Data processing: database and file management or data structures inventions 04/07

20070094231 - Method of efficiently managing multimedia content and storage medium storing therein multimedia content using the same: Disclosed is a method of efficiently managing multimedia content and a storage medium using the same. A primary object of the present invention is to provide a method for arranging the multimedia content to efficiently manage multimedia content according to MPV standards and a method of improving the speed of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070094232 - System and method for automatically extracting by-line information: A by-line extraction system detects a set of potential headlines from a title meta-tag of a crawled document, selects a candidate headline from the set of potential headlines, and extracts the by-line information from the document using the location of the selected candidate headline. The system constructs the set of... Agent: Samuel A. Kassatly Law Office

20070094233 - Translating time-independent data using database operations: A method and system for linking the contents of two or more at least partially time-independent tables in a multidimensional data source are disclosed. A join operation is generated for the two or more at least partially time-independent tables. The join operation includes a query instruction that is executable on... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070094236 - Combining multi-dimensional data sources using database operations: A system, method and computer program product for linking multidimensional data sources in a relational database using database joins are disclosed. Attributes from a join query are filtered. The attributes include characteristics and restrictions of the join query. A subset of the attributes that are relevant to the multidimensional data... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070094234 - Determining relevance of a document to a query based on spans of query terms: A relevance system determines the relevance of a query term to a document based on spans within the document that contain the query term. The relevance system aggregates the relevance of the query terms into an overall relevance for the document. For each query term, the relevance system calculates a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070094237 - Multiple active database systems: Multiple-active database systems include at least two database systems that both store a common portion of a relational database. Each database system includes one or more data-storage facilities configured to store data forming the common portion of the relational database in one or more tables and one or more processing... Agent: James M. Stover Ncr Corporation

20070094235 - Storage system and method of controlling storage system: Provided is a storage system capable of preventing the access performance from a client to a file system from deteriorating even when a file system is migrated among a plurality of file servers. This storage system provided a shared file system having the same namespace to the client accessing the... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070094238 - Transfering database workload among multiple database systems: A system includes at least two database systems that both store a common portion of a relational database and that are configured to share in execution of a database workload against that relational database. The system also includes a system-management component configured to receive indication that a first one of... Agent: James M. Stover Ncr Corporation

20070094239 - Communicating part number detail data between enterprise and part supplier: A method, system and program product for communicating part data between an enterprise and a particular supplier of a plurality of suppliers to the enterprise are disclosed. In one embodiment, the invention provides a part number library database at the enterprise including part number detail data regarding a plurality of... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070094240 - Diplomas express: Diplomas Express was designed to speed delivery of diplomas to students after they graduate. Currently, students have to wait a minimum of five months before they can receive their diplomas. This is due to sending a list of graduates' names, degree type, school, graduation date and Dean's name to a... Agent: Dion Dennis

20070094244 - System and method for enhanced information retrieval: An improved document retrieval system. In response to detecting that the user has moved a pointing device cursor over a display element in a first web page within a web browser window, retrieving information from a second web page before the user requests that the second web page be displayed... Agent: Mark A. Wolfe

20070094242 - System and method for returning search results: The present invention provides a system and method for re-ordering the results from an information search, such as an Internet search in order to maximize the likelihood that the user will see a result they want in the first page or two of large or very large results lists. The... Agent: Law Office Of Brett N. Dorny

20070094241 - System and method for web searching: A system and method of web searching is provided. The method comprises defining one or more user preferred categories and conducting a search within the one or more user preferred categories based upon search criteria by comparing the search criteria to content information within each of the one or more... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070094243 - System and method of searching for previously visited website information: A visited website search system searching a website visited by a user. The visited website search system searching the website visited by the user includes: 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... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070094245 - Computer-implemented system and method for obtaining customized information related to media content: A computer-implemented system and method for obtaining information related to media content is disclosed. The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method including: inspecting a user dataset to obtain a list of media content items, extracting characteristic information and metadata from media content items, optionally enhancing metadata by obtaining more... Agent: James H. Salter

20070094247 - Real time query trends with multi-document summarization: A list of “hot topics” may be provided to a user to indicate information that is currently popular. A topic may be deemed popular when a large number of search queries related to the topic are entered by users. A search system may receive and analyze an electronic source of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070094248 - System and method for managing content by workflows: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for managing content by workflows. These mechanisms and methods for managing content by workflows can, in embodiments, enable users to define workflows for managing content, including defining one or more of a state in the workflow, a transition from a... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070094246 - System and method for searching dates efficiently in a collection of web documents: A date querying system processes free-form text in documents to identify and locate some or all of the dates in the documents using extended regular expression matching to capture various date formats. The system packages a canonicalized format of each identified date to support various types of queries such as,... Agent: Samuel A. Kassatly Law Office

20070094253 - system for providing context associated with data mining results: A system for providing context associated with data mining results, for use with a data mining application for mining a first document set and for determining, in response to the mining, a correlation. The system comprises: a search means for comparing the correlation against content of a second document set... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070094251 - Automated rich presentation of a semantic topic: Automated rich presentation of a semantic topic is described. In one aspect, respective portions of multimodal information corresponding to a semantic topic are evaluated to locate events associated with the semantic topic. The probability that a document belongs to an event is determined based on document inclusion of one or... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070094249 - Database creation by searching the web for enumerations: The invention exploits the overlap between enumerations or listings that are present in electronic documents of a large collection in order to create or extend a database.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070094254 - Document scoring based on document inception date: A system may determine a document inception date associated with a document, generate a score for the document based, at least in part, on the document inception date, and rank the document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in part, on the score.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070094255 - Document scoring based on link-based criteria: A system may determine time-varying behavior of links pointing to a document, generate a score for the document based, at least in part, on the time-varying behavior of the links pointing to the document, and rank the document with regard to at least one other document based, at least in... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070094252 - Imagerank: 1. ImageRank is an heuristic methodology for incorporating user interaction with the results of a search for images in order to enhance the relevance of future search results. 2. ImageRank incorporates several other derivative factors such as user history, image history, image-source history, temporal data and the relationship between the... Agent: Thomas D. Donnelly

20070094250 - Using matrix representations of search engine operations to make inferences about documents in a search engine corpus: In a computer system including a search engine that receives queries and returns search results comprising zero or more hits from a document index, a method of post-rocessing queries and results comprising collecting search sets, wherein a search set comprises a query and at least some set of the search... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070094256 - System and method for integrating and adopting a service-oriented architecture: A system and a method for integrating and adopting a service-oriented architecture that utilize such semantic searching. A exemplary system includes an application discovery and semantic analysis software tool. The application discovery and semantic analysis software tool includes a discovery engine that discovers application services, an application resource catalog that... Agent: Andrews Kurth LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070094257 - File management: A method for file management comprising calculating a relevance score for each file of a plurality of files in a file repository and performing a triage process on the files in accordance with the relevance score.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070094258 - Information transmitting apparatus,terminal apparatus and method thereof: A portal server 4 determines that a user C, . . . whose taste information INCc, . . . include URLs corresponding to all the music information pages that a user A is interested in are persons each having a similar taste to the user A and introduces, to the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070094260 - Authenticating third party products via a secure extensibility model: Secure extensibility access to application program interfaces (APIs) is described. Techniques are described in which trust indicia are used determine relative trustworthiness of an extensibility module attempting to access of APIs of an application module. Access to APIs of the application module is managed based upon trustworthiness of the extensibility... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070094265 - Automatic detection of abnormal data access activities: Methods and systems are provided for evaluating atypical user data access activities within the scope of an automatically generated file security policy in organizations with multiple diverse access control models and multiple diverse file server protocols. The system monitors access to storage elements within the network. The recorded data traffic... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20070094261 - Managing access to and updating warehouse data: Methods, systems, and computer program products manage access to and update warehouse data associated with one or multiple online data systems. A security role is established for each user of warehouse operation functions associated with the online data system. A method involves examining warehouse data and updating a status of... Agent: John S. Beulick Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070094259 - Methods and apparatus for information recommendation: The invention presents an method and system for information recommendation based on the fuzzy logic. The method includes: storing the user files with the fuzzy set, matching the user file with the received information by inference of the fuzzy logic, sieving out the information which conforms to the user's preference... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070094263 - Monitoring digital images: Digital images are monitored by enabling access to a digital image, receiving a notification associated with the digital image from a first user, and regulating access of the first user to the digital image based on the notification received from the first user.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070094264 - Profile verification system: A digital information verification (DIV) system (10) wherein a process controller (12) directs operation of a database manager (14) and a search engine (16) that access a personal base (20) and an entity base (22) containing information provided by individual-members (30) and entity-members (32), collectively users (34) of the DIV... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Offices

20070094262 - Server, vehicle-mounted navigation apparatus, vehicle employing these, and particular information distribution system related to these: A server generates area-specific particular information beforehand, and obtains positional information and route information from a vehicle-mounted navigation apparatus or a vehicle. The server determines particular information to be sent to the vehicle-mounted navigation apparatus or whether a warning is necessary, for each area segment including location indicated by the... Agent: Rankin, Hill, Porter & Clark LLP

20070094268 - Broadband centralized transportation communication vehicle for extracting transportation topics of information and monitoring terrorist data: A centralized Transportation communication vehicle for extracting transportation topics of information from a database such as the web, such that the web is made searchable for occurrences of topics of transportation information. The occurrences of topics of transportation information that were found in the database are analyzed to identify a... Agent: Joseph A. Tabe Taintech Corporation

20070094266 - Collecting information on component implementation and use: Computer-implemented methods and apparatus are provided to determine whether components are implemented by an application executing on a computer. In one embodiment, the application is a server application, and the components define the role(s) performed by the server application in servicing clients. In an exemplary embodiment, an automated process is... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070094274 - Content transfer apparatus, content transfer method and content transfer program: A content transfer apparatus, method and program permit an amount of content data as great as possible to be provided to a user in accordance with the use time set by the user. The content transfer apparatus includes a communication section configured to communicate with an external apparatus, a storage... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070094270 - Method and apparatus for the processing of heterogeneous units of work: Methods and apparatus are provided which may be employed to perform speech recognition processing on a grid computing system. In some embodiments, the grid computing system includes a server system which receives processing tasks from one or more client applications, divides the processing tasks into units of work, and assigns... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070094271 - Method and system for an enhanced subscription capability for a newsletter: A method and system are provided for an enhanced capability to subscribe to a newsletter through a network site. This capability may be implemented as part of a campaign using a customer relationship management (CRM) tool such as mySAP CRM®. As part of this enhanced capability, an email may be... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070094272 - Method and system for managing distributed storage of digital contents: A method and a system for managing distributed storage of digital contents are provided. The method comprises the following steps. First, generate multiple pieces of shared data based on the shared information through a secure dispatching algorithm, wherein the shared information includes a digital content and a license of the... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc.

20070094267 - Method and system for website navigation: A method and system for web site navigation utilize an internet browser for navigating a plurality of web pages that are configured by a web server. The plurality of web pages are linked as a first set of web pages and linked as at least a second set of web... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20070094275 - Real-time search engine for searching video and image data: The embodiments satisfy the need for a real-time search engine that significantly reduces the cost of constructing a search engine index by providing a method for creating a real-time search engine over the Internet that provides a search response containing data object descriptions and server descriptions of data objects that... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070094273 - System topology for secure end-to-end communications between wireless device and application data source: A secure end-to-end messaging system and a method of providing secure end-to-end communication between a wireless device and an application data source are provided. The secure end-to-end messaging system comprises a default application gateway (AG) for communicating with local application data sources and/or external application data sources that do not... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20070094269 - Systems and methods for distributed system scanning: Systems and methods are provided for scanning files and directories in a distributed file system on a network of nodes. The nodes include metadata with attribute information corresponding to files and directories distributed on the nodes. In one embodiment, the files and directories are scanned by commanding the nodes to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070094281 - Application portfolio assessment tool: An application portfolio assessment tool and related techniques are provided. The manageability and criticality of a software application implementation are determined to evaluate and compare one or more applications. Sets of application inquiries to assess the manageability and criticality of the application are provided and responses received. Each response is... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20070094278 - Data transfer services: Data transferring using a data management application includes transferring only the needed data and performing the transfer in parallel. In the technique, the data transfer command is received, where this command includes an indication of what data is to transferred. Based on this command, one or more of the data... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070094276 - Method for obtaining and managing restricted media content in a network of media devices: Media devices are connected to a network. Restrictive rights restrict how the media device can process restricted media content on the network. Information indicative of the restrictive rights associated with the network is stored on the network. A request is received to deliver restricted media content to a requested device,... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070094280 - Mobile communication terminal: It is presented a method for saving data shown on a display of a mobile terminal, comprising the steps of: receiving an input indicating that currently shown data is to be saved; determining save data, the save data comprising a part of a document shown on the display; and saving... Agent: Perman & Green

20070094279 - Service provision in peer-to-peer networking environment: The present invention related to peer-to-peer communications systems. The system comprises a user profile association storage associating at least two user instance identifiers with prioritization information. In one aspect of the invention a user instance identifier associated with a peer-to-peer data transfer action is detected. The prioritization information for the... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070094282 - System for modifying a rule base for use in processing data: A system for modifying a ruse base for use in processing data, wherein an instance of an entity comprises associated data, for use with a parser for identifying a first instance of an entity in data associated with a document set in accordance with a first rule and for using... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070094277 - Systems and methods for maintaining distributed data: Systems and methods are disclosed that provide an indexing data structure. In one embodiment, the indexing data structure is mirrored index tree where the copies of the nodes of the tree are stored across devices in a distributed system. In one embodiment, nodes that are stored on an offline device... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070094283 - Apparatus, system, and method for implementing an ims soap gateway: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for implementing an Information Management System (IMS) simple object access protocol (SOAP) gateway. The gateway extracts an identifier from a SOAP-based web service request received from a web service client and selects a correlation mapping based on the extracted identifier. The gateway builds... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20070094287 - Block-aware encoding of bitmap for bitmap index eliminating max-slot restriction: Under block-aware encoding, a bitmap represented by atoms comprises a series of bitmaps for each data block in a database. Each bitmap in the series is referred to herein as a block bitmap. Each block bitmap may have a different number of bytes or bits. Gaps are represented in atoms... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070094289 - Dynamic, hierarchical data exchange system: A computer system provides the ability to construct and edit a Data Definition File (DDF) containing hierarchically related elements of data, some of which are dynamic in that they must execute in order to produce or retrieve data. A client computer system having knowledge of a DDF appropriate for its... Agent: Law Office Of Dale B. Halling, LLC

20070094286 - Managing relationships between resources stored within a repository: A method and apparatus for managing relationships between resources stored in a repository is provided. A client sends, to a server, a request to store a first resource within a repository. In response to receiving the request, the server parses the first resource to retrieve relationship data that identifies a... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070094288 - Methods and systems for data processing: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for data processing. In one exemplary embodiment, a method is provided that includes extracting data from a Semantic Web and processing the data with an enterprise resource planning system.... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20070094285 - Question answering over structured content on the web: Structured content and associated metadata from the Web are leveraged to provide specific answer string responses to user questions. The structured content can also be indexed at crawl-time to facilitate searching of the content at search-time. Ranking techniques can also be employed to facilitate in providing an optimum answer string... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070094284 - Risk and compliance framework: A method, system and computer-usable medium are presented for coordinating an enterprise's resources needed for regulation/standards compliance. The method includes the establishment of a common data framework that includes multiple data structures for multiple applications, selection of a regulation to be complied with by an enterprise, determination of which data... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070094294 - Apparatus, system, and method for the autonomic virtualization of a data storage server: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for autonomically virtualizing a data storage server. The apparatus, system, and method include a central control hub module configured to service storage server operations between a client and one or more storage servers, a detection module configured to determine whether a set of... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20070094299 - Conversion of data for two or three dimensional geometric entities: A method for transmission of data for two or three dimensional geometrical entities uses a computer system, for modeling and/or manipulation of geometrical entities. The computer system comprises at least one program for modeling and/or manipulation and at least one display program, the at least one modeling and/or manipulation program... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070094296 - Document management system for vehicle sales: A document management system for managing the documents for a purchase transaction. The system includes a database for storing a plurality of electronic customer files. The electronic customer files contain text data and image data. An interface with a dealer management system provides for the input of forms for the... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20070094291 - Enterprise evaluation device and enterprise evaluation program: There are provided an enterprise evaluation device and an enterprise evaluation program for reporting a sales amount and an analysis result of intellectual property of an enterprise to a user so as to evaluate the enterprise value. The enterprise evaluation device includes: gazette acquisition means for acquiring registration gazette of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070094290 - File generation apparatus, method, program, and recording medium: The present invention aims at improving the usability of recording media and providing efficient read and write processes. A header control portion 53 generates a header arranged at the beginning of a file. A footer control portion 52 generates a footer arranged at the end of the file. A filler... Agent: William S Frommer Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070094293 - Filtering search results by grade level readability: When a search index is generated, it includes entries tagged with the readability of documents referenced by the search index. A determination of the readability is made if a document is not yet associated with a preexisting entry in the search index and is being added, by analyzing the document... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070094298 - Internal security system for a relational database system: An internal security method for use with a relational database system is disclosed. The method is incorporated into a database system such that there is no need for security coding be layered on top of the system application software to prevent unauthorized access to restricted database information. The method of... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070094297 - Method of determining an obsolescence rate of a technology: Methods for constructing an estimated depreciated schedule for a patent are disclosed. The steps for constructing this schedule may include: (1) determining a first function which approximately describes the rate of initial increase in expected forward patent citations over time; (2) determining a second function which approximately describes the rate... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070094292 - Recommended program notification method and recommended program notification device: When detecting the start of a recommended program, a recommended program notification device displays a notification screen (121) indicating the existence of a recommended program. When a recommendation control instruction is input while the notification screen (121) is being displayed, the recommended program notification device displays a recommendation list window... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070094295 - System and method for hierarchical display in a procurement transaction: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a hierarchical display of business partners associated with a procurement-related document in a computer system. The procurement-related document may be an invoice, a purchase order, a bidding, a good receipt, a contract, or any other suitable document within the context of the particular... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070094301 - Application programming interface for centralized storage of principal data: In the present invention, data relating to principals known to a computer system is centrally stored and objects having a standardized principal application programming interface (API) for finding, managing and accessing that data is provided to applications in lieu of having the applications independently store the principal data. The present... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070094302 - Method and apparatus for mapping objects to multiple tables of a database: The present invention creates a model that maps object classes in an object-oriented environment to a data source. The model maps the relationship between properties of each object class and data of the data source. The present invention can be used with a data source such as a relational database,... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Apple Computer, Inc.

20070094300 - Virtual repository management: Virtual repository management is disclosed. An indication is received that a content management functionality is desired to be available with respect to one or more external content items. A reference object is created for each for the one or more external content items that represents the external content item and... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Emc Corporation

20070094304 - Associating subscription information with media content: A computer-implemented method and system is provided for associating subscription service information with media content. An exemplary embodiment includes receiving the media content including an identifier of a subscription service associated with the media content; using the identifier to subscribe to a subscription service using a publish/subscribe protocol; receiving information... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20070094307 - Method and apparatus for generating moving picture clip and/or displaying content file list, and recording medium storing program for executing the method: A recording and reproducing apparatus for displaying a content file list, a content file list displaying method and a recording medium storing a program performing the method, which are capable of easily identifying a paused content file and memorizing a point of the content file which reproducing is paused and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070094306 - Method and model for enterprise system development and execution: The method and model for enterprise system development is a software computing system embodied in a method and system that provides for user inputs from a GUI, and specifies a plurality of functions related to a plurality of business entities. Business requirements of the enterprise are defined by establishing relationships... Agent: Jeffrey F. Birkel

20070094305 - System for acquiring rights to lease an offshore support vessel: A system for acquiring rights to lease an offshore support vessel using leassee client devices, leassor client devices, and a database server system is disclosed. The leassee client devices and leassor client devices communicate with the database server system. The database server system maintains a catalog of offshore support vessels... Agent: Buskop Law Group, P.C.

20070094303 - System for management of processed instruments: An automated system to identify, analyze and record information associated with disinfection and/or sterilization procedures. Individual processing and client devices communicate via a computer network. The client devices such as desktop computers terminals, hand-held devices and/or process devices such as sterilizers, autoclaves, washing and/or disinfection devices are distributed among a... Agent: Clark & Brody

20070094308 - Maintaining synchronization among multiple active database systems: A data-synchronization tool is used to ensure synchronization between at least two copies of a relational database that are stored in at least two database systems. The tool includes (a) a sync-control component configured to initiate synchronization of the copies of the database and (b) a sync-execution component configured to... Agent: James M. Stover Ncr Corporation

20070094309 - Data transfer device: A data transfer device for exchanging data between a host device and a removable data storage item, wherein data are encrypted or decrypted by the data transfer device during data exchange, whilst permitting interchange with non-encrypting devices.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070094312 - Method for managing real-time data history of a file system: A data management method is provided for storing a real-time history of a file system, or a component thereof, such as a directory or a file. The real-time history is stored as an object-oriented logical representation comprising at least a set of version metadata objects, and a set of one... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20070094311 - System and method for enabling records management: A system, method, and computer program product for managing a retention period for electronic content data are disclosed. The method includes running a records manager system. The records manager system defines a retention period for a plurality of electronic content data. The records manager system instructs a digital rights manager... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l

20070094310 - Systems and methods for accessing and updating distributed data: Systems and methods are disclosed that provide an indexing data structure. In one embodiment, the indexing data structure is mirrored index tree where the copies of the nodes of the tree are stored across devices in a distributed system. In one embodiment, nodes that are stored on an offline device... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070094315 - Apparatus and method for storing and managing additional data in file system: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for storing and managing additional data in a file system. The apparatus comprises a search unit to search for an unused region in a directory entry, a storage unit to store additional data in the unused region, and an additional data managing unit... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070094313 - Architecture and method for efficient bulk loading of a patricia trie: An apparatus and method for efficient bulk-loading of PATRICIA tries is disclosed. The trie is converted to its persistent representation prior to being written to an index block. Four arrays are used in the process of this conversion: a first is array used for the value nodes, a second array... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070094314 - Method for analyzing the storage capacity of a portable storage device: A method for analyzing the storage capacity of a portable storage device is disclosed. The volume allocation information is divided into multiple sections. The method directly accumulates pre-stored results of the sections that do not need to be updated and reads the sections of the storage medium that need to... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070094316 - Policy-based management of a redundant array of independent nodes: An archive cluster application runs in a distributed manner across a redundant array of independent nodes. Each node preferably runs a complete archive cluster application instance. A given nodes provides a data repository, which stores up to a large amount (e.g., a terabyte) of data, while also acting as a... Agent: Law Office Of David H. Judson

20070088665 - Content acquisition method: The present invention can remarkably improve the efficiency of the acquisition process. It is determined if requested contents data are stored in a hard disk or not and, if they are not stored yet, they are acquired from a contents providing server 6 and subsequently a corresponding contents attributes file... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070088671 - Document archival system: An archival computer system for receiving digital documents from document source computers, archiving such digital documents, and providing the digital documents to client computer systems. The archival computer system is provided with a document database, a supplemental digital media database, a document input device, an archival computer, and a server.... Agent: Dunlap, Codding & Rogers P.C.

20070088666 - File recording apparatus: To effectively record files onto a semiconductor memory, a file recording apparatus has a plurality of file buffers provided for the respective files. Data requested to be written is accumulated in a corresponding file buffer. A judgment is made as to whether data having been accumulated reaches the size of... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070088669 - Method and apparatus for accessing information based on distributed file system (dfs) paths: A method is disclosed for accessing information based on Distributed File System (DFS) paths and for automatically and transparently modifying the DFS target server set with additional servers that are preferable to a client. A request to resolve a path to a file is sent to a DFS root node.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070088670 - Methods and apparatus for performing lawful interception of network-centric services data stored within an xdm framework: The invention relates to a group and list management system, namely an XML document management system, XDM. In the system, user-specific service-related information is contained in at least one of group and list XML documents stored in network repositories, called XML document management servers, XDMS (131, 132). In a method... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070088672 - System and method for filtering and organizing items based on common elements: A system and method for filtering and organizing items from computer memories based on common elements is provided. Filters can be provided for manipulating the items, which serve as tools for narrowing down a set of items. The filters can be dynamically generated based on the properties of the separate... Agent: Banner & Witcoff Ltd., Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070088668 - System and method for testing business process configurations: Systems and methods are provided for automated testing of business process application configurations. A test library contains test elements, which are building blocks that codify all possible interactions with business processes in business process application configuration. The elements interact with the business process application's user interface. A business process test... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070088673 - System and processes for commercializing intellectual property: Systems and a software product commercialize intellectual property. An idea submission is received. The idea submission is communicated to an appropriate person of a filter network. The idea submission is submitted to an appropriate attorney/agent of a patent attorney network if the idea submission is accepted by the filter network.... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20070088667 - Systems and methods for data processing: Systems and methods are provided for data processing. In one implementation, a method extracts first data and second data from an online transactional processing module using an online analytical processing module. The first data is descriptive of past account transactions and the second data is descriptive of a rule that... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070088674 - Recording apparatus, reproduction apparatus, file management methods, file management method programs and recording mediums for recording file management method programs: For example, the present invention is applied to an optical disk drive for driving an optical disk used for recording files. The optical disk is also used for recording an index file including a series of entries each used for storing extracted information and size of a recorded file. Management... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070088675 - Response estimation in a system with a content directory service: A querying device, such as a user interface (21), generates a query (202) for media content information from the Content Directory Service (CDS, 55) of a serving device (MS-a). A device providing a Query Estimation Service (QES, 70) also receives the query (203) and provides an estimate of at least... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070088677 - Client-server word-breaking framework: Word-breaking of a query from a client machine in a client-server environment includes determining whether to use a first word breaking module operable with a client machine in the client-server environment and/or a second word breaking module operable with a server in the client-server environment.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070088678 - Finding and displaying galleries for users of search: Architecture is provided for performing multimedia searches and returning media galleries, and then prominently displaying the galleries to a user. The disclosed innovation generates a gallery classifier and then displays found galleries to the user in a new and informative user interface. In one aspect, a system is provided that... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070088676 - Locating documents supporting enterprise goals: In one embodiment, a method for searching documents includes receiving a request to identify documents in an enterprise network based, at least in part, on one or more parameters. A plurality of documents are identified based, at least in part, on the one or more parameters. The plurality of documents... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070088679 - Method and apparatus for facilitating shareholder claims compensation: A database is prepared having entries for a plurality of claims that are pending or settled in the class action industry. A query technique, that is applied individually or part of a monitoring program, determines outstanding claims available (settled) or pending with relation to individual stocks or a selected portfolio.... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP

20070088681 - Method and system for offsetting network latencies during incremental searching using local caching and predictive fetching of results from a remote server: A method and system are provided for offsetting network latencies in an incremental processing of a search query entered by a user of a device having connectivity to a remote server over a network. The search query is directed at identifying an item from a set of items. In accordance... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070088682 - Mutual monitoring system, mutual monitoring apparatus, mutual monitoring method and program: A system includes a plurality of apparatuses connected to a network, wherein each apparatus monitors the occurrence of trouble in a monitoring object apparatus which is one of the apparatuses in the system. Further, each apparatus is monitored for the occurrence of trouble in the apparatus by a monitor apparatus... Agent: Law Offices Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20070088680 - Simultaneously spawning multiple searches across multiple providers: Various embodiments provide the ability to simultaneously spawn a search across multiple different data providers. In at least some embodiments, the simultaneous spawning of the searches takes place in the context of a tabbed browsing environment. There, individual tabs of a browser are each associated with a different data provider... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070088688 - Method and apparatus for collecting and displaying network device information: In one particular embodiment, the disclosure is directed to a network management system. The network monitoring system includes at least one device definition file, a simple network management protocol enabled communications interface, and a data access interface. The definition file includes query instructions associated with portions of MIBs associated with... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20070088683 - Method and system for search engine enhancement: A method and a system for search enhancement that can deal with semantic differences in a manner that does not require the user to have a PhD in search or in linguistics. Furthermore, extended, semi-automatic use of synonyms of related terms is necessary to avoid interaction with an ontological tree,... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070088684 - Partial updating in a database proxy driver: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to programmatic database access and provide a method, system and computer program product for programmatic partial updating of a row. In one embodiment, a data processing system for programmatic partial updating of a row in a database can... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070088689 - Report then query capability for a multidimensional database model: A system and a method for creating an analytical report on top of a multidimensional data model built on top of a relational or multidimensional database. The database operates in a computer system and provides returned values responsive to queries. Such a query is generated automatically and is deduced from... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

20070088686 - Search results injected into client applications: Architecture is provided that transcends a division offered by conventional query architectures by providing a query input box in a client application which provides rich look-ahead query results by integrating results from a network-based service with results from the client application. Realtime network-based search results are injected into the query... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070088687 - Searching based on messages: While interacting with a messaging interface, keywords or other search criteria are automatically identified and used to perform a search. Search results and sponsored links (or advertisements) are displayed to the user within the messaging interface. To alleviate privacy concerns, this process will not be performed unless the user has... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20070088685 - System and method for persistent query information retrieval: The subject invention is directed to a system and method for submitting a series of complementary queries to a selected database in order to retrieve data associated with such queries. The method begins by receiving parameter data representing at least one parameter, which defines a plurality of entries in an... Agent: Tucker, Ellis & West LLP

20070088692 - Document scoring based on query analysis: A system may determine an extent to which a document is selected when the document is included in a set of search results, generate a score for the document based, at least in part, on the extent to which the document is selected when the document is included in a... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070088693 - Document scoring based on traffic associated with a document: A system determines an extent to which advertisements are presented or updated within a document, a quality of an advertiser associated with an advertisement provided within the document, whether an advertisement in the document relates to an advertising document that has more than a threshold amount of traffic, and/or an... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070088695 - Method and apparatus for identifying documents relevant to a search query in a medical information resource: A computerized system and method for providing information for use in medical care. Documents in a medical information resource may have several associated sections, such as title, headings, text, keyword and document type sections. Display of search results resulting from a user's query may be determined based on at least... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, PC

20070088691 - Multidimensional cube functions: Cube functions may be used to obtain data from a multidimensional database. The cube functions may be contained within one or more cells of a spreadsheet. These cube functions behave similarly to the standard functions that may be included within a spreadsheet. Exemplary cube functions include obtaining: a cube member,... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070088694 - Reciprocal data file publishing and matching system: A method of reciprocally publishing and matching data files is disclosed. The method includes facilitating the creation of Category A and Category B data files having a respective sets of characteristics defined utilizing a common language architecture, associating enhancement objects with each data file, identifying characteristics in each data file... Agent: W. Edward Ramage

20070088690 - System and method for performing file searches and ranking results: A system and method for implementing file searches. In an illustrative embodiment, the method includes accepting signals from a user-input device to define a search query. The search query is then used to identify a plurality of files, which comprise search results. The search results are then ordered according to... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070088696 - Distributed named entity recognition architecture: Named entity recognizers are distributed throughout a client-server system based on where the data for named entity recognition resides.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070088698 - Information processing apparatus, karaoke apparatus, and recording medium: Upon switching operation of a remote control device, CPU 11 in a karaoke system judges whether an entered singer's name or song title consists of a single character or the entered singer's name or song title consists of two and more characters. When the entered singer's name or song title... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070088697 - Pattern matching and transformation of intermediate language expression trees: A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided by the present invention for a programming framework for easy pattern matching and transformation of intermediate language expression trees. With expression matching and transformation framework (EMTF) of the present invention, pattern matchers may be defined and embedded in a C++ program... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070088699 - Multiple pivot sorting algorithm: The invention relates to an O(n log n) recursive, comparison based sorting algorithm that uses multiple pivots to effectively partition a list of records into smaller partitions until the list is sorted. The algorithm is intended for use in software. This sorting method is accomplished by choosing pivot candidates from... Agent: James Raymon Edmondson

20070088701 - Customer care network with automatic callback to subscriber: A customer care network supports a “customer callback” feature, wherein a customer or device registers for customer care service and a customer care representative calls back to provide a service to the customer. This approach makes it unnecessary for a customer to wait in a queue to talk to a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070088700 - Sending keys that identify changes to clients: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, receive a change request from a first client at a first time, where the change request includes a key that identifies a field in a data object. A determination is made that the first client changed the field identified... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070088712 - Apparatus and method for the manufacture of audio books: A method for the manufacture of an audio book, including a first step of obtaining an authorization key to access a text file on a server, a second step of displaying content of the text file at a personal computer, a third step of producing an audio file at the... Agent: Intellectual Property / Technology Law

20070088702 - Intelligent network client for multi-protocol namespace redirection: An intelligent network client has the capability of accessing a first network server in accordance with a first high-level file access protocol, and responding to a redirection reply from the first network server by accessing a second network server in accordance with a second high-level file access protocol. For example,... Agent: Richard Auchterlonie Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP

20070088708 - Method for automatic configuration of prefixes at maps in hmipv6: This invention relates to MIPv6 and HMIPv6. Specifically, it is related to the configuration of valid on-link prefixes at MAPs in HMIPv6. It is also related to DHCPv6. The invention explains a method for providing automatic configuration of prefixes at all MAPs in a communication system comprising Mobility Anchor Point... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070088707 - 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

20070088713 - Method of secure online targeted marketing: The present invention is a method and system of marketing wherein specific user information in the form of registration and authorization information, personal information, and permitted uses of personal information is used in connection with a secure online environment to enable accurate targeted marketing of specific tailored products and services... Agent: Edwin Tarver

20070088714 - Methods and apparatuses for collection, processing, and utilization of viewing data: Methods and apparatuses for collection, processing, and utilization of viewing data. An embodiment of a server includes a link with a source of viewing data, the source of viewing data to record viewing data that is related to activities performed by an individual. The server is to receive the recorded... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070088706 - Methods and devices for simultaneously accessing multiple databases: Multiple databases are accessed simultaneously by forwarding scripts in a parallel or “multi-threaded” manner. Results returned in response to the execution of multiple databases are then aggregated for display or storage purposes. These novel features allow for quicker and more efficient management of databases in computer networks, and permit the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070088710 - Multimedia middleware apparatus using metadata, method for controlling multimedia middleware, and storage medium thereof: A multimedia middleware apparatus using metadata, a control method and a storage medium are provided which can receive metadata in multimedia middleware provided in a terminal, easily add/delete/change a service, and effectively maintain and manage middleware components. When an open multimedia terminal processes multimedia contents, a multimedia middleware service structure... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070088703 - Peer-to-peer auction based data distribution: A peer-to-peer auction based strategy balances the storage of data in a data center. Each cluster of the data center has a cluster manager and associated data storage nodes on which data is stored. The data storage nodes can periodically announce their respective utilization levels to other data storage nodes.... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20070088711 - Publish/subscribe system and method for managing subscriptions: In a publish/subscribe system, a plurality of publishers provide information on a range of topics and a plurality of subscribers subscribe to one or more topics and topic sets on which they wish to receive information. Subscribers can also unsubscribe from topics and topic sets on which they do not... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070088705 - System and method for capture and processing of overflow characters from user input: A system and method for preventing user-input text strings of illegal lengths from being submitted to a database where, for each character in the string, a character length is determined in quantities of digital units of storage according to an encoding schema, the character lengths are accumulated into a total... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20070088704 - System and method for creation, distribution, and utilization of portable knowledge format: The present invention relates to systems and methods for facilitating the distribution of content in an accessible data structure. The method of the present invention comprises selecting one or more items of content from one or more content sources. Metadata associated with the one or more items of content is... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070088709 - System and methods for intergrating data into a network planning tool: The system and methods of the present invention relate to integrating real or simulated data into a network planning tool.... Agent: Crain, Caton & James

20070088717 - Back-tracking decision tree classifier for large reference data set: Embodiments herein present a method for a back-tracking decision tree classifier for a large reference data set. The method analyzes first data files having a higher usage than second data files and identifies file attribute sets that are common in the first data files. Next, the method associates associated qualifiers... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20070088716 - Extensible meta-data: Meta-data of compiled code may have a corresponding description of the schema for meta-data, to allow for deviations from a schema standard.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070088720 - Method for detecting discrepancies between a user's perception of web sites and an author's intention of these web sites: Method of computer-based detection of discrepancy between a user's perception of web sites and an author's intention of these web sites, wherein user interactions are gathered and combined with the content of individual web pages, the combination thereof is clustered topically, and a respective topical distance of the web pages... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070088721 - Modular configuration and deployment of jdbc resources: The JDBC data sources configuration can be stored in a JDBC configuration XML. This configuration XML can be converted into Java beans to configure data sources such as basic data sources, connection pools or multipool. Migration can be done by using a administration console tool to update the configuration XML... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070088715 - Statistical methods and apparatus for records management: Statistical methods and apparatus for records management are disclosed. An example method for records management disclosed herein comprises classifying a record into at least one of a plurality of categories based on a statistical value, and performing an operation with respect to the record according to a rule associated with... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070088722 - System and method for handling item listings with generic attributes: A system for storing a plurality of items across different categories in a database including a database that stores a data structure that has item entries for items of different categories. Each item entry includes one or more associated attributes. The attributes may be shared by multiple items across more... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070088719 - System and method for storing multi-dimensional network and security event data: A system and method are provided for associating and storing data in contiguous memory locations of a secondary memory to enable efficient searching of the archived data. Current events are organized in a main memory within a data structure, e.g., an R-tree, chosen to increase the likelihood that data clustered... Agent: Patrick Reilly

20070088718 - System and method to dynamically check string length: A system and method for preventing user-input text strings of illegal lengths from being submitted to a database where, for each character in the string, a character length is determined in quantities of digital units of storage according to an encoding schema, the character lengths are accumulated into a total... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20070088724 - Systems and methods for extensions and inheritance for units of information manageable by a hardware/software interface system: By modeling real-world application objects with complex structures, behaviors, and operations described by a schema which is enforced by the hardware/software interface system, various embodiments of the present invention provide rich sub-typing functionality by extending Items (and Item types) using “Extensions” which provide additional data structures (Properties, Relationships, etc.) to... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070088725 - Systems and methods for extensions and inheritance for units of information manageable by a hardware/software interface system: By modeling real-world application objects with complex structures, behaviors, and operations described by a schema which is enforced by the hardware/software interface system, various embodiments of the present invention provide rich sub-typing functionality by extending Items (and Item types) using “Extensions” which provide additional data structures (Properties, Relationships, etc.) to... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070088723 - Table for storing parameterized product/services information using variable field columns: Computer implemented systems store descriptions of multiple different types of marketplace items as a collection of parameter-value pairs, using a table having a plurality of rows and columns, wherein values for at least two of the items are stored in cells of first and second ones of the rows, respectively;... Agent: Rutan & Tucker, LLP Robert D. Fish

20070088730 - Data model for performance management system: A performance management system renders performance management data and computed and aggregated metrics in a portfolio view. The performance management data flexibly calculates metrics from elemental data, aggregates the data within and across hierarchies, and establishes cross hierarchy performance management targets. Cross hierarchy performance management targets provide deeper insight into... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070088732 - Dynamic string length checking for off-line processing using client-side caching of database catalog: A system and method for preventing user-input text strings of illegal lengths from being submitted to a remote database from a database client, where, for each character in the string, a character length is determined in quantities of digital units of storage according to an encoding schema, the character lengths... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20070088729 - Flexible history manager for manipulating data and user actions: A data file or data record is operated on in order to transform the data record by user actions. A history record of actions is accumulated. Various operations are performed on selected actions of the history record to modify the sequence of actions of the history record. Preferably the changed... Agent: John E. Campbell IBM Corporation

20070088727 - Media device and user interface for selecting media: A media device and user interface for selecting media. In one embodiment, the media is selected based upon a desired relationship measure between at least two media files. In another embodiment, the media is selected based upon a skip command control functions.... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070088731 - Method and apparatus for improved processing and analysis of complex hierarchic data: In one form, the disclosure relates to data analysis, namely (but not exclusively) analysis of data in an analytical database. The disclosure may also relate to analysis of complex coded data, in particular hierarchical data. A number of aspects of invention are disclosed, including, without limitation, the Storage of hierarchic... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070088728 - Run total encoded data processing: A system, method and data structure for processing a sequential set of data. A set of data is processed such the repetitive sequences of data are represented by a value and an offset of the last array element in the sequence. The resulting compressed array facilitates binary searching of data... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070088726 - System and method for assisted entry of database schema data: The present invention is directed to a system and method for the assisted entry of database schema entries. Schema input data is first received from an associated user and tested for acceptability. When the schema input data is unacceptable following the testing, the associated user is then prompted for corrected... Agent: Tucker, Ellis & West LLP

20070088733 - Method and system for comparing and re-comparing data item definitions: A method, system, and computer program product provides the capability to compare data object definitions in a database in a less costly and less time-consuming manner than previous techniques. A method of comparing multiple versions of data item definitions in a database comprises generating a first version of comparison information... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070088739 - Multifaceted system capabilities analysis: Methods and systems for obtaining the performance characteristics of a computing product are described. Obtaining a computing product's attributes, capabilities, and features includes assessing the computing product to determine the product's attributes, capabilities, and features. Once the assessment is completed, the assessment data is recorded and stored for future applications.... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070088738 - Ocean tomo patent concepts: Methods for monitoring and measuring the performance of intellectual property (IP) law firms are disclosed. These methods are based on but are not limited to the performance of the firm, its attorneys, its clients, and the trends of this performance over time. The methods disclosed provide IP Law firm with... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070088735 - Optimization-based visual context management: Improved visual context management techniques are disclosed. By way of example, a technique for updating an existing visual display to incorporate new information comprises obtaining new information requested by a subsequent user query, and dynamically deriving one or more visual transformations for updating at least a portion of the existing... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070088736 - Record authentication and approval transcript: Authenticating a declared or approved record and creating a transcript related to the declaration or approval. The transcript is created based on available information at the time of declaration. The collected available information may include the user/program declaring the record, the method used to declare and/or approve the record and... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20070088737 - Storage system for managing a log of access: Provided is a storage system including: a first interface connected to a host computer; a second interface connected to a manager terminal; a control unit connected to the first interface and the second interface and equipping a processor and a memory; and one or more disk drives in which data... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070088734 - System and method for exploiting semantic annotations in executing keyword queries over a collection of text documents: A query interpretation system exploits semantic annotations in keyword queries over a collection of text documents, casting semantic annotations produced by text analysis engines into a formal annotation type system. The system uses the annotation type system to enumerate various interpretations of a keyword query and automatically translate a keyword... Agent: Samuel A. Kassatly Law Office

20070088740 - Information system development: A method or apparatus for use in generating an information system, wherein an object-oriented model of the information system is provided, the model defining classes of information objects require to be supported by the information system in terms of their attributes, operations that maybe performed on the object, and an... Agent: Waddey & Patterson, P.C.

20070088742 - System and method for providing technology data integration services: The management and integration of data and categorizing and reporting the results thereof are accomplished by using at least three information levels of the data path, which comprise a transactions level, an extraction, transformation and load level, and a business information level. At the transformation and load level, data are... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070088741 - Systems and methods for exporting, publishing, browsing and installing on-demand applications in a multi-tenant database environment: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for creating, exporting, viewing and testing, and importing custom applications in a multi-tenant database environment. These mechanisms and methods can enable embodiments to provide a vehicle for sharing applications across organizational boundaries. The ability to share applications across organizational boundaries... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070088747 - Automatic multimedia searching method and multimedia downloading system thereof: An automatic multimedia searching method and the multimedia downloading system thereof are provided, which are capable of increasing user's convenience on multimedia searching and downloading events. The method includes the following steps. First, an electronic device which stores a multimedia file and a data source connection are provided. Next, a... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070088753 - Data management system: Mask information for instructing the prohibition of information which cannot be serviced to the outside, is set and inputted by a manager so that the information, the permission of service of which is indicated by the mask information is exclusively sucked up from an in-hospital server by an external server... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070088748 - Image display control device: To facilitate selection of a desired image by displaying respective object images in a layout corresponding to a satisfaction level of a keyword and a similarity level of the image. An input of a keyword is received, a reference image is selected, a satisfaction level is calculated based on keywords... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070088743 - Information processing device and information processing method: An information processor according to the present invention includes: a research section extracting a first the key word from target information to be searched and searching for relevant information for regard to the translated first key word from searching target information; an assessment analysis section receiving a correlation between the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070088750 - Method and system for geospatially enabling electronic communication protocols: The present invention provides a system and method for geospatially enabling electronic communication protocols. The automatic attachment of additional information to standard communication protocols georeferences the origin and destination of all data passing through the protocols. Georeferenced data transport allows for efficient aggregation from and broadcast to spatial regions and... Agent: Williams Mullen

20070088751 - Multiparameter indexing and searching for documents: A multiparameter abstract and search system for documents, e.g. legal documents. The documents are abstracted by an abstract creation engine. The abstract creation engine may process the documents based on objective criteria and subjective criteria. The processing creates a searchable abstract file that can be searched in various ways.... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070088745 - Parts marking system and method: A parts marking system has memory for storing data indicative of at least one algorithm associated with at least one object material and logic configured to display the at least one algorithm to a display device and receive a user input for at least one part in response to the... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070088752 - Recording medium having data structure for managing reproduction of still pictures recorded thereon and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses: The recording medium includes a data structure with at least one playlist file stored in a playlist area of the recording medium. The playlist file includes at least one playitem, at least one sub-playitem and mark information. The playitem provides navigation information for reproducing at least one still picture from... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070088749 - Registration based mail-addressing system: A method, system and product for delivering a postal mailpiece to a recipient address. A registration based mail-addressing protocol is utilized that allows a postal recipient to create and maintain a proxy address, which is dynamically associated with the recipient's postal address and is more simple than the postal address.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070088744 - System and method for automatic directory management in server environments: A new method and directory management system for creating and maintaining directories, linking accounts, and assigning appropriate access rights when triggering events occur as prescribed by the business rules of the organization. To accomplish this, the directory management system acts as a bridge between the organizations commonly used transaction systems... Agent: Chad A. Guice, Esq.

20070088746 - Systems and methods for obtaining health and financial information with a handheld device: The present invention relates to systems and methods for obtaining health and financial information with a handheld device. One embodiment of the present invention relates to a system for obtaining real time financial information utilizing a bar code or RF ID reader on a handheld device. A bar code or... Agent: Baker & Associates PLLC

20070088756 - Data consolidation: A data consolidator is arranged to receive and process input data comprising: import data of a first type; and delta import data for transforming data of the first type, and provide output data comprising: export data of the first type; and delta export data for transforming data of the first... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070088761 - File system updating metadata of files according to results of keyword search: A file system program that controls a processor to create an attribute information area in which a registered keyword as metadata of the data attached to the file; wherein the file system program comprises: a file access control module that controls access to the file; and a file search module... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070088754 - Method and system to guarantee data and metadata referential integrity in content management archival solutions: Fast restoration of referential integrity between metadata and data after they were restored to some inconsistent backup copies in content management archival solutions. An inferred logging mechanism uses separate metadata and data logs to capture recent update activities during normal system conditions with additional object reference information using a method... Agent: Ip Authority, LLC Ramraj Soundararajan

20070088760 - Method of controlling total disk usage amount in virtualized and unified network storage system: A system includes at least a user and a file system connected to the user through a network. An estimated write size of a write operation of the user into the file system is managed as an accumulated value. The timing of judging the limit of the disk usage amount... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070088758 - Method of improving the detection of opening and closing of a slide-type mobile communication terminal and an apparatus therefor: An apparatus for detecting the opening and closing of a slide-type mobile communication terminal having a main body and a sub-body mounted on the main body. The apparatus includes a signal generating element of bar-type provided in the sub-body for generating a predetermined signal; a first and a second signal... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20070088759 - Network update manager: Network resource management systems are provided. A representative network update manager includes an updater coupled to a persistent database and to an administrative application residing on an application server and a memory operable to store a plurality of delayed updates. The network update manager is preferably operable to receive at... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070088755 - System, method and program to synchronize files in distributed computer system: System, method and program for making same data available from different file systems to clients. The data is transferred to each of the file systems. Respective time periods required to rename the data in the file systems from a first name to a second name are estimated. The data with... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070088757 - System, method and software for creating, maintaining, navigating or manipulating complex data objects and their data relationships: The invention provides systems, methods and software for creating, maintaining, accessing, navigating and persisting complex data objects and associated data stores. In one aspect, the invention also provides an application programming interface (“API”) useful for creating, maintaining, accessing, navigating and persisting complex data objects and associated data stores as a... Agent: Lev Intellectual Property Consulting

20070088762 - Clustering server providing virtual machine data sharing: Technology for sharing data among multiple virtual machines in a cluster of virtual machines is disclosed. Each virtual machine identifies “managed” objects of an instance of an application running at the virtual machine. The managed objects are objects for which state information is to be replicated at the other virtual... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20070088764 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing multimedia content with device which supports multi-server environment: A method and apparatus for synchronizing multimedia content with a client device which supports a multi-server environment are provided. The server includes a synchronization policy management unit which acquires a synchronization policy; a synchronization information collector which collects log information of a previously performed synchronization and of a change occurring... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070088763 - Methods and systems for validating accessibility and currency of replicated data: Systems and processes for determining and validating accessibility and currency, i.e., the actual status, of data replicated in a networked environment are disclosed. According to the disclosed process, a replicated-data policy for replicating data is defined, and access paths between network devices or between applications running on the network devices... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070088765 - System and method for reviewing and implementing requested updates to a primary database: The invention is a system that reviews, approves, and implements updates to a primary database that houses a business's chargeable items. A duplicate database has a duplicate of each data entry in the primary database. Prior to implementation, the update is reviewed for compliance with regulatory and local standards and... Agent: Alicia M. Passerin, Esq. Cohen & Grigsby, P.C.

20070088766 - Method and system for capturing and storing multiple versions of data item definitions: A method, system and computer program product provides the capability to capture and store data object definitions in a database in a less costly and less time-consuming manner than previous techniques. A method of capturing and storing multiple versions of data item definitions in a database comprises generating a first... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070088768 - Technique for improving scalability and portability of a storage management system: A technique for improving scalability and portability of a storage management system is disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the technique may be realized as a storage management system operatively coupled to a storage system. The storage management system may comprise a plurality of processor modules, wherein each processor module... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070088767 - Technique for remapping data in a storage management system: A technique for remapping data in a storage management system is disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the technique may be realized as a method for remapping data in a storage management system having backup data that enable restoration of historical data of a storage system. The method may comprise... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070088769 - Reorganization and repair of an icf catalog while open and in-use in a digital data storage system: MVS mainframe computer systems employ the ICF (Integrated Catalog Facility) catalog environment to manage numerous data sets. To provide nearly continuous availability of those data sets, the BCS catalog (250,270) must be re-organized while leaving the catalog open to access by applications. To perform a re-org while open, a data... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP

20070088770 - Structure for re-arranging file allocation index by memory block: A structure for re-arranging file allocation index by a memory block, which comprises: at least one retained sector; a double file allocation table, for encrypting each file allocation table entry and a corresponding cluster with an encryption method, and hiding the encrypted index file into a reserved item; a root,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070088771 - Systems, methods, and media for storing information in a common information store: Systems, methods and media for storing information in a common information store of a global file storage system are disclosed. Embodiments may include a common information store including a communications module to send and receive information to and from one or more servers in the global file storage system and... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20070083487 - Document preservation: Content, such as a document, in a native format and modality are acquired for preservation. A plurality of interfaces, specific to the type of content, receive the content to be preserved. The received content is indexed and preserved on a preservation media for an indefinite or predetermined amount of time.... Agent: Sheridan Ross P C

20070083486 - Enabling online and offline operation: The present invention provides software developers with the capability to create applications that can access information online and offline without having to program such capabilities into their applications. An application can gather information from various remote data sources via a network or other communication means, and still have access to... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20070083485 - File server, file providing method and recording medium: There is provided a computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for providing a file in response to a file request. The process includes acquiring, when a file request is received from a client, a file ID that uniquely identifies the requested file and... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20070083483 - Function-based index tuning for queries with expressions: Systems, methods, and media associated with function-based index tuning for queries with expressions are described. One exemplary method includes receiving a query for which an index is to be recommended. The query may include an expression, thus the method may include identifying an expression in the query and generating a... Agent: Mcdonald Hopkins Co., Lpa

20070083481 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for adaptive, context based file selection: Files may be managed in a data processing system by determining respective associativity values for the files. The respective associativity values represent likelihoods that respective ones of the files will be opened next if respective other ones of the files are currently open.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley Sajovec P.A.

20070083482 - Multiple quality of service file system: The invention relates to a multiple QoS file system and methods of processing files at different QoS according to rules. The invention allocates multiple VLUNs at different qualities of service to the multiQoS file system. Using the rules, the file system chooses an initial QoS for a file when created.... Agent: Robert Moll

20070083484 - System and method for providing spi extensions for content management system: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for providing extensions to a Service Provider Interface (SPI) in a content management system. These mechanisms and methods for providing extensions to a Service Provider Interface (SPI) in a content management system can enable embodiments to integrate one or more... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070083490 - Optimizing access to a database by utilizing a star join: A database query is optimized for a star database schema that includes at least one fact table and at least one dimension table, where the database query includes an IN-List condition. During optimization, the IN-List is transformed into a relation and the relation is joined with the dimension table to... Agent: James M. Stover Ncr Corporation

20070083489 - Recommending materialized views for queries with multiple instances of same table: Systems, methods, computer-readable media and other embodiments are provided that relate to processing database queries. In one embodiment, a query analysis logic can be configured to analyze a query to identify multiple instances of the same table. Instance numbering for the multiple table instances can then be performed using the... Agent: Mcdonald Hopkins Co., Lpa

20070083488 - Undo hints to speed up segment extension and tuning of undo retention: Methods and systems for using undo hints to speed up segment extension are disclosed. While a process is searching other segments to find available space, the process collects undo hints that describe when space in a segment might become available. These undo hints are placed in a table of undo... Agent: Oracle International Corporation C/o Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070083494 - Application of an electronic prescription object to food preparation: A method, program product, and system for application of an electronic prescription object to food preparation. In an exemplary embodiment, the method includes accessing a prescription object. Further, communications are established between the prescription object and an information repository by use of at least one of a communication network or... Agent: Ibm Corporation (swp)

20070083498 - Distributed search services for electronic data archive systems: A method for searching index information in a data archive system. The method comprises: receiving a request to search a range of the index information for at least one search term; distributing different portions of the search request among a plurality of search engines, each search engine being responsible searching... Agent: Wiggin And Dana LLP Attention: Patent Docketing

20070083499 - Method and apparatus for efficiently handling query for 3d display: A method and apparatus for processing a query required for 3-dimensional (3D) display, for example, a visibility query and a localization query, are provided. The method includes: dividing a 3D space into a plurality of regions; and processing a query in units of divided regions, detecting desired divided regions for... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070083500 - Method of incorporating dbms wizards with analytical models for dbms servers performance optimization: Disclosed is an improved method and system for implementing DBMS server performance optimization. According to some approaches, the method and system incorporates DBMS wizards recommendations with analytical queuing network models for purpose of evaluating different alternatives and selecting the optimum performance management solution with a set of expectations, enhancing autonomic... Agent: Bingham, Mccutchen LLP

20070083497 - Method of searching for media item portions: A method for searching for a media item portion and utilizing a database of media item portion entries. In one aspect, the database entry comprises a data container. In another aspect, the media item portion entries may be used to identify media item portions used in creating composite media items.... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070083493 - Noise in secure function evaluation: Techniques are provided for injecting noise into secure function evaluation to protect the privacy of the participants. A system and method are illustrated that can compute a collective noisy result by combining results and noise generated based on input from the participants. When implemented using distributed computing devices, each device... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070083492 - Processes, data structures, and apparatuses for representing knowledge: Processes, data structures, and apparatuses to represent knowledge are disclosed. The processes can comprise labeling elements in a knowledge signature according to concepts in an ontology and populating the elements with confidence values. The data structures can comprise knowledge signatures stored on computer-readable media. The knowledge signatures comprise a matrix... Agent: Battelle Memorial Institute Attn:IPServices, K1-53

20070083491 - Storage of key in non-volatile memory: A method of storing a first bit-pattern in non-volatile memory of a device, the method comprising: (a) applying a one way function to a second bit-pattern associated with the device, thereby to generate a first result; (b) applying a second function to the first result and the first bit-pattern, thereby... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070083495 - System and method for generating suitable data for statistical analysis: A method, system and article of manufacture for processing abstract queries and, more particularly, for generating input to statistical analysis routines. One embodiment comprises receiving an abstract query including a measurement field and a chronological reference condition. The abstract query is transformed into an executable query which is executed by... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070083496 - User interface for media item portion search tool: A user interface for accessing and utilizing a media item portion database. In one aspect, the database entry comprises a data container. In another aspect, the media item portion entries may be used to identify media item portions used in creating composite media items.... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070083502 - Globally optimal and greedy heuristics based approach to access structure selection: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with selecting access structures to support database queries are described. One exemplary method includes identifying basic configuration(s) of access structures and computing a net benefit for a configuration resulting from using these basic configurations. The method may include associating with a query a candidate... Agent: Mcdonald Hopkins Co., Lpa

20070083501 - Method and system for accessing a remote file in a directory structure associated with an application program executing locally: A method and system for accessing a file in a directory structure associated with an application includes a method of accessing a file in a directory structure associated with an application. A request by an application for access to a file is intercepted. The request is redirected to a first... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070083508 - Document search apparatus and method: A document search apparatus having a storage unit configured to store document data, and an interface unit configured to display information to the user and to allow the user to input an instruction is provided. When another apparatus having at least a memory unit is connected and the user designates... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070083503 - Generating a synonym dictionary representing a mapping of elements in different data models: Additional synonym pairs are inferred from a pair of schema elements (of different schemas) mapped by a user, and the inferred pairs are added to a dictionary. According to one aspect of the present invention, a mapped pair is inferred as a synonym pair if the elements of the mapped... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20070083505 - Hierarchical data-driven search and navigation system and method for information retrieval: A data-driven, hierarchical information search and navigation system and method enable search and navigation of sets of documents or other materials by certain common attributes that characterize the materials. The invention includes several aspects of a data-driven, hierarchical search and navigation system that employs this search and navigation mode. The... Agent: Donald R. Steinberg Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070083507 - Identifying the items most relevant to a current query based on items selected in connection with similar queries: The present invention provides a software facility for identifying the items most relevant to a current query based on items selected in connection with similar queries. In preferred embodiments of the invention, the facility receives a query specifying one or more query terms. In response, the facility generates a query... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070083506 - Search engine determining results based on probabilistic scoring of relevance: A method of providing semantically relevant, ranked search results is described. An assignment of an occurrence of a term within a document to an ontological node is received based on usage of the occurrence of the term within the document. An accuracy value associated with the assignment is determined by... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070083504 - Selecting information technology components for target market offerings: Techniques for selecting IT components (including components still under development) in view of ones thereof that will be most beneficial for incorporating into a component library and/or into products and solutions for a target market or markets. A set of criteria are evaluated with regard to each component. Each of... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20070083510 - Capturing bibliographic attribution information during cut/copy/paste operations: Capturing bibliographic attributes from an original document by methods, computer program products and systems, including a method comprising marking text in an original document for copying to a manuscript, capturing any identified bibliographic metadata from the original document and capturing a first number of characters starting at the beginning of... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ss)

20070083513 - Determining a recurrent problem of a computer resource using signatures: A computer system includes a signature creation engine operable to determine signatures representing states of a computer resource from metrics for the computer resource. The computer system also includes a database operable to store the signatures along with an annotation for each signature including information relating to a state of... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070083512 - Discovery, qualification, and activation of software add-in components: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for discovering, qualifying, and activating software add-in components. An add-in components manager discovers one or more add-in components at the computer system are of a specified type of add-in component requested by an application. The add-in component manager qualifies... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070083511 - Finding similarities in data records: System(s) and/or method(s) (“tools”) are described that enable actions to be reused that are common to multiple similarity functions. The tools may do so, in one embodiment, by composing similarity functions into a single, composed function that performs actions once that are common to multiple similarity functions. This composed function... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070083509 - Streaming text data mining method & apparatus using multidimensional subspaces: A streaming text data comparator performs real-time text data mining on streaming text data. The comparator receives a streaming text data document and generates a vector representation of the term frequencies relating to an existing document collection. The comparator then transforms the term frequency vector into a projection in a... Agent: Baker & Hostetler, LLP For Boeing Company

20070083515 - System and method for multicolumn sorting in a single column: A system for multicolumn ordering includes a processor and a data store. The data store stores a table including a plurality of category and data columns. The processor applies key prefixes to column data values of a plurality of the data columns to form and store in the data store... Agent: Shelley M. Beckstrand Patent Attorney

20070083514 - System and method for protecting sensitive data: A method, system and article of manufacture for protecting sensitive data in databases and, more particularly, for managing access to sensitive data in a database. One embodiment comprises receiving a query against the data in the database comprising at least (i) a result field specification, and (ii) a sorting instruction.... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070083516 - Image forming apparatus: An image forming apparatus includes a storing section provided with a box which stores an electronic document file, a first instruction accepting section which accepts an instruction for deleting the electronic document file stored in the box, a second instruction accepting section which accepts an instruction other than the instruction... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20070083517 - Network system and a method for managing building inspections: The instant invention is a network system and a method for managing building inspections. The network system for managing building inspections, according to instant invention, includes a central site, a user site, a data manager site, and an administrator site. The central site includes a first database, a second database,... Agent: Hammer & Hanf, PC

20070083518 - Software installation process: A method of installing software on a computer associated with a user, the computer being coupled to a system including one or more document handling devices connected to the computer via a communications network. The method includes, in a document handling device, determining a user identity associated with the user,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070083524 - Apparatus, system, and method for implementing an ims soap gateway to enable an ims application to operate as a web service client: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for implementing an Information Management System (IMS) simple object access protocol (SOAP) gateway. The gateway extracts an identifier from a web service request received from an IMS application and selects a correlation mapping based on the extracted identifier. The gateway builds a modified... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20070083525 - Jdbc debugging enhancements: A debugger component for the JDBC subsystem can create traces that can be used to debug the JDBC subsystem. The debugging component can be selectable to enable and disable a trace.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070083522 - Method and a system for responding locally to requests for file metadata associated with files stored remotely: A method and system for responding locally to requests for file metadata associated with files stored remotely includes a method of responding locally to requests for file metadata without downloading the file from a remote location. A directory structure representing an application program stored by a remote machine and metadata... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070083526 - Monitoring statistics and profile information for jdbc resources: A statistics monitoring component can be used to maintain statistics concerning client accesses to the connection pool and the prepared statement cache.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070083519 - Pay-per-click fraud protection: Embodiments of the invention provide a fraud prevention method for a pay-per-click data processing system. The method can include receiving a click through for a link in a host site which references a marketed site. The method also can include identifying a link address for the link in the click... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070083520 - Personalized content feed suggestions page: A user may be presented with suggestions of content feeds to which she may subscribe. The suggestions are based on documents, such as web pages, accessed by the user. The content feeds suggested to the user are content feeds associated with at least some of the documents accessed by the... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070083523 - Procurement information access via electronic mail: A procurement information system is provided. The system includes an electronic mail interface configured to receive an information request over a communication link, and to transfer over the communication link retrieved information relating to the information request. Also provided is a processor configured to process the information request to determine... Agent: The Ollila Law Group LLC

20070083521 - Routing requests based on synchronization levels: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, route requests to servers based on a synchronization level of data that the servers provide. In an embodiment, synchronization levels that servers provide are determined, a synchronization level that a request requires is determined, a server is selected based... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070083528 - Switch management system and method: A system and method of managing a switch includes installing a switch having a plurality of processor elements, installing an operating system on each processor element, creating a system virtual router and configuring the processor elements from the system virtual router.... Agent: Hamilton Desanctis & Cha Michael A. Desanctis

20070083527 - Systems and methods for uploading and downloading files in a distributed network: A method for processing video includes providing a framegrabbing plugin that extracts still frames from a video stream and is integrated into an application that hosts plugins and providing a user interface allowing a user to select still frames to extract from the video.... Agent: Richard F. Jaworski Cooper & Dunham LLP

20070083531 - Data storage method and apparatus utilizing evolution and hashing: Hashing functions have many practical applications in data storage and retrieval. Perfect hashing functions are extremely difficult to find, especially if the data set is large and without large-scale structure. There are great rewards for finding good hashing functions, considering the savings in computational time such functions provide, and much... Agent: Daniar Hussain

20070083529 - Managing cyclic constructs of xml schema in a rdbms: A database system automatically detects a cyclic construct in a XML schema, determines a database representation for the cyclic construct, and maps the XML schema and elements involved in the cyclic construct to the database representation.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070083530 - Recoverable execution: Systems and methods for providing a one-step API that executes a series of atomic transactions in a database system. In one implementation, each atomic transaction is associated with a forward block of code that effects changes, an undo block of code that reverses the changes made by the forward block,... Agent: Oracle International Corporation C/o Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070083532 - Retrieving apparatus, retrieving method, and retrieving program of hierarchical structure data: A data retrieving apparatus having: an input apparatus for inputting the hierarchical structure data showing the hierarchical structure and operation instruction data; a data storing apparatus for storing the inputted hierarchical structure data; a retrieving apparatus for retrieving data which satisfies conditions from the hierarchical structure data stored in the... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070083533 - System and method for designing web sites that perform like conventional software applications: A system and method to create web sites and web applications that address the significant limitation of unnecessary and artificial page refreshes, which are inherent in most current web solutions, by moving away from the paradigm where a user navigates from one page to another. Rather, they are based on... Agent: William C. Milks, Iii Russo & Hale LLP

20070083538 - Generating xml instances from flat files: In order to parse a flat file to create an XML instance, information about the data and its hierarchy is captured in an XML schema definition. Once the data structure is defined in the Schema, the parsing instructions for the flat file are introduced in the schema so that after... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070083536 - Indirect subscriptions to a user's selected content feed items: A label may be applied to one or more content items by a user or in accordance with predefined criteria, rules, or filters. The labeled content items are associated with a secondary feed associated with the label. Other users may subscribe to the secondary feed and be presented with the... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070083539 - Internet system for connecting client-travelers with geographically-associated data: A multi-dimensional information repository has a plurality of stored data structures; and one or more tags associated with individual ones of the plurality of data structures. The data structures are tagged according to locations and defined regions relative to the surface of the Earth, and a data retrieval system retrieves... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20070083537 - Method of creating a media item portion database: A method for creating a media item portion database. In one aspect, the database entry comprises a data container. In another aspect, the media item portion entries may be used to identify media item portions used in creating composite media items.... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070083534 - Method, program and terminal device for rendering web page: A method of rendering a page, which includes starting obtaining operation for obtaining a page made by a markup language, performing a text browsing mode operation on obtained part of data of the page in parallel with the obtaining operation of the page, judging whether or not acquisition of definition... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070083535 - Offline webpage activated by reading a tag: A system for enabling a user to wirelessly download desired information in the form of a offline website without having to maintain a live Internet connection. Information is delivered from an active or passive source to a device via short-range wireless communication. This information is automatically interpreted by the device... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070083540 - Providing access to captured data using a multimedia player: A multimedia player is provided access to recorded multimedia data including data of a first media type, e.g., voice, and at least a second media type, e.g., text, exchanged between at least one user and at least one server. The recorded multimedia data of the first media type is synchronized... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070083548 - Evaluation and display of temporal descriptions: The present invention discloses methods in structuring data structures into a logical tree structure that is representative the hierarchy of the temporal expressions, with each tree node represent a temporal primitive operator, and an unique index being assigned to each primitive. It further discloses methods for evaluating the temporal expression,... Agent: Emil Chang Law Offices Of Emil Chang

20070083542 - Flexible storage of xml collections within an object-relational database: A database server determines, on an element-level of granularity, what form of VARRAY storage to map collections of elements defined by a XML schema. A collection element may be mapped to an in-line VARRAY or an out-of-line VARRAY. The determination may based on a variety of factors, including the database... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070083546 - Information management system and information display device: An information management system includes a input unit configured to input a hierarchical dictionary in which a property is inherited from an upper class to a lower class and in which symbols representing the classes are defined; an creating unit that creates a list of symbols representing lower classes of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070083544 - Method and assignment of transaction branches by resource name aliasing: The Java transaction API for use with global transaction can use a system using alias for the branch ID. The alias can allow multiple branch IDs for single resource.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070083547 - Method and device for automatically representing data filed in data areas: The invention relates to a method and device for automatically representing data (D) filed in data areas, in which the data filed in a database (1) in columns and rows are exportable via an intermediate store (2) formed as a storage place into a graphic-capable application, in such a manner... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070083541 - Method and system for filtering a table: A method for filtering a table may include creating a filter in response to a user selecting data in a first table. The method may also include applying the filter to at least one other table in response to a user selecting at least one column in the at least... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Ibm

20070083545 - Selectively triggering events: A modification of at least one attribute of a database object may be associated with one of a plurality of classification nodes defined by a hierarchical tree. Such classification nodes may classify or otherwise categorize modifications to attributes of the database object. At least one of the classification nodes may... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070083543 - Xml schema template builder: A method of creating a template to convert a database schema model to XML using database schema metadata.... Agent: Alfred W. Zaher, Esq. Blank Rome LLP

20070083550 - Data object tracking system and method: A system and method of tracking a data object of a data management system. A tracking object is associated with a first data object, the tracking object including a first status data having a first status value representing a status of the first data object. Upon the creation and/or modification... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20070083551 - Extensible mechanism for object composition: An extensible framework for object oriented programming comprises a reception component that receives a customized strategy relating to composing a target object. An implementation component automatically implements the customized strategy to compose the target object based at least in part upon context associated with the target object. The extensible framework... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070083552 - Information organization and collaboration tool for processing notes and action requests in computer systems: A natural language-based information organization and collaboration tool for a computer system is disclosed. The present invention includes an apparatus and method for processing text expressions in a computer system, the apparatus including: 1) an object database defining an information object with an associated keyword; 2) a user input device... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070083549 - Method and mechanism for providing a caching mechanism for contexts: Disclosed is a system and method for improving the performance of marshalling and un-marshalling operations. In one approach, the system and method can be used to improve the performance of marshalling and un-marshalling operations in databases that support opaque types. The system and method is configured to allow aggregated objects... Agent: Oracle International Corporation C/o Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070083553 - Apparatus and methods for handling multimedia content in an electronic device: A method of handling multimedia content related data at an electronic device configured to communicate with a multimedia content source providing downloadable multimedia content includes receiving multimedia content related data at the electronic device, the multimedia content related data including a list of one or more items of multimedia content... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070083561 - Distributing notifications to multiple recipients via a broadcast list: Processing a notification intended for delivery to multiple recipients associated with a broadcast list. Software executes within an alerts service environment to receive a notification addressed to a broadcast alias, determine a list of recipients associated with the broadcast alias to receive the notification, and broadcast the received notification to... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070083557 - Geometry-based search engine for navigation systems: A computer-implemented method for determining a requested map location includes providing a database holding a plurality of map objects having respective descriptors and loci. A search query including one or more query terms that describe the requested map location is accepted. One or more matched map objects are identified in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070083556 - Like processing of owned and for-purchase media: A method for managing a group of owned and for-purchase media items in response to a single user action. The method treats the owned media items and the for-purchase media items similarly with respect to the user's interaction with them, facilitating a user paradigm-shift from thinking about two stores of... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070083558 - Media item registry and associated methods of registering a rights holder and a media item: A media item registry associated with media items, whether media item portions or composite media items portions and their associated rights holders. In one embodiment, a method of registering a rights holder. In another embodiment, a method of registering a media items. In one embodiment, the media item registry enables... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070083559 - Media/data card: The media/data card is a computer readable medium for storing data files, and in particular, media files. The device may be a flash media memory card or other conveniently sized, portable storage device. The media/data card stores a data structure for controlling access to data files stored on the computer... Agent: Litman Law Offices, Ltd

20070083560 - System and method for providing online community service for digital content: A system and method for providing an online community service is disclosed. The online community provision system includes a played-content information provision server, a client and a community server. The played-content information provision server provides played-content information about digital content. The client selects digital content through a user, requests played-content... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070083555 - System for preparing personalized chronological sheets and product resulting therefrom: The present invention is directed toward a system for rendering a personalized calendar for a series of pre-determined subscribers. The system enables users through a computer interface to select from a database of inspirational and motivational phrases and images and to obtain chronological information from a second database in order... Agent: Ward/kraft, Inc.

20070083554 - Visual role definition for identity management: An identity management system and method having a graphical user interface for manipulating graphical role data. Included is a system for graphically defining roles in an organization; a system for graphically defining relationships among the roles in the organization; and a system for graphically assigning rights to different roles in... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070083564 - Automatic performance statistical comparison between two periods: A technique for automatically generating a report comprising normalized differences in performance statistics between two separate periods. In one embodiment of the invention, database performance statistics are collected on a periodic basis over various time periods. In order to accurately compare database system performance between two discrete periods of time,... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070083562 - Computer-implemented method, tool, and program product for scheduling an information technology (it) migration: The present invention provides a computer-implemented method, tool, and program product for scheduling an IT migration. Specifically, under the present invention, migration information for the IT migration is received in an electronic database. A schedule to perform the IT migration is the generated based on the migration information using an... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070083566 - Longest query duration for auto tuning undo retention: Methods and systems for automatically tuning the undo retention in a database system are disclosed. The undo tablespace may be of a fixed size or may be set to be automatically extended. If the undo tablespace is of a fixed size, the undo retention is set to a “best possible”... Agent: Oracle International Corporation C/o Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070083563 - Online tablespace recovery for export: To export source tablespaces, an auxiliary database system is created and started with a minimum configuration. Copies of versions of the source tablespaces are restored from database backups to the auxiliary database system. A copy of a version of a tablespace is referred to herein as a tablespace instance. The... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070083565 - Realtime-safe read copy update with lock-free readers: A technique for realtime-safe detection of a grace period for deferring the destruction of a shared data element until pre-existing references to the data element have been removed. A pair of counters is established for each of one or more processors. A global counter selector determines which counter of each... Agent: Walter W. Duft

20070083567 - Storage control system and method: The control program 118 updates the snapshot generation at the point in time when the snapshot is taken for each occurrence of the point in time when the snapshot is taken. In cases where new data are written into PVOL1 from the point in time when the snapshot has been... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070083568 - Write-once-read-many storage system and method for implementing the same: A write-once-read-many (WORM) storage system that employs large-capacity and relatively inexpensive disks in connection with a file system on a file server is provided. The file system contains most or all of the required WORM functionality so as to impose a minimal footprint on client applications, client operating systems and... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070083569 - Commit-time ordered message queue supporting arbitrary read and dequeue patterns from multiple subscribers: Data consistency in the context of information sharing requires maintenance of dependencies among information being shared. Transactional dependency ordering is implemented in a database system message queue, by associating a unique system commit time with each transactional message group. Read consistency is implemented in such a queue by allowing only... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070083570 - File system versioning using a log: In one embodiment, a computing system comprises one or more processors, and a memory module communicatively connected to the one or more processors. The memory module comprises logic instructions which, when executed on the one or more processors configure the one or more processors to receive, in a computer-based data... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070083571 - Methods and systems for updating content including a compressed version: Methods and systems for in-place updating an original version of content to an updated version in a non volatile storage device including blocks, where the original version and/or the updated version are compressed on the storage device.... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070083572 - Data extensibility using external database tables: t

20070083573 - Reduction of join operations when archiving related database tables: Provided are techniques for receiving a request to archive a child table. In response to receiving the request, a join operation is performed on the child table and parent archive data to create child archive data.... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20070083574 - Replica database maintenance with parallel log file transfers: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with remote database maintenance using parallel file transfers are described. One exemplary system includes a processor configured to run a database management system (DBMS) that is in turn configured to manage a database (DB). The DBMS may maintain a database log file that stores... Agent: Mcdonald Hopkins Co., Lpa

20070083575 - Techniques for storing data based upon storage policies: Automated techniques for storing data in a data storage environment. Techniques are provided for determining storage locations for data in a heterogeneous storage environment based upon storage policies configured for the storage environment. The data is stored in storage locations that enable efficient data access while optimizing the use of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070078802 - Apparatus and method for real-time mining and reduction of streamed data: A stream data node receives real-time streamed data from one or more input devices, dynamically filters the streamed data to reduce the streamed data, and delivers the reduced data when requested. By providing real-time filtering of the data, the amount of data that must be stored in a database may... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20070078806 - Method and apparatus for evaluating the accuracy of transcribed documents and other documents: A document evaluation system comprising: a mechanism for retrieving at least one document for review; an interface for viewing the document; a mechanism for identifying at least one error in the document; a mechanism contemporaneously creating a corrected document and a document in which the errors are marked are annotated;... Agent: Jill Gilbert Welytok Absolute Technology Law Group, LLC

20070078807 - Method of building a database, system for populating a database, and method of delivering location-relevant information: A method of populating a database comprises a roaming mobile terminal determining, in response to evaluation of a set of rules in relation to network data, whether global position information is required regarding the location of the mobile terminal. The network data is acquired from a communications network currently supporting... Agent: Paul D. Greeley Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070078803 - Method, system and apparatus for searchcasting with privacy control: A user initiated query is requested, from a searchcasting server, by a plurality of target computers. At least one of the target computers is selected to prompt its user to indicate permission or denial of permission to send a response to the query if the target computer determines that a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070078805 - Methods and systems for imaging device document preparation: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems, methods and devices for modifying and managing documents with a remote application that receives input from an imaging device.... Agent: Krieger Intellectual Property, Inc.

20070078801 - Offline servicing of image files: A method for offline servicing of an image file by mapping the image to a directory using a file system mini-filter driver. The file system mini-filter driver maps the contents of the image to the directory and provides either read-only or read-write access to the contents of the image. The... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070078804 - System and method for measuring workpieces: An exemplary method for measuring workpieces is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: measuring a workpiece; recording the measuring procedures of the workpiece; generating procedure codes according to the measuring procedures; storing the procedure codes in a program file; generating a measuring program by compiling the procedure codes and... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070078800 - System and method of building an atomic view of a filesystem that lacks support for atomic operations: The invention is directed to a system and method of providing an accurate, consistent, and atomic view of a non-translational filesystem or a subset thereof, without explicit filesystem or file notification support for building an atomic view. A user-space algorithm is coupled with a file change notification kernel to identify... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070078816 - Common sub-expression elimination for inverse query evaluation: Provided herein are optimizations for an instruction tree of an inverse query engine. Secondary sub-expression elimination trees are provided, which are data structures configured to include nodes that allow for temporary variables that hold processing context or state for idempotent fragments of query expression(s). As such, when sub-paths for a... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070078808 - Consistent histogram maintenance using query feedback: A novel method is employed for collecting optimizer statistics for optimizing database queries by gathering feedback from the query execution engine about the observed cardinality of predicates and constructing and maintaining multidimensional histograms. This makes use of the correlation between data columns without employing an inefficient data scan. The maximum... Agent: Ip Authority, LLC Ramraj Soundararajan

20070078812 - Delaying evaluation of expensive expressions in a query: Techniques are provided for delaying evaluation of expensive expressions in a query. Expensive expressions in the query are established by cost information or by looking up a list of known expensive expressions for a match. After an execution plan is determined by using the early evaluation technique, one or more... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070078818 - Device and method for insulin dosing: A device and method of providing instruction to a patient regarding the dosing of insulin is provided.... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP / Roche

20070078819 - Efficient, robust file handle invalidation: The present invention provides a technique for efficiently generating and validating external file handles at a storage operating system of a filer. According to one aspect of the technique, the storage operating system associates a unique internal file handle with each file or directory stored in the filer. This unique... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070078813 - Generalized partition pruning in a database system: Methods, computer programs and system for executing a query on data that has been partitioned into a plurality of partitions are provided. The method includes providing partitioned data including one or more columns and the plurality of partitions. The partitioned data includes a limit key value associated with each column... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070078815 - Method and apparatus for organizing and optimizing content in dialog systems: Embodiments of a configurable content optimizer for use in dialog systems are described. In one embodiment, the content optimizer is a configurable component that acts as an intermediary between a dialog management module and a knowledge management module of a dialog system during the query process. The content optimizer module... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070078817 - Method for distributing keys for encrypted data transmission in a preferably wireless sensor network: A method for distributing keys for encrypted data transmission in a preferably wireless sensor network. Initially nodes store a subset of keys from a set of keys. A powerful sink node located in the centre of the wireless sensor triggers the key election procedure and sensor nodes choose from a... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070078810 - Methods, systems, and products for updating web content: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for dynamically updating web content using W3C standards. One such method sends a request to a web server for a web page. A web browser receives and renders a static HTML web page. The web browser periodically sends a query to the web server... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20070078811 - Microhubs and its applications: A system and method of crawling at least one website comprising at least one URL includes maintaining a lookup structure comprising all of the URLs known to be on a website; calculating a hub score for each webpage of the website to be recrawled, wherein the hub score measures how... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20070078814 - Novel information retrieval systems and methods: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for encoding and retrieving information from a variety of sources using novel search techniques. The systems and methods of the invention are capable of extracting all types of structural and relational information from a query or a source data allowing for... Agent: Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC

20070078809 - Robust data availability system having decentralized storage and multiple access paths: Architecture that provides high availability (quick, robust, redundant) data to users by the use of peer-to-peer technology, where the decentralized storage and multi-access paths provide the complete data set without dependence on a specific or pre-defined data source or access paths, including sourcing data from other users of the data... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20070078826 - Analytic enhancements to model clause in structured query language (sql): A method for processing queries is provided. A database server receives and executes a query to generate a relation. The query comprises first one or more clauses and a model clause. The model clause comprises a rule that has a left-side expression and a right-side expression. In one embodiment, the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070078822 - Arbitration of specialized content using search results: The claimed subject matter provides systems and methods that facilitate providing specialized content associated with web results in response to a user query to provide queried information directly to a user without requiring the user to select a link and/or scroll through information on a web page associated therewith. Reference... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070078835 - Computer system, method and software for creating and providing an individualized web-based browser interface for wrappering search results and presenting advertising to a user based upon at least one profile or user attribute: The present invention relates generally to an individualized web-based browser interface and associated software for accessing at least one web-based search engine with the ability to wrapper and present some or all of the search results obtained from the at least one search engine in a presentation format or order... Agent: John J G Mullins

20070078838 - Contents search system for providing reliable contents through network and method thereof: Disclosed is a contents search system and method for providing reliable search results. In the method, search results are identified by searching contents for information that pertains to a query word inputted from a user via the network are searched. Then, a degree of reliability of the search results is... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070078828 - Customizable ordering of search results and predictive query generation: In a computerized search system, a document corpus is searched according to a query and results of the search are presentable as an ordered search result set comprising one or more search hits, a search hit being a document of the document corpus or reference thereto. Based on content of... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070078831 - Enterprise performance management tool: An enterprise performance management system that includes a processor and a visual display electrically connected to the processor, wherein the processor prepares an advice screen to be shown on the visual display. The advice screen displays a first benchmark that represents a predetermined level of practice corresponding to an area... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070078823 - Expression templates and object classes for multidimensional analytics expressions: Abstract metadata representing a multidimensional database expression and parameters in the multidimensional database expression are generated. Using the metadata, a class is generated that can be used to obtain an abstract data structure for the multidimensional database expression. The obtained data structure can then be translated into a desired multidimensional... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070078824 - Indexing and searching manufacturing process related information: Indexing agents and/or data brokers are leveraged to provide search query results related to manufacturing processes. The indexing agents allow different manufacturing configuration data types to be “sub-indexed,” allowing them to be easily searched. In one instance, the sub-indices can be aggregated together to create an overall index to facilitate... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20070078834 - Method and apparatus for displaying text information and numerical information in association with each other: A method and apparatus for associating text information with numerical information. A first phrase corresponding to a time period is generated. The first phrase represents a change in first numerical information over the time period. The first numerical information includes time-series data pertaining to a financial index. The text information... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070078837 - Method and apparatus for processing financial information at hardware speeds using fpga devices: A method and apparatus are disclosed for using decision logic deployed on a reconfigurable logic device to process a stream of financial information at hardware speeds. The decision logic can be configured to perform data reduction operations on the financial information stream. Examples of such data reductions operations include data... Agent: Thompson Coburn, LLP

20070078830 - Method and system for retrieving information and ip setting interface: A system and a method for retrieving information, and an IP setting interface are provided, which are applicable to a portable communication apparatus. The system comprises a retrieving user interface, a code correspondence table, and a comparison module. The retrieving user interface provides the portable apparatus to input an inquiry... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070078832 - Method and system for using smart tags and a recommendation engine using smart tags: The present invention relates to a system and method for recommending tags and/or content items in response to requests received from remote computing devices. In one aspect, a content item recommendation system comprises a database configured to store an identifier of a first content item, a first tag and information... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070078820 - Mindmatch: method and system for mass customization of test preparation: The invention is a method and system for providing dynamic, customized test preparation using a computer assisted search engine which retrieves: (1) specific solutions to sets of questions that a particular user is answering incorrectly, (2) teaching modules on how to solve each general case of question that appears within... Agent: Eva Lana

20070078829 - Safe mode for inverse query evaluations: Embodiments herein prevent or mitigate attacks on inverse query engines by providing safe mode routines that allow for the acceptance of third party messages and/or query expressions, as well as prevent trusted sources from accidental attacks. The mitigations fall into two categories: compile-time and runtime. Compile-time mitigations prevent query expressions... Agent: Rick Nydegger Workman Nydegger

20070078827 - Searching for information utilizing a probabilistic detector: A probabilistic detector is utilized to query a database. Utilization of a probabilistic detector provides assurance with 100 per cent probability that a search expression in the query is not in the database index. The probabilistic detector is implemented in the form of a Bloom filter. The probabilistic detector is... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070078821 - System and method for managing history of plant data: A data server and a user terminal are connected through a communication network. A retrieval interface of the user terminal creates a retrieval request including specification of a file format style at the time of output, and transmits the created retrieval request to the data server. A data retrieval unit... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070078833 - System for obtaining reviews using selections created by user base: A system allows users to create keywords as part of a review process. The user-created keywords are then presented to subsequent users for possible inclusion in additional reviews created by the subsequent users. Various features are provided for approving keywords such as by setting a threshold number of creation instances... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070078836 - Systems and methods for promotional media item selection and promotional program unit generation: Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods for selection of promotional media items and/or generation of promotional or advertising units. In one embodiment, a set of promotional media items may be dynamically identified responsive to an input set of media items. In another embodiment, a promotional program unit is generated... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP

20070078825 - Systems and methods for repeatable database performance testing: Embodiments of the present invention improve database performance testing. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method of testing the performance of an application running transactions against a database comprising specifying performance critical database transaction statements in the application corresponding to one or more tables and separately executing each... Agent: Chad R. Walsh Fountainhead Law Group

20070078840 - Custom function library for inverse query evaluation of messages: In an inverse query environment, exemplary embodiments describe a set of shortcut keys that can be used to augment common query functions making it easier for developers to write query expressions. Further, these shortcut keys can be used to more efficiently execute equivalent functionality of the common query expressions, without... Agent: Rick Nydegger Workman Nydegger

20070078839 - Method and system for communicating between an embedded device and relational databases: Techniques for communicating between an embedded device and at least one remote database for a wide variety of applications, including human machine interface and supervisory control and data acquisition and B2B applications. An application program interface interfaces an application program seeking access to a predetermined database and which operates on... Agent: HulseyIPIntellectual Property Lawyers, P.C.

20070078844 - Retrieval system, information processing system and program product: A retrieval system includes a search server and an information processing system. The information processing system includes a generation unit that generates a search formula corresponding to specifics of performed processing and a message to describe a type of a search result corresponding to the search formula, a search request... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070078841 - System and method for network resource management: A network resource management system that manages a plurality of distributed client computers through a network. The system comprises: a data collecting module (11) configured for collecting data from each client computer (6) via a domain controller (1), and for uploading the connected data to shared folders (5); an agent... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070078842 - System and method for responding to a user reference query: The invention provides a system and method for providing an output in response to a user reference query. A user reference query is received and an answer to the user reference query is determined. A unique entity identifier (EID) for the answer is determined and used to query a reference... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070078843 - Virtual regulator for a database system: A virtual regulator implemented to provide closed-loop system management (CLSM) functionality to a database system and without a need to substantially adapt a given CLSM technology to account for specific nuances and requirements of an operating system. For example, the regulator may be implemented with either or both of process... Agent: James M. Stover Intellectual Property Section, Law Department

20070078845 - Identifying clusters of similar reviews and displaying representative reviews from multiple clusters: A method and system of selecting reviews for display are described. Reviews for a subject are identified and organized into two or more clusters. Reviews are selected from each cluster. A response that includes content from the selected reviews is generated. The content may include the full content or snippets... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070078848 - Indexing and caching strategy for local queries: The claimed subject matter relates to a computer-implemented architecture that can, at a high level, store query results in a location-independent manner in order to facilitate caching of local results. To store query results in a location-independent manner such that cached results to location-based queries can be useful, the architecture... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070078846 - Similarity detection and clustering of images: A method for determining if a set of images in a large collection of images are near duplicates is described. The method includes processing the set of images, generating an image signature for each image in the set of images, and comparing the generated image signatures. The method can be... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070078847 - System and method for generating a play-list: A system for generating a play-list includes a media player and a media file server. The media player automatically generates weight values of each media file therein. The media file server stores a plurality of category tables, each category table storing a desired sub-category and corresponding sub-category weight values; initializes... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070078849 - System and method for recommending items of interest to a user: A system and method is disclosed for recommending items to individual users using a combination of clustering decision trees and frequency-based term mapping. The system and method of the present invention is configured to receive data based on user action, such as television remote control activity, or computer keyboard entry,... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070078850 - Commerical web data extraction system: A system and method for delivering detailed product information to a user in response to a request for a product is provided. The delivered product information can include products identified by crawling web sites and extracting product information. The detailed information can include the name of the product, a picture... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070078851 - System and method for filtering search query results: A system and method for sorting or filtering search query results, wherein such invention provides for a process to access a database of service provider(s) information, a process for searching such service provider information, and a process for selectively sorting or filtering such service provider information based on area, individuals... Agent: Mathew L. Grell

20070078853 - Document management system and method: A system for managing data items at an electronic data repository with respect to a plurality of parties includes an electronic data repository and a computer processor programmed to receive data items from parties remote from the repository and from each other. The program stores the received data items in... Agent: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP

20070078852 - Synchronizing shared resources in a collection: Multi-threaded access to a collection is synchronized without locking the collection for long periods of time. In one implementation, a collection is locked briefly to allow safe creation of a resource entry (or a placeholder entry) in the collection and then unlocked prior to the start of the resource build... Agent: Microsoft Corporation Attn: Patent Group Docketing Department

20070078854 - Scoping and biasing search to user preferred domains or blogs: Architecture that allows a user to search for content or to restrict an online search to a limited number of websites and/or blog sites. Architecture is provided that facilitates data searching via a source component that includes data representative of a website or a blog, and a search component that... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070078861 - Disaster recover/continuity of business adaptive solution framework: A framework and method for use in determining appropriate information technology system disaster recovery and operational continuity solutions for an enterprise. In one embodiment the method includes identifying (504) business processes associated with achieving a defined mission of the enterprise. Assets of the information technology system are grouped (508) into... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20070078857 - Method and a device for browsing information feeds: A method and a mobile terminal executing the method for browsing available information feeds on a limited display area via sequential views. Items of a certain feed are first listed by utilizing representative identifiers. The user of the terminal device may through swift, 1-click type actions then inspect the descriptions... Agent: Ware, Fressola, Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP Building Five, Bradford Green

20070078855 - Method and apparatus for session management in an enterprise java bean session bean: A method and apparatus to provide a general-purpose timeout management system for client-specific session objects. In one embodiment a timeout service is created that may be used by more than one Java Enterprise EJB container simultaneously, avoiding unnecessary duplication of timeout management services. Each EJB container may instantiate an “invalidation... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070078858 - Method and system for load balancing of computing resources: A load balancing method incorporates temporarily inactive machines as part of the resources capable of executing tasks during heavy process requests periods to alleviate some of the processing load on other computing resources. This method determines which computing resources are available and prioritizes these resources for access by the load... Agent: Ibm Corporation C/o Darcell Walker, Attorney At Law

20070078859 - Method, system, apparatus, and software product for an intelligent transfer log: A method, apparatus, system, and software product are disclosed for a mobile device to record successful transfer of media files to a second device. A connection is established between the mobile device and the second device, and the media files are transferred from the mobile device to the second device... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070078856 - Optimized method of locating complete aggregation of patient health records in a global domain: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture are provided to optimize the time and effort required to locate all data on a given entity that may span multiple data nodes in a distributed environment. For example, embodiments of the invention may be used to locate nodes within the distributed environment... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070078860 - Server computer, client device, and web-service-implemented data processing method: A data processing system includes a server computer and at least one client device. The server computer includes means for providing a central web service, the central web service having a central web service address. An interface means receives a web service request addressed to the central web service address... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20070078865 - Apparatus, system, and method for analyzing computer events recorded in a plurality of chronicle datasets: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for analyzing computer events recorded in a plurality of computer datasets. The apparatus includes a read module configured to access chronicle records in two datasets, an extraction module configured to extract a timestamp from each chronicle record, a generation module configured to generate... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20070078863 - Application support and maintenance system, software, database and related methods: One or more databases for use in computer program application support and maintenance. An inventory of computer program applications (“application inventory”) is arranged in a multilevel hierarchy having descending levels. Line of business level, application level and technical module level. A support and maintenance work authorization and authorized workgroup are... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20070078869 - Assumed demographics, predicted behavior, and targeted incentives: A system and method for anticipating consumer behavior and determining transaction incentives for influencing consumer behavior comprises a computer system and associated date for determining cross time correlations between transaction behavior, for applying the fiction derived from the correlations to consumer records to predict future consumer behavior, and for deciding... Agent: NeifeldIPLaw, PC

20070078870 - Construction, manipulation, and comparison of a multi-dimensional semantic space: A directed set can be used to establish contexts for linguistic concepts: for example, to aid in answering a question, to refine a query, or even to determine what questions can be answered given certain knowledge. A directed set includes a plurality of elements and chains relating the concepts. One... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C. - Novell

20070078862 - Data federation with industrial control systems: An organizational model of a hierarchical system can be distributed across various elements of an enterprise. Such elements include representations of the system that are maintained on higher-level business servers and other representations that serve control elements of the system such as programmable logic controllers and/or other industrial control components.... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20070078864 - Electronic device, method for data management, and program recording medium: An electronic device including a receiving unit which receives data to be saved, a data name and a user name from outside, a memory area management unit which saves the data to be saved in a memory area, a directory management unit which assigns a name which relates the data... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070078866 - Information processing apparatus and method, and computer program: A recording/playback apparatus for recording or playing back content is provided. For example, a playback unit plays back a medium on which an encrypted content management unit and an encrypted unit key for encrypting the content management unit are recorded. The encrypted unit key is decrypted according to a predetermined... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070078868 - Method and apparatus for collecting and displaying network device information: In one particular embodiment, the disclosure is directed to a network management system. The network monitoring system includes at least one device definition file, a simple network management protocol enabled communications interface, and a data access interface. The definition file includes query instructions associated with portions of MIBs associated with... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20070078871 - System for and method of de-identifying data: A method of de-identifying data, wherein the data to be de-identified is stored in a transaction table containing transactions and a personal information table containing identifiable information. The method includes the steps of generating a de-identification pointer associated with an individual in the personal information table, wherein the individual is... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070078867 - Systems and methods for modeling processing procedures: Systems and methods are provided for implementation of a processing procedure on an object allocated to an object category as an instance of an object type. In one embodiment, a computerized method is provided. The method may include breaking the object into separately processable, hierarchically classifiable sub-objects as instances of... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20070078872 - Apparatus and method for parsing unstructured data: A user interface for parsing unstructured data using pattern recognition. The patterns used in parsing data are formed from regular expressions. The parsed data may be displayed in a first format and unmatched strings in the unstructured text may be displayed in a second format. A format may comprise a... Agent: Sap_dlg

20070078873 - Computer assisted domain specific entity mapping method and system: A technique for identifying, analyzing, structuring, mapping and classifying data entities is disclosed. A conceptual framework is established by a domain definition having an association list of attributes of interest. Data entities are accessed, analyzed, structured if appropriate, mapped and classified in accordance with the association list and attributes found... Agent: Patrick S. Yoder Fletcher Yoder

20070078876 - Generating a stream of media data containing portions of media files using location tags: A system and method are provided for identifying discrete locations and/or sections within a pre-existing media file without modifying the media file. The discrete locations and/or sections can be associated with one or more user-selected descriptors. The system and method allows for the identifying information to be communicated to consumers... Agent: James J. Decarlo Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070078874 - Select indexing in merged inverse query evaluations: Embodiments provide for select indexing, which uses an array to simultaneously construct output sets for instructions that operate on input nodesets with common axes. During evaluation of a message against an instruction tree, when a branching node with a large “splay” is iterated over, rather than iterating over an input... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070078875 - Semantically complete templates: A template includes a template schema section that defines the overall structure of the final rendering of a control and/or the content of the control. The template may further include a template behavior section defining custom behavior of the control. The template behavior section may reference schema elements defined in... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070078878 - Systems and methods for verbal communication from a speech impaired individual: An individual that is speech impaired, such as a patient in a dentist's office, is provided with means to communicate with a service provider, such as a dentist, without the individual using their own voice. In one embodiment, a computing system initiates display of user interfaces on a display device... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070078877 - Xbrl data conversion: A system, method and machine-readable medium are provided for converting data to, from, and between standard and proprietary formats using XBRL. The present invention provides a capability for extracting data from databases of a proprietary system and representing the extracted data using a standard format that can be interpreted and... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070078879 - Active address table: A structure referred to as an Active Address Table (AAT) may be used for cache coherence conflict resolution. The AAT may function to detect conflicting coherent requests to the same address and may ensure that each requesting entity receives a copy of the requested cache line in a cache line... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070078886 - Intellectual property asset manager (ipam) for context processing of data objects: Context data processing is described herein. One or more contexts are selected. Each context includes one or more attributes, and a plurality of data objects that satisfy the attributes. A list of data objects contained in the selected contexts is displayed. At least some of the data objects in the... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070078880 - Method and framework to support indexing and searching taxonomies in large scale full text indexes: A system and method of indexing a plurality of entities located in a taxonomy, the entities comprising sets of terms, comprises receiving terms in an index structure; building a posting list for an entity with respect to the locations of the set of terms defining the entity and data associated... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20070078889 - Method and system for automated knowledge extraction and organization: A method and system for automated knowledge extraction and organization, which uses information retrieval services to identify text documents related to a specific topic, to identify and extract trends and patterns from the identified documents, and to transform those trends and patterns into an understandable, useful and organized information resource.... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070078887 - Method and system for creating an index arrangement for a directory: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for creating an index arrangement for a directory includes configuring control variables. The control variables include criteria for data to be stored and indexed in an alternate evaluator. The method also includes retrieving data values from the directory in accordance with... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070078888 - Method and system for managing an index arrangement for a directory: According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for managing an index arrangement for a directory includes storing a plurality of data values from the directory in an alternate evaluator. The alternate evaluator includes a processor operable to process a directory operation. The method also includes generating a first... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070078884 - Podcast search engine: Systems and methods are provided for subscribing to podcast feeds from a single location. A server-based search engine is provided that identifies podcasts located throughout a network that are available to a user's rendering device and presents the user with a user interface from which the user can search for... Agent: James J. Decarlo Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070078885 - System and method for generating homogeneous metadata from pre-existing metadata: A method according to one embodiment includes determining the presence of pre-existing metadata associated with at least one local media content file. The method of this embodiment may also include determining at least one data field contained within the pre-existing metadata and generating a homogeneous metadata file for the at... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20070078882 - System and method for merging manual parameters with predefined parameters: A system and method are disclosed for merging manual parameters with predefined parameters. The system includes a parse module configured to receive a command string having multiple nested manual parameters and a build module configured to generate a parameter tree having manual parameter nodes and predefined parameter nodes. The system... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20070078881 - Table columns organizer: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for a table columns organizer. A method of displaying information on a display device of a computer system includes loading data into a table node data structure memory, the table node data structure including node elements and attributes, displaying a first view on... Agent: Holland & Knight, LLP

20070078883 - Using location tags to render tagged portions of media files: A system and method are provided for identifying discrete locations and/or sections within a pre-existing media file without modifying the media file. The discrete locations and/or sections can be associated with one or more user-selected descriptors. The system and method allows for the identifying information to be communicated to consumers... Agent: James J. Decarlo Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070078890 - System and method for providing an object to support data structures in worm storage: An object storage system provides a storage object to support index structures, logs, and audit trails in WORM storage. The storage object includes a mutable object, an immutable object, or an appendable object. For each storage object, the system maintains an indication of type, such as mutable, immutable, or appendable... Agent: Samuel A. Kassatly Law Office

20070078893 - Automated project management method: A software implemented method and user interface for managing development of products including machine components are disclosed. The method may include opening a record adapted to store design data associated with a machine component, receiving a first portion of the design data from a designer, receiving verification of the first... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070078897 - Filemarking pre-existing media files using location tags: A system and method are provided for identifying discrete locations and/or sections within a pre-existing media file without modifying the media file. The discrete locations and/or sections can be associated with one or more user-selected descriptors. The system and method allows for the identifying information to be communicated to consumers... Agent: James J. Decarlo Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070078896 - Identifying portions within media files with location tags: A system and method are provided for identifying discrete locations and/or sections within a pre-existing media file without modifying the media file. The discrete locations and/or sections can be associated with one or more user-selected descriptors. The system and method allows for the identifying information to be communicated to consumers... Agent: James J. Decarlo Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070078891 - Operating systems: A method of enabling multiple different operating systems to run concurrently on the same computer, which is an Intel or similar Complex Instruction Set Computer architecture, comprising selecting a first operating system to have a relatively high priority (the realtime operating system, such as C5); selecting at least one secondary... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070078898 - Server-based system and method for retrieving tagged portions of media files: A system and method are provided for identifying discrete locations and/or sections within a pre-existing media file without modifying the media file. The discrete locations and/or sections can be associated with one or more user-selected descriptors. The system and method allows for the identifying information to be communicated to consumers... Agent: James J. Decarlo Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070078895 - System and method for generating a play-list: The present invention relates to a method for generating a play-list of media files, includes the steps of: rearranging the media files based on weight values in weight fields of each media file in descending order; resetting sub-category weight values associated with desired sub-category in category tables to zero; obtaining... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070078892 - System and method for processing user space operations directly between an application instance and an i/o adapter: A system, method, and computer program product that enables user space middleware or applications to pass file name based storage requests directly to a physical I/O Adapter without run-time involvement from the local Operating System (OS) are provided. A mechanism is provided for using a file protection table (FPT) data... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20070078894 - System and method for unified sku (stock keeping unit) enablement: A system, method, and article of manufacture for unified SKU (Stock Keeping Unit) enablement. The system includes a computer platform having a FLASH device. The FLASH device including an area reserved for a firmware image. The firmware image being of a single SKU and having a default language string. The... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070078903 - Bookmark managing apparatus and method of managing bookmark: In a bookmark managing apparatus, connectable to a service server through a network and to a terminal of a user, for managing a bookmark for each user, bookmark managing information is stored which includes user ID information, connection information of the server, and a cookie for the server, associated with... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070078900 - Document control: Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, systems and/or devices for document control are disclosed.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070078901 - Hierarchical storage system, and control method and program therefor: At power-on again, a restore processing unit restores block information tables from a primary storage to a volatile memory. After classifying the block information tables into group-specific links of a plurality of time zones, a first sort processing unit connects the group-specific links to form a group classification link. Then,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070078904 - Method and apparatus for publishing content through blog: Provided are a method and apparatus for publishing content through a blog. A publisher terminal publishes content and metadata of the content to a blog and transmits a rich site summary (RSS) including information on the published content from a web server for managing the blog to a RSS client... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070078902 - Method and system for the management of files and mail attachments: The present invention is directed to a method and system for the management of files and mail attachments. A method for managing files that have been received by a user as an attachment to an e-mail in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes: detaching a file from an... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070078899 - Updating a portable communication device with media files: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system for updating a portable communication device from a media file server. The device automatically orders updating of the media files in a file storage based on detecting the processing of a number of media files and types of possible wireless connections... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070078905 - Apparatus and methods for a do not disturb feature on a computer system: Techniques for implementing a do not disturb feature on a computer system are disclosed. To this end, a method includes establishing a public flag in memory whose status indicates whether a user of the computer system wants to be notified by a plurality of notifying applications. The method also includes... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070078906 - Copy detection using contour analysis: Systems and methods for detecting copies of images are described. In one example, the system utilizes a threshold based contour analysis technique that uses known contour ratios to determine if a scan of an image or document being tested is a first generation scan of an original or of a... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20070078909 - Database system: Purpose: The purpose is to enable the non-disruptive insertion of columns, and like operations, into databases that remain in operation, guarantee that programs using old database definition sets are able to run, and automate the creation and modification of database definition sets. Constitution: A database system comprising a logical structure... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC Tracy M Heims

20070078908 - Method and system for child safety: A method and computer program for enhancing child safety in child care organizations involves registering a child and the child's guardian by receiving biometric data from the child and the guardian and storing the biometric data in a database. When an adult drops off or picks up the child, the... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20070078907 - Method for updating function of handheld apparatus through plug-and play (pnp) storage device: A method for updating the function of a handheld apparatus through a plug-and-play (PnP) storage device. The handheld apparatus has an operating system, a current version application and a plurality of objects, and provides an expansion interface so as to be compatible with the PnP storage device. When the operating... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070078910 - Back-up storage for home network: An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to provide back-up storage. A service is searched for back-up storage from a device on a home network. The device advertises presence on the home network. The device is queried for information on the back-up storage. The device is configured to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070078912 - Methods, systems and software applications for storing, updating and retrieving key figures: Methods, systems and software applications are provided for storing, updating and retrieving key figures. In accordance with one embodiment, a computerized method is provided for storing values of a variable key figure over time. The method comprises storing a value of the key figure in a first data field and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070078913 - Modular backup and retrieval system used in conjunction with a storage area network: A modular computer storage system and method is provided for managing and directing data archiving functions, which is scaleable and comprehends various storage media as well as diverse operating systems on a plurality of client devices. A client component is associated with one or more client devices for generating archival... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070078911 - Replicating data across the nodes in a cluster environment: Techniques are provided for managing replicated data items in a cluster of shared nothing nodes. The techniques include synchronously propagating changes to one or more replicas, while asynchronously propagating changes to the remaining replicas. Because the replicas to which the change is synchronously replicated may be a relatively small percentage... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070078915 - Discovery of kernel rootkits with memory scan: A system and method are provided for detecting kernel level rootkits including scanning a kernel memory using a kernel level detector. The kernel level detector includes kernel level code executing in kernel space. The kernel memory is compared to at least one rootkit signature file to determine if a rootkit... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070078916 - Efficient class memory management: Memory segments are allocated for a classloader to store class information, such as by selecting an allocation approach based on classloader type. In a first approach, in response to each request, a segment having a fixed size is allocated. In a second approach, in response to a first request, a... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20070078914 - Method, apparatus and program storage device for providing a centralized policy based preallocation in a distributed file system: A method, apparatus and program storage device for providing a centralized policy based preallocation in a distributed file system. Policy rules are used to provide for the specification of a preallocation and an extend size for files in a computer system. An administrator specifies the pre-allocation and extend sizes for... Agent: David W. Lynch Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel