Data processing: database and file management or data structures inventions 10/06

20060242108 - Advanced ground transportation management: Systems, methods and apparatuses for managing ground transportation in a geographical area are disclosed. A system in accordance with the present invention comprises a graphical information systems (GIS) database that represents the geographical area, wherein the GIS database includes at least one node representing at least one geographical location within...

20060242113 - Cybernetic search with knowledge maps: A precision information collating device is disclosed. The device comprises means for inputting keywords and key phrases and defining level of traverse for establishing interlinks and interdependencies between keywords and key phrases entered and using previously stored interlinks and interdependencies to form a map. The device facilitates searching for keywords...

20060242112 - Hierarchical storage management apparatus, method, and program: A hierarchical storage management apparatus manages data access to a plurality of hierarchical storage devices that have different performances. The hierarchical storage management apparatus includes the following elements: an access history recorder that records an access history of a data file stored in one of the plurality of hierarchical storage...

20060242114 - Method and apparatus for configuring a computer: A method and apparatus for configuring a computer. One embodiment of the invention combines all of the prior art control panels related to networking into a consolidated Network Setup Control Panel. In addition, the invention provides for computer configuration by scripting. The configuration may be for a type of system...

20060242101 - Method and system for semantic matching of web service policies: A system for and method of matching of web service policies, which includes matching of non-functional properties of first and second Web Services while considering inter-domain interactions of the first and second Web Services using semantics. Methods for semantic matching of web service policies are also described....

20060242107 - Method and system for sharing digital database: A method and a system for sharing a digital database. The system has a client platform, a server platform and a network. The database of the client platform has the same data format as the database of the server platform. Via the network, database sharing between the client platform and...

20060242103 - Method, system and program product for estimating transaction response times: Under the present invention, components of an enterprise architecture are first identified. This process not only involves hardware, software and topographic identification, but also includes developing and documenting an understanding of the business processes occurring within the enterprise architecture. Based on this analysis, an enterprise architecture profile is developed. Thereafter,...

20060242110 - Methods and apparatus for accessing geospatial information: Methods and apparatus are provided for accessing geospatial information. A geospatial toolkit including source, handler, and data modules is configured to access geospatial data from a variety of sources, parse the geospatial data, and provide geospatial data in a unified format. Parameters including source, layer information, boundaries, query filters, etc....

20060242111 - Methods and apparatus for accessing geospatial information: Methods and apparatus are provided for accessing geospatial information. A geospatial toolkit including source, handler, and data modules is configured to access geospatial data from a variety of sources, parse the geospatial data, and provide geospatial data in a unified format. Parameters including source, layer information, boundaries, query filters, etc....

20060242105 - Pack uri scheme to identify and reference parts of a package: The present invention is directed to a system and method for providing access to individual resources stored within a package. The system enables a client to access the resources without having to access the entire package. The system allows a client to reference the different resources within the package through...

20060242106 - Playlist compilation system and method: A method, computer program product and client electronic device for storing, in a memory of a client electronic device, a location of at least one remote media data file available to stream from a server device. A location of at least one local media data file available on the client...

20060242102 - Relaxation-based approach to automatic physical database tuning: A system that facilitates automatic selection of a physical configuration of a database comprises an optimizer component that determines simulated physical structures and creates a hypothetical configuration based thereon. A reduction component progressively reduces size of the configuration until the hypothetical configuration is associated with a size below a threshold....

20060242109 - Server-deployed cache list management for presenting an auto-complete list: Auto-complete lists that are utilized by server-deployed client processes are provided. The auto-complete lists are utilized by a client process to provide a list of potential data records that may match a data record that is partially entered into an input field by a user. The user may either continue...

20060242100 - Shared rowset: Multiple Shared Rowsets, can access rows of data stored in a Cached Rowset independently. These Shared Rowsets can have their own cursor, sorted order, filtered rows, and pending changes....

20060242104 - Systems and methods for manipulating data in a data storage system: The subject invention provides a system and/or a method that facilitates manipulating data associated to a data storage system, wherein the data storage system has at least one of a characteristic and a constraint associated to a data model. The data model can represent the data storage system such that...

20060242115 - System and method for an improved type inference: An improved type inference may be calculated for a path expression that may be classified into a series of input expressions followed by steps. For each such series, the inference may be calculated based on input including a type for the input expression, an axis for the step, and a...

20060242116 - System and method for developing and processing building system control solutions: A method for processing an application includes obtaining a list of point types used as inputs for an application from an application definition. In some cases, the application is configured to perform a function pertaining to an environmental control system of a building. The method also includes mapping each point...

20060242118 - Classification-expanded indexing and retrieval of classified documents: Problem: Document classification systems are valuable tools for searching and retrieving classified documents but can be prohibitively complex and cumbersome for users. Problem: A system for the indexing and retrieval of classified documents inserts keywords, titles or definitions of previously applied classifications into the document record and provides the resulting...

20060242127 - Field sensing network: An industrial sensing network includes a plurality of sensors, each sensor being configured to monitor at least one condition associated with equipment deployed in an industrial complex. The sensing network also includes at least one fixed aggregator configured to gather data collected by one or more of the plurality of...

20060242123 - Hierarchical tree of deterministic finite automata: A hierarchical tree of deterministic finite automata (DFA) is traversed and/or generated based on a set of regular expressions. The hierarchical DFA includes a root DFA linked together with a set of leaf DFAs, and possibly a set of branch DFAs. The root DFA is always active and is responsive...

20060242131 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: To provide an information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program which can easily and appropriately inform the user of differences in results of searches performed based on the same search criteria at different times. An information processing apparatus retrieves first search results by searching a network for information using...

20060242130 - Information retrieval using conjunctive search and link discovery: An embodiment of the present invention is a technique for information retrieval. Information is searched using a set of search inputs representing a query from a user to produce a plurality of search results. The search results are analyzed using at least one of a conjunctive search, a link discovery,...

20060242117 - Information storage medium capable of being searched for text information contained therein, reproducing apparatus and recording apparatus therefor: A reproducing apparatus and/or a recording apparatus each including a browser for reproducing data on an information storage medium having registry information, includes a search unit for searching for the registry information based on an input search parameter and a search interface unit for receiving a search parameter from the...

20060242132 - Method and apparatus for in-built searching and aggregating functionality: According to one embodiment of the invention a computer-readable media stores code that is operable to be executed on a processor. The code includes a JAVA class having objects with associated attributes and also having at least one method. The at least one method is operable, when executed on the...

20060242129 - Method and system for active ranking of browser search engine results: A computer system and method a computer system and method for processing a search query result includes identifying a plurality of result pages in response to a search query submitted from a computing device directed to a collection of pages, determining a relevancy ranking of the result pages in accordance...

20060242125 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for assessing a user's current information management system: A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed for assessing a user's current information management system. Multiple contiguous information management system stages are defined. Multiple implementation levels are defined. Particular characteristics for the implementation levels for each one of the stages are specified. Questions are generated regarding the particular...

20060242128 - Searching content on web pages: Performing a search to identify web sites that relate to a search term based on text within the web sites includes receiving at least one search term that then is compared with electronic information within at least one electronic information store to determine whether matches exist. The electronic information within...

20060242134 - Searching system, searching unit, searching method, displaying method for search results, terminal unit, inputting unit, and record medium: A searching system for searching contents that were broadcast, the searching system having an inputting unit, a searching unit, and a terminal unit is disclosed, wherein the inputting unit comprises a first storing means for storing information representing at least time at which contents were broadcast corresponding to a predetermined...

20060242120 - Sorted rowset: A Rowset can sort the order of rows of without requiring resorted data be obtained from the database....

20060242119 - Sql-style filtered rowset: A Rowset can use a filter that uses a query string, such as a SQL-String, to filter rows of data....

20060242126 - System and method for a context-sensitive extensible plug-in architecture: A system and method for a context-sensitive extensible plug-in architecture. Specifically, an extensible plug-in architecture is described. The plug-in architecture includes a main application responding to at least one media object under a current context. A plug-in application is also included that extends capabilities of the main application. The plug-in...

20060242124 - System for defining and activating pluggable user interface components for a deployed application: Maintaining a plurality of application component catalogs describing user experiences associated with particular application programs. The invention includes an extensible schema for the application component catalogs and a method for matching user experiences within the application component catalogs to particular user requests. The invention provides an extensible and scalable infrastructure...

20060242133 - Systems and methods for collaborative searching: Systems and methods for collaborative searching are described. In an embodiment of the present invention, a database stores previously executed queries and corresponding results. An application server compares an entered query with the previously executed queries. If the application server finds a query that is substantially similar to the entered...

20060242121 - Systems, methods, and user interfaces for storing, searching, navigating, and retrieving electronic information: Computer system navigation tools provide “links” to various different files, lists, folders, and/or other storage elements and allow users to organize files, e.g., by hierarchical properties, lists, auto lists, folders, and the like. Such systems and methods allow users to assign properties to a file (optionally in a hierarchical manner),...

20060242122 - Systems, methods, and user interfaces for storing, searching, navigating, and retrieving electronic information: Computer system navigation tools provide “links” to various different files, lists, folders, and/or other storage elements and allow users to organize files, e.g., by hierarchical properties, lists, auto lists, folders, and the like. Such systems and methods allow users to assign properties to a file (optionally in a hierarchical manner),...

20060242137 - Full text search of schematized data: Full text searching may be made available for resources stored in a database according to a database schema. A method for conducting a search on structured data using a text search engine includes the steps of: modeling a resource stored in a relational data store as a web page; providing...

20060242136 - Parameterized command protection: In a database system utilizing parameterized commands, proposed parameter values are processed prior to execution of such parameterized commands to reduce the likelihood that such commands will inject additional, unanticipated database commands. Specifically, the parameter value is modified in certain ways that reduce its likelihood of injecting additional database commands....

20060242135 - System and method for personalized search: A system and method for incorporating user preferences into a document search is provided. User events are associated with one or more content tags based on a comparison of the user event with locations in a content space. The user events are tracked to provide a user event history. The...

20060242139 - Interestingness ranking of media objects: Media objects, such as images or soundtracks, may be ranked according to a new class of metrics known as “interestingness.” These rankings may be based at least in part on the quantity of user-entered metadata concerning the media object, the number of users who have assigned metadata to the media...

20060242140 - Latent semantic clustering: An embodiment of the present invention provides a computer-based method for automatically identifying clusters of conceptually-related documents in a collection of documents, including the following steps: generating a document-representation of each document in an abstract mathematical space; identifying a plurality of document clusters in the collection of documents based on...

20060242138 - Page-biased search: A system for searching for information is disclosed. The system comprises a search module that obtains a set of results that is responsive to a query. The system also includes a biasing module that ranks members of the set of results based at least in part upon a member of...

20060242141 - Abstracted metadata policy component and related architecture: A method and architecture for reading and updating metadata. A policy component is arranged to receive a request to read or update metadata that may include metadata from a plurality of standards. Each metadata format potentially includes a field corresponding to the request. The policy component determines which fields to...

20060242144 - Medical image data processing system: A system determines a most recent medical image study accessed or used by a healthcare worker and identifies the most up to date instance of a medical image study stored in a distributed environment with multiple DICOM storage nodes, for example. A medical image data acquisition and processing system, involves...

20060242145 - Method and apparatus for extraction: The present invention pertains to the field of computer software. More specifically, the present invention relates to one or more of the definition, extraction, delivery, and hyper-linking of clips, for example web clips....

20060242143 - System for processing medical image representative data from multiple clinical imaging devices: A multi imaging modality reading system enables medical report generation to begin earlier in a workflow process by enabling automatic image correlation of images derived by one or multiple, imaging modalities allowing for comparison of pathology over time and between modalities. A user interface system for accessing multiple medical images...

20060242142 - Systems and methods for performing schema matching with data dictionaries: Systems and methods for performing schema matching of multiple data dictionaries. Lexical graphs are generated for two or more data dictionaries. The lexical graphs include terms with definitions and identified links between terms. A data processing device determines if matches occur between the generated lexical graphs and outputs the result...

20060242147 - Categorizing objects, such as documents and/or clusters, with respect to a taxonomy and data structures derived from such categorization: A Website may be automatically categorized by (a) accepting Website information, (b) determining a set of scored clusters (e.g., semantic, term co-occurrence, etc.) for the Website using the Website information, and (c) determining at least one category (e.g., a vertical category) of a predefined taxonomy using at least some of...

20060242146 - Methods and systems for monitoring tumor burden: Methods and systems for quantification of a selected attribute of an image volume are provided. The system is configured to receive an image dataset for a volume of interest, process the dataset for a selected attribute based at least on one of shape and texture to obtain a plurality of...

20060242148 - System and method for integrating ancillary data in dicom image files: The invention comprises a system and method for integrating electronic patient information with an electronic medical image file. In one embodiment, at least one information processor is provided that is operable to communicate over a communication network. A database is provided on the at least one information processor, wherein the...

20060242149 - Medical demonstration: The present invention provides a method of allowing medical practitioners to demonstrate the effects of a medical condition or a treatment to an individual. This is achieved by using a processing system to obtain image data in accordance with an input command received from the medical practitioner. The image data...

20060242150 - Method using control structure for versatile content control: A tree structure stored in the storage medium provides control over what an entity can do even after gaining access. Each of the nodes of the tree specifies permissions by an entity who has gained entry through such node of the tree. Some trees have different levels, where the permission...

20060242151 - Control structure for versatile content control: A tree structure stored in the storage medium provides control over what an entity can do even after gaining access. Each of the nodes of the tree specifies permissions by an entity who has gained entry through such node of the tree. Some trees have different levels, where the permission...

20060242154 - Ability for developers to easily find or extend well known locations on a system: A method and data structure for creating and accessing folders stored in well known locations. The data structure and method utilizes a set of APIs to create and manage well known folders on a system and/or to locate specific well known folders. The invention provides interfaces to create, locate, extend,...

20060242156 - Communication path management system: A communication-path management system includes a path-detection component for identifying all communications paths between a host computer, through a controller, to a data storage device. Once identified, the communication paths are incorporated into a logical-path mask. The path-detection component recognizes each path as either preferred or non-preferred based on latency,...

20060242152 - Information processing device, information processing method, and computer program: Apparatus and a method are provided, which efficiently and properly execute information update processing and content reproduction processing based on transmission processing of content information from a server to a client. The server owning content attribute information extracts metadata based on an information acquisition request from the client, to generate...

20060242159 - Methods and apparatus for distributing digital medical images via a redirected system: Methods and Systems for viewing, manipulating, transmitting and comparing digital image patient imaging studies. The methods and systems enable a user to take, receive, store and transmit digital imaging studies. The system allows the digital imaging studies to be stored locally and backed up at a remote server. The user...

20060242158 - System and method for managing news headlines: Systems and methods are provided related to a news-editing environment that may facilitate expedited editing, creation, and dispatching of news headlines. Articles are acquired from a plurality of information sources, preprocessed, and then queued for creation of a headline by one or more editors. Metadata may also be associated with...

20060242153 - System and method for transmitting media based files: A method and apparatus is disclosed for transmitting a requested media file through a network. A master controller of a server partitions the media object. The master controller of the server then assigns a segment of said partitioned media object to a file partition handler for transmission over the network...

20060242157 - System for negotiated differential compression: A system and methods for distributing a new file from a server connected through a network to a client. Rather than downloading an entirely new file from the server, the system makes use of reference files already resident on the client. A new delta file corresponding to a reference file...

20060242155 - Systems and methods for providing distributed, decentralized data storage and retrieval: Systems and methods for distributed, decentralized storage and retrieval of data in an extensible SOAP environment are disclosed. Such systems and methods decentralize not only the bandwidth required for data storage and retrieval, but also the computational requirements. Accordingly, such systems and methods alleviate the need for one node to...

20060242161 - Dvd-linked internet bookmarking: A system 100 includes a rendering apparatus 120, a server 110 and a network 130. Content items on the server are identified by respective server content locators, such as a URL. The rendering apparatus also has access to local content. Titles of the local content are associated with respective local...

20060242163 - Local thumbnail cache: Systems and methods are provided for storing and retrieving thumbnail images in a per-user/per-system thumbnail cache. One or more data files may be used to store thumbnail images of varying sizes. An index is updated with the location or locations of thumbnails for a particular file, the URL and modification...

20060242178 - Media object metadata association and ranking: Metadata may be associated with media objects by providing media objects for display, and accepting input concerning the media objects, where the input may include at least two different types of metadata. For example, metadata may be in the form of tags, comments, annotations or favorites. The media objects may...

20060242160 - Method and apparatus for transporting data for data warehousing applications that incorporates analytic data interface: A method and apparatus for transporting data for a data warehousing application. Data is extracted from one or more source containing data having a standard data structure and is translated into data that contains meaningful business terms. The translated data is then stored. In the present embodiment, an analytic business...

20060242166 - Methods and systems for filtering an extensible application markup language (xaml) file to facilitate indexing of the logical content contained therein: Methods for filtering a file written in Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) and incrementally returning the logical content contained therein to the environment, e.g., a search engine, are provided. Additionally provided are methods for extracting logical content contained in a XAML file to facilitate searching and/or indexing thereof. The methods...

20060242177 - Methods of exposing business application runtime exceptions at design time: In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, methods and systems analyze referential integrity of a business application by receiving a model representing the business application and processing the model using a code compiler to identify a compiler exception. The compiler exception is correlated in the model to a referential...

20060242176 - Methods of exposing business configuration dependencies: Embodiments of methods and systems consistent with the present invention may transform business application objects and relationships into object-oriented programming elements, making it possible to display and manipulate representations of the business objects and their relationships in an easily comprehensible and manageable manner using standard object-oriented programming language tools. With...

20060242173 - Methods of using an integrated development environment to configure business applications: An interactive configuration environment consistent with the present invention integrates and displays a table-based business application using a single, interactive display. When business application structures are displayed using object-oriented code structures, the business meaning of the object-oriented code structures may also be displayed in the integrated environment. Users can write...

20060242171 - Methods of using code-based case tools to verify application layer configurations: Systems and methods consistent with the present invention enable the use of computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tools to analyze and verify a configuration of a business application. By transforming business application structures into object-oriented structures, object-oriented CASE tools may be used to verify the underlying business application configuration. CASE tools...

20060242167 - Object based test library for winfs data model: A test library for use with a database storage system such as WinFS provides users with a WinFS schema agnostic way to test the WinFS store application programming interfaces (APIs) and to use the WinFS store APIs to populate the WinFS store with randomly generated data. The WinFS test library...

20060242168 - On-demand data management system and method: An on-demand data management system. The system comprises a file management module and a demand analysis module. The file management module receives files. Each file has attributes. The file management module segments the files according the attributes. The demand analysis module receives a data demand and selects data from the...

20060242169 - Storing and indexing hierarchical data spatially: Hierarchical data is stored spatially. A flat table may be used to store hierarchical data such that the data's hierarchical organization can be maintained by sorting two integer fields. The data may be positioned in a spatial tree by depth and range. Superior data fields are positioned at higher depths...

20060242179 - System and method for restoring a virtual disk from a snapshot: A method for restoring a virtual disk (vdisk) in an active file system to an earlier time is described. Pointers pointing to data represented by the virtual disk are maintained. The pointers are saved to persistent storage at the earlier time. A pointer at a later time is compared with...

20060242175 - Systems and methods for identifying problems of a business application in a customer support system: In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, methods and systems analyze potential logic errors or problems of a business application by receiving a model representing the business application and processing the model using an object-oriented tool. The errors or problems may be corrected in the model and the correction...

20060242170 - Systems and methods for off-line modeling a business application: Systems and methods consistent with the invention may analyze a business application's data, operations, and relationships and create a corresponding object oriented programming (OOP) model corresponding to the business application entities. In one embodiment the OOP model may be realized in the Java programming language and may include OOP objects,...

20060242172 - Systems and methods for transforming logic entities of a business application into an object-oriented model: Systems and methods consistent with the invention may analyze a business application's data, operations, and relationships and create a corresponding object oriented programming (OOP) model corresponding to the business application entities. The OOP model may be created by selecting the minimum set of attributes of the business application's data structures...

20060242174 - Systems and methods for using object-oriented tools to debug business applications: In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, methods and systems analyze potential logic errors or problems of a business application by receiving a model representing the business application and processing the model using an object-oriented tool. The errors or problems may be corrected in the model and the correction...

20060242164 - Systems, methods, and user interfaces for storing, searching, navigating, and retrieving electronic information: Computer system navigation tools provide “links” to various different files, lists, folders, and/or other storage elements and allow users to organize files, e.g., by hierarchical properties, lists, auto lists, folders, and the like. Such systems and methods allow users to assign properties to a file (optionally in a hierarchical manner),...

20060242165 - Transferring data in a diverse file system landscape: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, relating to transferring data in a diverse file system landscape. In one general aspect, a computer program product can cause a data processor to extract a first one or more file system objects from a self-extracting program, where the first file system objects...

20060242162 - Web services response templates: Provided is a Web Services Response Template (WSRT) that addresses the problems of efficiency and robustness to change in Web Services response by allowing a requestor to explicitly specify, in a response template what information is to be returned by the request. A requestor of a web service gets just...

20060242181 - Apparatus and method for transforming xbrl data into database schema: A computer readable medium includes executable instructions to extract XBRL data from a web service feed data source and construct an optimized database schema and tables, based on maintaining the integrity of the XBRL metadata. The XBRL data can then be loaded into the database, and refreshed, such that the...

20060242183 - Declaratively extended hierarchical configuration system and method: A configuration system is organized with a configuration file for each node in an application hierarchy. Each configuration file includes one or more directives for applying a configuration setting to a node. Each configuration setting is associated with one or more objects that define properties of the configuration setting. The...

20060242180 - Extracting data from semi-structured text documents: The invention is a process, system, and workflow for extracting and warehousing data from semi-structured documents in any language. This includes, but is not limited to, one or more of methods for: the automatic building of text mining term models; the optimization or evolution of such text mining term models;...

20060242182 - System and method for stranded file opens during disk compression utility requests: A technique for handling stranded file opens for DCOM utility requests in a NSK. In one example embodiment, this is achieved by selecting a source file to be compressed in a disk by the DCOM utility. The source file includes one or more non-contiguous disk file extents and each non-contiguous...

20060242192 - Content aggregation method and apparatus for on-line purchasing system: The method comprises processing plural product information records from the product information sources into one or more groups based on which product information records are likely to correspond to the same product, correlating a unique product ID corresponding to the product associated with each of said groups to identify the...

20060242191 - Dictionary creation device and dictionary creation method: There is provided a dictionary creation device and dictionary creation method which optimally creates and updates a dictionary for classifying, searching, or extracting text information in accordance with a changes in content of text information groups. The dictionary creation device includes: a keyword extraction unit that extracts a keyword from...

20060242184 - Efficiently describing relationships between resources: A relationship data structure associated with a source resource enables methods to discover and describe relationships between the source resource and a plurality of target resources. The relationships are stored in a format independent of the encoding of the source resource. Each relationship between the source resource and the plurality...

20060242189 - High-level database management system: A method and system for allowing end users to create a database and a user interface to interact with database data are provided. The database management system provides a database abstraction layer that hides the complexities of a database and vendor-specific implementation details from the end user, while still allowing...

20060242193 - Information retrieval engine: A system, method, and computer program product retrieve information associated with the signals. The information retrieval can be performed on a signal by quantizing the signal, forming words, and indexing based on weights of the words. The words are formed by grouping letters together to form a number of words...

20060242190 - Latent semantic taxonomy generation: A method for automatically constructing a taxonomy for a collection of documents. For a given collection of documents, a method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention creates document clusters, assigns taxons (titles) to the clusters, and organizes the clusters in a hierarchy. The clusters in the hierarchy...

20060242185 - Method and system for conducting adversarial discussions over a computer network: The patent describes and claims methods and systems for hosting and administering a forum for adversarial discussion. The invention consists of the underlying concepts, rules, and features of a distributed software program for conducting online debates. These concepts, rules, and features create a forum and an online tool for enforcing...

20060242188 - Methods of exposing a missing collection of application elements as deprecated: Using methods and systems consistent with the present invention, deprecated logic entities of a business application may be identified using an object-oriented model of the business application. By transforming business application structures into object-oriented structures, deprecated logic entities in the business application may be exposed using object-oriented referential integrity checking....

20060242186 - Thermal signature intensity alarmer system and method for processing thermal signature: A system and method for processing thermal signature data is provided. The system provides a thermal signature data processor that analyzes one or more pixels to determine whether an aspect of an alarm-worthy event has occurred. In one embodiment, the system analyzes visual data with relation to the thermal signature...

20060242187 - Type safe data proxy: Described is a method for reading a data structure in a first code language, generating an implementation of the data structure and executing a call to the implementation of the data structure to obtain information describing the data structure. The method further includes mapping the data structure to a generic...

20060242194 - Systems and methods for modeling and manipulating a table-driven business application in an object-oriented environment: Systems, methods, and computer program products consistent with the invention analyze a business application's data, operations, and relationships and create a corresponding object oriented programming (OOP) model of the application, comprising OOP objects, functions, and operators corresponding to the business application's entities. Each OOP entity in the model entity accurately...

20060242195 - Technique for platform-independent service modeling: A template-driven system for generating platform-specific artifacts, such as program code, from platform-independent service models is described. The system comprises a template storage (102) with platform-specific templates, each template including platform-specific model transformation information; a repository (104) with a plurality of at least essentially platform-independent service model elements and one...

20060242196 - Methods of exposing application layer integrity as object oriented programming language elements: Embodiments of the invention may transform business application relationships or links into OOP constructs that represent the relationship, tying together different types of business objects, such as data and operations, in a manner that allows automated OOP tools to check the integrity of the relationships and thus the integrity of...

20060242197 - Methods of transforming application layer structure as objects: Embodiments consistent with the invention transform business application logic entities or structures into OOP structures that represent the data, relationships, and operations of the business application structures. The business application structures are transformed from the application level, including consideration of the business application logic and relationships. In one embodiment, transformation...

20060242199 - Data fusion for advanced ground transportation system: Systems, methods and apparatuses for managing ground transportation in a geographical area are disclosed. A system in accordance with the present invention comprises a graphical information systems (GIS) database that stores traffic data related to the geographical area, wherein the GIS database includes at least one node representing at least...

20060242200 - Enterprise control and monitoring system and method: A method comprises grouping a plurality of building system controllers into at least one control system group, the at least one control system group corresponding to at least one connected group of building system controllers. The method also comprises grouping the at least one control system group into at least...

20060242201 - Methods and systems for content insertion: A method for content insertion is provided. In this method, a first media data is received from a server and a placement request is transmitted to a content provider service. As a result, a placement response is received from the content provider service. The placement response includes data identifying a...

20060242198 - Methods, computer-readable media, and data structures for building an authoritative database of digital audio identifier elements and identifying media items: Methods, computer-readable media, and data structures for building an authoritative database of digital audio identifier elements from digital media accessed by clients. The digital media including one or more media items, such as tracks on a CD. The methods, computer-readable media, and data structures further identifying metadata associated with a...

20060242202 - Navigation system and method with switchable multi-language interfaces: A navigation system and method that allows switching between multi-language operating interfaces. It provides multi-language operating interfaces in the storage unit of the navigation system. During the navigation system operation, the user is prompted by Basic Input Output System (BIOS) to select a language of operating interface to display. The...

20060242203 - Methods and systems for data moving using locks: Methods, computer readable medium and systems are provided for moving data objects from a first storage location to a second storage location. One or more data objects may be selected having an identifier from a first storage location. The ID may be stored in at least one transactional type lock...

20060242205 - Self-contained partial database backups: Methods and computer readable media for restoring a database. In a method, a backup of a subset of a database is created, where the subset includes a filegroup and database metadata describing the filegroup. The database is then restored using the database subset. In a computer-readable medium, a first data...

20060242204 - Sync manager conflict resolution: A system and method are provided for implementing conflict resolution in a sync manager. In case of a conflict, the sync operation creates and stores a conflict object, and resumes the sync operation without requiring user input. The sync operation can thus be completed without user input and the user...

20060242206 - System and method for peer to peer synchronization of files: A system and related techniques provide a seamless, peer-to-peer file synchronization capability for sharing files, folders, directories or other stored content between machines. According to embodiments of the invention in one regard, a sync engine or other file management logic may be integrated into the operating system or other resources...

20060242209 - Computer network system including an information collector computer: A computer network system includes a plurality of information provider computers, an information collector computer and a communication network for connecting these computers together. The information provider computers store therein a plurality of information sets in connection with respective generation number information including ID codes and version codes. The information...

20060242208 - Method and system for creating and maintaining version-specific properties in a file: A method and system creates and maintains a version-specific attribute or property that is stored as part of a file in a file system, contains specific version information relating to how or when the attribute was created and is automatically invalidated when a predetermined “update” event occurs. Third party applications...

20060242207 - Methods of comparing and merging business process configurations: Exemplary methods and systems consistent with the present invention allow a user to compare different versions of a business application using an object-oriented model of the business application. By transforming business application structures into object-oriented structures, such as object-oriented language constructs, structures, and other elements, individual differences between versions of...

20060242210 - Contact management update protocols: A system and a method are disclosed for synchronizing folders between one or more layers of folders. It includes selecting layers to link together, comparing folders in the selected layers using an immutable identifier, parsing the folders of each of the selected layers into fields, comparing the fields of parsed...

20060242211 - System and method for backing up a computer system: A backup computer storage system that protects and/or recovers data on a primary computer storage system is disclosed. The backup computer system may be used to backup databases, files, and/or applications. In some embodiments, the backup system may be used to backup an image of the primary computer system. In...

20060242212 - Method and arrangement for randomly storing data: The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for randomly storing data in storage networks and/or an intranet and/or the Internet, a corresponding computer program product, and a corresponding computer-readable storage medium, which are particularly suitable for distributing and retrieving data in error-tolerant and faulty systems such as storage...

20060235819 - Apparatus and method for reducing data returned for a database query using select list processing: The select statement of a query is processed to determine whether any of the columns in the select statement appear in the predicate of the query. For each column in the select statement that also appears in the predicate of the query, the column may be eliminated from the result...

20060235824 - Automated processing of appropriateness determination of content for search listings in wide area network searches: A method and system for improving the efficiency of a database processing system for evaluating candidate data items representing search listings that are submitted for inclusion into a search engine database. Candidate search listings are automatically assessed for quality, style, and relevance to evaluate risk of unfavorable reception by a...

20060235817 - Computer input control for specifying scope with explicit exclusions: Methods and systems providing a user interface control allowing a user to specify a scope of items on a computer system or network is disclosed. Certain aspects provide an input control through which a user can specify an explicit scope, or range, of items, while also identifying explicit exclusions from...

20060235818 - Estimating a number of rows returned by a recursive query: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, estimate a number of rows that a recursive query will retrieve from a table by recursively probing an index associated with the table. A recursive query includes a seed and a recursive predicate, each of which is associated with...

20060235823 - Integrating rdf data into a relational database system: The TABLE function mechanism available in a RDBMS is used to integrate RDF models into SQL queries. The table function invocation takes parameters including an RDF pattern, an RDF model, and an RDF rule base and returns result rows to the SQL query that contain RDF triples resulting from the...

20060235816 - Method and system for generating a search result list based on local information: The present invention relates to a method and system for effectively providing search results by referring to local information related to a searcher in response to a search request from the searcher through a communication network. The present invention provides a method for providing local information search results, comprising the...

20060235821 - Methods and apparatus for retrieval of content units in a time-based directory structure: One embodiment of the invention is directed to providing a single instance storage capability in a content addressable computer system that stores content units in a time-based directory structure. Another embodiment is directed to managing access to content units that do not include a timestamp in their content addresses, in...

20060235825 - Methods of visualizing graphs: Methods for visualizing a graph by automatically drawing elements of the graph as labels are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving node information and edge information from an input device and/or communication interface, constructing a graph layout based at least in part on that information, wherein the edges...

20060235820 - Relational query of a hierarchical database: Relational queries to a hierarchical database having data tables are rapidly processed. A bridging table is created to transform a many to many relationship into a plurality of one to many relationships. The bridging table is stored on a custom semiconductor chip which parses the query and determines by use...

20060235822 - Requesting, obtaining, and processing operational event feedback from customer data centers: In connection with an operations management system, a vendor feedback system reports on operational events that occur on customer data centers. The operations management system provides a standardized environment for providing feedback to a vendor of components installed at the customer data centers. Methods supported by the vendor feedback system...

20060235826 - Tasking, invoicing, and reporting methods: Methods and systems for managing projects and budgets, such as advertising projects and budgets, in a database, and generating reports corresponding to data stored in the database. Actions may include associating tasks with a project in a dependent many-to-one relationship; associating budget categories with the tasks in a one-to-many relationship;...

20060235827 - System and method for detection of artificially generated system load: A system and method are provided for detecting artificially generated load on a search system. The system may include a load monitoring component for monitoring a current load for comparison with an expected load. The system may additionally include an abnormality detection component for detecting an abnormality when the monitored...

20060235832 - Broadcast terminal for searching broadcast content and method thereof: A broadcast terminal and corresponding method of using the terminal includes receiving at the terminal a request for information for a user. This request for information relates to broadcast content received by the terminal. The method further includes searching the terminal for the information. If the information is found, then...

20060235833 - Method and system for an integrated incident information and intelligence system: Providing a system and method for identifying and characterizing incidents. The system and method can receive information from telecommunications networks or other information providers that may trigger generating an Incident Record. The Incident Record may further be analyzed to characterize the type of incident. This further analysis may include retrieving...

20060235831 - Multi-source multi-tenant entitlement enforcing data repository and method of operation: Forming and maintaining a multi-source multi-tenant data repository on behalf of multiple tenants. Information in the multi-source multi-tenant data repository is received from multiple sources. Different sources and different data quality enhancement processes may yield different values for attributes of the same referred entity. Information in the multi-source multi-tenant data...

20060235829 - Query to an electronic form: Systems and/or methods that enable an electronic form to provide data external to the electronic form in response to a query while offline with respect to a data source from which the data originated are described. These systems and methods may also, in one embodiment, receive data from a data...

20060235828 - User interface method for grouping conditions without editing: A method, computer-readable medium, and apparatus for programmatically providing a graphical user interface for creating queries are provided. Generally, the graphical user interface includes a first-level region for displaying one or more first-level query conditions and a first-level operator selection element, the selected first-level operator being applied to logically relate...

20060235830 - Web content administration information discovery: Web content administration information can be discovered by users through using an administration tool that provides a way for web sites and/or applications to automatically provide the administration tool with information on how to connect to the administration service. A user specifies a URI that is associated with a content...

20060235835 - Model entity operations in query results: The present invention provides methods, systems and articles of manufacture that enhance the capability of a database abstraction model and query application constructed for an underlying physical database. Typically, the query application is used to compose and execute an abstract query. Once an initial query result is presented to a...

20060235840 - Optimization of queries over xml views that are based on union all operators: Optimization is provided for database statements involving XML data, e.g., XPath and XQuery, which operate over views that use aggregate set operators, e.g., UNION ALL. As part of a “view merge” stage of query transformation, the query that operates over the view is merged with a query that defines the...

20060235834 - Path expression in structured query language: Systems and methods for extension of a query language for defining a simple formulation of joins by capturing the semantics of an existing linkage between a plurality of tables, via employing a reference join. Such reference join enables a compiler to exploit existing relationships in a data base, and employ...

20060235836 - Query conditions on related model entities: Embodiments of the invention provide methods, systems and articles of manufacture for constructing a database abstraction model over an underlying physical database. Typically, queries of the database abstraction model are directed to queries of a model entity defined for the database abstraction model. To compose an abstract query, users select...

20060235837 - Rewriting table functions as sql strings: The TABLE function mechanism available in a RDBMS is used to integrate RDF models into SQL queries. The table function invocation takes parameters including an RDF pattern, an RDF model, and an RDF rule base and returns result rows to the SQL query that contain RDF triples resulting from the...

20060235838 - System and method for managing complex relationships over distributed heterogeneous data sources: A relationship and navigation data repository can interface with a central data model and contains templates that define relationships among data from a number of distributed heterogeneous data sources. An integration engine is coupled to the relationship and navigation data repository, and can receive a query command and determine which...

20060235839 - Using xml as a common parser architecture to separate parser from compiler: A method and apparatus for compiling queries is provided. A first query in a first syntax of a query language is received. Based on the first query, a second query in a second syntax of the query language is generated. The first syntax and the second syntax are each among...

20060235841 - Page rank for the semantic web query: Semantically linked pages are queried based on a user supplied interest vector. The interest vector provides a weight for presenting results from the query of pages. The interest vectors are used to calculate the importance of pages of a query based on the weight of semantic links associated with the...

20060235842 - Web page ranking for page query across public and private: Documents (web pages) are linked together preferably by Semantic Web links. A pages value is determined in part according to the number of links that link to it. The contribution of a link to the pages value is determined based on a user's accessibility of the page having the link....

20060235844 - Fundamental pattern discovery using the position indices of symbols in a sequence of symbols: The present invention relates to computer-implemented methods for finding patterns in patterns in a set of k-sequences of symbols (where k>2) and to a computer readable medium having instructions for controlling a computer system to perform the methods. Patterns of symbols common to each 2-tuple of sequences are identified. Each...

20060235845 - Identifying patterns of symbols in sequences of symbols using a binary array representation of the sequence: The present invention relates to computer-implemented methods for finding patterns in patterns in a set of k-sequences of symbols (where k≧2) and to a computer readable medium having instructions for controlling a computer system to perform the methods. Patterns of symbols common to each 2-tuple of sequences are identified. Each...

20060235843 - Method and system for semantic search and retrieval of electronic documents: A system and method for semantic search for electronic documents stored on a computer readable media, and providing a search result in response to a query. The system includes a corpus including a plurality of electronic documents that are domain tagged at a document level and analyzed based on the...

20060235846 - List update employing neutral sort keys: A method, system and program product for updating a list. A first list associated with a first platform includes a first plurality of data entries which includes a first plurality and a second plurality of keys. A second list associated with a second platform includes a second plurality of data...

20060235848 - Method and apparatus for searching, filtering and sorting data in a wireless device: There is shown and described a definition for defining searching, filtering and sorting requests which seeks to provide a more succinct and efficient language in order to minimize transmission size and parsing/processing requirements while facilitating common and useful search/filter/sort contingencies. The language allows for filtering a data set by comparing...

20060235849 - Portable laser projection device for medical image display: A medical image display system includes an image storage and image processing device for storing, processing and outputting image data relating to a patient's body and/or additional image data. The system also includes a portable laser projection device that projects the image data and/or additional image data onto a projection...

20060235847 - Traversing data in a repeatable manner: Traversing hierarchical data is disclosed. A first list of items in a first level of the data is received and sorted in an order. The data of the first level is processed in the order of the sorted first list. If any other level of data is encountered during processing,...

20060235851 - Conference system and terminal apparatus: The conference system includes a plurality of terminal apparatuses and a conference management apparatus. The terminal apparatus has an access privilege granting unit, a permission information storage device, and an access privilege setting unit. The conference management apparatus has an access control information updating unit and an access restriction management...

20060235850 - Method and system for access authorization involving group membership across a distributed directory: A system is presented for performing a directory operation within a distributed directory environment that includes distributed directory servers and a proxy server that acts as an intermediate agent between a client and the distributed directory environment. The proxy server sends requests to directory servers to collect information about group...

20060235852 - System for inter-database communication: A system aggregates communication data. The system includes a client and a data access gateway. The data access gateway receives a single request from the client. The data access gateway composes a first query and a second query. The first query and the second query together satisfy the single request...

20060235853 - Use of retry period in an application server to ensure that status information is sent from first to second database instance: A retry period can be used in a system that uses a first and second database instance to ensure that the status information from the first database instances has been transferred and updated at the second databases instance....

20060235854 - Use of transaction context to select single database instance for global transaction: A transaction context can be used to select a single database instance for global transaction to prevent lockout or other data problems from the database system with multiple data instances....

20060235861 - Apparatus, system and method for supporting formation of customer-value creating scenario: A value extracted on the basis of a customer demand supports description of an appealing scenario leading to a requirement and a solution. Examples of customer-values include that which appears to be welcome for a customer, that which appears to be pleasant, and an object, and such can form requirements...

20060235855 - Digital library system: An apparatus and method for setting up and operating a digital multi-media library configured in such as way as to enable the creation of custom sub-libraries. In this system users are able to create private themed sub-libraries that contain information assets that are excerpts of the main library's information assets....

20060235859 - Prescriptive architecutre recommendations: A prescribed system architecture is recommended to an entity that desires to implement a system supporting distributed applications. A performance scenario is created based on anticipated usage, devices employed by servers running the distributed applications, and topology of locations using the servers. An optimized scenario may be provided by determining...

20060235856 - Route generation for task completion by a location-aware device: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for a portable data processing system for generating a route for completing a set of tasks. A location of the portable device is identified. A route for completing the set of tasks is identified based on a policy and the location to form a...

20060235860 - System and method for obtaining user feedback for relevance tuning: A system and method are provided for facilitating user feedback pertaining to search results produced by a search system in response to an input user query. The system may include an edit mode activation option provided in conjunction with the search results. The system may additionally include result manipulation tools...

20060235857 - Systems and methods for displaying and editing hierarchical data: Systems and methods for displaying hierarchical data are described. In an implementation, a method includes processing hierarchical data describing a distributed computing environment. The hierarchical data includes a plurality of levels, in which, at least one of the levels includes a plurality of containers, each of the containers includes one...

20060235858 - Using attribute inheritance to identify crawl paths: A system and method for identifying crawl paths of a web cruise operation, where each crawl path represents successive uniform resource locator (URL) nodes in a parent/child relationship. One or more seed URLs are identified for the web cruise operation, each seed URL defining an origination of at least one...

20060235864 - Audio sampling and acquisition system: Techniques for facilitating purchase of media items, such as digital media assets, are disclosed. A computing device, e.g., a portable media device, can save media indicia pertaining to one or media items of interest to a user. The media indicia can thereafter be use to purchase the one or more...

20060235863 - Enterprise computer management: A management server has a file server containing operating systems and software packages utilized by typical computers in an enterprise. The management server also includes a bills of material module having bills of material that identify the roles of computers used by typical enterprises,, and one or more templates specifying...

20060235865 - Entropy coding with compact codebooks: The present invention is based on the finding that an efficient code for encoding information values can be derived, when two or more information values are grouped in a tuple in a tuple order and when an encoding rule is used, that assigns the same code word to tuples having...

20060235867 - Map and data location provider: A map provider and a data location provider provide information as to how the data pertaining to entities is stored in a database system and where the data is stored in the database system. A data accessing system uses the information to process requests to perform an operation on the...

20060235866 - Method and apparatus for enabling enhanced navigation data associated with contents recorded on a recording medium to be utilized from a portable storage: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for reproducing content on interactive DVD by using a portable storage. The enhanced navigation data designated for interactive playback of content recorded in a recording medium is received from a server connected to a network. When the received enhanced navigation...

20060235862 - Method for encoding a structured document: A method is for encoding a structured document, particularly an XML document, during which the contents of the document are converted into a binary representation. This binary representation is divided into encoding units, which form an encoded data flow and can be read out from the encoded data flow. The...

20060235872 - Integration of push services with applications: An application program on a mobile device provides a user interface that integrates application data with data from a push data service from a remote server. The integration of application data and pushed data is performed on the basis of a common element shared between the application data and the...

20060235869 - Metadata generating apparatus: A metadata generating apparatus includes: a private-content-information creating unit that creates content information of an individual; a public-content-information collecting unit that collects public content information for which metadata for retrieval is created; a keyword extracting unit that extracts a keyword, which forms a basis of the metadata for retrieval, from...

20060235871 - Method and system for managing metadata information: A system for managing metadata information comprising a database for storing the metadata in formation; a central processing core, connected to the database, for monitoring and controlling access of the database; a process dispatcher for receiving the metadata information and transmitting the metadata information to the database via the central...

20060235868 - Methods and apparatus for representing markup language data: A representation of a markup language data such as XML expressed as a sequence of encoded items provides a data format including a type field containing i) a construct type identifying a type of markup language data construct to which the encoded item corresponds or, ii) a directive type identifying...

20060235873 - Social network-based internet search engine: Filtering Internet content includes receiving a search query message comprising a search query to an Internet search engine. Data is received from the Internet search engine, responsive to the search query message. Filtering of the data produces a data subset. The filter selects data for inclusion in the data subset...

20060235870 - System and method for generating an interlinked taxonomy structure: A system and method for interlinking differing taxonomies, the system including a communications module that provides access to corpora having electronic documents categorized in accordance with first and second taxonomies with a plurality of nodes. The system also includes an analysis module that analyzes the nodes of the first taxonomy,...

20060235874 - Method of processing a publishable document: A method of processing a publishable document including input program elements for processing variable data comprises compiling the publishable document into a program executable to generate a document product. The step of compiling includes identifying, for inclusion in a program, output program elements required to process variable data....

20060235875 - Method and system for identifying object information: A method and system for identifying object information of an information page is provided. An information extraction system identifies the object blocks of an information page. The extraction system classifies the object blocks into object types. Each object type has associated attributes that define a schema for the information of...

20060235876 - System and method for sharing an object between applications: An object sharing system instantiates or defines an object container that can be cloned and return a reference to a “saved” object, allowing an object to be passed between applications while maintaining a consistent reference to the object. The object sharing system places a reference to an object in the...

20060235880 - Advanced streaming format table of contents object: A computer memory product. A computer memory product having stored thereon a digital media file, the memory product comprising a computer readable memory, and a data file including at least two digital data portions; a first header object Including a TOC object containing data regarding the data file; and a...

20060235878 - Client side indexing of offline address book files: A method of building an offline address book (OAB). An OAB data file and a table of attributes are generated at a server. The data file and table are transferred from the server to a client. The transferred data file and table are indexed by the client....

20060235889 - Dynamic membership management in a distributed system: Transactional database replication techniques are disclosed that do not require altering of the database management system implementation. A replicator module includes a dynamic membership manager, which is configured to manage the persistent membership of a coordination group. The persistent membership can be, for example, a durable set of sites that...

20060235877 - Mask fititng system and method: A mask fitting system (1) for selecting a mask system for a patient includes at least one terminal (6) which receives data unique to a patient. The patient data can be scanned in using a scanner, such as a handheld or 3-D scanner, or the relevant dimensions of the patient...

20060235886 - Method, system and software for centralized generation and storage of individualized requests and results: What is disclosed is a method, system (1000) and software for providing users of networked devices with centralized storage of individualized requests and results, available from any networked devices, regardless of where the requests and/or results are inputted or viewed....

20060235883 - Multimedia system for mobile client platforms: A method for multimedia playback and transmission to wireless clients is described. A host webserver transcodes a live digital or analog audio-visual or audio broadcast signal and splits the input stream into small multimedia objects of an efficient compression such as MPEG4/AAC, and then immediately deploys the objects to distributed...

20060235888 - Recording/playback apparatus, recording/playback method, program, and storage medium: This invention improves convenience in processing such as data search in a recording/playback apparatus such as a digital camera. This apparatus includes a recording unit which generates a plurality of directories DCIM and SNDR having the same directory structure on a layer of hierarchy immediately below a root directory at...

20060235885 - Selective delivery of digitally encoded news content: News content is received from news feeds, sorted by content, and distributed to user nodes so that each user receives a custom compilation of news articles. This involves receiving to a news communication subscription system a plurality of news articles, each news article comprising digitally encoded news content, from at...

20060235882 - System and method for developing arbitrary and efficient mappings between complex message structures: A system and method are provided for generating a mapping model to transform message communications between a first message format and a second message format. The first message format is configured for use by a client and the second message format is configured for use by a data source. The...

20060235884 - System and method for evaluating talent and performance: A system and method for evaluating talent and performance comprises a central computer in communication with a plurality of network computers. The central computer is operable to provide a plurality of user workspaces accessible at the plurality of network computers. In one embodiment, a plurality of hiring stages are defined...

20060235881 - System and method for parsing medical data: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for processing medical data. The method includes the steps of identifying text strings in medical data, associating the text strings with standardized identifiers from a library, and outputting the standardized identifiers associated with the text strings. In an embodiment,...

20060235879 - Techniques for specifying and collecting data aggregations: Data records containing one or more fields, which can be considered keys and/or values, are received, and processed such that data values of records that contain key values of interest are aggregated together. The keys of the resultant aggregations or “resultant keys” are created under the control of simple parameters...

20060235887 - Terminal device, content deletion and transfer control system, and method for controlling content deletion: A terminal device that is virtually connected to an external information processing device that includes a recording medium that stores content so that the terminal device can communicate with the information processing device includes an input unit for receiving a user's instruction, a display unit that presents information on a...

20060235894 - Disambiguating globally unique identifiers after duplication: Methods, systems, and computer program products disambiguate a globally universal identifier (GUID) within a file after the file is duplicated. The method involves generating a GUID for the file, generating a location identifier that defines a unique location of the file when the GUID was generated, and storing the location...

20060235895 - Efficient point-to-multipoint data reconciliation: Efficient reconciliation of different versions of a target file or dataset can be facilitated using a hash hierarchy of a master version of the dataset. Each level of the hash hierarchy has hashes of blocks of the master version that may be sub-blocks of the hashes in the level above....

20060235892 - Generating storage reports using volume snapshots: Described is a method and system by which storage reports are generated from a volume snapshot set rather than the live volume or volumes, wherein a volume snapshot set comprises a representation or copy of one or more volume at a single point-in-time. By scanning the snapshot, a consistent file...

20060235896 - Information processing apparatus easy for users to operate: In an information processing apparatus, a job log recording unit generates a job log that is a history of operations and settings based on user's operation. An operation/setting sequence extraction unit extracts a sequence by extracting job logs constituting a series of operations and/or settings. Of extracted sequences, a sequence...

20060235897 - Mapping information technology system architecture: A web-delivered mapping information technology (IT) architecture enables map user communities to effectively participate in distributed, collaborative creation of custom mapping content and the modernization and maintenance of critical map information. The IT architecture systematizes critical information technology and management functions to 1) organize user communities with similar mapping interests,...

20060235891 - Method and computer-readable medium for providing an official file repository: A method and computer-readable medium are provided for storing files in an official file repository. According to the method, a generic interface is exposed that includes a first method for requesting that a file be stored in a file vault. A record series is maintained that identifies one or more...

20060235899 - Method of migrating legacy database systems: A system and method for migrating legacy database systems to modern database comprises generally of the steps of gathering design information about the legacy database system; analyzing the metadata, data fields, and processes of the legacy system; iteratively creating business objects to represent the migrated data; iteratively associating each of...

20060235893 - Methods and apparatus for managing the storage of content: One embodiment of the invention is directed to providing a single instance storage capability in a content addressable computer system that stores content units in a time-based directory structure. Another embodiment is directed to managing access to content units that do not include a timestamp in their content addresses, in...

20060235900 - Performing operations on a set of objects in a database system: A method and system for updating data for a set of objects in a database is provided. A request identifies a set of objects using a property of the objects and an operation to be performed thereon. The object request is translated to a relational request such that a column...

20060235898 - Synchronizing over a number of synchronization mechanisms using flexible rules: Two computer systems in a network each have a local store that contains a copy of a data item that is to be synchronized. One of the computer systems may be, for example, a mobile device while the other may be a synchronization server. In order to determine whether to...

20060235890 - Systems and methods for updating an application on a mobile information device: An application manager receives a descriptor for a MIDlet update from an MIDP server system. The application manager determines that the descriptor identifies an update to a MIDlet that is already installed on the MID. The application manager also identifies the MIDlet for which the update is intended, and determines...

20060235901 - Systems and methods for dynamic burst length transfers: A method for performing dynamic burst transfers between a first computer system and a second computer system includes monitoring time delay associated with communicating messages between the first computer system and the second computer system. Contention for resources in at least one of the first computer system and the second...

20060235905 - Method and system for preserving real-time access to a system in case of a disaster: A method and system for preserving access of a system in case of disaster having a primary filestore and a primary system database, comprising: a replica system having a replica filestore and a replica system database; having a second empty filestore for recording all changes to the primary filestore; and...

20060235903 - Method and system for retrieving deleted and overwritten documents: A method, system for preserving access to deleted and/or overwritten documents for the retrieval in a system, wherein said document data is stored in a system filestore associated with a system database containing reference data to point to the document within the system filestore, the method comprising the steps of:...

20060235902 - Method for preserving access to deleted and overwritten documents: A method for preserving access to deleted or overwritten document data within a system, wherein said document data is stored in a system filestore associated with a system database containing reference data to point to the document data within the system filestore, the method comprising the steps of: determining that...

20060235904 - Method for preserving access to system in case of disaster: A method for preserving access to document data within a system in a separate location, wherein said document data is stored in a system filestore associated with a system database, the system database containing reference data to point to the document data within the system filestore, in case of disaster...

20060235909 - Database page mirroring: Systems and methods are disclosed herein that facilitate automatic database backup and restore for databases resident in personal computing devices, and which are transparent to a user, utilizing database page mirroring. Modifications to a data page in a data file can be validated and written to a backup, or mirror,...

20060235906 - Method and computer system for identifying objects for archiving: Methods and computer systems are provided for identifying objects for archiving out of a plurality of objects. A first computer system supplies a plurality of objects for archiving. Each object may have an object type and at least one sub-object. Further, an assignment scheme may be provided, which assigns a...

20060235908 - Methods and apparatus for managing the replication of content: One embodiment of the invention is directed to providing a single instance storage capability in a content addressable computer system that stores content units in a time-based directory structure. Another embodiment is directed to managing access to content units that do not include a timestamp in their content addresses, in...

20060235907 - Pausable backups of file system items: The subject invention relates to systems and methods that enable pausing and/or resuming a backup of file system items. The items are backed up in an order based on a unique property associated with each of the items. When the backup is paused, the unique property associated with a last...

20060235910 - Apparatus and method for a managing file system: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for managing a file system. The apparatus of managing file system including a user input unit that an input value corresponding to a predetermined data is input, a data storage unit comprising several data blocks having a predetermined size able to store the...

20060230014 - Method and system for compression of files for storage and operation on compressed files: A method and system for creating, reading and writing compressed files in a computer system comprising a file system coupled with storage medium and at least one application program interface (API) configured to communicate with the file system by means of file access-related requests. The file access-related requests are intercepted...

20060230012 - System and method for dynamically tracking user interests based on personal information: Described are a dynamic interest profile (DIP) system and method for dynamically tracking interests of a user based on personal information. The DIP system obtains electronic documents of the user from a document stream and processes the documents to obtain certain information therefrom. Based on the information obtained from the...

20060230013 - System and method for performing just-in-time priming of a database cache: A system for retrieving stored data and/or index pages, receives a database request, generates an access plan for the database request for accessing data rows and/or index entries according to the statement, and generates a priming process by selecting a set of data and/or index pages. The set of data...

20060230015 - System for dynamic keyword aggregation, search query generation and submission to third-party information search utilities: A system for creating keywords or phrases to be used for mining online information has a text source accessible by the system, a keyword aggregation function, and a mechanism for configuring the system. The system extracts keywords and phrases from the text source according to the configuration, for submission to...

20060230018 - Mahalanobis distance genetic algorithm (mdga) method and system: A computer-implemented method to provide a desired variable subset. The method may include obtaining a set of data records corresponding a plurality of variables and defining the data records as normal data or abnormal data based on predetermined criteria. The method may also include initializing a genetic algorithm with a...

20060230019 - System and method to optimize database access by synchronizing state based on data access patterns: A method, apparatus, and computer program product in a data processing system for avoiding excessive database round trips. A list of a database object fields affected by queries is compiled by analyzing instructions in a database query language. A list of database object fields affected by queries is also compiled...

20060230016 - Systems and methods for statistics over complex objects: The subject invention relates to systems and methods that automatically create, update, and use statistics over complex objects within a database query processor. A system is provided that facilitates employment of statistics in connection with database optimization. The system includes a component that receives information relating to database performance and...

20060230017 - Using query expression signatures in view matching: A system for optimizing queries against a database is disclosed. The system comprises a memo structure that encodes a plurality of query expressions. The system also includes a signature mechanism that enables an assignment of the query expressions into equivalence classes. Methods of using such a system are additionally provided....

20060230028 - Apparatus and method for constructing complex database query statements based on business analysis comparators: A computer readable medium includes executable instructions to construct a database query based on a comparator. Executable instructions accept a comparator forming a part of a text question. A value that defines a subject within a text question is received. A structured database query is built based upon the comparator...

20060230027 - Apparatus and method for utilizing sentence component metadata to create database queries: A computer readable medium includes executable instructions to associate text sentence components with metadata. The executable instructions specify a subject that has a definition corresponding to a metadata source. The executable instructions identify a behavior that has a definition corresponding to a metadata source. The behavior is associated with at...

20060230023 - Database extension structure: A digital repository 20 includes data items. A user can add additional functionality or program routines to data item by including as a data item a data processing identifier pointing to at least one data processing routine. Such routines are accessed by a client 22 by sending from a client...

20060230031 - Document searching device, document searching method, program, and recording medium: In a document searching device that searches documents from a set of predetermined documents in response to an input search condition, a seed document acquiring unit is operable to acquire seed documents based on information that is different from the input search condition. A word extraction unit is operable to...

20060230025 - Enterprise software system having multidimensional xbrl engine: An enterprise software system is described that is capable of representing extensible business reporting language (XBRL) documents in multidimensional form. For example, the enterprise software system may include at least one XBRL document containing extensible markup language (XML) elements. The system further comprises an XBRL engine to parse the XBRL...

20060230020 - Improving efficiency in processing queries directed to static data sets: Data is maintained indicating which conditions match which data items (e.g., rows) of a data set (e.g., table(s) in a database). When a query is later received, the maintained data is quickly examined to determine the matching data items, thereby enhancing the throughput performance in processing queries directed to the...

20060230022 - Integration of multiple query revision models: An information retrieval system includes a query revision architecture that integrates multiple different query revisers, each implementing one or more query revision strategies. A revision server receives a user's query, and interfaces with the various query revisers, each of which generates one or more potential revised queries. The revision server...

20060230021 - Integration of personalized portals with web content syndication: Personal portal pages for individual users are integrated with web content syndication. For example, when a search query is received from the user, a list of hits is generated. For each hit, it is determined whether there is an associated syndication feed, such as an RSS feed. The list of...

20060230024 - Method and apparatus for a context based cache infrastructure to enable subset query over a cached object: A method, an apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for a context based cache infrastructure to enable subset query over a cached object. Responsive to detecting a query to a root context of a context tree, the tree is traversed for a parent context of a subcontext corresponding to the...

20060230030 - Method and system for accessing and viewing files on mobile devices: A system for downloading files to a hand-held device includes a file converter for converting a selected file to a distilled file. The file converter uploads the distilled file to a server, which is associated with a file processor. The server processes the distilled file and sends it to a...

20060230032 - Multi-fielded web browser-based searching of data stored in a database: Apparatus and method for specifying, searching and retrieving records from a remote database over an interconnected data communications network, such as the Internet, by presenting the end user with a Web-browser based user interface screen containing a results field and a plurality of user input fields configured to receive text...

20060230029 - Real-time, computer-generated modifications to an online advertising program: A method and system for real-time, computer-generated modifications to an online advertising program is disclosed. One aspect of the invention involves a method at a computer associated with an ad placement provider. The method involves receiving a plurality of data streams containing real-time data concerning online advertisements in an online...

20060230033 - Searching through content which is accessible through web-based forms: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates searching through content which is accessible though web-based forms. During operation, the system receives a query containing keywords. Next, the system analyzes the query to create a structured query. The system then performs a lookup based on the structured...

20060230026 - System and method for producing and communicating requested data among networked application programs: Delivering document fragments from a web server to a server-deployed client application. The invention includes a data structure of a request for data including a namespace field, an event handler field, and a parameter field. A first process sends a populated data structure to a second process. The second process...

20060230034 - Requirements management semantics modeling: Described is a method and system of requirements management including the expression in a requirements management tool of a relationship selected from the group consisting of a satisfaction relationship, an alternative relationship, a conflict relationship, and a constant dependency relationship. Described is a requirements management method including a first automatic...

20060230035 - Estimating confidence for query revision models: An information retrieval system includes a query revision architecture that integrates multiple different query revisers, each implementing one or more query revision strategies. A revision server receives a user's query, and interfaces with the various query revisers, each of which generates one or more potential revised queries. The revision server...

20060230036 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program: The present invention provides a method for extracting a characteristic word for a given keyword. The user specifies a keyword as domain knowledge in order to extract a characteristic word from a text such as a text related to a field serving as a domain. For example, the user desires...

20060230038 - Album art on devices with rules management: A system and method for transferring album art from a client computer to a portable media device (PMD). A graphical user-interface allows a user to select a track for transfer to the PMD. A media player application (MPA) verifies that the PMD is capable and authorized to receive album art....

20060230037 - Information notification apparatus and information notification method: To provide an information notification apparatus which includes: a rule management unit (103) which holds (a) an information notification rule generated based on the information (TPO information) concerning the preference of a specific user (mother), the rule defining that predetermined information (“Buy milk.”) should be notified to the user (mother)...

20060230039 - Online identity tracking: Embodiments of the invention provide novel systems, software and methods for gathering information about online entities and for identifying, evaluating and scoring such entities. Merely by way of example, the trustworthiness of an online entity, such as a domain, can be evaluated based information known about other online entities (e.g.,...

20060230040 - Methods and systems for providing a response to a query: Methods and systems for providing a response to a user's query based on other users' picks. For one embodiment of the invention, user responses are correlated to determine an affinity among users. User affinity is then used to modify the presentation of the search results. For one embodiment the location...

20060230041 - System and method for database access control: A system and method for controlling access to components in a database is provided. The system and method provides flexible access control with variable granularity using a generalized mapping model (GMM) transform of data from one or more databases into a plurality of GMM objects, and mapping the GMM objects...

20060230042 - Database security structure: A database security structure that may be used for semistructured databases assigns each node 4 of a database to a collection. For each collection, create rights, retrieve rights, associate rights and dissassociate rights are provided to one or more users, the rights being assigned in common for all nodes of...

20060230043 - Technique for simplifying the management and control of fine-grained access: The invention is an improvement to conventional access control systems that use ACLs. The improvement comprises an Access Control Set, which is a data structure of access rules, ACLs, and other ACSs, and an improved object manager program that controls access to data objects according to the contents of an...

20060230045 - Assignment of network service name: A service providing device connected to a network provides N network services, where N is an integer equal to 2 or greater. For assigning service names to identify N network services, a first common string commonly used in the service names of the N network services is set. The first...

20060230044 - Records management federation: A record management system includes: a configuration repository providing a mapping between object information and record management information for each of a plurality of record management actions; at least one object side record management module communicatively coupled with an ECI tool, an ILM engine and the configuration repository, and being...

20060230046 - Component design by tables within tables: An apparatus for and method of utilizing an Internet terminal coupled to the world wide web to interface with an existing proprietary data base management system by building a component which accesses said proprietary data base management system. A central process provides a listing of tables or steps to a...

20060230048 - Method and apparatus for object discovery agent based mapping of application specific markup language schemas to application specific business objects in an integrated application environment: A method, an apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for object discovery agent (ODA) based mapping of application specific markup language schemas to application specific business objects using an appropriate ODA. A generic ODA application specific information (ASI) builder is added to a business object application specific information (BO ASI)...

20060230049 - Method and apparatus for selecting preferred images for a current exam based on a previous exam: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for interpreting images. An image acquisition device, such as a computerized tomography (CT) system, an ultrasound system, an electron beam tomography (EBT) system, a magnetic resonance (MR) system and the like, generates images and image sets, including a first...

20060230050 - Repairing links in locked files: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing a technique for repairing links in a file. The file can contain one or more links, each link referring to a target file. For one or more of the links, a file identifier such as a file name, file number, or file...

20060230047 - Standardized integration model for distributed business processes: A system and method for integrating distributed business processes that govern message exchange between loosely coupled business applications. The system and method includes the use of an integration scenario. The integration scenario includes a delivery integration model that defines one or more design time business processes. The integration scenario further...

20060230052 - Compact and hitlessly-resizable multi-channel queue: A queue is disclosed (i) that provides for single-channel and multi-channel operation and that can change between single-channel and multi-channel operation during operation hitlessly, (ii) in which the number of channels and each channel's size can be changed during operation hitlessly, and (iii) is compact. To accomplish this, the illustrative...

20060230053 - Consumer profiling and advertisement selection system: A consumer profiling and advertisement selection system is presented in which consumers or subscribers can be characterized based on their purchase or viewing habits. The result of this process is a consumer characterization vector describing the probabilistic demographics and product preferences of the subscriber or viewer. Advertisement characterization vectors describing...

20060230051 - Method to share and exchange geographic based information: A simplified approach to sharing and exchanging geographic-based information containing the maps and corresponding data and metadata was developed to enable easy sharing of information for decision support tools. Current Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technologies are limited in their ability to share maps and data in the exact format that...

20060230055 - Live graphical preview with text summaries: The subject invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates creating a summary page of content associated with disparate sources of data. For example, a user can select one or more regions of one or more disparate web pages for which he/she desires updated information over a length of...

20060230056 - Method and a device for visual management of metadata: A method and a device for visual management of metadata. An area with a plurality of data elements is visualized (504) to the user who determines (508) a route on the area, said route including a number of preferred elements belonging to the plurality of elements, which is detected (512)....

20060230057 - Method and apparatus for mapping web services definition language files to application specific business objects in an integrated application environment: A method, an apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for mapping Web services definition language (WSDL) files to application specific business objects. A WSDL reader parses WSDL files and builds a WSDL syntax tree. If a types section is present in the tree, a schema resolver generates a set of...

20060230054 - On-line organization of data sets: To efficiently retain data online, an instance of a data set may be generated. The instance may have a set of data fields with corresponding data values. The instance also may be searchable in response to a data selection request. Another instance may be generated, which also may have a...

20060230058 - System and method for tracking user activity related to network resources using a browser: A method and system are described for tracking user activity related to network resources using a browser. According to an exemplary embodiment, a user-initiated activity related to a network resource is detected in the browser. The detected user-initiated activity is associated with the network resource to form an activity-resource pair....

20060230061 - Displaying aggregated new content by selected other user based on their authorization level: Enabling a content publisher and a receiving user to control access to content updates based on user relationships. The content publisher and the receiving user may assign a relationship degree, relationship category, and/or relationship rating to each other and to other users. The content publisher and/or receiving user also specify...

20060230060 - Extendable discovery of network device information: A network management protocol can be used to enable a user to determine what features, functions and other characteristics are supported by a networked device and to extend the capabilities of the device without having to modify the existing software. While available systems and methods use the generic profiles that...

20060230059 - Method and apparatus to select and deliver portable portlets: A portlet may be selected from among one or more portlets rendered by an origin server. The origin server may have an object listening for pointer activity wherein a user event triggers selection of a portlet. The origin server, in response, may send state information of the portlet in the...

20060230062 - Enabling interactive integration of network-accessible applications in a content aggregation framework: Enabling network-accessible applications to be integrated into content aggregation frameworks (such as portals) and to become dynamically interactive through proxying components (such as proxying portlets), thereby providing run-time cooperation and data sharing....

20060230063 - Method and apparatus for mapping structured query language schema to application specific business objects in an integrated application environment: A method, an apparatus and computer instructions are provided for mapping structured query language (SQL) schema to application specific business objects in an integration application environment. A SQL business object application specific information (BO ASI) builder is added to the business object application specific information (BO ASI) resolver. When a...

20060230067 - Automatically moving multidimensional data between live datacubes of enterprise software systems: Techniques are described for sharing multidimensional data between software systems, such as enterprise software systems. Specifically, the techniques provide mechanisms for defining inter-application “links” for automatically moving data among different databases associated with the enterprise software systems. For example, a system may include a first database storing multidimensional data for...

20060230073 - Information services for real world augmentation: A method and system provides information services for augmentation of real world environments. The information services include features for retrieving and presenting information, authoring new information services, authoring new information services, storing information, storing information services, communicating information, communicating information services, sharing information, sharing information services, executing e-commerce transactions and...

20060230064 - Internet-based method of and system for enabling communication of consumer product information between manufacturers and consumers in a stream of commerce, using manufacturer created and managed data links: A novel system and method are disclosed for finding and serving consumer product-related information over the Internet to consumers in retail shopping environments, as well as at home and work, and on the road. The system includes Internet information servers which store information pertaining to Universal Product Number (e.g. UPC...

20060230069 - Media transmission method and a related media provider that allows fast downloading of animation-related information via a network system: A media transmission method and a related media provider are provided for transmitting media to an electronic device including a multimedia chip and a terminal database via a network system. The media provider has a summary database for storing a plurality of objects and their basic information, a media generating...

20060230068 - Methods and systems for specifying a user interface for an application: Systems and methods for generating and/or modifying a specification for an application. Data to be incorporated into the specification is stored in a database. The data is stored in the database according to a conceptual model that allows a specification generator application to generate the specification by making a series...

20060230065 - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for generating a suggested list of media items based upon a seed: A system and method for suggesting a list of media items to a user. The method comprises presenting a user with a selection element for gathering a seed for generating a list of media items related to the seed. The method further receives a seed selection from the user and...

20060230071 - Model-driven event detection, implication, and reporting system: An event analysis system monitors information available from both publicly and privately distributed networks of information for events that are relevant to the user's particular business concerns. Those concerns are defined in a customized model of the user's organization and external business environment. The system receives the information, detects events...

20060230072 - Secure digital couriering system and method: A digital couriering system and method for electronically moving records and images through a central user interface with a centralized security and access mechanism is disclosed. The disclosed system and method is a network that makes it possible for records comprising personal information and other non-personal information to be delivered...

20060230070 - System and method for creating target byte code: A system and method for converting byte code of a first type into byte code of a second type. Byte code of a first type is received as input. The first byte code is converted into constituent byte code data elements that can comprise any logical unit or grouping of...

20060230066 - Using schemas to generate application specific business objects for use in an integration broker: Provided are a method, system, and program for using schemas to generate application specific business objects for use in an integration broker. A schema is accessed defining an application specific data structure for one application. A business object is generated including fields corresponding to elements and attributes indicated in the...

20060230077 - Load distribution system, and event processing distribution control apparatus, and an event processing distribution control program: In a load distribution system, a plurality of processing servers are installed and a context-dependent distributor is arranged in a stage before the processing servers such that a distribution rule is set to the distributor to appropriately distribute an event to an associated processing server, the event being necessary for...

20060230075 - Method and apparatus for exchanging data with a database: A data exchange system for communicating with a database having a plurality of data tables includes a plurality of internal classes adapted to represent data from the data tables in a business entity format, a plurality of query structures corresponding to the plurality of data tables and a plurality of...

20060230074 - Method and system for increasing filesystem availability via block replication: A source site employs a source server and a source storage system, and a target site employs a target server and a target storage system. The source server manipulates data that is stored within a source logical unit of the source storage system. The target server generates a flashcopy of...

20060230076 - Virtually infinite reliable storage across multiple storage devices and storage services: A logical file system is described that distributes copies of files across various different physical storage resources yet provides a consistent view to the user of his or her data, regardless of which machine the user is accessing the files from, and even when the user's computer is offline. The...

20060230078 - Replicating modifications of a directory: Replicating modifications of a directory that include receiving in a source directory service for a source directory requests for modifications in the source directory and transmitting, from the source directory service to a duplicate directory service for a duplicate directory asynchronously in parallel over a plurality of data communications connections,...

20060230080 - Apparatus for tracking work process and computer product: In an apparatus for tracking a work process, when a work model and its version to be updated are accepted, a registering unit updates a version-number management table based on the version accepted. When a work model to be tracked and a version number of the work model to be...

20060230079 - Snapshots for instant backup in a database management system: A system, method, apparatus, means and computer program code for processing a request to create a snapshot version of a database are provided which include identifying a current state of a converter table, the converter table including information identifying a plurality of page identifiers and a physical location of each...

20060230082 - Asynchronous detection of local event based point-in-time state of local-copy in the remote-copy in a delta-set asynchronous remote replication: A storage system executes a delta set asynchronous remote replication protocol, wherein writes to a local copy are aggregated into delta sets during successive delta cycles. The delta sets are sent to a remote storage system to be written to a remote copy. Independent of the delta cycles, the local...

20060230081 - Backing up a wireless computing device: A method and apparatus are provided to backup and restore data (410) from/to wireless computing devices, utilizing strongly collision free determistic identifiers....

20060230083 - Method and system for profiling and populating a database: A data generation system includes a profile system and a populate system. The profile system analyzes the data of the database to be profiled to determine characteristics of the data including distribution of data values. A user-specified profile template defines the data to be profiled and how the data is...

20060230085 - Key sequenced clustered i/o in a database management system: A system, method, apparatus, means and computer program code for writing data includes identifying a plurality of pages to be written to a data volume, each page including a file identifier and a key, creating a first page group from the plurality of pages, the first page group including pages...

20060230086 - Qos-enabled lifecycle management for file systems: In an exemplary aspect of the invention, a method is disclosed for lifecycle management for file systems. The method comprises the following steps. At least one storage container adapted to support a file system is allocated. The at least one storage container and the file system are associated with a...

20060230084 - Unit and method for managing the display of a current portion of a document on a screen: The invention relates to a display control unit which is used to display a current portion of a document on a screen (15) when an interactive or scrollable page of said document requires a larger display area than that of the screen. The inventive unit consists of: a unit (10)...

20060230087 - System and method for adaptive garbage collection in a virtual machine environment: A system and method for adaptive or dynamic garbage collection and memory management in computer systems and virtual machine environments, including Java virtual machines. Adaptive techniques attempt to constrain the system to consistently move towards the desired goal. In accordance with an embodiment, the system successively calculates a value of...

20060224558 - Associating multiple categories with single payee or payor in financial software application: When a user is entering a transaction for a payee or payor, categories that are associated with the payee/payor are given prominence within a drop-down menu or other selection mechanism. Categories can be associated with payees/payors based on recency and/or frequency of use in connection with such payees/payors, as well...

20060224560 - Data storage device, reconstruction controlling device, reconstruction controlling method, and storage medium: The present invention provides a method including a step of determining whether a number of storage media usable for one of input and output of processing data is not smaller than one plus a number of storage media necessary for one of input and output of processing data when a...

20060224559 - Job processing method, job processing device, and storage medium: To enable a process in conformity with operator's request in recovery of interrupted job, it accepts a request for executing in the job recovery a process according to operator's request in the job of which process was interrupted by occurrence of interruption cause; it executes in the job recovery the...

20060224553 - Method and system for generating an auto-completion list for a cascading style sheet selector: An auto-completion list for a cascading style sheet (CSS) selector is generated based on user input and contextual information associated with a target document. The user input that triggers the generation of the auto-completion list is entered while creating a CSS selector. A CSS block in the target document is...

20060224551 - Method, system and program for joining source table rows with target table rows: Disclosed is a data processing system implemented method, a data processing system, and an article of manufacturing for use with the data processing system. The data processing system implemented method is used for directing the data processing system to join rows associated with a column of a source table with...

20060224550 - Policy based resource management for legacy data: A policy-based resource management system provides an infrastructure that uses high-level definitions of data-types along with desired policy rules to manage legacy data. In particular, relevant legacy data is identified as well as the characteristics of storage devices where the legacy data resides. The storage management system determines what if...

20060224554 - Query revision using known highly-ranked queries: An information retrieval system includes a query revision architecture providing one or more query revisers, each of which implements a query revision strategy. A query rank reviser suggests known highly-ranked queries as revisions to a first query by initially assigning a rank to all queries, and identifying a set of...

20060224557 - Smart services: In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, there are provided mechanisms and methods for accessing a service on behalf of a requestor. These mechanisms and methods for accessing a service make it possible for results from the service to be provided to the requestor in the form that the...

20060224556 - Sql interface for services: In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, there are provided mechanisms and methods for providing an SQL interface for a service. These mechanisms and methods for providing an SQL interface for a service make it possible for data from a plurality of services to be provided to a requester...

20060224555 - System and method for assisting generation of business specification: A business specification generation assisting system for generation of a business specification that implements a business function specified by a user, on the basis of association among the business functions, programs and physical data is provided. A physical model which is a graph having programs and input and output physical...

20060224552 - Systems and methods for determining user interests: Techniques are provided to determine user-interest features and user-interest parameter weights for a user-interest model. The user-interest features are pre-determined and/or determined dynamically. Pre-determined user-interest features are based on user-interest profiles, prior user activities, documents listed in a resume, reading or browsing patterns and the like. Dynamically determined user-interest features...

20060224564 - Materialized view tuning and usability enhancement: A method and system for enhancing a materialized view. In one embodiment the method includes analyzing a defined query of the materialized view, checking the requirements of the materialized view log, generating execution scripts that automatically create and enhance the materialized view logs and tuning the materialized view....

20060224561 - Method and apparatus for associating logical conditions with the re-use of a database query execution strategy: A query facility for database queries saves and re-uses query execution strategies, and automatically determines whether a strategy can be re-used when an imported variable changes. The query facility automatically saves one or more logical conditions associated with the one or more imported variables in the query. When the query...

20060224563 - Query plan selection control using run-time association mechanism: A system and method for creation, modification and/or use of plan guide(s) is provided. Plan guide(s) can be employed to optimize the performance of query(ies) when it is not possible and/or desirable to change the text of the query directly. Plan guides can be useful, for example, when a small...

20060224562 - System and method for efficiently performing similarity searches of structural data: Techniques for similarity searching are provided. In one aspect, a method of searching structural data in a database against one or more structural queries comprises the following steps. A desired minimum degree of similarity between the one or more queries and the structural data in the database is first specified....

20060224574 - Abstract data linking and joining interface: A method, apparatus and article of manufacture provide a user interface allowing user selection and arrangement of result fields selected, in one embodiment, from a logical model. In one embodiment, the user interface is a graphical user interface and comprises input cells for user-selected logical result fields. The cells are...

20060224572 - Automatic stop word identification and compensation: Computer-based methods for automatically identifying and compensating for stop words contained in documents are described. The method for compensating for stop words includes: generating an abstract mathematical space based on documents included in a collection of documents, wherein each document has a representation in the abstract mathematical space; receiving a...

20060224568 - Automatically displaying fields that were non-displayed when the fields are filter fields: A number of records are displayed. Each record has one or more values for a number of fields. The fields includes one or more non-displayed fields. The values of each record for each non-display field are not displayed. The records are filtered by one or more selected values for each...

20060224573 - Method and system to facilitate decision point information flow and to improve compliance with a given standardized vocabulary: An information search system incorporating computer algorithms that provide for (1) enforcement of compliance with a standardized vocabulary by a user or users, in a manner that is much more acceptable to users than known existing methods; 2) instant or essentially instant provision of information that is context sensitive, that...

20060224571 - Methods and systems to facilitate searching a data resource: Methods and systems to facilitate searching a data resource. According to one aspect the system facilitates a search of a data resource utilized by sellers and buyers that transact items in a network-based marketplace. According to a second aspect the system generates a query to search a data resource utilized...

20060224566 - Natural language based search engine and methods of use therefor: There is provided a search engine or other electronic search application that receives an inputted query in natural language. The search engine then analyzes the query in accordance with the syntactic relationships of the natural language in which it was presented, and generates a result to the query as output....

20060224569 - Natural language based search engine and methods of use therefor: There is provided a search engine or other electronic search application that receives an inputted query in natural language. The search engine or application augments data derived from the query with additional data, for example, one or more concept link identifiers, that are in addition to concept link identifiers, derived...

20060224570 - Natural language based search engine for handling pronouns and methods of use therefor: There is provided a sentence module that handles pronouns in sentences. Each pronoun is replaced by one or more nouns. These replaced nouns are used to form statements that populate the structured representation, in order to produce precise answers to queries, as part of a search engine application....

20060224567 - Stereographic network monitoring system and method thereof: A stereographic network monitoring system is provided to display a stereographic representation of an abnormal unit in a controlled device monitored via a network, wherein the stereographic representation shows the abnormal unit and its relative position, so that a supervisor can be clearly informed the relative position of the component...

20060224565 - System and method for disambiguating entities in a web page search: A system and method of disambiguating entities in a computerized web search comprises identifying a set of potential meanings for an entity; retrieving at least one web page comprising descriptions referencing the entity; establishing a base web page comprising a selected context for the entity; attributing dimensions of a vector...

20060224576 - Effectively and efficiently supporting xml sequence type and xquery sequence natively in a sql system: Techniques for effectively and efficiently supporting XML sequence type and XQuery sequence natively in a SQL system are described. According to one aspect, SQL functions that correctly handle XML sequences are provided. Thus, XML sequences are handled effectively. According to another aspect, rules for simplifying an abstract syntax tree (AST)...

20060224575 - System and method for dynamic creation and management of lists on a distance user interface: An exemplary method includes displaying a graphical user interface that comprises a menu of types of media, receiving a command issued from a remote control specifying a type of media, in response to the command, displaying a graphical user interface for selecting items of the media, receiving one or more...

20060224577 - Automated relevance tuning: A system and method for optimizing the performance of a document ranker in a search engine. Weights are assigned to the document features considered by the document ranker. The weights are optimized to produce the highest possible relative ranking for a group of test documents in response to an associated...

20060224579 - Data mining techniques for improving search engine relevance: The subject invention relates to systems and methods that automatically learn data relevance from past search activities and apply such learning to facilitate future search activities. In one aspect, an automated information retrieval system is provided. The system includes a learning component that analyzes stored information retrieval data to determine...

20060224581 - Information retrieval system: In an information retrieval system for retrieving in a data group to be searched, which is stored in a database, a logic model expressing a logic guide in a searching process is developed by additionally registering synonyms and the like to a search keyword by a number of users. By...

20060224580 - Natural language based search engine and methods of use therefor: There is provided a search engine or other electronic search application that receives an inputted query in natural language. The search engine then analyzes the query in accordance with the syntactic relationships of the natural language in which it was presented, weights the syntactic relationships, and generates a result to...

20060224578 - Optimized cache efficiency behavior: A method is provided for storing and providing responses to keyword search queries and other queries. One of a plurality of memory devices for storing a query answer is selected based on a hash value of the query. The hash value is used to select a permutation for ordering the...

20060224584 - Automatic linear text segmentation: An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for automatically subdividing a document into conceptually cohesive segments. The method includes the following steps: subdividing the document into contiguous blocks of text; generating an abstract mathematical space based on the blocks of text, wherein each block of text has a...

20060224585 - Method and system for managing and searching a supplier database structure: What is disclosed is a method, software product and database structure for storing, searching and managing multi-dimensional, discrete supplier capabilities and characteristics. This method and system consists creating, searching and maintaining a database structure containing discrete definitions of supplier material specialties, industries they serve, product families they produce, detailed processes...

20060224586 - System and method for improved spell checking: A spell checking method presents a selectable list of similarly spelled words, when a misspelled word is selected by the user who wishes to find the correct spelling. One feature determines the “content” or “topic” of a document. Based on the content, the spell checker presents likely replacement words for...

20060224583 - Systems and methods for analyzing a user's web history: A user's prior searching and browsing activities are recorded for subsequent use. A user may examine the user's prior searching and browsing activities in a number of different ways, including indications of the user's prior activities related to advertisements. A set of search results may be modified in accordance with...

20060224582 - User interface for facts query engine with snippets from information sources that include query terms and answer terms: A method and a system for providing snippets of source documents of an answer to a fact query are disclosed. Snippets of source documents may be provided in response to a user request for the source documents from which the fact answer to a fact query was extracted. The snippets...

20060224587 - Systems and methods for modifying search results based on a user's history: A user's prior searching and browsing activities are recorded for subsequent use. A user may examine the user's prior searching and browsing activities in a number of different ways, including indications of the user's prior activities related to advertisements. A set of search results may be modified in accordance with...

20060224588 - Database contention and deadlock detection and reduction within application servers: A method in a data processing system for detecting and reducing database contention and deadlock caused from within an application server. A determination is made as to whether a set of parameters in a statistical model indicates contention. If the set of parameters in the statistical model indicates contention, an...

20060224591 - Authorization over a distributed and partitioned management system: In a management system, a management server authorizes users to access computing devices based on class space and instance space. The management server further determines whether users are authorized to use particular computing devices and/or applications provided by the particular computing devices. Alerts may also be provided to the users...

20060224590 - Computer-implemented authorization systems and methods using associations: Computer-implemented systems and methods for determining whether to authorize one or more operations with respect to resource objects. A system and method can include receiving a request that would involve an operation with respect to a resource object. The requested resource object may have multiple associations with other objects. One...

20060224589 - Method and apparatus for handling messages containing pre-selected data: A method and apparatus for blocking messages containing pre-selected data is described. In one embodiment, the method includes determining that a message transmitted to a recipient via a network includes pre-selected data. The pre-selected data contains information from at least one random row within the tabular structure of source data....

20060224592 - Crawling databases for information: A system facilitates the search engine to search for pieces of information in various databases and application documents without the need to know the specific protocols to communicate with the various databases and application documents, such as Microsoft Excel documents. Despite the multitude of possible protocols which a crawler would...

20060224595 - Data management apparatus, data management method, and data management program: A data management apparatus comprises a data registration section that registers data in a plurality of different databases storing data related to a common management target, and a data association section that associates first data registered in one of the plurality of databases with second data, the second data being...

20060224597 - Distributed management framework for personal attributes: A technique for distributed management of attributes includes propagating attributes based upon attribute-granularity permissions. An example of a system according to the technique may include a server, coupled to a first client and a second client, that includes a module that receives attribute data from the first client; a permissions...

20060224594 - Methods and systems for identifying highly contended blocks in a database: A computer-implemented method of generating a list of K most frequently accessed ones of a plurality of data blocks in a database may include steps of selecting the number K; building the list of K blocks by storing an identification of and maintaining a running count for up to selected...

20060224593 - Search engine desktop application tool: In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a software application is configured to remain active on a user's “local” computer system. The software automatically establishes communication sessions between the local computer system and a server computer system at a remote location. Computers properly configured with elements of the present...

20060224596 - System and method for notification of acquired information: A system (100) and method (200) for general notification of newly-acquired information by: subscribing (230) an indexing service (124; 128) to a broker (140) for a predetermined selection of information stored on an object server (110); and producing related information associated with the information stored on the object server, and...

20060224598 - Communication device: In one embodiment, a method transmits data between an object and one or more communication devices on a perimeter of a display surface....

20060224604 - Content-descriptive user interface correlation for page navigation systems: The present invention provides for navigation systems for table data structures, and methods for facilitating the locating of information in a table data structure. To generate the navigation system, a sort criteria being used to organize the table data structure is identified. After identifying page delineations in the table data...

20060224599 - Mobile client synchronization and upgrading: Mobile client synchronization and upgrading are described, including recording a change in the application at a first machine, packaging the change in a document, transferring the document from the first machine to a second machine through a communication channel, and replaying the change from the document at the second machine,...

20060224601 - Proxy policy: In a system with a policy server, a first device able to communicate with the policy server and a second device able to communicate with the first device and unable to communicate with the policy server, the first device is to act as a policy proxy. The policy server may...

20060224605 - System and method for grouping a collection of documents using document series: A system and method that allows a publisher to create a document series, associate a document with a document series and present to an end-user a series nugget displaying at least one document associated with the document series. Document series information may be inherited by each document in the document...

20060224603 - System and methods for facilitating a linear grid database with data organization by dimension: A system and methods for organizing and querying data within a linear grid management system. Data having multiple dimensions is associated with physical locations, where a first dimension is associated with a node and a second dimension is associated with a data storage identifier of a memory storage device. The...

20060224600 - Traversal of empty regions in a searchable data structure: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for the traversal of empty regions in a searchable data structure such as a table. A plurality of elements are allocated in logical storage, wherein the plurality of elements correspond to entries of the searchable data structure. An indicator is maintained...

20060224602 - User data profile namespace: A method and data structure for separating application data from user data in a namespace. The data structure provides an intuitive profile layout for developers or users while supporting legacy applications. The namespace utilizes a hierarchical structure allowing access by developers or users over a network to information contained in...

20060224610 - Electronic inking process: A method of reconciling a first data structure with a second data structure that is a subsequently modified version of the first data structure. Initially, each node in the first data structure for which a change has been made to a corresponding node in the second data structure is accessed....

20060224609 - Method and apparatus for finding biased quantiles in data streams: A method and apparatus for computing biased or targeted quantiles are disclosed. For example, the present invention reads a plurality of items from a data stream and inserts each of the plurality of items that was read from the data stream into a data structure. Periodically, the data structure is...

20060224607 - Method and system for aggregating rules that define values for the same property associated with the same document element: An aggregate property grid includes a rule list and a property list such that a web developer may easily determine which properties correspond to which rules. The rule list displays a list of rules that are applied to a selected document element. The property list includes the properties that are...

20060224606 - Notification methods and systems for print-related systems: Notification mechanisms for use in connection with print systems are described. In one embodiment, a notification mechanism extends from a printing application to the spooler, from the spooler to a hosting process, and back to the spooler. The notification mechanism can allow interested applications, such as print user interfaces, to...

20060224608 - Systems and methods for combining sets of favorites: A user's prior searching and browsing activities are recorded for subsequent use. A user may examine the user's prior searching and browsing activities in a number of different ways, including indications of the user's prior activities related to advertisements. A set of search results may be modified in accordance with...

20060224618 - Data transfer and transformation system and method: A method for processing data. Meta-data descriptors (15, 18) are defined to describe the data either by the user (17) or automatically using a meta-data connector (16). A meta-data descriptor describes the structure of data including field names (1, 4). A meta-data connector describes how to access the data. Different...

20060224611 - Identity management user experience: Example embodiment of the present invention provide for assisting a user in managing the user's shared persona on a request-by-request basis. Upon requesting to share one or more types of identity information, the user is automatically presented with an interface through which the user can interact in selecting an amount...

20060224616 - Information processing device and method thereof: An information processing device including a key sound achieving unit 21 for achieving audio data serving as a retrieval key, a designated point achieving unit 51 for achieving as a designated point a time for designating a section of the achieved audio data, a variation point detector 31 for converting...

20060224612 - Information processing system for a value-based system: Embodiments of the invention include an electronic processing system for determining states of existence for individuals or groups of individuals, or both. The system incorporates cognitive, psychological, and perceptual principles. The system includes a mechanism for obtaining input variables; one or more processors, a processing engine with one or more...

20060224613 - Method and system for an administrative apparatus for creating a business rule set for dynamic transform and load: Provided is a method for an administrative apparatus for creating a business rule set for dynamic transform and load. A business rule template definition is obtained. A source metadata defining a data source is obtained. A store metadata defining a data store is obtained. Output is displayed to a user...

20060224614 - Method, system and program product for providing high performance data lookup: Under the present invention, index keys are generated for a set of documents. This is typically accomplished by examining the set of documents, and connecting data values extracted from the set of documents to yield the index keys. Once the index keys are generated, an index view will be generated...

20060224615 - Systems and methods for providing subscription-based personalization: A user's prior searching and browsing activities are recorded for subsequent use. A user may examine the user's prior searching and browsing activities in a number of different ways, including indications of the user's prior activities related to advertisements. A set of search results may be modified in accordance with...

20060224617 - Unstructured business metadata manager: Embodiments of the present invention include methods for collecting, organizing, storing and displaying business-oriented metadata. Business metadata is metadata that uses terms of business and is meaningful to the business person. Business Metadata Manager (BMM) is a software system that collects business metadata, organizes and categorizes it, stores it into...

20060224619 - System for providing media service using sensor network and metadata: Disclosed herein is a system for providing media service using a sensor network and metadata. The sensor network includes a plurality of sensor network nodes connected to a media server and one or more media devices, respectively. The media server includes a media information storage unit, a sensor interface unit,...

20060224625 - Alert method and apparatus for identifying pets available for adoption: Information about pets presently in shelters or otherwise available for adoption is collected and stored in a centralized database that is accessible through, for example, a website. Each pet may be identified by type, a photograph, a locality where it is located, and other convenient information. Users who wish to...

20060224620 - Automatic rules-based device synchronization: Automatic rules-based synchronization of digital files on a source device and a target device coupled to it. A source computer executes a synchronization engine for managing transfer of files from a source database to a target device coupled to the computer as a function of a defined storage capacity of...

20060224623 - Computer status monitoring and support: A root silo that authorizes one or more clients to access one or more services at one or more servicing silos receives a request from a client for interaction with a service. The root silo identifies a servicing silo as an available provider of the service for interacting with the...

20060224621 - E-mail response system: A system and method for processing e-mail is provided wherein an e-mail is received from an originator or a customer, a routing destination is determined and responses to the e-mail are retrieved from a library based on the selected routing destination. Customer data is then accessed and the responses are...

20060224632 - Information distribution system and method: An information distribution system distributes data sets according to a hierarchical association among classes and recipients so that each recipient receives a recipient data set of data sets associated only with that recipient....

20060224630 - Method and apparatus for customizing separation of customer concerns within model architectures: A method for mapping viewpoints and model levels of a first framework to a second framework includes receiving data related to viewpoints and model levels in a first format related to the first framework, mapping the received data in the first format to data related to viewpoints and model levels...

20060224622 - Mobile client synchronization and upgrading: Upgrading a mobile client is described, including exporting a deployment unit, the deployment unit including an item, an action, and a target, and logic configured to perform the action on the item at the target, importing the deployment unit from a file system to a master, applying the action on...

20060224628 - Modeling for data services: In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, there are provided mechanisms and methods for modeling data services. These mechanisms and methods for modeling data services make it possible for organizations to lessen dependence on service implementations. In an example embodiment, modeling provides a unified view of disparate services to...

20060224629 - Networked emergency management system: A computer-implemented process allows emergency plans to be easily and rapidly created for a plurality of different facilities. An emergency plan is provided in electronic form for each facility. Each emergency plan has a standardized format with a plurality of component parts. Each emergency plan has at least some component...

20060224631 - System and method for using graphic and text data of korean american families to enhance korean american networking: A system and method for performing one or more of the following is provided: a) centralized Korean American family networking; b) information entering/viewing/editing a nucleus family member data; c) masking of selected data fields for privacy protection from public; d) method of linking nucleus families; e) search and display method...

20060224624 - Systems and methods for managing multiple user accounts: A user's prior searching and browsing activities are recorded for subsequent use. A user may examine the user's prior searching and browsing activities in a number of different ways, including indications of the user's prior activities related to advertisements. A set of search results may be modified in accordance with...

20060224627 - Techniques for efficient integration of text searching with queries over xml data: A method and apparatus for rewriting a database command containing an embedded XML expression such that the rewritten database command recites a text function, in lieu of the embedded XML expression, is provided. Advantageously, a DBMS may take advantage of the efficiencies in storing XML data within the database, while...

20060224626 - Versioned file group repository: Techniques are provided for managing electronic items by storing, within a file group repository, metadata that identifies (a) a plurality of file groups, (b) for each file group, a set of one or more file group versions for the file group, and (c) for each file group version of each...

20060224637 - Chasing engine for data transfer: A data repository defined by a single logical specification includes a data store comprising a plurality of tables and a view of the plurality of tables, a data dictionary comprising a meta-table and means to generate the data store, wherein the meta-table is generated from the single logical specification defining...

20060224633 - Common import and discovery framework: An import framework imports metadata from any type of metadata repository using a common use case flow. At least one discovery agent associated with a metadata repository is provided. Each discovery agent is configured to implement the common use case flow required to import metadata from a respective metadata repository....

20060224638 - Method and system for dynamic data merge in databases: A data repository defined by a single logical specification includes a data store including a plurality of tables and a view of the plurality of tables, a data dictionary including a meta-table and means to generate the data store, where the meta-table is generated from the single logical specification defining...

20060224635 - Method, system and program product for handling organizational changes: Under the present invention, a set of files (e.g., two ASCII files) is imported. The files identify the users that are being re-assigned, as well as the business units involved with the reassignment. Information is extracted from the set of files and used to locate affected documents in a set...

20060224634 - Multiple log queues in a database management system: A system, method, apparatus, means and computer program code for utilizing multiple log queues in a database management system are provided. In some embodiments, processing includes receiving a first log record at a first log queue and a second log record at a second log queue, associating a log queue...

20060224636 - Page recovery using volume snapshots and logs: Systems and methods are disclosed that facilitate providing page-level database restore functionality upon detection of a corruption event. Updates to a data page in a database can trigger generation of a snapshot of the data page, and an update log can be maintained that stores information related to page updates....

20060224639 - Backup system, program and backup method: Provided is a backup method including a step (S1) of reading a log which is a data update difference, and identifying a data storage area (page) of backup data, a step (S2) of determining high/low reusability of the identified data storage area, a step (S3) of storing a log corresponding...

20060224640 - Communication method between an electronic apparatus and synchronization software: A communication method between an electronic apparatus and synchronization software includes performing data description communication between the electronic apparatus and the synchronization software to negotiate an acceptable data format; and performing data operation communication between the electronic apparatus and the synchronization software to complete a data processing operation according to...

20060224641 - Parallel archiving for a messaging system: A system and method of archiving messages is disclosed. A number p random numbers are stored in a control table, the random numbers being selected from a range (M, N) where N>M. Each random number is initially state-free in the control table. A number p archive processes are generated, each...

20060224642 - Production server to data protection server mapping: A method and system for backing up and restoring data of production servers. A mapping that maps volumes of production servers to volumes of a data protection server is maintained on the data protection server. When volumes of the data protection server are backed up, the mapping may be stored...

20060224643 - Identifying objects that are obscured in the visible name space of a file system: Methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer program products are provided for identifying objects that are obscured in the visible name space of a file system that include retrieving a data structure representing a mounted-over object in the visible name space of the file system, retrieving a data structure representing that the...