Abstract: Systems and methods for providing relevant online content may include evaluating an action performed by a user identifier to determine the user's opinion regarding a topic. Content related to the topic may be selected and provided to an electronic device associated with the user identifier.

Abstract: A system for visualizing concepts within a collection of information analyzes a set of materials from at least one collection of information and defines an attribute space associated with the set of materials. The system then determines automatically similarity of members of the attribute space. The system then generates a graphical model of the members of the attribute space, where the generating includes generating a display of the members of the attribute space, each of the members having a respective display distance from other respective members of the attribute space reflective of the determined similarity.

Abstract: A location classifier generates location information based on textual strings in input text. The location information defines potential geographical relevance of the input text. In determining the location information, the location classifier may receive at least one geo-relevance profile associated with at least one string in the input text, obtain a combined geo-relevance profile for the document from the at least one geo-relevance profile, and determine geographical relevance of the input text based on the combined geo-relevance profile.

Abstract: Described is a technology for obtaining labeled sample data. Labeling guidelines are converted into binary yes/no questions regarding data samples. The questions and data samples are provided to judges who then answer the questions for each sample. The answers are input to a label assignment algorithm that associates a label with each sample based upon the answers. If the guidelines are modified and previous answers to the binary questions are maintained, at least some of the previous answers may be used in re-labeling the samples in view of the modification.

Abstract: For providing procedures, a synchronize module stores a plurality of procedures in a procedure database. Each procedure is indexed to a reference code. The synchronize module synchronizes the plurality of procedures to a mobile device. A retrieval module receives a first reference code at the mobile device and retrieves a first procedure indexed to the first reference code.

Abstract: Diagnosing and detecting causes of an incident may comprise classifying the incident by keywords, searching for co-occurring and reoccurring group of incidents, summarizing commonalities in the group of incidents, correlating the group of incidents with causes, defining association rules between the commonalities, and predicting potential problems based on the correlated group of incidents with causes.

Abstract: A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for timeline-based social media data visualization. The mechanism receives social media data from at least one social media server. The mechanism filters the social media data to identify a plurality of social media posts related to a time-based event. The mechanism assigns the plurality of social media posts into a plurality of time periods within a timeline of the time-based event. The mechanism generates a timeline-based data visualization presenting the plurality of social media posts in relation to the timeline of the time-based event and presents the timeline-based data visualization.

Abstract: Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for maintaining a topic collection. That is, a topic collection (e.g., a vacation topic collection) may be created for a user, such that the user may store content associated with various applications (e.g., images from a social network app, vacation blogs, hotel price lists, sightseeing websites, etc.) as one or more entries within the topic collection. In this way, the user may easily organize, review, and/or share content through the topic collection. Recommendations of supplement content, which may be relevant to the topic collection, may be provided to the user. For example, entries within vacation topic collections of other users (e.g., to similar destinations) may be identified as supplemental content and recommended to the user. In this way, the user may accomplish a search task by organizing content into a single source.

Abstract: Techniques for license reconciliation with multiple license types and restrictions. A method includes grouping a collection of multiple software installation instances, a collection of multiple hardware devices and a collection of multiple software licenses into multiple clusters, generating a reconciliation matrix for each cluster, wherein each row in the reconciliation matrix represents a software installation instance or a hardware device, each column in the reconciliation matrix represents a license type and/or an individual license, and each cell in the reconciliation matrix represents a license requirement and applicability of each software installation instance or hardware device, solving each reconciliation matrix, and generating a license reconciliation plan based on the solved reconciliation matrices.

Abstract: Techniques for license reconciliation with multiple license types and restrictions includes grouping a collection of multiple software installation instances, a collection of multiple hardware devices and a collection of multiple software licenses into multiple clusters, generating a reconciliation matrix for each cluster, wherein each row in the reconciliation matrix represents a software installation instance or a hardware device, each column in the reconciliation matrix represents a license type and/or an individual license, and each cell in the reconciliation matrix represents a license requirement and applicability of each software installation instance or hardware device, solving each reconciliation matrix, and generating a license reconciliation plan based on the solved reconciliation matrices.

Abstract: Deterministic Finite Automatons (DFAs) and Nondeterministic Finite Automatons (NFAs) are two typical automatons used in the Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS). Although they both perform regular expression matching, they have quite different performance and memory usage properties. DFAs provide fast and deterministic matching performance but suffer from the well-known state explosion problem. NFAs are compact, but their matching performance is unpredictable and with no worst case guarantee. A new automaton representation of regular expressions, called Tunable Finite Automaton (TFA), is described. TFAs resolve the DFAs' state explosion problem and the NFAs' unpredictable performance problem. Different from a DFA, which has only one active state, a TFA allows multiple concurrent active states. Thus, the total number of states required by the TFA to track the matching status is much smaller than that required by the DFA.

Abstract: Deterministic Finite Automatons (DFAs) and Nondeterministic Finite Automatons (NFAs) are two typical automatons used in the Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS). Although they both perform regular expression matching, they have quite different performance and memory usage properties. DFAs provide fast and deterministic matching performance but suffer from the well-known state explosion problem. NFAs are compact, but their matching performance is unpredictable and with no worst case guarantee. A new automaton representation of regular expressions, called Tunable Finite Automaton (TFA), is described. TFAs resolve the DFAs' state explosion problem and the NFAs' unpredictable performance problem. Different from a DFA, which has only one active state, a TFA allows multiple concurrent active states. Thus, the total number of states required by the TFA to track the matching status is much smaller than that required by the DFA.

Abstract: An aspect of the present invention simplifies grouping of data items previously stored in a database, the data items being stored in the form of rows and columns in respective tables (in the database). In one embodiment, a system displays a cross product of values from two or more columns in the form of multiple lines, where each line contains a respective value from each of the two or more columns to specify a corresponding criterion (combination of values). In response to receiving inputs indicating the respective groups for each of the lines, the system determines a group for each data item (stored in the database) based on the received inputs. A user is accordingly required to only specify the desired groups corresponding to various combinations of values of the columns to cause grouping of data items in the database.

Abstract: Deterministic Finite Automatons (DFAs) and Nondeterministic Finite Automatons (NFAs) are two typical automatons used in the Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS). Although they both perform regular expression matching, they have quite different performance and memory usage properties. DFAs provide fast and deterministic matching performance but suffer from the well-known state explosion problem. NFAs are compact, but their matching performance is unpredictable and with no worst case guarantee. A new automaton representation of regular expressions, called Tunable Finite Automaton (TFA), is described. TFAs resolve the DFAs' state explosion problem and the NFAs' unpredictable performance problem. Different from a DFA, which has only one active state, a TFA allows multiple concurrent active states. Thus, the total number of states required by the TFA to track the matching status is much smaller than that required by the DFA.

Abstract: Techniques are provided that address the problems associated with prior approaches for clustering a fact table in a relational database management system. According to one aspect of the invention, a database server clusters a fact table in a database based on one or more dimension tables. More specifically, rows are stored in the fact table in a sorted order and the order in which the rows are sorted is based on values in one or more columns of one or more of the dimension tables. A user specifies the columns of the dimension tables on which the sorted order is based in “clustering criteria”. The database server uses the clustering criteria to automatically store the rows in the fact table in the sorted order in response to certain user-initiated database operations on the fact-table.

Abstract: The invention teaches systems, methods and devices for searching data storage systems and devices by a topical category known as a theme. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. 37 CFR 1.72(b).

Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium that facilitate classification of database requests as problematic based on estimated processing characteristics of the request are provided. Estimated processing characteristics may include estimated skew including central processing unit skew and input/output operation skew, central processing unit duration per input/output operation, and estimated memory usage. The estimated processing characteristics are made on a request step basis. The request is classified as problematic responsive to determining one or more of the estimated characteristics of a request step exceed a corresponding threshold. In this manner, mechanisms for predicting bad query behavior are provided. Workload management of those requests may then be more successfully provided through workload throttles, filters, or even a more confident exception detection that correlates with the estimated bad behavior.

Abstract: A user of a network-based system may correspond to a user profile that describes the user. The user profile may describe the user using one or more descriptors of items that correspond to the user (e.g., items owned by the user, items liked by the user, or items rated by the user). In some situations, such a user profile may be characterized as a “taste profile” that describes an array or distribution of one or more tastes, preferences, or habits of the user. Accordingly, the user profile machine within the network-based system may generate the user profile by accessing descriptors of items that correspond to the user, clustering one or more of the descriptors, and generating the user profile based on one or more clusters of the descriptors.

Abstract: Techniques, an apparatus and an article of manufacture for distributed scalable clustering and community detection. A method includes generating a label for each node in a graph, wherein said label identifies a community in which a node participates, propagating each label locally within two or more segments of the graph based on a participation percentage of each node in at least one identified community within the graph, and deriving at least one cluster of nodes in the graph that corresponds to the at least one identified community based on said propagating.

Abstract: Methods and systems for recommending social networking connections are disclosed. Information is received from a mobile device relating to software applications that are installed on a first user's mobile device. A weight for each software application is calculated based on usage information and each software application is designated to at least one category. A priority is calculated for each category based at least in part on respective weights of software applications designated to the category. A second user, who is not connected to the first user, is detected, wherein the second user has a predetermined number of categories that are the same as the first user's categories, and wherein priorities corresponding to the second user's categories are within a predetermined range of priorities corresponding to the first user's categories. A recommendation to connect with the second user is provided to the first user.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an apparatus stores a plurality of datapoints. A datapoint comprises a first value and a second value that depends upon the value of the first value. The apparatus associates the datapoint with a group from a plurality of groups. The group is associated with an identifying range and the datapoint is associated with the group based at least in part upon the first value of the datapoint and the identifying range of the group. The apparatus calculates a median of the second values of the datapoints associated with the group and a performance value by performing a regression based at least in part upon the identifying range and the calculated median of the group. The apparatus determines that the performance value exceeds a baseline value and in response, presents, on a display, an illustration depicting the identifying range and the associated median of the group.

Abstract: Techniques are described for performing grouping and aggregation operations. In one embodiment, a request is received to aggregate data grouped by a first column. In response to receiving the request, a group value in a row of a first column is mapped to an address. A pointer is stored for a first group at a first location identified by the address. The pointer identifies a second location of a set of aggregation data for the first group. An aggregate value included in the set of aggregation data is updated based on a value in the row of a second column.

Abstract: A method for computerized batching of huge populations of electronic documents, including computerized assignment of electronic documents into at least one sequence of electronic document batches such that each document is assigned to a batch in the sequence of batches and such that there is no conflict between batching requirements, the following batching requirements being maintained by a suitably programmed processor: a. pre-defined subsets of documents are always kept together in the same batch, b. batches are equal in size, c. the population is partitioned into clusters, and all documents in any given batch belong to a single cluster rather than to two or more clusters.

Abstract: A user creates an event in a social networking system specifying a location, a time, and a guest list of other users invited to the event. The social networking system generates a page associated with the event that provides information about the event and identifies whether users have responded to invitations to the event. The content of the page may be customized for the user viewing the page to encourage the viewing user to attend the event. For example, the viewing user's relationship to and/or similar characteristics with other users on the guest list is determined and used by the social networking system to identify the users whose responses to invitations are shown to the viewing user via the page. Additionally, a notification method more prominently distributes acceptances of invitations to other users to encourage attendance.

Abstract: Techniques for facilitating a similarity search of digital assets (e.g., audio files, image files, video files, etc.) are described. Consistent with some embodiments, a cloud-based search service manages one or more search tree data structures for use in organizing digital assets to make the digital assets searchable. Each digital asset is associated with a feature vector based on the various attributes and/or characteristics of the digital asset. The digital assets are then assigned to leaf nodes in one or more search tree data structures based on a measure of the distance between the feature vector of the digital asset and a virtual feature vector associated with a leaf node. When a search for similar digital assets is invoked, a prioritized breadth first search of a search tree is performed to identify the digital assets having the feature vectors closest in distance to the reference digital asset.

Abstract: Defining relationships are described. Defining relationships can include retrieving a number of event notifications that correspond to a number of nodes. Defining relationships can include defining a number of group patterns that correspond to the number of event notifications. Defining relationships can also include grouping the number of nodes into a number of groups that correlate with the number of group patterns, the number of groups defining a number of relationships between the number of nodes. Defining relationships can include assigning a number of weights to the number of relationships between the number of nodes, wherein the number of weights are based on a strength of the number of relationships between the number of nodes.

Abstract: Embodiments for a method for ranking social quality of content published on a plurality of web pages are provided. In an embodiment, the method includes receiving at least one log record from a tracking component on at least one web page. The one log record is indicative of at least one user activity on the at least one web page. The method further includes aggregating the at least one log record corresponding to preferably each of the plurality of web pages based on one or more parameters. The method also includes assigning a first score for preferably each of the plurality of web pages based on the aggregating. The first score is indicative of a social quality of content published in the at least one web page. The method includes ranking the plurality of web pages based on the first score.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for assessing user interest scores of users of a mobile network are provided. A method includes for each of a plurality of users (A) determining initial interest scores corresponding to user's interests and interest scores of friends of the user for the user's interests, based on browsing information, and (B) assessing user's interest scores based on the initial interest scores, the interest scores of the friends and friends' influence. The method further includes outputting a list including a subset of the users selected based on the user's interest scores.

Abstract: A method and system for mining a database for product migration analysis includes querying product usage data for a legacy product and a new product from the database as time series data. The product usage data is representative for a large number of consumers of the legacy and new products. A mathematical model may be used to determine a relationship between the two time series data. Product migration values and other features related to product migration, such as a transition period of product usage, may be estimated, determined or predicted.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for processing correlated metadata (e.g., programmatic metadata relating to one or more episodes of a television show). Mappings, or correlations, between chunks of the metadata that originated from a particular data source and the metadata clusters may be determined and displayed, e.g., on a graphical user interface. Using this display, a user (i.e., a human operator) may detect inconsistencies in the correlated metadata. An inconsistency may be an incorrect mapping, the mapping of more than one of the metadata chunks that originated from the same data source to the same metadata cluster, or that one or more of the metadata chunks have not been mapped to a metadata cluster. The mappings may then be edited so as to remove detected inconsistencies.

Abstract: Methods and/or systems are provided that may be utilized to rank categories of an entity based at least in part on relevance.

Abstract: Embodiments of an inspection system and method for a collection of information objects, for example, a collection of executable software applications may be inspected for computer viruses, or a collection of genomes may be inspected for common or unique gene sequences. Information objects may contain identified sequences of instructions, each of which may be labeled with a symbol. In the software context, programming languages may include symbols that indicate functionality. In some embodiments, an inspection of the statistical properties of the information objects and their included symbols may allow for the symbols (and thus instruction sequences) to be grouped into logical components. In some embodiments, objects that include individual logical components may be grouped together. These groupings and their dependencies may be used to determine the structure of each object by detailing its constituent components, how they relate or depend on one another, and how the information object may function.

Abstract: A technique of extracting hierarchies for multilabel classification. The technique can process a plurality of labels related to a plurality of documents, using a clustering process, to cluster the labels into plurality of clusterings representing a plurality of classes. The technique classifies the documents and predicts a plurality of performance characteristics, respectively, for the plurality of clusterings. The technique selects at least one of the clusterings using information from the performance characteristics and adds the selected clustering into a resulting hierarchy.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for correlating metadata from a plurality of different sources. The methods and apparatus may use an order for the data sources. The metadata from each of the data sources may be divided or split into one or more chunks. The metadata from each of the chunks may be filtered and sorted, e.g., to ensure that the metadata relate to the same multimedia content. The metadata chunks from the first data source in the order and the second data source in the order may then be aligned to produce currently aligned metadata. The metadata data chunks from the next data source in the order may then be aligned with the currently aligned metadata to produce new currently aligned metadata. This process may be repeated until the metadata from all of the sources are aligned, thereby providing a set of correlated metadata.

Abstract: A system and method of managing online social networking which includes identifying a plurality of users related to a primary user on a social networking tool using a computer. The method and system identifies a plurality of activities performed by the plurality of users on the social networking tool, and assigning a score to each of the activities. A threshold cumulative score for users to enter a group is defined. The system and method evaluates the activities of each of the users, and calculates a cumulative score for each of the users based on their respective activities, and evaluates the cumulative score of each of users in relation to the group. One or more of the plurality of users who meet the threshold cumulative score are assigned to the group. A status for each user in the group based on their cumulative score is determined.

Abstract: Method, apparatus, and programs for recommending websites. Information related to a user's browsing history of a plurality of websites is obtained. A browsing co-occurrence of at least some of the plurality of websites in one or more time periods is determined based on the obtained information related to the user's browsing history. The plurality of websites are assigned to a plurality of website groups based on the determined browsing co-occurrence. Each of the plurality of website groups is associated with one of the one or more time periods. At least one of the plurality of website groups is presented to the user based on their associated time periods.

Abstract: A contents distribution server using an identification code of contents is disclosed. The apparatus includes an interface providing unit configured to provide an interface for registration of the contents to a device, if a request for the registration of the contents is received from the device; an code information extraction unit configured to extract code information from input information through the interface; an identification code generation unit configured to generate the identification code by combining codes corresponding to the extracted code information, and a contents distribution unit configured to match the contents with the generated identification code, register the matched contents in a database and transmit the registered contents to a contents managing server with reference to the identification code.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include methods for identifying one or more clusters in a streaming graph, the method includes receiving a stream of edges and sampling the stream of edges to create a structural reservoir and support reservoir. The method also includes creating a sampled graph from the structural reservoir and identifying the one or more clusters in the sampled graph by grouping one or more connected vertices in the sampled graph.

Abstract: A system for clustering vertices in a streaming graph includes a structural sampler configured to receive a stream of edges. The structural sampler includes a reservoir manager configured to receive the stream of edges and create a structural reservoir and a support reservoir and a graph manager configured to receive the structural reservoir from the reservoir manager and to create a sampled graph from the structural reservoir, wherein the sampled graph includes one or more clusters that each include one or more connected vertices.

Abstract: A method for automatically extracting and organizing information by a processing device from a plurality of data sources is provided. A natural language processing information extraction pipeline that includes an automatic detection of entities is applied to the data sources. Information about detected entities is identified by analyzing products of the natural language processing pipeline. Identified information is grouped into equivalence classes containing equivalent information. At least one displayable representation of the equivalence classes is created. An order in which the at least one displayable representation is displayed is computed. A combined representation of the equivalence classes that respects the order in which the displayable representation is displayed is produced.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to modeling communities associated with groups of data items. Tools are provided to iteratively assign data items to communities and to update topic and participant distribution in the assigned communities. As the distributions are updated, the characteristics of the communities are updated. Each activity area is defined from the perspective of a single user. Participants in a community are connected to a user, but not necessarily to each other. The combination of formations of communities and the statistical aspect of evaluating characteristics of the communities provides a multi-facetted organization of connections between data items and associated participants.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to a modeling activity area associated with groups of data items. Tools are provided to profile activity area involvement, both from the data item and from associated participants. The data items are placed into clusters and one or more activity areas are derived from the formed clusters. Each activity area is defined from the perspective of a single user. Participants in an activity area are connected to a user, but not necessarily to each other. The combination of formations of clusters and activity areas provides a multi-facetted organization of connections between data items and associated participants.

Abstract: The disclosure generally describes computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for providing a homogeneous data model based on in-memory database views. One computer-implemented method includes creating an application view field associated with an application view, indicating a base database field in a base database table for the created application view field, collecting additional information associated with the indicated base database field, determining at least a data element and a domain associated with the indicated base database field using the collected additional information, determining, by operation of a computer using the collected additional information, that multiple determined catalog entries associated with the indicated base database field exist in a catalog, and proposing names for the application view field, wherein the proposed names are presented from most specific to least specific.

Abstract: A system and method obtain a database stored on a storage device containing information on multiple assets, the information including measurements taken from devices monitoring each asset, and context information corresponding to the environment the items are subjected to. The system and method groups assets via a computer system into a homogenous group as a function of selected context information and performs analytics via the computer system on the grouped assets to manage the assets.

Abstract: A method and a system for coreference resolution are provided. The method includes receiving a set of document clusters, each cluster in the set of document clusters including a set of text documents. Instances of each of a set of candidate named entities are identified in the document clusters. For a pairs of the candidate named entities, at least one socio-temporal feature is computed that is based on the similarity of the distributions of identified instances of the respective candidate name entities among the document clusters. A decision for merging for the candidate named entities into a common real named entity is based on the socio-temporal features.

Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products manage collections of information using latent semantic analysis. The collections of information may be text based such as collections of documents or non-text data such as audio, image, video or multimedia data. Semantic information groups are created by grouping collections of information according to a degree of relatedness. A system allocates discontiguous node locations of one or more distributed databases to the semantic information groups. The system manages a dynamic semantic table that maps the discontiguous node locations to a semantic virtual table having a contiguous memory space.

Abstract: Method, system, and programs for providing identifiers to objects. Input data representing a plurality of objects is received and categorized into a plurality of entity categories. A first graph of entities is generated using the plurality of entity categories. The first graph of entities are matched with a second graph of entities. A comparison of object pairs is then made, in which each object pair includes a first object from the first graph of entities and a corresponding second object from the second graph of entities. Identifiers are assigned to each object based on comparing the object pairs.

Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for controlling enterprise data on mobile devices. Data on a mobile device is tagged as being associated with either enterprise data or with personal data. Upon identifying the storage location of the tagged data and the identifier of the application that generated the tagged data, the tag, the storage location of the tagged data and the identifier of the application are stored in an index. A mobile agent residing on the mobile device may be directed by a mobile device management server of the enterprise to perform various actions (e.g., deleting, encrypting, backing-up) on the enterprise data using the index. In this manner, the enterprise has the ability to control their applications and data that resides on employees' mobile devices to ensure that such data is not lost or used in a manner that is contrary to the wishes of the employer.

Abstract: A classification system executing on one or more computer systems includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory includes a discovery engine configured to navigate through non-volatile memory storage to discover an identity and location of one or more files in one or more computer storage systems by tracing the one or more files from file system mount points through file system objects and to disk objects. A classifier is configured to classify the one or more the files into a classification category. The one or more files are associated with the classification category and stored in at least one data structure. Methods are also provided.

Abstract: A monitoring system includes a database storing configuration information about a plurality of objects in the data center; a first inventory instance that adds a first object to the database, where the first inventory instance classifies the first object based on a set of classification rules to select a set of monitoring rules for the first object based on its classification and add configuration information about the first object to the configuration database; and a first monitoring instance to monitor the first object, the monitoring instance monitoring status of the first object based on respective configuration information in the database; at least one of the first inventory instance and the first monitoring instance identifying a further object functionally connected to the first object, the further objects added to the database by the first or a second inventory instance and monitored by the first or a second monitoring instance.