118results about "Data comparison" patented technology

The invention provides methods for predicting responsiveness to TNFα inhibitors in a subject suffering from an autoimmune disorder, such as rheumatoid arthritis. The methods involve assaying for expression of one or more biomarkers in the subject that are predictive of responsiveness to TNFα inhibitors. A preferred biomarker of the invention is CD11c. The methods can further comprise selecting a treatment regimen with a TNFα inhibitor in an autoimmune disorder subject based upon expression of the biomarker(s) in the subject. The methods can further comprise administering a TNFα inhibitor to the subject according to the selected treatment regimen. Kits that include means for measuring expression of one or more biomarkers that are predictive of responsiveness to TNFα inhibitors for an autoimmune disorder are also provided. Methods of preparing and using databases, and computer program products therefore, for selecting an autoimmune disorder subject for treatment with a TNFα inhibitor are also provided.

A difference information receiver, a difference information transmitter and a difference information synchronizer which cooperate in a system or device to update data in the device with data received from other systems, or provide data for other systems to use in updating themselves are disclosed. A difference receiver in a device having at least one application data destination having a format includes a difference engine receiving difference information associated with a change to said at least one application data destination; and an application interface, applying said difference information to said at least one data destination. A method for updating data files in a system is also disclosed. The method may include the steps of: receiving difference information for a subset of said data files; and applying said difference information to said subset of said data files. In particular said step of receiving may comprise: receiving a change log detailing changes to data files on another system; and applying said changes to a data store containing data identical to said data files to generate changed data. A difference transmitter comprises an application in a system having a data source in a source format. The application may include an application interface, extracting data from said data source; and a difference engine receiving said data and outputting difference information associated with changes to said data source. A method for updating a data source in a system is also disclosed. The method may include the steps of extracting difference information from at least a subset of said data source; and outputting difference information for at least the subset of said data source. The step of extracting may comprise determining whether changes have been made to the subset of data source in the system; and generating a change log detailing changes to the subset of data source on another system. A difference synchronizer includes an extraction routine for extracting a first set of difference information resulting from changes to the data files; a differencing transmitter for transmitting said first set of difference information to an output; a differencing receiver for receiving a second set of difference information from an input; and a reconstruction routine for applying the second set of difference information to the data files. In a particular embodiment, the invention comprises a device engine including an application object; an application object store; and a delta module.

A method for detection of page numbers in a document includes identifying a plurality of text fragments associated with a plurality of pages of a document. From the identified text fragments, at least one sequence is identified. Each identified sequence includes a plurality of terms. Each term of the sequence is derived from a text fragment selected from the plurality text fragments. The terms of an identified sequence comply with at least one predefined numbering scheme which defines a form and an incremental state of the terms in a sequence. A subset of the identified sequences which cover at least some of the pages of the document is computed. Terms of at least some of the subset of the identified sequences are construed as page numbers of pages of the document. Additional page numbers may be identified by considering one or more features of the terms in the subset of identified sequences.

A method and apparatus for identifying and resolving conflicting data records are disclosed. The individual data fields of a master record are compared with the corresponding data fields of each source record in a particular data set. For each, one of various matching algorithms is used to assign a field matching score indicating the extent to which the data in the two data fields matches. The particular algorithm used to determine the extent of a match and to assign the corresponding score is dependent on the type of the data field. Once all of the data fields for a particular source record have been analyzed, the sum of the field matching scores is tallied to determine an overall record matching score for that particular source record.

A system and method are provided for comparing portions of document text with potential citation components, determining if individual portions correspond to a citation component, and determining if a set of portions correspond to a valid citation pattern. A set of valid citation patterns is provided. Each citation pattern may include a specified combination of citation components. The invention further relates to identifying potential citation components from text in a document, analyzing a pattern of the identified citation components by comparing the pattern to a set of stored citation patterns to determine if the potential citation is a type of citation, and if so, is it a valid (and/or invalid) citation pattern. Once citation patterns have been determined in the document, annotations may be inserted into the document, and subsequent action may be taken, for example, generating a list of citations, providing research services, error-handling, and/or providing other options related to the citations.

Methods, system and computer readable medium for detecting duplicate content in a pair of media files prior to publication on a webpage include generating fingerprints for the contents of each of the pair of media files. The fingerprints of one of the pair of media file are then compared with the fingerprints of another of the pair of media files to compute a similarity score. The similarity score is compared against an established threshold. If the similarity score exceeds the established threshold, it is determined that the two media files are substantial duplicate of one another.

An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for enhanced block-level deduplication. A computer program product stores one or more express block signatures in an express directory that meet a reference count requirement. The computer program product also stores one or more primary block signatures and one or more reference counts for the primary block signatures in a primary directory. Each primary block signature has a corresponding reference count. The computer program product determines whether a block signature for a data block matches one of the one or more express block signatures stored in the express directory.

A music information retrieval system of the present invention can retrieve unknown songs including singing voices having similar voice timbres. Voice timbre features of the songs and identifiers for the respective songs are stored in voice timbre feature storage section 2. When one of the songs is selected, similarity calculation section 3 calculates voice timbre similarities between the selected song and the respective remaining songs, based on voice timbre features of the selected song and the other songs. Similar song retrieval and display section 5 displays on a display 10 a plurality of identifiers for songs which are similar to the selected song in voice timbre. Song data reproduction section 6 reproduces song data corresponding to one or more identifiers selected from among the plurality of identifiers displayed on the display 10.

Methods and systems for text disambiguation and context designation in incremental search are provided. A method for selecting items in response to ambiguous keystrokes entered by a user and unambiguous metadata associated with a previously selected search result includes receiving ambiguous keystrokes, selecting and presenting a first subset of items and metadata associated with the items presented based on the ambiguous keystrokes. The method also includes receiving a selection of one of the items from the user, and, in response to a locking operation received from the user, locking in fixed relation at least one of the ambiguous keystrokes to at least one metadata term associated with the selected item. The method further includes, subsequent to receiving the locking operation, selecting and presenting a second subset of items based at least in part on the locked metadata term, and presenting the second subset of items.

An object of the present invention is to provide a document processing device and document processing method that can provide a search result satisfactory to a user with respect to WWW documents in which a number of links among WWW documents is low and a number of accesses by users is low. An access pattern collection unit 101 generates an access user vector u_j of one WWW document D_j and an access user vector u_je of another document D_je. A user similarity computing unit 105 computes a document similarity sim (u_j, u_je) which indicates a user similarity between the WWW document D_j and WWW document D_je. A keyword vector smoothing unit 106 acquires a smoothed keyword weight vector w′_j by correcting a keyword weight vector w_j in one document, using the computed document similarity sim (u_j, u_je). An rearranging unit 110 calculates an evaluation value B_SCORE for input information for searching, based on the smoothed keyword weight vector w′_j.

An improved system and method for matching objects belonging to hierarchies is provided and an optimal matching between two feature spaces organized as taxonomies may be learned. The matching may be performed through a multi-level exploration of the hierarchical feature spaces by using multi-armed bandits where the arms of the bandit may be dependent due to the structure induced by the taxonomies. Upon the arrival of an object assigned to the first taxonomy, multi-armed bandits may be run at multiple levels of the taxonomies to select an object assigned to the second taxonomy. Then shrinkage estimation may be performed in a Bayesian framework to exploit dependencies among the arms by estimating payoff probabilities from a beta-binomial model to update payoff probabilities for matching objects from the taxonomies.

Multiple sets of character data having termination characters are compared using parallel processing and without causing unwarranted exceptions. Each set of character data to be compared is loaded within one or more vector registers. In particular, in one embodiment, for each set of character data to be compared, an instruction is used that loads data in a vector register to a specified boundary, and provides a way to determine the number of characters loaded. Further, an instruction is used to find the index of the first delimiter character, i.e., the first zero or null character, or the index of unequal characters. Using these instructions, a location of the end of one of the sets of data or a location of an unequal character is efficiently provided.

Methods and arrangements of automatically updating virtual worlds are discussed. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic to receive from a user a specification of a data store of the user external to a virtual world. The method may involve automatically gathering data from the data store of the user, responsive to the receiving; generating a representation of the data, and transmitting the representation of the data. In many embodiments, the representation may contain a designation of a data store of the virtual world to be updated by the representation. In some embodiments, a display of the user in the virtual world may be based upon the data store of the virtual world.

A method that includes an example embodiment for evaluating one or more tests comprising the steps of (A) generating one or more queries relating to an aspect of the one or more tests, (B) comparing results received from the one or more queries to scoring data stored in one or more databases, (C) generating a score in response to the comparison, and (D) determining if a first of the tests should be run based on whether the score is above a predetermined value.

Within area where of four heads installed on a wafer stage, heads included in the first head group and the second head group to which three heads each belong that include one head different from each other face the corresponding areas on a scale plate, the wafer stage is driven based on positional information which is obtained using the first head group, as well as obtain the displacement (displacement of position, rotation, and scaling) between the first and second reference coordinate systems corresponding to the first and second head groups using the positional information obtained using the first and second head groups. By using the results and correcting measurement results obtained using the second head group, the displacement between the first and second reference coordinate systems is calibrated, which allows the measurement errors that come with the displacement between areas on scale plates where each of the four heads face.

The invention relates to a fighting detecting method based on stereoscopic vision motion field analysis. The method is as follows: an object human body is extracted according to the motion vector field and the depth map of the object; by taking the motion vector field as the main characteristic, the entropy of a cumulative histogram within a certain time is calculated out based on a block statistics cumulative motion vector direction histogram; a motion intensity degree evaluation strategy is planned according to the depth information of the object by calculating the average motion vector intensity in the block; and finally, the disorder and intensity degree evaluation scores are combined to obtain the probability of fighting behavior, through the time and space accumulation, when the probability of the fighting behavior is continuously greater than a threshold value, then the fighting behavior is confirmed. The fighting detecting method can filter the motion vector calculation errors caused by scene illumination variation and object blocking under the monitoring environment. The intensity degree judgment is more reasonable according to the scene depth information, and the robust detection result is obtained after the analysis of the time and space distribution by establishing the fighting probability model.