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        <title>Free Patents Online: Data processing: artificial intelligence</title>
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        <description>USPTO Class 706 Data processing: artificial intelligence</description>
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            <title><![CDATA[METHOD OF DYNAMICALLY UPDATING NETWORK SECURITY POLICY RULES WHEN NEW NETWORK RESOURCES ARE PROVISIONED IN A SERVICE LANDSCAPE]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com./y2010/0005505.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A computer-implemented method is provided for updating network security policy rules when network resources are provisioned in a service landscape instance. The method includes categorizing network resources in a service landscape instance based on a service landscape model. The method further includes responding to the provisioning of a network resource by automatically generating one or more security policy rules for a newly-provisioned network resource. Additionally, the method includes updating security policy rules of pre-existing network resources in the service landscape instance that are determined to be eligible to communicate with the newly-provisioned network resource so as to include the newly-provisioned network resource as a remote resource based on the service landscape model.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[ANNOTATION OF VIDEO FOOTAGE AND PERSONALISED VIDEO GENERATION]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com./y2010/0005485.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A method of annotating footage that includes a structured text broadcast stream, a video stream and an audio stream, the method includes the steps of: extracting directly or indirectly one or more keywords and/or features from at least said structured text broadcast streams, temporally annotating said footage with said keywords and/or features analysing temporally adjacent annotated keywords and/or features to determine information about one or more events within said footage. Also provided are: a data store for storing video footage, a method of generation of a personalised video summary, a system for annotating footage and a system for generation of a personalised video summary.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATING DATA QUALITY METRICS INTO ENTERPRISE DATA MANAGEMENT PROCESSES]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com./y2010/0005346.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A method and system for assessing data quality stored in an enterprise database is provided. In response to a request by a user, a pre-determined event, or other event, a profile is chosen from a list of profiles stored in a profile database based on the request, wherein the profile includes a set of rules for calculating data quality metrics and for triggering workflow processes. One or more data records are received from one or more enterprise databases. The data quality metrics of the one or more data records based on the set of rules for calculating data quality metrics is calculated. Based on the calculated data quality metrics and rules for triggering workflow, a determination is made regarding whether to trigger one or more workflow processes: and, if so, triggering the one or more workflow processes; and/or converting the calculated data quality metrics to a representation for display.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INFERRING A NETWORK OF ASSOCIATIONS]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com./y2010/0005051.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A network association mining algorithm and associated methods are presented which accepts data from biological and other experiments and automatically produces a network and attempts to explain the behavior of the biological or other system underlying the data using evolutionary techniques. The model and associated methods aim to identify the inter-relationships consistent with data and other prior knowledge supplied to the system. The network is represented in terms of coupled dynamical system. These dynamical systems are represented by differential or difference equations to educe these dynamical systems and coupling between them, an evolutionary algorithm is used. The output of the linkage finder could assist scientists to better understand the systems underlying and to guess at surrogate data.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[DATA FUSION USING CONSENSUS AGGREGATION FUNCTIONS]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com./y2010/0005050.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A fusion system fuses M rankings generated by M judges by (i) computing values of an aggregation function for items of the M rankings, the aggregation function including a sum of pairwise conjunctions of ranking values of different judges for an input item, and (ii) constructing an aggregation ranking based on the aggregation function values. In an illustrative application, the judges are different Internet search engines and the rankings are sets of search engine results generated for a query input to the search engines, and a consensus search result corresponding to the query is defined by the aggregation ranking. In another illustrative application, the judges are different soft classifiers, and the rankings are probability vectors generated for an input object by the different soft classifiers, and the input object is classified based on a consensus probability vector defined by the aggregation ranking.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[INFORMATION EXTRACTION RULE MAKING SUPPORT SYSTEM, INFORMATION EXTRACTION RULE MAKING SUPPORT METHOD, AND INFORMATION EXTRACTION RULE MAKING SUPPORT PROGRAM]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com./y2010/0005049.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A information extraction rule making support system comprises: a storage section for storing an extraction object document, which is an electronic document of an information extraction object; an input unit for inputting a plurality of extraction rules, which are rules used to extract information from said extraction object document; an information extraction section for respectively deriving extraction results matching each of said extraction rules from said extraction object document stored by said storage section, using each of said extraction rules inputted by said input means; and a rule relation creating section for creating a rule relation network indicating a relation between each of said extraction rules by analyzing an overlapping relation or including relation between extraction results derived by said information extraction section and linking each of said extraction rules based on the result of the analysis.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Detecting duplicate records]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com./y2010/0005048.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A method for finding duplicates by matching group of fields in records is disclosed. The method comprises standardizing data using field specific knowledge base; extracting at least part of one or more related fields of records; applying a matching attribute function to generate keys on the “comparable” field part extracted data; generating record level keys using generated field level keys; clustering the records based on generated record level keys; identifying reference record for each cluster identified; and calculating matching percentage for each record in a cluster with respect to reference record of the cluster. Devices and systems are disclosed that enable the method for finding duplicates.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Methods, Systems, and Software for Identifying Functional Bio-Molecules]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com./y2010/0005047.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The present invention generally relates to methods of rapidly and efficiently searching biologically-related data space. More specifically, the invention includes methods of identifying bio-molecules with desired properties, or which are most suitable for acquiring such properties, from complex bio-molecule libraries or sets of such libraries. The invention also provides methods of modeling sequence-activity relationships. As many of the methods are computer-implemented, the invention additionally provides digital systems and software for performing these methods.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREDICTING VALUE OF CACHING CONTENT ITEMS]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com./y2010/0005046.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The invention includes a method and apparatus for predicting value of caching content items. In one embodiment, a method for selecting ones of a plurality of content items to be cached includes, for each of the content items, determining a probability of use of the content item comprising a probability that the content item will be used if cached, determining a value of caching the content item, and computing a caching value estimate associated with the content item using the probability of use of the content item and the value of caching the content item. The content items to be cached may then be selected using the respective caching value estimates of the content items.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[SITUATION RECOGNIZING APPARATUS, SITUATION RECOGNIZING METHOD, AND RADIO TERMINAL APPARATUS]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com./y2010/0005045.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A situation recognizing apparatus has a situation change detecting unit, being provided with situation information, configured to detect a situation change on the basis of the situation information, a first storage which stores a plurality of situation changes detected by the situation change detecting unit, an input unit which is provided with a user operation, and a second storage which combines the user operation provided to the input unit with the plurality of situation changes stored in the first storage and stores the combined user operation and the situation changes as a unique pattern.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Remote Detection and Measurement of Objects]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com./y2010/0005044.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Provided are methods of using electromagnetic waves for detecting metal and/or dielectric objects. Methods include directing microwave and/or mm wave radiation in a predetermined direction using a transmission apparatus, including a transmission element; receiving radiation from an entity resulting from the transmitted radiation using a detection apparatus; and generating one or more detection signals in the frequency domain using the detection apparatus. Methods may include operating a controller, wherein operating the controller includes causing the transmitted radiation to be swept over a predetermined range of frequencies, performing a transform operation on the detection signal(s) to generate one or more transformed signals in the time domain, and determining, from one or more features of the transformed signal, one or more dimensions of a metallic or dielectric object upon which the transmitted radiation is incident.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[ACTIVE LEARNING SYSTEM, ACTIVE LEARNING METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR ACTIVE LEARNING]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com./y2010/0005043.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[In order to carry out a learning in which newly acquired data is taken to be more important than data previously accumulated, a function is provided which sets a weight for learning data based on an acquisition order of the learning data. Furthermore, in order to carry out a learning which reflects data acquired in the last cycle and a result with respect to the data, a function is provided which feeds back a result of a learning in the last cycle to a rule and sets a weight for learning data based on a relation between a label of data and a prediction value.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Support vector regression for censored data]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com./y2010/0005042.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A method of producing a model for use in predicting time to an event includes obtaining multi-dimensional, non-linear vectors of information indicative of status of multiple test subjects, at least one of the vectors being right-censored, lacking an indication of a time of occurrence of the event with respect to the corresponding test subject, and performing regression using the vectors of information to produce a kernel-based model to provide an output value related to a prediction of time to the event based upon at least some of the information contained in the vectors of information, where for each vector comprising right-censored data, a censored-data penalty function is used to affect the regression, the censored-data penalty function being different than a non-censored-data penalty function used for each vector comprising non-censored data.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[MACHINE LEARNING BASED VOLUME DIAGNOSIS OF SEMICONDUCTOR CHIPS]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com./y2010/0005041.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A system and method for integrated circuit diagnosis includes partitioning an integrated circuit design into sub-regions according to a structure of the integrated circuit design. A decision function is generated for a sub-region by training a machine learning tool. A sequence of test patterns is applied to a device under test (DUT) to determine responses. If the DUT fails, all the decision functions are evaluated with the errors produced by the DUT. A sub-region whose decision function yielded a highest value is selected to find a defect sub-region in the DUT.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[FORECASTING ASSOCIATION RULES ACROSS USER ENGAGEMENT LEVELS]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com./y2010/0005040.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A method of determining one or more association rules includes: specifying site-sequence values for users, wherein each user is identified with one of a plurality of engagement levels, and the site-sequence values indicate a sequence from a first site to a second site for at least one user identified with a corresponding engagement level; determining cumulative site-sequence values from the site-sequence values for combinations of pairs of sites and distinct engagement levels; determining likelihood values from the cumulative site-sequence values, wherein the likelihood values characterize probabilities for sequences between sites at distinct engagement levels; determining one or more association rules for pairs of sites from one or more corresponding likelihood values at one or more engagement levels, wherein each association rule indicates a sequential association between a corresponding pair of sites; determining one or more confidence values for the one or more association rules by calculating one or more variations of the likelihood values across the engagement levels; and saving one or more values for the one or more associations rules (e.g., likelihood values or confidence values).]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Apparatus and methods for isolating and reviewing data from multiple sources]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com./y2010/0005039.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture are disclosed for isolating and reviewing data. The data is provided via a data source, and subsequently a rule may be provided, as well as a metaphor, to a user for perception of said metaphor via a user interface.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[COMPUTER CALCULATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com./y2010/0005031.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[There is provided a computer calculation processing method for determining risk-neutral probability distribution with the use of a model-independent maximum entropy method. There are provided an input device ( 101 ) into which arbitrarily set information is inputted, a market ( 102 ) which is the source of various market information, a calculator ( 103 ) which receives various inputs, performs the calculation processing of the present invention and issues an output instruction, an interface ( 104 ) which collects information from the market and inputs it to the calculator ( 103 ), a storage device ( 105 ) which stores the program of the present invention and various data generated during the calculation processing, and a display device ( 10 ). Output of a result of the calculation processing can be stored in the storage device ( 105 ) in addition to the display device ( 106 ), printed on a printing device or transmitted via a communication line.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dynamic anti-money laundering system and methodology for providing situational-specific risk assessment determinations]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com./y2010/0004981.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A dynamic anti-money laundering system and methodology for providing situational-specific risk assessment determinations. Risk dimensions for a financial institution or branch of a financial institution are identified and assigned numerical designations. The type of financial transaction to be conducted at the branch of a financial institution is then identified and it is further determined whether the financial transaction has a risk-related dimension and, if so, whether the numerical designation of at least a selected one of the identified risk dimensions exceeds a predetermined level. If the numerical designations of at least a selected one of the identified risk dimensions exceeds a predetermined level, a special risk assessment procedure is performed and recommended guidelines for handling the financial transaction based on the special risk assessment procedure ate provided to an authorized user.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LEVERAGING PROXIMITY DATA IN A WEB-BASED SOCIALLY-ENABLED KNOWLEDGE NETWORKING ENVIRONMENT]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com./y2010/0004975.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Systems and methods for leveraging proximity data in a web-based socially-enabled information networking environment are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of semantic advertising via semantic profiles. One embodiment can include, receiving a model profile from an advertiser, enforcing a set of rules that govern accessibility of the web content, parsing the model profile to obtain a first set of model user metadata associated with the ideal set of user characteristics, comparing model user metadata of the first set of model user metadata with user metadata of a set of user metadata of a semantic user profile of a user, and generating a correlation index to indicate a degree of correlation between the model profile and the semantic user profile.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AND UTILIZING HEALTH OUTCOMES INDICES AND FINANCIAL DERIVATIVE INSTRUMENTS BASED ON THE INDICES]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com./y2010/0004945.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer system are provided for generating and utilizing a health outcome index for a given research interest area and a given population. The computer-implemented method includes the steps of: (a) receiving data relating to one or more given criteria pertinent to the research interest area; (b) calculating a health outcomes index using one or more computer processes applying a given formula to the data relating to the one or more given criteria, said given formula including assignment of relative weights to said one or more criteria; (c) outputting the health outcome index; and (d) periodically repeating steps (a) through (c).]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Social Profile Assessment]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com./y2010/0004940.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[An embodiment provides a computer implemented method for social profile assessment. The computer implemented method receives a request from a first user for an assessment, and sends questionnaires to a set of assessors for the first user. Upon receiving questionnaires from the set of assessors to form completed questionnaires, the computer implemented method generates an unadjusted social style assessment for the first user. Upon receiving a request from a second user for the social style assessment of the first user, the computer implemented method determines whether there are common assessors between the first user and the second user, and responsive to a determination that there are common assessors between the first user and the second user, generates an adjusted social style assessment for the first user, and returns the adjusted social style assessment for the first user to the second user.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[OPTIMIZING PARAMETERS FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com./y2010/0004919.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for language translation are disclosed. In one implementation, a method is provided. The method includes determining, for a plurality of feature functions in a translation lattice, a corresponding plurality of error surfaces for each of one or more candidate translations represented in the translation lattice; adjusting weights for the feature functions by traversing a combination of the plurality of error surfaces for phrases in a training set; selecting weighting values that minimize error counts for the traversed combination; and applying the selected weighting values to convert a sample of text from a first language to a second language.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[PLACEMENT OF A SOLAR COLLECTOR]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com./y2010/0004797.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[When using a solar concentrator to obtain energy collected by a sun, it can be beneficial to place the concentrator accurately. As the concentrator moves, a position of the concentrator with respect to gravity can be determined, commonly though use of an inclinometer. A comparison can be made of the determined position against a desired position can be made to determine if the concentrator should move. If a positive determination is made, then the concentrator can be moved accordingly.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEFECT DETECTION IN MANUFACTURING INTEGRATED CIRCUITS]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com./y2010/0004775.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Method and system for defect detection in manufacturing integrated circuits. In an embodiment, the invention provides a method for identifying one or more sources for possible causing manufacturing detects in integrated circuits. The method includes a step for providing a plurality of semiconductor substrates. The method includes a step for processing the plurality of semiconductor substrates in a plurality of processing steps using a plurality of processing tools. The method additionally includes a step for providing a database, which includes data associated with the processing of the plurality of semiconductor substrates. The method further includes a step for testing the plurality of semiconductor wafers after the processing of the plurality of semiconductor substrates. Additionally, the method includes a step for detecting at least one defect characteristic associated with the plurality of the semiconductor substrates that have been processed. Moreover, the method includes a step for identifying a set of processing steps. For example, the set of processing step are possibly associated with the defect characteristic.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RAPID AND ACCURATE QUANTIFICATION OF AN UNKNOWN, COMPLEX MIX]]></title>
            <link>http://www.freepatentsonline.com./y2010/0002234.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[An apparatus and method for rapidly and accurately identifying and quantifying analytes in a complex mixture is disclosed. The apparatus comprises an ultra-sensitive cavity-enhanced spectrometer coupled to data-collection and analysis devices. The method comprises the use of a database containing the absorption cross-sections of various analytes to numerically determine the composition of the sample.]]></description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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