563 results about "Content analytics" patented technology

The present invention is a method of organizing and processing data in a distributed computing system. The invention is also implemented as a computer program on a computer medium and as a distributed computer system. Software modules can be configured as hardware. The method and system organizes select content which is important to an enterprise operating said distributed computing system. The select content is represented by one or more predetermined words, characters, images, data elements or data objects. The computing system has a plurality of select content data stores for respective ones of a plurality of enterprise designated categorical filters which include content-based filters, contextual filters and taxonomic classification filters, all operatively coupled over a communications network. A data input is processed through at least one activated categorical filter to obtain select content, and contextually associated select content and taxonomically associated select content as aggregated select content. The aggregated select content is stored in the corresponding select content data store. A data process from the group of data processes including a copy process, a data extract process, a data archive process, a data distribution process and a data destruction process is associated with the activated categorical filter and the method and system applies the associated data process to a further data input based upon a result of that further data being processed by the activated categorical filter utilizing the aggregated select content data.

The present invention provides an electronic message management system (EMS) that includes a real-time feedback loop where data is collected from the electronic messages on incoming connection attempts, outgoing delivery attempts, and message content analysis, and written to a centralized data matrix. A separate process accesses the data matrix and analyzes trends in that data. The detected data patterns, trends or behavior is based on configuration parameters for the recipient. Based on these determinations, the process is able to instruct components in the EMS to accept, redirect, refuse, modify, defer, or otherwise dispose of the connection request, the delivery attempt, or the message. Associated methods for managing the transmission of electronic messages are also disclosed.

One implementation of a method reassembles complete client-server conversation streams, applies decoders and / or decompressors, and analyzes the resulting data stream using multi-dimensional content profiling and / or weighted keyword-in-context. The method may detect the extrusion of the data, for example, even if the data has been modified from its original form and / or document type. The decoders may also uncover hidden transport mechanisms such as, for example, e-mail attachments. The method may further detect unauthorized (e.g., rogue) encrypted sessions and stop data transfers deemed malicious. The method allows, for example, for building 2 Gbps (Full-Duplex)-capable extrusion prevention machines.

The present invention relates to systems and methods providing content-access-based information retrieval. Information items from a plurality of disparate information sources that have been previously accessed or considered are automatically indexed in a data store, whereby a multifaceted user interface is provided to efficiently retrieve the items in a cognitively relevant manner. Various display output arrangements are possible for the retrieved information items including timeline visualizations and multidimensional grid visualizations. Input options include explicit, implicit, and standing queries for retrieving data along with explicit and implicit tagging of items for ease of recall and retrieval. In one aspect, an automated system is provided that facilitates concurrent searching across a plurality of information sources. A usage analyzer determines user accessed items and a content analyzer stores subsets of data corresponding to the items, wherein at least two of the items are associated with disparate information sources, respectively. An automated indexing component indexes the data subsets according to past data access patterns as determined by the usage analyzer. A search component responds to a search query, initiates a search across the indexed data, and outputs links to locations of a subset and / or provides sparse representations of the subset.

The subject invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates providing content-targeted advertising to a user based at least in part on the content of a user action. The user action can be performed in connection with an outbound messaging system, a real-time messaging system such as a chat or instant messaging, a game environment, and / or calendaring system. The system and method analyze at the least the content of an outbound message and then present a content-targeted advertisement based on the content of the message. The same can be done with respect to calendar entries. However, outbound and inbound calendar entries, invitations, and responses to invitations can be analyzed for content and have content-targeted advertisements presented to the sender or receiver of such items. User privacy can be maintained and / or increased by allowing a user to opt out of content-targeting advertisements. Reasons for being targeted can also be provided to the user.

A method and apparatus for selecting at least one transcoding method for manipulating multimedia data for delivery on the basis of analysis of the content of the multimedia data. Many possible transcoding operations can be performed on multimedia data to adapt it to constraints in delivery and display, processing and storage of client devices. The selection of specific transcoding operations can be made by first analyzing the features, purposes and relevances of the individual multimedia objects within the multimedia documents, then by selecting the transcoding alternatives according to the results of the analysis. Based on the analysis, different transcoding algorithms can be applied to different content, less than all of the content can be transcoded, groups of multimedia objects can be transcoded, etc.

A search engine has a query server (50) arranged to receive a search query from a user and return search results, the query server being arranged to identify one or more of the content items relevant to the query, to access a record of changes over time of occurrences of the identified content items, and rank the search results according to the record of changes. This can help find those content items which are currently active, and to track or compare the popularity of content items. This is particularly useful for content items whose subjective value to the user depends on them being topical or fashionable. A content analyzer (100) creates a fingerprint database of fingerprints, to compare the fingerprints to determine a number of occurrences of a given content item at a given time, and to record the changes over time of the occurrences.

A surveillance system and method for the automatic detection of potential alarm situation via a recorded surveillance content analysis and for the management of the detected unattended object situation. The system and method are operative in capturing surveillance content, analyzing the captured content and providing in real time a set of alarm messages to a set of diverse devices. The system provides event based debriefing according to captured objects captured by one or more cameras covering different scenes. The invention is implemented in the context of unattended objects (such as luggage, vehicles or persons), parking or driving in restricted zones, controlling access of persons into restricted zones, preventing loss of objects such as luggage or persons and counting of persons.

This invention provides a video search system based on content including an analysis server of video, phone, caption and man-face, a merging analysis server, a video search server cluster and a search dispatch server, in which, the analysis server can analyze and pick up video content information from the video and generate related spelling pattern information by analyzing audio signals to set up video index by analyzing and describing video content word information, the merging analyzing system merges data got from video analysis, phone analysis and caption analysis to generate index information, the video index server cluster stores the video content and the structure by the analysis system, the search system can enquires various information and feed back the result to the search dispatch server, which receives the research request of the customer end to analyze and transmit the request to the research cluster and generate ordered enquiry result.

A system and method for analyzing and wirelessly transmitting information in real-time, comprising capturing snapshots and videos, by utilizing for example a smartphone. The images are analyzed in conjunction with other system data to provide the user: 3 dimensional images, GPS coordinates, safety alerts, etc. In particular, the system is mountable within a vehicle interior to provide: road conditions, dangerous driving situations, the make / model / manufacturer of surrounding cars, GPS coordinates, and the identity of local businesses. The user may also share the information via wireless transmissions with surrounding users possessing the same system, such as for real-time video gaming systems. And the system may also be detached from the vehicle for use in other scenarios, such as searching a merchant database for matching items and wirelessly sending the information to other system users.

A search engine system assists users in locating web pages from which user-specified products can be purchased. Web pages located by a crawler program are scored, based on a set of criteria, according to likelihood of including a product offering. A query server accesses an index of the scored web pages to locate pages that are both responsive to a user's search query and likely to include a product offering. In one embodiment, the responsive web pages are listed on a composite search results page together with products that satisfy the query.

A computer-based system for performing scene content analysis for human detection and tracking may include a video input to receive a video signal; a content analysis module, coupled to the video input, to receive the video signal from the video input, and analyze scene content from the video signal and determine an event from one or more objects visible in the video signal; a data storage module to store the video signal, data related to the event, or data related to configuration and operation of the system; and a user interface module, coupled to the content analysis module, to allow a user to configure the content analysis module to provide an alert for the event, wherein, upon recognition of the event, the content analysis module produces the alert.

Some embodiments provide a method that receives an unstructured document including a number of primitive elements. The method identifies a default set of document reconstruction operations for reconstructing the unstructured document to define a structured document the method performs at least one of the document reconstruction operations from the default set. Based on results of the performed document reconstruction operations, the method identifies a profile for the unstructured document. The method modifies the set of document reconstruction operations for reconstructing the unstructured document according to the identified profile.

A method and system processes data in a distributed computing system to survive an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack. The computing system has proximal select content (SC) data stores and geographically distributed distal data stores, all with respective access controls. The data input or put through the computing system is processed to obtain the SC and other associated content. The process then extracts and stores such content in the proximal SC data stores and geographically distributed distal SC data stores. The system further processes data to geographically distribute the data with data processes including: copy, extract, archive, distribute, and a copy-extract-archive and distribute process with a sequential and supplemental data destruction process. In this manner, the data input is distributed or spread out over the geographically distributed distal SC data stores. The system and method permits reconstruction of the processed data only in the presence of a respective access control.

Meta-content analysis and annotation upon the body of email documents, and other electronic documents, and to create a displayable index of these instances of meta-content, which is sorted and annotated by type are provided. In addition, the electronic document is enhanced by providing links for the semantic foci to external documents containing related information. An electronic document adapted for delivery to one or more recipients, the electronic document including a header and a body, is processed by:performing meta-content extraction of semantic foci within said header and said body, the semantic foci comprising a plurality of type of information including one or more of email addresses, URLs, dates, currency values, organization names, names of people, names of places, and phone numbers;creating a meta-content index the document based upon said extracted semantic foci;arranging the meta-index according to said plurality of types;combining said meta-content index with said header and said body to provide an enhanced document; andsending said enhanced document to said one or more recipients via a communication network.The process includes converting the electronic mail document to a markup language format, and wherein said meta-content index comprises one or more objects expressed in said markup language adapted for presentation with body in said enhanced document.

A computer-implemented method of implementing an advertising campaign may include receiving content that includes a plurality of terms, analyzing the content for one or more terms that are relevant to a product or service, using at least one of the relevant terms to develop a plurality of keywords and automatically generating an advertising production sheet comprising at least one of the keywords and a creative. The creative may include one or more terms that are relevant to the at least one keyword. The creative may be used in an advertising campaign. The content may include one or more of a data feed received from an advertiser, data received from a content management system, data retrieved from a network location, data retrieved by performing deep-Web extraction, and data retrieved from a publicly-available Web site.

A system and method for generating secondary advertising content for presentation on a user interface of a device in association with primary publishing content. The system and method comprise a queue for receiving the primary content including a plurality of identifiable textual elements for analysis as candidates to associate with the secondary content. The plurality of identifiable textual elements are distributed in a number of defined regions of the primary content such as paragraphs. The system and method also have a content analyzer module configured for accessing the primary content and for performing a contextual analysis of the plurality of identifiable textual elements. The analysis includes determining for each of the number of defined regions those key elements from the identifiable textual elements that match element entries in at least one key element list. The analysis further includes determining a density of the matched key elements from a specified region of the number of defined regions. The system and method further include a threshold module for determining if the density exceeds a predefined density threshold for a category including a predefined list of category elements, where at least some of matched key elements being included in the list of category elements. The category is linked to the secondary content. The system and method further include an instruction module configured for generating an association instruction for linking the secondary content to at least one of the matched key elements associated with the category. The secondary content is made available to the device for presentation on the user interface in relation to the primary content through use of the association instruction.

A home health care monitoring method and system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes: capturing a plurality of video sequences from a plurality of respective cameras disposed in different locations within a patient's home, including capturing two-dimensional image data and depth data for each video sequence; defining a plurality of events to monitor associated with the patient, the events including, during a predetermined time period, at least (1) the patient's body being in a particular position for at least a predetermined amount of time; performing depth-enhanced video content analysis on the plurality of video sequences to determine whether the event (1) has occurred. The video content analysis may include: for each of at least two cameras: automatically detecting a human object based on the two-dimensional image data; using the depth data to confirm whether the human object is in the particular position; and based on the confirmation, tracking an amount of time that the human object is in the particular position; and then determining that the event (1) has occurred based on the collective tracked amount of time.

Evaluating content includes receiving content, analyzing the content for web spam using a content-based identification technique, and classifying the content according to the analysis. An index of analyzed contents may be created. A system for evaluating content includes a storage device configured to store data and a processor configured to analyze content using content-based identification techniques to determine whether web spam is present.

A subscription social networking platform for the purchase and sale of IP assets between two subscribers includes an e-commerce platform, content analysis engine and database for storing vendible IP assets loaded by the subscribers. The content analysis engine determines the category of IP asset being loaded into the database. Any subsequent dialogue between any two subscribers about a particular category of IP asset will cause a search engine to search the database for relevant IP assets in that category for placement on a negotiation list. The two subscribers can thereafter negotiate the sale and purchase of the IP asset in a secure manner.

A target user's profile may be generated based on scanning metadata related to various content items made available for sharing by the user. For instance, some content items may be made available for sharing by the target user while other items are made available for sharing by one or more other users in the target user's social network. A list of keywords related to each item may be generated from the metadata. Each keyword may then be scored using social network data. For example, social network data corresponding to one or more users associated with each content item may be used to score keywords related to that item. Scoring may be based on factors such as social network distance, relationship type, trust, length of time in the social network, amount of content, amount of metadata, and other factors.

This invention relates a filter system and a filter method for Internet content. The system includes: a content filter agent(CFA), a question server (QS) and a content analysis and management server (CAMS). The flow of the content filter system is that when a user sends a request of accessing a URL, CFA permits or for bits the said acc request according to the white and black name list set by the user. If the URL is not in the CFA name list, CFA delivers an inquiry the hierachical information of the URL in its own library and feeds back the result to CFA. CFA responds it and QS will download even new URL hierachical information. The invention can accurately identify poor information in network and prevent users from accessing them actively.

The present invention employs a cache for storing a large repository of digital media files (i.e., content) in a local hard drive of individual users, whereby a slower delivery mechanism can be used to add potentially wanted files to each cache in advance of any request for viewing the files. Combining a large cache size along with user and content profiling allows a target file desired by a user to be found in the cache for a great majority of file requests. Cached files are encrypted. To view a file, the user must first provide payment information to a content server in order to obtain authorization and a decryption key.

Disclosed are embodiments a system and method for managing an on-line community. Electronic postings are pre-screened based on one or more metrics to determine a risk value indicative of the likelihood that an individual posting contains objectionable content. These metrics are based on the profile of a poster, including various parameters of the poster and / or the poster's record of objectionable content postings. These metrics can also be based on the social network profile of a poster, including the average of various parameters of other users in the poster's social network and / or a compiled record of objectionable content postings of other users in the poster's social network. If the risk value is relatively low, the posting can be displayed to the on-line community immediately. If the risk value is relatively high, display of the posting can be delayed until further content analysis is completed. Finally, if the risk value is above a predetermined high risk threshold value, the posting can be removed automatically.

To provide an enhanced customer service experience, various combinations of web searches, site-specific filtering tools and syndicated feed readers can be used to find relevant posts on the internet. Internal email, IM, phone, and the like can cooperate with an appropriately equipped expert-finding solution to assist with help in locating the experts qualified to respond to the post(s). The leveraging of RSS / Atom feeds or similar technology, content analysis, and contact center work distribution algorithms are leveraged to monitor the feeds from multiple sites and automatically distribute messages to appropriately skilled contact center agents. Each message discovered is analyzed to determine which contact center queue it is to be routed to, and then the contact center assigns it to an appropriate agent. This eliminates or significantly reduces the amount of manual searching and qualification of posts.