76 results about "Class hierarchy" patented technology

Rights management information is used at least in part in a matching, narrowcasting, classifying and/or selecting process. A matching and classification utility system comprising a kind of Commerce Utility System is used to perform the matching, narrowcasting, classifying and/or selecting. The matching and classification utility system may match, narrowcast, classify and/or select people and/or things, non-limiting examples of which include software objects. The Matching and Classification Utility system may use any pre-existing classification schemes, including at least some rights management information and/or other qualitative and/or parameter data indicating and/or defining classes, classification systems, class hierarchies, category schemes, class assignments, category assignments, and/or class membership. The Matching and Classification Utility may also use at least some rights management information together with any artificial intelligence, expert system, statistical, computational, manual, or any other means to define new classes, class hierarchies, classification systems, category schemes, and/or assign persons, things, and/or groups of persons and/or things to at least one class.

A system provides evaluation of individual segments of a video program in accordance with a viewer's viewing preferences. The system included a server that receives production data for a program including descriptive information and timing information, and that generates individual metadata for each program segment. The system further includes a client device that receives the individual metadata and processes the metadata in accordance with a viewer profile to determine the desirability of each program segment for the viewer. The client device may record desirable segments or alert the viewer about desirable segments. The server may provide the metadata to the client through a programming event transmission system or through the internet. The metadata and viewer profile may utilize a classification hierarchy. A related device generates metadata for video program segments. The device receives production data for a program that includes descriptive information and timing information, determines time data and descriptive data for individual segments of the program, and generates individual metadata corresponding to each program segment. Each metadata comprises an identifier of the program, and time data and descriptive data for the program segment. The individual metadata for each segment of the program enables separate evaluation of each program segment with respect to a given viewer's viewing preferences. The metadata may utilize a classification hierarchy. Another related device provides metadata for segments of a video program to consumers. The device obtains production data for a program from production equipment in a production studio where the program is produced. The production data is provided to a metadata generator, which returns individual metadata corresponding to individual segments of the program. The individual metadata are provided for transmission through a programming event transmission system in advance of the corresponding program segments. The individual metadata enable separate evaluation of each program segment with respect to a given viewer's viewing preferences. The metadata may be encoded for transmission and may utilize a classification hierarchy. Related processes in the aforementioned devices are also disclosed.

A method for searching a document directory hierarchy which partitions a user-initiated search. The document directory hierarchy comprises a plurality of document directories stored in a tree data structure. Each of the plurality of document directories corresponds to a category within a class hierarchy and stores at least one document. A user query comprising one or more search terms is accepted from an input device. If the user query includes a user-selected category, a directed search is performed. However, if the user query does not include a user-selected category, an undirected search is performed. The directed search confines the search to one of the plurality of document directories corresponding to the user-selected category, and returns relevant documents within the user-selected category. The undirected search is performed within each of the plurality of document directories within the document directory hierarchy, and returns relevant categories corresponding to document directories within the document directory hierarchy.

A system and method that provides remoting services in a distributed object system is provided. The system includes a remote object monitor and a remote object manipulator. The remote object monitor can provide a human readable reference to a remote object, where the human readable reference is a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and can include protocol information, protocol data, an application name and an object URI (Uniform Resource Identifier). The remote object monitor can also provide metadata concerning a remote object, where the metadata can include information concerning interfaces implemented by a remote object, the type of a remote object, the class hierarchy of a remote object, methods implemented by a remote object, properties implemented by a remote object and attributes implemented by a remote object. The remote object monitor can also provide entry points and code interception for custom attribute based activation processing that can be performed before, after and/or substantially in parallel with non-attribute code associated with a remote object. The remote object monitor can also monitor and/or control the lifetime of a remote object, using, for example, a lease manager. The remote object manipulator can also update metadata concerning a remote object and can control the lifetime of a remote object via a lease manager, for example.

To construct an ontology for a target data by re-using an existing ontology, from an aspect of the structure of the class hierarchy according to an object-oriented method and an aspect of the levels of relevance with other properties, the properties that correspond to the data items in the data serving as an ontology construction target and the extraction classes of the properties are determined as property extraction destination candidates for the ontology to be constructed. As a result, it is possible to re-use even a fine difference in the meanings among the properties in the classes. Consequently, it is possible to provide a support for constructing an effective ontology, while reducing the load on the user.

A storage system comprises a storage array containing an hierarchy of storage devices of at least three types and having a respective class hierarchy, and a controller. The controller is coupled to the storage device hierarchy and can execute an hierarchical storage management capability that selectively controls access to the hierarchy of storage devices.

The present invention relates to a system and methodology providing an Application Programming Interface (API) and framework that supports a meta-object model for application design and operating system interactions. The API includes an input component that receives data and/or instructions. The input component processes a meta-data model that interrelates data via a class hierarchy, wherein the class hierarchy includes relationship descriptions between class objects, attributes, rules, and/or behavioral descriptions. Another aspect includes a data management system that includes a component to receive an item having meta-data annotations. An analysis component determines at runtime a structure for the item via deployment of the meta-data annotations. The system can also include a framework component that defines meta-data class derivations, meta-data classes, meta-data integrity rules, and/or meta-data class behavior.

A mechanism for setting a conditional breakpoint on all methods called by a specific instance of a class. To set the instance breakpoint, the debugger determines all of the methods that can be applied to the object type or class. In an environment in which full debugging information includes the correspondence between virtual function tables and specific classes, and full class hierarchy information, the methods are located by locating the pointer to the type's virtual function table, and from the virtual function table, locating the specific class in the debugging information. Identifying the specific type permits all of the base classes of the type to be identified in the debugging information, and from the class hierarchy information, all methods for objects of the type can be compiled. The debugger then sets a conditional breakpoint on each method, the condition specifying that the breakpoint should cause program execution to automatically stop only if the method is being called for the particular object or instance for which the instance breakpoint was set.

A method and system for dynamically processing instance data are provided. A namespace manager obtains declarative language instance data including tags, attributes and values for generating user interface objects. The instance data refers to one or more modules registered with a namespace manager in which the modules include meta-data defining one or more class definitions in a class hierarchy. Each class definition defines one or more properties of the class and references to a superclass/subclass(es) for the class. Thereafter, the namespace manager validates the instance data according to the class hierarchy and generates object code for instantiating an object hierarchy having classes, properties and values corresponding to the instance data.

A product that is uniquely identifiable according to a globally unique identifier (GUID) (100) includes a class identifier (CID) (110) that uniquely identifies at least one product class in which the product is categorized (along with a plurality of other products) within a class hierarchy of a global content directory (42). The product class defines one or more attributes of the products categorized in the class. The product also includes a product identifier (PID) (120) that uniquely identifies the particular product from among the plurality of products categorized in the product class uniquely identified by the CID (110). The CID (110) and PID (120) collectively provide the GUID (100), which may be specified or determined to facilitate a commercial transaction involving the product.

A technique for detecting patterns in the execution of an application. The technique identifies a sequence of methods which are invoked and obtains information regarding attributes of the methods. For example, attribute information such as a class hierarchy can be obtained from an instrumentation API. A data structure representing a hierarchy of the attributes can be created and compared to one or more reference data structures which describe patterns of interest. A decision can be made to provide instrumentation for the methods having the matching attributes. The decision can consider how frequently the pattern is detected and overhead costs of the instrumentation.

Methods and systems are presented for recommending similar questions to one that a user has entered into a search engine. Previously-entered questions are subject to a clustering algorithm and placed into a hierarchy of clusters, with clusters set within clusters. For each cluster within the hierarchy, a representative vector, based on feature vectors of the items within the cluster, is calculated. A feature vector for the user's question is calculated and used, along with the representative vectors at each level in the hierarchy, to traverse and navigate the cluster hierarchy. When a leaf cluster is found, the items in the leaf cluster, such as the previously-entered questions are returned to the user. A subset of items in the leaf cluster, or items from other leaf clusters within a branch cluster, can be selected based on the number of items desired to be returned.

The invention relates to a computer system and method for simulating transport phenomena in a complex system. The computer system comprises memory means, storage means, and an object-oriented software product. The software product comprises an object-oriented extensible class hierarchy comprising a first set of generic classes that represent a plurality of object types and a second set of generic classes that represent member variables for the object types. The extensible class hierarchy permits the addition of additional object types or additional member variables without any modifications to the class hierarchy itself. The invention is particularly useful in simulating a hydrocarbon system that may include one or more of the following: a subterranean hydrocarbon-bearing formation, injection wells that penetrate the formation, production wells that penetrate the formation, surface flowlines, associated aquifers, and surface fluid processing facilities.

The invention discloses a fake-locus-based location privacy protection method for use in a recommendation system. According to the technical scheme, the method comprises the following steps that: 1, a communication system framework consisting of a user, a public location database and a recommendation service operator is built; 2, the user caches an actual location locus, and converts the actual location locus into a corresponding semantic locus; 3, the user builds a location class hierarchy tree according to a semantic class of location data in the public location database, and performs clustering according to the similarity of the location data; 4, the user generates a fake locus through a Viterbi algorithm; and 5, the user uploads the fake locus to the recommendation service operator in order to protect the location privacy of the user. According to the method, a semantic class of an actual location of the user is taken as an input of the Viterbi algorithm to generate the fake locus, and the actual location of the user is not involved in computation, so that the service operator cannot speculate the location of the user; the location privacy of the user is protected; and the service quality of the recommendation system is enhanced at the same time. The method can be applied to a mobile social network for making recommendations according to interests of the user.

A system, method and computer readable medium for providing class hierarchy composition aims at constructing software systems by composing a set of class hierarchies into an executable system. Current composition algorithms cannot provide semantic guarantees. The present invention provides a composition algorithm, together with an interference criterion and its correctness proof, which guarantees that behavior of the original hierarchies is preserved for interference-free compositions. In case of interference, an impact analysis can determine the consequences of integration. The method is based on existing program analysis technology and is illustrated by various examples.

A computer implemented method for virtually executing a program having property declarations of classes in a first programming language that is a dynamic scripting language on an execution system of a second programming language. The method includes: generating an interface class from a property name in the first programming language; loading the interface class; and preparing a class hierarchy on the execution system of the second programming language. A system and a computer readable article of manufacture for executing the same are also provided.

A class hierarchy graph defining the baseclass-subclass relationship between classes in an object-oriented program is built by analysis of the intermediate representation of the program produced by a compiler front end. This representation includes virtual tables for classes that include virtual functions and type structure information for the classes provided to aid run time type identification (RTTI). The class hierarchy information cannot be identified from the virtual tables alone but can be identified from the type structure information.

A framework for extending a network management platform, including an object manager that retrieves an entire class hierarchy including any code or other functionality needed to retrieve data about a server or other network device (e.g., code needed to retrieve actual instances of an object of the class). The object manager holds the object hierarchy and initiates retrieval of actual instances of the object. The class hierarchies are maintained in plug-in type Object Providers. Newly developed network technologies are managed via managed objects defined by class hierarchies held by the Object providers. The Object Provider can be seamlessly installed in an existing extensible network management platform.

The invention discloses a clustering method. The method comprises the steps that firstly, the pre-classification technology based on the density algorithm is used for obtaining a high-density core class, and a class hierarchy tree capable of representing a dataset structure is determined; then, K-MEANS clustering is carried out according to subclass centers with high representativeness in the class hierarchy tree to obtain fine clusters; finally, the fine clusters are combined according to class attributes in the class hierarchy tree to achieve a precise and stable clustering effect. The stable algorithm based on the fine clusters is provided according to sensibility of K-MEANS to initial clustering centers, convex type classes in a dataset can be divided, and the optimal division can be carried out on classes in irregular shapes.

A capability for limited customization that utilizes existing virtual dispatch table technology and allows selective customization is provided. Such a capability combines the usage of virtual dispatch tables with both customized and non-customized code to reduce, or even eliminate over-customization. Further, such a capability may employ a runtime system that decides what methods to customize based on several factors including, but not limited to the size of a class hierarchy, the amount of available space for compiled code, and the amount of available time for compilation.

A method for testing a provider in a common information model. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating a test case class of the common information model, the test case class residing in a class hierarchy of an object-oriented model, (B) generating a client test case class of the common information model below the test case class in the class hierarchy, the client test case class defining control of at least one logical configuration for the provider and (C) generating an instance tester class of the common information model below the client test case class in the class hierarchy, the instance tester class defining at least one verification module for testing the provider.

Techniques for checking in JAVA™ computing environments are disclosed. The techniques can be used by a JAVA™ virtual machine to efficiently perform type checking. A JAVA™ class hierarchy which represents the hierarchical relationship of parent classes of JAVA™ class can be implemented as an array of class references. The array of class references can be used to efficiently perform type checking in JAVA™ computing environments. As a result, the performance of JAVA™ virtual machines, especially those operating with limited resources, is significantly enhanced.

The invention relates to a method for improving the accuracy of quality forecast of a class hierarchy in object-oriented software in the technical field of software development. The method comprises the following steps: using a software metrics set to convert classes in the object-oriented software into corresponding characteristic vectors; packaging all the classes in the class hierarchy into a knowledge representation form of a tree structure through a tree-form data structure, wherein the tree structure comprises the characteristic vectors of all the classes of the class hierarchy and structure information and inheritance relationships between the classes; and using an improved support vector machine forecast mechanism of a layering core. For an object-oriented software system, the invention discloses a method for training a set of integral software quality forecasting models, and the forecasting models trained by the method have extensive application range, are associated with practices closely, have high accuracy and high reliability, and are essential for ensuring high-efficiency and high-accuracy forecasts of the quality of software modules.

In an automatic electronic discovery search tool, documents can be clustered into a cluster hierarchy according to a first clustering approach. Once a hierarchy tree is created, portions of the tree can be flattened for application of a second superior clustering approach. Clustered portions may be used in a document review tool or further filtered according to specified criteria. Clusters may be filtered or used in a document review tool.

The present invention proposes a unified description method of network resources and service, mainly aiming at the internet service and the resource search. The present invention proposes a unified description method to link the resources with the service through an attribute on the basis of main body description, to realize the unified search of the resources and the service. The present invention comprises an internet consisting of a local area network and a wide area network as well as a mobile communication network, the key steps comprise that the class hierarchy of a main body is defined; the attribute is defined; the user registers the resources and service provided to a registration center; a client side inquires the network resources. The present invention makes unification in form to the network resources and the service which are needed to be obtained by users from network, and the registration and the inquiry of the resources and the service are realized on the basis of the unification. The significance of the present invention lies in that the existing various registration with little association is associated with the inquiry methods, and the users can make more effective inquiry to all things of the network on a special resource and service inquiry terminal, thus the present invention provides great convenience for users.

A scheduling method and system for a multi-level class hierarchy are disclosed. The hierarchy includes a root node linked to at least two groups. One of the groups has priority over the other of the groups and comprises at least one high priority queue and at least one low priority queue. The method includes receiving traffic at the root node, directing traffic received at the root node to one of the groups, and directing traffic received at the priority group to one of the high priority and low priority queues. Packets are accepted at the high priority queue or the low priority queue if a specified rate is not exceeded at the high and low priority queues and at least some packets are dropped at the low priority queue if the specified rate is exceeded at the high and low priority queues.