Data processing: database and file management or data structures inventions 05/07

20070124268 - Data diameter privacy policies: Privacy of data can be preserved while utility of the output is maximized by selecting from an appropriately calculated distribution of noise values to add to an output. A distribution that includes a high likelihood of large noise values may lead to less useful output data. Conversely, a distribution that... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070124271 - Method and system for managing file aliases: A method, system, or computer program manages file names as multi-field character strings by defining each file name in a list of file names as a multi-field character string, displaying the list of file names, receiving a command selecting a field within the displayed list of file names, and sorting... Agent: Pastel Law Firm

20070124269 - Organizational reference data and entitlement system with entitlement generator: A system including a centralized organizational information system in communication with a centralized organizational information database and an entitlement generator in communication with the centralized organizational information system, wherein the entitlement generator is configured to automatically generate at least one executable entitlement rule based on an input rule. The system... Agent: Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP

20070124273 - Storage device management method, system and program: Use situations of storage devices utilizing a storage area network (SAN) are predicted and the devices are automatically managed on the basis of the predicted results. To manage the devices utilizing the SAN, there is established the policy prescribing actions each executed when some object to be judged satisfies some... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070124272 - System and method for collecting and compiling data in a computer network: Systems and methods are described, wherein data is received from a workstation associated with a user and compiled after being received from the workstation. In one embodiment, the data is transmitted from the workstation in response to instructions from a data collection program that is adapted to instruct retrieval of... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070124267 - System and method for managing access to storage media: Systems and methods for scanning files for pestware on a protected computer are described. In one variation, locations of each of a plurality of files in a file storage device of the protected computer are identified while substantially circumventing an operating system of the protected computer. Information from each of... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070124270 - System and methods for an identity theft protection bot: The present invention relates to an information security bot system for the mitigation of damage upon its victims, or enforcement of Identity Theft laws, by searching and inducing transactions with perpetrators of identity crimes (e.g. identity theft.). Searching is accomplished using a software spider search robot (“bot”) that turns any... Agent: Chris A. Caseiro

20070124274 - Apparatus and method for autonomic adjustment of resources in a logical partition to improve partitioned query performance: In a partitioned database system that includes multiple logical partitions, query performance is estimated with a current allocation of resources. A determination is made whether additional resources are available or whether resources could be reallocated from one logical partition to a different logical partition. Query performance is then estimated again... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20070124275 - Considering transient data also in reports generated based on data eventually stored in a data-warehouse: A data-warehouse is updated with transaction data from various application databases periodically, and the transient data (the data not yet updated in the data-warehouse) from the application databases is transferred to an intermediary data storage. A report generator may consider the data in both the data-warehouse and the intermediary data... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20070124277 - Index and method for extending and querying index: Disclosed are an index structure and a method of extending index which comprises: (a) performing indexing operations of generating inverted index for newly inserted data source in the memory; (b) if the number of source data involved in the indexing operations reaches a first threshold value k1, sequentially writing the... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070124276 - Method of improving a query to a database system: In embodiments, methods and systems for improving a query in a database system are provided. These method and system embodiments can enable greater contextual knowledge about the types and use of data in tables underlying a relational database to be employed to improve query efficiency. By employing contextual information, embodiments... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070124278 - System and method for electronic record keeping: A system and method of keeping records includes recording information and metadata associated with the information. The metadata is protected from changes. The information can be displayed to a second user for acknowledgement. Acknowledgement by the second user can also be recorded. The metadata can provide an audit trail for... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070124293 - Audio search system: The present invention relates to systems and methods for identifying audio files. In particular, the present invention relates to systems and methods for identifying audio files (e.g., music files) with user-established search criteria. The systems and methods of the present invention allow a user to use an audio file to... Agent: Medlen & Carroll, LLP

20070124292 - Autobiographical and other data collection system: Surveillance technology particularly suited to continuous gathering of autobiographical data. Integrated into a portable construction are data collection mechanisms for capturing substantially all perceptual stimulus and acquirable digital data in the immediate vicinity of the system, a data integrator for correlating said autobiographical data, and memory for storing collected data.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070124285 - Data feeds for management systems: A data feed is defined with a data type and criteria. Each data type corresponds to a type of management related data provided by a management system. The management system is searched for all management related data that corresponds with the data type and the criteria. An aggregator collects the... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070124286 - Focused search using network addresses: Embodiment of search using network addresses are presented herein. For example, a search may take into account one or more network addresses to focus a search for particular content. In another example, functionality may be provided such that when a user selects a network address, a search is performed for... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070124287 - Method and apparatus for implementing search engine with cost per action revenue model: The inventive technology enables the search engine operator to charge the advertisers who place their links on the search engine only if the user uses the search results to visit the advertiser's web portal(s) and generates revenue for the advertiser. This concept is especially attractive to the advertisers because it... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070124291 - Method and system for extracting and visualizing graph-structured relations from unstructured text: The present invention is directed to a system, method and computer program for automatically extracting and mining relations and related entities from unstructured text. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes: extracting relations and related entities from unstructured text data, representing the extracted information into a... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070124290 - Method and system for online session tracking: A computer implemented method of tracking client device activity on a web site comprising: receiving by a web server, from a client device a first request for a web page; in response to the first request, gathering by the web server, from the client device, client device identifying information; storing... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070124288 - Method and system for tracking online promotional source to offline activity: A computer implemented method is provided for tracking user activity across different communication networks; the method comprises receiving by a receiving device accessible on a first network, such as the internet, a request from a requesting network device, for an address on a second network, such as a telephone network... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070124279 - Method for quickly retrieving a record in a data page of a database: The present invention relates to a method for fast locating records on a data page in a database, comprising the steps of: setting a directory structure composed of a group of record deviations at the end of a data page, in which, a record deviation is a position deviation of... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20070124289 - Remote execution of actions transparent to a user at registered remote entities in real-time: An apparatus and a method of remotely executing actions in real-time transparent to a user are described. The method includes an execution engine that receives a natural language executable string from a user, identifies a remote entity capable of executing the natural language executable string, sending the executable string to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070124280 - Search engine which awards point per click: The current invention is a search engine that will allow users to save money in their net advertising budget and promote a site for free. The system is easy to use: a user simply searches or surfs through the websites in the system's search engine database and, in doing so,... Agent: Jeffrey Furr

20070124283 - Search engine with community feedback system: A system for enhancing a search results page with community feedback includes a web server to receive a query from a verified user and to submit the query to a search engine for identification of one or more indexed web pages that match the query. In one embodiment, the web... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Slc

20070124294 - Search proxy device, communication system, and method for searching for information: A search proxy device, a communication system and a method for searching for information are disclosed. The search proxy receives an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document information search request from a client or a service enabler server, processes the XML document information search request, sends a search message to a... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070124281 - System and method of unstructured analysis through the application of multiple structure maps: A system and method of unstructured information analysis through the application of multiple structure maps. A preferred embodiment of the present invention includes providing a mapping framework implemented as a coupled collection of nodes, attaching the information elements to the collection of nodes, coupling the information elements with at least... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070124284 - Systems, methods and media for searching a collection of data, based on information derived from the data: Systems, methods and media for content-based search processing are disclosed. In one embodiment, a database is organized according to keywords. Data corresponding to keywords is searched to produce search results within the context of the keywords input by a user. The search results are analyzed to determine features of the... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20070124282 - Video data directory: The invention pertains to a device and methods for requesting, querying, provisioning, supplying, managing and assignment of additional data for a video that consists of a plurality of video frames, via which by means of additional data or terms assigned link data, users of videos receive contents and term-related link... Agent: Erland Wittkotter Apt 174

20070124295 - Systems, methods, and media for searching documents based on text characteristics: Systems, methods and media for searching documents based on text characteristics are disclosed. Embodiments may include receiving by a document searching system a request to search a document for a keyword and to limit the search based on one or more text characteristics associated with the keyword. Embodiments may also... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20070124296 - Generating search results based on determined relationships between data objects and user connections to identified destinations: A search system generates an ordered list of destination targets including identified individuals and data objects, based on applying a user context to an information context and to a connection context. The user context identifies a search context (i.e., the information the user is seeking) relative to an identity of... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20070124297 - Generating search results based on determined relationships between data objects and user connections to identified destinations: A search system generates an ordered list of destination targets including identified individuals and data objects, based on applying a user context to an information context and to a connection context. The user context identifies a search context (i.e., the information the user is seeking) relative to an identity of... Agent: Leon R Turkevich

20070124300 - Method and system for constructing a classifier: A method and system for constructing a classifier for a set of records to be classified (108) into predicted classes (351-353) are provided. The set of records that are to be classified (108) are clustered into a plurality of clusters. A first classifier (106) is created that classifies records into... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070124299 - Selective latent semantic indexing method for information retrieval applications: A term-by-document (or part-by-collection) matrix can be used to index documents (or collections) for information retrieval applications. Reducing the rank of the indexing matrix can further reduce the complexity of information retrieval. A method for index matrix rank reduction can involve computing a singular value decomposition and then retaining singular... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20070124298 - Visually-represented results to search queries in rich media content: When executed, a computer program product generates a graphical user interface that renders results that are responsive to a search query of a rich media file. The graphical user interface includes a chronological representation of the rich media file, one or more occurrence markers along the chronological representation corresponding to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070124302 - Mapping a source file from a source system to a target system: A method includes defining a file attribute indicator based on an attribute associated with a source file and based on a mapping policy. The source file has a source filename and the source file is migrated to a target system from a source system. The target filename is based on... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070124301 - Methods and systems for improving text segmentation: Methods and systems for improving text segmentation are disclosed. In one embodiment, at least a first segmented result and a second segmented result are determined from a string of characters, a first frequency of occurrence for the first segmented result and a second frequency of occurrence for the second segmented... Agent: Patent Department - 53051 Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20070124303 - System and method for managing access to data in a database: A method, system and article of manufacture for data processing and more particularly for managing access to data in a database that should be available for a limited number of accesses. One embodiment provides a method comprising receiving, from a requesting entity, a query against a database having consumable data... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070124305 - Automated test script for communications server: For use in a communication system having at least one enterprise server for facilitating communications and delivery of services to users of handheld mobile communication devices and an administrative program for managing the enterprise server, the improvement comprising an automated script for testing operation of the administration software by automatically... Agent: Stephen J. Perry Perry + Partners

20070124309 - Content retrieval system: In a content retrieval system where an update frequency of content is extremely high, based on a content reference request from a client which generates the content reference request including unique information and an attribute of a desired content, a cache server checks a presence/absence of a cache of the... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070124308 - Decomposing installation of distributed services: Communicating with a distributed service in the network computing environment. A method for communicating with a distributed service includes referencing a configuration registry to determine resources and permissions in a potential distributed service entry. A potential distributed service entry identifies a distributed service corresponding to the potential distributed service entry... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070124310 - Distributed computing system to enable the secure exchange of information between remotely located healthcare applications: Systems and methods are provided for securely exchanging information between remote computing systems such as electronic medical records in the local healthcare community, enabling interoperabilty and allowing for the synchronization of common information. Some embodiments provide for a type of software “middleware” that autonomously extracts, analyzes and transforms information from... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20070124307 - Focused search using network addresses: Embodiments of search using network addresses are presented herein. For example, a search may take into account one or more network addresses to focus a search for particular content. In another example, functionality may be provided such that when a user selects a network address, a search is performed for... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070124313 - Method and apparatus for secure digital content distribution: Provided are a method and apparatus for securely distributing digital content. According to the method and apparatus, content is securely transmitted to users who have a right of use content regardless of the reliability of a content distributor, thereby allowing the users to efficiently use content. For example, even if... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070124306 - Method and system for transmitting data to vehicles over limited data links: Methods and system are provided for communicating messages over limited bandwidth data links. The method generally comprises taking a message that comprises message objects, and converting the message into a protocol stream by identifying message objects having corresponding translations in the dictionary. In one approach, the method comprises converting each... Agent: Brian M Berliner, Esq O'melveny & Myers, LLP

20070124312 - Structured communication system and method: This invention presents a novel way in which electronic communication can be carried out, wherein the context of the communication is established by negotiation between the sender and receiver, whereby the communication can be properly categorized and filed.... Agent: Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

20070124304 - System and method for automatically retrieving information for a portable information system: A system and method is provided for automatically retrieving information for a portable information system. The portable information system comprises an audio/video sensor that is capable of obtaining audio/video signals and a wireless communication device that is capable of communicating with a remotely located server to obtain information that is... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070124311 - System and method for providing web service to device without web browser: A system and a method for providing web services to a device without a web browser are provided. A client, which provides web services, includes a control module transmitting a user command to a server which has a web browser and which provides web services; a parsing module receiving a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070124314 - Work data management system and work data management method: A work data management system is provided with terminals through which to input work data, a database, and a server. The terminals, the database, and the server are connected to a network. The server is provided with a Web server and a Web application. The database is divided into a... Agent: Cook, Alex, Mcfarron, Manzo, Cummings & Mehler Ltd

20070124316 - Attribute selection for collaborative groupware documents using a multi-dimensional matrix: Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and apparatus for attribute selection for collaborative groupware documents using a multi-dimensional matrix. In an embodiment, an attribute value selection system can include a document database disposed in a groupware system and at least one document stored in the document database. The... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070124315 - Computer equipment for an actor of a logistic chain: The invention concerns informatics equipment for an actor in a logistic chain of production or processing of products, more specifically of food products. This equipment comprises: the means to create document models based on heading modules and attribute modules, said document models being comprised on the one hand, of at... Agent: Darin Bartholomew Patent Department Deere & Company

20070124317 - Database staging area read-through or forced flush with dirty notification: Embodiments of the present invention allow the results of a query to an operational datastore to be augmented with relevant data that may be stored in a staging area datastore. Upon receiving a query to the operational datastore, it is determined whether data relevant to the query is present in... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070124318 - System and method for schemaless data mapping with nested tables: A system and method for mapping payload data to a spreadsheet list. The present invention comprises a system for mapping payload data to a spreadsheet list while supporting the implementation of nested tables, without the use of a schema. After receiving a spreadsheet list, the present invention generates the parent... Agent: Attention Of Mark R. Hennings Merchant & Gould P.C.

20070124319 - Metadata generation for rich media: Metadata is generated for rich media content from a document or workflow that is associated with the rich media content. When rich media content is included in a document or workflow, text is extracted from the document or workflow that is relevant to the rich media content. The text is... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070124320 - Modeling a data element: A computer system includes a repository with predefined data elements for use in identifying information portions in electronic communications. Each data element is associated with semantic information indicating its definition and intended use. The system includes a modeling tool that, upon selection by a user, displays any of the predefined... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070124328 - Computerized national online parcel-level map data portal: A National Online Parcel-Level Map Data Portal (NPDP) is provided that optimizes online delivery of parcel-level maps and linked attribute data. To do this, the NPDP manages a database of assembled and current vector based parcel data in a spatial format (GIS) that enables geocoded parcel boundaries to be linked... Agent: Lawrence Edelman

20070124324 - Device, method and computer program product for monitoring a group of entities: A device, computer readable medium and method for monitoring a group of entities. The method includes: receiving entities information, entity dependency information and entity association information; generating a model of the group of entities that includes multiple abstract dependency instances; evaluating at least one parameter of the group of entities... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070124323 - Dynamic web site database setup: Exemplary embodiments described in this disclosure provide for creating a data structure for a dynamic web page that is associated with an account. At least one embodiment of the method includes providing a setup form for a data structure associated with the account, wherein the data structure includes at least... Agent: Jodi L. Hartman Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC

20070124326 - Extensible controls for a content data repository: An extensible control interface is provided to simplify access to the content management repository. Developers can write extension interfaces associated with new data types, where the extension interfaces extend the extensible control and are annotated with the control extension annotation. These new interfaces can specify the repository name and declare... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070124322 - Lossless format-dependent analysis and modification of multi-document e-learning resources: Content stored in a plurality of electronic files that belong to a course of learning resources is read. An object-oriented representation of structures of the content is generated, where the representation includes objects that represent portions of the content, and a semantic content model of the content is generated based... Agent: Brake Hughes PLC C/o Portfolioip

20070124327 - Method of creating a file for a patterning mask: Disclosed is a method which may convert files containing information about a mask to create a file for patterning a mask. A plurality of files may be processed at the same time regardless of the number of files containing mask information. Final fracture files may be created from a plurality... Agent: Sherr & Nourse, PLLC

20070124329 - Recording medium having a data structure for managing various data streams and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses: In one embodiment, the recording medium includes a stream directory including at least one text subtitle stream file storing the text subtitle, and a stream information directory including at least one stream information file associated with the text subtitle. The stream information file has a one-to-one correspondence with the text... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070124321 - Storing digital secrets in a vault: Methods and systems for storing secret information in a digital vault include obtaining from a user answers to a number of different questions, and identifying which subsets or combinations of the questions for which correct answers later provided by an entity will enable that entity to gain access to the... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070124325 - Systems and methods for organizing media based on associated metadata: A system and method for organizing media based on associated metadata is provided. One or more items of media are accessed. Metadata associated with the one or more items of media is identified. A grouping for the one or more items of media according to the metadata is determined. The... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070124330 - Methods of rendering information services and related devices: A business method and related apparatus comprising providing a database storing information pertaining to a plurality of objects; providing object identifiers corresponding to each of the plurality of objects; posting at least one object identifier in a visible manner to a user; allowing the user to use a communication device... Agent: Rolando J. Tong

20070124334 - Dynamic mechanism for providing metadata: Dynamic metadata allows for metadata that can be configured for an application programming interface (API) after the API has shipped. Multiple entities can provide metadata for the same API or portions of an API. The metadata provided for an API can be set up for each application domain, allowing customization... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070124333 - Method and apparatus for associating metadata with digital photographs: A computational device (10, 100) automatically selects metadata and presents it to a user for approval. The computational device (10, 100) compares information included in an image file with information included in a metadata database and automatically selects metadata and presents it to a user based on the comparison. If... Agent: General Instrument Corporation Dba The Connected Home Solutions Business Of Motorola, Inc.

20070124332 - Method and apparatus for remote detection and control of data recording systems on moving systems: A method of remotely detecting and controlling whether locomotive data indicative of at least one of integrated diagnostic data, telemetry data and recording systems data from a locomotive is valid locomotive data, the method including remotely accessing locomotive data residing at the locomotive, reviewing a data parameter characteristic of the... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.A.

20070124331 - Method and apparatus for the seamless delivery of content: The system of the invention includes the provision of a bookmark associated with the content file such that the bookmark will save the place in the content file where play back of the content was stopped. The bookmark may be based on a content consumed data comprising total or percentage... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Semc

20070124336 - Method and system for distributed user profiling: A data processing method and network for collecting, storing, and providing user profile data. The network comprises a number of persona agents, interconnected to a hub. The persona agents and the hub are stored within the data communications network. Each persona agent is associated with a user of the data... Agent: Jackson Walker, L.L.P.

20070124335 - Method for quantifying plant resources using gis: A method for quantifying plant resource using a GIS is disclosed, in which it is possible to more efficiently quantify plant resources with less manpower, time and cost using a GIS when quantifying plant resources in a certain region. In the method, a sample group is extracted from mother groups... Agent: Ipla P.A.

20070124337 - System and method for automated process control: A process control system that automatically monitors processes and performs activities based on conditions detected during monitoring. The information needed to do the monitoring and perform activities is contained in tables in a database system. The process control system may be configured by configuring entries in the tables. An administrative... Agent: Gordon E Nelson Patent Attorney, PC

20070124338 - Removable medium apparatus and control method thereof: A removable-medium apparatus that outputs data that is stored on a removable medium that updates ID information that corresponds to data stored on said removable medium when it is detected that a removable medium is mounted, and sends the ID information that is updated. Also, it sends data when receiving... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070124339 - System and method for managing data using static lists: A method and system are provided in which static lists facilitate arbitrary grouping of items of data independent of their locations and in ways that are meaningful to the user. A static list is a set of items defined by a root item, a direction, and the entry relationships with... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070124340 - Apparatus and method for file-level replication between two or more non-symmetric storage sites: An apparatus and method to replicate one or more files between non-symmetric storage systems are disclosed. The method supplies a first storage system comprising a first configuration, a first volume, a first file system, and a first replication appliance comprising first replication appliance memory. The method further supplies a second... Agent: Dale F. Regelman

20070124342 - Failure tolerant transaction processing system: The present invention proposes a system for resending a process to a backup server farm from a client without waiting for the failure-detection, if no reply is received for a certain time. The transaction processing mechanism of the present invention has a transaction start processing mechanism in which an exclusive... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070124341 - System and method for restoring data on demand for instant volume restoration: A technique is disclosed for restoring data of sparse volumes, where one or more block pointers within the file system structure are marked as ABSENT, and fetching the appropriate data from an alternate location on demand. Client data access requests to the local storage system initiate a restoration of the... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070124343 - Method or apparatus for processing data in a system management application program: A method or apparatus is disclosed for processing data in a system management application program in which change data from the system being managed is pre-processed in order to reduce unnecessary processing by the system management application program.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070124347 - Database system configured for automatic failover with no data loss: Techniques used in an automatic failover configuration having a primary database system, a standby database system, and an observer for preventing divergence among the primary and standby database systems while increasing the availability of the primary database system. In the automatic failover configuration, the primary database system remains available even... Agent: Gordon E. Nelson Patent Attorney PC

20070124348 - Database system configured for automatic failover with no data loss: Techniques used in an automatic failover configuration having a primary database system, a standby database system, and an observer for preventing divergence among the primary and standby database systems while increasing the availability of the primary database system. In the automatic failover configuration, the primary database system remains available even... Agent: Gordon E. Nelson Patent Attorney PC

20070124345 - Library backup: Systems and methods are disclosed for a library backup. The disclosed systems and methods may include requesting backup information from an external library by the user. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include packaging the requested information into an archive file and storing the archive file having a first... Agent: John S. Beulick Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20070124349 - Method and apparatus for storage and retrieval of very large databases using a direct pipe: A method and apparatus for directly connecting very large data streams from an archive command into a backup data system using an “intelligent process.” An output stream is piped into an intelligent pipe-reading process and distributed over a set of temporary data stores built from raw storage resources. A pipe... Agent: Brown, Rudnick, Berlack & Israels, LLP.

20070124344 - Method, apparatus and program storage device for providing web services-based data replication for heterogeneous storage systems: A method, apparatus and program storage device for providing web services-based data replication for heterogeneous storage systems. A web services interface is provided in a storage subsystem to provide access of replication functions of the storage subsystem by a remote requesting agent. The web services interface may also authenticate a... Agent: David W. Lynch Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel

20070124346 - System and method for creating, managing, deploying and archiving data-intensive applications and projects: According to the present invention, there is provided an integrated application design, management, and deployment method, including the steps of: defining and displaying the navigational and data-related parameters of an application; controlling the overall functionality and operation of the process; initiating and running an application; and storing and referencing all... Agent: Kenneth I. Kohn Kohn & Associates, PLLC

20070124350 - High performance file fragment cache: A system, method, and computer program for caching a plurality of file fragments to improve file transfer performance, comprising the steps of exposing at least one file fragment of a computer file as a primary object to an application; caching said at least one file fragment at a plurality of... Agent: Ugs Corp.

20070118500 - Associative database scanning and information retrieval: A method and device are disclosed for an associative and approximate, analog or digital scanning of databases that allows for the asynchronous accessing of data from a mass storage medium. The invention includes providing dedicated analog and digital circuitry and decision logic at the mass storage medium level for determining... Agent: Thompson Coburn, LLP

20070118495 - Inverse hierarchical approach to data: Data may be stored and search starting at the child level of data and progressing toward parent data and grandparent data, if needed.... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070118497 - Linking of identical character strings in differnt files: There is provided methods, machine-readable media, and systems for linking a character string in a first file with a character string in a second file, both of the character strings being stored in a memory of a computer, the character string in the second file being identical to the character... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070118499 - Method and system for collecting and restoring application state information: A method and system for collecting and restoring application state is provided. To process application state information, the system registers various types of applications, searches for an application control library of an application which a user has selected from registered applications, dynamically links to the found application control library, and... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070118498 - Methods and systems for utilizing content, dynamic patterns, and/or relational information for data analysis: The present invention is directed generally to providing systems and methods for data analysis. More specifically, embodiments may provide system(s) and method(s) including dynamic user modeling techniques to capture the relational and dynamic patterns of information content and/or users' or entities' interests. Various embodiments may include system(s) and method(s) that... Agent: Kevin Alan Wolff

20070118496 - Service-to-device mapping for smart items: A service repository is used to store at least one service in association with service metadata describing service requirements of the service. The service repository also may store one or more platform-specific service executables. A service mapper is used to determine device metadata associated with each of a plurality of... Agent: Brake Hughes PLC C/o Portfolioip

20070118501 - Allocation performance by query optimization: Allocation performance is enhanced by optimizing queries associated with the allocation. A sparse definition space for a calculation is translated into a dense space for performing the calculation for efficient resource utilization. A calculation expression is symbolically analyzed to determine a relationship between non-zero calculated results and non-zero cells in... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070118502 - Methods and systems for managing a fleet of assets: Methods and systems for a mission planning system for a fleet of assets are provided. The system includes a centralized database for storing information, a computer system configured to be coupled to the database wherein the computer system includes a mission model configured to analyze a plurality of missions to... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070118503 - Methods and systems for providing data to a database: Methods and systems for providing data, generated by a computer application, to a database.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070118505 - Clearing potentially inadvertent entries in electronic device: Electronic devices, software and methods for a host electronic device such as a mobile phone, PDA, player, etc. In some embodiments, a criterion is used to determine whether a manual entry by the user was intended. If not, the entry is cleared.... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20070118509 - Collaborative service for suggesting media keywords based on location data: A collaborative location keyword registry service for suggesting keywords for tagging a digital image is provided. The location keyword registry service is implemented on a network-connected server. A plurality of users interact with the location keyword registry service to vote for keywords in a list of keywords for each of... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070118514 - Command engine: A command engine of the present invention correlates user intentions with website capabilities. Rather than merely matching words against indexes, user intentions are approximated and desired results are retrieved directly, bypassing multiple steps in the process. Preferably, the user query is written as an action verb in “do” and an... Agent: John J. Yim, Esq.

20070118511 - Dynamic assignment of qualification block to person: A method for matching an object with a set of qualifications to an object with a set of requirements includes examining the object with the set of qualifications to produce a list of qualifications without a hierarchy, removing duplicate qualifications, and matching list of qualifications without a hierarchy with removed... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070118512 - Inferring search category synonyms from user logs: Systems and methods for inferring category synonyms from prior result data may include identifying prior query data including query information and category information relating to the prior result data; determining whether the query information is a synonym for the category information; and using the query information and the category information... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070118507 - Managing software configuration of a wireless device: Various embodiments of the present invention provide methods used in a fixed portion of a wireless communication network for managing a software configuration of a wireless device (104) by a server (102). The method includes obtaining a list of current versions of software packages (312) present in the wireless device... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070118504 - Method, apparatus, and system for searching based on search visibility rules: According to one aspect of the present invention, a method is provided in which a search request containing search criteria is received from a first user. A search is performed based upon the search criteria and the first user's organizational identifier to identify data records that match the search criteria... Agent: Csa LLP

20070118510 - Optimization of leaf-level multi-dimensional calculation using scripts: Leaf-level, multi-dimensional calculations are optimized by translating the multi-dimensional calculations to efficient query scripts. To generate efficient query scripts, rows are transposed to columns while affected rows are reduced by reversing calculation relationships. Actual calculations are performed on calculated columns. Transposing row-to-column enables fast arithmetic calculations. Reversing the calculation relationships... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070118515 - System and method for matching expertise: Disclosed are a method, machine-readable code, and a database for use in identifying, among a group of professionals, one or more professionals having expertise with a given problem or specialty of interest. In the method, a search query related to the given problem is used to identify a summary statement... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070118508 - System and method for tagging images based on positional information: A system and method for suggesting keywords for tagging a digital image are provided. In general, a requesting node is communicatively coupled to a keyword service via a network. The requesting node sends a request to the keyword service requesting suggested keywords for a digital image. The request includes information... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070118513 - System for managing community provided in information processing system, and method thereof: Provided is a system which manages a user community provided in an information processing system, in which user community information provided by a user is made available to another user for reference. The system includes a storage section which stores an audit policy defining contents of information to be permitted... Agent: Ido Tuchman

20070118506 - Text summarization method & apparatus using a multidimensional subspace: A text summarizer identifies relevant terms in a document, weights the terms and extracts one or more segments to produce a summary or abstract. The various terms in a particular are weighted in relation to an existing document collection. A term weight computer computes term weights for terms in the... Agent: Baker & Hostetler, LLP For Boeing Company

20070118516 - Using multi-dimensional expression (mdx) and relational methods for allocation: Data allocation is performed by translating a rule set to a query list. An allocation engine receives the rule set and the data and generates a query list. The query list may be in MDX or SQL syntax. After modifying the queries in the list into a list of physical... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070118517 - Information management method using key-coded words: An information management method relates to make the connection between depositor (22) and searcher (24), using words (31W, 41W) of natural language. The word (31W, 41W) is attached with at least one predefined key-code (31K, 41K) which stands for at least one of the pre-analyzed subject-matters of the item and... Agent: Ben Gill-ho Lee

20070118520 - Local search and mapping for mobile devices: A computer-implemented method is disclosed that includes receiving on a mobile device a search query associated with a geographic location, providing one or more search results in response to the search query, the search results each being associated with a geographic location, and presenting on a graphical display of the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070118521 - Page reranking system and page reranking program to improve search result: A page reranking system is a system that grants renewed page rankings to multiple Web pages that are obtained as search result pages in compliance with a user's query and to which page rankings are granted by calculating a change rate of a page content between multiple versions of each... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P.

20070118519 - Question answering system, data search method, and computer program: A question answering system includes a question sentence analyzing unit, a question keyword identifying unit, a passage acquiring unit and an answer generating unit. The question sentence analyzing unit determines whether or not an input question sentence is an ambiguous question. The question keyword identifying unit extracts a question keyword... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070118518 - Text summarization method and apparatus using a multidimensional subspace: A text summarizer identifies relevant terms in a document, weights the terms and extracts one or more segments to produce a summary or abstract. The various terms in a particular are weighted in relation to an existing document collection. A term weight computer computes term weights for terms in the... Agent: Baker & Hostetler, LLP For Boeing Company

20070118522 - Flexible hierarchy of grouping qualifications: A method for matching a first object of a first type with a second object of a second type includes reviving one or more qualifications blocks to be applied to the first object, determining a set of qualifications for each of the one or more qualifications blocks, applying each qualification... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070118523 - Logical locking for java data objects: Logically locking in a Java Data Object rather than in a transactional context of a data store to separate the process of isolating an object from accessing a data store to which the object is mapped.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070118524 - Surrogate key generation and utilization: The subject disclosure pertains to databases as well as generation and utilization of keys. A desired or default number of values can be requested from a domain and allocated for use. These values can be utilized to generate surrogate keys. Subsequently or concurrently, the keys can be employed with respect... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070118528 - Apparatus and method for blocking phishing web page access: An apparatus and a method for blocking access to a phishing web page are provided. The apparatus includes a media collection unit collecting media having a function of connecting to a web page, a management unit managing phishing information comprising at least one of location information on phishing web pages,... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070118526 - Internet-based book rent system: The limited availability of textbooks at on campus and public libraries creates a problem for students whose decision of not buying a book relies upon a financial constraint or the knowledge that the books would be relevant just for a limited period of time. This problem is exacerbated when the... Agent: Alfredo Romero

20070118527 - Security and data filtering: A pluggable data filtering system allows users to access secure and non-secure data, using completely flexible filtering terms. The system provides functionality that identifies data that is both responsive to the user's search, and for which the user has been granted access rights, and automatically provides those data to the... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070118525 - System and method for controlling access to assets in a network-based media sharing system using tagging: A system and method for controlling access to digital assets in an online media sharing system based on keywords are provided. In general, each digital asset is tagged with a number of keywords. The owner of the digital assets defines a guest list including a number of guests. For each... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070118534 - Auditing database end user activity in one to multi-tier web application and local environments: Provided are systems and methods of auditing database end user activity. The methods include extending a web application in order to tie a user of the web application to the user's web application login operation where the web application is coupled to a web application server that employs a connection... Agent: Dubois, Bryant, Campbell & Schwartz, LLP

20070118529 - Content download experience: A method of improving a content download experience for an information handling system is disclosed. The method includes storing content locally onto the storage of an information handling system when the information handling system is manufactured and checking the locally stored content prior to attempting to download content when accessing... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20070118535 - Interface for media publishing: Methods and apparatus for implementing an interface for media publishing. In one implementation, a method of publishing media data includes: accessing a media interface of a media device; capturing media data using a media capture component of said media device; storing said captured media data in a media file in... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070118531 - Issues database system and method: A graphical interface provides multi-faceted distributed access to project information stored in one or more databases. A plurality of users having different types of functions can access data related to their respective function to the exclusion of information for the same project related to other functions.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070118532 - Method and system for providing system security services: A method and system for providing system security services is disclosed. The server of a vendor of a content inspection engine receives a current set of definition data in a first format from the server of a definition data file generator through a network. The vendor and the definition data... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070118533 - On-off handset search box: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for executing a search query on a mobile communication facility to search local and network mobile content and other information for presentation to the mobile communication facility. Local mobile content may be synchronized with network content as needed when a... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070118530 - Scheduling of software updates: Software updates are described. In an implementation, a method includes forming an authentication request to be communicated to an authentication service over a network that includes a version identifier of at least one application module of a client. A response is received to the authentication request which includes an indication... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070118536 - System and method for managing images over a communication network: A system, method, and software product for managing digital images. A server is provided for controlling access to a user image storage device having at least one digital image file of an image. The server has a communication device capable of communicating with a plurality of user computers wherein at... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20070118537 - System and method for receiving and loading fare and schedule data: A system for loading data to a search system configured to process requests and present data meeting criteria specified in the request. A first server is configured to monitor a second server for the availability of a new data set, to request a transfer of the new data set when... Agent: Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon

20070118539 - Focused community discovery: Techniques for community discovery in a network are disclosed. For example, a technique for discovering a community around a given entity in an interaction graph, wherein nodes in the graph represent entities and edges connecting nodes in the graph represent interactions between connected nodes, comprises the following steps/operations. Nodes in... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070118538 - Forms integration of an external data model not implemented through a document object model (dom) accessible application programming interface (api): Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to deploying XForms in an enterprise environment and provide a method, system and computer program product for forms integration of an external data model not implemented through a DOM accessible API. In one embodiment of the invention, a... Agent: Steven M. Greenberg, Esquire Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20070118543 - Full-text search device performing merge processing by using full-text index-for-registration/ deletion storage part with performing registration/deletion processing by using other full-text index-for-registration/deletion storage part: When a number of document data registered in one of full-text index-for-registration/deletion storage parts reaches a predetermined number, or when a capacity of the full-text index-for-registration/deletion storage part reaches a predetermined capacity, a merge processing is performed for merging data from the full-text index-for-registration/deletion storage part to a full-text index-for-search... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070118541 - Generation of a categorization scheme: A method for generating a categorization scheme including a set of one or more categories for a collection of data items, each data item including at least one data element having an element name and an element value, the method comprising the steps of: identifying a common data element for... Agent: Jerry W. Herndon International Business Machines

20070118540 - Integrating medical data and images in a database management system: A method of integrating syntactically valid medical images into a database management system. A database table is created and a database object is initialized with a medical image object. The medical image object is parsed. An XML representation of metadata associated with the medical image object is created and the... Agent: Perman & Green, LLP

20070118542 - System, method and computer program for faceted classification synthesis: A method (system and computer program product) performs facet classification synthesis to relate concepts represented by concept definitions defined in accordance with a faceted data set comprising facets, facet attributes, and facet attribute hierarchies. Dimensional concept relationships are expressed between the concept definitions. Two concept definitions are determined to be... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20070118544 - Customized standard format media files: Described is a computing device comprising a first decoding module and a second decoding module. The first decoding module decodes information from a standard format media file. The second decoding module decodes additional data embedded in the standard format media file. The additional data is compatible with the standard format... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070118545 - Dynamic business process integration using complex event processing: An enterprise application integration broker for managing a number of applications. The enterprise application integration broker includes a complex event processing engine. The complex event processing engine is adapted to monitor and analyze a first set of events in at least one of the plurality of applications. In addition, the... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070118547 - Efficient index versioning in multi-version databases: A method and system are provided for maintaining a database index version. The database index includes a secondary node affiliated with each leaf node of the index. The secondary node stores version information for each leaf node. A pointer in a header section of the leaf node connects the leaf... Agent: Rochelle Lieberman Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20070118549 - Hierarchical, multi-tiered mapping and monitoring architecture for smart items: A service repository is used to store at least one service in association with service metadata describing service requirements of the service. The service repository also may store one or more platform-specific service executables. A service mapper is used to determine device metadata associated with each of a plurality of... Agent: Brake Hughes PLC C/o Intellevate

20070118548 - Method and system for selecting answers in answer set using a customizable table: A method for assisting a person in viewing results of a database query uses query parameters to obtain query results from a database. A user interface displays a table having a selector column. The selector column includes a plurality of rows, with each row representing a set of values for... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20070118546 - User's preference prediction from collective rating data: A computer-implemented method includes receiving a dataset representing a plurality of users, a plurality of items, and a plurality of ratings given to items by users; clustering the plurality of users into a plurality of user-groups such that at least one user belongs to more than one user-group; clustering the... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20070118552 - File editing system and method thereof: A file editing system is provided. The file editing system includes: a first storage (41) for storing file contents; a primary display screen (31) for displaying the file contents thereon; a control device (20) for receiving commands and user comments taken regarding the file contents from a user; and a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070118550 - Method and apparatus for building a multi-discipline and multi-media personal medical image library: A method for retrieving medical images from various sources and in different formats, to enable the creation of teaching files and research datasets, for the building of a personal medical image library, the method comprising: retrieving a plurality of medical images from various sources; storing the plurality of medical images... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070118553 - Method, computer program product, and system of optimized data translation from relational data storage to hierarchical structure: A tagging tree that defines a hierarchical output data structure and relational database query operations that retrieve the data to be included in each hierarchical section is accepted and processed. A query optimizer analyzes the tagging tree to determine database query operations that can be combined into a single query... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20070118551 - Semantic business model management: A computer-implemented solution for managing a semantic business model is provided. In particular, one or more business area models for a business entity are obtained and transformed into intermediate model(s). Each intermediate model is represented using a substantially similar meta-modeling language. Subsequently, the semantic business model is generated by merging... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070118554 - System and method for authoring multimedia contents description metadata: Disclosed is a system for authoring metadata that describe multimedia contents. A storage device loads information on a currently edited metadata document so as to describe multimedia contents, and a metadata editor visualizes the loaded metadata document according to a predetermined method, and allows a user to edit the metadata... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070118555 - Method and system for modeling service using bayesian network and status information in distributed environment: Provided are a method and system for modeling a service using a Bayesian network and status information in a distributed environment. The method includes creating a scenario for modeling at least one service, categorizing the service into models according to properties based on the scenario, setting interrelationships including a chronological... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070118559 - File system filters and transactions: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to file system filters and transactions. In aspects, a filter may enlist to receive notification of events associated with a transaction. Afterwards, the filter may receive notification of a transaction event for which it has enlisted. In response to receiving notification of... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070118563 - Method and system for automatically generating executable processes from inter-organizational workflows: A method and system to automatically translate a definition of a choreography workflow process to an executable process are provided. The method includes processing a collaboration element from the definition, mapping the collaboration element to an executable element based on a knowledge database system that contains the collaboration element and... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070118561 - Path-caching mechanism to improve performance of path-related operations in a repository: A method and apparatus for processing path-based database operations is provided. According to one aspect, a path cache is maintained. For each hierarchical node that is traversed during a path-determining operation, it is determined whether a cache entry corresponding to that node is already contained in the path cache. If... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070118560 - Service-to-device re-mapping for smart items: A service repository is used to store at least one service in association with service metadata describing service requirements of the service. The service repository also may store one or more platform-specific service executables. A service mapper is used to determine device metadata associated with each of a plurality of... Agent: Brake Hughes PLC C/o Portfolioip

20070118558 - System and method for application program operation on a wireless device: Embodiments described herein address mobile devices with non-secure operating systems that do not provide a sufficient security framework. More particularly, the embodiments described herein provide a set of applications to the device for providing security features to the non-secure operating system.... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070118557 - System and method for creating multimedia book libraries: A computer-implemented method that involving receiving a plurality of multimedia books, each multimedia book comprising: a plurality of pages, each page belonging to a corresponding chapter of a plurality of chapters, each chapter having a chapter name, each page further having a text description, wherein at least one of the... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070118556 - System and method for creating multimedia books: A computer-implemented method of creating a multimedia book. The method involves: receiving input for building a table of contents of the multimedia book, the table of contents having a plurality of chapter names; receiving a plurality of pages of the multimedia book, each page having a page title, wherein at... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070118562 - System and methods for linking multiple events involving firearms: Methods for linking multiple events involving firearms submit event information data and firearms information data to a system that includes a database for multiple firearms events and generate a query map that correlates data in the system database with a preselected geographical grid based upon one or more preselected matching... Agent: Wagner, Anderson & Bright, LLP

20070118564 - Traffic information query system and traffic information query method: The invention provides a map knowledge base generating device and a method thereof, and a traffic information query system and a method thereof. The traffic information query system, comprises: a map knowledge base generating section for generating knowledge related to attributes of roads and traffic points, attribute values corresponding to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070118569 - Information processing apparatus and control method thereof, program, and storage medium: An information processing apparatus includes a scanning unit adapted to scan an image of a document, a detection unit adapted to detect a document type by analyzing image data of the document scanned by the scanning unit, a storage unit adapted to store a storage period for each document type,... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20070118566 - Method and apparatus for file attribute selection into a system clipboard: A method of selectively pasting attributes of files can include, responsive to a user input, storing each selected file and at least one attribute associated with each selected file. Responsive to a subsequent input, a target object can be identified and either the attribute associated with each selected file can... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20070118567 - Method for device quarantine and quarantine network system: A network quarantine management system eliminates registration or updating work of a quarantine-exempted device and prevents a fraudulent device from abusing authorized network information registered as a quarantine-exempted device and from impersonation. when a quarantine management system detects network connection of a new device, the system judges the type (printer,... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070118568 - Network operation management system: A network management apparatus is previously registered with a physical connection relationship and positional information of a plurality of network relay apparatuses which form part of a network, as well as a configuration definition corresponding to the positional information, such that the network management apparatus can initially detect network relay... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070118565 - Two phase commit emulation for non distributed transactions: A method is described that comprises executing a non distributed transaction by reading persistent data from a database and performing executions with the persistent data. A prepare command is sent to the database after a change to be made to the persistent data as a consequence of the non distributed... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070118572 - Detecting changes in data: Detecting concurrent changes in data includes storing a first version of data and first metadata corresponding thereto, receiving a second version of data and second metadata corresponding thereto, and determining whether the first version of data is the same as the second version of data using the first and second... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070118570 - Method and apparatus for data configuration in communication device: The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for data configuration in a communication device, comprising the following steps of: a) the configuration data centralized unit filtering its internal data, so as to obtain the data to be configured for each configuration data distributed unit; b) the configuration data centralized... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20070118571 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing databases connected by wireless interface: A method of synchronizing at least one database including first data records of a portable electronic device with at least one other database including second data records. The method includes receiving information representative of the first data records and comparing the information representative of the first data records with information... Agent: Geoffrey Dekleine Perry + Partners

20070118575 - File server, file server log management system and file server log management method: The present invention provides a log management system which is devised so that improper behavior by managers with regard to the log information can easily be discovered. Virtual OS are respectively installed for respective users in a file server that can also be constructed as an NAS device. These virtual... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070118576 - Method and system for adaptive metadata replication: A method for writing a data block to a storage pool. The method including receiving a write operation for a block, determining whether the block comprises metadata, and if the block comprises metadata: determining a first replication type for the block, and writing the block to the storage pool in... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070118577 - Method of replicating data between computing devices: A system and method of replicating database records for use in resource constrained wireless computing devices. The replication method has a low processing burden and is well suited to low-bandwidth, unreliable connections found in many wireless networks. To reduce the amount of memory used on the wireless device only a... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070118574 - Reorganizing data with update activity: Provided are a techniques for reorganizing data. Data is retrieved from an original data set and inserted into a shadow data set. A log record is read from an update log, wherein the log record includes a unique key identifying a data object and an indication of an activity associated... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20070118573 - System and method to create a subset of a database: A system and method for creating a subset of a database is provided. The database is stored at a first location, and a replica of the database may be stored on a second location. The system comprises an archiving module to archive the subset of the database from the second... Agent: William L. Botjer

20070118578 - Extensible hashing for file system directories: In general, embodiments of the invention relate to a disk, which includes a plurality of files and rectory associated with the plurality of files comprising a plurality of directory entries. Further, each of the plurality of directory entries is associated one of the plurality of files and each of the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070118579 - Dynamic consistency between multiple versions of objects managed by a garbage collector using transactional memory support: Embodiments of the invention relate to a transactional memory engine to implement a transactional memory instruction set including transactional memory commands included in a processor. The transactional memory engine performs a copy command utilizing transactional memory commands to copy a value from an old object in an old memory space... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070112722 - File system and file information processing method: Disclosed is a file system that is organized in an operating system to manage the file to be recorded in a recording device in compliance with a file access request from an application, the file system including: a first recording section recording in a recording device a file that includes... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20070112721 - Method of storing and retrieving miniaturised data: A method of storing data including the steps of providing a first index of first location identifiers, a second index of second location identifiers and a dictionary data base of data items, wherein the first location identifiers are adapted to identify the location of second location identifiers in the second... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070112720 - Two stage search: A two stage model identifies individuals having knowledge in a subject matter area relevant to a query. A relevance model receives a query and identifies documents, or other information, relevant to the query. A co-occurrence model identifies individuals, in the retrieved documents, related to the subject matter of the query.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070112723 - Approach based on self-evolving models for performance guarantees in a shared storage system: A technique of allocating shared resources in a computer network-based storage system comprises taking periodic performance samples on a running storage system; evaluating an objective function that takes as input the performance samples to quantify how aligned a current state of the storage system is with organizational objectives; building and... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070112724 - Method of applying a function to a data set: Disclosed is a method of applying a function to a set of data. Initially a tabular representation (400) of the set of data is displayed, the representation comprising a plurality of columns (435, 410 etc.). The data in the representation is grouped (625) in each column based upon an order... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070112725 - Methods and systems for accessing digital image files: A method for accessing digital image files. The method is applied in a digital image capture device store at least one image file. At least one first image is chosen from the at least one image file. A file level code is set in the at least one first image,... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20070112726 - Systems and methods for data retrieval, manipulation, and delivery: Systems and methods are disclosed that include a user interface that enables a user to request a pre-defined report. The user may specify either or both of an electronic mail delivery address for the report and an interval at which the report is to be updated. Such systems and methods... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20070112737 - Apparatus and method for monitoring and debugging query execution objects: Nodes in a query execution data structure have monitor and dump methods defined. The monitor method enables the collection of information from the node. The dump method outputs the monitored information from each node. A monitor and debug mechanism of the preferred embodiments includes a graphical user interface that allows... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20070112734 - Determining relevance of documents to a query based on identifier distance: A method and system for determining relevance of a document to a query based on identifier match distance is provided. The relevance system analyzes a training set of queries and documents to determine the relationship between identifier match distance and relevance of a document to a query. The identifier match... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070112738 - Displaying user relevance feedback for search results: A query submitter may submit a search query. In response, the query submitter may be provided with search results and user feedback related to the search results. The user feedback may include a relevancy rating of the search result. The relevancy rating may be derived from feedback received from a... Agent: W. Karl Renner

20070112729 - Geo-tagged based listing service and mapping engine: A unique system and method that facilitates searching for items offered for sale or otherwise in an online classifieds environment. The system and method involve allowing a user to search for such items according to the item's location or geo-tag information. The geo-tag information for each item can be approximate... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070112739 - Intelligent mobile search client: A system and method is provided to provide information services to a plurality of mobile clients where the mobile clients can be any networked device including cell-phones, PDAs and other wireless devices. The system utilizes available communications protocols to submit requests and receive responses that can be information services and... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070112733 - Method and system for extracting customer attributes: A method for extracting customer attributes from a database includes providing information regarding one or more content, one or more metrics, customer ID and a reference date and extracting customer attributes based on the information.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070112727 - Method for querying collated data sets: A method and system for searching at least one data source using a query is described. In a first step one or more query templates are generated in which each query template can be used to define at least a part of the query. Several of the query templates are... Agent: Intellectual Property / Technology Law

20070112731 - Method for retrieving constant values using regular expressions: Disclosed is a method of retrieving constant values. The method comprises compiling key-value pairs into a unified regular expression, evaluating the unified regular expression against a transformed input string to match a particular key and extracting the constant value associated with that particular key. The input string in transformed by... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070112743 - Methods and systems for managing data: Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata. In one exemplary method, a search is performed based on a search query of at least metadata of a first plurality of files and a set of a permissions is determined for a first user, wherein the set of permissions defines... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070112744 - Methods and systems for managing data: Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata. In one exemplary method, a selection of at least one file having metadata stored in a metadata database is received, and a selection of a command to search, using at least a portion of the metadata, is received, and a search... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070112736 - Multi-query optimization: A database query optimization method is provided for database queries that include predicates, the queries being directed to at least one database table having data in rows and columns. The method includes associating a lineage bit set with each row of the database table, the lineage bit set providing a... Agent: Ipsolon LLP

20070112740 - Result-based triggering for presentation of online content: A computer-implemented method for delivering content is provided, including specifying a rule having a trigger and defining a content presentation action, and receiving a search query from a user. The method further includes generating a result set in response to the search query, identifying at least one characteristic of the... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20070112730 - Sampling internet user traffic to improve search results: Methods, systems and apparatus for improving Internet search results include monitoring network activity on a communications network, generating a near real-time map of the network activity, and integrating the near real-time map with a search engine.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070112741 - Search engine providing persistent search functionality over multiple search queries and method for operating the same: In one embodiment, a method of operating a search engine comprises: initiating a continuous search state from a user; receiving multiple search queries during the continuous search state; and providing search results to the user, wherein the providing filters search results previously presented to the user in response to prior... Agent: C.s. Lee Crawford

20070112732 - Searching desktop objects based on time comparison: Embodiments of the present invention provide a desktop search tool that allows users to efficiently retrieve or locate a desired object on their computer. Users specify their search based on a time context. In addition, the desktop search tool may provide its results in a temporal context to assist the... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group

20070112728 - Signal detection method, signal detection system, signal detection processing program, and recording medium recorded with program thereof: A signal detection system of the invention comprises: a target signal feature quantity calculation section which derives a feature quantity series from a target signal; a stored signal feature quantity calculation section which derives a feature quantity series from a stored signal; a target signal histogram calculation section which searches... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070112742 - Systems and methods for personal ubiquitous information retrieval and reuse: The present invention relates to systems and methods providing content-access-based information retrieval. Information items from a plurality of disparate information sources that have been previously accessed or considered are automatically indexed in a data store, whereby a multifaceted user interface is provided to efficiently retrieve the items in a cognitively... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070112735 - Systems, methods, and media for monitoring user specific information on websites: Systems, methods and media for monitoring user specific information on websites by searching websites and displaying the results based at least partially on geographical region are disclosed. Embodiments may include receiving a search request including one or more keywords and searching a database based on the received search request to... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20070112745 - Dynamic discovery of abstract rule set required inputs: A method, system and article of manufacture for processing rule sets and, more particularly, for processing abstract rule sets. One embodiment provides a computer-implemented method of managing execution of an analysis routine on input data. The method comprises receiving input and receiving user-selection of an analysis routine for processing the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070112747 - Method and apparatus for identifying data of interest in a database: Templates for use in searching for data segments of interest in stores of data are defined and/or refined by analyzing related matches, extracting common or key elements, and/or generalizing or modifying the templates. This process can involve calculating the similarity between matches, clustering matches, and identifying key elements for defining... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070112749 - Query methods and apparatuses including user profile with domain views: Methods and apparatuses for processing a query are disclosed herein, including embodiments configured to generate a response to a query based at least in part on a domain view of a user profile having a number of properties, the domain view having a subset of the properties rated for a... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20070112746 - System and method for problem analysis: Problem analysis system, given either half of a cause-effect relationship, automatically formulates a natural language or Boolean query that is automatically submitted via a knowledge search tool to a database of cause-effect relationships, and responses to this query from the database are automatically provided.... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20070112751 - System and method for searching for image data using keywords: A system and method for searching for image data using a keyword. The system and method perform the operations of: inputting a search word, determining whether the search condition of the inputted search word is a basic search, converting the inputted search word into a code, searching for a sequence... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070112748 - System and method for using text analytics to identify a set of related documents from a source document: A system and method for processing a document to generate a set of related documents. A system is provided that includes a textual analytics system that analyzes unstructured data contained in a source document and extracts a set of structured information about the source document; and a compare system that... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070112750 - User interface for a decision support system: Systems and methods are provided for navigation user interface mechanisms. According to one embodiment, a user interface mechanism enables period query generation. A period selection dialog configured to receive information indicative of multiple date groups to be compared is presented. The period selection dialog displays a graphical depiction of a... Agent: Hamilton Desanctis & Cha Michael A. Desanctis

20070112753 - Augmenting a training set for document categorization: A method and system for augmenting a training set used to train a classifier of documents is provided. The augmentation system augments a training set with training data derived from features of documents based on a document hierarchy. The training data of the initial training set may be derived from... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070112752 - Combination of matching strategies under consideration of data quality: Systems and techniques for characterizing a similarity between first and second data objects are described. A system includes a matching engine configured to receive first and second results provided by first and second attribute-matching strategies. The matching engine is further configured to scale the first result by a first weight... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070112759 - Coordinated related-search feedback that assists search refinement: The present invention relates to displaying coordinated related-search feedback in a single active window, to help a user develop, refine and select a useful search. In particular, it relates to conducting a plurality of related searches and making the results simultaneously available to the user in a coordinated display.... Agent: Claria Corporation C/o Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20070112758 - Displaying user feedback for search results from people related to a user: A query submitter may submit a search query. In response, the query submitter may be provided with search results and user feedback related to the search results. The user feedback may include a rating of a particular search result. The user feedback for the particular search result may have been... Agent: W. Karl Renner

20070112757 - Indexing pages based on associations with geographic regions: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, create an index for pages based on association scores for the pages with respect to geographic regions, where the association scores indicate relative degrees to which the pages are associated with the geographic regions. In an embodiment, the association... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070112756 - Information classification paradigm: A mechanism to classify source documents into one of two categories, either likely to contain desired information or unlikely to contain desired information. Generally some form of rules based classification in conjunction with deeper analysis using advanced techniques on difficult cases is utilized. The rules based classification is generally good... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070112755 - Information exploration systems and method: Disclosed information exploration system and method embodiments operate on a document set to determine a document cluster hierarchy. An exclusionary phrase index is determined for each cluster, and representative phrases are selected from the indexes. The selection process may enforce pathwise uniqueness and balanced sub-cluster representation. The representative phrases may... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20070112754 - Method and apparatus for identifying data of interest in a database: Templates for use in searching for data segments of interest in stores of data are defined and/or refined by analyzing related matches, extracting common or key elements, and/or generalizing or modifying the templates. This process can involve calculating the similarity between matches, clustering matches, and identifying key elements for defining... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070112762 - Method and apparatus for obtaining revenue from the distribution of hyper-relevant advertising through permissive mind reading, proximity encounters, and database aggregation: A method and apparatus enabling the distribution of hyper-relevant advertising to consumers who have confirmed interests in specific content, products, and services is described. Users define “who they are” and “what they want” in a spontaneous, guided, voluntary disclosure of rich, candid, personal information conceived to attract individuals who seek... Agent: John P. O'banion O'banion & Ritchey LLP

20070112761 - Search engine with augmented relevance ranking by community participation: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for ranking a result set. The method according to one embodiment comprises selecting an item from the result set, selecting a user profile from one or more user profiles and selecting one or more items of personalized information from the selected... Agent: Dreier LLP

20070112760 - System for dynamic product summary based on consumer-contributed keywords: A system for presenting keywords obtained from users in a review process. The keywords are displayed along with a use value that reflects the number of times users have voted or selected the keyword as being relevant or effective in a review of a product. The keywords can be used... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070112763 - System, method and computer program product for performing unstructured information management and automatic text analysis, including a search operator functioning as a weighted and (wand): Disclosed is a system architecture, components and a searching technique for an Unstructured Information Management System (UIMS). The UIMS may be provided as middleware for the effective management and interchange of unstructured information over a wide array of information sources. The architecture generally includes a search engine, data storage, analysis... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070112765 - Usage-based adaptable taxonomy: A method is disclosed for adaptably maintaining a taxonomy defined by a plurality of nodes arranged hierarchically. The method determines a threshold access value for each node of the plurality of nodes, determines a level of access value for each node of the plurality of nodes, compares the level of... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070112764 - Web document keyword and phrase extraction: Extraction analysis techniques biased, in part, by query frequency information from a query log file and/or search engine cache are employed along with machine learning processes to determine candidate keywords and/or phrases of web documents. Web oriented features associated with the candidate keywords and/or phrases are also utilized to analyze... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070112766 - Method for facilitating interaction: A method of facilitating interaction is disclosed. The method comprises gathering substantially anonymous, match-relevant information from a first entity to form a first profile, matching the first profile with another profile belonging to a second entity, and causing or encouraging the first and second entities whose profiles match to go... Agent: Andrew Mcaleavey

20070112767 - Voice activated rapid deployment for mobile computers: Systems and methods that automatically register a mobile computing unit on a wireless network area, via employing a voice recognition system associated with the mobile computing unit. A handshake can occur between a mobile computing unit and a server of the network upon utterance of predetermined voice (e.g., a sequence... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070112769 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium: An information processing apparatus for searching for a desired content from a storage unit storing a plurality of contents to which a plurality of attributes is set classifies stored contents by each of the attributes. The information processing apparatus then counts the number of registered contents classified by each of... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070112768 - Userrank: ranking linked nodes leveraging user logs: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates utilizing transition probability in static rankings associated with at least one document. An interface can receive data related to a query, wherein the query can be associated with a search from a user. A rank component can provide... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070112771 - Directory entry locks: A method for modifying a directory entry, which includes receiving a request to modify the directory entry, determining whether a directory entry lock associated with the directory entry is present, instantiating the directory entry lock, if the directory entry lock associated with the directory entry is not present, waiting until... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070112770 - Method for writing data and applications into identification media: The invention relates to a method for wrriting data into identification media of various types (IM-X, IM-Y) via assigned write/read stations WR. According to said method, a virtual, identification media-independent reference file system RFS is defined. All access keys RKi are replaced by a file system key FSK and all... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070112776 - Automated management of development project files over a network: A technique is provided for managing a project schedule for a development project based on the aggregation of individual task schedules, where the individual task schedules are updated based on inspection results from two or more inspectors specified to inspect a project task product. The schedules, and consequently the updates... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070112772 - Method and apparatus for securely accessing data: A security manager receives a request for data that is subject to data security management. The security manager operates independently of a host partition and is not directly accessible or detectable by the host partition. The security manager determines whether to grant or deny access to the requested data based... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070112773 - Method for assuring flash programming integrity: A method is provided for assuring that only the correct version of a software update is permitted to be installed in a computer controlled module, such as a vehicle controller. Each version of the software is embedded with a unique identifier, and each software update has an embedded list of... Agent: Tung & Associates

20070112775 - Method for user biometric artifical authentication: A system for verifying, authenticating, and processing membership information to generate a selectively approved searchable membership database, viewable through a computer information network, such as the internet. membership verification includes a first processing unit (200) for transmitting data native biometric data to a second processing unit (204) for artificial rendering... Agent: David M. Ackerman

20070112774 - Methods and systems for providing improved security when using a uniform resource locator (url) or other address or identifier: Methods and systems for improving security when accessing a URL, such as a Web site. In one exemplary method, a user is warned if a previously unvisited Web site being accessed originated from an email message or other electronic source external to a Web browser being used to access the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070112782 - Clinical decision support system: A clinical decision support system enabling sharing of medical knowledge in a machine executable format, implementable as a network-based system in which individual executable knowledge modules (EKMs) define the data requirements for assessing a patient, the conclusions that can be drawn using that data, and instructions on how to generate... Agent: Intellectual Property / Technology Law

20070112788 - Development management system: A development management system and method for real estate or other projects permits participation in all phases of project management across a development management enterprise, as well as by a plurality of other entities having involvement in the management of one or more projects. The entities include, without limitation, architects,... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20070112779 - Distributed processing with metadata placeholders: Metadata placeholders are used for distributed processing. The metadata placeholders are added to digital objects. The placeholders are filled with requests to perform certain downstream processing on the objects. The placeholders are at least partially empty so they can be filled in by nodes that perform the downstream processing.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070112783 - Electronic discovery system and method: A computer investigation system and method that conducts electronic discovery of desired files across a live network in a forensically sound manner. The investigation entails an examining machine electronically identifying, collecting, and preserving evidence from target machines that is responsive to a set of investigation criteria. The set of investigation... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070112777 - Identification and automatic propagation of geo-location associations to un-located documents: Systems and methods are provided for identifying pages that can be authoritatively, to some confidence level or another, associated with a geographic location, and systems and methods for grouping documents such that authoritative location associations can be propagated from pages with higher location confidence to pages with lower location confidence.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070112780 - Method and system to process navigation information: A system to process navigation information includes a receiving module to receive a data request from a network entity. The data request includes a network entity identifier that uniquely identifies the network entity. The system further includes an application to generate a network event based on the data request, the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070112787 - Method, system and program for direct client file access in a data management system: Provided is a method, system, and program implemented by a server for controlling and providing access to a file to at least one remote computer over a network. The server maintains metadata about files. The files are maintained at remote storage locations. The server receives a request from the remote... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070112778 - Scientific information systems and methods for global networking opportunities: A system and method are provided to scientific communities through a web-based infrastructure of databases including a scientific community center. The scientific community center includes a plurality of servers and web pages of general scientific interest and disciplines to all registered members of the scientific community. According to another aspect... Agent: Rashida A. Karmali, Ph.d 13th Floor

20070112786 - System and method for providing content over a network: A system and method for providing content over a network. In particular, the system and method is capable of providing content, such as broadband streaming multimedia and Internet Protocol (IP) data, to network devices, including mobile devices, with interactive functionality. The network employs at least one core and a plurality... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20070112781 - System and method for providing search controls in a communities framework: A community accessible via a portal can be provided for enabling user membership during collaboration within an enterprise. An enterprise system can maintain several repositories which in turn store various resources in the form of nodes wrapped by content objects. Search controls can provide the ability to automatically scope searches... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070112785 - System and method for updating a storage medium: A method for updating the information of a distributable storage medium that is coupled to a medium reader of a computer. The distributable medium including a recording of a first updateable application and the server including a recording of a second updateable application. The method comprising the steps of connecting... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20070112784 - Systems and methods for simplified information archival: Systems and methods for managing digital assets in a distributed computing environment are described. Meta-data for the digital assets is stored separately from the digital assets. Meta-data for some of the digital assets is copied and stored at a central location. Meta-data for the digital assets is generated by clients... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070112802 - Database techniques for storing biochemical data items: A database management system for storing a plurality of biochemical data items which originate from one or more external data sources. The database management system comprises a database which stores, for each biochemical data item, an objective identifier which comprises a set of attributes for characterizing measurable biochemical features of... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070112801 - Distributed historian architecture: A distributed historian framework is provided where historical data is collected in accordance with an organizational model of a hierarchical system that is distributed across various elements of an enterprise. A directory service operates with the organizational model to enable configuration of historian components within the organization and to enable... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20070112794 - Incremental compilation of packet classifications using fragmented tables: An improvement in the compilation of classification tables from across control lists increases the efficiency of memory utilization by fragments in the lower level tables and using the classification ID's from a pair of higher-level tables as pointers to the fragments and as indicators of the depth of the entries... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070112797 - Information processing apparatus and image processing apparatus executing script stored in association with storage region: An image processing apparatus formed of MFP or the like includes a plurality of folders for storing files. In the image processing apparatus, a script for the processing executed on a file stored in each folder is generated. Then, the generated script is stored in association with a folder storing... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070112790 - Method and system for configuring a supplemental directory: According to one embodiment of the invention a method of updating schema in a directory system having a reference layer adapted to provide directory functionality and an intermediate layer adapted to provide supplemental directory functionality is provided. The intermediate layer is provided between the reference layer and the client is... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070112789 - Method and system for providing a directory overlay: According to one embodiment, a method for providing an enhanced directory service includes providing a supplemental layer between a user and a reference layer, the supplemental layer providing the user with any directory functionality provided by the reference layer as well as additional directory functionality.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070112791 - Method and system for providing enhanced read performance for a supplemental directory: According to one embodiment of the invention, a directory system having a reference layer adapted to provide directory functionality and a supplemental layer adapted to provide supplemental directory functionality is provided. The supplemental layer is provided intermediate the reference layer and a user. A method of evaluating a query of... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070112805 - Method for improving the functionality of a binary representation: A method and telecommunication system is disclosed for transmission of a message from a first telecommunication terminal to a second telecommunication terminal, of which at least one is connected to a line-connected telephone network. The message is converted as a short message into the short message format, a connection setup... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070112806 - Method for improving the functionality of a binary representation: A method and telecommunication system is disclosed for transmission of a message from a first telecommunication terminal to a second telecommunication terminal, of which at least one is connected to a line-connected telephone network. The message is converted as a short message into the short message format, a connection setup... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070112807 - Method for improving the functionality of a binary representation: A method and telecommunication system is disclosed for transmission of a message from a first telecommunication terminal to a second telecommunication terminal, of which at least one is connected to a line-connected telephone network. The message is converted as a short message into the short message format, a connection setup... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070112809 - Methods and systems for managing data: Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata or indexes of content of files. In one exemplary method, notifications to update a metadata database or an index database are combined into a combined notification. According to other aspects, an order among logical locations on a storage device is determined... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070112793 - Model publishing framework: Provided are a method, system, and program for a model publishing framework. An intermediate data structure is generated from a model to include elements providing information on the model, wherein the model defines an object oriented program design. A publisher registry has a plurality of registered publishers. One registered publisher... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070112803 - Peer-to-peer semantic indexing: An index data structure comprises a plurality of index keys for uniquely identifying potential data object context nodes. Each index key is, in turn, associated with one or more potential context nodes. Moreover, the index key has a label that provides semantic content to a user. The index data structure... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070112792 - Personalized search and headlines: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates providing a personalized set of available content. An interface can receive a content vector associated with available content and a profile vector associated with a user preference. Additionally, a personalization component can generate a personalized set of available... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070112800 - Realtime database architecture: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for automatically supplying data items to a client. In one embodiment, the method comprises determining, from among a plurality of data items displayable by a client, one or more relevant data items to be supplied to the client, the plurality of data items... Agent: Michael J. Mallie Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20070112796 - Research in providing assistance related to health: In one aspect, a method related to health-related data management. In addition to the foregoing, other method and system and program product aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present application.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070112795 - Scalable retrieval of data entries using an array index or a secondary key: Example embodiments improve the lookup times and modification costs of indexing on a dynamically sorted list by using a combination of data structures to determine index values for secondary keys and vice versa. More specifically, exemplary embodiments provide a combination of a binary tree (e.g., a balanced binary tree) with... Agent: Rick Nydegger Workman Nydegger

20070112808 - System and method for creating and using computer databases having schema integrated into data structure: A symmetric objects database contains a plurality of data cells. Each data cell has a plurality of data fields which are the same or similar for each of the data cells. The data fields include an identifier field, name field, value field, signature field, classes field, children field, versions field,... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20070112799 - System and method for providing resource interlinking for a communities framework: A community for providing user membership can be accessed via a portal. Members of the community can have access to resources in the repository, wherein data in the repository is stored in the form of nodes. Each node can have content object for wrapping the node and which can be... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070112798 - System and method for providing unique key stores for a communities framework: A community of various members can be provided for maintaining user membership in the collaborative computing environment. Members can have access to a repository containing various resources. Each resource can have various properties or attributes. Data within the repository can be stored in nodes. Each node can be further wrapped... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070112804 - Systems and methods for generating automated software workflows for biological testing: The workflow application integrates with a research software application associated with a laboratory instrument to provide a user with step-by-step instructions on how to follow the workflow steps of a laboratory experiment. The instructions are dynamically tailored, according to the nature of the workflow, the samples being experimented upon and/or... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070112811 - Architecture for scalable video coding applications: An architecture provides adaptive access to scalable media codestreams. Minimum coding units from the codestream to facilitate presentation of the media content at a selected access level are collected in packettes. The data needed for the packettes are identified and assembled by a peering subsystem or peer layer that supplements... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070112815 - Hierarchy-based propagation of contribution of documents: A method and system for determining the contribution of a document within a hierarchy of documents based on the contribution of descendant documents is provided. The contribution system provides a hierarchy of documents that specifies the ancestor/descendant relations between documents. For each document of a hierarchy, the contribution system determines... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070112816 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus comprising: a storage unit for storing information relating to an execution of an operation and storing a transition which indicates a handling corresponding to the information; a flow processing unit for building up a work flow which is expressed by using the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070112819 - Logic checker using semantic links: A semantic link is established in a document in connection with content being inserted into first and second portions of a document. Content in the first portion includes a linguistic expression, and is logically related to the content in the second portion. A semantic link is generated in the document... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20070112822 - Method and apparatus for extracting digital data from a medium: A computer-implemented method and apparatus for extracting digital data from a medium. Digital audio extraction techniques are implemented with additional features that improve the quality of the resulting audio playback files. In one embodiment of the invention, a user can extract digital audio data from a source medium and store... Agent: Digeo, Inc C/o Stoel Rives LLP

20070112818 - Method and system for nested categorization using factorization: A system for information item categorization in which each non-leaf node in a hierarchical organization of nodes represents a category, and each leaf node represents an information item. A number P is associated with each node. For non-leaf nodes, the associated number P is selected from a subset of relatively... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070112817 - Method and system for providing time-dependent search results for repetitively performed searches: A software tool allows a computer user to view only search results that have become available since he last performed the same search. A user enters a search term by way of an input/output device, and the CPU performs the requested search. The computer system identifies and displays only the... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070112810 - Method for compressing markup languages files, by replacing a long word with a shorter word: The invention relates to a method of compressing data and in particular a method for compressing a data set having a markup hierarchy and comprising data parts having first values, said data set being arranged according to a definition part, the method comprising the steps of: assigning at least said... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070112823 - Method for processing data structures: A method for processing data structures with the aid of networked semantic units includes: acquiring a data structure, and generating, modifying, deleting and storing semantic structure units and networking them on the basis of the acquired data structure while using a knowledge base comprised of a network of semantic knowledge... Agent: Imperium Patent Works

20070112814 - Methods and systems for providing improved security when using a uniform resource locator (url) or other address or identifier: Methods and systems for improving security when accessing a URL, such as a Web site. In one exemplary method, a user is warned if a previously unvisited Web site being accessed originated from an email message or other electronic source external to a Web browser being used to access the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070112812 - System and method for writing data to a directory: A system and method are provided for processing directory service operations. The system includes a client device communicatively coupled to one or more directory servers. Each directory server includes a communications interface, a storage mechanism, and an evaluation module. According to an exemplary embodiment, the storage mechanism is a non-persistent... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070112821 - Transferring electronic file constituents contained in an electronic compound file using a forensic file copy: A computer-implemented method and program for separating one or more selected file constituents from a compound file (such as a mail file) that contains a plurality of file constituents each containing one or more native attributes. The file constituents are stored in a non-individually-manipulable manner in the file. The method... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070112820 - Transporting image files: A method for transporting an image file over a network is provided. The network may include two or more computers, and the image file may include a control stream, a data stream, and a cluster map stream. The method may include parsing the image file into two or more segments.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070112813 - Virtual cursors for xml joins: A system, method, and computer program product to improve XML query processing efficiency with virtual cursors. Structural joins are a fundamental operation in XML query processing, and substantial work exists on index-based algorithms for executing them. Two well-known index features—path indices and ancestor information—are combined in a novel way to... Agent: Marc D. Mcswain IBM Corporation

20070112827 - Abstract rule sets: A method, system and article of manufacture for processing rule sets and, more particularly, for processing abstract rule sets having one or more abstract rules. One embodiment provides a computer-implemented method of generating recommendations using a suitable rules engine. The method comprises retrieving an abstract rule having a conditional statement... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070112824 - Automated anomaly detection: A method of anomaly detection applicable to telecommunications or retail fraud or software vulnerabilities uses inductive logic programming to develop anomaly characterisation rules from relevant background knowledge and a training data set, which includes positive anomaly samples of data covered by rules. Data samples include 1 or 0 indicating association... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070112830 - Constrained creation of data hierarchies: A constrained user interface for selecting and creating categories (e.g., folders, properties) is provided in such a way as to prevent the creation of empty categories, or categories which are not associated with any underlying object or file. The user interface selectively enables and disables a remove category button, and... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070112834 - Database consolidation tool: A method for consolidating a database in a Seibel CRM environment is presented. Bypassing the Business Object Layer (BOL) of the Seibel CRM environment, primary keys in a consolidated table are realigned such that a consolidated child table, created from two distinct databases, is able to point to reference items... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070112829 - Databinding workflow data to a user interface layer: In a workflow system data is exchanged using databinding constructs between the workflow and user interface layer. During an execution of a workflow a user interface instance is activated in anticipation of a user input event. The workflow is suspended and data for populating the user interface instance is provided... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070112841 - Device, a program and a system for managing electronic documents: A device for recording positions within an electronic document and capable of recreating those recorded positions afterwards even if the electronic document has been changed to some extent. An index data creation unit in an information terminal creates index information for a page to display from the electronic document, and... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070112825 - Meta-data tags used to describe data behaviors: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code to aggregate data. Data is parsed for a behavior tag assigned to a portion of the data. In response to detecting a behavior tag, a determination is made as to whether a policy is associated with the behavior tag. The... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070112845 - Method and apparatus for constructing and maintaining a user knowledge profile: A method of constructing an entity profile having private and public portions commences with the assignment of a confidence level to content within an electronic document. The electronic document may be associated with a first entity. The content may be descriptive of the first entity. If the confidence level assigned... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070112844 - Method and apparatus for processing metadata: Methods and apparatuses for processing metadata are described herein. In one embodiment, when a file (e.g., a text, audio, and/or image files) having metadata is received, the metadata and optionally at least a portion of the content of the file are extracted from the file to generate a first set... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070112837 - Method and apparatus for timed tagging of media content: A method and apparatus for timed tagging of content is featured. The method and apparatus can include the steps of, or structure for, obtaining at least one keyword tag associated with discrete media content; generating a timed segment index of discrete media content, the timed segment index identifying content segments... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20070112838 - Method and system for classifying media content: A hardware and software facility for classifying media content units using keywords from a structured vocabulary. Metadata associated with each media content unit is segmented into a series of descriptive phrases. The descriptive phrases are mapped to keywords in a structured vocabulary, and the identified keywords associated with the media... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070112839 - Method and system for expansion of structured keyword vocabulary: A hardware and software facility for classifying media content units using keywords from a structured vocabulary. Metadata associated with each media content unit is segmented into a series of descriptive phrases. The descriptive phrases are mapped to keywords in a structured vocabulary, and the identified keywords associated with the media... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070112843 - Method of compiling schema mapping: A method for compiling a mapping between a source schema and a target schema is provided. The method comprises multiple passes, including determining source node dependencies, matching hierarchy, and generating code. The method may further comprise initializing node dependency memory prior to determining source node dependencies, and freeing node dependency... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070112828 - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for creating a collection of experience-related data from disparate information sources: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for creating a collection of experience-related data from disparate information sources. In a communications device, a marker is received indicating an experienced event, the marker is annotated with the current state of environmental variables, data collected from disparate information sources which is related... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20070112826 - Multimedia transcoding based on remaining storage capacity: A first data storage requirement of a first multimedia data representative of a multimedia program to be stored at a storage device is determined. An available remaining storage capacity of the storage device is determined. The first multimedia data is transcoded to generate a second multimedia data having a second... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20070112842 - Poly vectoral reverse navigation: This invention includes a method of navigating a collection of nodes by selecting a first node, generating a context list and displaying first node and context list. Each context of the context collection includes a second node essentially referencing the first node. Another aspect of the invention includes a method... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070112832 - Smart copy/paste of graphical nodes: When using graphical diagrams, cutting and pasting operations may take advantage of predefined relationships to intelligently insert and remove items from the diagram. A text data model may be interpreted sequentially or hierarchically to construct various diagrams. Pasting operations will bring new data into the diagram and data model while... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070112833 - System and method for annotating patents with mesh data: A system and method for enhancing patent documents. A system is disclosed that includes: an extraction system for extracting non-patent references from a patent document; a system for cross-referencing an extracted non-patent reference with a metadata database to identify metadata information associated with the extracted non-patent reference; and a system... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070112840 - System and method for generating functions to predict the clickability of advertisements: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for predicting a frequency with which an advertisement displayed in response to a query will be selected. The method of the present invention comprises receiving analytics data associated with a display of one or more advertisements in response to one or... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070112835 - System and method for providing extensible controls in a communities framework: A communities framework is disclosed which contains resources in a repository. The repository contains data stored in nodes wherein each node has data associated with a collaboration resource and each resource has a set of properties or attributes. A server can provide a content object for wrapping the node wherein... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070112836 - Systems, methods and apparatus for creating stable disk images: A system and method of identifying methods of quiescing a storage object. Data is received identifying the storage object and a freeze list is generated. The freeze list includes one or more freeze methods appropriate for quiescing the storage object. Generating includes creating a hierarchy of logical storage objects below... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070112831 - User interface for specifying desired configurations: A method and system for monitoring configuration information of computing devices is provided. The monitoring system generates a desired configuration monitor (“DCM”) document for each computing device that is to have its configuration monitored. The DCM document specifies configuration settings to be monitored along with rules that specify how to... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070112846 - File export channel: Data may be exported from a media campaign to an external processing device using a specifically designated communication channel within the media campaign application. When the media campaign application is executed, the campaign is directed to contacting various business partners using one or more communication means. With this media campaign... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070112848 - Method and system for concurrently processing multiple large data files transmitted using a multipart format: A system for concurrently processing data files in multipart format is disclosed. The disclosed system processes files transmitted from a client system to a server system in a multipart format. An object-oriented method for representing the multipart data is used on the server system, where the multipart data stream is... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070112847 - Modeling it operations/policies: Modeling operational policies of operating a business's or institution's actual or planned IT system. The IT system may include components such as applications, application hosts, one or more networks or components thereof, hardware, and interrelationships between the components. The IT system is to be operated in accordance with operational policies... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070112849 - System and method for providing generic controls in a communities framework: A community that is accessed via a portal is disclosed, for maintaining user membership during collaboration on a project. A repository containing resources is provided wherein the data is stored nodes and each node is associated with a collaboration resource. The resources can each have a set of properties or... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070112859 - Abstraction of upnp container system for non-searchable devices: The method is provided to enable the container system for UPnP device that do not support search capabilities. The method includes the step of detecting whether a first server exists. In the next step, the method determines the first server search capability. If the server has search capability, the method... Agent: Dva/pioneer Research Center Usa, Inc.

20070112854 - Apparatus and method for automatic generation and distribution of documents: A computerized method for the automatic generation and distribution of documents is disclosed. A database is maintained by a computer. The database includes a list of the information required to complete a document associated with a case, and further includes a list of intended recipients, the contact information associated with... Agent: Michael W. Caldwell

20070112858 - Medical information validation system: A system uses clinical data to help identify incorrect demographic information (such as gender or age) of a patient that may cause an erroneous critical or abnormal indication in medical tests and uses results of a clinical test to indicate possible demographic errors and various methods to modify a workflow... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070112855 - Method and apparatus for locating and retrieving data content stored in a compressed digital format: A method and apparatus is provided for locating and retrieving specified data content in a database, wherein data in the database is derived from recorded speech. While the data usefully comprises compressed digital audio or video data files associated with the recorded speech, retrieval of the specified content requires decompression... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20070112860 - Method and system for online submittal exchange: A method and system is provided for facilitating exchange and review of electronically submitted construction submittals. The method and system also provide for management and review of construction submittals associated with a construction project. The method and system provides convenience and reduces expenses for architects, contractors and consultants involved in... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20070112857 - Method and system for providing on-line interactivity over a server-client network: Apparatus and a method for communicating media over a network including encoding the media into a server database at a server, downloading from the server database to a client database generally only those portions of the media which are necessary to satisfy user requests and in response to a user... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070112852 - Methods for characterizing content item groups: The selection and presentation of representative image content items and textual content. In one aspect, the present invention relates to the selection of one or more image/video content items that are likely to represent well a group of image/video content items. In another aspect, the present invention relates to presentation... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070112851 - Partial xml validation: Modifying a portion of an XML document stored in a relational database includes converting operations on the document into an operator tree. The operator tree includes a first operator corresponding to a first portion of the schema for the modified data and a second operator corresponding to a parent portion... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070112861 - Selection of a subset of assets based upon unrelated user preferences: A system and method for the automated selection of digital music or other personal digitized assets within a library includes matching the relevance of the assets against inputs from one or more information sources that are designated by the user. As a result, a subset of the personal digitized assets... Agent: Law Offices Of Terry Mchugh

20070112853 - Strict validation of inference rule based on abstraction environment: A method, system and article of manufacture for processing rule sets and, more particularly, for processing abstract rule sets. One embodiment provides a computer-implemented method of managing execution of an analysis routine configured to process one or more inputs. The analysis routine is defined by at least one abstract rule... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070112856 - System and method for providing analytics for a communities framework: A community can be accessed via a portal and can maintain user membership during collaboration projects. Members of the community can access various resources stored in nodes within a repository. An event object can be provided that wraps a node within the repository such that data regarding the event object... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070112850 - System and methods for image management: An image management system includes a first storage device configured to store a list of image identifiers indexed by one or more image property descriptors, wherein each of the image identifiers corresponds to a digital image, an index processor in communication with the first storage device, configured to write the... Agent: Xin Wen

20070112863 - Computer system and file storage/read-out method: When storing data (D1), spread on a memory (10), into a file storage unit (50), a user α assigns a meaningful filename-for-user, such as “sales book for April.” Storage control unit (35) converts this “sales book for April” to a meaningless filename-for-storage, such as “RST123.” The correspondence between the two... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070112862 - Data recording control apparatus: If the storage medium 29 runs out of space when storing clip-target information as clip data, data having higher deletion-target priority than others is deleted from among a plurality of stored data to have empty spaces on the storage medium 29, and then the new clip-target information is stored. The... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070112865 - Enforcing constraints from a parent table to a child table: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that, in an embodiment, receive a constraint command that specifies a parent table, a primary key in the parent table, a child table, and a foreign key in the child table, and enforce that all values for the primary key in the parent... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070112871 - Method and apparatus for facilitating condition-based dynamic auditing policies in a database: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates dynamically auditing database operations. During operation, the system receives a current database operation. The system checks to see if an audit system contains an audit policy. If so, the system compares the current session properties for a user against... Agent: Oracle International Corporation C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070112875 - Method and apparatus for hierarchical storage management based on data value and user interest: A hierarchical storage data management system includes application servers, a metadata server interconnected with the application servers through a local area network, storage devices interconnected through data flow paths, and a storage network connecting the storage devices to the application servers and to the metadata server. The metadata server including... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070112873 - Method of data blocking aggregation: Techniques for providing blocks of data to a remote computer system for insertion into a computer-generated document residing on the remote computer system. The techniques include identifying, in the central network-accessible computer system, a plurality of blocks of data, a source for obtaining current data for each of the blocks... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070112867 - Methods and apparatus for rank-based response set clustering: A method for identifying clusters of similar documents from among a set of documents is described. A particular document is selected based on rank from among a ranked set of documents, wherein the ranked set of documents are included among available documents of the set of documents. A probe is... Agent: Jones Day

20070112864 - Methods and apparatus for tracking and reconciling database commands: A method for automatic reconciliation of database change requests associates administrative database commands with the change request via a context event command. A database monitoring system identifies a context event command that indicates that a particular context, or session, is beginning. The context event command is a tag command, and... Agent: Chapin & Huang L.L.C. Westborough Office Park

20070112874 - Methods and systems for managing data: Methods and systems for managing an index database. In one exemplary method, an index database is stored on a machine readable volume with an operating system and the files which have been indexed, and then the volume is, after the storing, made available for distribution to licensees or customers. In... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070112866 - Reason-based database changes: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that in an embodiment, store a reason identifier in rows in a database. The reason identifier identifies the most recent change to the rows. The content of the rows that existed prior to the change are stored in journal records. In response to... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070112868 - Storage management system and method: A storage management system and method for managing storage in a computing storage environment, the system comprising a storage administration computing system programmed or operable to perform a plurality of high level commands for initiating respective sequences of storage management actions in the computing storage environment.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070112872 - Storage system and undo processing method: A storage system and an undo processing method that can facilitate undo processing for configuration change operations that have been performed for storage apparatuses by different administrators. A management server manages the history of configuration change operations it performs for storage apparatuses while a storage apparatus manages the history of... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070112869 - System and method for managing data in a database: A method, system and computer program product for managing data in a database, such as a relational database is provided. A configuration engine is provided that includes a configuration-customizing module and a processing module. The processing module processes the data, based on a customized configuration built by the configuration-customizing module.... Agent: William L. Botjer

20070112870 - System and method for proactive impact analysis of policy-based storage systems: A system efficiently and proactively assesses the impact of user's actions on a network storage system. The system generally operates on a storage area network that includes a database represented by states and policies, before the user action is executed. The system comprises a storage monitor that captures a snapshot... Agent: Samuel A. Kassatly Law Office

20070112878 - Computer method and system for coherent source and target model transformation: A change-set validator is invoked at the end of every transaction on a target model. The change-set validator may also be used as a transaction committer wherein after validating the change-set, changes are made to the source model, thereby bringing both models in sync. A Transformation Adapter deals with transformation... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds

20070112880 - Data synchronization and device handling: In one example, a synchronization server includes logic operable to engage in a first synchronization session with a client device, wherein client modifications and server modifications may be exchanged based, at least in part, on synchronization data stored locally. The synchronization server further includes logic operable to initiate a query... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070112881 - Meeting invitation and group distribution list synchronization: Under the present invention, a method, system, and program product for synchronizing a group distribution list with a meeting invitation list is provided. The method includes: detecting in the meeting invitation list for any group distribution lists; monitoring the group distribution list(s); detecting any changes in the group distribution list(s);... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070112876 - Method and apparatus for pruning data in a data warehouse: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing data in a data storage system. A section of data in the data storage system is identified. The section of data in the data storage system is pruned based on a policy.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070112882 - Method and apparatus for synchronizing databases connected by wireless interface: A method of synchronizing at least one database including at least one updated data record with at least one other database including a corresponding data record. The method includes comparing at least one field of data of the updated data record with a corresponding field of the data record prior... Agent: Geoffrey Dekleine Perry + Partners

20070112877 - Method and system for improving write performance in a supplemental directory: According to one embodiment, a method of processing an update operation in a directory system having a reference layer having directory functionality and a supplemental layer operative intermediate the reference layer and a user is provided. The supplemental layer comprises a non-persistent store. The method includes receiving the update operation... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070112879 - System and method of correlation and change tracking between business requirements, architectural design, and implementation of applications: A system can use metadata and metadata mappings to track changes between business requirements, architectural design and implementation.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070112884 - Automatic intent log testing: A method for testing an intent log for a file system that includes creating a first file system, issuing a command to freeze the first file system, performing a plurality of commands on the first file system to obtain a plurality of deltas, wherein each of the plurality of deltas... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070112883 - Computer system, managing computer and recovery management method: The invention provides a method for computing the appropriate capacity of a journal volume based on the operating patterns of backup and recovery performed by the user, and composing a recovery system that enables recovery to be performed in a short time using journals. The invention provides a computer system... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070112885 - Distributed transaction history management system: A data transaction history management system and method for tracking and modifying data records associated with data transaction records stored in a database linked to a server. The database includes a plurality of data transaction records that each corresponds to a particular data transaction. A user interacts with a graphical... Agent: Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC

20070112886 - Method and apparatus for database change management: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code to compare a base model to a desired model to identify changes needed to form the desired model. The changes are placed in a data structure containing a set of elements, wherein the set of elements identify a set of... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070112887 - Slave replica member: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to resource replication systems. In aspects, a mechanism is described that maintains replicated resources on a slave member that participates in a replica group. The slave member detects that a local resource has been updated locally. If the resource was created locally... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070112895 - Block-based incremental backup: A method for backing up a file system, including obtaining a first indirect block comprising a first block pointer, obtaining a first birth time from the first block pointer, determining whether the first birth time is subsequent to a time of a last backup, and backing up a first block... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070112893 - Computer system, management computer, storage system, and backup management method: A computer system includes a host computer; a storage system for obtaining a snapshot, at a specific point in time, of a data volume, storing data written to the data volume after the specific point in time as a journal, and applying the journal to the snapshot for data recovery;... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070112894 - Computer system, storage system, management computer, and backup management method: A computer system includes one or a plurality of host computers, a storage system including a disk device having a data volume for reading and writing data by the host computer, and a management computer for connecting the host computer and the storage system. The storage system obtains a snapshot... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070112890 - Computerized system and method for document management: Document management system and method for storing documents having a first storage device storing user-viewable portal data and a second storage device storing document body data and a metadata table storing information and correspondence relationships between the portal and body data for each document. The first and second storage devices... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070112891 - Converting file-systems that organize and store data for computing systems: Techniques for converting file-systems used for organizing and storing data on computer readable mediums are disclosed. A first file-system is converted to a second file-system while file(s) stored on the computer readable medium remain(s) virtually undisturbed in the same location. A FAT file-system (e.g., FAT32) is converted to an HFS... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070112896 - Emulated storage system: A method comprising acts of creating a full back-up data set comprising a first plurality of data files, creating at least one incremental back-up data set comprising a second plurality of data files, determining a most recent copy of each data file of the first and second pluralities of data... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi

20070112889 - Method and apparatus for collecting data from data sources: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for collecting data. The data is collected from a particular data source by an application portion of agent to form collected data. The application portion is associated with the particular data source in response to an event. The collected data... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070112888 - Method and apparatus for efficient storage and retrieval of multiple content streams: Embodiments of the present invention provide disk controller operable to facilitate the efficient storage and retrieval of multiple content (data) streams to magnetic disk media. This disk controller includes an interface module, a memory module, and a processing module. The interface module is operable to couple the disk controller to... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070112892 - Non-disruptive backup copy in a database online reorganization environment: Various embodiments of a computer-implemented method, system and computer program product backup a dataset. An input image copy of the dataset is read, wherein the input image copy is prior to a start of dataset reorganization. A cursor value associated with reorganization of said dataset is determined. A backup copy... Agent: International Business Machines Corp.

20070112897 - Storage operation management program and method and a storage management computer: A managing computer (manager) manages replication of data areas inside a storage or among storages. A storage volume management module of the manager manages policy of the volume and its properties. When replication of a volume is set, a volume of a replication destination appropriate for a volume of a... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070112899 - Method and apparatus for fast boot of an operating system: A computer system is adapted for rapid booting to any one of plural contexts such as that of a desktop application or television application. The system may be booted to an initial state in one context by reading a write-protected hibernate file into RAM and registers. The system may be... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070112898 - Methods and apparatus for probe-based clustering: A method for identifying clusters of similar documents from among a set of documents is described. A particular document is selected from among available documents of the set of documents, and a probe is generated based on the particular document. The probe comprises one or more features. Documents are found... Agent: Jones Day

20070112900 - Methods and systems for managing data: Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata. In one exemplary method, metadata from files created by several different software applications are captured, and the captured metadata is searched. The type of information in metadata for one type of file differs from the type of information in metadata for... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070106631 - Database server discovery using a configuration file: In various embodiments, the present invention provides methods and systems for enabling client machines to discover server configuration information for accessing a remotely stored file. A first client identifies a remotely stored file and determines if an associated configuration file exists. If a configuration file exists, the client uses the... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070106634 - Efficiently storing indented threads in a threaded discussion application: A method, apparatus, and computer-readable media for retrieving records in a hierarchical set of the records having a plurality of hierarchical levels and a plurality of hierarchical depths, each of the records having a tag that is unique within the hierarchical set of the records, comprises identifying one of the... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20070106635 - Efficiently storing indented threads in a threaded discussion application: A method, apparatus, and computer-readable media for retrieving records in a hierarchical set of the records having a plurality of hierarchical levels and a plurality of hierarchical depths, each of the records having a tag that is unique within the hierarchical set of the records, comprises identifying one of the... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20070106632 - Method and system for object allocation using fill counts: A method for locating a root block in file system metadata, includes traversing the file system metadata to locate a leaf block, wherein the leaf block comprises a plurality of root blocks and at least one of the plurality of root blocks is unallocated, allocating the at least of one... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070106630 - Method of enabling an application to access files stored on a removable storage medium: Symbian OS applications assume a directory structure that has been defined by Symbian and defines a standard set of directories starting from the root of a drive. This is not compatible with the Memory Stick standard. The method presented provides applications with a drive that appears to be a standard... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20070106633 - System and method for capturing user actions within electronic workflow templates: The invention provides an electronic workflow method and system that includes a client workstation having a high-resolution image displaying device and an input device, that captures actions that are performed on the image displaying device. The performed actions may include actions that are performed in an interpretation process of medical... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070106637 - Method for controlling a relational database system: A method for controlling a relational database system by executing a database query in a relational database which contains, as an associated data structure, a plurality of data tables interconnected through relations, by using a database language, with a table of the relations being provided. A processable database statement without... Agent: Paul And Paul

20070106636 - Resource exhaustion prediction, detection, diagnosis and correction: Resource exhaustion is anticipated, a cause of the resource exhaustion is identified and options are identified to address the resource exhaustion.... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070106643 - Computer-implemented systems and methods for providing a counting measure: In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for calculating a distinct count value from data stored in a hierarchical database. A counting measure may be defined in the hierarchical database such that the counting measure is associated with members of a first category of data... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20070106649 - Http-based programming interface: The systems, methods, means, and computer program products disclosed herein provide a framework and tools for creating composite services from the array of services available as distributed, loosely structured, ad hoc, remote programming interfaces on the Internet. The framework includes metaservices for coordinating the execution of multiple services in a... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070106645 - Legal database searching: In accordance with the principles of the present invention, a method of searching legal databases is provided. Pluralities of pre-selected fields are provided. The pre-selected fields are selected from a group of substantive subjects and selected from a group of case information. A matrix of the pre-selected field attributes comprises... Agent: Paul E. Schaafsma Novusip, LLC

20070106648 - Method of providing user information-based search using get_data operation in tv anytime metadata service: The present invention provides a method of providing a user information-based search using a get_Data operation in TV-Anytime service. In the user information-based search provision method of the present invention, a user information (PersonalInformation) element is added as an element of the get_Data operation. A request message of the get_Data... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070106639 - Method, apparatus, and system for searching based on search visibility rules: According to one aspect of the present invention, a method is provided in which a search request containing search criteria is received from a first user. A search is performed based upon the search criteria and the first user's organizational identifier to identify data records that match the search criteria... Agent: Csa LLP

20070106644 - Methods and apparatus for extracting and correlating text information derived from comment and product databases for use in identifying product improvements based on comment and product database commonalities: The present invention concerns methods and apparatus for analyzing product descriptions and comment databases, and for correlating product descriptions with comment databases. In methods and apparatus of the present invention general categories of product descriptions or user comments are identified. In instances where product descriptions or user comments are subject... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070106647 - Property tax and title chain document ordering system and method: The present invention is an integration platform providing access to property tax and title document index (a.k.a. title plant) backend. The present invention is to provide the benefits of so-called thick-client architecture, with their real-time responsiveness and ability to browse through large numbers of huge reports and image collections, with... Agent: First American Real Estate C/o Snell & Wilmer, LLP

20070106640 - Searching for strings in messages: A network device to determine the presence of one or more of the pre-defined strings in a message based on searching for a suffix and a reverse prefix in response to receiving a key search data indicating possible presence of any of the plurality of pre-defined strings. The network device... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070106641 - System and method for determining a quantitative measure of search efficiency of related web pages: A system and method for determining a quantitative measure of search efficiency of related Web pages. An information goal is specified. A target Web page is identified within a plurality of Web pages. The information goal is searched via a search function in the Web pages to identify potential Web... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20070106651 - System and method of semantic correlation of rich content: Content of interest to a user is identified. A first semantic abstract is generated for the content of interest using a state vector representation of the content of interest. The first semantic abstract is compared to a second semantic abstract representing another prospective content. If the first semantic abstract is... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C. - Novell

20070106638 - System and method to search a database for records matching user-selected search criteria and to maintain persistency of the matched records: According to one aspect of the present invention, a method includes receiving search criteria entered by a user. The method further includes searching a database for data records matching the search criteria. The method also includes generating search results comprising of the data records matching the received search criteria. In... Agent: Csa LLP

20070106642 - Systems and methods for managing enterprise it support planning: An integrated enterprise IT architecture planning system and method of planning the IT support of the enterprise business architecture that is based on a central database of record. Within this database of record, the current status of the IT support is documented, the desired target status of the IT support... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20070106650 - Url-based programming interface: The systems, methods, means, and computer program products disclosed herein provide a framework and tools for creating composite services from the array of services available as distributed, loosely structured, ad hoc, remote programming interfaces on the Internet. The framework includes metaservices for coordinating the execution of multiple services in a... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070106646 - User-directed navigation of multimedia search results: According to one aspect, a computerized method and apparatus for generating and presenting search snippets that enable user-directed navigation of the underlying audio/video content. The method involves obtaining metadata associated with discrete media content that satisfies a search query. The metadata identifies a number of content segments and corresponding timing... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20070106652 - Apparatus, system, and method for accessing a database: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for accessing a database. A request attribute module constructs a request attribute list from an attribute database for a data value name received in a request block, wherein the request block is an inquiry to a target database and is not formatted as... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20070106654 - Method and system for intelligent processing of electronic information: A method and system for intelligent electronic information processing. The method and system include selecting one or more portions of a set of electronic information including any unwanted portions that have been reviewed and are to be eliminated from display. The selected portions are recording thereby eliminating any unwanted previously... Agent: Lesavich High-tech Law Group, P.C. Suite 325

20070106655 - Methods and systems for managing data: Methods and systems and machine readable media for managing data. In one exemplary embodiment, an initial search query is received and examined to determine whether elements within the initial search query are within the same category of data, and a machine interpreted search query is derived in response to the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070106653 - Search engine: A method implemented with a machine, the machine, and the method for using the machine, and products produced thereby, the method including a computer system arranged to allow a user to input search phrases and/or words in one language and the system translates the phrases and/or words into one or... Agent: Peter K. Trzyna, Esq.

20070106656 - Apparatus and method for performing profile based collaborative filtering: Methods and apparatus are disclosed to various embodiments for recommending items (150) to an advisee such as television program recommendations, based on other user's viewing preferences (140) or profiles (160). In contrast to the state of the art, the other user's have at least one demographic in common with the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070106662 - Categorized document bases: A method of managing information comprises generating a categorized document base. Generating the document base comprises providing a pre-existing classification of things other than documents, providing a source collection of documents, and automatically assessing the documents using Information Retrieval techniques to assign at least some of the documents to one... Agent: Montgomery, Mccracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP

20070106661 - Information browsing apparatus and method, program and recording medium: In a display device, items of information relating to specified information, which is displayed as the largest item, via a selected relation criterion, are displayed aligned on a selection axis, and items of information relating via other relation criteria are displayed aligned on non-selection axes. An item of information selected... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070106660 - Method and apparatus for using confidence scores of enhanced metadata in search-driven media applications: According to one aspect, a computerized method and apparatus for generating and presenting search snippets that enable user-directed navigation of the underlying audio/video content. The method involves obtaining metadata associated with discrete media content that satisfies a search query. The metadata identifies a number of content segments and corresponding timing... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20070106663 - Methods and apparatus for using user personality type to improve the organization of documents retrieved in response to a search query: A user's document preferences are affected by his or her personality. The present invention provides improved organization of documents collected in response to a search query based at least in part upon identified Personality Type data of the user performing the search and Personality Usage Data collected from a plurality... Agent: Sinsheimer Juhnke Lebens & Mcivor, LLP

20070106659 - Search engine that applies feedback from users to improve search results: The present invention is directed to methods of and systems for ranking results returned by a search engine. A method in accordance with the invention comprises determining a formula having variables and parameters, wherein the formula is for computing a relevance score for a document and a search query; and... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20070106658 - System and method for information retrieval from object collections with complex interrelationships: A data-driven information navigation system and method enable search and analysis of a set of objects or other materials by certain common attributes that characterize the materials, as well as by relationships among the materials. The invention includes several aspects of a data-driven information navigation system that employs this navigation... Agent: Donald R. Steinberg Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070106657 - Word sense disambiguation: Techniques for automatically disambiguating a term with multiple meanings are provided. Term disambiguation is based on both training data and the contents of the body of text in which the term occurs. Once the contextual meaning of a term has been determined, metadata associated with that term can be used... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070106664 - Input/query methods and apparatuses: Methods and apparatuses for processing query are disclosed herein, including embodiments configured to facilitate submission of a query expressed in a pseudo-natural language or mixed-language statement, embodiments configured to facilitate responding to queries with limited display capabilities, and embodiments configured to facilitate both.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20070106665 - Method, a system, a device, a browser and a computer program product for providing information regarding the validity of a character string as a document identifier: This invention relates to a method, a system, a device, a browser and a computer program product for informing on the validity of a character string as a document identifier. In the method, a character string comprising one or more characters is received, the validity of the character string as... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070106666 - Computing frequency distribution for many fields in one pass in parallel: Provided are a techniques for determining a frequency distribution for a set of records. A count table of frequency distributions is built in memory for each field in the set of records, wherein each record of each count table includes a field identifier, a field value, and a count of... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20070106667 - Generalized deadlock resolution in databases: AND/OR graphs representative of database transactions are leveraged to facilitate in providing transaction deadlock resolutions with a guarantee in performance. In one instance, predominantly OR-based transaction deadlocks are resolved via killing a minimum cost set of graph nodes to release associated resources. This process can be performed cyclically to resolve... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070106668 - File management system, information processing apparatus, authentication system, and file access authority setting system: A file management system according to the present invention includes a server apparatus and a client apparatus. The server apparatus includes a file server, a file information database, an authority database, and a server-side communication section for sending a file and access authority information to the client apparatus. The client... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070106671 - Computer-readable recording medium storing data collection program and data collection apparatus: A computer-readable recording medium storing a data collection program for easily performing a process to collect data from a plurality of core systems at desired timing, and combine and analyze the data and data in a local database. An access request decomposer determines at least one remote database to be... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070106675 - Electronic apparatus, playback management method, display control apparatus, and display control method: An electronic apparatus includes a stream data obtaining unit that obtains stream data; a file generating unit that converts the obtained stream data into a predetermined format to generate stream files; a recording unit that records the generated stream files; and an index file generating unit that generates an index... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070106669 - Ensuring timely servicing of desired transactions in a database server: Ensuring that desired transactions are serviced in a timely manner in a database server. Resources are reserved ahead for transaction classes of interest, and the corresponding information is stored in a resource reservation table. In one embodiment, each transaction instance is admitted for servicing only if the reservation table indicates... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20070106674 - Field sales process facilitation systems and methods: An automated sales process facilitation tool includes a database. The database is connected to a communicative network. A communicative device of a salesperson is connected to the network. A token is input by the salesperson to and at the communicative device. The token is communicated through the network by the... Agent: H. Dale Langley, Jr. The Law Office Of H. Dale Langley, Jr.

20070106670 - Interactive communication session cookies: In one embodiment of the present invention, the concepts similar to web cookies are applied to interactive communication sessions (ICS). In particular, an ICS cookie is created by a first communication client in association with a first ICS, and delivered to a second communication client. In association with a second... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070106672 - Method of providing content items: c) transferring the first content recommendation list (81) from the server (2) to the client (3), d) providing a visual and/or audible representation of the first content recommendation list entries through a client user interface, each entry being selectable and arranged such that for each entry, user feedback may be... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070106673 - Systems and methods for mirroring the provision of identifiers: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for facilitating the assigning, generating, managing, and distributing of identifiers. In one implementation, a system is provided that comprises a first Web service for returning an identifier to a requester in response to an identifier request of the requester. The system also... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20070106676 - Web address converter for dynamic web pages: A Web address converter helps dynamic Web sites get the attention of spiders of Internet search engines. With the Web address converter, requests from Web browsers using static addresses access corresponding dynamic Web pages and requests from search engines generate an instance of a Web page having links with static... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070106680 - Digital media asset management system and method for supporting multiple users: An approach provides editing of digital media. A platform, as maintained by a service provider, provides a remote proxy editing capability of a plurality of media streams. A first one of the media streams is transmitted to a player of a first customer of the service provider. Further, the method... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070106679 - Dynamic intent log: A method for dynamic intent logging in a file system. The method including pre-allocating a first log block, receiving a request to write a first set of deltas into a dynamic intent log, determining whether a size of the first set of deltas is larger than a size of the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070106678 - Inheritable file system properties: A storage pool, that includes a hierarchical data structure, wherein the hierarchical data structure comprises a plurality of nodes, wherein one of the plurality of nodes corresponds to the file system, and the file system, wherein the file system is associated with a value corresponding to an attribute, wherein the... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070106681 - Method and system for providing a personal video recorder utilizing network-based digital media content: An approach provides for recording and editing digital media. A digital media stream is generated from an input signal (such as a live broadcast feed). The digital media stream is transmitted to a browser application configured to concurrently record and edit the digital media stream.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20070106677 - Method and system for pruned resilvering using a dirty time log: A computer readable medium includes executable instructions for resilvering a hierarchical block tree in a storage pool by traversing a branch of the hierarchical block tree only if a birth time of a parent block of the branch is greater than or equal to a lowest birth time on a... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070106682 - Independent computation environment and data protection: In an implementation, an independent computation environment is contained at least in part in one or more hardware components of a computing device. A policy engine is maintained within the independent computation environment that is executable to examine metadata related to another module and manage execution of the other module... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070106683 - Distributed database: A system and method are provided for constructing and operating a distributed database. The system and method use multi-master replication and synchronization, whereby one or more central sites provide redundant database support of groupings of local sites. The correspondence of local primary database and its centrally-located secondary (redundant) partner is... Agent: Robert Plotkin, PC

20070106685 - Method and apparatus for updating speech recognition databases and reindexing audio and video content using the same: A method and apparatus for reindexing media content for search applications that includes steps and structure for providing a speech recognition database that include entries defining acoustical representations for a plurality of words; providing a searchable database containing a plurality of metadata documents descriptive of a plurality of media resources,... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20070106684 - Poly vectoral reverse navigation: This invention includes a method of navigating a collection of nodes by selecting a first node, generating a context list and displaying first node and context list. Each context of the context collection includes a second node essentially referencing the first node. Another aspect of the invention includes a method... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070106686 - Unstructured data editing through category comparison: Embodiments of the present invention include methods for editing and scanning unstructured data and text by using one or more external categories of data for the purpose of finding words and phrases in the unstructured environment which correspond to words and phrases in the external category. External categories of data... Agent: Fountainhead Law Group, PC

20070106687 - Delivery, organization, and management of data capture elements: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer usable code are provided for dynamically creating data capture elements. The aspects of the present invention receive a request for a data capture form and retrieve template build data for building the data capture form to form retrieved template build data... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070106695 - Information processing apparatus, method, and system: An information processing method that manages flow information that defines a cooperation processing of a plurality of tasks acquires update information that depicts a task that is subject to updating and a task structure for the relevant task after updating. It also detects task information, from flow information registered in... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070106696 - Method and system for generating a manual: The present invention relates to a system for creating a manual from at least one item of information originating from a global data warehouse, each item of information from the global data warehouse being able to comprise a link to another item of information from the global data warehouse. The... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20070106693 - Methods and apparatus for providing virtual media channels based on media search: A computerized method and apparatus for providing a virtual media channel based on media search is featured. The method and apparatus features the steps of, or structure for, obtaining a set of rules that define instructions for obtaining media content that comprise the content for a media channel, the set... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20070106688 - Network-based data feedback processing method and system: A network-based data feedback processing method and system is proposed, which is designed for use in conjunction with a network system, and which is characterized by the capability of feeding the data stored in the database of a material dispatching management system on a data server on a remote side... Agent: Edwards & Angell, LLP

20070106690 - Personalized memory album: This invention relates to a process to create a personalized memory album including selecting image elements comprising a directed image supplied by a software program, a personalized image, and personalized text, uniting the selected image elements into a collected image file, previewing the collected image file, printing the collected image... Agent: Milliken & Company

20070106694 - Structuralized document, contents delivery server apparatus, and contents delivery system: A structuralized document is provided that includes a contents part and a program part. The programs part stores a computer-readable program which, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to perform a process including the steps of accessing a contents delivery server apparatus, inputting contents provided at the contents... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070106691 - System and method for efficient directory performance using non-persistent storage: A system and method are provided for processing directory service operations. The system includes a client device communicatively coupled to one or more directory servers. Each directory server includes a communications interface, a storage mechanism, and an evaluation module. According to an exemplary embodiment, the storage mechanism is a non-persistent... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070106692 - System and method for recording and replaying a session with a web server without recreating the actual session: A system, method, and computer program product for replaying sessions is presented. Stored page metadata, corresponding to a previous client session, is obtained. One or more of the inputs referenced in the stored page metadata is disabled, resulting in a first replay representation. One or more stored client transactions corresponding... Agent: Vanleeuwen & Vanleeuwen

20070106697 - Systems and methods for managing location of media in a storage system: A system and method for operating a storage library. The system comprises a management server, a media agent connected to the management server, a library connected to the media agent and a database connected to the management server. The management server controls the media agent to monitor for the addition... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070106689 - Xml data reduction engine (xre): This invention provides a method and system for semantic interoperability through an innovative method to transmit a smaller set of XML data using unique UDEF Identifier tagging and common objects model.... Agent: Alan N. Slater

20070106700 - Hierarchical file system naming: A storage pool including a file system, where the file system is associated with a name and the name is determined using a hierarchical data structure.... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070106699 - Method and system for automatic registration of attribute types: According to one embodiment, a method of automatically defining attributes in a directory schema during operation includes determining that an attribute not defined in the schema, and in response, creating a new attribute definition.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070106701 - Method and system for updating an application: The patching of applications is achieved by performing application updates in one file system view, while the application is running in another view. A patch user copies any files that are to be modified, performs the modification on the copies, and switches all users to the patch view once all... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070106702 - Selective caching of servable files based at least in part on a type of memory: Methods and apparatuses are provided for use in servers or other like devices that output content data based on requests. Activity and/or other like information, e.g., in the form of Metadata, is gathered/maintained for each handled request and used to determine if the corresponding content data should be cached in... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070106698 - Server based automatically updating address book: A method is disclosed for address book owners to link to a publisher's contact information profile, and establish an automatic updates relationship with the publisher. Upon establishing this relationship, when a publisher modifies his or her profile to reflect updated contact information, the publisher's updated profile information may then automatically... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20070106703 - Apparatus, system, and method for determining the consistency of a database: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for determining the consistency of a database including indirect reference to data elements. There is provided an apparatus for determining consistency of a database. This database includes, in association with each data element, an indirect list element including a storage address of the... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20070106704 - 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

20070106705 - System and method for integrating data between computer systems: Data within database and/or spreadsheet programs of a first computer system are made recognizable by a second computer system. The recognizable data serves to facilitate either data processing within the first computer system by instructions received from the second computer system and/or to transfer the recognizable data of the first... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20070106707 - File management method for log-structured file system for sequentially adding and storing log of file access: There is disclosed a file management method in a log-structured file system for storing accesses to files that are sequentially performed by sequentially adding logs. A storage area of a storage medium is previously divided into a data area for storing a log including data of the file and a... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070106706 - Unlimited file system snapshots and clones: The invention relates to a system that includes a file system configured to create a snapshot of a hierarchical block tree (HBT) and a storage pool. After the snapshot has been created, the storage pool includes a snapshot, where the snapshot includes a copy of a first version of a... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070106709 - Data set version counting in a mixed local storage and remote storage environment: Provided are a techniques for storing local versions of a data set. A first number that indicates how many local versions of the data set are to be stored in local storage given an amount of available local storage is received. It is determined whether a second number that indicates... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070106708 - Managing hierarchies of components: Described are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products for managing a hierarchy of modules. A user can select a first hierarchy or a second hierarchy, where the first hierarchy includes a module and a first sub-module. The module is associated with a component and the first sub-module is... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20070106710 - Apparatus, system, and method for data migration: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for data migration of retention data between data retention systems. The system includes a first back-end agent for accessing a first data retention system according to a first communication protocol, a first front-end agent for interfacing between the first back-end agent and the... Agent: Kunzler & Associates

20070106713 - Hazard protected file backup system: A hazard protected file backup system includes a storage unit and a backup server. The storage unit is operable to receive and store digital data. A hazard resistant enclosure surrounds the storage unit. The backup server is operable to receive designated backup files and store at least some of the... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20070106711 - Method and apparatus for configurable data aggregation in a data warehouse: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code to identify a policy for managing data in a data storage system. Raw data is located in the data storage system for processing to form located data. The located data is aggregated based on the policy to form aggregated data.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070106714 - Method and system using an external hard drive to implement back-up files: A method for transferring back-up copies of first files from a first computer to an external hard drive (EHD) and optionally for transferring back up copies of second files from a second computer to the EHD. A system uses a server to back up first files on a first computer... Agent: Senniger Powers

20070106712 - Replication arbitration apparatus, method and program: Replication between master storage and replica storage is performed via an arbitration apparatus. The arbitration apparatus controls transmission of update information from the master storage to the replica storage to thereby rationalize the updating sequence of replica storage.... Agent: Paul J. Esatto, Jr. Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser

20070106715 - Database server discovery using a configuration file: In various embodiments, the present invention provides methods and systems for enabling client machines to discover server configuration information for accessing a remotely stored file. A first client identifies a remotely stored file and determines if an associated configuration file exists. If a configuration file exists, the client uses the... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070106716 - Shared classes cache computer system and method therefor: A JVM shared classes cache computer system (300) and method therefor (500) allowing efficient dynamic updates by referencing (120, 220) entries in the cache (400) and using an indication (460) of the staleness of an indexed entry, whereby a stale cached class can be identified. Each JVM has a local... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070100789 - Bulk keyword import/export system and method: A system and method allows a user to automatically upload or download Internet advertising keywords to/from a search engine. A plug-in module may be used with a spreadsheet application used to maintain a collection of keywords. The plug-in module facilitates the bulk transfer of keywords between the spreadsheet application and... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070100786 - Lexical classification system with dynamic modifiers: A method of applying a color modifier to a color having a corresponding color name. The method involves receiving a color modifier and a color name and determining a displacement value corresponding to the received color modifier. Determining a displacement value corresponding to the received color modifier involves reference to... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070100785 - Managing attributes in a digital information system: A computer-implemented method of configuring a distributed computing system may include receiving first configuration input identifying at least a first data object type and a first attribute of the first data object type. The distributed computing system may include multiple executable software applications, each of which may process data objects... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070100790 - Method and apparatus for building an intelligent automated assistant: A method and apparatus are provided for building an intelligent automated assistant. Embodiments of the present invention rely on the concept of “active ontologies” (e.g., execution environments constructed in an ontology-like manner) to build and run applications for use by intelligent automated assistants. In one specific embodiment, a method for... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP Sri International

20070100782 - Method and apparatus for workflow interactive troubleshooting tool: A method and system for providing a workflow integrated troubleshooting tool. The system may include a central workflow server from which network technicians may obtain trouble tickets and with which the technician may analyze and solve problems identified in the trouble tickets. The workflow server may automatically provide recommended workflows... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070100791 - Method and system for re-population of data in a database: A method for automatic re-population of data in a database in response to detection of at least one script-transaction, the database comprises a plurality of tables. The script-transaction is carried out in response to a script input. The method comprises truncating at least one table, which is being modified by... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20070100783 - Method, system, and program for determining discrepancies between database management systems: A data processing system implemented method, a data processing system, and an article of manufacture determine discrepancies between a first database management system and a second database management system. The first database management system populates a first database and the second database management system populates a second database. The data... Agent: Samuel A. Kassatly Law Office

20070100784 - System and method for automatic design of component libraries: Embodiments of the present invention introduce a novel recursive assembly process to automatically create a library of components. It starts with simple components used as building blocks and proceeds by repeatedly combining these randomly into more complex ones. The utility and quality of these random combinations of components are measured... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070100792 - System and method for transparently accessing a virtual disk using a file-based protocol: A system and method enabling transparent access to blocks, such as virtual disks, stored on a storage system using a file-based protocol. The system and method traps in-coming file-based protocol open commands to check for a predetermined modification to the file name. If the system and method detects the predetermined... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070100788 - System design and manufacture: A method of system design and manufacture includes entering system details in a first user interface program 100. A transfer file 110 defining a spreadsheet including cells representing the system is created and transferred to a spreadsheet 120. The transfer file is arranged to define component count spreadsheet cells to... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070100787 - System for downloading digital content published in a media channel: A system (10) for downloading digital content (5) to a video-enabled portable media player (20), the digital content (5) being published in a media channel (30) by a content creator, the system (10) comprising: a data receiver module (11) to receive the digital content (5) from the media channel (30)... Agent: Creative Labs, Inc. Legal Department

20070100793 - Identifying database request sources: A method, computer program, and database system are disclosed for identifying a second source of a request sent to a database management system by a first source. A database message is received from the first source. The database message includes a second value for a second source-identifying parameter. The second... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. One Shell Plaza

20070100803 - Automated generation, performance monitoring, and evolution of keywords in a paid listing campaign: Keyword candidates are identified by in response to receiving an identification of a web page. Content of the web page is analyzed to identify terms from the web page. An automated keyword expansion is performed using the identified terms to produce a set of candidate keywords. Keyword suggestions are generated... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070100804 - Automatic identification of related search keywords: Keyword expansion is used to expand a particular keyword into multiple related keyword candidates using a collection of data that relates to search queries performed using one or more search engines. The data identifies search terms from associated search queries. A particular keyword is identified and one or more candidate... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070100802 - Clickable map interface: A method is disclosed for providing a map for displaying inventory. A clickable map interface allows users to view or purchase the inventory of a product at a particular location. A user can view the inventory of a product from retail stores within a particular region. Alternatively, a user can... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20070100806 - Client libraries for mobile content: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for compiling a code library that enables a search functionality on a wireless platform, providing a code library adapted for a third party application, distributing the code library to a third party to create a combination of the code library... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070100798 - Community built result sets and methods of using the same: The present invention is directed towards methods and systems that facilitate the searching for and retrieval of one or more result sets, each result set generated by a one or more users. A method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises receiving one or more query terms from... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070100807 - Data searching system, method of synchronizing metadata and data searching apparatus: A data searching unit 12 of a data searching apparatus 10 obtains according to a searching request including a search condition specified by a data searching application 16, metadata which satisfy the search condition from a data storage unit 11, and instructs an external communication unit 15 to request searching... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070100808 - High speed non-concurrency controlled database: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for high-speed database searching with concurrent updating, without the use of database locks or access controls, for large database systems. Specifically, a plurality of search queries may be received over a network, the database may be searched, and a plurality... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070100797 - Indication of exclusive items in a result set: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating and displaying the difference between a primary result set and a secondary result set. According to the present invention, a method for displaying the difference between a primary result set and a secondary result set for a query comprises... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070100794 - Method and apparatus for providing extensible document access to assistive technology providers: A method, system, and computer program product for providing an access engine that functions as an intermediary between a specific object and a renderer.... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070100799 - Methods for navigating collections of information in varying levels of detail: By varying the levels of detail associated with items in an ordered collection of information, items may be organized in a way to emphasize details about item of current interest. Displaying varying levels of detail about items in an ordered collection of information involves determining a focus, and based on... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070100800 - Methods for visually enhancing the navigation of collections of information: A nonlinear response navigator allows users to move at variable speeds through collections of information without having to use either paging or scrolling techniques. The navigator provides a fun, intuitive feel while navigating data and provides a direct engagement interaction between user and data. The navigator enhances the normal browsing... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070100805 - Mobile content cross-inventory yield optimization: In embodiments of the present invention, improved capabilities are described for optimizing yield based at least in part on presenting mobile content, such as sponsored advertisements, sponsored content, or sponsored call numbers, to a mobile communication facility from a plurality of content inventories. Content selection from the plurality of inventories... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070100795 - System and method for associating an unvalued search term with a valued search term: Methods and systems for associating an unbidded term with a bidded term and for pricing search terms. The method for associating an unbidded term with a bidded term comprises selecting a first set of search engine results for the unbidded term, selecting a second set of search engine results for... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070100796 - System and method for targeted ad delivery: A method and system of generating a user profile for advertisement over a computer network is disclosed. A webpage identifier that identifies a webpage is generated. The webpage identifier can be a universal resource locator. A content category identifier that identifies a content category is generated. The webpage identifier is... Agent: The Walt Disney Company C/o Greenberg Traurig LLP

20070100801 - System for selecting categories in accordance with advertising: A method is disclosed for providing advertising content for display in a page over a network. The advertising content is displayed based on a category assigned to the advertising content. The category correlating to a given search may be based on the search results. The search results may be associated... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20070100810 - Apparatus and method for searching data for a similar article: An apparatus and method for quickly retrieving and outputting assemblies or subassemblies similar to a target assembly or subassembly for similar determination are provided. Data concerning assemblies, and the subassemblies and parts contained in the assemblies is retrieved from a product structure data storage device; hierarchical structures of the assemblies... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070100811 - Direct tracking of keywords to ads/text: The present invention overcomes the deficiencies and limitations of the prior art by providing a direct tracking module for keywords. In one embodiment, the system comprises a direct tracking module, a bid management system, a web analytics tool and a search engine. The direct tracking module interfaces with the bid... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070100809 - Mixed mode (mechanical process and english text) query building support for improving the process of building queries correctly: Embodiments of the present invention allow verification of query language by providing a natural language description for the query language. A natural language description is generated for each query component along with selectable text representing the query component. Upon selection of the selectable text, the query component is rendered for... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070100814 - Apparatus and method for detecting named entity: An apparatus and method for detecting a named-entity. The apparatus includes a candidate-named-entity extraction module that detects a candidate-named-entity based on an initial learning example and feature information regarding morphemes constituting an inputted sentence, the candidate-named-entity extraction module providing a tagged sentence including the detected candidate-named-entity; a storage module that... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070100812 - Deploying a document classification system: A system and method for deploying a document classification system include deploying a document classification system with a first classification engine configuration, and thereafter, automatically redeploying the document classification system with a second classification engine configuration in response to a cost function.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070100817 - Document scoring based on document content update: A system may determine a measure of how a content of a document changes over time, generate a score for the document based, at least in part, on the measure of how the content of the document changes over time, and rank the document with regard to at least one... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070100815 - Information management device, information management system, and computer usable medium: When a first period in which a target document is utilized overlaps with a second period in which a utilization document utilized, the target document and the utilization document are correlated with each other. When the utilization document is updated in the second period, a correlation score is given to... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070100816 - Information management device, information management system, and computer usable medium: One identification information piece to identify one data correlated with another data can be output as being correlated with the another data. In addition, when the one data is displayed or printed on the basis of the output one identification information piece or when another data associated with the one... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070100818 - 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

20070100813 - System and method for labeling a document: A system and method for selecting a proxy keyword for an unknown document. An unknown document is received by a receiver. A plurality of candidate documents and corresponding keywords are determined for the unknown document. Using the keywords from the candidate documents, proxy keywords are determined for the unknown document... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070100822 - Difference control for generating and displaying a difference result set from the result sets of a plurality of search engines: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating and displaying the difference between a primary result set and a secondary result set. According to the present invention, a method for displaying the difference between a primary result set and a secondary result set for a query comprises... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070100820 - Identification of software configuration data: Identification of software configuration data. One or more binary files from a memory area in a computing device are identified. The binary files include information relating to execution of software. One or more strings from the identified binary files are extracted according to a rule. The rule defines requirements associated... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070100819 - Method to decode a data string: The invention relates to decode data transmitted via US National Weather Service NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) transmitters or any other data transmitted in a comparable way. According to the invention a method to decode a received data string comprises the steps of locating a predefined significant part of the data... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Patent Operations

20070100821 - Presentation of differences between multiple searches: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating and displaying the difference between a primary result set and a secondary result set. According to the present invention, a method for displaying the difference between a primary result set and a secondary result set for a query comprises... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070100823 - Techniques for manipulating unstructured data using synonyms and alternate spellings prior to recasting as structured data: Unstructured data is manipulated so that the unstructured data is placed in a form that is more compatible with a structured data environment. The manipulation includes editing the unstructured data in preparation for integration into a structured data environment. Specifically, one or more editing programs edit unstructured text using a... Agent: Chad R. Walsh Fountainhead Law Group P.C.

20070100825 - Process for sorting large lists on a 64-bit computing platform: A process for sorting large files or structures is disclosed where improved performance is achieved by reducing the work involved and the time required to do record key comparisons. The reduction is achieved by transposing and saving the key data from each record into a representative form that can be... Agent: Dr. Russell W. Guenthner Bull Hn Information Systems Inc.

20070100824 - Using popularity data for ranking: A unique ranking system and method that facilitates improving the ranking and ordering of objects to further enhance the quality, accuracy, and delivery of search results in response to a search query. The system and method involve monitoring and tracking an object in terms of the number of times it's... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070100826 - Method for improving the performance of database loggers using agent coordination: A method for substantially reducing the latency of the database (DB) logging process by removing the agent notification requirement from the DB logger and allowing the DB logger to proceed to the next commit process without the latency of providing each waiting agent a notification that the agent continue their... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070100828 - Modified machine architecture with machine redundancy: A multiple computer system in which a single application program, written to execute on only a single computer, runs on multiple computers is disclosed. Each computer (M1, . . . Mn) has a substantially identical local memory structure. Synchronizing locks are used to ensure that only one computer is able... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070100827 - Real-time data exchange system and method thereof: A real-time data exchange system and method thereof are disclosed. A remote management system is connected to a first system, a second system and a shared database respectively. The remote management system is used to receive a plurality of data from the first system and stores the data to the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070100829 - Content manager system and method: The invention provides a content management system for on-line educational platforms, including a central content repository. The invention provides version control, search capabilities, content referencing and copying capabilities, content usage tracking, user role type permissions controls, content locking, and authoring and delivery templates. The system and method track and record... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20070100831 - Managing rich presence collections: A method and system for increasing the computational and network efficiency of presence servers having collections of publications is provided. The presence system uses several techniques that enable a presence server to provide rich presence information without requiring expensive processing. First, the presence system accepts batches of publication updates in... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070100830 - Method and apparatus for access control list (acl) binding in a data processing system: Methods, computer programs, and systems for updating an access control list (ACL) associated with one or more resources in a data processing system are provided. The method includes providing a table including a list of one or more first ACLs that map to a corresponding one or more previously computed... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070100832 - Systems and methods for performing authorization: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for performing an authorization check for a user. In one implementation, a data processing system is provided that includes means for storing first data descriptive of at least one directed acyclic graph and for storing second data descriptive of an assignment of... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20070100833 - E-bookmark: The present invention provides a method for creating an electronic bookmark during browsing on a web. According to a predetermined sequence the method records the process of browsing the specific program content by an user and stores the process in a storing means. The stored content is a browsing command... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070100837 - Enterprise java bean (ejb) based enterprise printing architecture: Features of Enterprise Java Bean (EJB), Enterprise Printing Bean (EPB), JAVA, J2EE, and document authoring are combined to enable a robust enterprise printing architecture. A Java object encapsulates a print job specification and provides a framework enabling access control to print jobs as well as providing audit capabilities. Print control... Agent: Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20070100839 - Method and apparatus for managing content on network and recording medium storing program for performing the method: A method and apparatus for managing contents on a network, such as a home network, which can provide unified information on the contents using a physical view form or various logical view forms, regardless of the power on/off state of client devices connected to the network, and a computer-readable recording... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070100838 - Outfit exchange service platform: An internet-based service platform that enables users to record the details of the time and place where a specific event is going to take place. Users can then add the details of the outfit that they are planning to wear to that specific event. If an event is already recorded... Agent: Marina Sartor

20070100840 - Preference information processing system, recording apparatus, information processing apparatus and communication method: A plurality of information processing apparatus can share preference information each of the apparatus has. There is provided a preference information processing system which has a plurality of information processing apparatus adapted to share preference information acquired on the basis of user operations for contents on a recording apparatus communicable... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070100835 - Semantic identities: Semantic identities are provided. A semantic identity is created for an agent. The semantic identity is associated with one or more categories and the categories are associated with interests. The semantic identity mines a network for information that relates to the one or more categories or the interests and packages... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070100834 - System and method for managing data in a distributed computer system: Methods are provided for managing, sharing and providing access to data, especially among systems that are used to conduct a distributed application. Such methods may be beneficial, for example, in distributed networks having occasionally-connected devices. Methods are provided for linking and synchronizing data in a distributed network. In one example... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi

20070100836 - User interface for providing third party content as an rss feed: A system, method, and apparatus are directed to managing a subscription to an RSS feed. A search component enables searching over a network for content associated with an RSS feed. In one embodiment, the search component receives a search query in the form of a structured query language (SQL), Boolean... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070100846 - Aggregate file containing a content-description file and a resource file: Methods, systems, and products for including a content-description file in a viewable aggregate file. A content-description file that has a first native file format and a second file that has a second native file format are identified and are inserted into an aggregate file in a form that preserves the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070100845 - Customer relationship management integration system and method: This invention is directed to a customer relationship management integration system and method in an online and an offline mode of operation. In this invention, CRM customer data, which is generally incompatible with groupware data, is manipulable by the groupware client. Customer data that can be fitted within standard groupware... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070100853 - Data collection from network nodes in a telecommunication network: It is disclosed a method for collecting data from nodes of a telecommunication network, said network comprising a collecting node and an intermediate node, the method comprising the steps, which are performed by the intermediate node, of: receiving from said collecting node a first file comprising at least a first... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070100852 - File system management for integrated nor and nand flash memory: A file management system for utilizing both NOR and NAND flash memory technology in a system is disclosed. Control structures are stored within NOR flash memory blocks. Data structures are stored within NAND flash memory blocks.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070100850 - Fragility handling: A method is provided for handling failures in a computer system including a compliance checking system in a computer network. In response to a client computer failing to obtain a compliance check, a determination is made as to a category of an error that at least partially caused the failure... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070100854 - Method of providing a validatable data structure: A method of providing a validatable data structure having a changeable part and an unchangeable part having respective content is described. The method comprises incorporating, in the unchangeable part, an identifier identifying the changeable part.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070100847 - Methods and structure for sas expander initiating communication to a sas initiator to identify changes in the sas domain: Methods and structures within a SAS expander for initiating communication with one or more SAS initiators in a SAS domain to inform the initiators of sensed changes in the domain without the need for a full SAS Discovery process. In one aspect hereof, the expander may transmit a vendor unique... Agent: Lsi Logic Corporation

20070100848 - Node index: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for a node index. A memory for storing data for access by an application program being executed on a data processing system includes a context node data structure stored in the memory, the context data structure including nodes and attributes, a selected attribute... Agent: Holland & Knight, LLP

20070100849 - Providing a path-based identifier: A path-based identifier is provided. An entity identifier is generated at an entity of a supply chain and the entity identifier is based on a reliability of the entity of the supply chain at which the entity identifier is generated. In addition, an updated path-based identifier is stored based on... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070100851 - System and method for collaborative analysis of data streams: Embodiments of the present invention combine the flexibility of the computer in segmenting, indexing, and retrieving data with the strengths of people in analyzing scenes. They provide a mechanism that allows a group of analyzers at distributed locations to collaborate in generating pieces of semantic information of a data stream,... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070100841 - System and method for discovery of business processes: A method and system are described for discovering business process definitions for a particular enterprise. A concept of Archetype is introduced where an archetype represents the industry-specific but enterprise-neutral set of process definition and recognition rules. The actual business processes of an enterprise are obtained by matching the archetypes to... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20070100844 - System and method for dynamically updating web pages using messaging-oriented middleware: System, computer implemented method and computer program product for dynamically updating a Web page using browser-based messaging. A system for dynamically updating a Web page using browser-based messaging includes a Web page that includes a plurality of Web messaging tags, and a selected data model that can be bound to... Agent: Duke. W. Yee

20070100843 - System and method for mapping between different information management systems: Provided is a method for the standardization of information management among different information sources and different information formats. With respect to information sources that employ different information storage formats, an organizational proxy, or “shadow,” of the organization structure of the first information source is created in the second information source... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20070100842 - System and method for storing item attributes in an electronic catalog: An electronic catalog is provided that stores items and attributes associated with the items. One or more of the attributes may have more than one value. Items are stored in an item table with different attributes for items stored in different rows in an attribute table. Additional items may be... Agent: Kenneth C. Winterton Holland & Hart LLP

20070100856 - Account consolidation: In one aspect a system and method for aggregating data from multiple content nodes are provided. In one example, a system for aggregating content nodes on a single content node backend includes logic operable to associate a first content node with a second content node on a first backend, wherein... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070100855 - Computer method and apparatus for handling private process state in a stacking file system: In a subject filesystem, the invention computer method and apparatus use the filesystem's dentry trees for all file system objects not contained in a corresponding stacking filesystem. The invention method and apparatus set the process environment to have a reliable inheritance of the stacking filesystem's root context to new processes... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070100857 - Computer-implemented method, tool, and program product for storing a business document in an enterprise software application environment: In general, the present invention provides a computer-implemented method, system, tool, and program product for storing a document in an enterprise software environment, such as SAP. Specifically, under the present invention, a hierarchical structure is provided for linking a business document. The hierarchical structure includes a plurality of levels that... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070100861 - Interacting with a computer-based management system: A method, and apparatus, and a software product for implementing a method for interacting with a computer-based management system including authoring and communicating composite data messages, each composite data message comprising both free-text and structured data, such that the structured data represents the intended meaning of the free-text in a... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20070100860 - Preservation and/or degradation of a video/audio data stream: In one aspect, a method related to data management includes but is not limited to accepting input for a designation of a reference designator and a beginning demarcation designator and/or an ending demarcation designator in a video/audio data stream, wherein the beginning demarcation designator and/or the ending demarcation designator are... Agent: Searete LLC

20070100859 - System and method for managing changes to business rules: A rules change management system and method. The system comprises a first computing system comprising a first memory system. The first memory system comprises a rules change management engine. The first computing system receives a set of meta-rules associated with rules stored in a second memory system within a second... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070100858 - System, method and computer-program product for structured data capture: Techniques are provided for capturing data which satisfy data requirements of a particular data capture process. Schema including input requests for the data which satisfy the data requirements of the particular data capture process are specified. The schema can then be transformed into a template which includes the input requests... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070100862 - Adding attributes and labels to structured data: A method and system associating labels and attribute values with items in a collection of data. Providers can associate attributes and labels with their data or attributes and labels can be added to existing data. A preferred embodiment allows a content provider to upload data and to attach their own... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070100865 - Aggregate file containing content-description files having native file formats: Methods, systems, and products for including a content-description file in a viewable aggregate file. A content-description file that has a first native file format and a second file that has a second native file format are identified and are inserted into an aggregate file in a form that preserves the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070100877 - Building electronic forms: A system and method that enables a designer to build electronic forms and corresponding hierarchical schemas are described. Displays of hierarchical schemas, electronic forms, and components used to build the hierarchical schemas and electronic forms are provided to the designer. The designer selects components and arranges them on a display... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070100864 - Client enterprise reference map: A method, system, and computer program product that provides a “Client Enterprise Reference Map” to model and to act upon the activities occurring at or on behalf of client enterprises of an outsourcing solutions provider in a general way, within an industry, for a client enterprise, and for any other... Agent: Gardere/eds Gardere Wynne Sewell Intellectual Property

20070100872 - Dynamic creation of user interfaces for data management and data rendering: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for dynamic creation of user interfaces for data management and data rendering including receiving an identification of a data source; retrieving data from the identified data source; and dynamically creating, in dependence upon the retrieved data, a user interface object to access the identified... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070100870 - Enabling a user to create a mini information center thereby reducing the time needed for the user to obtain the desired information: A method, computer program product and system for creating a mini information center. A user is presented with an initial set of questions to answer. Based on these answers, topics of interests are identified. These topics of interests are presented to the user. Each topic of interest may be associated... Agent: Robert A. Voigt, Jr. Winstead Sechrest & Minick PC

20070100878 - Group sorted consolidation of data in an intrusion management system: A method for dynamically representing events detected by an intrusion management system in a communication with a monitored computer system is disclosed. The method includes the steps of receiving data representing detected events in real time, displaying the data in a browser window of the intrusion management system, aggregating, automatically,... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20070100874 - Grouping of information items on a page: A method for computing apparatus to create a page with a plurality of information items laid out upon it is described. A plurality of information items and a definition of one or more groups of information items to be formed on the page are received, as is a candidate layout... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070100873 - Information retrieving system: The technology for changing the nodes in an information retrieving system using a computer. When information items are registered by allocating to n nodes, steps are used to extract index information as a set of pairs of index keys of information items and addresses of information items, divide the index... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070100871 - Method and system for creating management information base specifications: A method and apparatus for creating management information specifications in a schema by a user. According to various embodiments of the method, a first file is defined by using a metaschema. The metaschema is represented in a schema definition format. Subsequently, a second file corresponding to the first file is... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20070100866 - Method for registering a template message, generating an update message, regenerating and providing an application request, computer arrangement, computer program and computer program product: The invention relates to a method for registering a template message (8, 13) comprising identifying a request class (25) containing a fixed (7, 14) and a variable content part (12, 18), generating a template message (8, 13) comprising the fixed content part (7, 14) of the request class (25), and... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20070100876 - Methods, systems and computer program products for segmented presentation of service order status information: The status of a plurality of service orders is summarized. A first data set that includes a plurality of records corresponding to service orders, such as requests for initiation of telephone or other communications services, is imported into a database application. At least one query or test may be executed... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070100863 - Newsmaker verification and commenting method and system: An on-line article comprising instances of newsmakers is provided by an Internet connected news server or news aggregator server and the names of the newsmakers are automatically identified by a newsmaker verification and commenting module. The article is displayed to a reader on an Internet connected client computer. The instances... Agent: Elliot Furman

20070100868 - Searching multiple repositories in a digital information system: A computer-implemented method of configuring a database system for a global attribute search may include receiving a first user-actuated input in a distributed computing system that comprises multiple executable software applications. The software applications may process data objects in the system, and the data objects may have attributes and corresponding... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070100867 - System for displaying ads: A method is disclosed for providing advertising content for display in a page over a network. A plurality of advertisements are determined that are qualified for display at a location in the page. When an advertiser has stores located at a plurality of geographic sites, only one advertisement for a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20070100875 - Systems and methods for trend extraction and analysis of dynamic data: The invention is directed generally to providing methods and systems for trend extraction and analysis. Embodiments include methods and systems for trend extraction and analysis of information extracted from dynamically changing data included in computer systems and/or networks. Various exemplary embodiments are provided that may generate characteristic indicators for trend(s)... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20070100869 - Transferring specifications and providing an integration point for external tools to access the specifications: Provided are techniques for using a specification. A first specification that was created in a portable data format with an archive tool is imported, wherein the specification indicates whether data is to be archived or retrieved, wherein the specification was created for execution at a first computing device, and wherein... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20070100879 - Error tracking method and system: An example of a method for error tracking includes sending a data object to a first location. This example also includes determining if the data object was successfully stored at the first location, and if so, storing meta data corresponding with the data object, wherein the meta data includes first... Agent: Timothy N. Ellis, Patent Attorney

20070100886 - Api and schemas for dedicated customer service representative interface: A pay-per-use or subscription computer may require customer assistance for both technical and business purposes. A customer service interface available via a web service may be used to provide customer service offered by a provider at a different level of the distribution chain. The web service may be focused in... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070100885 - Clinical trial information processing system and method: A system functioning between the clinical trial facility (trial site) and the party requesting clinical trial (sponsor) to make clinical trial more efficient. Information relating to the sponsor and information relating to the trial site, and trial basic information including the trial target disease name, the total length of trial... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070100887 - Consistency of state model visualization across different standard attributes: A system, apparatus and method are described for displaying multiple attributes relative to objects in a network management program. In one embodiment, multiple attributes from a plurality of different standards are coalesced together and the coalesced attributes are displayed by a user interface. These coalesced attributes may be shown in... Agent: Infinera Corporation

20070100882 - Content control of a user interface: The present disclosure provides, among other things, a method comprising loading learning content into a content player. The method further includes modifying a user interface of the content player in accordance with a command from the learning content. The user interface comprises a plurality of interface elements and at least... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070100889 - Information processing device, an information processing method, and an information processing program: The present invention provides an information processing device comprising: a storage device which stores a group of data including language data corresponding to a plurality of languages, a language selection device which selects a language used for an operation of the information processing device among the plurality of languages based... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070100888 - Method and apparatus for managing content file information, and recording medium storing program for performing the method: A method and apparatus for managing content file information based on file paths are provided. The method includes creating a folder table comprising folder paths of content files and folder path identification information corresponding to the folder paths; creating a file table comprising file names of the content files and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070100891 - Method of forming a multimedia package: A method of forming a multimedia package is provided. The method obtains a media stream having media segments where the media segments include metadata associated with content in the media segments. The method indexes the media segments in accordance with the metadata. Furthermore, the method obtains preferred information and searches... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070100880 - Method, computer program and computer readable means for projecting data from a multidimensional space into a spcae having less dimensions and to carry out a cognitive analysis on said data: An Algorithm for projecting information data belonging to a multidimensional space into a space having less dimensions a method for the cognitive analysis of multidimensional information data based on the said algorithm and a program comprising the said algorithm stored on a recordable support. An Algorithm for projecting information data... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

20070100881 - Method, system and storage medium for identifying and allocating surplus inventory: Methods, systems and apparatus for exhausting surplus inventory within currently existing supplies. Intra-enterprise and inter-enterprise lists of surplus inventories are input into a planning engine along with allocation rules for establishing priorities and preferences of allocating and exhausting parts within existing inventories. The planning engine also receives central parameter file... Agent: Law Office Of Delio & Peterson, LLC.

20070100883 - Methods for providing audio feedback during the navigation of collections of information: Audio cues often convey different information to users that video cues do not. Audio feedback techniques are provided to convey audio cues about navigable data. Audio cues associated with a collection may indicate a variety of characteristics about items in the collection.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070100890 - System and method of providing autocomplete recommended word which interoperate with plurality of languages: A system and method of providing an autocomplete recommended word, which classify a recommended word list according to indexes of various languages, store the recommended word list for each index, extract a corresponding autocomplete recommended word according to a user query and a setting mode which is received from a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070100884 - Workflow decision management with message logging: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for workflow decision management. Embodiments include maintaining a device state history; identifying a device usage pattern in dependence upon the device state history; identifying a workflow scenario in dependence upon the device usage pattern; identifying a workflow in dependence upon the workflow... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070100894 - Apparatus and method for encoding data change rates in textual programs: An apparatus includes at least one memory capable of storing values of a plurality of data items. The data items are categorized into a plurality of categories by one or more programs that define the data items. The apparatus also includes at least one processor capable of executing the one... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070100895 - Data maintenance apparatus, data maintenance method, and data maintenance system: A data maintenance apparatus for performing maintenance operation to various data stored in a relational database, comprises an input operating section for allowing an operator to perform input operation to a database subjected to the maintenance operation, a screen production processing section for producing based on information input through the... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070100899 - Methods and systems for managing data: Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata or indexes for index databases. In one exemplary method, different processing priorities are assigned to different indexing tasks based upon the origin of the task. In another exemplary method, indexing tasks are processed in a first mode when a data processing... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070100893 - System and method for accessing data from a memory device: The disclosure is directed to a portable device including a solid-state memory device and a processor. The solid-state memory device includes a data object including stored data and associated object-based organization data. The solid-state memory device is responsive to the processor. The processor is configured to access the solid-state memory... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070100897 - System and method for automatic instance data mapping generation: A system and method for automatic instance data mapping generation is presented. A developer uses edit commands, such as mouse commands and keyboard commands, to update a model. For example, a software developer may upgrade “Application XYZ” from version 1.0 to version 2.0 in order to include a simpler approach... Agent: Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20070100892 - System and method for managing the configuration of resources in an enterprise: System and method for managing the configuration of resources in an enterprise. Embodiments of the present invention gather, store, and maintain institutional knowledge of configurations of IT resources of an enterprise. A configuration database serves as a temporal record of the configurations of the resources. The configuration database can reflect... Agent: Moore & Van Allen PLLC

20070100896 - System and method for persistent selection of objects across multiple directories: A system and method for persistent selection of objects across multiple directories is presented. A user uses a computer system that includes a persistent selection manager to place objects (e.g., files) from multiple directories into a persistent selection state. For each selected object, the persistent selection manager creates a ghost... Agent: Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20070100898 - System for creating and maintaining a database of information utilizing user opinions: A system for automatically creating and maintaining a database of information utilizing user opinions about subjects, particularly exceptional experiences. Described is an Internet system assisting/motivating a population of users interested in information about certain categories of subjects to automatically maintain the database content and to improve the usefulness and quality... Agent: Stoneman Law Offices, Ltd

20070100900 - Apparatus for remote monitoring of equipment, with feed for feeding data: A server (10) for connecting to equipment to be monitored, the server having an internet protocol address and comprising a database (105) for receiving and storing data from the equipment and a feed (121), for example in the form of means for generating an extensible mark-up language (XML) feedfile, for... Agent: The Boc Group, Inc.

20070100904 - Creation and transmission of rich content media: A method of playing a rich content stream that includes a media stream and a descriptive stream. The method may include the steps of receiving the rich content stream at a media player, where the descriptive stream is generated from a rich content file executed separately from a source for... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070100905 - Malware and spyware attack recovery system and method: A method and computer program product with encoded instructions provides for repeatedly making data backups for files by making a series of snapshots of file storage volumes containing the files. The method and computer product further provide for determining that a malware attack has occurred, identifying corrupted files and, for... Agent: Duane Morris, LLPIPDepartment

20070100906 - Method for synchronizing two sets of contact data of two storage media in a communications system: A method establishes two contact data arrays in two separate storages respectively and corresponding mapping relations between the two contact data arrays. The method updates the content of the contact data of one storage medium with the content of the contact data of the other storage medium according to the... Agent: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP

20070100903 - Systems and methods for compiling applications on a test server: Methods and systems for synchronizing applications deployed on a test server are provided. The methods and systems may comprise a software application comprising a plurality of files deployed on a test server. After the software application is deployed on a test server, one of the plurality of files comprising the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070100901 - Tracking modifications to values of various fields in a database server: Storing historical/previous values of a field of a relational database in the same table. The previous values can be conveniently used to revert back to any of such previously stored values. Thus, for each update/modify operation, the present value is stored as a previous value. In one embodiment, the previous... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20070100902 - Two way incremental dynamic application data synchronization: An apparatus is provided including an application data monitor, an application data sync engine, and a front end, each of which is typically implemented by computer software running on a computer. The apparatus may include a computer memory, and an application data log file data base including one or more... Agent: Mr. Walter J. Tencza Jr.

20070100907 - Method for software distribution: A method for software distribution is provided. The method is for software distribution from a central provider server of a software provider to a customer system with at least one technical device, on which at least one application program managed by the software provider is installed. The method includes storing... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070100912 - Apparatus and method for creating a real time database replica: A method of processing data includes identifying a capture redo byte address, initiating a capture process at the capture redo byte address, creating a clone of a source database to a logical change number, and initiating an apply process at a target database.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

20070100911 - Apparatus and method for materialized query table journaling in a computer database system: An apparatus and method utilize MQTs in a more efficient manner in a high availability computer database to improve database performance and utility. In preferred embodiments, an MQT control file indicates whether journal entries for specific tables are to be propagated to replicated databases residing on other computer servers. In... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070100910 - Circular and bi-directional mirroring of flexible volumes: A method and system mirror flexible volumes in a circular or bi-directional configuration, without creating a deadlock. A source filer maintains a number of log files on a destination filer, where the number of log files is greater than or equal to the number of cache flush operations the primary... Agent: Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Lebovici LLP

20070100909 - Data mirroring using a virtual connection: In a storage system, at least three storage sites are arranged in a full mirroring relationship using a virtual connection between instances of a storage group on two of the sites whereby no user data is transmitted.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070100908 - Method and apparatus for tracking history information of a group session: A method and apparatus that facilitates tracking the history of a group session. According to one embodiment of the invention, responsive to a group session being initiated, a group session history record associated with the group session having at least two users is obtained (504). History information of the group... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070100913 - Method and system for data backup: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to Web-Services-based data backup and data-archiving applications that provide remote data backup and data archiving to private individuals, small businesses, and other organizations that need reliable, secure, geographically remote, and cost-effective data backup, data archiving, and backed-up and archived-data retrieval. In one embodiment... Agent: Olympic Patent Works PLLC

20070100914 - Automated process for identifying and delivering domain specific unstructured content for advanced business analysis: A cost efficient solution for supporting and deploying custom text analytics applications suited is to provide third party application developers a sand-boxed application development environment such as an appliance computer system, allowing users to leverage data integration, indexing and pre-existing mining platform capabilities for a domain-specific data. Thus, embodiments herein... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20070100917 - Method and apparatus for avoiding journal overflow on backup and recovery system using storage based journaling: A method and apparatus which provide solutions for avoiding journal overflow in after and before journal methods of a backup and recovery system used with a storage system. The after journal method solutions, which are conducted when the amount of free space reaches a threshold, include periodically taking a new... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070100916 - Method and system for memory allocation in a multiprocessing environment: A method and system for allocating and de-allocating memory for threads of an application is provided. An allocation system provides a heap for tracking free tokens of memory that are available for allocation to threads of an application. A heap tracks collections of free tokens of the fixed token size.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070100915 - Methods for displaying dynamic suggestions in a user interface: Dynamically suggested information helps users navigate collections of information and the underlying reference items in the collections with a reduced need to perform search queries. For example, a user browsing an Internet sports site might be shown dynamically generated links to fantasy sports websites, sports and team message boards, and... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070100919 - Garbage collection unit and method thereof: A garbage collection unit and a garbage collection method in an embedded environment are provided. In the method, a memory is divided into a young generation area including first and second areas and an old generation area including a predetermined number of blocks, the young generation area is divided into... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070100918 - Multiple computer system with enhanced memory clean up: The updating of only some memory locations in a multiple computer environment in which at least one applications program (50) executes simultaneously on a plurality of computers M1, M2 . . . . Mn each of which has a local memory, is disclosed. Memory locations (A, B, D, E, X)... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP