The data looked not too troubling, but this device also had a software algorithm that automatically draws a conclusion from the data.
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Instead of simply scanning for keywords, Crimson's software uses an algorithm to analyze data based on a set of categories and themes determined by the user.
The decision leaves for future litigation questions about whether software that involves an algorithm based on natural laws, for example, or patents on certain medical procedures will survive review.
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The algorithm is that secret software machine that determines which videos the home page suggests for you, based on your watch history, trending videos, and the most popular videos on the site.
Every few months the algorithm writers in Cambridge inject better software into the global network to make it shrewder at picking routes for Internet traffic.
The software can, for example, assign a customised scoring algorithm to each credit card, depending on its normal usage patterns.
If the brokerage bosses demanded that a particular algorithm be hurried into the marketplace, the software engineers could do what those airline mechanics at LaGuardia do: shrug and point to the rules.
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The firm says ASTC is a "revolutionary" new algorithm - or set of instructions - that will allow software designers to use the same amount of data to describe more image detail than had been possible before, or to use less data to provide the same amount of detail.
The government wants vendors to develop encryption software that includes a key recovery mechanism whereby the government could get access to the algorithm to decode a message for law enforcement purposes.
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The team fed the algorithm as much data as they could from the Cisco patent and told the software to design around it.
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