At+t Corp.

AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP

Sylvia Halasz

Kamlesh T Tewani

Colin Goodall

Philip E Brown

Guy Jacobson

Ann Eileen Skudlark

Wen-Ling Hsu

Bradley Keith Mohs

David Tarjan

Ritu Kumar

Systems and methods are provided to evaluate a search engine using search results retrieved from a plurality of different search engines. For example, a controller can randomly distribute a set of pre-formulated queries to a plurality of computers to query the search engines at random times to obtain search results and combine the search results to evaluate the completeness of a query result provided by a particular search engine. The controller may simulate the random queries from users using a set of computers and may reduce the burden on the search engines by spreading out the query activities over a period of time, such as a month.

Systems and methods to evaluate search qualities

A system and method for receiving a server request, determining whether one of a plurality of servers scheduled to receive the server request is available, wherein the availability of the one of the servers scheduled to receive the request is based on a first stored value and a second stored value, incrementing the second stored value by a predetermined amount when the one of the servers is unavailable and directing the server request to another one of the plurality of servers based on the first and second stored values.

System and method for load-balancing in server farms

The present invention includes a method and apparatus for providing an e-help service over a network. The e-help service provides one or more action sequences, i.e., recommended courses of action, for specialized circumstances over a network, such as an Internet Protocol network. Subscribers subscribe to specific application areas, such as one or more application areas related to a subscriber's industry. The e-help service provider maintains information pertaining to application areas in one or more databases. When a user activates the e-help service, information corresponding to the present conditions of the user's circumstance is transmitted to the e-help service provider. The e-help service provider identifies one or more action sequences based upon a statistical analysis of the information received from the user and information stored in a database corresponding to the application area of the user. The action sequences having a high probability of success are transmitted to the user and provide one or more recommended courses of action.

Subscription-based priority interactive help services on the internet

A method and a processing device are provided for forecasting whether a record of data for an individual is associated with an outcome. Whether an n-gram associated with one of a group of predictors matches an n-gram included in the record of data is determined. When the n-gram included with the one of the group of predictors matches the n-gram in the record of data, a prediction is made as to whether the record of data is associated with the outcome based on a value assigned to the one of the group of predictors.

Forecasting outcomes based on analysis of text strings

A method and a device are provided for forecasting a volume associated with an outcome. A determination is made with respect to whether n-grams associated with a group of predictors matches n-grams included in records of data. A probability is estimated with respect to each of the records of data being associated with the outcome based on a value assigned to a respective one of the group of predictors when the n-gram associated with the respective one of the group of predictors is determined to match the n-gram included in a respective one of the records of data. An estimate of the volume associated with the outcome is calculated based on the estimated probabilities.

Forecasting a volume associated with an outcome based on analysis of text strings

A server on a packet network is protected from attack by flooding SYN messages that request a connection by comparing the number of SYN messages received within a preselected time interval N, where N is a number SYN messages within said preselected time that, with a predetermined probability, can be considered to be bona fide. When the number of received SYN messages within the preselected time interval is greater than N, corrective action is taken, such as discarding all SYN messages above the received N messages.

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Sylvia Halasz