139 results about "Information discovery" patented technology

A method for searching text sources including temporally-ordered data objects, such as a blog, is provided including the steps of: (i) providing access to text sources, each text source including temporally-ordered data objects; (ii) obtaining or generating a search query based on terms and time intervals; (iii) obtaining or generating time data associated with the data objects; (iv) identifying data objects based on the search query; and (v) generating popularity curves based on the frequency of data objects corresponding to one or more of the search terms in the one or more time intervals. A system and computer program for text source searching is also provided.

A distributed network search mechanism may be provided for consumers coupled to a network to search information providers coupled to the network. Consumers may make search requests according to a query routing protocol. A network hub may be configured to receive search requests from consumers. The hub may also receive registration requests from information providers according to the query routing protocol. Information providers register with the hub to indicate search queries in which they are interested in receiving. When a query request is received, the hub resolves the query request with a provider registration index. The hub matches search query information from the query request with provider registrations to determine which providers have registered to receive search queries like the current search query. The hub then routes the search query to matching providers according to the query routing protocol.

Systems and methods are provided that enable searches of social networks by acting as a “compass” that assists users in navigating the social network. Individual user participation is not required in response to queries from other users. The systems and methods offer navigational assistance or information as opposed to a traditional search which returns requested information, thus currently acceptable social mechanisms for arbitrating trust can be exploited. As a result, users do not make their personal information publicly searchable, while at the same time, they are protected from potential misrepresentations of facts.

A distributed network search mechanism may be provided for consumers coupled to a network to search information providers coupled to the network. Consumers may make search requests according to a query routing protocol. A network hub may be configured to receive search requests from consumers. The hub may also receive registration requests from information providers according to the query routing protocol. Information providers register with the hub to indicate search queries in which they are interested in receiving. When a query request is received, the hub resolves the query request with a provider registration index. The hub matches search query information from the query request with provider registrations to determine which providers have registered to receive search queries like the current search query. The hub then routes the search query to matching providers according to the query routing protocol.

A method and apparatus for extracting a model vector representation from multimedia documents. A model vector provides a multidimensional representation of the confidence with which multimedia documents belong to a set of categories or with which a set of semantic concepts relate to the documents. A model vector can be associated with multimedia documents to provide an index of its content or categorization and can be used for comparing, searching, classifying, or clustering multimedia documents. A model vector can be used for purposes of information discovery, personalizing multimedia content, and querying a multimedia information repository.

A method, computer program product, and data processing system for efficiently discovering and storing path MTU information in a sending host are disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, two path MTU tables are maintained. One path MTU table contains MTU values corresponding to the first-hop routers associated with the sending host. The other path MTU table contains MTU values corresponding to individual destination hosts. When the sending host needs to send information to a destination, it first consults the MTU table associated with individual destination hosts. If an entry for that destination host is found in the table, the sending host uses that MTU value. If not, the sending host consults the MTU table for the first-hop router on the path to the destination host and uses that MTU value. If that MTU value is too high, a new entry is made in the host-specific MTU table for the destination host.

Systems and methods of mobile information discovery are provided in which a mobile device is used which has a display means and an input means. A server manages an information request sent from the mobile device. The information request is input once into the mobile device and is capable of being sent singly or in parallel to a choice of multiple information discovery channels managed by the server. The multiple information discovery channels can include search means, messaging means and discussion means. The server includes storage means for the results of the information request and means for returning the results to the mobile device. The mobile device has connection means for connection to the server wherein the connection means supports a persistent connection to a network.

An underlying schema is discovered for an HTML document or a set of HTML documents, authored in various styles. Prior domain knowledge regarding punctuation, keywords, synonyms and HTML tags is used to 1) break a document up into separate objects, 2) identify the objects corresponding to keywords, 3) regroup objects: into hierarchical layers of abstraction, 4) logically order objects at the same level of abstraction, and 5) finally remove any non-keyword related information from the document's discovered schematic structure. The discovered schema supports structural queries from search engines that locate data that are more semantically related to the requested information than data located by simple keyword searching.

An apparatus and method for browsing a plurality of data objects represented by images displayed within a three-dimensional graphical environment is described. A plurality of data object arrangement schemes are provided for arranging corresponding represented images of the data objects within the three-dimensional environment dependent on a selected one of the schemes. The data objects are then automatically arranged within the three-dimensional environment according to the selected schemes. Schemes can be user selected such that by selecting a new scheme, the objects are rearranged according to the newly selected scheme. The environment is partitioned into three-dimensional areas and representative images of the data objects are arranged within the partitioned environment such that representative images of related groups of data objects with respect to the selected scheme are displayed within the same areas.

The physical topology of large, heterogeneous Ethernet LANs that may include multiple subnets may be discovered utilizing Management Information Base (MIB) information. Topology discovery tools and network management systems are introduced to carry out the topological discovery methods, features and functions of the present invention.

A common BGP framework is provided to achieve VPN information discovery in network based VPNs using modifications to existing BGP-4 multiprotocol extension path attributes. The framework allow each VPN to implement different OSI layer-2 or layer-3 protocols, and to implement different OSI layer-2 or layer-3 protocols from those used by the backbone of the shared network. The extensions added to BGP-4 apply both to Virtual Router (VR) models of VPN systems and to non-VR models.

The present invention is a system, method for accessing domains of information to identify heretofore unknown relationships between disparate sources of data to seek and obtain knowledge, the invention includes a source of data with one or more domains of information, an Object-Relationship Database for integrating objects from one or more domains of information and a knowledge discovery engine where relationships between two or more objects are identified, retrieved, grouped, ranked, filtered and numerically evaluated.

Techniques are described for remotely identifying software and software that has been updated due to service patches using maintained audit tables. A system management tool (SMT) identifies software installed on each network node by comparing at a the name and size of installed files to a software audit table. The file name and file size are used as identification markers, and a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) value for a software file, translation key, and version number are used as refined identification markers. A system management tool (SMT) performs an inventory scan of the software on each network node and obtains a list of each file and the corresponding file size. The software audit file provides identifying information, such as the file name and corresponding size, for each known file. Known files can be quickly identified using a match criteria based, for example, on the file name and size. An inventory scan refinement process is also used to further identify software files, including those files that may have been modified due to software patches and may not be discovered by the first level of identifying information.

Discovering routing policies in information networks. Large networks such as Autonomous Systems are abstracted as a single network element. A plurality of taps on the borders of the abstracted element filter ingress / egress data which is forwarded for collection and correlation. By correlating information from different taps, routing policies are discovered. These discovered policies may be compared with published policies. Access control makes discovered policies and the comparisons with published policies selectively available depending on predefined access classes.

The invention belongs to the technical field of cross-media information retrieval and particularly relates to face and name aligning method and system based on image characteristics and text content in cross media news retrieval. In the invention, four main algorithms are included, and are name importance assessment algorithm, multimode information discovery algorithm based on web excavation, face set cohesion algorithm and multimode aligning combination optimization algorithm. In the invention, the related image characteristics and text content processing method is used, meanwhile, relative mathematical model is built, optimization to new picture search is performed, and through multi-grade and deep-level text content analyses and effective face-name alignment evaluation mechanism, and combination optimization at the aim of problems can be achieved. According to the invention, a great significance to efficient image retrieval performed under the consideration of high level semantic information of images and on the basis of large-scale and multifarious new image can be played, the retrieval relativity can be enhanced, the user experience is enhanced, and the wide application value is played in the field of medium information retrieval.

This paper proposes a new method and architecture for populating, updating and managing the NAB. It also proposes user's Contact Information Discovery (CID). In context of populating the NAB; since the NAB of each individual subscriber will be stored in the network in future, the paper proposes CI to flow from one NAB to another NAB within the core network, instead of CI flowing from Device to Network. Thus with the user authorization, his CI would shoot from one NAB to another NAB within the core network instead of from LAB to NAB through air interface. It would reduce huge amount of data traffic on the air that otherwise would be generated in updating and populating the NAB by all the NAB users. In context of CID, the paper proposes a query-response mechanism and introduces a NAB Manager. The new architecture will provide several benefits for example it will eliminate the need of “Number Portability,”“United States National Do Not Call Registry” and “411 Directory Assistance.”

A technique for providing a first information processing apparatus configured to acquire first identification information as information for identifying the information processing apparatus, searching for a second information processing apparatus capable of wireless communication, acquiring a second identification information as information for identifying the second information processing apparatus that was found, comparing the first identification information and the second identification information, changing the first identification information when the first identification information and the second identification information are identical, and notifying when the first identification information is changed.

The present invention relates to a system and methodology to facilitate automated retrieval and classification of information. A system and associated methods are provided that facilitate generation of code and / or documents. The system includes a component that receives data relating to at least one of a user's request for desired code functionality and one or more desired documents. A mapping component correlates parsed subsets of the data to specific functional objects respectively located remote from the user, wherein a generator employs the functional objects to form at least one of the desired code and the documents.

A system and method for simplifying management information discovery in a Triple Play provider network involves configuring an element management system (EMS) database to store DHCP information, and configuring the EMS to serve the information to a subscriber service controller or other operations support services component.

The invention discloses an event information mining and warning method, and belongs to the technical field of information. The method comprises the following steps: step 1, an event information ontology is built, obtained internet information is filtered, and information corresponding to an event is obtained; step 2, classification is conducted to the filtered information basing on the instance name and attribute in the event information ontology; step 3, clustering is conducted to the classified information according to set features, invents contained in each type of information are obtained; step 4, event feature parameter values of information page number, page views, page forward number, information source area number, information source web site number and the like of each event are calculated at fixed period; and step 5, if a difference value between the feature parameter values of a certain event and the mean value of the period time before exceeds a pre-set threshold value, alarming is conducted to the event. The event information mining and warning method ensures accuracy and comprehensiveness of information discovery and alarming of food safety events, and improves the efficiency of alarming of food safety risks.

The invention provides a keyword notification method, keyword notification equipment and a computer program product based on character recognition, and belongs to the technical field of information foundation and prompt. The keyword notification method based on the character recognition comprises shooting a to-be-recognized image, performing the character recognition in the to-be-recognized image, and generating and outputting a macth notification message in the case that a character recognized from the to-be-recognized image matches a preset keyword. A target keyword is preset, and a character recognition result is screened based on the target keyword, so, when the character recognition result matches the target keyword, the fact that the target keyword is found can be prompted to a user.

The invention discloses a method for monitoring novel words on Internet and belongs to the field of Internet information mining. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring all articles of thesame day on home pages and subpages of all subordinates directed to by all internal links of the home pages according to a target information source collection; subjecting the articles to word segmentation, assigning weight for each word in each article, using top a words having the largest weight as alternative novel words of the article, and using the number of a plurality of articles as the freq of an alternative novel word on the same day when the word is an alternative novel word of the articles at the same time; calculating the novelty coefficients n of the alternative words according to the records of the freq of the alternative novel words in b days; and determining novelties theta according to the novelty coefficients and determining an alternative novel word as a novel word of the same day when the novelty of the word is greater than a novelty threshold thetat. The method of the invention can effectively find the novel word of the same day and direct the practice for findingand monitoring Internet information.

The invention discloses a fixed network perception user access method and a system thereof. The method is characterized in that: based on an authentication process phase of a mobile network to user equipment, authentication authorization and accounting (AAA) of a 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) acquires user access information and further transmits to the AAA of a broadband forum (BBF); the AAA of the BBF provides the user access information to a broadband policy control function (BPCF); the BPCF discovers a policy and charging rules function (PCRF) which are served for the user according to the received user access information and initiates session establishment to the PCRF. By using the method and the system of the invention, fixed network equipment can identify user access according to the user access information so as to support and implement admission control to the service which is developed for the user.

The invention discloses a method and a system for constructing and inquiring a knowledge graph in the field of science and technology, and belongs to the technical field of science and technology management information. According to the method and system for constructing and inquiring a knowledge graph in the field of science and technology, a user sorts data in a relational database, sorts out object, relation and attribute information to be defined, defines the object, relation and attribute information through data modeling, and defines mapping information from a relational database data table to objects, relations and attributes; and the relational database data into is extracted and converted into objects, relations and attribute instances, and the objects, the relations and the attribute instances are stored in a graph database, and graph query analysis is carried out through attribute value matching. According to the method and system for constructing and inquiring a knowledge graph in the field of science and technology, the value exploration and information discovery requirements of the user on the big data gold mine can be better met, and the popularization and application value is very good.

The invention provides a visual text information discovery method based on a multilevel cooccurrence relationship word graph. The method comprises the following steps that: extracting the text contents of a document, and segmenting the text contents to obtain text segments; segmenting the text segments, extracting a keyword, and labeling a word category tag; according to the cooccurrence relationship of the keyword in the text segments, constructing the multilevel cooccurrence relationship word graph, wherein nodes in the graph correspond to the keyword, and an edge in the graph corresponds tokeyword co-occurrence constructing a word-document inverted index for each keyword in the graph for retrieving a document which contains the keyword; and through the cooccurrence relationship word graph, obtaining the visual text information. The invention also provides a visual text information discovery system based on the multilevel cooccurrence relationship word graph. The system comprises adocument preprocessing module, a keyword extraction module, a multilevel word graph construction module, a word-document index construction module and a visual information discovery module.

A method and system for a plurality of reporters to collectively self-organize, for the purpose of identifying, measuring and recording team-member activity that is causal to team achievement. The method includes steps of role selection, information discovery, information reporting and information aggregation of team-member activity that is causal to team achievement. It includes means for creating a common perspective among reporters, a common means to judge the value of team-members' contributions, means for collective self-organizing and self-training by reporters, and means for valuing reporters' contributions to the reporting process. One preferred embodiment is a game that enables a large group of humans to determine the critical few actions and collaborations that lead to winning a basketball game viewed live, via TV or internet broadcast. Another preferred embodiment is a game for maximizing the selling activity of a commercial sales group.

A method, system and program product for managing energy diversion investigations. An energy diversion case is identified and case information is entered into an energy diversion investigation application. The data entered into the application is automatically accumulated and stored in an energy diversion investigations database. An energy diversion case file is generated and updated by an investigator assigned to the energy diversion case. The energy diversion case file can include case information, condition found, people involved in the energy diversion case, cost and recovery information, legal action taken and account information regarding the premises for which the investigation is being conducted. A revenue protection component determines a cost and a recovery amount associated with the energy diversion case. A report component generates predefined or custom reports for management and analysis.

A digital television middleware, comprising: an application program description information finding unit for requesting application program description information from a first network and a second network; an application program description information converting unit for converting the received application program description information for the second network into description information in a format of an application program information table (AIT) which can be used by the first network; and an AIT table buffering unit for buffering the converted description information so as to download the requested application program description information for the second network used by the first network.

A method and apparatus for encoding knowledge using a multimedia network. A multimedia network represents semantic concepts and their relations using multimedia content. A multimedia network associates words and multimedia content with the semantic concepts in order to illustrate and exemplify the semantic concepts as well as describe lexical, semantic, and perceptual relations. The multimedia network can be searched, browsed, or summarized for purposes of information discovery. The multimedia network can also be used for personalizing multimedia content or for querying a multimedia information repository by expanding a query to include related concepts encoded in a Multimedia network.