Data processing: database and file management or data structures inventions 05/06

20060112072 - Communication system, communication method, distribution apparatus, distribution method and terminal apparatus: A communication system includes a first storage section for storing a plurality of pieces of contents information, a second storage section for storing a plurality of pieces of contents information, a control section for accessing the contents information stored in the first storage section and the second storage section based...

20060112064 - Computerized encounter notification system (cens): CENS (Computerized Encounter Notification System) is an automated visitor tracking and notification system. Using existing technology in a new format, the system tracks and notifies an organization's staff of visitors and whom the visitor is there to see. CENS maintains a database of all visitors and their times of arrivals...

20060112065 - Concept-based content architecture: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for the identification of data elements. A user input is received, comprising a data element and a context in which the data element is being used. The user input is sent to a terminology database. A list of entries is received, each entry...

20060112062 - Controlling the creation of process instances in workflow management systems: The present invention relates to a technique for controlling the creation of process instances within an execution environment such as a Workflow Management Sytem. Upon receiving a request to create a process instance and corresponding input data to be processed by the process instance, a process instance identifier is first...

20060112069 - Enterprise medical imaging and information management system with enhanced communications capabilities: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide improved clinical workflow using a medical imaging and information management system and method with enhanced communication capabilities. Certain embodiments of the system include an information manager including clinical content, such as images and/or information, and a communication manager receiving an event notification from...

20060112070 - Interactive graphical interface for data manipulation and presentation: A display for presenting dimensions and hierarchical levels of data has a plurality of branches, each branch representing a dimension in the data, a focus joining the plurality of branches, and one or more hierarchical regions posted along individual ones of the branches, the hierarchical regions each representing a level...

20060112067 - Interactive system for collecting metadata: A method and system for collecting metadata for multimedia objects is described. According to an exemplary embodiment, a metadata service is provided for a multimedia object, wherein the metadata service is not associated with a source of the object. At least one metadata vocabulary is identified for the multimedia object...

20060112068 - Method and system for determining similarity of items based on similarity objects and their features: A method and system for determining similarity between items is provided. To calculate similarity scores for pairs of items, the similarity system initializes a similarity score for each pair of objects and each pair of features. The similarity system then iteratively calculates the similarity scores for each pair of objects...

20060112071 - Recording medium, recording device, recording method, data search device, data search method, and data generating device: A data search device includes a playback unit playing back subjective data representing a subjectivity for predetermined content data from a recording medium on which the subjective data is recorded in association with the content data; a receiving unit receiving subjective data input by a user; and a searching unit...

20060112066 - Spell checking urls in a resource: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for spell checking URLs in a resource. Embodiments include identifying within a resource a URL, determining whether the URL is valid, and marking the URL as misspelled if the URL is invalid. In typical embodiments, determining whether the URL is valid is...

20060112063 - System, apparatus, and methods for creating alternate-mode applications: A system, apparatus, and method for creating alternate-mode interactive applications is provided. A system for creating an alternate-mode interactive application includes a selection module for selecting a voice-mode element from a set of voice-mode elements defining a voice-mode interactive application for accomplishing a predetermined user-directed task The system also includes...

20060112074 - Apparatus, system, and method for providing content list in home network: Provided is an apparatus, system, and method for providing a content list in a home network, in which content information owned by a plurality of devices existing in a home network is collected and a content list is created based on the collected content information and is then provided. The...

20060112073 - Interface building/design tool for generating nested interface systems and displays: Design and deployment of an interface for a data processing application is facilitated by a tool, preferably implemented in software, which parses a description of data to form a hierarchy of groups of selector, terminal and intermediate attributes, including generation of attributes through specification of analyses of data, to develop...

20060112082 - Client-based generation of music playlists from a server-provided subset of music similarity vectors: A “Music Mapper” automatically constructs a set coordinate vectors for use in inferring similarity between various pieces of music. In particular, given a music similarity graph expressed as links between various artists, albums, songs, etc., the Music Mapper applies a recursive embedding process to embed each of the graphs music...

20060112080 - Converting digital video into a printed format: A method for producing flipbooks over a network includes receiving a video over the network from a client device, converting the video to a standard video format, adjusting a frame rate of the video to a standard frame rate, adjusting a frame size of the video to a standard frame...

20060112078 - Information procurement: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and method for procuring published information in a network. Briefly described, in architecture, one embodiment of the system, among others, can be implemented as follows. The system includes an application manager that receives a message request from a user. The message request requests...

20060112088 - Information search apparatus and method, and computer readable memory: A search request input processing unit holds an input query word in a query word holding unit. An associative word unfolding processing unit acquires associative words in association with the query word held in the query word holding unit with reference to an associative word dictionary. An image content search...

20060112076 - Method, system, and storage medium for providing web information processing services: A method, system, and storage medium for providing web information processing services. The method includes scanning at least one data feed for content relevant to a first subject category and associating relevant content found as a result of the scanning with the first subject category. The first subject category is...

20060112084 - Methods and software for analysis of research publications: In one aspect, the invention comprises a computer system for searching databases and displaying search results, comprising databases storing information regarding publications and authors comprising author, title, date of publication, cited references, and citing references data; and Internet servers in communication with those databases; wherein at least one of those...

20060112085 - Methods and systems for searching databases and displaying search results: In one aspect, the invention comprises a computer system comprising databases storing information regarding publications, the information comprising author, title, date of publication, abstract, cited references, and citing references data; and Internet servers in communication with the databases; wherein at least one of the Internet servers is in communication with...

20060112083 - Object relation information management program, method, and apparatus: A registration request for relation information between objects is received from a user terminal, and object relation information containing a type of relations between objects and a relation direction represented by a linking source and a linking destination is stored in a storage device in response to the registration request....

20060112086 - Professional matching service: A professional matching service assists users to find a professional within a certain area of practice (AOP) and a specified geographic area. The service works with a database of professionals who subscribe to the service by selecting AOPs in which they want to be included. From a web page presenting...

20060112087 - Retrieval system and method: A conversational recommender system retrieves k cases (3) and generates a structure for user feedback (4). The structure includes a list of critique units for each of which the user can specify a value range. It also generates compound critiques, each being a combination of features and value ranges presented...

20060112081 - Storing searches in an e-mail folder: A method for saving search query information on a server coupled to the Internet as a search folder. The method may include the steps of: identifying a user communicating with the server; storing the search query associated with the user in a data store on the server responsive to a...

20060112079 - System and method for generating personalized web pages: A web page personalization system and method. The system comprises: a web application server for serving a web page that includes personalized search results for a user requesting the web page; a content repository for storing content for the web page; a profiling system for dynamically providing profile attributes of...

20060112075 - Systems and methods for business-level resource optimizations in computing utilities: Techniques are provided for use in accordance with relates to computing utilities. For example, in one aspect of the invention, a method for use in a computing utility, wherein the computing utility comprises a plurality of application service provider systems and a utility controller, and each application service provider system...

20060112077 - User interface system and method providing a dynamic selection menu: A system of providing a dynamic selection menu is provided. An input/output device receives a first fragment comprising a portion of a desired entry. A processor identifies and rearranges a first subset of entries, and identifying a first entry in the first subset. A display device displays the rearranged first...

20060112090 - Adaptive processing of top-k queries in nested-structure arbitrary markup language such as xml: A method of adaptively evaluating a top-k query involves (1204) forming a servers having respective server queues storing candidate answers, processing (1322) the candidate answers, and (1232) providing a top-k set as a query evaluation. Processing includes (1402) adaptively choosing a winning server to whose queue a current candidate answer...

20060112091 - Method and system for obtaining collection of variants of search query subjects: A method and system for identifying variants of one or more terms to be searched in a data collection, and searching such data collection to retrieve the terms and their variants, to ensure that all variants of the search term existing in the data collection are identified. A term that...

20060112089 - Methods and apparatus for assessing web page decay: Systems and methods are herein disclosed for assessing the staleness of a web page. In particular, in one method of the present invention, the staleness of a web page is assessed by examining internal date references within the web page. In another method of the present invention, the staleness of...

20060112092 - Content-based image retrieval method: Although negative example can be highly useful to better understand the user's needs in content-based image retrieval, it was considered by few authors. A content-based image retrieval method according to the present invention addresses some issues related to the combination of positive and negative examples to perform a more efficient...

20060112093 - Method, system, and program for collecting statistics of data stored in a database: The present invention relates to collecting statistics automatically for data in a database. There is provided a method for automated statistics collection comprising determining a likelihood that statistics for data have changed; and collecting statistics for data in response to the likelihood. Indicators of the likelihood that statistics have changed...

20060112094 - Method, system, and software for correcting uniform resource locators: A uniform resource locator (URL) entered into a browser may be altered to correct misspellings or other errors in the URL. The prefix, the domain name and the domain extension may all be spell checked, compared with lists of homophones, compared with commonly misspelled URLs, and compared with similar URLs...

20060112095 - User preference techniques for support vector machines in content based image retrieval: Searching multimedia information which allows determining preferences based on very little amounts of data. The preferences are nonparametrically determined. Each preference is quantized into one of a plurality of bins. By doing the quantization, the distances between positive and negative samples are increased. The quantization amount may change depending on...

20060112096 - Method of verifying metadata of a migrated file: A method and system for maintaining integrity of metadata associated with a migrated file. Following migration of data from a source filesystem to a destination filesystem, a tool is automatically invoked to detect if there are any differences in metadata associated with the files and/or folders at each location. Each...

20060112098 - Client-based generation of music playlists via clustering of music similarity vectors: A “Music Mapper” automatically constructs a set coordinate vectors for use in inferring similarity between various pieces of music. In particular, given a music similarity graph expressed as links between various artists, albums, songs, etc., the Music Mapper applies a recursive embedding process to embed each of the graphs music...

20060112097 - Encoding data to be sorted: Key conditioning involves the construction of a byte orderable array from values for a possibly multi-field key concatenated key, for comparison by a sort routine. Byte-orderable sort keys are conditioned prior to execution of a sort routine, to facilitate an accurate and/or efficient sort procedure. For example, key conditioning may...

20060112099 - Product feature and relation comparison system: A method of presenting data regarding products. Feature categories are assigned to each product category based on available data. A weighted importance is assigned to each feature category of each product category based on the available data. The items in the product category are ranked according to the weighted importance...

20060112100 - Document management apparatus, document management method, and document management program: Provided are a document management device, a document management method, and a document management program that are capable of providing a user with notification that an updated shared file has been stored. The present invention refers to a document management apparatus that manages a shared document to which access is...

20060112102 - Method of controlling an internet browser interface and a controllable browser interface: The present invention is directed to a method of dynamically controlling and displaying an Internet browser interface, and to a dynamically controllable Internet browser interface. In accordance with the present invention, a browser interface may be customized using a controlling software program that may be provided by an Internet content...

20060112101 - Origin and custody of copies from a stored electronic record verified page by page: A method of authenticating a copy of a multi-page document, which includes digitizing a said multi-page document to generate one or more digitized files that together comprise a digitized transcript. A mark that is unique to the preparer of the document, such as a signature, is prepared and digitized. The...

20060112104 - Apparatus and method of hosting on-demand business context information: A framework is provided to serve on-demand business data and set up a business context hosting layer between the business logic and a display layer. An object extendable model is used to represent a KPI and to handle domain specific artifacts. The domain independent core component processes domain specific business...

20060112107 - Method and apparatus for controlling data access: A method and apparatus is disclosed controlling access to data or documents in a distributed database where each set of data is associated with a set of permissions which determine the distribution and/or access for the data....

20060112106 - Method and system for internet-based software support: Embodiments of the present invention relate to an automated method and system for locally creating a support message and sending the support message to a support provider via the Internet, wherein information relating to at least one of a system identifier and an installation identifier corresponding to a local system...

20060112105 - System and method for discovering knowledge communities: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and method for discovering knowledge communities. Embodiments of the present invention may comprise providing user access to a network of documents, gathering document access data relating to user access of each document in the network of documents and document authorship and...

20060112103 - System and method for reporting and monitoring driving incidents: A system and method for reporting and monitoring driving incidents which includes monitoring for abusive reporting and which enables a driver having an incident report to dispute the report. The system and method can be used to automatically generate driving incident reports to interested subscribers such as parents, employers, and...

20060112109 - Adaptive data warehouse meta model: A hybrid approach for capturing meta data about Business Processing Monitoring (BPM) artifacts is based on a combination of a relational meta data model and a semantic net. Meta data about metrics and situations and their dimensional context are first captured. Then, relational meta data are used to describe a...

20060112115 - Data structure for efficient access to variable-size data objects: A data structure includes variable-size data objects [“VSDOs”] and enables selective and efficient retrieval of data in particular VSDOs. The data structure includes multiple packets. Each packet includes a reference count field, a references field, and an objects field. The references field stores references to VSDOs within the data structure....

20060112108 - Information classification and retrieval using concept lattices: A method and system is described for classifying and retrieving information using concept lattices. The system comprises a collection of electronic artefacts, a collection of attributes and a collection of relations associating the electronic artefacts with the attributes. The collection of attributes are arranged in a dynamic hierarchy that is...

20060112114 - Model-driven user interview: A framework is presented that can be used to create and execute software applications that include a user interview. The framework includes run-time engines and a data repository. The run-time engines include an interview driver. The data repository includes interview instructions and model information. The interview driver generates or modifies...

20060112113 - Static file system differencing and updating: Systems and methods are provided for static file system (SFS) differencing and updating. The differencing and updating includes portion-level differencing and block-level updating of units of an original image (referred to as blocks). The differencing and updating splits SFS images into portions based on block information and the image structure....

20060112117 - Storage control system and method: A disk array system including a plurality of disk drives, including a plurality of first-type disk drives having a first predetermined level of reliability and used to form a first-type logical unit having a plurality of a first-type of chunks, and a plurality of second-type disk drives having a second...

20060112112 - Storage system for randomly named blocks of data: A method for constructing an index suitable for indexing a large set of records identified by long generally randomly distributed record names, and for answering membership queries about the set, the method comprising adding a new record to the set and assigning the new record a new record name using...

20060112110 - System and method for automating data normalization using text analytics: A system, method and program product for normalizing, sanitizing and disambiguating structured data. Structured data includes data stored in a database management system (DBMA), as well labeled files (e.g., XML data). An automated data enhancement processing system is provided, comprising: a system for ingesting data structured in at least one...

20060112111 - System and methods for data analysis and trend prediction: Systems and methods for data analysis and trend prediction. Multiple networks are combined for analysis to improve the accuracy of the evaluation by broadening the type of criteria considered. Relevant features are extracted from a dataset and at least one network is formed representing various relationships identified among the items...

20060112116 - Xml storage solution and data interchange file format structure: A relational database management system having an XML storage implementation to reduce overhead associated with consuming data from multiple data providers, where each having proprietary database schemas. The XML storage solution allows data from any arbitrary relational database schema to be loaded, rearranged and retrieved. The system is adapted to...

20060112121 - Atomically moving list elements between lists using read-copy update: A system, method and computer program product for atomically moving a shared list element from a first list location to a second list location includes inserting a placeholder element at the second list location to signify to readers that a move operation is underway, removing the shared list element from...

20060112124 - Information processing apparatus and method and program: The present invention is intended to facilitate the correct destructive editing of content data. An update metadata identification block 303 identifies metadata that is affected (or must be updated) by the destructive edit processing by a material data destructive edit processing block 302. If the metadata is found required for...

20060112125 - Method for gathering and summarizing internet information: A computer method of gathering and summarizing large amounts of information comprises collecting information from a plurality of information sources (14, 51) according to respective maps (52) of the information sources (14), converting the collected information from a storage format to XML-language documents (26, 53) and storing the XML-language documents...

20060112120 - Method, system, and computer program product for threading documents using body text analysis: A method, system, and computer program product for threading documents using body text analysis. The method comprises: computing a fingerprint for each of a plurality of documents by analyzing text in a body of each document; comparing the computed fingerprints to determine a set of documents from the plurality of...

20060112122 - Method, system, and storage medium for implementing business process modules: Exemplary embodiments include a method for implementing business process modules for performing business process modeling. The method includes identifying tasks required in order to achieve a capability and designing a process module for enabling the capability. The designing includes interconnecting logic flow among the tasks resulting in an optimized, repeatable...

20060112123 - Spreadsheet user-interfaced business data visualization and publishing system: A spreadsheet user-interfaced web-based business data publishing system allows users to input and visualize field data and analytical results with interactive charts through a familiar MS-EXCEL user interface. A plug-in module associated with the user's browser and EXCEL application enables a background, web-services connection over the Internet to a management...

20060112119 - System, method and computer program product for real-time event indentification and course of action interpretation: A system for identifying events includes a memory capable of storing a compressed event table including a number of events, the event table having been compressed by reducing the number of events in the event table without reducing the number of events represented by the event table. Each event of...

20060112118 - Systems and methods for push-to-talk wireless applications: Systems and methods are provided for routing data messages to appropriate applications among multiple available applications. Observers use a variety of signal transmission devices to generate and transmit data messages to a receiver. Each observer has an observer identification and each receiver has a receiver identification. A routing layer is...

20060112129 - Attributed relationship modeling with perspective: A method of describing in a computer an entity is disclosed. The method may have the steps of storing data related to the entity, allowing a relationship to be assigned to the entity, assigning attributes to the relationship, assigning a perspective to the relationship wherein the perspective filters the attributes...

20060112126 - Automatic screen pop showing troubleshooting information: A method for efficiently and conveniently providing a remote troubleshooting service, in which a screen window automatically pops up, in response to an incoming call reporting a problem encountered at a client computer, to show the information that is helpful in solving the problem. The calling number or network address...

20060112134 - Expression detecting system, an expression detecting method and a program: A system, method, and program product to correctly detect a preference expression indicating persons' likes and dislikes of a commercial product or the like. Specifically, the expression detecting system for detecting preference expressions indicating evaluators' likes and dislikes of a specific object from texts describing evaluation of the specific object,...

20060112136 - Method and apparatus for managing data transfer in a computer memory: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for managing data transfer in a computer memory in which during the transfer of data from an application buffer to a network socket, memory usage faults are reduced....

20060112127 - Method for efficiently mapping error messages to unique identifiers: A method and computer product for mapping an error message to an identifier to enable error reporting is provided. An error message hash vector is associated with a resource ID and a resource module. When an error message is displayed, substrings of text in the message are hashed and matched...

20060112128 - Methods, apparatus, and program products for performing incremental probabilitstic latent semantic analysis: One aspect of the invention is that of efficiently and incrementally adding new terms to an already trained probabilistic latent semantic analysis (PLSA) model....

20060112132 - Methods, systems and computer readable media for providing customized works: The present invention provides systems and methods for generating, providing and distributing works. In an embodiment, a work may be customized or personalized using information relating to an individual to provide an enhanced educational, entertainment, or other experience for the profiled individual. The present invention also provides works comprising a...

20060112135 - Real-time database performance and availability change root cause analysis method and system: Root cause analysis of changes impacting database performance, availability and continuity to the underlying business may be performed. A system for doing so may include analytical and visual comparison root cause analysis engines to identify changed database performance statistical parameters (such as CPU consumption, physical I/O, etc) related to a...

20060112131 - Story rewriting system: A method of generating multiple related stories for an internet web site or web sites is disclosed. The method provides a computer having a display screen, a mouse, and internet access. Unique permutations of a story can be generated based on an input text that is displayed on the display...

20060112133 - System and method for creating and maintaining data records to improve accuracy thereof: In one example, a system receives, from different sources, data having various formats, the received data is selected and combined in accordance with the invention to create accurate records. Specifically, the inventive system organizes the received data into uniform data records having a predetermined format. The data in the uniform...

20060112130 - System and method for resource management: A system and method that standardizes, automates, and facilitates the process of identifying, evaluating, selecting, and managing product and service resources for both individual and business resource users within specific industries. In one embodiment, this resource management system includes a web-based or other computer server with at least one database...

20060112137 - Systems and methods for proactive caching utilizing olap variants: The present invention leverages MOLAP performance for ROLAP objects (dimensions, partitions and aggregations) by building, in a background process, a MOLAP equivalent of that object. When the background processing completes, queries are switched from ROLAP queries to MOLAP queries. When changes occur to relevant relational objects (such as tables that...

20060112140 - Autonomic data caching and copying on a storage area network aware file system using copy services: Techniques are provided for processing a request. When the request is to read a data unit, information regarding the closest physical block locations is returned. When the request is to write to the data unit, information regarding one or more source block locations is returned, wherein the write is applied...

20060112142 - Document retrieval method and apparatus using image contents: A document retrieval method replaces a document with images capable of providing at-a-glance views. Image such as photographs, drawings and tables contained in a document are used as index images for the document. A query formulation formed with one or more of the key images are entered, and all the...

20060112138 - File formatting on a non-tape media operable with a streaming protocol: A method and apparatus for a generating a tape format like file with an associated look-up table on a non-tape storage medium is disclosed. In one configuration, a data storage arrangement can comprise a host computer in communication with a storage system by means of a streaming protocol. The storage...

20060112143 - Method and system to facilitate publishing and distribution of digital media: A method and system to facilitate publishing and distribution of digital media are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving parameters describing a category of media files. One or more media files are identified that correspond to the category of media files. The one or more media files are...

20060112139 - Methods and systems for modeling processes in airlines and other industries, and for simulating and valuing the effects of various products and services on those processes: Methods and systems for modeling functional processes in enterprises, and for simulating and valuing the effects of various products and services on those processes, are described herein. A method in accordance with one aspect of the invention for marketing at least one of products and services to an operator of...

20060112144 - Remote-directed management of media content: A remote media player and methods for managing content. The media player includes a storage component to store content files. A user interface allows the user to make content selections. The content selections are used with a content database to manage the relationships between the selections and the content files....

20060112141 - System for automatically creating a metadata repository for multimedia: A method and system for automatically creating a metadata repository for multimedia objects includes a service URL in the metadata associated with a multimedia object. The service URL is used by an application to access a service profile application to retrieve a service profile. The service profile describes the services...

20060112147 - Document management apparatus, document management method, and document management program: A document management apparatus, a document management method, and a document management program which can set an error-coping process provided by a method simpler than a conventional method. According to the invention, a document management apparatus having a processing executing section which executes a processing to document data registered in...

20060112145 - Record transfer system: Record transfer is described herein. A method includes providing a software component to a record holder computer. The record holder computer may receive a request from a record transfer server to transfer a record from the record holder to the record transfer server. The software component may, in response to...

20060112146 - Systems and methods for data analysis and/or knowledge management: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for data and/or information analysis. The systems and methods may be directed to knowledge management and/or user modeling. In various embodiments, the systems and methods may utilize relational representations and/or evolutionary representations of information. For example, expertise information and/or evolutional information...

20060112148 - Method, device and system for automatic retrieval of similar objects in a network of devices: A method, device and system for characterizing an image sharing objects within a network The method steps include initiating a query for a query object on a first device connected to a network of devices. Finding a similar object similar to the query object on a second device connected to...

20060112150 - Server for synchronization of files: A server stores files. Distributed clients access the server, to learn about changes made to the files on the server, and to push local changes of the files onto the server. A synchronization application is used to synchronize the clients and server, synchronizing metadata and selected files....

20060112149 - Storage system, method for replication thereof and program: As in a normal storage system, an application run on a host issues a data write command or a data read command. A monitor unit monitors the host and a command issued by the host to detect a re-startable point to issue the re-startable point notification to a source storage...

20060112151 - System and method for storage of snapshot metadata in a remote file: A system and method for conforming a metadata file associated with qtree of a storage system to a version used by a file system kernel of the storage system, where the version indicates a format of the metadata file. The metadata file stores state information with respect to each qtree,...

20060112152 - Smart patching by targeting particular prior versions of a file: Limiting patch size and complexity through heuristics which use file and product attributes to select a subset of reference file versions (prior states) from the set of all file versions. Patches target this set of reference versions. The computing device stores one or more of the prior states. The current...

20060112153 - Export queue for an enterprise software system: A large-scale enterprise software system is described that outputs consistent export data for concurrent exports. The system includes a database and an export control module. The database stores modeling data defining a plurality of nodes, and enterprise data associated within each of the nodes. The export control module outputs a...

20060112154 - File availability in distributed file storage systems: File availability in distributed file storage systems is improved by initially placing replicas of a file or other object on different ones of multiple devices using a first process. Subsequently, the placement of the replicas is improved by evaluating whether any replicas of a first file can be swapped with...

20060112155 - System and method for managing quality of service for a storage system: The present invention provides a system and method for managing quality of service for a storage system that includes several file systems that share resources. The system may include a Quality of Service (QoS) manager and a request limitation process or “throttle” for limiting requests to the file systems based...

20060106752 - Apparatus and method to provide an operation to an information storage device: A method to provide an operation to an information storage device is disclosed. The method supplies an information storage device and a protocol conversion device capable of receiving an operation in a first communication protocol comprising a variable attribute, and providing that operation to the information storage device in a...

20060106747 - Data transfer management in consistency group formation: Provided are a method, system, deployment and program for managing data transfer in consistency group formation. In one embodiment, a transfer time for a data structure is selected as a function of at least one determined backlog. Upon expiration of the selected transfer time, the mode of operation may be...

20060106750 - Method and apparatus for best effort propagation of security group information: A method and system for best effort propagation of security group information is disclosed. The method includes determining if a reserved group identifier is associated with a destination and, if the reserved group identifier is associated with the destination, indicating that a packet received at a network node can be...

20060106753 - Method for discovery reply packet transmission in communication network: A method for determining a transmission time of collected context information at a sensor node in a communication system that includes a client, at least one sensor node collecting context information, and an access point (AP) forwarding the context information received from the sensor node to the client. The communication...

20060106749 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for implementing enhanced circular queue using loop counts: A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for implementing an enhanced circular queue using loop counts for command processing. A circular queue includes a plurality of entries for storing commands. As command entries are added to the queue at the head of the queue, a head loop count...

20060106756 - Normalization of a multi-dimensional set object: Methods and apparatus, including computer systems and program products, for normalizing computer-represented collections of objects. A first minimum value can be normalized based on a second minimum value of a universal set object that corresponds to the first set object. The second minimum value is both a minimum value supported...

20060106748 - System and method for orchestrating composite web services in constrained data flow environments: A technique for orchestrating composite web services in a constrained data flow environment. Data flow constraints represent the restrictions which the domains involved in composition might want to impose on access to the data they provide or the source from which they can accept data. The data flow constraints are...

20060106754 - Systems and methods for preventing digital asset restoration: Systems and methods for managing digital assets in a distributed computing environment are described. Meta-data for the digital assets is stored separately from the digital assets. Meta-data for some of the digital assets is copied and stored at a central location. Meta-data for the digital assets is generated by clients...

20060106746 - Tracking usage of data elements in electronic business communications: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products for tracking usage of business data elements include receiving an electronic document that includes instances of business data elements and identifying an instance of a particular business data element in the electronic document. A counter associated with the particular business data element is...

20060106755 - Tracking usage of data elements in electronic business communications: A computer program product that is tangibly embodied in an information carrier is described. The computer program product includes instructions that, when executed, perform operations for tracking data elements that are used in electronic documents. The method includes identifying an instance of a data element in a first electronic document...

20060106751 - Variable length file entry navigation: Provided are a method, system, deployment and article of manufacture, for variable length file entry navigation. In one embodiment, a first file entry size portion of a first entry marker at a first end of a file entry is read. A position of a second entry marker at a second...

20060106759 - Computer system, computer, data access method and database system: There is a program for transmitting a prefetch command to a database management system (DBMS) so that access data of the DBMS can be prefetched to a storage. The DBMS is able to generate an access plan conscious of prefetch and to access database (DB). The DBMS is, however, unable...

20060106757 - Search for similar sheet metal part models: An apparatus and method is provided for managing and distributing design and manufacturing information throughout a factory in order to facilitate the production of components, such as bent sheet metal components. In accordance with an aspect of the present invention, the management and distribution of critical design and manufacturing information...

20060106758 - Streaming xpath algorithm for xpath value index key generation: A method generates hierarchical path index keys for single and multiple indexes with one scan of a document. Each data node of the document is scanned and matches to query nodes are identified. A data node matches a query node if the three conditions hold: if it is not the...

20060106779 - Apparatus and method for deleting/retransmitting media data in a mobile communication terminal: Disclosed is an apparatus and method for deleting/retransmitting media data stored in a mobile communication terminal. The apparatus and method comprise: entering a media data deletion/retransmission mode; displaying media data folders according to types of media data for receiving a user selection; receiving a search condition for searching for specific...

20060106783 - Data processing, analysis, and visualization system for use with disparate data types: A system or method consistent with an embodiment of the present invention is useful in analyzing large volumes of different types of data, such as textual data, numeric data, categorical data, or sequential string data, for use in identifying relationships among the data types or different operations that have been...

20060106781 - Database management system, database management method, and program: A database management system for determining consistency in a hierarchical database sequentially reads pointers of a plurality of segment data, generates an address hash value, which is a hash value of retention addresses of the segment data having been read, generates a pointer hash value, which is a hash value...

20060106771 - Dynamic optimization of communication of data structures: A method for communicating information in a data structure between applications includes receiving a request from a first application for sending information in a data structure to a second application. The method further includes reading information from a run-time environment of the first application and identifying, based on the information,...

20060106762 - Information retrieval method with efficient similarity search capability: Embodiments of the present invention include methods for retrieving information from an information base. In one embodiment, the present invention includes specifying a first query including one or more specified attribute values corresponding to one or more attributes, performing a count-only query on a structured information base for information elements...

20060106784 - Linguistically aware link analysis method and system: Example, systems, methods, computer media, and other embodiments for determining relevance rankings for pages identified in a search query is provided. In one example, a computer program product can be configured to identify a candidate set of pages in response to a search query. A content-based relevance rank can be...

20060106763 - Method and apparatus for facilitating a database query using a query criteria template: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates user queries to a database. During operation, the system stores one or more query criteria templates in a template table in the database. Each record in the template table corresponds to a query criteria template. A query criteria template...

20060106777 - Method and apparatus for predicting selectivity of database query join conditions using hypothetical query predicates having skewed value constants: A database management system predicts a selectivity for database query conditions requiring a join of records from different tables. The system identifies at least one skewed value in a field specified in the join condition, and constructs, for each skewed value, a set of hypothetical query predicates in which the...

20060106760 - Method and apparatus of inter-document data retrieval: A data retrieval method that includes: (i) receiving a query that comprises a set of keywords and a desired document responsive keyword association level; and (ii) searching for at least a group of documents that comprises the set of keywords, whereas each document of the group does not comprise the...

20060106769 - Method and system for autocompletion for languages having ideographs and phonetic characters: A set of ordered predicted completion strings including strings of ideographs are presented to a user as the user enters text in a text entry box (e.g., a browser or a toolbar). The user entered text may include zero or more ideographs followed by one or more phonetic characters, or...

20060106768 - Method and website for making travel plans: Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a method and a website for making travel plans between an originating location and a destination that may be at least partially determined by weather criteria that may exist at the destination during the time period in which a trip is to...

20060106780 - Method for improving user success rates in personals sites: Numerous online dating and personals websites exist on the internet. These websites allow users to post online profiles describing what they seek in a “match,” provide methods by which users may interact with each other, and may implement an “active matching process” in which the websites attempt to select potential...

20060106766 - Method, system and program product for rewriting structured query language (sql) statements: Under the present invention, a SQL statement having search criteria is received. Upon receipt, a table that lists all possible combinations of the search criteria is created. From the table, a set of patterns among the possible combinations is identified. Based on these patterns, the table is then sorted. Once...

20060106765 - Method, system and program product for rewriting view statements in structured query language (sql) statements: Under the present invention, when a SQL statement having a full select portion that references a view containing a join operation (e.g., a LOJ operation) is received, the reference to the view will be moved out of the full select portion. Once moved, the view and its join operation will...

20060106775 - Multilevel device capabilities hierarchy: Methods and systems for describing device capabilities are described. An exemplary schema is presented and constitutes the communication language between applications and devices. The schema is built on a framework that uses schema keywords to express the full set of user configurable capabilities for a particular device. In the illustrated...

20060106772 - Optimization of communication of data structures using program analysis: A method for regulating communication of information in a data structure between components of a computer program is disclosed. The method includes reading a computer program and automatically identifying fields of a data structure that must be transmitted from a first component of the computer program to a second component...

20060106761 - Remote detection of a fault condition of a management application using a networked device: A method according to one embodiment may include monitoring a management application of a managed client for a fault condition, and transmitting an alert signal representative of the fault condition to a management server only in response to the monitoring operation detecting the fault condition. Of course, many alternatives, variations,...

20060106773 - Spiral string matching method: A string matching method is provided for searching a text received in a string matching system for any of a predetermined set of patterns, each of the text and the patterns including a string of characters or symbols. The method includes generating a number of pattern folds for each of...

20060106767 - System and method for identifying query-relevant keywords in documents with latent semantic analysis: To perform a search, the similarity of qexpanded is measured relative to each candidate document vector in this space. Exemplary similarity functions are dot product and cosine similarity. Keywords are selected with the highest values in qexpanded that are also comprised in at least one document. Matching keywords from the...

20060106770 - System and method for predictive streaming: A technique for predictive streaming involves receiving a request for a block associated with a streaming application and serving data associated with the block. A block request database is checked to predict what block is likely to be requested next based upon prior block request data. The predicted block may...

20060106764 - System and method for presenting video search results: The invention displays video search results in a form that makes it easy for users to determine which results are truly relevant. Each story returned as a search result is visualized as a collage of keyframes from the story's shots. The selected keyframes and their sizes depend on the corresponding...

20060106778 - System and method for providing a geographic search function: A system and method are provided for implementing a geographic search mode in connection with a search engine. The method may include indexing geographic locations for resources available to the search engine in a search engine index. The method may additionally include determining a target location for a particular user...

20060106782 - Systems and methods for searching digital assets using virtual folders having labels based on taxonomy tags: Systems and methods for managing digital assets in a distributed computing environment are described. Meta-data for the digital assets is stored separately from the digital assets. Meta-data for some of the digital assets is copied and stored at a central location. Meta-data for the digital assets is generated by clients...

20060106774 - Using qualifications of users to facilitate user performance of tasks: A method, system, and computer-readable medium is described for facilitating interactions between task requesters who have tasks that are available to be performed and task performers who are available to perform tasks. In some situations, the tasks to be performed are human performance tasks that use cognitive and other mental...

20060106776 - Utilizing mathematical operations with abstract queries: Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture are provided for composing abstract queries by referencing previously defined abstract queries and combining the queries based on mathematic operations, referred to as “query math”. Composing queries by performing query math, such as addition and subtraction, with whole abstract queries facilitates and encourages reuse...

20060106786 - Adjusting an amount of data logged for a query based on a change to an access plan: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, save a problem record associated with a query to a log if the query encountered a problem. The amount of data in the record is increased if an access plan associated with the query has changed within a threshold...

20060106791 - Answer wizard drop-down control: An answer wizard drop-down menu for providing users quick and efficient access to help utilities, including help files and wizards provided by a software application, is provided. An answer wizard drop-down edit control and interface is located in a conspicuous, but non-obstructive location on a software application graphical interface. An...

20060106788 - Computer-implemented system and method for providing authoritative answers to a general information search: A computer-implemented system and method provides authoritative answers, developed within a community-based question answering service to users of a general network information search. This community-based question answering service receives a question from a first user, and receives answers from community members regarding this question. The authority of the answer is...

20060106785 - Hierarchical database management: A method for processing a request for data in a plurality of database formats is described. The method may include accepting a request for data. A format of the data request may be assessed. The assessed format may be a sequential access data format, a direct access data format, or...

20060106790 - Information handling mechanism: A comparator 8 and associated mechanisms are able to analyze how the specialist database differs from the non-specialist database and to use this information to derive an indication of the ability of the specialist database to answer the input question. This indication can be fed to the user via interface...

20060106787 - System and method for collecting data from data sources using data collection tools: A system and a method for collecting data from a data source that includes a database containing a tool for collecting data from the data source and creating a data record, a tool selector in communication with the database for selecting the tool from the database, a tool processor for...

20060106789 - System and method for collecting data from data sources using data collection tools: A system and a method for collecting data from a data source that includes a database containing a tool for collecting data from the data source and creating a data record, a tool selector in communication with the database for selecting the tool from the database, a tool processor for...

20060106793 - Internet and computer information retrieval and mining with intelligent conceptual filtering, visualization and automation: The present invention presents embodiments of methods, systems, and computer-readable media for the retrieval, mining, filtering and visualization of information stored on a plural of computers connected to the Internet and on a local computer. Embodiments of this invention generate a conceptual search query using a description provided by a...

20060106794 - Methods and systems for allowing third party client applications to influence implementation of high-level document commands: A mechanism is described for allowing third party client applications to affect how high-level document commands are implemented in a database. After a high-level document command meeting certain criteria is received in a database management system, the system identifies one or more third party client application that are to be...

20060106792 - Multiple index based information retrieval system: An information retrieval system uses phrases to index, retrieve, organize and describe documents. Phrases are identified that predict the presence of other phrases in documents. Documents are the indexed according to their included phrases. The document index is partitioned into multiple indexes, including a primary index and a secondary index....

20060106795 - Computerized method and system for coding-based navigation: Computerized methods and systems for professional evaluation and management coding of a patient visit based upon documentation are provided. Such methods and systems increase efficiency and enhance the quality of clinician documentation by permitting automatic coding as a byproduct of documentation and eliminating the necessity for an after-the-fact check of...

20060106796 - Knowledge stores for interactive diagnostics: Knowledge stores, interactive diagnostic services, and interactive diagnostic systems are presented. Symptoms associated with an observed problem are used to mine a knowledge store for questions. Interactive answers to the questions are used to dynamically mine the data store for potential causes and for corrective actions to the problem....

20060106797 - System and method for temporal data mining: A system, method, and apparatus for signal characterization, estimation, and prediction comprising an integrated search algorithm that cooperatively optimizes several data mining sub-tasks, the integrated search algorithm including a machine learning model, and the method comprising processing the data for data embedding, data embedding the processed data for searching for...

20060106798 - Vision-based document segmentation: Vision-based document segmentation identifies one or more portions of semantic content of a document. The one or more portions are identified by identifying a plurality of visual blocks in the document, and detecting one or more separators between the visual blocks of the plurality of visual blocks. A content structure...

20060106799 - Storing sensitive information: The invention relates to a method, a system, telecommunication servers and a network node for storing sensitive information such that they are easily retrievable when needed for instance using an identity number without extra identifiers, but stored such that they cannot be associated with an individual. The invention is based...

20060106803 - Information management system, an information processor, and an information management method: An information management system, information processors, and an information management method are disclosed. The information management system includes the information processors and an information management apparatus that are connected through a network. One of the information processors adjusts a level of encryption of information that consists of two or more...

20060106801 - Securing location of an installed middleware application and securing location of containers contained within installed middleware application: A method, computer program product and system for protecting the location of an installed middleware application. An installer program may generate a private/public key pair at build time of a middleware application. Upon the installer program installing the middleware application, the installation location of the middleware application may be encrypted...

20060106802 - Stateless methods for resource hiding and access control support based on uri encryption: An apparatus and method are disclosed for enabling controlled access to resources at a resource provider server. The invention may encrypt or decrypt a portion of a uniform resource identifier (URI), according to a stateless method for hiding resources and/or providing access control support. Upon receipt of a URI having...

20060106800 - System and method for localization of electronic devices: Embodiments of the present invention include device, methods, and computer code products for localization of electronic devices. The device includes a file system including a data item, and a localization system adapted to localize a received pathname using a stored identifier associated with the pathname. The pathname includes at least...

20060106805 - Communication networks and methods and computer program products for performing searches thereon while maintaining user privacy: A communication network is operated by associating a pseudonym with a user of the communication network at a proxy searcher. A complex search request from the user is received at the proxy searcher, the complex search request being associated with the pseudonym. The complex search request and pseudonym are forwarded...

20060106804 - Electronic equipment and method for carrying out communication with electronic equipment: A portable electronic equipment is disclosed, which can be adapted to be in connection with a data transmission network and which comprises as functionalities application means for forming and/or processing application means data, which application means can be adapted to carry out data transmission comprising at least application means data...

20060106808 - Maintaining and using nexus information on a host, port and device connection: Provided are a method, system, and program maintaining and using nexus information on a host, port and device connection. A login is received from a host port on a storage controller port, wherein the host port has been configured on the storage controller to access one or more devices. An...

20060106810 - Publishing documents in a publish/subscribe data processing system: Documents are published in a publish subscribe data processing system. A first document to be published may have an associated topic. The first document is retained as a retained document. A second document to be published is retained as the retained document in response to receiving the second document before...

20060106806 - Software update for a plurality of mobile devices: A system and method for providing software updates to a plurality of mobile devices includes a central update server and update software resident on each mobile device. The update server includes a database of software program identifiers and identifiers for corresponding updates, a subset of which may not be compatible...

20060106807 - System and method for transferring a file in advance of its use: The invention relates to a system, methods, and computer-readable media for transferring one or more files to a computer in advance of their use by the computer. In accordance with one method of the invention, the computer sends a request for instructions to acquire at least one predetermined file. The...

20060106812 - Systems and methods for expiring digital assets using encryption key: Systems and methods for managing digital assets in a distributed computing environment are described. Meta-data for the digital assets is stored separately from the digital assets. Meta-data for some of the digital assets is copied and stored at a central location. Meta-data for the digital assets is generated by clients...

20060106813 - Systems and methods for propagating categorization information with a digital asset: Systems and methods for managing digital assets in a distributed computing environment are described. Meta-data for the digital assets is stored separately from the digital assets. Meta-data for some of the digital assets is copied and stored at a central location. Meta-data for the digital assets is generated by clients...

20060106811 - Systems and methods for providing categorization based authorization of digital assets: Systems and methods for managing digital assets in a distributed computing environment are described. Meta-data for the digital assets is stored separately from the digital assets. Meta-data for some of the digital assets is copied and stored at a central location. Meta-data for the digital assets is generated by clients...

20060106809 - Systems and methods for supporting accurate decision making: Various embodiments of the present invention include a comparison and tradeoff tool that is adapted for: (1) conducting an initial, computer-based search of options based on a set of two or more preferences specified by a user; (2) allowing a user to, based on the results of the initial search,...

20060106814 - Systems and methods for unioning different taxonomy tags for a digital asset: Systems and methods for managing digital assets in a distributed computing environment are described. Meta-data for the digital assets is stored separately from the digital assets. Meta-data for some of the digital assets is copied and stored at a central location. Meta-data for the digital assets is generated by clients...

20060106823 - Apparatus, system, and method for an alternate lock facility connection path: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for an alternate lock facility connection path. A request module receives a connection request to establish redundant connection paths between a control unit and a host. A primary connection module establishes a first connection path between the control unit and the host through...

20060106829 - Clearing metadata tracks in a storage system: Methods, systems, computer program products and methods for deploying computing infrastructure for clearing metadata in a storage subsystem. The method includes identifying one or more metadata tracks to clear, receiving a request from a client to clear the identified tracks, quiescing any active processes, clearing the identified tracks and resuming...

20060106835 - Database utilities: A system and methods for rapid unloading and reorganization of hierarchical databases. Overflow and a window of blocks are progressively read into memory. Unloading proceeds as the scan cylinders window moves ahead. The reading of blocks stays about scan cylinders ahead of the unload. As a segment is unloaded, its...

20060106817 - Digital data recording medium and recording/reproduction device: A CD-R (20) in which the load when a CD player reads-in fringe data may be relieved to shorten the time until display. This CD-R is provided with contents files “00001” to “0000n”, holding respective contents, and database files TRNDB, ARNDB and ALNDB. In the contents files “00001” to “0000n”,...

20060106825 - Enterprise architecture analysis framework database: A method of modeling an enterprise includes storing core objects, where the core objects include an information object defining information used in the enterprise, a participant object defining a participant in the enterprise, an enabler object defining a tool used in the enterprise, and an activity object defining a process...

20060106819 - Method and apparatus for managing a computer data storage system: A method and apparatus is disclosed for managing a Storage Area Network (SAN) in which testing of a SAN configuration and selection of suitable test cases is carried out automatically. The system is also able to search a SAN configuration to determine the particular element or region of a SAN...

20060106832 - Method and system for implementing an enhanced database: A database is created from a set of data by identifying the patterns in the data set, storing the patterns in a memory device, and generating a representation of the database structure using pointers to the stored patterns. The use of pointers to store the patterns can greatly reduce the...

20060106818 - Method and system of performing a current filesystem backup with respect to a previous filesystem backup using directorywise hardlinking for a computer filesystem: The present invention provides a method and system of performing a current filesystem backup with respect to a previous filesystem backup using directorywise hardlinking for a computer filesystem. In an exemplary embodiment, the method and system include (1) identifying all largest unchanged subtrees in the previous filesystem backup with respect...

20060106815 - Method of generating a computer readable model: A method of generating a computer readable model of a geometrical object constructed from a plurality of interconnectable construction elements, wherein each construction element has a number of connection elements for connecting the construction element with another construction element. The method comprises encoding a first and a second one of...

20060106816 - Method of grouping images from a video sequence: calculation of the potential of each edge connecting the merged node to another node of the graph previously connected to nodes ni or nj, merging of the two nodes and validation of the new graph if the energy of this graph is less than the energy of the graph before...

20060106830 - Method, apparatus, and program for document management: There are provided a document file management method, comprising the steps of: virtually combining document files and producing, changing and deleting a virtual combination object for managing the virtual combination, along with the physical relationship of document files in the virtual combination; and producing, changing and deleting an index object...

20060106828 - Method, system, and storage medium for implementing intelligent team management services: A method, system, and storage medium for implementing intelligent team management services. The method includes associating selected individuals with a datastore. The datastore houses content designated as key information and the selected individuals are designated as an entity. The method also includes creating a distribution list in a messaging application....

20060106821 - Ownership management of containers in an application server environment: A method, computer program product and system for determining ownership of containers. An installer program may edit stored information, such as ownership, about software component(s) it installed in a container. Upon a subsequent installer program planning to install a software component in that container, software, referred to as a “collector,”...

20060106820 - Process-oriented classification: The present invention relates in general to a data object model for describing objects within systems. To allow unambiguous classification, the data model comprises a property definition including at least one property name, at least one property value and at least one process value for storing at least one process...

20060106827 - Seamless remote traversal of multiple nfsv4 exported file systems: A method for transparently navigating through exported file system namespaces on a server using a single mount. When an exported file system is mounted onto a client, the client creates a file system ID structure for the exported file system, wherein the file system ID structure is populated with unique...

20060106831 - System and method for managing structured document: A structured document management system manages a structured document database. This system includes a parse processing unit which parsing a structured document to be stored in accordance with a structured document storage request made by a client, a structured document storing unit which stores parsed data obtained by parsing the...

20060106834 - Systems and methods for freezing the state of digital assets for litigation purposes: Systems and methods for managing digital assets in a distributed computing environment are described. Meta-data for the digital assets is stored separately from the digital assets. Meta-data for some of the digital assets is copied and stored at a central location. Meta-data for the digital assets is generated by clients...

20060106833 - Systems, methods, and computer program products to reduce computer processing in grid cell size determination for indexing of multidimensional databases: Systems, methods, and computer products that improve the techniques used to search multidimensional databases over techniques of the past. The preferred embodiment of the present invention advantageously improves the technique of determining a grid index that is used to locate a geometric shape in a spatial database. More particularly, the...

20060106826 - Updating elements in a data storage facility using a predefined state machine, with serial activation: A technique for updating elements in a data storage facility, including a single server or a multi-server system, such as by providing updated internal code packages to the elements. The update is performed using a fixed state machine, where the elements are updated in a coordinated manner within the constraints...

20060106824 - Using a controlled vocabulary library to generate business data component names: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for generating a name for a business data component in an electronic business process use a received textual description of the business data component. One or more proposed names are generated in accordance with a predefined naming format. The proposed names are generated...

20060106822 - Web-based editing system of compound documents and method thereof: A web-based editing system of compound documents suitable for web browsing and the method thereof are disclosed. By using the web-based editing system, different kinds of files may be uploaded to a web folder and then transformed into several HTML files and XML-based files for viewing in a web browser...

20060106838 - Apparatus, system, and method for validating files: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for validating files. In one embodiment, a target module determines if an operation is to be performed on a file. If the operation is to be performed on the file, an identification module identifies the file extension of the file and a characterization...

20060106852 - Automated storage management of files, including computer-readable files: Automated systems and processes for managing paper and/or digital files, particularly medical records contained in digital files, digital or paper file folders and the like, in a file storage system having a finite size or expansion capacity. For paper files, a system tracks the thickness of individual file folders, the...

20060106841 - Computer file system: A file system that does not conflate item lifetime with the item's inclusion in an organizational structure of the file system is described herein. In addition, the file system's organizational structure is not limited to directory trees, but instead may use any directed acyclic graph (DAG). Items, once stored into...

20060106846 - Cross-context task management: A method and system to manage tasks are described. The method may provide a graphical user interface to allow a user to identify a first task context and associate a plurality of first tasks with the first task context, and to identify a second task context and associate a plurality...

20060106836 - Data processing system, data processing device, data processing method, and computer program: A privilege management system enabling effective privilege management, such as confirmation processing of service receiving privileges and so forth, is realized. A group attribute certificate which has, as stored information, group identification information corresponding to a group which is a set of certain devices or certain users, and also has...

20060106843 - Database track history: A computer-implemented method of providing a track history before a database, comprising the steps of: providing in a storage memory, a track history of choice selectable records that each comprises metadata items applicable to identify a data set from a data superset stored in the database; providing a bank of...

20060106849 - Idle cpu indexing systems and methods: Described herein are systems and methods for indexing documents during CPU idle time. The method can include the steps of determining at regular intervals if CPU usage is above a threshold value and pausing the indexing when CPU usage rises above a threshold value. If the CPU usage is below...

20060106850 - Location beacon database: A location beacon database and server, method of building location beacon database, and location based service using same. Wi-Fi access points are located in a target geographical area to build a reference database of locations of Wi-Fi access points. At least one vehicle is deployed including at least one scanning...

20060106839 - Maintain optimal query performance by presenting differences between access plans: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, collect previous and current statistics based on previous and current access plans, respectively, and a query. The previous and current statistics are compared in response to an event, and the differences between the previous and current statistics are presented....

20060106842 - Method and apparatus for dynamic middleware assembly: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for dynamic middleware assembly. One embodiment of the inventive method for dynamically assembling middleware at a client involves selecting a middleware component from a group of middleware components, where the selection is based at least in part on a...

20060106848 - Method and apparatus for handling directory operations: A method for handling a directory service operation includes determining whether an alternate evaluator can respond to the operation and evaluating the operation using the alternate evaluator when it is determined that the alternate evaluator can respond to the operation....

20060106847 - Method and apparatus for selecting, analyzing, and visualizing related database records as a network: A method and apparatus for selecting and converting database records or sets of related documents into network data and presenting that data in a network visualization system that enables users to select among, and move between various network displays by selecting one or more attributes of the data to be...

20060106844 - Method and system for client-side manipulation of tables: Provided is a system and method for providing a browser functionality to determine the existence of a table, identify data therein and manipulate the data according to a user's input. Thus, a method for manipulating data tables in a client machine includes determining at the client machine, existence of a...

20060106837 - Parsing system and method of multi-document based on elements: A system and method is configured to parse web-document based on elements. The system can include a word parser for extracting and separating all tokens of the document supplied to the terminal regardless of kind of a markup language used to compose the web-document by referring to a token table;...

20060106851 - Real-time database performance and availability monitoring method and system: Database performance and availability monitoring of changes impacting database performance, availability and continuity to the underlying business may be performed. A method for doing so may include analytical and visual real-time analysis engines to identify and provide alert notifications on changes in database performance statistics (such as CPU consumption, physical...

20060106845 - System and method for computer-based local generic commerce and management of stored value: A computer is configured for pay-per-use or prepaid operation using internally stored value that may be directed to various aspects of the computer's operation, for example, printing or use of a particular application program. The value used may be logged and that information may be transferred to a host where...

20060106840 - System and method for tracking notifications in a publish subscribe system: A system and method are provided for tracking notification messages from a message publisher to a message subscriber. The system includes a plurality of entities that are operatively coupled to one another via an electronic network, and each entity includes at least one processor configured as a message publisher, a...

20060106859 - Accelerated system and methods for synchronizing, managing and publishing business information: Embodiments of the invention provide an accelerated system and methods for gathering business information, augmenting that information to conform to requirements for sharing the information and for synchronizing, managing and publishing the information across the supply chain. Through use of a control module business information is gathered from a variety...

20060106853 - Allocation and scaling of descriptor lists.: A system for managing descriptor lists, the system including a plurality of descriptor lists, and a descriptor list manager operative to chain any of the descriptor lists by configuring at least one entry in at least a first one of the descriptor lists to indicate the location of a second...

20060106861 - Dynamic generation of formatted user interfaces in software environments: Methods and systems for selecting multiple entities of a model or models to set or change data of the multiple entities together in a modeling environment are disclosed. When users create or edit a model or models, information on the entities of the model or models is provided to the...

20060106860 - Method and apparatus for building index of source data: An online index building operation is disclosed for building an index from source data with minimal loss of availability to the source data. The source data can be maintained in a relational database system, such as in a tablespace of a DB2® environment. The disclosed operation creates a consistent image...

20060106857 - Method and system for assured document retention: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a system and method of providing computer archive system accountability. In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, the system and method may comprise receiving a plurality of documents and assigning document IDs to the plurality of documents, each of the document...

20060106856 - Method and system for dynamic transform and load of data from a data source defined by metadata into a data store defined by metadata: Provided is a method for dynamic transform and load of data from a data source defined by metadata into a data store defined by metadata. A business rule set is created (116) based on (a) a business rule template definition, (b) metadata defining at least a portion of data of...

20060106858 - Methods and systems for server side form processing: Various embodiments can efficiently utilize form server resources by, in at least some embodiments, acting only on one tree during the form editing process. Various embodiments can act on a form's data and not necessarily a representation of the form's view. The described embodiments can support various different presentation formats....

20060106855 - Reusable row indices table: A method and article of manufacture for managing uniquely indexed segments (304) within a table (302) on a computer system. A segment incarnation number (308) indicates the current status of the segment and the number of times the segment (304) has been added to the table (302). A nextincarnation number...

20060106854 - System and method for automatically including supplemental information in reminder messages: A system for adding supplemental information to a reminder message to assist an actor comprises a database comprising supplemental information items related to reminders and a reminder module. The reminder module is adapted to determine that a reminder situation exists for which a reminder prompt is appropriate, determine whether to...

20060106862 - Systems and methods for dynamically adjusting a taxonomy used to categorize digital assets: Systems and methods for managing digital assets in a distributed computing environment are described. Meta-data for the digital assets is stored separately from the digital assets. Meta-data for some of the digital assets is copied and stored at a central location. Meta-data for the digital assets is generated by clients...

20060106863 - System and/or method for implementing efficient techniques for testing common information model providers: A method for testing a provider in a common information model. The method generally includes the steps of (A) generating a test case class of the common information model, the test case class residing in a class hierarchy of an object-oriented model, (B) generating a client test case class of...

20060106864 - System, computer program product and method of narrowing an enterprise java bean (ejb) object reference to a home implementation class name: A system, computer program product and method of narrowing an enterprise Java bean (EJB) object reference to a home implementation class name are provided. To obtain the class name, the location of the EJB in a network is first obtained by performing a JNDI lookup. Using the location, an IOR...

20060106872 - Active agenda: An active agenda tool is provided that may be executed at one or more networked computing devices. Each connected active agenda tool includes functionality for displaying an agenda interface and for maintaining agenda item timers. The agenda interface includes an agenda and various interactive controls. The agenda includes a plurality...

20060106870 - Data compression using a nested hierarchy of fixed phrase length dictionaries: Exemplary embodiments are described herein whereby blocks of data are losslessly compressed and decompressed using a nested hierarchy of fixed phrase length dictionaries. The dictionaries may be built using information related to the manner in which data is commonly organized in computer systems for convenient retrieval, processing, and storage. This...

20060106877 - Image archiving system and method for handling new and legacy archives: An image archiving system is provided comprising at least one modality for creating images, at least on workstation for viewing and analyzing the images, at least one archive for storing the images, a proxy to handle the data communication between the modality, workstation and archive and a network for communicably...

20060106875 - Information collection system, information collection device, terminal device management program, information collection management program, information collection management method, and terminal device management method: A terminal device, in an information collection system in which the terminal device and an information collection device are connected, which reads question information from a question information storage section storing question information, as questions the responses to which are to be provided to the information collection device, and after...

20060106868 - Information processing systems and methods thereor: The present invention generally relates to various information processing systems and related methods arranged to acquire raw images and/or raw sounds, to extract therefrom text, visual, and/or audible informations, to process (e.g., edit and/or modify) such informations so as to obtain processed images and/or processed sound, and to output such...

20060106876 - Method and apparatus for re-using presentation data across templates in an ontology: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that re-uses presentation data across templates in an ontology, wherein an ontology is a logic structure that defines semantics for a set of data, and wherein a template is a representation of a contextualized view of the meta-data of the ontology....

20060106866 - Methods and systems for scanning and monitoring content on a network: The invention addressed methods and systems of scanning and monitoring network locations and resources such as websites and webpages. The method scans the webpages for content and compliance with predefined standards, and reports the results in a non-technical format. The method can also scan and monitor any website on the...

20060106869 - Multimedia enhancement system using the multimedia database: A multimedia enhancement system and process thereof are provided. There are connections among multimedia management, database and enhancement facilities. Storing facility is configured for accepting the information from a collecting facility and storing the information in a form of a plurality of descriptors. Once one of the multimedia files is...

20060106865 - Provision of a multimedia broadcast/multicast service (mbms) for a user equipment moving along cells in a cellular mobile communication system: Procedures are provided for the establishment of MBMS services in different cells of a cellular telecommunications network, in particular, for maintaining the transmission of MBMS data to a particular user equipment, even when it moves from one cell to another when the service is provided in different ways in different...

20060106873 - Selective clearing of persistent metadata in a storage subsystem: Method for selectively clearing persistent data such as metadata in a storage subsystem. The method includes identifying one or more metadata tracks to clear, receiving a request from a client to clear the identified metadata tracks, passing the request to a storage device driver, and clearing the identified metadata tracks....

20060106874 - System and method for analyzing, integrating and updating media contact and content data: A computer implemented system for integrating, updating, and searching media related databases and building media lists and reports comprising a first server for receiving digital content from multiple sources, a second server for receiving queries from multiple user computing devices; and a database access layer being utilized by the first...

20060106867 - System and method for speeding up database lookups for multiple synchronized data streams: A “Media Identifier” operates on concurrent media streams to provide large numbers of clients with real-time server-side identification of media objects embedded in streaming media, such as radio, television, or Internet broadcasts. Such media objects may include songs, commercials, jingles, station identifiers, etc. Identification of the media objects is provided...

20060106871 - Systems and methods for improving corporate compliance: Methods and systems for improving compliance to corporate initiatives are disclosed. According to the present invention, the system combines software for personnel of a corporate enterprise to communicate securely over a computer network, software for entering and storing information regarding corporate initiatives, software communicating the information to the corporate enterprise...

20060106879 - Conflict resolution in a synchronization framework: A method, system and apparatus for detecting and resolving conflict resolution in a synchronization framework. In this regard, a synchronization framework which has been configured in accordance with the present invention can include a synchronization engine configured for coupling to an application utilizing a data set subject to synchronization with...

20060106882 - File availability in distributed file storage systems: File availability in distributed file storage systems is improved by initially placing replicas of a file or other object on different ones of multiple devices using a first process. Subsequently, the placement of the replicas is improved by evaluating whether any replicas of a first file can be swapped with...

20060106880 - Managing free space in file systems: A header may be indicated for objects that have been deleted. As a result, the deleted objects, which may be called holes, may be manipulated in the same way as objects that contain real data. This enables the holes to be coalesced and reclaimed in one operation when necessary. In...

20060106878 - System and method for creating an object-level snapshot in a storage system: A system and method for object-level snapshot creation in an object-based storage system. The host device includes a first object management table (OMT) and a file system. The object-based storage system is connected to the host device and includes a controller and object-based storage devices (OSD). The controller includes a...

20060106881 - System and method for global data synchronization: A system and method is disclosed for synchronizing data between two or more devices connected to each other by a network. The devices execute instances of substantially identical applications storing data. A synchronization module executes on each of the devices. The synchronization module may monitor access to the databases and...

20060106883 - Systems and methods for expiring digital assets based on an assigned expiration date: Systems and methods for managing digital assets in a distributed computing environment are described. Meta-data for the digital assets is stored separately from the digital assets. Meta-data for some of the digital assets is copied and stored at a central location. Meta-data for the digital assets is generated by clients...

20060106884 - Systems and methods for storing meta-data separate from a digital asset: Systems and methods for managing digital assets in a distributed computing environment are described. Meta-data for the digital assets is stored separately from the digital assets. Meta-data for some of the digital assets is copied and stored at a central location. Meta-data for the digital assets is generated by clients...

20060106885 - Systems and methods for tracking replication of digital assets: Systems and methods for managing digital assets in a distributed computing environment are described. Meta-data for the digital assets is stored separately from the digital assets. Meta-data for some of the digital assets is copied and stored at a central location. Meta-data for the digital assets is generated by clients...

20060106886 - Managing lists and other items in an electronic file system: An electronic file system organizational structure is provided that allows for items to be organized in a directed acyclic graph (DAC). While items may be organized hierarchically as in a tree structure, items may also have multiple direct parents. The electronic file system may further have access to multiple different...

20060106887 - Method and apparatus for parallel execution of conduits during simultaneous syncronization of databases: Sharing information between a host computer system and a peripheral computer system. Conduit programs running simultaneously on the host computer system synchronize information between the two computer systems. The conduits initiate multiple time multiplexed transfers across a single communication link between the two computer systems. In general, one or more...

20060106890 - Apparatus, system, and method for cache synchronization: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for cache synchronization within a multi-tier system having multiple client-server relationships. The apparatus includes a pre-synchronization module, a locking module, and a synchronization module. The pre-synchronization module receives a pre-synchronization call from an upstream node coupled to a first downstream node. The locking...

20060106888 - Data update system, differential data creating device and program for data update system, updated file restoring device and program: An object of the invention is to reduce the amount of the differential data for use in data updating in a data updating system. At the time of producing differential data, a Move/Add determining unit (35) determines whether to produce Move data indicating a Move instruction to move and copy...

20060106891 - Managing atomic updates on metadata tracks in a storage system: Methods, systems, computer program products and methods for deploying computing infrastructure for managing metadata in a storage subsystem are provided. A first metadata track is staged from disk storage to a cache storage after which a journal entry is stored in a nonvolatile storage (NVS). The journal entry includes an...

20060106892 - Method and apparatus for archive data validation in an archive system: A method and apparatus for validation of archived data that includes one or more servers or data sources, an archive server, and one or more storage subsystems. Data is received from the data source and a verification code is generated on the data using a verification method. The data, and...

20060106889 - Method, system, and program for managing revisions to a file: Provided are a method system and program for managing revisions to a file. A new version of a file is received including new modifications to an indicated version of the file. A current version of the file is accessed in response to determining that the indicated version is an earlier...

20060106893 - Incremental backup operations in storage networks: Exemplary storage network architectures, data architectures, and methods for performing backup operations in storage networks are described. One exemplary method may be implemented in a processor in a storage network. The method comprises generating a snapclone of a source volume at a first point in time; contemporaneously activating a first...

20060106895 - Method and subsystem for performing metadata cleanup for replication topologies: A method of exchanging data between a database and distribution nodes in a multimode replication environment includes defining data stored in a database to be exchanged for replication and using database data having at least two subsets of data. The subsets are distinct and have no overlap. At least one...

20060106898 - Method, system, and program for storing and using metadata in multiple storage locations: Provided are a method, system, and program for storing and using metadata in multiple storage location. Signature data is stored in a system storage indicating a plurality of metadata copy locations, each locating identifying a storage device and a copy location within the storage device. Each location contains one copy...

20060106894 - Object replication using information quality of service: A database replication function for a local object and one or more destination objects, where one or more local applications make requests to the source objects is disclosed. A request logging function records requests sent by the one or more local applications into a memory log. An update propagation function...

20060106896 - System and method for creating list of backup files based upon program properties: Provided is a method for creating comprehensive backup files in a computing system on an application by application basis. An application is selected for backup and the output of the application is monitored with regard to the creation and modification of files. Files designated for backup may be stored on...

20060106897 - System and method for dynamically constructing synchronized business information user interfaces: Embodiments of the invention enable data that is synchronized between businesses to be displayed and interacted with by dynamically constructing graphical user interfaces to display the data. The graphical user interfaces are dynamically created via declarations that describe the data and how the data should be displayed along with the...

20060106899 - Unordered/fuzzy file path: Provided is an abstracting mechanism for the naming of files in a computing system. When a document is saved, individual components of the file path are segregated and the filename extension becomes the first component in a new file path. Remaining components are rearranged into the new file path according...

20060106900 - Use of a metadata presort file to sort compressed audio files: A media system is disclosed which presorts media files thereby alleviating a media player from having to actively sort the files in real time. The system creates and uses presort information with the media files. The presort information contains one or more lists of the media files previously presorted according...

20060100981 - Apparatus and method for quorum-based power-down of unresponsive servers in a computer cluster: An apparatus and method provide a quorum-based server power-down mechanism that allows a manager in a computer cluster to power-down unresponsive servers in a manner that assures that an unresponsive server does not become responsive again. In order for a manager in a cluster to power down servers in the...

20060100972 - Automated software-based hardware tracking system: A hardware tracking system includes memory storage devices on tracked parts containing unique serial numbers, part numbers, revision numbers, and firmware versions. At power up and after a reset, a host computer or real-time subsystem downloads this information and compares it to the information stored in a central database. Changes...

20060100979 - Controller for a medical imaging system: A controller for a medical imaging system. The controller includes a hand-held unit and a base unit. The hand-held unit, operable by a hand of a user, has a first shape and a first set of user controls for effecting a first set of operations of the medical imaging system....

20060100983 - Method and system for selectively controlling the utility a target: A target having a controlled utility is provided, as well as a method for changing the utility of the target. The target with controlled utility may be an electronic device, or alternatively, may be a tangible media, such as an optical disc. The controlled target has a change effecting device...

20060100976 - Method for searching image files: The present invention discloses the method for searching pictures which are stored in digital format as image files, especially as image files in Exif (exchangeable image file) format. With the method, the user can search certain pictures which are taken on specific holidays or anniversaries in a convenient and efficient...

20060100980 - Methods and systems for delivering yellow pages content to a media delivery device: A directory channel broadcasts or otherwise communicates an electronic communications directory to a media delivery device for presentment, storage, and/or integration with other directory content. The media delivery device may include an integrated multimedia device, such as an audiovisual (AV) device. Alternatively, the media delivery device and the AV device...

20060100978 - Multiple media type synchronization between host computer and media device: Improved techniques for transferring media assets between a host computer and a media device are disclosed. The transfer of media assets between a host computer and a media device can be referred to as synchronization. According to one aspect of the invention, media assets being transferred can be formatted (e.g.,...

20060100973 - Real-time localized resource extraction: The subject invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates mitigating the number of versions of a coded application needed to accommodate different spoken languages. The invention involves generating resource tables including resource identifier-resource type pairs. Examples of resource types include strings, bitmaps, icons, menus, and the like. For...

20060100982 - Storage configuration loader with automatic error recovery: Disclosed are a system, a method, and article of manufacture to configure information storage and retrieval systems. A configuration loader receives configuration commands from a configuration loader user interface. The configuration loader comprises a configuration loader module and at least one database. Upon receipt of configuration commands, the configuration loader...

20060100975 - Strongly-typed object oriented gui automation framework: The subject invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates classifying UI components abstracted from a computer based application in a strongly-typed manner based at least in part from a strongly-typed class framework. Methods included in the strongly-typed classes within the framework can correspond to one or more UI...

20060100984 - System and method for providing highly readable text on small mobile devices: A system which includes a cell phone or other mobile device which uses RSVP (rapid serial visual presentation) to present text information. The mobile device software receives the textual material to be displayed in a mark-up language, preferably XML. The markup language is used to provide information about the actual...

20060100977 - System and method for using embedded supplemental information: An apparatus for managing a library of enhanced works of content, which are defined as a compilation of a work of content and a supplemental information record that carries information related to the work of content, includes a memory and a processor. The memory includes enhanced work management module. The...

20060100985 - System and method of assigning seats and/or tables, as well as issuing and tracking personalized tickets for patrons attending events: Coordinators create a record and gather data for attendees. The information can be personal identification information, the company they represent, and the like. Records are stored in a database. The Coordinators assign seats and/or tables to the attendees. Such assignments are automatically captured and stored in the attendee's record. The...

20060100974 - Visual structuring of multivariable data: Visual structuring of multivariable data sets provided in records which include fields, and are displayed in tabular form. A method comprising: defining a key field; sorting records by defined key field; finding equivalent field values in fields in records arranged adjacent to each other; defining a block for fields having...

20060100986 - Task switching: The present disclosure relates to resource management of a multi-threaded system by controlling when thread state is stored to memory and, more specifically, to attempting to increase the speed in which task switching occurs by controlling whether or not thread state stored to memory....

20060101003 - Active abstracts: Techniques are provided for generating search results that include, instead of or in addition to the traditional abstract links, other links to content that the user of a search engine may consider helpful. These other links are referred to herein as “non-traditional abstract links”. In general, the search engine generates...

20060100992 - Apparatus and method for data ordering for derived columns in a database system: Optimized query execution for queries that return data sorted by a derived column. The query optimizer is used to determine if the data is already sorted or if existing database metadata can be utilized to provide the sort. The optimizer will examine the query field being derived and attempt to...

20060100987 - Apparatus and method to provide a recommedation of content: The invention relates to a recommender for recommending content to a user. The recommender comprises a recommender processor (111) which performs the steps of determining (201) a user preference profile and determining (205) if a content item interest does not correspond to the user preference profile. If the content item...

20060100997 - Data caching: One exemplary data caching architecture having a data cache operable on one or more of cooperating components of a computing environment to store and retrieve computing environment data is provided. The data cache cooperates with the computing environment components to request computing environment data based on selected conditions and store...

20060100989 - Database system providing methodology for execution of functions in xml queries: A database system providing methodology for execution of functions in queries requesting data from markup language documents is described. In one embodiment, for example, a method is described for executing a function in a query requesting data from a markup language document stored in a database, the markup language document...

20060101008 - Database system, database server, and method of controlling the operation of a database server: A database system is provided with a search unit for searching image attribute information that has been stored in a relational database management system. A search interface is provided between the search unit and a command execution unit, which applies a search command to the search unit. The command execution...

20060100994 - Distributing repository information: A computer-implemented method of distributing information retrieved from one or more data repositories includes: invoking a producer method to generate a document using data retrieved from one or more data repositories; invoking a converter method to convert the generated document to an output format; and invoking a distributor method to...

20060100995 - E-mail based semantic web collaboration and annotation: Semantic Web attributes are transmitted via an electronic message such as an email message. The attributes are extracted from the message by a program agent according to a predetermined plan. The extracted attributes are saved in storage wherein the storage is optionally an annotation store....

20060101007 - Information processing apparatus and method, and recording medium: The home page provided by a WWW server is described using <IDTAG> tag for assigning an object ID to objects such as a text, an image, and voice constituting the home page; in a search server, URL of the home page having the object and the object ID assigned to...

20060101004 - Method and system for retrieving a document: In registering operation of a document to be searched for, a document identifier management table for managing a range of a document identifier stored for each page and a page identifier of the page is created, and an individual-search-server's search range management table for managing the range of the document...

20060100998 - Method and system to combine keyword and natural language search results: A search query is received from a single input field of a user interface. A keyword search is performed based on the search query to generate keyword search results. A natural language search is performed of a frequently-asked question (FAQ) database based on the search query to generate FAQ search...

20060100991 - Method for dynamical determination of actions to perform on a selected item in a web portal gui environment: The idea of the present invention is to define a set of rules that: determine the set of actions that apply based on the context of a selected object and UI operating system environment (known hereafter as Filter Rules), determine for a selected action it's input values, again based on...

20060100988 - Method for generating a search result list on a web search engine: A Computer-readable recording medium in which a program for implementing a method according to any one of claims 1 to 12 is recorded. The present invention relates to a method for selling a search word to a network information provider and providing a search result list to a searcher based...

20060101001 - Method, system and program for executing a query having a union operator: Disclosed is a data processing system implemented method, a data processing system and an article of manufacture for executing a query having a union operator. The data processing system implemented method directs the data processing system to process a query against data objects. The data objects are operatively coupled to...

20060100990 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for discreetly monitoring a communications network for sensitive information: A method for monitoring a network for information includes repeatedly searching the network for sensitive information about a subscriber. The network is intermittently searched for obscuring information during the repeated searching to thereby disguise the sensitive information that is the target of the repeated searching. Related systems and computer program...

20060101002 - Query builder using context sensitive grids: A method and system for providing a query builder for at least one query language is disclosed. The method and system include providing a plurality of grids and at least one resource for a grid set including at least one of the plurality of grids. The grids correspond to a...

20060100996 - Read-copy update system and method: A method, system and computer program product for managing requests for deferred updates to shared data elements while minimizing grace period detection overhead associated with determining whether pre-existing references to the data elements have been removed. Plural update requests that are eligible for grace period detection are buffered without performing...

20060101006 - Reducing the number of operations performed by a persistence manager against a persistent store of data items: Method, apparatus, and computer program product for reducing the number of operations performed by a persistence manager against a persistent store of data items. A plurality of requests from an application are received. Each request is mapped into a transaction for performance against the persistent store, each transaction having at...

20060101000 - Selection of a set of optimal n-grams for indexing string data in a dbms system under space constraints introduced by the system: The present invention provides a computer-readable medium and system for selecting a set of n-grams for indexing string data in a DBMS system. Aspects of the invention include providing a set of candidate in grams, each n-gram comprising a sequence of characters; identifying sample queries having character strings containing the...

20060100999 - System and method for data entry and search: A method for entering and processing a search for geographical information. The method comprises the steps of providing a database including a plurality of data tables, which are non-hierarchically indexed; providing a search field corresponding to each one of the plurality of data tables, the search fields being non-sequential relative...

20060101005 - System and method for managing and presenting entity information: A system and method for managing and presenting entity information is described. In an illustrative implementation, information such as product availability and operating hours is stored in a server (130). A query may be sent from a client (202) having a time (1402), date (1410), or both inquiring, for example,...

20060100993 - System and method for reserve allocation of event data: Disclosed are systems and methods for reserve allocation of event data. A request event is received. The request event is associated with memory storing request event data. Memory for response event data is allocated from a first pool. The response event data is associated with a response, and the response...

20060101009 - System and method for searching for static data in a computer investigation system: A system and method for concurrent investigations of static data stored in one or more secondary storage devices of one or more target machines in a data communications network. The network includes an examining machine, a secure server, and various target machines. The examining machine transmits to the target machines...

20060101011 - Method, system and program for executing a query having a union operator: Disclosed is a data processing system implemented method, a data processing system and an article of manufacture for executing a query having a union operator. A data processing system implemented method direct the data processing system to execute a query against a database having data objects. The query has sub-queries...

20060101012 - Search system presenting active abstracts including linked terms: Upon receiving a search query, a search to identify at least one resource relevant to the search query is performed. At least one excerpt is extracted from the at least one resource, and a term of interest is identified in the excerpt. A link to a referral document is associated...

20060101013 - Selection context filtering: A method and system for the graphical formulation of filter queries is disclosed which enables data queries to be easily chosen via selection from a menu. A signal is received to filter, or query, a data table. Next, the context of a selection of data is analyzed, and a menu...

20060101010 - System and method for transmitting data associated with user rights: A system for accessing data (10) associated with user rights (12) for the data (10), expressed in a specific language for expressing rights, on at least one consultation station (4) including elements for recovering (14) user rights adapted to identify user rights expressed in one or more different languages for...

20060101015 - Automated collation creation: A collation creation process is provided to automatically establish collation support for sorted linguistic data. The sorted linguistic data is examined to determine if it matches an existing collation support. If not, a new collation support is created for the sorted linguistic data. The provider of the sorted linguistic data...

20060101014 - System and method for minimally predictive feature identification: A system and method for minimally predictive feature identification is disclosed. The method discloses: receiving an information collection including a set of features; generating a set of prediction values indicating a degree to which a first feature within the set of features predicts other features in the set; and identifying...

20060101016 - Medical image transfer apparatus, program and recording medium: A medical image transfer apparatus comprises: a receiving member to receive a plurality of medical images including accompanying information; an extracting member to extract the accompanying information included in each of the medical images; and a transferring member to determine a transfer order of the medical images based on the...

20060101017 - Search ranking system: A computer based media, method and system for prioritizing search results for an individual, a group, a team, a division, an organization or some combination thereof....

20060101018 - Method for processing new sequences being recorded into an interlocking trees datastore: A method of recording information in an interlocking trees datastore having a plurality of K paths includes receiving a data stream input sequence and traversing the interlocking trees datastore in accordance with the received input sequence for recording the received input sequence within the interlocking trees datastore. First determining whether...

20060101019 - Systems and methods of access control enabling ownership of access control lists to users or groups: Embodiments of the present invention support a flexible access control design that includes flexible ownership and assignment of access control lists (ACLs). The ACLs can be assigned to one or more resources, or items, or types of resources or items. A creator or owner of an ACL can grant privileges...

20060101020 - Systems, methods, and computer program products for scheduled shared resource security: A system for managing security for a shared resource, e.g., a conference room, office, lab or other premises, includes a reservation-based scheduler configured to accept user requests from multiple users for reservation of the resource and that responsively generates a usage schedule for the resource. The system further includes a...

20060101021 - Technique for detecting and blocking unwanted instant messages: A technique for tracking one or more thresholds relating to the blocking of a particular screen name used on an IM system is disclosed. If the number of people who have blocked a particular screen name reaches a threshold amount, a determination is made that the screen name is being...

20060101024 - Reproducing apparatus, reproducing method and software thereof: For the purpose of managing and/or protecting meta information of contents, which are accumulated within a recording accumulation medium and/or a recording/reproducing apparatus, there is provided meta data for managing the meta information, when managing the contents data, without managing/controlling by each of users when producing and compiling the contents...

20060101022 - System and process for providing an interactive, computer network-based, virtual team worksite: A system and process for providing an interactive computer network-based virtual team worksite that combines data storage, team members' presence information, interaction tools and a past history log into one virtual complex is presented. Generally, this is accomplished by integrating a shared data module, a unique presence module and various...

20060101023 - Universal computing paradigm with single-code base utilizing a flexible distributed computing architecture: An application program for use in a hybrid computing environment comprising standalone, client-server, or Internet use is described. The application is written in a single code base and installed on a client computer that is configured for use as either a standalone or networked computer. Server side components of the...

20060101040 - Algorithms for block-level code alignment of software binary files: A file differencing and updating system is provided that includes a file differencing component and a file updating component. The file differencing component, or file differencing engine, generates a difference file in a first processor-based or computer system from an original or old version and a new version of an...

20060101037 - Application programming interface for text mining and search: Systems and methods are described that allow programmatic access to search engine results and query logs in a structured form. The search results can be retrieved from the search engine in an intermediary form that contains the information that is in the HTML pages provided to web browsers (potentially with...

20060101031 - Automated dynamic routing of documents based on database storage of user relationships: A method and system for automated dynamic routing of information based on database storage of user relationships are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, user relationships within an organization are centrally managed. These relationships are used as virtual destinations for the routing of business processes. When information is to...

20060101026 - Communication model, signal, method, and device for confirming reachability in network where host reachability is accomplished by relating static identifier to dynamic address: In a network where host reachability is accomplished by relating a static identifier to a dynamic address, the live/death of a communication node and reachability are confirmed by using a sign and countersign....

20060101025 - Distributed file system and method of operating a distributed file system: The present invention provides a distributed file system comprising a plurality of compute nodes and a plurality of input/output (I/O) nodes connected by an interconnection network wherein the system is adapted to use a common data representation for both physical and logical partitions of a file stored in the system...

20060101038 - Extensible object-modelling mechanism: An XML management system, comprising: a repository configured to store a manipulable object model capable of representing metadata about objects in a user's computing environment; user accessible means for manipulating said object model to modify properties of objects thus represented; and means for extending said object model to handle a...

20060101033 - High-performance log-based processing: Each of a plurality of Worker processes are allowed to perform any and all of the following tasks involving logged work items: (1) reading a subset of the work items from a log; (2) sequentially ordering work items for corresponding data objects; (3) applying a sequentially ordered set of work...

20060101028 - Method and apparatus for efficient electronic document management: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for efficient electronic document management. One embodiment of the inventive method involves generating one or more user-specific administrator setup files comprising a plurality of parameters pertaining to tasks and steps that users are authorized to perform on electronic documents,...

20060101039 - Method and apparatus to scale and unroll an incremental hash function: A method and apparatus speeding up an incremental hash function is described. The method may comprise receiving a data string including a plurality of N data samples and, as each data sample is received, multiplying the data samples to obtain data sample multiplication results and multiplying a current hash value...

20060101034 - Method and system for managing user interface messages: A system, method, data structures and computer-accessible medium is provided for storing, managing, and tracking the development of messages for computer program products. Message and message-related data for messages which computer program products display to users as part of the product's user interface are centralized in a message catalog. A...

20060101032 - Mixed types: The present invention provides a system and/or method that facilitates programming within Common Language Runtime (CLR) for a C++ programmer by employing a mixed type. An inheritance component creates the mixed type from received code such that the mixed class type is allocated into memory into a pure native part...

20060101041 - Providing a consistent hierarchical abstraction of relational data: A hierarchy may be explicitly or implicitly reflected in existing data maintained external to hierarchy structures. Such hierarchies are referred to herein as a “pre-existing hierarchies”. Techniques are described herein for capturing a pre-existing hierarchy in hierarchy structures. After a pre-existing hierarchy has been captured, there exist two independent sets...

20060101036 - Storage medium storing directory editing support program, directory editing support method, and directory editing support apparatus: A storage medium readable by a computer stores a program of instructions executable by the computer to perform a function for supporting editing of a hierarchical structure of a directory. The function includes: editing metadata including information relevant to the hierarchical structure of the directory; editing content data as contents...

20060101035 - System and method for blog functionality: Systems and methods applicable, for instance, in blog functionality. For example, a blog entry may be created that exists both in a media diary and as part of a blog. As another example, notifications regarding blogs may be received. As yet another example, a contacts card may convey details of...

20060101030 - System and method for editing operations of a text object model: An improved system and method for editing operations of a text object model is provided. To this end, a text object model and a text editing object model are employed. The text object model may have a data abstraction represented by a sequence of symbols and may provide a formatted...

20060101029 - System and method for handling improper database table access: A system and method for identifying and fixing programs and extraneous indexes that improperly accesses tables in an application database system. A method is described including the steps of: defining an incorrect rule set and a related correct rule set for a database model associated with the database system; retrieving...

20060101027 - System and method for regulatory rules repository generation and maintenance: A system and method for deriving compliance requirements from statutes, regulations, case law, official interpretations, attorney general opinions, determination and other interpretive letters, administrative agency regulations, and sources prescribing and interpreting compliance requirements for a jurisdiction, preparing compliance rules documentation that reflect these regulatory requirements, creating computer-encoded compliance rules from...

20060101043 - Control method and device, and method for setting up a control system: A device is used for controlling an installation that is comprised of several units. A common control system, that is provided with a central data memory, in which current real values and/or set points are filed as process variables for several units, is allocated to several of these units. The...

20060101042 - De-fragmentation of transmission sequences: The present invention aims at avoiding fragmentation during transmission of a structured document (10). This is achieved by a method of progressive transmission for a structured document (10). the structured document (10) comprising sub-documents (12, 14, 16, . . . ) with related relevance weightings. In particular, a fragmentation measure...

20060101048 - Kstore data analyzer: A data analysis system for performing an analytic to obtain an analytic result in a computing device having memory including a data analyzer interface, at least one interlocking trees datastore within the associated memory, and at least one analytic application executed. The data analysis system of the invention also includes...

20060101047 - Method and system for fortifying software: A method of developing fortified software using external guards, identifying information, security policies and obfuscation. External guards protect protected programs within the fortified software that they are not part of. The external guards can read and check the protected programs directly to detect tampering or can exchange information with the...

20060101049 - Method, apparatus, computer program, and computer program product for managing the durability of a plurality of transactions: Method, apparatus, computer program, and computer program product for managing the durability of a plurality of transactions, each transaction including a plurality of operations, each operation for applying to a data item, each operation having a reliability level associated therewith. Each transaction is divided into one or more sub-transactions based...

20060101044 - Method, system and program for excuting a query having a union all operator and data modifying operations: Disclosed is a data processing system, a data processing system implemented method and an article of manufacture for executing a query having a union all operator. The data processing system implemented method directs the data processing system to execute a query against a data object. The query has a union...

20060101045 - Methods and apparatus for interval query indexing: Interval query indexing techniques for use in accordance with data stream processing systems are disclosed. For example, in an illustrative aspect of the invention, a technique for use in processing a data stream comprises the following steps/operations. First, an attribute range of query intervals associated with the data stream is...

20060101050 - Methods and apparatus for parallel exection of a process: One embodiment of the invention is directed to executing a computer program that manipulates data stored in a distributed manner on a parallel server. At least one portion of the computer program treats the data from a global perspective, wherein commands to the parallel server are not specific to the...

20060101046 - Using a word processor with accounting data: A method of transferring data from a financial program to a word processing program to view and modify financial documents in the word processing program is disclosed. The method may entail selecting a template in an accounting program wherein the template has a field related to the selected template, identifying...

20060101062 - Distributed system with asynchronous execution systems and methods: Systems and methods are provided for reducing latency in distributed systems by executing commands as sufficient information and system resources become available. In one embodiment, commands in a transaction include dependency information and an execution engine is configured to execute the commands as the dependencies become satisfied. In some embodiments,...

20060101051 - Electronic data capture and verification: Apparatus for automatically building an electronic form for presentation to a user during a data capture process segregates the data capture intent behind the form from the presentation and execution of the form to a data capture user. In this way, the data capture process, including generation of the form...

20060101059 - Employment method, an employment management system and an employment program for business system: A business system on the Web base having a plurality of system apparatuses and software components aims at reducing a load on configuration works and employment works of the business system. In an employment management system for the business system having a plurality of system apparatuses, a storage device stores...

20060101065 - Feature-vector generation apparatus, search apparatus, feature-vector generation method, search method and program: A feature-vector generation apparatus includes an input unit configured to input content data including at least one of video data and audio data, a generation unit configured to generate a feature vector, based on information indicating a time at which a characterizing state of the content data appears, the characterizing...

20060101057 - Information system: An information system, comprising a workstation, a database, and connection means for providing access to the database from the workstation. The data-base comprises a plurality of predefined attributes arranged into a predefined hierarchical order, each attribute corresponding to an assessable factor. The connection means are configured to receive from a...

20060101055 - Interactive 3-dimensional object-oriented database information storage/retrieval system: An interactive 3-dimensional object-oriented database patient specific information storage system includes an input device, a database containing 3-dimensional meshes of objects each with an object identifier and a symptom list with each symptom having associated ones of the object identifiers of the 3-dimensional meshes of objects. An interface connected to...

20060101064 - Method and apparatus for a file sharing and synchronization system: A computer-implemented method is provided for managing and sharing picture files. In one embodiment of the present invention, the method comprises providing a server platform and providing a datastore on the server platform for maintaining full resolution copies of the files shared between a plurality of sharing clients. A synchronization...

20060101052 - Method and system for sequencing and scheduling: A method and system as well as a computer program product for generating an optimized production sequence and schedule is provided. The method includes generation of a job object, a constraint object, a slot object and a parameters object that are used to generate the optimized production sequence and schedule....

20060101063 - Method for the collection and analysis of medical data: A method of collecting and storing electronic medical data for analysis has been developed. The method includes intercepting medical billing information in an electronic format that is being electronically transmitted to a billing recipient; extracting identified medical data from the medical billing information; securely transmitting the medical billing information on...

20060101056 - Methods and apparatus for performing structural joins for answering containment queries: Techniques are provided for performing structural joins for answering containment queries. Such inventive techniques may be used to perform efficient structural joins of two interval lists which are neither sorted nor pre-indexed. For example, in an illustrative aspect of the invention, a technique for performing structural joins of two element...

20060101066 - Methods and systems for creating a virtual work environment within which to develop ideas and perform intellectual work: A system for facilitating engagement of one or more subscribers, the system including a subscriber module that is adapted to communicate with a data store by way of a network. The subscriber module is adapted to enable one or more subscribers to link a first document and a second document...

20060101060 - Similarity search system with compact data structures: A content-addressable and searchable storage system for managing and exploring massive amounts of feature-rich data such as images, audio or scientific data, is shown. The system comprises a segmentation and feature extraction unit for segmenting data corresponding to an object into a plurality of data segments and generating a feature...

20060101061 - Storage medium storing audio-visual data including metadata, reproducing apparatus, and method of searching for audio-visual data using the metadata: A reproducing apparatus for reproducing audio-visual data stored in a storage medium includes a storage unit which stores metadata used to search for desired audio-visual data in the audio-visual data stored in the storage medium, and a search unit which searches for the desired audio-visual data using the metadata stored...

20060101053 - System and method for associating software programs with data files within a computer network: The present invention teaches a computer implemented method for associating one or more computer software applications with one or more computer data files on a computer system comprising the acts of: providing a computer system, wherein the computer system includes at least one permanent storage device containing at least a...

20060101058 - System and method for transforming legacy documents into xml documents: A method for converting a legacy document into an XML document, includes decomposing the conversion process into a plurality of individual conversion tasks. A legacy document is decomposed into a plurality of document portions. A target XML schema including a plurality of schema components is provided. Local schema are generated...

20060101054 - System for distributed information presentation and interaction: A system for distributed information processing and interaction includes a plurality of output devices arranged to produce a respective output portion of a system output, a plurality of application processors and a state server in data communication with the plurality of application processors. Each respective output portion is defined by...

20060101069 - Generating a fingerprint for a document: A method for generating a set of one or more elements of a fingerprint for a document, the document comprising a semantic construct having one or more ordered words, the method comprising the steps of: defining a range of sizes for a fingerprint element; dividing the ordered words of the...

20060101068 - Layout information for data component: In a computer system that is configured to contain schema definitions for several data components, layout information for at least one of the data components is stored in the schema definition for the at least one data component. A method of providing display of data in a graphical user interface...

20060101067 - Set identifiers for objects: Set identifiers for objects are determined based on individual identifiers of the objects. A first identifier is received from a first identification tag associated with a first object. A second identifier is received from a second identification tag associated with a second object. A set identifier corresponding to a set...

20060101070 - Alphabet input apparatus and alphabet input method: Alphabet input apparatus and method are provided. In the alphabet input apparatus, one alphabet is determined by pressing two keys of a keypad to which ten basic figures made by analyzing shapes of alphabets are allocated respectively. Further, each alphabet corresponds to a combination of two keys depending on the...

20060101073 - Constraint-based xml query rewriting for data integration: A system and method for data integration by querying multiple extensible markup language (XML) source schemas through a common XML target schema, wherein the system comprises XML mapping connections between the XML source schemas and the XML target schema, wherein the XML mapping connections accommodate XML mappings, the XML source...

20060101076 - Electronic file system graphic user interface including user defined relationship symbology between folders: An electronic file system graphic user interface for representation of electronic files. The graphic user interface includes a graphically indicated first main folder, a graphically indicated second main folder, and user defined relationship symbology displayable between the first and second main folders. The electronic files are represented as storable in...

20060101078 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus and an image processing method, which can improve security and reinforce privacy protection for cache data and management data generated when an operator employs a browser function, and which can efficiently utilize storage resources of the apparatus. In the image processing apparatus...

20060101074 - Method and system for dynamically adjusting searches for diagnostic information: A diagnostic device receives a first set of search criteria related to a problem with a vehicle, and the diagnostic device stores the first set of search criteria. In response to receiving a second set of search criteria, the diagnostic device can compare it with the first set of search...

20060101075 - Method and system for prospectively acquiring roi based data for retrospective re-analysis: A method and system for prospectively acquiring data of a region of interest for retrospective re-analysis includes obtaining region of interest data and generating property information of the region of interest data. The method also includes analyzing the property information receptive to generating a measurement of the property information. After...

20060101071 - Network operating system and method: The invention provides a system and method for a network operating system. The system includes a complex data medium that enables the continuous reconciliation of the collaborative information process and product. The system generally increases productivity by enabling a network dynamic among knowledge workers. The system unifies e-mail and shared...

20060101079 - Service providing system, disappointment judging system, and disappointment judging method: A response content determination section determines a response content in response to a request from a user which is received by an input section, and an output section outputs the response content. A biological signal detection section measures a biological signal of the user from an output timing of the...

20060101072 - System and method for interpreting scan data: A system, method and program product for interpreting scan data. A system is provided that includes: an input system for inputting scan data and associated subject data; a geographic information system (GIS) for generating spatial data from the scan data and allows for the mathematical integration of layered spatial data,...

20060101077 - Usage based strength between related help topics and context based mapping thereof in a help information retrieval system: An information retrieval system allows a user to navigate through a plurality of informational items for a desired informational item, and upon selection of an information item, presents other informational items related to the selected informational item. The information retrieval system in accordance with principles of the present invention maintains...

20060101086 - Data sorting method and system: In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for data sorting. A method for use with one or more processing devices in order to merge sorted runs of data may include the steps of: defining a plurality of floating buffers; calculating a number of data blocks...

20060101081 - Distributed database system providing data and space management methodology: A distributed database system providing data and space management methodology is described. In one embodiment, for example, a method is described for detection of deadlocks in a distributed database system comprising a plurality of servers sharing access to data, the method comprises steps of: in response to a task at...

20060101080 - Information terminal: An information terminal that can perform image processing in consonance with the use state and the use purpose. When a retrial module is started, removal means removes part or all of the interpolation processing performed for a Bayer-type module. Thereafter, data obtained by the removal are transmitted to color interpolation...

20060101089 - Management of persistence in a data processing system: A a user is enabled to specify policy information for use by a persistence manager in determining how to persist information relating to a data item so as achieve a desired level of reliability. The user is permitted to specify at least two behavior requirements to be associated with information...

20060101085 - Method and system for efficient write journal entry management for a distributed file system: The present invention is directed to a method and system for efficient write journal entry management maintaining minimum write journal information stored in a nonvolatile memory through utilizing an additional structure in a fast volatile memory. The method and system may manage write journaling of a file volume including multiple...

20060101088 - Method for archiving data: The invention relates to a method for archiving, particularly long-term archiving, data, where reconstruction (r) of a faulty data record by experts can be avoided by generating redundant data records whose data integrity is monitored continuously in rotation using a hash value signature, and if an error is detected with...

20060101084 - Policy based data migration in a hierarchical data storage system: A hierarchical data storage system including a policy based migration engine to select a migration policy and migrate data from a first set of removable storage media, such as tape cartridges, to a second set of removable storage media in accordance with the migration policy. The hierarchical data storage system...

20060101082 - System and method for integrating continuous synchronization on a host handheld device: A handheld device includes a host database having first and second API associated therewith, a client database and a notification handler. The notification handler sends a request for notification of a change in the host database to the first API and receives the notification of the change in the host...

20060101083 - System for deterministic database recovery time: A system for limiting the amount of time for a database server to perform a crash recovery process. A maximum recovery time for the database server to perform the crash recovery process is specified. An estimated recovery time for the crash recovery process that is less than the maximum recovery...

20060101087 - System, apparatus, and method for processing information, and computer program, and recording medium: An information processing apparatus, present in an intranet, sharing information with an information processing apparatus present in the other intranet connected to the intranet via a network, includes a memory storing the information, and a controller setting the information stored in the memory to an update disabled state in the...

20060101090 - Method and system for reliable datagram tunnels for clusters: Aspects of a system for transporting information via a communications system may include a processor that establishes, via a local NIC, a communication channel between the local NIC and a remote NIC via a network. The processor may receive a datagram message from one of a plurality of local endpoints,...

20060101091 - Recovering references in an extended model: Techniques for programmatically recovering broken references between a model and corresponding extensions. This preferably comprises persisting a snapshot of each extended model, along with the extensions to the model, where the extensions reference objects in the snapshot. Upon subsequently reloading the object model, the snapshot is compared to a current...

20060101092 - Computer system and method for managing file versions: The version management method according to the present invention by a computer system comprises a repository server 2 and a user terminal 1. The repository server 2 executes a procedure that the file to be updated within the user repository 26 are updated by the user terminal 1, a procedure...

20060101093 - Processing device and program update method: A processing device of the invention includes: an insertion unit that has a recording medium, which is set therein in a freely detachable manner and stores a new program for updating at least a target program as an update object; an update module that reads the new program from the...

20060101096 - Associations between duplicate master data objects: In a method of sharing data between a central module and a client module, a plurality of duplicate first data objects and a second data object are stored on a first client module, where the second data object includes a first pointer pointing to one of the duplicate first data...

20060101100 - Document management of nested references: A computer program product and document management system for managing nested references. The document management system scans each document within the document management system to ascertain if the document includes a nested reference. If a second document is a nested reference of a first document, the document management system creates...

20060101095 - Entity based configurable data management system and method: A method and system is provided for configurable articulation of criteria for period archival, deletion, or movement of data from one data storage system to another. A consistent method for executing programs which manage specific data uses criteria articulated to identify sets of data and the rules associated with the...

20060101099 - Method and system to provide files to a client computer: Methods and systems for managing e-mails involve an e-mail server that maintains a data set identifying e-mails, and that implements a shortcut feature whereby at least a portion of an e-mail identified in the data set is identified by a shortcut identifier, so that the at least a portion of...

20060101094 - Methods and systems for moving data objects: Methods, computer readable medium and systems are provided for moving data objects from a first storage location to a second storage location. One or more data objects may be selected from a first storage location. At least one identifier (ID) of at least one type may be assigned to each...

20060101097 - Replicated data validation: An approach to validating replicated data allows use of a validation procedure that may modify the data replica. The approach features suspension of updating of the data replica for data replication and enabling restoration of the data replica to a state prior to any modification of the data as a...

20060101098 - Session initiation protocol call center: A customer service center or other facility receives session imitation protocol (SIP) messages transmitted from a web services user agent on behalf of a user network device. The customer service center is equipped with a session initiation protocol-enabled presence server that retrieves information about a SIP registered user, and adds...

20060101101 - System and method for storing events to enhance intrusion detection: Storing events to enhance intrusion detection in networks is described. In one exemplary implementation, an event is received. The event includes a data section containing a set of strings each having an event field. A definition table is referenced to determine locations of event fields in the data section of...

20060101102 - Method for organizing a plurality of documents and apparatus for displaying a plurality of documents: The present invention relates to a method for organizing a plurality of documents and an apparatus for displaying a plurality of documents. Said plurality of documents are clustered, and the resulted clusters of different levels are displayed as virtual directories, thus helping the user to navigate to the target document...

20060095398 - Automatic defocussing of displayed multimedia information on client by monitoring static and dynamic properties of the client: Automatic defocusing of displayed multimedia information (e.g., video) on a client in a client-server system by monitoring dynamic display properties of the client provides more efficient use of resources in the system. In one embodiment, bandwidth is conserved by configuring the server with the capability of defocus select data being...

20060095397 - Dynamic content change notification: A content page is configured by a user and located on a network. Changes made to the content page are automatically communicated with notifications to a group of contacts for the user. Only contacts with permission to view the content page, or the changed content, will receive the notification and...

20060095400 - Macro delivery system and macro delivery program: In a delivery information setting processing, for each macro, deliverability of the macro and a kind of macro data for constituting the macro are set for each process technology. In a registration processing, the macro data is registered in correlation with a macro name and a process technology name. In...

20060095396 - Method, system, and apparatus for receiving, processing and rendering content responsive to user and device parameters: Content is received by a device through a port and is analyzed based on a set of predetermined criteria to determine if it matches the characteristics of the device and/or the preferences of a user. The content characteristics are recognized by analyzing the content itself or from tags attached to,...

20060095401 - Personal media broadcasting system with output buffer: A personal media broadcasting system enables video distribution over a computer network and allows a user to view and control media sources over a computer network from a remote location. A personal broadcaster receives an input from one or more types of media sources, digitizes and compresses the content, and...

20060095399 - Storage portion management device, image processor, method for controlling the same and computer program product: An image forming device includes a box for each user for storing a file, a table management portion for storing a file change in the box together with a time when the change happened as change history information, an inbox change detection portion for detecting a file change in the...

20060095402 - System and method for collecting contents on audio/video network and controlling execution of the contents: A method and system for sharing information of contents possessed by audio/video (A/V) devices having network interface, which are connected with each other on a network, and efficiently controlling the execution of the contents are provided. In a control device which receives a list of contents from a collection device...

20060095395 - Using md4 checksum as primary keys to link transactions across machines: A method, system, and computer instructions for using MD4 checksum to link transactions across machines. Transaction information is received, wherein transaction information comprises a checksum and topology information, and wherein the checksum serves as a unique identifier of the current transaction. A first data structure is populated with the checksum...

20060095409 - Advanced scrolling for relational database applications: Disclosed are a method, a system and a computer program for scrolling to an arbitrary position in a set of unfetched rows of data in a relational database. Each of the rows has a plurality of columns and a class value in each of the columns. Also, each column of...

20060095425 - Analyzing stored data: A method of locating a target value includes loading the target value into elements of a first register. The first register includes N elements (N>0). The method also includes indicating in elements of a second register, which includes N elements corresponding to the first register, whether a corresponding element from...

20060095418 - Arranging records in a search result to be provided in response to a data inquiry of a database: Systems and methods for arranging records in search results to be provided in response to a data inquiry of a database. After search results including records are received, a determination is made with respect to the order of the records in the search results. This determination may be based on...

20060095419 - Arranging records in a search result to be provided in response to a data inquiry of a database: Systems and methods for arranging records in search results to be provided in response to a data inquiry of a database. After search results including records are received, a determination is made with respect to the order of the records in the search results. This determination may be based on...

20060095406 - Displaying explain data for a sql query of a database: Enabling a user to obtain and view graphic explain data with no need to activate a monitor and no need to wait for a job to complete before the explain data for a query may be viewed. Displaying explain data for an SQL query of a database that include executing...

20060095417 - Intelligence system and a method of generating flags for use therein: The present invention relates to a system and method for collecting and analyzing intelligence data regarding events, organizations and other entities, relevant to a specific individual or organizational goal or function. To facilitate analysis of intelligence data by a user, flags that describe a condition are defined, where a condition...

20060095416 - Link-based spam detection: A computer implemented method of ranking search hits in a search result set. The computer-implemented method includes receiving a query from a user and generating a list of hits related to the query, where each of the hits has a relevance to the query, where the hits have one or...

20060095413 - Method of exposing normalized data as denormalized tables: Provided is a system and method for retrieving data from a database such that a query can be implemented simply and without regard to the actual structure of the database. The claimed method provides virtual tables, or “tracking groups,” that correspond to a business process and then, via a custom...

20060095422 - Method of managing access to web pages and system of managing access to web pages: There is provided a method of efficiently accessing information located on Web pages in a ubiquitous environment such as a home, an office and on a travel. A gateway server is located between a client and Web servers for providing the contents. The gateway server traps a request of a...

20060095421 - Method, apparatus, and program for searching for data: A data-search apparatus, method and program are provided which are adapted to search for a plurality of pieces of data, each piece having version data indicating that the piece is derived from certain data. The method includes calculating scores of search results of pieces of data in data groups, each...

20060095403 - Method, system and program product for filtering model objects: The present invention generally combines the concepts of view filtering with query filtering to provide an improved object filtration mechanism. Under the present invention, input for an object and a filter string is received. It is then determined whether the filter string was used in a previous query. If not,...

20060095407 - Methods and apparatus for adding parenthetical expression capability to a tabular query user interface: The present invention concerns methods and apparatus for incorporating parenthetical expression capability in an interactive tabular query interface, wherein the interactive tabular query interface can be used to search computer resources like computer databases. The methods and apparatus of the present invention permit a user through the medium of a...

20060095424 - Methods and apparatus for mouse-over preview of contextually relevant information: Challenges to the analysis of search results may be mitigated by offering preview information when users navigate a computer-pointing device over pre-designated areas of a search result page. A separate icon in the pre-designated area enhances the advantages by providing intuitive preview ability with seamless and natural control over a...

20060095405 - Mirroring database statistics: Mirroring database statistics, including receiving by a backup application of a backup computer a journal entry representing a requirement for backup database statistics and generating by a statistics engine of the backup computer backup database statistics for a backup database in accordance with the journal entry. Mirroring database statistics according...

20060095410 - Personal video recorder for home network providing filtering and format conversion of content: Content is received by a personal video recorder (PVR) through a port and is analyzed by a filter based on a set of predetermined criteria to determine if it matches the characteristics of the device, the rendering means associated with the device and/or the preferences of a user. The content...

20060095408 - Predictive routing engine for business processes: A process path is predicted for a business process involving participants within an enterprise and/or across enterprises by receiving a form containing content provided by an initiator of a current iteration of the business process. One or more key data are selected from the content in the received form. The...

20060095404 - Presenting search engine results based on domain name related reputation: The invention describes a method for presenting search engine results based on domain name related reputation data. The search engine may sort or order search engine results based on domain name related reputation data. In some cases links connected to low reputation domain names may be excluded from search engine...

20060095411 - Rule discovery program, rule discovery process, and rule discovery apparatus: A rule discovery program which enables discovery of a rule by automatically searching for a feature portion which is effective for generation of a rule in multimedia data. When sample data items are inputted, a search unit selects evaluation positions on a data array constituting each of the sample data...

20060095414 - System and method for integrating and transmitting data: A system for integrating and transmitting data comprises a request receiving module, which receives download requests from first heterogeneous databases by a main server; a list establishing module, which establishes corresponding download lists according to the download requests; a data selecting module, which selects download data from second heterogeneous databases...

20060095415 - System and method for obtaining information from a data management system: A system and method are provided for obtaining information from a data management system. The data management system may determine if information from the data management was requested and, if so, may locate a data object containing the requested information and read the requested information from this data object, compile...

20060095412 - System and method for presenting search results: System and method for presenting search results. Search results may be mixed and/or prioritized based on one or more criteria. Search results may be mixed and/or prioritized based on user profile data, preferred advertiser/merchant rankings or a combination thereof. Search results may presented to a viewer on a display device...

20060095420 - System, device, method, program, and storage medium for human resources registration and retrieval: A human resources retrieval system includes a client computer and a human resources retrieval device. The client computer and the human resources retrieval device are connected to a network. The client computer specifies a search condition. The human resources retrieval device performs a personnel search and sends a search result...

20060095423 - Systems and methods for retrieval of medical data: A system and method for transmitting medical data. In one embodiment, a computer system receives filter criteria from a user of a first computer. Furthermore, the computer system may receive schedule information defining a schedule for checking for medical data. Depending on the embodiment, either the computer system or a...

20060095426 - System and method for creating document abstract: The present invention provides a system and method for creating a document abstract, the system and method retrieving a document on the basis of input retrieval conditions and extracting a range suitable for an abstract from the retrieved document on the basis of input abstract creation conditions. The document abstract...

20060095427 - Memory leakage management: Methods, systems, and media to enhance memory leakage management by identifying a suspect allocation pattern during execution of a task, which may be indicative of memory leakage and implementing measures to protect against memory leakage based upon the suspect allocation pattern, are disclosed. More specifically, embodiments may detect a suspect...

20060095428 - Method and apparatus for displaying system management information, computer product for the same, and operation management system: An apparatus for displaying system management information includes a combination storing unit that stores display pattern information that is obtained by combining, in subjective basis, system management information provided by a plurality of system management units; and a combination display unit that combines the system management information based on the...

20060095432 - Disclosure control system and method: A service change information acquisition program acquires service change information. According to this information, a disclosure scope change program changes the disclosure scope of the document described in document access control information and accumulates it as a disclosure history. A position information acquisition program compares the position information to the...

20060095429 - Networked system for routing medical images: A method for dynamically routing medical data related to a patient (12) in a communications network (16) obtains the medical data about the patient at a first site and obtains patient profile data having information associated with the patient (102). The patient profile data is processed to identify, from a...

20060095431 - System to generate an aggregate interest indication with respect to an information item: A method and system is provided to process sale listings published via a network-based publishing system. The system may include monitoring and ranking components. The monitor component may monitor activity pertaining to at least one of a plurality of sale listings on behalf of a user of the system. The...

20060095430 - Web page ranking with hierarchical considerations: The described systems, methods and data structures are directed to ranking Web pages with hierarchical considerations. The hierarchical structures and the linking relationships of the World Wide Web are used to provide a page importance ranking for Web searches. The linking relationships are aggregated to a high level node at...

20060095433 - device and method for managing files in storage device: In a device, files are stored in each of a plurality of storage areas, and an authenticated user can browse and/or manipulate the files stored in the storage areas. A user is allowed to set the device when the user is authenticated as a system administrator, otherwise the user is...

20060095435 - Configuring and deploying portable application containers for improved utilization of server capacity: Computer-implemented methods, configurations, computer program products and systems configure and deploy portable application containers (PACs) in a shared server environment. A method involves receiving metadata describing an application and receiving an instruction on what metadata to use in configuring the application where the application is associated with a PAC. The...

20060095436 - Networked document partially printing system and method: A networked printing system includes an electronic document server having a database that stores a plurality of electronic documents of books, which are uniquely identified by a plurality of identification codes, respectively. The electronic document server specifies and allows downloading of a prescribed electronic document matched with an identification code...

20060095438 - Non-blocking commit protocol systems and methods: Systems and methods are provided for atomic single-failure non-blocking and double-failure non-blocking commitment protocols. The protocols may be used for a variety of transactions that involve two or more parties including an initiator of the transaction, a coordinator of the transaction, and one or more participants in the transaction. The...

20060095437 - System and method for centralising traveller contact information: A traveller contact information centralising system designed to obtain up-to-date information regarding a user's location. The traveller contact information centralising system sends this information to the user, so that he can decide whether a centralised directory should be updated with this information. In the event that the user agrees to...

20060095434 - System and method of caching inventory information in a network: A method and system for distributing access to inventory items available at vendor locations includes user stations transmitting user inquiries on a communications network. Network-connected location servers access a set of inventory availability information associated with inventory items available at their respective location, for example, tables at a restaurant. The...

20060095449 - Data managing method, data managing system data managing apparatus, data handling apparatus, computer program, and recording medium: A client unit 1 which a user uses to request for data, an agent unit 2 which keeps encrypted document data and attributes information, a document managing unit 3 which executes user authentication, access control and document image edition by means of decrypting of encrypted document data each have a...

20060095444 - Data structure and method for pipeline heap-sorting: An improved data structure is provided by modifying a public-domain data structure known as a “heap”. When these improvements are applied, the resultant data structure is known as a “pile.” This invention further describes a pipelined hardware implementation of a pile. Piles offer many advantages over heaps: they allow for...

20060095443 - Idea page system and method: Idea Page systems, methods, user interfaces and related components are provided herein....

20060095439 - Master data framework: Systems and techniques for providing a master data framework. The framework receives user input and automatically generates, in accordance with the input, a persistent definition of a business object type. The input can be simple declarations and need not be provided in any particular programming language. Definitions generated by the...

20060095440 - Method and process of query optimization to a given environment via specific abstraction layer domain knowledge: Methods and apparatus for optimizing an abstract query are disclosed. Embodiments of the present invention allow an abstract database to optimize an abstract query composed from a set of logical fields. Each logical field includes a field name and an access method used to map the logical field to an...

20060095448 - Method and system for intra-table referential integrity for relational database systems: In a relational database management system (RDBMS), a method of processing related records can include receiving a plurality of related records and inserting the plurality of related records into a single table of an RDBMS. The plurality of related records can be associated as a set within the single table...

20060095442 - Method and/or system for manipulating tree expressions: Embodiments of methods and/or systems of manipulating tree expressions are disclosed....

20060095446 - Methods for indexing data, systems, software and apparatus relating thereto: A directed graph of data includes nodes 10, properties 22 attached to nodes and resources 34. The nodes 10, properties 22 and resources 34 are classified as indexable or non indexable. At least one property 30 links a pair of nodes, one node being a parent and one being a...

20060095447 - Offline multi-table data editing and storage: Methods, systems and computer products are provided for allowing bi-directional communication between a database application and a remote data source and for allowing updating of data on a remote data source with data edited or created at a client site remote from the remote data source during an offline data...

20060095445 - Output system, network device, output data managing device, output program and output data managing program, and output method: An output system includes a network device for performing an output on the basis of output data and an output data managing device for managing the output data, wherein: the network device and the output data managing device are communicably connected and the network device performs the output....

20060095441 - Project property sheets: Project property sheets store project compiler and tool properties that are shared across multiple software projects. Property sheets enable a global repository of compiler and tool settings, so that changes in a global project property sheet will automatically propagate to the project property sheets that inherit from the global project...

20060095450 - Use of a metadata presort file to sort compressed audio files: A media system is disclosed which presorts media files thereby alleviating a media player from having to actively sort the files in real time. The system creates and uses presort information with the media files. The presort information contains one or more lists of the media files previously presorted according...

20060095451 - Method and system for freshness indication of location data: A system (50) and method (10) providing a user with a qualitative indication of a freshness of location information with minimal user disruption can include the steps of obtaining (12) presentation data, associating (14) a location indication representative of a location when the presentation data was obtained, and altering (16)...

20060095455 - Method and/or system for tagging trees: Embodiments of methods and/or systems for tagging trees are disclosed....

20060095453 - Providing a user a non-degraded presentation experience while limiting access to the non-degraded presentation experience: A user is provided a non-degraded presentation experience from data while access to the non-degraded presentation experience is limited. In an embodiment, one or more attributes are gathered from one or more sources. The data is accessed. Further, the data is adapted using the one or more attributes so that...

20060095452 - System and method for converting compact media format files to synchronized multimedia integration language: A system and method for converting compact multimedia format files to synchronized multimedia integration language while preserving media and timeline information. Media objects and timeline information are extracted from a compact multimedia format file. The media is saved to separate files, and each file may be split into multiple files...

20060095456 - System and method for retrieving structured document: A structured document retrieval system includes a structured document database which manages a structured document by a tree structure including a plurality of hierarchical nodes, a unit which receives a traverse request from a client, the traverse request including base point node designation information to designate one of nodes in...

20060095454 - System and method for secure collaborative terminal identity authentication between a wireless communication device and a wireless operator: Systems and methods for providing a wireless communication device with secure terminal identity information and secure collaborative terminal identity authentication between the wireless communication device and a wireless operator. In one embodiment, the system for providing a wireless communication device with secure terminal identity information includes: (1) a public key...

20060095463 - Information processing apparatus: A reproducing apparatus comprises: a read unit for reading an information data file storing information data and an index file relating to the information data file, from a recording medium; a communication unit for transmitting the data file read by the read unit to an external apparatus for processing the...

20060095457 - Interactive tool for knowledge-based support of planning under uncertainty: A planning tool provides support in planning, decision making and process management under conditions of uncertainty by combining a plan generating tool for manipulating and displaying a visual representation of a plurality of schedule elements along a time line with a domain-specific knowledge database that enables determination of quantitative and...

20060095462 - Method, system and program for constructing a database: Configuration adjustment processing receives database configuration information and parameter adjustment policy information from an application. When database configuration information received from another application exists in DBMS, the configuration adjustment processing reads in the database configuration information and makes adjustment of the inputted database configuration information and the existing database configuration...

20060095458 - Multi-level nested open hashed data stores: A method for storing data. A method for storing data comprising arranging a plurality of data buckets in a logical inverted tree structure having a plurality of levels; and performing nested hashing at each level of the plurality of levels....

20060095459 - Publishing domain name related reputation in whois records: The invention describes a method for publishing domain name related reputation data in WHOIS records. Reputation data may be published in the WHOIS records of the domain name. Reputation data may include values, ratings, or scores, as well as links or references to the locations where such values, ratings, or...

20060095461 - System and method for monitoring a computer environment: A system and method are provided for monitoring a computer environment using a customized visual display. The method includes the operation of loading a computer environment diagram having graphic elements representing logical units of the computer environment. The graphic elements can be defined by a user of the computer environment....

20060095460 - Systems and methods for efficiently clustering objects based on access patterns: Techniques for efficiently clustering objects based on access patterns are provided. For example, in an illustrative aspect of the invention, a technique for clustering a plurality of objects based on access patterns comprises the following steps/operations. A first group of sets is created in which at least one set includes...

20060095464 - Use of a metadata presort file to sort compressed audio files: A media system is disclosed which presorts media files thereby alleviating a media player from having to actively sort the files in real time. The system creates and uses presort information with the media files. The presort information contains one or more lists of the media files previously presorted according...

20060095465 - Use of a metadata presort file to sort compressed audio files: A media system is disclosed which presorts media files thereby alleviating a media player from having to actively sort the files in real time. The system creates and uses presort information with the media files. The presort information contains one or more fists of the media files previously presorted according...

20060095466 - Managing related data objects: Information related to a first set of one or more data objects of a plurality of data objects in a database is determined. A composition of one or more actions is applied to determine the information related to the first set of one or more data objects. At least one...

20060095467 - Creating reference objects: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, in response to a request to create a target object, create a reference object for the target object and bind the reference object to a name space without the target object being instantiated. In response to an invocation of...

20060095468 - Dynamic path partitioning to multipath storage devices: A mechanism is provided for balancing I/O among available paths connected to a device. The mechanism partitions paths so a device can use all or only a subset of available paths to a device, depending on the load of I/O for other devices that are sharing the paths. The partitioning...

20060095472 - Fast-start streaming and buffering of streaming content for personal media player: A personal media broadcasting system enables video distribution over a computer network and allows a user to view and control media sources over a computer network from a remote location. A personal broadcaster receives an input from one or more types of media sources, digitizes and compresses the content, and...

20060095470 - Managing a file in a network environment: A method of managing storage of a file in a network environment includes storing, in a central repository, tracking information of copies of the file on storage server systems in the network environment. The tracking information in the central repository is used to identify plural copies of the file. Information...

20060095471 - Personal media broadcasting system: A personal media broadcasting system enables video distribution over a computer network and allows a user to view and control media sources over a computer network from a remote location. A personal broadcaster receives an input from one or more types of media sources, digitizes and compresses the content, and...

20060095469 - System and method for facilitating peer review of a deliverable: A system and method for facilitating peer review of a deliverable. One embodiment may comprise communicating a deliverable to at least one peer; receiving an issues database generated by the peer's processing system, the issues database having information identifying at least one issue raised by the peer, information identifying a...

20060095474 - System and method for problem solving through dynamic/interactive concept-mapping: The present invention provides a computer-implemented method of problem solving that includes graphically displaying a plurality of concepts, dynamic links between the concepts, and solving a problem based on the displayed concepts and dynamic links. Other embodiments include: a computer-readable medium having instructions thereon for causing a suitably programmed information-processing...

20060095473 - System and method of orchestrating electronic workflow automation processes: In one embodiment, a system for conducting automated and user-assisted electronic workflow is provided, comprising: the means to monitor one or more external processes for input, messages, changes and specific states; the means to transfer information from the process monitors to one or more term recognizers in an application-independent manner;...

20060095477 - Database synchronizing system and method: A database synchronizing system comprises a first subsystem and several second subsystems. The first subsystem comprises a first database. Each of the second subsystems comprises a second database, a data retrieving module, and a data merging module. The data retrieving module executes an updating request procedure to receive the data...

20060095475 - Defining and exposing storage devices generically to end users and developers through abstracted storage: A system and method for enabling users and developers to store data on a number of different types of local and remote devices connected to a gaming console, a multimedia console or a console that is both gaming and multimedia console. The range of available storage devices creates issues that...

20060095476 - Method and system for providing one-to-one email collaboration: A management application to synchronize e-mails sent or received from one application with e-mail logs of another application. If the groupware application receives an e-mail from a business partner, the e-mail may be stored in communication records maintained by the CRM application. Similarly, if an operator composed and sends an...

20060095478 - Consistent reintegration a failed primary instance: A method and system are provided for providing a consistent reintegration of a failed primary instance as a new secondary instance with implementation of truncation of log records. Upon failure of a primary instance, a secondary instance may be reassigned as the new primary instance. Prior to reintegration, any portion...

20060095479 - Primary and recovery file system management: A computer system having primary and recovery file system management, the system including a computing device, an operating system, a primary file system, and a recovery file system, where each of said file systems is labeled, prior to bootstrapping by the operating system the label of the recovery file system...

20060095482 - Data processing system and storage subsystem provided in data processing system: A first storage subsystem 100A includes a first storage device 6A1 and one or more second storage devices 6A2, 6A3. A second storage subsystem 100B includes a third storage device 6B1 and a fourth storage device 6B2. A third storage subsystem 100C comprises a fifth storage device 6C1 and a...

20060095480 - Method and subsystem for performing subset computation for replication topologies: A method of exchanging data between a database and distribution nodes in a multimode replication environment includes defining data stored in a database to be exchanged for replication and using database data having at least two subsets of data. The subsets are distinct and have no overlap. At least one...

20060095481 - Method and system for partition level cleanup of replication conflict metadata: A method of removing metadata from a database in a multimode replication system includes establishing a metadata retention period for nodes in the system as well as associating changes with nodes on the system. The system responds to an expiration of the retention period for any one node by analyzing...

20060095483 - Modified computer architecture with finalization of objects: The present invention discloses a modified computer architecture (50, 71, 72) which enables an applications program (50) to be run simultaneously on a plurality of computers (M1, . . . Mn). Shared memory at each computer is updated with amendments and/or overwrites so that all memory read requests are satisfied...