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6643660 Technique for specifying the parameters of complex technical studies by using a decision tree  
The present specification, discloses a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for specifying the design and execution related parameters of a technical study by creating and using a decision...
6640216 Human resource knowledge modeling and delivery system  
A knowledge modeling and delivery system combines pre-configured, parameterized models of human resource knowledge with organization-specific and employee-specific data. It delivers personalized...
6636842 System and method for controlling an industrial process utilizing process trajectories  
A method for monitoring an industrial process, including the steps of: providing a knowledge base comprising a two-dimensional representation of operational conditions for the process; obtaining...
6636843 System and method for grating profile classification  
Grating profile data is classified using a cluster generator to generate a plurality of clusters of grating profile data points from a data space containing grating profile data points. The cluster...
6631128 Core network optimization of topology and technology for traffic handling  
Routing nodes that are interconnected within a communications network are not configured to utilize a single type of switching technology in the context of a single type of networking topology....
6629088 Method and apparatus for measuring the quality of descriptors and description schemes  
A method and apparatus for determining quality of a description are described. According to one embodiment, an exemplary method for determining quality of a description includes posing a...
6629096 System and method for performing a mindflow process  
A system for performing a mindflow process includes a memory coupled to a processor. The memory stores a number of knowledge modules. Each knowledge module comprises a process having a number of...
6618730 Methods and systems for managing workflow  
A workflow management system provides an integrated approach to exchanging information real-time and notifying responsible persons of pending deadlines concerning a particular deal. The web-based...
6615198 System and method for creating performance solution tools and performance solutions  
A system and method for creating solution tools has components listed for any potential solution to a solution tool, a set of questions outlining requirements for the solution tool, and options...
6615367 Method and apparatus for diagnosing difficult to diagnose faults in a complex system  
A method and apparatus for determining the root cause of no trouble found events in a machine is disclosed. The actual faults occurring during a predetermined time interval prior to the no trouble...
6611841 Knowledge acquisition and retrieval apparatus and method  
A knowledge acquisition and retrieval apparatus and method that emulate the human brain and comprise at least one first memory segment, and a distinct second memory segment, wherein elements of the...
6604093 Situation awareness system  
A method for situation management includes specifying a composite event as a combination of two or more predefined component events and defining a rule, which causes a reaction to be invoked upon...
6600749 Planning system for broadband multi-service connections  
A syntactical representation is used to generate data describing a hierarchical broadband network and relationships between it elements. The format of the syntactical representation resembles logic...
6601058 Data exploration system and method  
Preferred embodiments of the invention provide a system for, and method of, exploring relationships in data stored in a computer readable medium. A query is received having at least one operator...
6598035 Object oriented rule-based expert system framework mechanism  
A framework for use with object-oriented programming systems provides an expert system shell that executes with a rule set developed by a framework user. The framework includes a condition manager...
6598033 Problem model for alarm correlation  
A method of processing data such as alarms from a communications network, the network comprising a plurality of network entities, having predetermined states of operation, the method comprising the...
6591257 Apparatus and method for a compositional decision support reasoning system  
An apparatus and method for determining a solution to a problem where paths in at least one pursuit associated with the problem are traversed to generate one or more decision paths by processing...
6591256 Business focused interface for engaging applications that solve mathematical problems  
An arrangement presents to a user a structured display that includes business problems categories and specific business problems. When a user selects a business problem to be solved, a generic...
6584455 System and method for predicting design errors in integrated circuits  
The present invention is embodied in a system and method for predicting design errors, such as errors in integrated circuit design. The system and method of the present invention use a...
6581051 Agent presentation apparatus  
An agent presentation apparatus for transmitting and receiving a message and operating based on a knowledge base and a rule base. In particular, where an agent for carrying out a user request uses...
6578022 Interactive intelligent searching with executable suggestions  
A method, system, and computer program product for interactive searching with executable suggestions are provided. The present invention provides a search engine and data management technology that...
6571251 Case-based reasoning system and method with a search engine that compares the input tokens with view tokens for matching cases within view  
A case-based reasoning system includes a case database capable of storing a plurality of cases that each include one or more attributes. A view generator in the case-based reasoning system...
6556985 Rule construction and application  
A rule construction and application technique is disclosed wherein atomic rules are used alone or in combination with template rules in order to construct complex rules. The complex rules may be...
6553359 Data mining for association rules and sequential patterns within data of inhomogeneous type  
The invention relates to a computerized method for data mining for association rules and/or sequential patterns in a multitude of records. The invention is applicable to records that include a...
6553360 Software-based problem-resolution production system with standardized information providers & solution interpreters  
A problem-resolution software system is organized into a “solution cube” which interacts with a problem-resolution framework consisting of a production-system engine. The solution cube...
6549880 Reliability of electrical distribution networks  
A computer-implemented system analyzes user-inputted hypothetical situations of an electrical distribution network design and automatically interprets, based on user input, a need to conduct...
6542882 System and method for providing a database of content having like associations  
A method, signal, system, interface, and software for creating a database containing information across all media source types are disclosed. The database contains preprocessed links established on...
6532426 System and method for analyzing different scenarios for operating and designing equipment  
An equipment module is analyzed through the use of an array of failure probability values. The array of failure probability values provides an indication of the probability that the equipment...
6526420 Non-linear constraint optimization in storage system configuration  
An apparatus for and a method of non-linear constraint optimization in a storage system configuration. In accordance with the primary aspect of the present invention, the objective function for a...
6519763 Time management and task completion and prediction software  
A computer software application in the form of a software management and task completion and prediction apparatus by which project completion can be ascertained and management of a project can be...
6519703 Methods and apparatus for heuristic firewall  
One embodiment of the present invention is a method for processing packets in a computer communication network that includes steps of analyzing a packet stream using at least a first heuristic...
6519581 Collection of information regarding a device or a user of a device across a communication link  
A system is provided for collecting information regarding a device or a user of a device. Information is collected from a discovery agent residing on the computer system. At certain times, the...
6513026 Decision theoretic principles and policies for notification  
Performance of a decision-theoretic analysis to determine which notifications as can be received from notification sources should be conveyed to the user, and via which modes of which notification...
6505184 Autognomic decision making system and method  
A sensor module is for use in a semiotic processing system. The sensing module receives data in a pre-specified format. It identifies sequential elemental symbols in the received data. First order...
6502084 Method of electronic knowledge extraction, transfer and use  
An exemplary embodiment of the invention is directed to a method for knowledge extraction, transfer and use of stored data, wherein data files in a computer system are checked. The method includes:...
6499021 Apparatus and method for interpreting and intelligently managing electronic messages  
A computer-readable system and method for interpreting and selectively forwarding an interpreted message derived from a user's received electronic message, such as an e-mail, fax, converted voice...
6499023 Data item evaluation based on the combination of multiple factors  
An object-focused workflow system for processing a received object in accordance with a declarative workflow specification. The specification includes modules and attributes, where module execution...
6493695 Methods and systems for homogeneously routing and/or queueing call center customer interactions across media types  
Methods, devices and systems for processing a customer interaction of any media type for assignment to at least one selected call center agent and/or to at least one selected queue coupled to at...
6493693 Method and system for ensuring completeness and quality of a multi-component project  
A method for ensuring completeness and quality of a project or proposed change to a complex system including modeling the system as a plurality of nodes and storing the nodes in a database, each...
6490574 Method and system for managing rules and events in a multi-user intelligent agent environment  
A method and system for constructing rule-based intelligent agents that process events on behalf of one or more users. The intelligent agents have event-generating modules that supply events to be...
6484155 Knowledge management system for performing dynamic distributed problem solving  
Disclosed is an invention that provides a knowledge management system that supports inquiries of distributed knowledge resources. Those inquiries may be in the form of questions or problem...
6480832 Method and apparatus to model the variables of a data set  
The present invention relates to modeling the variables of a data set by means of a robabilistic network including data nodes and causal links. The term ‘probabilistic networks’ includes...
6477518 Method of knowledge-based engineering cost and weight estimation of an HVAC air-handling assembly for a climate control system  
A method of knowledge-based engineering cost and weight estimation of an HVAC air-handling assembly for a climate control system on a vehicle includes the steps of selecting a parametric model of...
6477517 Method of knowledge-based engineering design of an instrument panel  
A method of knowledge-based engineering design of an instrument panel for a vehicle includes the steps of defining a parameter of the instrument panel using a knowledge-based engineering library...
6473748 System for implementing rules  
A method, system and computer program product for implementing rules. More specifically, a method, system and computer program product for implementing rules is developed by separating business...
6466928 Method and apparatus for idea development and evaluation  
Disclosed are apparatus and methods for evaluating a business proposal in which a computer is used to perform the steps of presenting questions regarding the business proposal, using information...
6456993 Alternating tree-based classifiers and methods for learning them  
This invention provides methods and systems for classification of data instances using tree-based classifiers. Tree-based classifiers are first built according to a particular structure using a...
6448982 System for graphically generating logic for a cause and effects matrix  
The present invention provides a system and method for graphically generating logic for a cause and effects matrix. The present invention includes creating a matrix for defining the elements of the...
6446057 Method and apparatus for transparent backtracking  
A technique is used in embodiments of the invention such that backtracking programs can be written in a general purpose computer language (e.g., C++ or Java) without requiring the control structure...
6438533 System for retrieval of information from data structure of medical records  
An apparatus and system are provided for retrieving electronic records from a database of records, preferably in the form of medical records. The apparatus utilizes a knowledge base in the form of...