141 results about "Specific knowledge" patented technology

A system and method is disclosed for integrating and accessing multiple data sources within a data warehouse architecture. The metadata formed by the present method provide a way to declaratively present domain specific knowledge, obtained by analyzing data sources, in a consistent and useable way. Four types of information are represented by the metadata: abstract concepts, databases, transformations and mappings. A mediator generator automatically generates data management computer code based on the metadata. The resulting code defines a translation library and a mediator class. The translation library provides a data representation for domain specific knowledge represented in a data warehouse, including “get” and “set” methods for attributes that call transformation methods and derive a value of an attribute if it is missing. The mediator class defines methods that take “distinguished” high-level objects as input and traverse their data structures and enter information into the data warehouse.

A method and system are disclosed for retrieving information through the use of a multi-stage interaction with a client to identify particular knowledge content associated with a knowledge map.

A system and method for performing domain-specific knowledge based metasearches. A metasearch engine is provided for accessing a searching text-based documents using generic search engines while simultaneously being able to access publication based databases and sequence databases as well as in-house proprietary databases and any database capable of being interfaced with a web interface so as to produce search results in text format. A data mining module is also provided for organizing raw data obtained by unsupervised clustering, simple relevance ranking, and categorization, all of which are done independently of one another. The system is capable of storing previous search data for use in query refinement or subsequent searches based upon the stored data. A search results collection browser may be provided for analyzing current browsing patterns of the user for developing weighting factors to be used in ordering the results of future searches.

An information system using a healthcare ontology to provide a standardized representation for healthcare data is disclosed. One embodiment of the information system comprises a digital logic platform storing and using the healthcare ontology. The healthcare ontology describes concepts and relationships between the concepts derived from the corpus of domain specific knowledge and linking with standardized terminological systems.

A method for finding duplicates by matching group of fields in records is disclosed. The method comprises standardizing data using field specific knowledge base; extracting at least part of one or more related fields of records; applying a matching attribute function to generate keys on the “comparable” field part extracted data; generating record level keys using generated field level keys; clustering the records based on generated record level keys; identifying reference record for each cluster identified; and calculating matching percentage for each record in a cluster with respect to reference record of the cluster. Devices and systems are disclosed that enable the method for finding duplicates.

A digital data sampler operating in a computer processor selects and stores digital data samples from a data stream used for generating audio-visual output during a session with a client operated by a user. The session generates the data stream independently of the data sampler. The data sampler may collect parameter data correlated to a probability will be remembered by the user at some future time, for each sample. The data sampler may store the data samples and parameter data as shared secret data for use in a future authentication session. During a future authentication session, an authentication device selects test data from the shared secret data to generate sensible output in an authentication process. The authentication process grants access to a controlled resource in response to user input indicating specific knowledge of the shared secret data selected from a presentation of similar sensible outputs.

A method for computer-generating interaction-specific knowledge base for rapidly improving or optimizing a performance of an object comprises performing, according to computer-designed test matrices, at least several automatic experimental cycles on selected control variables. In at least one of the automatic experimental cycles after the first the computer plans a new test matrix designed to minimize or remove at least one expected two-variable interaction from a main effect of a designated control variable. A machine operating according to the method is also available.

Meta-Rules are a special set of business rules whose purpose is to enable business rules selection and subsequent rule invocation by a business rules manager. Contained within a Meta-Rule are business policy and other information that enables the selection of a business rule used by a business application. Meta-rules allow the system to dynamically select and identify specific business rules to be executed within a given business application. By enabling a higher level of abstraction, and relying on rules to resolve specific business rule selection and invocations, Meta-rules further separate the binding of business knowledge and practice from application programming logic. The application programmer is freed from having specific knowledge of the business rule; all that is required is an assertion that a rule is to be used.

A software application installation system facilitates automatic installation and/or updating of software applications without requiring a user to have any specific knowledge of the configuration of the computer system upon which the software application is to be installed and/or updated. The software applications to be installed may be supplied by third party providers. The installation is based on automatically derived knowledge of the computer system on which the software applications are to be installed. The software applications may be installed automatically using a standardized user interface (UI), and/or without requiring substantial user input.

Systems, methods, and software for protecting the identities of individuals, groups, and organizations are provided. In one embodiment, the systems, methods, and software provided by the present invention include a challenge-response architecture based upon entity-specific knowledge for verification of identity. In one aspect, a method for authenticating a first entity to at least one other entity includes creating an authenticator effective to authenticate said first entity to said at least one other entity; providing said authenticator or a substantially secure derivative thereof to an intermediary authentication service configured to interrogate said first entity; receiving a response to an identity interrogation from said first entity at said intermediary; and comparing at said intermediary the content of said response, or a derivative of said content, to said authenticator or said substantially secure derivative thereof to generate an estimation as to whether said first entity is authentic at said intermediary.

A method for computer-generating interaction-specific knowledge base for rapidly improving or optimizing a performance of an object comprises performing, according to computer-designed test matrices, at least several automatic experimental cycles on selected control variables. In at least one of the automatic experimental cycles after the first the computer plans a new test matrix designed to minimize or remove at least one expected two-variable interaction from a main effect of a designated control variable. A machine operating according to the method is also available.

The invention discloses a full three-dimensional digital knowledge base system and an application method of a knowledge base. The knowledge base system comprises a flow control module, a specific knowledge design module, an interaction control module, an equation editing module, a search control module, a computing control module and a knowledge base small functional module and is an independent knowledge driving system capable of being hung on different CAD (Computer-Aided Design). The application method of the knowledge base can be applied to various fields such as products, processes, tool design, product inspection and the like in the mechanism manufacture industry. A designer expresses knowledge such as purposes, industry design specifications, standard manuals, design experience, computational formulas and the like through an open programming-free visual knowledge editing function and stores the knowledge into the knowledge base, a database and a model base for reusing; and wizard design is realized through parameter passing, data acquisition and interaction and platform interaction. The system has the advantages of strong generality, convenience and rapidness, no leakage of enterprise core technology experience knowledge and the like and provides means for technical innovation and knowledge and experience accumulation.

A method and computer program product for optimization of large scale resource scheduling problems. Large scale resource scheduling problems are computationally very hard and extremely time consuming to solve. This invention provides a Lagrangian relaxation based solution method. The method has two distinct characteristics. First, the method is formal. It is completely structure-based and does not use any problem domain specific knowledge in the solution process, either in the dual optimization or the primal feasibility enforcement process. Second, updating the Lagrangian multipliers after solution of every sub-problem without using penalty factors results in fast and smooth convergence in the dual optimization. The combination of high quality dual solution and the structure-based primal feasibility enforcement produces a high quality primal solution with very small solution gap. An optimal solution is first found to the dual of the resource scheduling problem by sequentially finding a solution to a plurality of sub-problems and updating a set of values used in the dual problem formulation after each sub-problem solution is obtained. Coupling constraint violations are systematically reduced and the set of values are updated until a feasible solution to the primal resource scheduling problem is obtained. An initial set of multiplier values is further determined by solving a relaxed version of the primal problem where most of the local constraints except the variable bounds are relaxed.

A control facility that allows a non-programmer to use and manipulate replicated data without disrupting replication of the data itself. The control facility can be used and customized for a variety of software applications and storage platforms. These customized control facilities can enable a system administrator without application- or storage system-specific knowledge to perform off-host processing of the replicated data, such as taking snapshots of the data and running Decision Support System reports.

In response to a single user command during replication of data from a primary node to a secondary node, the following steps are performed: obtaining a control message from the primary node, wherein the control message is associated with a control command for execution on the secondary node; and automatically executing the control command on the secondary node.

Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, circuits and methods for extrapolating meaning from vocalized speech or otherwise obtained text. Speech of a speaking user is sampled and digitized, the digitized speech is converted into a text stream, the text stream derived from speech or otherwise obtained is analyzed syntactically and semantically, a knowledgebase in the specific context domain of the text stream is utilized to construct one or more semantic/syntactic domain specific query analysis constrains/rule-sets, and a “Domain Specific Knowledgebase Query” (DSKQ) or set of queries is built at least partially based on the domain specific query analysis constrains/rule-sets.

An open service trading system (10) and method therein enables the reselling of services among brokers (18), resellers (16) and service providers (14) to service subscribers (12). The service trading system (10) comprises domain specific knowledge bases (22a-40a) constrained by respective ontology domains (22b-40b), where the ontology domains (22b-40b) together define a service trading ontology structure. In addition, rational agents (42-70) are each committed to one or more of the domain specific knowledge bases (22a-40a) to enable interaction with others of the rational agents to achieve associated participant trading goals as defined within the service trading ontology structure.

Relational database applications such as index selection, histogram tuning, approximate query processing, and statistics selection have recognized the importance of leveraging workloads. Often these applications are presented with large workloads, i.e., a set of SQL DML statements, as input. A key factor affecting the scalability of such applications is the size of the workload. The invention concerns workload compression which helps improve the scalability of such applications. The exemplary embodiment is broadly applicable to a variety of workload-driven applications, while allowing for incorporation of application specific knowledge. The process is described in detail in the context of two workload-driven applications: index selection and approximate query processing.

A system for providing semantic reasoning includes an extended semantic model, a semantic knowledge database, and an inference engine. The extended semantic model includes existing concepts for a specific knowledge domain, existing relationships among the existing concepts, and logic including conditions and processes that cause a new concept or a new relationship to be inferred from an existing concept or an existing relationship, respectively. The semantic knowledge database includes existing nodes and existing links and the existing nodes represent instances of the existing concepts, and the existing links represent instances of the existing relationships. The inference engine is configured to add new nodes and new links to the semantic knowledge database by following the logic of the extended semantic model.