Filtering Data Patents (Class 707/754)
  • Patent number: 8943091
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for performing a string search. In use, a first string and a second string are identified. Additionally, a string search is performed, utilizing the first string and the second string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Jacopo Pantaleoni, David Tarjan
  • Patent number: 8943071
    Abstract: Techniques for automatic sort and propagation of information relating to electronic documents are presented. With regard to an electronic document, such as an incoming message, an enhanced information management component (EIMC) can analyze the document to identify a file folder associated with a subject to which the document relates. Based on interaction with or tagging of the document in a first user interface (UI) and predefined user preferences, the EIMC can propagate information relating to the subject and/or document to a second UI. The EIMC can archive the document in the identified file folder automatically or in response to as little as one UI control manipulation. The EIMC can analyze audio or video content to facilitate tagging and archiving of such content using the first UI and propagation of information relating to such content and/or related subject to a second UI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Michael Bishop
  • Patent number: 8943062
    Abstract: A first server is configured to receive one or more summarized data groups from a second server. Each summarized data group may include: information regarding a quantity of a group of records, where the group of records includes records associated with a record type and a time interval; information regarding a quantity of records associated with an indicator within the group of records; and information regarding a failure rate associated with the group of records based on the quantity of records associated with the group of records and the quantity of records associated with the indicator within the group of records. The first server is further configured to determine a threshold based on the summarized data groups and based on the failure rates associated with the summarized data groups and send an indication to the client device based on determining that the failure rate does not satisfy the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Cellco Partnership
    Inventors: Jeffrey L. Baumgartner, Eric W. Baumgartner, Michael W. Monsey
  • Publication number: 20150026271
    Abstract: A system for event notification and information posting (1) comprises a data processing means (2) for receiving the information of an event and merging the event information with a notification, a transmitting means (3) for transmitting the notification to a receiver, a feedback processing means (4) for receiving a feedback from the receiver and filtering the contents of the feedback, a responding means (5) for responding to the feedback from the receiver, an information posting means (6) for posting and displaying the event notification and the feedback from the receiver at a displaying means, and a data storing means (7) for storing the event information, the notification, and the feedback. The system (1) further comprises a reminding means (8) for managing the dates and anniversaries of the event and for reminding the receiver the dates and anniversaries of the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: E-OBITUARY SDN BHD
    Inventors: Chee Chung CHEONG, Kevin Boon Keng LEOW, Hon Siang CHUNG
  • Publication number: 20150019512
    Abstract: Systems and methods disclosed herein provide intelligent filtering of system log messages having low utility value. In providing the filtering, the systems and methods determine the utility value of a system log message and delete the message from the system log if the message is determined to be of low utility value. As such, embodiments herein provide an system log filter, which reduces the amount of data stored in the system log based on the utility value of the message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Jayanta Basak, Nagesh Panyam Chandrasekarasastry
  • Publication number: 20150019575
    Abstract: Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer-readable storage media for filtering feed content in an enterprise social networking system into user-customizable feed channels. Each feed channel is defined by a criterion or criteria customized by a user. Feed content published to one or more feeds is accessed. Portions of the feed content are identified that satisfy a criterion or criteria of a feed channel. A user device is operable to process data to display a list of the feed channels. Each feed channel in the displayed list is user-selectable to cause the display of the feed channel to include only the portion of feed content satisfying the criterion or criteria of the selected feed channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Alexandre Dayon, Anna Bonner Mieritz, Scott Peter Perket, Richard L. Spencer, II, Lorne Keith Trudeau, Craig Villamor, William Gradin
  • Publication number: 20150019557
    Abstract: Systems and methods of dynamically processing an event using an extensible data model are disclosed. One embodiment includes, specifying attributes of the event in a data model; the data model being extensible to add properties to the event as the dataset is streamed from the source to the sink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Jonathan Ming-Cyn Hsieh, Henry Noel Robinson
  • Patent number: 8935263
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments provide a reputation system. The reputation system includes a scoring apparatus that provides a matrix of reputation scores for a set of items and a set of dimensions of the items in the reputation system, wherein the matrix comprises unknown values for a subset of the reputation scores. The reputation system also includes an inference apparatus that calculates a factorization of the matrix and uses the factorization to update the matrix with a set of inferred values for the set of reputation scores. Finally, the reputation system includes a ranking apparatus that uses the updated matrix to obtain a ranking of the items by one or more of the dimensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: LinkedIn Corporation
    Inventors: Mario S. Rodriguez, Viet Thuc Ha, Jessica V. Zuniga, Mathieu Bastian, Michael Conover
  • Patent number: 8935265
    Abstract: A method, device and system for acquiring information related to annotations and the content of a document. Annotations are isolated from document content and are associated with portions of the content of the document. Annotations and content are used as a basis for a semantic search of a corpus of other documents. From the corpus, related information is extracted and presented or made available along side of or with the original content and annotations of the document. Each version of a document is stored and made accessible. Any of the versions of a document, with or without a current set of annotations, may be distributed to others for further review and annotation. Annotations are protected and associated with a level of privilege or rights. Annotations are trackable over time and location and are associated with a particular annotator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: ABBYY Development LLC
    Inventor: Ding-Yuan Tang
  • Patent number: 8935279
    Abstract: Various aspects described or referenced herein are directed to different methods, systems, and computer program products relating to multi-media management and streaming techniques implemented over a computer network, including, for example, one or more features and/or functions relation to one or more of the following (or combinations thereof): venue-based streaming radio stations, mobile user graphical user interfaces, creation and streaming of dynamic streaming radio stations based on a user's geolocation, ticketing and reservations, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Opus Deli, Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne Donald Maddock Skeen, Christopher Thomas Ross, Howard Gregg Cockrill, Sara Anne Mertz, Matthew Paul Smith, David Mendel Mayeri
  • Publication number: 20150012520
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for performing a search function by selecting a specific text displayed on a screen are provided. The method includes selecting a text displayed on a screen, extracting search keywords from the selected text and displaying the extracted search keywords, recognizing selection of at least one of the displayed search keywords, and performing a search using the at least one selected search keyword. Accordingly, a user can easily and conveniently search for desired information without directly inputting a search keyword in the search window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Jinwan AN, Jeongseob KIM, Jiwoong OH
  • Patent number: 8930361
    Abstract: An approach is provided for cleaning data sets for a search process. The cleanup platform determines one or more reference documents associated with at least one region. Next, the cleanup platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of the one or more reference documents to determine a frequency distribution of one or more candidate stop words with respect to the at least one region. Then, the cleanup platform causes, at least in part, selection of one or more stop words applicable to the at least one region from the one or more candidate stop words based, at least in part, on one or more frequency distribution criteria. Additionally, the cleanup platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of at least one data set associated with a search process to generate at least one enhanced data set by filtering the one or more stop words from the at least one data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Jarkko Heinonen, Ashish Kumar Agrawal, Ross Turner
  • Patent number: 8930341
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a mobile electronic system that gathers and analyzes odors, airborne chemicals and/or compounds. A signature or representation of the odors, airborne chemicals and/or compounds can be generated. Extrinsic data associated with the odors, airborne chemicals and/or compounds or capturing the odors, airborne chemicals and/or compounds can be identified. A model can be generated based on the representation and the extrinsic data. Filters can be generated based on the extrinsic data. The model can be searched for candidate matches, solutions, or other results based on the representation and the filters. Results can be generated based on the search and candidate matches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Inventors: Alexander Himanshu Amin, Himanshu Subhash Amin
  • Patent number: 8930349
    Abstract: A technique for enhancing and improving the usability of search engine search results that are presented to a user who has requested information using such search engine, by either eliminating, or alternatively distinguishing, web-page/web-site identifiers such as universal resource locators (URLs) from a search result list presented to the user when the web-page/web-site is not currently accessible by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Internationl Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Francis Best, Robert James Eggers, Jr., Janice Marie Girouard
  • Patent number: 8930243
    Abstract: A process, system and computer software are provided to facilitate at least one recommendation to one or more users and/or one or more applications using multidimensional data. In particular, a multidimensional space is defined, wherein each dimension is capable of providing variable information. At least one dimension corresponds to user profiles. The multidimensional space is filled with multidimensional data corresponding to dimensions of the multidimensional space. Then, information from the multidimensional space is retrieved. Further, the recommendation is generated based on the retrieved information. In addition, it is possible to generate a recommendation-specific query. This can be performed by generating the recommendation-specific query to access a multidimensional cube and retrieve data stored therein. Then, the recommendation can be issued based on the data retrieved from the multidimensional cube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Tuzhilin, Gediminas Adomavicius
  • Publication number: 20150006519
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure are directed towards automatically inferring the significant parts of bug reports, including by querying a knowledge base built by mining information from a large number of earlier bug reports. Common phrases in the earlier bug reports are filtered to provide a subset of phrases relevant to a bug domain, which are stored in the knowledge base and mapped to an ontology model of the knowledge base. When a new bug report is received for inference/analysis, the phrases therein are tagged based upon the ontology model, and the knowledge base queried with the tagged phrases to determine problems, activities and actions that are likely related to the new bug report.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Navendu Jain, Rahul Potharaju
  • Publication number: 20150006553
    Abstract: In accordance with aspects of the disclosure, systems and methods are provided for managing context aware recommendations by providing recommendations to a user in response to a query related to the user by integrating contextual information of a context related to the user in a recommendation model while considering a granular structure of the context and the contextual information thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: SAP AG
    Inventors: Wen-Syan Li, Xingtian Shi
  • Patent number: 8924399
    Abstract: A system comprising a client application configured to receive input targeting an identifier of a first page history entry, and obtain, from a client-side memory, the first page history entry and generate a second page history entry comprising a second resource location and a second client-side parameter. The client application is further configured to store the second page history entry in the client-side memory and send, to a server application, a request comprising the first resource location retrieved from the first page history entry. The client application is further configured to receive first resource data from the server application in response to the request, apply the client-side parameter to the first resource data to obtain reformed first resource data, and generate a second page comprising the reformed first resource data and the page history list listing an identifier of the second page history entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Intuit Inc.
    Inventors: Teresa Lynn Roberts, Victoria Dolginsky, Syed Yousuf Haider
  • Patent number: 8924396
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, computer-readable medium and system for scoring a text are disclosed. Themes within one or more texts may be determined and used to score each text, where an overall score for each text may indicate a respective importance and/or value of each text. The score for each text may be determined based upon a number of themes, type of themes, frequency of theme elements associated with the themes, distribution of theme elements associated with the themes, location of themes in the text, some combination thereof, etc. In this manner, the importance or value of one or more texts may be determined more accurately using information within each text with reduced reliance upon external information. Additionally, more relevant search results can be returned to a user by using internal information to perform ranking operations and/or filtering operations associated with a search.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Lexxe Pty Ltd.
    Inventor: Hong Liang Qiao
  • Patent number: 8924264
    Abstract: A process, system and computer software are provided to facilitate at least one recommendation to one or more users and/or one or more applications using multidimensional data. In particular, a multidimensional space is defined, wherein each dimension is capable of providing variable information. At least one dimension corresponds to user profiles. The multidimensional space is filled with multidimensional data corresponding to dimensions of the multidimensional space. Then, information from the multidimensional space is retrieved. Further, the recommendation is generated based on the retrieved information. In addition, it is possible to generate a recommendation-specific query. This can be performed by generating the recommendation-specific query to access a multidimensional cube and retrieve data stored therein. Then, the recommendation can be issued based on the data retrieved from the multidimensional cube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Tuzhilin, Gediminas Adomavicius
  • Patent number: 8924385
    Abstract: A method for providing a query-based diagrammatic presentation of data includes generating a filter element that defines a set of groups and includes a set of declarative queries that define information to be included in the set of groups. The filter element is applied to a data source, which includes performing the set of declarative queries on the data source, thereby generating a set of query results for each of the groups. A diagram is generated that includes a set of shapes representing the set of groups, and a set of nodes nested within each of the shapes, wherein the nodes for each group are determined based on the query results for that group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Blair Stuart McGlashan, J. Duncan C. Pocklington, Jean-Marc Prieur, Stuart John Harding Kent, Eyal Lantzman
  • Publication number: 20140379697
    Abstract: Cross tabulation operation is performed within a columnar database management system. The columnar database management system receives a request to perform a cross-tabulation operation on a set of database tables. The columnar database management system determines values of cross tabulation operation for each row of the result. The columnar database management system determines a domain for each value of the row dimension corresponding to a row combination. The columnar database management system determines an intersection set of the domains corresponding to values of the row dimensions for the row combination. The columnar database management system determines a value for the result column for the row combination as an aggregate value based on the records of the intersection set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Carles Bayés Martín, Jesús Malo Poyatos, Marc Rodríguez Sierra, Alejandro Sualdea Pérez
  • Publication number: 20140379736
    Abstract: A mechanism is provided for identifying parameter and name/value pair separators within two or more strings of data. The identifying is performed by selecting at least one name/value pair separator candidate from the two or more strings of data, and filtering the at least one name/value pair separator candidate using one or more rules, thereby removing any of the name/value pair separator candidates that do not conform to any of the one or more rules. The identifying additionally includes selecting at least one parameter separator candidate from the two or more strings of data, and filtering the at least one parameter separator candidate using one or more rules, thereby removing any of the at least one parameter separator candidates that do not conform to any of the one or more rules. The result is a set of tuples that includes a name/value separator candidate, and a parameter separator candidate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Inventors: Paul Ionescu, Iosif V. Onut
  • Patent number: 8918381
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for diversifying selection criteria. An example method includes accessing a first set of selection criteria for a content item; selecting, based on the first set of selection criteria, a second set of selection criteria, the second set of selection criteria being a proper subset of the first set of selection criteria, the selection of each of the criteria in the second set comprising: determining a collective performance measure based on criteria that have been selected from the first set of selection criteria for inclusion in the second set of selection criteria, determining, for each criterion that has not been selected from the first set, a performance contribution to the collective performance measure, and selecting from the first set a selection criterion with the highest performance contribution relative to the performance contributions of other selection criteria that have not been selected for inclusion in the second set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Xuerui Wang, Xing Wei
  • Publication number: 20140372458
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of associating a node of a first graph with a node of a second graph, each of the first and second graphs comprise sets of nodes each corresponding to a physical entity having a physical geographic location and one or more node attributes associated therewith. The method includes identifying a subject node of the first graph, filtering out nodes of the second graph that are unrelated to the subject node of the first graph to identifying a first subset of candidate nodes, identifying one or more first level edge attributes associated with the subject node, the first level edge attributes characterizing a relationship between the subject node and first level nodes of the first graph adjacent to the subject node, and filtering out nodes of the first subset of candidate nodes having first level edge attributes that do not correspond to the one or more first level edge attributes associated with the subject node to identifying a second subset of candidate nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2012
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Radu Jurca
  • Publication number: 20140372459
    Abstract: A social data filtering system is provided. The social data filter system comprises a database, a retrieving module, a filtering module and a determining module. The database stores personal data and corresponding identification information. The retrieving module retrieves the personal data and the identification information corresponding to a designated person and generates search information accordingly to retrieve user information and corresponding social interaction information from a plurality of social data sources accordingly to the search information The filtering module performs filtering on the user information and the social interaction information according to the personal data to retrieve filtered information. The determining module determines at least one key word corresponding to the designated person according to the filtered information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Applicant: INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION INDUSTRY
    Inventors: Chun-Hung LU, Yi-Hsung LI, Wen-Tai HSIEH, Tai-Hung CHEN, Yu-Chi CHANG
  • Patent number: 8914367
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving, by a website server device providing a website service, a request from an identified user of a user device, the request requesting network content provided within the website service; determining by the website server device an absence of new network content within the website service relative to a last prior access by the identified user to the website service; and obtaining, by the website server device for presentation to the identified user within the website service, an ordered list of network items most likely to be preferred by the identified user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: John Toebes, Matthew Kuhlke, Ari Daniel Scheinman
  • Patent number: 8914387
    Abstract: A query statement is received that requires at least one calculated attribute. Thereafter, a data flow graph is generated that includes a plurality of nodes for executing the query. At least one of the nodes corresponds to the at least one calculated attribute and has at least one level of child nodes. The data flow graph is generated by generating at least one filter for each of the nodes corresponding to the at least one calculated attribute and by pushing down the generated filters to a corresponding child node. Once the data flow graph is generated, execution of the query can be initiated using the generated data flow graph. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Christoph Weyerhaeuser, Tobias Mindnich, Daniel Baeumges, Gerrit Simon Kazmaier
  • Patent number: 8914342
    Abstract: Receive a plurality of data management policies from a user. Store in a memory the data management policies in association with a context and an identifier of the user. Receive personal data of the user collected in one or more contexts by one or more collection devices. Determine whether the personal data complies with one or more of the data management policies with respect to collecting personal data of the user. If the personal data complies with the data management policies with respect to collecting personal data on the user, then storing in the memory the personal data in association with the identifier of the user. Provide a centralized interface to the user for managing the personal data stored in the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Chris Kalaboukis, Christopher William Higgins, Marc Eliot Davis, Ronald Martinez, Rahul Nair, Simon P. King, Carrie Burgener, Duane R. Valz
  • Publication number: 20140365489
    Abstract: A method may include storing a plurality of floor maps, each floor map indicating a structural layout of a respective physical location, storing a plurality of point-of-interest (POI) data structures, each POI data structure including a physical location of an associated POI that is associated with the respective POI data structure, receiving a floor map request, the floor map request including a requested location, based upon the location included by the floor map request, selecting a floor map and a subset of the plurality of POI data structures, for each of the subset of the plurality of POI data structures, receiving metadata from the associated POI, the metadata indicating a status of the associated POI, and transmitting, to the client computing device and in response to the floor map request, the selected floor map and the selected POI data structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Troy CLINE, Ting HE, Wesley GERE, Jason L. GRAHAM, Kia BEHNIA
  • Publication number: 20140365513
    Abstract: Selecting and providing context information relevant to a user at a particular time and location. Input parameters such as a location and time are selected. Context information is obtained for the selected location and time based on the input parameters. Exemplary input parameters include a user activity history, user content such as calendar appointments, social networking data, and a state of a computing device of the user (e.g., as collected by sensors of the computing device). The computing device of the user presents the obtained context information to the user at the selected location and time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Omar Aftab, Syed Mansoor Jafry, Taqi Jaffri
  • Publication number: 20140365511
    Abstract: A workspace display includes a plurality of different groups, each group including a plurality of different components. Each group corresponds to a task, set of tasks or topic of information related to a user's role. The particular components included in each group are user interface display elements that are each related to an item of content within the corresponding group. The workspace display has filter mechanisms that are actuated to filter the content displayed in the components on the workspace display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: John P. Burrows, Ted A. Cyrek, Jeremy S. Ellsworth, Sunil Garg, Chris R. Garty, Brian R. Glaeske, Julie B. Hagen, Claudia Betz-Haubold, Wayne C. Higgins, Kevin M. Honeyman, Rupa Mantravadi, Michael J. McCormack, Lisa R. Mueller, Adrian L. Orth, Anastasia Paushkina, Julianne Prekaski, Ray J. Ridl, Michael M. Santos, Prasant Sivadasan, Brian L. Welcker, Kyle S. Young
  • Publication number: 20140365465
    Abstract: A query associated with a calculation scenario comprising a plurality of calculation nodes can be received by a calculation engine. The calculation scenario is instantiated and the query is transformed into a convex hull filter based on the at least one multiple selection condition that can be executed at any of the calculation nodes. The instantiated calculation scenario and the convex hull filter are executed to provide a result set. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Christoph Weyerhaeuser, Tobias Mindnich, Daniel Baeumges, Johannes Merx, Daniel Patejdl
  • Publication number: 20140365512
    Abstract: Presented herein are object filtering techniques that optimize the communication of information over an infrastructure that supports publish-subscribe (pub-sub) and direct query (synchronization) communication. In the object filtering techniques, a single information publisher can share that information in an associated object graph with many different consumers over the infrastructure without sharing the entire object graph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Allan Thomson, Nancy Cam-Winget, Vanaja Ravi, Pok Wong
  • Publication number: 20140365448
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to paragraph snapping. In aspects, trending data is collected and prepared for sending to one or more target machines. Upon receiving the trending data, a target machines installs the trending data locally and deletes previously installed trending data. After installation, the trending data may be used to suggest text in response to input from a user. If a user selects suggested text, the text may be added to a local dictionary of the target machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2013
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Daniel Ethan Keller, David A. Stevens, Bryan Douglas Scott, David Earl Washington
  • Patent number: 8909626
    Abstract: A set of item-item affinities for a plurality of items is determined based on collaborative-filtering techniques. A set of an item's nearest neighbor items based on the set of item-item affinities is determined. A set of user feature-item affinities for the plurality of items and a set of user features is determined based on least squared regression. A set of a user feature's nearest neighbor items is determined based in part on the set of user feature-item affinities. Compatible affinity weights for nearest neighbor items of each item and each user feature are determined. Based on user features of a user and items a user has consumed, a set of nearest neighbor items are identified as a set of candidate items, and affinity scores of candidate items are determined. Based on the affinity scores, a candidate item from the set of candidate items is recommended to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Seung-Taek Park, Wei Chu, Todd Beaupre, Deepak K. Agarwal, Scott Roy, Raghu Ramakrishnan
  • Patent number: 8909656
    Abstract: A multipath explorer may allow a user to quickly visualize an entire population of data hierarchically in a tree-like structure. For example, a user can select a first filter to be applied to a data set, and the multipath explorer can display data in the data set that satisfies the first filter requirements and data in the data set that does not satisfy the first filter requirements. A second filter can be applied to the data in the data set, and the multipath explorer can display data in the data set that satisfies the first and second filter requirements, data in the data set that satisfies the first filter requirements and not the second filter requirements, data in the data set that satisfies the second filter requirements and not the first filter requirements, and data in the data set that does not satisfy the first or second filter requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Adit Kumar, Lindsay Canfield, Karl Hanson, Kevin Simler, Beyang Liu
  • Publication number: 20140358949
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include a database controller for a database of information encoded as a set of data items distributed among a plurality of storage units distinguishable from one another by respective identifying information and each data item comprising a value of each of two or more data elements, the set of data items having a prescribed order of the two or more data elements of which the first one or two data elements are assigned as a prefix portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Bo HU, Nuno Carvalho
  • Publication number: 20140359422
    Abstract: Methods and systems for filtering variants in data sets comprising genomic information are provided herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2012
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Douglas E. Bassett, JR., Daniel R. Richards
  • Publication number: 20140358948
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for detecting anomalous events from a data input comprising a plurality of events. The method comprising the steps of: selecting at least one filter selecting for context data determined to be probabilistically present within a specified degree of certainty in the data input; comparing the data input to the selected at least one filter; discarding the events from the data input that are the same as the context data for which the at least one filter selects; and storing in a repository the events remaining in the data input as anomalous events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Samuel Scott Adams, Robert R. Friedlander, James R. Kraemer, Jeb R. Linton
  • Publication number: 20140351274
    Abstract: A set of documents is filtered for entity extraction. A list of entity strings is received. A set of token sets that covers the entity strings in the list is determined. An inverted index generated on a first set of documents is queried using the set of token sets to determine a set of document identifiers for a subset of the documents in the first set. A second set of documents identified by the set of document identifiers is retrieved from the first set of documents. The second set of documents is filtered to include one or more documents of the second set that each includes a match with at least one entity string of the list of entity strings. Entity recognition may be performed on the filtered second set of documents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sanjay Agrawal, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Surajit Chaudhuri, Venkatesh Ganti
  • Publication number: 20140351273
    Abstract: Provided are a system and method of searching information. The system comprises: a database comprising a data storage area in which data is divided into a plurality of data blocks and stored, and metadata storage areas; a searcher configured to receive, from a user, a keyword search request comprising a targeted keyword and a targeted search range, and to search the data stored in the database using the targeted keyword in a keyword search; and a keyword manager configured to receive, from the searcher, keyword absence information generated from a result of the keyword search, and to store the keyword absence information in the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: SAMSUNG SDS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Iljee YOON, Bori OH, Jaeseok CHOI
  • Patent number: 8898178
    Abstract: A solution monitoring system is provided for gathering, filtering, and analyzing information associated with solutions for managing monitoring, upgrades, and migrations. Telemetry may be recorded for various types of solution events and various properties of solutions as part of an add-in intelligence. Furthermore, add-in management tools are provided for administrators and end users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Junko Kyomasu, Yu Kuratake, Jin Ho Jeon, Makoto Yamagishi, Daniel Moffitt, Fumiyuki Maeyama, Ryogo Kanatani, Hirokazu Sawada, Nobuko Miwa, Junko Tanaka, Yasufumo Shiraishi, Sachio Kono
  • Publication number: 20140344295
    Abstract: Message based web content retrieval systems and methods are presented herein. In preferred embodiments, a method comprises receiving a request for digital content from a client device. The content may be retrieved from the content provider. Content contained in a signature pattern may be extracted from the retrieved content of the content provider to provide filtered content. Hyperlinks, images, videos, and other non-text based digital content in the filtered content may be assigned a short code string unique to the non-text based digital content from the content provider requested by the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Inventors: Michael Shungkai Lam, Ihab Hamadeh
  • Publication number: 20140344294
    Abstract: Various aspects described or referenced herein are directed to different methods, systems, and computer program products relating to multi-media management and streaming techniques implemented over a computer network, including, for example, one or more features and/or functions relation to one or more of the following (or combinations thereof): venue-based streaming radio stations, mobile user graphical user interfaces, creation and streaming of dynamic streaming radio stations based on a user's geolocation, ticketing and reservations, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicants: Opus Deli, Inc., Opus Deli, Inc. d/b/a DeliRadio
    Inventors: Wayne Donald Maddock Skeen, Christopher Thomas Ross, Howard Gregg Cockrill, Sara Anne Mertz, Matthew Paul Smith, David Mendel Mayeri
  • Patent number: 8892577
    Abstract: There are provided an input unit which inputs an object with scan information attached thereto into an image of a subject acquired on the basis of the scan information, and an insertion unit which inserts report information to the object when preparation of an image interpretation report of a study based on the image is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fukatsu, Akira Iwasa, Kenichi Niwa
  • Patent number: 8892562
    Abstract: A computer implemented system and method are provided for refining category scores for pages of a sequence of document pages that potentially includes document boundaries. The method uses initial category scores provided by a categorizer that considers one page at a time or concatenated pairs of pages (called bipages). The category scores represent the probability that a page belongs to a particular category. The method uses anisotropic diffusion to refine the initial page category scores using the scores of neighboring pages as a function of the probability that there is a boundary between the pages. The method may be performed iteratively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Renders, François Ragnet, Damien Cramet
  • Patent number: 8892578
    Abstract: Many software applications allow users to consume and interact with a variety of data, such as files, photos, web pages, emails, and/or other content. Because the amount of content may be cumbersome to sift through, software applications may provide filtering and searching capabilities to aid users in finding desired content. However, the trial and error involved in current searching techniques may be time consuming and/or diminish the user's experience. Accordingly, one or more systems and/or techniques for presenting visual previews of search results are disclosed herein. In particular, a user may reference an identifier (e.g., “Bill”) that may be used as search criteria to retrieve corresponding objects (e.g., photos of Bill). A visual preview of the retrieved objects may be presented to the user. The user may quickly view visual previews of search results by referencing various identifiers without committing to a particular search result set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Michael F. Palermiti, II
  • Patent number: 8892585
    Abstract: Business application adaptation to changes in business processes is enabled through real time modification of business application schema and metadata at runtime employing business rules to accommodate changing business processes without a need to change the underlying data and models. A business application user interface reacts to runtime changes and enforces validation and business rules as if the changes are made to the underlying structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Ahmad Mahdi El Husseini, Meyyappan Meenakshisundaram
  • Patent number: 8886580
    Abstract: Aggregate scoring is used to help classify digital content such as content uploaded to multi-user websites (e.g., social networking websites). In one embodiment, specific categories are used that relate to a social implication of content. For example, text, images, audio or other data formats can provide communication perceived to fall into categories such as violent, abusive, rights management, pornographic or other types of communication. The categories are used to provide a raw score to items in various groupings of a site's content. Where items are related to other items such as by organizational, social, legal, data-driven, design methods, or by other principles or definitions, the related items' raw scores are aggregated to achieve a score for a particular grouping of items that reflects, at least in part, scores from two or more of the related items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Lithium Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Pierre Grenier, Eddie Lo, Satinderpal Sandhu