accessed, and the indication of the topic of interest is compared to the pieces of content. Based on comparing the indication of the topic of interest to the pieces of content, a piece of content is identified as being relevant to the topic of interest. An identifier is identified for an author of the piece of content. Contact information for each of multiple authors including identifiers therefor is accessed, and the identifier for the author is compared to the identifiers included in the contact information. Based on results of comparing the identifier for the author to the identifiers included in the contact information, contact information corresponding to the author is identified. Thereafter, an indication of the identity of the author and at least some of the identified contact information corresponding to the author is returned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: eNR Services Inc.
    Inventors: Kurt Strumpf, Jon Victor
  • Patent number: 8352417
    Abstract: A system, method and program product for managing data for researchers. A research data server receives and manages experimental data and research data and results from the researchers, and operates with a virtual storage device to maintain the experimental data and research data and results. A reference data access server receives and manages external reference data relating to the research and operating with the virtual storage device to maintain the external reference data. Computational resources allow researchers to capture, process and analyze experimental data to obtain results. A research data network connects the virtual storage device, research data server, reference data access server and the computational resources to allow transfer of data there between. Security management services authenticate and authorize access by the researchers to the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ock Kee Baek, Carl Stephen Ewig
  • Publication number: 20120317072
    Abstract: A computer-readable, non-transitory medium stores the system analysis program which can accurately analyze the operational status of a system without modifying functions of the system for providing services. A message analysis unit analyzes the contents of collected messages, and determines the times of occurrence of the messages, the process types requested by the messages, and whether or not each of the messages is a request message or a response message. In response to an instruction for model generation, a model generation unit generates a transaction model satisfying at least one limiting condition related to caller-called relationships between processes, based on a set of messages selected in accordance with a selection criterion based on the certainty of existence of caller-called relationships. Then, in response to an instruction for analysis, an analysis unit analyzes the processing status of a transaction based on a protocol log conforming to the transaction model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Lilian Harada, Nobuhiro Yugami, Kenichi Kobayashi, Hiroshi Otsuka, Ken Yokoyama, Riichiro Take, Kazumi Kubota, Yuuji Hotta, Naoki Akaboshi
  • Publication number: 20120310877
    Abstract: A method of timing and recording user activity in a knowledge archival and recollection system, the method comprising: configuring an activity tracking means; logging into the knowledge archival and recollection system; prompting the user with a task identifier input interface upon opening an application user interface; initiating a timer upon input into the input interface; stopping the timer upon inactive application interface; and storing timer data into a database server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventor: George Eagan
  • Patent number: 8326857
    Abstract: A business intelligence (BI) server and repository are described which support a set of hierarchical relationships among the data. The BI server receives user input specifying a set of parent-child or other ancestral relationship among a set of data in a data source. The BI server generates a set of SQL queries and executes the queries to pre-populate a set of tables which specify the parent child relationships among the data in the data source. One such table is a parent-child relationship closure table that defines the inter-member relationships among the data members. Once the tables are populated, the BI server uses the closure tables to answer queries that require knowledge of the ancestral relationships among data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Roger Bolsius, Raghuram Venkatasubramanian, Ling Ni, Donko Donjerkovic, Saugata Chowdhury
  • Publication number: 20120284224
    Abstract: Architecture that defines domain knowledge on networks, such as the Internet, as tables where each row is an entity in the target domain and each column is an attribute of these entities. The corresponding values for entity-attribute pairs are the domain knowledge. The architecture provides semi-automatic and systematic ways to extract network knowledge from at least an unstructured and semi-structured network (the Internet), structuralizes the knowledge in table format, and uses the domain tables to build the online updated knowledge base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jun Yan, Lei Ji, Ning Liu, Zhimin Zhang, Zheng Chen
  • Patent number: 8306945
    Abstract: A method, system and medium for organizing and associating log records into logically related groups is described. One or more input sources from, possibly, different systems/subsystems are input to a log correlation method. As the log records are processed the fields are interrogated to determine which log records are related to each other. As further log records are processed more information about previously unidentifiable relationships is determined. After this later information is known, log records that could previously not be associated with any other log records are added to the existing association. The system engineer is therefore presented with the pertinent information for monitoring, administrating and diagnosing system activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: BMC Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Larry Morris, Dale G. Wood
  • Patent number: 8301585
    Abstract: A system includes reception of metadata associated with one or more measures, determination of a compatibility of the two or more measures based on the metadata, and determination of a first score associated with a first visualization based on the compatibility. Some aspects include determination of a second score associated with a second visualization based on the compatibility, comparison of the first score and the second score, and recommendation of one of the first visualization or the second visualization based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Business Objects Software Limited
    Inventors: Nicolas Mourey, Aurélien Theraud
  • Patent number: 8301584
    Abstract: Disclosed in a method and structure for searching data in databases using an ensemble of models. First the invention performs training. This training orders models within the ensemble in order of prediction accuracy and joins different numbers of models together to form sub-ensembles. The models are joined together in the sub-ensemble in the order of prediction accuracy. Next in the training process, the invention calculates confidence values of each of the sub-ensembles. The confidence is a measure of how closely results form the sub-ensemble will match results from the ensemble. The size of each of the sub-ensembles is variable depending upon the level of confidence, while, to the contrary, the size of the ensemble is fixed. After the training, the invention can make a prediction. First, the invention selects a sub-ensemble that meets a given level of confidence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Wei Fan, Haixun Wang, Philip S. Yu
  • Patent number: 8296334
    Abstract: Documents having a structured nature such as contracts, legislation, etc. can be graphically depicted to emphasize their logical structure. A document map may graphically show clauses of a document as nodes with the requirements of the clause as branch structures from the nodes. The requirement elements of a clause may be logically linked by a logical operator for the clause, such as AND, OR, NOT etc. Each requirement element may include a validation field that allows a user to indicate whether a requirement has been validated. Validation of the clause can be calculated based on the validation field values, typically Boolean values, and based on the logical operator. The validation map may be used to determine compliance with a document, costs of compliance, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Inventor: Nathan Joel McDonald
  • Patent number: 8296259
    Abstract: The present invention relates to inventory management solutions, and in particular, to methods and systems for inventorying items over wireless and data networks, using digital imaging, positioning, and data terminals. The user experience in performing inventory management is simplified and enhanced over existing methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Inventors: David Scott Trandal, David J. Brahm
  • Patent number: 8290811
    Abstract: A computing system for searching for and identifying data repository deficits includes an interactive database of items, a data repository that stores a first type of information related to items, a search engine configured to identify items that do not have an amount of the first type of information that meets a first threshold, a candidate selection interface that provides functionality for the user to select an item from recommended candidate items needing the first type of information, a user interface via which the user can provide the first type of information for an item selected by the user, a game system configured to calculate for a game scores and rankings based at least in part on data stored in the data repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James G. Robinson, Terrence R. Nightingale, Scott Allen Mongrain
  • Patent number: 8290895
    Abstract: An improved handheld electronic device having a reduced keyboard provides facilitated language entry by making available to a user certain words that a user may reasonably be expected to enter. In some situations, certain words can be stored, for example, in a temporary dictionary for use in particular situations. For instance, the names of the recipients of an electronic message might be stored in a temporary dictionary for rapid retrieval when entering a salutation in the message. As another example, a number of the words in an existing electronic message may be stored in a temporary dictionary and made available to a user when replying to or forwarding the message since the existing message might include words that the user might reasonably be expected to type in the reply message or the forwarded message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventor: George V. Babu
  • Patent number: 8280842
    Abstract: A system and method which may be implemented at least partly by a computer, are provided for developing a support system. A virtual representation of a device is generated for display on a user interface. Links between components of the virtual representation, which represent components of the device, and corresponding cases in a searchable knowledge base (SKB) are stored. Users can navigate the SKB in search of a solution to a problem with the device with the assistance of the virtual representation which enables actuation of the existing links. The users are able to create new links, each new link linking a component of the virtual representation with a case in the SKB which the user identifies as providing a solution to the problem with the device which is related to the component. The new link is stored for future use by the user or by other users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Frederic Roulland, Pascal Valobra, Ye Deng, Stefania Castellani, Jacki O'Neill
  • Patent number: 8280841
    Abstract: Stage determination apparatus including storage and processor includes: bibliographic database integrating heterogeneous resources; feature-set creation module calculating feature values of predefined features by searching the bibliographic database, and creating feature-set of each technology using the feature values, for technologies on technology lifecycle; answer-feature-set creation module calculating common feature value of feature sets of technologies belonging to the same stage in the technology lifecycle and creating answer-feature-set of each stage; stage determination module that, if technology is inputted, acquires feature values and creates feature-set for predefined features by searching the bibliographic database for the technology, compares corresponding feature value in the feature-set of the technology with feature value according to feature selection flow in previous decision tree according to the feature selection flow, and determines a stage having feature value finally selected according
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information
    Inventors: Han Min Jung, Won Kyung Sung, Pyung Kim, Mi Kyung Lee, Seung Woo Lee, Dong Min Seo
  • Publication number: 20120246111
    Abstract: This invention illustrates a computer system to rapidly develop and deploy a business intelligence system for enterprises of various sizes with minimal human effort. The said computer system, based on certain information gathered from existing artifacts and certain new artifacts, intelligently generates and deploys the business intelligence reporting, analytics with minimal human effort.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Inventor: Sona Raja
  • Patent number: 8275740
    Abstract: Subject matter disclosed herein may relate to electronic form processing systems and/or techniques, and may more particularly relate to data linkage for electronic forms. In one or more example embodiments, form data associated with one or more forms may be stored in a first database. The structures for one or more electronic forms may be defined, at least in part, by metadata stored in a second database. The one or more electronic forms may be generated based at least in part on the structures defined by the metadata from the second database and may be displayed using one or more subsets of the form data from the first database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Mardon E.D.P. Consultants, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald G. McKeny, Jose Ramon Rosario
  • Patent number: 8275739
    Abstract: The invention described herein provides a load engine and method for efficiently accomplishing mass conversions of customer data into an existing customer database. In particular, the method incorporates existing business rules for validating new customer data and for creating tables for the new customer data, creates load files for the new customer data, and provides a means for running multi-threaded data loads of the new customer data tables onto an existing customer database. The disclosure further provides a method for gathering data regarding the status of a data load or conversion and creating a user interface for tracking the progress of a specific data load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Sushil Golani, Raja Gottumukkala, Kent Steger, Satish Dandamudi, Sangeetha Mohan, Johnson Althial
  • Publication number: 20120239613
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for generating an ensemble model from multiple data sources. In one embodiment, the ensemble model is generated using a global validation sample, a global holdout sample and base models generated from the multiple data sources. An accuracy value may be determined for each base model, on the basis of the global validation dataset. The ensemble model may be generated from a subset of the base models, where the subset is selected on the basis of the determined accuracy values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Marius I. Danciu, Fan Li, Michael McRoberts, Jing-Yun Shyr, Damir Spisic, Jing Xu
  • Patent number: 8271431
    Abstract: Described is a method and system for retrieving and serving the regulatory history of a property. An identification of data sources for permits and approvals is stored in a computer system. Property identifiers from the data sources are stored in the computer system. The system identifies the types of permit and approval data available from each of the data sources for each of the property identifiers. A determination can be made of the completeness of the regulatory history available for each property associated with each of said property identifiers. The system receives a request for the regulatory history of at least one of the properties associated with the property identifiers. A web page is populated with a list of the regulatory history for the property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Unearthed Land Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Charles C. Carrington
  • Patent number: 8271426
    Abstract: A method includes storing a first value for one or more measures in a block of data for the cube of data. The first value is a value where the state of the cube is that no changes are applicable to the block of data. A second value is stored for the one or more measures in the block of data. The second value is a delta value representing changes made to the block of data based on the first value. A change is received to the block. A computer processor then calculates a new second value based on the change to the block. The new second value is stored in place of the second value previously stored while the first value remains the same. The second value represents the cumulative changes to the measure since the frozen value was determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventor: Kumar Ramaiyer
  • Patent number: 8266097
    Abstract: A computer-readable, non-transitory medium stores the system analysis program which can accurately analyze the operational status of a system without modifying functions of the system for providing services. A message analysis unit analyzes the contents of collected messages, and determines the times of occurrence of the messages, the process types requested by the messages, and whether or not each of the messages is a request message or a response message. In response to an instruction for model generation, a model generation unit generates a transaction model satisfying at least one limiting condition related to caller-called relationships between processes, based on a set of messages selected in accordance with a selection criterion based on the certainty of existence of caller-called relationships. Then, in response to an instruction for analysis, an analysis unit analyzes the processing status of a transaction based on a protocol log conforming to the transaction model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Lilian Harada, Nobuhiro Yugami, Kenichi Kobayashi, Hiroshi Otsuka, Ken Yokoyama, Riichiro Take, Kazumi Kubota, Yuuji Hotta, Naoki Akaboshi