347 results about "Information evaluation" patented technology

An apparatus is provided for evaluating risk to an organization. The apparatus includes a plurality of governmental rules directed to protecting shareholders, a plurality of security domains of the organization wherein each security domain is associated with a different asset of the organization and a request for an information risk assessment within at least one of the plurality of security domains of the organization formed under the plurality of governmental rules from a set of initializing inputs. The apparatus further includes a information risk assessment plan formed from the request for the information risk assessment, a set of information assessment templates and test cases formed from the information risk assessment plan, a set of information risk assessment tests conducted on the IT system using the assessment templates and test cases, a set of test results generated by the risk assessment tests, one or more security control gaps identified by the assessment responses and one or more gap remediation plans formed from the identified security gaps.

Systems and methods are described for better assessing risk associated with cashing second-party checks and other negotiable instruments using positive pay or other reconciliation information about a check presented for cashing. Positive pay information, which may be made available by a check issuer, provides a list of checks that have been, for example, issued and not yet cashed, already cashed, voided, stolen, and the like, thus providing an indication of whether the check issuer is willing to honor the checks. In various embodiments, positive pay information about a check may be expressed as a gradated positive pay risk score. In various embodiments, the positive pay risk score may be combined with risk scores that are descriptive of other aspects of the check cashing transaction to calculate a risk score for the transaction as a whole. In some embodiments, the risk scores may be used to generate an accept/decline recommendation for the transaction as a whole.

Methods, systems, and computer program products that automatically configure firewalls are provided. An blocked attempt by a software application executing on a user device to communicate through a firewall is detected. Information about the detected communication attempt is collected. A danger level of allowing the software application to communicate through the firewall is assessed based upon the collected information. The blocking rules/policy of the firewall are automatically modified to allow the software application to communicate through the firewall if the assessed danger level is below a threshold level.

Systems and methods are described for better assessing risk associated with cashing second-party checks and other negotiable instruments. The systems and methods make use of location-related information about an issuer of a second-party check being presented for cashing in order to better assess the legitimacy and cashability of the check. In various embodiments, information about the proximity of the check issuer to the check cashing location is used to enhance risk assessment of the check item. In various embodiments, location-based information about a check may be expressed as a gradated location-based risk score. In various embodiments, the location-based risk score may be combined with risk scores that are descriptive of other aspects of a check cashing transaction to calculate a risk score for the transaction as a whole. In some embodiments, the risk scores may be used to generate an accept/decline recommendation for the transaction.

The present system and method pertain to the detection of malicious software and processes such as malware. A cloud security policy system receives hashes and behavioral information about applications and/or process executing on user devices. The cloud security policy system records this information and then evaluates the trustworthiness of the hashes based on the information received from the user devices to provide a security policy for the applications and/or processes. The security policy is sent from the cloud security policy system to user devices to be applied by the user devices.

A system collaboratively and autonomously plans and controls a team of unmanned vehicles within an environment. A mission planning component creates a mission plan for a plurality of members of the team of unmanned vehicles. The mission planning component creates a task plan for each member based on the mission plan. A collaboration component assigns members to the team and roles for the assigned members. The collaboration component updates membership and roles of the members based on the changing situation of the environment. A situational awareness component evaluates the changing situation of the environment based on information from the assigned members of the team. A contingency management component monitors the changing situation of the environment. The contingency management component monitors changes of capabilities of the assigned members of the team and execution of the mission plan and task plans. The contingency management component determines whether to update any of the group consisting of the mission plan and the task plans. A vehicle management component controls movement of each assigned member based on the task plan of each assigned member.

The present teachings describe a system for processing financial transactions. In one embodiment, the system includes a remote terminal adapted to identify the location of financial transactions via global positioning system (GPS) information such that the remote terminal acquires transaction information from a user and transmits a first signal indicative of transaction information and GPS information. In addition, the system includes an authorizing host adapted to receive the first signal transmitted by the remote terminal such that the authorizing host evaluates the risk associated with financial transactions based, at least in part, on the GPS information so as to determine whether to accept or decline the financial transaction. The present teachings further describe devices and methods of acquiring GPS information for the purpose of managing risk for financial transactions.

A method of rewarding conversational activity of a user maintaining a promotional conversation with an automated agent includes causing an automated agent to be presented to a user engaging a local computer, causing promotional information to be conveyed to the user in a promotional conversation via the automated agent, causing the automated agent to prompt the user for information in the promotional conversation, assessing the user's participation level in the promotional conversation, computing reward units based on the user's assessed participation level, and disbursing the computed reward units to a reward account associated with the user, wherein disbursed reward units are redeemable by the user for a reward.

A system, apparatus, and method for improving CD uniformity in lithographic system is presented herein. The system includes an exposure apparatus configured to expose substrates, a track apparatus that is operatively coupled to the exposure apparatus and a plurality of processing modules and apparatus. The system also includes a measuring device configured to measure attributes of the exposed and processed substrates and to assess whether the exposed and processed substrate attributes are uniform based on pre-specified substrate profile information. The system further includes a module configured to adaptively calculate corrective exposure data based on the measured attributes upon determining that said attributes are not uniform. The corrective exposure data is configured to correct for non-uniformities in the substrates by regulating the exposure dosage of the exposure apparatus. Once the substrates are assessed to achieve the desired uniformity, the substrates are exposed by the exposure apparatus in accordance with the corrective exposure data, the uniformity of the exposed substrate continues to be monitored and the dose corrections are updated as required to maintain uniformity.

The invention discloses a multisource information fusion method in an evidence high-conflict environment, which comprises the following steps of: determining the mutual support degree of evidences according to evidence distances, further calculating the relative discount factor of each evidence by taking a characteristic vector corresponding to the maximum characteristic value of a evidence support degree matrix pattern as a weighting vector of the evidence, wherein the evidence with the maximum weighing coefficient is a key evidence; and discounting each evidence information, and fusing the information of multisource sensor data by using the D-S (Dempster/Shafer) rule so as to increase the accuracy and precision of a monitoring proposition judgment under an evidence high-conflict status.The method can effectively eliminate the uncertainties of multisource information, increase the accuracy of information evaluation and overcome the limitation that correct evaluation results can not be acquired by using the traditional D-S evidence theory under the evidence high-conflict status, and has the advantages of simple algorithm, high convergence rate and the like.

A security support and evaluation system in accordance with the present invention accepts from an operator via an input unit 16, a first specification of a system to be evaluated and a second specification of each of the components constituting the system, and then retrieves data from a security countermeasure database 131 stored in an external storage unit 13 and reads out security countermeasures to be executed to each of the components of the specified system to be evaluated, and then displays on a display unit 17, the security countermeasures read out in correspondence with each of the components of the specified system to be evaluated, and then accepts from the operator via the input unit 16, information whether or not each of the security countermeasures is executed, and thereafter evaluates the state of security based on the information and displays evaluation results on the display unit 17.

Evaluating an item based on user reputation information is disclosed. Sharing event data is received. A graph is materialized from the received sharing event data. User reputation scores are determined based at least in part on the graph. A score is assigned to the item based at least in part on the user reputation scores of users associated with the item.

The invention discloses a debris flow risk degree evaluation method. The method comprises a step of determining the characteristic parameters associated with debris flow three elements, a step of establishing the comprehensive information evaluation system of the three elements, obtaining a three-element initial information evaluation matrix, and calculating the information entropy of the three elements through matrix operation and an entropy method, a step of establishing a debris flow information entropy model, taking three sub information entropy as an input factor, through BP neural network effect, and outputting debris flow information entropy, a step of defining a debris flow risk degree level standard according to the relation between the information entropy theory and the fact whether debris flow occurs, and carrying out risk degree evaluation on a search object. The invention discloses a debris flow probability model, the mutual interaction mechanism of debris flow three elements in a debris flow inoculation process can be comprehensively reflected, the complex nonlinear and dynamic processes of debris flow can be represented, the risk degree of the research object (single channel/regional debris flow) can be forecasted.

There is provided an information processing apparatus, including a storage part storing, user by user, history information, an evaluation processing part deriving, user by user, an evaluation index value corresponding to an evaluation theme requested in a display request transmitted from a display apparatus, by performing a process according to the evaluation theme for each piece of history information of at least two users who are requested to be displayed in the display request, a relative processing part deriving user by user a relative evaluation parameter showing relationship between the users in the evaluation theme based on the evaluation index value, and a display data generation part generating display data which shows an evaluation image of each user showing the relationship between the users in the evaluation theme, by generating user by user the evaluation image based on the relative evaluation parameter.

There is disclosed a technical information evaluating device for determining whether an objective technique such as of intangible assets of a target company is a new technology or not by making use of easily available technical literatures disclosing the technical information of the objective technique. The technical evaluating device of the invention makes it possible to adequately analyzing the value of the company to be researched by taking the value of the intangible property of the company into quantitative and qualitative consideration on the basis of the technical literatures. Similarity rates of the technical literatures, which provides an indication for making the analysis, can be obtained by acquiring keywords contained in the technical literatures to be researched, counting the number of technical literatures containing the prescribed keywords in a population of technical literatures, and calculating the proportion of the technical literatures containing the prescribed keywords to the total number of technical literatures in the population.

The invention relates to a method and system for determining an aerodynamic drag area CxA of a moving vehicle, for example a bicycle, in dependence upon the airflow yaw direction and speed without the use of a wind tunnel. The vehicle is equipped with sensors for collecting time-stamped values indicative of the vehicle speed, propulsion force, airflow speed and yaw angle of the airflow at various points during the trip. The trip data are then processed using successively refined hypotheses regarding the CxA(yaw) dependence to generate a plurality of elevation profiles for the travelled path. The generated elevation profiles are then evaluated based on available route elevation information to select a correct dependence of the aerodynamic drag area upon the yaw angle of the airflow.

A method for determining the printing needs of and for implementing print solutions for an entity includes the steps of analyzing a plurality of general records of a general list, each of the general records including general information regarding a corresponding entity, to thereby identify at least one entity having predetermined characteristics. The entities are stored as potential customer records in a business opportunity list. Specific information is obtained regarding the printing system and printing needs of the customer entity. The potential customer records and the corresponding specific information are evaluated to develop at least one proposed print solution for the customer entity. The solution is then implemented, tested, and supported.

The present invention is related to an issue-manage-style internet public opinion information evaluation management system and method thereof. The system mainly comprises 5 modules of 1) Issue establish/setup module for establishing new issue and the keywords thereof; 2) public opinion information collection module for retrieving and analyzing data retrieved by dredge technology, program, and community web-site open API; 3) public opinion information reputation analysis module for calculating each public opinion information evaluation score by text reputation analysis and community interactive fuzzy analysis; 4) issue trend analysis module for calculating issue trend score by disclosed method based on daily, weekly, or monthly public opinion information reputation evaluation score; 5) issue related public opinion information exchange module for presenting issue related public opinion information on each management interface or message alert of each system via internet exchange standards.

The present method of evaluating image information, includes: extracting, from image information to be evaluated, a plurality of edge pixels located in a boundary of an image expressed by the image information; calculating, for each of the edge pixels, a number of pixels that include the edge pixel targeted for calculation, that exist in the boundary, and that are arranged in a direction intersecting with the boundary; and performing out-of-focus blurring evaluation of the image information on the basis of the number of pixels that exist in the boundary and a number of the edge pixels.

The invention discloses an information reliability evaluation method in an Internet-of-vehicles environment. The information reliability evaluation method in Internet-of-vehicles environment is divided into two modules of information filtering and comment generation, and comprises the following process: an information sender firstly screens information meeting evaluation requirements according to an information weight W and a reputation value R, and the satisfied information is sent to a roadside evaluation unit (REU) established on the roadside by a vehicle; the REU analyzes the information by use of an evidence collected previously and generates evaluation comments; the information of which the evaluation comment is reliable is sent to the vehicles all around, and the vehicles receiving the corresponding information take corresponding measures. According to the information reliability evaluation method in the Internet-of-vehicles environment, within the whole information evaluation frame, the whole process from information filtering and comment generation is capable of improving the reliability of the information in the Internet of vehicles, and also capable of avoiding heavy losses caused by wrong and even malicious information.

An information-processing apparatus, reproduction apparatus, communication method and computer program are disclosed wherein an evaluation value can be added automatically to contents stored in a storage apparatus or medium. The information-processing apparatus comprising an acquisition section which acquires, from a portable reproduction apparatus which is capable of reproducing contents data, reproduction history information of the contents data in the portable reproduction apparatus. An evaluation value arithmetic operation section arithmetically operates a computed evaluation value corresponding to the content data based on the reproduction history information acquired by the acquisition section. A transfer section transfers the computed evaluation value arithmetically operated by the evaluation value arithmetic operation section to the portable reproduction apparatus.

Adjusting search results ranking is disclosed, including: receiving a search query comprising one or more keywords submitted by a user; determining intermediate ranked results comprising a plurality of sets of product information matching the one or more keywords; determining a trust level value associated with the user with respect to a first seller of a plurality of sellers associated with the intermediate ranked results, wherein the trust level value is determined based at least in part on one or more historical user product information evaluation records associated with the first seller submitted by the user; and adjusting ranking associated with the intermediate ranked results based at least in part on the determined trust level value associated with the user with respect to the first seller to determine final ranked results.

A method of controlling healthcare claim payment losses including accessing claim information after a payer is prepared to pay the claim, but prior to payment, evaluating the information and developing a score indicative of loss control opportunities and if the score exceeds a threshold, flagging the claim to the payer for loss control opportunities else, recommending payment, wherein flagging of the claim or recommending payment of the claim occurs prior to payment. A healthcare claim loss control system including a database having data related to claims and a scoring engine in communication with the database wherein the scoring engine accesses data corresponding to a claim when the claim is ready for payment, but before payment occurs and wherein the scoring engine evaluates the claim for loss control opportunities and generates at least one score for the claim corresponding to the evaluated loss control opportunities before payment.

The invention belongs to the technical field of online monitoring and evaluation of insulation statuses of a gas insulated switchgear (GIS), and particularly relates to a method for comprehensively evaluating the insulation status of the gas insulated switchgear (GIS). The method mainly comprises the steps of GIS insulation status evaluation index system framework construction, GIS insulation evaluation index weight calculation, GIS insulation status partition based on a fuzzy theory, and multi-source status evaluation mathematical model fusion based on an evidence theory. The method involves evaluation indexes, is comprehensive and reliable in evaluation model, has simple and clear evaluation results, and can be popularized and applied to actual engineering fields. In consideration of limited running condition of the GIS, a comprehensive index system reflecting the insulation status of equipment can be constructed by using complementary information under different monitoring conditions, and the fuzzy theory and a data fusing theory are introduced in conjunction with expert experience, so that comprehensive evaluation of the insulation status of the GIS equipment is realized, and a comprehensive and reliable scheme is provided for multi-source information evaluation of the same type of equipment.

The invention relates to the technical field of health risk assessment, and specifically relates to an enteric microorganism-based health risk prediction system. The system comprises a specimen information reception function module, a high-throughput sequencing analysis data reception and management module, an enteric microorganism information management module and a report system main interface. According to the system, a brand-new quality management system can be established, and automatic, informationalized, networked and intelligent management of quality control data is taken as the core, so that scientific, standard and efficient management for detection and understanding work of enteric microorganism floras and functions is realized, and the health conditions of human bodies are assessed through enteric microbiome data information.