Data processing: database and file management or data structures inventions 02/07

20070043688 - Annotating shared contacts with public descriptors: A method for annotating shared contacts within a social network with public tags, notes or other data. This allows users of a social network to gain useful information at a glance about others' contacts within that network, as well as providing a means for filtering contacts within that network by... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20070043689 - Lightweight generic report generation tool: Methods and systems are disclosed for generating a dynamically sortable report from data independent of the original representative format of the data. The methods generally include accessing a plurality of files, parsing the accessed files, forming a vector utilizing the parsed files, generating a report from the formed vector, and... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20070043690 - Method and apparatus of supporting creation of classification rules: This invention is to appropriately support creation of a classification rule for a new data item. This method includes: storing a new data item and a category of the new data item into a storage; extracting feature patterns each including a condition including a feature element of the new data... Agent: Patrick G. Burns Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070043685 - Methods and arrangement in an information management system: An arrangement and method of allotting pattern units of an overall coding pattern in an information management system, are based on selectively setting a state indicator for each pattern unit to indicate one of a plurality of states. The flow of data in said system may be controlled based on... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070043691 - Mobilizing applications: A system and method for operating a networked software application on a network with sporadic connectivity is disclosed. A user may create in a client application on a user device business data transmission. The client application may transmit the order to a proxy module. A network detection module may check... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070043694 - System and method for data analysis, manipulation, and visualization: Systems and methods for data analysis, including data retrieval, dynamic scripting and execution, mining, storing, and visualization are disclosed. One embodiment of this invention provides an integrated software solution for managing high volumes of numerical data quickly and efficiently. Another embodiment provides a complete and flexible solution for data acquisition,... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP - 41305 Charles Calkins

20070043692 - System and method for managing xdm service information: Disclosed is a system and method for managing XDM (XML Document Management) service information to improve management efficiency for OMA (Open Mobile Alliance) service information. The apparatus includes a controller for creating a shared User Resource Identifier (URI), and using a value created by the controller as a static value... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070043693 - Systems and methods for storing a dataset having a hierarchical data structure in a database: Systems and methods are provided for storing a dataset having a hierarchical data structure in a database. In one implementation, a data processing system includes a data dictionary for storing data that describes predefined hierarchical data structures, wherein each data structure includes a plurality of data fields that have a... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20070043687 - Virtual assistant: Systems and methods for assisting a user with a variety of tasks are provided. A virtual assistant has access to a user's contacts, calendar, and location. The virtual assistant also is able to access information about weather, traffic, and mass transit, and is able to adjust the time of for... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client No. 005222

20070043686 - Xml sub-document versioning method in xml databases using record storages: A new sub-document versioning method for record storages of XML documents which uses virtual cutting points to ensure that a search tree is able to support multiple versions of sub-documents and provide efficient mechanisms for XML updating. Record boundaries and virtual cut points divide the two-dimensional space, the horizontal axis... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070043695 - Action consolidation using hash table: One embodiment relates to a method of action consolidation so as to avoid duplicative actions. A hash function is applied to a unique value relating to event-related data so as to create a hash key, and the hash key is used in determining whether duplicate data is already present in... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070043698 - Database method and system for conducting integrated dispatching: A technique for integrating a pre-existing business system with a fleet management system. The pre-existing business system includes, for example, an accounting system, a warehousing system, a dock management system, a yard management system. These fleet management system uses, for example, a combination of a raster map and vector data... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070043697 - Generating statistics for temporary tables during query optimization: An apparatus, program product and method generate at least one statistic for a temporary table during optimization of a database query before the temporary table is created. By doing so, optimization can proceed on a database query irrespective of the fact that the temporary table may not be materialized until... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20070043696 - Method for estimating the cost of query processing: Provided is a method for modeling the cost of XML as well as relational operators. As with traditional relational cost estimation, a set of system catalog statistics that summarizes the XML data is exploited; however, the novel use of a set of simple path statistics is also proposed. A new... Agent: Lacasse & Associates, LLC

20070043708 - Knowledge storage and retrieval system and method: A system and method for representing, storing and retrieving real-world knowledge on a computer or network of computers is disclosed. Knowledge is broken down into permanent atomic “facts” which can be stored in a standard relational database and processed very efficiently. It also provides for the efficient querying of a... Agent: Beyer Weaver & Thomas, LLP

20070043703 - Method and system for inline top n query computation: A system and method of generating an overall top N query result from multiple sets of sessionized network events that correspond to different time periods include identifying a subset within each set of network events whose event attributes satisfy a predefined query, generating an aggregation result table for each identified... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070043699 - Method and system for visualizing data relationships using tree and grid layouts: The tree layout and grid layout (1.1, 1.2) are used to visualize data and their relationship in a relational database. The tree layout (1.1) uses tree nodes to represent table records, and uses parent-child relationships of the tree nodes to represent data relationships between table records. The grid layout (1.2)... Agent: Lixin Zhang

20070043712 - Methods and systems for performing redirects to a search engine: The present invention is related to methods and systems for processing search requests and for performing searches over a network. In an embodiment, a recipient designation is received from a user over a network. The designation indicates that future searches performed by the user are to be associated with the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070043702 - Query expressions and interactions with metadata: This disclosure pertains to the interaction between query expressions and metadata. Metadata, for example provided by one or more schemas, can supply information over a domain to be queried and/or navigated. This metadata can be applied to the query expression, or vice versa, to return information about the domain and/or... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070043701 - Query-based identification of user interface elements: Described is the use of query identifiers that provide computer users a method of “bookmarking” (uniquely identifying) any user interface (UI) element in any UI framework. This is useful for testing programs, assistive technologies, and teaching activities. The unique query element identifier is identified for a target UI element to... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070043706 - Search history visual representation: A search entry system and method of search entry where the search terms and type of search to be performed can be selected from entries in a search history query log. A search system can include one or more entry modules, which may include a query window configured to accept... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070043705 - Searchable backups: Facilitating a search of backup data is disclosed. Data associated with at least a portion of the backup data is received. A searchable index of the backup data is generated based at least in part on the received data. The searchable index includes an index data indicating a location within... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070043700 - Searching a file open dialog using a namespace extension: Methods and systems for method for modifying a File Open dialog to enable searching for a file. The method includes writing a namespace extension. Next a custom view is built within the File Open dialog box using the namespace extension. The custom view allows a user input a keyword or... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070043709 - Searching for information about assets: A method includes receiving an electronic query of a user directed to obtaining items of information belonging to one or more predefined categories and that relate to an interest of the user in a specified product, searching in multiple locations, and presenting to the user essentially only items of information... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070043710 - Searchroll system: In an embodiment, a method is presented. The method includes receiving a request to create a searchroll. The method also includes receiving a list of sites. The method further includes creating a searchroll to enable searching of the list of sites.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070043711 - System and method for optimizing event predicate processing: Described is a system and method for optimizing event predicate processing. The method comprises processing a subscription including a plurality of subscription predicates, sorting the subscription predicates using a predefined sorting algorithm, processing an event including a plurality of event predicates and comparing the plurality of event predicates to the... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070043704 - Temporal ranking scheme for desktop searching: A system for searching an object environment includes harvesting and indexing applications to create a search database and one or more indexes into the database. A scoring application determines the relevance of the objects, and a querying application locates objects in the database according to a search term. One or... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070043707 - Unsupervised learning tool for feature correction: Techniques for correcting miscategorized features excerpted from web pages are provided. For each of several categories and several pages on a particular web site, a separate feature may be excerpted from that page and associated with that page in relation to that category. Often, many of the “high confidence” features... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070043713 - Video directory: An online video directory is provided. The video directory provides a means for providing video to a consumer in order to aid the consumer in making consumption choices. In particular, the video directory provides a database of advertiser records that is searchable by a consumer. The database is searchable based... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20070043714 - Combined title prefix and full-word content searching: A system for searching an object environment includes harvesting and indexing applications to create a search database and one or more indexes into the database. A scoring application determines the relevance of the objects, and a querying application locates objects in the database according to a search term. One or... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070043715 - Data object search and retrieval: Searching data is disclosed. A searchable index is used to determine which, if any, data objects comprising a set of backup data are responsive to a search query. For the search query, a search result is generated. The search result includes, in the event a first data object that is... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070043718 - Autonomic relevancy building: A method and system for autonomic relevancy building using information obtained from clients to improve customer support. Upon receiving a client request for product support information, product support information objects representing the requested product support information in an information library are identified. Relevant product support information corresponding to the identified... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070043719 - Information processing system and information processing method: An information processing system includes a recognition portion that recognizes a document shown in a given space, a detection portion that detects an event occurring in the given space, and an index-giving portion that gives information on the event detected by the detection portion to the information on the document... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070043716 - Methods, systems and computer program products for changing objects in a directory system: Methods, systems and computer program products for changing an object associated with a directory system of a computer system and having a current classification are provided. A request to change the object is received. The request includes a specification of a new classification of the object different from the current... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070043717 - Relevancy association architecture: A relevancy association architecture for providing a more effective retrieval of existing product support information in response to client information requests. Product support information for products of a business enterprise is collected and stored in an information library. Relevancy associations are created, based on an ontology such as a context-scenario... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070043720 - System, apparatus and methods for storage, retrieval and exchange of personal profile data enabling consistent interpretation across multiple device, applications and data services: System, methods, and apparatus are disclosed for the improved use and maintenance of electronic user profiles. Profile entries reflect personal user information comprising a user action and associated circumstance (result) of that action. Action and circumstance information in the profile preferably includes a semantic reference value that improves usability of... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070043722 - Classification system: A classification system automatically generates an indication that a training feature vector case is a pollutant based on a mis-labelled reference image. It excludes the case from the set, builds a k-nearest neighbour confidence classifier, and then classifies the case using this classifier. The case may be marked as suspect... Agent: Perman & Green

20070043723 - Interactive user-controlled relevanace ranking retrieved information in an information search system: The present invention presents an apparatus and system for providing an ability to conduct a secondary search using results provided by a first search capability. This secondary search is integrated with the first search and functions as an added tool or accessory. The present invention allows for user control of... Agent: John O'brien

20070043721 - Removing documents: A system may present information regarding a document and provide an option for removing the document. The system may also receive selection of the option and remove the document when the option is selected. The system may aggregate information regarding documents that have been removed by a group of users... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070043724 - Systems and methods for integrating business processes: A system can create and manage a framework for integrating a plurality of business processes. The system can include a first tier module adapted for managing at least one internal function and at least one service of the plurality of business processes, wherein the business processes include respective predefined goals... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070043726 - Affinity-based recovery/failover in a cluster environment: Techniques are provided for responding to the termination of a node by selecting another node, and assigning to the selected node the affinity relationships that existed between the terminated node and one or more objects. The resources that belong to the objects involved in the affinity relationships are remastered to... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070043727 - Electronic data transfer of regulatory-related documents: Techniques for providing regulatory-related documents to a government entity includes a computer-based server are disclosed. A computer-based server networked to the Internet provides secure document handling and distribution over the Internet without data encryption.... Agent: Baker & Hostetler, LLP For Boeing Company

20070043725 - Feedback responsive input arrangements: Feedback responsive input arrangements are presented where arrangements includes: a sensor in mechanical communication with a surface layer, the sensor configured to generate electronic signals in response to applied forces exerted upon the surface layer; a processing module configured to convert electronic signals into user-defined programmatic dimensions; and a tactile... Agent: Ipsg, P.C.

20070043728 - Optimization for transaction failover in a multi-node system environment where objects' mastership is based on access patterns: Techniques are provided for responding to the termination of a node executing one or more transactions by selecting another node to complete the transactions, and assigning to the selected node the affinity relationships that existed between the terminated node and the objects being accessed by said transactions.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070043735 - Aggregating data of disparate data types from disparate data sources: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for aggregating data of disparate data types from disparate data sources includes receiving, from an aggregation process, a request for data; identifying, in response to the request for data, one of a plurality of disparate data sources as a source for the data; retrieving,... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070043739 - Communication device and method thereof: A communication method is disclosed which includes: first step of sending content attachment information including content link information from a sending device to a receiving device; and second step of connecting either the receiving device or a host device connected therewith to a server on a network in accordance with... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070043731 - Communication system and method for providing presence-enhanced smart name tags: A presence-enhanced smart name tag is implemented on a local application of a device. The local application identifies as a smart name tag a string of characters representing an identity of a presentity. The presentity identity is used to retrieve presence information indicating the availability of the presentity.... Agent: Alcatel Usa Intellectual Property Department

20070043732 - Contact exporting: Data containing contact information may be exported to a remote application by associating contact information data for a single contact with one of a plurality of database objects. After this association has occurred, contact information data and data identifying the database object may be transmitted over a communications network to... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070043730 - Data retrieval scheme: A method of purchasing an item, the method enabling a user to search for information on the cost of an item on a distributed computer system, the method comprising: generating a search request for the item at a user terminal; modifying the search request to indicate at least one user... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070043734 - Elimination of redundant objects in storage systems: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein a data structure corresponding to a set of client nodes selected from a plurality of client nodes is generated. Objects from the selected set of client nodes are stored in the data structure. A determination is made that an object... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070043740 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method and information processing program product: An information processing terminal connectable to a WWW (World Wide Web) server via a public network includes a storage unit that stores content data including image information or sound information with identification information of the content data, an acquiring unit that acquires identification information of content data from the WWW... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070043733 - Logical grouping and management of redundant objects in storage systems: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein a determination is made that an object corresponding to a first client node has to be stored. A further determination is made as to whether the object has already been sent to a server node by a second client node,... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070043738 - Methods and systems for reputation based resource allocation for networking: A method and system for reputation-based resource allocation for networking. The present invention provides a method for determining an allocation of a plurality of computer resources based on a reputation factor for each of the one ore more clients. Clients associated with bad reputation factors may be denied or delayed... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070043729 - Secret identifier for renewed subscription: The invention relates to cryptographic identification in a practical, low cost environment. A secret number (a kind of hidden identity) is stored in a device that, in combination with its public identity, can be used for identification by a Certifying Authority (CA) and subsequent subscription. To enable efficient renewed subscription,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070043736 - Smart find: A domain specific search mechanism having “smart find” functionality of locating a webpage dependent service is provided. In other words, the mechanism facilitates intelligent location of web page dependent links/services via a versatile mechanism that looks-up, deciphers, and/or interprets search criteria. Once an intended target is identified, a mechanism can... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070043737 - Storage system: A storage system including a plurality of logical units; file management application software for performing file management on a per-file basis for a plurality of files stored in the respective logical units; a load monitoring module for monitoring a load in a resource of the storage system; and a file... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070043741 - A note taking and course management system: The present invention relates to a course management system tailored for individuals with learning disabilities, special needs and/or organizational problems. The course management system includes a file folder that has first fastener attached to the inside region of the left side of the file folder; a second fastener attached to... Agent: Antoinette G. Giugliano, P.C.

20070043744 - Method and system for linking digital pictures to electronic documents: An image of a scene is captured with a digital camera. An item related to the scene is selected on a document stored on an electronic user device. The image is linked to the item and reversibly both on the electronic user device and on the digital camera to allow... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070043743 - Packing nodes into records to store xml xquery data model and other hierarchically structured data: A storage of nodes of hierarchically structured data uses logical node identifiers to reference the nodes stored within and across record data structures. A node identifier index is used to map each logical node identifier to a record identifier for the record that contains the node. When a sub-tree is... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070043742 - Systems and methods for building and implementing ontology-based information resources: Systems and methods are provided for building and implementing ontology-based information resources. More specifically, multi-user collaborative, semi-automatic systems and methods are provided for constructing ontology-based information resources that are shared by a community of users, wherein ontology categories evolve over time based on categorization rules that are specified by the... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070043745 - Web bookmark manager: A web bookmark manager processes a collection of web bookmarks to produce a richly structured presentation of the bookmark collection. The bookmark collection includes representations of resources, topics, and notice events. A notice event includes a reference to a web resource and a natural language description provided by a user.... Agent: Dimelab, LLC

20070043750 - Data structure for incremental search: A system for searching an object environment includes harvesting and indexing applications to create a search database and one or more indexes into the database. A scoring application determines the relevance of the objects, and a querying application locates objects in the database according to a search term. One or... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070043749 - Database fragment cloning and management: Mechanisms and techniques for database fragment cloning and management are provided. A database object, such as a table, rowset or index, is divided into fragments. Each fragment is cloned to create cloned fragments, which operationally are substantially identical to one another. One or more of the cloned fragments may be... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070043752 - Disparate network model synchronization: Changes to the source network model are captured in a database schema independent fashion, and an update manager broadcasts the changes to a registered client as and when the changes occur. Alternatively, the update manager can be queried, and in response, returns a summary of changes corresponding to criteria specified... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20070043748 - Method and apparatus for organizing digital images with embedded metadata: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates automatically organizing digital images using metadata which is embedded in the digital images. The system operates by receiving a digital image with embedded metadata, wherein the embedded metadata includes Global Positioning System (GPS) data. The system uses the embedded... Agent: Oracle International Corporation C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070043751 - Scalable storage schemes for native xml column data of relational tables: A method and system for providing a scalable storage scheme for native hierarchically structured data of relational tables, includes a base table with indicator columns with information pertaining to hierarchically structured data of a document, data tables for storing the hierarchically structured data corresponding to the indicator columns, and node... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070043747 - Storage reports file system scanner: Described is a storage reports scanner that works to generate reports of storage usage in computer systems in an efficient manner. The scanner receives a set of namespaces for a file system volume from a storage reports engine. The scanner scans file system metadata to construct a directory table of... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070043746 - System and method for asynchronous linked data structure traversal: A system and method for asynchronously traversing a disjoint linked data structure is presented. A synergistic processing unit (SPU) includes a handler that works in conjunction with a memory flow controller (MFC) to traverse a disjoint linked data structure. The handler compares a search value with a node value, and... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20070043753 - Systems and methods for manipulating and managing computer archive files: A computer program for managing and manipulating archive zip files of a computer. The program includes a system and method for opening, creating, and modifying, and extracting zip archive files. The program is fully integrated into Microsoft Windows Explorer and is accessed via Explorer menus, toolbars, and/or drag and drop... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070043754 - Systems and methods for manipulating and managing computer archive files: A computer program for managing and manipulating archive zip files of a computer. The program includes a system and method for opening, creating, and modifying, and extracting zip archive files. The program is fully integrated into Microsoft Windows Explorer and is accessed via Explorer menus, toolbars, and/or drag and drop... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070043760 - Embedding expression in xml literals: An architecture that that extends conventional computer programming languages that compile into an instance of an extensible markup language (XML) document object model (DOM) to provide support for XML literals in the underlying programming language. This architecture facilitates a convenient short cut by replacing the complex explicit construction required by... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070043759 - Method for data management and data rendering for disparate data types: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for data management and data rendering for disparate data types that include aggregating data of disparate data types from disparate data sources, synthesizing the aggregated data of disparate data types into data of a uniform data type, identifying an action in dependence upon the... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070043755 - Ranking of records in a relational database: A method for generating a probabilistic relational database based on a previous relational database, wherein the probability estimation is carried out within the relational paradigm. The method may include frequency-based and information theoretic based (idf-based) estimation of tuple probabilities. The method generalises the use of information retrieval ranking methods such... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070043761 - Semantic discovery engine: Discovering topics of interest from the content received from multiple sources. Content from multiple sources is aggregated and stored in a database along with the content's metadata. Phrases are extracted from the content and scored based on at least a time window for each phrase. The high ranking phrases are... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070043757 - Storage reports duplicate file detection: Described is a storage reports duplicate file detector that operates by receiving file records during a first scan of file system metadata. The detector computes a hash based on attributes in the record, and maintains the hash value in association with information that indicates whether a hash value corresponds to... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070043758 - Synthesizing aggregate data of disparate data types into data of a uniform data type: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for synthesizing the aggregated data of disparate data types into data of a uniform data type which includes receiving aggregated data of disparate data types and translating each of the aggregated data of disparate data types into text content and markup associated with the... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070043756 - Thinking machines: The invention describes Thinking Machines that learn from experience and apply their knowledge to search, discover, generalize and implement complete solutions to common problems. The machine represents a population of entities as Template, a set of properties and value ranges along with a time stamp indicating the time of the... Agent: Polycarpe Songfack

20070043762 - Object-oriented system and method for transforming and loading wafer test data: In one embodiment, a object-oriented method for transforming and loading wafer test data includes receiving a first data set having a first data format from testing of a semiconductor wafer, determining a decoupling object based on the first data format, transforming the first data format to a second data format... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070043768 - Apparatus, medium, and method clustering audio files: An apparatus, medium, and method providing audio files with clustering, with audio files having information similar to queries input from a user being extracted and undergo clustering. A method for providing audio files with clustering includes calculating scores between queries input from a user and a specified audio file, detecting... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070043769 - Content data delivery system, and method for delivering an encrypted content data: A handheld device is configured to be connectable to a storage media that holds a unique media identifier and holds a content key data used to decrypt an encrypted content data. A content data delivery system is provided that is configured to be able to deliver various data to the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070043767 - Data transmission capture in support of medication preparation: A method and software interface enables selective processing of data transmissions containing one or more medication orders intended for a pharmacy. Data transmissions are monitored and parsed for prescribed information which is utilized to populate a prescribed data structure. The data structure and parsing rules can be associated with a... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070043770 - Discovery method for buyers, sellers of real estate: Sellers can, anonymously to buyers if they choose, expose to potential buyers a property that is or may be for sale, with or without a sales price or listing agreement, with as little or as much description of their property as the sellers wish to provide. Potential buyers can identify... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070043763 - Information processing system and information processing method: An information processing system includes a memory portion that stores each scene of image information of a given space captured by an image capturing portion in association with positional information on an object existent in the given space, a receiving portion that receives information that specifies the object as a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070043766 - Method and system for the creating, managing, and delivery of feed formatted content: The invention provides methods for creating, managing, and delivery of feed formatted content. One method includes: receiving a multimedia playlist request including at least one multimedia location indicator, determining at least one multimedia file location based on the at least one multimedia location indicator, and providing a multimedia playlist including... Agent: Cardinal Law Group

20070043765 - Method of automatically selecting multimedia files for transfer between two storage mediums: A method of automatically selecting at least one of stored multimedia files for transfer between a first storage medium and a second storage medium. In the method, each stored file is assigned a popularity weighting based on popularity information and files are selected that have a popularity weighting within a... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070043764 - Notifications in a credential production system: A credential production system includes a credential production device and a computing device in communication with the credential production device. The computing device receives a credential production event from the credential production device. The computing device applies a pre-defined set of rules to the credential production event to determine if... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20070043775 - Apparatus, system, and program for determining consistency of a database: The invention efficiently determines consistency of a database by a system including a reading section that sequentially reads from the respective segment data included in the database pointers to other segment data, an address recording section that records storage addresses of segment data from which the pointers have been read... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20070043776 - Controller to be connected to ieee 1394 serial bus: A controller to be connected via an IEEE 1394 serial bus to two or more hard disk recorders. When a user selects an attribute of program files to be deleted by using an operation unit, a microprocessor in the controller searches for program files corresponding to the attribute, which is... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070043771 - Disaggregated resources and access methods: Disaggregated resources distributed among resource nodes provide access to resource consumers by offering resource node information to the resource consumers. Resource node information supplied by each individual resource node comprises incomplete information with respect to the complete disaggregated resource. Resource consumers collect resource node information to create maps of the... Agent: Robert D. Fish Rutan & Tucker LLP

20070043772 - Dynamic quota policy for queuing mechanism: Methods and systems for effecting cleanup and other policies for queues and similar data stores, which policies account for preferences of consumers of the data so stored. Queuing policies for local storage of one or more documents for transmission from the local storage to one or more end points for... Agent: Sun/blakely

20070043774 - Method and apparatus for incremental computation of the accuracy of a categorization-by-example system: One aspect of the present invention includes a method and device for incremental updating of a training set of documents used for automatic categorization. Particular aspects of the present invention are described in the claims, specification and drawings.... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20070043773 - Storage system, data restoring method, and data access method: This invention provides a storage system in which a volume containing WORM data is restorable. A control unit, after the copying is finished, consults a first meta data associated with data stored in a first block of the first volume, consults, in a case where the consulted first meta data... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070043777 - Systems and methods for manipulating and managing computer archive files: A computer program for managing and manipulating archive zip files of a computer. The program includes a system and method for opening, creating, and modifying, and extracting zip archive files. The program is fully integrated into Microsoft Windows Explorer and is accessed via Explorer menus, toolbars, and/or drag and drop... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070043778 - Systems and methods for manipulating and managing computer archive files: A computer program for managing and manipulating archive zip files of a computer. The program includes a system and method for opening, creating, and modifying, and extracting zip archive files. The program is fully integrated into Microsoft Windows Explorer and is accessed via Explorer menus, toolbars, and/or drag and drop... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070043779 - Systems and methods for manipulating and managing computer archive files: A computer program for managing and manipulating archive zip files of a computer. The program includes a system and method for opening, creating, and modifying, and extracting zip archive files. The program is fully integrated into Microsoft Windows Explorer and is accessed via Explorer menus, toolbars, and/or drag and drop... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070043780 - Systems and methods for manipulating and managing computer archive files: A computer program for managing and manipulating archive zip files of a computer. The program includes a system and method for opening, creating, and modifying, and extracting zip archive files. The program is fully integrated into Microsoft Windows Explorer and is accessed via Explorer menus, toolbars, and/or drag and drop... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070043781 - Systems and methods for manipulating and managing computer archive files: A computer program for managing and manipulating archive zip files of a computer. The program includes a system and method for opening, creating, and modifying, and extracting zip archive files. The program is fully integrated into Microsoft Windows Explorer and is accessed via Explorer menus, toolbars, and/or drag and drop... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070043782 - Systems and methods for manipulating and managing computer archive files: A computer program for managing and manipulating archive zip files of a computer. The program includes a system and method for opening, creating, and modifying, and extracting zip archive files. The program is fully integrated into Microsoft Windows Explorer and is accessed via Explorer menus, toolbars, and/or drag and drop... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070043783 - Handling uniqueness constraints in a database system with versioned data: A version history of each of a plurality of resources is stored in a table. The version history for each resource comprises a set of one or more values for the resource, wherein each value in the version history of a resource indicates the value that the resource had in... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070043784 - Advanced fine-grained administration of recovering transactions: A method, system, and computer program product provides advanced and fine-grained transaction administration features, along with interoperability between transactional software architectures and business entities. A method of administering recovering transactions comprises the steps of operating a transaction processing system, and attempting recovery of a plurality of transactions in the transaction... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070043785 - Maintaining an aggregate including active files in a storage pool: Provided are a method, system, and program for maintaining an aggregate including active files in a storage pool. One active-only storage pool is included in a plurality of storage pools. Each storage pool includes files and the active-only storage pool is intended to include only active files and not inactive... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070043786 - Conformance authority reconciliation: An automated method for facilitating management of a data processing environment is disclosed. In various embodiments, the method may include facilitating detecting of a change to an element of a data processing device of the data processing environment. In various embodiments, the method may further include facilitating reconciling the change... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20070043789 - Maintaining active-only copy storage pools: Provided are a method, system, and program for maintaining active-only copy storage pools. A first storage pool includes at least a first aggregate including a plurality of files. A second aggregate is generated in a second storage pool. A determination is made as to whether files in the first aggregate... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP

20070043788 - Maintaining active-only storage pools: Provided are a method, system, and program for maintaining active-only storage pools. A first storage pool includes at least a first aggregate including a plurality of active and inactive files. A second aggregate is generated in a second storage pool. A determination is made of active versions of files in... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP

20070043787 - Maintaining an aggregate including active files in a storage pool in a random access medium: Provided are a method, system, and program for maintaining an aggregate including active files in a storage pool in a random access medium. An active-only storage pool is configured in a random access device. The active-only storage pool is intended to include only active files and not inactive versions of... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070043791 - Data backup system: A data backup system which includes: a storage medium cartridge for storing target data; an auxiliary storage medium mounted on the storage medium cartridge; a data backup method for backing up the target data in the storage medium cartridge; and a history information writing method for writing backup history information... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070043790 - Snapshot indexing: Managing backup data comprises accessing a snapshot of a data set, wherein the data set includes at least one object and the snapshot includes a replica of the data set, and adding to an index associated with the snapshot, with respect to each of one or more objects included in... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070043792 - Image processing system: This invention relates to an image processing system for capturing images from an event and for distributing images so obtained to one or more clients. The system may comprise a terminal associated with a camera and a first editing facility, wherein the terminal is configured to receive a master image... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20070043793 - Method for rebalancing free disk space among network storages virtualized into a single file system view: A method for moving files between network storages in a virtualized network storage system having multiple network storages and rebalancing the free disk spaces. It periodically judges whether to start rebalancing. Two different conditions are adopted for the determination of start: (a) an imbalance of free disk spaces and the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070038593 - Data storage control apparatus and method: An apparatus is operable for writing data to a mirrored storage component, the mirrored storage component being configured to position a data item in a minimum seek time region of a first medium and to position a mirror copy of said data item in a non-minimum seek time region of... Agent: Harrington & Smith, L.L.P.

20070038589 - Granting access to a computer-based object: Disclosed is a memory card comprising a program code processor for granting access to a computer-based object, at least one public and private key that is allocated to the memory card as well as a public key of a trustworthy entity being stored on said memory card. Furthermore, a piece... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070038592 - Method for indexing file structures in an enterprise data system: A method and system is presented which provides a TDM framework for managing self-describing measurement data. The TDM framework provides applications with a central platform for accessing measurement data across an entire enterprise system. By means of individual plug-ins, which are specific to a given data file format, meta-data for... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070038591 - Method for intelligent browsing in an enterprise data system: A method and system is presented which provides a TDM framework for managing self-describing measurement data. The TDM framework provides applications with a central platform for accessing measurement data across an entire enterprise system. By means of individual plug-ins, which are specific to a given data file format, meta-data for... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070038590 - Minimizing computer resource usage when converting data types of a table column: Online conversion procedures avoid the need to generate a copy of an entire table in order to convert the data type of a column in the table. To convert a table's column to a new data type, a replacement column is created in the table, the replacement column having the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070038594 - Method, system, and computer program product for enhancing collaboration using a corporate social network: The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for enhancing collaboration using a corporate social network to infer contacts. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: providing a social network for an organization, the social network including a plurality of nodes and... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070038595 - Query processing in a parallel single cursor model on multi-instance configurations, using hints: A database statement is processed in a multi-server system, in a manner to increase the possibility that slave server processes on remote nodes will generate execution plans that are equivalent to the corresponding execution plan generated by the query coordinator process. A set of hints is generated based on the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070038596 - Restricting access to data based on data source rewriting: Data access is controlled by re-writing a data source, identified in an input query. The re-writing can be, for example, to a view or subquery or another data source, based on a variety of different criteria such as identity, role, group or other criteria.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070038601 - Aggregating context data for programmable search engines: Search results are generated using aggregated context data from two or more contexts. When two or more programmable search engines relate to a similar topic, context data associated with the programmable search engines are aggregated. The context is then applied to a query in order to present, in an integrated... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070038602 - Alternative search query processing in a term bidding system: A system and method for receiving a query and determining candidate alternate queries. A query may be parsed into concepts and then candidates for alternate terms may be determined for either the whole query or the determined concepts. Candidates are scored for their respective similarity to the original query. After... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070038608 - Computer search system for improved web page ranking and presentation: An Internet search system integrates additional concept-related information into a regular web search engine, providing better page ranking and richer presentation of search results. The additional information is directly related to the contents of the retrieved web pages but does not appear on the retrieved web pages and/or in the... Agent: Anjun Chen

20070038600 - Detecting spam related and biased contexts for programmable search engines: A programmable search engine system is programmable by a variety of different entities, such as client devices and vertical content sites to customize search results for users. Context files store instructions for controlling the operations of the programmable search engine. The context files are processed by various context processors, which... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070038599 - End-user portal session logging by portlets: A portal uses portlets to provide a session to a user. Based on portlet events that occur in the session, portlet log entries are sent from the portlets to a log server. The log server stores log entries comprising the portlet log entries and the portal log entries. A customer... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070038604 - Extensible search engine: Methods and systems are disclosed for extending the search functionality of search engines. In one configuration, a method for modifying functionality of a search engine operated by a search engine host involves providing a search function associated with an entity different from the search engine entity and making that search... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070038606 - File processing apparatus operating a file based on previous execution history of the file: When a user select a file to be processed from a box present in an image formation apparatus a feature of the selected file is extracted. A feature point recording region is searched and data of a previous execution history of a file having a feature point matching that of... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070038613 - Method and apparatus for preferred roaming list compression: Techniques for efficient storage and retrieval of Preferred Roaming Lists are disclosed. In one aspect, PRL entries are stored in two tables. One table contains records that are common to two or more PRL entries. Another table stores any information that is unique to a PRL entry, as well as... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070038597 - Method and computer system for query optimization: Method and computer system for logically evaluating a Boolean expression used in a query statement to optimize the query. The Boolean expression refers to an attribute and includes a plurality of conditions. The Boolean expression is received (410) and decomposed (420) into the plurality of conditions. For each condition at... Agent: Brake Hughes PLC C/o Portfolioip

20070038598 - Method and system for asynchronous data query and storage media storing a computer program for executing the method: A method and a system for asynchronous data query and a storage media storing a computer program for executing the method are provided, which can be used in the network of an enterprise information system or on the web site of an Internet information provider to solve the problem of... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070038607 - Method for rating of web sites and retrieval of rated web sites: A method of categorizing and retrieving a web site is based on a search term provided by a web searcher. After identification of a web site on the basis of the search term, the web searcher associates a rating with the web site reflective of the degree of association of... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20070038611 - Method, system and apparatus for data reuse: A system and method may be disclosed for facilitating the creation or modification of a document by providing a mechanism for locating relevant data from external sources and organizing and incorporating some or all of said data into the document. In the method for reusing data, there may be a... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20070038605 - Method, system, and computer program product for providing unique identifiers for mail messages in web mail applications using javamail: The present invention provides unique identifiers for mail messages in web mail applications using JavaMail. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: providing a list of unique identifiers containing N entries, wherein N is equal to a total number of messages in a mail folder,... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070038603 - Sharing context data across programmable search engines: Context information, obtained by one programmable search engine and relating to a user, is stored in a central shared repository so that it can be used by other programmable search engines, in order to provide more effective targeted search results for the user in the future. Information obtained from other... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070038612 - System and method for indexing, searching, identifying, and editing multimedia files: A method and system are provided for tagging, indexing, searching, retrieving, manipulating, and editing video images on a wide area network such as the Internet. A first set of methods is provided for enabling users to add bookmarks to multimedia files, such as movies, and audio files, such as music.... Agent: Jones Day

20070038610 - System and method for knowledge retrieval, management, delivery and presentation: The present invention is directed to an integrated implementation framework and resulting medium for knowledge retrieval, management, delivery and presentation. The system includes a first server component that is responsible for adding and maintaining domain-specific semantic information and a second server component that hosts semantic and other knowledge for use... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20070038609 - System and method of query paraphrasing: A platform-independent process for data retrieval from ontology-oriented data systems over computer networks through a flexible system and method of query paraphrasing. The present invention uses a “common ontology” that is not tied to any particular data system. Thus, each client computer issues queries to a target data system in... Agent: Ober/kaler

20070038617 - Cultural property independent programming: A system and method for culturally-neutral computer applications wherein cultural and language functional differences are used to branch the computer application. Functional cultural differences are identified and branches or program options for the differences are coded into the executable application. When a branch is encountered, a data setting is referenced... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070038614 - Generating and presenting advertisements based on context data for programmable search engines: Context, or user intent, is used for improving targeting of advertisements and for generating competition among advertisers for valuable ad space. Advertisers can bid for placement on search results pages based on combinations of keywords and context categories, or keywords and contexts. Such bids are compared to one another so... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070038615 - Identifying alternative spellings of search strings by analyzing self-corrective searching behaviors of users: A computer-implemented process identifies useful alternative spellings of search strings submitted to a search engine. The process takes into consideration spelling changes made by users, as detected by programmatically analyzing search string submissions of a population of search engine users. In one embodiment, an assessment of whether a second search... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070038619 - Methods and apparatus to help users of a natural language system formulate queries: Methods and apparatus provide the capability of receiving at least a portion of a message in natural language format from a user prior to submission of the message to an automated agent for a response, analyzing the at least the portion of the message, and providing a suggestion to the... Agent: Paul D. Durkee Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20070038616 - Programmable search engine: A programmable search engine system is programmable by a variety of different entities, such as client devices and vertical content sites to customize search results for users. Context files store instructions for controlling the operations of the programmable search engine. The contest files are processed by various context processors, which... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070038618 - System and method for automatically generating database queries: A method of tuning a database query includes selecting a database query, parsing the selected database query to determine relationships between portions of the selected database query, selecting an optimization mode from a plurality of available optimization modes, tuning the selected database query by modifying, at least one portion of... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070038620 - Consumer-focused results ordering: A vertical search engine may rank items based on both the quality of data associated with each item and the popularity of each item. The vertical search engine may access data associated with items from a variety of different sources, including feed sources and crawl sources. Data quality inputs are... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070038623 - Method and apparatus to provide answers to a search engine natural language query: Methods and apparatus to enable a search engine to receive natural language queries and provide answers to user queries. The answer can be extracted from the search results. In one embodiment, the answer can be highlighted.... Agent: Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20070038624 - Method and system for detecting search terms whose popularity increase rapidly: The present invention relates to a method and system for detecting a keyword whose number of being inputted from a user terminal is rapidly increased, and more particularly, to a method and system which generate rapid increase standard quotient by using the average and standard deviation for each keyword and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070038622 - Method ranking search results using biased click distance: Methods of providing a document relevance score to a document on a network are disclosed. Computer readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions for performing a method of providing a document relevance score to a document on a network are also disclosed. Further, computing systems containing at least one application... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070038621 - System and method for determining alternate search queries: A system and method for receiving a query and determining candidate alternate queries. A query may be parsed into concepts and then candidates for alternate terms may be determined for either the whole query or the determined concepts. Candidates are scored for their respective similarity to the original query. After... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070038625 - Document-classification system, method and software: Every year, professional classifiers at West Group manually classify over 350,000 headnotes, or abstracts of judicial opinions, across approximately 82,000 separate classes of the Key Number System. Although most headnotes are classified from the memory of the classifiers, a significant number are difficult and thus costly to classify manually. Accordingly,... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070038626 - Prefix search circuitry and method: Prefix searches for directing internet data packets are performed in a prefix search integrated circuit. The integrated circuit includes an array of search engines, each of which accesses a prefix search tree data structure to process a prefix search. An SDRAM is dedicated to each search engine, and SDRAMs share... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070038627 - System and method for using a component business model to manage an enterprise: A method and system are described for using the structure and relationships between components in a component business model of an enterprise to assign components providing monitoring data to a management component. In response to the monitoring data, the management component executes a business rule invoking a service that alters... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C. Suite 340

20070038631 - Method and apparatus for managing a database and processing program therefor: A database management system is provided for protecting data from being malicious update or deleted. The system is arranged to hold as a table attribute an insert-only attribute and a row deletion prohibition period, and as an access right attribute a row insertion date and time holding column name and... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070038630 - Method for generating a rights object, method and system for limiting a rights object: Discloses are a method for generating a rights object, and a method and apparatus for limiting a rights object. The method for generating a rights object includes: after the rights issuance system receives the rights information relative to the content object, the rights issuance system determines whether the rights object... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070038629 - Resource allocation method, communication system, network element, module, computer program product and computer program distribution medium: The invention is related to a network element, comprising: means for receiving an upper limit of a network resource, means for determining a user device-specific upper limit for another or same network resource taking into account the upper limit; and means for allocating internal resources of the network element to... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070038628 - System and method for exchanging documents: A method of delivering documents electronically, including prompting a first user at a first business to send a reference to a document to a second user at a second business over a secure network, verifying that the second business has rights to the document, and granting all users at the... Agent: Ethan D. Civan

20070038632 - Time slot based calendar access control: A calendar owner designates access privilege to his or her calendar for an individual user, a defined user group, or a user type at a time slot granularity level. A non-owner party attempts to access selective time slots of the calendar owner's calendar. The access privilege is checked at the... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20070038635 - Autosequencer: In an embodiment of a method of distributing an application program, the application program is installed on a first computer. Configuration information relating to the installation is recorded in machine-readable form. The configuration information is selected to enable installation of the application program on a second computer.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070038638 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method, and program storing medium for distinguishing suffixes appended to contents data: A click operation is input in a first step, whether or not the target address thereof is an asf file or an m3u file, which are listening contents files, is judged in a second step, and in the event that this is true, in a third step the target file... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070038644 - Management computer and method of managing data storage apparatus: In a computer system having hierarchically-arranged data storage apparatuses, a management computer provides information required for performing operation on the data storage apparatuses. Through a network for collecting management information, storage area information and hierarchy information are collected from each data storage apparatus. Management relation information is created using the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070038633 - Method and system for executing procedures in mixed-initiative mode: A system for and method of executing mixed-initiative procedures to allow at least one of a user and a computer system to take initiative of the procedure from the other at any point of the procedure, in which the mixed-initiative procedure can include a computer-based procedure in which the user... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070038642 - Method for providing extensible software components within a distributed synchronization system: A synchronization system is provided that distributes synchronization system-based applications and synchronization system-based application extensions and their associated resources and components (hereinafter “plug-in applications” or “plug-ins”). Components are maintained such that any synchronization system-based application instantiation may be changed or updated by the synchronization system. In one specific example using... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi

20070038640 - Method for searching across instant message systems and interconnecting server: A method for searching across instant message systems and an interconnecting server are disclosed. The method includes the steps of searching in a SIMPLE IM system by a WV-IMPS user, and searching in a WV-IMPS system by a SIMPLE IM user. The interconnecting server includes a message input/output module and... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070038634 - Method for targeting world wide web content and advertising to a user: According to one aspect of the invention, a method for managing the navigation of a visitor to the World Wide Web is provided. A target profile is determined based on a combination of at least two known properties and a navigation path is associated with the target profile. The at... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070038643 - Methods and apparatuses to assemble, extract and deploy content from electronic documents: Embodiments of the present invention permit the specification and servicing of aggregations of content constituent parts that derive from electronic documents. An incorporated content constituent part may correspond to any constituent part of any accessible document. In various embodiments, information derived from the intended layouts of source documents is employed... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20070038639 - Mobile communication terminal for downloading contents and method thereof: A mobile communication terminal for downloading contents and a method thereof. The mobile communication terminal comprises: a memory for storing at least one multimedia data to be outputted while downloading contents; a controller for outputting at least one control signal to control an output of the stored multimedia data when... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070038637 - Optimized network cache for virus scanning by examining the magic bytes of a file: A system and method is provided for reliably detecting the file type of a client-requested file and by-passing conventional ICAP processing if the detected file type corresponds to a non-viral file. The client-requested file is examined to determine whether it contains a predefined byte pattern (or “file signature”) corresponding to... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070038641 - Systems and methods for automated application updating: This invention relates to a computer-based method and system for facilitating the retrieval, classification, and distribution of information. In one embodiment, a method for retrieving information includes defining command strings that include a URL and a token in a first software application, identifying a value for the token based on... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070038636 - Video resume internet system: A video resume employment system for determining the employability of a job seeker by an employer in a video resume employment system includes providing a video employment resume of the job seeker, the video employment resume including employment information with respect to the job seeker for making an employment related... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20070038654 - Api to kstore interlocking trees datastore: A method for transmitting information in a KStore system having a KStore, an application programming interface and an application layer wherein the information is transmitted between the KStore and the application layer includes transmitting the information between the KStore and the application layer by way of the application programming interface.... Agent: Unisys Corporation Attn: Mark T. Starr

20070038652 - Data driven cultural customization: A system and method for modifying a cultural database that is used by a computer application to drive culture-specific and language-specific functional aspects of the program. After defining a set of cultural parameters for program behavior and storing the parameters in a database, support for new cultures or languages, or... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070038649 - Flexible handling of datetime xml datatype in a database system: A database server registers an XML schema and determines a database representation for the XML schema and mapping information, determining what database types should be used to represent an XML schema and/or how instances of the XML schema are stored by a database system. The mapping information indicates the mapping... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070038651 - Interactive schema translation with instance-level mapping: A system and method facilitating data access operations is provided. The system can facilitate an executable, instance-level interaction between a source model (e.g., schema) expressed in a first metamodel (e.g., object-oriented metamodel) and a target model expressed in a second metamodel (e.g., SQL metamodel). The system can produce instance mappings... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070038647 - Management of media sources in memory constrained devices: Managing media information on a computing device. The media information is stored in a plurality of media sources where at least one of the media sources is an external storage associated with the computing device and where at least one of the media sources is a local storage associated with... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070038656 - Method and apparatus for verifying storage access requests in a computer storage system with multiple storage elements: Method and apparatus are disclosed for verifying access to logical volume stored on at least one of the plurality of storage elements. The access can involve verification that the appropriate logical volume is being accessed and may also or instead include checking of authorization of a user to access that... Agent: Emc Corporation Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070038645 - Method for organizing a data base: The present invention is a process of organization of a relational data base, aimed to be used in a computer system containing at least a processor and some memory, characterized in that it includes the steps consisting in: Elaborate a hierarchical expansion table; Create the thesaurus of each of the... Agent: Michel Koskas Societe Kode

20070038655 - Method of measuring a large population of web pages for compliance to content standards that require human judgement to evaluate: Embodiments herein provide a method, computer program product, etc. of measuring a large population of web pages for compliance to content standards that require human judgment to evaluate. The method performs an automated analysis of a web space, comprising gathering information about structure and content of the web space. The... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20070038653 - Probabilistic retrospective event detection: Probabilistic retrospective event detection is described. In one aspect, event parameters are initialized to identify a number of events from a corpus of documents. Using a generative model, documents are determined to be associated with an event to detect representative events from the identified number of events.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070038646 - Ranking blog content: A mechanism of ranking weblog or “blog” items is provided. More particularly, the subject ranking mechanisms can facilitate ranking blog feeds and blog items contained therein thus focusing and intelligently delivering content (e.g., blog items) to users. The subject innovation facilitates ranking the blog feeds and blog items by creating... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070038650 - Synchronizing transaction ambient state among multiple transaction managers: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for synchronizing ambient state among multiple transaction managers. A coordinating transaction manager establishes transaction ambient state for an application initiated transaction. The coordinating transaction manager sends and a subordinate transaction manager receives a pointer to an ambient state delegate.... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070038648 - Transforming a legacy it infrastructure into an on-demand operating environment: A transformation engine for transforming a legacy IT infrastructure into an on-demand IT infrastructure in a financial services enterprise, the transformation engine comprising: a determiner component for determining a current status of the legacy IT infrastructure; a comparator component for comparing the determined current status to an idealised set of... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070038658 - Communication optimization for parallel execution of user-defined table functions: While generating an execution plan for a database statement that includes a user-defined table function that requires partitioning of input data to the function, it is determined whether the partitioning of output data from an operation that feeds the function is compatible with the partitioning required by the function. If... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070038657 - Method, system and program product for determining objective function coefficients of a mathematical programming model: A method and system for determining a plurality of coefficients of an objective function of a mathematical programming model. Attributes of the model are identified. A first set of coefficient values determining a first solution and initially representing the plurality of coefficients is determined by employing a specified ranking of... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070038659 - Scalable user clustering based on set similarity: Methods and apparatus, including systems and computer program products, to provide clustering of users in which users are each represented as a set of elements representing items, e.g., items selected by users using a system. In one aspect, a program operates to obtain a respective interest set for each of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070038660 - Support apparatus and computer-readable storage medium: A design support apparatus is provided with a first managing part to manage design documents that become input information to design processes, an extracting part to extract at least one of specification undetermined items, inspecting items of results and caution items for design, from the design documents managed by the... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070038661 - Data structure of menu display control data and menu display device: A display control table comprises GUI tables <guitbl>[0] to <guitbl>[N-1] and menu tables <menu_tbl>[0] to <menu_tbl>[I-1] belonging to each of the GUI tables. Each of the GUI tables <guitbl>[0] to <guitbl>[N-1] manages a plurality of large items subjected to a display process. Also, each of the menu tables <menu_tbl>[0] to... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070038665 - Local computer search system and method of using the same: A local computer search system including: a mini web server installed in the local computer, receiving a search command with respect to data in the local computer from a web browser according to an HTTP protocol and providing a search result in a web document to the web browser; a... Agent: Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP

20070038662 - Method and system for managing external routines in a database management system: A method for managing an external routine in a computer implemented database management system includes creating a first table for storing external routines in a data store coupled to the database management system. An external routine is stored in the first table so that the database management system is allowed... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070038664 - Real time data warehousing: A method and system for processing data into and in a database and for retrieving the processed data is disclosed. The data comprises identifiers of a plurality of entities. The method and system comprises: (a) processing data into and in a database, (b) enhancing received data prior to storage in... Agent: George H. Gates Gates & Cooper LLP

20070038663 - Systems and methods for extracting and adapting data: Methods and systems for extracting and adapting data are set forth. According to one embodiment, a method comprising determining a schema for an item, wherein the schema contains one or more elements corresponding to attributes of the item, identifying a first web page containing information about the item, populating the... Agent: Marc Colando Interactive Planet, Inc.

20070038666 - Independent explicit interface implementation: Dynamically generated interfaces can be applied on existing classes independently of underlying class definitions. This allows developers to work with values from different data models using a single paradigm and without the need to explicitly move data into actual objects. In one aspect, an automated interface generation system is provided.... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070038667 - Information processing method and apparatus: An information processing method in an information processing apparatus that is equipped with a monitoring unit that acquires and retains information from a printing apparatus via a communication channel using an information request or an event registration is provided. The information processing method includes an obtaining step of obtaining from... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070038668 - Object matching management system enabling instantaneous reflection of change in object information in operation terminals: An object matching management apparatus includes an information storage part storing objects composing operation results, a communication part communicating with operation terminals for specified objectives, and an information processing part controlling operations of the information storage part and the communication part. The information processing part acquires information on processing performed... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070038670 - Context sensitive media and information: A system and method for making media content sensitive to a context, such that the media content carries information needed to automatically process the media content in a target environment which includes a context processing engine. The engine processes a first set of rules and methods for media content objects... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20070038676 - Information storage and retrieval system for storing and retrieving the visual form of information from an application in a database: The visual form of data from a computer program is received and stored in a database. The visual form of the data may be received, for example, in response to a print operation by the computer program or by some other operation Such as a cut and paste sequence of... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20070038669 - Media file organization for shuffled playback: Media file organization for shuffled playback or rendering. One or more sets of media files available to be rendered are defined. Each of the defined sets represents one or more contiguous media files. A media file is randomly selected from one of the defined sets to be rendered. The one... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070038673 - Method and apparatus for advanced shipping notification and edi through web portal: Method and apparatus to facilitate the use of advanced shipping notification in commerce through a web portal, especially for direct store and cross dock delivery. Through a web portal, users transfer order information to business partners, generate serialized shipping container codes, generate and print container labels, and send and receive... Agent: Carstens & Cahoon, LLP

20070038671 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product providing image controlled playlist generation: A program of machine-readable instructions, tangibly embodied on an information bearing medium and executable by a digital data processor, to perform actions directed toward generating a playlist for a mobile device, the actions including performing an analysis of an image, and selecting at least one audio file in accordance with... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20070038675 - Process control system and process control method: In a process control system according to the present invention, a history record table, a history record relationship table, a process table, and a process relationship table are provided. The history record table stores information on a history record. The history record relationship table stores information on a history record... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070038672 - Single action media playlist generation: A method for generating a list of media items selected from a library of media items in response to only a single action being performed. The method displays information identifying a portion of the library of media items and selects a group of media items from the portion of the... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070038674 - System and method for securely analyzing data and controlling its release: A system and method allows data to be shared for analysis without compromising the security of all the data, while allowing the analysis to proceed.... Agent: Innovation Partners

20070038678 - Application configuration in distributed storage systems: A method and system for enabling dynamic matching of storage utilization characteristics of a host system application with the characteristics of the available storage pools of an attached distributed storage system, in order to provide an optimal match between the application and selected storage pool. An abstraction manager is provided,... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070038679 - Dynamic configuration updating in a storage area network: Differential configuration update commands can be communicated and applied quickly and efficiently to active zone sets and zone set libraries, without requiring propagation of entire zone sets through a fabric of a SAN. Furthermore, the commands can be applied quickly to support dynamic configuration updates. Ordered differential configuration update commands... Agent: Hensley Kim & Edgington, LLC

20070038677 - Feedback-driven malware detector: Embodiments of a feedback-driven malware detector are directed to protecting a computer from programs that perform actions that are malicious or not expected by a user. In one embodiment, the feedback-driven malware detector performs a method that initially determines whether the state of an application program scheduled to be added... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070038680 - Management of mobile-device data: Information is maintained on a mobile client device. A delete command is received at the mobile client device over a wireless mobile network from a mobile-device data management server configured to provide mobile-device service to multiple mobile client devices over the wireless mobile network. The information is deleted from the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070038681 - System and method of remote storage of data through connection from a server to a client: A client computer stores data on a server at a remote location. The server receives a request to start an upload session and transmits a session key to the client computer. The server receives logon information and a hardware identification from the client computer and verifies the client computer's authenticity.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070038683 - Business intelligence system and methods: In general, the invention relates to a business intelligence platform. In one aspect, data is logged such that information about execution instances can be obtained. In another aspect, action sequences are developed, stored, and executed, such that use of a variety of components can be specified.... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070038682 - Online page restore from a database mirror: A set of servers takes advantage of the existing data redundancy of a mirrored database to restore page corruptions. The page restore may occur with none of the time and/or administration costs of a restore from backup media and without the data loss associated with repair. Online page restore from... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070038685 - Computer system and a booting method of the same: A booting method is implemented in a computer system including a processor, a read-only memory (ROM), a main memory, and a storage device. The ROM stores a loader program, a first file name corresponding to a kernel and a file system of a first operating system, and a second file... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070038686 - External evaluation processes: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for managing data. The technique includes defining a secondary data set in a primary data set, linking the secondary data set to state information of the primary data set, transmitting the secondary data set to an external entity, receiving a modified secondary data... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070038684 - Form merging: A form merging system for merging a primary form and a secondary form includes a relationship determination module adapted to determine a relationship between a primary form element on the primary form and a secondary form element on the secondary form and a form element addition module adapted to add... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070038687 - Content manager: An archive for digital content comprises archive storage, an archive service and a manifest. The archive storage is a unified storage structure for storing items, such a directory having a plurality of subdirectories. The manifest is stored within the archive storage when the archive storage is loaded onto a storage... Agent: Stevens & Showalter LLP

20070038688 - Copying and updating files: Copied and source files are tracked so that authors of these documents can selectively update these files. Stale copied files can be eliminated. A control is provided to mediate copying of files among servers that have differing security policies. Metadata of a file being copied is downloaded from a server... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070038689 - File management program, file management apparatus and file management method: The present invention has been made to provide a file management program, a file management apparatus, and a file management method capable of migrating files between file systems while an application program is being run. A file management program allowing a computer to manage files on a plurality of file... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070033155 - Client/server web application architectures for offline usage, data structures, and related methods: Client-server architectures for allowing web applications to operate even when the client and server are disconnected. Exemplary architectures include a local web engine associated with a local cache which can be separate from a browser cache and browser application. Exemplary data structures include web documents having one or more control... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070033158 - Methods and systems for high confidence utilization of datasets: Methods and systems for high-confidence utilization of datasets... Agent: Burns & Levinson, LLP (formerly Perkins Smith & Cohen LLP)

20070033154 - System and method managing documents: Certain embodiments can comprise a system (1000), comprising a database (1380, 1900) storing a plurality of objects; and a computer-based document management module (1320, 1820) adapted to: create a source document (1400) comprising the plurality of objects (1420, 1440); and automatically and individually control a content, a plurality of content... Agent: Michael Haynes

20070033156 - System for managing digital assets: A system for managing digital assets is disclosed which includes having a first source capable of creating a designated stock code for an item and having a second source capable of developing a digital asset for each of the items. The system also includes a central repository capable of receiving,... Agent: Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

20070033157 - Transaction protection in a stateless architecture using commodity servers: A system where commodity hardware can be utilized to act at least as a front-end to a database system, while maintaining transaction commitment reliability. A separate table to track if a transaction has been previously committed is provided. Preferably this separate stateless transaction protocol (STP) table utilizes indices relating to... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20070033161 - Apparatus and method for automatic refinement of business processes: An apparatus and a method for automatically refining a business process. The method for automatically refining a business process according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of setting key performance indicators (KPIs) and generating a matrix using KPI-related items, performing regression analysis using the items... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070033160 - Apparatus and method for autonomic refresh of a materialized query table in a computer database: An apparatus and method autonomically refreshes an MQT in a computer database to improve database performance and utility. In preferred embodiments, the query optimizer autonomically initiates a refresh of MQT depending on an estimated time for the query to access the base tables. In other preferred embodiments, the query optimizer... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20070033162 - Methods and media for efficiently processing data selected for recording to optical media: Methods and media for efficiently processing data to be recorded to optical media are provided. In one example, a method for processing data to be recorded to optical media is disclosed. The method includes receiving a request to record data to optical media, and mapping a source path for the... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070033159 - Query plan editor with integrated optimizer: A tool and method for integrating manual instructions of a database query plan with a database optimizer. The tool may be in the form of an editor to receive manual instructions associated with selection of database objects such as tables and operations associated with the objects. The editor may consult... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20070033164 - Abap utility program for assigning device types: A menu driven graphic user interface for configuring, creating and assigning device types using the SAP ABAP utility program.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070033168 - Agent rank: The present invention provides methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing techniques for searching and ranking linked information sources. The techniques include receiving multiple content items from a corpus of content items; receiving digital signatures each made by one of multiple agents, each digital signature associating one of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070033175 - Data sharing: A technique for sharing data is disclosed. The technique comprises performing a search in a first application to obtain a first search result, transferring search data associated with the search to a second application, and providing, in the second application, a second search result based on the search data.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070033167 - Discovery across multiple registries: One embodiment relates to a system for linking together multiple registries and aggregating data from the multiple registries. The system includes a plurality of local resource or service (resource/service) registries, a distributed index storage and retrieval system, and at least one proxy registry. The proxy registry is configured to receive... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070033165 - Efficient evaluation of complex search queries: A computer-implemented method, for searching a corpus of documents having an index, includes receiving a complex query, which includes a plurality of words conjoined by operators including a root operator and at least one intermediate operator. Respective advancement potentials are assigned to the words in the complex query. A query... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070033173 - Method and apparatus for data search with error tolerance: A data searching method and apparatus with error tolerance for an electronic device storing a plurality of data strings are disclosed. A proposed data searching method includes: extracting a portion of characters of each data string to form a characteristic character set for the data string; receiving an input value... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070033170 - Method for searching for relevant multimedia content: A method and system are provided for tagging, indexing, searching, retrieving, manipulating, and editing video images on a wide area network such as the Internet. A first set of methods is provided for enabling users to add bookmarks to multimedia files, such as movies, and audio files, such as music.... Agent: D.a. Stauffer Patent Services LLC

20070033163 - Search and storage of media fingerprints: Recognizing that a variety of different fingerprints may correspond to the same dataset, the search of a database of fingerprints to find a match to a target fingerprint is performed with relaxed criteria for declaring a match between two fingerprints. By matching “similar”, but not “exact”, fingerprints, redundant fingerprints need... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070033176 - Searching and reusing information from previously executed control instructions in a data forwarding device: A reverse-search function may accept user input and search back through previously executed and stored data forwarding device control instructions for a data forwarding device control instruction, at least a part of which matches a search string input by the user. The matching data forwarding device control instruction may be... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070033172 - Searching for commands and other elements of a user interface: The present invention provides a search capability to allow a user to easily locate a menu command or other user interface element associated with a search result. In one embodiment, a user enters a search term (or a portion thereof) in a search field. A list of results is displayed,... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070033169 - System and method of grouping search results using information representations: The invention is directed to a system and method of organizing search results. The invention may leverage a chronological timeline of user action information to infer relationships between objects in a search result. The search may be iterative. Search results may be graphically represented as tiles. In one embodiment, the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070033171 - System and method of re-ordering search results based on prior user actions: The invention is directed to a system and method of reordering conventional search results provided by a remote search engine such as Google. The invention may leverage a chronological timeline of user action information to infer relationships between objects in a search result. The search result reordering process does not... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070033166 - System and method of searching for information based on prior user actions: The invention is directed to a system and method of observing actions performed on a computer and generating a timeline that includes timeline entries corresponding to the observed actions. During a computer session, the invention searches the timeline and other locations for objects that relate to target objects that are... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070033174 - Unique person registry: A computer-based method is provided for registering a person in a person registry. The method includes: if a unique person identifier is not received, searching an address book for a match to the person using a search criteria input by a user; and if no match to the person is... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20070033180 - Apparatus and method for searching for software units for use in the manufacturing industry: A unit property for defining the manufacturing industry software unit is described with the use of the action of an access to a domain concept data model element of an activity that is realized by the software unit described in an implementation specification format. As a result, the manufacturing industry... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070033179 - Contextual searching: A method of improving the relevance of search results includes the steps of selecting search terms from a document under review for performing a search, and incorporating text surrounding the search terms in the document and the search terms into a query string. A search is then imitated using the... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070033178 - Quality of service feedback for technology-neutral data reporting: A system for providing feedback associated with the planning of a query is provided. The system comprises a query planning mechanism capable of determining transformations required for the execution of the query, and a monitoring mechanism for monitoring and extracting feedback information from the planning mechanism, the feedback information including... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20070033177 - System and method of searching for providing dynamic search results with temporary visual display: The invention is directed to a system and method of searching a focal object for related objects. The invention may extract clues or information from the focal object and search the information to identify related objects. The invention also may leverage a chronological timeline of user action information to infer... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070033181 - Apparatus and method for journaling database queries: A database journal mechanism stores both row operations and database queries in a database journal. The database queries in the journal provide significant additional information that may be used in a number of different ways. For example, a database replication send mechanism in accordance with the preferred embodiments could read... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20070033182 - On-line geographical directory: A method is provided for categorising businesses, organizations and individuals in order to facilitate geographically-based searching over the Internet. The method comprises the steps of (a) entering in a database the names of businesses, organizations and/or individuals; (b) for each name entry registering a geographical location identifier, the geographical location... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070033183 - System and method of searching for providing clue-based context searching: The invention is directed to a system and method of reordering conventional search results provided by a remote search engine such as Google. The invention may leverage a chronological timeline of user action information to infer relationships between objects in a search result. The search result reordering process may be... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070033185 - Applying data regression and pattern mining to predict future demand: A data processing system processes transaction database information to predict future demand using data regression techniques to extract trend line information from historical pattern frequency values. By extrapolating the trend line, a predicted pattern frequency value may be calculated. By applying regression techniques (such as least-squares approximation), the trend line... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070033186 - Computer-based employment matching system and method: A computer-based employment matching method, system and computer program product is provided. The method may include the step of receiving electronically first computer-readable data from an employer via a computer network, the first computer-readable data representing a job profile including a first set of decision information selected by the employer... Agent: Venable LLP

20070033184 - System and method of searching for organizing and displaying search results: The invention is directed to a system and method of searching a focal object for related objects. The invention may extract clues or information from the focal object and search the information to identify related objects. The invention also may leverage a chronological timeline of user action information to infer... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070033188 - Method and system for extracting web data: An apparatus for providing an analysis of attitudes expressed in web content, comprising: a collector for collecting attitude-data in relation to a predetermined subject from one or more pre-selected web site, the attitude-data containing attitudes in relation to the predetermined subject; a processor, associated with the collector, for processing the... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20070033189 - Method and system for extracting web data: An apparatus for providing an analysis of attitudes expressed in web content, comprising: a collector for collecting attitude-data in relation to a predetermined subject from one or more pre-selected web site, the attitude-data containing attitudes in relation to the predetermined subject; a processor, associated with the collector, for processing the... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20070033187 - System and method of searching for classifying user activity performed on a computer system: The invention is directed to a system and method of managing information associated with user actions. A monitoring system may gather and store information associated with user actions. Relationships may be inferred between user actions based on time or other criteria. A user may define classifications of user actions. These... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070033191 - Methods and systems for managing permissions data and/or indexes: Systems and methods for indexing and searching data, such as file contents and/or metadata. In one exemplary method, an index corresponding to files on a storage device is created. Index is partitioned into subindexes according to certain criteria, such as the location of files or exclusivity of access to files.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070033190 - Unified storage security model: Access control data is transcoded or translated into a unified format. The unified format is acceptable and extensible so that other control languages can be transcoded into the unified format. Rights management information may be converted to unified storage metadata for use in a unified storage system. The construction of... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070033192 - Attribute information acquiring method: This invention can handle a communicable state restored from disconnection of a communication line. According to the invention, if the communication line is disconnected while a client terminal 2 requests to acquire a contents attribute file 47 that corresponds to a set of contents data stored in a hard disk... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070033198 - Data representation architecture for media access: This invention concerns a method or means to provide an architecture for distribution of data and access on or over any one or many forms of communications, telecommunications, information, Internet or Intranet access infrastructure. Said architecture may include a means or method of data compression by the use of software... Agent: Mainman Ltd.

20070033193 - Method for remote controlling of www-browser: A method for remote controlling a www-browser, whereby a user is operating with an HTTP-server at his/her disposal by using his/her own www-browser for browsing various sources accessible over a communication network for documents, such that one or more clients in communication with the server have their browsers updated to... Agent: Venable LLP

20070033195 - Monitoring system and methods for a distributed and recoverable digital control system: A monitoring system and methods are provided for a distributed and recoverable digital control system. The monitoring system generally comprises two independent monitoring planes within the control system. The first monitoring plane is internal to the computing units in the control system, and the second monitoring plane is external to... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070033197 - Providing and receiving network access: Providing network access is disclosed. A request is received for access information. User contribution account acceptability is determined. Access information is provided.... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20070033196 - Service directory: Methods and apparatuses provide for a dynamic view and access to data and workflows. The dynamic view and access is generated through a modeled software application based on a determined authorization. The authorization enables access to data, and is based on a context in which the data is requested or... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070033199 - System and method for accessing preferred provider of audio content: The present invention provides systems, methods and computer-readable media comprising program code for affording access to a preferred provider of audio content. A method according to one embodiment of the present invention for presenting a control to navigate to a server for a preferred provider of audio content comprises identifying... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070033194 - System and method for actively managing service-oriented architecture: A method for managing policy in a service-oriented architecture includes intercepting a communication representing a transaction between a client and a service along a network, interpreting the communication to determine details of the transaction, determining if the transaction complies with policy based on the details of the transaction and remediating... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070033208 - Method and system for archiving and retrieving bibliography information and reference material: A manuscript author uses a website on the Internet as a manuscript reference. The author transmits the address of the website to a database connected to the Internet. The database uses the address to obtain a copy of the website from the Internet upon receiving the address such that the... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070033206 - Method of ranking a set of electronic documents of the type possibly containing hypertext links to other electronic documents: A method which makes it possible to select a predefined maximum number N of documents from a set of electronic documents. A graph G is constructed on the basis of the set of electronic documents, each vertex of the graph G corresponding to one of the documents of said set... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20070033205 - Method or apparatus for selecting a cluster in a group of nodes: A method and apparatus is disclosed for selecting a cluster in a group of nodes in which a token is assigned to a first node of a group of nodes, subgroups of nodes that are interconnected are identified and if the two largest said subgroups comprise equal numbers of nodes... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070033204 - Methods and apparatus for information modeling: Methods and apparatus for information modeling, such as product modeling, are described. In one specific embodiment, a system for capturing product information includes a plurality of product trees and a plurality of configuration trees. Each configuration tree is associated with one of the plurality of product trees. At least two... Agent: John S. Beulick Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070033207 - Rhetorical content management system and methods: A system and method of managing content are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, the method of managing content includes receiving a request from a content application for content associated with a content subject and selectively retrieving a plurality of fields of a record stored at a database. The record is... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070033200 - Smart folder software: A smart folder for a selected set of documents or records in a document management system, which documents or records have a unique identity, with the smart folder being associated with software for handling the documents or records in a substantially automated manner in accordance with predetermined rules associated with... Agent: Edwin D. Schindler

20070033203 - System and method for locating a lost person: A method for locating a lost person includes receiving from a posting party of search information that identifies a lost party. This search information is made accessible to an internet search engine. A searching user performs a search with a public message indicating that someone (i.e., the posting party) is... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070033202 - System and method for scrolling through a list: A system and method for scrolling through a list of labels. The format in which labels are made manifest can be influenced by the current “search state” of the system. The current “search state” of the system can be influenced by a speed metric. The speed metric can be captured... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070033201 - Systems and methods of multidimensional software management: Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with embodiments of the present invention may receive information associated with a dependency between an element of a first dimension of software management and an element of a second dimension of software management, and may analyze a modification to software according to the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070033210 - Application data interaction method and system using an interaction manager: An interaction data manager system (20) and method (400) can include an interaction data manager (17) capable of interacting with a plurality of applications (32) and one or more databases (18) and a processor (36). The processor can be programmed in accordance with the interaction data manager to link information... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070033217 - Matrix-connected, artificially intelligent address book system: An online address book system having sufficient hardware and software to operate an address book user interface and to perform intelligent interpretations of inputs from users. The system includes at least one server software module that includes software to perform a plurality of functions. These include the ability to receive... Agent: Kenneth P. Glynn

20070033211 - Mergers and acquisitions using component business model: A method of combining businesses by creating a target component map based on the business strategy of the resulting company, and using that target map to generate a component map for each constituent company in the combination. The constituent component map describes the current state of each component instantiated in... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20070033219 - Methods and media for efficient optical media recording: Methods and media for pre-mastering in preparation for efficient recording data files to optical media are provided. In one example, a method for recording data files to optical media is provided. The method includes receiving a request to write a selection of data files to an optical media. The method... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070033213 - Methods and systems for merging software-level objects with document-level objects in a document publishing environment: Methods and systems are disclosed for generating, managing, and publishing documents based on document level objects and software level objects . In one aspect of the present invention, a method is provided for managing documents in a computing system environment. The method may include identifying a placeholder object included in... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070033209 - Prevention of data corruption caused by xml normalization: Removal of white space from XML data retrieved from a database may amount to data corruption. Yet such removal is required in XML data normalization by XML parsers, and is also frequently carried out via one or more optional parser features. Safeguards provided herein protect XML data from such normalization... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070033212 - Semantic model development and deployment: A method of deploying a business application and generating a business intelligence semantic model corresponding to the business application comprises retrieving application metadata. The method also comprises deploying the business application using the application metadata to write a definition of the business application to an application database. The method also... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070033216 - System and method for generating and verifying animal data: The present invention provides a system and method for generating animal data and providing certificates on the basis of such data in a network environment. Multiple contributors employ a data upload tool to upload seed data to be placed into a set of target fields of a database to initiate... Agent: Patent Docket Andminstrator Lowenstein Sandler PC

20070033215 - System and method for providing certificate based on animal health and history data: A certificate for animal data is provided in a network environment. Initially, animal data is stored in a database. The stored animal data is then displayed for verification. The displayed data is verified by a user independent of animal ownership. Finally, a certificate that comprises the verified animal data and... Agent: Patent Docket Andminstrator Lowenstein Sandler PC

20070033218 - User-context-based search engine: A method and apparatus for determining contexts of information analyzed. Contexts may be determined for words, expressions, and other combinations of words in bodies of knowledge such as encyclopedias. Analysis of use provides a division of the universe of communication or information into domains, and selects words or expressions unique... Agent: Pate Pierce & Baird

20070033214 - Visual identifiers for digital data: A method of generating a pictorial identifier for a computer object. The method comprises generating a pictorial identifier according to a modelling approach. The modelling approach is based on at least a part of a textual identifier of the computer object wherein the part of the textual identifier is not... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

20070033220 - Relationship view: The present invention provides a unique method and user interface that facilitates accessing and browsing objects in which a user begins with a center object (e.g., one or a few focal objects) displayed on a screen and related objects are populated on the screen as well. The related objects can... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070033221 - System and method for implementing a knowledge management system: A method and system organize and retrieve information using taxonomies, a document classifier, and an autocontextualizer. Documents (or other knowledge containers) in an organization and retrieval subsystem may be manually or automatically classified into taxonomies. Documents are transformed from clear text into a structured record. Automatically constructed indexes help identify... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070033231 - Managed services platform: A managed services platform. An applications management server is provided for managing relationships with application service providers and others over a wide area network such as the Internet. The applications management server interfaces with a master database server and the servers of one or more application service providers, or other... Agent: Neugeboren Law Firm, LLC

20070033225 - Media data representation and management: Managing media objects on a computing device executing a media player application for rendering one or more of the media objects. The media objects have metadata associated therewith. A media object is defined to represent the media object, which includes a plurality of properties where at least one of the... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070033224 - Method and system for automatic construction and management of sets of hierarchical interest points: Constructing and managing Sets of Hierarchical Interest Points. Data associated with content from a content provider is provided to a management system. The management system creates the Set of Hierarchical Interest Points based on the data. The Set of Hierarchical Interest Points is used to modify content presented to a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070033226 - Method for publishing academic articles: This method is related to the publication of academic articles to be accessed on the web. The current method is called the user-pay model, where articles are organized under the title of a journal, and readers can buy the license to access articles from the publisher. Another model, called the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070033222 - Process and system for storing managing displaying and protecting multimedia contents on external storage units: A process and a system are disclosed for storing, managing, displaying and protecting multimedia contents on external storage units (1); the system comprises: at least one external storage unit (1) composed of a support body (2) with a central unit, and of an interface (3) for a communication port of... Agent: R Ruschena Patent Agent

20070033228 - System and method for dynamically ranking items of audio content: The present invention is directed to systems, methods and computer-readable media comprising program code for dynamically ranking links to items of audio content returned to a user in response to the execution of a query by a search engine. A method according to one embodiment of the present invention for... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070033229 - System and method for indexing structured and unstructured audio content: The present invention provides systems, methods and computer-readable media comprising program code for the generation of content indexes for structured and unstructured information. A method according to one embodiment of the present invention for generating an index comprising structured and unstructured information regarding one or more items of audio content... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070033227 - System and method for rescoring names in mailing list: A system and method for rescoring records in a mailing list, wherein each of the records in the mailing list is associated with a common predefined score. A system is provided that includes a merge system for merging data from a database to records in the mailing list to create... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & D'alessandro, LLC

20070033230 - System, method, apparatus, and program for providing electronic manual: When a customer operates a terminal to send a request for a provision of a manual page to the center via the Internet, the center determines whether the customer who is accessing is a registered customer (user of a copier) based on the stored customer information. In a case where... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070033223 - Visible image database system and search method using the same: A visible image database system comprises a product database including product data about the drawings, specification, and manufacturing data of the product; a type database having the type drawings about the assembly units of the product; a class database having a plurality of class drawings capable of representing the product;... Agent: Tsan-yi Lai

20070033232 - Automatic deletion scheduling for multi-user digital video recorder systems: One embodiment relates generally to managing files. A plurality of users is identified for a digital device. A file on the digital device is identified for access by the plurality of users. A user is logged as having viewed the program in response to the user completing playback of the... Agent: Min, Hsieh & Hack LLP (customer No.w/ibm/svl)

20070033233 - Log management system and method of using the same: A log management system and method which can collect and manage a log in an online service system including a server application and a client application is provided. The log management system includes: a client terminal which executes a client application for collecting the log of the online service, and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070033234 - Recording apparatus, file management method, program for file management method, recording medium having program for file management method recorded thereon: A recording apparatus and a file management method are disclosed which can be applied typically to an optical disk apparatus and make it possible to grasp a hierarchical structure readily and register or delete extract information simply and easily. Reference information pointing to slots of a higher hierarchy, a lower... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070033235 - File management device, file management method, file management program, and computer-readable recording medium containing the file management program: An HDD 130 stores a file, and stores volume management data 152 for managing a volume which includes the file; a copyright-data creation section 205 creates volume copyright data 134 for detecting an alteration to the volume management data 152 when the file is written; a flash RAM 132 which... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070033236 - Database restructuring apparatus, and computer-readable recording medium recording database restructuring program: A database restructuring apparatus which is capable of migrating a database without depending on a method of managing the database and without interrupting practical online services. Copying section copies data from a current database to a switching destination database. When data update access to the current database by current database... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd. Suite 2500

20070033237 - System and method for archiving objects in an information store: The invention relates generally to archiving data items in an information store. More particularly, the invention provides a computerized method for identifying, in a first information store, a first data item satisfying retention criteria; copying the first data item to a second information store; creating, in the first information store,... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070033238 - Low bandwidth remote control of an electronic device: An arrangement for controlling remote devices includes two networked computers. The first computer displays a first file that is stored on the first computer and the second computer displays a second file that is stored on the second computer. The computers send non-graphical commands back and forth to page up... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070033239 - Preloading resources from data carousel of broadcast file system: An embedded processor device, communicating over a broadcast file system (BFS) with a data carousel, stores a file that specifies for one or more applications the application and all resource files required for at least start up of each application. Rather than reading a single application file from the BFS... Agent: Munsch, Hardt, Kopf & Harr, P.C. Intellectual Property Docket Clerk

20070033240 - Scheduling garbage collection: Scheduling garbage collection by gathering garbage collection information about two or more garbage collection processes, and determining when at least one of the two or more garbage collection processes should execute in dependence upon the garbage collection information is disclosed. Garbage collection information may be gathered through inter-process communication between... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20070027831 - Automated acquisition of discovered content: Automated acquisition of content including digital media for a device. A device such as a satellite radio can discover content from multiple data stream sources. The device then receives input from a user selecting or identifying specific content to acquire. The device, upon detecting an appropriate network that enables the... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070027829 - Business intelligence olap provider model and architecture: According to some embodiments, a system, method, means and computer program code is provided including identifying a provider interface, the provider interface configured to map data items from a provider data model to a system data model, identifying a set of capabilities of the provider data model, transmitting data from... Agent: Sap Ag C/o Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20070027833 - Computer program and method for retrieving information from a database: Disclosed herein is a program and method for retrieving information from a database. A request module executes a request for information from the database, where the request includes at least one database procedure. A library module receives the request and containing instructions to execute at least one procedure received from... Agent: Arnold S. Weintraub The Weintraub Group, P.L.C

20070027832 - Connection architecture for a mobile network: A real-time communication architecture establishes a continuous connection between an enterprise network and a communication management system. The connection is continuously held open allowing mobile devices real-time access to enterprise email systems. The real-time communication architecture can support an entire enterprise email system or individual email users. The foregoing and... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070027836 - Disk-array device having storage-device recognition and identification of a storage area network link environment: A disk-array device includes an information managing database for acquiring link information among a server device, a switch device, and a storage device via the switch device so as to manage the link information in a combined manner, and a collection/analysis unit for retrieving and collecting desired combined information of... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070027830 - Dynamic content development based on user feedback: A user may provide feedback about content to express satisfaction or dissatisfaction with an application. Data associated with the user's location, the feedback, and the content is processed to provide a content author with information about how the content may be improved to increase customer satisfaction. The content author reviews... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070027828 - File management apparatus: When a new document is registered in a document storage and management section, it is determined whether or not an external device available for using the document exits, and registration of the new document by the document storage and management section is enabled only when the available external device exists.... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070027834 - Information management system, information processing device, and program: An information management system comprises: an external device a comprising interactive communication unit that interactively communicates with an interactive communication device through a public telephone line; an information processing device connected to the external device in a communication-practicable manner; and a third storage unit that stores utilization data, which is... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070027835 - Systems and methods for processing data in a web services environment: Systems and methods are disclosed for processing data in a web service environment. In one implementation, the data processing system includes a Web service for receiving a request via a network. The request includes a first set of data. The system further includes a storage device, coupled to the Web... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20070027838 - Method and apparatus for autonomically regulating information transfer when accessing database resources: A database access facility for accessing databases includes a monitoring function which monitors accesses by requesters of database data. The monitoring function tracks which database fields are requested to dynamically determine the fields which the application needs. Once sufficient tracking data is obtained, subsequent accesses to the database on behalf... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070027837 - Selectivity estimation for conjunctive predicates in the presence of partial knowledge about multivariate data distributions: A method for consistent selectivity estimation based on the principle of maximum entropy (ME) is provided. The method efficiently exploits all available information and avoids the bias problem. In the absence of detailed knowledge, the ME approach reduces to standard uniformity and independence assumptions. The disclosed method, based on the... Agent: Lacasse & Associates, LLC

20070027855 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: An information processing apparatus which, when a user searches through a plurality of contents for a desired content, causes a display device to display a plurality of indexes corresponding to the plurality of contents is provided. The apparatus includes: a content selection device that selects one of the plurality of... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLC

20070027842 - Information-paging delivery: A method and apparatus for obtaining, storing and accessing information using a wireless communication device is disclosed. A request is sent from a wireless communication device to a information agent, typically a human operator or an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system. The information agent formulates a search for the requested... Agent: Paul S Madan Madan, Mossman & Sriram, PC

20070027849 - Integrating query-related operators in a programming language: A general-purpose programming language having language extensions for strongly typed, compile-time checked query and set operations that can be applied to arbitrary data structures, be they object-relational (O-R) mappings or just regular objects. As is appropriate for a general purpose programming language, the extensions do not mandate a particular object-relational... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070027841 - Messaging middleware dynamic, continuous search and response agent system: A method and apparatus are provided for searching for information on an Intranet or other suitable private network implemented in a corporation or other business entity or organization, featuring at least one agent in the Intranet that scans email, messaging and/or Intranet resources and provides information in response to a... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070027847 - Method for performing expression-based validation: A method for performing expression-based validation with records in a computer system database, eliminating the need to write programs or scripts. A validation expression can define complex intra-record tests and inter-record tests and may be performed manually against one or more records and have a success or failure indicated for... Agent: Dalina Law Group, P.C.

20070027850 - Methods and systems for developing and managing a computer-based marketing campaign: A method and system for creating a production sheet for a media venue are disclosed. Content pertaining to one or more of a product and a service may be received. One or more assets may be automatically generated based on the content. The assets may include, for example, a keyword... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20070027844 - Navigating recorded multimedia content using keywords or phrases: Example embodiments allow a user to search for keywords or phrases within a recorded multimedia content (e.g., songs, video, recorded meetings, etc.), and then jump to those positions in the video or audio where the keyword or phrase occurs. A transcription index file is generated that includes searchable text with... Agent: Rick Nydegger Workman Nydegger

20070027846 - On-demand service reconciliation, audit, and alert apparatus and method: An audit tool (AT) operates in cooperation with an audit tool manager (ATM), a policy file (PF) and a query file (QF) in order to provide a real time display of usage within an on-demand service system. The ATM identifies the data to be gathered. Using the ATM, the user... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rus) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20070027839 - Processing and sending search results over a wireless network to a mobile device: A search query is received over a wireless network (20), from a mobile device (10), and a response involves obtaining content summaries of search results relating to the search query, preparing a hypertext page for presentation by the mobile device. The page has a number of the content summaries extending... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070027854 - Processor for fast contextual searching: Words having selected characteristics in a corpus of documents are found using a data processor arranged to execute queries. Memory stores an index structure in which entries in the index structure map words and marks for words having the selected characteristics to locations within documents in the corpus. Entries in... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20070027853 - Processor for fast phrase searching: Phrases in a corpus of documents including stopwords are found using a data processor arranged to execute phrase queries. Memory stores an index structure which maps entries in the index structure to documents in the corpus. Entries in the index structure represent words and other entries represent stopwords found in... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20070027856 - Product searching system and method using search logic according to each category: A product search system and a product search method which is performed in the product search system. The product search system includes: maintaining a database including a product identifier and a product category of the product identifier; receiving an original query for search of a product from a user terminal,... Agent: Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP

20070027840 - Searching method and system: The present invention relates to searching a data store comprising data about users who are attempting to identify other users associated with the data store. Examples include the recruitment field in which employers are seeking employees, and vice versa; and the dating field in which user A is seeking users... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20070027851 - Searching with adaptively configurable user interface and extensible query language: An adaptively configurable user interface to facilitate a common user experience across two or more databases and an extensible common query structure to allow expansion of a query language to meet the demands of new file types. An exemplary embodiment includes a discovery mechanism for determining query properties of search... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070027843 - Separating uploads into aggregate and raw data storage: A system for sampling raw data from a reporting application and segmenting portions of the sampled data into at least one of a set of raw data stores. The system enables ad hoc querying to be done against a data warehouse using the set of raw data stores and in... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070027848 - Smart search for accessing options: When a user types in one or more characters from a restricted or ambiguous character set, such as numbers from a keypad, the characters in the restricted or ambiguous set are mapped to a larger set of characters, such as the alphabet. Then, the larger mapping set is used to... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070027852 - Smart search for accessing options: When an input device, which may be a portable communications device, receives a keyword input from a user, an advertisement associated with the keyword, and stored on the device, is displayed. Then, a signal is transmitted to a remote site which indicates that the advertisement was displayed. In some embodiments,... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070027845 - System and method for identifying qualifying data records from underlying databases: A method, system and article of manufacture for creating queries against databases and, more particularly, for creating queries that are suitable to identify relevant information from one or more underlying databases. One embodiment provides a method of composing a query against data in a database. The method comprises receiving a... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070027857 - System and method for searching multimedia and download the search result to mobile devices: A method and system for searching multimedia files from multimedia content sites on the internet and downloading search result to mobile devices. The system and method includes a crawling server for indexing multimedia items, a search server, a data storage server, a download server and a wireless messaging server in... Agent: Li Deng

20070027858 - Method for generating properly formed expressions: A method for generating properly formed expressions used as validation expressions and search filters for computer system database applications. One or more embodiments of the invention for example comprise an interface that assists users through the use of automatic tokenizing and/or pick lists of field names and fields values, including... Agent: Dalina Law Group, P.C.

20070027862 - Anonymous types for statically typed queries: Anonymous types for a programming language. Non-denotable anonymous types are types that a compiler generates on behalf of a programmer and can then be used as nominal types. Insofar as anonymous types do not have a name, they can be used only inside a method in which they are created.... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070027861 - Automated content categorization: When a user submits a content resource to a content database, an automated content categorizer facilitates the task by suggesting a list of relevant content categories in the content database. The automated content categorizer receives a search descriptor attributed to the content resource, performs a relevance search, and proposes a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070027863 - Definition extraction: A method of identifying definitions in documents includes receiving text units as an input. Which of the text units includes a cue phrase is then identified. For text units identified as including a cue phrase, localized parsing is performed around the cue phrase to determine whether the text unit including... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070027860 - Method and apparatus for eliminating partitions of a database table from a join query using implicit limitations on a partition key value: A database facility supports database join queries in a database environment having at least one database table divided into multiple partitions based on a partition key value. The facility determines whether the values in a table joined to the partitioned table place an implicit limitation on the partition key, and... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070027865 - System and method for determining semantically related term: Methods and systems for determining semantically related terms are disclosed. Generally, seed terms are received from a user. One or more potential terms semantically related to the seed terms are determined based on vectors comprising entries regarding a plurality of terms, a plurality of universal resource locators (“URLs”) associated with... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20070027864 - System and method for determining semantically related terms: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for determining semantically related terms. Generally, one or more seed terms are received from a user. A system searches a first index comprising a plurality of terms and one or more webpages associated with each term of the plurality of terms... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20070027859 - System and method for providing profile matching with an unstructured document: A method, system, and computer program product are disclosed for automatically matching the profile of unstructured electronic documents to objective sets of criteria. The is accomplished by evaluating text in the documents, comparing it to a set of weighted keyword criteria, generating a rating based on adherence to the criteria,... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20070027866 - Application searching: A technique may receive a search query including at least one search term. In response to this search query an index of a plurality of data files may be searched to identify data files containing the at least one search term. Subsequently, a list of one or more links to... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070027867 - Pattern matching apparatus and method: A pattern matching system comprises a state transition table having multiple rows respectively identified by address values. Each row contains a reference character, first and second hash functions and first and second address values. A hash calculator determines a hash value by substituting a target character into a previously specified... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070027868 - Database software program and related method for using it: A computer-readable medium included in a server that has a database and to which a workstation having a monitor is coupled for viewing by a user. The computer-readable medium includes instructions for database management. The database includes project data related to multiple tasks handled by more than one project group.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070027869 - System and method for reordering a result set copyright notice: The present invention relates to systems and methods for the reordering of an ordered result set using a weight associated with a query and values associated with items in a result set. The method of the present invention comprises receiving a query and generating a result set comprising content items... Agent: Brown, Raysman, Millstein, Felder & Steiner LLP

20070027870 - Technique to perform concurrent updates to a shared data structure: A technique to perform concurrent updates to a shared data structure. At least one embodiment of the invention concurrently stores copies of a data structure within a plurality of local caches, updates the local caches with a partial result of a computation distributed among a plurality of processing elements, and... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070027874 - computer-based method and apparatus for repurposing an ontology: A common platform computer-based method for repurposing an ontology, comprising the steps of creating an ontology mapping protocol, building a mapping tool based upon the ontology mapping protocol, mapping the ontology onto the common platform using the mapping tool, and, repurposing the ontology based upon the mapping.... Agent: Simpson & Simpson, PLLC

20070027873 - Content-based file system security: A method for enforcing computer-based file system security, the method comprising generating a content-based file system from files in a physical file system, and enforcing a user access right to any aspect of the content-based file system, where the user access right derives from a user access right to a... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070027872 - Resource handling for taking permissions: A file operations engine and other programming mechanisms are provided for handling file operations errors related to permissions. A file operations engine according to an embodiment of the invention manages many user interactions with their files via a computer system including options for taking a permission for a resource, such... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070027871 - Self discovering adaptive security system and method: A system and method for providing security to a data warehousing application. A system is described having: a dimension analysis system that identifies dimensions defined for viewing data in a data warehouse; a security table generation system for automatically generating security tables for identified dimensions; a security tables scanning system... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070027876 - Business intelligence olap consumer model and api: According to some embodiments, a method is provided including receiving, from a front-end portion of a business information system, a data request at a back-end portion of the business information system, identifying an information provider associated with the data request, passing the data request to the information provider via a... Agent: Sap Ag C/o Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20070027875 - Computer system for database administration and graphical user interface for same: An apparatus comprises a database administration interface and a graphical user interface configured to receive information regarding an organization, an organization evaluation, and an evaluation of the organization evaluation. The apparatus further comprises a database including a database schema configured to store information relating to the organization that is received... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070027878 - System and method for dynamic proxy generation: A system and method are described in which skeletons and/or stubs are manipulated based on deployment information. For example, a method according to one embodiment of the invention comprises: compiling source code to generate program code executable on an application server comprised of a plurality of different virtual machines, the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070027877 - System and method for improving the efficiency of remote method invocations within a multi-tiered enterprise network: A system and method are described in which skeletons and/or stubs are manipulated based on deployment information. For example, a method according to one embodiment of the invention comprises: compiling source code to generate program code executable on an application server comprised of a plurality of different virtual machines, the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070027883 - Automated method and tool for documenting a transformer design: A method and tool for creating documentation for a transformer design uses design files created during the transformer design process to generate drawings and other information necessary to populate documentation. The design files contain information relating to the physical layout of all of the components of the coil as well... Agent: Bryan A. Shang, Esq. Abb Inc.

20070027885 - Client server system and method of managing the system capable of quickly giving necessary information to client computer: A client server system has a network, a server computer that is connected to the network and provides a network service, and a client computer that uses resources of the server computer via the network service. The server computer manages identification information of the client computer that uses the sources... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070027881 - Finding similarity among sets of coordinated tasks: The described workflow analysis techniques generalize activity instance information into activity context information so that activities can be analyzed in the presence of other possible activities, and by extension, other workflows. Generalization is made possible by deriving an action model for each activity, in which each model specifies contexts for... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Mcginn & Gibb, PLLC

20070027886 - Publishing data in an information community: A system and method for publishing information to a community of users is disclosed. Published information is inclusive of, for example, calendar data, blog data and photographs. Communities may be defined by PIM data or automatically generated by a data aggregation server in response to a user-defined rubric. Published information... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070027882 - Record boundary identification and extraction through pattern mining: Techniques for identifying discrete records within a multi-record document are provided. According to one technique, a document is encoded based on some combination of visual tag encoding, text category encoding, and text content encoding that produces hash values based on the contents of portions of the document. According to one... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070027880 - System and method for restricting access to sensitive data: A method, system and article of manufacture for managing execution of queries against databases and more particularly for restricting access to sensitive data in underlying databases. One embodiment provides a method for managing access to sensitive data in a database. The method comprises receiving, from a requesting entity, a query... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070027879 - Systems and methods for managing multi-function device operation using containers and workflow objects: A method for managing a multi-function device includes storing a plurality of workflow objects, where all workflow objects include a substantially similar data structure, and where each workflow object includes information identifying its function. The workflow objects are executed to implement operations of the multi-function device, and the functions of... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070027884 - Systems and methods for modeling tree structures: Systems and methods are provided for inserting a new node into a tree structure for use within a database system, wherein the tree structure comprises one or more parent nodes having space there under, and one or more child nodes; wherein each node comprises an identification, a left value, a... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070027887 - Web application for argument maps: A fully web-enabled method for diagrammatically representing the meaningful structure of a complex argument or debate, or other similar information, as a schematic map made up of nodes each of which represent a discrete element in said meaningful structure comprising the steps of: (a) Beginning a new map by specifying... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20070027890 - Method for improved processing of expression-based data: Expression-based data may comprise data that is processed by a validation expression for example. After a validation expression is created it may then be performed with respect to one or more data values or data records. A validation expression returns a Boolean result that signifies a success or failure result.... Agent: Dalina Law Group, P.C.

20070027888 - System and method for applying deadband filtering to time series data streams to be stored within an industrial process manufacturing/production database: A control system database server is disclosed that includes a data compression facility that implements a compression test sequence on streams of time stamped data points rendered by components of a control system. A deadband/time override is incorporated into the compression test sequence to ensure that a previously received data... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070027889 - System and method for facilitating a guided assembly of people: In a system and method for facilitating an assembly of users with commonalities, a processor may determine which users have commonalities, may determine a location at which to assemble, and may invite each of the determined users an invitation to assemble at the determined location.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070027891 - System and method for providing listing check functionality: A system and method for providing listing check functionality. According to particular embodiments of the invention, an application program searches for and accesses a listing rule to determine whether a product is prohibited by a business organization from being purchased, or allowed by the business organization to be purchased. The... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070027903 - Community awareness management systems and methods: A system and method links one or more disparate community awareness management (CAM) datasets for a community awareness program (CAP) with one or more spatial layers to create linked CAM datasets. One or more data attributes common to a CAM dataset and a spatial layer are identified, and the link... Agent: Polsinelli Shalton Welte Suelthaus P.C.

20070027898 - Dynamically exposing relationships among entities contained in data stores: Dynamically exposing relationships among entities contained in data stores. A method disclosed herein can include receiving data related to a given object that is contained in a given data store, and dynamically determining one or more relationships between the given object and one or more further objects. These relationships can... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070027892 - File name generating unit: n

20070027900 - Id symbol unique to structural formula of compound: A method for generating a character string of fixed or variable length which is substantially unique with respect to a chemical structural formula, on the basis of the kind of each atom constituting the compound and the bonding relation of the atoms and/or the kind of isomers, and employing the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070027901 - Method and system for developing and managing a computer-based marketing campaign: A method of implementing an advertising campaign includes receiving content that includes a plurality of terms, analyzing the content for one or more terms that are relevant to a product or service; using one or more of the relevant terms to develop a plurality of keywords; and automatically generating an... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20070027899 - Methods and apparatus for making and keeping records: A recordkeeping system according to various aspects of the present invention includes a recording system and an activation system. The recording system is configured to create a record of a deal session when activated. The activation system is connected to the recording system, and is configured to automatically activate the... Agent: Noblitt & Gilmore, LLC.

20070027897 - Selectively structuring a table of contents for accesing a database: A computer-based system for accessing content. The system includes a database in which the content is included in a plurality of content nodes. Each content node is uniquely identified by an identifier in a database table. The table is configured recursively to represent the content nodes. A browser uses one... Agent: Ernest Caravalho

20070027902 - Semi-automatic index term augmentation in document retrieval: Disclosed are methods and systems for indexing or retrieving materials accessible through computer networks.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070027896 - Session replication: Methods, apparatuses, and products are disclosed for session replication that include enqueueing sessions on a replication queue and flushing enqueued sessions, from the replication queue to a replication peer, in dependence upon flushing criteria, for storage on a replication medium. The replication medium may be non-volatile storage in a database... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20070027893 - Solution network automated symptom association: A method for automatically associating information with content in a solution network which includes identifying information used by a customer when attempting to resolve an issue, determining when the customer contacts a customer service technician based upon the issue, resolving the issue using content stored on the solution network, and... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070027904 - System and method for translating between relational database queries and multidimensional database queries: A method for mapping a data source of an unknown configuration to that of a known configuration, comprising the steps of submitting a request for metadata to the data source of the unknown configuration; generating a relational schema from the known configuration based on the metadata received from the data... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP (van 1)

20070027894 - Systems and methods for providing custom multi-function device operations based on object type: Systems, methods and apparatuses provide list of operations to be performed on a document based upon its type. A method includes receiving a document electronically at a multifunction device, and identifying the document type. Thereafter, at least two operations of the multifunction device are provided based on the document type.... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070027895 - Systems and methods for providing customized multi-function device interfaces using user authentication: Systems, methods and apparatuses of the present invention enable customized user interfaces and storage based on the identity of a user. After authenticating a user, the multifunction device will present a user with objects, such as print jobs, associated with the user. The consumer may also be presented with an... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20070027907 - Code generation patterns: The subject disclosure pertains to code generation patterns for use in object relational mapping. The code patterns may be used to manage bidirectional relationships and ensure consistency. The code patterns may support on-demand or deferred loading of relational data. Change detection and tracking are also provided. In addition, a default... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070027910 - Enforcing security on attributes of objects: Methods and systems are provided for enforcing security on attributes of objects. A requestor attempts to assign a value to a target attribute of a target object. The value is a reference to a third object. The target attribute includes security for assigning values and is also linked to a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/novell

20070027905 - Intelligent sql generation for persistent object retrieval: A system for converting a query from a representation in a first computing language to an equivalent query in a representation in a second computing language that is different from the first computing language, comprises a query module that accepts a query in an object-oriented representation for translation to an... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070027909 - Methods and apparatus for comparison of projects: The structure and status of multiple processes are displayed jointly. Multiple visualization mechanisms are used to provide the visualization of business process data to provide a comparison of multiple processes together. Drill-down of the data provides interactivity for a user to access information about one or more of the processes.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070027906 - Retrieving and persisting objects from/to relational databases: Systems and methods that enable consistent navigation (for a database and memory environment) in object relational mapping. This typically ensures fidelity of object graph via restrictions on collections of persistent objects (e.g., entity sets, entity refs . . . ). Moreover, a tracking component can detect changes as they occur,... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070027908 - Translating data objects: Translating information, such as an object type and content, in a first data object from an initial language into a target language includes searching a database to locate a second data object having the object type, attempting to obtain, from the second data object, the object type and the content... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070027912 - Common concurrency runtime: The common concurrency runtime (CCR) provides a simple and self-consistent set of concurrency primitives that developers can use to more readily split their computation into more discrete chunks that can scale better with additional processors. This set of primitives provides for very scalable applications that are well suited for the... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070027922 - Computer system and base transceiver stations: A computer system including wireless terminals which transmit information, a business application server which performs a predetermined operation based on information received from the wireless terminals, and a base transceiver station which relays communications between the wireless terminals and the business application server, are provided. The base transceiver station, to... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070027920 - Context aware data presentation: A context aware data application presents information about a first user's contact means and methodologies. The application organizes, filters and present the information taking into account multiple inputs regarding the specific context and the relationship and preferred communication means between the first user and other users seeking to contact the... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070027921 - Context based action: Means for allowing users to manage and make productive use of PIM data are provided. User status is determined by certain contextual indicia whereby other parties may contact the user through the most appropriate means as reflected by that contextual indicia. Information concerning presence, status, location, availability and so forth... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070027919 - Dispute resolution processing method and system: A computer-implemented dispute resolution method includes receiving a dispute query from a user and generating a record based on the dispute query. A decision is electronically generated, including applying the record to a workflow algorithm including representations of one or more business rules, one or more segmentation or decision trees... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20070027926 - Electronic device, data processing method, data control method, and content data processing system: An electronic device, data processing method, data control method, and content data processing system enabling a user to search for a track reproduced in the past, but with a forgotten title name and an artist name. A CPU displays on an LCD panel a reproduction history screen displaying a number... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070027916 - Hybrid object placement in a distributed storage system: Described is the differentiation of replicas in a large distributed object store as either being smoothing replicas based on an amount of load on storage nodes (bricks), or as spreading replicas based on a substantially random distribution among the system's bricks. The smoothing replicas are placed among the lowest usage... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070027917 - Linking of personal information management data: A system and method for linking information of one user to other users via a data aggregation server is provided. Various security settings govern the linking of information. Various methodologies for initiating a link of PIM data are also provided including automatic linking, targeted linking and requested linking. Implementations utilizing... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070027918 - Mail processing server, mail processing method, and mail processing program: There are provided a mail processing server, a mail processing method, and a mail processing program, which can more efficiently utilize server resources and construct a system at low cost. First, desired information is retrieved from any one of a dictionary DB, a story DB, and a game contents DB... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070027911 - Method and arrangement for naming pictures to be saved in a mobile station: The invention relates to recording pictures, produced by a mobile station, in the mobile station and to naming the recordable picture files. In order to name the picture files, among the data available in the mobile station, there is searched a given feature associated to the picture, and the searched... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070027915 - Method and system for processing a workflow using a publish-subscribe protocol: A method for processing a workflow includes using a publish-subscribe protocol to receive from a server information related to a task in a workflow process, which comprises a plurality of tasks to produce a final outcome. A next task is determined based on the information and information related to the... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20070027923 - Reproduction device and display control method: A reproduction device including a reproduction unit configured to reproduce content data including at least one of audio, video, and text for which attribute data is assigned for each of a different plurality of attributes; a display unit; and a control unit configured to make the display unit display a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070027925 - System and method for public geospatial registrar and services: The system of the invention includes a registrar that receives at least one defined geospatial location and a data set of information from a registrant. The system also includes a central registration database that stores the at least one defined geospatial location and the data set. The at least one... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070027913 - System and method for retrieving information from a supervisory control manufacturing/production database: A database server for handling steams of time stamped data points for tagged variables is disclosed herein that supports a set of advanced data retrieval operations/queries invoked by clients of the database server. The advanced data retrieval operations are invoked by client queries to provide, on demand, secondary information by... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070027924 - Systems and methods for providing a product description at a point-of-sale: A system for providing a product description, for example at a point of sale, has a database storing a product description, a contact means related to the product description within the database, and a transmission means for transmitting the product description. A method of providing a product description, for example... Agent: Mcgarry Bair PC

20070027914 - Terminology customization in a processing environment: A processing device receives programming instructions, which may be executable programming code. The processing device, which is within a processing environment, accesses an access table to retrieve the corresponding programming instructions associated with the programming terms in the code. If the instruction, which refers to a particular programming term, is... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070027927 - Finding lost objects in a file system having a namespace: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for finding lost objects in a file system having a namespace that includes creating a list of all objects in the file system; identifying a portion of the namespace to compare with the list; comparing the portion of the namespace to the... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20070027928 - Method and apparatus to encapsulate a queue in a namespace: The present invention provides a method, apparatus, and computer usable code for constructing a queue namespace object having encapsulation of data stored in the queue namespace object. A series of steps may include receiving a request from a requesting program or other entity for a queue in a set of... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070027931 - System and method for organizing repositories of information and publishing in a personalized manner: An information system, used for collecting and organizing content using rich metadata and/or other classes of information, analyzing the content using various algorithms, and publishing the content to users in various formats. The system can have aspects of a database, analysis system, document publishing system, and user interactivity interface.... Agent: West & Associates, A PC

20070027932 - System and method of creating a single source rss document from multiple content sources: A novel system and method for aggregating multiple really simple syndication (RSS) documents and non-RSS document content sources into a single master RSS document. An aggregation application identifies the particular elements in each RSS document and content sources to be aggregated into the master RSS document. A user indicates the... Agent: Zaretsky & Associates PC

20070027929 - System, method, and/or computer program product for a file system interface: A system, method and/or computer program product for a file system interface (FSIP) that scans a file system of the computer system to obtain file system information, automatically collects and organizes the file system information into an internal cache of the file system information organized in a predetermined manner to... Agent: Litman Law Offices, Ltd

20070027930 - Universal data aggregation: A system for aggregating and managing PIM data from multiple sources is provided. By aggregating various sources of data, the present system allow for the bridging of networked communities and organizations. Limitations of data aggregation as a result of proprietary and/or protocol concerns are overcome through the development of trusted... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070027933 - Resilient system partition for personal internet communicator: The present invention provides a method and apparatus to restore the operating system of a personal internet communicator (PIC) to a “known good” operational state in the event of a catastrophic failure. In an embodiment of the invention, the hard drive of the personal internet communicator is organized in three... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile. LLP

20070027934 - Software release validation: Software release validation is disclosed. A plan of record is provided, having entity information for a software application associated with a plurality of platforms, and planning information for a plurality of releases of the software application. A set of rules is provided having at least a first object representing an... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070027935 - Backing up source files in their native file formats to a target storage: Provided are a method, system, and program for backing up source files in their native file formats to a target storage. Indication of files in a defined backup set to backup having a first status is maintained, wherein files to backup not having the first status have a second status.... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070027938 - Detecting data changes: The present invention provides a device, method, and system for efficiently converting data into a common format, detecting changes, and updating a stored copy of data with the detected changes. The system walks through a snapshot set of data and a source set and data and compares key values and... Agent: Bourque & Associates Intellectual Property Attorneys, P.A.

20070027936 - Determining changes made to a source file to transmit to a target location providing a mirror copy of the source file: Provided are a method, system, and program for determining changes made to a source file to transmit to a target location providing a mirror copy of the source file. An operation to modify a source file at a source location is detected, wherein a target file at a target location... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070027937 - Method and apparatus for storage backup: Methods and apparatuses for backing up data to a database are provided. A specified data set to be backed up is broken down into a plurality of data blocks, each data block is associated with a data block digest, and the data blocks and associated data block digests are stored... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070027939 - Remote copy system: A remote copy system includes a first storage system including a first storage controller and a first data volume. The first storage controller is configured to control data access requests to the first data volume. The first storage system is configured to store write data in the first data volume... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070027940 - Defragmenting one or more files based on an indicator: A system comprises software, a storage subsystem to store files, a file system to organize and manage access to files, and a data structure to store at least one indicator of whether at least one of the files is fragmented. A defragment module defragments the at least one of the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070027942 - Memory leak detection: A memory leak detection scheme for use in a computer system (e.g., Java) by: finding an allocation site (410) which is responsible for allocating objects which accumulate in a memory heap (400); and monitoring memory activity related to the found allocation site to discover a memory leak related thereto. The... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070027941 - System, method, and service for enforcing resource utilization in a distributed system: A resource utilization enforcement system enforces resource quotas in a distributed system. A bank on a central server maintains an account for each principal; the account is equivalent to a resource quota for the principal. Quotas are tracked through the use of digital coins that represent resource consumption. The bank... Agent: Samuel A. Kassatly Law Office