Data processing: database and file management or data structures inventions 06/07

20070150434 - Information processing system, content output apparatus, and method and program of controlling an information processing apparatus by a content output apparatus: In an information processing system including an information processing apparatus and a content output apparatus which are connected to each other, the content output apparatus is configured to include a function identification file creation unit adapted to, in accordance with a button operation by a user, create a function identification... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070150454 - Apparatus and method of searching hierarchical directory structure for desired address information using user entered keyword: A technique is disclosed of searching a hierarchical directory structure for desired address information. A plurality of directories are arranged in a multi-level hierarchical structure in association with a plurality of sets of address information. This technique includes: searching the hierarchical structure using at least one user-entered keyword as a... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070150453 - Image processing apparatus, image searching method, and program: A processing apparatus and method for selecting images, the apparatus and method including displaying a catalog of a plurality of images on an image display device, obtaining information when at least one image is selected from the plurality of displayed images, the information relating to an image corresponding to the... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070150472 - Search by document type: A method of finding documents. A method of finding documents comprising, ranking documents according to relevance to form a ranked relevance list, ranking documents according to type to form a ranked type list, and interpolating the ranked relevance list and the ranked type list to form a list of documents... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070150475 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: An object of this invention is to allow a user to easily confirm whether the access right is set within a desired range in a system which can set the access right. To achieve the object, according to this invention, an information processing apparatus includes a unit which stores a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070150431 - Method and apparatus for handling a group of at least one data object: The invention relates to real-time handling of data in more in particular, estimation of time needed to retrieve frames for video rendering, taking fragmentation of frames into account. Especially for data retrieval for trick-play, this is non-trivial, as it is not known on beforehand whether the frames to be retrieved... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070150432 - Method and mechanism for loading xml documents into memory: A method and apparatus for loading an XML document into memory is provided. A client loads one or more array elements into a first partition of an array that is maintained in memory. Each array element represents an XML element of an XML document. Upon determining that an amount of... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070150433 - Method for managing file in version control system: A method for managing a target file in a version control system is provided. According to this invention, when a user requests to check-out, check-in, update, or add tags to an target file, the version control system operates on a substitute file instead of the target file. The substitute file... Agent: The Law Offices Of Andrew D. Fortney, Ph.d., P.C.

20070150438 - Evaluation of name prefix and suffix during a search: A method, system, and computer readable medium for evaluating a string input for a name, categorizing the words within the string into different fields, and using the relations to make better or exact hits during a name search possible.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070150435 - Parameter adjustment device: A parameter adjusting device configured to adjust a great number of parameters of a physical model by a genetic algorithm using multiple processing units within a short time. A parameter adjusting device comprises a processing assignment means wherein a part of a multiple processing means is assigned to search processing... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20070150437 - Protection against timing and resource consumption attacks: Systems and methods are provided for obscuring an amount of a resource used to process an item. In general, contemplated techniques comprise assigning a maximum allowable amount of the resource for processing a sub-part of the item. If the maximum allowable amount of the resource is reached, processing the sub-part... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070150436 - Query generator: A query generator for generating a query that returns a result set comprising data retrieved from a database and data returned by an analytic function that operates on at least a portion of the retrieved data is disclosed. The result set is arranged as a table having a plurality of... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20070150439 - Systems, methods, and interfaces for reducing executions of overly broad user queries: The present inventor devised, among other things, an exemplary information retrieval system that promises to reduce the execution of overly broad queries. One exemplary system detects overly broad queries and presents users one or more potentially relevant portions of a hierarchical subject matter classification system, instead of executing the query... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070150450 - Apparatus and method for quick retrieval of search data: A storage system includes a client host, a storage device, and a separate data search appliance. The client software executing on the client host composes a query and sends a data search request to the storage device. The storage device passes the received query to the connected data search appliance.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070150449 - Database program acceleration: A method and system are provided to automatically generating structured query language (SQL) to accelerate program execution in a database. Analysis of a target program checks usage status of objects and field data, and to determine which columns and table of a database record are required for program access. The... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20070150443 - Document alignment systems for legacy document conversions: A method for aligning documents which may be in different XML formats includes inputting source and target leaves of a source and documents in first and second tree structured formats and assigning a cost to each of a plurality of matches. Each match may include a source leaf and a... Agent: Ann M. Skerry, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070150445 - Dynamic holds of record dispositions during record management: Dynamically withholding certain records from a disposition during record management. Search criterion that identifies records that should be withheld from the disposition may be received. The content of the records and/or information about that record content may be compared to the search criterion to determine which of the records should... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20070150457 - Enabling one-click searching based on elements related to displayed content: One-click searching is enabled based on elements related to displayed content. A first content available over a network is retrieved. One or more first-type elements associated with the first content using a rule-based algorithm are identified. The one or more first-type elements are selected from a plurality of predefined elements... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20070150442 - Library services in communication networks: Communication networks, phones, and associated methods are disclosed that provide library services to users of phones. A phone displays a library search screen to a user, and the user enters one or more library search parameters. The phone generates a request message that includes the library search parameter(s), and transmits... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20070150448 - Method and apparatus for optimizing large data set retrieval: A method of detecting when an application running on a UNIX computer requests information from a data server, of retrieving from the data server the minimum amount of information required by the application, and of ensuring that the application gets full group information if the application requires it. Other embodiments... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070150440 - Method and circuit for retrieving data: Non-contiguous storage of data objects seriously hampers retrieval speed of said data objects (202). Furthermore, when multiple data objects are retrieved of which some are fragmented, retrieval time of all data objects gets less predictable. Therefore, it is desirable to retrieve non-fragmented data objects only. For certain cases, this is... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070150444 - Methods and apparatus for organizing and presenting contact information in a mobile communication system: Methods and apparatus for gathering, organizing and displaying contact information in a mobile communications network. In one embodiment, a method for operating a mobile communication network includes an information server and a mobile communications device coupled to the service via a wireless connection. The method comprises transmitting a location identifier... Agent: Gazdzinski & Associates

20070150441 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for associating policies with tuples using a pub/sub protocol: Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for associating policies with tuples using a pub/sub protocol. A tuple is subscribed to for receiving a notification when the tuple is updated. A policy tuple is associated with the subscription to the tuple. The policy tuple identifies an action associated with... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20070150452 - Preference information collecting system, device, method, and program: A preference-information gathering system is capable of gathering information on every commodity and/or every service, which are each of interest to a user, as user's preference information. The preference-information gathering system includes a user portable terminal (102) capable of storing a user identifier uniquely identifying the user, an information searching... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070150455 - Recursive document network searching system having manual and learned component structures: An apparatus and method for a recursive document network searching system comprising a searchable document database containing multiple root and sub-root documents containing relational links to other documents where the relational links are manually created or are created by way learned functional components. An inventive aspect of this work is... Agent: Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP

20070150456 - Search system and method: A search system used in an ebook reading device is provided. The system includes a search module, a relevancy calculating module, and a sort module. The search module is for searching metadata of the ebooks and comparing the metadata searched with corresponding metadata of an ebook currently displayed, thereby obtaining... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070150458 - System for extending data query using ontology, and method therefor: Provided are an information query extension system and method, and more particularly, a method for efficiently managing heterogeneous data using a defined specification language to represent information distributed on the Internet, and extending a conceptual query which is a criteria for integration for a specific purpose.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070150451 - Systems, methods, software, and interfaces for analyzing, mapping, and depicting search results in a topical space: The present inventor devised, among other things, information retrieval systems, methods, software, and related interfaces that help users assess and if necessary bolster the quality of their manual selections from search results. One exemplary system receives a set of documents selected from search results for an input query, identifies key... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070150447 - Techniques for generic data extraction: Techniques are presented for generic data extraction. Metadata defines a data extraction element with reference to an identifier, a data source, and one or more rules. The metadata may be processed to populate the data extraction element when a reference is made within a data template to the identifier. The... Agent: James M. Stover Ncr Corporation

20070150446 - Working with two different object types within the generic search tool: A computer implemented method of carrying out a search of one or more databases on the basis of a search request from one or more applications, the method comprising: carrying out a first search of the one or more databases for objects having a first object type on the basis... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070150461 - Selectively searching restricted documents: A first subset of attributes of documents responsive to at least one restriction may be displayed. Thereafter, a selection of a graphical user interface element associated with one of the attribute in the first subset may be received resulting in a display of a window comprising an alphanumeric input element.... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070150459 - System and method for filtering query results using model entity limitations: A method, system, and article of manufacture to process database queries are disclosed. One embodiment comprises receiving an abstract query against a database having a multiplicity of data records. The abstract query identifies a model entity that defines a focus of the abstract query. The method further comprises receiving a... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070150460 - Systems and methods for providing victim location information during an emergency situation: A monitoring system receives data from embedded systems that are located within a building. The embedded systems may be contained within components (e.g., sensors, switches, etc.) that are situated within the building. Rules are defined for interpreting the data. The monitoring system interprets the data based on the defined rules... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070150467 - Adaptive evaluation of text search queries with blackbox scoring functions: Disclosed is an evaluation technique for text search with black-box scoring functions, where it is unnecessary for the evaluation engine to maintain details of the scoring function. Included is a description of a system for dealing with blackbox searching, proofs of correctness, as well experimental evidence showing that the performance... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20070150463 - Advanced method of searching, drafting and editing of electronic files: A method of searching, drafting and editing of electronic files includes the use of one or more peripheral computers, each computer handling an assembly of one or more updatable data bases having electronic documents, the electronic documents including information suitable to identify the same documents, each peripheral computer handling searches... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070150462 - Content-related information delivery system: A content-related information delivery system for delivering information related to a content to a user-owned apparatus. The system is composed of a playback apparatus and a server. The playback apparatus monitors a current playback position of the content during playback, generates playback position information specifying a segment of the content,... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070150465 - Method and apparatus for determining expertise based upon observed usage patterns: The invention comprises a set of complementary techniques that dramatically improve enterprise search and navigation results. The core of the invention is an expertise or knowledge index, called UseRank that tracks the behavior of website visitors. The expertise-index is designed to focus on the four key discoveries of enterprise attributes:... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070150464 - Method and apparatus for predicting destinations in a navigation context based upon observed usage patterns: The invention comprises a set of complementary techniques that dramatically improve enterprise search and navigation results. The core of the invention is an expertise or knowledge index, called UseRank that tracks the behavior of website visitors. The expertise-index is designed to focus on the four key discoveries of enterprise attributes:... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070150466 - Method and apparatus for suggesting/disambiguation query terms based upon usage patterns observed: The invention comprises a set of complementary techniques that dramatically improve enterprise search and navigation results. The core of the invention is an expertise or knowledge index, called UseRank that tracks the behavior of website visitors. The expertise-index is designed to focus on the four key discoveries of enterprise attributes:... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070150468 - Preprocessing content to determine relationships: Relationships are determining by preprocessing content. A first content available over a network is retrieved. One or more first-type elements associated with the first content using a rule-based algorithm is identified. The one or more first-type elements are selected from a plurality of predefined elements associated with a topic and/or... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20070150471 - Apparatus and method for identifying patterns in a multi-dimensional database: An apparatus to identify patterns in a multi-dimensional database is described. In particular, a computer-readable medium to direct a computer to function in a specified manner is provided. The computer-readable medium comprises instructions to automatically identify a plurality of patterns associated with data comprising the multi-dimensional database and instructions to... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

20070150470 - Method and apparatus for determining peer groups based upon observed usage patterns: The invention comprises a set of complementary techniques that dramatically improve enterprise search and navigation results. The core of the invention is an expertise or knowledge index, called UseRank that tracks the behavior of website visitors. The expertise-index is designed to focus on the four key discoveries of enterprise attributes:... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070150469 - Multi-segment string search: A method and system for searching multi-segment strings is provided. The search system receives a query string containing part or all of the segments that are to be matched as query segments. Upon receiving the query string, the search system compares the query segments provided in the query string with... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070150473 - Search by document type and relevance: A method of finding documents. A method of finding documents comprising, ranking documents according to relevance to form a ranked relevance list, ranking documents according to type to form a ranked type list, and combining the ranked relevance list and the ranked type list to form a list of documents... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070150474 - Priority differentiated subtree locking: A locking arrangement for data structures is provided that prevents deadlocks, but still allows different threads to simultaneously obtain locks on different nodes of a data structure for both read and write operations. The locking system differentiates locks based on a priority hierarchy. The locking system will fail a request... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 003797 & 013797

20070150482 - Customer relationship management system and method: A software-based customer relationship management system and method.... Agent: Dla Piper Rudnick Gray Cary Us, LLP

20070150478 - Downloading data packages from information services based on attributes: Identifying a location of a metadata package to an application program. The system maintains a plurality of metadata packages and locations associated therewith. The plurality of metadata packages is filtered based on attributes in a request received from the application program to identify at least one metadata package. The location... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070150481 - File distribution and access mechanism for file management and method thereof: A file access and management mechanism over Internet, and a method for distributing a file in arbitrary storage spaces and maintaining file security in the storage spaces are introduced herein. In addition, a method for maintaining file availability in the aforementioned storage spaces, a conversion manner between a network address... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc.

20070150476 - Integrated cuber management system: A method and system for monitoring and controlling the processing of thermoplastics. The system includes a graphical interface and a server attached to the equipment in the cubing process. The interface includes a depiction of the equipment in the cubing process. A touch screen interface allows the user to control... Agent: Dubois, Bryant, Campbell & Schwartz, LLP

20070150483 - Network service for providing related content: A repository is maintained that includes a first content available over a network. A score is assigned to an association of the first content and an element, where the element is associated with a topic, industry, and/or entity. A second content is obtained associated with a content provider. An association... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20070150480 - Service delivery platform: A service delivery platform is disclosed, including method and apparatus for managing the delivery of a variety of services to customers or subscribers. Exemplary services that may be managed using the service delivery platform include telecommunication services such as cable, wire line and wireless services. The service delivery platform creates,... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070150479 - System and method for accessing and managing mobile device metadata: A system and method are provided for accessing and managing information, or metadata, describing content residing on a number of agent devices. In general, the system includes a central node and a number of agent devices communicatively coupled by a network. In operation, the central node communicates with the agent... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20070150484 - Systems and methods for multi-media transfer: Systems and methods are presented for sharing multi-media applications and files on line. A central server acts as the receiving, organizing and playing point for multi-media applications from multiple users having authorized access to a particular member's secure position within the central server.... Agent: Moazzam & Associates, LLC

20070150477 - Validating a uniform resource locator ('url') in a document: Validating a URL in a document, including identifying the URL in the document, where the URL identifies a computer resource containing text, the document contains other text in addition to the URL, and the document is under edit by a user in an editing program on a computing device. Embodiments... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20070150494 - Method for transformation of an extensible markup language vocabulary to a generic document structure format: A method determines structures and features of an original document to make style decisions. The extensible markup language of the original document is analyzed to produce instance mapping. The document type definitions of the original document are analyzed to produce document type definitions mapping. Lastly, the instance schema of the... Agent: Basch & Nickerson LLP

20070150493 - Structured document processing apparatus, method, and program: Statistical information about instance documents and schema information are used to integrate multiple state transitions that enable sectioning of a structure document, thereby generating an optimum automaton. In integrating state transitions, consecutively matching state transitions are held in the form of an ID list, which is then used to count... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070150486 - Two-dimensional conditional random fields for web extraction: A labeling system uses a two-dimensional conditional random fields technique to label the object elements. The labeling system represents transition features and state features that depend on object elements that are adjacent in two dimensions. The labeling system represents the grid as a graph of vertices and edges with a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070150487 - Inferred relationships from user tagged content: A tagged content inference system and method is provided. The system facilitates browsing of content with a pseudo-hierarchical feel using algorithmically-deduced relationships between items based on user applied tags. Based, at least in part, upon tagged content, an inference component can infer relationships between items (e.g., creating a pseudo-hierarchy) in... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070150490 - Items on workplaces: This document discusses, among other things, a system and a method for using a meta-model to manage relationships between software artifacts, the method comprising determining a meta-model; identifying one or more available artifacts in one or more software applications; using the meta-model to define one or more relationships between the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070150496 - Machine-implemented activity management system using asynchronously shared activity data objects and journal data items: Machine-assisted methods and apparatus are disclosed for allowing individual users to develop and organize respective activity descriptions and supporting journal items according to their respective preferences. Cross-referencing mappings may be created between activity descriptions and journal items in order to find, filter and organize disparate data. Cross-referencing mappings may also... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070150492 - Method and system for allocating file in clustered file system: Described is a system and algorithm for allocating files in various storage units available within the CFS, as well as a technique for enabling storage system administrator(s) to control the file allocation in Clustered File Systems (CFS). The CFS server may execute one or more file allocation algorithms, which enable... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070150489 - Method of representing continuum of data as a rolling column within a relational model: A method and apparatus for representing a continuum of data as a rolling column within a relational model is disclosed. Data from a continuous data source may be used to populate a rolling column. Metadata defining the rolling column specifies the correct portion of data from the continuum of data... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070150485 - Navigating through a displayed hierarchical data structure: The invention relates to a method for navigating through a displayed hierarchical data structure including a parent node and a plurality of child nodes the method comprising: displaying the parent node at a parent position, displaying each of the plurality of child nodes at a respective child node position; assigning... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070150495 - Program for mapping of data schema: A data item name constituting a source data schema is extracted (1051), a data item name constituting a target data schema is extracted (1052), element concepts included in the extracted data item names of the source data schema and the target data schema are extracted (1053), a distinctive relation between... Agent: Reed Smith LLP Suite 1400

20070150491 - Server middleware for enterprise work group presence solution: An apparatus, system, method and computer product and medium are provided to implement operations of defining a group presence profile for a group of individual entities, the group presence profile having group attributes associated therewith; obtaining presence information for the individual entities of the group; and managing presence information for... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, LLP

20070150488 - System and method for migrating databases: A method, system and article of manufacture for migration of databases and, more particularly, for optimizing migration of a database from a source system to a target system. One embodiment provides a computer-implemented method for optimizing migration of a database from a source system to a target system. The method... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070150500 - Device for reporting software problem information: A device, method, and program for automatically reporting a software problem for a reproducing procedure and determining a place where a problem occurred in global user environments. Data including various types of messages assigned to individual languages is extracted from resource files of software that is used in international environments,... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070150497 - Block data compression system, comprising a compression device and a decompression device and method for rapid block data compression with multi-byte search: According to the present invention these objectives are accomplished by a Compression Unit comprising an Input-FIFO (8), connected to a Modeling Unit (6), where said Modeling Unit (6) is connected to a multitude of memory locations represented by Trie-Dictionary (4) memory, to a Zero-Finder Look-Up Table (3), to search means... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20070150501 - Conversion of data sets between data set types: A computer implemented method converts a data set of a first type to a data set type of a second type. The method includes casting up a first data set of a first type to a prescribed data set type that is large enough to encompass a data set of... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070150499 - Dynamic bulk-to-brick transformation of data: Multi-dimensional surrogation systems and methods are provided that generate at least one up-to-date data surrogate using information of data and numerous data changes received from at least one data source, including a production system. Embodiments described further perform bulk-to-brick transformation of the up-to-date data surrogate. Brick-level data, or item data,... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070150498 - Social network for distributed content management: Methods and systems for managing distributed content are disclosed. Data objects may be received at host nodes. Each data object may be assigned an attribute value for each of one or more attributes that correspond to the data object. A network overlay may be determined based on the attribute values... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20070150506 - Data storage system: An alternative form of database architecture is described, comprising a plurality of data items, and a plurality of hierarchical node structures, wherein each data item is stored together with relationship data detailing nodes in one or more of the hierarchical node structures with which the data item is associated. The... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP

20070150502 - Methods, systems and computer program products for calendar based delivery of downloadable content: Methods of accessing downloadable content using a calendar application on a device include identifying an event in the calendar application of the device that includes downloadable content identification data. Access information for the downloadable content is provided to a content access application of the device based on the identified event... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070150503 - Modeling recurring events in a data store: Time-related properties may be modeled independent of a base object. Rather than storing time properties with the object, they may be stored independently. A given object may be stored once, even if it has a recurrent time property. The description of a “meeting,” for example, may be stored once. Each... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070150505 - System and method for efficiently filtering and restoring tables within a multi-tiered enterprise network: A system and method are described for efficiently filtering and restoring tables within an enterprise application server. For example, one embodiment of the invention detects that a filtering function has been selected for a particular table node and responsively stores elements from the table node within a backup table collection.... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070150507 - System for a configurable open database connectivity conduit: A configurable conduit generator module is utilized to generate customizable conduits. The configurable conduit may be configured to provide the synchronization rules between client databases and corresponding enterprise databases. The configurable conduit generator module may be configured to provide a point-and-click environment to create the configurable conduit. In particular, a... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20070150504 - Xpath expression binding using xpath tracker with dynamic or static path evaluation: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to binding an application to one or more nodes of a tree (e.g., XML tree or XML document). According to an example embodiment, a tree path navigator (e.g., XPath navigator) may be invoked or called to dynamically evaluate a tree path expression to track one... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070150508 - Constraint derivation in context following for use with object code insertion: A method of creating constraints for use with object code insertion technology can include deriving an A-representation and a B-representation of values produced by execution of instructions of a portion of object code, wherein prior to object code insertion the A-representation and the B-representation of a value produced by same... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20070150509 - Method and apparatus for improving transactional memory interactions by tracking object visibility: In a multi-threaded computer system that uses transactional memory, object fields accessed by only one thread are accessed by regular non-transactional read and write operations. When an object may be visible to more than one thread, access by non-transactional code is prevented and all accesses to the fields of that... Agent: Robert C. Kowert Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070150517 - Apparatus and method for multi-media recognition, data conversion, creation of metatags, storage and search retrieval: This invention relates to the storage and search retrieval of all types of digital media files, whether allowing the user to create index keys, metatags within each media file(s), provides search and indexing capability. The search terms and index keys are based on contextual elements within the media, including meta... Agent: Howison & Arnott, L.l.p

20070150512 - Collaborative meeting assistant: A data collaboration system that aggregates data from a number of multi-modal mobile devices in connection with collaborative note taking, presentation generation, memorializing a meeting, etc. The data collaboration system can automatically compile, index and/or memorialize data from numerous multi-modal multi-lingual mobile devices. More particularly, the system can filter and... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070150514 - Establishment and execution system for enterprise activity management systems: The invented establishment and execution system for enterprise activity management system comprises an enterprise activity flow planning system and an enterprise activity flow execution system. The enterprise activity flow planning system comprises: an activity flow planning module to allow users to define flows of a plurality of enterprise activities; an... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070150518 - Information recording medium, method of configuring version information thereof, recording and reproducing method using the same, and recording and reproducing apparatus thereof: In one embodiment, the method includes reading control information including version information from a specific area of the recording medium. The version information includes a first version information and a second version information. At least one of the first version information and the second version information is used to determine... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070150516 - Location toolbar for internet search and communication: A utility to invoke web services with information identifying an estimated geographic position of a user. The utility includes a geographic position estimating engine for periodically estimating a geographic position of the user in a first predetermined position information format and a database of website entries stored in an electronically... Agent: Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale And Dorr LLP

20070150515 - Method and apparatus for determining usefulness of a digital asset: The invention comprises a set of complementary techniques that dramatically improve enterprise search and navigation results. The core of the invention is an expertise or knowledge index, called UseRank that tracks the behavior of website visitors. The expertise-index is designed to focus on the four key discoveries of enterprise attributes:... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070150513 - Method and apparatus for generating a new event directly from a document: The application relates to the field of communications and more particularly to an apparatus and method of generating a new event from a document. In accordance with one aspect of the present application, recognized date/time references contained in a document allow a new event to be created. Such date/time references... Agent: Moffat & Co

20070150511 - Method and apparatus for handling user's attributes sharing between service providers: The invention deals with sharing user's attributes among service providers wherein a service provider, the Attribute Provider, hosts a user's attribute and registers an attribute offering in a Discovery Service Framework for other service providers, the Attribute Requestors, knowing the Attribute Provider hosting the user's attribute. The problem faced is... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070150510 - System for evaluating enterprise and program for evaluating enterprise: An enterprise evaluation system and an enterprise evaluation program capable of evaluating the value of an enterprise by analyzing the search and development strategy or the intellectual property strategy of the enterprise. Among patent applications filed by a specified enterprise within a specified period, required registration period is calculated for... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070150521 - Facilitating a sender of email communications to specify policies with which the email communication are to be managed as a record: Specifying the policies with which (portion of) an email communication is to be stored as a record, within the content of the email communication. In an embodiment, an attachment file specifies such policies in the form of XML tags. As a result, a user may merely need to attach a... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20070150522 - Method, system, and program for processing a file request: Provided are a method, system, and program that processes a file request to operate on a target file that is directed to a file system. A determination is made as to whether a rule specifies a file attribute satisfied by the target file. In response to determining that the target... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070150519 - Organiser for complex categorisations: The invention relates to an organizer for complex categorizations. The development of computer science in general and the Internet in particular has led to an ever-increasing amount of information being made available to a large number of people, many of whom are not computer experts. As a result, new and... Agent: Angel Palacios

20070150520 - User defined event rules for aggregate fields: Enterprise resource planning systems can be configured to help businesses keep track of events that could affect one or more supply chains. A key purpose for such a system is to ensure a smooth flow of goods or services from suppliers to purchasers. One way to help ensure that the... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070150523 - Method for the creation of a documentary chain and the updating thereof based on a structured model: The present invention relates to a method for the production of a documentary chain and for the updating thereof on the basis of a structured model, and according to a characteristic, one starts from a structured model from which relevant fragments are extracted, the final document is thereafter architectured in... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Gilman & Berner, LLP

20070150525 - Efficient support for workspace-local queries in a repository that supports file versioning: Evaluation of workspace-local queries on a repository that supports versioning is enabled by tracking which versions of resources that are stored in the repository are associated with particular workspaces. A mapping is created and maintained for each workspace and each workspace-enabled table, i.e., a repository table that supports multiple versions... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070150526 - Enterprise server version migration through identity preservation: Systems and methods are described for service availability that provides automated recovery of server service in a timely and application intelligent manner, maintaining application consistency and integrity, while preserving server identity. The systems and methods, referred to herein as a Service Preservation System (SPS), manage complete recovery of server data... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20070150524 - Uptating data in a mobile terminal: A method of differentially updating stored data in a mobile terminal from a first data version to an updated data version. The method comprises detecting whether the stored data in the mobile terminal includes one or more corrupted portions of the stored data inconsistent with the first data version; loading... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070150527 - File transfer system, file storage apparatus, method for storing file, and program: A file transfer system includes a source apparatus and a destination apparatus connected to each other via a predetermined transmission path. The source apparatus includes a source-list generating unit generating a first list, a file storing unit, a list rewriting unit, and a file transmitting unit. The destination apparatus includes... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070150528 - Memory device and information processing apparatus: A file management information area of a memory includes a FAT and a replacement information table. In the FAT, chain information on a file is recorded and in the replacement information table, replacement information of a defective area is recorded. In order to read out the file, a file system... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070150529 - Reciprocal data file publishing and matching system: A method of reciprocally publishing and matching data files is disclosed. The method includes facilitating the creation of Category A and Category B data files having a respective sets of characteristics defined utilizing a common language architecture, associating enhancement objects with each data file, identifying characteristics in each data file... Agent: W. Edward Ramage

20070143266 - Computer-implemented method and system for combining keywords into logical clusters that share similar behavior with respect to a considered dimension: A computer-implemented method and system for combining keywords into logical clusters that share a similar behavior with respect to a considered dimension are disclosed. Various embodiments are operable to order a list of keywords from high activity to low activity, partition the list into at least two sets, a head... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070143292 - Method, system, and program product for access control to resource content: A method, system, and computer program product are provided for performing access control. Regarding an arbitrary document or the like in a logical hierarchy structure, there is provided a method for determining whether a range of access authority set for a certain user with respect to a document or the... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070143304 - Electric device with wireless communication module: The present invention discloses an electric device with a wireless communication module which receives weather information through a pager network, calculates well-being indexes from the weather information, and provides the well-being indexes to the user in a real time. The electric device with the wireless communication module includes a pager... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070143303 - Method and system for automatically updating software: A method and a system for performing automatic software updating capable of efficiently managing update cycles are provided. The method of performing automatic software updating in a client includes requesting information on an update cycle from a server at a check cycle of an update cycle change representing a cycle... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070143244 - Database system: There is provided a database system 1 including a source cluster, in the form of a source clique 2, for providing a clique shared spool file 3. This spool file is provided for consumption by a target module 4 belonging to a target cluster, in the form of a target... Agent: James M. Stover Ncr Corporation

20070143242 - Disk-based cache: An application domain in a front end server processes an object request from a web browser application to determine whether to retrieve the object from a cache on a local disk or from an external database via a back end server. The determination is made by comparing metadata associated with... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070143241 - Field supported user interface for feature limited computing devices: A user interface is provided for a feature limited mobile device that provides a field delimited prompt for data. The user interface displays truncated field prompts that identify input data. When input data is assembled, the mobile device generates a character delimited query string and transmits it to an enterprise... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070143243 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing intelligent agent services: A method, system, and computer program product for implementing intelligent agent services is provided. The method includes identifying sources of information topically related to an interest. The interest is specified as first information elements. The method also includes creating a search string from at least a portion of the first... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070143250 - Adaptable database system: An adaptable relational database system comprises a database schema having relational integrity, wherein the database schema includes a plurality of entities associated with a plurality of attributes. The plurality of attributes in the database may be varied such that the database includes a first set of attributes associated with a... Agent: Maginot, Moore & Beck, LLP Chase Tower

20070143251 - Administration of resources in system-wide search systems: A method and system for administration of a search system (310) for searching data from a plurality of applications. The method includes defining the requirements of a plurality of applications (301-303) to send data to the search system (310), and using optimization techniques (312) to adapt the resources (420) of... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070143253 - Database system: There is provided a parallel database system 1. System 1 includes a storage device 2 for maintaining a plurality of rows 3. System 1 also includes a plurality of access modules 4 for accessing in parallel a respectively assigned one or more of rows 3. An interface 5 receives data... Agent: James M. Stover Ncr Corporation

20070143252 - Electronic equipment and method for automatic synchronization and communication system: An electronic equipment, a communication system and a method for automatic synchronization. In the communication system, at least two electronic equipments are provided. The electronic equipment can synchronies files and/or directories stored in their respective memories. Therefore, each electronic equipment may include a memory, a connecting device, a synchronizing device,... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070143246 - Method and apparatus for analyzing the effect of different execution parameters on the performance of a database query: A database application re-uses one or more query execution strategies for a given logical query, and saves historical data concerning query execution performance under differing execution parameters. The historical data is analyzed to identify environmental variables and/or imported variables which significantly affect execution performance. Preferably, an auxiliary data structure includes,... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070143248 - Method using query processing servers for query processing of column chunks in a distributed column chunk data store: An improved system and method for query processing in a distributed column chunk data store is provided. A distributed column chunk data store may be provided by multiple storage servers operably coupled to a network. A storage server provided may include a database engine for partitioning a data table into... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20070143249 - System and method for deploying an sql procedure: An SQL procedure deployment system deploys a query procedure comprising a procedural logic component and a database request component from a source system to a target system. At generation of the query procedure, the system generates a query procedure source code, a symbol table, and an encapsulated optimization results to... Agent: Samuel A. Kassatly Law Office

20070143254 - System and method for efficiently performing memory intensive computations including a bidirectional synchronization mechanism for maintaining consistency of data: A system and method for efficiently performing memory intensive computations including a bidirectional synchronization mechanism for maintaining consistency of data on which computations will be performed. This can be used to solve various problems such as those in a business context. Synchronization occurs in a near-real-time fashion between data in... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070143245 - System and method for managing presentation of query results: A method, system and article of manufacture for managing presentation of query results. One embodiment comprises receiving, from a requesting entity, a query having at least (i) one result field for which data from one or more databases is to be returned, (ii) one or more conditions for filtering which... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20070143247 - Systems and methods for an enterprise services framework using a state model: Embodiments consistent with the principles of the invention check, before the data underlying a changed primary object is persistently save, for related objects whose data is also affected by the change. The related objects may be two or more degrees removed from the primary object. The changed primary object and... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070143268 - Content reproducing apparatus, list correcting apparatus, content reproducing method, and list correcting method: A content reproducing apparatus includes: a recording unit that records content impression values obtained by digitizing impressions of plural contents, respectively, and a list for registering the plural contents corresponding to the plural content impression values in a selection area with a reference impression value set as a reference and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070143260 - Delivery of personalized keyword-based information using client-side re-ranking: Search and information systems are provided that facilitate ranking of promotional material such as advertisements in view of personal information related to users who search for information from public databases. In one aspect, a search and information system is provided. The system includes a search component to locate data for... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070143264 - Dynamic search interface: A dynamic search interface presents a context which changes in response to user interaction. When the user engages the interface, it responds dynamically to display relevant information and controls. When the user disengages the interface, it returns to a simpler form.... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070143265 - Indexing of digitized entities: The invention relates to indexing of digitized entities in a large and comparatively unstructured data collection, for instance the Internet, such that text-based searches with respect to the data collection can be ordered via a user client terminal. Index information is generated for each digitized entity, which contains distinctive features... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP Bank Of America Plaza

20070143267 - Information storage medium, information reproducing apparatus, and information reproducing method: According to one embodiment, an information storage medium, and the program comprises referring to a manifest from a playlist that manages playback presentation of a playback presentation object, referring to one of a markup and a script from the manifest, monitoring defining of a name corresponding to an event in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070143269 - Information storage medium, information reproducing apparatus, and information reproducing method: According to one embodiment, an information storage medium, and the program comprises referring to a manifest from a playlist that manages playback presentation of a playback presentation object, referring to one of a markup and a script from the manifest, monitoring defining of a name corresponding to an event in... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070143262 - Interactive search engine: A method and apparatus for providing a highly interactive user interface to a search engine using user input prediction is disclosed. As the user enters a portion of a query in a query field, the portion of the query is sent over a network to a query predictor. The query... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070143272 - Method and apparatus for retrieving similar image: A similarity calculation processing unit calculates a similarity between a query image and each of a plurality of retrieval target images by using a layout feature amount and an image-property feature amount relating to the query image and the retrieval target image, and ranks the retrieval target images in descending... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070143255 - Method and system for delivering internet content to mobile devices: The present invention provides methods and systems for delivering Internet-derived content to mobile devices with non-persistent connectivity. The methods include the creation of a small, high-quality, representative subset of content from the Internet, which is delivered to the mobile devices. The systems and methods allow updating of Internet-derived content present... Agent: Lawrence A. Husick Lipton, Weinberger & Husick

20070143258 - Method and system for generating a collaborative search chronicle in a network environment: A method, system and program of generating a chronicle of search terms used in a network environment of a community are provided. A term is received from a user in a current search. The term is matched in a search chronicle, wherein the search chronicle is a database comprising a... Agent: Ibm Corp. (clg) C/o Cardinal Law Group

20070143259 - Method for query processing of column chunks in a distributed column chunk data store: An improved system and method for query processing in a distributed column chunk data store is provided. A distributed column chunk data store may be provided by multiple storage servers operably coupled to a network. A storage server provided may include a database engine for partitioning a data table into... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20070143257 - Methods for assisting a person in transitioning from one disposable absorbent product to another: The present disclosure generally relates to methods for assisting consumers in transitioning from a current absorbent product to a future absorbent product. Also described are transition aids for assisting in this transition. In particular, the transition aids provide a consumer with a means for comparing different characteristics of their current... Agent: Senniger Powers (kcc)

20070143273 - Search engine with increased performance and specificity: The present invention discloses a system and methods for retrieval of most relevant information from a given digital data repository. This is done in the first step by verifying two conditions of relevance, presence of query words plus presence of at least one type of relationship between the words in... Agent: Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP

20070143263 - System and a method for focused re-crawling of web sites: A method (100) of crawling the Web (620) is disclosed. The method (100) crawls (120) Web pages on the Web starting from a given (110) set of seed Universal Resource Locators (URLs). Crawled Web pages are partitioned (140) into sets of relevant and irrelevant pages. A set of exclusion and/or... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Lll Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20070143270 - System and method for appending security information to search engine results: A system for appending security information to search engine results, including a search engine for locating, in a computer network, web pages that include at least one designated search term, for issuing a security analysis request to a content security scanner to assess at least one designated web page for... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070143271 - System and method for appending security information to search engine results: A system for appending security information to search engine results, including a search engine for locating, in a computer network, web pages that include at least one designated search term, for issuing a security analysis request to a content security scanner to assess at least one designated web page for... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070143261 - System of a hierarchy of servers for query processing of column chunks in a distributed column chunk data store: An improved system and method for query processing in a distributed column chunk data store is provided. A distributed column chunk data store may be provided by multiple storage servers operably coupled to a network. A storage server provided may include a database engine for partitioning a data table into... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20070143256 - User access to item information: Included is a user device for communicating product information. The user device might include a data storage device and a product identifier input device configured to receive a product identifier. Also included in the user device is logic configured to retrieve at least one user preference, logic configured to retrieve... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ Bellsouth I.p. Corp

20070143276 - Implementing strong atomicity in software transactional memory: A software transactional memory system is described which utilizes decomposed software transactional memory instructions as well as runtime optimizations to achieve efficient performance. The decomposed instructions allow a compiler with knowledge of the instruction semantics to perform optimizations which would be unavailable on traditional software transactional memory systems. Additionally, high-level... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070143274 - Method using a hierarchy of servers for query processing of column chunks in a distributed column chunk data store: An improved system and method for query processing in a distributed column chunk data store is provided. A distributed column chunk data store may be provided by multiple storage servers operably coupled to a network. A storage server provided may include a database engine for partitioning a data table into... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20070143275 - Work-context search strings for work-embedded e-learning: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to e-learning and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for contextually invoking e-learning services for work-embedded e-learning. In one embodiment, a method for on-demand work-embedded learning can be provided. The method can include... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070143282 - Anchor text summarization for corroboration: A system and method for corroborating a set of facts. If the anchor text of the references to a document matches the name of a set of facts, the referenced document is used to corroborate the set of facts. By analyzing the anchor text of the references to the document,... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070143284 - Apparatus and method for constructing learning data: An apparatus and method for efficiently constructing learning data required in statistical methodology used in information retrieval, information extraction, translation, natural language processing, etc. are provided. The method includes the steps of: generating learning models by performing machine learning with respect to learning data; attaching tags to a raw corpus... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070143277 - Content based partial download: The present invention provides a system and method for storing a single file comprising multiple parts of content data and for selectively downloading at least one part thereof, including: the relevant files out of a zip-archive instead of the whole archive; a chapter instead of the whole book; the cover... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070143278 - Context-based key phrase discovery and similarity measurement utilizing search engine query logs: Usage context obtained from search query logs is leveraged to facilitate in discovery and/or similarity determination of key search phrases. A key phrase extraction process extracts key phrases from raw search query logs and breaks individual queries into a vector of the key phrases. A Similarity Graph generation process then... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070143280 - Determining cardinality of a parameter using hash values: A method and system for aggregating configuration information from friend devices is provided. The aggregation system attempts to foil attacks on the privacy of data contributed to a request by aggregating data from a cluster of friend devices in such a way that it is difficult for a device in... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070143279 - Identifying important news reports from news home pages: A method and system for determining the importance of news events based on news reports published by news sources on news home pages is provided. A news system identifies news home pages that contain references to news reports on detail pages. The news system calculates the importance of a news... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070143281 - Method and system for providing customized recommendations to users: In one embodiment, a method includes displaying a plurality of ratings provided for an item by a plurality of users, and, for each of the plurality of ratings, graphically illustrating relevance of a corresponding rating to an information recipient.... Agent: Jennifer Hayes Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20070143283 - Method of optimizing search engine rankings through a proxy website: A system and method for optimizing the rankings of web pages of a commercial website within search engine keyword search results. A proxy website is created based on the content on the commercial website. When a search engine spider reaches the commercial website, the commercial website directs the search engine... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20070143285 - System and method for matching schemas to ontologies: Embodiments of the invention include a system for matching elements of a schema to entity groups of an ontology. The system includes a first storage means configured to store an element of the schema that is identifiable with a child node of a parent node of a tree and a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/sap

20070143286 - File management method in file system and metadata server therefor: A file management method in a file system and a metadata server therefor are provided. The file management method in a file system includes: generating first metadata and a first object having an identical first identifier with respect to a first file; and finding second metadata and a second object... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070143287 - Coordinating access to memory locations for hardware transactional memory transactions and software transactional memory transactions: Provided is a method, system, and program for coordinating access to memory locations for hardware transactional memory transactions and software transactional memory transactions. A hardware transaction executing in hardware transactional memory initiates a request to access a memory location. A fault is returned to the hardware transaction request in response... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Int77

20070143289 - Differential data privacy: Systems and methods are provided for controlling privacy loss associated with database participation. In general, privacy loss can be evaluated based on information available to a hypothetical adversary with access to a database under two scenarios: a first scenario in which the database does not contain data about a particular... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070143288 - Information processing apparatus, and method for retaining security: When a user, who has logged onto an information processing apparatus (100), executes a logoff procedure, a saving unit (160) executes the following processes. Firstly, from among the files residing in a data storage unit (110), any files that are recognized as requiring a security protection and hence are to... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070143290 - Priority determination apparatus, service processing allocation apparatus, control method and program: A service priority is changed to allow an application server more flexibly to cope with diversified sales promotion strategies in electronic commerce. The priority of a service is determined by a service request history recording section for each user, a section for identifying the user who requested a service in... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070143291 - Utilizing component targets in defining roles in a distributed and integrated system or systems: Disclosed are methods of and systems for creating roles on a centralized management server that include one to many authorizations for a given identity as well as the component targets they will be authorized for. The authorizations are defined based on the intersection of the task and the component for... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070143298 - Browsing items related to email: A system for browsing items related to an email comprises a grouping component that groups items into a plurality of sets of related items. A tagging component associates one or more tags with each of the sets of related items, and an email display component displays an email and one... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070143299 - Commitment of transactions in a distributed system: A method, computer program product, and system for committing transactions in a distributed system are provided. The method, computer program product, and system provide for receiving a request from a client to commit a transaction at a coordinator node in the distributed system, tracking a tail log sequence number for... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070143307 - Communication system employing a context engine: A communication system employable with a communication device coupled to an E-commerce database via a communication network, and method of operating the same. In one embodiment, the communication system includes an input engine configured to receive a query from the communication device directed to the E-commerce database. The communication system... Agent: Slater & Matsil, L.L.P.

20070143297 - Extended digital information retrieval for wireless devices: A method and implementing system are provided for enabling a wireless device to access a remote server service containing an extended information database in digital form. In an exemplary embodiment, a user is provided with the ability to retrieve and store entries using a cell or other wireless device from... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rvw)

20070143306 - Integrated website management system and management method thereof: The present invention relates to an integrated website management system and a management method thereof, and more specifically, to an integrated website management system and a management method thereof, in which log information on the visitors to the website and a result of searching thereof are display on a single... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070143302 - Inter-node communication in a distributed system: Techniques for enabling services in different nodes of a distributed system to communicate using data elements, each data element including a metadata descriptor having one or more property-value pairs, the enabling including identifying a relationship between a first service and a second service based on a data element provided by... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070143305 - Methods and apparatus for storing functions associated with an electronic form: The disclosed system empowers technical and non technical users to author logical business objects, author intelligent business forms, and create automated workflows. The logical business objects include data definitions and methods from existing and new data sources. An object broker interprets the business object definition and brokers data/information and method... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070143295 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for delivering associated content on a communication network: Content can be delivered on a communication network by associating additional content elements with media files that may, for example, be purchased by a customer. A customer may select one or more media files that are packaged with one or more associated content elements and communicated, e.g., downloaded, to the... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070143294 - Network information access system: A network information access system includes a track, an access point, a sensor, a server, and a power supply. The access point generates at least one loading status signal and has a driving unit and a rolling unit. In this case, the rolling unit is connected to the driving unit... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070143293 - Portable device and network information browsing system and method: A network information browsing system includes a host and a portable device, which includes a transmitting module, a database, an interface module, a selecting module, and a re-searching module. In this case, the host retrieves a plurality of data through network. The transmitting module connects to the host for receiving... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070143301 - Remote user interface for external connections: Methods and systems for a remote user interface and remote debugging in a computer system comprising an application server and at least two client systems are provided. A first client operated by a user wishing to debug a remote application running between a second client and the application server registers... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070143300 - System and method for monitoring evolution over time of temporal content: A method and a system to receive temporal content from many sources over a transmission line, store the temporal content in at least one storage device, extract entity content from the temporal content, analyze entity occurrences to determine temporal content trends, receive a search query from a user, and render... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070143296 - Taxonomy-based method and system for targeted advertising: A method for filling an impression slot of a web page with a targeted advertisement comprises determining a target context topic associated with the web page's content and a most relevant behavior segment associated with prior browsing behavior of the user, and providing an ad related to the target context... Agent: Hodgson Russ LLP

20070143308 - User-friendliness in switching a picture to be displayed: A network device comprises a Web service provider. In order to cause a client having a function as a Web browser in a network to display a series of multiple pictures, the Web service provider sends the client in response to a request from the client a markup language file... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070143314 - Determination of database statistics using application logic: A database system may provide determination of statistics for a field of a database table. The determination may include determination of whether the field of the table is associated with a check table, and, if the field of the table is associated with a check table, determination of a number... Agent: Sap Ag C/o Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20070143318 - High precision internet local search: High-precision local search is performed on the Internet. A map image-rendering software provider embeds spatial keys into maps, which are then provided to producers of Internet content such as map providers. For example, a homeowner may post a message on a web bulletin board advertising his house for sale, and... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070143315 - Inter-partition communication in a virtualization environment: Techniques for enabling applications of software stacks in different virtualization partitions to communicate using data elements, each data element including a metadata descriptor having one or more property-value pairs, the enabling including identifying a relationship between a first application and a second application based on a data element provided by... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070143317 - Mechanism for managing facts in a fact repository: Methods and systems for processing facts with one or more janitors. Facts are extracted from documents on the Internet or other sources. Facts can be any data or series of data in the documents including an attribute and a file. The data can be in the form of text, graphics,... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070143309 - Methods, systems, and products for searching interactive menu prompting system architectures: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for searching a searchable listing of an interactive menu prompting system. A search request is received, and the search request includes a search term. A query is sent to determine whether the search term occurs within in the searchable listing. A search result is... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20070143313 - Peephole dbms reorganization allowing concurrent data manipulation: A method, apparatus and program storage device readable by a computer tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the computer is provided for reorganization of database data. The computer database reorganization method reorganizes one set of database data blocks at a time, allowing concurrent data manipulation. Method identifies a... Agent: Sandra M. Parker Law Office Of Sandra M. Parker

20070143312 - Power filter for online listing service: A unique system and method that facilitates searching an online listing service by employing a plurality of attributes, parameters, and search terms in a search query is provided. The system and method involve using parameters such as the listed item's location and a trust category associated with the listed item... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070143310 - System and method for analyzing communications using multi-dimensional hierarchical structures: A system and method is provided which processes communication into a useful multi-dimensional, hierarchical structure that illustrates visible multi-dimensional relationships between elements of the communication and also provides an understanding of the concepts underlying the communication. A communication is initially separated into its constituent elements. Queries to structured databases and... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP

20070143311 - System for query processing of column chunks in a distributed column chunk data store: An improved system and method for query processing in a distributed column chunk data store is provided. A distributed column chunk data store may be provided by multiple storage servers operably coupled to a network. A storage server provided may include a database engine for partitioning a data table into... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20070143316 - Universal plug and play virtual directory service system and method thereof: A UPNP virtual directory service system is disclosed, which includes: a UPnP internet; a UPNP storage device which is electrically coupled to the UPNP internet, and outputs a usable signal; and a control point which is electrically coupled to the UPnP internet, and comprises a virtual storage device, wherein the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070143329 -