Parsing Data Structures And Data Objects Patents (Class 707/755)
  • Patent number: 8700646
    Abstract: Methods, program products, and systems for displaying data in formatted views using reference files are described. In some implementations, a database application program can generate a result set using one or more queries. The result set can contain actual data from a database and metadata. The metadata can contain references to data records in the database, the references can include identifiers that can identify the data records. When a user saves a database report file, the user can save at least a part of the result set using the identifiers instead of the queries and layouts. Thus, the result set can be saved as a reference file. When the database application program opens the saved reference file, the database application program can reproduce the result set using the stored references without running all of the queries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Vladimir Brad, Christopher Crim, David McKee, Stephen Iremonger, Toufic Milan
  • Patent number: 8700645
    Abstract: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for validating a developed application. These mechanisms and methods for providing such validation can enable embodiments to ensure that new versions of developed applications will operate in the same application environment of a previous version. The ability of embodiments to provide such validation may lead to an improved application migration development/runtime framework, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventor: Craig Weissman
  • Patent number: 8701119
    Abstract: An improved method for parsing XML data or NVP data in software is disclosed. The method takes advantage of some modern processors' architecture which has multiple execution units. The multiple execution units allow multiple processing loops to occur in parallel. Instructions can be ordered so that the maximum delay in finishing a task is determined by the execution unit with the most processing to perform. Corresponding cycles in the remaining execution units can then be filled to perform other operations in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Inventor: Richard A. Ross
  • Patent number: 8700638
    Abstract: Resolving ambiguous variable names in processing of a computer application includes representing variable declarations with dynamic variable scopes of the computer application in a tree data structure where the nodes of the tree data structure are variable names of the computer application. Ambiguous variable names are resolved by calculating distances between a context node and two or more candidate nodes of the tree data structure where each of the candidate nodes contains the searched variable name. The weighted distance between the context node and each candidate node equals the number of downward steps from the context node to the candidate node multiplied by a first constant plus the number of upward steps from the context node to the candidate node multiplied by a second constant. The node having a desired weighted distance is selected and information from the selected node is returned to the computer application as the variable value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Libera, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Dearman, Albert Cecchini
  • Publication number: 20140101178
    Abstract: According to one general aspect, a method may include receiving a data query request that includes one or more search parameters to be searched for within a plurality of files that are stored according to a hierarchical organizational structure, wherein each file includes at least one data record. The method may include scanning a plurality of files to determine if one or more files match a sub portion of the search parameters. The method may further include parsing the candidate files to determine which, if any, records included by the respective candidate files meet the search parameters. The method may include generating, by one or more result analyzers, query results from the resultant data. The method may also include streaming, to the user device, the query results as at least one query result becomes available and to start streaming before the query requests have been fully generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: BMC SOFTWARE, INC.
    Inventor: Jonathan Ginter
  • Publication number: 20140101177
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, a method of performing data profiling in an in-memory database is provided. A command requesting a data attribute calculation on data in the in-memory database may be received. The data attribute calculation may then be performed on the data in the in-memory database by utilizing a precreated procedure in the in-memory database, the precreated procedure described in a computer language utilized by the in-memory database. Finally, a result of the performing of the data attribute calculation may be returned to the client computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: Business Objects Software Ltd.
    Inventors: Ricardo Saito, Min He
  • Patent number: 8695096
    Abstract: In some embodiments, automatic signature generation for malicious PDF files includes: parsing a PDF file to extract script stream data embedded in the PDF file; determining whether the extracted script stream data within the PDF file is malicious; and automatically generating a signature for the PDF file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
    Inventor: Liang Zhang
  • Patent number: 8694500
    Abstract: Documents written using a markup language such as XML may be decomposed into Path and Parent Associated Node (PPAN) elements, each of which is a linear data structure that includes the content of a node, the parent-child relationship of the node, and the path level of the node. A number of PPAN elements may be grouped together to form A PPAN chain. A PPAN matching process uses the PPAN elements/PPAN chain to search for structured documents that match the PPAN chain. The PPAN matching process is able to perform query and match at the same time to accelerate the PPAN matching process, and also enables complex services to be represented by generic structured documents. Optionally, the PPAN matching process may support wildcard requests so that services may be discovered without prior knowledge of the services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Rockstar Consortium US LP
    Inventors: Zhonghui Yao, Kent Felske
  • Publication number: 20140095519
    Abstract: Processes, machines, and stored instructions are provided for storing posting lists for tokens in XML documents and using the posting lists to process queries. For each occurrence of a token in the XML documents, a document processor adds an entry to a list for the token. The entry for the token maps the token to documents or nodes within the documents where the tokens can be found. The document processor may also detect tags in the XML documents and, for each occurrence of a tag, add an entry to a list for the tag. The entry for the tag specifies a range of locations covered by the tag. A query processor may then receive a full text query for evaluation against XML documents, and the query processor may determine a result set for the query using the lists for the tokens and/or the lists for the tags.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Zhen Hua Liu, Ying Li, Hui Joe Chang
  • Patent number: 8688720
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system characterizes a document with respect to clusters of conceptually related words. Upon receiving a document containing a set of words, the system selects “candidate clusters” of conceptually related words that are related to the set of words. These candidate clusters are selected using a model that explains how sets of words are generated from clusters of conceptually related words. Next, the system constructs a set of components to characterize the document, wherein the set of components includes components for candidate clusters. Each component in the set of components indicates a degree to which a corresponding candidate cluster is related to the set of words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Georges Harik, Noam M. Shazeer
  • Patent number: 8688721
    Abstract: Provided are techniques for processing a query. A query is received, wherein the query is formed by one or more paths, and wherein each path includes one or more steps. A hierarchical document including one or more document nodes is received. While processing the query and traversing the hierarchical document, one or more extraction entries are constructed, wherein each extraction entry includes a step instance match candidate identifying a document node and a step instance ancestor path for the document node, and one or more tuples are constructed using the one or more extraction entries by associating the step instance match candidate from one of the one or more extraction entries with the step instance match candidate from at least one of the one or more other extraction entries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Vanja Josifovski, Edison L. Ting
  • Publication number: 20140089332
    Abstract: Methods for product data management and corresponding systems and computer-readable mediums. A method includes receiving an XML document by a parallel parser process, the XML document including a plurality of elements of an XML data structure that corresponds to an object model. The method includes dividing the XML document into a plurality of chunks using the parallel parser process, and parsing the plurality of chunks in parallel using separate parsing tasks to produce objects representing the elements and corresponding attributes. The method includes storing the objects and corresponding attributes in a persistent element store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: SIEMENS PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE INC.
    Inventors: Sujit Maharana, Douglas Scott Jackson, Subodh Chaubal
  • Patent number: 8682914
    Abstract: Systems and methods of managing primitives are disclosed. A data structure that is stored in user space is registered, wherein the data structure tracks a user controllable mutual exclusion primitive that is acquired by a process running in the user space, and wherein the user controllable mutual exclusion primitive serves as a lock on a resource provided by a computer system. A termination of the process is detected, wherein the process maintains the lock on the resource after termination and the data structure is searched to identify the user controllable mutual exclusion primitive that is acquired by the process that terminated. The user controllable mutual exclusion primitive is released if the user controllable mutual exclusion primitive is identified as being acquired by the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventors: Ingo Molnar, Thomas Gleixner, Ulrich Drepper
  • Patent number: 8682913
    Abstract: A method and system for corroborating facts extracted as attribute-value pairs from multiple sources. Facts associated with a common subject are identified and extracted from multiple sources. From the extracted facts, attributes satisfying a first corroboration requirement are identified. Attribute-value pairs satisfying a second corroboration requirement and having any of the identified attributes that satisfy the first corroboration requirement are identified. Predefined actions may be performed with respect to the identified attribute-value pairs and/or with respect to their status in a fact database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan T. Betz
  • Patent number: 8681640
    Abstract: Methods and systems for analyzing network traffic. An analysis system receives network traffic, which complies with a certain protocol. The received network traffic carries a data item, which may be of value to an analyst. In order to access the data item in question, the analysis system automatically identifies the media type of the data item, by processing the network traffic irrespective of the protocol. The analysis system identifies the media type irrespective of the protocol in order to avoid the computational complexity involved in decoding the protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Verint Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Itsik Horovitz
  • Publication number: 20140082001
    Abstract: A digital forensic audit system which extracts the event and the document file from the image, analyzes the event and the document file to visualize the event and document file in order to analyze a user's behaviors by scanning a usage trace and a file which is an image recorded in a window system, the system includes a document file extracting unit which extracts a logical level document file and an attribute of the document file from the image; an event extracting unit which extracts an event including time of occurrence from the image and extracts an event from an attribute of the document file related to the time (hereinafter, referred to as a time attribute), an analyzing unit which analyzes the document file or the event by the attribute and the time; and a visualizing unit which displays the analyzed result (hereinafter, referred to as an analysis result) on a time coordinate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Inventors: Tae Hoon Jang, Hong Sun Lee, Hyo Geun Gwak, Hong Gyu Jeon, Jong Hyun Kim, Bong Seok You, In Hyun Bark, Jin Hak Kim, Jong Seong Ham
  • Publication number: 20140082003
    Abstract: A document mining method includes automatically parsing each sentence of a corpus of documents into constituents. If some of the constituents correspond to entities from a list of recognized entity types, a relation between those entities, the relation including the entities and a link between them, is automatically identified. If the relation is identified in a predetermined number of sentences of the corpus, a relation extraction rule is automatically created. The relation extraction rule is applicable to a document to enable automatic retrieval of information that corresponds to the relation from that document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Digital Trowel (Israel) LTD.
    Inventors: Ronen FELDMAN, Benjamin Rozenfeld
  • Publication number: 20140082000
    Abstract: Disclosed herein in part is a data processing system configured to invite one or more people to a meeting. The data processing system includes at least one data processor connected with at least one memory storing computer program code. Execution of the computer program code by the at least one data processor results in operations being performed that include, in response to a user identifying one or more documents related to a meeting, analyzing the one or more documents to identify a name or names of people associated with the one or more documents; attempting to locate at least some of the identified people in order to obtain additional information regarding the at least some of the identified people; and presenting the user with a list comprising identified people, the list being a list of people who are suggested to the user to be invited to the meeting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kelly Abuelsaad, Kulvir S. Bhogal, Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Soobaek Jang
  • Publication number: 20140082002
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing an unstructured data event in real time is provided. The apparatus includes a feature extraction unit configured to extract predetermined feature data of unstructured data output from a plurality of unstructured data sensors, a metadata forming unit configured to form the feature data of the unstructured data collected by the feature extraction unit as metadata including all attributes of the structured data and the unstructured data, a metadata parser unit configured to parse the metadata formed by the metadata forming unit, and an event processing unit configured to process event generation defined by a result of parsing in the metadata parser unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Inventors: Nac-Woo KIM, Hong-Yeon YU, Jae-In KIM, Byung-Tak LEE, Young-Sun KIM
  • Patent number: 8676780
    Abstract: The present invention comprises a system and method for automatically processing one or more citations contained within a document while the document is presented by a document rendering application. The method of the present invention comprises scanning the document to identify an unformatted citation and parsing the unformatted citation to determine one or more citation terms. One or more citation libraries are queried to find citations comprising the one or more citation terms. A citation falling within the scope of the query is selected and inserted into the document. The present invention may further provide enhanced workflow solutions for authors and publishers in preparing documents in structured format for facilitating efficient and accurate validation of references cited or included in papers and other submissions for publication or for review. An author prepares a document containing a set of cited references using a formatting structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Inventors: Jason Rollins, Noah Merritt, Paul Patanella, Eftim Pop-Lazarov, Stephen J. Rieger, David M. Pedrick, Sandro Cifelli
  • Patent number: 8677091
    Abstract: A system and method for communicating, browsing, verifying and routing data in storage operation systems using network attached storage devices is provided. In some embodiments, the system may include a management module and a media management component connected to the management server, which interoperate with network attached storage devices to provide the communicating, browsing, verifying and routing functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: CommVault Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Duncan Littlefield, Ho-chi Chen, Rajiv Kottomtharayil
  • Patent number: 8676819
    Abstract: Events can be searched by identifying a query that includes a time interval and a search component, determining a time increment associated with the time interval, and partitioning the time interval into partitions based on the time increment. For each partition, a relevance of each event in a collection of events that occur at a time in the partition is determined based on the query. A pre-determined number of the relevant events are displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Nikhil Chandhok, Peter Solderitsch, Michael Gordon, Philo Juang
  • Patent number: 8676818
    Abstract: A method for modeling a process includes receiving a plurality of graphs representing processes wherein for each graph. A sequence of process steps of the processes are represented as nodes and edges connecting pairs of nodes represent transitions between process steps. A numeric value representative of graph appearance for each of the plurality of received graphs is calculated. Each of the plurality of received graphs is stored within a tree-like data structure according to its corresponding numeric value. Each of the above steps is performed using a computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Francisco Phelan Curbera, Paul T. Keyser, Rania Khalaf, Geetika Tewari Lakshmanan
  • Patent number: 8676820
    Abstract: A method for processing a search query according to one embodiment includes receiving a search query containing terms; combining at least some consecutive terms in the search query to create biwords; looking up at least some of the terms and biwords in a search index for identifying sections of documents containing the at least some of the terms and/or biwords; generating a content score for each of the identified sections based at least in part on a number of the terms and biwords found in the sections of each document, wherein the biwords are given a higher priority than matched terms, wherein the priority affects the content score; and selecting and outputting an indicator of at least one of the sections, or portion thereof, based at least in part on the content score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: barnesandnoble.com llc
    Inventors: Aditya Vailaya, Jiang Wu, Manish Rathi
  • Publication number: 20140074870
    Abstract: An approach is provided in which a resolution manager stores a machine-readable problem, which includes a problem signature, and a human-readable solution in a document. The resolution manager receives an output file from a computer system and matches an output entry included in the output file to the problem signature. In turn, the resolution manager identifies the human-readable solution corresponding to the matched problem signature and provides the identified human-readable solution to the computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Kenneth Bullis, Li Chen, Daniel P. Julin, Carolyn Haibt Norton
  • Publication number: 20140074869
    Abstract: An enterprise content management system provides automatically classified topic-specific metadata from a map file to a set of search properties associated with the topic file. An example includes parsing content from the links in a map file and storing topic-specific metadata as search properties in a content engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Elaine B. Petrone
  • Patent number: 8671103
    Abstract: A method for semantic service registration and query based on WordNet is disclosed. The method includes the following steps: (1) semantic service registration: a service provider registers a service and uploads the Web Service Description Language (WSDL) document corresponding to the service, and a system parses the WSDL document to form a service description tree, then constructs a WordNet ontology tree according to the input of the service, performs a semantic annotation on the input/output of the service to form a Web Service Semantic Description Document (WSDL-S), and finally stores it in a register library; (2) semantic service discovery: a service requester inputs the information of service type, semantic information of the service input/output and other user-defined information to the register library to retrieve the services meeting the requirements; and (3) similarity sorting: the services meeting a certain threshold are sorted in descending order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Zhejiang University
    Inventors: Zhaohui Wu, Wenqiu Zeng, Jian Wu, Ying Li, Shuiguang Deng, Jianwei Yin
  • Publication number: 20140067835
    Abstract: A search extensibility application framework enables a hosted web search experience to be extended so that apps which are related to a search query can be presented to a user of a client computing device such as a smartphone. In various illustrative examples, a hosted search app is implemented using HTML5 code generated at a remote search provider server. Responsively to a user query at the search app's user interface (“UI”), the server returns an HTML5 payload including meta tags specifying criteria including app extension categories, actions, and known apps that support search terms in the query. Apps that are installed on the client device which match the criteria can then be displayed and launched through the UI to advantageously enable the users to complete a task specific search. JavaScript interfaces are provided to enable apps to update their install state and to be injected into the hosted search app.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joshua Harrison, Amit Kumar, Jason Lee
  • Publication number: 20140068399
    Abstract: An information processing device includes an article acquisition unit that acquires articles indicated as data, a theme setting unit that sets a theme and an extraction condition of an article included in the theme, a selection unit that receives selection of the set theme by a user, an article extraction unit that extracts an article included in the set theme from the articles acquired by the article acquisition unit based on the extraction condition corresponding to the theme, a posting reception unit that receives posting of a comment corresponding to the article extracted by the article extraction unit from the user, a transmission unit that transmits the posted comment to the user selecting the theme including the article, and a condition update unit that updates the extraction condition of the article corresponding to the theme according to an amount of comment posted for each of the articles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi MORI, Shigetoshi OKUYAMA
  • Publication number: 20140059061
    Abstract: A device determines an additional component added to a second model, and a modification component modified in a third model, wherein a condition includes a wild card, and a first model are described in a module, the first model serving as a model when the module is applied to a model satisfying the condition and including a variable in which a string in a model satisfying the condition is stored, and the third model is a model when the module is applied to the second model satisfying the condition and where a string in the second model, which corresponds to the wild card, is stored in a variable, based on a word in a fourth model, and a word in the additional component and the modification component, calculates a degree regarding numbers of the word in the third model and the fourth, and creates a tag corresponding to the module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi Munakata, Kuniharu Takayama, Naoto Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20140059010
    Abstract: Tools can be provided for conducting a conference/meeting and/or obtaining, managing and archiving conference/meeting data. For example, a meeting participation application and multi-layer presentation data (including a presentation document and an overlay layer) can be provided through a network to a participant. The meeting participation application allows the participant to make annotations which overlay the presentation document, and captures the user input as data in the overlay layer. Thereafter, processing may be performed to extract keywords from the captured annotations, and such extracted keywords can be archived along with meeting materials, documents, information and other content as meeting data in a meeting database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Yuki UCHIDA, Shun TANAKA
  • Patent number: 8661046
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that infers activity-related context information from a message. Upon receiving the message, the system looks for activity-related keywords in the message, wherein the activity-related keywords are from a content database. If one or more activity-related keywords are found in the message, the system infers message-related context information from the one or more activity-related keywords. Next, the system uses the message-related context information to facilitate recommending an activity to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
    Inventors: Tracy Holloway King, Kurt E. Partridge, Nicolas Ducheneaut, Ji Fang
  • Patent number: 8655894
    Abstract: An approach is provided for generating a searchable index including an associated object graph. Data objects of a database are converted into corresponding rows in a set of searchable columns. An object graph corresponding to each row of the searchable columns are determined. An index including the set of searchable columns and the corresponding object graphs are generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Eric James Gieseke
  • Patent number: 8655895
    Abstract: An event providing apparatus includes a storage device in communicating with a date/time detector module. The detector module detects a condition that at least a portion of information stored on the storage device could be mapped to an event, identifies date and time entries in the information, and generates a hyperlink to open an application for creating an event for each entry, the date and time being provided to the application to generate the event directly from the information. The apparatus also includes a display for displaying the time and date in the form of the hyperlink; and a prompter module communicating with the detector module for automatically providing a prompt related to the event in response to selection of the hyperlink. In response to user interaction with the user prompt, the application is started and the event based on the hyperlinked date and time is created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: David Vanden Heuvel, Darrell Reginald May, Michael Thomas Hardy, Lap Luu
  • Patent number: 8655896
    Abstract: A data structure for storing items of information having a time of life includes a time of life interval for each item of information, and methods for using the same. The items of information are organized in a data structure having nodes and edges connecting the nodes. This data structure is preferably a directed acyclic graph structure. The data structure includes parent nodes and child nodes. The time of life interval specified for any child node generally is contained within the time interval specified for that child node's parent node, such that the data structure includes no child nodes with a time of life interval that falls outside of the time of life interval of its parent node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Barr Rosenberg
    Inventors: Barr Rosenberg, Mark Gilbeau Howard, Till Gaston Balz Bay, Bernd Kurt Alexander Schoeller
  • Publication number: 20140046890
    Abstract: A method of analyzing physiological data streams. According to the method, physiological data is received into a computerized machine. The physiological data comprises numerical data and medical symptoms of a patient. Features are extracted from the physiological data based on development of the physiological data over a period of time. The features are converted into a textual representation using natural language generation. Input terms for an information retrieval system operating on the computerized machine are automatically generated based on the features. The input terms are input to the information retrieval system. A corpus of data is automatically searched to retrieve results to the input terms using the information retrieval system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: ALAIN E. BIEM, TIMOTHY R. DINGER, NAGUI HALIM, GANG LUO, DABY M. SOW, DEEPAK S. TURAGA
  • Publication number: 20140046889
    Abstract: A method of analyzing physiological data streams. According to the method, physiological data is received into a computerized machine. The physiological data comprises numerical data and medical symptoms of a patient. Features are extracted from the physiological data based on development of the physiological data over a period of time. The features are converted into a textual representation using natural language generation. Input terms for an information retrieval system operating on the computerized machine are automatically generated based on the features. The input terms are input to the information retrieval system. A corpus of data is automatically searched to retrieve results to the input terms using the information retrieval system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alain E. Biem, Timothy R. Dinger, Nagui Halim, Gang Luo, Daby M. Sow, Deepak S. Turaga
  • Patent number: 8650201
    Abstract: Embodiments of a method and/or system of transmitting and/or receiving data is disclosed. For example, a sequence of binary signal values may, in one embodiment, represent a sequence of trees, such as unitary trees. A variety of techniques exist for transmitting and/or receiving signal data. However, such techniques typically have several disadvantages, including, a limit on the size of the signal datum that may be transmitted and/or received, such as 32 or 64 bits, for example. Another disadvantage includes the difficulty of synchronization between a receiver and transmitter. Thus, new methods and/or systems for receiving and/or transmitting signal data continue to be desirable, such as those disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Robert T. and Virginia T. Jenkins
    Inventor: Jack J. LeTourneau
  • Publication number: 20140040290
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a data interface configuration method and a terminal device. The configuration method includes: receiving, by a second device, an application program command word sent by a first device; parsing the application program command word, to obtain a type of a function module corresponding to the application program command word according to a preset mapping relationship; and connecting a data interface to a corresponding function module according to a parsing result; where the data interface is a data interface on the second device, and the function module is a function module in the second device. By using solutions provided by the present invention, a terminal device may automatically configure a data interface according to an application program that currently needs to be run on a computer side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: Huawei Device Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Lei Wei
  • Publication number: 20140040288
    Abstract: There is provided systems and method for content inversion for use in user searches and product recommendations. The methods include receiving a first content, wherein the first content includes a first sentence having at least one first sentiment expression, creating a syntactic parse tree of the first sentence, identifying a first sentiment in the at least one first sentiment expression, wherein the first sentiment corresponds to a first polarity, determining a first needs expression corresponding to the first sentiment, wherein the first needs expression includes a first subject. The method may further include creating a sub-tree corresponding to the first needs expression, and grouping the content with other content having similar sub-trees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Inventor: Boris A. Galitsky
  • Publication number: 20140040287
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for automatically parsing data from disparate data sources. In some implementations, actions include receiving first data from a first data source, identifying a first regular expression that corresponds to a data format of the first data, selecting a first set of parsing rules from a plurality of parsing rules based on the first regular expression, parsing the first data based on the first set of parsing rules to provide a first set of sub-data, populating data fields of a first data object with respective sub-data from the first set of sub-data, and transmitting the first data object to a computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: ACCENTURE GLOBAL SERVICES LIMITED
    Inventor: Eric Allan Frome
  • Publication number: 20140040289
    Abstract: An information management apparatus receives position data from each terminal device. The position data contains position measurement data showing its positions at multiple clock times and its user identification data. The apparatus creates action history for every user based on the position data, and abstracts the position data in the action history. The apparatus includes an abstracting section and a testing section. The abstracting section abstracts arbitrary position data in the action history of a certain user. The testing section extracts another action history of another user. The other action history includes position data of the other user which shows a position same as or included in a position of the abstracted position data of the certain user, but excludes position data of the other user which shows positions same as remaining position of the certain user. The testing section outputs the abstracted position data as anonymity data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shinya MIYAKAWA
  • Publication number: 20140040717
    Abstract: A method for processing application forms comprising extracting content from filled first forms of consumers, each of the first forms comprising one or more fields, arranging the extracted content of one or more fields of the plurality of fields of the plurality of filled first forms in a first matrix; encoding the content of each of the rows of the first matrix to define a second matrix; and disposing the encoded content of the second matrix in multiple empty second forms such that content of one column is disposed on only one of the empty second forms, each of the second forms includes the same type and number of fields as that of one of the filled first forms, further wherein the number of the filled second forms is based on the number of the one or more fields in the filled first forms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nischal M. Piratla, Kovendhan Ponnavaikko, Chithralekha Balamurugan, Michael Robert Campanelli
  • Patent number: 8645402
    Abstract: Trip data that includes points traversed during corresponding trips is received. Transportation network data that describes geographic locations and links between the geographic locations is received. The trip data and transportation network data are partitioned across a plurality of processing units executing on one or more processors. At each of the plurality of processing units, a subset of the trip data at the corresponding processing unit is locally matched to a subset of the transportation network data at the corresponding processing unit to identify a subset of paths of the transportation network data traversed by one or more of the trips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Teradata US, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Gerritson, Michael W. Watzke
  • Patent number: 8645395
    Abstract: A system for evaluating a review having unstructured text comprises a segment splitter for separating at least a portion of the unstructured text into one or more segments, each segment comprising one or more words; a segment parser coupled to the segment splitter for assigning one or more lexical categories to one or more of the one or more words of each segment; an information extractor coupled to the segment parser for identifying a feature word and an opinion word contained in the one or more segments; and a sentiment rating engine coupled to the information extractor for calculating an opinion score based upon an opinion grouping, the opinion grouping including at least the feature word and the opinion word identified by the information extractor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Biz360 Inc.
    Inventors: Faisal Mushtaq, Gavin Das, Adnan Mohsin Habib
  • Patent number: 8639708
    Abstract: Computer-readable media and a computer system for implementing a natural language search using fact-based structures and for generating such fact-based structures are provided. A fact-based structure is generated using a semantic structure, which represents information, such as text, from a document, such as a web page. Typically, a natural language parser is used to create a semantic structure of the information, and the parser identifies terms, as well as the relationship between the terms. A fact-based structure of a semantic structure allows for a linear structure of these terms and their relationships to be created, while also maintaining identifiers of the terms to convey the dependency of one fact-based structure on another fact-based structure. Additionally, synonyms and hypernyms are identified while generating the fact-based structure to improve the accuracy of the overall search.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Martin Henk Van Den Berg, Daniel Bobrow, Robert D. Cheslow, Barney Pell, Giovanni Lorenzo Thione, Chad Walters
  • Patent number: 8639712
    Abstract: A method for creating a relational database schema is provided. The method comprises accessing (110, 210) a reference ontology (101) comprising a first number of concepts and a second number of properties, selecting (120, 220) a first set of concepts from the reference ontology, determining (130, 230) a first set of properties from said second number of properties, associated with the selected first set of concepts, determining (140, 240) a second set of concepts associated with the determined first set of properties, and generating (150, 250) a relational database schema comprising a number of tables, of which at least one table pertains to a concept of said second set of concepts. Further, a module (300) for creating a relational database schema is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Anke Schmeink, Sandra Geisler, Andreas Brauers, Christoph Josef Quix
  • Patent number: 8639376
    Abstract: A system is disclosed that simplifies configuring an MES entity corresponding to a SCADA system object representing plant equipment. The system includes an equipment model builder (EMB) that receives a set of configured UCO information for a modeled piece of plant equipment in a SCADA system. The EMB extracts relevant MES information from the utilization capability object and invokes an application interface on an MES database to create a corresponding entity (e.g., a database element). Another aspect of the disclosed system and methods involves the enhancement of a SCADA system object, through a new MES facet, to support acquiring and reporting equipment status received via the SCADA system to a corresponding MES entity. A raw reason code configuration interface is provided by UCO configurator computer software executed on a computer. Each raw reason code is associated with a prioritized logical expression defining circumstances under which the reason code becomes true.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Invensys Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Paul Grove, Steven M. Weinrich, Christopher Justin Miller
  • Publication number: 20140025693
    Abstract: A method for sharing an email in an on-demand database system is provided. The method receives, at one or more computer systems associated with the on-demand database system, the email from a first user; determines, at the one or more computer systems, a database record associated with the email; logs, at the one or more computer systems, the email with the associated database record; and provides access to the email to one or more second users with access rights to the database record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: Pratima Arora, Jeanine Walters
  • Publication number: 20140025636
    Abstract: Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for metadata enhanced filenames. A filename is received, the filename including a first set of characters that represents a name for the electronic file, and a second set of additional characters. The filename is parsed to identify the second set of additional characters. Metadata associated with the electronic file is determined based on the second set of additional characters without downloading additional data of the electronic file. The electronic file is processed based on the determined metadata.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: APPSENSE LIMITED
    Inventors: Paul K. BRANTON, Richard J. SOMERFIELD