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The invention is a method, system and computer program for automatically discovering concepts from a corpus of documents and automatically generating a labeled concept hierarchy. The method involves extraction of signatures from the corpus of documents. The similarity between signatures is computed using a statistical measure. The frequency distribution of signatures is refined to alleviate any inaccuracy in the similarity measure. The signatures are also disambiguated to address the polysemy problem. The similarity measure is recomputed based on the refined frequency distribution and disambiguated signatures. The recomputed similarity measure reflects actual similarity between signatures. The recomputed similarity measure is then used for clustering related signatures. The signatures are clustered to generate concepts and concepts are arranged in a concept hierarchy. The concept hierarchy automatically generates query for a particular concept and retrieves relevant documents associated with the concept.

A mobile terminal includes a receiver for receiving text messages over an RF channel. The mobile terminal also includes a text-to-speech (TTS) converter that converts the transmitted text messages to an audible form. In this way, the present invention takes advantage of the reduced bandwidth required for transmitting text messages to provide an audible message to subscribers that use the mobile terminals. In an exemplary embodiment, the mobile terminal operates in a GSM communication system and receives text messages that are defined under short message service (SMS) protocol. Also, the TTS converter in the mobile terminal can be used to output the text menus of the mobile terminal's interface in speech (voice) format.

An expanded television program delivery system is disclosed which allows viewers to select television and audio program choices from a series of menus. Menus are partially stored in a set-top terminal in each subscriber's home. The menus may be reprogrammed by signals sent from a headend or from a central operations center. The system allows for a great number of television signals to be transmitted by using digital compression techniques. An operations center with computer-assisted packaging allows various television, audio and data signals to be combined, compressed and multiplexed into signals transmitted on various channels to a cable headend which distributes the signals to individual set-top terminals. Various types of menus may be used and the menus may incorporate information included within the video / data signal received by the set-top terminal. A remote control unit with icon buttons allows a subscriber to select programs based upon a series of major menus, submenus, and during program menus. Various billing and statistics gathering methods for the program delivery system are also disclosed.

The invention is a method, system and computer program for automatically discovering concepts from a corpus of documents and automatically generating a labeled concept hierarchy. The method involves extraction of signatures from the corpus of documents. The similarity between signatures is computed using a statistical measure. The frequency distribution of signatures is refined to alleviate any inaccuracy in the similarity measure. The signatures are also disambiguated to address the polysemy problem. The similarity measure is recomputed based on the refined frequency distribution and disambiguated signatures. The recomputed similarity measure reflects actual similarity between signatures. The recomputed similarity measure is then used for clustering related signatures. The signatures are clustered to generate concepts and concepts are arranged in a concept hierarchy. The concept hierarchy automatically generates query for a particular concept and retrieves relevant documents associated with the concept.

A system is disclosed that provides computer-aided processing of a rebate on a product. The system includes a rebate processing center communicating over a network with a manufacturer, a distributor, and a consumer. The rebate processing center maintains a promotion table and a transaction table in order to facilitate processing of product rebates and to offer the consumer a choice of disbursement options.

A system is disclosed that provides computer-aided processing of a rebate on a product. The system includes a rebate processing center communicating over a network with a manufacturer, a distributor, and a consumer. The rebate processing center maintains a promotion table and a transaction table in order to facilitate processing of product rebates and to offer the consumer a choice of disbursement options.

Alternative computer based systems and methods are provided for online, server and / or cloud based internet access to online advertisements, auctions, products, services, service providers, media and entertainment, sports, personal & financial network, real estate, service providers and business owners e.g. for business services, healthcare services, specialty financial services, consumer products, specialty retail and media and entertainment, lenders, mortgage companies, social networking, online dating, gaming, retail stores, virtual communities and virtual goods, microloans or microcredit, humanitarian aid and support other worldly causes through charitable donations or sustainable gifts to those in need (collectively “Products & Services” as any product or service or subgroup thereof), in combination with geospatial website for a multidimensional representation of information and / or scalable versions of web content that comprises social networking and / or socially conscious information and / or activities, and social networking, on a three dimensional geospatial platform using multi-dimensional and scalable geospatial mapping associated with entities providing and / or members of the service and / or social networking.

System, method, and computer program product are provided for a user to send and receive P2P payments using a mobile device. Through the use of the mobile device, a user may access his / her accounts at a financial institution and direct payments to a third-party using an alias. The user may ensure a secure payment to a third-party through the network associated with a financial institution. Payments may be directed to individuals the user may input into the system by providing the individual's alias. An alias may be a unique identifier of an individual and tied to a financial account of that individual. The sender of the P2P payments may input the recipient's alias and transfer funds via the P2P payment system without having to input the recipient's account information. This invention allows a user to receive and provide payments for transactions utilizing the convenience of a mobile device.

A telephone interface and voice recognition driven Internet browser system and method for accessing / browsing the Internet on a cable or satellite television includes a phone for receiving a voice signal from a user. The voice signal controls a telephone interface which displays Internet contents on the television via a cable or satellite television channel. The system also includes a voice recognizer, preferably operated on a supercomputer, for recognizing / interpreting / analyzing the voice signal and generating command signals to access / browse the Internet. The voice recognizer is capable of recognizing / interpreting / analyzing voice signals transmitted from a plurality of users in real time. The system further includes a stack of computers and an Internet browser. Each of the stack of computers is capable of accessing / browsing the Internet and retrieving / organizing requested Internet contents via the Internet browser. The requested Internet contents are sent to the user via a cable or satellite television channel.

A method for editing three dimensional images comprises the steps of obtaining three dimensional data representative of an image (2), segmenting the data to select data to be processed (3), generating a three dimensional model of the selected data (6) and interpolating the three dimensional model of the selected data to generate a continuous three dimensional model (8). One or more tri-planar contours are then extracted from the continuous three dimensional model (10) and the continuous three dimensional model may then be edited. A three dimensional surface model is then generated from the one or more extracted tri-planar contours. The three dimensional surface model may also be edited (12).

The invention discloses an objective tracking system and an objective tracking method in a camera-distributed map. The object tracking system comprises a monitoring operation client and a video calculating server. The monitoring operation client inputs an image of a suspected object and sets a to-be-searched range through the camera-distributed map. The video calculating server performs processing on a video and an image which are obtained through sampling. The object tracking method comprises the steps of extracting color characteristic of the image of the suspected target, detecting and tracking the target in a video scene, recording motion information of the target, and then transmitting a corresponding calculating result to the monitoring operation client; on the map in which camera nodes are marked by the monitoring operation client, acquiring the path track of the suspected object on the map according to the camera nodes where the suspected object appears, and simultaneously collecting information such as advancing speed and state of the target, thereby facilitating analysis by safety monitoring personnel. The objective tracking system and the objective tracking method have advantages of greatly reducing work difficulty in observing a screen for searching, making personnel concentrate on effective video segments, and realizing relatively high application value at a scientific police improvement aspect.

Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for transmitting, via an intermediary system, a payment request from a payment requestor to a customer. In some embodiments, a method includes: (a) receiving, at an intermediary computing device, the payment request from a source system, wherein the payment request includes a payment amount and an alias associated with a payment recipient, (b) in response to receiving the payment request, determining, via a computing device processor, whether the payment recipient is a registered payment recipient based on the alias, and (c) in response to determining the payment recipient is a registered payment recipient based on the alias, communicating, via the intermediary computing device, the payment request to the payment recipient based on the payment recipient being the registered payment recipient.

A system and method for managing internal controls within a heterogeneous enterprise environment is provided. The invention may include an open and extensible standards-based architecture that may be used to create, monitor, test, or otherwise manage internal controls by capturing, organizing, translating, and exchanging controls data, tests, and test results across organizational boundaries and between an enterprise and its external auditors. By providing an automated software solution for managing internal controls, business, finance, information technology, audit, or other professionals may automate on-demand testing, or perform closed-loop remediation and continuous exception-based monitoring of controls within and across enterprise systems.

A computer-implemented method for debugging the power aspect of an IC design by integrating the power specification expressed in certain power specification format and its corresponding circuit design within a power schematic diagram called power map. Power map is created by using a power data base generated by regrouping the original circuit design hierarchy to new hierarchies defined by the power specification. Power map contains power cell symbols (such as isolation cells, level shifters, power switches) and signal nets, and can show the relationship between power domains. Power map can also display mismatches or errors between the power specification and the circuit design for those signals connecting the power domains. Furthermore, power map can be used in conjunction with simulation result.

System, method, and computer program product are provided for a user to send and receive P2P payments using the Internet. Through the use of a network, a user may access accounts the user has at a financial institution and direct payments to other individuals or entities using the other individuals or entities alias. In this way, the user may ensure a secure payment to a third-party through the network associated with a financial institution. The payments may be directed to individuals the user may input into the system by providing the user's alias. A user's alias may be a unique identifier of the user and tied to a financial account of that user. In this way, the sender of the P2P payments may input the recipient's alias and transfer funds via the P2P payment system without having to input the recipient's account information.

Power information associated with an IC design is displayed graphically and hierarchically using a power map, thereby providing an intuitive way for describing the power distribution among various power domains of the IC and parent-child relationships within the power domains. Each power domain is associated with a power control for controlling the power domain. The status of the power control for each power domain is displayed on the power map. The power map may include a token to set and display current operating mode of the IC design to enable the IC design to be debugged under different operating modes.

System, method, and computer program product are provided for a user to send and receive P2P payments using a mobile device. Through the use of the mobile device, a user may access accounts the user has at a financial institution and direct payments to other individuals or entities using the other individuals or entities alias. Electronic document(s) may be communicated in conjunction with a payment and / or request for payment between financial institutions. For example, a sending financial institution may send a payment having a document or pointer to a document that provides an explanation of a payment or disbursement. The sender may send funds to a recipient along with a pointer or may simply send a pointer and upload a document that is stored at a location identified by the pointer. The document may be an invoice remittance, explanation of payment / reimbursement and / or explanation of benefits.

The invention provides a motor commutator detection device. The device comprises a revolving platform part, a double-headed electrode part, a transverse moving mechanism, an up and down moving mechanism and a radial measurement part. When the device measures, the motor commutator is fixed on the revolving platform part, and rotates with the revolving platform; the double headed electrode part is fixed on an extending front arm of the transverse mechanism, and is used for applying high voltage to certain two metal plates of the commutator to perform a high voltage test; and a test head of the radial measurement part is closely attached to the commutator, and is used for measuring radial circular run-out of the commutator. The commutator detection device has a simple measurement process and high measurement accuracy, and can measure a plurality of technical parameters of commutators with different sizes (the diameter is less than or equal to 400mm).

A network station server performance test system based on TPC-w primary standard applies a customer set / server system structure to utilize multiple customer sets to simulate multiple remote browsing customers and strictly obey the statistic property for user access to access it in stipulated test time and test its performance expressed under three test modes (WIPS, WIPSb an WIPSo), namely, the mean number for web-page operation in each second and mean response time of the server to users.

A method for realizing short message all-record chatting room to a mobile communication terminal device includes the following steps: a, organizing the short message to form a data file to be flash-stored and setting up multiple index files; b. increasing data and index files of good friends; and c. setting up a chat-room module and selecting the needed short message to be displayed by the moduleaccording to the index file and arranging sequence of the display and adding information of the sender. Advantages are providing list of good friends for user selection, not necessary to decide object of the chat-room after each switch-on one can chat with these friends at the same time, and it's very simple and direct to find all short messages chatting with a friend, forming a very clear chat-room style.

Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for transmitting, via an intermediary system, a payment request from a payment requestor to a customer. In some embodiments, a method includes: (a) receiving, at an intermediary computing device, the payment request from a source system, wherein the payment request includes a payment amount and an alias associated with a payment recipient, (b) in response to receiving the payment request, determining, via a computing device processor, whether the payment recipient is a registered payment recipient based on the alias, and (c) in response to determining the payment recipient is a registered payment recipient based on the alias, communicating, via the intermediary computing device, the payment request to the payment recipient based on the payment recipient being the registered payment recipient.

A sensor for structural health monitoring includes a tri-axis microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) accelerometer and a tri-axis MEMS gyrometer. Sampled 3D accelerometer data and 3D gyrometer data are processed using integration and sensor fusion to produce an estimate of 3D rotation of the sensor device and an estimate of 3D displacement of the sensor device expressed in a global reference frame. The sensor measurements may also be corrected using structural model information. Optionally, the sensor may include a tri-axis MEMS magnetometer and use the 3D magnetometer data to increase the accuracy of the estimates. The sensor transmits the estimates wirelessly to a central unit for assessing structural damage.

A method for backup and restoring important data includes such steps as choosing the database lists to be backup and restored, storing the database list sequence in the form of configuration file on hard disk, searching the data in relative database list from relational database to generate backup data, storing in the mode of text file on hard disk, and restoring the data by writing the relative data from text file to database. Its advantage is high speed.

A computer-implemented satellite network planning system that enables a user to plan a satellite communications network, using an industry-standard spreadsheet as a platform. The spreadsheet contains embedded equations used to produce a network design that describes components of a physical layer of the planned network (i.e. hub terminals, satellite, and remote terminals), and provides bandwidth allocations and traffic engineering features of the planned network. The spreadsheet includes a user-friendly interface that prompts the user to enter predetermined network parameters but does not display the embedded equations. The result is a user-friendly interface that is familiar enough for most LAN users, designers, and product managers to use and understand the results provided by the network planning system. The use of the industry-standard spreadsheet including the user-friendly interface reduces design time, allows non-technical managers to use the tool, and saves money for the user.

A method of generating an application programming interface (API) for an electronic circuit. A graphical user interface is displayed through which a user can initiate generation of the API. A component is selected from a plurality of components for placement in said electronic circuit. The component represents an implementable function in the electronic circuit. The component is configured using the graphical user interface. The data pertaining to the selected component and the configuration of the component is stored. The graphical user interface is utilized to access the stored data. The interface is initiated to invoke a processing of said data which causes a generation of the application programming interface. The application interface is for controlling the function of the component in said electronic circuit.

Systems and methods are provided for internet access to online advertisements, auctions, products, services, service providers, media and entertainment, sports, personal & financial network, real estate, service providers and business owners e.g. for business services, healthcare services, specialty financial services, consumer products, specialty retail and media and entertainment, lenders, mortgage companies, social networking, online dating, gaming, retail stores, and virtual communities and virtual goods (collectively “Products & Services” as any product or service or subgroup thereof), in combination with geospatial website for a multidimensional representation of information and / or scalable versions of web content that comprises social networking and / or socially conscious information and / or activities, and social networking, on a three dimensional geospatial platform using multi-dimensional and scalable geospatial mapping associated with entities providing and / or members of the service and / or social networking.

A touch button assembly and touch buttons are disclosed. The touch button assembly allows a gaming machine to collect player input through one or more touch buttons. The assembly may comprise a support, touch button hardware, and a cover. The support may be attached to the housing of a gaming machine. The button hardware is supported by the support and comprises one or more touch or proximity sensitive sensors. The cover is a substantially contiguous, planar member located over the button hardware and support. The assembly is easy to clean and maintain, and is aesthetically pleasing.

The invention relates to a downhole tool high-temperature and high-pressure simulation test device and a petroleum downhole tool simulation test method using the device. The device comprises a low-pressure driving system, a high-pressure petroleum system, a high-temperature circulation system, a temperature and pressure measurement system, a simulation wellhole and a computer control acquisition and video monitoring system. In the test, a medium simulating downhole fluid is injected into the simulation wellhole by the high-pressure petroleum system, and downhole working pressure of the simulation wellhole is simulated and controlled. In the whole process, pressure and temperature data of the device are acquired in real time via the pressure and temperature measurement system. Functions of controlling, a human-computer interface, data processing and communication are integrated in the computer control acquisition system. The video monitoring system is responsible for monitoring the operation situation of the whole device. The working state of petroleum drilling and well completion tools under the high-temperature and high-pressure situations can be simulated so that powerful reference basis is provided for onsite application.

A computer-implemented method for debugging the power aspect of an IC design by integrating the power specification expressed in certain power specification format and its corresponding circuit design within a power schematic diagram called power map. Power map is created by using a power data base generated by regrouping the original circuit design hierarchy to new hierarchies defined by the power specification. Power map contains power cell symbols (such as isolation cells, level shifters, power switches) and signal nets, and can show the relationship between power domains. Power map can also display mismatches or errors between the power specification and the circuit design for those signals connecting the power domains. Furthermore, power map can be used in conjunction with simulation result.