University of California

Florida International University

Evangelos Christidis

Chi Zhang

Yannis Papakonstantinou

Andrey Balmin

Raju Rangaswami

Peter Clarke

Yi Deng

S Masoud Sadjadi

Steve Luis

A system for automating at least a portion of a communication application development cycle using a communication virtual machine that automatically interfaces with an existing network system and provides an engine for executing designed application models over the existing network system.

Communication virtual machine

This application describes methods for searching digital information such as digital documents (e.g., web pages) and computer databases, and specific search techniques such as authority ranking and information retrieval (IR) relevance ranking in keyword searches. In some implementations, the technique includes analyzing digital information viewed as a labeled graph, including nodes and edges, based on a flow of authority among the nodes along the edges, the flow of authority being derived at least in part from different authority transfer rates assigned to the edges based on edge type schema information. In some implementations, the system includes an object rank module configured to generate multiple initial rankings corresponding to multiple query keywords, each of the multiple initial rankings indicating authority of nodes in a graph with respect to each respective query keyword individually; and a query module configured to combine the multiple initial rankings in response to a query.

Searching digital information and databases

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North Bay Village, FL, United States of America

Evangelos Christidis