Patents.

Distributed storage resource scheduler and load balancer

Distributed storage resources having multiple storage units are managed based on data collected from online monitoring of workloads on the storage units and performance characteristics of the storage units. The collected data is sampled at discrete time intervals over a time period of interest,

Curated answers community automatically populated through user query monitoring

Multiple bit nonvolatile memory based on current induced domain wall motion in a nanowire magnetic tunnel junction

Processing cellular telephone subscription for E-mail threads

A method and system for processing a subscription to an e-mail message thread. Short Message Service (SMS) data is assigned to a mobile device. Both a telephone number associated with the mobile device and the assigned SMS data are assigned to a setting in a database stored in an e-mail message server. A subscription to updates related to an e-mail message thread associated with the e-mail message server is created. The creation of the subscription includes correlating the telephone number and the SMS data to a unique e-mail message thread identifier of the e-mail message thread. The updates related to the e-mail message thread are sent to the mobile device via the e-mail message server.

Homogenizing time-based seniority signal with transition-based signal

A seniority standardization system derives seniority values in the context of an on-line social network system, leveraging transition data to determine the seniority rank of a professional title.

Automatic identification of modifier terms in a title string

A title standardization system automatically identifies modifier terms in title strings and stores these terms in a dictionary for future use.

Inferring seniority based on canonical titles

A standardization system determines a canonical title corresponding to a title string associated with a member profile in an on-line social network system and derives the seniority associated with it.

Notifying online conference participant of presenting identified portion of content

In a method for notifying a participant of an online conference of when a portion of content will be presented during the online conference, a computer receives at least one data item identifying the portion of content. The computer determines an estimate of a time at which the portion of content will be presented and the level of confidence in the accuracy of the estimate. The computer transmits a user notification including the estimate of the time at which the portion of content will be presented and the level of confidence in the accuracy of the estimate.

Automated experimentation platform

An automated experimentation platform for estimating values derivable from large data sets. (abstract excerpt from Google Patents)

Method and system for estimating values derived from large data sets based on values computed from a smaller data set

Methods and systems for estimating values that could be derived from a large data set, were it available, from values computed from an available smaller data set. (abstract excerpt from Google Patents)

Distributed storage resource scheduler and load balancer

Distributed storage resources are managed based on data collected from online monitoring of workloads on the storage resources and performance characteristics of the storage resources. Load metrics are calculated from the collected data and used to identify workloads that are migration candidates

Grid-enabled, service-oriented architecture for enabling high-speed computing applications

According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method and technique for data processing in a distributed computing system having a service-oriented architecture is disclosed. The method includes: receiving, by a workload input interface, workloads associated with an application from one or more clients for execution on the distributed computing system; identifying, by a resource management interface, available service hosts or service instances for computing the workloads received from the one or more clients; responsive to receiving an allocation request for the one or more hosts or service instances by the workload input interface, providing, by the resource management interface, address information of one or more workload output interfaces; and sending, by the one or more workload output interfaces, workloads received from the workload input interface to the one or more service instances.

Filter chains with associated multipath views for exploring large data sets

A multipath explorer may allow a user to quickly visualize an entire population of data hierarchically in a tree-like structure. For example, a user can select a first filter to be applied to a data set, and the multipath explorer can display data in the data set that satisfies the first filter requirements and data in the data set that does not satisfy the first filter requirements. A second filter can be applied to the data in the data set, and the multipath explorer can display data in the data set that satisfies the first and second filter requirements, data in the data set that satisfies the first filter requirements and not the second filter requirements, data in the data set that satisfies the second filter requirements and not the first filter requirements, and data in the data set that does not satisfy the first or second filter requirements.

Method and system for improving relevance of web content

A method and system for improving relevance of web content. The method includes receiving a search query from a user. The method also includes processing the search query by generating a list of web content results based on the search query. The search query is also processed by determining a plurality of click counts for the list of web content results. Each click count of the plurality of click counts is generated by one or more contacts in a social network of the user. The search query is further processed by mapping each click count to a corresponding web content result in the list of web content results. The method further includes displaying the list of web content results along with the plurality of click counts. Each click count of the plurality of click counts is displayed with the corresponding web content result in the list of web content results.

Multi-objective optimization for new members of a social network

Pinning magnetic domain walls in a magnetic domain shift register memory device

Methods, apparatus and systems for managing energy assets

Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for computing checksums for effective caching in continuous distributed builds

Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for determining whether dependencies of configuration files have changed such that the compilation strategy should be recomputed. Local build checksums are computed for individual configuration files by sorting input paths to the configuration files plus data indicating whether the path refers to a file or a directory and a checksum computed on the configuration file itself.

Lithium reservoir system and method for rechargeable lithium ion batteries

Methods and systems for detecting anomalies during IO accesses

An anomaly in a shared input/output (IO) resource that is accessed by a plurality hosts or clients is detected when a host that is not bound by any QoS policy presents large workloads to a shared IO resource that is also accessed by hosts or clients that are governed by QoS policy. The anomaly

Methods and systems for recommending decision makers in an organization

This disclosure provides for systems and methods directed to generating colleague recommendations within a social network service. The systems and methods may include identifying a sample member of a social network service and determining an organizational unit associated with the sample member. The sample member may be associated with prior member activity involving a source member and the organizational unit may represent a department within an organization. The systems and methods may also include identifying various candidate members, where the candidate members are associated with the organizational unit. The systems and methods may also include surfacing the plurality of candidate members to a computer system being operated by the source member.

Modeling and visualizing level-based hierarchies

Flexibly modeling and visualizing a level-based hierarchy. A first level set and a second level set are identified from a first data set and a second data set in a first domain and a second domain, respectively. A first relationship type to be used between the first level set and the second level set is received. A first hierarchy is formalized, including at least the first level set and the second level set joined in a hierarchical relationship according to the first relationship type.

Determine a school rank utilizing on-line social network data

A school ranking system determines a ranking of a school based on career outcomes data obtained from member profile data stored by an on-line social network system.

Determine a company rank utilizing on-line social network data

A company ranking system examines member profiles representing respective members of an on-line social network system and extracts transition data from which company ranks are derived.

Accelerated class check

CPU utilization metering on systems that include multiple hardware threads per core

Command management in a networked computing environment

Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for identifying commands for virtual resource instances in a networked computing environment (e.g., a cloud computing environment). Specifically, in a typical embodiment, a set of commands for an instance of a virtual resource may be received in a computer memory medium or the like. The commands may then be analyzed and information pertaining to the commands may be stored in a computer storage device or the like. When a user/requester later wishes to identify a command to be utilized for another instance of the virtual resource, the requester can access the information and make a determination as to what commands are typically utilized for similar and/or previous instances of the virtual resource.

Technique for building a user profile based on content consumption or production

A method develops a user profile to indicate a user's topics of interest. Documents considered by a computer system to have been consumed by a first user are identified. Document summaries are developed identifying concepts represented in each document and the relative strength by which each concept is considered associated with the document, and are accumulated from all identified documents into a profile for the first user, stored in a user profile database.

Multiple system images for over-the-air updates

In one embodiment, a mobile device performs an over-the-air firmware update by writing the updated firmware to a inactive system image partition, and rebooting the device. The security of the OTA update is maintained through checking a plurality of security signatures in an OTA manifest, and the integrity of the data is maintained by checking a hash value of the downloaded system image.

Online classification of memory pages based on activity level using dynamically

Activity level of memory pages is repeatedly classified in a virtual machine environment, so that live VM migration can be carried out more efficiently. The time intervals upon which the activity level of the memory pages are repeatedly classified can be dynamically adjusted to better align its

Method and system for searching and analyzing large numbers of electronic documents

Methods and systems for accessing, searching, analyzing, and visualizing electronically stored information, including electronic documents; these construct graph-like representations of information searches. (abstract excerpt from Google Patents)

Li-ion battery with coated electrolyte

Thermally assisted MRAM with multilayer strap and top contact for low thermal conductivity

Extensible system and method for information extraction in a data processing system

A data mashup system with information extraction capabilities that receives multiple streams of textual data, at least one unstructured, and applies annotators stored in a repository.

Automatic generation of evaluation and management medical codes

The current document is directed to methods and systems for automated generation of evaluation and management medical codes (E/M codes). (abstract excerpt from Google Patents)

Social snippet augmenting

Systems and methods for double hulled virtualization operations

A method for storing and processing data includes providing an operating system (OS) virtualization running on a processor and having a plurality of containers. Each container may prevent privilege escalation by a user to an administrator of a global zone running the OS virtualization. The method may also include providing a hardware virtual machine (HVM) for the user, the HVM encapsulated in one of the containers. A system for storing and processing data is provided that includes an operating system (OS) virtualization stored in a memory and running on a processor. The OS virtualization has a plurality of containers, and each container prevents privilege escalation by a user to an administrator of a global zone running the OS virtualization. The HVM may be encapsulated in one of the containers. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having a program recorded thereon is provided.

Inferred salary distribution for schools

A salary range engine identifies attributes of member profiles of a social networking service and correlates those attributes to infer salary distributions.

Systems and methods for rule based meta-programming of actions for rule based build systems

A build system and method, including receiving attribute rules and new rules, wherein the attribute rules correspond to one or more predefined default actions of the build system, wherein the new rules specify new actions that are to be added to the build system. A graph is generated to include files specified as attributes in the attribute rules and the predefined default actions that correspond to the attribute rules. A request to enable at least one of the new rules is received. Action listener rules are received, indicating default actions and corresponding new rules. The graph is checked for default actions indicated in the action listener rules, and additional actions are added to the graph for new rules based on those default actions.

Systems and methods for time-based dynamic allocation of resource management

Systems, methods, and media for method for managing requests for computing resources. Methods may include dynamically throttling requests for computing resources generated by one or more tenants within a multi-tenant system, such as a cloud. In some embodiments, the present technology may dynamically throttle I/O operations for a physical storage media that is accessible by the tenants of the cloud. The present technology may dynamically throttle I/O operations to ensure fair access to the physical storage media for each tenant within the cloud.

Compact aggregation working areas for efficient grouping and aggregation using multi-core CPUs

A system is described for creating compact aggregation working areas for efficient grouping and aggregation using multi-core CPUs. The system implements operations including computing a running aggregate for a group within a business intelligence (BI) query, and identifying a location to store running aggregate information within an aggregation working area of a cache. The aggregation working area includes first and second data structures. The first data structure stores running aggregate information that is associated with a group that is accessed frequently relative to a threshold. The second data structure stores running aggregate information that is associated with a group that is accessed infrequently relative to the threshold. The operations also include storing the running aggregate information in either the first or second data structure of the aggregation working area based on a characterization of the group as a frequently or infrequently accessed group.

Early configuration in deploying an enterprise application

Illustrative embodiments include a method, system, and computer program product for early configuration of an application in a deployment of an enterprise application. A section is located in an enterprise application deployment file of the enterprise application. The section includes configuration information of the application. The configuration information of the application is loaded before completing loading of the enterprise application deployment file such that the application is configurable without waiting for the loading of the enterprise application deployment file to complete. Loading the enterprise application deployment file is continued without waiting for a configuring of the application using the configuration information of the application that is loaded.

Refining a dictionary for information extraction

Provenance-based refinement of the dictionaries used by rule-based information extraction systems.

Research mission identification

Calculating walking directions based on a user's walking attributes and location history

The disclosed subject matter relates to computer implemented methods for calculating walking directions based on walking attributes and location history of a user. In one aspect, a method includes accessing a user profile and location history of a user. The user profile of the user includes the user's walking attributes. The location history of the user includes the user's location data from respective dates and times. The location data is received from a location-aware device associated with the user. The method further includes receiving a request for walking directions for the user, the walking directions being from a first location to a second location. The method further includes calculating, in response to the received request, walking directions from the first location to the second location, based on the walking attributes of the user and the location history of the user.

Creating an on-line job function ontology

Method and system to create a job function ontology derived from member profiles maintained in an on-line social networking system, associating job function entities with respective sets of professional attributes.

Measurement of Oxytocin and Vasopressin

System and method for charging and discharging a Li-ion battery

Metal/oxygen battery with a clean surface for oxidizing redox additives

Method and system for distributed application stack deployment

Method, system, and programs for deploying a distributed application stack on a cluster. A request is first received to deploy the distributed application stack including a plurality of software artifacts on the cluster including a plurality of nodes. Configuration information is then retrieved from a configuration repository based on the received request. The configuration information includes a version of each software artifact of the distributed application stack and a type of each node of the cluster. An instruction is created for each node based on the retrieved configuration information. The instruction is to be used to direct each node to deploy at least one of the plurality of software artifacts from a software package repository onto the node itself. The created instruction is then transmitted to each node.