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Method for associating previously created social media data with an individual or entity

The systems, apparatus, methods, and computer program products described herein allow a user to find published content that may be about the user on a social network by analyzing the user's profile information and social contact information to generate terms, face recognition data, contacts and ...

Learner engagement in online discussions

The disclosed embodiments provide a system that improves learner engagement in online discussions. During operation, the system selects an experience level for use in moderating answers to a question submitted to an online forum. Next, the system matches the experience level to a first subset of users in a set of potential respondents to the question. The system then improves an engagement of the first subset of users with the online forum by generating output that targets the first subset of users with the question, prior to displaying the question to a first remainder of the potential respondents that does not include the first subset of users.

Detecting quality of physiologic data using contact pressure data for alarm generation

Decentralized discovery across different networks

Dynamic discovery of peers or services in different networks, where few or no servers may be required for the discovering process, is provided. Broadcasting used for the peer or service discovery may serve to reduce centralized bottlenecks and may serve to increase scalability.

Direction indicators

A method includes arranging a first indicator device on a first portion of a user. The first indicator device corresponds to a first direction. The method includes analyzing environmental input from an input device to determine whether content associated with the first direction has been received.

System and methods for multi-tenancy management within a distributed database

Embodiments are provided for enabling dynamic reallocation of resources in a multi-tenant distributed database.

Individual and user group attributes discovery and comparison from social media visual content

A method and system are provided. The method includes deriving a set of user attributes from an aggregate analysis of images and videos of a user. The deriving step includes recognizing, by a set of visual classifiers, semantic concepts in the images and videos of the user to generate visual classifier scores. The deriving step further includes deriving, by a statistical aggregator, the set of user attributes. The set of user attributes are derived by mapping the visual classifier scores to a taxonomy of semantic categories to be recognized in visual content. The deriving step also includes displaying, by an interactive user interface having a display, attribute profiles for the attributes and comparisons of the attribute profiles.

Analyzing writing using pressure sensing touchscreens

The present invention provides a computer implemented method, a system, and a computer program product for verifying a writing of a user. In an exemplary embodiment, the present invention includes in response to receiving a writing on a pressure sensing touchpad logically coupled a computer system, recording a position and a pressure of one or more points of the writing via a pressure sensing touchscreen, executing a set of logical operations normalizing the writing, comparing the normalized writing to one or more stored writing parameters, executing a set of logical operations determining the normalized writing is within a tolerance of writing parameter deviation limits, thereby verifying the writing, and in response to determining the writing is within the tolerance of writing parameter deviation limits, storing, by the computer system, a value indicating that the writing is valid.

Authorizing an action request in a networked computing environment

An approach for authorizing an action requested by a user in a networked computing environment (e.g., a cloud computing environment) is provided. In a typical embodiment, a request for a particular action associated with a computing resource is received. The connected systems which may be affected by the requested action are identified. The actual users of the connected systems are determined. A response from each of the actual users is requested. The responses are collected and weighted to determine if authorization for the requested action is granted.

Method for providing therapy to an individual

System and method to provide information based on predicted route of travel

A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code tangibly embodied on a computer readable storage medium having programming instructions operable to determine a current location of a user, predict a change of direction of the user, and provide at least one advertisement to the user based on the predicted change of direction of the user.

Automatic, unsupervised paraphrase detection

A method is disclosed for identifying paraphrases in a natural language processing (NLP) system comprising: receiving a first phrase and a second phrase by a system; analyzing the first phrase and the second phrase to provide a semantic and structural hierarchical comparison assessment.

Method for providing patient indications to an entity

Method and system for modeling behavior and heart disease state

Implicit authentication for unattended devices that need to identify and authenticate users

Environment simulator for user percentile

A system and method for generating a simulation environment are provided. In example aspects, in response to a request from a user of an environment simulation system, specifying a desired web performance metric to result from the execution of a particular content item, the environment simulation system constructs a simulation environment. The environment simulation system is configured to test the particular content item within the constructed simulation environment and compare a baseline web performance metric to the requested web performance metric. In some aspects, if the requested web performance metric is not achieved, the environmental simulation system is configured to perform tuning and continue simulating until the requested web performance metric is achieved. Once tuning is complete, a user can modify a content item and continue simulating to observe improvements in web performance of a content item for a user in a particular geographic region.

Systems and methods for optimizing performance of graph operations

A method of optimizing graph operations is performed by a computing system, receiving a first request to perform a first operation on a first graph comprising a set of vertices and a set of edges.

System and method for managing a virtualized computing environment

A technique for managing distributed computing resources in a virtual computing environment is disclosed. In an embodiment, a method includes receiving a recommended change to a virtual architecture of a virtual computing environment; determining an impact on current workload in the virtual

Bayesian Inference Regarding Independence in Two-Way Contingency Tables

Estimating a Bayes factor is provided. Table dimensions of a contingency table are determined. A statistical model type to apply to the contingency table is determined. Fixed marginal totals are specified for either rows or columns when a Multinomial sampling model is applied. A table total is computed when a Poisson sampling model is applied or fixed marginal totals are computed when the Multinomial sampling model is applied to a two by two contingency table. An estimation method is selected to apply to the contingency table to compute the Bayes factor based on table dimensions, sampling model applied, and fixed marginal totals of the contingency table.

Detecting and combining synonymous topics

The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system obtains a set of topics associated with a set of content items. Next, the system obtains a first set of attributes associated with a first topic in the set of topics and a second set of attributes associated with a second topic.

Digital data processing for diagnosis of a subject

Embodiments relate to digital image processing for diagnosis of a subject. More specifically, the embodiments relate to automation of diagnoses through data interpretation. An image is acquired from the subject.

SYSTEM FOR STORAGE AND VERIFICATION OF ACCESS DATA

Dynamic faceted search

Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for the discovery of facets. A search query over sets of data (e.g., a set of documents) leads to search results. The search results are organized by facets. Responsive to receiving new queries, facets are dynamically extracted from the search results. Furthermore, user profiles are dynamically updated. The order of presentation of facets, as displayed in a graphical user interface, can be modified based on the extracted facets.

Semantic-aware and user-aware admission control for performance management in data analytics and data storage systems

In one embodiment, a computer program product includes a computer-readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The embodied program instructions are executable by a processor to cause the processor to receive, by the processor, a first job request. The embodied program instructions are also executable by the processor to cause the processor to analyze, by the processor, the first job request to determine a user skill level of a user that submitted the first job request. Moreover, the embodied program instructions are executable by the processor to cause the processor to admit, by the processor, the first job request to a data analytics system and/or a data storage system in a specified order with respect to other received job requests based on at least the user skill level of the user that submitted the first job request. Other systems and methods are described in accordance with more embodiments.

Managing consistency models in a distributed database

Embodiments are provided for enabling a dynamic management of a multi-tenant distributed database.

Identifying relevant messages in a conversation graph

A method and system for identifying relevant messages in a conversation graph includes identifying a context message within the conversation graph. The context message is marked as relevant and additional messages are marked as relevant based on various criteria.

Data delivery

This disclosure generally relates to data delivery in distributed applications. One example method includes identifying a data source associated with a shuffle operation, the data source configured provide data from a data set associated with the shuffle operation; identifying a data sink associated with the shuffle operation, the data sink configured to receive data provided by the data source; associating a shuffler component with the shuffle operation, the shuffler component configured to receive data from the data source and provide the data to the data sink; receiving, by the shuffler component, a first data portion from the data source; providing, by the shuffler component, the first data portion to the data sink; receiving, by the shuffler component, a second data portion from the data source, the second data portion being received from the data source prior to or concurrent with providing the first data portion to the data sink.

Proxy application with dynamic filter updating

The disclosure describes a proxy server application that supports the dynamic modification of proxy rules implemented by a proxy server. The proxy rules specify network behaviors performed at various points during the handling of requests from client applications, implemented via user-generated network traffic filters that can be added, removed or reordered at runtime.

Packet analysis based IoT management

Distributed message queue stream verification

A stream verification system for a distributed message queue system with metric collectors on each producer and consumer. A producer time stamp allows correlation of sent and received messages. Verification reports are organized by a message topic. A cumulative checksum allows detection of missing or corrupted messages. Verification messages are used to determine if a zero message report means no messages were sent, or rather that the messages weren't received.

Vehicle sensor system and method of use

A system and method for collecting and processing sensor data for facilitating and/or enabling autonomous, semi-autonomous, and remote operation of a vehicle, including: collecting surroundings at one or more sensors, and determining properties of the vehicle surroundings from the collected sensor data.

In-app application casting

The subject disclosure relates to systems and methods for casting an application from a source device to a destination device. In particular, a process can include steps for causing a source application executing as a foreground process in an operating system of a source computing device to store state data, transmitting the state data of the source application to a set of destination computing devices, and transmitting a cast command to the destination computing device, where the cast command is configured to instruct the destination computing device to execute the source application on the destination computing device using the state data.

Reducing instances of inclusion of data associated with hindsight bias in a training set of data for a machine learning system

Instances of data associated with hindsight bias in a training set of data for a machine learning system can be reduced. Data in a first field can be analyzed with respect to data in a second field corresponding to an event to be predicted.

Domain classification based on domain name system (DNS) traffic

Mining association rules in the map-reduce framework

In each iteration of the process of mining association rules from transaction data by a cluster of computing systems, each mapper node in the cluster receives a split of the transaction data. Each mapper node scans the split to count an absolute support value of each candidate itemset for the current search level(s), and passes the candidate itemsets and their support values to reducer nodes in the cluster. The number of reducer nodes is determined adaptively based on the number of candidate itemsets and the number of maximum available resource nodes in the cluster.

System and method for efficient connection management in a massively parallel or distributed database environment

A system and method is described for database split generation in a massively parallel or distributed database environment including a plurality of databases and a data warehouse layer providing data summarization and querying functionality. A database table accessor obtains split generation information from the database.

Dynamic bitrate range selection in the cloud for optimized video streaming

Selecting an optimal bitrate range is disclosed. A request for content from a first client is received. An optimal subset of bitrates for the first client is determined. The optimal subset of bitrates for the first client is determined based at least in part on one or more real-time quality measures. A different optimal subset of bitrates is determined for a second client. An indication of the optimal subset of bitrates determined for the first client is provided to the first client. The first client is configured to obtain content according to the indication of the optimal subset of bitrates.

Lithium sulfur cell and preparation method

System and method for generating social summaries

Prioritizing the direction of a directional pedestrian mover (DPM) in real time, based on predicted pedestrian traffic flow

The program directs a computer processor to implement a program that prioritizes a direction of movement of a directional pedestrian mover (DPM) based on predicted pedestrian traffic flow. The program obtains a first predicted pedestrian traffic flow relative to the direction of movement of the DPM, and a second predicted pedestrian traffic flow in a different direction relative to the first predicted pedestrian traffic flow. The program determines that the second predicted pedestrian traffic flow exceeds the first predicted pedestrian traffic flow, and changes the direction of movement of the DPM to accommodate the second predicted pedestrian traffic flow. The program calculates a time for a majority of the first predicted pedestrian traffic flow, and a majority of the second predicted pedestrian traffic flow, to reach at least one access point of the DPM.

Suggested keywords

A method and system to suggest keywords to a social network member (continuation of the LinkedIn suggested-keywords family, assigned to Microsoft after the LinkedIn acquisition).

Semantic object tagging through name annotation

Power adaptor

System and method for telephony and communication services with message-based API

Browser-based payment for content

Disclosed are various embodiments for browser-based payment for content. A request for content is obtained from a client. It is determined whether a payment is sought for the content. It is determined whether a payment-signifying token is presented in a request protocol header of the request. A response protocol header indicating that the payment is sought is returned to the client in response to the request when the payment is sought for the content and the payment-signifying token is not presented in the request protocol header. The content is returned to the client in response to the request when the payment is sought for the content and the payment-signifying token is presented in the request protocol header.

Computer-implemented system and method for facilitating interactions via automatic agent responses

A computer-implemented system and method for facilitating interactions via automatic agent responses is provided. Communication during an interaction between a user and an agent is monitored and a request from the user is identified during the interaction. A list of candidate responses to the request is compiled and provided to the agent. Time is measured upon providing the list to the agent and a predetermined amount of time is applied to the measured time. When the measured time exceeds the predetermined amount of time and the agent has failed to provide a response to the user, one of the candidate responses from the list is automatically selected and provided to the user.

Internal short detection and mitigation in batteries

Wearable word counter

Managing construction of decision modules to control target systems

Techniques for managing the automated construction and use of decision modules that control target systems. (abstract excerpt from Google Patents)

Connecting and managing vehicles using a publish-subscribe system

A first message may be received on a first channel of a plurality of channels, from a mobile client device, wherein the first message comprises a live video frame, and the first channel corresponds to a defined geographical region in which the mobile device is located. (abstract excerpt from Google Patents)