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Data processing: database and file management or data structures June invention type 06/06

20060143149 - Deriving and using data access control information to determine whether to permit derivations of data elements: Provided are a method, system, and program for deriving and using data access control information to determine whether to permit requested derivations of data elements. Data access control information is initialized for each of a plurality of data elements, wherein the data access control information for each associated data element...

20060143154 - Document scanner: A method and apparatus are described for scanning a document and processing the image data generated in the process by extracting operator-designated text layout elements such as words or groups of words and including the latter in a designator for the scan file. At least part of the document image...

20060143146 - Dynamic configuration files: A dynamic nature is added to configuration files so that various types of dynamic functions can be performed within them. Variables are utilized within the configuration files. Thus, it is possible to have parameters specified in one configuration file and a formula to which the parameters will be applied in...

20060143150 - Messaging system and method of operation thereof: A method of operating a messaging system comprising receiving a message, creating a list element for the message, the list element comprising expiry data and a reference to the message, appending the list element to an expiry list, periodically deleting list elements from the expiry list that correspond to consumed...

20060143148 - Method and apparatus for building metadata driven software development kit: A metadata driven software development system provides various functionalities related to an entity of an application in the metadata format. Specifically, the system provides a set of base classes related to the entity and a set of methods and application programming interfaces for various operations to be performed on the...

20060143155 - Method and apparatus for classifying document information: When registering a document, notify a document registrant of related information of one or more documents similar in content thereto. In addition, upon registration of the document, if a folder is designated as a registration destination thereof then notify the document registrant of relevant information of any available similar documents...

20060143151 - Methods, systems and computer programs for facilitating access to an electronic datum: In an embodiment of a method of facilitating access to an electronic datum, the embodiment includes the step of providing a computer system with first data that identifies the electronic datum. The embodiment also includes the step of receiving from the computer system second data that identifies a file system...

20060143153 - Signal bearing medium bearing image display program and image display apparatus: A reduced image generation portion generates a reduced image indicating the content of a file stored in a storage device. When a judgment portion judges that text data, which is the file in text format, is attached to the file, a display image generation portion generates a display image indicating...

20060143147 - Systems and methods for client-side cached representation of database-persisted information: Temporary client-side caching of server-side persisted database information is disclosed. The server sends the persisted information to the client, where it is stored in temporary cache memory, such as in a temporary cookie. Subsequent requests from the client to the server include the information in the temporary memory, thereby precluding...

20060143152 - Vender code generation method: A vender code generation method is used to allow venders of the same business conglomerate to have only one vender code without duplication. The enterprise is able to obtain the application data of the vender through the Internet by using an application form. Upon verifying that the identification data in...

20060143156 - Framework to allow one cmp ejb to connect to multiple data sources: A container managed persistent (CMP) enterprise java bean (EJB) framework includes support for accessing multiple data sources within one deployment. A CMP EJB includes a number of different attributes that can be a variety of values. A session EJB that acts as a front-end to the CMP EJP includes a...

20060143157 - Updating organizational information by parsing text files: Systems and methods for updating a user's organizational information. A text application is provided including a parser module for analyzing text documents accessed by a user and creating or updating the user's organizational information depending on whether organizational information exists in the text document. The parser module may further identify...

20060143164 - Database system, method, program for the database system, and a method for updating an indexing tables in a database system: A database system, a computer executable method, a computer executable program for the database system, and a method for updating an indexing tables in a database system To provide a database system, a computer executable method, a computer executable program for the database system, and a method for updating an...

20060143159 - Filtering search results: Search results may be sorted or filtered based on scores assigned to the search results. For example, scores may be assigned to the search results based on characteristics of surrogate representations of the search results, which are relatively short summaries or excerpts of the search result that may be presented...

20060143158 - Method, system and graphical user interface for providing reviews for a product: The embodiments disclosed herein include new, more efficient ways to collect product reviews from the Internet, aggregate reviews for the same product, and provide an aggregated review to end users in a searchable format. One aspect of the invention is a graphical user interface on a computer that includes a...

20060143162 - Reporting tools: Reporting tools possess improved filtering, display and alerting methodologies offering enhanced versatility. According to one aspect of the invention, the method has an independent data filtering mechanism, an independent output function that populates an n-dimensional array, and an independent display function. According to a different embodiment, a set of parameterized...

20060143163 - Rfid huffman encoded commands: Methods and Apparatuses for RFID with Huffman encoded commands are provided. Each command of a plurality of commands is Huffman encoded. A rarely used command of the plurality of commands has more command bits than another command of the plurality of commands. The plurality of commands includes QueryA, QueryB, QueryRep,...

20060143160 - Search engine social proxy: A technique for enhancing the results of an existing online search engine involves re-ordering the results of a search according to the feedback provided by a user community to previous similar searches. In an embodiment, the technique is fully backward-compatible with existing online search engines. In an embodiment, feedback is...

20060143165 - Serving signals: Output signals are served from a serving device to a plurality of browsing devices connected to a network. The output signals represent commands executable by each browsable device so as to display viewable data in accordance with specified page formatting. Requests from browsing clients are identified which contain information relating...

20060143166 - Serving signals: Output signals are served from a serving device to a plurality of browsing devices connected to a network. The output signals represent commands executable by each browsable device so as to display viewable data in accordance with specified page formatting. Requests from browsing clients are identified which contain information relating...

20060143161 - System and method for maintaining continuity of operations: A business continuity (BC) system is described that includes an asset database, a BC plan, and a BC portal. The asset database contains a complete and up-to-date inventory of the organization's assets. The BC plan covers a top level administrative unit and all administrative units reporting to the top level...

20060143168 - Hash mapping with secondary table having linear probing: A method is described that involves hashing a key value to locate a slot in a primary table, then, hashing the key value to locate a first slot in a secondary table, then, linearly probing the secondary table starting from the first slot....

20060143169 - Method and system for improving a text search: A method and system for improving text searching is disclosed. The method and system provides a network of document relationship and utilizes the network of document relationships to identify the region of documents that can be used to satisfy a user's request. In a preferred embodiment, the text searching method...

20060143167 - System and method for providing access to data with user defined table functions: Methods, systems and articles of manufacture are provided for accessing data within data repositories. Public UDTFs, private UDTFs and a metadata processor are utilized to provide access to data residing in a variety of data repositories....

20060143170 - Processing data-stream join aggregates using skimmed sketches: A method of estimating an aggregate of a join over data-streams in real-time using skimmed sketches, that only examines each data element once and has a worst case space requirement of O(n2/J), where J is the size of the join and n is the number of data elements. The skimmed...

20060143171 - System and method for processing a text search query in a collection of documents: The present system processes a text search query on a collection of documents in which a text search query is translated into conditions on index terms. The system groups documents in blocks of N and generates and stores a block posting index enumerating blocks in which the index term occurs...

20060143174 - Hypervideo: information retrieval using time-related multimedia: Disclosed is a method and device for selecting documents such as Web pages or sites, for presentation to a user, in response to a user expression of interest, during the course of presentation to the user of a document, such as a video or audio selection, whose content varies with...

20060143172 - Mask processing device, mask processing method, program and mask: Based on design data 151 and mask characteristic data 152 indicating at least the characteristics of a complementary stencil mask, generating alignment marks, designing membrane shapes, performing PUF division and boundary processing, complementarily dividing the mask, stitching, arranging complementary patterns, verifying pattern shapes, making corrections in the membrane, configuring the...

20060143173 - Method, apparatus, and system for implementing vehicle identification: A method, apparatus, and system are provided for implementing vehicle identification. Characteristic data is obtained from at least one sensing device, the characteristic data being reflective of at least one characteristic of a vehicle. The characteristic data is compared to a pattern in a pattern-recognition database, the pattern being associated...

20060143175 - System and method for automatically classifying text: A method is provided for automatically classifying text into categories. In operation, a plurality of tokens or features are manually or automatically associated with each category. A weight is then coupled to each feature, wherein the weight indicates a degree of association between the feature and the category. Next, a...

20060143176 - System and method for measuring image similarity based on semantic meaning: A method includes deriving a plurality of semantic categories for representing important semantic cues in images, where each semantic category is modeled through a combination of perceptual features that define the semantics of that category and that discriminate that category from other categories; for each semantic category, forming a set...

20060143177 - Comprehensive framework to integrate business logic into a repository: Business logic is integrated within a repository through the use of “resource configurations.” A resource configuration is a unit of business logic that is supplied by a user to the repository and associated with a particular directory and/or a resource. Each resource configuration contains one or more configuration items that...

20060143179 - Apparatus and method for managing security policy information using a device management tree: A client device (701) of a communication system (700) includes, for example, a processor (304) programmed to include a device management tree wherein the processor is operative to receive security policy information (1000), such as that associated with a non-server entity, such as an application on the device, for example,...

20060143178 - Dynamic remastering for a subset of nodes in a cluster environment: Techniques are provided for mastering resources by assigning resources to mastery-eligible-sets. The resources that are assigned to a mastery-eligible-set may be mastered only at nodes that belong to the mastery-eligible-set. The membership of a mastery-eligible-set for a given set of related resources may be established based on which nodes have...

20060143180 - System and method for manipulating and managing computer archive files: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide an archive management application that operates within a host application to provide access to an archive and/or allow access to and/or modification of files in an archive using the host application's interface, instead of operating as a separate standalone archive management application. In...

20060143184 - Data processing apparatus and data processing method: A cellular phone (portable terminal) and a DVD recorder (data processing apparatus) have a BT communication function. The DVD recorder is linked to the cellular phone by radio communication within a given range to acquire identification information proper to the cellular phone. The DVD recorder sets a data-store destination corresponding...

20060143185 - Device, data processing method, and program: An image processing apparatus includes a browser which obtains an external resource or internal resource of the apparatus and displays the resource on the display unit, and a storage unit for storing an internal resource that can be displayed on the display unit. The image processing apparatus performs control not...

20060143187 - Integrating tablespaces with different block sizes: Provided herein is a mechanism that allows a given database system to access data blocks from another database system, where data blocks from the given database system and data blocks from the other database system have different sizes. According to an aspect of the present invention, a tablespace in the...

20060143188 - Method and apparatus for simplified access to online services: An online service provider is equipped to receive a request from a client to access a subscribed online service of a subscriber at the online service provider. Comprising the request is a globally unique identifier (GUID) of the subscriber. Once the request is received, the online service provider, determines if...

20060143186 - Method for determining participation in a distributed transaction: A method for determining whether a plurality of participants who are participating in a distributed transaction have registered their intention to commit their part of the transaction with a transaction manager, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a message from a participant, the message comprising a character sequence identifying...

20060143181 - Method of searching for the devices automatically in network: The invention discloses a method of searching for devices automatically in a network. The method including the steps of: when two devices are interconnected, firstly searching, by a device initiating party, whether a resource management device exists in the network, if so, then sending a device searching request from the...

20060143183 - System and method for providing collection sub-groups: A system and method, as well as a computer-readable medium, are disclosed for providing collection subgroups within a main website that enable and facilitate networking for people having specific common interests or characteristics. Personal information provided by a user determines the user's automatic inclusion into a specific collection/category website. Computer...

20060143182 - Web template processing utilizing dynamic rules defined by data structure language: A system and method which utilizes an additional layer of control in a conventional Model View Controller model for web presentations. In particular, the new layer creates logical components of templates which can then be dynamically controlled by rule definitions inherent in the data structure. In this manner the resulting...

20060143192 - Bulletin board system (bbs) implemented on server computer in which bbs items are stored as files in accordance with native file system of server computer: A bulletin board system (BBS) is implemented on a server computer without employing database management software (DBMS). A hierarchical directory structure is defined in which there are directories and sub-directories into which BBS items are individually storable as files in accordance with the native file system of the server computer....

20060143189 - Database access control method, database access controller, agent processing server, database access control program, and medium recording the program: A disclosed database access control apparatus generates and stores an access key based on a user ID of a user apparatus. Then, the database access control apparatus sends the access key to the user apparatus with an address of a proxy process server apparatus. The user apparatus sends the access...

20060143190 - Handling of digital silence in audio fingerprinting: The invention relates to a method, a device, a client-server system as well as a computer program product and computer program element for handling digital silence when fingerprinting digital media signals. A fingerprint comprising a number of sub-fingerprints for at least a part of the digital media signal is generated,...

20060143196 - Information generating apparatus and information generating method: A relation information generating apparatus includes a detecting unit configured to detect an action done by a user when the user creates or selects a first information resource referring to at least one second information resource, and a relation information generating unit configured to generate first relation information and second...

20060143195 - Method and apparatus for maintaining relationships between parts in a package: Modular content framework and document format methods and systems are described. The described framework and format define a set of building blocks for composing, packaging, distributing, and rendering document-centered content. These building blocks define a platform-independent framework for document formats that enable software and hardware systems to generate, exchange, and...

20060143193 - Method and apparatus for metadata driven business logic processing: A metadata driven system for supporting business application software required in the middle tier for a line of business applications includes a process metadata module adapted to store a process in metadata format, wherein the process object contains logic related to an entity of the application software. The system allows...

20060143197 - Method for assigning relative quality scores to a collection of linked documents: A method for assigning relative quality scores to a collection of linked documents is presented. The method includes constructing a spring network according to a connectivity graph of a linked database and determining the strength of inter-nodal springs based on the link structure of the network and the displacements on...

20060143191 - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for a global video format schema defining metadata relating to video media: Generating data, such as metadata, relating to video media, such as a movie, and formatted according to a global video format. When metadata that is associated with video media and is formatted according to a formatting scheme associated with a particular content provider is received, the formatting scheme of the...

20060143194 - System and method for corporate-wide policy management: An organization asset database (ADb) is described that contains a complete, up-to-date, secure, and easily accessible inventory of the organization's assets. Each asset is mapped onto a structure that represents the organizational hierarchy of the organization, which provides for multiple levels of accountability for each asset. Each asset has one...

20060143199 - System and method for manipulating and managing computer archive files: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide an archive management application that operates within a host application to provide access to an archive and/or allow access to and/or modification of files in an archive using the host application's interface, instead of operating as a separate standalone archive management application. In...

20060143200 - System and method for permitting a software routine having restricted local access to utilize remote resources to generate locally usable data structure: A Java applet program loaded initially from a remote server is configured to receive additional user annotations for data displayed in an already opened applet window located at the user's client system. To increase the usefulness and flexibility of such program, the user is permitted to preserve/capture, during an interactive...

20060143201 - System and method for storing and retrieving filenames and files in computer memory: The invention receives a request to store a file having a filename written in a first text encoding, converts the filename into a Unicode filename and stores the Unicode filename and the file into memory. The invention then sets a flag, associated with the memory, indicating that a first text...

20060143198 - Tree system diagram output method, computer program and recording medium: A tree system diagram output method of correlating a plurality of objects and outputting the plurality of objects as a tree system diagram includes the steps of: (a) storing, in a first storing part, an identifier specific to each of the plurality of objects written on a first worksheet; (b)...

20060143208 - Bitmask access for managing blog content: Methods, devices, and systems are directed towards managing a database using moderator determined attributes, and a contributor employable bitmask. In one embodiment, the database is employable for use in managing a weblog (blog). The bitmask is configured to enable contributors of a content item to modify selected options of an...

20060143207 - Cyrillic to latin script transliteration system and method: Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods, systems and computer-readable media for transliteration between Cyrillic and Latin script in a software product. An embodiment of this transliteration system and method comprises loading a text of characters and words in one of a Cyrillic or Latin script into a character...

20060143203 - Digital information carrier: [Problem to be Solved] To provide a digital information carrier which enables blending of cluster information carrier comprising of image objects joined together to other viewable content (a character, an image, background, etc.) of a document, to seamlessly unify a printed document and an electronic document when accessing the cluster...

20060143213 - Duplicating database contents: The invention provides data processing, data control and information methods and systems for efficiently duplicating contents of a database in the data control system. An example of a data processing system includes: a cache unit acquiring, from a data control system which categorizes a plurality of data elements into a...

20060143205 - Dynamic sorting of virtual nodes: Properties of real nodes are selected by which to organize the real nodes as leaf nodes in a tree graph. A number of virtual nodes are provided, each representing a value of a selected property for at least one of the real nodes. The virtual nodes and real nodes are...

20060143202 - Efficient data structure: In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to a data structure for representing a spatial region. The data structure comprises a hierarchical arrangement of nodes associated with a plurality of refinement levels, wherein each node of the hierarchical arrangement of nodes is a regular spatial subdivision of the spatial...

20060143210 - Enabling an application to interact with an ldap directory as though the ldap directory were a database object: A method and apparatus for enabling a database-accessing application to access current LDAP directory data is provided. According to one aspect, a database command that creates a database view is executed. The database view presents the results of a query on a table function that returns data from an LDAP...

20060143212 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and storage medium: In an information processing apparatus which can encrypt a file and can store the encrypted file at a predetermined location, an input file is separated into a header field and data field, and the separated data field is encrypted and saved in association with information included in the header field....

20060143206 - Interval tree for identifying intervals that intersect with a query interval: A method operable with a computing system is described for identifying which time interval keys within an interval tree intersect with a query interval. The method comprises accessing information from a node of the interval tree. The node comprises a time interval that identifies the earliest start time and latest...

20060143214 - Method and apparatus for arranging social meetings: Individuals, couples, and families subscribe to a computerized service for facilitating the arrangement of their outings and social meetings. Subscribers fill in wish-lists to specify their level of interest in specific attractions, in getting together with specific other subscribers, and in arranging their preferred schedules for outings. An encounter generator...

20060143211 - Method and system for managing data storage for dynamically changing data area attribute: This invention provides a storage system that can dynamically change an attribute of a logical device for storing data. A storage is configured by a database storage area. The database storage area includes a plurality of attributes of memories. A storage management unit includes a read/write unit for reading and...

20060143204 - Method, apparatus and system for dynamically allocating sequestered computing resources: A method, apparatus and system enable sequestered partitions on a device. A scheduler may allocate resources to each of the sequestered partitions and dynamically reallocate the resources from one partition to another, as necessary....

20060143209 - Remote management of a computer system: Remote management of a computer system. A managed system change request is received at an out-of-band management controller of a computer system. The managed system change request is posted to a mailbox. The posting of the managed system change request to the mailbox is signaled. The computer system is modified...

20060143221 - Apparatus and method of producing 3d structural sketch and computer-readable recording medium on which computer program for executing the method is recorded: An apparatus and method of producing a three-dimensional structural sketch (3DSS) and a computer-readable recording medium on which a computer program for executing the method is recorded are provided. The apparatus includes a property-detecting unit detecting a unary property of each part of a predetermined two-dimensional sketch and relational properties...

20060143219 - Business change lifecycle framework: A method, system, and computer program product for determining and implementing business changes is provided. In one embodiment, a set of stages in a business change process that are performed sequentially are defined. Defining a set of elements corresponding to each stage, wherein each element groups a set of related...

20060143216 - Method and system for integrating multimodal interpretations: A method and a system for integrating multimodal interpretations (MMIs) in user inputs to a data processing system (100) are provided. The method includes generating (603) a set of MMIs, based on the user inputs collected during a turn. The set of MMIs includes at least semantic relationship function, the...

20060143222 - Method, program and system for automatic reengineering of a client code: A method, program and system for automatic reengineering of an input client code using an API when an API adapter code, is provided for emulating an old version of the API on a new version of the API, wherein the items no more provided in new API are identified, said...

20060143217 - Session management within a multi-tiered enterprise network: A system and method are described in which session objects are organized and managed within a structured hierarchy of session object storage units, referred to herein as “session domains.” The session domains store session objects sharing one or more related characteristics. In one embodiment, a separate hierarchy of session domains...

20060143220 - Software application framework using meta-data defined object definitions: An application framework for creating business process management software applications. The framework includes a data store including application data and information describing said data for a runtime environment. The information describing the application data includes presentation information and relational information. The framework further includes presentation logic outputting said data based...

20060143218 - Tracking set-expression cardinalities over continuous update streams: A method of estimating set-expression cardinalities over data streams with guaranteed small maintenance time per data-element update. The method only examines each data element once and uses a limited amount of memory. The time-efficient stream synopsis extends 2-level hash-sketches by randomly, but uniformly, pre-hashing data-elements prior to logarithmically hashing them...

20060143215 - Volume visualization using tissue mix: A method of constructing an object data set of data elements representing a physical property is described, in which the construction of the object data set includes assigning attributes to respective data elements. Such attributes are used, for example, in volume rendering. The construction of the object data set is...

20060143226 - Apparatus, method and program product for integrating applications: A system for integrating a plurality of applications of exchanging the BO. This system includes a BO receiving section for receiving the BO, a business process definition acquisition section for acquiring a business process definition corresponding to a transmission source and a type of a received BO from a business...

20060143223 - System and method for common object/relational mapping: A system and method for a common Object/Relational (O/R) mapping metadata file for an Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) entity bean and a Java Data Object (JDO) persistent class. In an embodiment, O/R mapping logic receives a deployment descriptor file specifying a persistent field of a persistent object. The descriptor file...

20060143225 - System and method for enterprise data objects: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to a system and method for enterprise data objects. An enterprise data object is a container of data that can be used in a wide range of technical and semantic layers within a business system. In particular, enterprise data objects provide high-level interfaces...

20060143224 - System and method for mapping container managed persistence persistent object states to java data object states: A system and method for mapping Container Managed Persistence (CMP) persistent object states to Java Data Object (JDO) states. In an embodiment, mapping logic identifies a state of a CMP persistent object. The identified CMP persistent object state is mapped to a JDO state. In an embodiment, the mapping is...

20060143227 - System and method for persisting software objects: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to a system and method for persisting software objects. In an embodiment, objects are scanned with object introspection to identify the members of the object. The members are transformed into an intermediate data structure. The scan and transformation process can be influenced with...

20060143232 - Computer-implemented method for data management: Suggested is a computer-implemented method for data management, in which method a service provided or to be provided by a service provider, such as the implementation of a customer order, is represented by electronic data on the basis of an information model, which defines a large number of different but...

20060143233 - Embedding location information in content objects: A method for embedding location information in a content object created on a content creation device begins by obtaining location information relating to the current location of the content creation device. The content object is created and the location information is embedded into the content object. A method for displaying...

20060143230 - Information handling: An information handling method in which information items are mapped to respective nodes in an array of nodes by mutual similarity of the information items, such that similar information items map to nodes at similar positions in the array of nodes; a mapping relationship being defined between feature data relating...

20060143236 - Interactive music playlist sharing system and methods: A community media playlist sharing system is disclosed, wherein system users can upload media playlists which are automatically converted to a standardized format, media playlists can be shared with other users of the community media playlist sharing system, users can link to other playlists and obtain media from playlists automatically...

20060143229 - Method and system for dynamic creation of service flows: A method (50) of dynamic creation of service flows includes exposing (51) a flow of a service being built to other service providers in a network, soliciting (52) for modification of at least a portion of the flow, and selectively enabling (56) other service providers to modify at least a...

20060143235 - Multimedia data processing apparatus and multimedia data processing method: During obtaining new multimedia data, the multimedia data is automatically added to an original file, and a user interface which is used to select whether to record the multimedia data while being added to the original file or to separate the added multimedia data from the original file and create...

20060143237 - System and method for manipulating and managing computer archive files: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide an archive management application that operates within a host application to provide access to an archive and/or allow access to and/or modification of files in an archive using the host application's interface, instead of operating as a separate standalone archive management application. In...

20060143234 - System and method for remotely controlling logging equipment in drilled holes: A system and a method for remotely controlling logging equipment in drilled holes are provided. The method includes inputting a first command associated with either a logging tool or a hoist device coupled to the logging tool utilizing an input device operably coupled to a first computer. The first computer...

20060143228 - System and method for selecting qualified job applicants: A system and method of selecting qualified job applicants from a source hosting or advertising job openings, the system and method comprising a pre-screening/qualifying stage, wherein a job applicant is evaluated on responses given to a questionnaire electronically forwarded by the employer, based on an advertised job position; and an...

20060143231 - Systems and methods for monitoring business processes of enterprise applications: A system and method for monitoring the business processes of an enterprise application are presented. Data relating to the business process is extracted from the enterprise application. The data is stored in a first database in a format substantially similar to a format used by the enterprise application to store...

20060143238 - Database re-organizing system and database: A reorganization system permitting reorganization in an operating implementation of the data storage and retrieval system invention disclosed in Japanese Patent Hei11-310096 Japanese Patent 3345628. The invention permits the reorganization of primary keys and blocks storing records by means of the provision of current location tables LC and new location...

20060143239 - Method and apparatus for maintaining data integrity across distributed computer systems: A method and apparatus are generally disclosed for maintaining data integrity across distributed computer systems. In one embodiment, the method of the invention includes the step of transmitting an object from a server application to a client application. The method also includes the step of transmitting an object state from...

20060143240 - Method and system for backing up to and restoring from external media: A backup/recovery system is provided which has ability to back up and restore every type of recovery point to external storage media. A backup method is also provided, suitable for a computer system including a hard disk and at least one recovery point stored therein, the recovery points holding data...

20060143241 - System and method for scaleable multiplexed transactional log recovery: A system and method for providing scaleable recovery for a multiplexed transactional log. Unlike a dedicated log that includes log data of only one client, a multiplexed transactional log may include log data from multiple clients. In a multiplexed transactional log, log data from different clients may be multiplexed into...

20060143243 - Apparatus and method for generating reports from versioned data: A computer-readable medium includes a report generator configured to process a current version of a data set to generate a report including a data item. The computer-readable medium also includes a report data change tracker configured to identify a change in the data item with respect to a previous version...

20060143242 - Content management device: To enable a flexible snapshot to be invoked through a simple site configuration by storing a difference updated when updating a content as history information. When updating a content stored on a storage unit into a new content, history information is created by comparing the new content with a content...

20060143248 - Database management system with rebalance architectures: A database system for storing table data as divided in a plurality of storages has a processing request acceptance section and an execution section which, at the time of rebalancing already stored data in response to addition of a storage, can execute inquiry operations concurrently. The system determines data to...

20060143245 - Low overhead mechanism for offloading copy operations: In some embodiments, a low overhead mechanism for offloading copy operations is presented. In this regard, a copy agent is introduced to receive a copy request, to notify of copy completion before the copy has been performed, and to perform the copy. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed....

20060143246 - Method and apparatus for managing information related to storage activities of data storage systems: Methods and apparatus for managing information related to backup storage activities of data storage systems. In a computer system having one or more independent backup data storage systems coupled to each other and each serving one or more clients, a user may obtain information related to backup activities of any...

20060143244 - Semiconductor data archiving management systems and methods: Systems and methods for data archiving management. A storage device stores archive data and at least one data introduction. The archive data comprising at least one data item corresponding to a data introduction is generated after completing a corresponding semiconductor product, wafer or wafer lot. A processing unit transmits a...

20060143249 - System and method for manipulating and managing computer archive files: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide an archive management application that operates within a host application to provide access to an archive and/or allow access to and/or modification of files in an archive using the host application's interface, instead of operating as a separate standalone archive management application. In...

20060143250 - System and method for manipulating and managing computer archive files: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide an archive management application that operates within a host application to provide access to an archive and/or allow access to and/or modification of files in an archive using the host application's interface, instead of operating as a separate standalone archive management application. In...

20060143251 - System and method for manipulating and managing computer archive files: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide an archive management application that operates within a host application to provide access to an archive and/or allow access to and/or modification of files in an archive using the host application's interface, instead of operating as a separate standalone archive management application. In...

20060143252 - System and method for manipulating and managing computer archive files: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide an archive management application that operates within a host application to provide access to an archive and/or allow access to and/or modification of files in an archive using the host application's interface, instead of operating as a separate standalone archive management application. In...

20060143253 - System and method for manipulating and managing computer archive files: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide an archive management application that operates within a host application to provide access to an archive and/or allow access to and/or modification of files in an archive using the host application's interface, instead of operating as a separate standalone archive management application. In...

20060143247 - Trusted access by an extendible framework method, system, article of manufacture, and computer program product: Appropriate actions are identified and associated with a selected artifact in a framework providing a customized application program. A metamodel is specified for a capture of relevant information pertaining to the selected artifact. This metamodel is implemented as a plugin which is integratable into the framework and which allows other...

20060143255 - Computer system: A server system has a blade system formed of a plurality of servers that are mounted in one or a plurality of stages within a single chassis so as to have a plurality of different functions, and a management server for managing said blade system. The management server has means...

20060143254 - System and method for using anchor text as training data for classifier-based search systems: A computer implemented information retrieval system is provided. The system includes a user input configured to receive a user query relative to the corpus. A machine learning classifier is trained with a first set of training data comprising anchor text relative to at least some of the documents in the...

20060143256 - Cache region concept: Methods for a treatment of cached objects are described. In one embodiment, an application is configured to cache objects according to different caching treatments, each different caching treatment associated with its own region of cache. The configuring also involves installing a different combination of storage and eviction policy plug-ins for...

20060136354 - Apparatus and method for data warehousing: An apparatus and method for implementing data warehousing systems. According to a first embodiment, a system may include a plurality of data warehouses, and a data warehouse manager configured to extract data sets from one or more data sources for storage in one or more of the plurality of data...

20060136366 - Application sharing single document sharing: An improved application sharing system and method allow sharing of documents on a per document basis rather than on a per application basis, in order to simplify the user experience and to provide a more secure sharing environment. A window marking method is used to construct a window list describing...

20060136364 - Data processing system and method of collaborative entry of a set of data: The invention relates to a data processing system comprising a web portal, adapted to receive an initiator's entry of a set of data comprising at least one identifier of at least one co-initiator, means for sending a message to the at least one co-initiator using the respective identifier in response...

20060136358 - Database tuning advisor graphical tool: An automated database tuning tool may include a user interface component and a tuning engine. The user interface may be a graphical component that interfaces with a user to collect configuration parameters for a tuning session for a specified database. The configuration parameters may be stored in a tuning database....

20060136361 - Extensible, customizable database-driven row-level database security: The method and system of the claims decomposes an organization structure into a set of mapping objects, where each mapping object represents an affiliation between entities of an organization. Each object in the data model is associated with an owner by designating a set of ownership affiliation attributes for each...

20060136365 - Method and system for compression of data for block mode access storage: A method and system for creating, reading and writing compressed data for use with a block mode access storage. The compressed data are packed into plurality of compressed units and stored in a storage logical unit (LU). One or more corresponding compressed units may be read and/or updated with no...

20060136357 - Method and system for tracking objects associated with an activity: An object tracking module establishes relationships between different types of data objects associated with application programs while a particular activity occurs. Contextual information associated with the data objects and the activity is collected to establish the relationship. The contextual information may include data objects that are accessed or created while...

20060136359 - Method for sensor initialization in a structural health management system: A method for initializing a chain of non-initialized data collectors is disclosed. The chain of non-initialized data collectors are coupled to a controller. In a first step communication between the controller and each data collector in the chain of non-initialized collectors is disabled, except for an active non-initialized data collector,...

20060136360 - Preserving log files in a distributed computing environment: A system includes a first device that runs an archiving master program. The first device includes available storage for use by the archiving master program. A second device runs a computer program that generates log files for storage on the second device. The second device runs an archiving slave program....

20060136355 - Scalable object model: Scalable object model design is described. In an embodiment, one or more objects corresponding to a form are instantiated in response to a request for the form from a first client device, and an events manager is instantiated through which the one or more objects register to process data manipulation...

20060136352 - Smart string replacement: String replacement is performed in text using linguistic processing. The linguistic processing identifies the existence of direct or indirect links between the string to be replaced and other strings in the text. Morphological, syntactic, anaphoric, or semantic inconsistencies, which are introduced in strings with the identified direct or indirect links...

20060136363 - System and method for decomposition of multiple items into the same table-column pair without dedicated mapping constructs: A system and computer-based method is provided for decomposing and storing a markup based document into a relational database. For a schema of a markup based document a user identifies multiple items mapping into a same database table-column pair, creates a logical table and associates the logical table to each...

20060136356 - Systems and methods for changing items in a computer file: Systems and methods for changing items of a computer file can include a storage medium, and an application programmed to create a file including a first item and a second item, the application storing the file on the storage medium, and the first item including padding. The system can also...

20060136353 - Systems and methods for converting a formatted document to a web page: Systems and methods for transforming a document to a web page can include a mapping module programmed to map document styles of a document to styles of a web page. The system can also include a conversion module programmed to convert contents of the document into hypertext markup language based...

20060136362 - Systems and methods for data conversion: Data, such as pages of vehicle specification manuals, is received from reference information sources, in various formats, converted to a known format, and stored in a data store. Because all of the data is stored in a known format, users may more easily search information from multiple specification manuals. The...

20060136351 - Techniques for automatically exposing, as web services, procedures and functions stored in a database: A database server that manages a database retrieves metadata that is stored, within the database, in association with a procedure that is stored in the database. Based on the metadata, a Web service definition is automatically constructed to describe the procedure as a Web service. The WSDL definition can be...

20060136368 - Database system and methodology for generalized order optimization: A database system and methodology for generalized order optimization is described. In one embodiment, for example, in a database system, a method of the present invention is described for optimizing a query requesting data from a database in an ordered form, the method comprises steps of: generating a plurality of...

20060136372 - Inserted contextual web content derived from intercepted web viewing content: A method and a system for providing content including intercepting data inbound to a user, data outbound from the user or both. The data is intercepted at a network segment. The method further includes determining content of interest to the user and adding the content of interest to the inbound...

20060136369 - Method and system for protecting the consistency of information in a distributed file system: Disclosed are “black-box leases” that protect information consistency and that allow for information sharing in a distributed file system while hiding from a client information about other clients' use of the file system. This information hiding also allows greater concurrency because changes to the file system are permitted as long...

20060136371 - Method of delivering an electronic document to a remote electronic device: A method of preparing a document for delivery to an electronic device including building a graph structure, include hyperlink nodes and bookmark nodes, representing a map of the document, and traversing and paginating the graph structure into successive pages each having a page index value. For each hyperlink node, the...

20060136367 - Method, apparatus, and computer program for processing a queue of messages: The invention relates to the processing of a queue of messages, each message representing at least one request for an update to a database. A message is browsed and at least one update request is extracted from the message. The update request is sent to a database management system (DBMS)...

20060136370 - Workload periodicity analyzer for autonomic database components: Disclosed is a data processing system implemented method, a data processing system and an article of manufacture for determining database workload periodicity. The data processing system implemented method includes converting database activity samples spanning a time period from the time domain to the frequency domain, the converting resulting in a...

20060136377 - Computer method and apparatus for collaborative web searches: Computer method and apparatus for collaborative web search operate in an intranet with non-existent or defective link structure. A search engine produces an initial search result list in response to a user query. A list optimizer reranks pages on the initial list based on implicit user recommendation or endorsement of...

20060136398 - Computer-aided modeling: To enable the utilization of a definition or definitions once made as the definitions of a similar object, a set of conditions for similarity comprising one or more conditions is defined (201) and a set of definitions (202), which explicitly or inexplicitly indicates one or more definitions, of which at...

20060136399 - Consumer driven methods for associating content identifiers with related web addresses: The present invention provides methods to provide or establish links, web addresses or web content with media (e.g., audio, videos or imagery). In one implementation, we provide a method comprising: upon receipt of a content identifier associated with media, initiating a time-limited auction for a right to associated a link...

20060136392 - Database modification history: A database system including an encoder module and a revision control archive module is disclosed. The encoder module receives signals representing a database access request, generates database access commands, and executes the database access command against a revision control archive module if the database access command causes a change to...

20060136379 - Image content sharing device and method: Image content sharing devices and methods are provided. The image content sharing device has a display, a memory, a user input capable of receiving more than one user input action and of providing a user input signal indicative of each of the more than one user input actions and a...

20060136376 - Infrastructure for performing file operations by a database server: A method and apparatus for processing a file system operation at a database server is provided. A request to perform a file system operation on a resource stored in a database is received at a database system. The request may be implemented using the NFS protocol. The request may include...

20060136386 - Long running requests: A progress UI is displayed within a user's web page for long-running requests. For each long-running request, a progress UI is displayed to the user indicating that the long-running request is being processed until the long-running request has been processed. The progress UI may be a progress indicator showing the...

20060136383 - Method and system enabling web content searching from a remote set-top control interface or device: A system for conducting a data search operation for content stored at nodes on a network includes a menu interface for enabling an interaction sequence of content category selection and definition-narrowing of those categories selected, a server application for interpreting the interaction sequence and for formulating a search query based...

20060136381 - Method and system for a text based search of a self-contained document: A method for a text based search is disclosed. The method comprises providing search results which include at least one indexed self contained document. The method also includes obtaining a search term from a previous URL of the at least one self contained document by a broker, the broker including...

20060136390 - Method and system for matching of complex nested objects by multilevel hashing: A computer-based system and method is provided which use multilevel hashing for lookup of a complex nested object (such as access control list) which has a plurality of nesting levels and each level has at least one element. Method stores representatives of a complex nested object in a data structure...

20060136387 - Method and system for updating a summary page of a document: A summary page provides a current overview of a document. A query may be created or selected to search for a particular type of data in the document. Metadata associated with the document is analyzed to locate the type of data identified in the query. The query result is displayed...

20060136388 - Method for calculating distributed joins in main memory with minimal communicaton overhead: A method of executing a distributed join query for a set of documents includes communication between a first server and a second server. In the first server, a first tuple list is generated from a first list of documents matching a precondition part of the query. A first set of...

20060136394 - Method, apparatus and computer program for producing input to a transformation engine: Disclosed is a method, apparatus and computer program for producing input to a transformation engine. A request is received to transform some data. It is determined whether the data is stored in a form permitting said data to be lazily constructed into a graph structure upon request by a client....

20060136402 - Object-based information storage, search and mining system method: The patent application taught an object based information storage, search and mining system and method, which can store, retrieve, and mine massively amount of object data efficiently. A first embodiment includes an object based search engine which can organize and identify the objects efficiently from the search space based on...

20060136395 - Personalized service providing system and profile information classifying and processing method thereof: The present invention relates to a personalized service providing system and a profile information classifying and processing method thereof. The system, linked to a plurality of subscriber stations to provide a personalized service to a subscriber station, classifies and processes profile information for the service. In the profile information classifying...

20060136401 - Resource loading: A method loads a resource in a software application. The software application comprises an ordered search path identifying at least one of a plurality of resource containers. Each of the resource containers includes a timestamp and an index in the ordered search path. The method includes loading a resource from...

20060136378 - Search engine for a computer network: In one embodiment, client-side programs are employed to observe the navigation of consumers to various websites. Addresses of web pages viewed by consumers may be used to fetch the web pages. A fetched web page may be parsed for one or more keywords. The relevance of the web page to...

20060136397 - Search methods: Search methods. A string is first received. The string is divided to generate at least one string fragment set, comprising of at least a first and a second fragments. A record conforming to the string fragment set is searched for and retrieved. A first data block of the record may...

20060136396 - Self-adjusting database-query optimizer: A database-management system (DBMS) initiates execution of an incoming database query according to an initial query-execution plan that identifies an expected path for execution. Then, at some point after execution of the query has begun, the DBMS concludes that execution has not proceeded along the expected path and, in response,...

20060136393 - Soliciting information based on a computer user's context: A user search request is received and context information for the user is identified. The user search request and the context information are then combined to generate search criteria corresponding to the user search request, providing for information solicitation based on a computer user's context....

20060136384 - System and associated methods for remotely enabling features: A method and apparatus enables a feature among a plurality of features in an application loaded on a client, with the client located remotely from a server. The server receives a data profile request from the client. In response to the data profile request, a data profile is sent from...

20060136403 - System and method for digital content searching based on determined intent: A system and method for searching determines an intent of a user based on symptoms entered by the user. The refined query of symptoms and/or intent are forwarded to a search engine to perform a search....

20060136380 - System and method for executing a multi-table query: A multi-table query system utilizes indexes to provide filtering and then obtains the desired data. The multi-table query system reduces excessive data retrieval by minimizing access by multi-table joins to data pages until absolutely necessary in a process of executing the query. The multi-table query system improves runtime performance and...

20060136391 - System and method for generating a search index and executing a context-sensitive search: A system and method for generating a search index and executing a context-sensitive search are described. An exemplary method includes receiving an object in a browser that is included in a client device. Information available to the browser that is associated with the received object is determined. A search index...

20060136404 - System and method for influencing a position on a search result list generated by a computer network search engine: A method for providing a search result list. The method includes receiving a search request from a searcher. In a database of search listings in which each search listing is associated with an advertiser and includes at least one search term and a bid amount by the advertiser, search listings...

20060136389 - System and method for invocation of streaming application: A system that initiates streaming of a remotely stored application in response to a data file selection. In one example, in response to a user selection of a data file, a streaming application module determines if a remotely stored published application is available that is capable of opening the data...

20060136375 - System and method for providing a natural language interface to a database: A system and method for providing a natural language interface to a database or the Internet. The method provides a response from a database to a natural language query. The method comprises receiving a user query, extracting key data from the user query, submitting the extracted key data to a...

20060136374 - System and method for utilizing a search engine to prevent contamination: A system and method are incorporated within a search engine for preventing proliferation of malicious searchable content. The system includes a detection mechanism for detecting malicious searchable content within searchable content traversed by a web crawler. The system additionally includes a presentation mechanism for handling the detected malicious searchable content...

20060136373 - Systems and methods for plain old java object (pojo) retrieval: The present invention uses annotations and SQL to retrieve and/or persist POJO data from/to a database, respectively. Using SQL will enable developers to unleash the full querying power of their chosen Database Management Systems (DBMS) and will remove the requirement that they learn a new query language. A minimal amount...

20060136385 - Systems and methods for using and constructing user-interest sensitive indicators of search results: Techniques are provided to construct and use user-interest sensitive indicators of search results. A set of documents is determined based on one or more search terms. Passages within each selected document are identified based on the search terms. Condensation transformations applied to the passages to preferentially retain elements of the...

20060136400 - Textual search and retrieval systems and methods: A method of retrieving information. The method includes obtaining a list of network sites, obtaining a list of key words to be searched for, and retrieving data from the network sites. The method also includes analyzing the data for an occurrence of any of the key words and extracting textual...

20060136382 - Well organized query result sets: Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for processing an abstract query and generating well organized user results are disclosed. Well organized user results preserve the cardinality of one-to-one and one-to-many between data elements retrieved using a database query. Embodiments of the present invention use an abstract database that separates a...

20060136405 - Searching apparatus and methods: An apparatus and method are provided for improving database searching, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a search query comprising one or more search keywords from a user; accessing a user profile means arranged to provide data indicative of relatedness criteria between keywords from a set of documents, and...

20060136408 - Searching for and providing objects using byte-by-byte comparison: The invention may be embodied as a method of providing information. The information may be stored as objects in a database. Such a method may use identification codes to identify pointers, and the pointers may indicate the address in a database where desired objects are stored. The invention may also...

20060136406 - Spatial search and selection feature: The invention relates to a method for searching content from a computer storage means by means of a visual user interface. The search is carried out by a search command, and search results that can be more than one, are displayed in their actual locations in said user interface. The...

20060136409 - System for identification of context related information in knowledge sources: A computer system for identifying information related to a context includes a context gathering service configured to receive context deltas from a runtime and to identify a current context state. A context delta describes a change from a previous context state to the current context state. The computer system also...

20060136407 - Transformation of a physical query into an abstract query: Embodiments of the invention provide methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for transforming a physical query (e.g., written in SQL) into an abstract query than can be run against an abstract database described by a database abstraction model. In one embodiment, the transformation occurs as a multiple step process: first,...

20060136412 - Document management system and document management method: There is provided a document management system for retrieving document information from storage unit which correlates and stores user information, keyword information set for every user, and document information, the document management system including a first retrieval unit configured to retrieve document information from the storage unit using a first...

20060136410 - Method and apparatus for explaining categorization decisions: Feature selection is used to determine feature influence for a given categorization decision to identify those features in a categorized document that were important in classifying the document into one or more classes. In one embodiment, model parameters of a categorization model are used to determine the features that contributed...

20060136411 - Ranking search results using feature extraction: Methods and computer-readable media are provided for ranking search results using feature extraction data. Each of the results of a search engine query is parsed to obtain data, such as text, formatting information, metadata, and the like. The text, the formatting information and the metadata are passed through a feature...

20060136414 - Data mining system: A method of signal processing of data using a computer by generating a symbolic map of the data using at least one wavelet transform, identifying target sequences in the symbolic map; and processing the data with reference to the target sequences to obtain waveform prognostic indicators...

20060136413 - Program: A CPU displays a watermark setting button on a display unit. When the watermark setting button is pressed, the CPU confirms whether there is mismatch between a character sequence and a font, which are selected in order to print a watermark, on the basis of a printer driver that is...

20060136416 - Apparatus and method for storing messages in a portable wireless terminal: Disclosed is a method for storing a message in a portable wireless terminal assigning a predetermined memory area to a plurality of message folders. The method includes checking the number of messages stored in the message folders when a new message needs to be stored; comparing the checked number of...

20060136415 - Method, system, and program product for executing a scalar function on a varying number of records within a rdbms using sql: Application of a scalar function across a varying number of records within an RDBMS using the RDBMS's SQL capabilities. This is accomplished by determining a last row in a group of rows, sorting the rows and passing the sorted rows to a scalar function, where the scalar function accepts each...

20060136417 - Method and system for search, analysis and display of structured data: A technique is disclosed for analyzing data entities of interest, including text, image, waveform, audio, video and other types of data. The data entities are accessed and identified in accordance with a domain definition and attributes contained in the entities. The attributes may be user-defined, as may the domain definition....

20060136419 - System and method for enforcing privacy in social networks: The present application describes systems and methods for Relationship Capital Management (“RCM”). An RCM system mines relationship capital, which it correlates to eliminate redundancies, that is made available for searching. An initial result set of the search may be narrowed to a single individual, e.g., the target. Weighted paths are...

20060136420 - System and method for providing improved access to a search tool in electronic mail-enabled applications: Disclosed is a system and method for providing users of web-accessible E-mail services with improved access to their E-mail messages and other information. In one embodiment, access to a search tool is provided to users of a web-accessible electronic mail service by software which integrates with a mail-enabled application running...

20060136418 - Systems and methods for synchronization of items without snapshots: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods for synchronizing mixed elements (MEs) comprising structure data and unstructured filestreams between peer computer systems in a hardware/software interface system environment that does not permit snapshotting of large unstructured ME filestreams during synchronization. For several such embodiments, the...

20060136424 - Approach for collecting and reporting status data from network devices: An approach is provided for collecting and reporting network device status data. Status data is received that indicates the status of one or more network devices. Report data is generated based upon the status data. Generating the report data may include formatting and translating the status data from one or...

20060136427 - Coordinating transactional web services: The present invention relates to coordinating web services wherein a coordination service acts as a rendezvous point through which participants such as web services may register to obtain protocol information to coordinate an outcome of an activity. The coordination of the activity may be accomplished through behaviors that may be...

20060136425 - Data-centric distributed computing: A distributed computing system provides a data management system in communication with a software management system and enables the software applications to move to the data to be processed in a distributed computing environment. The software management system stores a plurality of computer-executable software applications thereon and is in communication...

20060136426 - Method for automated control of an internet site, as well as a use: The invention relates to a method for automated control of an Internet site, and to a use of the method for automation of repetitive control sequences for Internet accesses. According to the invention, a predeterminable image is searched at any desired position on the Internet site (IS) with the aid...

20060136422 - Multiple bindings in web service data connection: The invention features a method, system, and computer program product. User input defining a form that has one or more fields is received. User input defining a set of entries associated with the form is also received, the set of entries identifying available connections to data repositories and fields of...

20060136421 - Usage consciousness in http/html for reducing unused data flow across a network: HTTP/HTML is enhanced to provide information to a server about the current usage level of the continuous data that is being sent to the client. With this information, the server is able to tailor the data being sent to the client based on the current usage level. If the usage...

20060136423 - Wireless communication terminal having function for dynamically upgrading platform and method thereof: A wireless communication terminal having a function for dynamically upgrading a platform and a method thereof is disclosed. The wireless communication terminal includes: a first storing unit for storing an application program interface (API) source; a second storing unit for an API identification correspondently mapped to each of application program...

20060136436 - Arrangement enabling thin client to access and present data in custom defined reports: A report definition file (FIG. 7) that is in XML format governs access to and presentation of data from a domain database 364. The report definition file may be created by inputting from a thin client 200 (such as a web browser) a set of report specifications, and converting the...

20060136428 - Automatic composition of services through semantic attribute matching: A method of automatically matching schemas begins by extracting schemas from sources and targets. Then, source and target attributes are extracted from the schemas. Each source schema will have multiple source attributes and each target schema will also have multiple target attributes. The source attributes and the target attributes are...

20060136429 - Control of policies for setting file associations in information handling systems: A method for setting file associations during a factory installation process which includes determining an application that is installed onto an information handling system, setting a file association default that sets file association policies within a file association file, accessing the file association file to determine an appropriate file association,...

20060136433 - File formats, methods, and computer program products for representing workbooks: File formats, methods, and computer program products are provided for representing a workbook in a modular content framework. The modular content framework may include a file format container associated with modular parts. A file format includes logically separate modular parts that are associated with each other by one or more...

20060136430 - Journaling to capture workflow and convert to workflow markup language: During performance of a process task, a journaling program is used to record keystrokes and mouse activities. A journal of the process task is then sent to a parser for conversion to a markup language, such as electronic business Extensible Markup Language (ebXLM) or Data Center Markup Language (DCML). The...

20060136431 - Method and apparatus for implementing recursive remote procedure calls: A system, method, apparatus, means and computer program code for operating a database server are provided including receiving a database request message, the database request message including a user-defined extension (UDE) portion to be processed by a UDE server, transmitting a procedure request to the UDE server based on the...

20060136432 - Method and system for controlling software to facilitate cross-version collaboration of files: Methods and systems are provided for controlling elements of computing systems including operating systems, software applications and different versions of software applications to better facilitate cross-application and cross-version collaboration of files. Elements within a computing system, for example, operating systems, applications, or particular versions of an application, are reconfigured at...

20060136439 - Method and system for modifying schema definitions: A new schema implementation enables reversible changes to be made to definitions in a schema. The definitions of attributes and classes are in the form of schema objects. Each schema object has an internal ID in addition to its unique name and object ID (DID), and a deactivation flag for...

20060136438 - Process server array for processing documents and document components and a method related thereto: A process server array comprising a plurality of process servers for a document management system. A user request to operate on documents or document components stored in a document repository of the document management system is provided to an available process server of the plurality of process servers. The available...

20060136435 - System and method for context-sensitive decomposition of xml documents based on schemas with reusable element/attribute declarations: A system and computer-based method is provided for context-sensitive decomposition of a markup based document into a relational database, based on schemas with reusable item declarations. User creates a mapping document from a schema of a markup based document with at least one reusable item declaration defining an item being...

20060136434 - System and method for managing objects in a server namespace: Methods of managing objects in a server namespace are presented including the steps of: creating at least one schema; populating a server namespace in accordance with the at least one schema such that a server namespace is populated with server related object instances defined by the at least one schema;...

20060136437 - System, method and program for distributed policy integration: A distributed policy linking method is provided which performs a policy based management according to a plurality of pieces of policy information distributed in a plurality of domains. A policy configuration management system is installed which manages a set of an identifier and a policy repository for each piece of...

20060136449 - Aggregate data view: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media implementing various aspects of data retrieval, transformation, data interrelationship inference, and aggregate data view generation are disclosed. The aggregate data view may incorporate data sources from geographically disparate servers, and in different data formats. The aggregate data view may further be converted into HTML and...

20060136448 - Apparatus, system, and method for database provisioning: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for provisioning database resource within a grid database system. The federation apparatus includes an analysis module and a provision module. The analysis module analyzes a data query stream from an application to a database instance and determines if the data query stream exhibits...

20060136445 - Bidirectional update of client-server objects: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for updating data. In one aspect, a system that has a server operating on a structure of server data objects and a client operating on a structure of client data objects, the data objects and the structure of the server data objects and...

20060136455 - Clustering web queries: Systems and methods for clustering Web queries are described. In one aspect, one or more of a same document and a plurality of similar documents selected by a user in response to a plurality of queries is identified. Responsive to this identification, a query cluster is generated. The cleric the...

20060136440 - Dependent data stream transmission procedure: A method for the transmission of data flows; data flows, server, terminal, method for reception and use corresponding thereto. The invention relates to a method for the transmission of at least one flow of data towards at least one terminal, said flow or flows being organized in the form of...

20060136450 - Document separator pages: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for using document separator sheets is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises scanning a plurality of sheets having a plurality of documents to be added to one or more collections, identifying the start of each of the plurality of documents based on...

20060136447 - Graphical transformation of data: A system and method for transforming data from a data source for use in a target application are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a user interface and a global data flow model representing a process of moving the data from the data source to the target application. The...

20060136460 - Managed file system filter model and architecture: A model in which filter drivers are managed to receive callbacks for I/O requests in which the filter drivers have registered an interest. Per-volume instances of filter drivers register with a filter manager for pre-callbacks (for I/O to the file system) and post-callbacks (for I/O from the file system), and...

20060136458 - Managing the state of coupling facility structures: A coupling facility is coupled to one or more other coupling facilities via one or more peer links. The coupling of the facilities enables various functions to be supported, including the duplexing of structures of the coupling facilities. Duplexing is performed on a structure basis, and thus, a coupling facility...

20060136443 - Method and apparatus for initializing data propagation execution for large database replication: The replication of large amounts of data from a database source to a database target is often prone to failure when the amount of data exceeds the transaction capacity of the database. In other words, if the amount of data transfer during initial start-up fills the transaction log before the...

20060136441 - Method and apparatus for synchronous project collaboration: A disclosed project management system allows one or more team members to share documents in asynchronous and synchronous collaboration modes. A synchronous collaboration system is provided as an incremental addition that extends a conventional asynchronous collaboration system. One or more users can transition between asynchronous and synchronous collaboration modes. A...

20060136453 - Method and system for advanced downloading of urls for web navigation: A method, computer program product, and system for providing advanced downloading of Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) for a WEB browser running on a computer. The system is capable of providing a WEB browser with Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). The system comprises a client computer and a server. The client computer...

20060136454 - Method for managing a hybrid distributed database in a communication network: A method and a hybrid distributed database for performing a transaction in a communication network. The distributed data base comprise a pessimistic scheduler for requesting a read/write lock from its associated transaction manager, determining if there is a conflict for the operation and for detecting a conflict of operation. If...

20060136457 - Method for supporting scalable progressive downloading of video signal: Disclosed is a method for enabling scalable progressive downloading of video signals. In the method, when a server transmits scalably encoded content data to a client, the server transmits some of the content data from a head of the content data to a tail of the content data according to...

20060136456 - Method of displaying a tool tip with filtered contents: A method of browsing media items is disclosed, the method comprising the steps of displaying (802) representations of the media items on a display (914), defining (803) a filter criterion for a display pointing device (903), browsing (804) the displayed representations of the media items by moving the pointer of...

20060136452 - Method of generating database schema to provide integrated view of dispersed data and data integrating system: A method for generating a database schema in order to generate an integrated view capable of obtaining desired data from data resources dispersed and stored in different formats in different locations, and an data integrating system are provided. The method includes rules for parsing the structure and contents of an...

20060136442 - Method, systems of devices, and computer program product for the document-related extension of a resource-structured document data flow: In a method and system for enhancement of an input document data stream which comprises at least one input format file comprising format definitions and an input document data file structured in at least one of ranges and sub-ranges and containing variable data, the data stream is enhanced with finishing...

20060136451 - Methods and systems for applying attention strength, activation scores and co-occurrence statistics in information management: Methods and systems for applying attention strength, activation scores and co-occurrence statistics to information management. Attention strength values used in computing the base activation scores of information items are derived from user interactions with such items. Co-occurrence strength values used in computing associative activation and partial matching scores of information...

20060136446 - Prioritized files: An entry for a file to be stored in a file system can be created. A priority is assigned to the file that indicates an importance of the file relative to a plurality of additional files stored in the file system, the priority being one of three or more priorities...

20060136459 - System and method for business service management: A management system has a reconciliation engine that reconciles information describing resources from a computer network service and stores reconciled information in a database. An editing engine or server is used to access and search reconciled information in the database based on at least one search criterion. Preferably, the search...

20060136444 - System and method for integrated information service: A system for integrated information service is provided. The system of integrated information service comprises an interface, a first storage device, a second storage device, and a processor. The interface receives query information for manufacturing information. The first storage device stores manufacturing information from a plurality of separate data sources...

20060136472 - Achieving cache consistency while allowing concurrent changes to metadata: A method and system for supporting a concurrent recordation of a change in a data file by a server while allowing an application to continue writing changes to a data file. In response to a change in a data file, a near-instantaneous version of the file is created. Metadata reflecting...

20060136465 - Cascade feature for creating records in a database: Techniques for providing a “cascade create” mechanism which allows data to be entered in related non-existing records in the database are disclosed. The techniques can be used to provide a database program that supports graphical, bi-directional data relationships, as well as multiple predicates. The “cascade create” mechanism supports arbitrary data...

20060136487 - Clustering apparatus and method for content delivery system by content classification: A clustering apparatus and method for content delivery system are provided. The clustering apparatus includes: a local server for performing operations as a dedicated server providing a stream service by being connected to a cluster; and a file management server for storing original contents....

20060136466 - Computer assisted domain specific entity mapping method and system: A technique for identifying, analyzing, structuring, mapping and classifying data entities is disclosed. A conceptual framework is established by a domain definition having an association list of attributes of interest. Data entities are accessed, analyzed, structured if appropriate, mapped and classified in accordance with the association list and attributes found...

20060136469 - Creating a logical table from multiple differently formatted physical tables having different access methods: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods for constructing a database abstraction model that includes logical fields that map to a logical table. The logical table is constructed using data extracted from multiple, differently formatted physical tables. The logical table allows logically related data stored in multiple databases to appear...

20060136474 - Customer service automatic answering system and method: A customer service automatic answering system and method aims to receive question contents entered by users, access the keywords of the question contents, search targeted topic contents in an answer database that match the keywords, and send answering data corresponding to the targeted topic contents to the network user for...

20060136462 - Data-centric automatic data mining: A data-centric data mining technique provides greater ease of use and flexibility, yet provides high quality data mining results by providing general methodologies for automatic data mining. A methodology for each major type of mining function is provided, including: supervised modeling (classification and regression), feature selection, and ranking, clustering, outlier...

20060136482 - Defining and generating a viewtype for a base model: Disclosed is a technique for processing a base model. The base model is received. Then, the base model is used to create a ViewType comprising a ViewType object, one or more ViewList objects corresponding to classes in the base model, and one or more ViewElem objects corresponding to attributes in...

20060136471 - Differential management of database schema changes: A data processing system-implemented method, system and article of manufacture for differential schema migration. A differential schema migration system can include a schema extractor configured both to extract a contemporary schema and corresponding contemporary data from a first connected database and also to generate an intermediately formatted form of the...

20060136467 - Domain-specific data entity mapping method and system: A technique is described for performing domain-specific analysis, structuring, mapping and classification of data entities, such as text document, images, audio data, waveform data, and so forth. A domain definition is established that includes a plurality of classification axes and labels for each axis. Data entities are accessed that potentially...

20060136478 - Dynamic document icons: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for generating visualizations (e.g., icons) suitable for a specific display. In one embodiment, the method comprises selecting a group of document images having similar layout features suitable for visualization or a specific display from the plurality of document images based on layout analysis...

20060136485 - Dynamic selection or modification of data management patterns: Systems and methods are presented that enable the dynamic selection or modification of data management patterns (such as for caching or updating data). A deployment document describes how to manage data used by the application, including which caching patterns (and parameters) and which updating patterns should be used. In this...

20060136468 - Fast tree-based generation of a dependence graph: A dependence graph having a linear number of edges and one or more tie vertices is generated by constructing a tree of nodes, receiving requests to create cut and/or fan vertices corresponding to each node, adjusting a frontier of nodes up or down, and creating one or more cut or...

20060136470 - Field-to-field join constraints: Embodiments of the present invention generally provide methods systems and articles of manufacture for query processing and for constructing a database abstraction model over an underlying physical database. The database abstraction model allows users to compose an abstract query using a logical view of data, instead of using the view...

20060136488 - Image forming system, image forming apparatus, information processing apparatus, and recording medium having recorded control program: An MFP includes a scanner portion; a printing portion, a workflow storage portion that stores workflows, a workflow selection portion that enables a user to select a workflow, a workflow execution control portion that controls the MFP or an PC to execute operations written in the selected workflow, and an...

20060136477 - Management and use of data in a computer-generated document: Methods and systems provide for breaking a computer-generated document into a number of components where the components have explicit relationships with each other. A relationship representation is generated for the components of the document. A user may then navigate the relationships between the components to quickly understand the nature of...

20060136476 - Method and computer-readable medium for loading the contents of a data file: A method and computer-readable medium are provided for loading the contents of an electronic data file. According to the method, corrupted portions of a data file are identified and an attempt is made to repair these portions. If the corrupted portions cannot be repaired, the loading of these portions is...

20060136461 - Method and system for data quality management: A method for data quality management may include collecting data related to a project. The method may also include generating a predetermined representation of the data and implementing or performing an improvement related to the project in response to the representation of the data indicating a trend toward not meeting...

20060136480 - Method for generating a choose tree for a range partitioned database table: A choose tree is generated at compile time to facilitate a determination if any partition of a range partitioned database table includes a particular key at runtime. To generate the choose tree at compile time, a query compiler receives a source code indicative of each partition of the range partitioned...

20060136486 - Method, system and program for enabling resonance in communications: A method, computer program product, and system for collecting and processing feedback information in organizational communications. The system includes an information processing apparatus, a communications mechanism, a database, and a mechanism for collecting data. The communications mechanism operates with the information processing apparatus for providing communications to a user of...

20060136475 - Secure data transfer apparatus, systems, and methods: Apparatus and systems, as well as methods and articles, may operate to store a data field in a data file, wherein the data field is associated with one or more data packets received at a node on a first network, and to transfer the data file between the node on...

20060136479 - Secured views for a crm database: The claims of the present application recite a method and system for accessing information in an otherwise inaccessible application database of a DBMS using view definitions that implement a security protocol....

20060136473 - Service data organization: Embodiments are provided for maintaining service related data. One computing device embodiment includes a processor, memory in communication with the processor, and computer executable instructions. The computer executable instructions can execute to provide a virtual service data organization interface that can be used to update service data located in a...

20060136481 - Simplified validity range selection: In one embodiment, the invention is a method. The method includes receiving a validity statement including a range and an identifier from a user interface. The method further includes determining the identifier indicates a validity range statement. The method also includes looking up the range of the validity statement in...

20060136463 - System and method for composition of mappings given by dependencies: A system that facilitates composition of schema mappings. A general algorithm is provided for composing a broad class of mappings, where one or both mappings are not functions, such as constraints between two schemas and the inverse of functions. A composition component performs composition on schema mappings of disparate data...

20060136464 - System and method for object persistence: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to a system and method for object persistence. In an embodiment, a proxy object is created based, at least in part, on object metadata stored in an internal data store of a persistence manager. The persistence manager may receive a request to access...

20060136483 - System and method of decomposition of multiple items into the same table-column pair: A system and computer-based method is provided for decomposing and storing content of a markup based document into a relational database. For a schema of a markup based document a user identifies multiple items mapping into a same database table-column pair and associates a rowset to each such item and...

20060136484 - Urgent replication facility: A system and method for expediting the replication of at least one specified object to a replica in a distributed computer system. A source object of a source replica determines that it has an urgent change to propagate through the distributed system, and informs a replication facility at the source...

20060136490 - Autonomic creation of shared workflow components in a provisioning management system using multi-level resource pools: Workflows for execution by an autonomic provision management system to yield near clones and replacement systems for a set of targeted computing solutions are provided by determining a common denominator set of workflow steps among the workflows for the targeted computing systems, including workflows to morph a near clone to...

20060136489 - Mapping a semantic model of business collaboration to a web services meta model: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for modeling a business collaboration. A data model includes an interface class, an operation class, and a message class for use in a web services architecture. The interface class includes one or more operations, and each instance of the interface class corresponds to...

20060136491 - Semantic document smartnails: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for generating visualizations of documents based on semantic information. In one embodiment, the method comprises selecting a plurality of image segments having a plurality of attributes that includes a semantic importance information for each of the plurality of document image segments and determining...

20060136494 - Auto organization hierarchy traversal in email addressees: A method for automatic hierarchy traversal in email addressees. The method includes parsing an entry in an email addressee field and determining if the entry includes a predefined notation appended to the entry. If the entry has a predefined notation appended to the entry, then the hierarchy structure for the...

20060136493 - Enabling relational databases to incorporate customized intrusion prevention policies: A method for preventing intrusions in a database system is provided. When the database system receives a request to execute a database command, the database command is parsed to generate parsed information. Before executing the database command, the parsed information is evaluated against a set of rules. If the parsed...

20060136492 - Technique for selectively accessing events within merged histories: A method is provided for selectively accessing first and second event histories that are merged together. A graphical user interface displays events within the merged history. Access may be selectively provided to a last event immediately preceding a merge juncture within the sequential history associated with the first or the...

20060136496 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus that recognizes each individual user and automatically reproduces the program recorded by the user if the video recorder is shared by a plurality of users. The information processing apparatus includes a recording/reproduction unit that records a program produced by using video and...

20060136495 - Review mechanism for controlling the delegation of tasks in a workflow system: A method for creating a review task includes receiving task data, the task data including information on a main task to be performed. Delegation data is received, the delegation data including information identifying a first delegator of the main task and a first delegatee to perform the main task. A...

20060136498 - System and method for finding people to share spontaneous activity or event in a particular geographic area: A method comprises storing a first profile of a first participant; storing a second profile of a second participant; creating for the first participant a post that details an offer of an activity to take place in a particular geographic location, the post expiring after a short time period; and...

20060136497 - System and method for reusing project engineering data: The invention relates to a system and a method for managing and/or providing elements, in particular technological objects. The system enables elements, in particular technological objects, to be reused in the development of a project engineering solution. Here, at least one element is created, in particular by a user of...

20060136503 - Dynamic seamless reconfiguration of executing parallel software: A method is described for dynamic stitching of a new module of executable code in a parallel processing environment, where access to a data object is shared by the new module and another module previously loaded. A new data object is created for shared access by the new module and...

20060136501 - Method and apparatus for saving and restoring parameter values set with user commands: A method and apparatus for changing an attribute such as the owner or mode of a file system object such as a file or directory in an information handling system. In response to receiving a user command to change the value of the attribute to a new value, the existing...

20060136499 - Method, system and program for prioritizing maintenance of database tables: There is disclosed a data processing system implemented method, a data processing system, and an article of manufacture for directing a data processing system to maintain a database table associated with an initial maintenance scheduling interval. The data processing system implemented method includes selecting a randomizing factor, and selecting a...

20060136500 - Systems and methods for changing items in a computer file: Systems and methods for changing items of a computer file, such as an archive file, can include an application programmed to create a file including a first item and a second item, the application storing the file on a storage medium. Systems can also include an input/output module associated with...

20060136502 - Unified media collection system: A unified media collection system comprises a local user agent with a primary metadata repository, and at least one foreign user agent with a secondary metadata repository. The secondary metadata repository is operatively coupled to the primary metadata repository. The local user agent is configured to compare the primary and...

20060136504 - Combined analysis of statistical and performance data in a computer based enterprise application environment: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implement techniques for the combined analysis of application-based statistical data and system-usage-based performance data for a distributed enterprise system. The performance data represents utilization of a system resource in the distributed enterprise system. The statistical data represents cost of particular application program steps...

20060136506 - Application recovery: A method includes, in a grid network, querying a grid manager for assignment of a resource for execution of an application, the query including a grid application recovery request, assigning a resource having a grid application recovery service in response to the grid application recovery request, establishing a communication channel...

20060136505 - Method, system and article of manufacture for rolling back past a boundary generator to a savepoint located in a unit of work: Disclosed is a data processing system-implemented method, a data processing system and an article for manufacture for directing a data processing system to roll back to a savepoint located in a unit of work having a boundary generated by a boundary generator. The data processing system-implemented method includes examining a...

20060136507 - Methods and apparatus to write a file to a nonvolatile memory: A method and apparatus to write a file to a nonvolatile memory is provided. The method may include writing a file to a nonvolatile memory using at least two headers and at least two file fragments and using only information stored in one header of the at least two headers...

20060136513 - Managing the status of documents in a distributed storage system: Managing the status of documents in a distributed storage system is disclosed. Upon determining that a first version exists and a second version having a predecessor version identifier exists, the predecessor version identifier is used to determine that the second version is related to the first version. Based upon the...

20060136512 - Method and system for replicating data between a community of distributed entities: An information replication method for sharing information among a community of distributed, autonomous software entities. The method can include the step of within a particular one of the entities, detecting an information replication event. The particular entity can randomly select an entity from a community list specific to the particular...

20060136510 - Method and system for tracking changes in a document: A change list tracking mechanism supports features that require a record of values that have been modified in a document of a project management software application. Examples of the features supported include multiple undo, report generation, and audit logging. The change list tracking mechanism includes object containers and change lists....

20060136514 - Software patch generator: A system for generating a patch file from an old version of data which consists of a series of elements and a new version of data which also consists of a series of elements. The old version of data is sorted with a data processor alphabetically according to an established...

20060136511 - Storage-and transport-independent collaborative document-management system: A document management system enables multiple users to collaboratively contribute to the contents of a document via any suitable medium for transporting and storing documents, including email, shared drives, replicated work spaces and centralized storage systems. A tracking strategy is employed, in lieu of a central repository, that is based...

20060136508 - Techniques for providing locks for file operations in a database management system: A method and apparatus for performing file system operation locks at a database server is provided. A request to perform a file operation on a portion of a file managed by a database server is received at the database server. In response to receiving the request, the database server grants...

20060136509 - Techniques for transaction semantics for a database server performing file operations: A method and apparatus for reverting a resource to a prior state in time is provided. Changes are committed to a resource at a particular point in time. After the particular point in time, a request, which may be a file system operation request, to revert the resource to a...

20060136520 - Apparatus, method and computer program to provide metadata-based data transfer from one mobile terminal to another mobile terminal: A method is disclosed to transfer data from a first terminal to a second terminal. The method includes establishing metadata to specify particulars of the data to be transferred; and selectively transferring data via a link from a memory of the first terminal to a memory of the second terminal...

20060136517 - Bypassing an intermediate synchronization server of a three tiered synchronization system: A bypasser configured to operate within a three tiered synchronization system. The bypasser can include an interceptor and an inference engine. The interceptor can intercept synchronization requests before a synchronization event involving a synchronization server is initiated. The inference engine can determine if the data store and the another data...

20060136522 - Computer system, storage management program call-up method, and storage system: This invention enables a storage management program to easily obtain an attribute of another storage management programs managing the storage system. A computer system including a first management server, a second management server, and a storage system, in which the first management server comprises a control unit to execute a...

20060136515 - Content synthesis device, content synthesis method, contents synthesis program, computer readable recording medium containing the content synthesis program, data structure of content data, and computer readable recording medium containing the content data: A contents synthesizing apparatus includes an input receiving portion receiving an input of first contents data including a synthesizing script describing synthesis of contents data and an input of second contents data, and a synthesis processing portion synthesizing the input first contents data with the input second contents data, based...

20060136524 - Method and device for backing up cookies: The present invention relates to summarizing cross-network user behavioral data and further relates to restoring damaged data structures, either data structures summarizing cross-network user behavioral data or data structures remotely identifying to logic running on a user computer. The summarizing cross-network user behavioral data may particularly include publishing the data...

20060136525 - Method, computer program product and mass storage device for dynamically managing a mass storage device: A method, apparatus, and computer-usable medium for dynamically managing a mass storage device. The present invention includes computing an individual score for each data element among a collection of data stored in a secondary storage device. The secondary storage device is partitioned into at least one independent logical volume. In...

20060136521 - Model curation: Exemplary techniques for model curation are described. In a described embodiment, a method comprises generating a manifest of a plurality of files corresponding to a design model; utilizing a revision control system to determine whether the generated manifest has changed relative to a previous version of the manifest; and if...

20060136518 - Optimizing a three tiered synchronization system by pre-fetching and pre-formatting synchronization data: A three tiered data synchronization system including a client, an enterprise data server, a synchronization server, and a pre-fetch data store. The client can have an associated client data store and the enterprise data server can have an associated server data store. The synchronization sever can intermittently and bidirectionally synchronize...

20060136523 - Program packing systems: A packing system comprises a database and a server coupled thereto. The database stores a first software package comprising an original version of files comprising a first portion and a second portion. The server receives a new version of the first portion via a network, automatically produces a copy of...

20060136519 - System and method for user database synchronization: A first server (204) and second server (210) are mutually authenticated. Upon mutually authenticating the first (204) and second servers (210), the first server (204) responsively sends account information to the second server (210) and the second server (210) sends account information to the first server (204). Responsive to receiving...

20060136516 - Techniques for maintaining consistency for different requestors of files in a database management system: A method and apparatus for providing file system operation locks at a database server is provided. A database server may employ database locks and file system operation locks in servicing requests from consistent requestors and inconsistent requesters. A database lock is a lock that is obtained in response to performing...

20060136527 - Determining the target readership of a document: Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products, for determining the target readership of a document. The techniques include receiving from a profiling tool a profiled document, the profiling tool being a tool that receives a source document and a readership profile and applies the readership profile to the source document...

20060136529 - Extensible file system: An extensible file system format for portable storage media is provided. The extensible file system format includes the specification of primary and secondary directory entry types that may be custom defined. The primary and secondary directory entry types can be further classified as critical and benign directory entries....

20060136528 - Method and device for publishing cross-network user behavioral data: The present invention relates to summarizing cross-network user behavioral data. The summarizing cross-network user behavioral data may particularly include publishing the data to one or more data structures that become accessible to a server hosting an authorized domain when a user accesses the authorized domain....

20060136526 - Rapid provisioning of a computer into a homogenized resource pool: An improved method, apparatus, and computer instructions for installing software on a data processing system. The process identifies files for the data processing system to be provisioned and to form identified files. The identified files are located using a location map. The location map identifies a set of files and...

20060136530 - System and method for detecting and certifying memory leaks within object-oriented applications: A method is described by defining one or more classes within a software application as being in scope, any class not defined as being in scope are defined as being out of scope, all classes comprise at least one method. The method further determines an amount of allocated memory for...

20060129516 - Adaptive software component techniques: Techniques are presented for dynamically adapting software components. An enhancement for a component is dynamically detected and installed. The enhancement is dynamically processed for requests directed to the component or for responses generated by the component....

20060129517 - Anti-item for deletion of content in a distributed datastore: The invention provides an efficient apparatus and method for deleting items within a distributed datastore. In particular, the invention provides an apparatus and method of deletion that uses an already well defined procedure for insertion of data....

20060129515 - Data totaling device, method thereof and storage medium: Field information indicating the field of necessary data is obtained from data stored in each of one or more files. Then, the necessary data is automatically extracted from one or more files, according to the obtained field information and is stored in another file. Thus, necessary data stored in each...

20060129509 - Database schema: An unlimited number of sets may be persisted and interrelated, while each element of each set has an unlimited collection of properties or attributes, and each element of each set may also have an unlimited collection of transactions which themselves may have an unlimited collection of properties or attributes, by...

20060129523 - Detection of obscured copying using known translations files and other operational data: Systems and methods that automatically compare sets of files to determine what has been copied even when sophisticated techniques for hiding or obscuring the copying have been employed. The file compare system comprises a file compare program that uses various operational data and user interface options to detect illicit copying,...

20060129514 - Information terminal and content storage/playback method: An information terminal according to this invention includes a storage means having a first storage area which is accessible from an external terminal, and a second storage area which is inaccessible from the external terminal. Content which includes a content body and rights information indicating a use condition given to...

20060129511 - Internet fax apparatus with an automatic filing function for sending video files and a method for the same: An Internet fax apparatus and its method are proposed. In the present invention, an Internet fax program capable of functioning together with conventional scanners, printers, or a combination of both, is provided. By connecting to a computer, which has the Internet fax program installed therein, with an image-capturing device, a...

20060129513 - Network storage system with a clustered configuration sharing a namespace, and control method therefor: Provided is a storage system as follows. A server holds a management table that serves to manage a mount point of a file system. The management table stores a file system identifier that uniquely identifies the file system within the storage system, mount point information that indicates the mount point...

20060129508 - On-site reclamation of off-site copy storage volumes using multiple, parallel processes: An agent installed on a server reclaims one or more reclaimable off-site copy storage volumes and one or more reclaimable on-site copy storage volumes. To this end, the agent identifies each reclaimable off-site copy storage volume, runs a plurality of threads to collectively copy each data object of the identified...

20060129518 - Optimization of aspects of information technology structures: A computer-implemented method for optimizing an aspect of an Information Technology (IT) structure of an IT system, the aspect of the IT structure is optimized with respect to at least one control parameter. The IT structure includes a plurality of elements. Each element independently is a hardware element, a software...

20060129507 - Privacy markup on entity models: A method of identifying an entry in an entity model as being at least one of potentially private and potentially sensitive is disclosed. The method may include creating an indication related to a specific entry that indicates whether the specific entry is one of potentially personally identifiable and potentially sensitive...

20060129524 - Scalable storage and processing of hierarchical documents: Large messages in the form of hierarchically structured documents are processed in a streaming fashion using the ultimate consumer read requests as the driving force for the processing. The messages are partitioned into fixed length segments. The segments are processed in pipeline fashion. This processing chain includes simulating random access...

20060129519 - Signal output apparatus and signal output method: A signal output apparatus is provided comprising an input unit configured to receive a main data and a notice of the presence of any further information related to the main data, a notifying unit configured to notify the presence of the related information in response to the notice received from...

20060129512 - Socket-like communication api for c: A system and method are described for performing data processing using shared memory and socket-like application programming interface. In one embodiment, a plurality of handles is employed and associated with a plurality of processes. The plurality of handles may serve as communication end-points for communication of data. Further, an application...

20060129522 - Subscription service for access to distributed cell-oriented data systems: A cell-oriented data system in which memory cells contain data. A preferred method for storing data in the memory cells includes: receiving at least one datum for storage in the data system; storing the datum in a variable cell that is configured for storing data; and assigning at least one...

20060129520 - System and method for automatically updating a program in a computer: A method for automatically updating a program in a computer includes the steps of: receiving a new program, and determining whether the new program is compatible with a corresponding old program by comparing a first format description file with a second format description file in a storage of the computer;...

20060129521 - System and method for restoring a file directory structure: A system for restoring a file directory structure includes a storage (1) and a computer (2). The storage stores files and a file directory table. The computer is used for performing a file directory restoring program (20), which includes a directory table constructing module (201), a directory information reading module...

20060129510 - Wireless network customization: A branding sub-file is associated with one or more SSID's. A user interface which displays available networks takes the available branding sub-files into account when displaying the names of networks within range. If branding is available for a given SSID, it shows a rich view of the network, using the...

20060129525 - Combined best effort and contention free guaranteed throughput data scheduling: A data switching device has inputs for Granted Throughput (GT) and Best Effort (BE) data, outputs, a data switch interconnecting the inputs and outputs, (GT) control means for controlling the (GT) data scheduling and (BE) control means for controlling the (BE) data scheduling. The (GT) and (BE) control means are...

20060129526 - System, apparatus and method of providing at least one of a plurality of serivce providers of a service based on a context in which the service is to be used: A system, apparatus and method of providing at least one of a plurality of service providers of a service based on a context in which the service is to be used are provided. When a request, which includes an indication of a context in which the service is to be...

20060129540 - Data store with lock-free stateless paging capability: Disclosed are a method and apparatus for limiting the number of results returned by a data store in response to a query. Upon receiving an initial query, the data store returns a page of results that includes a subset of the data items within the data store satisfying the conditions...

20060129528 - Database load reducing system and load reducing program: An object of the present invention is to provide a database load alleviation system and load alleviation program which balance load by interpreting queries and distributing queries which enable load balancing to database servers. In a database load alleviation system, a query-interpretive load balancer 1 interprets queries received from a...

20060129541 - Dynamically updated quick searches and strategies: In response to characters entered within a Find dialog box, a minifind window is dynamically updated to provide corresponding search strategies and quick matches from content search data that are being searched. The search strategies and quick matches that are listed are dynamically updated as the user inputs additional characters...

20060129532 - Form generation system and method: A system and method for form generation. The system includes at least a processing unit, and a mail system. The processing unit receives an identity, and records a voice file via a network, and generates a request form by integrating the identity and the voice file. The processing unit retrieves...

20060129535 - Generated predicates from materialized result: An improved method for processing a multiple table query includes: determining if any tables in the query require materialization; for each table in the query that requires materialization, deriving at least one join predicate on a join column; determining if any tables earlier in a join sequence for the query...

20060129539 - Information processing device and method thereof: An information processing device is disclosed that is of improved operability and is able to efficiently predict operations to be conducted by a user on various kinds of electronic files. The information processing device includes a selection candidate presentation unit for presenting candidates of selection functions when an icon is...

20060129536 - Interactive intelligent searching with executable suggestions: A method, system, and computer program product for interactive searching with executable suggestions are provided. The present invention provides a search engine and data management technology that can understand what users are looking for, understand the data in a database, and present immediately useful suggestions for finding the right information....

20060129527 - Method and device for accessing a database: A comfortable method and device for searching databases are required. Thus, a database access concept including an interface descriptor is proposed. The interface descriptor may be a XML-file which describes interface categories and database access strategies. The database interface machine may comprise a standard category display method and a standard...

20060129531 - Method and system for suggesting search engine keywords: A search engine receives a search query having one or more keywords. The documents in the result set from that search query are analyzed to identify one or more additional keywords that further segment, or separate, the initial result set. These additional keywords are presented to the user who then...

20060129543 - Method, system, and program for checking contact information: Provided is a computer implemented method, system, and program for checking text in an electronic document. Words in the text are scanned and parsed. For each set of one or more scanned and parsed words, a determination is made of whether one or more words form a contact phrase providing...

20060129542 - Optimized database appliance: A system from processing database queries allows for cost and locale based distribution for execution of database queries. The database queries are executed on execution engines that provide flexible configuration and overlapping functionality. The system reduces various costs, including elapsed time, required to perform database queries. The system provides processing...

20060129533 - Personalized web search method: A method for contextualizing search results is disclosed. The method includes performing a traditional web query that returns a set of result pages, using collaborative filtering techniques to generate a set of predicted pages, comparing the set of predicted pages with the set of result pages, and ranking the set...

20060129530 - Ring method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing federated search results in a heterogeneous environment: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for managing federated search results in a heterogeneous environment. A user enters a search term and the search term is submitted to multiple selected search engines. Search results are gathered from each selected search engine. A search ring is generated including...

20060129537 - Storage management system and method and program: Disclosed is a storage management system including at least one client, a first server having a primary storage, a second server having a secondary storage, and an intermediate device logically arranged between the client and the first and second servers. The primary storage includes a stub file in which there...

20060129529 - System and method for determining an optimal grid index specification for multidimensional data: A system, method, and associated computer product improve the search of multidimensional databases. The present system determines a near-optimal grid index that is used to locate a geometric shape in a spatial database. More particularly, the present system improves the technique of sampling data for defining the grid cell size...

20060129534 - System and methods for ranking the relative value of terms in a multi-term search query using deletion prediction: The likely relevance of each term of a search-engine query of two or more terms is determined by their deletion probability scores. If the deletion probability scores are significantly different, the deletion probability score can be used to return targeted ads related to the more relevant term or terms along...

20060129538 - Text search quality by exploiting organizational information: Techniques are provided for electronic Information Retrieval (IR) applied for an electronic search in a search environment. At indexing time, a searched document is mapped to at least one element of an organizational structure of an enterprise associated with the search environment. At query time, a querying user is associated...

20060129544 - User preference information structure having multiple hierarchical structure and method for providing multimedia information using the same: A user preference information structure having a multiple hierarchical structure in which an information is provided to a user according to a user preference in a multi-media environment consisting of an information provider and an information user, comprising user use information by using information desired by the user; user preference...

20060129546 - Fast channel architecture: A system and method are described for performing data processing using shared memory. In one embodiment, a first application programming engine is employed to process first application programming-based requests. Additionally, a second application programming engine is employed to process second application programming-based requests. The first and second application programming engines...

20060129545 - System and method for performing a conjunctive keyword search over encrypted data: A system and method for providing a conjunctive keyword search over encrypted data is presented. A plurality of encrypted data is maintained. Each encrypted data includes a plurality of keyword fields that each contain a keyword. The keywords for the keyword fields are encrypted for each encrypted data. A capability...

20060129550 - Associating documents with classifications and ranking documents based on classification weights: A method and apparatus for associating documents with classification values and ranking documents based on classification weights is provided. It is determined if a document is associated a classification. If the document is associated with a classification, then it is determined if a classification value, which is associated with the...

20060129548 - Device and method for comparing digital text documents: The invention relates to a method for comparing and analysing digital documents. The present invention is founded on the basic principle of searching for unambiguous roots in both documents. These roots are units which occur in both documents and in each case are unique. These roots can be individual words,...

20060129547 - Information processing device and information processing method, recording medium, and computer program: The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and an information processing method, a recording medium, and a program that make it possible to generate a positive history vector and a negative history vector. In step S71, a negative history vector is generated from initially registered contents. When it...

20060129551 - Method and apparatus for leisure & entertainment merchandising: Leisure & entertainment attraction information is available from commercial attraction-provider servers. Users subscribe to a computerized service to facilitate making arrangements for visiting such attractions. Subscribers fill in wish-lists to specify their level of interest in specific attractions, in getting together with specific other subscribers, and in arranging their preferred...

20060129552 - Relevancy-based database retrieval and display techniques: Techniques to retrieve, rank and display data objects retrieved form a database are described. In particular, methods to assign a global ranking value to a data object based on a combination of that object's link-based (e.g., vector-space cluster analysis) and text-based (e.g., word frequency) ranks are described. Additional techniques to...

20060129549 - Topic-focused web navigation: A method includes, in a network of interconnected computer systems, storing a first list of links represented as universal resource locators (URLs) that match a first search request, displaying a first page in response to a navigational input, highlighting links on a second displayed page that match links contained in...

20060129553 - System and method of processing text based entries: A system and method are provided for identifying text information and making such information available for applications. The system includes an electronic device communicating text information and an application for performing a function. The system also includes memory storing known text formats and a processor for processing the text information....

20060129554 - Time series pattern extraction apparatus and method: A time series pattern generation unit extracts a key concept corresponding to a text of each data element of a plurality of time series data by referring to an extraction rule memory, and generates a plurality of time series patterns. A colony generation unit unifies a plurality of data elements...

20060129555 - System and method for indexing and prefiltering: A method and system are provided for selecting advertisements for presentation to a user in response to a user search query. The system may include a keyword server for parsing the user search query and an index server for receiving the parsed search query. The index server may include an...

20060129556 - Distributed lock: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a distributed lock and distributed locking protocol to allow multiple communicating entities to share access to a computing resource. Certain embodiments of the present invention employ a data storage register implemented by the communicating entities to hold a value reflective of...

20060129557 - Wireless network sign-up experience: A branding sub-file is associated with one or more SSID's. A user interface which displays available networks takes the available branding sub-files into account when displaying the names of networks within range. If branding is available for a given SSID, it shows a rich view of the network, using the...

20060129564 - Analytical server including metrics engine: Disclosed is a method for determining database queries to be sent by an analytical server to a Relational Dababase Monitoring System (RDBMS) by using hierarchical level metadata to describe the various structures within the database....

20060129560 - Architecture for enabling business components to access middleware application programming interfaces (apis) in a runtime environment: Provided is an architecture for enabling business components to access middleware components in a runtime environment. A business container hosts business components and services to enable communication between the business components. A plurality of infrastructure components expose interfaces and methods to the business components, wherein the exposed interfaces and methods...

20060129559 - Concurrent access to raid data in shared storage: A system and method is disclosed for managing the serving of read and write commands in a computer cluster system having redundant storage. A plurality of database servers is included in the computer cluster network to serve read and write commands from the database clients of the network. One of...

20060129561 - Method and system for exchanging files between computers: A data processing system having first and second data processing apparatuses and a data communication network supporting HTTP communications to which the first and second processing apparatuses are connected and a method of exchanging electronic files between the first and second processing apparatuses. A Web server is provided running a...

20060129558 - Method, system and program product for presenting exported hierarchical file system information: A technique for providing an accurate view of an exported file system structure. An in-memory filesystem is maintained as a combination of separate filesystems, each corresponding to a physical file system on the server. Directories in the in-memory, or pseudo, filesystems are also coupled with an existing directory in the...

20060129562 - System and method for management of recovery point objectives of business continuity/disaster recovery it solutions: The present invention provides a system and method for management of Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) of a business continuity or disaster recovery solution. The system comprises a management server logically coupled with at least a first computer, at least a second computer, and a network coupling the first and the...

20060129563 - Systems and methods to provide and bill for internet access: A method of providing metered Internet access, includes a user sits down at a client computer, the user chooses a payment method, the user's payment method is validated by a remote transaction server, and the user is provided access to the Internet. A method of providing metered Internet access at...

20060129576 - Access to content addressable data over a network: Access to content addressable data on a network is facilitated using digital information storing devices or data repositories (“silos”) that monitor broadcast data requests over the network. A number of silos automatically monitor both data requests and data itself that are broadcast over a network. The silos selectively store data....

20060129577 - Apparatus, program and method for assisting with product design: The present invention allows a user to visually check on a display screen the correspondence relationship between a shape and two or more attributes in a case in which shape information is associated with a plurality of attributes by providing a means that causes two or more selected attributes to...

20060129572 - Complex data access: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media implementing various aspects of complex data in a conceptual table are disclosed which enable complex data in the form of tables to be added to a conceptual table. The complex data can map to scalar values in a plurality of data tables. Complex data may...

20060129567 - Data communication device selecting modulation method with an appropriate threshold value in adaptive modulation: There is provided a digital communication device for performing data communication by selecting an appropriate modulation encoding method. Quality measurement means measures the line quality of data communication from a reception signal. Adaptive modulation control means compares the line quality measured by the quality measurement means to a threshold value...

20060129571 - Data structures for information worms and for information channels incorporating informations worms: Data structures are provided having physical and logical aspects which organize information in a manner which facilitates their replication across networks for the purpose of distributing information. In particular, data structures are provided for information worms and for information channels incorporating information worms. A computer programming product is provided for...

20060129565 - Database accelerator: While scalability in database processing may be achieved gradually and at low cost, to achieve high scalability of several thousand times. This database accelerator holds on an accelerator system copies of location tables, which correspond to primary-key indices, and alternate-key location tables, which correspond to alternate-key indices, for a primary...

20060129568 - Dimensional data in research enterprise systems: A system and method for organizing information pertaining to creative and ad-hoc processes, such as are used in research. Information is stored in a database and indexed simultaneously in three dimensions, representing protocol, objects, and activity. Indexes within each dimension reflect best industry practice and can include object, clustered, indexed,...

20060129579 - Interactive personal directory: A process for generating personalized digital directory pages for display with a navigator program including a personalization step including recording in a temporary memory of a client station a digital file corresponding to an HTML page comprising hypertext links for access to other pages and descriptors associated with pictograms and...

20060129574 - Intergrated modeling method for authoring/modification of illustrated drawing using 3d model and computer-aided design log database: An integrated modeling method for Illustrated Drawing (ID) authoring/modification using 3D model and Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Log database, comprising: a first step of performing a 3D Model Import process on the basis of 3D model data and logistics support data saved in each database, converting the imported 3D model file...

20060129570 - Method and apparatus for maintaining multiple sets of identity data: A method of assigning the UNIX computers in a network to one of a plurality of groups called zones, of creating independent sets of UNIX identity information for each network entity (user or group) for separate zones, and of associating an entity's sets of UNIX entity information with a single...

20060129578 - Method and system for globally sharing and transacting contents in local area: A method and system for globally distributing a service containing digital content are provided. The method includes receiving original content existing in each local area from at least one content provider, generating metadata in a first local language using the received original content, converting the metadata into a universal language,...

20060129575 - Method and system for supporting xquery trigger in xml-dbms based on relational dbms: A method and system for supporting an XQuery trigger in XML-DBMS based on relational DBMS is provided. In an Ubiquitous environment where XML data are incessantly generated by an enormous number of objects, so as to overcome inconvenience and its resultant reduction of performance in which a user should query...

20060129573 - Method of editing indication for a portable electronic device: The present invention relates to a method of editing indication for a portable device, comprising: selecting an electronic file; determining whether an editing of the electronic file is performed; enabling the editing indication in the display screen of the portable device; and disable the editing indication when the editing is...

20060129569 - System and method for partially collapsing a hierarchical structure for information navigation: A partially collapsing hierarchical display system aids information navigation by providing a dynamic mechanism for labeling items with one or more states. In one embodiment, states comprise “hidden”, “visible” and “unmarked”. An expanded list of items displays all items. A partially expanded list of items displays all visible and unmarked...

20060129566 - Watermark embedding and detection of a motion image signal: Methods and arrangements are disclosed for embedding and detecting a watermark in a cinema movie, such that the watermark can be detected in a copy made by a handheld video camera. The watermark embedder divides each image frame into two areas. A watermark bit ‘+1’ is embedded in a frame...

20060129581 - Determining a level of expertise of a text using classification and application to information retrival: An apparatus and method are provided for determining a level of expertise applicable to a particular document and for using this determined level of expertise in an improved information retrieval arrangement. A trainable document classifier is used to identify an applicable level of expertise using a metric indicative of the...

20060129582 - Enumeration of trees from finite number of nodes: Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and/or systems for manipulating hierarchical sets of data are disclosed....

20060129580 - Method and computer configuration for providing database information of a first database and method for carrying out the computer-aided formation of a statistical image of a database: 09 A first statistical image is formed for the first database whereby representing statistical correlations of the data elements contained in the first database. Afterwards, the first statistical image is stored in a server computer and transmitted from this server computer over a communications network to a client computer. The...

20060129586 - Methods and systems for managing data: Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata. In one exemplary method, metadata from files created by several different software applications are captured, and the captured metadata is searched. The type of information in metadata for one type of file differs from the type of information in metadata for...

20060129585 - Multi node server system: A server system has, in addition to extensibility of scale-out type of a braid server system, extensibility of scaleup type by making SMP coupling among nodes. Each node has a unit for SMP coupling to other nodes and a module management unit of each node responds to system configuration information...

20060129584 - Performing an action in response to a file system event: A method and apparatus for performing an action in response to a file system event is provided. According to one aspect, sets of “event listeners” are associated with a file hierarchy and/or the nodes thereof. Each event listener contains a set of “event handlers.” Each event handler corresponds to a...

20060129583 - Recursive sections in electronic forms: Systems and/or methods enabling creation and/or use of a recursive section for an electronic form are described. In one embodiment, a system and/or method enables alteration, responsive to graphical selection of a recursive section component, of an electronic form's schema to permit a recursive section. In another embodiment, a system...

20060129592 - Actionable email documents: A received reply email document enables some action to be effectuated using data included in the email document responsive to field identifiers associated with the data and corresponding to fields of metadata. The associated field identifiers that correspond to known fields of the metadata provide some expectation as to the...

20060129594 - Computer-implemented method for management of electronic data: A computer-implemented method for management of electronic data, comprises the steps: Writing of a data record into a first database (50), checking of the unchanged contents of this one data record on at least one predetermined condition and writing of the one data record into a second database (52) dependent...

20060129593 - Computerized system and method for creating aggregate profile reports regarding litigants, attorneys, law firms, judges, and cases by type and by court from court docket records: Computerized method for aggregating relevant information from court records and presenting such information in electronic reports including tables and charts. There are five types of reports that focus on cases filed by Litigant, Attorney or Law Firm, Judge, Court, and Nature of Suit. A History option also is provided, in...

20060129590 - Method and medium for managing data: The present invention allows a user to create an application to manage a database without writing code. The present invention includes a method of creating a database, creating configuration data relating to the data in the database and generating a user interface based on the configuration data to allow a...

20060129587 - Method and system for automated risk management of rule-based security: A method for automated risk management may include presenting a rule request graphical user interface (GUI) for a requester to enter information related to a rule request for a rule. The method may also include determining a risk rating score for the rule based on information entered in the rule...

20060129595 - Method for analyzing and ranking data ranges in an n-dimensional space: A method and computer-readable medium for analyzing a set of two or more data ranges comprising the steps of selecting a first data range from the set, selecting at least one additional data range from the set, analyzing the relationship between the first data range and the at least one...

20060129598 - Method of splitting a multi-dimensional cube between a multi-dimensional and a relational database: A method of operating a multi-dimensional database is disclosed. In this method, a multi-dimensional portion of the data is transferred to a multi-dimensional database. A relational portion of the cube is kept in the relational database. When data from the relational portion needs to be accessed, the system produces the...

20060129591 - Semantic authoring, runtime and training environment: A system for developing semantic schema for natural language processing has a semantic runtime engine and a semantic authoring tool. The semantic runtime engine is adapted to map a natural language input to a semantic schema and to return the mapped results to an application domain. The semantic authoring tool...

20060129588 - System and method for organizing data with a write-once index: According to the present invention, there is provided a system for organizing data objects for fast retrieval. The system includes at least one data storage medium defining data sectors. In addition, the system includes at least one data object on the data storage medium. Also, the system includes at least...

20060129589 - System and method of securing computer-readable media: Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with securing a computer-readable medium are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes receiving a user supplied command to secure a computer-readable medium having at least one data structure including data and a directory identifying data locations within the data structure, and securing the...

20060129596 - System for annotating a data object by creating an interface based on a selected annotation structure: A method and apparatus for capturing annotations about database material in a way that allows queries with conditions or predicates on both the database material and the annotations. Database material may be text, computer programs, graphics, audio, spreadsheets, or any other material which may be stored and indexed. Database material...

20060129597 - 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...

20060129603 - Apparatus and method for detecting malicious code embedded in office document: An apparatus and method for detecting an unknown malicious code embedded in an office document are provided. The method includes the steps of: (a) when the office document is opened, previously checking whether or not the office document has an office document extension name, using a program for checking the...

20060129600 - Conflict management program, storage medium for conflict management program storage, conflict management method, and electronic apparatus: Disclosed is a conflict management program that ensures that an application can be programmed without having to consider a conflict with another application. An application manager (25) is provided with an execution list (61) for registering a currently executed application and an execution wait list (62) for registering an application...

20060129602 - Enable web sites to receive and process e-mail: A system and method is provided that enables a Web site to receive and process e-mails. Authorized users of and e-mail enabled modules of the Web site are capable of receiving e-mails sent to the Web site. E-mails sent to the Web site are archived in the Web site. E-mails...

20060129599 - Method and computer system for dynamic data type enrichment: A method, computer program product and computer system for dynamic data type enrichment. A predefined application program (210) uses (410) at least one basic data type (110). At runtime, when the application program (210) is executed, the computer system (900) adds (420) metadata (150) to the at least one basic...

20060129604 - Methods and systems for management data: Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata. In one exemplary method, metadata from files created by several different software applications are captured, and the captured metadata is searched. The type of information in metadata for one type of file differs from the type of information in metadata for...

20060129605 - System and method for automating the development of web services that incorporate business rules: A system and method for developing web services that incorporate business rules. The system and method includes three frameworks: a Design Time Framework, an Object-Service Framework, and a Run Time Framework. In the Design Time Framework, the system and method includes receiving a business rule in a descriptive markup language...

20060129601 - System, computer program product and method of collecting metadata of application programs installed on a computer system: A system, computer program product and method of collecting metadata of application programs installed on a computer system are provided. A check is generally performed to determine whether metadata of an application program is to be collected. If so, the metadata is automatically collected and stored. The collected metadata may...

20060129606 - Systems and methods for constructing and using models of memorability in computing and communications applications: One or more models of memorability are provided that facilitate various computer-based applications including those centering on the storage, retrieval, and processing of information, applications that remind people about items they risk not recalling or overlooking, and facilitating communications of reminders. In one application, the models are used to help...

20060129608 - Storage system: There is provided a technique in which such a configuration as to include storage apparatuses on a plurality of sites can reduce a burden of operation/management of backup of data stored in the storage apparatuses. The configuration includes a information processing system on each site to be a backup target,...

20060129607 - Velocity adjustment in learning cell identity: A method for updating a data base which includes positioning data and identity information of a cell, the method comprising receiving a position of a device and receiving identity information of a cell. The data base is examined to find parameter information relating to the received identity information. The parameter...

20060129609 - Database synchronization using change log: Disclosed is a data storage, display, and editing system whereby a large database may be accessed through a series of views, each view being defined by metadata. The metadata includes relationships to other views that may be used for any purpose including navigation from one view to another. The relationships...

20060129610 - Adaptive incremental checkpointing: A method, apparatus and computer program product are disclosed for incrementally checkpointing the state of a computer memory in the presence of at least one executing software application at periodic instants. A secure hash function is periodically applied to each partitioned contiguous block of memory to give a periodic block...

20060129613 - Apparatus, system, and method for backing up vital product data: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for backing up vital product data for a data processing device. A communication module establishes a communications channel with a maintenance module of a service center. The service center remotely supports the data processing device. A backup module copies vital product data to...

20060129614 - Crash recovery system and method for distributed file server using object based storage: A crash recovery system and method for distributed file server using object based storage are provided. The system includes: a client for accessing a file system using an object-based storage device (OSDFS), transmitting a command to an object-based storage device (OSD) and accessing a metadata server (MDS); a network for...

20060129612 - Efficient recovery of replicated data items: Methods and apparatuses are provided for recovering one or more replicated datasets. In accordance to some embodiments of the invention, this is accomplished by determining whether a log contains one or more entries indicating a corruption in a replicated data item; and recovering the replicated data item if the log...

20060129611 - System and method for recovering data from a file system: A system and method in a data processing system for recovering data in a file system. A request to modify a data block in the file system is detected. In response to detecting the request to modify the data block, metadata describing the data block in the file system is...

20060129618 - Method and a computer system for synchronising backups of objects and of meta data about the objects: Techniques are provided for synchronizing a backup of objects stored in a data management system with a backup of meta data about the objects kept and maintained by a second system. For each file the second system is using for maintaining the meta data, a corresponding data link value pointing...

20060129617 - Method for controlling an information processing apparatus: A method for controlling an information processing apparatus configured to store a program code including a plurality of program modules and, every time an execution request for the program code is accepted that is transmitted from a user terminal communicatively connected therewith, sequentially execute each program module included in the...

20060129615 - Performing scheduled backups of a backup node associated with a plurality of agent nodes: Provided are a method, system, and program for performing scheduled backups of a backup node associated with a plurality of agent nodes. Backup data sets on at least one machine in a network are associated with a backup node and a plurality of agent nodes in the network are associated...

20060129616 - System and method for synchronizing computer files between a local computer and a remote server: A system for synchronizing files between a local computer (1) and a remote server (3) is provided. The local computer includes: a path designating module (10) for designating a path of a source directory in the local computer and a path of an object directory in the remote server; a...

20060116975 - Automated default dimension selection within a multidimensional enterprise software system: Techniques are described for automatically selecting default dimensions of multidimensional data for publication. A computer-implemented system, for example, includes a data store having multidimensional data. The multidimensional data includes one or more data cubes having dimensions. The system further includes a publish module for accessing the data store and publishing...

20060116976 - Generation of aggregatable dimension information within a multidimensional enterprise software system: Techniques are described for generating dimension information in hierarchical form. A computer-implemented system, for example, includes a data store having multidimensional data. The multidimensional data includes a data cube having a dimension. The system further includes an executable software module that accesses the data store and generates hierarchy data describing...

20060116977 - Method and system for electronically viewing multi-page documents while preserving appearance of printed pages: An electronic Yellow Pages viewer shows the pages of a Yellow Pages directory as they appear in the bound version. The print queue used to print the bound version is intercepted, and each page is rasterized into a JPEG file. The page/header/advertisement data are parsed to create an index which...

20060116974 - Searchable molecular database: A computer system comprising a database (100) having a plurality of records, is provided. Each record comprises a filed point representation representing field extrema for a conformation of a chemical structure. The database may include records for multiple conformations of the same chemical structure. Each record can have a searchable...

20060116978 - Site information providing device and site information providing method: Site information on plural Web sites that a user desires is provided without causing a mobile communication terminal to access the plural Web sites. A site information providing device, based on a telephone number received from a mobile phone, extracts user information corresponding to the telephone number from a user...

20060116979 - Enhanced user assistance: An apparatus, method, and system distinct from an item that provides user assistance for the item....

20060116981 - Method and system for automated data collection and analysis of a computer system: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and system for automatically collecting data relating to a computer system and automatically analyzing the collected data. The data collected may be historical data, collected over an extended period of time such as a day, week or month. The data may...

20060116982 - Real-time chat and conference contact information manager: An extension or accessory to a real-time, online virtual collaboration session, meeting and messaging system, which scans a participant's contact list for partially complete contact records, accesses an administered contact information store such as a corporate personnel contact database, and completes the partially complete records in the participant's contact list....

20060116980 - Xnm - an interface for a network management system: A method for executing commands in a telecommunications system including one or more service modules is provided. The method comprises: providing an interface configured to receive commands for services from a client, the interface configured to process commands in a generic syntax; receiving a command specifying a service from the...

20060116988 - Arrangement for selecting a server to provide distributed services from among multiple servers based on a location of a client device: A selection resource executed within the network is configured for selecting from among a plurality of servers, distributed throughout the network at respective network-based server locations in each configured for providing a specified service, a selected server for providing the specified service for a client device at a network-based client...

20060116989 - Efficient data aggregation operations using hash tables: Hash aggregation operates in two phases. In the first phase, data read from underlying row source is partitioned on GROUP BY keys with on-the-fly aggregation. It is determined into which partition an entry corresponding to the incoming record should be grouped, and whether a matching entry is already present in...

20060116986 - Formulating and refining queries on structured data: A system is described that can aid the querying of structured data stored in a computer system, with particular emphasis on a class of complex queries representing cross tabulations and queries requiring the building of models for their resolution. In the first step the system reads the description of query...

20060116993 - Image forming apparatus: A plurality of data are stored in a HDD while being compiled into a database. A scanner unit reads a search sheet having a search item selected by a user thereon. A data searching device specifies the search item based on a search sheet image read by the scanner unit...

20060116992 - Internet search environment number system: The present invention discloses an Internet search environment number (“ISEN”) system that provides researchers with a tool to locate and search relevant, evaluated online databases. The ISEN system is a portal that comprehensively catalogs the Internet's databases thereby making information located on the Internet readily accessible from both visible and...

20060116984 - Materialized samples for a business warehouse query: A system and method for improving a query on a relational database in a business intelligence system is provided. A multidimensional data table is provided in the database. A sampling dimension is appended to the data table. The sampling dimension includes a number of cells, and wherein each cell includes...

20060116995 - Method and system for finding similar records in mixed free-text and structured data: A technique for data mining where the available data contains both structured as well as unstructured (free-text) data. The present invention combines together the information available from different types of data to provide a single similarity score indicating the degree of similarity between records. Thus, a data evaluation application selects...

20060116985 - Method and system for maintaining namespace consistency with a file system: A method and system for maintaining namespace consistency between selected objects maintained by a file system and a filter associated therewith. A filter monitors selected types of requests (or operations associated therewith) and determines whether the object is within a namespace associated with the filter. The namespace associated with the...

20060116987 - Multimodal natural language query system and architecture for processing voice and proximity-based queries: The present invention provides a wireless natural language query system, architecture, and method for processing multimodally-originated queries, including voice and proximity-based queries. The natural language query system includes a Web-enabled device including a speech input module for receiving a voice-based query in natural language form from a user and a...

20060116991 - Remote database technique: Systems, methods, software applications and virtual machines for creating, holding, referencing and/or accessing data objects from an application on a remote machine. The system allows a software application to read, write and perform transactions using data stored in one or more distributed databases. Methods are described for accessing a data...

20060116990 - 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...

20060116994 - System and method for interactive multi-dimensional visual representation of information content and properties: A system and method of information retrieval and triage for information analysis provides an for interactive multi-dimensional and linked visual representation of information content and properties. A query interface plans and obtains result sets. A dimension interface specifies dimensions with which to categorize the result sets. Links among results of...

20060116983 - System and method for ordering query results: A system, method and article of manufacture for managing query results and, more particularly, for sorting data records contained in a query result obtained in response to execution of a query against a database. In one embodiment, the data records in the query result are sorted on the basis of...

20060116996 - Utilizing information redundancy to improve text searches: Architecture for improving text searches using information redundancy. A search component is coupled with an analysis component to rerank documents returned in a search according to a redundancy values. Each returned document is used to develop a corresponding word probability distribution that is further used to rerank the returned documents...

20060117001 - Enhanced user assistance: An apparatus, method, and system distinct from an item that provides user assistance for the item....

20060117000 - Method and apparatus for querying program design models: A method and apparatus for querying computer program design models (metamodels) is provided. A tree structure representation of the subject metamodel is likened to a database representation of the model elements. The invention method and apparatus logically maps a model query statement to the corresponding database version of the query....

20060117002 - Method for search result clustering: Methods and systems are presented to predetermine and record the classes of each indexed document with respect to each of its index keywords, and to provide high quality and relevant classification of the document when it is searched with said keyword. Document classes, recorded in advance, are used as the...

20060117003 - Search query processing to identify related search terms and to correct misspellings of search terms: A search engine process predicts the correct spellings of search terms within multiple-term search queries. In one embodiment, when a user submits a multiple-term search query that includes a non-matching term and at least one matching term, a table is accessed to look up a set of terms that are...

20060116999 - Sequential stepwise query condition building: A method, system and article of manufacture for query building and, more particularly, for building query conditions for queries against data in a database. One embodiment comprises receiving user input for constructing a first query condition of a query. Then, user-selectable elements to display for constructing a second query condition...

20060116998 - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for generating service order count metrics: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are for generating service order count metrics. A selected subset of all customer order information is extracted from a database table and stored in a summary table and detail table. The information, including text strings associated with communication device identifiers, is extracted for a selected...

20060116997 - Vocabulary-independent search of spontaneous speech: A method of identifying a location of a query string in an audio signal is provided. Under the method, a segment of the audio signal is selected. A score for a query string in the segment of the audio signal is determined by determining the product of probabilities of overlapping...

20060117007 - Data processing apparatus: A data processing apparatus includes: a reception section for receiving a signal containing video information of a program and guide information to be utilized for guidance concerning the program, the guide information being distinct from viewing restriction information which is defined by a standard; a determination section for determining whether...

20060117005 - Just-in-time publishing via a publish/subscribe messaging system using a subscribe-event model: A system, method and program product having at least one subscriber subscribing to topics from one or more data sources. The data sources available and the number of subscriptions for each data source are registered in a table in real time. Upon detecting either subscription activity by the subscribers or...

20060117006 - Methods and systems for screening input strings intended for use by web servers: Methods and systems of screening input strings that are intended for use by a Web server are described. In the described embodiment, an attack pattern is determined that can be used to attack a Web server. A search pattern is defined that can be used to detect the attack pattern....

20060117004 - System and method for contextually understanding and analyzing system use and misuse: A system and method for contextually understanding and analyzing system use and misuse are described. In one preferred embodiment, one or more trigger events are detected and information related to the events is received. One or more exception rules are retrieved from exception rules tables within a database and the...

20060117009 - Declarative aspects and aspect containers for application development: An aspect container being operable to generate an instance of itself at run time is provided. The aspect container comprises logic operable to create an instance of the aspect container by reading configuration information specifying a sequence of one or more aspects from an aspect container configuration file corresponding to...

20060117008 - File management apparatus and file management program: A file management apparatus and a file management program are provided which are capable of reflecting, upon occurrence of updates of files in a group of files to be managed the updates in an appropriate manner without the need to perform complicated or troublesome work, as well as achieving effective...

20060117010 - Access rights: A device and method define an access right to a shared data item. The method includes defining a group of one or more contacts in a contact list, assigning an access right to the group of one or more contacts, and assigning the group of one or more contacts to...

20060117012 - Critical parameter/requirements management process and environment: A critical parameter/requirements management process model for managing a development program for a product and an associated product structure-driven critical parameter/requirements management tool and environment is provided. In one embodiment, the process includes a product structure classification scheme, a parameter/requirements classification scheme, a parameter/requirements process and maturity model, and in-process...

20060117011 - Database for ownership and authenticity validation, systems including same and methods of use thereof: A database for ownership and authenticity validation of a plurality of items. The database permits entry of individual identification information about each item of the plurality. The database may communicate with user clients for a variety of purposes. This communication facilitates retrieval of individual identification information for one or more...

20060117016 - 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 retrieving a user-specific administrator setup file comprising a plurality of parameters pertaining to tasks that a user is authorized to perform on electronic documents, selecting at least...

20060117014 - Method of determining access control effect by using policies: When determining whether or not access by a user should be permitted by using policies, an access control determination device of the present invention expresses the access by the user to the data source with a predetermined path, retrieves an appropriate policy out of stored policies on the basis of...

20060117013 - Right information management method and right information management device: A right information management method for managing a right information of contents retained in a storage medium comprising an authenticated memory region accessible after a mutual authentication is obtained relative to a contents processing device and an ordinary memory region accessible without obtaining the mutual authentication, comprising a step of...

20060117015 - Systems and methods for state-less authentication: Systems and methods for providing user logon and state-less authentication are described in a distributed processing environment. Upon an attempted access by a user to an online resource, transaction, or record, a logon component asks the user to supply a logon ID and a password. The logon component verifies the...

20060117020 - Arrangement for selecting a server to provide distributed services from among multiple servers based on a location of a client device: A selection resource executed within the network is configured for selecting from among a plurality of servers, distributed throughout the network at respective network-based server locations in each configured for providing a specified service, a selected server for providing the specified service for a client device at a network-based client...

20060117022 - Communication method and system using notification availability indicators: A communication method comprises generating a notification that includes a content portion and a notification availability indicator; transmitting the notification from a server to a client; and receiving the notification at the client. In one embodiment, the notification availability indicator includes a time value, indicating the likely time before another...

20060117017 - Information processing apparatus, devices thereof, and communication device: An information processing apparatus is disclosed capable of using application programs of both a cellular phone and a non-contact card type terminal in cooperation, and performing a process request with respect to a portable terminal in response to a command received by the non-contact card type terminal from a communication...

20060117018 - Method and system for caching remote files locally: A method and system for caching remote objects locally. A request to access an object is received. A determination is made as to whether the object is cached. If the object is cached and the request is not to create a new object, modify an existing object, or open a...

20060117019 - Method of finding a search string in a document for viewing on a mobile communication device: A server find process by which a user enters a search term for a document attachment into his/her mobile communication device. If no occurrences of the term are found on the device, the device then prompts the user to initiate a server side search. If the user accepts, then the...

20060117024 - Optimizing communication using scaleable peer groups: Implementations of the present invention relate in part to optimizations to peer-to-peer communication systems. For example, one implementation relates to use of a smart transceiver that creates, caches, and manages communication channels dynamically between peers. Another implementation relates to use of a central tracking object that can be used to...

20060117025 - Optimizing communication using scaleable peer groups: Implementations of the present invention relate in part to optimizations to peer-to-peer communication systems. For example, one implementation relates to use of a smart transceiver that creates, caches, and manages communication channels dynamically between peers. Another implementation relates to use of a central tracking object that can be used to...

20060117026 - Optimizing communication using scaleable peer groups: Implementations of the present invention relate in part to optimizations to peer-to-peer communication systems. For example, one implementation relates to use of a smart transceiver that creates, caches, and manages communication channels dynamically between peers. Another implementation relates to use of a central tracking object that can be used to...

20060117023 - Security procedure: A security method for a computer program that can display web pages. A first web page calls a second web page, and the computer consults an array, such as in tabular format, containing data regarding which web pages are permitted to call other web pages. The array is inaccessible from...

20060117021 - Shared account information method and apparatus: A method and apparatus for use with a computer network system including a server, a database and a plurality of interfaces wherein client medical information is stored in separate client accounts for each of a plurality of clients including at least a first client, the interface for accessing client account...

20060117038 - Arrangement for selecting a server to provide distributed services from among multiple servers based on a location of a client device: A selection resource executed within the network is configured for selecting from among a plurality of servers, distributed throughout the network at respective network-based server locations in each configured for providing a specified service, a selected server for providing the specified service for a client device at a network-based client...

20060117044 - Asset composition: A system and method facilitating asset composition based, at least in part, upon metadata (e.g., asset specification) describing compositional property(ies) of the asset(s) is provided. Asset specification(s) (e.g., metadata) that describe asset(s) to efficiently search and/or match asset(s) are employed. The system can facilitate matching (e.g., automatically) the particular software...

20060117040 - Broadcast video monitoring and alerting system: Described is a system and method for automatic monitoring and dissemination of media content. The system and method include a content acquisition platform receiving media content from at least one source and storing the media content in a media storage platform, a media processing platform segmenting the media content based...

20060117042 - Collaboration system and method: A collaboration system and method via computer is provided. The collaboration system comprises a computing platform for storing an identifier, address and other information associated with at least one object; at least one service connector for communicating with a service using the identifier, address of the at least one object...

20060117037 - Computer method and apparatus for improving programming modeling with lightweight stereotypes: Computer method and apparatus provides lightweight stereotypes in a programming model. An alternative to applied profiles is disclosed. A keyword list or list of strings is recorded as an annotation to a model element. The keywords are indicative of applied stereotypes of the model element, where the stereotypes are empty...

20060117030 - Computer-based intelligence method and apparatus for assessing selected subject-area problems and situations: A computer-based method and apparatus for assessing problems and situations in a defined knowledge domain, employing both (a) an inferential database of elemental data components, as domain-wide as possible, which are relevant to the domain, and (b) periodic statistical reviews of reported Assessment results in relation to that database to...

20060117041 - Connection of an application to a resource manager selected from a plurality of resource managers: Disclosed is a method, apparatus and computer program for determining which resource manager of a plurality of resource managers an application may be connected to, given a connection request. A connection request is received which specifies a connection scope. The connection scope specifies the desired proximity of a suitable resource...

20060117043 - Engineering system with automatic generation of entity templates: A method, computer program and a system for copying at least one software element are provided having the following actions. Checking whether a connection exists between the element and an entity template able to be modified by a user. and where no connection exists: Creating an entity template able to...

20060117033 - Incorporating structural information into an extensible markup language document: In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method of analyzing an extensible markup language (XML) file, generating structural information for the XML file, and incorporating the structural information into the XML file. The structural information may correspond to a hierarchy of the file and may further include size information...

20060117035 - Just-in-time publishing via a publish/subscribe messaging system having message publishing controls: A system, method and program product having at least one subscriber subscribing to topics from one or more data sources. The number of subscriptions for each data source are registered in a table in real time. Upon detecting subscription activity, a matching routine compares the number of subscriptions registered for...

20060117039 - Lexicon-based new idea detector: A method and apparatus for detecting the occurrence of new ideas in documents or communications. The method is comprised of three processes. The first process lexiconizes all words or symbols in a set of documents. The second process compares all words in a second set of documents to the words...

20060117029 - Method and apparatus for loading data into multi-table tablespace: A relational database load operation is disclosed for loading data into a multi-table tablespace, such as a segmented tablespace in a DB2® environment. In one aspect, the load operation allows one or more tables to be replaced in a single pass of the tablespace without modifying, loading or replacing other...

20060117031 - Method and apparatus for preserving relationships of mapped views in an object model: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for preserving relationships of mapped views in an object model. A database model, including database tables and views is examined and a foreign key constraint list is derived for the view. A set of objects for an object model is generated from...

20060117045 - Method and apparatus for using a personal digital assistant to interface with a communication station: A method and apparatus for interfacing a personal digital assistant (PDA) with a communications appliance is provided. The method comprising a communication station receiving semi-structured data from a personal digital assistant (PDA) in a format native to the PDA, and parsing the semi-structured data to identify a type of the...

20060117036 - Method and apparatus to support bitmap filtering in a parallel system: Techniques are described for combining pieces of information from two sources. The techniques may be used to improve the performance, for example, of hash join operations that are parallelized using slaves distributed across multiple nodes. According to one technique, bitmap filtering operations are performed by the probe-phase producer slaves, rather...

20060117027 - Method and system for configuration control in telecommunications networks: The configuration of a telecommunications network (N) is subjected to control by generating a model configuration (M1) which expresses, for at least a function of each element subjected to control, a model for implementing the function itself. For each element subjected to control, at least a respective set of configuration...

20060117028 - Method of analysing activity in a network of interconnected computers: A method of acquiring data relating to website activity in a network of interconnected computers is described. The method includes defining, at a first computer (1), a first computer code defining a set of data parameters, the values of which are to be acquired from a second computer (3). The...

20060117034 - Migrating spatial data between databases: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for migrating facilities spatial data between databases that maintains the positional accuracy of the facilities spatial data in a target database. A first network topology associated with a first landbase map and a second network topology associated with a second landbase map are...

20060117032 - System and method for sorting data records contained in a query result: A system, method and article of manufacture for managing query results and, more particularly, for sorting data records contained in a query result obtained in response to execution of a query against a database. In one embodiment, the data records in the query result are sorted on the basis of...

20060117047 - Apparatus and method for presenting media content files: An apparatus and a method for presenting media content files which does not necessitate the creation of scripts and programs that are specific to the collection of media content files. The presentation is made self-organizing by establishing a set of rules governing the navigation of the collection of media content...

20060117046 - Distributed storage network: A distributed storage network of computers is disclosed in which a determination as to whether to store a data item at a computer connected to said network is made in dependence on a policy document associated with that data item. The policy document is constructed in accordance with a Document...

20060117048 - Method and system of synchronizing filter metadata after a restore: A method and system for updating a filter's data after the filter's metadata file is restored. The filter maintains an open handle to the metadata until the filter receives a request to have the metadata restored. The filter then closes the open handle and allows the metadata to be restored....

20060117051 - Method of displaying data in a table: A method and computer-executable program code for displaying data in a table having columns, rows and a plurality of cells defined by the columns and rows. The method involves the steps of creating a first and a second sub-tables positioned one above another or side-by-side. The top sub-table defines a...

20060117050 - Methods and apparatus for determining a presence of a user: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for collecting presence information about a user from one or more presence sources associated with the user, such as applications, devices and locations. A presence agent is associated with each presence source; and the presence agents provide presence information to one or more presence servers....

20060117049 - Processing path-based database operations: A method and apparatus for processing path-based database operations is provided. According to one aspect, a “parent row ID” column is added to a directory links table. For each row in the table, the value of the “parent row ID” column indicates the row ID, in the table, of the...

20060117052 - Word sense disambiguation: Systems and methods for word sense disambiguation, including discerning one or more senses or occurrences, distinguishing between senses or occurrences, and determining a meaning for a sense or occurrence of a subject term. In a collection of documents containing terms and a reference collection containing at least one meaning associated...

20060117057 - Automated relational schema generation within a multidimensional enterprise software system: Techniques are described for publishing multidimensional data from an enterprise software system. A relational database schema is automatically created for storing the multidimensional data. The database schema may be a relational star schema as described herein. The techniques may include processes for automatically producing the database schema based on the...

20060117055 - Client-based web server application verification and testing system: A client-based web server application verification and testing system that requires no technical training, yet provides effective and efficient automated testing. The invention facilitates the rapid generation of test cases for a web site, and the automated execution of those test cases via distributed computing. The transitions through a web...

20060117053 - Data processing apparatus and data processing method, and computer program: This invention efficiently implements encoding processes corresponding to respective image processing functions while minimizing the memory use size in the apparatus in an image processing apparatus having many image processing functions. A data processing apparatus of this invention includes a data reception unit for receiving at least data of a...

20060117054 - Frame mapping scheduler with compressed mapping table: A network processor or other processing device of a communication system includes scheduling circuitry configured to schedule data blocks for transmission from a plurality of users or other transmission elements in timeslots of a frame. The scheduling circuitry utilizes a mapping table. The mapping table comprises at least one entry...

20060117058 - Method and apparatus for ingress filtering using security group information: A method and apparatus for ingress filtering using security group information are disclosed. The method includes performing access control processing on a packet and sending access control information to an ingress node of the packet in response to the access control processing. The access control information includes security group information...

20060117056 - Method and system of detecting file system namespace changes and restoring consistency: Method and system for maintaining namespace consistency between selected objects maintained by a file system and a filter associated therewith. Metadata regarding selected objects of a file system is maintained by a filter while the filter is attached to the file system and persisted in non-volatile storage. The namespace of...

20060117059 - System and method for monitoring and managing performance and availability data from multiple data providers using a plurality of executable decision trees to consolidate, correlate, and diagnose said data: The invention monitors and manages performance and availability data from multiple data providers. A set of executable hierarchical decision trees is used. Each tree has an anchor data node that, if matched to an incoming data point, will trigger the execution of the decision tree. Each tree has lower level...

20060117062 - Colloquium prose interpreter for collaborative electronic communication: A method, system and apparatus for processing colloquialisms in message text. A method of processing colloquialisms in message text can include detecting a colloquialism in message text, locating a universal form for the detected colloquialism, and transmitting the message text with the universal form to a designated message recipient. The...

20060117061 - De-serializing data objects on demand: The invention is directed to techniques for de-serializing data from a software system, such as an enterprise software system, upon request. For example, techniques are described for converting a data description language, such as the extensible markup language (XML), representation of data from an enterprise software system to an object...

20060117064 - E-business on-demand for design automation tools: Generally, the invention provides methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for a design automation application to evaluate a design automation task using an on-demand computer network. In one embodiment, after composing a design automation task, a requesting entity transmits the design automation task, along with a set of data used...

20060117068 - Method and device for product data processing: A product data processing method, and device, for outputting indexes useful to select parts having actual results, so as to be associated with a part list in a design stage is provided. Past product data and its product attribute data are input, developed into attribute data with a part as...

20060117063 - Method and system of applying policy on screened files: Described is a mechanism comprising a data screening filter and user mode service that applies (enforces) policies regarding allowing or blocking file content of a directory, based on matching the filename against patterns associated with that directory. An administrator configures a screening policy, such as the types of files to...

20060117065 - Methods and apparatuses for providing hosted tailored vertical applications: Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatuses for providing hosted highly tailored vertical applications. In accordance with one embodiment, a set of universal configuration options for a customer relationship management application is created and presented to a user. The user selects one or more options from the set of...

20060117060 - Methods and systems for facilitating the production and distribution of content: A hierarchically arranged content assembly and distribution system includes global and local administrators, the global administrators having the authorization to establish the local administrators. Global administrators have the ability to establish global content, establish global subscriber lists and assemble content for distribution to the global subscribers. Local administrators have the...

20060117066 - Rfid handshaking: Methods and Apparatuses for RFID handshaking are provided. A first number is received by a reader from a tag. The first number is a random number. In response, a handshake command and a second number is transmitted to the tag by the reader. If the first number matches the second...

20060117067 - System and method for interactive visual representation of information content and relationships using layout and gestures: This application relates to information analysis and more particularly to a system and method for interactive visual representation of information content and relationships using layouts and gestures. A visualization tool is provided which facilitates both ad-hoc and more formal analytical tasks as a flexible and expressive thinking environment. The tool...

20060117070 - Auto quota: Method and system for establishing and maintaining quotas. An auto quota is defined and applied to a directory. Input and output is monitored to detect a successful operation that involves a subdirectory of the directory. A determination is made as to whether to apply a quota associated with the auto...

20060117071 - Recording apparatus including a plurality of data blocks having different sizes, file managing method using the recording apparatus, and printing apparatus including the recording apparatus: A recording apparatus including a plurality of data blocks having different sizes, a file managing method using the apparatus, and a printing apparatus including the apparatus are provided. The recording apparatus includes a memory unit including a plurality of data blocks having different sizes, and a controlling unit for storing...

20060117069 - System, method, and article of manufacture for modifying records in a database: A system and a method for modifying a data record in a database are provided. The system allows a user to view a proposed change to the data record in the database during a data synchronization process of a first computer and a second computer. Further, the system allows the...

20060117072 - Cluster-wide read-copy update system and method: A system, method and computer program product for synchronizing updates to shared mutable data in a clustered data processing system. A data element update operation is performed at each node of the cluster while preserving a pre-update view of the shared mutable data, or an associated operational mode, on behalf...

20060117073 - Occasionally-connected application server: Providing a framework for developing, deploying and managing sophisticated mobile solutions, with a simple Web-like programming model that integrates with existing enterprise components. Mobile applications may consist of a data model definition, user interface templates, a client side controller, which includes scripts that define actions, and, on the server side,...

20060117074 - Method and apparatus for database cluster recovery: A disclosed method includes maintaining redo log blocks in a disk array cache and filtering the redo log records using a data block written flag (DBWF), and generating a recovery set that in the disk array cache that is a subset of redo log records generated by a failed database...

20060117075 - Prerequisite, dependent and atomic deltas: A method of merging a plurality of different versions of an electronic document during a software development process can include identifying the plurality of different versions of the electronic document. The electronic document can have a defined structure. The method further can include determining a plurality of deltas between the...

20060117076 - Method for replication tracing: In a network in which local copies of a shared document are maintained by multiple servers, performance data is gathered and stored during document synchronization via replication. The performance data includes a delay indicator which is associated with the document such that each copy of the document includes a record...