Способы и серверы для ранжирования цифровых документов в ответ на запрос

Группа изобретений относится к технологиям поисковых машин и может быть использована для ранжирования цифровых документов для запроса. Техническим результатом является повышение быстродействия. На сервере размещается поисковая машина, связанная с инвертированным индексом. Способ включает в себя осуществление доступа к инвертированному индексу для извлечения запросо-независимых данных для первой пары документ-терм и второй пары документ-терм, причем запросо-независимые данные указывают на (i) зависимое от терма вхождение первого терма в содержимое документа и (ii) зависимое от терма вхождение второго терма в содержимое документа. Способ включает в себя генерирование запросо-зависимого признака с использованием запросо-независимых данных, который указывает на групповое вхождение первого терма со вторым термом в содержимое документа. Способ включает в себя генерирование ранжирующего признака для данного документа на основе, по меньшей мере, первого терма, второго терма и запросо-зависимого ...

СПОСОБ И СЕРВЕР ПРЕОБРАЗОВАНИЯ ЗНАЧЕНИЯ КАТЕГОРИАЛЬНОГО ФАКТОРА В ЕГО ЧИСЛОВОЕ ПРЕДСТАВЛЕНИЕ

Группа изобретений относится к вычислительной технике и может быть использована для создания прогностической модели. Техническим результатом является обеспечение преобразования значения категориального фактора в его числовое представление. Категориальный фактор связан с обучающим объектом, используемым для обучения алгоритма машинного обучения (MLA). Способ содержит этапы, на которых MLA обучается с помощью нескольких моделей, причем каждая модель включает в себя множество деревьев решений (ансамбль деревьев решений), для каждой модели соответствующий набор обучающих объектов организуют в упорядоченный список обучающих объектов таким образом, что для каждого обучающего объекта существует по меньшей мере одно из: (i) предыдущий обучающий объект, который находится до данного обучающего объекта, и (ii) последующий обучающий объект, который находится после данного обучающего объекта, используют соответствующий упорядоченный список для данного категориального фактора, для создания числового ...

СПОСОБ (ВАРИАНТЫ), ВЫЧИСЛИТЕЛЬНОЕ УСТРОЙСТВО (ВАРИАНТЫ) И СИСТЕМА (ВАРИАНТЫ) ДЛЯ ОСУЩЕСТВЛЕНИЯ МЕТАПОИСКА ДАННЫХ

Группа изобретений относится к области вычислительной техники и может быть использована для осуществления метапоиска данных. Техническим результатом является повышение точности результатов поиска, повышение эффективности процессов осуществления поиска данных, уменьшение объема вычислительных ресурсов и ресурсов памяти, повышение уровня защиты данных, принимаемых вычислительным устройством. Один из вариантов способа содержит этапы, на которых обеспечивают возможность взаимодействия с пользователем для ввода пользователем пользовательского поискового запроса, создают сетевое соединение с сервером с обеспечением передачи указанного принятого пользовательского поискового запроса по указанному сетевому соединению на указанный сервер, принимают от сервера один или более сетевых адресов информационных ресурсов по указанному сетевому соединению в ответ на указанный введенный пользовательский поисковый запрос, направляют по меньшей мере один поисковый запрос по сети связи, поставленный в соответствие ...

СПОСОБЫ И СИСТЕМЫ ДЛЯ ОЦЕНКИ ОБУЧАЮЩИХ ОБЪЕКТОВ ПОСРЕДСТВОМ АЛГОРИТМА МАШИННОГО ОБУЧЕНИЯ

Группа изобретений относится к области машинного обучения и может быть использована для оценки обучающих объектов. Техническим результатом является повышение эффективности алгоритма машинного обучения при экономии вычислительных ресурсов. Способ содержит получение первого набора обучающих образцов, содержащего множество признаков, итеративное обучение первой прогнозирующей модели на основе множества признаков и формирование соответствующего первого показателя ошибки прогнозирования; анализ соответствующего первого показателя ошибки прогнозирования для каждой итерации, чтобы определить точку «сверхподгонки», и определение по меньшей мере одной начальной точки оценивания; получение данных нового набора обучающих объектов и итеративное переобучение с использованием по меньшей мере одного обучающего объекта первой прогнозирующей модели, начиная с по меньшей мере одной начальной точки оценивания, для получения множества переобученных первых прогнозирующих моделей, и формирование соответствующего ...

СПОСОБ И СЕРВЕР ПРЕОБРАЗОВАНИЯ ЗНАЧЕНИЯ КАТЕГОРИАЛЬНОГО ФАКТОРА В ЕГО ЧИСЛОВОЕ ПРЕДСТАВЛЕНИЕ

Systems and methods of secure data exchange

Improved capabilities are described for securely viewing, and collaboratively working on, computer data content, such as documents, presentations, spreadsheets, emails, blog entries, texts, and the like, wherein a secure exchange server is controlled by an intermediate business entity, and access to restricted computer data content is granted to a plurality of users comprising a user of a second business entity and an anonymous user. The second business entity may indicate permissions to the secure exchange server for the anonymous user to access the computer data content through an anonymous information rights management (IRM) facility which limits retention of information about the anonymous user. The indication of permission also comprises an anonymous access condition. Other embodiments describe a federated search facility, a data management facility distributed over several data management sites, an encryption management facility, a data chunking facility, an asynchronous upload messaging ...

Method for managing information content related to a physical or legal person on a data communications network, and software configured to implement such

A method 30, software, and system for carrying out said method for identifying and reporting additional relevant information wherein content of interest is searched for, particularly using a search engine 31, one or more links or reference addresses of a data network related to the content of interest is retrieved 32 and one or more databases, servers, service providers or websites are contacted in order to verify the existence of additional content related to the links or addresses and the content of information 33. The additional information could be, for example, a person’s name, a reply report or commenting report drafted by the subject of interest the content of interest relates to. If additional information exists, then this is reported by associating a marker with the links or addresses relevant or generating a dedicated user interface for reporting the additional information 34. Access may be allowed to the additional information 35 and a further dedicated user interface can be ...

Method and apparatus for web page content categorization

Validate modification of audio-based computer program output

This application is for a system and method to validate the modification of a chatbots output. It works by first receiving a voice input 202 to a client computing device 104. It then establishes a communication channel with a third-party server that provides the chatbot and chooses one based on the acoustic signal received by the computing device. It then requests content that is configured for a text to speech technique 212, the request being triggered by a placeholder field identified by the chatbot 210. It then selects a content item for insertion into the placeholder field 102, and transmits it to the third-party server 214. It then performs the text to speech technique to output the dialog data 216 modified with the content item 218. Finally, it receives from the chatbot an indication of the content item, and sets, based on a comparison of an indication of the content item with the content item, a validation parameter for the third-party server.

Autonomous vehicle stations

USER INTERFACE FOR MULTIVARIATE SEARCHING

A method for providing a user interface for multivariate searching is provided. The method comprises displaying, by a computing device, the user interface having an input portion and a search type selection portion which may have two or more search type objects. Each object corresponds to a different type of search to be performed, which may be represented by an icon indicating the type of search to be performed. The method further comprises: receiving, by the computing device, a first input string in the input portion and a first selection of one of the two or more search type objects; associating a first search type on the first input string based on the first selection of one of the search type objects; and displaying the first search type and the first input string on the user interface.

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING SEARCH CACHE

Provided are a method and device for searching for a cache update, the method comprising : when a hotspot content is updated, extracting a first search word of the hotspot content and updating same to a first data base (S101); when a search request is received, querying the pre-established first data base according to the search word (S102), and determining whether a second search word is obtained (S103); when the second search word is obtained and the second search word is determined to be valid (S104), querying a pre-established second data base according to the second search word, and obtaining a cache of a first search result (S105); determining whether the cache of the first search result is valid (S106), and if so, taking information in the cache of the first search result as a first search request result (S107); and if not, forwarding the search request to a search engine, and acquiring a second search request result and updating same to the second data base (S108). The method can ...

Smart brain service system based on library data

SYSTEM FOR SEARCHING COUNTRY-BY-COUNTRY LITERARY WORKS BASED ON DEEP LEARNING

SIGN LANGUAGE VIDEO CHATBOT APPLICATION STORED ON COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIA

CARD DATA DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

The present disclosure provides a card data display method and apparatus, and a storage medium. The method includes: in response to receiving a search request through a first application, sending the search request to a second application, acquiring card data in response to receiving the search request through the second application, in which the card data includes a first search result corresponding to the search request, and displaying the card data.

Automated searching and identification of software patches

A method may include obtaining a first violation in a first software program and identifying one or more characteristics of the first violation. The method may include searching at least one website to identify a set of posts. The method may include obtaining, as a first context, a first portion of the first software program that includes the first violation. The method may include obtaining a set of second contexts, each second context corresponding to a different post of the set of posts. The method may also include determining a set of similarity scores by comparing a first abstract tree representation of the first context with each second abstract tree representation corresponding with the second contexts and selecting a particular post based on the similarity score between the first abstract tree representation and the particular second abstract tree representation associated with the particular post.

METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR VULNERABILITY DETECTION AND MAINTENANCE PREDICTION IN INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEMS USING HASH DATA ANALYTICS

Method, apparatus and computer program product for detecting vulnerability and predicting maintenance in an industrial control system are described herein.

FAVORITES MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION SEARCH SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM AND FAVORITES MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION SEARCH SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD USING SAME

The present invention relates to a favorites management and information search service providing system and a favorites management and information search service providing method using same. According to the present invention, by resolving problems in favorites systems and methods of an existing technology in which a user has to individually add web pages visited by the user to favorites and thus favorites items are difficult to manage and inconvenient to use as the number of the favorites items increases, a user can add a relevant web page to favorites simply by clicking the address of a favorites management website, can easily manage the stored favorites items and can easily share with other users. Also, when the user inputs a search word, the search word is analyzed and search results from a plurality of preset search engines and websites are provided simultaneously. If a website is in a foreign language, an automatic translation into a national language is provided. Therefore, the user ...

FINDING AND FILTERING ELEMENTS OF A VISUAL SCENE

In a general aspect, a method can include receiving, by an electronic device, a visual scene; identifying, by the electronic device, a plurality of elements of the visual scene; and determining, based on the plurality of elements identified in the visual scene, a context of the visual scene. The method can further include applying, based on the determined context of the visual scene, at least one filter to identify at least one element of the plurality of elements corresponding with the at least one filter; and visually indicate, in the visual scene on a display of the electronic device, the at least one element identified using the at least one filter.

DETECTION DEVICE, DETECTION METHOD, DETECTION SYSTEM, AND DETECTION PROGRAM

A device and method to accurately detect list-based attacks without reducing the convenience for authorized users. An acquirer acquires information on accounts used for log-in trials to a plurality of websites. An analyzer calculates the degree of use of each account used in common for log-in trials to different websites in a predetermined period of time out of the accounts acquired by the acquirer and determine the log-in trials using the account to be attacks when the degree of use exceeds a predetermined threshold. A detector detects, as an attack, a log-in trial to the website using the same account as the account used for the log-in trials determined to be attacks by the analyzer.

DATA COMPRESSION ENGINE FOR DICTIONARY BASED LOSSLESS DATA COMPRESSION

A compression engine includes sets of independent search engines. The sets of independent search engines concurrently perform searches for a longest match in a stream of uncompressed data. The searches are distributed amongst the sets of independent search engines on byte boundaries to load balance the use of the search engines.

SYSTEM AND METHOD OF AUTOMATED EXTRACTION AND VISUALIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY, PERSONNEL AND BUSINESS FUNCTIONS

A method of improving the performance of an information computer system for an enterprise includes cataloging information artifacts from the information computer system. The information artifacts represent data about intellectual assets and interrelationships between intellectual assets within the enterprise. Knowledge maps are created representing the cataloged information artifacts within a knowledgebase. A knowledge map relevant to a user is identified. The identified knowledge map is displayed to the user via an output.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED AGENT ASSISTANCE NEXT ACTIONS WITHIN A CLOUD-BASED CONTACT CENTER

Methods to reduce agent effort and improve customer experience quality through artificial intelligence. The Agent Assist tool provides contact centers with an innovative tool designed to reduce agent effort, improve quality and reduce costs by minimizing search and data entry tasks The Agent Assist tool is natively built and fully unified within the agent interface while keeping all data internally protected from third-party sharing.

Validation framework for runtime connected API systems

Provided is a validation framework for modelling possible failures that might occur when an orchestrated transaction calls external services to ensure that error handling and reporting is robust and well designed. The disclosed techniques ensure that no changes are necessary to either the code making a call or the services that might be called. The techniques are not limited to web servers and REST APIs as they may be used to test and validate any kind of system that employs well defined APIs. The claimed subject matter, or “validation framework” may be added to an existing API or created as a new module that acts as a proxy server in a non-micro service type of system. Although described with respect to a gateway-API service, the claimed subject matter is equally applicable to other systems that process orchestrated transactions.

COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING ENTITY INFORMATION FROM TEXT COMMUNICATIONS AND DISPLAYING CONTENT BASED THEREFROM

Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content providing, searching and/or hosting systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework for analyzing messages shared over a network and identifying information in them referencing entities based on a determined context of the messages. Once the entity information is identified, the disclosed framework segregates them based on the context, and then presents them in contextual views as content cards within or as part of generated, content-specific interfaces. The disclosed framework enables users to continue messaging while pivoting between different views of the generated interfaces, which enables the retrieval of additional information related to the entity information included on the content cards.

Declarative and reactive data layer for component-based user interfaces

Each of a plurality of wire web components predicted to be included in a graphical user interface (GUI) for presentation at a client machine. Each data object instance may be associated with a respective data object instance identifier and a respective one or more data object fields. A wire web component graph that includes a plurality of nodes may be constructed. A node may correspond to a wire web component, a data object field, or an application procedure interface (API). One or more of the data values may be retrieved from the respective APIs based on the wire web component graph. A GUI message including the retrieved data values and the wire web component graph may be transmitted to the client machine.

NESTED DISCOVERY AND DELETION OF RESOURCES

Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are provided for recursively searching a plurality of workspaces of the system for linked data associated with the seed data, initiating an endpoint process for each the seed data and the linked data, and, upon completion of the search, delete the seed data and the linked data identified based at least in part on the endpoint process. The process may be automatically repeated at a predetermined time interval to identify and remove future data that is stored in the plurality of datasets.

IN-VEHICLE INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND SERVER PROGRAM

In an in-vehicle information processing apparatus according to the present embodiment, a server processing unit receives a search message for searching for a requested service, from a client processing unit configured to request that a service be provided, the search message includes identification information and version information of the requested service, the server processing unit determines whether or not the version information included in the received search message matches version information of a service that the server processing unit provides, and, if it is determined that the two types of version information do not match, the server processing unit examines whether or not it is possible to provide the service with different version information to the client processing unit, and, if it is possible to provide the service with different version information, the server processing unit provides the service to the client processing unit.

Systems and methods for routing remote application data

Described embodiments provide for routing remote application data. A device can receive a request to access an application. The application can be provided by data centers and accessible via service providers. The device can select a data center from the plurality of data centers and a service provider based at least on a metric indicative of a connection between the data center and the service provider. The device can query a database including one or more connection metrics using the application identified in the request and a location of a router transmitting the request. The device can determine the location of the router based on an internet protocol (IP) address of a client communicably coupled to the router. The device can transmit a response to the request identifying the selected data center and the selected service provider.

Voice interface alert management

A communication system (150) provides a portable radio (100) that retrieves public safety records in response to a verbal query entered thereto. The communication system (150) includes a bot gateway (122) for accessing and retrieving the public safety records from a plurality of remote public safety databases in response to the verbal query entered into the portable radio. The bot gateway (122) determines a criticality level for the retrieved public safety records. The bot gateway (122) temporarily stores the retrieved public safety records and sends a criticality code to the portable radio. The portable radio generates user alerts indicating the criticality level of the retrieved public safety records based on the code. The portable radio plays out the bot-retrieved search results in response to a further user input to the portable radio.

Apparatus and method for searching linked lists

The invention introduces an apparatus for searching linked lists at least including: a memory arranged to operably store a linked list; a linked-list search engine arranged to operably search content of the linked list until a search success or fail and generate a search result; and a processing unit arranged to operably write the content of the linked list into the memory, drive the linked-list search engine to start a search on the linked list and obtain the search result from the linked-list search engine.

Система и способ формирования обучающего набора для алгоритма машинного обучения

Изобретение относится к способам и системе формирования набора обучающих объектов для обучения выполняемого сервером алгоритма машинного обучения (MLA). Технический результат заключается в повышении эффективности обучения MLA. В способе выполняют получение первого запроса, отправленного серверу и связанного с первым набором результатов поиска, связанных с параметром действий пользователя; получение на основе терминов первого запроса набора запросов, ранее отправленных серверу, отличающихся от первого запроса заданным количеством терминов; получение для набора запросов набора результатов поиска, отличающихся от результатов поиска в первом наборе результатов поиска; расчет оценки сходства первого запроса и запросов из набора запросов на основе первого набора результатов поиска, других наборов результатов поиска и параметров действий пользователя в первом и в других наборах результатов поиска; определение подмножества запросов из набора запросов на основе оценки сходства, меньшей заранее заданного ...

СПОСОБ И СЕРВЕР ДЛЯ ИНДЕКСИРОВАНИЯ ВЕБ-СТРАНИЦЫ В ИНДЕКСЕ

Изобретение относится к области вычислительной техники. Технический результат заключается в повышении точности индексирования веб-страницы в индексе, который расположен в системе дата-центра. Технический результат достигается за счет идентификации недавних данных, связанных со страницей, и создания с помощью алгоритма машинного обучения, оценки для страницы на основе недавних данных, которые указывают на пользу страницы в качестве поискового результата поисковой системы. Алгоритм машинного обучения был обучен на обучающей странице, которая обладает данными в первый момент времени и данными во второй момент времени. Также происходит выборочное добавление страницы к одной из: очереди индексирования в режиме реального времени или очереди отложенного индексирования на основе сравнения между оценкой и порогом. Если оценка находится ниже порога, страница добавляется к очереди отложенного индексирования. Если оценка находится выше порога, страница добавляется к очереди индексирования в режиме ...

Device safety notification method and system

A computer implemented method of identifying potentially unsafe devices or devices subject to a product recall. Computing devices 3 are registered to a network. Data associated with the registered devices is collected and used to identify the device type 6. Device types having associated device safety notices are identified and compared with the device types of the registered devices to determine if any of the registered devices are unsafe or subject to a product recall. For devices so identified, a notification is sent to a user or administrator of the unsafe device or devices. The notification may involve displaying a message on a user interface 7. The safety notice could relate to an unsafe component or accessory of the identified device, such as a battery or power supply. Safety information may be automatically downloaded from remote databases. The registration may be carried out at a router 2 of the network.

Autonomous vehicle stations

A method of operating an autonomous vehicle station involves receiving information indicating the arrival of a vehicle at a station designated for a primary service. A first parameter associated with the vehicle is measured using a sensor located at the station. Based on the received information and the first parameter, a first action is performed to provide the primary service to the vehicle. While performing the first action, a determination is made regarding a secondary service to provide to the vehicle. For example, the primary service may be a passenger pick-up or drop-off service and the first action involves a robotic arm 1510 removing a luggage item 1514 from the vehicle 1502. Alternatively, the primary service could be a vehicle storage service utilising a vehicle turntable 1506, or a safe transaction service for exchanging packages. The secondary service could be a servicing, maintenance, or repair service, such as calibrating a vehicle sensor 1508 or charging the vehicle.

Systems and methods of secure data exchange

Machine learning query handling system

A machine learning query handling platform comprises multiple computing devices 105, e.g. smart phones, laptops, or tablets, in a network 107. Each computing node implements a local prediction model 113b that calculates an output to a search query based on input attributes passed through parameters 121b, trained via machine learning, of the local prediction model. The trained parameters comprise core parameters 123 received from a server 103, shared parameters 131 received from another computer in the network, and parameters 127 local to the computer in question. The trained parameters may, for example, be weights in an artificial neural network. At least two of the computing nodes may calculate different predicted outputs to the same input attributes, taking account of a user’s individual circumstances. The output of the model may identify temporally-dependent attributes of a perishable unit, e.g. tickets for a travel service, hotel rooms, restaurant reservations, or physical goods.

Traceability of swine tissue

The present invention relates to methods and systems for reporting the identity of a sample sourced from an animal. In particular, the present invention relates to reporting the identity of a sample taken from a pig animal of the species ...

A METHOD OF TEXT MINING IN RANKING OF WEB PAGES USING MACHINE LEARNING

A METHOD OF TEXT MINING IN RANKING OF WEB PAGES USING MACHINE LEARNING A Web browser is a Software application for accessing the information from World Wide Web, displays the Web Pages based on the text keyword inputs from the Search Engine. The ranking of the Web Pages will vary from none Search Engine to another Search Engine. When user entered a query in the Search Engine, it should return relevant Web Pages related to the query by ranking the Web Pages. There are several factors affecting the ranking of the Web Pages such as content of pages, Title tags, URL structures, Meta Description Tags, XML Sitemap, Social Network Contents, Blog Forum Contents, and Videos. The Text Mining is an Artificial Intelligence technique for Text analytics to transform the unstructured Text in the documents and databases into normalized structured data. The existing Search Engines such as Google, Yahoo, Ask, and Bing produces numerous links for web pages which may or may not relevant for the search query ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STATISTICS-BASED PATTERN SEARCHING OF COMPRESSED DATA AND ENCRYPTED DATA

A method for searching compressed, encrypted data includes receiving uncompressed data and identifying patterns thereof. Each pattern includes a predetermined number of bytes. Each pattern is hashed into a hash value, producing a set of hash values that is stored in a hash table. Each record of the hash table includes a hash value from the set of hash values and an associated position value. A Boolean filter is generated based on the hash table, each bit of the Boolean filter associated with a different hash value. A search string hash value is calculated based on a received search request. A location in the Boolean filter, having an address equal to the search string hash value, is inspected to determine whether a position stored at the location is true or false. If the position is true, at least a portion of the compressed data is flagged as relevant.

MITIGATION OF EXTERNAL EXPOSURE OF ENERGY DELIVERY SYSTEMS

MITIGATION OF EXTERNAL EXPOSURE OF ENERGY DELIVERY SYSTEMS ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE Method include receiving banner information from one or more queries of a network connecting a set of devices, wherein the banner information of one or more of the devices includes common vulnerability and exposure identifiers (CVEs) and the banner infomiation of one or more of the devices does not include a CVE, identifying the devices based on the banner information including classifying devices without known CVEs by a device type, determining vulnerability scores for the devices with known CVEs based on retrieved CVE information, and determining vulnerability scores for the devices without CVEs based on a series of exploitability and impact parameter estimates associated with the device type classifications. Some methods include estimating a cyberattack vulnerability risk for the devices using the determined vulnerability scores. 42 Date Recue/Date Received 2020-12-10 ...

VIRTUAL AGENT CREATION PLATFORM

A device may receive a widget template of a widget. The widget template may include information relating to one or more fields of the widget and content for the one or more fields. The device may receive a stylesheet of the widget. The stylesheet may include information relating to respective style identifiers of the one or more fields. The device may generate a markup object of the widget based on the widget template. The markup object may include respective markup object entries for populating the one or more fields with the content. The device may assign the respective style identifiers to the respective markup object entries, and cause an action to be performed in connection with the markup object.

METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PERSONALIZING VISITOR EXPERIENCE AT A VENUE

Methods and systems for personalizing a visitor experience at a museum, zoo or other non-profit venue. Personalized information of the visitor including location and demographic information may be captured using a plurality of capture devices including mobile devices, cameras, sensors and wireless beacons and provided to a recommendation engine. The results of the recommendation engine are used to suggest a personalized experience for the visitor including providing: a personalized recommendation, a campaign participation opportunity, campaign participation sharing with other visitors, improved photography or videography services, a queue reduction service, multi-museum coordination, personalized multimedia content, and digital guides.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ENGINE FOR GENERATING SEMANTIC DIRECTIONS FOR WEBSITES FOR AUTOMATED ENTITY TARGETING TO MAPPED IDENTITIES

A method and system for employing a Language Processing machine learning Artificial Intelligence engine to employ word embeddings and term frequency-inverse document frequency to create numerical representations of document meaning in a high-dimensional semantic space or an overall semantic direction. This semantic direction can be used to quantitatively measure semantic similarity between online content consumed by a potential prospect and a given product or product family. The AI can automate the process of creating audiences for on-line marketplaces for programmatic advertising purposes by using representative product descriptions, such as a grouping of product descriptions for scalable, cloud-based databases, and then creating a hyper-focused intent-based audience based on companies that are showing a significant increase in intent.

NON-TLE-BASED POINTING ACQUISITION OF INCLINED-GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE

A method for pointing an antenna at an inclined geostationary satellite includes obtaining an analemma of the inclined geostationary satellite, and determining a plurality of points that are to be searched, wherein determining the plurality of points comprises selecting points that follow a centerline of the analemma. One point of the plurality of points is selected and the antenna is pointed at the selected point. While the antenna is pointing at the selected point, the inclined geostationary satellite is queried an RF power level of a response to the query received from the inclined geostationary satellite is recorded. Another point of the plurality of points and the query/recording step is repeated for each of the plurality of points. A determination is made regarding which point of the plurality of points produced a response to the query having the highest power level. The antenna then is pointed at the point having the highest power level.

DISCOVER CROSS REFERENCE SEARCH/FILTER TECHNOLOGY

The invention provides an improved method for finding movies and tv shows based on evaluating a non-conventional search heuristic and performing a calculation. The technology involves taking one or more people associated with film based content and cross referencing each of the selected peoples work history to filter down and find common works. The invention solves the age-old question of what movie someone is thinking about when they can only remember the people involved along with providing a whole new approach for determining content one may want to watch.

AUTHORITY BASED CONTENT FILTERING

An illustrative embodiment of a computer-implemented method for authority based content filtering, receives a request containing search criteria from a requester, searches a content repository using the search criteria of the request to identify a set of content candidates from the content repository. A contributor authority for each contributor associated with each content candidate in a list of content candidates in the set of content candidates is queried by the computer-implemented method, wherein the contributor authority includes a mapping of a set of credentials of a contributor to subject matter and the list of content candidates is filtered and sorted by the computer-implemented method using a result from the contributor authority.

Classification of query text to generate relevant query results

A service may provide an e-commerce platform through which users may search for, view, and purchase products. To ensure users receive relevant results when querying for particular products or product classes, a list of ranked classes may be generated, from which the query results are based. For example, products may be classified into classes and particular text from search data may be associated with one or more of the products based on click log data. For instance, input text from previously performed queries may be associated with products interacted with following those queries (e.g., products clicked on to view/purchase). Training data that associates the particular text with the respective one or more classes into which the clicked on products are classified may be generated, and in response to receiving a query including the particular text as input, the list of ranked classes may be generated based on the training data.

DISPLAY APPARATUS AND THE CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF

A display apparatus, including a communicator; a display; an interface configured to connect to a dongle storing a first application based on a first OS; and a processor configured to: based on receiving a user command to execute the first application while the dongle is connected to the interface, transmit, to the dongle, a signal requesting execution of the first application through the interface, based on transmission of the signal, receive, from the dongle through the interface, an image received by the dongle from a first server by executing the first application, and additional information related to the image, execute a second application based on a second OS and receive, from a second server through the communicator, an additional image based on the additional information, and display the image on a first area of the display and display the additional image in a second area of the display.

Systems and methods for detecting locations of webpage elements

Methods and systems are presented for automatically detecting positions of various webpage elements within a webpage when the webpage is rendered, based on analyzing the programming code of the webpage. A position detection system obtains and parses the programming code of the webpage to identify webpage elements within the webpage. A group of related webpage elements is identified based on a shared programming structure. The position detection system generates a DOM tree based on the programming code, and determines relative positions of the webpage elements within the group by traversing the DOM tree using a breadth-first search algorithm.

Cache Optimization Via Topics in Web Search Engines

Embodiments may provide a cache for query results that can adapt the cache-space utilization to the popularity of the various topics represented in the query stream. For example, a method for query processing may perform receiving a plurality of queries for data and requesting data responsive to at least one query from a data cache comprising a temporal cache, wherein the temporal cache is configured to store data based on a topic associated with the data and is configured to retrieve data based on a topic, and wherein the data cache is configured to retrieve data responsive to at least one query from the computer system.

COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS OF GATHERING REAL-TIME PRODUCT PRICE DATA FROM A PLURALITY OF DISPARATE SOURCES

A computer-implemented method of providing an integrated social media and shopping environment is described herein. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving via a computer a photographic image including at least one product, generating a computer-implemented model of the photographic image on the computer, training a machine learning estimator using the computer-implemented model, generating a set of social media tags corresponding to the at least one product based on the training, storing an association between the set of social media tags and the photographic image, and uploading the photographic image and the association to a social media platform.

IDENTITY VERIFICATION DOCUMENT REQUEST HANDLING UTILIZING A USER CERTIFICATE SYSTEM AND USER IDENTITY DOCUMENT REPOSITORY

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for processing an identity-related request on a user certificate system associated with a user identity document repository by storing identity verification documents on a user identity document repository associated with a user certificate system. An exemplary method comprises receiving, from a requesting entity, an identity-related request, retrieving an identity verification document set associated with the identity-related request from a user identity document repository, generating an identity-related response using the retrieved identity verification document set, and transmitting the identity-related response to the requesting entity.

Platform Apparatus for Providing Qualitative Collective Knowledge

In the case of a platform device (100) located at a web-site and capable of forming a network with a plurality of ID-detectable users or participants for gathering and processing items of information stored in a plurality of in each case code-identifiable and in each case topic-assigned storage spaces (110) of a platform (100) by the users or participants, a situation in which consensus-gaining evaluability and modifiability of the stored items of information with the formation of collective knowledge is achieved by the users or participants in that the storage spaces (110) present on the platform (100) and containing a plurality of various topics are in each case formed by a dual unit DuU, a dual unit DuU comprising in each case a first storage space (111) assigned to a predefinable topic and provided with initial items of information formulated by an initial participant but not editable by any other individual user or participant and a second storage space (112) assigned to the first ...

Search Method and Apparatus, Electronic Device and Storage Medium

A search method includes sending a first search request to a server in response to a first keyword inputted by a user, in a process of returning resources of a first search result page by the server, and pre-rendering the returned resources in a first container. The method further includes sending a second search request to the server when detecting that the user changes a current keyword to a second keyword, and in a process of returning resources of a second search result page by the server, pre-rendering the returned resources in a second container. The method also includes outputting resources in a container corresponding to the current keyword in response to the search instruction when a search instruction inputted by the user is detected.

Prefetching RDF triple data

Query requests for RDF triples are obtained, wherein the query request(s) contain(s) at least one triple pattern; for each triple pattern, the corresponding elementary pattern is determined, and each triple pattern is converted to a weighted elementary pattern. The occurrence frequency of each elementary pattern is computed based on the weighted elementary patterns; at least one elementary pattern is chosen at least according to the occurrence frequency; and the RDF triples corresponding to the chosen at least elementary pattern are prefetched into the buffer. The corresponding apparatus is also provided. With the above method and apparatus, the frequently accessed RDF triples can be determined and prefetched into the buffer, which improves the query efficiency.

Electronic device and control method therefor

Disclosed is an electronic device. The electronic device of the present invention comprises: a communication unit; a storage unit for storing a uniform resource locator (URL) designated by an external electronic device and information on specific content provided in the designated URL; and a processor which, when a request for a connection to a designated URL is received from an external electronic device through the communication unit, identifies whether specific content can be provided in the designated URL, and in a case where the specific content cannot be provided, obtains information on another URL that provides content related to the specific content by using stored information, and transmits the obtained information on the another URL to the external electronic device through the communication unit.

Advanced response processing in web data collection

ADVANCED RESPONSE PROCESSING IN WEB DATA COLLECTION discloses processor-implemented apparatuses, methods, and systems of processing unstructured raw HTML responses collected in the context of a data collection service, the method comprising, in one embodiment, receiving raw unstructured HTML documents and extracting text data with associated meta information that may comprise style and formatting information. In some embodiments data field tags and values may be assigned to the text blocks extracted, classifying the data based on the processing of Machine Learning algorithms. Additionally, blocks of extracted data may be grouped and re-grouped together and presented as a single data point. In another embodiment the system may aggregate and present the text data with the associated meta information in a structured format. In certain embodiments the Machine Learning model may be a model trained on a pre-created training data set labeled manually or in an automatic fashion.

Methods and systems for developing a personalized non-profit venue experience and presenting personalized multimedia to a mobile computing device

A method for developing content for a personalized non-profit venue experience using a mobile computing device, comprising: providing an interface for management of a set of multimedia assets; receiving a mapping of multimedia assets to a set of locations on a site plan for the non-profit venue; receiving metadata for the set of multimedia assets; receiving personalized interest data indicating personal philanthropic interests of a visitor to the non-profit venue; and applying a machine learning algorithm to analyze the metadata and the personalized interest data to provide, to a mobile computing device, a selection of a multimedia asset from the set of multimedia assets for consumption by the visitor.

METHOD AND DEVICE TO PROVIDE MULTI-SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE

Disclosed is a server and a method for providing a multi-subscription service. The method performed by the server includes receiving a subscription request for a target merchandise from a user terminal, querying another merchandise to which a user account is subscribing in response to the subscription request being received, determining a usage period of the target merchandise for which a subscription is requested based on a usage period of the other merchandise in response to the other merchandise being queried, calculating a payment amount for an initial subscription of the target merchandise based on the determined usage period, requesting a payment of the calculated payment amount by the user terminal, and providing the target merchandise to the user terminal in response to the payment by the user terminal being approved.

Finding and filtering elements of a visual scene

In a general aspect, a method can include receiving, by an electronic device, a visual scene; identifying, by the electronic device, a plurality of elements of the visual scene; and determining, based on the plurality of elements identified in the visual scene, a context of the visual scene. The method can further include applying, based on the determined context of the visual scene, at least one filter to identify at least one element of the plurality of elements corresponding with the at least one filter; and visually indicate, in the visual scene on a display of the electronic device, the at least one element identified using the at least one filter.

DATA COLLECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM

Embodiments of the application disclose a data acquisition method and system. The method includes that: an acquisition end sets at least one acquisition domain for each of at least one data acquisition module, and presets a threshold value for acquisition times of the acquisition domain; a shunting end generates a common acquisition unit, sends the common acquisition unit to a plurality of user terminals, and determines whether there is a target data acquisition module set with a target acquisition domain in at least one data acquisition module on the basis of first data fed back by the user terminals on the common acquisition unit, herein the target acquisition domain refers to an acquisition domain matched with the first data; if yes, whether the acquisition times of the target acquisition domain of the target data acquisition module reach a threshold value or not is determined; if no, the target data acquisition module is sent to the user terminals; and the user terminals feed back second ...

СПОСОБ И СИСТЕМА ВЫБОРА ДЛЯ РАНЖИРОВАНИЯ ПОИСКОВЫХ РЕЗУЛЬТАТОВ С ПОМОЩЬЮ АЛГОРИТМА МАШИННОГО ОБУЧЕНИЯ

Изобретение относится к средствам ранжирования поисковых результатов. Техническим результатом является повышение эффективности ранжирования поисковых результатов. Способ ранжирования поисковых результатов с помощью алгоритма машинного обучения (MLA), который был обучен определять сходство запросов на основе их текстового содержимого, включает: получение нового запроса, извлечение множества поисковых запросов, вычисление соответствующего параметра сходства между новым запросом и каждым запросом из множества поисковых запросов, выбор данного прошлого запроса, связанного с наиболее высоким соответствующим параметром сходства, извлечение набора поисковых результатов, связанных с данным прошлым запросом, причем каждый из набора поисковых результатов связан с аннотацией, включающей в себя соответствующие поисковые запросы, и вычисление для каждого соответствующего запроса из множества соответствовавших запросов, которые были использованы для получения доступа к соответствующему поисковому результату ...

Способ и система для хранения множества документов

Группа изобретений относится к поисковым системам и может быть использована для хранения множества документов, предназначенных для формирования поисковыми системами результатов поиска. Техническим результатом является уменьшение времени реакции на запрос, отправленный пользователем, а также уменьшение количества серверов базы данных. Способ включает в себя получение данных документа, связанных с документами. Алгоритм машинного обучения используется для формирования для каждого документа вектора документа на основе данных документа. Способ также включает в себя хранение документов в виде групп документов в системе базы данных. Каждая группа документов связана с вектором группы. Группа документов содержит документы, связанные с векторами документов, пространственно близкими к вектору группы. 4 н. и 34 з.п. ф-лы, 8 ил.

Способ и система для хранения множества документов

Управление доступом к ресурсам на ролевой основе

Система и способ защиты бренда на основании поисковой выдачи

Изобретение относится к области вычислительной техники. Техническим результатом является обеспечение защиты бренда от использования мошенническими веб-сайтами на основании поисковой выдачи. Раскрыт способ защиты бренда от использования мошенническими веб-сайтами на основании поисковой выдачи, выполняющийся на вычислительном устройстве, содержащем по меньшей мере процессор и машиночитаемый носитель данных, способ содержит этапы, на которых: принимают и сохраняют во внутренней базе данных информацию о бренде, которому требуется защита; выявляют наиболее популярные для бренда запросы в поисковых системах на основе получаемой от поисковых систем статистики; производят сбор поисковой выдачи по каждому из выявленных запросов в течение оцениваемого периода; производят подсчет коэффициента вредоносности для каждого веб-сайта, содержащегося в собранной поисковой выдаче; выявляют все веб-сайты, у которых коэффициент вредоносности превышает заранее определенный порог, и определяют их как мошеннические ...

СПОСОБ И ВЫЧИСЛИТЕЛЬНОЕ УСТРОЙСТВО ДЛЯ ИНФОРМИРОВАНИЯ О ВРЕДОНОСНЫХ ВЕБ-РЕСУРСАХ

Изобретение относится к способу и вычислительному устройству для информирования о вредоносных веб-ресурсах. Техническим результатом является повышение эффективности информирования уполномоченных субъектов о выявленных веб-ресурсах с вредоносным и/или незаконным контентом. Предложенный способ включает выполнение операций, согласно которым: получают ссылки на множество веб-ресурсов; выявляют вредоносные веб-ресурсы в указанном множестве веб-ресурсов; устанавливают веб-ресурсы, связанные с каждым из выявленных вредоносных веб-ресурсов; выявляют вредоносные веб-ресурсы в установленных связанных веб-ресурсах; устанавливают по меньшей мере один уполномоченный субъект, связанный с каждым из выявленных вредоносных веб-ресурсов; формируют по меньшей мере один отчет по меньшей мере для одного из установленных уполномоченных субъектов на основании данных о выявленных вредоносных веб-ресурсах, связанных с этим уполномоченным субъектом; отправляют каждый сформированный отчет в соответствующий уполномоченный ...

Systems and methods of secure data exchange

A federated search facility adapted to search for computer content on multiple computer content storage facilities, including secure computer content. The federated search facility uses access rights of a user to access the secure content. Also described are improved capabilities for securely viewing, and collaboratively working on, computer data content, such as documents, presentations, spreadsheets, emails, blog entries, texts, and the like, wherein a secure exchange server is controlled by an intermediate business entity, and access to restricted computer data content is granted to a plurality of users comprising a user of a second business entity and an anonymous user. The second business entity may indicate permissions to the secure exchange server for the anonymous user to access the computer data content through an anonymous information rights management (IRM) facility which limits retention of information about the anonymous user. The indication of permission also comprises an ...

Validate modification of audio-based computer program output

Modifying computer program output in a voice or non-text input activated chatbot environment, using a third party chatbot platform. A system can receive audio signals detected by a microphone of a device or alternatively by using a sensor to detect a first image of visual content. The system can parse the audio signal to identify a computer program to invoke. The computer program can identify a dialog data structure. The system can modify the identified dialog data structure to include a content item. The system can provide the modified dialog data structure to a computing device for presentation. The system can validate the dialog data structure output by the computing device for presentation. This may used a parameterized format for the content, in a text to speech chatbot platform, to provide content for placeholder fields in a dialogue. Validation may be used to disable the provision of content to the chatbot.

MEA: connexus - a platform agnostic video interview platform that uses blockchain for retention of evidential integrity

Machine learning query handling system

Sorting data elements of given set of data elements

A computer implemented method is used for sorting data elements of a given set. The method includes: performing an evaluation of a first type of usage of each data element; determining a set of data element candidates dependent on the evaluation of the first type of usage; performing an evaluation of a second type of usage of each data element of the set of data element candidates; sorting the data elements of the set of data element candidates dependent on the evaluation of the second type of usage of each data element of the set of data element candidates; providing the sorted data elements of the set of data element candidates; receiving a request for a data processing based on the provided sorted data elements of the set of data element candidates.

Close proximity personhood authentication and personalized search engine with a social network

Systems, methods, and devices for close proximity personhood authentication. A method includes receiving a request to authenticate a social profile of a first person. The method includes receiving first location data from a sensor associated with the first person and second location data from a sensor associated with a second person. The method includes determining the first person is in close geographic proximity to the second person based on the first location data and the second location data. The method includes receiving an indication from the second person authenticating the first person and authenticating accuracy of at least one datapoint in the social profile of the first person.

Verfahren zum Starten und Installieren eins Plug-Ins für verschiedenste

Die Erfindung beschreibt ein Einrichtung, Browser bzw. App und ein Verfahren zum Starten und Installieren eines Plug-In (10) für einen Browser (1), App (1a) oder Webseiten bzw. Betriebssysteme oder Software auf einem Medium (2), insbesondere Computer (3), Tablett (4), Handy (5) oder smart TV, umfassend zumindest die Schritte: Öffnen einer Web-Seite (14) im Browser (1) oder einer Datei auf einem Speichermedium, insbesondere USB-Stick, Speicherkarte, CD usw., am Medium (2), insbesondere Computer (3), Tablett (4), Handy (5) oder smart TV, zum Empfang von Daten, wobei die Daten zumindest eine Anweisung oder Aktivierungsbutton (15) zum Starten eines Plug-Ins (10) enthalten; Starten des Plug-Ins (10), wobei das Plug-In (10) Inhalte bzw. eine Browsererweiterung enthält, welche von dem Browser (1) nach der Installation des Plug-In (10) gestreamt bzw. angezeigt wird. Das Plug-In (10) erzeugt nach der Installation einen, insbesondere aufklappbaren, Werbebereich (11) zum Darstellen von Werbeanzeigen ...

Systems and methods for web collaboration

A computing system includes a client computing device and a server. The client computing device interfaces with a browser for accessing a web page, and includes a display associated therewith for displaying the web page, with a portion of the displayed web page being selected by a user of the client computing device. The server store shared documents used for collaboration, with each shared document having respective keywords associated therewith. Responsive to selection of the portion of the displayed web page, the server matches keywords from the shared documents to keywords associated with the portion of the displayed web page, and selects one of the shared documents based upon the matching. Then server then appends the selected portion of the displayed web page to the selected shared document.

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UPDATING SEARCH CACHE

Provided are a method and device for searching for a cache update, the method comprising : when a hotspot content is updated, extracting a first search word of the hotspot content and updating same to a first data base (S101); when a search request is received, querying the pre-established first data base according to the search word (S102), and determining whether a second search word is obtained (S103); when the second search word is obtained and the second search word is determined to be valid (S104), querying a pre-established second data base according to the second search word, and obtaining a cache of a first search result (S105); determining whether the cache of the first search result is valid (S106), and if so, taking information in the cache of the first search result as a first search request result (S107); and if not, forwarding the search request to a search engine, and acquiring a second search request result and updating same to the second data base (S108). The method can ...

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PUSHING FIRMWARE BINARIES USING NESTED MULTI-THREADER OPERATIONS

A computer may receive a request to generate a snapshot view of the enterprise network infrastructure. The computer may implement a multithread process to contemporaneously query a plurality of blade servers and server enclosures within the entire network infrastructure. The computer may contemporaneously receive a plurality of information files from the queried network resources (e.g. the blade servers, server enclosures). In active state modes, the computer may push firmware update binaries to the network resources. In a server processing and an active state mode, the computer may implement a multithreaded process to push the firmware update binaries to standalone servers or blade servers that can be accessed directly. In a blade enclosure processing and an active state mode, the computer may implement a nested multi-threader, using child threads nested within a parent thread to a blade server enclosure to push firmware update binaries to blade servers in the enclosure.

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PUSHING FIRMWARE BINARIES USING NESTED MULTI-THREADER OPERATIONS

A computer may receive a request to generate a snapshot view of the enterprise network infrastructure. The computer may implement a multithread process to contemporaneously query a plurality of blade servers and server enclosures within the entire network infrastructure. The computer may contemporaneously receive a plurality of information files from the queried network resources (e.g. the blade servers, server enclosures). In active state modes, the computer may push firmware update binaries to the network resources. In a server processing and an active state mode, the computer may implement a multithreaded process to push the firmware update binaries to standalone servers or blade servers that can be accessed directly. In a blade enclosure processing and an active state mode, the computer may implement a nested multi- threader, using child threads nested within a parent thread to a blade server enclosure to push firmware update binaries to blade servers in the enclosure.

VIRTUAL AGENT CREATION PLATFORM

A device may receive a widget template of a widget. The widget template may include information relating to one or more fields of the widget and content for the one or more fields. The device may receive a stylesheet of the widget. The stylesheet may include information relating to respective style identifiers of the one or more fields. The device may generate a markup object of the widget based on the widget template. The markup object may include respective markup object entries for populating the one or more fields with the content. The device may assign the respective style identifiers to the respective markup object entries, and cause an action to be performed in connection with the markup object.

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PUSHING FIRMWARE BINARIES USING NESTED MULTI-THREADER OPERATIONS

SECURE, IMMUTABLE AND VERIFIABLE INTERVIEW RECORDS

ABSTRACT: A method of creating an immutable digital record of a video conference conducted over the Internet and involving two or more parties. The method comprises routing conference data through one or more servers; identifying data streams of the conference data, including video and audio streams uploaded by respective parties; separately processing the audio streams to convert speech data to text data thereby providing a text record for each party; storing the data streams and the text records at said server or servers, or at a storage medium associated with server or servers; and generating a hash value across the data streams and the text records and saving the hash value to a Blockchain ledger. Date Recue/Date Received 2020-12-04 ...

DETERMINING RECOMMENDED SEARCH TERMS FOR A USER OF AN ONLINE CONCIERGE SYSTEM

An online concierge system may determine recommended search terms for a user. The online concierge system may receive a request from a user to view a user interface configured to receive a search query. The online concierge system retrieves long-term activity data including previous search terms entered by the user while searching for items to add to an online shopping cart. For each previous search term, the online concierge system retrieves categorical search terms corresponding to one or more categories to which the previous search term was mapped. The online concierge system determines a set of nearby categorical search terms and sends, for display via a client device, the set of nearby categorical search terms as recommended search terms.

Method and device for acquiring network information of monitoring website

CHAINED LOOKUPS AND COUNTING IN A NETWORK SWITCH

A network switch using a search engine to generate chained table lookup requests. After the search engine executes a first lookup, the next-pass logic in the search engine uses the first lookup result and information in the master key to generate a second lookup key as well as other parts of a second lookup request. A next-pass crossbar routes the second lookup request to a target memory, and the search logic executes the second lookup. The first lookup request may originate from a processing engine coupled to the search engine. The first and the second lookup results, if any, can then be returned back to the processing engine for further processing or decision making. The chain of lookups can be configured by software by specifying various operational parameters of the processing engines and the next-pass logic, including specifying a key construction mode for the second lookup.

TRACKING THE EVOLUTION OF TOPIC RANKINGS FROM CONTEXTUAL DATA

The system, method, and computer program product are disclosed that track the evolution of a network over time through the analysis of media corpora associated with nodes of the network at each time slice. The media corpora may be analyzed to generate word clusters for each time slice that are then compared across time slices to determine how the network has evolved. The evolution may be tracked by determining the similarity of each word cluster of a particular time slice to each word cluster of another time slice. The similarity may be measured by a similarity score for each comparison that may be combined to determine an overall similarity of the network between the two time slices.

Selective online content removal based on activity history

A computer that selectively removes online content associated with an individual is described. During operation, the computer may perform an enrollment process associated with the individual, where the enrollment process involves receiving credentials for one or more accounts associated with the individual. Then, based at least in part on the credentials, the computer may monitor a subsequent activity history associated with the individual, where the activity history includes online transactions associated with the individual, and where the online transactions are associated with multiple locations and the one or more accounts. When the computer receives information specifying an occurrence of an event (such as death or illness of the individual), the computer may, based at least in part on the monitored activity history, selectively remove the online content associated with the individual and at least some of the locations.

UNOBTRUSIVE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLECTING, PROCESSING AND SECURING INFORMATION TRANSMITTED OVER A NETWORK

The present disclosure relates to systems for “cookieless” tracking across a wide range of websites and mobile applications. The systems do not involve the use of tracking pixels or code on individual webs pages and associated web or other servers and may be achieved through use of a single URL for tracking a user across multiple websites while a browser session is initiated. Methods of enhanced tracking of user activity without requiring cookies or tracking pixels are also described herein.

Using Frames for Action Dialogs

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for using frames for performing tasks. One of the methods includes receiving a first request to perform a task, the first request comprising user speech identifying the task; generating a frame associated with the task, wherein the frame comprises one or more types of values necessary to perform the task, and wherein each type of value can be satisfied by a respective value; receiving a second request to provide information related to a question, the second request comprising user speech identifying the question; providing information identifying the question to a search engine, and receiving a response identifying one or more terms; determining that at least one term can satisfy a type of value necessary to perform the task; and storing the at least one term in the frame.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING EMPLOYMENT CANDIDATES

Systems for determining alternative job titles to use when querying online recruiting databases. Multiple computers are operatively interconnected for determining a set of alternative job titles from a set of job parameters, and using the alternative job titles when querying online job and/or candidate posting corpora. A method embodiment commences upon parsing a given job requisition to identify at least one job title string that corresponds to at least one job title. The job title is normalized in accordance with a set of normalization rules to form a normalized job title string. The normalized job title string is then used to access machine learning models, which are in turn used to classify the job title string and to produce alternative titles that correspond to the job title. The alternative titles are used for querying online job posting corpora to retrieve postings that match at least one of the alternative titles.

SECURE PAYMENT TRANSACTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS

Disclosed are a secure payment system and methods that may involve facilitating secured transactions between a payee and payor, or any other types of users. Such systems and methods may involve creating a secure information vault, determine that a first user has completed a registration process for access to the secure information vault, determining that the first user is a verified user, facilitating, based on the determination that the first user has completed the registration process and the determination that the first user is a verified user, access of the first user to the secure information vault, storing data in the secure information vault, wherein the data includes at least one of an address for physical delivery of payments and an address for electronic delivery of payments, and wherein the data is associated with the first user, linking the first user to users a second user by facilitating secure communications and requesting link confirmations between the first user and second ...

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STATISTICS-BASED PATTERN SEARCHING OF COMPRESSED DATA AND ENCRYPTED DATA

A method for searching compressed, encrypted data includes receiving uncompressed data and identifying patterns thereof. Each pattern includes a predetermined number of bytes. Each pattern is hashed into a hash value, producing a set of hash values that is stored in a hash table. Each record of the hash table includes a hash value from the set of hash values and an associated position value. A Boolean filter is generated based on the hash table, each bit of the Boolean filter associated with a different hash value. A search string hash value is calculated based on a received search request. A location in the Boolean filter, having an address equal to the search string hash value, is inspected to determine whether a position stored at the location is true or false. If the position is true, at least a portion of the compressed data is flagged as relevant.

CONTROLLING CLIENT OPERATION WITH SEGMENTATION OF CLIENTS

Data specifying a first segment of a set of clients and first configuration parameters can be received. The first configuration parameters can specify operation of a first interface. The first interface can be integrated into an application. The first segment, including a first subset of the set of clients, can be determined. A request for initiation of operation can be received from the first interface. The first segment can be determined to include a first client. The first configuration parameters can be transmitted. The first configuration parameters can cause the first client to modify operation of the first interface in response to receiving the transmitted configuration parameters. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.

Systems and methods for displaying subjects of an audio portion of content and searching for content related to a subject of the audio portion

Systems and methods are described herein for displaying subjects of a portion of content and searching for content related to a particular subject in the content. Media data of content is analyzed during playback, and a number of audio signatures are identified. Each audio signature is associated, based on audio characteristics, with a particular subject within the content. The audio signature is stored, along with a timestamp corresponding to a playback position at which the audio signature begins, in association with an identifier of the particular subject. Upon receiving a command, icons representing each of a number of audio signatures at or near the current playback position are displayed. Upon receiving user selection of an icon corresponding to a particular signature, a portion of the content corresponding to the audio signature is played back or a search is performed for content related to the signature represented by the selected icon.

DERIVED RELATIONSHIP FOR COLLABORATION DOCUMENTS

A method, computer system, and computer program product for collaborative document relations modeling are provided. The embodiment may include parsing, by a processor, a document corpus utilizing topic modeling and distance analysis techniques. The embodiment may also include deriving a collaborative document relational model to combine the results of the parsing into a matrix. The embodiment may further include grouping content of the parsed document corpus through document clustering utilizing the generated collaborative document relational model. The embodiment may also include displaying the grouped content as document clusters in a graphical user interface of a document management application ...

System for targeting advertising content to a plurality of mobile communication facilities

A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively.

System and method for aggregating and interactive ranking of search engine results

Systems and methods are disclosed for a search engine interface presented to a user in which a search query is input and run on a plurality of individual search engines. The system supports selection by the user of positive or relevant search results hits, and supports deletion or rejection of negative or irrelevant search results hits. The system allows the user to compile a list of personal best hits, and allows the user to collaborate on creating a multi-user overall best result or results list. Subsequent users have access to the collaborative efforts of the multi-users best results.

Method and system for scoring articles in an on-demand services environment

A method for scoring and ranking knowledge articles in an on-demand service environment in a database network system. The scoring allows users to have input into the scoring to determine relevancy and authenticity to solve particular problems.

System and Method for Organizing, Managing and Running Enterprise-Wide Scans

Disclosed is a system and method for creating, organizing, and monitoring computer searches across a large number of networked computers. The system allows individual searches to be created and tailored depending upon specific objectives. Once established, the system permits the search parameters to be subsequently edited as needed. A graphical user interface (GUI) allows users to view established searches and to monitor searches once activated. Search results can also be tabulated by way of the GUI.

System for targeting advertising content to a plurality of mobile communication facilities

A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively.

System for targeting advertising content to a plurality of mobile communication facilities

A system for targeting advertising content includes the steps of: (a) receiving respective requests for advertising content corresponding to a plurality of mobile communication facilities operated by a group of users, wherein the plurality includes first and second types of mobile communication facilities with different rendering capabilities; (b) receiving a datum corresponding to the group; (c) selecting from a first and second sponsor respective content based on a relevancy to the datum, wherein each content includes a first and second item requiring respective rendering capabilities; (d) receiving bids from the first and second sponsors; (e) attributing a priority to the content of the first sponsor based upon a determination that a yield associated with the first sponsor is greater than a yield associated with the second sponsor; and (f) transmitting the first and second items of the first sponsor to the first and second types of mobile communication facilities respectively.

Methods and systems for improving a search ranking using related queries

Systems and methods that improve search rankings for a search query by using data associated with queries related to the search query are described. In one aspect, a search query is received, a related query related to the search query is determined, an article (such as a web page) associated with the search query is determined, and a ranking score for the article based at least in part on data associated with the related query is determined. Several algorithms and types of data associated with related queries useful in carrying out such systems and methods are described.

Intelligent Automated Assistant

An intelligent automated assistant system engages with the user in an integrated, conversational manner using natural language dialog, and invokes external services when appropriate to obtain information or perform various actions. The system can be implemented using any of a number of different platforms, such as the web, email, smartphone, and the like, or any combination thereof. In one embodiment, the system is based on sets of interrelated domains and tasks, and employs additional functionally powered by external services with which the system can interact.

System and method for control and management of resources for consumers of information

A system and method is provided for using information broadcast by devices and resources in the immediate vicinity of a mobile device, or by sensors located within the mobile device itself, to ascertain and make a determination of the immediate environment and state of the mobile device. The sensor data is then used to identify situational profiles to target and determine the relevance of apps, advertisements, content, and recommendations.

Predictive query suggestion caching

Methods, systems, an apparatus, and computer program products, for pre-caching query suggestions. In one aspect, a method includes receiving from a client device a request for a search resource; providing to the client device in response to the request the search resource, the search resource including: first instructions that cause the client device to generate a search interface that includes a first query input field; initial query suggestions; second instructions that cause the client device to: store the initial query suggestions in a suggestion store on the client device; compare query characters input in the first query input field to the query suggestions stored in the suggestion store; select query suggestions that match the query characters input in the first query input field based on the comparison; and display the selected query suggestions as query suggestions for the query characters input into the first query input field.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program

An information processing apparatus includes a selection unit selecting at least a part of a text included in contents, an acquisition unit acquiring a processing result of natural language processing for the part of the text selected by the selection unit, a specifying unit specifying a predetermined part of the text based on the processing result acquired by the acquisition unit, a detection unit detecting a keyword from the predetermined part of the text based on the processing result acquired by the acquisition unit, a tag generation unit automatically generating a tag in accordance with the keyword detected by the detection unit, and an association unit associating the tag generated by the tag generation unit with the predetermined part of the text.

Systems And Methods For Managing Electronic Content

Systems and methods are disclosed for managing electronic content, such as over the Internet. One computer-implemented method for managing electronic content includes: receiving, over an electronic network, log data of activities by Internet users; filtering the log data based on at least one aspect of the activities; aggregating the filtered log data by a predetermined period of time; calculating a trend in the aggregated log data based on a change of the activities; and presenting a request to a contributor over the electronic network, the request soliciting the submission of electronic content relating to the calculated trend.

System and method for presenting targeted content

A method and system for presenting targeted content to users over the internet is provided. The method includes enabling a user to sign into a website. An identifier is generated for the user, if the user is signing into the website for the first time. Information corresponding to the user is mined and the information is linked to the user. Further, verification is made to determine whether the generated identifier matches with existing identifiers. If the generated identifier matches with an existing identifier, then existing information corresponding to the matched identifier is linked to the user. Targeted content is presented to the user by processing at least the information linked to the user.

Customer premises equipment and configuration method thereof

A customer premises equipment accessible with electronic equipment. The electronic equipment has a browser. Many types of language environments are stored in the customer premises equipment. The customer premises equipment includes a language module, a matching module, and a setting module. The language module recognizes a language version of the browser. The matching module checks whether the language version of the browser is same as the language environment stored in the customer premises equipment or not. The setting module sets the language environment of the customer premises equipment the same as the language version of the browser. And the present disclosure also provides a configuration method for the customer premises equipment.

Contextual indexing of search results

Briefly, embodiments of a method or a system of contextual indexing of search results is disclosed.

Metadata ingestion to stream customization

A method, apparatus, system, article of manufacture, and computer-readable storage medium provide for the ingestion of personalized information to provide customization. A request to customize a user's interactive experience on a website or application is received from a user. Personalized information based on a user's activities is ingested. The user activities are independent from activities on the website or application. A database is searched based on the personalized information and search results are produced. The user's interactive experience is customized based on the search results.

Method of creating graph structure from time-series of attention data

Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer program products for generating search results comprising web documents with associated expert information. One embodiment of a method for generating such search results includes receiving one or more search queries, selecting one of the one or more search queries, determining one or more categories of web documents responsive to the selected search query and crawling a web graph of linked web documents to identify one or more web documents tagged as within the one or more categories responsive to the selected search query. The method further includes generating a result set of the one or more web documents identified as within the one or more categories responsive to the selected search query, ranking the result set and generating a list of ranked search results responsive to the selected search.

Predictive query completion and predictive search results

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for processing search query suggestions. In one aspect, interface instructions on a client device cause the client device to generate a search interface that includes a query input field and provide query characters input in the query input field to a search service as a first query suggestion request. The client device receives, in response the query suggestion request, first query suggestions and renders the first query suggestions according to and order. In response to the client device receiving first search results responsive to one of the first query suggestions and being received independent of user selection of a first query suggestion and independent of sending a completed query to the search service, the client device generates an indication in the interface that indicates the first query suggestion for which the search results are responsive.

Dynamic place visibility in geo-social networking system

In one embodiment, a user of a social networking system requests to search for a place near the user's current location. The social networking system generates a list of places near the user's current location, select a sub-set from the list of places based on visibility and activity of the user and the user's social contacts for each place in the list, and returns the sub-set to the user.

Method and apparatus for using a search engine advantageously within a contact center system

Apparatus for operating a multimedia contact center, comprising a multimedia contact center system for handling communications sessions between an organization and its customers and obtaining media-specific information relating to the communications session, and a search engine for performing a search in relation to the obtained media-specific information, wherein the multimedia contact center system is configured to use the results from the search in handling the communications session, wherein the results may include heterogeneous material not primarily intended for session handling purposes.

Sizing content recommendation system

In various example embodiments, systems and methods to provide sizing content recommendations are provided. Search parameters are received from a user. In response, sizing data for the user is accessed. Using the sizing data, content from a marketplace matching the sizing data and the search parameters are determined. The matching content comprises a list of one or more items available from the marketplace. The matching content is prioritized for presentation to the user.

Filtering system for providing personalized information in the absence of negative data

Systems and methods are provided for ranking documents. In accordance with certain implementations, a user selects one or more documents for viewing from a set of documents. Documents selected by the user for viewing within a predetermined time period are maintained in a profile associated with the user. At least one positive word vector is generated using words contained in at least a segment of at least one of the documents stored in the profile. At least one negative word vector is generated using words contained in at least a segment of at least one of the documents that was not selected by the user for viewing. Document word vectors are generated for documents to be ranked. A vector space relationship analysis of the positive word vector, the negative word vector, and the document word vectors is performed. The documents are ranked based on the performed vector space relationship analysis.

Indicating recent content publication activity by a user

Collecting and distributing information related to recent content publication activity of an instant messaging (IM) user provides other users in a network with timely, relevant information about people known to the user or within the same social network. A user participating in a social network can quickly and efficiently perceive new information related to other users (referred to as co-users) in a social network by reviewing the co-users' recent content publication activity. A user may be made able to do so without requiring the co-user to send a communication directly to the user regarding the new facts or new content, and also without requiring the user to actively browse or request information about the co-user.

Fuzzy keyword searching

A fuzzy, or ambiguous, keyword searching process and systems for implementing the fuzzy keyword searching process are provided. In general, one or more keyword search terms are first identified for a search. Next, a user is enabled to adjust a logical fuzziness, or logical ambiguity, for each of the one or more keyword search terms. As used herein, logical fuzziness of a keyword search term refers to the extent to which associated keywords are considered for the search. In one embodiment, the user may also be enabled to view and adjust keyword associations for each of the keyword search terms. A search is then performed based on the one or more keyword search terms and the logical fuzziness of the one or more keyword search terms, and results of the search are presented to the user.

Method and computer server for selecting information in the internet and using said information in a shared website

The present invention relates to a method for selecting information in the Internet. The method allows to optimally select trustworthy information in the Internet. Furthermore, the method enables using said information in a shared website having a domain name. The method comprises using an Internet robot and performing a search in the Internet for information about subjects, whose means of identification contains a keyword corresponding to said domain name. Then, a request is sent through the Internet robot to e-mail addresses of the subjects revealed during a search. The request includes a proposal to publish data regarding these subjects on a shared website. The data includes means of identification of said subjects. The data are published on the shared website upon a receipt of a positive response to the proposal. The method is realized by means of a computer server.

System and method for aggregating query results in a fault-tolerant database management system

A redundant array of independent nodes are networked together. Each node executes an instance of an application that provides object-based storage. Metadata objects are stored in a set of regions distributed among the nodes across the array. A given region is identified by hashing a metadata object attribute and extracting a given set of bits of a resulting hash value. A method of managing query results comprises: receiving, by a first node of the plurality of independent nodes from a client application, a request for a list of objects with a criterion; issuing by the first node a query to all the nodes based on the received request; processing the query by each node over the regions in the node using the metadata objects stored in the regions; aggregating and filtering by the first node results of the query from all the nodes; and returning by the first node the aggregated and filtered results to the client application.

Providing suggestions based on user intent

One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed herein for providing prioritized suggestions to a user of a mobile device, for example, in real-time based on an intent of the user. A user routine is identified by identifying a plurality of historical user patterns, such as for travel, data consumption, communications, etc. A real-time context for the user, such as what the user is currently engaged in or what's going on around them, is identified using real-time contextual data from one or more sensors. The intent of the user is determined by comparing the user routine with the real-time context for the user, and suggestions are prioritized for the user, based on the intent, such as in a mobile device display.

Methods and Systems for Improving a Search Ranking Using Population Information

Systems and methods that improve search rankings for a search query by using data associated with queries related to the search query are described. In one aspect, a search query is received, a population associated with the search query is determined, an article (such as a webpage) associated with the search query is determined, and a ranking score for the article based at least in part on data associated with the population is determined. Algorithms and types of data associated with a population useful in carrying out such systems and methods are described.

Environment-Interactive Context-Aware Devices and Methods

Location-aware methods and systems are described. In one embodiment, a portable computing device determines its location by accessing one or more hierarchical tree structures each of which comprising multiple nodes that represent physical or logical locations, and traversing at least one node on the one or more hierarchical tree structures to ascertain the location. The device then acquires digital data associated with the determined location and that can permit the device to interact with a location environment. The device then enables interaction with the location environment based, at least in part, on the acquired digital data.

Clustered search processing

Methods and apparatus for searching data and grouping search results into clusters that are ordered according to search relevance. Each cluster comprises one or more data type, such as images, web pages, local information, news, advertisements, and the like. In one embodiment, a search term is evaluated for related concepts indicating categories of data sources to search. Data sources may also be identified by context information such as a location of a client device, a currently running application, and the like. Search results in each cluster are ordered by relevance and each cluster is given a score based on an aggregate of the relevance within the cluster. Each cluster score may be modified based on one or more corresponding concepts and/or context information. The clusters are ordered based on the modified scores. Content, including advertisements, may also be added to the ordered list to appear as another cluster.

Information processing system, method of controlling information processing system, and search controller

An integrated search process on files can be executed by multiple search devices even if setting granularities of access control to the files are different among the search devices. Upon execution of file migration or access control information batch update, information needed for a search server to execute security trimming is extracted from ACL information in a specific format on a document management server. Then the extracted information is transferred to the search server, converted to ACL information in a general format, and registered in a search index in the search server. With this process, a storage system using different access control methods is configured to perform the security trimming based on the ACL information with which access control having the finest setting granularity can be set.

Providing Search Results For Mobile Computing Devices

Search results are provided for mobile computing devices. Search results are retrieved based on a search term. Each of the search results is assigned to one or more categories. The categories and the assigned search results are provided to the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device is adapted to display each of the categories and a partial list of the search results for each of the categories.

Application store tastemaker recommendations

An application store tastemaker recommendation service is usable to determine experts within a user's social network(s), receive recommendations from the experts, and filter and/or rank mobile application query results based at least in part on the recommendations. Additionally, the service may be usable to determine experts based on data compiled about previous actions, reviews, comments, etc., of the experts. Further, the service may be usable to provide recommendations to the user to aid in selecting mobile applications for purchase, and may provide an avenue for completing such purchases.

Interactive Bill Payment Center

A software suite that provides a bill-payment module and comprises an interactive main interface listing bills due and payment accounts, an interactive history link, an interactive set-up link embedded in the main interface, an interactive transfer-funds link, an interactive calendar link, a plurality of interactive drop-down menus providing upon invocation a plurality of selectable, interactive options for treating the listed bill and an interactive refresh-all link embedded in the main interface.

Domain expertise determination

A user's domain expertise may be estimated through several factors by monitoring different aspects of a user's interaction with a web browser. Based on the user's domain expertise, search results may be presented to the user that is commensurate with their expertise, resulting in a more efficient and productive on line session. A user's expertise in a knowledge domain may be determined from the user's behavior, including analyzing search queries, monitoring how the user navigates between and through websites, and analyzing the specific cites visited. As a user interacts with a browser, the user's estimated domain expertise may be updated and used to provide appropriate and useful search results. In many embodiments, a user may have different expertise levels for different technical domains.

Method and system for aggregating music in the cloud

Cloud-based systems and methods for aggregating media collections of users are disclosed. In one embodiment, in order to generate an aggregate media collection catalog of a first user, a cloud-based media aggregation system identifies one or more second users that have an identifier that is the same as an identifier of the first user for purposes of media collection aggregation. The media aggregation system then aggregates media collection catalogs of the one or more second users with a media collection catalog of the first user to thereby provide an aggregate media collection catalog of the first user.

User profiling

A method, in a communications network, of collecting profile data related to at least a first type of service a user is supplied with and making that data available to at least a second different type of service the user is supplied with over the network.

System & Method For Recommending Content Sources

A networked computer system identifies, optimizes and recommends content sources for users. The content sources can be used for providing news feeds, search results, etc. based on taking into net useful content contributed by such sources over other sources.

Message Distribution System & Method

A networked computer system passes messages between source devices and destination devices based on source selections made by users of the destination devices. The source selections are based on taking into content contributed by the users. Overlap and duplication of content can be reduced in a datastream to enhance a user experience.

Linking users into live social networking interactions based on the users' actions relative to similar content

A system and method that uses interne content and/or content metadata as a means to establish social networks. Examples include linking internet users, searchers, viewers and/or listeners of the same and/or similar internet content to each other via a platform that enables any of the following in n-dimensional environments: social networking, communications, sharing, e-commerce, advertising, search, hosting and registry services, push and pull applications, anonymous communications, and rich presence.

Shared Image Database With Geographic Navigation

There is disclosed a method and device for operating an image database shared by a plurality of users. In an embodiment, each image captured by a user and stored in a shared image database is associating with the geographic coordinates of the location at which the image was captured. A search engine for the image database is configured to accept geographic coordinates as a search criterion for locating at least one captured image stored in the shared image database. The images having location coordinates within a predefined range of geographic coordinates is displayed to the user.

Query suggestions from documents

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for presenting search query suggestions. In an aspect, query triggers in a resource are identified at a client device. For each query trigger identified in the resource, a rank score for the query trigger based on query trigger attributes is calculated at the client device. The query triggers are ranked at the client device based on the rank scores. Search query suggestions are generated at the client device from the query triggers identified in the resource. The search query suggestions include terms of the query triggers, expansion terms of the query triggers, and search query suggestions generated from templates applied to the terms of the query triggers and expansion terms of the query triggers. The search query suggestions are presented at the client device according to the rank of the corresponding query triggers.

Pangenetic Web User Behavior Prediction System

Computer based systems, methods, software and databases are presented in which correlations between web item preferences, behaviors and pangenetic (genetic and epigenetic) attributes of individuals are used for pangenetic based user behavior prediction in which predictions of a user's online behavior can be generated based on the user's pangenetic makeup. Data masking can be used to maintain privacy of sensitive portions of the pangenetic data.

Unified online content manager apparatuses, methods, and systems

Apparatuses, methods, and systems for transforming user identification information and user selection data inputs into a profile data output, a generated query output, search results output, and a secure home page with customized content. According to one embodiment, the method includes indexing disparately owned content via a multi-content owner spider indexing engine; generating a disparately owned content index from the indexing engine; receiving, by a first server, a request to access secure content through a network, the request including user identification information; automatically constructing a query based on the request without input from the user; providing the constructed query to the search engine and running the constructed query against the index; constructing a display by placing the results of the query sent from the search engine within a multi-source owner template interface; and providing the multi-source owner template interface to a requestor for display.

Content-providing method and system

A content-providing method and system, including identifying a representative type cluster by clustering content related to behavioral data which represents a use history of a user, according to type of the content, mapping the representative type cluster to a time interval, and storing the representative type cluster and the time interval.

Method and apparatus for determining contextually relevant geographical locations

An approach is provided for determining and utilizing geographical locations contextually relevant to a user. A contextually relevant location platform determines location-based data associated with a user and/or user device. The contextually relevant location platform determines stationary points based, at least in part, on the location-based data. The contextually relevant location platform determines context data associated with the stationary points. The contextually relevant location platform determines at least one location anchor based, at least in part, on the stationary points and the associated context data, wherein the at least one location anchor represents a bounded geographical area of contextual relevance to the user.

System and Method for Updating a Search Results Page in Response to a User Map Interaction

The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for updating a search results page in response to user interaction with a map resource. The method of the present invention comprises receiving a first search results page in response to a search query comprising at least a first map resource. The method monitors a change in position of a map resource in response to a user interaction and calculates a location corresponding to a map position. The method then re-executes at least one search query based upon said calculated location and displays a second search results page comprising a plurality of updated search results.

Methods and Apparatus for Aggregating and Distributing Information

Methods and apparatus for aggregating and distributing information. A user may interact with embodiments of the present invention to access information relating to organizations/projects and issues they are interested in. For example, users may access a web portal which includes information from a wide variety of sources relating to the user's interests in certain organizations/projects and issues.

Web Browser Toolbar

A system and a method are disclosed for displaying page elements embedded on a webpage displayed on a handheld computing device. Tools provide one or more functionality to a user, including an ability to view a webpage, to share a webpage, to view webpages within a domain that are popular with the user's connection in a social networking system, etc. The tools are received and rendered within a toolbar interface including a toolbar icon for each tool. The tool interfaces associated with each icon may be displayed on the handheld computing device automatically or responsive to a user request.

Searching system having a server which automatically generates search data sets for shared searching

A system has a primary server storing search data sets (“staks”) and a linked social network server.

Method And Means For Data Searching And Language Translation

The invention relates to data searching and translation. In particular, the invention relates to searching documents from the Internet or databases. Even further, the invention also relates to translating words in documents, WebPages, images or speech from one language to the next. A computer implemented method including at least one computer in accordance with the invention is characterised by the following steps: receiving a search query including at least one search term, deriving at least one synonym for at least one search term, expanding the received search query with the at least one synonym, searching at least one document using the expanded search query, retrieving the search results obtained with the expanded query, ranking the search results based on context of occurrence of at least one search term. The best mode of the invention is considered to be an Internet search engine that delivers better search results.

Method, system, and computer readable storage for affiliate group searching

A method for allowing an information seeker to utilize affiliate group searching involving human searchers who are members of particular information affiliate groups. Each affiliate group has an area of expertise in which they are particularly skilled. In at least one embodiment, the method includes accepting designation of an affiliate group for providing information searching and presenting search results produced by a member of the affiliate group to an information seeker.

Predictive conversion systems and methods

In one embodiment, a system and method of predicting sale transaction conversion rate of an item operates through a search of information in response to a query over a network. The item can be included in a category of items. Information for other relevant items of the category is available through network query and historical data, among others. Respective information for the other items of the category is available to the method. The system and method includes discovering available information of the item of interest, extracting certain of the available information of the item, analyzing the certain information for the item by comparing the information to other item information for the category of items, weighting the information for the commercial item in comparison to other items of the category, calculating a predictive score for the commercial item of interest, and presenting the information of the commercial item of interest ranked according to the predictive score as compared to other items of the category.

Computerized System and Method for Tracking the Geographic Relevance of Website Listings and Providing Graphics and Data Regarding the Same

A computer-implemented method and system acceses data from user computers related to corresponding users who have referenced one or more websites. Geographic areas corresponding to locations of the users are determined. One or more signals indicating a request to provide at least a portion of data to be provided on a webpage are received from a requestor computer, where the at least a portion of data relates to the one or more websites. A request geographic area from where the request originates is determined. A subset of the data that pertains to the requested data based on relevancy of the requested data to the request geographic area and relevancy of the requested data to the user geographic areas located inside and outside the request geographic area is generated. The subset of the data is provided. Data is provided to the requestor's computer that indicates whether or not the users found each item in the subset to be relevant to the user geographic areas located inside and outside the request geographic area. An interface is provided to the requestor's computer for reorganizing the subset according to each of the one or more user geographic areas located inside and outside the request geographic area.

On-line social search

Example methods, apparatuses, or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented using one or more computing devices to facilitate or otherwise support one or more processes or operations in connection with performing information searches, such as, for example, domain-specific on-line searches using social survey-type queries.

System and method for providing feeds based on activity in a network environment

A method is provided in one example and includes receiving network traffic associated with a particular user; developing a personal vocabulary for the particular user based on the network traffic; determining areas of interest for the particular user based on the personal vocabulary; determining associations for the particular user in relation to additional users; and generating a feed based on a portion of the network traffic. The feed is delivered to a subset of the additional users.

Granular metadata for digital content

Accordingly, the present discussion is directed in one respect; to a method of associating metadata with a digital content item and then controlling the presentation of that item in accordance with metadata-associated controls/constraints. The method may include determining a time-specific portion of a digital content item with which a user desires to associate a metadata item; associating the metadata item with the time-specific portion of the digital content item. During subsequent consumption of the digital content item by the user or another, the metadata item is presented synchronously in co lection with the time-specific portion of the digital content item, where such presentation is constrained or controlled in response to user-controlled filters implemented through a social network.

Supplementing search results with keywords derived therefrom

Embodiments are provided for creating a personalized search index and supplementing searches with an additional set of keywords. A first set of keywords is received from a user. A first index associated with the user is searched using the first set of keywords to generate a first set of search results. The first index includes content identified by the user. A second set of keywords is defined based on the first set of search results. A second index is searched using the second set of keywords to generate a second set of search results. At least a portion of the first and second sets of search results is provided to the user. Some embodiments are implemented as a cloud computing service.

Tagging Questions from Users on a Social Networking System

Users of a social networking system post questions for other users to answer. Questions are automatically tagged based on keywords extracted from text within the posted questions as well as user-selected tags. Answers may be voted on and sorted by social information related to the browsing user. Affinities for tags are recorded based on users' interactions with the question and answer service. Affinities for tags may also be used to target questions to other users and sort answers.

Human relationships registering system and device for registering human relationships, program for registering human relationships, and medium storing human relationships registering program and readable by computer

To provide a human relationships registering system, a method and a server for registering human relationships, a program for registering human relationships, and a medium storing human relationships registering program and readable by a computer, all of which are used to establish wide and close relationships with members having a variety of occupations or engaged in various technical fields and to obtain expert knowledge or information. The human relationships registering system comprises first data processing units 2 and 3 including sections for receiving personal data of a new member, and a second data processing unit including a section for storing the received personal data. The second data processing unit stores the personal data of the new member in correlation to an existing member when the existing member confirms the new member.

Continuous content refinement of topics of user interest

Techniques are disclosed for a user interface that provides active assistance to discover, investigate, refine and save multiple topics of interest, i.e., a topic incubator where user interests are discovered, quickly developed to maturity and preserved. Each topic may have an independent topic interface with independently suggested topics. In each topic interface, users may control topic development by selecting saved topics, dynamically suggested topics and manually entered topics. Suggested topics may be based on saved interests, related interests and/or browsed content. Suggested topics may differ between topic interfaces and may change with topics. Suggested topics may be continuously refined or updated based on existing topics, changed topics, selected suggested topics and selected content. Users control treatment of selected topics individually or as refinements of (combinations with) other topics to create compound topics. Users replace or refine existing topics in existing topic interfaces or branch off topics into additional topic interfaces.

Method and system for providing personal broadcasting service

Provided is a method for providing a personal broadcasting service. The method includes receiving a request for a broadcast theme or content from a broadcast receiving terminal, searching for broadcast providing terminals configured to provide a personal broadcast associated with the broadcast theme or content, selecting one of the searched broadcast providing terminals, and providing, when a personal broadcast registration request is received from the selected broadcast providing terminal, information associated with the requested personal broadcast to the broadcast receiving terminal.

Dynamic facet ordering for faceted search

Methods for dynamically ordering facets for search result presentation are provided. Facets specific to a query are determined and facet orderings are dynamically generated. A number of search result arrangements are generated based upon the facet orderings and, as users input the query, various search results arrangements are presented and user engagement with respect thereto is monitored. To determine which of the arrangements to present to a given user, a number of factors are taken into account, e.g., previous user engagement for each arrangement across a segment or population of users, and whether the user has previously been shown any of the arrangements and, if so, the nature of the user's engagement therewith. Each time an arrangement is presented to a user and the user's behavior with respect thereto is recorded, additional data becomes available for deciding what arrangement to show the next time a user inputs the query.

Authoritative document identification

A system determines documents that are associated with a location, identifies a group of signals associated with each of the documents, and determines authoritativeness of the documents for the location based on the signals.

Creating an aggregate report of a presence of a user on a network

A method performed by a physical computing device communicatively coupled to a computer network for creating an aggregate report of a presence of a user of the physical computing device on the network includes periodically searching the network with the physical computing device for content related to the user authored by a source other than the user, the searching being based on a unique set of identifiers associated with the user, dynamically updating the unique set of identifiers based on contextual trends within content returned as a result of the searching, and aggregating content published by the user to the network with the content returned as a result of the searching to form the aggregate report of the presence of the user on the network.

Managing security features of a browser

A method, system, and computer usable program product for managing a security database in a computer memory by presenting a content delivery unit in a browser window on a computer display, identifying a plurality of domains associated with the content delivery unit wherein a first set of the plurality of domains is associated with hyperlinks in the content delivery unit, receiving user input selecting a security category for a second set of domains, and associating the second set of domains with the selected security category in the security database.

Automatic notification

A method may include displaying a document including a first item, receiving a first user input selecting the first item and receiving a second user input providing a target value associated with the first item. The method may also include accessing a site associated with the document, monitoring a value associated with the first item and determining whether the value associated with the first item meets the target value. The method may further include generating a notification when the value associated with the first item meets the target value.

Mobile Application Search Method and System Using Human Activity Knowledge Database

Disclosed is a mobile application search method and system using a human activity knowledge database. The mobile application search system includes a user interface unit that provides an input environment to allow a user to input a user query and displays a mobile application search result related to the user query and a mobile application search engine that receives the user query from the user interface unit and searches for a mobile application related to the user query using an activity knowledge database in which a list of elements involved in achieving a plurality of goals that people desire in daily life is stored. The present invention increases the user's satisfaction by solving a word mismatching problem between a user query and a mobile application and improves mobile application search performance using a human activity knowledge database.

Business intelligence and customer relationship management tools and techniques

A machine-controlled method may include a data store storing textual information, numerical information, belief information, estimates, or any combination thereof, and a machine executing a user-initiated or group-initiated query against the stored information. A processor may apply an importance by asserting a user-defined importance condition against the information. The processor may apply a preference probability by asserting a user-specified preference condition against the information. The processor may assert a user-established target condition against the information. Responsive to a situation awareness activity, the machine may perform an actionable intelligence operation. Responsive to multiple results of the querying, the machine may provide an indication of a ranking corresponding to at least one of the results.

Multi-function searching and search-related tools and techniques for improved search results and enhanced analysis and decision-making

A machine-controlled method may include a data store storing textual information, numerical information, belief information, estimates, or any combination thereof, and a machine executing a user-initiated or group-initiated query against the stored information. A processor may apply an importance by asserting a user-defined importance condition against the information. The processor may apply a preference probability by asserting a user-specified preference condition against the information. The processor may assert a user-established target condition against the information. Responsive to a search request, filtering request, collaborative decision making (CDM request), matching request, or situation awareness activity, the machine may perform a search operation, a filtering operation, a CDM operation, a matching operation, or an actionable intelligence operation, respectively. Responsive to multiple results of the querying, the machine may provide an indication of a ranking corresponding to at least one of the results.

Tokenized Search Suggestions

Embodiments of tokenized search suggestions include generating, by at least one suggestion engine executing on a data processing system, first suggestions based on first text input in a text input field. The first suggestions are displayed on a display device and a selection of one of the first suggestions is received. The first text input is replaced with a first token corresponding to the selected one of the first suggestions. The at least one suggestion engine generates second suggestions based on second text input in the text input field and filters the second suggestions using the selected one of the first suggestions. The filtered selections are displayed on a display device.

Recommendation of geotagged items

A system, method and computer program product are disclosed for presenting geotagged items to an end user. A location fix and heading are obtained and candidate items are identified in the vicinity of the location fix. A plurality of factors, including proximity to the location fix and proximity to a predicted trajectory determined from the heading, are used to calculate a set of scores for each candidate item. The sets of scores are used to select a candidate item to be presented to the end user.

Video advertisements

Methods, and systems, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable storage mediums, including a method for displaying advertisements. The method includes providing query data specifying a search query including search terms; in response to providing the query: receiving a first advertisement associated with search terms and video element data comprising a video selection element for a video in response to a determination by the advertisement system that the video is eligible to be displayed with the first advertisement, the eligibility of the video to be displayed with the first advertisement being specified by an advertiser of the first advertisement; and receiving a second advertisement not including video element data in response to a determination that the second advertisement is not eligible to be displayed with a video; displaying the first advertisement and the video selection element proximate to the first advertisement, and displaying the second advertisement with the first advertisement.

Action history recording apparatus, action history recording method, and program

With use of GPS, an action-history recording apparatus obtains latitudes and longitudes representing places of user's action where a user is acting, and stores action-history data containing place names indicating the places of user's action at a predetermined processing timing. In the case where, the place of user's action is a specific place unique to the user, where the user visits customarily or frequently, the user is allowed to enter an arbitrary name independent of the latitude and longitude. The name entered by the user is used as a pace name to be contained in action-history data. In this way, the apparatus obtains a place name appropriate for the user and the user can use the name conveniently as the place name of the user's action.

System and Method for Facilitating Bilateral and Multilateral Decision-Making

Techniques for facilitating evaluation, in connection with the procurement or delivery of products or services, in a context of at least one of (i) a financial transaction and (ii) operation of an enterprise, are disclosed. The techniques involve retrieving party and counterparty preference profile data from digital storage media; performing multilateral analyses of the combined preference data by computing a closeness-of-fit value; and delivering a list matching the selected party and the at least one counterparty using the computed closeness-of-fit values.

Method and Apparatus for Adjustable Data Matching

A method and apparatus for performing a matching operation on data are disclosed. With an exemplary embodiment, a programmable logic device can be used to search for data of interest to an application, where the programmable logic device processes streaming data against a data key to generate a signal indicative of a similarity between the streaming data and the data key and compares the generated signal with a defined threshold to thereby determine whether the streaming data is deemed a match to the data key, wherein the threshold is adjustable to control whether the programmable logic device performs an approximate match operation or an exact match operation, and further to control, for an approximate match operation, a degree of approximate matches returned by the approximate match operation.

Content management platform apparatuses, methods and systems

The CONTENT MANAGEMENT PLATFORM APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“CMP”) transform content seed selections and recommendations via CMP components such as discovery and social influence into events and discovery of other contents for users and revenue for right-holders. In one embodiment, the CMP may obtain content discovery supportive information for a universally resolvable user. The CMP may then determine apportionment heuristics among the obtained information for the user. In one implementation, the CMP may identify a first set of universally resolvable content items based on the determined apportionment heuristics and may create a caching queue that includes the identified first set of universally resolvable content items. The first set of universally resolvable content items in the caching queue may then be provided to the user.

Personalized electronic-mail delivery

Personalized electronic-mail delivery is disclosed. The content of incoming electronic-mail messages is identified. Determinations may be made with respect to whether the content of the incoming electronic-mail messages corresponds to a user profile. The user profile may indicate one or more user preferences of a particular user with respect to incoming electronic-mail messages. If the incoming electronic-mail messages correspond to the one or more user preferences indicated in the user profile, the electronic-mail messages may be delivered to an electronic-mail server. The electronic-mail messages may then be displayed to the user via a list of electronic-mail messages reflective of those messages that are stored at the electronic-mail server and accessible to the end-user.

Analyzing an interaction history to generate a customized webpage

Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for generating a webpage. In one embodiment, a request may be received from a user to view the webpage that includes portlets. A time of the request may be identified. The portlets may be provided. Based on an interaction history of the user and the identified time of the request, the portlets may be arranged on the webpage. The webpage may be output for display, in response to the request.

Shared content access platform apparatuses, methods and systems

The SHARED CONTENT ACCESS PLATFORM APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“SCAP”) transform content seed selections and recommendations via SCAP components such as discovery and social influence into events and discovery of other contents for users and revenue for right-holders. In one embodiment, the SCAP may receive from a first universally resolvable user a request to access a media library of a second universally resolvable user. The user may retrieve the second user specified privacy controls and may apply the second user specified privacy controls to determine a portion of the media library permitted for access by the first user. The SCAP may then allow the first user access to the determined portion of the media library.

Network apparatus and methods for user information delivery

A network apparatus useful for providing directions and other information to a user of a client device in wireless communication therewith. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes one or more wireless interfaces and a network interface for communication with a server. User speech inputs in the form of digitized representations are received by the apparatus and used by the server as the basis for retrieving information including graphical representations of location or entities that the user wishes to find.

Shopping context engine

A system receives context data associated with a context and a user. The system then associates the context data to a user identifier and retrieves data associated with the context. The system then filters the data according to the context data to create result data. In another embodiment, the system also receives context data from a plurality of users, where the context data pertains to one or more attributes of a context. The system then using the context data ranks the one or more attributes of the context to create ranked data and generates a user interface based on the ranked data. In yet another embodiment, the system communicates context data associated with a context and a user to a server, and receives result data created by the server filtering data retrieved based on the context data. The system then generates a user interface based on the result data.

System for determining the geographic range of local intent in a search query

A system and method are disclosed for determining the geographic range of a search query. A search query may include local intent which influences the results and advertisements that are displayed in response to the search query. The geographic range associated with the local intent may vary depending on the search query. The geographic range may be determined using probabilistic models that analyze historical searches to determine the geographic range of search queries.

Database Calculation Engine

A select query or a data referencing a calculation scenario is received by a database server from a remote application server. The specified calculation scenario is one of a plurality of calculation scenarios and it defines a data flow model that includes one or more calculation nodes. Each calculation node defines one or more operations to execute on the database server. Thereafter, the database server instantiates the specified calculation scenario and executes the operations defined by the calculation nodes of the instantiated calculation scenario to result in a responsive data set. This data set is then provided by the database server to the application server. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.

Social discovery platform apparatuses, methods and systems

The SOCIAL DISCOVERY PLATFORM APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“SDP”) transform content seed selections and recommendations via SDP components such as discovery and social influence into events and discovery of other contents for users and revenue for right-holders. In one embodiment, the SDP may receive user selection of a universally resolvable content seed and determine socially influenced content attributes associated with the universally resolvable content seed. The SDP may query a universally resolvable content database using the socially influenced content attributes and obtain a ranked list of universally resolvable content items from the querying. The SDP may then provide the ranked list of universally resolvable content items to the user.

Discovery platform apparatuses, methods and systems

The DISCOVERY PLATFORM APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“DP”) transform content seed selections and recommendations via DP components such as discovery and social influence into events and discovery of other contents for users and revenue for right-holders. In one embodiment, the DP may include various discovery user interfaces including stage light and molecular interfaces to enhance content discovery. In one embodiment, the DP comprises an entry point representation surrounded by a plurality of discovery supportive heuristic representations, wherein the entry point representation is configured to receive a first universally resolvable content item selected from one of the plurality of discovery supportive heuristic representations. Further, the interface is configured to identify, for each of the plurality of discovery supportive heuristic representations, a universally resolvable content item related to the content item in the entry point representation, wherein each of the plurality of discovery supportive heuristic representations is configured to display the corresponding identified universally resolvable content item.

Remote hvac control with a customizable overview display

An HVAC control system that accommodates and/or facilitates control from a remote location. The HVAC control system may include a web-enabled building control appliance having a controller, a first port and a second port. The controller may implement a web server that is coupled to the first port for serving up one or more web pages on a first network and for receiving a number of responses. The controller may also be coupled to the second port so as to communicate with one or more communicating thermostats via a second network. The web server may be adapted to provide an overview or summary web-page via the first port that displays information regarding the one or more thermostats, where the information that is displayed may be customized for a particular user.

Apparatus and method for managing media content

A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a set top box having a controller to present media content, and provide access to related media content based upon access information, where the related media content is determined based upon monitoring of the media content, where the related media content is retrieved based on a query of a plurality of sources over the internet for ancillary information, and where the access information is associated with each of the plurality of sources and the ancillary information is at least one among a video blog, a pod cast or a website. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Shared content management platform apparatuses, methods and systems

The CONTENT DISCOVERY AND DELIVERY PLATFORM APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“SCMP”) transform content seed selections and recommendations via SCMP components such as discovery and social influence into events and discovery of other contents for users and revenue for right-holders. In one embodiment, the SCMP may obtain from a first universally resolvable media content service user a request to share the user's universally resolvable media content collection and a selection of at least one second universally resolvable user. The SCMP may configure the first user's media content collection for shared access with the second user and may provide the second user access to the shared media content collection.

Personalizing A Web Page Outside Of A Social Networking System With Recommendations for Content From The Social Networking System

A user device requests a web page from a web server of a third-party website, which is separate from a social networking system. The web server from the third-party website sends a markup language document for the requested web page to the user device which includes an instruction for a browser application running on the user device to incorporate information obtained from the social networking system within the web page. Based on the instruction in the received markup language document, the user device requests personalized content from the social networking system, which generates the requested personalized content based on social information about the user. The user device then renders the web page with the personalized content contained in a frame and displays the rendered web page and the frame to the user.

Handling User-Specific Information for Content During Content-Altering Operations

A content player receives user-specific information from different users and associates the information with content. Subsequently, the player receives a request to perform a content-altering operation. In response, the player performs the operation such that the information for the requesting user is affected, but not the information for other users. The information may include a placeholder, an indication as to whether the content and/or the entire content has been accessed, a protection status indicating whether or not the content can be deleted, and so on. The information may be added to and/or configured to accompany and/or otherwise be associated with the content. The player may identify the user so that different information for different users can be associated with the content for the respective user, such as by prompting the user to select an identifier from a list or perform a “log in.”

Search engine using client browser and application software activity information

An Internet infrastructure supports searching of web links to select search results by processing browser activity information along with one or more of favorite lists, and related metadata, user profiles, and trends based on browser activity behavior and favorite behavior. A plurality of web browsers located on client device are incorporated with a browser activity-monitoring module that tracks user's Internet usage, processes this information, and sends this information periodically or upon user request to the server to aid in improving search operation results. The search engine server communicatively couples to the plurality of web browsers and supports delivery of search results/web links to the client device based upon a search string, browser activity information, and possibly the favorite lists and related metadata. The gathered browser activity information, favorite lists, and related metadata are stored in one or more server databases that are associated with the search engine server.

Online Ranking Metric

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for ranking resources. One or more signals reporting one or more actions by the plurality of users related to a respective resource are received, where a reported action is a presentation of the respective resource, an addition of the respective resource, or a deletion of the respective resource. The reported actions include one or more short deletions of the respective resource. A respective long-addition click-through rate (LACTR) is determined for the respective resource based on a number of reported presentations of the respective resource and a difference between a number of reported additions of the respective resource and a number of short deletions of the respective resource. The plurality of resources are ranked based on the respective LACTRs for the plurality of resources. The ranking of the plurality of resources are provided.

System and method for filtering content based on gestures

In order to provide filtering of content to be presented on a mobile device, a gesture-based preferencing system and method may be employed. When content is presented to a user, the user may indicate a positive or negative preference toward that content by making a gesture. The gesture may be detected by a motion sensor and the preference of the content indicated by the gesture may be stored in a preference datastore. The preference may be used to subsequently filter content that is to be presented to the user.

Method and system for dynamic distributed data caching

A method and system for dynamic distributed data caching is presented. The system includes one or more peer members and a master member. The master member and the one or more peer members form cache community for data storage. The master member is operable to select one of the one or more peer members to become a new master member. The master member is operable to update a peer list for the cache community by removing itself from the peer list. The master member is operable to send a nominate master message and an updated peer list to a peer member selected by the master member to become the new master member.

Discovering an Event Using a Personal Preference List and Presenting Matching Events to a User on a Display

A user profile is used to assist a user in identifying events of interest and to provide context to users regarding events that matches user preferences. The user profile may be based on behaviors exhibited on a mobile device, on input by the user or on data on the mobile device. The user profile is analyzed to provide notification of events of interest to the user based upon the analysis of the user profile. The user profile may include anything that contributes to a state on the device.

Automatically Generating Data Transformations for Business Process Platforms

Business process providers implement client data processing processes for clients. The business process providers use certain formats (provider formats, defined by provider format fields). The clients use certain formats (client formats, defined by client format fields). A normative format is automatically defined and used as an intermediary between client and provider formats. Mappings between the normative format and the client and provider formats can be generated automatically.

High Precision Internet Local Search

High-precision local search is performed on the Internet. A map image-rendering software provider embeds spatial keys into maps, which are then provided to producers of Internet content such as map providers. For example, a homeowner may post a message on a web bulletin board advertising his house for sale, and including a map showing the location of the house. When a search engine's web crawler encounters a page having a spatial key embedded in an image, the spatial key is indexed with the other content on the page. Because the spatial key identifies a small geographic area, indexing the content with the spatial key allows search queries to be limited by area and still provide useful results. Thus, a user of a search engine searching for “house for sale” in a specific area will be directed to web pages that meet the geographic and content search terms.

Authentication of a Contributor of Online Content

Methods, computer program products and systems are described for online-content management. Online content from multiple contributors is received at one or more first computers for public online display. An authentication score is determined for a contributor of the multiple contributors. The contributor's name and a representation of the contributor's authentication score is published online for display on one or more second computers in association with the online content received from the contributor.

Dynamic Highlighting of Geographic Entities on Electronic Maps

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, can be used to dynamically generate electronic maps with highlighted entity boundaries. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request for an electronic map segment for a geographic region, with the request identifying a geographic entity to be highlighted in the requested electronic map segment. A plurality of layers of map data associated with the geographic region and data defining a boundary of the identified geographic entity are retrieved in response to the request. The electronic map segment is rendered based on the retrieved plurality of layers of map data and the data defining the boundary of the geographic entity, with one or more of the retrieved layers are rendered over a rendering of a highlighted boundary of the geographic entity. The rendered electronic map segment is transmitted in response to the request.