Data processing: database and file management or data structures inventions 12/06

20060294054 - Access management apparatus, access management method and program: An access management apparatus, method and program storage device for permitting or prohibiting access to each of a plurality of nodes stored hierarchically, including means and steps for storing rule functions with a plurality of requesters to access a node, each of the rule functions for determining whether access should... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20060294049 - Back-off mechanism for search: Indexing documents is performed using low priority I/O requests. This aspect can be implemented in systems having an operating system that supports at least two priority levels for I/O requests to its filing system. Low priority I/O requests can be used for accessing documents to be indexed. Low priority I/O... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20060294055 - Byte-code representations of actual data to reduce network traffic in database transactions: Methods, articles of manufacture, and systems for reducing network traffic for database transactions between a requesting client and a database server are provided. For some embodiments, the client may access statistical information regarding the data, such as that commonly contained in indexes (e.g., encoded vector indexes), conventionally generated for use... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20060294045 - Control of service workload management: A system and method are provided to manage different types of workload. The method comprises receiving a request, determining a class of the request, determining a priority level associated with the class of the request, and servicing the request utilizing the priority level of the class of the request. The... Agent: Network Appliance/blakely

20060294048 - Data centric workflows: Providing data bound workflow activities to model messaging between a workflow instance and a workflow host. The workflow author associates a data source with each data bound activity in a workflow without specifying details of the underlying messaging technology. The data bound activity in the workflow instance communicates with a... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20060294042 - Disparate data store services catalogued for unified access: A data store catalogue service model is disclosed for exposing disparate data store services to clients without requiring explicit knowledge on how to interact with each disparate service. The data store catalogue service model may maintain interaction details for each data store service that clients may access for interacting with... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20060294039 - File migration history controls updating or pointers: On a distributed data processing system, a history of file migration is maintained. When access to a file is requested and the file is not found, the migration history is consulted to determine the current location of the file, and to update links contained in other files that point to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060294041 - Installing a component to an application server: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, receive configuration data from a development environment, determine a component based on reading an identifier of the component from a list of all possible components, install the component to an application server if the component exists in the configuration... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20060294047 - Method and apparatus for communicating transactions between an industrial controller and a programming interface: An industrial control system includes an industrial controller and a programming interface. The industrial controller maintains a control program for interfacing with a controlled process. The programming interface is operable to communicate a transaction to the industrial controller. The transaction includes a plurality of operations for modifying the control program... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./bf

20060294038 - Method and system for managing data transaction requests: A method and system is provided to process data transactions in a data store including a plurality of databases. The system may comprise a computer interface module to receive a data transaction request from at least one requesting computer and a data store interface module to interface the system to... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20060294040 - Method for using, adding and removing category in directory by documents: A method maintains a directory for documents. Each document has a category, and each document can add new category to the directory, and can vote to support or remove a category. The method is particularly useful in enhancing the scale of directory service.... Agent: Ning Zhu

20060294053 - Recording medium having a file sharing program recorded thereon and file sharing apparatus: A computer-readable recording medium is disclosed that stores a file sharing program causing a computer connected to a network of nodes and sharing a file with the nodes in a decentralized manner to execute a method including the steps of: checking the number of approvals by nodes approving a change... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20060294050 - Retrieving server-based help content: A URI is received and includes an indication of an item of content. A determination is made as to whether there is access to a help server. If there is access, then a version of the item of content is retrieved from the help server. If there is no access,... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20060294046 - Storage and utilization of slide presentation slides: Slide presentation files may be separated into one or more individual slide files, and the one or more individual slide files may be stored in a remote or local slide library. Stored individual slide files are populated with metadata for allowing subsequent search and location of individual slide files. A... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20060294044 - System and method for dynamically controlling weights assigned to consumers competing for a shared resource: According to one embodiment, a method comprises scheduling, by a weighted proportional-share scheduler, access of competing flows to a computing service in accordance with respective weights assigned to the competing flows. The method further comprises autonomously determining, by a controller, based at least in part on received performance measurement for... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060294043 - System and method for promoting reliability in attendance at events: A system and method are disclosed for scheduling events and for promoting reliability in attendance at events. The system communicates with members through a computer network and allows members to create and host events and to add themselves to guest lists for events hosted by other members. The system includes... Agent: Thompson & Thompson, P.A.

20060294051 - Uniform access to entities in registered data store services: An enterprise system may separate the executable functionality existing in backend applications, and the separation may be at differing levels of granularity. The separated functions of the application may be registered in a catalog in the form of metadata objects. Once the executable functionality has been registered, the authorization information... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20060294052 - Unsupervised, automated web host dynamicity detection, dead link detection and prerequisite page discovery for search indexed web pages: Automated crawling of page links associated with a site domain that was previously crawled involves computing the dynamicity of a site based on totals of continuous dead links, live links and/or prerequisite pages encountered while crawling page links corresponding to the site. The degree to which links are crawled is... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20060294057 - Method and system for transactional fingerprinting in a database system: Transactions with respect to database operations are fingerprinted by associating transaction identifiers with logged information about those database operations. An SQL query is obtained prior to its evaluation by a database engine. A transaction identifier to be associated with the SQL query is also obtained. The SQL query is then... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20060294056 - Propagation of filter expressions across multi-layered systems: A method in a data processing system for propagation of filter expressions across multi-layered systems. If a selection criteria expression in a data request received by a first data processing engine from an application is incompatible with selection criteria expressions of a second data processing engine, the data request and... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20060294058 - System and method for an asynchronous queue in a database management system: A method for performing asynchronous statistics updates in a database management system includes receiving a first query against the database, determining if present statistics related to the first query are stale and entering on a queue a request to acquire updated statistics if the present statistics are stale. The queue... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20060294068 - Adding dominant media elements to search results: A method and system for determining dominance of the media elements of display pages is provided. The dominance system provides a scoring mechanism for scoring the dominance of media elements of display pages based on features of each media element of the display page. To generate the scores for the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20060294082 - Apparatus and method for playing content according to numeral key input: An apparatus and method is provided for playing content according to a numeral key input. The method converts a combination of numerals input using numeral keys of a remote controller into temporal information such as a date or a time, and retrieves and plays frames of a still image or... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060294063 - Application launching via indexed data: Application launching on a computer via indexed data. Based on a search term entered by a user, the computer searches an index containing metadata representative of one or more applications installed on the computer. A user interface on the computer's display has a window for displaying the results of searching... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20060294070 - Computerized assistance content organization, scoping and bias: Computer assistance content related to a plurality of software entities is combined into a single assistance content corpus. The corpus may be organized hierarchically. The hierarchical organization can be done using content sets that relate assistance content with associated metadata. Content sets can be related to each other in parent-child... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20060294073 - Constrained exploration for search algorithms: Partition criteria is used to direct or constrain a search process that searches a search space for solution to a problem. The identification of states for further exploration of the search space is directed by the use of reference state and distance constraint information that is part of the partition... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20060294067 - Dynamic language checking: Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for dynamic language checking. Embodiments include identifying questionable language usage; creating a query in dependence upon the questionable language usage; querying a search engine with the query; receiving from the search engine search result statistics describing the search results for the query;... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20060294077 - Electronic document repository management and access system: A system and a method providing for the distribution and management of a large corpus of value added electronic documents while providing customized services to a plurality of diverse end users.... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20060294072 - Extensible workflows: Computing devices receive data type specific data from various local and external sources and managed entities. The data is received and process using modules and monitors, where the modules are sequenced to process the data and the monitors are used to provide condition states of the individual data sources and/or... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20060294065 - Extrapolating continuous values for comparison with discrete valued data: A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for processing continuous value data is disclosed. Data values stored in a database reflect a measurement of the value obtained for a specific point in time. In order to correlate the evaluation of two or more conditions, when measurements for each condition recorded... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20060294071 - Facet extraction and user feedback for ranking improvement and personalization: A method includes determining a facet from a web page to be indexed for searching, indexing the web page with the facet in a search index, augmenting a user's web search query with the facet, searching the search index for the facet-augmented query, and presenting to the user, as a... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20060294078 - File management method and apparatus to manage driver files necessary to drive a device connected to terminal: A file management method and apparatus to prevent accidental damage to driver files necessary to drive a device, such as a printer or a scanner, which is connected to a terminal, such as a PC. The file management method includes receiving a request to perform an operation on the file,... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060294079 - Incremental data query performance feedback model: Methods, systems and articles of manufacture are provided for query evaluation. The query is evaluated upon inputting each incremental query element (or combination of element). Generally, for each incremental query element added, a query performance analysis is performed with respect to one or more runtime metrics such as total execution... Agent: William J. Mcginnis, Jr. IBM Corporation

20060294059 - Intelligent data storage and processing using fpga devices: A data storage and retrieval device and method is disclosed. The device includes at least one magnetic storage medium configured to store target data and at least one re-configurable logic device comprising an FPGA coupled to the at least one magnetic storage medium and configured to read a continuous stream... Agent: Thompson Coburn, LLP

20060294074 - Internet-based search method of contents by means of relevant lexicons: An Internet-based search method of contents by means of relevant lexicons, which enables any search of the contents relevant to inputted words between a client and a server through Internet. While a search action is executed, the user can input any desired word into the client through the input device... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20060294075 - Master-detail provider and method of providing master-detail functionality: A master-detail provider is provided for processing user requests for data stored in one or more data source. The master-detail provider has a query analyzer, a master-detail link handler, a master query handler and a detail query handler. The query analyzer analyzes one or more queries included in a user... Agent: Arthur G. Schaier Carmody & Torrance LLP

20060294084 - Methods and apparatus for a statistical system for targeting advertisements: A system examines a user profile based on a knowledge associated with a user. The system examines a content context profile associated with a type of application and an application environment. The system examines an advertisement profile associated with a plurality of advertisements that include a plurality of attributes. The... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20060294081 - Methods, systems and articles of manufacture for abstact query building with selectability of aggregation operations and grouping: Methods, systems and articles of manufacture for query building with selectability of aggregation operations and grouping. Abstract queries are composed on the basis of a data abstraction model abstractly describing data in the database. The abstract queries may include result criterions and aggregation operations to be performed with respect to... Agent: William J. Mcginnis, Jr.

20060294080 - Optimization of database network traffic based upon data-use analysis: An apparatus, program product and method utilize one or more usage statistics, which are reflective of what data is actually and/or likely to be used by a client when processing a database query, to reduce or eliminate the transfer of unnecessary data between a client and server in a client-server... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20060294062 - Process, system, or method for the determination of the percentage of area of a parcel of land available for development or preservation and the production of a report and map therefor on a fixed tangible medium: A system for the determination of the percentage of area of a parcel of land available for development or preservation which comprises at least one privately gathered data base having at least one file relating to at least one geographic area and its privately gathered corresponding map, physical, geographic, geologic,... Agent: Law Offices Of P.b. Tufariello, P.c Intellectulaw

20060294061 - Real-time structure suppression in ultrasonically scanned volumes: Certain embodiments of the present invention include methods, systems, and computer readable media for real-time structure suppression in ultrasonically scanned volumes. A method includes receiving a plurality of datasets, each of said plurality of datasets representative of an ultrasonically scanned volume. The method further includes automatically applying in real-time a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20060294086 - Realtime indexing and search in large, rapidly changing document collections: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for searching content items indexed in real-time. The method according to one embodiment comprises generating an index of word location pairs that identifies the location of one or more words in one or more content items available on a network. One... Agent: Brown, Raysman, Millstein, Felder & Steiner LLP

20060294083 - Search engine sms notification system and method: The invention regards a system and method for affecting a position in a search engine ranking of a web site as a function of a messaging device. In one embodiment, the invention comprises receiving electronic search engine information by an information processor from a search engine over a communication network,... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20060294060 - Similarity calculation device and similarity calculation program: There is provided a similarity calculation device for calculating an index for judging technical similarity between technical document groups consisting of technical documents. The similarity calculation device includes: technical document group input means (365) for inputting a first technical document group and a second technical document group to be compared;... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20060294069 - Sorting and filtering in an interactive report: End user sorting and filtering of data extracted for report processing can be performed. That is, data can be filtered or sorted subsequent to the execution of underlying queries performed to extract data from a data source. A user can sort or filter data by selecting a set of data... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20060294064 - Storing queries on devices with rewritable media: A system and method for preparing and storing pre-determined queries on devices with large re-writable media. This invention addresses the problem of processing of data query request on devices that may not have the processing power to return query results in a timely manner. A requesting device queries a target... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20060294076 - System and method for query planning and execution: A coordination planner is suitably used for a query framework system for processing a user request for data from one or more data sources. The query framework system comprises multiple query processing components including a set of query operation providers, each being capable of providing a specific query operation. The... Agent: Arthur G. Schaier Carmody & Torrance LLP

20060294085 - Using community annotations as anchortext: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for using community annotations to content items as anchortext for search and index purposes. The method according to one embodiment comprises generating one or more items of personalized information by a user for storage in a user profile, the one or... Agent: Brown, Raysman, Millstein, Felder & Steiner LLP

20060294066 - Visual display of information using historical condition support and event profiles: A method, system and article of manufacture for providing a visual display of information that quickly conveys how information, as represented by data retrieved for a set of queries, may have changed over time is disclosed. By animating information retrieved for a plurality of queries, a visual display is created... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20060294089 - Filter manager system and method of managing filter expressions: A filter manager system has a predicate combiner for handling grouping of predicates with brackets into one or more predicate groups based on a user input. The system also has an operator handler for handling one or more operators between the predicate groups to compose a filter. A filter user... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20060294088 - Method, system, and computer program product for caching dynamically generated queries: The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for caching dynamically generated queries such as SQL (Structured Query Language) statements. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention comprises: providing a partial update query for updating at least one column in a table stored... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC

20060294087 - System and method for processing and decomposition of a multidimensional query against a relational data source: A multidimensional operation provider is provided for processing a multidimensional query against a relational datasource. The multidimensional operation provider comprises a query interceptor, a query decomposer and a query replacer. The query interceptor detects and intercepts a multidimensional query that is issued against one or more relational data sources. The... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20060294093 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method, recording medium, and program: The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and an information processing method, a recording medium, and a program that make it possible to generate a positive history vector and a negative history vector. In step S71, a negative history vector is generated from initially registered contents. When it... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060294090 - Probabilistic analysis of personal store (.pst) files to determine owner with confidence factor: A probabilistic process to determine the owner of an electronic file, such as a Personal Store (.pst). A weighted analysis of multiple factors is performed including the operating system file owner, a user running the process, a “top Y most frequently occurring addresses” when analyzing “X number of sent then... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20060294092 - System and method for data sensitive filtering of patient demographic record queries: A method for data sensitive filtering in patient database searches includes providing a search criteria comprising one or more search locator fields, determining a retrieval formula from said search criteria that maximizes error tolerance in said search criteria while satisfying a predefined response time requirement, retrieving said candidate records from... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20060294091 - System and method for generating a play-list: The present invention relates to a method for generating a play-list of media files, includes the steps of: adjusting the current gain value in response to a control command for adjusting a current gain value during the course of a media file being played; obtaining a gain value having been... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060294096 - Additive clustering of images into events using capture date-time information: Additional records are combined into a database of earlier-entered records clustered into existing events. A common chronology of a set of the existing events in the database and the additional records is determined based upon respective date-times of origination. Relative proportions of the earlier-entered and additional records in the database... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti, Patent Legal Staff Eastman Kodak Company

20060294094 - Processing techniques for text capture from a rendered document: A facility for initiating a purchase is described. The facility receives a text sequence captured by a user from a rendered document using a handheld text capture device. The facility identifies in the received text sequence a reference to a distinguished product. In response to identifying the reference, the facility... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20060294095 - Runtime thresholds for behavior detection: A computer based method and system for detecting behaviors from patterns of data where sets of thresholds and ranges used within detection scenarios can be created and applied while the system is in active operation. Data is received from at least one source, and an application environment is determined. A... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20060294097 - System, method and computer program product for locating a subset of computers on a network: A system, method and computer program product are provided for computer management. Initially, a plurality of categories associated with computers on a network is provided. In addition, the plurality of categories each includes a plurality of values. In use, at least one of the values is received, and a subset... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20060294098 - Universal drill-down system for coordinated presentation of items in different databases: A system for capturing the context of, and translating, or mapping, from data in an originating database presentation, or in an originating format, to data in a target database presentation, or target format. The translation uses the context of the originating report/query in terms of the originating database as a... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

20060294099 - Document classification program, vector transformation program, lexical-distortion cancellation program, document classification method, and document classification apparatus: A classification-rule generating unit generates a classification rule for classifying documents in a second domain into categories in a first domain, by using a plurality of feature vectors that is extracted from a plurality of documents in the first domain and transformed into a plurality of feature vectors in the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20060294101 - Multi-strategy document classification system and method: A system and method for the automated classification of documents. To generate a function for the automatic classification of documents, a set of similarity scores is calculated for each document in a set of exemplary documents, wherein a similarity score is calculated by measuring the similarity in a conceptual representation... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC

20060294100 - Ranking search results using language types: Search results of a search query on a network are ranked according to an additional ranking function for the prior probability of relevance of a document based on document property. The ranking function can be adjusted based on a comparison of the language that a document is written in and... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20060294102 - Active content trust model: A computer-implemented method of providing security in a help system includes receiving a call from a calling application to access active content. A determination is made, based on predetermined criteria, which execution mode to use to access the active content. The active content is then accessed in the determined execution... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20060294104 - Database processing and management: A data-retrieval system maintains a database of records with which it associates respective security keys. It uses those security keys as a basis for deciding whether to grant access to the records. It additionally maintains organizational information that lists relationships among positions within an organization. When a requestor requests access... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20060294106 - Managing secure resources in web resources that are accessed by multiple portals: A method, apparatus, and computer-readable media for authorizing users of network portals to access a secure resource hosted by a secure server comprises storing a plurality of user identifiers, each representing a user of an owning portal; storing for each of the user identifiers an access privilege to the secure... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20060294105 - Method and system for enabling enterprises to use detachable memory devices that contain data and executable files in controlled and secure way: Secure operation of SEMDs on a client computer in a host system is obtained by controlling what applications (i.e., U3 applications) that can run on the host system and access data on the SEMD. Applications allowed to run on each host machine are identified and any access to the SEMD... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20060294103 - Security and authorization in management agents: Provided are a method, a system, an article of manufacture, and a computer program product, wherein a first indicator is stored for a first entity, and wherein the first indicator identifies groups to which the first entity belongs and operations associated with the groups. The first entity receives a second... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20060294107 - Information system: An enterprise information system (EIS) is provided that guarantees affordability, unity and quality for EIS for enterprises with no automated data input. Data are stored as objects. Objects form one Object Tree. Users are objects and their relations in the tree coincide with their relations in the enterprise. Sub-tree of... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20060294110 - Method, system, and program for maintaining data in a distributed computing environment for processing transaction requests: Provider are a method, system, and program for maintaining data in a distributed computing environment. Data is stored at a primary storage site. A data structure is processed indicating an association of data sets in the stored data, secondary storage sites, and update frequencies. In response to processing the data... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20060294109 - Network device, local area network system and network transmitting method: A network device connects an internet and an intranet. The network device includes a receiving module, a downloading module and a determining module. In this case, the receiving module receives a download request transmitted via the intranet. The downloading module downloads at least one data via the internet according to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060294111 - Service providing system, and client, server, and computer program used for such system: In a service providing system, a client includes a transmitting unit configured to transmit specification information associated with specifications of the client to the management server, a receiving unit configured to receive registration completion information from a management server, a transmitting unit configured to transmit a request for service information... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20060294108 - System for and method of managing schedule compliance and bidirectionally communicating in real time between a user and a manager: A compliance/adherence management and automated data collection system uses a plurality of communications modalities implemented over wireless or wired communications systems for redundantly and persistently transmitting messages to and/or receiving messages from an end user for managing compliance/adherence of the end user concerning schedules and medication and treatment protocols. The... Agent: Kirschstein, Ottinger, Israel & Schiffmiller, P.C.

20060294123 - Database systems and processes for storage and retrieval of electronic and related documents: A computer system and process involves entry into a RAID storage array of a digital computer system, at a succession of date/time instances, a succession of records of electronic documents, some of which may have corresponding physical originals, assignment of attributes to the records in any data-type formats that characterize... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20060294120 - Detecting migration differences of a customized database schema: Provided is a database schema migration difference detecting technique for detecting differences of a customized database schema before and after database migration by using XML technology, including: extracting a first database schema from a fresh database of a release and saving the first database schema in a first XML file;... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20060294113 - Joint spatial-temporal-orientation-scale prediction and coding of motion vectors for rate-distortion-complexity optimized video coding: Several prediction and coding schemes are combined to optimize performance in terms of the rate-distortion-complexity tradeoffs. Certain schemes for temporal prediction and coding of Motion Vectors (MVs) are combined with a new coding paradigm of over complete wavelet video coding. Two prediction and coding schemes are set forth herein. A... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060294114 - Method and apparatus for loading data into an alternate evaluator for directory operations: A method for loading data into an alternate evaluator for evaluating directory service operations includes loading data into a list of entries. Loading data into a list of normalized values and associated pointers. Loading data into a list of indexes and associated pointers.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20060294115 - Methods and apparatus for storing content in a file system: One embodiment of the invention is directed to the containerization of content units that are accessed using an identifier. Applicants have appreciated that file systems sometimes impose limits on the number of files that may be stored therein that are too restrictive. Thus, in one embodiment, multiple content units may... Agent: Emc Corporation Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20060294117 - Methods and systems for creating document schema: Systems and methods are disclosed for creating document schema. The disclosed systems and methods may include receiving schema corresponding to meta-data associated with a document, storing the schema in the document, and storing the meta-data in the document. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include storing the schema at... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20060294119 - Optimized markup language processing using repeated structures in markup language source: A computer-implemented method of parsing markup-language source data is described. The markup-language source data comprises a plurality of elements. A first portion of the elements is processed by interoperating with a symbol table to determine unique string objects associated with the elements of the first portion of the elements. A... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20060294121 - Recording apparatus, file management method, program for file management method, and recording medium having program for file management method recorded thereon: A recording apparatus such as an optical disk and a file management method are disclosed by which wastefulness caused by free slots in an index file can be reduced. To each slot of a property entry of the index file, valid/invalid information representative of whether the slot is valid or... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20060294116 - Search system that returns query results as files in a file system: Search systems that perform a search or inquiry to find information elements that satisfy some searching criteria usually return some indication of these information elements in a form that can be viewed or accessed only within the search system itself. An improved system presents the information elements as files in... Agent: Gallagher & Lathrop, A Professional Corporation

20060294118 - Skip list with address related table structure: Apparatus and method for efficiently arranging and searching data in a memory space, such as a cache memory of a data storage array controller. A data structure comprises a skip list of nodes having an array of forward pointers. Each node has a node level derived from an index at... Agent: David K. Lucente Seagate Technology LLC

20060294112 - Specification of a software architecture for capability and quality-of-service negotiations and session establishment for distributed multimedia applications: The underlying invention generally relates to the field of mobile computing in a wireless mobile networking environment with distributed multimedia applications (130). More specifically, it is directed to the field of Quality-of-Service (QOS) management for adaptive real-time services running on mobile devices and an End-to-End Negotiation Protocol (E2ENP) based on... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060294122 - Systems, processes, and products for storage and retrieval of electronic files: A system and process that involve a digital computer storage comprising block locations having physical block addresses and logical block addresses representing a relational database configuration of cells at logical intersections of sequences of rows and columns that specify a sequence of records and a sequence of attributes. A key... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20060294125 - Adaptive video compression of graphical user interfaces using application metadata: Systems, methods and computer accessible medium are provided through which an input data stream consisting one or more media regions before entering a network to be rendered by a display coupled a remote video frame buffer is compressed on the basis of one or more configuration file metadata, source primitive... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20060294128 - Enhanced methods for media processing and distribution: Techniques for encoding and distributing media over a network such as the Internet. A media source is received as input. A plurality of time segmented media files are generated from the media source. The time segmented media files are compressed or decoded and distributed live, nearly live, or at a... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20060294126 - Method and system for homogeneous hashing: A method and system for homogeneous hashing is described. The method includes hashing data into a hash table using a first hash function and determining one or more subsequent hash functions to be used for one or more cells of the hash table. The subsequent hash functions may be determined... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20060294127 - Tagging based schema to enable processing of multilingual text data: Techniques for implementing encoding standard conversion at an access level are disclosed. Applications to retrieve and store data to external media and convert the accessed data according to tags applied to accessing of the data. A program having a buffer operable with data in a first encoding standard accesses data... Agent: Canady & Lortz LLP- Ibm

20060294124 - Unbiased page ranking: where Q(p) is the quality of the page, PR(p) is the current PageRank of the page, ΔPR(p) is the change over time in the PageRank of the page, and D is a constant that determines the relative weight of the terms ΔPR(p)/PR(p) and PR(p).... Agent: Robert Berliner Berliner & Associates

20060294129 - Aggregating data with complex operations: Aggregating data includes accepting a first data set that includes records, each record holding a value for each of a plurality of fields. A second data set is generated from the first data set. The second data set includes one or more aggregated records each corresponding to one or more... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20060294130 - Patent document content construction method: A patent document content construction method is described. The method includes the following steps. A domain-specific thesaurus including a plurality of domain-specific terms is constructed. A semantic/syntactic annotation is performed for a claim of a patent to identify domain-specific terms, stop words, general terms, and punctuation. Defined regular expression sets... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20060294133 - Producing a graphical representation of a written description: A method of producing a graphical representation of a written description of an apparatus, method, system or device is disclosed. The written description includes one or more independent sentence definitions and, for at least one of said independent sentence definitions, at least one further limiting dependent sentence definition. Each of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20060294135 - Recording apparatus, file management method, program for file management method, and recording medium having program for file management method recorded thereon: A recording apparatus such as an optical disk and a file management method are disclosed by which, where an index file is formed from groups of data wherein extract information is collected for different types and one of the groups of data is used to collectively manage the other groups... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20060294131 - System and method for generating a play-list: The present invention relates to a method for generating a play-list of media files, includes the steps of: setting a weight field in the tag for storing a weighted value of the media file; receiving a control command in course of playing a media file; increasing the weighted value in... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060294132 - System and method for generating a play-list: A method for automatically generating a play list based on the age of the media recording (based on released date) and the time period the media file was last played. This method uses tags on the media file to store the corresponding dates and generates a weight value on each... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060294134 - Trust propagation through both explicit and implicit social networks: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for trust propagation. The method according to one embodiment comprises calculating a first feature vector for a first user, calculating a second feature for a second user and comparing the first feature vector with the second feature vector to calculate a... Agent: Brown, Raysman, Millstein, Felder & Steiner LLP

20060294137 - Database application including split views: A database application is provided which includes functionality for providing split views. The database application includes an object model having a number of objects, methods, and properties. The object model preferably includes a form object which includes a split view representation. A number of properties are associated with the split... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20060294136 - Object representing and processing method and apparatus: Methods of multilevel mark and multilevel mark code are provided in this invention. The Methods can realize encoding of various objects, encoding of structures and interrelation of the objects. The methods can distinguish various object codes, make the encoding resources inexhaustible, and solve problem of various resource sharing. The present... Agent: Wu Shengyuan

20060294140 - Computer based system and method for allocating and deploying personnel resources to transitory and fixed period work tasks: A computer based method for allocating and deploying personnel resources to transitory and fixed period work assignment tasks comprising the steps of: (a) providing a database containing work tasks related data; (b) providing a database containing personnel staffing data; (c) providing software which accesses the database of (a); (d) providing... Agent: Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.

20060294144 - Image forming apparatus and image forming method thereof: An image forming apparatus includes a host to generate and to output metadata, and a peripheral device to form an image using the metadata.... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20060294146 - Integrated information processing system for geospatial media: An integrated information processing system for geospatial information processing. The information processing system includes a scheduling module, an acquisition module, a production module, a distribution module, a geospatial data specification, and a geospatial media recorder. Each module incorporates a common object database management system. The scheduling module is configured for... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20060294147 - Interactive weather advisory system: A broadcast network for selectively transmitting individualized weather output signals to at least one of a plurality of communicator devices remotely located from the broadcast network. The broadcast network includes a user input database containing a plurality of user-defined parameters with each of the user-defined parameters including a user profile.... Agent: Dunlap, Codding & Rogers P.C.

20060294145 - Media streaming of web content data: Methods for streaming web content data via a computer-readable medium. The web content data comprises one or more media samples. The media samples are encoded in a streaming media format as a web component stream. The web component stream is combined with other component streams comprising additional data other than... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20060294143 - Method for capturing and browsing image data synchronously: The present invention relates to a method for capturing and browsing image data synchronously, by the method, a user can browse all image data when he/she captures image data, so as to help him/her early to find bad captured image data and recapture the image data, which comprises the steps... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC One Skyline Place

20060294139 - Methods and systems for incorporating meta-data in document content: Systems and methods are disclosed for incorporating meta-data in document content. The disclosed systems and methods may include initiating an application program configured to generate a document. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include displaying, by the initiated application program, a property panel. The property panel may be configured... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20060294138 - Professional rating system and method: A system for rating professionals is provided, comprising: (a) means for storing information about a plurality of professionals in a database, including a name and contact information of each of said professionals; (b) means for a user to search said database via a web site; (c) means for said user... Agent: Fasken Martineau Dumoulin LLP

20060294142 - Range condition managing system and user interface thereof: A range manager system has a range definition controller, a range label handler, and a range definition indicator controller. The range definition controller controls setting of one or more boundary values defining one or more ranges. The range label handler handles labels of the ranges. The range definition indicator controller... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20060294141 - Smart business object proxy: Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and apparatus for a smart business object configured for disposal within the logic layer to insulate the logic and data persistence layers from changes in the presentation layer. In one embodiment, a smart business object framework can include a smart business object... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20060294153 - Bi-chassis framework: The present invention provides a system consisting of reusable components for implementing data warehousing and business intelligence solutions. The reusable components comprise a data model component housing an exhaustive pre-built vertical and business function specific data models and key performance indicator libraries. The reusable components further comprise a MetAL component... Agent: Venable LLP

20060294155 - Detecting spam documents in a phrase based information retrieval system: An information retrieval system uses phrases to index, retrieve, organize and describe documents. Phrases are identified that predict the presence of other phrases in documents. Documents are the indexed according to their included phrases. A spam document is identified based on the number of related phrases included in a document.... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20060294152 - Document management server, document management system, computer readable recording medium, document management method, client of document management system, and node: The document management server includes an identification information providing unit that receives a request to obtain identification information required for accessing a document from a client, generates the identification information for the received request, and sends the generated identification information to the client; a relation information management unit that manages... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20060294154 - Document management system, document management method, image forming apparatus, information processing apparatus, and storage medium: A document management system which can reduce the space used in a storage medium of an information processing apparatus which receives data. It is determined whether or not the resolution of image data generated by an image forming apparatus connected to the information processing apparatus managing image data via a... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20060294150 - Managing metadata for graph-based computations: Determining metadata associated with a graph-based computation includes functionally transforming metadata associated with a first portion of a graph to generate transformed metadata associated with a second portion of the graph; determining a third portion of the graph related to the second portion of the graph; and propagating the transformed... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20060294151 - Method and apparatus for data integration and management: A system for maintaining master reference data for entities is disclosed. The system includes multiple reference data sets at multiple different data storages. A reference data set for a particular entity uniquely identifies the particular entity. The system also includes a first master reference data set at a first data... Agent: Stattler, Johansen, And Adeli LLP

20060294149 - Method and apparatus for supporting memory hotplug operations using a dedicated processor core: A method for performing system management includes utilizing a dedicated processor core to perform a system management task. Other embodiments are described and claimed.... Agent: Lawrence Cho C/o Portfolioip

20060294148 - Network usage management system and method: A network usage management system comprises at least one collector adapted to collect network usage data associated with a data source using a network, the at least one collector adapted to generate log data associated with the at least one collector. The network usage management system also comprises at least... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060294156 - Incremental maintenance of path-expression views: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing view maintenance by buffering one or more search results in a cache; and incrementally maintaining the search results by analyzing a source data update and updating the cache based on a relevance of the update to the search results.... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20060294157 - Methodology infrastructure and delivery vehicle: An infrastructure to develop, store, maintain and deliver methodology content to end users includes a database of metadata containing definitions of explicit and implicit relationships between methodology objects representative of published documents. The infrastructure includes an integrated suite of tools including a methodology development tool, multiple user interfaces including a... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060294158 - Methods and systems for data-focused debugging and tracing capabilities: Embodiments of methods and systems consistent with the present invention enable data-focused analysis of an application by reorganizing execution information generated by an application into categories associated with the data objects used by the application, and displaying or otherwise using the reorganized information for analysis, debugging, execution tracing, etc. of... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20060294159 - Method and process for co-existing versions of standards in an abstract and physical data environment: Embodiments of the invention provide methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for managing different versions of a data model standard in both abstract and physical database environments. In one embodiment, new versions of the data model standard are analyzed to identify changes introduced by the new version. The database schema,... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20060294160 - System and method for improved user information management: Embodiments of the present invention enable efficient presentation of user information. A user identifier is presented on a page. In response to a selection of a user identifier, one or more user information modules are utilized to return information relating to the user. The user information modules are modules that... Agent: Fliesler Meyer, LLP

20060294162 - Method, system, and program for maintaining data in a distributed computing environment for processing transaction requests: Provided are a method, system, and program for processing a transaction. Transaction data is transmitted from one primary storage site to a plurality of secondary storage sites. A transaction request is received at one secondary storage site and processed to include transaction data from the secondary storage site that was... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20060294161 - Reconciliation of local and remote backup data: Provided are a method, a system, an article of manufacture, and a computer program product, wherein a first set of backup data is stored in a first computational device and a second set of backup data is stored in a second computational device. Metadata corresponding to the first set of... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20060294163 - Methods and apparatus for accessing content stored in a file system: One embodiment of the invention is directed to the containerization of content units that are accessed using an identifier. Applicants have appreciated that file systems sometimes impose limits on the number of files that may be stored therein that are too restrictive. Thus, in one embodiment, multiple content units may... Agent: Emc Corporation Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20060294164 - Methods and apparatus for managing the storage of content in a file system: One embodiment of the invention is directed to the containerization of content units that are accessed using an identifier. Applicants have appreciated that file systems sometimes impose limits on the number of files that may be stored therein that are too restrictive. Thus, in one embodiment, multiple content units may... Agent: Emc Corporation Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20060294166 - Arrangement and method for garbage collection in a computer system: An arrangement and method (400) for optimising stop-the-world sweep time in garbage collection by using an additional bit-vector meta-mark-map (300) whose bits respectively map onto groups of bits of in a bit-vector mark-map (200). This meta-mark-map enables a scan to be made much faster, in particular on large heaps.... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20060294165 - Generational real-time garbage collection: Disclosed are a partial heap garbage collector, and a partial heap garbage collection method, that during collection checks the time remaining (or equivalently the time taken so far, or the work done so far) to complete the partial heap collection. In a preferred embodiment, the partial heap collection is guaranteed... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20060294167 - Method and system for dynamically managing storage of data objects generated during execution of a computer program: A method and system for dynamically managing storage of data objects generated during execution of a computer program in a dedicated area of computer memory, such as a heap, employs a map to indicate which areas of the heap are inaccessible to the program. Such areas constitute garbage which is... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20060287972 - Apparatus, system, and method for identifying structural stress conditions for computer hardware: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for identifying structural stress conditions for computer hardware. The apparatus includes a plurality of modules configured to functionally execute the necessary steps of monitoring a physical condition affecting a computer hardware component, recognizing a potential damage condition based on a threshold, and responding... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20060287971 - Document quotation indexing system and method: A computerized system and method is presented for analyzing quotations made in a quoting document of text originally found in a source document. The present invention analyzes the quoting document for quoted text, searches the source document for that text, and stores the existence of the quotation in association with... Agent: Beck And Tysver P.l.l.c.

20060287976 - Information gathering system: An information gathering system capable of obtaining information from a network, comprising a pointer sender (30) for sending out a pointer of the information to be obtained from the network, a portable terminal (20) capable of accessing to the network and the pointer sender, and an information provider (40) for... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20060287973 - Method, apparatus and program recorded medium for information processing: An information processing apparatus is comprised of a classifying section classifying a set of attributes, which represent relationships between an input and an output of a system defined by a plurality of limiting elements, into classification levels on the basis of a tendency of the attributes, a limiting element indicating... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20060287974 - Print control apparatus and print control method: Selected data files in folders are sorted in a designated order for each of folders that store selected data files (S204), and information associated with each of the selected data folders sorted for each folder is registered in a page list in the designated folder order (S205).... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060287970 - System for verification of job applicant information: A system for automatically screening resumes and/or job/admission applications for false information as well as for specific factors that make a particular candidate non-suitable for a particular job or school. The tool can also be used to generate questions that could be asked of a specific candidate based on the... Agent: Ference & Associates

20060287975 - Time frame system: The present invention relates to custom software and hardware specifically designed to deliver interactive information in a public space.... Agent: Weiss & Weiss Suite 251

20060287979 - Cost-based subquery correlation and decorrelation: Techniques are provided that determine that a query includes at least one subquery that may be correlated or decorrelated. An internal representation of the query that represents the subquery in both correlated and decorrelated form is generated, wherein the internal representation includes at least one virtual table.... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20060287978 - Efficient querying and paging in databases: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates paging and/or cursoring over the results of a query associated with a file storage system. An interface component can receive the query targeted to the file storage system including at least one key that relates to data. A... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20060287980 - Intelligent search results blending: The subject invention relates to systems and methods that automatically combine or interleave received search results from across knowledge databases in a uniform and consistent manner. In one aspect, an automated search results blending system is provided. The system includes a search component that directs a query to at least... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20060287977 - Method of processing data for a system model: A method for processing data for a system model including the steps of providing a model specification having a plurality of types of items including at least one first item type wherein associated data is obtained from data input into the system and at least one second item type wherein... Agent: Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

20060287982 - System and method for presenting the contents of a content collection based on content type: An apparatus and method for execution in a graphical user interface environment are provided. The apparatus and method are used to display a set of items within a content collection, such as a set of files within a folder on a computer operating system. The method includes obtaining data from... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20060287981 - Traversing a relational model with preferred paths: A preferred path between two selected entities is determined. Initially, there is provided a representation of the data structure in the form of a plurality of entities having relations between them indicative of roles and the relations reflecting a cardinality of one of a one-to-one, one-to-many and a many-to-one relationship... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20060287983 - Avoiding slow sections in an information search: Avoiding slow searches of stored information is described. During a search for notes or other information responsive to a search request, notes or other information that contain a search string, but that are located at remote memory locations may be skipped from retrieval for a requesting user due to an... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20060287989 - Extracting structured data from weblogs: A method of extracting individual posts from a weblog comprises the steps of: (a) providing a feed associated with the weblog; and (b) screen scraping the weblog into a representation for weblog posts using the feed data containing partial content of the weblog.... Agent: Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP

20060287988 - Keyword charaterization and application: Methods, apparatuses, and articles for receiving a collection of documents and/or objects determined to be potentially relevant to a keyword, and processing the collection of documents and/or objects to extract one or more keyword characterizations for use as proxies for the keyword, are described herein. In various embodiments, the one... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20060287991 - Method for measuring strength of associations: An improved method of measuring a subject's strength of associations involving each of a first pair of first and second categories with each of a second pair of third and fourth categories includes having the subject respond to a first set of trials in a first manner when there is... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20060287987 - Method of and system for determining connections between parties using private links: A system and method for determining a connection between a one or more “from” connections points and one or more “to” connections points, wherein connections between the connection points are determined as a function of intermediate connections in the path formed between the “from” and “to” connection endpoints.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP Attn: Intellectual Property Deptartment

20060287990 - Method of file accessing and database management in multimedia device: A multimedia file accessing method is provided. The method includes searching for file data in a file database, according to position data of a graphic user interface of a selected multimedia file, and accessing a physical file according to the file data.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20060287984 - Range query methods and apparatus: Range query techniques are disclosed for use in accordance with data stream processing systems. In one aspect of the invention, a technique is provided for indexing continual range queries for use in data stream processing. For example, a technique for use in processing a data stream comprises obtaining at least... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20060287986 - System and method for facilitating use of a selection guide: A system and method functions to automatically invoke a selection guide when the search term(s) provided in a freeform search query are determined to be associated with a category of item for which a selection guide will provide the most efficient means for the user to locate items of interest.... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20060287985 - Systems and methods for providing search results: A method includes generating search results in response to a user query, where at least one of the search results includes a group of links. The group of links may represent links to web pages within a same web site and may be identified based on at least one factor... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20060287993 - High scale adaptive search systems and methods: The subject invention relates to systems and methods that employ automated learning techniques to database and information retrieval systems in order to facilitate knowledge capabilities for users and systems. In one aspect, an adaptive information retrieval system is provided. The system includes a database component to store structured and unstructured... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20060287992 - System and method for the integration of data output by a plurality of applications: In a system and method for linking between data output by a plurality of applications, in response to a first data request addressed to a first application, the first request generated upon selection of a link in a page generated by a second application and displayed at a terminal, the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20060287996 - Computer-implemented method, system, and program product for tracking content: A system, method, and program product for tracking content are described. Aspects of invention allow bodies of content, whether from a common channel or from different channels, to be compared for relatedness. Comparison of different bodies of content involves analyzing both the actual content, characteristics of the source(s) of the... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20060287999 - Document file obtaining method, document processing apparatus, and document file obtaining program: The present invention provides a document file obtaining method comprising: a specifying step of specifying, among one or more document file storing apparatuses, a document file storing apparatus from which to obtain a processed document file; a receiving step of receiving processing history information from the specified document file storing... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20060287998 - Dynamically filtering aggregate reports based on values resulting from one or more previously applied filters: Methods, systems, and computer program products dynamically filter an aggregate report based on values resulting from one or more filters previously applied to the aggregate report. A method involves maintaining a collection of filters to be applied in a designated evaluation order to the aggregate report, applying a first filter... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20060287995 - Geo targeted commerce: A user query has values for attributes that specify features of a desired item is received and processed in a computer system in a network. A database is searched for an item having attribute values that satisfy at least a subset of the values for attributes from the user query.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20060287994 - Method and apparatus for creating searches in peer-to-peer networks: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for creating searches in peer-to-peer networks includes forming clusters comprising data from a user's media library and formulating at least one search request message in accordance with the clusters. Formation of the clusters may be guided at least in part by data... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan LLP IBM Corporation

20060287997 - Pharmaceutical service selection using transparent data: Pharmaceutical service selection using transparent data is described, including retrieving data from a database, weighting the data to generate weighted information, evaluating the weighted information and feedback associated with the pharmaceutical service, and providing a rating for performance of the pharmaceutical service based on evaluating the weighted information and feedback... Agent: Kokka & Hsu, PC

20060288001 - System and method for dynamically identifying the best search engines and searchable databases for a query, and model of presentation of results - the search assistant: The invention is directed to a system and method for dynamically identifying the best search engines and searchable databases for a given query comprising a model where given a query, the more relevant search engines and searchable databases will be retrieved and presented as response to the query.... Agent: Holme Roberts & Owen, LLP

20060288000 - System to generate related search queries: System and methods are described to provide new recommendations to a search interface to assist users in navigating toward new searches that are likely to generate results aligned with the user's searching intentions. An algorithm analyzes previous search sessions to determine additional locations for the user to go. In an... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20060288005 - Audit system and method: The invention provides a system and method for reducing and potentially eliminating the review of source documents by auditors to determine whether there is compliance of an audited subject area with a predetermined set of rules. The inventive system and method provides one or more questions directed to personnel that... Agent: Greenberg-traurig

20060288006 - Methods and systems for attaching keywords to images based on database statistics: Methods and systems for adding identifying keywords to images stored within a database. A new image is compared to other images stored in a database using content based image retrieval methods. A user is automatically offered a set of keywords associated with stored images that most closely match the new... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20060288003 - Pattern matching algorithm to determine valid syslog messages: A method for validating a syslog message having a plurality of message components. The method includes providing a meta regular expression. The meta regular expression is formed from a set of regular expressions with each of the regular expressions corresponding to one of the plurality of message components. The meta-regular... Agent: Hewlett-packard Company Intellectual Property Administration

20060288002 - Reordered search of media fingerprints: A method and system effects a search of a large database (190) based on a reordering (130) of the conventional byte-order of multi-byte identifiers that identify elements in a database. The reordering (130) is selected to provide a more uniform distribution of the identifiers in the database. The database is... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060288004 - Storage medium storing program and information processing apparatus: Sentence data corresponding to headword data is retrieved from a data group including sentence data in the form of text data in accordance with a user's operation, and is displayed as a sentence image on a display screen. The display screen can be edited in accordance with a coordinate point... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.

20060288008 - Append/read lock compatibility in a distributed file system: Extensions are provided to a lock for supporting concurrency of read and write operations of a shared resource in a computer system. Both reader and writer modes are maintained. In addition, an append mode and a prefix mode are provided. The append mode supports non-exclusive access to the shared resource... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20060288009 - Method and apparatus for restricting access to an electronic product release within an electronic software delivery system: The invention provides a method and apparatus for limiting access to a selected release of a software Product and/or associated License Keys to a subset of the manufacturer's customers who are entitled to receive the software Product or digital good, within an electronic software delivery and management system. A Product... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20060288010 - Networking at a convention: In various embodiments, a system, method and apparatus for networking at a convention is provided. In one embodiment, a method is presented. The method includes receiving a login identification from a user over the Internet. The method further includes encrypting a portion of the login identification from the user. The... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20060288007 - Telecommunications system using secured domain name resolution:

20060288013 - Access device, and information processing method: An information processing system in which access device transmits a transmission command to server device; receives electronic device access information from server device; instructs electronic device to transmit operation screen information which is the information to configure a screen for operating electronic device or another electronic device; receives the operation... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20060288011 - Finding and consuming web subscriptions in a web browser: A content syndication platform, such as a web content syndication platform, manages, organizes and makes available for consumption content that is acquired from the Internet. In at least some embodiments, the platform can acquire and organize web content, and make such content available for consumption by many different types of... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20060288012 - Server device, and information processing method: An information processing system in which access device transmits a transmission command to server device; receives electronic device access information from server device; instructs electronic device to transmit operation screen information which is the information to configure a screen for operating electronic device or another electronic device; receives the operation... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20060288023 - Computer graphic display visualization system and method: An improved human user computer interface system, providing a graphic representation of a hierarchy populated with naturally classified objects, having included therein at least one associated object having a distinct classification. Preferably, a collaborative filter is employed to define the appropriate associated object. The associated object preferably comprises a sponsored... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20060288015 - Electronic content classification: A method for classifying electronic content is discussed. The method includes obtaining an electronic document from a computing system, identifying one or more document features of the electronic document, analyzing the identified document features to determine a format of electronic content contained in the electronic document (the determined format being... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20060288019 - Flexible data file format: A data format includes a header, section information, and one or more sections. Each section includes binary data that is encoded independently of other sections, and the header and section information contains information about the sizes, load addresses, and encoding, e.g., encryption and/or compression, of the sections. The header and... Agent: Potomac Patent Group, PLLC

20060288022 - Incremental cardinality estimation for a set of data values: A system and method for incrementally maintaining column cardinality estimates in database management systems. In one embodiment, the system includes system catalog table containing a cardinality estimate for a column that is extended to include an appropriate data structure. A modified linear counting technique is used in a first embodiment... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20060288021 - Information processor, schema definition method and program: It is an object of the present invention to provide an information processor, a schema definition method and program with which it is made possible to generate a schema definition of a relational database and a XML-data schema definition all together. The main part of the present invention is an... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20060288018 - Loose coupling of web services: A Web services access management system which enables loosely coupled Web services can include a servlet configured to receive incoming request messages to access business logic and a mapping table associating different ones of the request messages with different business logic. Mapping logic can be disposed between the servlet and... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20060288020 - Method and data structure for indexed storage of hierarchically interrelated information in a relational database: The invention addresses the problem of storing and maintaining highly hierarchical information in a relational database, relational databases which are more prevalent and enjoy strong database provider support. The efficacy of the storage and the maintenance of highly hierarchical information a relational database is aided by a record key uniquely... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20060288014 - Method and software for mobile data collection having managed workflow: A computerized method for collecting information on geo-spatially distributed assets. The method includes managed workflow so that work crews are automatically informed of the work that needs to be done and can report back to management when the work is completed. Mobile workers use a network-disconnected mobile computing device for... Agent: Anissimoff & Associates Richmond North Office Centre

20060288016 - System and method for coordinated network configuration: Disclosed are device managers, systems and methods for coordinating the configurations of devices on a network. An exemplary system having devices and/or device managers in accordance with embodiments can include at least two devices coupled to a network where the devices are able to parse data in a meta or... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20060288017 - User-specific product documentation: Methods and systems, including computer program products, implementing techniques for generating documentation for a product. The techniques include receiving a set of feature descriptions for a product, receiving a document template, receiving user data about a first user and different user data about a second user, and receiving mapping information... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20060288024 - Compressed representations of tries: Techniques for representing nodes of tries. Associated with the nodes are keys and rules. A node of a trie having a stride n>1 is represented by a trie having a stride of 1 and the stride 1 trie is represented by a bit string termed a structural enumeration. The structural... Agent: Gordon E. Nelson, Patent Attorney, PC

20060288028 - Decompressing electronic documents: This invention provides methods, apparatus and systems for decompressing electronic documents. Utility of this invention includes use in validation and parsing of compressed XML documents. An example data processing method comprises receiving a compressed electronic document, decompressing the document and executing an analysis of the document during the decompression. The... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20060288031 - Dynamic learning and knowledge representation for data mining: An integrated human and computer interactive data mining method receives an input database. A learning, modeling, and analysis method uses the database to create an initial knowledge model. A query of the initial knowledge model is performed using a query request. The initial knowledge model is processed to create a... Agent: Shih-jong J. Lee

20060288030 - Early hash join: Minimizing both the response time to produce the first few thousand results and the overall execution time is important for interactive querying. Current join algorithms either minimize the execution time at the expense of response time or minimize response time by producing results early without optimizing the total time. Disclosed... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.

20060288025 - Identifying problems, usage patterns, and performance in a database interface using aspect-oriented programming: A method, computer program product, and data processing system for efficiently diagnosing errors and inefficiencies in database application code are disclosed. According to a preferred embodiment, techniques of aspect-oriented programming (AOP) are used to instrument database application code to monitor the usage of database resources. Specifically, pointcuts are defined to... Agent: Ibm Corp. (mrn) C/o Law Office Of Michael R. Nichols

20060288032 - Method for allowing simple interoperation between backend database systems: According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a bridging system (100) and method provides a way of linking two independent data systems by receiving a dataset from a source data system. The bridging system (100) translates the dataset from a source schema to a target schema according to... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l

20060288027 - Recording apparatus, recording method, program, recording medium, and data recording medium: A recording apparatus includes a first recording control unit configured to control recording of first management information so that fragments of the first management information and fragments of data are alternately placed, each fragment of the first management information being used to read the corresponding data fragment; a second recording... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20060288029 - Sentence classification device and method: A sentence classification device includes a storage unit, arithmetic processing unit, and screen display unit. The storage unit stores a document set of a plurality of documents and a term list including a plurality of terms each having one or more words. The arithmetic processing unit classifies the respective documents... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20060288026 - System and method for maintaining mappings from data containers to their parent directories: A system and method maintains mappings from data containers to their parent directories within a file system of a storage system. Each inode is modified to include a primary name data structure comprising a parent directory inode and a parent directory cookie value. The parent directory cookie value identifies a... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20060288036 - Device specific content indexing for optimized device operation: Generation of an index database that is customized for a specific responder device using device parameters of the responder device is provided. The index database is generated on a device other than the responder device. In accordance with one method, an indication of a selection of objects is received. Device... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20060288038 - Generation of a blended classification model: A computer-implemented method includes training a data mining classification model to statistically account for query-to-asset associations. This data mining classification model can be utilized as a component of an information retrieval system.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20060288037 - Queued system event notification and maintenance: Embodiments provide for a sub-pub architecture that is independent of the number of subscriptions by neither evaluating, nor storing the results of, each event against each subscription. Instead, a canonical subscription is determined a priori, which includes a superset of common property filters for similar events. Properties of events happening... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20060288035 - Relational database support for immutable media: Example systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments are described herein that relate to database systems. In one example system embodiment, a logic can be configured to monitor transactions that are performed by a computer system and store data relating to the transactions in an data store that is maintained on... Agent: Mcdonald Hopkins Co., Lpa

20060288033 - System for pre-caching reports of streaming data: A system for pre-cached report generation including a report scheduler operative to create and schedule a report request for execution at a predetermined time, a service engine operative to determine in accordance with a predefined operation criterion whether the report may be generated responsive to a request by the report... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20060288034 - Virtualized file system: File system views are created for each application executed by a user, where this user-specific view comprises operating system files needed to run the application and file system changes made with this application for this user. Changes made to the file system during execution are allowed (in accordance with the... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20060288043 - Media library synchronizer: A system and method is disclosed for selectively synchronizing, with a media library, media files within folders of a filing system. This system and method can preferentially synchronize certain folders rather than others based on whether or not the folders have been modified. This system and method can also maintain... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20060288039 - Method and apparatus for configuration of facet display including sequence of facet tree elements and posting lists: A set of programs is disclosed comprising a web display interface program (WIP), a Display Configuration Program (DCP) and a Sequence Logging Program (SLP). Responsive to user actions, the set of programs provide instructions to a server connected to storage containing a facet tree database and a rules database. The... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rus) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20060288041 - Providing community-based media item ratings to users: Methods, computer-readable media, and systems for providing a user with media item ratings based upon media item ratings of a community of related users. The user sends information about herself to the system. The system places the user in a community of users based upon the user information and provides... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20060288042 - System and method for generating a play-list: The present invention relates to a method for generating a play-list of media files, each of the media files includes a tag for holding relative information about the media files. The method includes the steps of: setting a play count field in the tag for storing a play count of... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060288040 - System having an apparatus that uses a resource on an external device: A system comprises a media player adapted to receive a removable medium. The media player is adapted to couple to a display device. A device external to and communicatively coupled to the media player comprises storage. The media player stores information on the external device's storage. Such information is used... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060288044 - File management device, file management method, file management method program, and recording medium the file management method program: A file managing apparatus is disclosed which is capable of restoring deleted files with ease. When a user gives an instruction to delete a file 6, a parent entry number for the file 6 is changed from “1” to “2” in a property list having the entry number 6 associated... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20060288045 - Method for aggregate operations on streaming data: A method for performing aggregate operations on streaming data, the method including executing an aggregation operation on data items in a set of data, maintaining the results of the aggregation operation in a temporary table together with metadata relating to the aggregation operation, maintaining the results of the aggregation operation... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20060288047 - Method for bulk deletion through segmented files: A mechanism is provided that aggregates data in a way that permits data to be deleted efficiently, while minimizing the overhead necessary to support bulk deletion of data. A request is received for automatic deletion of segments in a container and a waterline is determined for the container. A determination... Agent: Duke. W. Yee

20060288049 - Method, system and computer program for concurrent file update: A solution is proposed in a scheduler for updating a control file (220) storing a workload plan (defining a sequence of jobs to be executed during a production day). A handler (225) has exclusive write access to the control file (for updating information relating to the state of the jobs... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20060288046 - Methods and apparatus for maintaining consistency during analysis of large data sets: Methods and apparatus for updating a database using a multi-dimensional data model in which data corresponding to the database are organized in multi-dimensional data blocks. Each data block has summary information associated therewith corresponding to a current state of evolution of the associated data block. Dependency information is maintained in... Agent: Beyer Weaver & Thomas, LLP

20060288048 - Storage system and storage system data migration method: This storage system collectively manages a plurality of types of file groups reaching storage time limit, and carries out data migration spanning a plurality of storage devices. Based on the respective file information, of the respective files distributed among the respective volumes, files, whose storage time limit arrives within a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20060288050 - Method, system, and computer program product for correlating directory changes to access control modifications: The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for correlating directory changes to access control modifications. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention comprises: detecting a change in a membership of a directory; determining if the detected change in the membership of the... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20060288053 - Apparatus and method for peer-to-peer n-way synchronization in a decentralized environment: An apparatus and method of synchronizing a datum between a plurality of stores is disclosed. A version history is associated with the datum in each store. The version history has one or more entries, and each entry has an identifier and a value. The identifier identifies a store that has... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20060288056 - File version management device, method, and program: Disclosed is a version management device which comprises a file access verification unit that receives a request packet sent from the client and a response packet sent from the server, extracts a processing request and a response result from the packets, and checks if the processing request and the response... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060288051 - Methods and apparatuses for ensuring file integrity: In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect a file and a page corresponding to the file; detect a first saved check file value associated with the file and a second saved check file value associated with the page; calculate a first derived check file value from the file; compare... Agent: Richard H. Butler

20060288054 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for provisioning software via a file repository in which a version string is used to identify branches of a tree structure: Software is provisioned by providing a file repository that comprises a tree structure, each branch of the tree structure being identified by a version string that comprises a source count portion and/or a build count portion. The tree structure is searched to select at least a subset of the files... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20060288055 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for provisioning software via a networked file repository in which a parent branch has a shadow associated therewith: Software is provisioned by providing a file repository that includes a tree structure. A shadow is defined for a parent branch of the tree structure, the shadow being identified by a version string that tracks file changes made in the shadow relative to the parent branch. The tree structure is... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20060288052 - Supporting multiple versions of a routine: Techniques are provided for supporting versions of a routine. A first version of the routine is created. A second version of the routine is generated in response to receiving an alter statement including an add version clause. The second version of the routine is activated in response to receiving an... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20060288058 - Backup/recovery system and methods regarding the same: A backup/recovery system and methodology that integrates backup data of a computer system with a recovery program. According to the invention, an executable program is created for implementing a backup/recovery procedure. The invention is no need to have a recovery system operated in the computer system, so as to facilitate... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20060288057 - Portable data backup appliance: An appliance and method for simply and regularly backing up data files of a predetermined file type from a source device. The appliance is adapted for initiating a backup operation in response to only a single action being performed by a user.... Agent: Renner, Kenner, Greive, Bobak, Taylor & Weber

20060282400 - Apparatus, system, and method for encapsulating logical units of work using business objects: An apparatus, system, and method for processing a data transaction using a single business object includes providing a transaction business object encapsulating multiple function calls for completing a data transaction. The transaction business object includes an execution sequence indicating the order the function calls should be executed. In certain embodiments,... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20060282402 - Information processing apparatus, method of controlling information processing apparatus, computer program, and storage medium: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit adapted to acquire management unit information indicating the management unit of access to a document file, a create/update unit adapted to create or update document management data including correspondence between the document file and the management unit based on the acquired management... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060282401 - System and method for automated data retrieval based on data placed in clipboard memory: A data retrieval system and method of the invention provide automatic retrieval of information based on data placed into, for example, a Windows™ clipboard. A user highlights and cuts (or pastes) data into the clipboard during execution of an application program. A data retriever program periodically reads the clipboard to... Agent: Ibm Lotus & Rational Sw C/o Guerin & Rodriguez

20060282407 - Display method: A display method comprises the steps of: searching, from a group of information including information associated with a plurality of programs, information corresponding to information obtained by extracting, using at least one of databases including: databases for a name of person, an attribute name of person, a name of thing... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060282406 - Method and apparatus for searching data: Methods and apparatus for searching a plurality of data are disclosed. Each of the plurality of data includes consecutive segments of a first data segment, a delimiter segment, and a second data segment, wherein the delimiter segment includes at least one delimiter. One of the disclosed data search methods includes:... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060282403 - Selective collection, filtering and processing of transactions in multiple transaction classes: A computerized accounting system includes a setup-editing tool coupled to a group of query objects and to user input in a setup mode. The group of query objects defines the multiple transaction classes to be accessed, filtering criteria to filter out some of the selected transactions that are not to... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20060282405 - System and method for optimized distributed file transfer: A system and method for optimized distribution of files from a file server to a high number of client machines. The client machines are interconnected as nodes in a binary tree structure with each level of nodes receiving the files from a higher level and transferring to a lower level.... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20060282404 - Techniques for estimating progress of database queries: Techniques for estimating the progress of database queries are described herein. In a first implementation, a respective lower-bound parameter is associated with each node in an operator tree that representing a given database query, and the progress of the database query at a given point is estimated based upon the... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20060282409 - Automated world wide web navigation and content extraction: Storage mediums and a computer-implemented method for automating web navigation and content extraction are provided. In particular, a storage medium with program components which are executable through a common application program interface and are utilizable by a developer to write programming instructions is provided. In some cases, the storage medium... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20060282415 - Document retrieval apparatus: A document retrieval apparatus for retrieving documents from a document database in which documents are registered, and displaying the retrieved documents, the document retrieval apparatus includes: a keyword input unit for accepting input of a retrieval keyword for retrieving the documents; a document retrieval unit for retrieving the documents from... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060282417 - File management apparatus, control method therefor, computer program, and computer-readable storage medium: This invention allows a user to play back desired information even in the form of an icon indicating a file, check the contents of the file, and open the file. The invention stores, in a search attribute file written in a structured format, location information indicating the location of a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060282412 - Method and apparatus for context based querying: This invention provides methods and apparatus for context based querying to more efficiently provide directory services. In particular, methods and apparatus for querying a database to resolve contact information, e.g., a phone number, based on the context of the query are provided. By querying based on context, the query may... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20060282418 - Output system and output device: To provide an output system and an output device capable of easily unifying a documentary form relating to an event without increasing the number of work processes, in a system wherein output data is transmitted to an output device such as a printer, via a communication network from a requesting... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20060282414 - Question answering system, data search method, and computer program: A question answering system includes a question input unit input to a question, a search unit, an anaphoric analysis unit, an information extraction unit and an answer candidate extraction unit. The search unit executes search processing based on the input question. The anaphoric analysis unit executes anaphoric analysis processing on... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060282416 - Search apparatus and method for providing a collapsed search: An search apparatus including a field for entering a search term, and a display area for displaying a search result. The search apparatus is displayed together with a current page on a web browser, and a search result of a search can be displayed in the search apparatus. As such,... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20060282408 - Search system and method via proxy server: A method of searching for data to be retrieved from a distributed computer system, the method comprising: generating a search request at a user end terminal comprising at least one search criterion; modifying the search request at a user end terminal to indicate at least one user preference; forwarding the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20060282410 - Searching a database including prioritizing results based on historical data: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided that include techniques for searching a database. One method includes receiving one or more input search terms and providing a database. The database maps at least one search term to at least one coupon. The method further includes identifying one or... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20060282413 - System and method for a search engine using reading grade level analysis: A system and method presents search results relevant to a search query of a database based on user criteria, such as reading grade level. Reading grade level is used to rank and characterize relevant search results. The determined reading grade level of the search results provides quick and easy access... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20060282411 - System and method for performing a high-level multi-dimensional query on a multi-structural database: A multi-structural query system performs a high-level multi-dimensional query on a multi-structural database. The query system enables a user to navigate a search by adding restrictions incrementally. The query system uses a schema to discover structure in a multi-structural database. The query system leaves a choice of nodes to return... Agent: Samuel A. Kassatly Law Office

20060282420 - Apparatus and method for reducing size of intermediate results by analyzing having clause information during sql processing: A query processor includes a HAVING clause processing mechanism that processes the HAVING clause in a query when generating the intermediate results, instead of generating the intermediate results without regard to the HAVING clause, then applying the HAVING clause to the intermediate results. As a result, the size of the... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20060282419 - Diagnosing problems in distributed systems: Diagnosing problems in distributed systems. In one aspect, a model of a distributed system defines trace statements are generated by various nodes of the system and placed in log files. The log files are sent to an automatic validator that attempts to reconcile the trace statements against the model. Results... Agent: Law Offices Of Albert S. Michalik C/o Microsoft Corporation

20060282421 - Unilaterally throttling the creation of a result set in a federated relational database management system: Various embodiments of a method, system and article of manufacture to retrieve data in the form of rows from a federated relational database management system are provided. One or more client-requests from a client are received. In response to at least one of the client-requests, one or more fetch resource... Agent: International Business Machines CorpIPLaw

20060282422 - Use of connectivity analysis to assist rule-based optimizers: Methods and systems receive a normalized query tree and analyze the tree to collect information about join operators and their children, and tables in an associated query. This information is then made available to a rule based optimizer that is configured to produce, from the normalized query tree, an execution... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060282423 - Use of multi-join operator and rules as framework for join tree processing in database systems: Methods and systems receive a normalized query tree and analyze the tree to collect information about join operators and their children, and tables in an associated query. This information is then made available to a rule based optimizer that is configured to produce, from the normalized query tree, an execution... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060282424 - View matching for materialized outer-join views: A computer implemented system that facilitates view matching for outer join views comprises an interface component that receives at least one query that includes one or more outer join operators. A view matching-component converts the at least one query and outputs a substitute query expression. In accordance with one aspect... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20060282427 - Business object search method process and presentation: A user uses a graphical user interface to configure a search process. One or more set up pages may be output to the user to allow the search process to be configured. Once the search process is defined, a graphical user interface is generated that provides the search process. A... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20060282425 - Method and apparatus for processing data streams: Techniques are disclosed for clustering and classifying stream data. By way of example, a technique for processing a data stream comprises the following steps/operations. A cluster structure representing one or more clusters in the data stream is maintained. A set of projected dimensions is determined for each of the one... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20060282426 - Method and system for matching users for relationships using a discussion based approach: A system of matching users for relationships based upon both user provided profile information, and preferences they develop as they participate in discussion forums. User profile information can be used to determine the universe of users who have mutually compatible relationship criteria, but not necessarily the actual pairs of users... Agent: Mine Spears

20060282430 - Fuzzy matching of text at an expected location: A method and system for searching for text in a document. In one embodiment, the method includes comparing a signature of text to be located with a signature of each section of text in the document. A distance from an expected location of the text to be matched is computed... Agent: Perman & Green, LLP

20060282428 - Method and system for assignment of membership through script: A method of determining membership in a group includes receiving a request to determine if an element is a member of a group. The request may be generated by a software application where the application provides at least one parameter to a script which resides external to the application. The... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20060282431 - Method and system for responding to requests relating to complex data maintained in a structured form: A method and apparatus for processing user entered input and providing a response in a system for autonomously processing requests includes rules. For each rule, whether the input is recognized is determined. If it is, a response is sent to the user. To determine recognized input, the method attempts to... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20060282429 - Tolerant and extensible discovery of relationships in data using structural information and data analysis: Various embodiments of a method, system and article of manufacture to discover relationships among a first set of elements and a second set of elements are provided. At least one metric algorithm is identified based on a metric selection parameter. A raw result is determined based on the at least... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20060282432 - Sales diagnostics reporting system: In accordance with the principles of the present invention, an automated system for analyzing customer trends is provided. Clients can upload data into the system over a wide area network such as the Internet, preferably using the client's spreadsheet. Reports are created in accordance with the individual customer data. The... Agent: Paul E. Schaafsma Novusip, LLC

20060282433 - Specification of a hierarchical authorization model for a dbms - sql language extensions: Provided are systems and methods that facilitate providing permission to entities of a database. A system includes a component that authorizes a principal of a containing entity to grant a permission to that entity, and a component that grants the permission to the containing entity, the grantee of the permission... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20060282434 - Access to fragmented database system: A distributed database system returns a token which an application may use in consecutive requests to the distributed database system to by-pass a fragmentation layer or distribution functionality of the distributed database system.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20060282435 - Nonstop service system using voting, and information updating and providing method in the same: A nonstop service system using voting and a method for updating and providing information in the nonstop service system. The nonstop service system includes a plurality of groups of nodes for storing and managing information on the basis of identifiers for distinguishing clients, each group including a plurality of nodes... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20060282437 - Apparatus, system, and method for ordered processing of a hierarchical data structure according to a data source: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for ordered processing of a hierarchical data structure according to a hierarchy of a data source. The present invention comprises steps to reference a hierarchical data structure having nodes ordered within one or more hierarchical levels, traverse the hierarchical data structure according to... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20060282439 - Apparatus, system, and method for processing hierarchical data in disparate data repositories: An apparatus, system, and method is disclosed for receiving a hierarchical data structure, analyzing the hierarchical data structure to determine what actions are needed to correctly process the hierarchical data structure in a data repository, generating a hierarchical command structure comprising a series of repository-specific commands needed to interface with... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20060282440 - Custom filesystem having file mappings to files of a real filesystem: A computer system having a computer, a custom filesystem, and a real filesystem is disclosed. The custom filesystem is comprised of virtual files that may be mapped to a subset of real files of the real filesystem. The custom filesystem may provide an arrangement of the virtual files to a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060282441 - Definition and management of procedures in a distributed environment: A procedure management system and methods for its operation are disclosed. The methods disclosed include the ability to capture procedure definitions in the system, to improve on the procedure content by associating feedback and comments with the procedure definitions, and to store these procedure definitions in a database. Additional disclosures... Agent: Heller Ehrman LLP

20060282443 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus for clustering a plurality of pieces of data in clusters corresponding respectively to nodes on layers in a tree structure by assigning each of the pieces of data to a leaf node of the tree structure. The information processing apparatus includes: metadata... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060282446 - Memory device and recording and/or reproducing apparatus employing this memory device: The present invention provides a memory card (1) using a write-once memory IC (17), such as PROM. In this memory IC (17), an entity data recording area, where the entity data of a file is recorded, and a management data recording area, where management data for supervising the recorded files... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20060282442 - Method of learning associations between documents and data sets: A method of learning associations between classes of documents and one or more structured data sets comprises a step of classifying an input document into a class selected from a predefined set of classes (step 115). One or more structured data sets are displayed (step 130), wherein the displayed structured... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20060282438 - Performing a deletion of a node in a tree data storage structure: The addition of a layer between a tree data storage structure and a persistent storage is disclosed. The additional layer, called a storage module, generates an identifier and allocates it to a node in the tree data storage structure. The storage module additionally performs a mapping function, allocating the identifier... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20060282444 - Small form factor web browsing: A large web page is analyzed and partitioned into smaller sub-pages so that a user can navigate the web page on a small form factor device. The user can browse the sub-pages to find and read information in the content of the large web page. The partitioning can be performed... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20060282445 - Small form factor web browsing: A large web page is analyzed and partitioned into smaller sub-pages so that a user can navigate the web page on a small form factor device. The user can browse the sub-pages to find and read information in the content of the large web page. The partitioning can be performed... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20060282436 - Systems and methods for estimating functional relationships in a database: A system that facilitates estimating functional relationships associated with one or more columns in a database comprises a sampling component that receives a random sample of records within the database. An estimate generator component calculates an estimate of strength of functional relationships based at least in part upon the received... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20060282449 - Accessing a common data structure via a customized rule: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, access a common data structure via a customized rule. The common data structure is accessed by multiple tools and each tool has a customized rule for accessing the common data structure. Each of the customized rules specifies a subset... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20060282448 - Controlling data transition between business processes in a computer application: Techniques are described to enable a user to define data-transition rules that control how a handover component of a computer application transforms business objects of one type to business objects of another type. The handover component is logically situated between a preceding business process that uses a preceding type of... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20060282450 - Method for populating a caller's information to a host-based address book: A method and apparatus is provided to populate a caller's information to a host-based address book automatically or by a single click on a virtual button included in a popup window or by a series of simple commands.... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20060282447 - Ndma db schema, dicom to relational schema translation, and xml to sql query transformation: A translation scheme translates DICOM content into a format compatible for storage in an NDMA relational database. The translation scheme employs a schema for indexing the DICOM content, and employs a mechanism for translating queries embedded in XML into SQL. The translation scheme translates DICOM compatible data into a tab... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20060282451 - Processing structured data: The present invention provides a fast and efficient way of processing structured data by utilizing an intermediate file to store the structural information. The structured data may be processed into a Binary mask Format (BMF) file which may serve as a starting point for post-processing. A tree structure built on... Agent: Beyer Weaver & Thomas, LLP

20060282452 - System and method for mapping structured document to structured data of program language and program for executing its method: The data transcription processing unit is prepared. This unit is beforehand provided with the document-structure definition information on the structured documents, i.e., the processing target, the structure definition information on the program language, and the correspondence information between the document-structure definition and the structure definition. Then, a reading/writing request is... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20060282456 - Fuzzy lookup table maintenance: An exemplary computer-implementable method includes providing a trigger that executes a script upon receipt of change information for changing reference information or an instruction associated with change information for changing reference information, in response to execution of the script, allocating memory for processing the change information and based on the... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20060282457 - Method and apparatus for storing data with reduced redundancy using data clusters: Method and apparatus for storing data in a reduced redundancy form. Binary Large Objects (BLOBs) are partitioned into subblocks according to a partitioning method, and the subblocks are stored in subblock clusters. Each BLOB is represented as a list of spans of subblocks which identifies a contiguous sequence of subblocks... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20060282458 - Methods and systems for merging business process configurations: Systems and methods for merging models of a business application compare configuration models of the business application and display the differences between the models. Selections are made among the different displayed configurations, and a new configuration model is made based on the selections, merging the models that were selected from.... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20060282453 - Methods and systems for transforming an and/or command tree into a command data model: Methods and systems of transforming an AND/OR command tree into a command data model are described. An unsimplified command data model is generated from the AND/OR command tree by expressing the AND/OR command tree as a command tree using elements of EBNF (Extended Backus-Naur-Form) notation. Selected structures within the unsimplified... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP Third Floor

20060282459 - Portable locator system: A locator system and method for locating at least one of persons and objects within a facility comprises a plurality of badges, each badge having a badge transmitter that wirelessly transmits a signal including unique identification code, and a plurality of transceivers spatially dispersed within the facility, each of the... Agent: Bose Mckinney & Evans LLP James Coles

20060282455 - System and method for ranking web content: A system and method for ranking Web content comprising Web pages or portions of Web pages containing a geographical entity are described. The system includes a data structure that comprises a graph representing the Web content. The graph includes a plurality of page nodes, wherein each page node represents one... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20060282454 - Techniques for viewing mappings and nodes: Techniques are provided for viewing mappings between objects. A main view is displayed, wherein the main view shows one or more source objects, one or more target objects, and zero or more mappings between the one or more source objects and the one or more target objects. Input selecting a... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20060282460 - Method and system for generic data objects: A method and system for defining and handling data objects by mapping a data object to a proxy generic object and handling the generic data object as a proxy for the data object at a server or client side of a network processor transaction. A generic data object class serves... Agent: Driggs, Hogg & Fry Co. L.p.a.

20060282461 - Object virtualization: Object virtualization provides a hierarchy of layers of spaces in which an object is accessible. The hierarchy of layers may include a physical layer containing the physical space in which the object is accessible, and virtual layers containing an arbitrary number of virtual spaces in which an object is accessible.... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20060282462 - Context-of-use-independent content systems: The system and method of the present invention provides a content system 100 and method having only relations between content 104 (e.g., relations between music, CD-cover and lyrics), and the content itself 103, and excludes any context-of-use information. Since any product or appliance 106 configured with an embodiment of the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20060282467 - Field and crop information gathering system: A method, apparatus, and system related to field and crop information gathering. In one aspect of the invention, data is obtained from a producer. One example would be yield map data from a yield monitor. Another is “as planted” data from precision farming planting equipment. The data includes information about... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C Attn: Pioneer Hi-bred

20060282466 - Image processing apparatus and image processing system: An image processing apparatus comprises an input section which inputs a user identification information; and a registration section which registers an image data in association with the user identification information.... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20060282464 - Multi-dial system for inter-channel surfing of digital media files: The present invention is a system for organizing and providing intuitive access to the widest range of digital media documents. The system allows users to both register and access listings of media documents by setting the channels on multiple graphic dials. Each dial provides a full spectrum of possible media... Agent: Charles A. Morris

20060282465 - System and method for searching media content: A system for determining the existence of pre-determined media content within a media content collection. The system includes a media content processing module configured for collecting one or more media content files from one or more external peer-to-peer networks to form the media content collection, generating one or more classification... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP

20060282468 - System for utilizing audible, visual and textual data with alternative combinable multimedia forms of presenting information for real-time interactive use by multiple users in different remote environments: This invention relates to a system for utilizing audible, visual and textual data with multimedia forms of presenting information for real-time interactive use by multiple users in different remote environments. The system of the present invention is used for receiving, accessing, processing, storing, retrieving, transmitting and utilizing audible, visual and... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP

20060282463 - Virtual coversheet association application: A method, and a system using the method, of managing a scanned document. The method includes identifying information of a profile for the scanned document and generating a virtual coversheet based on the identified information of the profile. The method also includes associating the virtual coversheet with the scanned document.... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20060282470 - Determining compliance of a database architecture to an enterprise data standard: Provided are a method, system, and program for determining compliance of a database architecture to an enterprise data standard. A physical model is generated defining database elements in a database. A logical model is provided representing a definition of elements and their relationships. The logical model is used to generate... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20060282471 - Error checking file system metadata while the file system remains available: File system metadata associated with a file system is stored. A snapshot of the file system metadata is created, and a change of the file system is allowed while the snapshot is being created. An error check is run with respect to the snapshot of the file system metadata to... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060282469 - Method and device for configuring a variety of medical information: A method and a device for configuring a variety of medical information formats are described. The method is used to incorporate a variety of medical information so as to output documents in a certain format and search for information of the patient's medication history. Thus, the device and the method... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20060282473 - Rules-based data evaluation and process trigger system and method: A method for rules-based data evaluation and process trigger executed in a records management system that includes a server computer and at least one client computer, the method including the steps of: receiving (210) a source document having a predetermined format; creating (220) at least one definition for the source... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20060282472 - System and method for data transmission management: A method and system for managing data transmission between an external memory and an internal memory of an electronic apparatus is provided. The system includes an interactive interface for outputting messages that indicate real-time storage status of the internal memory and external memory card. When an external memory card is... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20060282474 - Systems and methods for processing changing data: Systems and methods for data processing using incremental algorithms. Embodiments of the invention decompose complex or monolithic data processing problems into one or more incremental computations called flows. These flows may be distributed across a networked cluster of commodity computers, facilitating the easy scaling of the system and robust recovery... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20060282477 - Computer aided design file validation system: A method and system of validating the integrity of a multi-file computer aided design database is disclosed. In certain embodiments the method includes providing a database containing multiple objects including multiple subordinate computer aided design objects, each subordinate object defining one or more components for use in a multi-component assembly;... Agent: Pauly, Devries Smith & Deffner, L.L.C.

20060282475 - Identifying characteristics in sets of organized items: A system and method is provided for determining characteristics of sets of organized items. In an illustrative implementation, a first set of organized items as a compare-from location is identified, and a second set of organized items as a compare-to location is also identified. In an illustrative operation, a recursive... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060282476 - System and method using atomic sets of memory locations: A system and method includes steps or acts of receiving and examining a computer program written in an object-oriented language; receiving sequences of accesses that form logical operations on a set of memory locations used by the program; receiving definitions of atomic sets of memory locations, each consisting of pieces... Agent: Michael J. Buchenhorner

20060282478 - System and method for database and filesystem coordinated transactions: The atomicity of a transaction is extended to a filesystem as well as a database, meaning that, when the transaction is complete, all changes within the transaction to both the database and the filesystem will be either committed or not committed. Interactions may be coordinated among a client, a database... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20060282480 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for provisioning software using dynamic tags to identify and process files: Software is provisioned by providing a repository that contains software files available for provisioning. At least one tag is associated with respective ones of at least a subset of the software files, the tags describing the at least a subset of the software files. A tag handler is used to... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20060282479 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for provisioning software using local changesets that represent differences between software on a repository and a local system: Software is provisioned by providing a repository that contains a software trove. A local changeset is generated that represents differences between a version of the software trove on the repository and a corresponding version of the software trove on a local system.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20060282483 - File management system: Since both a physical storage place and a logical storage place in a storage system are separately managed as a directory structure, or a hierarchical structure, even in such a case that the physical storage place has been changed, the logical storage place which is displayed to the user is... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20060282481 - Implementing a tree data storage structure in a distributed environment: Tree data storage structures are implemented on respective computers in a distributed environment, such as on a network, so that information associated with nodes of one computer's tree data storage structure may be read or written to by another computer in the network. To promote efficiency, a cache may be... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20060282482 - Method and system for model-based replication of data: Techniques for replicating data in a system having a data tier with a plurality of data sources and an application tier with a plurality of applications are provided. Such techniques can include creating an instance of an information model of the data that is specified by a schema. The model... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20060282484 - Method, system and program for archiving files: Provided are a method, system, and program for archiving files. A hierarchical file system having directories is provided. An archival retention policy is associated with at least one of the directories in the hierarchical file system, wherein the retention policy applies to files included in the associated directory, and wherein... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20060282485 - Method and system for automatic management of storage space: A system and method are provided to manage storage space. The method comprises detecting a free storage space threshold condition for a storage volume and automatically applying a space management technique to achieve a free storage space threshold condition. Space management techniques comprise deleting selected backup data (e.g., persistent consistency... Agent: Network Appliance/blakely

20060277154 - Data structure generated in accordance with a method for identifying electronic files using derivative attributes created from native file attributes: A data structure for use with a computer-implemented method and program for identifying electronic files from a set of electronic files contains one or more derivative attribute(s) representative of: the relevance to a selected electronic file to a predetermined topic; the amount of electronically readable text for each electronic file;...

20060277153 - Systems and methods for arbitrary data transformations: Methods for organizing data. The methods may comprise the step of receiving a write request comprising a data unit. The methods may also comprise the steps of organizing the data unit into a sub-file and incorporating the sub-file into a data file according to a log-structured organization system. In addition,...

20060277156 - Apparatus and method for integrating enterprise market planning processes and information systems (emp) with enterprise resource planning processes and information systems (erp) in emerging brand companies: A method of establishing a new category in enterprise marketing planning (EMP) comprising of a self-contained, integrated, stand-alone system with three interconnecting subsidiary systems: Enterprise Market Planning (EMP) Modules, Competitor Signalling Environment (CSE) Portal and EMP Project Management (PMO) System through which integration of operational with market planning data and...

20060277157 - Database query construction and handling: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for constructing a complex database query. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a selection of meta data indicative of searchable data values stored in two or more database tables. The method also includes constructing a complex database query to search the two...

20060277158 - System and method for implementing database application while guaranteeing independence of software modules: Provided are a system and method for implementing a database application while guaranteeing the independence of software modules. The system includes an XML processing unit, an SQL information unit, an object pool, and a scheduler. The system can ensure the independence of software modules and the flexibility of developing a...

20060277155 - Virtual solution architecture for computer data systems: Virtual solution architecture for computer data systems. In one aspect, providing an architecture for a computer data system includes creating a virtual solution architecture that includes a plurality of building blocks, each building block characterized by balanced operation, and mapping the virtual solution architecture to a physical solution architecture for...

20060277159 - Accuracy in searching digital ink: A method and system for improving the accuracy of digital ink (310) searches is disclosed. The method includes receiving a search input query (370) from a user via a user terminal and determining a specialized format of digital ink, by a variety of means, then, based on the determined specialized...

20060277162 - Apparatus, system, and method for condensing reported checkpoint log data: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for condensing reported checkpoint log data that facilitates analysis of the checkpoint log data by minimizing extraneous results presented to a user. The apparatus includes a user interface to receive a query expression from a user based on one or more conditions and...

20060277164 - Apparatus, system, and method for scanning a partitioned data set: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for scanning a partitioned data set (“PDS”). A receive module is included to receive a search criteria comprising one or more expressions. A member module is included to determine a set of PDS members to search based on the search criteria. A scan...

20060277171 - Custom media search tool: A search tool allows for convenient searching by employing unconventional search terms. The terms are from descriptor files, which are preferably provided by the multimedia content supplier who is familiar with the content. A user constructs a search query by selecting terms from groups of terms in categories. The user...

20060277163 - Demonstration tool for a business information enterprise system: According to some embodiments, demonstration data is received via a front-end application associated with a business information enterprise system. The demonstration data may then be interpreted in accordance with at least one rule to generate business data. A query may be received at a back-end application associated with the business...

20060277170 - Digital library system: An information retrieval application is disclosed which supports digital library functionality, including information retrieval, information manipulation and processing, in distributed data environments (e.g. Grid computing). The application is based on an object model in which data objects (for example, PDF documents) are represented as records in canonical XML form using...

20060277168 - Method and system for assessing relevant properties of work contexts for use by information services: An information retrieval system for automatically retrieving information related to the context of an active task being manipulated by a user. The system observes the operation of the active task and user interactions, and utilizes predetermined criteria to generate context representation of the active task that are relevant to the...

20060277161 - Method for recording, identification, selection, and reporting network transversal paths: The present invention comprises a computerized method for indexing information through the use of a general-purpose computer in operative communication with a data stream. A data stream is read, wherein the data represents one or more transitions within one or more episodes. A signature is created for each of the...

20060277166 - Methods and apparatus for contextual awareness in a groupware client: Methods and apparatuses provide contextual awareness to a groupware client with respect to an enterprise backend system. The groupware client generates a query or request for data within a context of the groupware client. A backend determines the context, which may include processing an indication of the context received with...

20060277165 - Question answering system, data search method, and computer program: A question answering system includes a question answering unit, an analysis unit, a tree structure generation unit, a feature extraction unit, an evaluation unit and a re-ranking unit. The question answering unit executes search processing based on an input question and acquires answer candidates to the question. The analysis unit...

20060277167 - Search apparatus having a search result matrix display: A search apparatus with a user interface to a search engine is disclosed. The search apparatus includes a search term field, a search result list area and a search result display area. The search term field is adapted to receive a search term to be submitted to a search engine...

20060277160 - System and method for document management and retrieval: A system and method for managing and retrieving electronic documents in a document management system. Multiple virtual record containers are contained in a document management system, with each container associated with a corresponding record locator. Each record locator is a unique identifier, and is in turn associated with one or...

20060277169 - Using the quantity of electronically readable text to generate a derivative attribute for an electronic file: A computer-implemented method and program for identifying electronic files from a set of electronic files uses an operating agent to identify first and second subsets of electronic files. The files in the first subset are those able to be opened by the operating agent, while files in the second subset...

20060277172 - System and method for managing tasks: Systems and methods are provided for resolving outstanding issues or items associated with one or more tasks or projects. In various embodiments, data flows to a management application and an associated database and then back to an originating device. In various embodiments, the systems and methods use wireless devices and...

20060277173 - Extraction of information from documents: An information extraction model is trained on format features identified within labeled training documents. Information from a document is extracted by assigning labels to units based on format features of the units within the document. A begin label and end label are identified and the information is extracted between the...

20060277177 - Identifying electronic files in accordance with a derivative attribute based upon a predetermined relevance criterion: A computer-implemented method and program for identifying electronic files from a set of electronic files uses an operating agent to identify first and second subsets of electronic files. The files in the first subset are those able to be opened by the operating agent, while files in the second subset...

20060277175 - Method and apparatus for focused crawling: The present invention pertains to the field of computer software. More specifically, the present invention relates to dynamic discovery of documents or information through a focused crawler or search engine....

20060277174 - Method and device for searching a data unit in a database: Search engines for searching within home networks shall be optimised. Therefore, it is suggested to dynamically adapt a weight of an individually metadata of a data unit of the database by analysing an external database. For example, web page information is used to individually influence the ranking of the search...

20060277176 - System, method and apparatus of constructing user knowledge base for the purpose of creating an electronic marketplace over a public network: System and method of constructing entity knowledge base for a user entity creating an electronic marketplace for that entity. Entities can add entity data of one or more direct or indirect entities to their knowledge base. The entity knowledge base created provides a specific marketplace for any primary entity by...

20060277180 - Distributed data management system: A distributed data management system has multiple virtual machine nodes operating on multiple computers that are in communication with each other over a computer network. Each virtual machine node includes at least one data store or “bucket” for receiving data. A digital hash map data structure is stored in a...

20060277179 - Method for communication between computing devices using coded values: A system for improved communication system for providing web analytics data between a first computing device and a second, remote computing device preferably encodes frequently requested data into code words, and also provides the remote client with a look-up table and decoding logic. In one embodiment, the present invention also...

20060277178 - Table look-up method with adaptive hashing: Accessed memory locations of a data table are assigned weights based on usage history, and a hash table chains the highest-weight key values to an abbreviated hash index. The hash table includes keys having at least a predetermined weight so that highly accessed keys are identified by hashing. Additionally, the...

20060277185 - Access control server, a user terminal, and an information access control, method: A system for unified management of personal information under control of the user while protecting the privacy of that information. A user terminal owned by the user, and an access control server connected to an external service terminal for providing a service to the user terminal, includes an access control...

20060277184 - Automatic management of storage access control: Methods and systems are provided for defining and creating an automatic file security policy and a semi-automatic method of managing file access control in organizations with multiple diverse access control models and multiple diverse file server protocols. The system monitors access to storage elements within the network. The recorded data...

20060277181 - Content data scheduling using schedule data transmitted via a mobile communication network: For two-letter codes and other abbreviations, refer to the “Guidance Notes on Codes and Abbreviations” appearing at the beginning of each regular issue of the PCT Gazette....

20060277187 - Location based data: A computer-implemented method and computer program product for providing data that includes location-based access control information concerning a data relay device located within a network infrastructure. The data relay device is loaded with one or more features, such that the one or more features loaded are dependent, at least in...

20060277182 - System and method for analyzing locked files: Systems and methods for scanning files for pestware on a protected computer are described. In one variation, when a file on a storage device is inaccessible via an operating system of the protected computer, a listing of a plurality of pointers for the file is located on the storage device....

20060277183 - System and method for neutralizing locked pestware files: Systems and methods for scanning and deleting pestware on a protected computer are described. In one variation, the presence of a pestware file on the storage device is detected while an operating system of the protected computer is limiting access to the pestware file via the operating system. In order...

20060277186 - Virtual storage device that uses volatile memory: Accessing stored data includes providing a virtual storage area having a table of pointers that point to one of: a disk storage area and a volatile memory area, wherein the virtual storage area contains no sections of data, in response to a request for accessing data of the virtual storage...

20060277191 - Based on repeated experience, system for modification of express and negating overload from media and optimizing referential efficiency: Content items are revealed to a user based on whether they have been previously reviewed by the user. A number of content items are thus received over time. The content items may be discrete content items, or may be portions of a content stream, and may be received over different...

20060277199 - Content recovery mode for portlets: It is proposed to enable a user to set a portlet into a “content recovery mode”. A respective user action on a respective GUI control (50) creates a URI that allows the portlet to generate its output as currently seen. The user may then send this URL to a friend,...

20060277197 - Data format for website traffic statistics: A data format is optimized for storing data such as website traffic data. The data format enables easy access to and filtering of data, for example in generating website traffic reports. The data format also provides significant data compression. A method for generating a data file according to the data...

20060277196 - Data management system, data server, data management method and storage medium thereof: A data management system having a plurality of data servers connected via a network is provided, wherein each data server includes: a data management section that manages a data item in correspondence to a local identifier of the data item and a global identifier of the data item; a request...

20060277195 - E-mail filing system and method: An exemplary embodiment providing for one or more improvements includes an e-mail server including at least one client mailbox for the receipt of e-mail over a network, and at least one client apparatus of the client computer coupled to the e-mail server for access to the e-mail in the client...

20060277201 - Laboratory database system and method for combinatorial materials research: Systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer program apparatus, are described for implementing techniques for processing data from a combinatorial experiment. The techniques include receiving data from a chemical experiment on a library of materials having a plurality of members and generating a representation of the chemical experiment. The representation includes...

20060277194 - Method and system for interface configuration via device-side scripting: A technique is provided for configuring an interface device. The interface device includes a plurality of device elements, such as objects configured in accordance with object-oriented programming concepts. A query from a general purpose viewer is received by the interface device, such as originating from a configuration station where the...

20060277200 - Method and system for mapping and searching the internet and displaying the results in a visual form: The invention relates to a method for visually presenting a set of properties of a web site, which comprises: (a) predefining within a provider's search engine a set of properties and assigning to each property a visual symbol; (b) using a spider program, visiting by said provider's search engine each...

20060277192 - Method of automatic filing of searching results: A method of automatic filing of searching results includes steps of connecting to internet via electrical products such as computer, cellular phone, PDA, and etc, entering searching engine and keying in keyword of data to be searched, processing search and listing searching results by the searching engine, choosing required data,...

20060277198 - One-click segmentation definition: A system displays and filters reports including website vitiation data in response to receiving user input. The system allows users to launch various reports onto a workspace and filter the entire result set by selected criteria. The system allows the user to specify and configure segments while viewing reports, simply...

20060277190 - Search authoring metrics and debugging: A search authoring tool for mapping queries to assets for use in an information retrieval system has a query-to-asset mappings database, a search authoring engine, and a search evaluation engine. The query-to-asset mappings database is built from search author input and user mappings. The search authoring engine is adapted to...

20060277188 - System and method for facilitating ad hoc compilation of geospatial data for on-line collaboration: A system and method for facilitating ad hoc compilation of geospatial data for on-line collaboration is provided. One or more categories under which to store waymarks in a geospatial data sharing database with an exportable schema are dynamically defined. Each waymark associates geospatial data with metadata as an unstructured information...

20060277193 - System and method for internet-based financial analysis and data processing for the creation of financial reports: Systems and methods are provided for Internet-based financial analysis and data processing for the creation of a financial report, including: assembling data inputs and database inputs over the Internet; analyzing and processing the data inputs and database inputs; and creating an SEC-compliant financial report. The system and method may be...

20060277202 - System and method for performing object association using a location tracking system: The illustrative embodiment of the present invention provides a method of recording object associations using a location system. Object locations are determined based on signals generated from object identifiers linked to the objects and forwarded to an electronic device interfaced with a network. The origin of the signal is calculated...

20060277189 - Translation of search result display elements: A system and a method for presenting search results to a user. A search component selects content in response to a search. A search result description generator utilizes a portion of the content to generate descriptions of the search results. A description translator component translates at least one of the...

20060277204 - Method for providing file information in portable device: The methods and apparatuses of the present invention for efficiently providing file information in a portable device with limited screen size. When a plurality of files contain substantially identical file information, the present invention utilizes the file information that is different to distinguish from other files....

20060277203 - Method of providing tree-structured views of data: This invention relates to a method of enabling a user of a database to define a tree view representation of data items in a database. The data items in the database relate to object types and attributes. An attribute can be a basic attribute or a link attribute, where basic...

20060277206 - Automated reporting of computer system metrics: Techniques for reporting computer resource utilization data involve receiving metrics data relating to a computer system that includes multiple resources and identifying, based on the metrics data, resources that are over-utilized and resources that are under-utilized. A summary graphical report of the number of over-utilized resources and the number of...

20060277213 - Computer services for assisting users in identifying contacts of their respective contacts: A networked computer system provides various services for assisting users in locating, and sharing information with, other users. The system provides a user interface through which users can establish contact relationships with other users. The system also provides functionality for users to identify contacts of their respective contacts. For example,...

20060277209 - Efficient and automatic software application development system for wireless devices: Computer methods and apparatus for efficient and automatic development and porting of computer programs for wireless devices are provided. Executables for wireless devices can be automatically generated based on the selection of the wireless devices, attributes of the wireless devices, information from libraries, resources, and a version of the source...

20060277207 - Enterprise business intelligence using email analytics: The present invention, generally speaking, provides a visual email analytics tool in which a network graph is created without the need to identify any particular node of the network graph. The complexity of the network graph is controlled by interactively pruning the network graph based on one or more measures...

20060277211 - Incrementally adding segmentation criteria to a data set: A system displays and filters reports including website visitation data in response to receiving user input. The system includes a client for processing the input as a query to a network, which returns the requested data. The system and accompanying method provide a user interface for incrementally adjusting report data...

20060277208 - Keyword analysis and arrangement: Keyword analysis and arrangement are described. In an implementation, a method includes processing a plurality of items to extract a plurality of keywords contained in the items. One or more of the keywords is output for display as arranged in one or more hierarchies such that at least one of...

20060277210 - Keyword-driven assistance: Embodiments of keyword-driven assistance are presented herein....

20060277205 - Universal knowledge information and data storage system: A system (100) is provided for storing knowledge, information and data (KID). The system includes a plurality of sources of KID (20), at least one receiver of KID (30) from the plurality of sources, a universal knowledge, information and data store (UKIDS 160) and an interface (150) coupling the receiver...

20060277212 - User interface providing summary information or a status pane in a web analytics tool: A system and method provide a summary comparison of data. The summary may compare filtered and unfiltered data or one set of filtered data to another. The system presents a status pane or window to a user in conjunction with filtered data that is dynamically updated to correspond to the...

20060277214 - Schema for sharing relational database types: A schema for storing the meta data that describes relational databases. Advantageously, the schema can be used in both database vendor environments and toolkit vendor environments, thereby facilitating the sharing of relational database types. In addition, by describing the schema in a standard modeling language, even among multiple implementations of...

20060277215 - Health-care related database middleware: An exemplary embodiment providing for one or more improvements includes a database translation architecture that has an object model for defining a variety of health-related classes and a plurality of data bridge/data set pairs wherein each data bridge is coupled to the object model. A plurality of external components are...

20060277216 - Portable media storage device with wireless network connectivity: Portable media storage device with wireless network connectivity. A portable storage device is proposed for enabling wireless communication between the portable storage device and one or more multimedia terminals and/or devices. The portable storage device includes a wireless circuitry for communicating with any of the wireless devices. When communicating on...

20060277219 - Document management device, document management method, and computer readable recording medium stored with document management program: Disclosed is a document management device that extracts attached information set up on at least one file of a plurality of files, and uniformly applies the extracted attached information to the plurality of files....

20060277217 - Method for creating a data file: A function for creating a new file by editing and synthesizing one or more data files such as pictures, movies, and music, is very promising function and provides a new possibility to the portable electronic devices. However, in the existing technology, the user may be bothered with selecting items for...

20060277218 - Running internet applications with low rights: In various embodiments, applications that are configured to interact with the Internet in some way are executed in a restricted process with a reduced privilege level that can prohibit the application from accessing portions of an associated computing device. For example, in some embodiments, the restricted process can prohibit applications...

20060277220 - Security data redaction: In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, there are provided mechanisms and methods for securing access to data. These mechanisms and methods for securing access to data make it possible for systems to have improved control over accesses to information by redacting responses made by services based upon...

20060277225 - Converting file system metadata structure while the file system remains available: A system comprises software, a storage subsystem containing user data associated with file system metadata having a first metadata structure, and file system logic to convert the first metadata structure to a second, different metadata structure while the file system remains available such that the software continues to access the...

20060277227 - Methods and apparatus for enterprise application integration: A method for enterprise application integration that uses “connectors” that can be instantiated via downloading (e.g., using Java® or other such technologies) to provide interfaces to respective disparate database systems. The databases systems may comprise any variety of now or heretofore known systems, e.g. SAP, Oracle, and so forth. The...

20060277222 - Persistent data file translation settings: A method, system, and computer-readable medium for creating and saving a translation specification are disclosed which enables settings information associated with data importation and exportation in a database to be saved for subsequent use. Saved settings information may be manipulated, selected for use, or exported to another application. Saved settings...

20060277223 - Persistent storage file change tracking: Systems and methodologies that facilitate synchronization of a mobile device with a source, via employing a file change tracking database table created in non-volatile memory to designate files for synchronization. The subject invention includes a file modification logger that detects and track changes to files across multiple file systems. The...

20060277224 - Synchronizing arbitrary data using a flexible schema: A schema definition module can specify an arbitrary schema that is used for data synchronization between a server and a client. At any time, the schema definition module can modify a current schema to add or remove support for an arbitrary set of data. Data synchronization continues transparently with the...

20060277226 - System and method for controlling storage of electronic files: A storage control system comprising overlap retrieval means for retrieving overlap files, which are stored in at least one storage area of a plurality of storage areas, and which overlap one another, and storage controlling means for storing data of at least one overlapped part of the retrieved overlap files...

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20060277228 - Method and apparatus for manipulating remote database through remote access: A computer program that can manipulate a remote database at higher speeds even in the case where different kinds of processing requests are produced. A record fetching unit produces a record retrieval request, and a message sending unit sends it to a remote database. Records retrieved from the remote database...

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