Data processing: database and file management or data structures inventions 09/06

20060212417 - Apparatus and method for monitoring performance of a data processing system: An apparatus and method for monitoring the performance of a computer system via an result size including a result set size of accesses to a database and a page size. Preferred embodiments are directed to a performance monitor that correlates data from existing tools that report data concerning access to...

20060212419 - Bulk download of documents from a system for managing documents: A method and apparatus provide, in one example embodiment, for storing and processing information in a data storage and processing system on a server, the server accessed by attorneys using the system from client computers, wherein the information pertains to a plurality of legal matters being handled by the attorneys,...

20060212421 - Contextual phrase analyzer: A method and a computer system for implementing a contextual phrase analyzer engine are provided. The method includes selecting at least one of a plurality of document frequencies associated with a plurality of words used in a plurality of documents and selecting a subset of the plurality of words based...

20060212420 - Mechanism for multi-domain indexes on xml documents: An XML document can contain domain-specific information, which typically has its own semantics and operations independent of the XML domain. Specialized indexes and operations are used to manage information within different types of domains, for example, text, spatial, life sciences, time series, image, and multimedia domains. Entries in domain-specific indexes...

20060212416 - Method for processing data to optimize and categorize matches: A method for updating information, such as contact or transactional information, by optimizing the match of known data to data within aggregated databases. The known data may include data concerning one or more categories corresponding to an individual or entity, or to a particular transaction, for example. It is determined...

20060212418 - Sequence support operators for an abstract database: The present invention generally provides methods, systems and articles of manufacture that provide a database query application that allows user to compose an abstract query that includes a sequence operator. In one embodiment, sequence operators are used to specify which data elements, from a sequence of data elements, should be...

20060212422 - Efficiently executing commands against a large set of servers with near real time feedback of execution and presentation of the output of the commands: According to one embodiment of the invention, a technique is provided for interactive execution of commands on multiple computer targets. As the commands execute on the remote systems, the user receives feedback in real time. The feedback consists of the status of each command on each system and the output...

20060212423 - System and method for biasing search results based on topic familiarity: A familiarity level classifier comprises a stopwords engine for conducting a stopwords analysis of stopwords, e.g., introductory level stopwords and advanced level stopwords, in a document, e.g., a website; and a familiarity level classifier module for generating a document familiarity level based on the stopwords analysis. The classifier may be...

20060212428 - Analysis of performance data from a relational database system for applications using stored procedures or sql: Analyzing performance data from a relational database to discover poorly performing SQL statements includes creating event records of performance data for query statements executed by a relational database management system, and condensing the performance data in the event records. A performance summary can be generated for each condensed event record....

20060212429 - Answering top-k selection queries in a relational engine: The subject invention leverages threshold-based strategies applied to relational data to facilitate in determining an optimal execution plan for top-k selection queries. These strategies utilize a given query and relational data metadata to identify possible execution plans. This allows alternatives to scanning techniques to be considered in order to further...

20060212431 - Associative memory: A computer-implemented method of realizing an associative memory capable of storing a set of documents and retrieving one or more stored documents similar to an inputted query document, said method comprising: coding each document or a part of it through a corresponding feature vector consisting of a series of bits...

20060212435 - Automated monitoring and control of access to content from a source: A provider of content may provide access to portions of content from a source, but not the source content in its entirety. In some embodiments, one or more access rules or criteria may be implemented that enable users to access portions of the source content up to an allowed limit...

20060212427 - Automatic subscriptions to shared repositories with notifications reflecting accesses by important other users and keywords stored in a personal interest profile: A system and method for automatically generating and receiving notifications regarding accesses to documents in a shared repository, where the notifications are filtered such that they are only generated and/or received for accesses that match a personal interest profile of a local user. The personal interest profile of the local...

20060212432 - Distributed database schema: A computer system and a method of searching for information to construct an information object includes querying a resource having information stored as bindable data elements and returning results of the query. The system and method includes a fragment base that stores the bindable data elements as fragments and/or primitives...

20060212425 - Distributed product information management: The present invention discloses a method and a system for managing distributed product information. The products (30) are equipped with unique product information code (31). Unique codes indicate information stored to information hosts (34, 36, 38). The hosts are aware of other hosts and if the host does not have...

20060212426 - Efficient cam-based techniques to perform string searches in packet payloads: Efficient Content Addressable Memory (CAM)-based techniques for performing string searches in packet payloads. Hashes are performed on hash keys comprising overlapping sub-strings in one or more search strings. The resulting hash values are stored in a CAM. During packet processing operations, a search of the packet payload data is made...

20060212424 - Information searching method, information searching program, and computer-readable recording medium on which information searching program is recorded: This invention relates to the subject matter identified in the title. An effective interaction is conducted by giving the user adequate information during information search so as to improve the search efficiency and accuracy. A CPU initially sets a set G containing deleted solution candidates to null and receives input...

20060212430 - Outputting a saved hand-formed expression: Embodiments include an apparatus, device, system, computer-program product, and method. In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes receiving a request for a content of a computer-readable file. The method also includes searching the computer-readable file for the requested content, the computer-readable file including at least one representation...

20060212433 - Prioritization of search responses system and method: The present invention provides systems and methods for accurately parsing an information retrieval query and for generating accurate results based on the query. Queries are processed as a collection of atomic terminals of one or more search domains. The systems and methods typically implement a lexicon comprising a set of...

20060212436 - Rewrite of queries containing rank or rownumber or min/max aggregate functions using a materialized view: Techniques are provided for improving efficiency of database systems, and in particular, to refreshing materialized views maintained by database systems and rewriting queries to access the materialized views. According to the approaches, a ranked materialized view is incrementally refreshed, and during the incremental refresh operation, rows in the partitions of...

20060212434 - System and method for customization and streamlining of web site navigation: A computer-based system and method for customizing navigation through a Web site based upon values of user information received from either an external or internal Web site upon entering the customized Web site. The Web site customization includes both customized navigation and functionality. Users are directed through the Web site...

20060212437 - Use of extensible markup language in a system and method for influencing a position on a search result list generated by a computer network search engine: A database search apparatus and method for generating a search result list which responds to Extensible Markup Language (XML) requests from a client to a server of an on-line marketplace. A bid management tool is operable on a client computer to manage search listings and account information of one or...

20060212440 - Program translation method and program translation apparatus: In a development of system software, a compiler system and the like are included in a program development system for increasing performance efficiency of an overall computer system and reducing manpower necessary for developing system software. The compiler system is a program for reading a source program and system level...

20060212438 - Sql injection protection by variable normalization: The invention provides a method for determining allowability of a structured query language (SQL) statement, the method comprising the steps of normalizing the SQL statement, and comparing the normalized SQL statement with a predetermined set of allowable statements....

20060212439 - System and method of efficient data backup in a networking environment: The present invention is directed to a system, methods, and a computer-readable medium for efficiently performing a backup of data in a networking environment. In embodiments of the present invention, a backup of a file from a local computing device to a remote computing device is performed. However, the file...

20060212443 - Contextual interactive support system: The present invention provides a method and a graphical user interface for contextual interactive support. The method includes providing information indicative of a plurality of words selected from a document set, receiving information indicative of a selected subset of the plurality of words, and determining context representations associated with each...

20060212441 - Full text query and search systems and methods of use: The invention is a method for textual searching of text-based databases including databases of compiled internet content, scientific literature, abstracts for books and articles, newspapers, journals, and the like. Specifically, the algorithm supports searches using full-text or webpage as query and keyword searches allowing multiple entries and an information-content based...

20060212446 - Method and system for assessing relevant properties of work contexts for use by information services: An information retrieval system for automatically retrieving information related to the context of an active task being manipulated by a user. The system observes the operation of the active task and user interactions, and utilizes predetermined criteria to generate context representation of the active task that are relevant to the...

20060212445 - Method, system, and computer readable medium for managing resource links: Resource links also known as Unified Resource Links (URL's), bookmarks, hyperlinks etc. located ina category hierarchy. The resource links are used to navigate on the world wide web, on a local machine, on the internet, or on an intranet. A method of assessing a users competence in a category in...

20060212444 - Methods and systems for utilizing contextual feedback to generate and modify playlists: Systems and methods of generating and modifying a playlist using contextual information are disclosed. For example, a user may provide an input seed such as a song name or artist name. The input seed is compared to database items and a playlist is generated as a result. In some examples,...

20060212442 - Methods of presenting and providing content to a user: Methods of presenting and providing content to a user are disclosed. For example, a user may provide an input seed such as a song name or artist name. The input seed is compared to database items and a playlist is generated as a result. The playlist has an identifier corresponding...

20060212447 - System and method for influencing a position on a search result list generated by a computer network search engine: A system and method for enabling information providers using a computer network to influence a position for a search listing within a search result list. A database stores accounts for the network information providers. Each account contains contact and billing information. In addition, each account contains at least one search...

20060212449 - Method and apparatus for generating relevance-sensitive collation keys: A method and apparatus for generating collation keys that can be used by sorting methods so as to arrange a sequence of data objects in order of their semantic relevance to the user or their relevance to an operating context. The constituent data values of each data object are “weighted”...

20060212448 - Method and apparatus for ranking candidates: A method and apparatus for ranking candidates is provided. Preferably, the method includes steps of and/or apparatus performs steps of receiving candidate referrals from a plurality of referrers, generating a predicted prospect ranking (PPR) based at least in part on received candidate referrals, and displaying a candidate list ranked by...

20060212450 - Temporary master thread: The invention provides a temporary master thread mechanism that allows any thread wishing to update a data structure to become the temporary master thread for the data structure. A thread becomes a temporary master thread for the data structure by acquiring a lock associated with the data structure. A temporary...

20060212454 - Method for rendering and refreshing a portal page: A method for differential rendering a portal page that includes a plurality of page elements (10, 12, 14) and refreshing the portal page. The method includes providing a complete portal page (20, 22). A request for the portal page is then sent and/or received (28). The request can represent user...

20060212451 - Mobile friendly internet searches: Mobile friendly internet searches are enabled by determining if individual internet sites are mobile friendly. In a described implementation, a mobile-friendliness indication is determined for an internet site. The determined mobile-friendliness indication is stored in association with the internet site in an index that may be used for internet searching....

20060212453 - System and method for preserving state for a cluster of data servers in the presence of load-balancing, failover, and fail-back events: A state management system preserves a state for a cluster of file servers in a cluster file system in the presence of load balancing, failover, and fail-back events. The system provides a file and record locking solution for a clustered network attached storage system running on top of a cluster...

20060212452 - System and method for remotely inputting and retrieving records and generating reports: A computer-based system and method is provided for remotely accessing stored record and remotely inputting data, comprising: accessing by a user a record stored remotely in a database via an electronic network; displaying a portion of the accessed record as at least one hypertext page, the hypertext page comprising pre-filled...

20060212458 - Data processing systems and methods: A data processing system is disclosed with interface means for coupling to a plurality of data warehouses. Each of the data warehouses may include key figures field catalogues and characteristics field catalogues. The data processing system may further include means for selecting a sub-set of the plurality of data warehouses,...

20060212455 - Method and system for organizing image files based upon workflow: Methods and systems that permit a user to associate metadata representing one or more workflow-related actions with an image file are provided. Workflow-related actions describe one or more actions which may be undertaken with respect to the associated image file. For instance, workflow-related actions may include, by way of example...

20060212460 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing data standardization activities: A method, system, and computer program product for implementing data standardization activities. The method includes defining a data control structure using meta-data and rules. The method also includes receiving content from one or more source systems that provide a feed for the content. The method further includes identifying the one...

20060212456 - System and method for updating objects in a multi-threaded computing environment: An interlocked object transfer data structure is provided for enabling requests made by multiple threads to update objects in a multi-threaded computing environment to be executed by a single processing thread. An object in the interlocked object transfer data structure contains a pair of flags, which the processing thread manipulates...

20060212461 - System for organizing a plurality of data sources into a plurality of taxonomies: A process displays a taxonomy representing an organizational relationship of a plurality of nodes accessible to a computer. A taxonomy file having a user-generated definition of the taxonomy and the nodes is recorded in a data memory. The definitions of the taxonomy and the nodes are extracted from the taxonomy...

20060212457 - Systems and methods for efficiently storing and accessing data storage system paths: The subject invention provides a system and/or a method that facilitates providing a compact representation of a file path associated to a file storage system. A path component can provide seamless integration and/or transition between the file path associated to the file storage system and an item and/or item ID...

20060212459 - Website analysis system: A website analysis system is provided, which is capable of digitizing an effect of “attractiveness of contents or functions for collecting customers” on an access tendency of a user, separately from effects of other elements, based on aggregation results of an access log. The website analysis system includes an aggregating...

20060212465 - Apparatus and method for identifying asynchronous data in redundant data stores and for re-synchronizing same: A computer readable medium includes executable instruction to compare databases. The executable instructions are configured to identify when a segment of a first database is conditionally out of synchronization with a corresponding segment of a second database to establish a conditionally out of synchronization state at a first time. Executable...

20060212462 - Apparatus for continuous compression of large volumes of data: A system for efficiently transmitting data from a first site to a remote site over a communication medium. The data includes a storage for storing data in sub-segment boundaries, such that few sub-segments are accommodated in each block. The system further includes a storage for storing data including signature data....

20060212467 - Encoding of hierarchically organized data for efficient storage and processing: A compact binary encoding technique for information that is logically hierarchically structured, such as XML data, maintains all of the features of XML data in a useable form, such as the hierarchical structure underlying the data. Hence, data encoded in this format can undergo XML-based processing on-the-fly as it is...

20060212466 - Job categorization system and method: A computer system and method for capture, managing and presenting data obtained from various often unrelated postings via the Internet for examination by a user. This system includes a scraping module having one or more scraping engines operable to scrape information data sets from listings on the corporate sites and...

20060212463 - Method and apparatus for extracting metadata information from an application: A metadata driven system for allowing various applications to extract metadata information about an application provides a method of storing metadata about the application, an apparatus for extracting metadata information about the application and an apparatus for converting the metadata information about the application into a form usable by the...

20060212468 - Method and system for global constant management: Method and system for global constant management. A method of operating a computer is described in which, for data structures and a set of data structures, the date structure is received from a first memory. The data structure includes one or more sets of instructions and a set of one...

20060212464 - Methods and systems for identifying an area of interest in protectable content: A protectable content is inspected using both a first technique and a second technique that is different from the first technique. An area of interest in the protectable content is then identified based on the inspections....

20060212470 - Information organization using formal concept analysis: A method for organizing information includes identifying objects and attributes of the information; determining a context from the objects and attributes; constructing a lattice according to said context; and organizing the information according to the lattice....

20060212472 - Method and system for creating a rich media content portal using third-party commercial portal application software: A method of creating an online web application for managing Rich media content and documents of a user is described which involves providing a secure website accessible to the user over a computer network; providing commercial portal application software to store and index files and provide security; providing the user...

20060212469 - Method and system to associate cell and item metadata: The present invention generally relates to new and improved embodiments of methods and systems for capturing and providing arbitrarily rich data to be stored or manipulated within a spreadsheet. In one embodiment of the present invention, a method for creating spreadsheet metadata comprises receiving an item in a spreadsheet, receiving...

20060212471 - System and method for intellectual property information management using configurable activities: Method and apparatus are disclosed for organizing intellectual property data according to activities related to intellectual property. Each activity is represented by an activity data structure containing at least some data pertinent to the activity. A plurality of activity data structures are made accessible through a user interface display in...

20060212473 - Resource management method and system enabling identity mapping between resources and objects: A resource management infrastructure (200) is proposed, wherein every resource may be represented by multiple (specialized) objects (B1,C1,D1;C2), which instantiate corresponding (specialized) classes (315) modeling different aspects of the resources. In the proposed solution, an edge class (310) is associated with the specialized classes; each resource is associated with a...

20060212474 - Specifying application content using data-driven systems: Specifying content using data-driven systems is described, including creating a definition, the definition having a type and a property, instantiating the property, deriving a property value for the property using a linkage, and synchronously pushing an update to the property value over the linkage. Also described are building an object...

20060212483 - Apparatus and method of downloading content related to an optical disc: A method and apparatus for downloading content related to an optical disc, via a network, are provided. According to the method and apparatus, when an optical disc needs to be replaced, while download is proceeding, the identification (ID) information of the disc replaced is separately stored in a memory such...

20060212481 - Distributed open writable snapshot copy facility using file migration policies: A read-write snapshot copy facility is constructed from a hierarchical storage management facility. The read-write snapshot copy file system initially comprises stub files pointing to the files in a read-only snapshot copy file system. When an application writes to a file in the read-write snapshot copy, the read-write snapshot copy...

20060212475 - Enterprise information management and business application automation by using the aims informationbase architecture: AIMS is design to eventually have computer provide management function to manage other computers (CMC). The process management algorithms is proven to work on higher level of intelligence as long as the business rule can be represented in the digital logic. This will be relief of management on monitoring various...

20060212476 - Method and apparatus for tracking candidate referrers: A method and apparatus for tracking candidate referrers is provided. Preferably, the method includes steps of and/or apparatus performs steps of receiving a candidate referral from a referrer, monitoring activity involving the candidate referral, and updating a referrer rating of the referrer based on the monitored activity....

20060212477 - Method and system for altering the configuration of a data warehouse: Disclosed are methods usable by non-experts for altering a configuration of a data warehouse. The initial configuration of the data warehouse is represented in terms of metadata, and that metadata configuration is presented to a user. The user can choose to alter the metadata configuration. If alterations are made to...

20060212478 - Methods and systems for generating a subgroup of one or more media items from a library of media items: A method for generating a subgroup of one or more media items from a library of media items. The method monitors user playback control actions during a playback experience with the library on a media player. The method chooses a selecting filter based upon the monitored user playback control action...

20060212479 - System and method for audiovisual display settings: Audiovisual settings for audiovisual display devices are automatically applied based on a user identification input at the audiovisual display device. A display settings module associated with the audiovisual device applies locally cached settings if available or retrieves global settings for the user from a network location. A settings match engine...

20060212484 - System and method for evaluating, monitoring, diagnosing, and treating hypertension and other medical disorders: A system and method for treating hypertension and other medical disorders is provided. The system utilizes data collection devices for monitoring medical parameters of a plurality of patients and collecting data related to the medical parameters, and a centralized database for storing the collected data for each of the plurality...

20060212480 - System and method for matter clusters in an ip management system: Method and apparatus are disclosed for managing intellectual property information including organizing intellectual property data in a data processing system according to file clusters. A method comprises organizing intellectual property data in an intellectual property data management system, wherein the management system tracks events and data related to a plurality...

20060212482 - Wireless data exchange: A system of exchanging and managing information includes a mobile device configured to automatically insert, exchange and update a caller's contact information into a user's phonebook. The phonebook can reside on either the UICC card, SIM, USIM, Mega SIM, any other smart card or an integrated chip, on the mobile...

20060212485 - Electronic file saving system: It is an object of the invention to provide an electronic file saving system capable of classifying and organizing a wider variety of electronic files than before. The present invention relates to an electronic file saving system for storing an electronic file in any of a plurality of folders. The...

20060212486 - Methods and systems for compliance monitoring knowledge base: A knowledge base and methods for use in connection with a policy compliance monitoring system operative to determine exceptions to policies expressed by computer-executable policy statements. The system allows establishment, codification, and maintenance of enterprise policies, monitors electronic transactions of the enterprise from various and possibly heterogeneous data sources, detects...

20060212487 - Methods and systems for monitoring transaction entity versions for policy compliance: A system for determining lack of compliance of a transactional entity with an enterprise policy by maintaining an historical record of the entity as changes are made over time. The system allows establishment, codification, and maintenance of enterprise policies, monitors electronic transactions of the enterprise from various data sources, detects...

20060212488 - Reproduction method, reproducing apparatus, and recording medium: To provide a reproduction method for enabling an automatic selection and reproduction of a music data suitable for a user's preference during the reproduction, for reproducing a contents data given with an attribute data, and having the steps of: reproducing a plurality of the contents data in a predetermined pattern...

20060212490 - Apparatus and method for analyzing and displaying information: An apparatus for analyzing and displaying usage condition of information. The apparatus analyzes and displays the usage condition outside of an information distributing system by which the information is transmitted; and includes: a usage condition collecting unit that acquires a usage condition information as to the usage condition of the...

20060212489 - Technique for effectively synchronizing data through an information service: A user may utilize a communication device, e.g., a wireless phone, mobile device or personal digital assistant (PDA), to access an information assistance system where an operator may provide personalized information and communications services to the user. In addition, the information assistance system may provide an information management service for...

20060212491 - Auditing compliance with a hippocratic database: An auditing framework for determining whether a database disclosure of information adhered to its data disclosure policies. Users formulate audit expressions to specify the (sensitive) data subject to disclosure review. An audit component accepts audit expressions and returns all queries (deemed “suspicious”) that accessed the specified data during their execution....

20060212492 - Method and mechanism for identifying transaction on a row of data: A method and mechanism for identifying one or more transactions that have modified or created an object in a database system. Also disclosed is a method and mechanism to compensate for the effects of a transaction in a database system is disclosed. The disclosed approach can be applied to perform...

20060212493 - System and method for reconciling transactions between a replication system and a recovered database: The invention is a reconcile system for providing data replication between a source system and a target system. The reconcile system includes a reconcile process that determines a recovery position for a failed or otherwise desynchronized target system, and purges queues of the reconcile system of stale transactions occurring before...

20060212494 - Electronic catalog maintenance system for enabling out-of-standard electronic catalog changes: In an electronic catalog maintenance system using the dictionary data given in a form of a tree structure formed by identifiers for uniquely identifying classes classifying products and attributes of the products, the dictionary data are edited by making changes including standard changes defined by a prescribed standard and out-of-standard...

20060212495 - Method and system for storing data into a database: An information processing apparatus divides a database table into separate tables according to a table division condition, correlates the separate tables to areas as logical storage devices, correlates the areas to storage devices, detects a predetermined area whose use amount is equal to or exceeds a predetermined value, assures an...

20060212496 - System and method for quiescing select data modification operations against an object of a database during one or more structural operations: The invention is a reorganization system having a reorganization application, a database management system, and one or more database files. The reorganization application communicates with the database management system and the one or more database files to reorganize an object, such as, for example, a table or index, while providing...

20060212497 - Document administration apparatus, and recording medium in which document administration program is stored: A document administration apparatus, includes a sharing request receiving portion configured to receive a request of sharing a document stored in a first box among boxes which are divided storing areas, a box information receiving portion configured to receive box information on one or more second boxes each correlated with...

20060206449 - Computer file management system: A file management system for use with a computer system is disclosed. The file management system comprises a real filesystem for accessing files stored on a storage medium and a custom filesystem. The custom filesystem comprises a hierarchical arrangement of links to a subset of files of the real filesystem....

20060206450 - Computer file management system: Computer systems with multiple users will typically store various versions of the same software; different versions being required for different platforms and to maintain compatibility with other software applications. These computer files are generally organized in a hierarchical structure to make their location and access easier, but this still results...

20060206447 - Document managing apparatus: A document managing apparatus has a display unit, an operation unit, a file managing information storage unit which stores file managing information about data files consisting documents to be managed, a document managing information storage unit which stores document managing information about the documents stored in the file managing information...

20060206446 - Personal information manager and communications application providing dynamic contact communication history: A computing device is configured to provide personal information and communications functions. The computing device includes, among other things, a communication interface, a storage device, and a processor. The communication interface is adapted to pass at least one communication. The storage device is operably coupled to the communication interface, and...

20060206448 - System and method for improved job seeking: A computer system and method for capture and handling job listings obtained from various often unrelated corporate and job board postings via the internet for examination by a job searcher. This system includes a scraping module having one or more scraping engines operable to scrape job information data set from...

20060206452 - Accessing web content from any virtualized store: A virtual path provider allows a Web application to access content source that is maintained by a file system, and/or content source that is maintained separately from a file system. When the Web application receives a request for processed content from a requesting computer system, the Web application access the...

20060206451 - Method and computer-readable medium for providing access to policy information associated with electronic mail message folders: A method and computer-readable medium are provided for accessing policy information associated with e-mail folders. According to the method, a user interface is provided that allows a user to navigate between one or more folders for storing data, such as e-mail folders. A selection of one of the e-mail folders...

20060206460 - Biasing search results: While various search engines may rank results based on general popularity or other characteristics of a search result, these search engines do not take into account one's personal web browsing history and past search history, including whether a searcher actually selected links in a previous search result, and to use...

20060206459 - Creation of boolean queries by direct manipulation: A data organization system that utilizes graphical interaction to effect Boolean queries. The subject invention provides for interactive graphical mechanisms that shield users from the semantics of the Boolean logic (e.g., “AND”, “OR”, “NOT”). These mechanisms facilitate the generation of Boolean queries via graphical selection and/or manipulation using iconic query...

20060206461 - Data capture apparatus, data capture method, and computer program: For material data to be captured in a specified capture sequence, a same recording medium must be repetitively loaded or specified unless the capture sequence is continuous. A data capture apparatus for capturing material data in accordance with a capture queue is made up of (a) a file search block...

20060206456 - Document managing apparatus: A document-managing-apparatus includes a storage unit which stores file-managing-information on a file of data constituting a document, which is a managing-target, and a storage unit which stores, by arranging in a particular order, document-managing-information on plural documents stored in the storage unit, position-information showing a display-position in a searching-screen of...

20060206464 - Document processing system: A document processing system and method are disclosed which are capable of performing inverse retrieval in response to a request issued by a user and providing retrieved document data to the user. Characteristic information indicating a specified electronic document or category is transmitted from a terminal device to a document...

20060206453 - Dynamically sizing buffers to optimal size in network layers when supporting data transfers related to database applications: In transferring data from/to a database server, the size of a network buffer used by a network layer is dynamically adjusted according to the call type and expected size of data to be transferred for the call. Due to such use of appropriate buffer size, throughput performance of the transfer...

20060206466 - Evaluating relevance of results in a semi-structured data-base system: A method for evaluating queries applied to semi-structured data, including, providing a query for the semi-structured data, the query includes indication of relevance ranking of sought results. The indication includes specification according to the structural positioning of words in the semi-structured data. The method further provides for evaluating the query...

20060206454 - Immediate search feedback: Providing immediate search feedback is disclosed. Search input is received within a search field of a web browser application. Based on characteristics of the search input, a determination is made whether to automatically submit a query to a search engine. In one aspect, the query is automatically submitted to the...

20060206471 - Information retrieval apparatus: An information retrieval apparatus which includes: a preference related-word obtainment unit which, in the case where a search condition is inputted from an input unit, obtains one or more related words each being associated with search keywords included in the inputted search condition by an association value indicating a predetermined...

20060206462 - Method and system for document manipulation, analysis and tracking: A method and system for importing physical documents into one or more electronic documents, searching the electronic documents to automatically code the documents, to collect bibliographic information, to assign the documents to one or more categories, to identify documents with relevance by master keyword searching. This invention also provides the...

20060206470 - Method software program for creating an image product having predefined criteria: A method and software program for creating an image product having at least one image provided thereon. The method includes providing a digital template for use in creating the image product. The digital template has at least one digital container for placement of digital content. The digital container has at...

20060206468 - Rule application management in an abstract database: A method, system and article of manufacture for processing queries that are executed against a database and, more particularly, for restricting queryable data in a database to a subset of all available data in the database when a query is executed against the database is provided. One embodiment provides a...

20060206469 - Search and index hosting system: The system initiates a search at a first network site for user-specified data in a remote database at a second network site and conducts the search at a third network site (e.g., at a host computer's site). To begin, the system receives, at the first network site, a provider identifier...

20060206455 - Search quality detection: In various embodiments, the present invention provides methods and systems for categorizing the quality of a search by analyzing the relevancy numbers associated with the search results. The relevancy numbers are compared to established patterns to categorize the quality of the search query. Based on this categorization, the system alters...

20060206458 - Serving program elements through a unified interface: Serving program elements through a unified interface. A request for a program element is received at a unified interface from a requester, wherein the unified interface presents a uniform abstraction of program elements from sources accessible by the unified interface. The program element is searched for by the unified interface....

20060206463 - System and method for making search for document in accordance with query of natural language: A first interface accepts a user specified first question sentence. A question analysis unit analyzes the first question sentence. When the first question sentence queries a plurality of matters, the question analysis unit generates a plurality of second question sentences for individually querying each of the plurality of matters from...

20060206457 - System and method for name grabbing via optical character reading: A system and method for generating text data from graphical image information of a first data form and passing the generated text data to another data form is disclosed. The system comprises a computer-based platform configured to obtain search criteria data from a current data form of interest and search...

20060206465 - System and method for receiving and loading fare and schedule data: A system for searching a data set to identify data elements with the data set that meet user defined criteria. The system comprises a network file system server, a data search engine server communicating with the network file system server, and a query distributor configured to send search queries to...

20060206467 - System, method, and software for identifying historically related legal opinions: The American legal system, judges and lawyers are continually researching an ever-expanding body of past judicial opinions, or case law, for the ones most relevant to resolution of new disputes. To facilitate these searches, some companies collect and publish the judicial opinions of courts across the United States in both...

20060206473 - Methods and systems for database statement execution plan optimization: The methods and systems for database statement execution plan optimization exploit bind variable data available on the network to build and optimize an execution plan for the statement. A system for database statement execution plan optimization comprises a bind variable analyzer, a frame allocator, and an optimizer, in addition to...

20060206472 - Question answering system, data search method, and computer program: A question answering system includes a similar-question generation unit, a first search unit, a second search unit, and an answer selection unit. The similar-question generation unit selects a feature word from an input question to generate a transformational question in which the feature word is replaced with another word. The...

20060206477 - Computing probabilistic answers to queries: A system that supports arbitrarily complex SQL queries with “uncertain” predicates. The query semantics are based on a probabilistic model and the results are ranked, much like in Information Retrieval, based upon their probability. An optimization algorithm is employed that can efficiently compute most queries. The algorithm attempts to determine...

20060206479 - Keyword effectiveness prediction method and apparatus: Methods, apparatuses, and articles for computing a predictive measure for an advertising effectiveness metric for the one or more advertising keywords based at least in part on one or more feature values of the keywords employing a prediction function of the effectiveness metric, are described herein. In various embodiments, the...

20060206478 - Playlist generating methods: Methods of generating a playlist for a user are disclosed. For example, an input seed from the user associated with one or more items in a database is received. The input seed may be a song name or artist name. Characteristics that correspond to the input seed are identified. One...

20060206476 - Reranking and increasing the relevance of the results of internet searches: Techniques are provided for reranking and increasing the relevance of the results Internet searches. A search query is initially parsed into individual units. Each unit corresponds to one or more words that represents a natural concept. A concept network is analyzed to locate concepts that are related to the units...

20060206475 - System and method for generating attribute-based selectable search extension: A system and related techniques generate alternative search terms derived from a set of search results. A user may input a set of search terms such as keywords or other inputs, and receive a set of search results back, for instance in rank order of estimated relevance to the user's...

20060206474 - System for modifying queries before presentation to a sponsored search generator or other matching system where modifications improve coverage without a corresponding reduction in relevance: Techniques are provided for modifying queries to increase the number of sponsored links that are returned in response to the queries. A query modification system uses a predefined set of rules that are designated to modify a query to increase the chance that the modified query will match more sponsored...

20060206482 - Imaging apparatus associated with an image database: The invention concerns an image database comprising a plurality of tables each including fields concerning at least image acquisition conditions, and/or sample identification, the tables being connected to one another in accordance with selected relationships. Each image acquisition comprises a control for displacing the sample-holder, parameters of the filtering means...

20060206481 - Question answering system, data search method, and computer program: A question answering system includes a question-sentence analysis unit, a search unit, an answer-candidate extraction unit, a check-expression generation unit, a check-expression search unit and an answer-candidate correction unit. The question-sentence analysis unit extracts a keyword applied to a search process from an input question sentence. The search unit executes...

20060206480 - Shared bookmarks based on user interest profiles: A system and method for providing personalized, shared bookmarks that determines which bookmarks are to be shared with a given user based at least in part on an interest profile associated with that user. The interest file can be used to define important other users, for example based on attributes,...

20060206483 - Method for domain identification of documents in a document database: A method for processing documents in a document database includes determining vocabulary words for each document, and determining a respective relevancy for each vocabulary word based upon occurrences thereof in all of the documents. Similarities are determined between the documents based upon the vocabulary words and their respective relevancies. At...

20060206484 - Method for preserving consistency between worm file attributes and information in management servers: The present invention provides methods to preserve consistency between WORM file attributes in WORM volumes in file server systems. When a user commits a file in a WORM volume to WORM state, some file attributes can be changed before or after committing the file to WORM state so that anyone...

20060206486 - File sharing methods and systems: The present invention provides methods and systems for legally sharing files in a peer-to-peer network on the internet in a manner that compensates the content owners, artists, authors and/or programmers, and the like. Methods of the present invention may include incentive programs, which allow users to earn credits that may...

20060206487 - Method for restricting use of file, information processing apparatus and program product therefor: A method for restricting a user's use of a file recorded on a client according to predetermined conditions, even if the use of the file has been authenticated previously in accordance with a policy, is provided. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes: a determination step...

20060206485 - Multilevel secure database: Row level security (RLS) and cell level security (CLS) are implemented in a database to provide secure dynamic access to database data. Encryption keys are created based on either security classification meta-data tags associated with the individual fields of an incoming data stream or on the security classification of the...

20060206494 - Compensating for unavailability in a storage virtualization system: A storage virtualization system for accessing at least one storage device for a virtual logical unit (VLUN) from at least one host. The system includes at least one upstream processing element (UPE) which is adapted for coupling to a corresponding host server. The system is further adapted for coupling to...

20060206490 - Computerized legal case management system incorporating reconciliation feature: A method for docketing and reporting activities related to a legal case by first establishing a database in a computer memory for storing case data comprised of a plurality of docket records associated with the legal case. The database is then populated with one or more docket records. A court...

20060206493 - Gui driving media playback device: A system and method for distributing digital media assets to a plurality of users. A portal is provided comprising at least one server computer. The portal executes a media library database server application that manages access a master library of media 5 assets that can be accessed by users via...

20060206488 - Information transfer: A method for facilitating the transfer of information between multiple parties provided, wherein the method includes obtaining characteristic information responsive to an information seeker, receiving a query from the information seeker, processing the query from the information seeker to generate an information supplier list responsive to a predetermined algorithm, associating...

20060206492 - Lock-out trigger for lost or stolen playback device: A system and method for distributing digital media assets to a plurality of users. A portal is provided comprising at least one server computer. The portal executes a media library database server application that manages access a master library of media 5 assets that can be accessed by users via...

20060206491 - Mask recovering system and mask recovering method: A mask disposing system is configured in the following manner. A server receives a request to dispose of a mask to be discontinued from a client terminal through a network, provides instructions to take the mask out to a storage cabinet, provides instructions to dispose of the mask to a...

20060206489 - System and method for optimally configuring software systems for a numa platform: A method and system for improving memory access patterns of software systems on NUMA systems discovers NUMA system resources, where the NUMA system resources comprises a plurality of NUMA nodes; determines a plurality of database threads, processes, and objects for a database configuration; and generates a policy which assigns the...

20060206503 - Complex syntax validation and business logic validation rules, using vaxs (value-added xsds) compliant with w3c-xml schema specification: Systems and methods are disclosed that facilitate formally describing structured documents and complex validation rules associated therewith using value-added XSD schemas (VAXs). Native XSDs can be utilized and annotated to generate VAXs that represent both the structure of a document and the complex validation rules used to validate the documents....

20060206498 - Document information management apparatus, document information management method, and document information management program: A document information management program and the like is provided which can manage documents by using their metadata without increasing their file sizes. The document information management program according to the present invention is a document information management program which serves to make a computer perform document information management that...

20060206499 - Document managing apparatus: The document management manages file managing information on a data file which constitutes a document which is a managing target while managing document managing information on the plural managed documents. The document managing apparatus enters a document file and header information data of an electronic mail to which the document...

20060206500 - Document managing system: A document-managing-system receives an electronic mail. A first file of data constituting a document which is a managing target and a second file which indicates related information showing contents related to the first file are attached to the mail. The system obtains the files from the mail in the order...

20060206506 - Expenditure accounting management system and method: A web based payment card software application for an expenditure accounting management automation system that provides a plurality of event code identifiers for processing, reporting and recording expenditure spending related to transaction data activity, including a one of a plurality of expenditure identifiers associated with line item transaction data comprising...

20060206507 - Hierarchal data management: A hierarchal data management system for a storage device includes an entity relationship discover to generate meta data from a business object, a file manager to create a partition based on the metadata, a data mover to generate a logical partitioning key and to store the logical partitioning key in...

20060206504 - Ims network access using legacy devices: A communication network is described that allows legacy devices to access an IMS network. The communication network includes a switching system, an IMS network, and a non-IMS network. The switching system includes a subscriber database that is pre-provisioned with identities of IMS subscribers using legacy devices. When in operation, a...

20060206501 - Integration of annotations to dynamic data sets: A data enhancement system that facilitates attaching annotations to dynamic data items and collections. The system employs the concepts of view and item to associate an annotation to a dynamic collection and/or item prior to rendering (e.g., via a graphical user interface) such collection and/or item. A user interface can...

20060206495 - Method and apparatus for grouping content items: The invention relates to a system for grouping content items. A consumer equipment or computer (100) comprises a grouping principle processor (109) that determines a content item grouping principle used by a user to group content items such as music files, video files or email. The content item grouping principle...

20060206502 - Schema generator: quick and efficient conversion of healthcare specific structural data represented in relational database tables, along with complex validation rules and business rules, to custom hl7xsd with applicable annotations: Systems and methods are disclosed that facilitate transforming business and encoding rules defined in a persistent and relational format into XML schemas that provide a message format and validation logic for the message. A message can be received in delimited flat-file format and parsed to facilitate generating a value-added XML...

20060206508 - System and method allowing advertisers to manage search listings in a pay for placement search system using grouping: A system for advertisers to efficiently manage their search listings in placement database search system includes grouping means for managing multiple categories for the search listings and query means for searching search listings. The system further includes quick-fill means for modifying an attribute in plurality of search listings by specifying...

20060206505 - System and method for managing listings: A computer system and method for capture, managing and presenting data obtained from various often unrelated postings via the Internet for examination by a user. This system includes a scraping module having one or more scraping engines operable to scrape information data sets from listings on the corporate sites and...

20060206497 - System and method in a data table for creating recursive scalable template instances: A method and system for creating a recursive scalable template instance (RSTI) in an electronic data table having dimensions D1 and D2. A recursive scalable template (RST) associated with the RSTI is selected such that the RSTI is to be structured in accordance with the RST. A plurality of contiguous...

20060206496 - System and method in a data table managing deletion operations in recursive scalable template instances: A method and system for managing deletion operations in a recursive scalable template instance (RSTI) of an electronic data table having dimensions D1 and D2. The RSTI includes contiguous recursive element instances (REIs) ordered and aligned along D1. The REIs include scalable template instances (STIs). Contiguous elements are deleted, upon...

20060206509 - Mesh compression: A method and apparatus for transmission and reception of three dimensional image data is disclosed where vertex data, together with information on the displacement of vertices is sent for reception and reconstruction of a three dimensional object using a surface subdivision process. The method employed is characterised by all displacements...

20060206510 - Storage application programming interface: Systems, methods, apparatus, data structures, and computer-readable media are described which provide techniques for managing data storage. In an implementation, a method includes examining a role map to determine which of a plurality of roles are applicable to a request to interact with at least one of a plurality of...

20060206512 - Computer systems and methods for visualizing data with generation of marks: A method for generating marks when displaying data, such as the results of a query across a database. The method is preferably used in conjunction with a dataset whose fields comprise a plurality of levels. A visual plot is constructed based on a specification. A first level from the plurality...

20060206514 - Document file management apparatus, document file management method and document file management program: At least a character font in document data of each stored document file is converted into a predetermined image pattern to produce image data from the converted document data. Each produced image data is displayed while successively switched every document unit by a predetermined operation....

20060206516 - Keyword generation method and apparatus: Methods, apparatuses, and articles for receiving one or more indicators indicating one or more degrees of relevance or irrelevance of one or more items or entities to advertising keywords of interest, generating one or more advertising keyword suggestions suggesting one or more advertising keywords based at least in part on...

20060206511 - Method and system for extending the file system api: A method is disclosed to create files in a file system hierarchy in a way which facilitates their retrieval. The method comprises the steps of: entering a command from an application to create a file; displaying the file hierarchy; allowing a user to select at least one folder; saving data...

20060206513 - Method for speed-efficient and memory-efficient construction of a trie: A method in a data processing system for generating trie structures, comprised of the following steps: The method identifies mappings, which have elements, in a map file. The method advances to a element in a current mapping, wherein the element becomes a current element. Next, the method determines a presence...

20060206515 - Method of generating directory structure for content search: A method of generating a directory structure used for a content search which can maximize a user's convenience is provided. The method includes: generating a plurality of attribute directories based on a plurality of content attributes; and generating a content directory containing a plurality of content having the contents attributes....

20060206517 - System and method for listing administration: A system and method of providing listing data administration to a lister user is disclosed. The listing data is posted on a web search bank hosted by a listing administration provider. Furthermore, the listing data is posted with an assigned hyperlink that references a lister user website hosted by a...

20060206525 - Communication system integrating a plurality of middleware and implementing sophisticated paths for data flow: A communication system is introduced to integrate middleware having in-ports, out-ports, a configurator, and intermediary elements. The configurable in-ports and out-ports are used to facilitate communication with specific middleware among a set of middleware. A configurator configures in-ports and out-ports corresponding to specific middleware, wherein each in-port and each out-port...

20060206521 - Document management device, document management method and document management program: There is disclosed a document management device, a document management method, and a document management program capable of contributing a reduction of burdens on document data management. The document management device comprising: a document image display controller which displays a predetermined image corresponding to selected document data; a classification display...

20060206520 - Document management device, document management method, and document management program: There is provided a document management device, a document management method, and a document management program capable of contributing to a reduction of burdens on document data management. The document management device comprises: a document image display controller which displays a predetermined image corresponding to selected document data; and a...

20060206527 - Document management method and apparatus and document search method and apparatus: A document management method includes shifting a character string of characters from document data and clipping it, determining that a management Gram obtained by the clipping is one of a first Gram of low frequency and a second Gram of high frequency, storing first post data in a first post...

20060206519 - Document managing apparatus: A document managing apparatus has a memory in which files are classified and stored, detects an updated file from the files stored in the memory, and combines the detected file with an image data file stored in the memory in the same class as that of the file in a...

20060206522 - Electronic calendar systems and methods: Embodiments herein use a centralized calendar database to store calendar entries for a plurality of entities. Each of the entities has a computing device separate from the centralized calendar database, and each of the computing devices has a graphic user interface. In addition, multiple calendar processors are utilized. Each calendar...

20060206524 - Intelligent collection management: A data organization system that facilitates altering a structure of an item (e.g., query result set, file system directory view, list, folder) in a data storage component. The system includes an operation selection component that converts a manipulation request (e.g., high-level) into a collection management (e.g., low level) operator thus...

20060206518 - Method and system for extracting structural information from a data file: A system and method for generating metadata from a data file are provided. The method includes the steps of parsing a data file having data nodes arranged in a hierarchal structure by sequentially processing the data nodes to generate parsing events and calling back at least one parsing event to...

20060206523 - Single-pass translation of flat-file documents into xml format including validation, ambiguity resolution, and acknowledgement generation: Systems and methods are disclosed that facilitate formally describing structured documents and complex validation rules associated therewith using value-added XSD schemas (VAXs). In accordance with aspects of the invention, structured documents can be translated, parsed, validated, and acknowledged in a single pass via utilization of XSD schema representations that capture...

20060206526 - Video editing method and apparatus: A computer video editing system and method in a network of computers is disclosed. The system and method include a datastore or other source of subject video data, a transcription module and an assembly member. The transcription module generates a working transcript of the corresponding audio data of subject source...

20060206534 - Commitment chains for conflict resolution between disconnected data sharing applications: A sequence of processing transactions operating on a cached data set, which depend on each other because they operate on the same items of data from the data set. The transactions are saved until the master copy of the data becomes available. The transactions are played back against the master...

20060206528 - Database instance decommissioning system and method: A system, method and program product for decommissioning database instances. A computer system is disclosed that includes an agent processing system that deactivates agents associated with a database instance; an access processing system that restricts further access to the database instance; and a mailer processing system that deactivates mailing transactions...

20060206529 - Document managing apparatus: A document managing apparatus detects an updated file as a difference file among files which are documents constituting management objects, extracts link information from the difference file which is the detected updated file, accesses a link end indicated by the extracted link information to acquire a link end file from...

20060206530 - Document managing apparatus: A document managing apparatus judges whether or not an amount of documents managed by a document management table reaches a predetermined upper-limit close value to judge that the amount of the documents managed by the document management table approaches a manageable upper-limit value, and the apparatus deletes user's designated document...

20060206531 - Document managing apparatus: A document-managing-apparatus includes a file-managing-unit which manages file-managing-information, a file-of-data being entered in the file-managing-information, the data constituting a document which is a managing-target, a document-managing-unit which manages a document-managing-information by arranging the document-managing-information in the particular order, the document-managing-information including classification-information on at least classification attached to the document...

20060206535 - File access method in storage-device system, and programs for the file access: In order to manage the various types of attribute information within the storage-device system, the storage-device system includes the following databases within a file-access controlling memory: a database for managing index information for managing contents of the files, and an index retrieval program, a database for managing the attribute information...

20060206533 - Online storage with metadata-based retrieval: A novel system that facilitates monitoring and/or updating data contained within a plurality of network devices. The system includes a file system user interface (UI) that can render a unified representation of the content across multiple stores corresponding to a plurality of disparate network devices. The UI facilitates searching and/or...

20060206536 - Providing a snapshot of a subset of a file system: A system, method and computer readable medium for providing a snapshot of a subset of a file system. A first snapshot of a first set of source files in a file system is generated. The first snapshot includes an inode corresponding to each source file in the first set of...

20060206532 - Query-based notification architecture: A data repository monitoring system that utilizes queries to generate notifications in response to the identification of new and changed content. The system includes a monitoring component that monitors a plurality of disparate repositories in order to identify the receipt of new or modified content. The monitoring component includes a...

20060206537 - Updating electronic files using byte-level file differencing and updating algorithms: A system and method for updating electronic files and file components are provided. An upgrade client of a remote device receives a delta file block that codes differences between an original and a new version of a file. The upgrade client stores the delta file block in a first memory...

20060206539 - Method and system for retroactive logging: A method and system for retroactive logging disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises commencing the execution of an operation of a software application. When beginning a critical operation capable of generating enormous amounts of log data, the application opens a buffer to store log information that describes the operation...

20060206538 - System for performing log writes in a database management system: A transaction logging system for performing log writes in a database management system. The transaction logging system has an associated operating system and a target storage system to which are written log records representing complete database transactions. The system includes non-volatile memory accessible by the database management system and directly...

20060206543 - Database reorganization program and method: A database reorganization program to reorganize a database with minimizing memory consumption. When a command for reorganizing a database is issued, a record reorganization unit sequentially selects a page of a basic area with reference to an index, and moves the records of the selected page into new destination pages...

20060206542 - Differencing in a data replication appliance: Methods and apparatus are provided for copying data from a primary storage facility to a secondary storage facility which reduce the workload on the storage controller in the primary facility and minimize bandwidth usage. The primary storage facility includes a primary data replication appliance which transfers data to a secondary...

20060206541 - Document managing apparatus: A document managing apparatus manages a file which is a document, and version information of the document by a document management table, produces a printing image of the document from the file managed as the document by the document management table, stores a printing image of the produced document in...

20060206540 - Generating unique name/version number pairs when names can be re-used: Various embodiments of a method, system and article of manufacture provide a version number. An object has a present name and a present version number. In response to changing the present name of the object to a different name, the different name having been used by one or more other...

20060206544 - Automatic backup and restore system and method: An automatic database backup and restoration system comprises an interface component that receives statements relating to backing up at least a portion of a first database, the original database resident upon a consumer computing device. A backup component associated with the interface component automatically copies at least the portion of...

20060206545 - Document file management apparatus, document file management method, and document file management program: Each image data is produced which corresponds to document data of at least a representative page of each stored document file. The produced image data is developed while successively switched every document unit in accordance with user's predetermined operation. One or a plurality of document files having document data of...

20060206546 - Document managing apparatus: A document managing apparatus stores beforehand in a document management table a representative page of each document for use as a representative image of each document displayed when switching the document, and rewrites the representative page of a present document being displayed in a document searching screen into the present...

20060206547 - Storing and retrieving computer data files using an encrypted network drive file system: A system and method for storing computer files in a destination file is described, which may be an incremental backup system. File headers related to the files may be stored in a file index separate from a data file, or subsequent versions may be stored in the same data file...

20060200443 - Bookmarks and subscriptions for feeds: Techniques for detecting, managing, and presenting syndication XML (feeds) are disclosed. In one embodiment, a web browser automatically determines that a web site is publishing feeds and notifies the user, who can then access the feed easily. In another embodiment, a browser determines that a web page or feed is...

20060200442 - Dynamic learning for navigation systems: A method performed in a system involves, at a node within the system, receiving an input from a user, determining that the input contains an unknown word, presenting at least one response to the user, and based upon at least one additional input from the user, learning one or more...

20060200444 - Enterprise computer system: A scalable enterprise computer system having the capability to provide transaction security as well as providing subscription filtering is described. As a method of transacting an event in the enterprise computer system a connection with an information broker by the publishe established after which it is determined if the event...

20060200441 - Information processing apparatus, information managing apparatus, information managing system, information processing method, information managing method, information processing program, information managing program, and recording medium: An information processing apparatus is capable of performing an application for allowing a user to operate a document using GUI. The information processing apparatus has an information obtaining unit configured to detect a predetermined event concerning the GUI and to obtain document information about a document to be operated in...

20060200440 - Method for providing information about multimedia contents in multimedia service system: Disclosed is a method for providing information about multimedia contents in a multimedia service system. If a mobile communication terminal receives a request for content information from a user while reproducing received multimedia data according to a VOD service, the mobile communication terminal provides information related to a content request...

20060200439 - System and method for data manipulation: In one embodiment of the invention, a system for data manipulation includes a mapper module operable to receive a first data format of a source file, receive a second data format of a target file, and automatically generate a script to represent a movement of data from the source file...

20060200438 - System and method for retrieving data from a relational database management system: As method is disclosed for retrieving data from a relational database management system (RDBMS). An object-oriented environment submits a query to an object relational layer to access data contained in the RDBMS. The object query can result in at least one logical object description that is defined using one or...

20060200448 - Calculation engine for use in olap environments: This invention addresses the need for dealing with complex planning calculations based on data warehouse or Planning Data Repository (PDR) data where some aggregated data or forecast data might be changed without directly manipulating the underlying data, and where there may be several relationships linking the data. The system is...

20060200447 - Method and system for managing information on a product: The management of information on a product is provided, in which text information on the product is initially provided for display to a user. In response to a request, graphical information on the product is generated using the product and provided for display to the user. The graphical information can...

20060200445 - Providing history and transaction volume information of a content source to users: A computer-implemented system and method for providing a legitimacy rating of a content source are provided. A request for a document is received. An electronic document associated with a content source is passed by a document provider in response to the request. A legitimacy rating of the content source is...

20060200446 - System and method for secure full-text indexing: Documents are indexed in accordance with a process that separates the filtering and word breaking portions of the process so that they are performed under a restricted security setting. When a document is requested by an indexer, the document is retrieved and then passed to the higher security process. The...

20060200454 - Database shutdown with session migration: When a request for a shutdown of a server (e.g. database server) is requested, existing sessions established for the clients are migrated to another server. Some sessions may not be migrated for various reasons; these sessions may be terminated without migrating them....

20060200453 - Method and system for enterprise data access, annotation and sharing: Methods and/or systems allowing flexible, cross-platform data access in enterprise environments and from a variety of different information sources using a convenient interface uses multiple and/or parallel examination of a number of data sources through a client process and return of multiple results that can be modified, cross-referenced or annotated...

20060200452 - Method for translating syntax of patent information search: A method for translating syntax of patent information search includes the steps of: receiving a search string; parsing the syntax of the search string and dividing the search string into different parts; generating a syntax tree according to the divided different parts; optimizing the syntax tree; parsing the different parts...

20060200450 - Monitoring health of actively executing computer applications: Systems and methods are described that monitor health of actively executing computer applications, and particularly which monitor relational database space availability. In one implementation, a warning threshold is defined for free space within a database located on a SQL server. The complexity of the database is assessed, in part by...

20060200451 - Plan generation in database query optimizers through specification of plan patterns: Methods and systems receive a query, receive a control statement that represents at least a portion of a desired execution plan associated with the query, and produce an execution plan that conforms to the desired plan to the extent that the produced plan preserves the semantics of the query, without...

20060200449 - Query by indefinite expressions: A method and apparatus for retrieving data from a database is disclosed. A plurality of entities are stored in a first memory and information about each stored entity is stored in a second memory. Criteria in the form of at least one indefinite expression is received from a user for...

20060200457 - Extracting information from formatted sources: An extraction manager extracts information from formatted input. The input is annotated with presentation information, and parsed into a set of elements comprising a canonical representation thereof. An information analyzer analyzes the elements in order to glean additional information. An entity extractor determines entities to extract from the input. The...

20060200458 - Network router configured for executing network operations based on parsing xml tags in a received xml document: A router is configured for routing, via an open protocol network, a received message to a destination node based on parsing an XML portion within the received message. The router includes an XML parser configured for parsing XML tags specifying prescribed attributes, and an application resource configured for interpreting the...

20060200455 - Search engine result reporter: A method of reporting search results that preserves important locational information retrieved with the search results. An Hierarchical Data Modeller extracts locational information from each search result and compiles the locational information into a hierarchical storage. In one embodiment, the search results are presented to the user in a Hierarchical...

20060200456 - System, method and circuit for responding to a client data service request: According to some embodiments of the present invention, one or more parameters of a received data service request may be compared against a lookup table. Based on one or more priority values stored in the lookup table and associated with the one or more request parameters, the data service request...

20060200461 - Process for identifying weighted contextural relationships between unrelated documents: A system that builds a network using a document collection wherein the documents are collected and represented as a plurality of nodes in a network matrix. The documents that are to be analyzed are bound to the network (corpus) at a discrete node corresponding to the document. The documents are...

20060200460 - System and method for ranking search results using file types: Search results of a search query on a network are ranked according to an additional ranking function for the prior probability of relevance of a document based on document property. The document property may be the document's file type, the file size, the document language, or another query-independent property of...

20060200462 - System and method for retrieving and organizing information from disparate computer network information services: A system and method is provided for accessing information from a plurality of searchable information sources. The method includes the steps of: analyzing a user search query to determine a subject matter of the query; and selecting a sub-set of information from the plurality of information sources based upon the...

20060200459 - Tiered access to integrated rating system: Tiered-access to data from which integrated ratings on companies is derived to users at machines connected to a distributed computer network. All users are presented with a name of a particular company in association with a computed integrated rating through a first interface component. Only a subset of the users...

20060200463 - Determining a presentation rule in response to detecting multiple users: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, detect a first user, detect a second user, determine a presentation rule based on the detection of the first and second user, and send the presentation rule to an application. The presentation rule instructs the application to modify data...

20060200464 - Method and system for generating a document summary: A text document is segmented into word and sentence information when the document is first presented and indexed. A memory stream is generated for the document. The memory stream includes document title information, word offsets, sentence offsets, the alternate list, and the contents of the document. The memory stream is...

20060200465 - Method for searching a computer file in a file directory according to its file name: The present invention provides a method for searching a file in a file directory according to a given file name of the file. The method includes the steps of: counting number k of characters of the file name; calculating number n of files in the file directory; executing a first...

20060200466 - System and method for filtering and organizing items based on common elements: A system and method for filtering and organizing items from computer memories based on common elements is provided. Filters are provided for manipulating the items. The filters are essentially tools for narrowing down a set of items. The filters can be dynamically generated based on the properties of the separate...

20060200467 - Information processing device and method, program, and recording medium: A PK 22 storing PMD as personal related information of a user 20 communicates with a service system 24. When first using the service system 24, the PK 22 stores the service ID of the service system 24 and a spoofing preventing method. When the PK 22 communicates with the...

20060200468 - Method and computer-readable medium for generating usage rights for an item based upon access rights: A method and computer-readable medium are provided for generating usage rights for an item based upon rights to access the item. According to the method, a request is received at a document management system for an item stored in a library. In response to the request, access rights to the...

20060200469 - Global session identifiers in a multi-node system: A method and apparatus for managing sessions across the nodes of a multi-node system is provided. When a session is first initiated on any node of a multi-node system, a global session identifier is assigned to the session. The global session identifier uniquely identifies the session relative to all other...

20060200471 - Method and apparatus for communicating between an agent and a remote management module in a processing system: A processing system includes control circuitry to control the processing system, a remote management module to enable remote management of the processing system via a network, and an agent to operate as an intermediary between the remote management module and the control circuitry. The agent and the remote management module...

20060200470 - System and method for managing small-size files in an aggregated file system: In an aggregated file system, a method of processing a user file retrieves its metadata and user data from a metadata server and applies operations to the user data in accordance with a file open request from a client. At the end of the process, the method stores the processed...

20060200472 - System and method to perform mobile printing from handheld devices: A system and method for printing a file on a remote printer via an electronic message. A personal electronic device transmits an electronic message requesting a listing of available electronic files. The personal electronic device then receives an electronic message in response to the request containing a list of available...

20060200473 - Techniques for remote resource mounting: Techniques for remote resource mounting are provided. A login resource logs into a network. During the login, a mounting specification associated with the login resource is acquired. The mounting specification defines how a remote resource is to be locally mounted on a local device of the login resource. The mounting...

20060200475 - Additive clustering of images lacking individualized date-time information: A database has chronologically ordered images classified into event groups based upon a time difference threshold, and into subgroups based upon a similarity measure. In a method and system for combining new images into such a database, new image are ordered into clusters based upon assessed image features. A representative...

20060200474 - Alternative sourcing assessment: A method and apparatus, including a computer program product, implementing techniques for providing a sourcing model recommendation for business applications. The techniques include grouping a plurality of application programs to form one or more application clusters. One or more of a suitability assessment, readiness assessment, and risk assessment can be...

20060200476 - Creating, storing and viewing process models: The location of a drawing of an activity, a property of an element in the drawing and the structural relationship of elements in the drawing are stored in a database. The database is accessed to form a user interface that provides a hierarchical representation of activities and the elements within...

20060200479 - Form production system: The present invention relates to an on-line system for facilitating the production of forms, such as business cards, stationery, catalogues and generally any printed matter. Relatively permanent material for the production of forms is stored as a form structure in a computing system repository. The system receives copy information input...

20060200478 - Generating structured information: Structured and/or unstructured data about enterprises are acquired from one or more sources such as commercial data providers, enterprise web sites, and/or directory web sites. Strings are extracted from the unstructured data. The strings contain key, value pairs describing facts about the enterprises. The extracted strings are parsed to normalize...

20060200477 - Method and system for managing information technology data: Database system for storing information technology (IT) management operational data and a method and apparatus for managing IT data are provided. The database utilizes an integrated database schema. IT operational data is stored into the database using the integrated database schema and the database is accessed by plural applications and/or...

20060200481 - Method and system for data optimization and protection in dsp firmware: A method and system for optimizing data includes determining whether the data is comprised of initializing zeroes, generating an empty block-when it is determined that the data is comprised of initializing zeroes, restoring the data comprised of initializing zeroes from the generated empty block, and loading the restored data comprised...

20060200480 - System and method for using product identifiers: A novel method for using product identifiers includes capturing a product identifier identifying a product, selecting one of a plurality of queries, transmitting the product identifier and the selected query to a data provider, and receiving a response to the selected query from the data provider. The method is performed...

20060200483 - Blog integration in a collaborative system: A method, system and apparatus for an integrated blog in a collaborative environment. In this regard, the collaborative environment can include a named collaborative space and one or more collaborative components disposed in the named collaborative space. For instance, the collaborative components can include a discussion forum, a persistent chat,...

20060200489 - Company modeling: A company is compared to a generic company model to identify differences between the company and the generic company model. The generic company model includes a work model that describes sequences of tasks that form processes performed within a generic company and a persona model that describes generic personas in...

20060200485 - Database instance management system and method: A system, method and program product for managing database instances. A computer system is disclosed that includes a system for inputting a request for a new database instance; a system for verifying the request; a system for creating the database instance; and a system for configuring the database instance....

20060200487 - Domain name related reputation and secure certificates: Systems and methods of the present invention allow for issuing a secure certificate using improved methods in verifying a Subscriber. In a sample embodiment, a Registering Entity maintains a database with reputation data that can be accessed by a Certification Authority. The Registering Entity may update reputation data based on...

20060200490 - Geographical indexing system and method: A geographical indexing system and method for use in association with a plurality of search results and a user-selected location. A user-selected location is obtained by providing a user with a graphical geographical map and receiving a user-selected location on the graphical geographical map. Geographically indexed search results are obtained...

20060200488 - System and method for providing post hoc access to legacy applications and data: A method and architecture having components for performing a method comprising the steps of: forming a simple bi-directional communication link between each of the clients and a server; and, transmitting along the communication link at least one of two kinds of messages comprising a first message which is a synchronous...

20060200486 - System and method for supporting non-native data types in a database api: A database API is presented that can expose data of non-native data-types, i.e., types that are unknown at API design-time. A broad type-system is used that is understood by both a server and a client. The API can dynamically discover, at run-time, data types that were defined using this broad...

20060200482 - System, method and program product for setting and managing breakpoints in a data schema mapping editor: Breakpoints are set in a data schema mapping editor that has an expandable view of model objects. A vertical ruler is provided adjacent to the expandable view for setting breakpoints for the model objects. If the expandable view is manipulated or if a scroll bar is adjusted, the breakpoints will...

20060200484 - Unified reporting: A framework is provided that uniformly stores in a central repository data collected from various locations in an enterprise computing network. One or more measurements for data of interest in the central repository are pre-calculated. The pre-calculated measurement(s) are normalized to reflect the relative importance of the data of interest...

20060200491 - Remote status and control of storage devices: A system and method for remotely monitoring and controlling a data storage system comprising a web server that has an ability to send and receive communications with one or more data storage systems through the storage system's main data communication path or through an alternate path. The web server may...

20060200494 - Automated discovery and inventory of nodes within an autonomic distributed computing system: A distributed computing system conforms to a multi-level, hierarchical organizational model. One or more control nodes provide for the efficient and automated allocation and management of computing functions and resources within the distributed computing system in accordance with the organization model. The model includes four distinct levels: fabric, domains, tiers...

20060200492 - Automatic evaluation system using specialized communications interfaces: Techniques for identifying properties of interest include providing an input device configured to receive parameters relating to real property and a property database that contains records on substantially every residential property in a defined geographic region. In various embodiments, each entry of the property database can include an identifying field...

20060200493 - Method for data processing device exchanging data with computer: The invention relates to a method for data processing device exchanging data with computer, including: a computer sends a enquiring message of the device's type to the data processing device; after receiving the message, the control module sends the information about the device's type of the data processing device, informs...

20060200496 - Organization action incidents: A system for identifying and managing incidents of organization actions performed with applications includes a processor and communications interface. The communications interface receives communication messages between an application and a server. The processor receives at least one policy for an organization action performed with the application. The processor processes the...

20060200495 - System and method for displaying and editing information search conditions: A method for displaying and editing information search conditions includes steps: converting field searching components and operating components to graph components; receiving a search character string; defining minimum token units and constructing the search character string to a token sequence; identifying all minimum token units in the token sequence and...

20060200497 - Lost write detection and repair: Techniques are provided for detecting lost writes so that data corruption can be avoided. According to one technique, lost writes are detected by comparing version numbers that are indicated in redo log entries with version numbers that are indicated in corresponding blocks in a standby database. According to one technique,...

20060200499 - System and method for data manipulation: In one embodiment of the invention, a method for designing data movement from a source file to a target file includes receiving a first data format of a source file via a graphical user interface, receiving a second data format of a target file via the graphical user interface, receiving...

20060200498 - Techniques for recording file operations and consistency points for producing a consistent copy: Described are a method and computer program product for capturing file operations applied to a data set. One or more file operations having a corresponding time sequence which modify said data set are recorded. A request for a copy of the data set in a consistent state is received. It...

20060200501 - Control of a data replication engine using attributes associated with a transaction: A data replication engine is controlled in a system that replicates data associated with a plurality of transactions from a source database to a target database. The system includes a change queue that contains transaction data associated with the transactions. The system maintains one or more attributes outside of the...

20060200500 - Method of efficiently recovering database: A method of efficiently recovering a database that can be applied to a mobile communication terminal employing a flash memory as a storage medium is provided. In the flash memory, a database (DB) storage area and a DB recovery area are separately allocated. Images of pages in the DB storage...

20060200502 - Differential data creating device and method, updated data recovery device and method, and program: A code area information file (115), which corresponds to arrangement information of code areas in a data storage memory (121) of a differential data restoring section (120), is provided in a differential data generating and sending section (110). The differential data restoring section (120) restores post-update data from differential data...

20060200503 - Modifying back-end web server documents at an intermediary server using directives: Network services are provided by a network coupled back-end server that is accessed by an intermediary server such as a reverse proxy server. A service request is received at the back-end server via the intermediary server. The back-end server forms a first document in response to the service request. The...

20060200506 - Data protection systems with multiple site replication: A data backup system implements multiple site replication of data. Replication may be triggered, scheduled, performed in response to an unload, or performed during backup processes. Preferably, data is read without decompression, and sent in a compressed state to a central facility....

20060200504 - Method and apparatus for role mapping methodology for user registry migration: A method, an apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for role mapping methodology for user registry migration. A migration engine is provided, which conjoins a set of conditions defined in a role mapping file to form a set of migration rules. The migration engine evaluates the migration rules against the...

20060200507 - Optimized statement caching for transaction replay: Transactions are replicated from a source database to a target database in a data replication system. The system includes a first memory location that persistently stores statement text associated with transactions to be replicated. Transactions to be replicated are cached by separating the transactions into statement text and statement data....

20060200505 - System and method for backing up open files of a source control management repository: A software agent, system and method for backing up open files of a source control management repository are provided. The agent includes a context information agent for retrieving context information including a location of the at least one open file from the source control repository; and a file movement agent...

20060200508 - System for archive integrity management and related methods: A system for archive integrity management and related methods are disclosed. The invention includes one or more integrity manager applications, each of which monitor the integrity of an aspect of a data archive. Some integrity manager applications monitor the integrity of processes executed by the archive system, and other integrity...

20060200509 - Method and apparatus for addressing media resource, and recording medium thereof: Disclosed are a media resource addressing method and a recording medium thereof. The media resource addressing method for a media file which includes a meta data box including a DID and a media data box, comprises extracting a corresponding media resource according to reference information of the media resource recorded...

20060200443 - Bookmarks and subscriptions for feeds: Techniques for detecting, managing, and presenting syndication XML (feeds) are disclosed. In one embodiment, a web browser automatically determines that a web site is publishing feeds and notifies the user, who can then access the feed easily. In another embodiment, a browser determines that a web page or feed is...

20060200442 - Dynamic learning for navigation systems: A method performed in a system involves, at a node within the system, receiving an input from a user, determining that the input contains an unknown word, presenting at least one response to the user, and based upon at least one additional input from the user, learning one or more...

20060200444 - Enterprise computer system: A scalable enterprise computer system having the capability to provide transaction security as well as providing subscription filtering is described. As a method of transacting an event in the enterprise computer system a connection with an information broker by the publishe established after which it is determined if the event...

20060200441 - Information processing apparatus, information managing apparatus, information managing system, information processing method, information managing method, information processing program, information managing program, and recording medium: An information processing apparatus is capable of performing an application for allowing a user to operate a document using GUI. The information processing apparatus has an information obtaining unit configured to detect a predetermined event concerning the GUI and to obtain document information about a document to be operated in...

20060200440 - Method for providing information about multimedia contents in multimedia service system: Disclosed is a method for providing information about multimedia contents in a multimedia service system. If a mobile communication terminal receives a request for content information from a user while reproducing received multimedia data according to a VOD service, the mobile communication terminal provides information related to a content request...

20060200439 - System and method for data manipulation: In one embodiment of the invention, a system for data manipulation includes a mapper module operable to receive a first data format of a source file, receive a second data format of a target file, and automatically generate a script to represent a movement of data from the source file...

20060200438 - System and method for retrieving data from a relational database management system: As method is disclosed for retrieving data from a relational database management system (RDBMS). An object-oriented environment submits a query to an object relational layer to access data contained in the RDBMS. The object query can result in at least one logical object description that is defined using one or...

20060200448 - Calculation engine for use in olap environments: This invention addresses the need for dealing with complex planning calculations based on data warehouse or Planning Data Repository (PDR) data where some aggregated data or forecast data might be changed without directly manipulating the underlying data, and where there may be several relationships linking the data. The system is...

20060200447 - Method and system for managing information on a product: The management of information on a product is provided, in which text information on the product is initially provided for display to a user. In response to a request, graphical information on the product is generated using the product and provided for display to the user. The graphical information can...

20060200445 - Providing history and transaction volume information of a content source to users: A computer-implemented system and method for providing a legitimacy rating of a content source are provided. A request for a document is received. An electronic document associated with a content source is passed by a document provider in response to the request. A legitimacy rating of the content source is...

20060200446 - System and method for secure full-text indexing: Documents are indexed in accordance with a process that separates the filtering and word breaking portions of the process so that they are performed under a restricted security setting. When a document is requested by an indexer, the document is retrieved and then passed to the higher security process. The...

20060200454 - Database shutdown with session migration: When a request for a shutdown of a server (e.g. database server) is requested, existing sessions established for the clients are migrated to another server. Some sessions may not be migrated for various reasons; these sessions may be terminated without migrating them....

20060200453 - Method and system for enterprise data access, annotation and sharing: Methods and/or systems allowing flexible, cross-platform data access in enterprise environments and from a variety of different information sources using a convenient interface uses multiple and/or parallel examination of a number of data sources through a client process and return of multiple results that can be modified, cross-referenced or annotated...

20060200452 - Method for translating syntax of patent information search: A method for translating syntax of patent information search includes the steps of: receiving a search string; parsing the syntax of the search string and dividing the search string into different parts; generating a syntax tree according to the divided different parts; optimizing the syntax tree; parsing the different parts...

20060200450 - Monitoring health of actively executing computer applications: Systems and methods are described that monitor health of actively executing computer applications, and particularly which monitor relational database space availability. In one implementation, a warning threshold is defined for free space within a database located on a SQL server. The complexity of the database is assessed, in part by...

20060200451 - Plan generation in database query optimizers through specification of plan patterns: Methods and systems receive a query, receive a control statement that represents at least a portion of a desired execution plan associated with the query, and produce an execution plan that conforms to the desired plan to the extent that the produced plan preserves the semantics of the query, without...

20060200449 - Query by indefinite expressions: A method and apparatus for retrieving data from a database is disclosed. A plurality of entities are stored in a first memory and information about each stored entity is stored in a second memory. Criteria in the form of at least one indefinite expression is received from a user for...

20060200457 - Extracting information from formatted sources: An extraction manager extracts information from formatted input. The input is annotated with presentation information, and parsed into a set of elements comprising a canonical representation thereof. An information analyzer analyzes the elements in order to glean additional information. An entity extractor determines entities to extract from the input. The...

20060200458 - Network router configured for executing network operations based on parsing xml tags in a received xml document: A router is configured for routing, via an open protocol network, a received message to a destination node based on parsing an XML portion within the received message. The router includes an XML parser configured for parsing XML tags specifying prescribed attributes, and an application resource configured for interpreting the...

20060200455 - Search engine result reporter: A method of reporting search results that preserves important locational information retrieved with the search results. An Hierarchical Data Modeller extracts locational information from each search result and compiles the locational information into a hierarchical storage. In one embodiment, the search results are presented to the user in a Hierarchical...

20060200456 - System, method and circuit for responding to a client data service request: According to some embodiments of the present invention, one or more parameters of a received data service request may be compared against a lookup table. Based on one or more priority values stored in the lookup table and associated with the one or more request parameters, the data service request...

20060200461 - Process for identifying weighted contextural relationships between unrelated documents: A system that builds a network using a document collection wherein the documents are collected and represented as a plurality of nodes in a network matrix. The documents that are to be analyzed are bound to the network (corpus) at a discrete node corresponding to the document. The documents are...

20060200460 - System and method for ranking search results using file types: Search results of a search query on a network are ranked according to an additional ranking function for the prior probability of relevance of a document based on document property. The document property may be the document's file type, the file size, the document language, or another query-independent property of...

20060200462 - System and method for retrieving and organizing information from disparate computer network information services: A system and method is provided for accessing information from a plurality of searchable information sources. The method includes the steps of: analyzing a user search query to determine a subject matter of the query; and selecting a sub-set of information from the plurality of information sources based upon the...

20060200459 - Tiered access to integrated rating system: Tiered-access to data from which integrated ratings on companies is derived to users at machines connected to a distributed computer network. All users are presented with a name of a particular company in association with a computed integrated rating through a first interface component. Only a subset of the users...

20060200463 - Determining a presentation rule in response to detecting multiple users: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, detect a first user, detect a second user, determine a presentation rule based on the detection of the first and second user, and send the presentation rule to an application. The presentation rule instructs the application to modify data...

20060200464 - Method and system for generating a document summary: A text document is segmented into word and sentence information when the document is first presented and indexed. A memory stream is generated for the document. The memory stream includes document title information, word offsets, sentence offsets, the alternate list, and the contents of the document. The memory stream is...

20060200465 - Method for searching a computer file in a file directory according to its file name: The present invention provides a method for searching a file in a file directory according to a given file name of the file. The method includes the steps of: counting number k of characters of the file name; calculating number n of files in the file directory; executing a first...

20060200466 - System and method for filtering and organizing items based on common elements: A system and method for filtering and organizing items from computer memories based on common elements is provided. Filters are provided for manipulating the items. The filters are essentially tools for narrowing down a set of items. The filters can be dynamically generated based on the properties of the separate...

20060200467 - Information processing device and method, program, and recording medium: A PK 22 storing PMD as personal related information of a user 20 communicates with a service system 24. When first using the service system 24, the PK 22 stores the service ID of the service system 24 and a spoofing preventing method. When the PK 22 communicates with the...

20060200468 - Method and computer-readable medium for generating usage rights for an item based upon access rights: A method and computer-readable medium are provided for generating usage rights for an item based upon rights to access the item. According to the method, a request is received at a document management system for an item stored in a library. In response to the request, access rights to the...

20060200469 - Global session identifiers in a multi-node system: A method and apparatus for managing sessions across the nodes of a multi-node system is provided. When a session is first initiated on any node of a multi-node system, a global session identifier is assigned to the session. The global session identifier uniquely identifies the session relative to all other...

20060200471 - Method and apparatus for communicating between an agent and a remote management module in a processing system: A processing system includes control circuitry to control the processing system, a remote management module to enable remote management of the processing system via a network, and an agent to operate as an intermediary between the remote management module and the control circuitry. The agent and the remote management module...

20060200470 - System and method for managing small-size files in an aggregated file system: In an aggregated file system, a method of processing a user file retrieves its metadata and user data from a metadata server and applies operations to the user data in accordance with a file open request from a client. At the end of the process, the method stores the processed...

20060200472 - System and method to perform mobile printing from handheld devices: A system and method for printing a file on a remote printer via an electronic message. A personal electronic device transmits an electronic message requesting a listing of available electronic files. The personal electronic device then receives an electronic message in response to the request containing a list of available...

20060200473 - Techniques for remote resource mounting: Techniques for remote resource mounting are provided. A login resource logs into a network. During the login, a mounting specification associated with the login resource is acquired. The mounting specification defines how a remote resource is to be locally mounted on a local device of the login resource. The mounting...

20060200475 - Additive clustering of images lacking individualized date-time information: A database has chronologically ordered images classified into event groups based upon a time difference threshold, and into subgroups based upon a similarity measure. In a method and system for combining new images into such a database, new image are ordered into clusters based upon assessed image features. A representative...

20060200474 - Alternative sourcing assessment: A method and apparatus, including a computer program product, implementing techniques for providing a sourcing model recommendation for business applications. The techniques include grouping a plurality of application programs to form one or more application clusters. One or more of a suitability assessment, readiness assessment, and risk assessment can be...

20060200476 - Creating, storing and viewing process models: The location of a drawing of an activity, a property of an element in the drawing and the structural relationship of elements in the drawing are stored in a database. The database is accessed to form a user interface that provides a hierarchical representation of activities and the elements within...

20060200479 - Form production system: The present invention relates to an on-line system for facilitating the production of forms, such as business cards, stationery, catalogues and generally any printed matter. Relatively permanent material for the production of forms is stored as a form structure in a computing system repository. The system receives copy information input...

20060200478 - Generating structured information: Structured and/or unstructured data about enterprises are acquired from one or more sources such as commercial data providers, enterprise web sites, and/or directory web sites. Strings are extracted from the unstructured data. The strings contain key, value pairs describing facts about the enterprises. The extracted strings are parsed to normalize...

20060200477 - Method and system for managing information technology data: Database system for storing information technology (IT) management operational data and a method and apparatus for managing IT data are provided. The database utilizes an integrated database schema. IT operational data is stored into the database using the integrated database schema and the database is accessed by plural applications and/or...

20060200481 - Method and system for data optimization and protection in dsp firmware: A method and system for optimizing data includes determining whether the data is comprised of initializing zeroes, generating an empty block-when it is determined that the data is comprised of initializing zeroes, restoring the data comprised of initializing zeroes from the generated empty block, and loading the restored data comprised...

20060200480 - System and method for using product identifiers: A novel method for using product identifiers includes capturing a product identifier identifying a product, selecting one of a plurality of queries, transmitting the product identifier and the selected query to a data provider, and receiving a response to the selected query from the data provider. The method is performed...

20060200483 - Blog integration in a collaborative system: A method, system and apparatus for an integrated blog in a collaborative environment. In this regard, the collaborative environment can include a named collaborative space and one or more collaborative components disposed in the named collaborative space. For instance, the collaborative components can include a discussion forum, a persistent chat,...

20060200489 - Company modeling: A company is compared to a generic company model to identify differences between the company and the generic company model. The generic company model includes a work model that describes sequences of tasks that form processes performed within a generic company and a persona model that describes generic personas in...

20060200485 - Database instance management system and method: A system, method and program product for managing database instances. A computer system is disclosed that includes a system for inputting a request for a new database instance; a system for verifying the request; a system for creating the database instance; and a system for configuring the database instance....

20060200487 - Domain name related reputation and secure certificates: Systems and methods of the present invention allow for issuing a secure certificate using improved methods in verifying a Subscriber. In a sample embodiment, a Registering Entity maintains a database with reputation data that can be accessed by a Certification Authority. The Registering Entity may update reputation data based on...

20060200490 - Geographical indexing system and method: A geographical indexing system and method for use in association with a plurality of search results and a user-selected location. A user-selected location is obtained by providing a user with a graphical geographical map and receiving a user-selected location on the graphical geographical map. Geographically indexed search results are obtained...

20060200488 - System and method for providing post hoc access to legacy applications and data: A method and architecture having components for performing a method comprising the steps of: forming a simple bi-directional communication link between each of the clients and a server; and, transmitting along the communication link at least one of two kinds of messages comprising a first message which is a synchronous...

20060200486 - System and method for supporting non-native data types in a database api: A database API is presented that can expose data of non-native data-types, i.e., types that are unknown at API design-time. A broad type-system is used that is understood by both a server and a client. The API can dynamically discover, at run-time, data types that were defined using this broad...

20060200482 - System, method and program product for setting and managing breakpoints in a data schema mapping editor: Breakpoints are set in a data schema mapping editor that has an expandable view of model objects. A vertical ruler is provided adjacent to the expandable view for setting breakpoints for the model objects. If the expandable view is manipulated or if a scroll bar is adjusted, the breakpoints will...

20060200484 - Unified reporting: A framework is provided that uniformly stores in a central repository data collected from various locations in an enterprise computing network. One or more measurements for data of interest in the central repository are pre-calculated. The pre-calculated measurement(s) are normalized to reflect the relative importance of the data of interest...

20060200491 - Remote status and control of storage devices: A system and method for remotely monitoring and controlling a data storage system comprising a web server that has an ability to send and receive communications with one or more data storage systems through the storage system's main data communication path or through an alternate path. The web server may...

20060200494 - Automated discovery and inventory of nodes within an autonomic distributed computing system: A distributed computing system conforms to a multi-level, hierarchical organizational model. One or more control nodes provide for the efficient and automated allocation and management of computing functions and resources within the distributed computing system in accordance with the organization model. The model includes four distinct levels: fabric, domains, tiers...

20060200492 - Automatic evaluation system using specialized communications interfaces: Techniques for identifying properties of interest include providing an input device configured to receive parameters relating to real property and a property database that contains records on substantially every residential property in a defined geographic region. In various embodiments, each entry of the property database can include an identifying field...

20060200493 - Method for data processing device exchanging data with computer: The invention relates to a method for data processing device exchanging data with computer, including: a computer sends a enquiring message of the device's type to the data processing device; after receiving the message, the control module sends the information about the device's type of the data processing device, informs...

20060200496 - Organization action incidents: A system for identifying and managing incidents of organization actions performed with applications includes a processor and communications interface. The communications interface receives communication messages between an application and a server. The processor receives at least one policy for an organization action performed with the application. The processor processes the...

20060200495 - System and method for displaying and editing information search conditions: A method for displaying and editing information search conditions includes steps: converting field searching components and operating components to graph components; receiving a search character string; defining minimum token units and constructing the search character string to a token sequence; identifying all minimum token units in the token sequence and...

20060200497 - Lost write detection and repair: Techniques are provided for detecting lost writes so that data corruption can be avoided. According to one technique, lost writes are detected by comparing version numbers that are indicated in redo log entries with version numbers that are indicated in corresponding blocks in a standby database. According to one technique,...

20060200499 - System and method for data manipulation: In one embodiment of the invention, a method for designing data movement from a source file to a target file includes receiving a first data format of a source file via a graphical user interface, receiving a second data format of a target file via the graphical user interface, receiving...

20060200498 - Techniques for recording file operations and consistency points for producing a consistent copy: Described are a method and computer program product for capturing file operations applied to a data set. One or more file operations having a corresponding time sequence which modify said data set are recorded. A request for a copy of the data set in a consistent state is received. It...

20060200501 - Control of a data replication engine using attributes associated with a transaction: A data replication engine is controlled in a system that replicates data associated with a plurality of transactions from a source database to a target database. The system includes a change queue that contains transaction data associated with the transactions. The system maintains one or more attributes outside of the...

20060200500 - Method of efficiently recovering database: A method of efficiently recovering a database that can be applied to a mobile communication terminal employing a flash memory as a storage medium is provided. In the flash memory, a database (DB) storage area and a DB recovery area are separately allocated. Images of pages in the DB storage...

20060200502 - Differential data creating device and method, updated data recovery device and method, and program: A code area information file (115), which corresponds to arrangement information of code areas in a data storage memory (121) of a differential data restoring section (120), is provided in a differential data generating and sending section (110). The differential data restoring section (120) restores post-update data from differential data...

20060200503 - Modifying back-end web server documents at an intermediary server using directives: Network services are provided by a network coupled back-end server that is accessed by an intermediary server such as a reverse proxy server. A service request is received at the back-end server via the intermediary server. The back-end server forms a first document in response to the service request. The...

20060200506 - Data protection systems with multiple site replication: A data backup system implements multiple site replication of data. Replication may be triggered, scheduled, performed in response to an unload, or performed during backup processes. Preferably, data is read without decompression, and sent in a compressed state to a central facility....

20060200504 - Method and apparatus for role mapping methodology for user registry migration: A method, an apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for role mapping methodology for user registry migration. A migration engine is provided, which conjoins a set of conditions defined in a role mapping file to form a set of migration rules. The migration engine evaluates the migration rules against the...

20060200507 - Optimized statement caching for transaction replay: Transactions are replicated from a source database to a target database in a data replication system. The system includes a first memory location that persistently stores statement text associated with transactions to be replicated. Transactions to be replicated are cached by separating the transactions into statement text and statement data....

20060200505 - System and method for backing up open files of a source control management repository: A software agent, system and method for backing up open files of a source control management repository are provided. The agent includes a context information agent for retrieving context information including a location of the at least one open file from the source control repository; and a file movement agent...

20060200508 - System for archive integrity management and related methods: A system for archive integrity management and related methods are disclosed. The invention includes one or more integrity manager applications, each of which monitor the integrity of an aspect of a data archive. Some integrity manager applications monitor the integrity of processes executed by the archive system, and other integrity...

20060200509 - Method and apparatus for addressing media resource, and recording medium thereof: Disclosed are a media resource addressing method and a recording medium thereof. The media resource addressing method for a media file which includes a meta data box including a DID and a media data box, comprises extracting a corresponding media resource according to reference information of the media resource recorded...