610 results about "Aggregate data" patented technology

An improved human user computer interface system, wherein a user characteristic or set of characteristics, such as demographic profile or societal “role”, is employed to define a scope or domain of operation. The operation itself may be a database search, to interactively define a taxonomic context for the operation, a business negotiation, or other activity. After retrieval of results, a scoring or ranking may be applied according to user define criteria, which are, for example, commensurate with the relevance to the context, but may be, for example, by date, source, or other secondary criteria. A user profile is preferably stored in a computer accessible form, and may be used to provide a history of use, persistent customization, collaborative filtering and demographic information for the user. Advantageously, user privacy and anonymity is maintained by physical and algorithmic controls over access to the personal profiles, and releasing only aggregate data without personally identifying information or of small groups.

An improved human user computer interface system, wherein a user characteristic or set of characteristics, such as demographic profile or societal “role”, is employed to define a scope or domain of operation. The operation itself may be a database search, to interactively define a taxonomic context for the operation, a business negotiation, or other activity. After retrieval of results, a scoring or ranking may be applied according to user define criteria, which are, for example, commensurate with the relevance to the context, but may be, for example, by date, source, or other secondary criteria. A user profile is preferably stored in a computer accessible form, and may be used to provide a history of use, persistent customization, collaborative filtering and demographic information for the user. Advantageously, user privacy and anonymity is maintained by physical and algorithmic controls over access to the personal profiles, and releasing only aggregate data without personally identifying information or of small groups.

Various gaming-related services are provided, including but not limited to security services, harm minimization services, player identification services, bonusing / progressive services, accounting services, financial / banking services, network tunneling services, cheating detection services, etc. Such services may be provided, at least in part, by software agents that can be configured for different platforms and / or operating systems. Some software-based player tracking methods of the invention can aggregate data from multiple devices used by a player for gaming.

An improved human user computer interface system, wherein a user characteristic or set of characteristics, such as demographic profile or societal “role”, is employed to define a scope or domain of operation. The operation itself may be a database search, to interactively define a taxonomic context for the operation, a business negotiation, or other activity. After retrieval of results, a scoring or ranking may be applied according to user define criteria, which are, for example, commensurate with the relevance to the context, but may be, for example, by date, source, or other secondary criteria. A user profile is preferably stored in a computer accessible form, and may be used to provide a history of use, persistent customization, collaborative filtering and demographic information for the user. Advantageously, user privacy and anonymity is maintained by physical and algorithmic controls over access to the personal profiles, and releasing only aggregate data without personally identifying information or of small groups.

Systems and methods that provide search and / or query-relevant information and / or links thereto to a user as and / or with a search and / or query result. This information can be determined from summary information that can be included within a tag, header, body, meta-data, etc. of the data. A user can employ a local and / or web search utility along with a search word, phrase, sentence, etc. to search over a data repository to locate and retrieve data that satisfies the search criteria. The summary information of this data is obtained and matched against the results and / or search criteria to determine whether the data is relevant to the search and / or query. The summary information is utilized to determine a snippet that summarizes the data, based on the search and / or query, search criteria, etc. to provide the user with search and / or query-relevant results and / or one or more links thereto.

Call center supervisors require information about the performance of call center agents in order to manage them appropriately. Previously this information has been provided in two general forms. Current information in the form of statistics such as queue lengths, numbers of active agents, etc. and historical information in the form of aggregate data such as the average waiting time over a 15 minute period. At present supervisors have no means of accessing information about the state of a call center at a particular past time instant. The present invention provides this information by using a pegging engine to extrapolate from statistics about behaviour of the call center at a past time instant to values of those statistics at a required past time instant. Information about events occurring in the call center is used in order to carry out this extrapolation.

A system, method, and software are provided for measuring co-channel interference in a wireless network with particular application for management of resource allocation for Non Line of Sight (NLOS) wireless backhaul in MicroCell and PicoCell networks. Given the difficulty of predicting the mutual interference between multiple links, DownLink and UpLink co-channel interference are characterized between each Hub and each Remote Backhaul Module Unit periodically during active service. Beneficially, the co-channel interference metrics are used as the basis for intelligently and adaptively managing network resources to substantially reduce interference and increase the aggregate data capacity of the network e.g. by grouping of interfering and / or non-interfering links, and managing resource block allocations accordingly, i.e. assigning common resource blocks preferentially to weakly interfering links or groups of links and allocating different resource blocks or orthogonal channels to strongly interfering links or groups of links.

A method and apparatus for defining and processing aggregate data is disclosed. Using database abstraction techniques, a set of logical fields may be used to compose queries of a set of underlying physical data sources. In one embodiment, a logical field may represent an aggregate data value calculated from the elements appearing in a column of a relational table in an underlying physical data source. The elements may be divided into to subsets to calculate multiple aggregate values. An abstract derived entity is a data object present in a database abstraction model that may be accessed as though it were a relational table contained in an underlying physical data source. In one embodiment, columns of the table defined by the abstract derived entity may be populated with aggregate data values joined to other data as specified by a composition rule included in the definition of the abstract derived entity.

Various gaming-related services are provided, including but not limited to security services, harm minimization services, player identification services, bonusing / progressive services, accounting services, financial / banking services, network tunneling services, cheating detection services, etc. Such services may be provided, at least in part, by software agents that can be configured for different platforms and / or operating systems. Some software-based player tracking methods of the invention can aggregate data from multiple devices used by a player for gaming.

Various gaming-related services are provided, including but not limited to security services, harm minimization services, player identification services, bonusing / progressive services, accounting services, financial / banking services, network tunneling services, cheating detection services, etc. Such services may be provided, at least in part, by software agents that can be configured for different platforms and / or operating systems. Some software-based player tracking methods of the invention can aggregate data from multiple devices used by a player for gaming.

An admission controller and its method of operation for controlling admission of data flows into an aggregate data flow are described. Admitted data flows are aggregated into an aggregate data flow for transmission by a router, for example, over a data network. The aggregate data flow typically follows a pre-established path through the network; for example a multi-protocol label switched (MPLS) path. The path has minimum and maximum bandwidth limits assigned to it. The admission controller controls admission of new data flows into the aggregate data flow by granting or denying new session requests for the new data flows. Congestion notifications received from the network and bandwidth limits of the path are considered in determining whether to grant or deny a new session request. In this way, the admission controller provides elastic sharing of network bandwidth among data flows without exacerbating network congestion and while remaining within the path's bandwidth limits. The data flows may include transaction oriented traffic.

The present invention is directed to a system and method for displaying sales information to a sales person via a portal. Data from a plurality of data sources is aggregated. Sales credit information attributable to the sales person for his clients, and for products associated with one or more of such clients, is identified. Based on (i) user profile information for the sales person, (ii) at least some of the aggregated data, and (iii) at least some of the identified sales credit information, sales strategy information is generated for the sales person. Content of the portal is generated based on the sales strategy information.

The invention provides a method and system for automatically aggregating data items and storage media and placing each in a container, based on a storage preferences. The items in the container are generally of a similar type or classification. The container may be tracked by the system instead of individually tracking and monitoring each of the data items and storage media contained in the container. The location of the container is tracked within the storage system and at offsite storage, for administrative, reporting or other uses.

A system and method of providing multiple participants with a centrally accessible content portal for geographic point of interest (POI) data, for subsequent use in creating map-based or spatial applications. Different entities can dynamically upload, update, retrieve, and use digital map and POI data. Additional features include the ability to handle the large amounts of POI data needed by multiple Application Developers, including data that is dynamic, or frequently changing; the ability to update POI attribute information and deliver it to the Application Developers; the ability to associate multiple points of entry (POE) with a POI, and to aggregate data from multiple Content Providers; and the use of a common geocoding engine and common digital map reference across all Content Providers, which ensures the consistency of the geocoding throughout all the POI data.

Improved techniques are disclosed for processing data stream queries wherein a data stream is obtained, a set of aggregate queries to be executed on the data stream is obtained, and a query plan for executing the set of aggregate queries on the data stream is generated. In a first method, the generated query plan includes generating at least one intermediate aggregate query, wherein the intermediate aggregate query combines a subset of aggregate queries from the set of aggregate queries so as to pre-aggregate data from the data stream prior to execution of the subset of aggregate queries such that the generated query plan is optimized for computational expense based on a given cost model. In a second method, the generated query plan includes identifying similar filters in two or more aggregate queries of the set of aggregate queries and combining the similar filters into a single filter such that the single filter is usable to pre-filter data input to the two or more aggregate queries.

Techniques are described for automatically analyzing contingencies in information predicting taxi demand. This is to generate representative information regarding current or future taxi demand, and for using such generated representative taxi demand. Contingent demand information may be generated for a variety of types of useful measures of taxi demand rates, such as for projecting expected likelihood of finding a passenger at each of several road locations. Generated representative contingent taxi demand information may be used in various ways to assist taxi and livery service drivers plan optimal routes and schedules. The historical and / or recent contingent demand data may be used to generate the representative traffic flow information. This may include data readings from mobile data sensors in the one or more vehicles, data sensors in or near the roads, or aggregate data sources collected from one or more sensors or through publicly available data sets.

A distributed OLAP-based method and system for generating association rules. An architecture is provided for processing transaction data to generate summary information, customer profiles, and association rules. The distributed system includes at least two layers of data warehouse / OLAP stations: local data-warehouse OLAP stations (LDOSs) and a global data-warehouse OLAP station (GDOS). The LDOSs perform local data mining and summarization, and the GDOS merges, mines, and summarizes the input data received from LDOSs. The summarized data is then utilized by the GDOS to generate association rules that can be provided to the LDOSs for business planning.

A computer readable medium is configured to receive a query, to map the query to an unstructured data source, to dispatch a request based on the query to the unstructured data source, to aggregate data returned by the unstructured data source in a structured data store, and to issue the query against the structured data store.

A system for matching potential buyers and sellers of complex offers, comprising a plurality of data collection devices, each connected to at least one packet-based data network and adapted to collect data pertaining to a plurality of potential buyers or sellers of complex offers, a summary data generator software module operating on a server computer and connected via a data network to a database, an attribute index generator software module operating on a server computer and connected via a data network to the database, a categorization software module operating on a server computer and connected via a data network to the database, a buyer analysis engine software module operating on a server computer and connected via a data network to the database, an analysis engine software module operating on a server computer and connected via a data network to the database, and a matching engine software module operating on a server computer and connected via a data network to the database. Data collected by the data collection devices is stored in the database and is used by the summary data generator software module to generate a plurality of summary data elements pertaining to a potential buyer of a complex offer, and the plurality of summary data elements is stored in the database and used by the attribute index generator software module to generate attribute indices each based on at least two summary data elements using a weighted relational algorithm, and at least some data collected by the data collection devices is used by the buyer analysis engine software module to determine at least a probability that a buyer will buy a specific complex offer, and the marching engine software module uses an optimization algorithm to determine an optimal matching of potential buyers and complex offers based at least in part on a plurality of attribute indices and a likelihood to buy for each potential pair of offers and potential buyers.

A business intelligence and data management system is disclosed comprising a database for storing multi-dimensional business data from multiple online educational institutions; a usage tracking engine for recording within a user profile the time and duration of access to disparate system features. A reporting engine provides periodic and custom reports and a benchmarking engine facilitates comparison of internal institution data with aggregate data from multiple institutions, to compare student retention, course completion, student satisfaction, and student performance. The reporting engine provides reports on course retention rates, course evaluations, faculty evaluations, enrollment, student performance, and course run rates. The usage tracking engine, benchmarking engine, and reporting engine facilitate determination of best practices to improve student enrollment, student retention, course completion, student performance, and student satisfaction. A custom query engine facilitates freeform searches of business data and a data mining engine provides access to detailed data supporting the periodic reports.

The present specification discloses systems and methods for patient monitoring using a multitude of display regions, at least two of which have the capability to simultaneously display real time patient waveforms and vital statistics as well as provide display for local and remote software applications. In one example, a primary display shows real time patient waveforms and vital statistics while a customizable secondary display shows trends, cumulative data, laboratory and radiology reports, protocols, and similar clinical information. Additionally, the secondary display can launch local and remote applications such as entertainment software, Internet and email programs, patient education software, and video conferencing applications. The dual display allows caregivers to simultaneously view real time patient vitals and aggregated data or therapy protocols, thereby increasing hospital personnel efficiency and improving treatment, while not compromising the display of critical alarms or other data.

Interactive and dynamic exploring of filter criteria for large amounts of numerical data having multiple dimensions is described. Exploration occurs without excessive amounts of computation or querying of a database based on a data set summary that may be obtained from a server in a search system and applied by a client device. A data set is summarized so as to capture relationships between distributions of items in the data set along multiple dimensions. To explore filter criteria, a user may interactively adjust a range of values that act as a filter criteria along a dimension and determine an effect on a distribution of items along another dimension. The client device may apply the data summary in reverse to determine, based on user input specifying aspects of a distribution along one dimension, filter criteria for another dimension that would result in the specified distribution.

A health data management system is provided. Specifically, the invention includes a system and method for collecting screening, diagnostic, and demographic data from clients, processing and analyzing health data from health risk assessments and screening tests, generating custom reports, maintaining heath data, pre-populating data into user accessible personal health records and aggregate data for scientific research and clinical studies. The invention can be implemented in numerous ways, including as a system, a device, a method, or a computer readable medium.

A network device includes at least one first network port, at least one second network port, a MUX unit and a switching unit. The MUX unit is connected to the at least one first network port. The MUX unit includes a trunk circuit and an output. The trunk circuit is configured to aggregate data packets received at the at least one first port into a trunk group and to output trunked data packets to the output. The switching unit is connected to the output of the MUX unit and to the at least one second network port. The switching unit is configured to switch the trunked data packets to the at least one second network port.

The present invention relates to a transmission device implementing a flow control mechanism for aggregate trunks. The transmission device can be implemented as a router that includes an input for receiving aggregate traffic streams, an output for releasing the aggregate traffic streams to a destination point and a control unit capable to regulate the rate of release of packets from the output. Specifically, the flow control operation effected by the control unit is dependent on receipt of acknowledgement messages issued at the destination point, each acknowledgement message confirming the receipt of one or more particular packets at the destination point. The control unit will continuously increase the packet sending rate until a packet is lost in the network between the transmission device and the destination point. On detection of packet loss, based on the lack of one or more corresponding acknowledgement messages from the destination point, the control unit will reduce the packet sending rate.

Systems and methods for providing aggregated transaction level data for a particular user to multiple information requesters are disclosed. Subkeys are assigned to user inquiries from multiple information requesters and a super key is assigned to those subkeys to link them to one or more user identifiers such as a username or Social Security number. Account level data is provided based on the super key and the user identifiers. Duplicate requests for aggregated transaction level data contained in the user inquiries can be deleted. User inquiry response files containing transaction level aggregate data can be sent to the information requesters based on the assigned subkeys.

The invention provides a method and system for automatically aggregating data items and storage media and placing each in a container, based on a storage preferences. The items in the container are generally of a similar type or classification. The container may be tracked by the system instead of individually tracking and monitoring each of the data items and storage media contained in the container. The location of the container is tracked within the storage system and at offsite storage, for administrative, reporting or other uses.

A method uses body images and computer hardware and software to collect and analyze clinical data in patients experiencing pain. Pain location information is obtained by the drawing of an outline of the pain on a paper copy or electronic display of the body image. Composite images are generated representing aggregate data for specified patient groups. The coordinates of common anatomic landmarks on differently designed body images are mapped to each other, permitting integrated analysis of pain data, e.g., pain shape, centroid, meta centroid, from multiple body image designs and display of all pain data on a single body image design. Differences and similarities between groups of patients are displayed visually and numerically, and are used to assign the probability of a given patient belonging to a particular diagnostic group or category of disease severity.

A system and method of transmitting data packets. The system determines one or more system conditions of the server computer and modifies a process of transmitting the data packets from a server computer to a client computer, the modifying based at least in part upon the determined system conditions. The determined system conditions can include: (i) the number of forced processings of network events, (ii) the number of clients computers that are behind their scheduled delivery time, (iii) the number of client computers that have requested streamable data objects, (iv) the total byte count of the streamable data objects that have been requested by the client computers, (v) the number of the streamable data objects that have been requested by the client computers, (vi) the number of streamable data objects that are maintained by the streaming media server, and / or (vii) the actual transmission rate of the streaming media server with respect to the client computers. In one embodiment of the invention, the server computer aggregates data packets prior to transmitting the data packets to a client computer when the load of the server computer becomes high or extremely high.

There is provided a device and a method for collecting information from a customer concerning a point of interest. The device comprises a memory including a unique location identifier associated with a point of interest and a processor, the processor configured to store in the memory a received unique customer identifier and received information concerning the point of interest from a customer. The device can transmit this stored data to a center via a network, where the center can aggregate the data. There is also provided a system for distributed collection of information from customers concerning points of interest, utilizing a plurality of devices and a center for aggregating data. The center can apply data analysis and mining to the aggregate data, allowing rapid and real-time reaction to feedback from customers, efficient turnaround for resolving customer service issues, and enabling efficient research of customer preferences and trends.