Abstract: A heuristic data entry system/method that integrates data entry search procedures and new data record entry functionality is disclosed. The system/method allows the data entry operator to enter one of more fields within a dialog menu representing a customer context. As these fields are entered a background process scans a customer database using a heuristic algorithm in an attempt to match the customer context against known customer records using a variety of matching algorithms incorporating non-tautological mapping functions. Customer records matched using these imprecise matching functions are then ranked by relevance and displayed as potential candidates for selection by the operator to complete the remaining customer context. The heuristic algorithms make no assumptions as to the accuracy the data operator entry or the customer record database, thus permitting potential matches between customer context and customer data records to occur with symmetrically non-dominant data accuracy assumptions.

Abstract: Methods and related systems are presented that relate to establishing communications among individuals connected through social networking services. To obtain the contact information of an encountered connection, a person may take a photo of the connection and provide information indicating how he/she knows the connection. Using the provided information, a subset of the person's connections in the social networking services that he/she belongs to is selected. The photos included in the profiles of the connections in the selected subset are searched and a profile that includes an image with features matching the features of the obtained image is selected. Once a match is found, personal information of the connection is obtained from his/her profile and transmitted to the person. The individuals can establish connection using the obtained personal information.

Abstract: A system and method for creating a search query and for searching based on said search query. A first user selected image and a user selection of a first feature within said first user selected image is received. A second user selected image and a user selection of a second feature within said second user selected image is received. Said first and second user selected features are combined to form a composite image to form the basis of a search query.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system (100) for identifying a certain data-object of a set of data-objects, wherein each data-object of the set of data-objects is described by a plurality of discriminating characteristics, the system comprising: a composition unit (110) for composing a query for identifying the certain data-object; an identification unit (120) for identifying a candidate data-object of the set of data-objects, based on the query; a presentation unit (130) for presenting a description of the candidate data-object to a user; a feedback unit (140) for receiving user feedback on a discriminating characteristic of the plurality of discriminating characteristics, the discriminating characteristic describing the candidate data-object; and an update unit (150) for updating the query for identifying the certain data-object, based on the user feedback on the discriminating characteristic describing the candidate data-object.

Abstract: Techniques for graphically representing an input query are described in various implementations. In one example implementation, a method that implements the techniques may include receiving, in an electronic discovery computing system and from a user interface, an input query that includes a Boolean expression for identifying documents in a document repository of the electronic discovery computing system. The method may also include parsing the input query to identify terms and operators included in the input query, and generating a graphical representation of the input query that shows how the terms and operators are interpreted by the electronic discovery computing system. The method may also include causing the graphical representation to be displayed via the user interface.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for providing matching resources. One example method includes identifying example resources, evaluating query logs to determine queries including query terms that resolved to a given example resource, identifying matching resources other than the example resources that also were provided as a solution to the determined queries, filtering the matching resources based on one or more criteria to identify matching resources that are relevant to a consumer, and providing the filtered matching resources for output to the consumer.

Abstract: A system and method for correlating brand identifiers with corresponding online presence are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes providing, by use of a data processor, a user interface to enable a user to specify a brand of interest; producing search terms associated with the brand of interest; using the search terms in a search query to obtain related search results collected from a plurality of content sources; filtering the search results to obtain information indicative of a plurality of profile sources; using the information indicative of a plurality of profile sources to obtain related profiles collected from a plurality of profile sources; filtering the related profiles to obtain a set of matching profiles; and reporting the brand of interest and links to the corresponding matching profiles to the user.

Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying which video segment is being displayed on a screen of a television system. The video segment is identified by deriving data from the television signals, the derived data being indicative of the video segment being displayed on the screen. This feature can be used to extract a viewer's reaction (such as changing the channel) to a specific video segment (such as an advertisement) and reporting the extracted information as metrics. The systems and methods may further provide contextually targeted content to the television system. The contextual targeting is based on not only identification of the video segment being displayed, but also a determination concerning the playing time or offset time of the particular portion of the video segment being currently displayed.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes a system and method for determining proximity to topics of content items (e.g., an advertisement or “ad”). In some implementations, a method includes identifying search criteria associated with keywords of a content item. The keywords used in determining whether or not to embed the content item in Web pages including search results. Numerical scores for the search criteria is determined based, at least in part, on a topic of the content item, the numerical score indicative of proximity to the topic of the content item.

Abstract: An object is to conduct a search for an article absent in an input image. A recommendation system according to an embodiment of the present invention is provided with an input unit to achieve input of a still image, an article recognizing unit to analyze the input image to recognize an article section according to an article included in the image, a category specifying unit to specify a category according to the input image on the basis of the recognized article section, an article information extracting unit to extract identification information of an article section except for the recognized article section among article sections associated with the specified category, and an output unit to output the extracted identification information of the article section and/or information corresponding thereto.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for generating additional information about moving picture content, including: comparing image feature information about each image frame in moving picture content with image feature information about each image frame in web information, searching for an image frame in the moving picture content, the image frame matching the image frame in the web information, determining location information about the found image frame in the moving picture content, and generating additional information by use of the determined location information and the web information.

Abstract: A data management method including accepting a request of polygon data including data pertaining to latitude/longitude of each vertex of a polygon, specifying a minimum unit rectangle matching a minimum bounding rectangle of the polygon or including the minimum bounding rectangle from plural unit rectangles formed by recursively dividing a two-dimensional space including a latitude/longitude range and being equally divided in X and Y directions in the same number, generating a character string by assigning values to the minimum unit rectangle or all unit rectangles including the minimum unit rectangle in correspondence with the number of divided parts of the two-dimensional space in the X and Y directions, and alternately arranging the values, in the X or Y direction, starting from values corresponding to a large unit rectangle among the unit rectangles, and storing the polygon data in correspondence with a key including the character string.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for determining and transmitting applicable lighting information, applicable viewing perspective, and a 3D model for an object in response to a search query. An example method includes receiving, at a server, a search query regarding an object. A 3D model for the object is determined. The 3D model includes three-dimensional shape information about the object. The method also includes determining, based on a plurality of stored images of the object, at least one applicable light field and at least one applicable viewing perspective. A search query result is transmitted from the server. The search query result may include the 3D model, the applicable light field(s), and the applicable viewing perspective(s). A server and a non-transitory computer readable medium are also disclosed that could perform a similar method.

Abstract: Methods, and systems, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable storage mediums, including a method for determining a relevance of search keywords to an advertisement. The method includes accessing ad keyword data specifying an ad keyword associated with an advertisement; identifying a keyword cluster specifying terms related to a topic of the advertisement; determining whether the ad keyword occurs in the at least one keyword cluster; identifying one or more search keywords to which the advertisement is responsive; determining whether the one or more search keywords occur in the at least one keyword cluster; and determining, by one or more data processors, a relevance of the one or more search keywords to the advertisement based on the determination of whether the ad keyword occurs in the at least one keyword cluster and the determination of whether the one or more search keywords occur in the at least one keyword cluster.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for presenting relevant content for attaching files, e.g. for an email application or an instant messaging application. In one example, a method includes providing a keyword extraction engine to extract keywords from text, and providing a keyword mapping engine to map the keywords to at least one attribute and at least one attribute value based on a pre-determined mapping scheme. In another example, a method includes receiving, e.g. from a user, at least one keyword, at least one attribute, and least one attribute value to define a mapping scheme.

Abstract: A computer system coupled to a digital image database with images having image attributes. The image attributes are automatically evaluated in order to find a compatible digital template from a digital template database. The templates each include a plurality of windows for displaying the digital images and each of the template include template attributes to automatically select a template whose attributes are compatible with at least one of the image attribute. The data base of digital images is also automatically searched for additional images having an attribute compatible with the template attributes and with the first one of the image attributes. A display screen coupled to the computer system displays the selected template and at least one other image.

Abstract: A system includes a computer(s) coupled to a data storage device(s) that stores a training data repository and a predictive model repository. The training data repository includes retained data samples from initial training data and from previously received data sets. The predictive model repository includes at least one updateable trained predictive model that was trained with the initial training data and retrained with the previously received data sets. A new data set is received. A richness score is assigned to each of the data samples in the set and to the retained data samples that indicates how information rich a data sample is for determining accuracy of the trained predictive model. A set of test data is selected based on ranking by richness score the retained data samples and the new data set. The trained predictive model is accuracy tested using the test data and an accuracy score determined.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on one or more computer storage devices, for training and retraining predictive models. A series of training data sets for predictive modeling can be received, e.g., over a network from a client computing system. The training data included in the training data sets is different from initial training data that was used with multiple training functions to train multiple trained predictive models stored in a predictive model repository. The series of training data sets are used with multiple trained updateable predictive models obtained from the predictive model repository and multiple training functions to generate multiple retrained predictive models. An effectiveness score is generated for each of the retrained predictive models. A first trained predictive model is selected from among the trained predictive models included in the predictive model repository and the retrained predictive models based on their respective effectiveness scores.

Abstract: A method of operation of a navigation system includes: detecting a search string; determining a forward-element using a forward-boundary within the search string in a forward direction; determining a backward-element in a backward direction up to the forward-boundary using a backward-boundary within the search string; and determining a matching result for the search string using the forward-element and the backward-element for displaying on a device.

Abstract: A music search apparatus using an emotion model includes a music database (DB) for storing sound source data about a plurality of pieces of music and Arousal-Valence (AV) coefficients of the respective pieces of music. An emotion model generation unit classifies different emotion types into a plurality of groups, and generates an emotion classification model from using respective probability distributions of the plurality of groups for an AV coefficient plane. A music search unit identifies an emotion type from using information entered by a user when a music search request is received, detects an AV coefficient range for designating an AV coefficient corresponding to the identified emotion type from using the emotion classification model, and searches the music DB for music corresponding to the AV coefficient range.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for retrieving electronic documents based upon images captured using an image capture device. One or more images captured by a user using an image capture device are used to search a set of documents to retrieve one or more documents that match the search query. The one or more documents retrieved by the search may then be provided to the user or some other recipient.

Abstract: A system and method for searching a product model number database having a plurality of product model numbers stored therein receives a string to be searched in the product model number database from a client device. Multiple queries are then created based on the string and the model number database is queried using the created queries. Query results responsive to the created queries are then received from the model number database and transmitted to the client device.

Abstract: Telecommunication devices described herein are configured to display media, such as advertisements or coupons or options to perform actions, responsive to associations between the media and addresses, such as phone numbers, inputted on the devices.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program storage medium which can present associated information related to a document to be processed to a user by using an accumulation block that accumulates a database of associated information. A presentation block presents to the user the associated information corresponding to the document to be processed at occurrence of an event. An agent control block controls the manner of displaying an agent for example.

Abstract: The present disclosure involves computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for automatically identifying reused model artifacts in business process models. A computer-implemented method includes identifying a consumable data object associated with a business process model, selecting a search area associated with the business process model to search for a reference to the consumable data object, searching within the selected search area for the at least one reference to the consumable data object, and determining at least one location of at least one data object that refers to the consumable data object.

Abstract: Techniques for defocusing queries over big datasets and dynamic datasets are provided to broaden search results and incorporate all potentially relevant data and avoid overly narrowing queries. An analytic component can receive queries directed at one region of a dataset and analyze the queries to generate inferences about the queries. The queries can then be defocused by a defocusing component and incorporate a larger dataset than originally searched to broaden the queries. The larger dataset can incorporate all, or a part of the original dataset and can also be disparate from the original dataset. Clusters of queries can also be merged and unified to deal with ‘local minima’ issues and broaden the understanding of the dataset. In other embodiments, dynamic data can be monitored and changes tracked, to ensure that all portions of the dataset are being searched by the queries.

Abstract: In particular embodiments, a method includes receiving an unstructured text query, identifying nodes and edges from a social graph that correspond to n-grams in the text query, and then generating structured queries that include references to the identified nodes and edges.

Abstract: A text conversion device includes a database that stores information, an inputter (120), a determiner (171), a text extractor (172), a related information extractor (177), and a converter (178). The inputter (120) is configured to input a text. The determiner (171) is configured to determine whether the text inputted by the inputter (120) contains a word specifying the database, and if the determination result indicates that the word is contained, the text extractor (172) extracts the word and a remaining text. The related information extractor (177) extracts information from the database specified by the extracted word with the use of the remaining text without the word as a search key. The convertor (178) converts the text inputted by the inputter (120) into any of the extracted information.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying similar images. In some implementations, a method is provided that includes receiving a collection of images and data associated with each image in the collection of images; generating a sparse feature representation for each image in the collection of images; and training an image similarity function using image triplets sampled from the collection of images and corresponding sparse feature representations.

Abstract: An approach is provided for presenting search results in an active user interface element at specific location in a user interface that correspond to the desired information with respect to user interface search element. An element of a user interface receiving a search parameter enables processing of the search parameter to yield location information of the desired information. The location or locations of the desired information are then presented to a user on the user interface.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and system for profiling recipients into recipient categories on the basis of responses to content items provided to users. The profiling is based on rankings that are assigned to the content items, recipient categories, links between the content items and links between the content items and recipient categories. In one embodiment the ranking of a given content item is calculated on the basis of rankings of other content items having a link to the given content item, together with the ranking of the link between the content items, while the ranking of a given respondent in respect of a given recipient category is calculated on the basis of rankings of content items and/or categories that have a link to that recipient category. The links between content items and to the recipient categories indicate a particular response, by the respondent, in respect of content items.

Abstract: Queries may be issued against an image store to produce a set of image instance relating to images in the image store that relate to the query. The relevance of the images to the query may be depicted by scaling the image instances according to the predicted relevance of the image to the query. The image instances may be further positioned within the image instance set query result, e.g., by clustering according to image relatedness or by similar predicted relevance of the images to the query terms of the query. The image instances may also be presented as smoothly zoomable images, such that the user may zoom in on the images in an efficient manner that facilitates realtime, gradual zooming with reduced resampling inefficiency.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an extended search word selection system and method, which provides related words associated with a search word of a user to select an extended search word.

Abstract: A structured file includes information to bind a web data source to a web data query system. Code is embedded within the structured file and is in a code language understood by the web data query system. The code is unrestricted in function. Code language objects are exposed within the web data query system for use by the code to interface with the web data query system and the web data source. A URL is associated with the structured file to enable access of the structured file through the Internet. A unit-based quota method is implemented to manage execution of code in the structured file. The unit-based quota method collapses multiple dimensions of computing resource control into a single unit value, tracks a number of units expended by the code, and stops execution of the code when the number of units expended by the code reaches a set limit.

Abstract: Some of the embodiments herein provide a seamless cloud of storage. This storage may be content-addressable storage. An end application may or may not be exposed to the fact that content-addressable storage is used. Various embodiments herein provide event notification, which may allow applications or users to subscribe to particular events (such as storage of an X-ray by a particular entity). Some embodiments provide for a shared archive. A shared archive may provide homogeneous access to medical data, etc. that was previously stored into the CAS cloud by heterogeneous applications, varied data types, etc. Additionally, embodiments herein allow for the creation and distribution of virtual packages. For example, a user may create a virtual package for all images related to a patient so that she may have a virtual package of all of her medical data to present to a referring physician.

Abstract: A method and system are disclosed for conducting text-based searches of images using a visual signature associated with each image. A measure of string similarity between a query and an annotation associated with each entry in a first database is computed, and based upon the computed string similarity measures, a set of entries from the first database is selected. Each entry of the first database also includes an associated visual signature. At least one entry is then retrieved from a second database based upon a measure of visual similarity between a visual signature of each of the entries in the second database and the visual signatures of the entries in the selected set. Information corresponding to the retrieved entries from the second database is then generated.

Abstract: A computer implemented system for integrating, searching, and updating media related databases comprising a first server for receiving digital content from at least one of a plurality of sources, a second server for receiving queries from at least one of a plurality of user computing devices, and a database access layer being utilized by the first and second servers to read and write to a plurality of databases. The plurality of databases comprise a content database and a media database. The content database receives at least one article of digital content from the first server via the database access layer and stores the at least one article. The media database contains at least one journalist data and media outlet data. A mapping module matches journalist data and media outlet data to at least one journalist data and media outlet data contained in the media database.

Abstract: Representative embodiments of a system for managing customer-relationship activities and knowledge include a template database for storing a plurality of templates, each corresponding to a business activity and comprising text relating to the business activity, an application enabling user selection of a template and formatting of an e-mail conforming to the template, a tracking database for storing and aggregating the user selections, and an interface for permitting querying of the tracking database to obtain data relevant to at least one user or at least one business activity at a specified level of aggregation.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for distributed nearest-neighbor search for image retrieval are disclosed. An example distributed image retrieval system includes a root server and a plurality of leaf servers. The root server controls the clustering of images in the image corpus, and determines the assignment of image clusters to a collection of leaf servers. Each leaf server is independently configured to perform a two-stage nearest-neighbor search in a locality-sensitive hash space for a received query image within the leaf server's assigned images clusters. Thus, the distributed image retrieval system is modular and amendable to tuning, modifications, duplication, and replacement on a per-server basis. In addition, the design of the image retrieval system allows flexible load balancing among the leaf servers.

Abstract: Content-based information retrieval is described. In an example, a query item such as an image, document, email or other item is presented and items with similar content are retrieved from a database of items. In an example, each time a query is presented, a classifier is formed based on that query and using a training set of items. For example, the classifier is formed in real-time and is formed in such a way that a limit on the proportion of the items in the database that will be retrieved is set. In an embodiment, the query item is analyzed to identify tokens in that item and subsets of those tokens are selected to form the classifier. For example, the subsets of tokens are combined using Boolean operators in a manner which is efficient for searching on particular types of database.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to a method for video retrieval by providing a first audio video file, determining a first identifier of a first piece of music in the first audio video file, looking up for the first identifier first meta data in a music database, in which said first meta data are associated with said first identifier, providing second meta data of a second piece of music from the music database. The second piece of music is included in a second audio video file. Further the method is conducted by determining a similarity measure by comparing the first and second meta data, and providing the second audio video file or an identifier thereof depending on the similarity measure. Further embodiments relate to a server, a user device and a system and a computer program product for video retrieval.

Abstract: A data management system includes a record database, an account database, a scenario database, and a computing device. The computing device includes a data management tool that is configured to identify scenarios based on information stored in the record database and store the identified scenarios in the scenario database. Further, the data management tool may associate identified scenarios with customer records stored in the account database. Upon receipt of a scenario selected by a user, the data management tool may automatically generate a query that identifies at least one customer record associated with the selected scenario, execute the query, and create a sample billing record for each customer record identified.

Abstract: An arbitrary number of custom catalogs for an arbitrary number of customers can be published from a single database of seller catalog data. Custom browse hierarchies can be generated for each of the custom catalogs. The custom catalogs are subsets of the catalog database, and are generated in accordance with a set of rules that defines the scope of the content of the custom catalog. The rule sets define a series of sequential searches by which a subset of the product SKUs contained in the database are returned. A primary hierarchy is maintained that can have a scope coextensive with the primary database. Custom browse hierarchies can be pruned to render their scope approximately coextensive with each subset. The custom catalog subsets and the custom browse hierarchies are generated periodically through a virtual publication process.

Abstract: A computer implemented method for automatically generating an artist coordinated image display based upon a user's favorite image or images. A plurality of digital image templates are stored in a computer accessible memory each having programmed characteristics associated therewith that are designed by an artist with one window being a primary window. The characteristics of the template can be programmed and stored, including number, location, shape, color, etc, of windows in the digital template. Color and texture characteristics of a body of the template can be selected to resemble, for example, a frame, which will eventually hold the printed images of the template for display. The windows of the template have stored image attribute requirements associated therewith that are designed by the artist are correlated to match image attributes of at least one user selected image.

Abstract: Techniques to automatically search selected content are described. In some embodiments, a method to automatically search selected content may include receiving a user selection of one or more objects in a document, automatically performing a search of local content on one or more servers associated with the document based on the one or more selected objects and displaying results from the search in a window within the document wherein the user selection comprises a highlighting of the one or more objects and the search is performed automatically in response to the highlighting. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: A method, system, and computer-readable medium for searching for items in a set of items using a similarity model. These search techniques may be used in an online purchasing system. Receiving orders for items may comprise receiving input from a user indicating a request for a first item in the set of items, picking a first plurality of items from the set of items based on the first item and a similarity model, presenting the first plurality of items to the user, and receiving a request from the user for a second item in the first plurality of items. The similarity model may represent similarity between items in the set of items and may be used to select a subset of items to quickly to lead to identification of an item of interest.

Abstract: A system for generating a string based upon a plurality of places and a relationship between two or more of those places and for searching among the strings. Crosslinked databases contain information related to the strings, places within the strings, and users and creators of the strings. The strings represent an authentic user experience of a quality, character, and/or feel intended by the string author. The user experience can be further enhanced or guided through a narrative accompanying the string or places, written by the string author, that describes or invokes the quality, character or feel of the experience intended by the author.

Abstract: Identification and Surfacing of related pieces of content, such as user-provided content, enables users of a merchant website to more easily find related items. A server associated with the website may receive, from a user, an image that illustrates items offered for sale on the site. The site may then enable this and other users to annotate the image by, for example, associating the illustrated items with hyperlinks to respective item detail pages. When a user views this page, the site may surface the most related other user-uploaded images that also illustrate items. To determine the most related images, the website may analyze, for each of the other images, the similarity between the items illustrated in the image and the items illustrated in the currently-displayed image. The website may also analyze the tags applied to the items and the images themselves, as well as multiple other types of criteria.

Abstract: Case images are registered so as not to cause bias (or partiality or imbalance) in amounts of feature of the case images included in a database of a similar image search system for image diagnosis. Since registration of the case images to the database is controlled according to degrees of similarity of the amounts of feature, it is possible to prevent a lot of similar case images from being included in the search result. Thus, it is possible to reduce possibility of representing a similar search result which may interfere with an accurate diagnosis by a diagnostician.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus comprises a content display, an extraction module, a storage, and a keyword display. The content display is configured to display a content. The extraction module is configured to extract a keyword from the content displayed by the content display. The storage is configured to store a first keyword extracted by the extraction module. The keyword display is configured to display the first keyword extracted by the extraction module and a second keyword read from the storage.