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7617171 Process for the iterative construction of an explanatory model  
A process for iterative construction of an explanatory model including at least one rule calculated from a plurality of experiments, each of which rules is associated with at least one indicator of...
7613741 Utilizing rules in a distributed information sharing system  
Described herein are various approaches that allow rules to be used to specify actions, that alleviate the complexity and burden of developing and maintaining rules in a rules-based messaging...
7613723 Configurable framework for storing and retrieving arbitrary information from a database  
A system, apparatus and method are provided that enable the receipt of answers to questions from users and to make those answers persistent within a generalized database schema. A set of one or...
7613671 Approach for re-using business rules  
An approach is described for developing software that executes rules, such as business rules. A group of rule templates defines a rule structure for rules that may be executed by a rules engine....
7610256 Registering rules for entity attributes for validation and inference  
The present invention provides a method and system for registering rules for attributes of an entity with an entity validation and inference unit. The entity validation and inference unit can...
7610255 Method and system for computerized searching and matching multimedia objects using emotional preference  
A method and system for capturing emotional preference of human subjects, generating machine-readable emotional code and using the code to optimize computerized searching and matching operations...
7610254 Temporary exclusions and alternatives of plants and products during sourcing  
Methods and systems are provided for establishing an availability check framework. In one embodiment, a method is provided that comprises defining a plurality of inclusive rules, each inclusive...
7603573 System and method for optimizing computational density  
A system and method of designing a computer system having a plurality of processors. A computational density is selected for the computer system, wherein the computational density is expressed as a...
7603358 Compliance rules analytics engine  
The present invention relates to compliance rules analytics systems and methods for facilitating compliance, such as the compliance of an investment portfolio or a set of investment portfolios,...
7603332 Devices, systems, and methods for mediated rule-based translation system configuration information  
Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a computer-based translation method that translates source information into target information using knowledge that arises from relationships between...
7599893 Methods and systems for feature selection in machine learning based on feature contribution and model fitness  
Methods and systems are provided for feature selection in machine learning, in which the features selected for inclusion in a prediction rule are selected based on statistical metric(s) of feature...
7596793 Smart event parser for autonomic computing  
An autonomic event parser configured for association with a message adapter. An autonomic event parser can include a store of parsing rules, the parsing rules having a strategically specified...
7596540 System, method and computer program product for dynamically enhancing an application executing on a computing device  
A system, method and computer program product for dynamically enhancing a software application, such as a video game, executing on a computing device, without having to change and recompile the...
7596539 Method and apparatus for providing connection information of functional components within a computer system  
A method and apparatus for determining connections among functional components within a computer system are disclosed. A rule table for describing all interconnections among the components within a...
7596536 System, method and computer program product for dynamically measuring properties of objects rendered and/or referenced by an application executing on a computing device  
A system, method and computer program product for dynamically enhancing and measuring a software application, such as a video game, executing on a computing device, without having to change and...
7595815 Apparatus, methods, and systems for intelligent security and safety  
A method and system for intelligent monitoring and intelligent alerting. One or more data inputs are received from one or more systems. A weight is attributed to each data input based on the data...
7593911 System and method for applying rule sets and rule interactions  
Described is a system and method for determining relationships between a plurality of existing rules in a rule set, wherein the relationships include cause interactions and effect interactions...
7590607 Non-unitary probabilistic quantum computing circuit and method  
A quantum circuit performing quantum computation in a quantum computer. A chosen transformation of an initial n-qubit state is probabilistically obtained. The circuit comprises a unitary quantum...
7587380 Rule processing method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium to generate valid combinations for selection  
A method of providing, in response to user-selected ones of attributes and/or enumerations thereof, a list of product choices from products whose compatibility is characterized by a ZDD rule model...
7587379 Method and system for capturing business rules for automated decision procession  
A rule packaging system and method to define and/or package parameters, attributes, enumerations of a prime rule in a reduced canonical form suitable for propositional logic manipulation using, for...
7584163 Method and system for expression evaluation  
A method to analyze impact of changes to a model includes accessing a proposed change to a model. An expression that is relevant to the proposed change is accessed. An instances set associated the...
7584079 Method of configuring a product  
A complex product is composed of several parts, where each part may depend on the other. As a consequence of these inter-dependencies, the selection of one part might exclude other parts from being...
7577632 Updating estimated process runtime  
Systems and methods for updating estimated process runtimes are provided. Initially, an estimated runtime for a process, the estimated runtime being based on a default value or at least one...
7574414 Method for implementing a rules-based engine  
Embodiments of the invention provide an RBE that uses a logical abstraction for a set of application rules that allows the rules to be implemented, presented and modified efficiently. For one...
7574413 System and method of discovering information  
Embodiments of the present invention include the steps of (i) defining a first resource containing information objects defining a set of users; (ii) discovering said information objects based on...
7571146 Event, threat and result change detection system and method  
Changes in event, threat and result patterns assist in forecasting subsequent occurrences. The present invention derives signature for event-types based on a comparison of actual event data with...
7568027 Event suppression tool for temporarily suppressing actions on received events  
Disclosed are a tool, a method, and a computer program for suppressing events. The tool comprises a database having a resource table, a batch loader interface for creating or updating said resource...
7567947 Methods and systems for semiconductor testing using a testing scenario language  
Methods and systems for semiconductor testing. In one embodiment, a semiconductor testing method includes one or more of the following stages: defining a rule relating to semiconductor testing,...
7567914 System and process for dominance classification for insurance underwriting suitable for use by an automated system  
A risk classification technique that exploits the existing risk structure of the decision problem in order to produce risk categorizations for new candidates is described. The technique makes use...
7565642 Rule engine  
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for inference processing in a fact-based business automation system, including receiving a rule set as a single package, generating a...
7565339 Knowledge based encoding of data  
Methods, apparatuses, and articles of manufacture for receiving data from one or more processes, receiving or deriving a knowledge representation describing the data, which may include one or more...
7565338 Method and system for sharing knowledge  
A method for providing technical support via a network is disclosed. The method involves providing a database which contains searchable technical support information, the searchable technical...
7565337 Batch validation method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for rule processing  
A computer-implemented method and apparatus thereof for validating combinations of product features that are compliant with existing business rules relative to a modified business rule, where the...
7562062 Forecasting system tool  
A forecasting engine arranged to generate a forecast for a set of historic time-series data. The engine includes one or more one or more generically structured core algorithmic components providing...
7562061 Context-based failure reporting for a constraint satisfaction problem  
A method for solving a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) comprises identifying a first illegal combination associated with at least one variable, wherein the first illegal combination...
7559057 Alignment and generalization of demonstrated procedure traces  
A method and system for generating one or more Computer-executable procedures simultaneously learns from a collection of procedure instances recorded by different users on a variety of computers...
7555470 Research data collection and analysis  
The invention provides a method and system by which research data can be collected and analyzed during the course of the research testing, and the research testing itself possibly modified to...
7552102 Rule processing method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium to provide improved selection advice  
A computer-implemented method, apparatus and computer-readable medium to provide selection advice during rule processing to guide a user to configure a product or service according to a rule...
7552101 Health monitoring system implementing medical diagnosis  
The invention relates to a health surveillance system comprising a medical diagnosis which is made by a medically-qualified person ( 11 ) in relation to a patient who is being monitored remotely,...
7548896 Device, method and computer program readable medium for support of maintaining a system  
Method, device and computer program product for support of maintaining a system. The method includes: evaluating a current system state and detecting a first lattice element corresponding to the...
7548895 Communication-prompted user assistance  
Communications are monitored for user intentions related to user tasks such as meeting scheduling and the like 308 . When an intention (e.g. mention of a meeting) is determined from the...
7546281 Reduction of ternary rules with common priority and actions  
A system for reducing the size of a database includes a memory in which the database configured in a ternary matrix array structure is stored. A processor executing at least one reduction algorithm...
7542957 Rich Web application input validation  
Method to build rich input validation rules to address values not previously validated by type based rules or regular expressions available in current validation engines. These new validation rules...
7542955 Exercise test interpretation  
A system and method for the efficient implementation of a complex exercise test is disclosed. A rule interpreter synthesizes interpretation statements based upon the processing of collected...
7539657 Building parallel hybrid spill trees to facilitate parallel nearest-neighbor matching operations  
One embodiment of the present invention provides a method and a system for building a parallel hybrid spill tree to facilitate parallel nearest-neighbor matching operations. During operation, the...
7536371 Apparatus and method for the analysis of a process having parameter-based faults  
An apparatus for the analysis of a process having parameter-based faults includes: a parameter value inputer configured for inputting values of at least one process parameter, a fault detector,...
7536370 Inferential diagnosing engines for grid-based computing systems  
Disclosed herein is the creation and utilization of automated diagnostic agents that are used by service engineers to diagnose faults, errors and other events or conditions within a grid-based...
7536369 XML-based architecture for rule induction system  
In a rule induction method, an overbroad candidate rule is selected for categorizing a node to be categorized. The candidate rule is specialized by: (i) adding a rule node corresponding to a node...
7536368 Method for problem formulation and for obtaining solutions from a database  
Problem analysis tool automatically reformulates a problem statement into a natural language or Boolean query that is automatically submitted via a knowledge search tool to a database, and...
7533073 Methods and apparatus for heuristic search to optimize metrics in generating a plan having a series of actions  
Methods and apparatus to provide techniques for planners that records constraints over a set of numeric state variables for each fact and characterizes the set of states in which that fact is true...