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A secure data interchange system enables information about bilateral and multilateral interactions between multiple persistent parties to be exchanged and leveraged within an environment that uses a combination of techniques to control access to information, release of information, and matching of information back to parties. Access to data records can be controlled using an associated price rule. A data owner can specify a price for different types and amounts of information access.

Disclosed herein are various exemplary systems and methods for linking entity references to entities and identifying associations between entities. In particular, a method for identifying an entity from a plurality of entity references, each entity reference being linked with a separate ghost entity, is provided. The method comprises the steps of comparing an entity reference of a first ghost entity with an entity reference of a second ghost entity to determine a match probability between the entity reference of the first ghost entity and the entity reference of the second ghost entity, linking the entity reference of the first ghost entity additionally with the second ghost entity and the entity reference of the second ghost entity additionally with the first ghost entity when the match probability is greater than or equal to a match threshold and repeating the steps of comparing and linking for one or more ghost entity pairings possible from the ghost entities. The method further comprises determining, for one or more entity references linked to a ghost entity, a score for the entity reference based at least in part on a match probability between the entity reference and a value representing the one or more entity references linked to the ghost entity and identifying the ghost entity as an actual entity based at least in part on one or more scores for the one or more entity references linked to the ghost entity.

Embodiments of the invention relate to systems and methods for providing an anonymization engine. One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method comprising receiving a message directed at a recipient computer located outside a secure area by a privacy computer located within a secure area. The privacy computer may identify private information using a plurality of privacy rules and anonymize the message according to the plurality of privacy rules. Another embodiment may be directed to a method comprising receiving a request for sensitive data from a requesting computer. An anonymization computer may determine a sensitive data record associated with the request and may anonymize the sensitive data record by performing at least two of: removing unnecessary sensitive data entries from the sensitive data record, masking the sensitive data entries to maintain format, separating the sensitive data entries into associated data groupings, and de-contexting the data.

A light weight compact portable GPS receiver and transmitter for use on the person during outdoor activity, data logging receiver, data logging software supported by battery pack and modified active GPS patch antenna with chips, download connector, download docking station, charging units, mapping software to transfer the GPS data onto various maps including ortho-rectified, flat topographical maps, 3-D projection view topographical maps and street maps.

Various exemplary systems and methods for linking entity references and identifying associations are presented. In particular, a method is provided for linking a plurality of entity references to at least one entity. The method comprises the steps of evaluating a probability of a match between a first entity reference and a second entity reference based at least in part on a statistical significance of one or more field values being common to both the first entity reference and the second entity reference, wherein field value statistical significance is inversely related to a number of field value occurrences occurring in some or all of the plurality of entity references and linking the first entity reference with the second entity reference when the probability is greater than or equal to a match threshold.

A system is provided including a continuous analyte sensor that produces a data stream indicative of a host's analyte concentration and a device that receives and records data from the data stream from the continuous analyte sensor. The data received from the continuous analyte sensor may be used to provide alarms to the user when the analyte concentration and/or the rate of change of analyte concentration, as measured by the continuous analyte sensor, is above or below a predetermined range. Data received from the continuous analyte sensor may also be used to prompt the diabetic or caregiver to take certain actions, such as to perform another single point blood glucose measurement. The device may provide for toggling between modes that allow or prevent the display of glucose concentration values associated with the continuous glucose sensor.

A method (700) for improving driver performance includes the steps of receiving vehicle operating data from the vehicle (702); monitoring an interior portion of the vehicle and receiving operator activity data from the interior portion of the vehicle (704); receiving vehicle environment data from the environment external to the vehicle (706); monitoring the vehicle operator and receiving operator condition data relating to a condition of the vehicle operator (708); recording an operator performance assessment based on the vehicle operating data, the operator activity data, the vehicle environment data and the operator condition data (710); and reporting the operator performance assessment to the operator (712).

A magnetic stripe card manual swipe reader (MSR) unit capable of attaching to and communicating with a conventional personal digital assistant (PDA) from various manufacturers, using only the electrical power available as supplied by the PDA device, and capable of effective electrical power management and conservation operations. Additionally, this PDA attachable MSR unit is capable of recognizing multiple magnetic encoding formats and data record formats and converting said formats to a standardized output format, includes the capability of updating and adding new formats while in field service, and is readily allows verifying card data and encoding sensitive material prior to transmission to the PDA. These custom formats can then be used to fulfill current needs in age verification, law enforcement, security, and numerous other applications.

A hierarchical/relational translation system is provided for enabling information from unrelated heterogeneous relational computing systems to be accessed, navigated, searched, browsed, and shared over a hierarchical computing system. In one embodiment, the hierarchical/relational translation system includes a virtual directory server for capturing information in the nature of relational database schema and metadata. The captured schema and metadata are then translated into virtual directories that are universally compatible with standard communication protocols used with hierarchical computing systems. A virtual directory of information organizes an index of data records and a standard addressing schema is provided to enable customizable access to relevant views of relational computing systems. Several embodiments for presenting the virtual directory information tree are included. In one embodiment, the virtual directory is displayed using browser format. In another embodiment, the virtual directory is presented in electronic mail format. Still, in another embodiment the virtual directory is presented over a wireless medium and through portable devices.

A system, method, and computer program product for synchronizing events between a mobile device and a server are described herein. In an embodiment, the method operates by detecting events to be synchronized between a source and a target, wherein the source and target are one of either a mobile device or a server. The method comprises deducing activities that occurred in order to create the detected event, reading data records corresponding to the deduced activities, and creating packets of operations needed to recreate the deduced activities on the target. The method further comprises queuing the packets of operations and data records and receiving event synchronization results at the source after the queued packets of operations have successfully executed on the target, wherein the synchronization results include a synchronization status and a unique record identifier identifying the event. In an embodiment, personal information manager (PIM) events are synchronized.

Embodiments of the invention provide a system and method of automatically generating weights for matching data records. Each field of a record may be compared by an exact match and/or close matches and each comparison can result in a mathematical score which is the sum of the field comparisons. To sum up the field scores accurately, the automatic weight generation process comprises an iterative process. In one embodiment, initial weights are computed based upon unmatched-set probabilities and default discrepancy weights associated with attributes in the comparison algorithm. A bulk cross-match is performed across the records using the initial weights and a candidate matched set is computed for updating the discrepancy probabilities. New weights are computed based upon the unmatched probabilities and the updated discrepancy probabilities. Test for convergence between the new weights and the old weights. Repeat with the new weight table until the weights converge to their final value.

A system for processing patient health information (PHI) protects the confidentiality of PHI to achieve regulatory compliance. The PHI contains patient medical data and associated patient identification data. A de-identification agent extracts patient medical data and separates from all identification data to create de-identified patient data. A key is generated that allows subsequent reassociation of the patient medical data and the patient identification data. The de-identified patient data base may be queried for patient screening purposes. Patient queries are processed only if the study or patient screening has been authorized by appropriate authorities, such as an internal review board. Patients whose medical characteristics conform with the patient query are selected for possible use in a study. If re-identification of the selected patients is necessary, and authorized, the key may be used to provide the necessary reassociation. A data log records all access to patient data.

A method for issuing a credential includes scanning in documents (e.g., breeder or ID documents) used to verify the applicant of the credential and creating data records including the image of the documents. As a means to reduce fraud, these data records are linked to the credential and to the issuer location, operator and time and place of issuance. If the document includes machine readable information, the method automatically reads the machine readable information from the document and uses at least part of the machine readable information from the document to pre-populate a form used to create a credential, such as an identification document. The method includes applying a transformation to the image of the document that enables protection against fraudulent use. The transformation secures the image of the document from tampering and/or enables tracking of the use of the document image to deter fraud. A method of verifying a credential comprises reading a physical security feature attribute on the credential, reading a logical attribute on the credential, and comparing information from the physical security feature with the logical storage element on the credential to verify the credential.

A system, method and computer program product for processing event records. The present invention includes a detection layer, an analysis layer, an expert systems layer and a presentation layer. The layered system includes a core infrastructure and a configurable, domain-specific implementation. The detection layer employs one or more detection engines, such as, for example, a rules-based thresholding engine and a profiling engine. The detection layer can include an AI-based pattern recognition engine for analyzing data records, for detecting new and interesting patterns and for updating the detection engines to insure that the detection engines can detect the new patterns. In one embodiment, the present invention is implemented as a telecommunications fraud detection system. When fraud is detected, the detection layer generates alarms which are sent to the analysis layer. The analysis layer filters and consolidates the alarms to generate fraud cases. The analysis layer preferably generates a probability of fraud for each fraud case. The expert systems layer receives fraud cases and automatically initiates actions for certain fraud cases. The presentation layer also receives fraud cases for presentation to human analysts. The presentation layer permits the human analysts to initiate additional actions.

A system for enabling secure transacting over a network has a network sever application for storing client information and activating clients for secure transacting, a software driver for performing authentication, the software driver accessible to the network server, a software applet for creating a secure data record and for managing transmission and update of the contents of the record, and a sound source in the form of a file or a sound generating device, the sound source being part of or having access to the secure data record.

A private wireless network is able to provide wireless telecommunication services to subscriber mobile stations that also subscribe to a public wireless network. The private wireless network includes a private base transceiver station (BTS), a private mobile switching center (MSC), and a gateway service control point (SCP). The private BTS provides a private network wireless coverage area within which the mobile station can communicate with the base transceiver station over an air interface. The gateway SCP has a private network database containing private network data records for subscribing mobile stations. A private network data record includes a private network service profile and a private network locator address. The public wireless network has a home location register (HLR) with a public network database containing public network data records for subscribing mobile stations. A public network data record includes a public network service profile and a public network locator address. When a subscriber mobile station is active on the private wireless network, the private network locator address identifies the private MSC, and the public network locator address identifies the gateway SCP. By providing the private network wireless coverage area so that it overlaps the public network's wireless coverage area, the subscriber mobile station may be handed off between the private and public wireless networks.

A system and method are directed towards providing a database replication technique using interception in memory of the transaction change data records. The invention employs Input/Output instrumentation to capture and split out the in memory transaction change journal records. Captured memory blocks are sent to a parser, which concatenates the records into a single record, and creates a redo/undo vector that can be converted to original DML/DDL statements. Source level transformations can be applied to the vectors, which are then sent to a post agent on the same or a different computing device. The post agents may perform destination level transformations, and generate DML/DDL statements to be executed by the corresponding destination RDBMS instance. Post agents may also perform conflict detection and resolution during DML/DDL statement executions. Transaction consistency is supported by performing commits/rollback on the destination after receiving the redo/undo vector representing a commit/rollback on the source.

Tokens are used to prepare a target database for replication from a source database and to confirm the preparation in an asynchronous coordinated commit replication process. During a dual write replication process, transmission of the replicated data and locking of data records in the target database occurs only on updates.

A user photographs an image including an object to be extracted, uses an instruction selection unit or the like to designate an extraction range, and an object extraction circuit performs extraction. The image data of an extracted object area is compressed/encoded, and stored together with photographing conditions into a storage unit. Subsequently, a background image is photographed or inputted. While the background image is displayed, the previously extracted object image is read from the storage unit. To suppress a difference in gradation and hue between the background image and the object image, the gradation and hue of the object image are adjusted, mixing and smoothing with the background image are performed in the vicinity of an object outline, and the object image is overwritten, synthesized, and displayed on the background image. The position and size of the object image are adjusted according to a user's instruction. Synthesized image data is recorded in a recording medium.

A software monitoring and auditing system which determines the inventory of software products on a computer includes data reducer software which processes detailed software usage data gathered by a monitoring component of the software to create a condensed usage database. The reducer software contemporaneously converts the data records in a manner which reduces the amount of data records by at least a factor of 100, consuming less computer memory and allowing users of the software monitoring and auditing system to review usage data on a desktop PC or the like.

A system for determining risks and/or valuations associated with financial products, comprises a data processing system having computer(s), database(s), financial product data record creating for creating one or more financial product data records, financial product data records identifying a particular financial product by a transaction credit or serial number, and financial product risk data software for creating one or more risk data records associated with the financial product data records.

Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to a flow-based, traffic-classification-aware data collection and reporting system that combine flow-based data collection technologies with enhanced traffic classification functionality to allow for analysis and reporting into aspects of network operations that prior art systems cannot provide. Embodiments provide enhanced views into the operation of computer network infrastructures to facilitate monitoring, administration, compliance and other tasks associated with networks. When a traffic flow terminates, a traffic monitoring device emits a flow data record (FDR) containing measurements variables and other attributes for an individual flow. A data collector gathers the flow data records and enters them into a database. A network management application can then query the database with selected commands to derive reports characterizing operation of the network suitable to diagnose problems or view conditions associated with the network.

A system and method of recording data from a number of devices in a distributed network system in a manner adaptable for auditing the device output. The devices may include one or more control, sensor, edge, or peripheral computing devices physically separate in the distributed network system and in communication with a control server. Such distributed networks systems are common in SCADA or IoT applications. The content stream of data records output from the devices are recorded; a payload stripped stream of data records which are stripped of the payload are recorded and preferably retained by an escrow service. The metadata of the data records includes the hash value of one or more predecessor data records. The hash values are calculated based on the payload and a linkage function, preferably a cryptographic function. A comparison of hash values of the payload stripped stream and the content stream provides the audit ability.

Methods and systems for communicating with electronic devices are provided. In some embodiments, a method for interacting with electronic devices may include a method for interacting with electronic devices on a network, the method comprising the steps of: searching for the presence of a signal generated by an electronic device; detecting the presence of an unregistered electronic device on the network; receiving schema from electronic device; associating the received device schema with a record of data in a database or other repository; and using the associated data to control a function of the electronic device through the network.

Apparatus and method for creating de-identified and linked records is described. More particularly, data records are de-identified at a client computer. De-identification includes field-level one-way encryption. De-identified records may then be sent to a server computer for linkage. Linkage is done using match codes created for such data records at the client computer. The server computer is configured to provide longitudinal linkage of de-identified client records to de-identified master records. In this manner, privacy may be maintained at the client computer prior to transmission of information, and longitudinal linkage of records may occur without exposing personally identifying information.

A web service interrogation method comprises receiving natural language request data at a processor. The processor parses the request data. A data structure comprising a directory of web service resources is interrogated based upon the parsed input data. Fields within a web service identified from said data structure are matched to the parsed input data. Service data records corresponding to at least some of said webs service resources that fulfill a matching criteria to the request data are aggregated. The service data is output to a user. A web service interrogation apparatus is also disclosed.

In a database file management system for accessing data records and being executed on data processing system. The data records are linked to a trie index that is arranged in blocks and being stored in a storage medium. The trie index enables accessing or updating the data records by key or keys and being susceptible to an unbalanced structure of blocks. There is provided a method for constructing a layered index arranged in blocks, which includes the steps of providing the trie index and constructing a representative index over the representative keys of the trie index. The layered index enables accessing or updating the data records by key or keys and it constitutes a balanced structure of blocks.

A banking system operates to allocate funds in accounts in response to data bearing records in the form of paper financial checks. A mobile phone has a camera and a programmable memory. The memory stores phone user data, including a bank account number and an electronic signature. The camera can be used to capture an image of a paper check which has the phone user as the payee. The phone can wirelessly transmit the account number, the electronic signature, and the check image to a bank deposit system. The system can store the check image and the electronic signature in correlated relation in a deposit transaction record. The system can cause the phone user's bank account to be credited a cash value corresponding to the check value. Confirmation of the check deposit can be transmitted to the user's phone.

Apparatus and a method are provided for improving the medical care of patients. The apparatus includes an input device, a medical risk database, a data processor, and a communication device. Data entered in the input device, usually by a health care professional, defines a patient data record. The medical risk database associates certain patient data entered into the data record, which increases the risk of a missed medical care opportunity, with additional medical care to address the risk. The communication device responds to the identification of patient data presenting a medical risk by communicating to a health care professional additional medical care selected to identify and take advantage of a medical care opportunity.

A method and system for accessing and display of data records from large data sets. The method includes defining a plurality of boundaries to logically partition the large data set into a plurality of buckets in accordance with a predefined sort order. The sort order is based on data stored in at least two columns of a database table in which at least a base portion of each data record is stored. In response to a request to retrieve a data record or group of related records, such as all contacts having a given first and last name, a determination is made to which bucket the data record or at least a portion of group of related records are stored in. A query is then formulated to retrieve a subset of the large set of records from the database corresponding to data records contained in the bucket.