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

20070174230 - System and method for displaying information in association with an electronic file management application: Displaying associated information adjacent to, or in proximity of, an electronic file displayed within an electronic file management application. An e-file callout system associates e-file callout information with an electronic file. When a user hovers or selects an electronic file, an e-file callout is displayed that may include advertising or... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20070174259 - Coupon and internet search method and system with mapping engine: The invention relates to coupon information (e.g., actual coupons, links to coupon, and information related to one or more coupons) that may be selectively displayed based on an association with search terms for an internet-based search. If a user, for instance, submits a search request to an internet-based search engine,... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070174239 - Incremental searching in multi-passenger multi-route travel planning: A multiple routes for multiple passengers are produced by ordering passenger groups and for each passenger group, constructing an individual query and sending the individual query to a travel planning system. Solutions based on the individual query are received from the travel planning system and a single individual solution is... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070174240 - Incremental searching with partial solutions for multi-passenger multi-route travel planning: Multiple passenger, multiple route processing includes sending independent queries to a travel planning system for each of a plurality of passenger groups, receiving individual solutions and producing a set of tables, each representing a different partial joint solution for each passenger group. For a chosen passenger group, deriving a set... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070174256 - Method for aging and resampling optimizer statistics: A system and method for use in retrieving rows of data from at least one table in a database system comprising tables of data stored on one or more storage facilities and managed by one or more processing units. A plurality of samples retrieved from a table in the database... Agent: James M. Stover Ncr Corporation

20070174251 - System and method for analyzing commands for searching data: The present invention provides a method for analyzing commands for searching data. The method includes the steps of: creating a command queue; reading commands for searching relevant data; converting formats of the commands into the extensible markup language format; defining attributes of the commands; adding the commands into the command... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070174257 - Systems and methods for providing sorted search results: Systems and methods for providing sorted search results are disclosed. An exemplary method comprises receiving a search request to return results based on at least one keyword, sorting the returned results into at least two result groups based on sorting criteria, and outputting the results to a display device such... Agent: Powell Goldstein LLP

20070174258 - Targeted mobile device advertisements: Targeted advertisement is provided to mobile device users based on one or more keywords in words spoken by the mobile device users. The users may submit voice requests using mobile phones or other mobile networked devices, relevant keyword(s) are determined from the requests and corresponding advertisements and/or products associated with... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070174266 - Method of optimization of listed result of internet-based search and system based on the method: A method of optimization of a listed result of internet-based search includes the steps of generating a list based on the search result on Internet, ranking the list in view of a predetermined condition to generate a sub-list, and displaying the list and the sub-list on a web page, whereby... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070174265 - System and method for creating an enhanced enterprise directory: A knowledge management system and method is described. The knowledge management system and method comprises the steps of receiving a user search term from a user, searching an index for at least one identifier of an expert based upon the user search term, ranking the at least one identifier by... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070174275 - Information managing system, information managing method, and information managing program for managing various items of information of objects to be retrieved: An information managing system includes a parameter setting unit for setting a parameter representative of an attribute of a user and information to be retrieved, and an information relevance space generator for generating an information relevance space representative of information indicating a relevance between the user and the information to... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070174273 - Search tool providing optional use of human search guides: A method and system providing optional use of human search guides to allow a user to select between a human guide assisted search and an automated search. The user is provided with an option of submitting a query requesting assistance of one or more human guides, initiating a search without... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070174279 - Page re-ranking system and re-ranking program to improve search result: A page re-ranking system includes a super page producing part that produces a super page where page contents are combined between multiple versions for each of multiple Web pages that can be obtained as a search result page in compliance with a user's query and to which a page ranking... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP (oc)

20070174284 - System and method for controlling access to xml data: A system and method are disclosed to efficiently arbitrate access contention on a XML data between a plurality of users. A system for controlling access to XML data, includes a management section for managing holders of exclusive access rights of corresponding partial data for each of at least one partial... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20070174283 - System and method for managing access control list of computer systems: A method for managing access control list of computer systems includes the steps of receiving a user account login request of accessing an application system; validating the user account login request; obtaining a user access list of the user account from the database server if the user account login request... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070174297 - Apparatus and method for providing remote user interface service: An apparatus and method for providing Remote User Interface (RUI) service are provided. The apparatus includes a service browser module and a virtual RUI server module. The service browser module communicates with a service registry, which is located outside a home network, and provides a service search User Interface (UI)... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070174298 - Communication device: A digital MFP accesses a web server registered in a first routine site table, and acquires RSS data. The digital MFP creates an updated content database based on the acquired RSS data. From the web server, the digital MFP downloads content including a set search keyword among updated information of... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070174293 - File printing method and system using e-mail: Provided is a file printing method and system using e-mail. The method includes transmitting a file to a document server; transmitting an e-mail to a printing device through an e-mail server, the e-mail containing link information of the file transmitted; and retrieving the file from the document server using the... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070174301 - Method and apparatus for storing and restoring state information of remote user interface: An apparatus and method are provided for restoring a remote user interface (RUI) in a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) environment. In the method, a client receiving an RUI from a server, requests that the state information of the RUI be saved. The method includes obtaining state information generated when... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070174296 - Method and system for distributing a database and computer program within a network: A system and method of distributing one or more of a software application, a database, and a document search and retrieval means across a network of two or more servers. Individually, or collectively, one or more servers are accessible by a client computer that has permission to access the network.... Agent: Maier & Maier, PLLC

20070174299 - Mobile device / system: This invention relates generally to techniques for searching or querying information from a small mobile device, such as a cellphone or blackberry. People holding a small hand-held device, like cellphone or blackberry, don't want to type or enter many words to search/query. However, they want the most accurate information from... Agent: Shaobo Kuang

20070174228 - Graphical representation of key performance indicators: According to one aspect, key performance indicators and the accompanying key performance indicator elements may be displayed in a task pane to enable a user to select one or more the key performance indicator elements for use in generating a data summary table. In one example, the key performance indicators... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070174229 - Real time wireless informational services: A system and method mines data from wireless clients and converts this individual or cumulative data gathered into information relevant to the same segment of clients. The system includes several wireless clients subscribing to a service, a server mechanism that gathers, analyzes and returns relevant information back to the subscribing... Agent: O'banion & Ritchey LLP/ Sony Electronics, Inc.

20070174234 - Data quality and validation within a relational database management system: A system and method for performing data quality and validation analysis within a relational database management system (RDBMS). A method is provided that includes generating a summarization table for a set of data values using an RDBMS function after a modification of the set of values takes place; calculating a... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070174232 - Dynamically discovering subscriptions for publications: A method, apparatus and computer-usable medium for using wildcards in a JMS Topic name. The method includes the steps of sending to a Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) a storage message for messages that are identified by an identifier that includes a topic stock identifier and a topic wildcard... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070174231 - Mapping-based query generation with duplicate elimination and minimal union: A method and system for generating a query implementing a schema mapping. A mapping M is provided from a schema S to a schema T, where M relates S to T, and M includes a plurality of constraints. Schemas S and T each include one or more elements, and T... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070174233 - Method for predicting performance of distributed stream processing systems: A method comprises estimating a performance of a processing system using queueing theory wherein the processing system comprises a network that accepts at least one input message stream from a plurality of publishing clients, transforms the at least one input message stream into at least one output message stream utilizing... Agent: Harrington & Smith, LLP

20070174235 - Method of using digital characters to compile information: The present invention provides a method of using a digital character to compile information, comprising the step of providing a digital character that is configured to interactively gather user information and interacting with a user via the digital character in order to collect user information, wherein the digital character is... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20070174236 - Technique for supplying a data warehouse whilst ensuring a consistent data view: A technique is described for supplying a data warehouse whilst ensuring a consistent data view. The system comprises an interface for receiving data elements which are assigned to individual transactions and require processing before delivery into the data warehouse. Also provided is a process control component for analyzing the data... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070174252 - Analyzing administrative healthcare claims data and other data sources: Techniques suitable for identifying potential subjects for a clinical trial and other applications are disclosed. One or more exclusion or inclusion criteria are defined for the clinical trial. One or more specialized searching tables are pre-generated using administrative healthcare claims data and the one or more exclusion or inclusion criteria.... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

20070174255 - Analyzing content to determine context and serving relevant content based on the context: According to one general aspect, a method for supplementing input content with related content includes receiving the input content and identifying concepts from the input content. The method also includes identifying a taxonomy associated with the concepts, and analyzing the concepts using the taxonomy to generate a set of categorized... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070174250 - Database mining for customer targeting: The present invention discloses a system and method for generating a subset of relevant entries. In one embodiment, a module comprises an input, a mapper, an extractor, a comparer, and an output. The input accepts a request from a user and the mapper maps the request to a predetermined formula... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070174261 - Database retrieval apparatus, retrieval method, storage medium, and progam: It is an object of this invention to realize high-speed database retrieval. More specifically, it is an object of this invention to increase a retrieval speed when data corresponding to an input character string are retrieved from a database having a trie structure. In order to achieve the above object,... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070174245 - Filtering and sorting information: Generally described, embodiments of the present invention provide the ability to sort and/or filter information contained in a summary table based on related information that may not be included in the summary table. According to one aspect, a computer-readable medium having computer executable components for filtering or sorting information displayed... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20070174238 - Indexing and searching numeric ranges: Index entries representing ranges of values are queried with a query value to determine if the query value is in one of the ranges. Numeric ranges are represented in an index and queries are constructed to match index entries. Search terms are constructed from the query value, such that a... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070174241 - Match graphs for query evaluation: Provided are techniques for processing a query. The query is received, and the query is formed by one or more paths, where each path includes one or more steps. A hierarchical document is received that includes one or more document nodes. While processing the query and traversing the hierarchical document... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20070174248 - Method and system for data processing with load balance: In a database management method, a plurality of nodes are instructed to execute queries to the data base stored in a storage. A computer receives the input of the queries, and divides each input query into a plurality of processing phases constituting units capable of being executed in parallel. Based... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070174249 - Method and system for incorporating trusted metadata in a computing environment: A method and system for incorporating trusted metadata in a computing environment is described. One illustrative embodiment is a system for incorporating trusted metadata in a computing environment associated with a computer user, comprising at least one functional module configured to query a personalized database of trusted metadata, the personalized... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070174243 - Mobile social search using physical identifiers: The present invention is a method and system for executing a mobile social search. A primary user will operate a portable device such as a cell phone, PDA or the like for machine-reading a physical token associated with a fixed physical location at which the primary user is in proximity... Agent: Anthony R. Barkume

20070174246 - Multiple client search method and system: A method includes receiving an event indicating an action associated with a first file has been performed by a user using a first client. The action is unrelated to transmitting the first file to another client. The method also includes automatically extracting content from the first file in response to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070174253 - Online marketplace for animal genetics: An Internet-based marketplace is provided for animals, gametes and embryos wherein a database retains specific genetic identifiers correlated to the animals, embryos and gametes. A method, an apparatus, a server and a client are provided that allow a remote user to submit a query on one or more genetic identifiers... Agent: Heller Ehrman LLP

20070174242 - Query evaluation using ancestor information: Provided are techniques for processing a query. A query is received, wherein the query is formed by one or more paths, and wherein each path includes one or more steps. A hierarchical document including one or more document nodes is received. While processing the query and traversing the hierarchical document,... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20070174244 - Scalable search system using human searchers: A system that allows a query to be submitted to a query distribution server that locates a human searcher who can perform a search on the query. The searcher performs a search using conventional search tools, such as a computer browser, and provides the results to the user through the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070174260 - Search engine facility with automated knowledge retrieval, generation and maintenance: A system generates and retrieves relevant electronic information required by a user initiating an electronic search on the system. The system comprises a user-interactive search engine and a knowledge database, which stores knowledge information that is formatted. Additionally, the system includes a plurality of functional software modules that enables a... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070174237 - Search service that accesses and highlights previously accessed local and online available information sources: Methods, systems and program storage devices for generating search engine search results. Online files relevant to a requested search query are located by a search engine, while simultaneously previously accessed offline files residing on a client computer are located using the same search query. The search engine retrieves the offline... Agent: Law Office Of Delio & Peterson, LLC.

20070174247 - Systems and methods for collaborative tag suggestions: A set of general criteria have been defined to improve the efficacy of a tagging system, and have been applied to present collaborative tag suggestions to a user. The collaborative tag suggestions are based on a goodness measure for tags derived from collective user authorities to combat spam. The goodness... Agent: Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner LLP

20070174254 - Systems and methods for organizing data: The software system described processes a user query for information and organizes, analyzes and presents in a graphic representation, the relevant data for the user, allowing the user to immediately and intrinsically infer the existence of relationships and trends that would normally not have been apparent otherwise. This method supports... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070174263 - Method and system for obtaining a value via a rule engine implemented by a collection object: A method and system for obtaining a value via a rule engine implemented by a collection object associated with an object-oriented application. A request for the value includes a key, is received from the application, and is directed to a method of the collection object. The collection object is capable... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070174262 - Presentation of data using meta-morphing: A computer-implemented method of making a presentation of data requested by a question received via a user interface of a database, wherein date items are categorized as measures of dimensions, and in which question data items of the type measures of dimensions can be associated to specify a set of... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20070174264 - Three-dimensional data structure for storing data of multiple domains and the management thereof: A three-dimensional data structure for storing data is defined and maintained. The three-dimensional data structure includes at least one column of data having a depth greater than zero indicating that multiple data values are provided for multiple domains represented by the structure. The data structure also includes zero or more... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20070174267 - Computer aided document retrieval: A method of determining cluster attractors for a plurality of documents comprising at least one term. The method comprises calculating, in respect of each term, a probability distribution indicative of the frequency of occurrence of the, or each, other term that co-occurs with said term in at least one of... Agent: Nath & Associates

20070174271 - Database system with second preprocessor and method for accessing a database: A database system includes a database, a first preprocessor in communication with the database for receiving queries from a client application, a second preprocessor, for executing cryptographic operations on data, and a dispatcher, arranged to divide a query into at least a first and a second sub-query, and to dispatch... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070174272 - Facial recognition in groups: A system for group facial recognition includes a target extractor for extracting target images from a scene image; a target image classifier for comparing a target image to a database of known identities and allocating classification scores for identities; a relationship database providing relationship scores between known identities; and means... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20070174269 - Generating clusters of images for search results: A method and system for generating clusters of images for a search result of an image query is provided. When an original image query is received, the search system identifies text associated with the original image query by submitting the original image query to a search engine. The search system... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070174270 - Knowledge management system, program product and method: An ontology directory service tool, computer program product and method of automatically discovering ontology file categories. A web search unit searches a network (e.g., the Internet) for semantic data files, e.g., semantic web pages. A preprocessing unit generates an ontology file from the content of each identified semantic data file.... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Peterson, Jr. Yorktown

20070174274 - Method and apparatus for searching similar music: A method of searching for similar music includes: extracting first features from music files usable to classify a music by a mood and a genre; classifying the music files according to the mood and the genre using the extracted first features; extracting second features from the music files so as... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070174268 - Object clustering methods, ensemble clustering methods, data processing apparatus, and articles of manufacture: Object clustering methods, ensemble clustering methods, data processing apparatuses, and articles of manufacture are described according to some aspects. In one aspect, an object clustering method includes accessing a plurality of respective cluster results of a plurality of different clustering solutions, wherein the cluster results of an individual one of... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20070174278 - Method and system for performing logical partial declustering: A method and system for performing logical partial declustering in a shared-nothing database environment. The solution defines a partial declustering technique that can be used to dynamically adapt the declustering of base tables or intermediate result sets. The partial declustering technique is defined to limit the number of partitions (P)... Agent: James M. Stover Ncr Corporation

20070174277 - System and method for generating automatic blocking filters for record linkage: A method for generating blocking filters for record linkage includes providing a training database and an initial filter comprising a set of blocking keys, generating a set of positive training examples from said training database using said initial blocking keys and a given scoring method, generating from said positive training... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070174280 - Texture-based image database browsing and sorting method: A texture-based image database browsing and sorting method computes the number of edge pixels of objects in static images, measures textures of the static images by numerating the number of edge pixels thereof and measures a texture of a query image by numerating the number of edge pixels of an... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070174276 - Thematic grouping of program segments: Program segments are grouped by theme. A program includes different program segments, each program segment being associated with at least one theme indicated by associated metadata. The program is queried to determine whether the program segments include a particular theme. Each of the program segments that have the particular theme... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070174282 - Access control method, access control apparatus, and computer product: When a service apparatus receives a service request from a client apparatus, the service apparatus determines an access propriety based on whether the client apparatus is already registered in a list. If the client apparatus is not registered, the service apparatus acquires meta-information of the client apparatus in question and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070174281 - Cloaked data objects in an electronic content management security system: Embodiments of the invention provide for “cloaked” data objects in an electronic content management system. A “cloaked” data object is one that is inaccessible and unreadable by a user, but one which the user is permitted to know exists. The cloaked object may allow the user to know the scope... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070174285 - Systems and methods for fine grained access control of data stored in relational databases: A system and method for facilitating secure access to database(s) is provided. The system relates to authorizing discriminatory access to relational database data. More particularly, the invention provides for an innovative technique of defining secured access to rows in relational database tables in a way that cannot be spoofed while... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070174288 - Apparatus and method for web service client deployment: A Web service (WS) client archive and its deployment is described. The archive includes components that define and describe the deployable WS client such as the implementation classes of the WS client, a WSDL document, and descriptors that provide more detail than what is described in a normal WSDL that... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070174294 - Automated downloading from mainframe to local area network: A tool can automate the process of downloading from a mainframe to a local area network (LAN). A back-end tool and a front-end tool can cooperate to accomplish the downloading process. Both tools can simplify the download process, avoiding complications and common errors. A user interface can provide features for... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070174292 - Autonomic recommendation and placement of materialized query tables for load distribution: A system and method of evaluating queries in distributed databases with MQTs comprises deriving MQTs; replicating the derived MQTs from a local server to at least one remote server; and distributing data and replicated derived MQTs to a plurality of other remote servers, wherein the distributing increases overall query execution... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070174302 - Contents furnishing system: Even if contents data distributed over a network are once destroyed, the contents data are restored, as the copyright protection is maintained. A PC memorizes backup of distributed music contents on a hard disc, at the same time as it transmits the using log information of the music contents stored... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070174291 - Dynamic optimization of available display space: Embodiments provide for systems, methods, and computer program products for optimizing content rendered at a display unit by dynamically formatting the content layout based on a display unit's parameters. For example, content is received from a server. The content is capable of being rendered at a number of remote display... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070174289 - Management of non-traditional content repositories: A method for managing a client device is described. The method includes: (1) initiating a search query in a management tool; (2) conveying the search query from the management device to the client device, which includes a non-traditional content repository; (3) implementing said search query on said non-traditional content repository... Agent: Dechert LLP

20070174300 - Method and apparatus for storing and restoring state information of remote user interface: Provided are an apparatus and method of restoring a remote user interface (RUI) in a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) environment. In the apparatus and method, an RUI client requests an external storage server to store the state information of the RUI by using a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) object... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070174290 - System and architecture for enterprise-scale, parallel data mining: A grid-based approach for enterprise-scale data mining that leverages database technology for I/O parallelism and on-demand compute servers for compute parallelism in the statistical computations is described. By enterprise-scale, we mean the highly-automated use of data mining in vertical business applications, where the data is stored on one or more... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20070174295 - Systems and methods for collecting consumer data: All of an internet user's internet data is routed to a known domain on the internet, from which it is routed on to the intended recipient. The domain includes proxy servers which proxy the user's WWW data requests to the domain, and database servers which filter and build a database... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070174286 - Systems and methods for providing features and user interface in network browsing applications: A browsing application in one embodiment includes instructions for accessing a resource over a network using a general purpose computer, the instructions comprising code for examining an address field of the browsing application and matching a first string input therein with at least one shortcut in a predefined list of... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070174287 - Virtual tuner management: Embodiments of virtual tuner management are described. A viewing system, for instance, may include a plurality of client devices that are configured to render content, such as television programs. The viewing system may pool the resources available from the client devices such that each client device is not limited to... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070174308 - Data warehousing systems and methods having reusable user transforms: Data warehousing systems and methods are described herein. In one example methodology, a plurality of transformation templates are stored in a transformation library, each transformation template including software objects that describe how to transform extracted data prior to loading the data into the data warehouse. A unique identifier may be... Agent: David B. Cochran Jones Day

20070174309 - Mtreeini: intermediate nodes and indexes: An index stored on a digital storage medium is a data structure for indexing one or more data objects. The index data structure includes a plurality of index keys for uniquely identifying potential context items in a data object. Each index key is associated with a potential context item. The... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070174311 - Asset management apparatus and asset management method: An asset management apparatus includes a processor for conducting arithmetic operation processing and a storage device, and executes an asset management program to detect unfairness. The asset management program includes a common asset management part common to the asset management apparatus and other devices, and a device specific asset management... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070174313 - Data cells, and a system and method for accessing data in a data cell: A method and system is presented for storing data in data cells containing only a single element of data. Each data cell includes four components: an Entity Instance identifier (“O”), an Entity Type identifier (“E”) an Attribute Type identifier (“A”), and an Attribute Value (“V”). Groups of cells with identical... Agent: Beck And Tysver P.l.l.c.

20070174306 - Data extraction and conversion methods and apparatuses: Data extraction and conversion processes and apparatuses are described according to some aspects. In one aspect, a data extraction and conversion process comprises applying at least one template to the information sources, analyzing the data from the information sources according to the templates, thereby generating parsed data values, and writing... Agent: Battelle Memorial Institute Attn:IPServices, K1-53

20070174307 - Graphic object themes: A common visual appearance can be applied to documents authored by different kinds of applications. Thus, a suite of applications can have a theme that can be applied to differing kinds of documents produced by the different kinds of applications in the suite of applications. The theme information can be... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070174303 - Method and apparatus for controlling reproduction of an audiovisual work: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for building a database of content objectionable scenes of an audiovisual work, and a method and apparatus which uses the database to control reproduction of the work. The database may be stored on a server and made available to clients which control an audiovisual... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070174305 - Method to reduce the number of copies of values in procedural language: A method and system is presented to reduce the number of copies in the execution of routines written in a procedural language with by-value assignment semantics. During routine compilation, each statement within the routine is classified as being copy-sensitive or not, depending on the operations it contains. During routine execution,... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070174310 - Methods and systems for managing data: Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata or index databases. In one exemplary method, a notification that an existing file has been modified or that a new file has been created is received by an indexing software component, which then, in response to the notification performs an indexing... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070174304 - Querying social networks: A data model models a social network. The data model can be embodied as a person profile schema and a connector profile schema. The person profile schema defines properties of persons in the social network. The connector profile schema defines connectivity properties of persons that connect a searcher to the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070174312 - Write-once-type recording medium, recording apparatus and method for write-once-type recording medium, reproducing apparatus and method for write-once-type recording medium, computer program for recording or reproduction control, and data structure: A write-once-type recording medium (100) on which record data can be recorded only once, provided with: a data area (108) to record therein the record data; and a shared area (104, 105) to temporarily record therein evacuation data which is record data to be recorded or already recorded at a... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070174320 - Method and system for generating a concept-based keyword function, search engine applying the same, and method for calculating keyword correlation values: A search engine applying concept-based keyword functions involves the application of a keyword function that was generated by computing a keyword and that corresponds to and that represents concepts of the keyword. Contents of the keyword function can be adjusted through constant training with clicking actions of a user. A... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070174319 - Method for adjusting concept-based keyword functions, and search engine employing the same: A search engine applying concept-based keyword functions involves the application of a keyword function that was generated by computing a keyword and that corresponds to and that represents concepts of the keyword. Contents of the keyword function can be adjusted through constant training with clicking actions of a user. A... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070174315 - Compressing state in database replication: A method, system and computer program product for compressing state changes to a datum in a primary data storage system. One embodiment of the invention involves receiving a first state-change entry describing at least a first transformation of the datum and an first value of the datum and receiving a... Agent: Ido Tuchman

20070174316 - Method, system and computer program product for shrinking a file system: Computer implemented method, system and computer program product for shrinking a file system in a data processing system. A computer implemented method for shrinking a file system in a data processing system includes designating an amount by which a file system comprised of a plurality of contiguous blocks is to... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070174318 - Methods and apparatus for constructing declarative componentized applications: Techniques for constructing a software application are provided. A data model of the application is represented as a relational model. Control logic of the application is defined as a mapping from a current state of the application data model and one or more application inputs to a new state of... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070174314 - Scheduling of index merges: While consulting indexes to conduct a search, a determination is made from time to time as to whether it is more efficient to consult individual indexes in a set or to merge the indexes and consult the merged index. The cost of merging indexes is compared with the cost of... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070174317 - System and method for modifying the structure and content of dissimilar databases: The schema of a database may be modified by selectively entering original data to an original database having an original schema; opening the original schema in a user interface; operating the user interface to make changes to the original schema; responsive to the changes being saved, creating a new schema... Agent: Shelley M. Beckstrand Patent Attorney

20070174331 - System and method for extending the business data associated with a network-based user collaboration tool to include spatial reference information for collaborative visualization: Systems and methods consistent with the present invention provide a data processing system for extending the business data associated with a collaboration tool engine to include spatial reference information for collaborative visualization. The engine has business data type schemas for generating an information store container associated with a respective business... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070174326 - Application of metadata to digital media: A system, a method and computer-readable media for associating textual metadata with digital media. An item of digital media is identified, and an audio input describing the media is received. The audio input is converted into text. This text is stored as metadata associated with the identified item of digital... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070174321 - Data processing system: A data processing system (20) including a unit (29) producing data elements; data processing members (21) for processing the data elements; and a first data-base (22). A user is provided with at least a part of the content of the data element and the option of selecting the name information... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070174323 - Jndi validation: A method, apparatus and computer-usable medium aid in the writing of Java code that contains Java Naming Directory Interface (JNDI) names that refer to code artifacts in a JNDI tree structure that is stored on a server. A local copy of the JNDI tree structure is downloaded from the server... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20070174324 - Mechanism to trap obsolete web page references and auto-correct invalid web page references: A mechanism to trap obsolete web page references and auto-correct invalid Web page references is provided. With the mechanism, Web pages of a Web site are indexed in an indexed data structure having entries that list the references contained in the Web page. A Website reference monitor monitors changes to... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20070174325 - Method and system for building a database from backup data images: Building a database from stored backup data images. In one aspect, an identification of a target image is received, the target image including a copy of a logical storage unit of data from a previous database and description information that describes the previous database. The target image holds a copy... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070174327 - Method and system for searching, identifying, and documenting infringements on copyrighted information: A method is provided for identifying unauthorized use of copyrighted information. The method includes the processes of accessing a database of copyrighted information, accessing information used for searching the copyrighted information, optionally accessing contextual information concerning the copyrighted materials, accessing a set of materials suspect of infringing on the copyrighted... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070174322 - Method for building data encapsulation layers for highly variable schema: The relationships between physical data store schema, object model, and end-user property may be encoded in the source of the object model using attributes. Reflection may be used to build the table of those relationships so that changes to the relationships between those three layers can be easily and quickly... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070174330 - Mobile report generation for multiple device platforms: A system and method of generating reports is disclosed. In one embodiment, a user requests a report using a GUI on a device and the request is sent to a report generation server. The report generation server generates the report and sends the report to the requesting device. In another... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20070174329 - Presenting a reason why a secondary data structure associated with a database needs rebuilding: In response to a request to access a database, a decision is made that a secondary data structure associated with the database needs rebuilding. A reason why the secondary data structure needs rebuilding is determined and the reason is presented via a user interface. In various embodiments, other information may... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070174332 - System and method for viewing search results: A system and method for viewing search results is disclosed. A method of communicating a search result according to various views is disclosed. A method of displaying metadata associated with content of websites is disclosed. A method of displaying metadata associated with relationships of websites is disclosed. A method of... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20070174328 - Transparent context switching for software code: Systems and methods that alleviate programmers of the burden of writing extensive code to implement a context switch for a particular piece of software code. For software code for which a context switch is desired, a declaration of the context and its attributes may be included in the code, along... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070174333 - Method and system for balanced striping of objects: A method of balanced object striping and a system therefor are provided. The object striping method includes: transmitting a data write request and receiving an object identifier if the data write request is a first write request regarding the data; determining a first object storage target to store the data... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070174341 - E-commerce and investment system and method: An online network based e-commerce and investment system for online selling and investing in non-physical goods includes a listing management module, a distribution management module, a trading management module, an account management module and a disbursal management module. The listing management module is used to generate online product listings of... Agent: Akc Patents

20070174343 - Method and system for automatic summarization and digest of celebrity news: A system and method for automatically creating a digest of celebrity information received over an adjustable time range from publicly available electronic data sources by applying automated qualitative and quantitative analytical methods to select information for inclusion in the digest and to convert such information to summary form.... Agent: Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP Attn: Gregory M Stone

20070174337 - Testing quality of relationship discovery: Provided are techniques for testing quality of relationship discovery. Reference mappings and test mappings are received, wherein each of the reference mappings and test mappings includes one or more mappings, and wherein each of the mappings includes a mapping input and a mapping output, Each of the reference mappings and... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20070174334 - Data processing apparatus and data processing method: A data processing apparatus is capable of playing back contents stored in a specified area in a recording medium. The recording medium stores content data and management information for managing the content data. When playing back a content which is managed by the management information on the recording medium but... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070174335 - Database configuration analysis: To determine a configuration for a database system, a plurality of queries may be sampled from a representative workload using statistical inference to compute the probability of correctly selecting one of a plurality of evaluation configurations. The probability of correctly selecting may determine which and/or how many queries to sample,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070174340 - System & method of delivering rss content based advertising: A system and method is disclosed for presenting relevant advertising to user search queries. The ads can be selected by reference to an underlying content presented in RSS feeds.... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney

20070174339 - System and method for determining personal genealogical relationships and geographical origins including a relative confidence: The present invention is directed toward identifying potential genealogical relationships between a plurality of individuals through name analysis and assigning to each identified relationship a value related to the confidence that the identified relationship exists.... Agent: Brian A. Kolo Suite 350

20070174336 - Systems and methods for resolving conflicts and managing system resources in multimedia delivery systems: The invention manages resources and resolve conflicts when locally recording multimedia assets from a variety of sources in multimedia delivery systems. Local and system resources such as storage, tuners, and bandwidth are considered when alternative sources for assets are available (e.g., VOD). Rather than record assets locally, if equivalent assets... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP

20070174338 - Systems, methods, software and interfaces for integration of online research tasks into law firm workflow: Legal professionals often conduct online research as part of their efforts to produce documents, such as legal briefs. The present inventor recognized that online research tools and desktop applications, such as word processors, are functionally isolated from each other, forcing users to awkwardly switch between them as they work. Accordingly,... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070174342 - Workflow management system: A workflow management system is disclosed that is suitable to manage a workflow including plural hierarchically-classified tasks and especially for cooperative work spread over different organizations. The workflow management system includes a task receiving unit to receive designation of a task to be delegated, a delegatee receiving unit to receive... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070174346 - Closed-loop validator: A method, computer program, and database system for configuring a model of a database system are disclosed. The database system has a configuration. Two or more ordered levels of configuration assistance are provided. Each of the levels offers a different combination of the following forms of assistance: no assistance, workload... Agent: James M. Stover Ncr Corporation

20070174347 - Organizational usage document management system: A document repository management system for an institution having a defined organization is provided. The document repository management system has (a) a first database containing an organization chart and organizational chart information including information identifying individuals in the defined organization, (b) a second database containing accessible documents, (c) programs for... Agent: Patent Documentation Center

20070174345 - Plural/alternate files registry creation and management: Disclosed are a method of and system for managing plural files registries, for use with a computer operating system having a user/group management operation. The method comprises the steps of creating a plurality of files registries, and providing an administrator with access to each of said plurality of files registries... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070174344 - Rate control of flow control updates: Various embodiments adjust the rate at which periodic flow control updates are transmitted when in a lower power or power saving state. One embodiment transmits flow control updates across a bus based upon a first rate in response to a normal power mode and transmits second flow control updates across... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070174348 - Databases synchronization: 1) A method for synchronizing databases (DB1, DB2), a first database (DB1) being stored in a first data processing system (MOB), a second database (DB2) being stored in a second data processing system (MNO), said method comprising: a. A loading step in which an application (APP) is loaded into said... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070174349 - Maintaining consistent state information among multiple active database systems: A system-management tool is used in managing at least two copies of a relational database that are stored in at least two database systems. The tool includes (a) a monitoring component configured to monitor for the occurrence of an event within one of the database systems that creates a change... Agent: James M. Stover Ncr Corporation

20070174351 - Optimizing file replication using binary comparisons: Client and server based copies of a file are maintained in synchronicity as changes are made to the file. Data is compared to a previous version known to both the client and server and a highly compressed representation of the differences between the two is generated. These differences, or “diffs”,... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070174352 - Remote copy system: In a system in which data employed by a computer is stored in a storage system, the storage system transfers this data to another storage system and a copy of the data is maintained in the other storage system. The consistency of the copy is maintained even when data is... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070174350 - Transparent search query processing: A method and system for transparently processing a search query by displaying a search query interpretation or restatement inside a search box. Upon receiving a natural language input from a user, the method converts the natural language input to a search query interpretation of the natural language input. Then, the... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070174355 - System and method for managing log information for transaction: A system and method for managing log information is provided. The system includes an index/record/catalog management module that determines if a page to be updated is newly allocated; a storage management module that manages a free page list and a non-committed free page list and, if the index/record/catalog module determines... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070174353 - Method and apparatus to proactively capture and transmit dense diagnostic data of a file system: An operating system creates a current sparse object in a diagnostic file system. Then the operating system processes a change to data contained in a block. The operating system determines if the change is to a metadata block. The operating system encodes the change in a journal log, in response... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070174354 - Storage system, storage control device and recovery point detection method for storage control device: The present invention supports the selection of an appropriate recovery point, even if a point of recovery is unknown. The user issues a retrieval request from the host by specifying a recovery target file name (path name) and retrieval conditions (key word). The partial restoring processing section restores only a... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070174357 - Data warehouse with operational layer: A data warehouse having an operational layer is provided. The data warehouse stores historical data in an historical format that is based on operational data for an organization. The operational layer enables access to the historical data in an operational format that is used to store the operational data on... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070174356 - Program execution device, program execution method, and program: There is provided a program execution device which a user can use with peace of mind. The program execution device includes: a secondary storage unit (510) having an area for storing a downloaded application program (application); a stored application determination unit (2602) which determines, based on a priority assigned to... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070174358 - Systems and methods for versioning based triggers: A system and/or methodology to track and organize database application data in response to a delete, insert or update procedure. More specifically, a system and/or methodology that employs a version-based retention and linkage approach with respect to triggering implementations is provided.... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070174359 - Write-once-type recording medium, recording apparatus and method for write-once-type recording medium, reproducing apparatus and method for write-once-type recording medium, computer program for recording or reproduction control, and data structure: A write-once-type recording medium (100) on which record data can be recorded only once, provided with: a data area (108) to record therein the record data; and a shared area (104, 105) to temporarily record therein evacuation data which is record data to be recorded or already recorded at a... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070174363 - Computer system, a computer and a method of storing a data file: The invention relates to a method of providing redundancy in access to a data file, the method comprising: fragmenting the data file into plural data file fragments; generating at least one supplemental fragment to enable the data file to be reconstructed in the absence of one or more of the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070174361 - Automated failover system for logical partitions: An apparatus, program product and method improve software updates processes within a logically partitioned environment by creating a new, proxy partition having substantially the same operating characteristics as an original partition, in addition to an updated software application. Network connectivity is transferred seamlessly over from the original partition to the... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20070174364 - Content replacement in electronically-provided archeived material: A document, publication or a portion of a publication containing collateral information (e.g. advertisements) is delivered in electronic form, preferably appearing electronically as it appears in traditional printed form. Collateral information associated with the document, publication or portion of the publication is dynamically replaced, enabling the user to potentially receive... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070174360 - Storage system embedding database: A storage system for storing and managing unstructured data and associated metadata which describes attributes of the unstructured data. The storage system includes a plurality of storage areas for storing the unstructured data and metadata which includes pointer information that identifies a location of unstructured data corresponding to the metadata,... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070174362 - System and methods for secure digital data archiving and access auditing: On an archive server, a secure storage control layer is interposed in the archive data stream between an archiving application and a storage device driver. The secure storage control layer includes an encryption engine providing for two-level cipher processing of data segments transported by the stream. A secure policy controller... Agent: Gerald B Rosenberg New Tech Law

20070174366 - Managing an archived file system: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein a determination is made that an archive that includes at least one file is present in association with an operating system file system. An additional file system is generated for accessing the archive. The generated additional file system is included... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070174365 - Managing files to be offloaded by multiple users into a common storage repository: A method, system and program product manage files to be offloaded by multiple users into a common storage repository. A request is received from a user to offload a file from a computer. A determination is made whether the file is currently stored in the common storage repository. If the... Agent: Law Office Of Dan Shifrin, PC - Ibm

20070174367 - Selective file erasure using metadata modifications: A process that ensures the virtual destruction of data files a user wishes to erase from a storage medium, such as a hard drive, flash drive, or removable disk. This approach is appropriate for managing custom distributions from a large file sets as it is roughly linear in compute complexity... Agent: Joshua Shapiro

20070174368 - Suspension and reinstatement of reference handles: A handle administration system is described in which software agents receive handles to various resources that they can use to obtain the resources. The described embodiments provide multiple states that can be assumed by the handles. An unassigned state is provided in which handles are not assigned to a particular... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070174370 - Method and apparatus for decreasing object copying by a generational, copying garbage collector: In a generational, copying garbage collector, young generation collection may be made more efficient by dynamically measuring object survival rates as a function of “fine-grained” allocation age, and choosing, on the basis of these survival rates, part of the young generation that will be not be collected, but instead scanned... Agent: Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20070174369 - Method and apparatus for limiting the size and facilitating maintenance of remembered sets in a space incremental garbage collector: In a space incremental garbage collector, remembered set information for a region is stored in a set of fixed-size data structures, each of which has a representation of the information and a level of precision that differs from other data structures in the set. Remembered set information for each other... Agent: Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20070168326 - Efficient reporting of information in a wireless communication system: Techniques for efficiently sending reports in a wireless communication system are described. Reports may be sent repetitively in accordance with a reporting format. A terminal receives an assignment of a control channel used to send reports and determines a reporting format to use based on the assignment. The reporting format... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070168323 - Query aggregation: An aggregated query is used to fetch data from a multidimensional database, such as an OLAP cube. The aggregated query combines individual queries that are used to fetch data from the multidimensional database into a single query. A determination is made as to what dimensions and hierarchies of the multidimensional... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070168345 - System and method of identifying subject matter experts: A method and system for searching a data collection to identify employee candidates using the text of job description as a semantic search query upon a database containing patent literature or non-patent literature. An exemplary embodiment discloses employee candidates for the described job in a relevancy-ranked order based on the... Agent: Maier & Maier, PLLC

20070168352 - Middleware scalability with distributed caching: A system and method for locally storing data for multiple users to eliminate the need for the individual users to connect to a central server or servers. A communication session is opened between a data server and a remote station. Aggregated data is downloaded for a plurality of users from... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070168353 - User terminal and file list providing method therefor: A user terminal and a file list providing method therefore, the user terminal having a driver installed to control an image forming apparatus, wherein the driver includes a user interface unit to input a specified folder and a list providing method from a user; a list creation unit to create... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20070168313 - Control of data access by dynamically verifying legal references: The inventive method for controlling access to data which is used by reference in a program execution system (including processes and aims) during the program execution consists in memorising by the system the totality of references obtainable by said program with the aid of means considered legal, before any operation... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070168314 - Identification of relationships in an environment: A method identifies components associated with a first end point in an environment, such as a social environment. The method further identifies components associated with a second end point in the environment. A determination is made regarding whether any of the identified components are associated with both the first end... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070168317 - Log retrieving method, log administration apparatus, information processing apparatus and computer product: A client communication controlling unit determines whether an input retrieval condition has been received. A retrieval condition judging unit judges whether the input retrieval condition is included in an internal retrieval condition that has been stored in a retrieval condition storing unit. A retrieval target determining unit determines a retrieval... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20070168318 - Method and system for intelligent automated reticle managment: A method, system, and program storage device for implementing the method of controlling a manufacturing system, wherein the method comprises providing a plurality of workpieces to be processed on a processing tool, the plurality of workpieces located at processing stations prior to the processing tool, determining auxiliary equipment allocation needs... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070168319 - Methods to perform disk writes in a distributed shared disk system needing consistency across failures: Techniques are provided for managing caches in a system with multiple caches that may contain different copies of the same data item. Specifically, techniques are provided for coordinating the write-to-disk operations performed on such data items to ensure that older versions of the data item are not written over newer... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070168316 - Publication activation service: Updating a database while minimizing resources on a database server instance. One or more indexes are created prior to propagating updated data associated with the database to a computing device associated with the database server instance for access.... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070168320 - System and method for detecting file content similarity within a file system: A system and method for detecting file content similarity within a file system. The system may include a storage device configured to store a plurality of files and a file system configured to manage access to the storage device. The file system may be configured to compute a compressed size... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070168315 - System and method for generating a work of communication with supplemental context: A system for selecting, managing, sharing and displaying content data files in a manner that takes into the account the contextual significance of said content data files to a narrative, an author(s) and an audience. A system that is able to place an absolute and relative value upon the significance... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff

20070168312 - User control points in a network environment: The present invention relates to a method, apparatus, computer program product and computer program element for creating a control point associated with a user in a computing environment having a network connectivity model, a method apparatus, computer program product and computer program element for accessing services provided by a device... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20070168322 - Administrable command line interface: A command line interface administration for a data processing system is provided. According to one embodiment, a method for an improved command line interface for a data processing system in a telephony device is provided. The method comprising administering a language definition for an improved command line interface, the improved... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070168321 - Data accessing method, device in which the data accessing method is executed and recording medium: A parameter to show a data transfer efficiency is previously recorded in a recording medium 101 in which data is written per data size that can be increased and decreased stepwise and the data transfer efficiency is variable in accordance with the data size. Next, a data accessing apparatus 105... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070168328 - Intelligent space tube optimizer: This disclosure presents the Intelligent Space Tube Optimization (ISTO) method for developing computationally optimal designs or strategies. ISTO is especially valuable if predicting system response to the design or strategy is computationally intensive, and many predictions are needed in the optimization process. ISTO creates adaptively evolving multi-dimensional decision space tube(s),... Agent: Utah State University Technology Commercialization Office

20070168327 - Parent-child query indexing for xml databases: A method for processing queries for a document of elements is provided. The document includes a plurality of subsections where each subsection includes at least a portion of elements in the document. The method comprises: receiving a query for a path of elements in the document of elements; determining a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070168324 - Relational database scalar subquery optimization: When two or more scalar subtrees in an execution plan are directed towards the same data set, but request different data from the data set, the two subtrees are replaced in the execution plan with a new subtree which queries the data set only once. This new query to the... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070168325 - System and method for workflow processing using a portable knowledge format: The present invention relates to systems and methods for performing one or more steps of a work process using a work process data structure and a portable knowledge format. The method of the present invention comprises constructing a work process data structure that identifies one or more steps of a... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070168332 - Ad-hoc creation of group based on contextual information: Provided is ad-hoc creation of groups based on contextual information comprising. Two mechanisms are used to restrict valid members of a group. First, to make sure that devices are somehow related, devices provide contextual information that is compared to the contextual information provided by other devices willing to join the... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070168337 - Apparatus and method for determining information retrieval applicability and generating best case for determination: The apparatus acquires retrieval history data of information retrieval to be determined, and acquires voice data of the conversation heard about information necessary for the information retrieval. A predetermined keyword dictionary is referred to from the voice data, and an expression matching a keyword indicating necessary information for information retrieval... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070168339 - Continuing education using a system for supervised remote training: Techniques for providing expert instruction in interpreting outputs of a test instrument to a student who is at a location remote from the expert. The student makes outputs from the test instrument and an interpretation of the outputs available to an expert via a network and receives a commented and... Agent: Gordon E Nelson Patent Attorney, PC

20070168333 - Data processing method: A data processing method for an electronic device is provided. Tree-like data groups have been stored in the electronic device. Each first level data group of the tree data groups has a data group name, and each data group has a plurality of character strings. The data processing method includes... Agent: J.c. Patents, Inc.

20070168329 - Database query system using a statistical model of the database for an approximate query response: The invention relates to a data base query system which is characterized in that once the database query is drawn up, a compressed image of the database to be queried is queried in accordance with the database query. Depending on the result of the query of the compressed image an... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070168335 - Deep enterprise search: Methods and apparatuses provide a search tool to conduct a deep enterprise search for business objects related to a query received at a search interface. The search tool identifies an object type and an argument, and searches the enterprise via one or more enterprise services for one or more business... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070168336 - Method and apparatus for a searchable data service: Method and apparatus for a searchable data service are described. The searchable data service may be implemented as a Web service with a Web service interface that allows the storage of locators and other attributes associated with entities stored in a data store in a searchable index. The attributes may... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070168330 - Method for protecting a proprietary file: A file containing proprietary content can be protected against unauthorized duplication via file sharing between remote computers connected to an Internet swapping service. To this end, the content to be protected is searched on the Internet, at least the hash ID of each data record offered as a search hit... Agent: Husch & Eppenberger, LLC

20070168334 - Normalization support in a database design tool: Provided are techniques for identifying normalization violations. Selection of one of a data model, a portion of the data model, and an object in the data model is received. Selection of one or more normalization rules is received. One or more normalization violations are identified in the one of the... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20070168331 - Search over structured data: A user can refine a search over structured data by specifying that a label or an attribute value be used to further filter the results of a query.... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070168338 - Systems and methods for acquiring analyzing mining data and information: The present invention provides a method of acquiring, analyzing and mining data and/or information of interest by searching at least one database using at least one primary search term to obtain data and/or information that contains the information of interest to obtain raw data set; applying a data mining tool... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20070168341 - Method and apparatus for detecting damage in structures: A method including providing time series structural response data from a structure. A plurality of linear surrogate data series is generated from the time series structural response data. A first generalized correlation function is estimated for each linear surrogate data series of the plurality of linear surrogate data series to... Agent: Naval Research Laboratory Associate Counsel (patents)

20070168340 - Methods and systems for enabling the collaborative management of information using persistent metadata: A centrally managed system (100) is provided which enables the collaborative management by users (108) of information. Through the establishment of metadata schema (300) and the collection and persistent storage of metadata (500, 1900), the system provides users (100) with richly enabled features for managing information and performing collaborative activities.... Agent: Jlb Consulting, Inc. C/o Intellevate

20070168344 - Data product search using related concepts: Systems and methods for searching data. A search for related terms is initiated of at least one data product using at least one term. A ranked list of all the terms in the matching data products is returned and the ranked list is displayed to a user. The user modifies... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20070168343 - Method and system for automatic identification and notification of relevant software defects: A system for automatic identification and notification of relevant program defects. A defect report server opens a defect description in response to receiving the defect description from an end user. Then, the defect report server extracts each word and phrase contained within the program defect description. After extracting each word... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070168342 - Recommended alerts: A method of providing content to a user is described. A set of one or more key terms is identified in accordance with user history information. The user is provided an invitation to receive content on an ongoing basis. The content is related to the set of one or more... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070168346 - Method and system for implementing two-phased searching: A two-phased search of electronic content stored within a computer system or network is performed by recognizing patterns within the search terms provided by a user in a first phase. Based on recognized patterns within the search terms, specific sub-collections are selected for searching. The selected sub-collections are searched in... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20070168347 - Method and apparatus for deriving optimal physical space and ambiance conditions: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and a computer program product are provided for deriving optimal physical space and ambiance conditions for a user. A physical space analyzer comprising an information sensor and an optimal space analyzer det