Data processing: database and file management or data structures inventions 08/07

20070203881 - Access control system, a rule engine adaptor, a rule-based enforcement platform and a method for performing access control: An access control system provides access control to at least one information resource associated with at least one application within a computer network. The system comprises a plurality of context sources being relevant for the at least one application and providing context information, a constraint specification console providing an interface... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/sap

20070203885 - Document classification method, and computer readable record medium having program for executing document classification method by computer: Provided are a document classification method and a computer readable record medium having a program for executing the document classification method by a computer. The method for providing a classification code to a document, and classifying the document, includes a document indexing process of re-organizing contents of training documents using... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070203896 - System and method for efficiently accessing internet resources: A system and method for efficiently accessing Internet resources is disclosed. One example directory system for permitting a user to access and retrieve information from a network of computers is disclosed. The example system comprises a key phrase field for accepting a search term, a data table and a search... Agent: Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP Attn:IPDepartment Docket Clerk

20070203898 - Search methods and systems: Metadata is received over a network, a query is received over the network, and the metadata is searched to identify metadata that is relevant to the query.... Agent: Robert Popa, Esq. C/o Ladas & Parry

20070203908 - Training a ranking function using propagated document relevance: A method and system for propagating the relevance of labeled documents to a query to unlabeled documents is provided. The propagation system provides training data that includes queries, documents labeled with their relevance to the queries, and unlabeled documents. The propagation system then calculates the similarity between pairs of documents... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070203916 - Local terminal search system, filtering method used for the same, and recording medium storing program for performing the method: A local terminal search system is provided, which includes a search request processing unit, a search/index unit, a filtering unit, and a complex-structured file preprocessing unit. The search request processing unit receives search request information and converts search result information into prescribed document format and provides it to a search... Agent: Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP

20070203911 - Video weblog: A web-based video log that allows users to present video segments on-line in a chronological format is disclosed. A user friendly interface and system is provided for allowing users to place video or other multimedia on a personal website space. Users can record video directly to a central server without... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070203878 - Choosing between multiple versions of content to optimize display: Described is a technology by which a piece of content is selected from among at least two pieces of content in response to a request to return content. The selection is based on an evaluation of current state data against the properties/characteristics of the content. For example, the state data... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070203879 - Information delivery system and method for mobile appliances: Information delivery systems and methods are disclosed. In a system according to the invention, there is a database system, a user appliance, a first communication channel and a second communication channel. The database system may have records that are alterable by a service provider. The user appliance may have an... Agent: Hodgson Russ LLP The Guaranty Building

20070203877 - Intermediate cache utility for file system access: Disclosed are methods and systems in software applications for maintaining a list (or lists) of failed open attempts. A software application can attempt to open a file by searching for the file in at least one file system. If there is a failed open attempt, the pathname used for the... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070203880 - Method and apparatus for translation and authentication for a virtual operator of a communication system: A virtual operator and method for performing authentication and service translation. The virtual operator assigns first and second identifiers to subscribers. The virtual operator updates the second identifier when the service provider corresponding to the second identifier changes. When the virtual operator receives a request for authentication, the virtual operator... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070203876 - Method of evaluating and tracking records: A method of evaluating records. The method includes compiling a first database with at least one record. The at least one record is indicative of a predetermined document having at least one data field that does not substantially match a respective data field of at least one other document. The... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070203873 - Software upgrades in a lithographic apparatus: The present invention relates to the activation of a software upgrade in a lithographic apparatus that transfers a pattern onto a substrate. The time and date of the activation of a software upgrade is compared with the time and date of the exposure of the first layer of a substrate... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070203874 - System and method for managing files on a file server using embedded metadata and a search engine: There is disclosed a system and method for storing metadata information in files. When each file is stored in a file server an index of the stored metadata is also stored such that when a query is subsequently presented to the file server, the query is used by a search... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20070203875 - System and method for retrieving files from a file server using file attributes: There is disclosed systems and methods for retrieving files from a file server using file attributes. In one embodiment, an audio file server is accessed to retrieve prerecorded audio files using file attributes. In one embodiment, the HTTP protocol is used by adding query attributes, such as a text version... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20070203886 - Method and apparatus for accelerating and improving access to network files: A method and apparatus for accelerating and improving access to network files is provided. One technique for providing data quickly and efficiently is to send a thumbnail of a file to a user rather than sending the entire file. Another technique for providing data quickly and efficiently is to generate... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070203882 - Method for efficiently retrieving entity beans in an ejb container: A method and system are provided for efficiently retrieving an entity bean in an EJB Container. The retrieval of beans is divided into multiple pieces of processing, and each retrieval is executed by an independent thread. There is one main thread and a plurality of auxiliary threads. Each of the... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20070203884 - System and method for obtaining file information and data locations: A system and method for gathering information about files stored is described. In one embodiment the method includes identifying a starting location of a file table of the data storage device. The file table includes an entry for the file table and entries for other files stored on the data... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070203883 - System and method for self tuning object-relational mappings: A system and method for database access by an application program includes a database interface that receives a request to access database data that includes a set of parameters. A mapping module determines the place in the application program code that requested the database data. A retrieval module reads a... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20070203893 - Apparatus and method for federated querying of unstructured data: A computer readable medium is configured to receive a query, to map the query to an unstructured data source, to dispatch a request based on the query to the unstructured data source, to aggregate data returned by the unstructured data source in a structured data store, and to issue the... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070203892 - Apparatus and method for using vertical hierarchies in conjuction with hybrid slowly changing dimension tables: A computer readable medium stores executable instructions to define a hybrid slowly changing dimension table; establish vertical hierarchy tables from the hybrid slowly changing dimension table; query a first vertical hierarchy table to produce first results characterizing current hierarchical relationships; and query a second vertical hierarchy table to produce second... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070203887 - Methods and systems for endorsing search results: Methods and systems for improving user search experience with a search engine by providing a way for associated users to create and share personalized lists of article identifiers through endorsements of articles. Search endorsements can be used to personalize the search engine's ranking of articles by offering a way for... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070203891 - Providing and using search index enabling searching based on a targeted content of documents: A search index referencing document includes targeted content indicators. A process first identifies documents in the search index for targeted content analysis. Each document identified is then analyzed with a targeted content metric to produce a targeted content indication that is associated with the document in the search index. For... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070203895 - Recursive search engine using correlative words: A search engine is provided that searches the internet for a word (or set of words) referred to a searched words. This first search may use a commercially available search engine. The results of the first search are used to create correlative words using unique and count procedures. Those correlative... Agent: Heller Ehrman LLP

20070203897 - Search apparatus and method, and program: A search apparatus may include the following elements. A provisional search condition inputting unit inputs character string information as a provisional search condition. A character string/position correspondence information holding unit holds character string/position correspondence information including a correspondence between character string information and position information. A position information obtaining unit... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070203890 - Serving cached query results based on a query portion: The embodiments contemplate a system and method for obtaining related results for a portion of a query and for generating an updated set of queries for a cache of a server. Other queries beginning with the portion of the query may be identified and obtained from a data structure that... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070203888 - Simple hierarchical web search engine: This specification discloses a unique Web search engine to help people find information on the Web more easily and efficiently, and a page-sized query algorithm which is applicable to Web search engines and other systems using large-scale databases. The Web search engine utilizes a simple hierarchical structure under the category... Agent: Xiaoling Guo

20070203889 - System and method for configuring search results using a layout editor: A system, method, and program product are provided to receive a request from a requestor over a computer network and compare the request to a plurality of triggers associated with a plurality of layout configurations. One of the layout configurations is then selected based on the comparison. Next, components are... Agent: Ibm Corporation - Svl (jvl) C/o Vanleeuwen & Vanleeuwen

20070203894 - System and method for identifying related queries for languages with multiple writing systems: The present invention relates to systems and methods for identifying one or more queries related to a given query. The method of the present invention comprises receiving a query written according to one or more writing systems of a language with multiple writing systems. A candidate set of queries written... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070203900 - Methods, data structures, and systems to access data in cross-languages from cross-computing environments: Methods, data structures, and systems are provided to access data in cross-languages from cross-computing environments. A first request from a first computing environment is received to access the data in a first language. Concurrently, a second request from a second computing environment is received to access the data in the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/novell

20070203899 - Systems, methods and apparatus of a whole/part search engine: Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which, in one aspect, one or more sub-products of a product are searched in a database, presented to a search, sold and/or distributed.... Agent: Ramirez & Smith

20070203901 - Data transcription and management system and method: A data storage and management system includes a data base in which documents are stored. The data base also includes a series of selected keywords each associated with one or more document inserts, the document inserts comprising advertisements, information, on-screen control buttons for performing a series of functions, and links... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20070203903 - Methods and apparatus for visualizing, managing, monetizing, and personalizing knowledge search results on a user interface: Systems and methods are described that facilitate exploration and mining of a corpus of documents using concepts and knowledge, rather than keywords and enable interactive visualization, management, monetization, and personalization of knowledge search results on a user interface. Underlying documents can be mapped into overlapping clusters of knowledge dimensions and... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070203904 - Object verification apparatus and method: Provided are an object verification apparatus and method. The object verification apparatus includes a matching unit performing a plurality of different matching algorithms on a query image and generating a plurality of scores; a score normalization unit normalizing each of the generated scores to be adaptive to the query image;... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070203905 - Reference database and method for determining spectra using measurements from an led color sensor, and method of generating a reference database: To determine spectra, integrated multiple illuminant measurements from a non-fully illuminant populated color sensor may be converted into a fully populated spectral curve using a reference database. The reference database is partitioned into a plurality of clusters, and an appropriate centroid is determined for each cluster by, for example, vector... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070203902 - Unified interactive data analysis system: A system for analyzing data from a data set is disclosed. The system includes analysis logic responsive to a dimensional analysis control and an attribute analysis control for the same data. This logic can incrementally update the state of a data presentation from an existing state to a new state,... Agent: Kristofer E. Elbing

20070203906 - Enhanced search engine: A search engine system (1) capable of displaying indicative information (3) to a user from searches performed by entities connected directly or indirectly to the user (2), wherein said system (1) includes at least one host computer processor (23) connectable to one or more network(s) (24), a database accessible over... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070203907 - User interface for entry of step changes: A user interface for capturing user input for a non-uniform pattern of N quantities associated with a set of N time periods. The user interface allows the capture of the N quantities without the need to input N separate values. One implementation allows the user to input a sequence of... Agent: The Eclipse Group

20070203909 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for indexing, validating, recovering, and consolidating a database indexed by range-bound numeric data: Methods, systems, and computer program products for indexing, validating, recovering, and consolidating a database indexed by range-bound numeric data are disclosed. According to one method, at least one index is computed based on a first key within a first range of numeric data. An entry corresponding to the index is... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070203910 - Method and system for load balancing a distributed database: A method of processing a transaction request at a database load balancer. The method comprises receiving the transaction request, where the transaction request is comprised of one or more operations; analyzing the transaction request to determine the one or more operations; associating one or more database locks with each of... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070203914 - Attachment integrated claims systems and operating methods therefor: Systems and methods for processing textual messages which are integrated with one or more digital attachments is described. These systems and methods are useful in the electronic filing and processing of, for example, image data, and of textual data associated with the image data. One particular application of these systems... Agent: Leffert Jay & Polglaze, P.A.

20070203917 - Communication system and method for implementing online file storage based on an instant messaging platform: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a communication system for implementing online file storage based on an instant messaging (IM) platform and a method thereof, the method includes: an IM client transmits an online storage operation request of a file to an online file storage access server; the online file... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070203915 - Customized retrieval and presentation of information from a database: A new method of customized retrieval and presentation of information from a relational database is disclosed. The customization is achieved by modifying a first application for retrieval and presentation of information from a database in accordance with input provided by the user, at the time when the execution of the... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070203912 - Engineering manufacturing analysis system: A network based and automated engineering manufacturing analysis system as described herein is configured to manage producibility characteristics of a project or program throughout the lifecycle of the project or program. The system utilizes a collaborative data relationship and management tool that maintains metadata to create relationships between different information... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (boeing)

20070203913 - Optical disk apparatus and starting method thereof: In a three-wavelength-compliant optical disk apparatus, the present invention enables to shorten time required for starting the apparatus such as discrimination of an optical disk and adjustment of a beam-expander. At the time of starting the apparatus, the operation of a tray driver which pulls a loaded optical disk within... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070203918 - Resume storage and retrieval system: A method of and apparatus for storage and retrieval of resumé images in a manner which preserves the appearance, organization, and information content of the original document. In addition, summaries or “outlines” of resumé images, broken down into multiple fields, are stored, and can be searched field by field. A... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20070203925 - Database system and methods: In general, in one aspect, the invention relates to a method for transaction processing. The method includes specifying metadata and storing the metadata. An index is created in response to the stored metadata. The method also includes receiving a transaction, generating an index log of changes to the index in... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20070203920 - Method and computer program product for handling leafy branches in navigation trees: A method for handling leafy branches in a navigational tree including: grouping one or more child nodes into a node group; displaying one or more nodes of a hierarchal system including at least one node group; and displaying a scroll indicator corresponding to the node group, wherein the scroll indicator... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Tuscon Division

20070203924 - Method and system for generating threads of documents: A method and system for generating threads of documents from a collection C of documents containing terms. Each document of C has a timestamp and an associated timestamp index. The timestamp indexes are ordered in accordance with an ordering of the associated timestamps. A relevance graph G generated from C... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070203919 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for organizing hierarchical information: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for organizing hierarchical information according to a defined objective.... Agent: Ibm Microelectronics Intellectual Property Law

20070203921 - Scalable algorithm for sharing edi schemas: Developing a file corresponding to an electronic data interchange (EDI) schema. The EDI schema is selected for transmission to a destination device. A plurality of syntax structures in the selected EDI schema is identified. The plurality of syntax structures defines a type of transaction associated with the EDI schema. A... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070203923 - Schema mapping and data transformation on the basis of a conceptual model: Systems and methods are provided for schema mapping and the transformation of data. In accordance with one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided that comprises loading a conceptual model, wherein the conceptual model contains at least one conceptual object, loading a source schema and a source instance, converting the source... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070203922 - Schema mapping and data transformation on the basis of layout and content: Systems and methods are provided for schema mapping and the transformation of data. In accordance with one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided that includes the steps of simultaneously displaying to a user, via a graphical user interface, layouts of the first and second documents, wherein the first and second... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070203931 - Creating and managing xml schema version transformations: Systems and methods create customized executables for translating a message received in a source XML schema version to a target XML schema version. After identification of the source and a target versions, a customizable mapping specification allows designation of an automatic and/or manual mapping. The mapping is processed using mapping... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070203928 - Edi instance based transaction set definition: Creating an electronic data interchange (EDI) transaction from a description of the EDI schema. The description defines the EDI schema in a non-EDI structure. The description of the EDI schema is received. A plurality of data units included in the received description of the EDI schema is identified. The plurality... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070203929 - Expansion of database search queries: In some embodiments, a method includes receiving a token that is usable in search queries for data in a database. The database includes items of data that are represented by data strings. The method also includes determining a synonym candidate for the token. The method includes adding the synonym candidate... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070203930 - Method and system for compression of structured textual documents: A method and system are provided for compressing structured documents. The method includes the steps of (a) receiving semantic information for a given class of documents; (b) receiving a document of the given class to be compressed; (c) decomposing the document into a plurality of strings; (d) identifying document specific... Agent: BostonIPLaw Group

20070203926 - Scalable transformation and configuration of edi interchanges: Transforming one or more of a collection of electronic data interchange (EDI) transactions. A type of EDI transactions is identified to be transformed from a source format to a destination format. The collection of the EDI transactions is received according to the source format. A particular one or more of... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070203927 - System and method for defining and inserting metadata attributes in files: In one embodiment, file attributes of a desired file are sent along with the URL to the storing server and the attributes are used for subsequent retrieval of the file. Attributes, such as the text or title of the file, the language of the file, the creator of the file,... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20070203939 - Alert flags for data cleaning and data analysis: A data structure and methods for generating and using the data structure which contains cleaning attribute flags for each field of a database record which has been modified by a data cleaning operation. The flags may are used to determine if a pattern, cluster or trend identified during data mining... Agent: Robert H. Frantz

20070203935 - Apparatus and method for selecting a subset of report templates based on specified criteria: A computer readable medium with executable instructions, includes instructions to process metadata associated with a set of report templates. A subset of report templates is selected from the set of report templates using the metadata. The subset of report templates maximizes a reporting objective subject to a selection rule as... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070203936 - Method and apparatus for supporting development of broker program, and computer product: A data-type expressing unit expresses, when a data type of a parameter for an application is out of a range of data type supported by an interface definition language, a predetermined data type of the interface definition language corresponding to the data type of the application in the interface definition... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070203933 - Method for generating data warehouses and olap cubes: The present invention provides an automated data warehousing and OLAP cube building process. The invention allows a person who is not a database query language expert to build validated data warehouses, and OLAP cubes based on such data warehouses.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070203934 - Recursive metadata templating: A computer-implemented method and system are provided for retrieving a metadata instance defining at least part of an application. In the method, a first metadata instance is loaded. Then, one or more templates specified in the first metadata instance are identified. The identified templates are recursively loaded, and metadata from... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070203932 - Scalable algorithm for sharing edi schemas: Recreating an electronic data interchange (EDI) schema from a file. The file is received from a source and the file includes a plurality of data values. The plurality of data values is identified. The plurality of data values is analyzed to determine the structure of the EDI schema. A set... Agent: Senniger Powers (msft)

20070203937 - Systems and methods for classifying and transferring information in a storage network: Systems and methods for data classification to facilitate and improve data management within an enterprise are described. The disclosed systems and methods evaluate and define data management operations based on data characteristics rather than data location, among other things. Also provided are methods for generating a data structure of metadata... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070203938 - Systems and methods for classifying and transferring information in a storage network: Systems and methods for data classification to facilitate and improve data management within an enterprise are described. The disclosed systems and methods evaluate and define data management operations based on data characteristics rather than data location, among other things. Also provided are methods for generating a data structure of metadata... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070203941 - Method and apparatus for executing a query on dynamic properties of objects in a database: Methods and apparatus for executing a query on dynamic properties of a plurality of objects in a database are provided. In one implementation, the method includes obtaining a query; determining that a first portion of the query comprises a method for accessing a dynamic property of the plurality of objects;... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070203940 - Propagating relevance from labeled documents to unlabeled documents: A method and system for propagating the relevance of labeled documents to a query to unlabeled documents is provided. The propagation system provides training data that includes queries, documents labeled with their relevance to the queries, and unlabeled documents. The propagation system then calculates the similarity between pairs of documents... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070203948 - Data generating apparatus, and print apparatus: Text data corresponding to at least a part of a text contained in the file or picture data corresponding to at least a part of a picture contained in the file is extracted. Thumbnail data to be used as an index thumbnail using the extracted text data or the extracted... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20070203945 - Method for integrated media preview, analysis, purchase, and display: Systems and methods for integrated media monitoring are disclosed. The present invention enables users to analyze how a product or service is being advertised or otherwise conveyed to the general public. Via strategically placed servers, the present invention captures multiple types and sources of media for storage and analysis. Analysis... Agent: Ward & Olivo Suite 400

20070203947 - Method for providing internet service employing user personal distance information: A method for providing Internet services employing contact personal distance information by classifying contacts in a user's contact list with a certain classification. The method includes providing a contact list for each user that has an account with the service provider, and providing a personal distance classification for contacts in... Agent: Warn, Hoffmann, Miller & Lalone, .p.c

20070203946 - Media management method for a media processing device: This invention is directed to a method and system of managing the processing and removal of media such as CD's and DVD's through a media processing device having a management database and a storage unit for storing processed media. The media processing system comprises an administrator PC, a plurality of... Agent: Anderson, Kill & Olick, P.C.

20070203943 - Method and apparatus for generating unique identifiers for logical partitions: A computer-implemented method, apparatus, and computer-usable program code is provided to generate unique identifiers for a logically partitioned and/or virtualized data processing system. A number of computing entities supported by the data processing system are identified to form a number of identified entities. A set of unique identifiers is generated... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070203950 - Method and apparatus for implementing extensible network-attached secondary storage: A storage comprising an object access module for the shared part for implementing advanced I/O provides an interface for registering and deleting object description data declaring how to store objects within a second storage, in order to reduce the development cost of modules for implementing functions. Also, in order to... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070203949 - Parts marking system and method: A parts marking system has memory for storing data indicative of at least one algorithm associated with at least one direct parts marking (DPM) technique and logic that displays a graphical user interface comprising at least one text field associated with at least one function, functional failure, failure mode, and... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070203951 - User-configurable generic experiment class for combinatorial material research: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implement techniques for processing experimental data in a laboratory data management system. An input specifies a set of variable definitions that define a set of variables for an experiment type to be represented by a pre-defined experiment class. The variables in the set... Agent: Symyx Technologies Inc Legal Department

20070203942 - Video search and services: Arrangements and methods are described that provide organization of motion image data. In one exemplary implementation, a metadata file is stored in a memory of a computing device. The metadata file includes metadata derived from motion image data. The metadata may include at least a genre associated with the motion... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070203944 - Web services database cluster architecture: There is disclosed configuring of clustered web services nodes accessing a common database, including implementing a data virtualization layer at each node to abstract an instance of the database from a web service application. In one embodiment, at each node is performed creating a first, data virtualization entity bean having... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20070203952 - Configuration management database state model: A configuration management database for storing configuration information about an IT system. The configuration management database may have representations of configuration items that correspond to configuration items in the IT system, indicia of relations between the configuration items, and attributes of the configuration items. The configuration management database may also... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070203953 - Managing updates in an object oriented software system: The invention relates to the update, correction or upgrade of a software system through an update file. Firstly, objects included in or modified by the update file can be displayed to the user. Secondly, checks of the software system to be updated are made to look for related objects which... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070203955 - Bookmarked synchronization of files: A file synchronization system that includes a non-volatile memory for storing at least one bookmark respective to a file; a telecommunication mechanism for receiving a new bookmark value respective to this file; and a controller operative to update the respective bookmark according to the new bookmark value; and to control... Agent: Dr. Mark Friedman Ltd. C/o Bill Polkinghorn

20070203954 - Rich set of synchronization rules across multiple accounts with multiple folder and consent types: A unique system and method that facilitates synchronizing data across multiple accounts at about the same time is provided. The system and method involve configuring an intelligent set of synchronization rules that can apply to various data types from one or more user accounts or storage locations. In addition, the... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070203956 - Metadata customization using diffgrams: A computer-implemented method of obtaining a metadata instance defining at least part of a customized application includes loading a baseline metadata instance for the application. At least one diffgram corresponding to a customization of the baseline metadata instance for the application is obtained. Then at least one diffgram is applied... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070203957 - Automatic authentication of backup clients: A method of automatically authenticating clients on a computer system network enables clients on the network to be automatically logged in and added to a backup database and assigned for backup. The method employs a public key/private key encryption system in which clients have a public key and the backup... Agent: Law Offices Of Barry N. Young

20070203958 - Backup system for data base: Database synchronization processing is completed within a reasonable length of time while employing a narrow-band network as a network that connects a primary site to a secondary site, to thereby reduce the running cost of a system. A primary DBMS (101) has a transaction executing unit (104) for reading a... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070203959 - Apparatus and method for managing resources using virtual id in multiple java application environment: Provided are an apparatus and method for managing resources using virtual ID in a multiple Java application environment, and more particularly, an apparatus and method for allocating or de-allocating resources using a virtual ID in a multiple Java application environment, thereby effectively using the resource. The apparatus includes a resource... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070203960 - System and method for computer automatic memory management: The present invention is a method and system of automatic memory management (garbage collection). An application automatically marks up objects referenced from the “extended root set”. At garbage collection, the system starts traversal from the marked-up objects. It can conduct accurate garbage collection in a non-GC language, such as C++.... Agent: Mingnan Guo

20070198466 - By owner mls business method: The present invention is a business method for the inventor company which operates through an internet web site a By Owner multiple listing service that pools the multiple listing service data from a multiplicity of By Owner real estate listing companies, both local and national in nature. The company's web... Agent: Robert J. Van Der Wall Gables One Tower

20070198462 - Document access control system, data processing apparatus, program product and method for performing document access control: A document access control system for determining whether to allow a client to access a target document file according to a security policy set in a server, the system includes a cache timing determination part for determining the timing for caching policy determination data corresponding to the target document file... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070198463 - Virtual storage of portable media files: Storing and/or virtually compressing a file on a virtual file system associated with a portable media drive. The virtual file system includes the portable media drive and allocated storage of a storage server. The file partitioned into a local portion and at least one remote portion. The local portion is... Agent: Senniger Powers

20070198469 - Minimal difference query and view matching: The subject disclosure pertains to efficient computation of the difference between queries by exploiting commonality between them. A minimal difference query (MDQ) is generated that roughly corresponds to removal of as many joins as possible while still accurately representing the query difference. The minimal difference can be employed to further... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070198492 - Method and system for suggesting prices for rights in files on a network: Systems and methods have been developed for suggesting prices for rights in files on a network. The systems and methods may provide suggested prices for a right in a content file which has not been sold before. The systems and methods may provide the ability for a user to purchase... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070198498 - Method and system to analyze rules based on aspect coverage: There is provided methods and systems to determine aspect coverage. First, the system receives a first plurality of data items from a database utilized by an information storage and retrieval platform. Next, the system applies a first plurality of rules to the first plurality of data items to generate a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070198497 - Method and system to analyze rules based on aspect-value coverage: There is provided methods and systems to provide aspect-value coverage. First, the system receives a first plurality of data items from a database utilized by an information storage and retrieval platform. Next, the system applies a first plurality of rules to the first plurality of data items to generate a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070198496 - Method and system to analyze rules based on domain coverage: There is provided methods and systems to determine aspect coverage. First, the system receives a first plurality of data items from a database utilized by an information storage and retrieval platform. Next, the system counts the first plurality of data items respectively to determine a total quantity of data items.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070198488 - Rapid item data entry for physical items in the control of a user in an item data management server: An item data management server with rapid item data entry to facilitate database population with physical item data records for physical items in the control of a user. The rapid item data entry includes receiving a media file with at least an image and/or a verbal description for a physical... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070198493 - System and method for monitoring events associated with a person or property: A system and method for retrieving a transaction associated with a property including obtaining property information pertaining to a property from a third party source, storing the property information in a database, receiving a name to monitor or an address of a property to monitor, and transmitting a property information... Agent: First American Real Estate C/o Snell & Wilmer, LLP

20070198491 - System and method for searching and filtering web pages: A method for searching and filtering Web pages is provided. The method includes the steps of: generating connection commands according to a search string transmitted from a client computer (50); generating a hyperlink list by executing the connection commands; generating extraction commands; extracting integrated links related to the search string... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070198489 - System and method for searching web sites for data: The present invention provides a method for searching Web sites for data. The method includes the steps of: reading search conditions; converting the search conditions into extensible markup language (XML) search queries; parsing the XML search queries and accordingly creating XML commands; creating a command queue; defining attributes of the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070198501 - Methods and systems to generate rules to identify data items: There is provided a method and system generate rules and identify data items. The system receives an aspect that is used to describe a data item and a request for at least one candidate value to associate with the aspect. Next, the system identifies a string of text in a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/ebay

20070198509 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing program, and mobile terminal apparatus: An information processing apparatus includes: an information storage; a relevant information detector detecting pieces of information having a predetermined relevance to one another from pieces of the information stored in the information storage; a relevancy information storage storing relevancy information indicating that the detected pieces of information are pieces of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070198510 - Method and system for assigning customer influence ranking scores to internet users: A method and system for assigning ranking scores to Internet users of a networking site and a content site in which the networking site enables each user to become associated with other users as friends and in which the content site enables each user to rate content published by other... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070198511 - Method, medium, and system retrieving a media file based on extracted partial keyword: A method, medium, and system retrieving a media file associated with a partial keyword which is generated by using a named entity extracted from the media file, when a query is received from a user, with the media file being associated with the partial keyword being retrieved by identifying the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070198457 - Accessing and manipulating data in a data flow graph: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for accessing and manipulating data in a data flow graph. A data flow graph includes one more transforms for transforming data from one or more data stores into different formats accessible to clients. Transforms can be configured to join... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070198464 - Data processing apparatus, data processing system, data processing method, and recording medium: The present invention related to data processing apparatus, data processing systems, and data processing methods used for trial-and-error calculation, simulation calculation during data write, and the like, and recording media storing processing steps for executing such calculation so as to allow a computer to read them out.... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070198458 - Distributed namespace aggregation: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to distributed namespace aggregation. In aspects, a distributed file system is extended to allow multiple servers to seamlessly host files associated with aggregated links and/or aggregated roots. A request for a directory listing of an aggregated link or root may cause a... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070198455 - Framework for database transactions: Various mechanisms are presented that allow for the coordination of transactions in a managed runtime environment. In one aspect, a runtime environment that is hosted in a database system, includes an application programming interface (API). The API can surface the database transactions as ambient transactions, and present them to some... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070198465 - Live profile: Systems and methods for reconstructing the state of a market are provided. Orders are arranged as a non-indexed collection of orders and may be stored in the cache memory of a processor. The physical locations of orders stored in the memory may correspond to the order in which they were... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., Attorneys For Client No. 006119

20070198456 - Method and system for controlling access to semantic web statements: Disclosed are a method and system for controlling access to semantic web statements. The method comprises the steps of providing a set of semantic web statements in a defined format, and storing said statements in one or more first tables; and constructing a set of access control lists in said... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070198453 - Method for fast reconstruction of content information: The present invention relates to a method for the fast reconstruction of content information of a recording medium. According to the invention, the method comprises the steps of: determining a signature of the recording medium, the signature comprising a plurality of elements; comparing the signature with a plurality of signatures... Agent: Joseph J. Laks, Vice President Thomson Licensing LLC

20070198454 - Methods and apparatus for identifying related nodes in a directed graph having named arcs: The invention provides methods for identifying related data in a directed graph (e.g., an RDF data set). A “first” in step—though the steps are not necessarily executed in sequential order—includes identifying (or marking) as related data expressly satisfying the criteria. A “second” step includes identifying as related ancestors of any... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20070198461 - System and method for managing relational numerical data for monitoring systems: An object-oriented system for managing relational numerical data includes a relation interface that provides access to a relation and its attributes and tuples, wherein an attribute is a data item with a numeric value and a relation is a set of n-tuples of attribute values, wherein the relation interface maintains... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070198459 - System and method for online information analysis: The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to online information analysis. In general, in one implementation, a system includes a collection engine configured to accumulate document information retrieved from publicly accessible network resources according to predefined subjects, and an analysis engine configured to analyze the accumulated document information to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070198467 - System and method for storing large messages: A large message can be stored by separating the message into an envelope portion containing information such as headers, protocols, and addresses, and a payload portion containing items such as file attachments. The envelope portion can be stored in local storage, while the payload can be stored to a persistent... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070198460 - Usb storage system and control method thereof: A USB storage system is adapted to store data and exchange the stored data with an electronic apparatus via a universal serial bus (USB), and includes a memory having a control file folder containing at least one control file pre-stored thereon, the control file having a command data pre-stored therein... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070198468 - Digital data broadcasting: For each content item of a set of content items to be transmitted, a transmission schedule includes times to transmit the content item, and the transmission schedule, a descriptor file describing the content item, and the content item are prepared for transmitting.... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20070198470 - Method of reducing search space complexity using suggested search terms with display of an associated reduction factor: Indexing of a large dataset is performed by providing a search space including the dataset. For the search space, a lexicon of search terms is determined for those elements within the search space associated with terms within the lexicon. For some of the terms within the lexicon a secondary search... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20070198494 - Apparatus and method for facilitating a search for sets of gems: Apparatus and method for facilitating a search for sets of gems includes, in one embodiment, a computer-readable medium having a gem search module configured to facilitate a search for a set of N matching gems (where N may be an integer of at least two). The gem search module provides... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070198481 - Automatic object reference identification and linking in a browseable fact repository: Links between facts associated with objects are automatically created and maintained in a fact repository. Names of objects are automatically identified in the facts, and collected into a list of names. The facts are then processed to identifying such names in the facts. Identified names are used as anchor text... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070198475 - Collaborative classloader system and method: Computer implemented method, system and computer program product for searching for a class in a data processing system having classloaders organized in both a classloader hierarchy and a classloader network. A computer implemented method for searching for a class in a data processing system having classloaders organized in both a... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070198473 - Computer system displaying personal information items in database as individual files: An intermediate program which is provided at the PIM database server so that file system requests are treated as requests to provide responses for the contact and calendar information as interchange format files, without the need for a front end program or other specialized program on the user computer. The... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20070198474 - Contact list search with autocomplete: A contact list search with autocomplete is described. The contact list search searches on all contact information fields, including name, email, address, company, and so forth. The search results are updated on the fly as additional characters are entered to form new query strings. When a contact is selected from... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070198478 - Distributed meta data management middleware: A meta data management system for use with a surveillance system includes a user interface that allows users to define rules to manage meta data from distributed devices. An application programming interface provides an application access to system data and control information. A mechanism allows the application to transparently and... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20070198487 - Document management system and document management method: A document management system includes a memory portion that stores an original document identifier and a first derived document identifier in association with a second apparatus identifier, the original document identifier being provided to an original document, the first derived document identifier being provided to a first derived document created... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070198482 - Dynamic data formatting during transmittal of generalized byte strings, such as xml or large objects, across a network: A method, apparatus and program storage device is provided for dynamic data formatting during transmittal of generalized byte string data across a computer network. Remote server dynamically changes format of each column string data value from the result set separately, according to actual size of the string data value, and... Agent: Sandra M. Parker Law Office Of Sandra M. Parker

20070198495 - Geographic coding for location search queries: A method for performing a location search includes receiving a location search query, determining key words corresponding to the location search query, identifying one or more documents that correspond to the key words in the location search query, and providing to a client system information identifying at least one location... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20070198486 - Internet search engine with browser tools: A system and method for searching the Internet is presented wherein the search results are ordered and selected using one or more preference tools. One such tool consists of the user defining a reference index number that is employed to prioritize and re-rank at least some of the sites obtained... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20070198490 - Method and system for selecting information of advertiser in internet search engine in response to search-ordering of partner-site: A keyword advertising service method for providing search information in response to a search request, the method includes the steps of: maintaining a search information database for storing at least one search information record; receiving a search request packet including a keyword inputted in a partner site selected by a... Agent: Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP

20070198485 - Mobile search service discovery: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for receiving a search request from a mobile communication facility and presenting at least one available search category relating to the search query to the mobile communication facility for selection.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070198472 - Multimedia system for a vehicle: The present invention provides a multi-media system and method for a vehicle that enables a user to access content on a device. A user interface is included that is operable with the vehicle and adapted to receive a query command, wherein the query command is received in a predetermined form.... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20070198476 - Object search ui and dragging object results: A unique object navigation system, user interface, and method that facilitate faster and smoother navigation of objects are provided. For example, the system can generate a plurality of objects that can be rendered on a display space that spans a single page in length, thereby mitigating the need to navigate... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070198480 - Query language: A fact repository supports searches of facts relevant to search queries comprising keywords and phrases. A service engine retrieves the objects that are associated with facts relevant to a query. The query language described is designed for use with such a repository of facts and searches both the attributes of... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070198484 - Query serving infrastructure: A system and method for dynamically composing a class is provided. A query is parsed and a compiler object tree is generated that corresponds to the operators in the query. A set of feature requests and responses are initiated and a set of feature objects are generated that are executed... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070198483 - Smartfilter in messaging: The subject application relates to a system(s) and/or methodology that facilitate filtering any set of items in a quick and efficient manner including messages and optionally calendar, notes, and task items. More specifically, as a filter string (input) is entered, it can be immediately compared to properties associated with a... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070198479 - Streaming xpath algorithm for xpath expressions with predicates: A method and system for evaluating a path query are disclosed. The path query corresponds to a query tree including a plurality of query nodes. At least one query node corresponds to at least one predicate and is at a level. The predicate(s) are evaluated for previous query node(s). The... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070198477 - Systems and methods for managing regulatory information: Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are provided for managing regulatory data pertaining to a healthcare product. For example, the system may include a network interface for receiving, from a client terminal, a request for regulatory data related to regulatory activity about a product as it pertains to a regulatory... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070198471 - Using query persistence for efficient subquery evaluation in federated databases: The processing of a query that is submitted to a central controlling server where the central controlling server sources data from one or more backend databases and where such data is referenced by subqueries associated with the query is disclosed.... Agent: Csa LLP

20070198499 - Annotation framework: A fact repository contains facts having attributes and values and further having associated annotations, which are used, among other things, to vet facts in the repository and which can be returned in response to a query.... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070198502 - Database system: A data storage control system includes an expression-format changing device for changing applied data to data having a prescribed expression format, a storage device for storing data readably, a storage controller for accessing the storage device and reading data that has been stored in the storage device or writing data,... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070198500 - User distributed search results: A universal distributed search system allows users to find and distribute search results (possibly including advertisements) to those with whom they communicate. The search results can be easily distributed by the user via a simple interface that allows the search results to be easily added to the user's content. Search... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070198503 - Browseable fact repository: A fact repository supports searches of facts relevant to search queries comprising keywords and phrases. A service engine retrieves the objects that are associated with facts relevant to the query. The objects are displayed on a search results page. Each object is displayed with selection of the facts associated with... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070198504 - Calculating level-based importance of a web page: A method and system for determining importance of web pages that factors in the level of the web page within a web site hierarchy is provided. The importance system calculates the importance of web pages based on links between web pages. The importance system calculates a weight for a link... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070198505 - Context-based search engine residing on a network: This invention provides a context-aware search engine that communicates with users having a particular location at a particular time within a tessellated network of geographically spaced-apart communication nodes, typically wireless nodes/access points (APs). Based upon the user's location and time, the search engine delivers relevant site-specific information germane to that... Agent: Hinckley, Allen & Snyder, LLP

20070198508 - Information processing apparatus, method, and program product: An information processing apparatus includes an extraction unit configured to extract sequentially in time, keywords from multiple character strings, and a similarity calculation unit configured to calculate similarity values of the extracted keywords included in adjacent first regions of the multiple character strings, each first region including a predefined part... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070198506 - System and method for context-based knowledge search, tagging, collaboration, management, and advertisement: Comprehensive methods and systems are described for creating, managing, searching, personalizing, and monetizing a knowledge system defined over a corpus of digital content. Systems and methods are described in which a user can initiate in-depth searches of subject matter and can browse, navigate, pinpoint, and select relevant contexts, concepts, and... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070198507 - System and method for modeling multilabel classification and ranking: The present invention provides methods and apparatus for determining and utilizing detection models, such as models for machine condition monitoring. Specifically, the present invention provides a method for identifying and prioritizing labeled data. The model allows a monitored system to be associated with a calibrated and ordered set of states.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070198513 - Data update authorization: A method is described for controlling customer installations of software or data by providing to the customer an encrypted list of authorized installation targets, whereby the installation program reads and decrypts the list, and only allows installation to proceed if the customer's installation target has a serial number that matches... Agent: Lewis And Roca LLP

20070198512 - Method and apparatus for synthesizing a hardware system from a software description: A method and an apparatus take software source code to synthesize a hardware platform for running the software. The method determines which processor is suitable for running the code and meeting the performance parameters determined by the user. The method also determines which hardware devices are accessed by software. If... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070198515 - 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.

20070198514 - Method for presenting result sets for probabilistic queries: A method presents a rank-ordered result set for a probabilistic input query. Terms in the query are recognized and a probability is assigned to each term. The probability expresses a confidence in correctly recognizing the term. A database is searched for items corresponding to the probabilistic query using the terms... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20070198516 - Method of and system for organizing unstructured information utilizing parameterized templates and a technology presentation layer: The present invention organizes unsorted information into structured information and presents the structured information so that users are able to perform research efficiently and effectively. The present invention includes developing a parameterized template which is used to organize the unstructured data. Editors, with the help of a data analysis application,... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20070198520 - Atomic renaming and moving of data files while permitting lock-free look-ups: Atomic renaming and moving of data files, while permitting lock-free look-ups to the data files, is disclosed. A temporary record may be created within a hash chain encompassing a record for a data file and corresponding to a location of the data file within a computer file system. The temporary... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20070198517 - Interface to lock a database row through a logical locking interface: A method is described that comprises receiving at a first interface a request to lock a row of data from a database table. The method also comprises formatting the request into a format suitable for reception by a second interface. The second interface is an interface to a logical locking... Agent: Sap/blakely

20070198519 - Methods and apparatus to implement parallel transactions: The present disclosure describes a unique way for each of multiple processes to operate in parallel using (e.g., reading, modifying, and writing to) the same shared data without causing corruption to the shared data. For example, each of multiple processes utilizes current and past data values associated with a global... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20070198518 - Synchronized objects for software transactional memory: A system for implementing synchronized objects for software transactional memory comprises one or more processors and a memory comprising program instructions executable by the processor to implement a transactional-memory manager configured to coordinate memory access requests directed at the memory from a plurality of transactions. The transactional-memory manager records, within... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20070198521 - Utilizing hardware transactional approach to execute code after initially utilizing software locking by employing pseudo-transactions: Utilizing a hardware transactional approach to execute a code section by employing pseudo-transactions, after initially utilizing software locking, is disclosed. A method is disclosed that utilizes a software approach to locking memory to execute a code section relating to memory. The software approach employs a pseudo-transaction to determine whether a... Agent: Law Offices Of Michael Dryja

20070198522 - Virtual roles: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to access control and provide a method, system and computer program product for access control management for a composite application. In a first embodiment, a method for role-based access control management for a composite application can be provided.... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070198533 - Automatic document exchange with document searching capability: The exchange of documents for execution can be performed efficiently using an automated system that routes and stores documents based on routing information. Routing may be accomplished with reminders for individuals of deadline for responding. After execution is confirmed, an executed copy may be forwarded to all parties and desired... Agent: Dardi & Associates, PLLC

20070198523 - Communication server, method and systems, for reducing transportation volumes over communication networks: Method for delivering data streams over communication networks is disclosed, the method comprising determining reference points in a stream of data being locations in the stream where predefined number of characters fulfill a predetermined criterion; registering digital signatures being values returned from a predetermined function taken over predefined ranges of... Agent: Nath & Associates

20070198531 - Community providing system, community providing method and computer readable storage medium storing execution program for that method: Disclosed are a community providing system, a community providing method, and a computer-readable recording medium for storing a program capable of carrying out the method. In one embodiment, community configuration items including at least one of a template and a background image of a community are provided, and corresponding URL... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070198525 - Computer system with update-based quarantine: A managed network with a quarantine enforcement policy based on the status of installed updates for software on each client seeking access to the managed network. To determine whether a client requesting access has up-to-date software, an access server may communicate directly with an update server to determine the update... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070198536 - Data access: A data brokerage system (12) is described. The system comprises: a database (18) for storing a plurality of data accounts; a data update interface (24); and a data sales interface (26) for allowing a third party to query preselected data accounts. Each data account includes data associated with an individual... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20070198527 - Default location that may be dynamically changed: Content that is received by an application is delivered to a default location that may be dynamically updated. This default location for content may be updated without interfering with the functionality of a process or application that interacts with the default location. An API allows processes to request the current... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070198524 - Maintaining connections between application servers and databases in a multitier computer architecture: Maintaining connections between application servers and databases in a multitier computer architecture, including providing, through a highly available connection proxy, connections between application servers and databases, where the highly available connection proxy implements a single call point for providing the connections; monitoring by the highly available connection proxy connected databases... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20070198529 - Management computer and communication system: Provided is a technique capable of calculating a processing time of a server apparatus. A management computer connected to a server apparatus which is connected to a terminal computer through a network, includes a processor; a memory; and an interface. The processor acquires packets outputted from the server apparatus and... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070198532 - Management of shared media content: A media device allows users to watch and capture portions from a media broadcast. Users may then share the captured media content items with other users, for example, by uploading the items to a community website. Before providing requested media content items to other users, the website may combine advertisements... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070198526 - Method and apparatus for creating contextualized feeds: A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for generating contextualized feeds. The method of generating contextualized feeds comprises receiving context data from a user. The method further comprises generating contextualized feeds based on the context data, as the context data is received. The method, in one embodiment, includes receiving a... Agent: Judith A. Szepesi Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20070198530 - Reputation information processing program, method, and apparatus: An evaluation pair extraction unit analyzes a document which is present on a network to extract an evaluation pair composed of an object and an evaluation expression, and registers it in an evaluation pair database. An evaluation pair analysis unit executes analysis such as category estimation, specific evaluation expression extraction,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070198534 - System and method to create a collaborative web-based multimedia layered platform: The present invention relates to a system and method to allow multiple users to collaborate on tasks and interact in a shared space session within a network in real-time; using a media application to manage media-layers. Each media-layer serves as a container for multimedia programs or plug-ins. The invention allows... Agent: Henry Hon

20070198528 - Systems and methods for server management: Exemplary systems and methods for server management are provided. An exemplary system comprises a plurality of servers, with each server having the ability to access a database or, in some embodiments, be configured to perform a calculation, computation or make a determination of a particular value, values or other information.... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070198535 - Training system and method(s) of its use: The present invention relates to the Exercise Industry. In one form, the invention relates to a system and method for creating, organising, disseminating and/or providing exercise programs. Numerous aspects of invention are disclosed in this application.... Agent: LatimerIPLaw, LLP

20070198549 - Data entry systems and methods: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for entering data into a database configured to store a plurality of database records, each record having a set of predetermined data fields. The method includes the steps of: (a) creating a data entry message, wherein the data entry message includes... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070198540 - Non-bindable mount in a shared mount tree: A system and method are provided for mitigating propagation of select mounts in a shared mount tree. One or more mounts in the mount tree may be designated as non-bindable. Each non-bindable mount cannot be mirrored to a mount point through a mirror operation of a mount subtree in which... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20070198552 - System, method, and programs for automatically building audit triggers on database tables: A method and system for building audit triggers on database tables is presented. The method includes compiling at least one informational table containing names of one or more source tables to be audited, constructing at least one build trigger having sufficient functionality for building audit triggers on the source tables,... Agent: Phil Farrand

20070198537 - Application management system: A drawing application management system is constituted by parts list information and a modification information transmission function for correlating parts information with a product model and transmitting the parts information to a plurality of locations; an application decision function for deciding whether to apply the parts information correlated with the... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070198538 - Calculation expression management: The invention relates to calculation expression management. In general terms, a calculation expression is a union of variables, constants, operators functions, delimiter characters and other possible elements, which can be used to product a result. A sample calculation expression is as follows: “2*3+A*(2+B+C)”. The uses of calculation expressions include the... Agent: Angel Palacios

20070198548 - Compressed prefix trees and estdec+ method for finding frequent itemsets over data streams: Disclosed a relates to a method for finding specific information by analyzing a large amount of data set and a method for finding frequent itemsets in a data mining system realized using the same. The mining in a data stream defined as an indefinite set of data continuously generated is... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070198547 - Computational device for the management of sets: A data storage system or structure is provided representing a number of sets of data storage locations. Each set has a parent set identifier and contains a linked list of child storage locations. When used as a memory storage with a computationally complete environment in the invention provides protection against... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery LLP

20070198544 - Data management systems and methods for networks: A data management method for a network. Whether a first record in a database is updated is automatically determined. Content of the first record is organized in a hierarchical structure. Which of a group of clients is affected by update of the first record is automatically determined. A data format... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070198545 - Efficient processing of path related operations on data organized hierarchically in an rdbms: A mechanism is used to improve the efficiency of performing resource-to-path resolution. A hierarchical link structure contains entries and/or records (“link entries”) that each defines a parent-child link within an information hierarchy. A certain linking entry may have data that refers to another link entry representing a link to the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070198550 - Event structured file system (esfs): A computer storage file system structured without the use of tables or indexes, instead using a sequence of a small but extensible number of predefined Event types in a logical sequence that describes the complete historical state and content of the file system, Events being actions taken upon objects, objects... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070198553 - Geometrization for pattern recognition, data analysis, data merging, and multiple criteria decision making: An analyzer/classifier/synthesizer/prioritizing tool for data comprises use of an admissible geometrization process with data transformed and partitioned by an input process into one or more input matrices and one or more partition classes and one or more scale groups. The data to be analyzed/classified/synthesized/prioritized is processed by an admissible geometrization... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070198546 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method, computer program, and storage medium: An apparatus has a first attribute setting unit which sets first attribute information of image data, a second attribute setting unit which sets second attribute information of the image data, and an input-output controller which writes and reads out image data to and from an external storage medium. The first... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070198539 - Method and apparatus for mapping between xml and relational representations: A method to convert data between a relational format and an XML document, by creating a set of XML Mapping Definition from metadata; selecting relational data from a relational application database, and converting the relational data to the XML document using the set of XML Mapping Definition.... Agent: Csa LLP

20070198543 - Method and apparatus for pre-processing mapping information for efficient decomposition of xml documents: Methods and apparatus for pre-processing mapping information for efficient decomposition of an XML document for storage in a database are provided. The method includes receiving a mapping document that describes how all of (or a portion of) an XML document is to decomposed, transforming the mapping document into a data... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070198541 - Method and system for efficiently storing semantic web statements in a relational database: Disclosed are a method and system for storing semantic web statements in a relational database. The method comprises the steps of providing a repository for said semantic web statements, and providing a relational database including one or more specific tables. Each of these specific tables includes (i) one column holding... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070198542 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for associating a persistent information element with a resource-executable pair: Methods, systems, and computer program products for a method for associating a persistent information element with a resource-executable pair are disclosed. According to one method, a computer system resource is associated with an executable to form a resource-executable pair. A persistent information element is associated with this pair. The persistent... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC Jenkins, Wilson & Taylor, P.A.

20070198551 - Multi-channel audio data distribution format, method and system: Multi-Channel Audio Data Distribution Format, Method and System A system, method and data object enabling manipulation of multi-channel audio are disclosed. Track objects defining the multi-channel audio and are linked to a number of subtrack objects, each subtrack object corresponds to a channel of the multi-channel audio and including data... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070198559 - Apparatus, program product and method for structured document management: The structured document management apparatus includes a document data accepting unit that accepts input of structured document data having a hierarchical logic structure; a structure guide data storage unit that stores structure guide data which is a summary of hierarchical structure information of the structured document data; a structure stream... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070198561 - Method and apparatus for merging data objects: A method of merging data objects, including folders and opened information items, at the same level and an apparatus performing the method are provided. The data object merging method includes receiving a user command to merge two data objects; and merging the contents of the two data objects according to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070198554 - Apparatus for business service oriented management infrastructure: A method for management of a grid fabric that includes receiving a management request using a protocol, decoupling the management request from the protocol to obtain a decoupled management request, selecting a grid control service from a plurality of grid control services configured to perform the decoupled management request, identifying... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20070198560 - Automatic document exchange and execution management: The exchange of documents for signature can be performed efficiently using an automatic routing system that associates a document with appropriate identifying metadata. The routing can be facilitated through facsimile in which the metadata is encoded on a return facsimile cover sheet that is routed with the document. Appropriate central... Agent: Dardi & Associates, PLLC

20070198556 - Data unification models: The present subject matter relates to data access and, more particularly, to data unification models. Some embodiments provide systems, software, and methods of handling data access requests for data items having values stored in multiple instances across one or more data sources. Some embodiments provide a data manager to service... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070198564 - Extensible database system and method: A system includes a metadata model arranged to express concepts in a domain as a domain model. The domain model includes domain elements and at least one hierarchical relationship between domain elements. The system also includes at least one given instance representation of the domain model, which includes instance data... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20070198557 - Generic object database system and design: In an embodiment, a method of designing a schema to implement an object database system is provided. A first table type may be defined in the schema that may include a layout for an object table. The object table may define an instance of an object in the object data-base... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070198562 - Method and apparatus for ensuring business process integration capability for one or more distributed component systems in communication with one or more legacy systems: In a system for bridging one or more legacy systems with one or more component systems for data communication, a method for integrating application processes with one another includes steps for (a) expressing all application behavior using a modeling language; (b) transforming those expressions into process automata; (c) organizing composition... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20070198558 - Method and system of intelligent work management: An intelligent work management method comprises steps of providing a plurality of operation templates, and creating a project according to a selected one of the operation templates. The project has a plurality of real task items, each having an executive. The method further comprises a step of saving as a... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070198555 - Method, system, and program product for transferring document attributes: The present invention provides a method, system, and program product for transferring document attributes. Specifically, under the present invention, a change to an attribute corresponding to a document archived in a content storage system is received on an indexing system. In response to the change, an archival date corresponding to... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070198563 - System for incorporating information about a source and usage of a media asset into the asset itself: An enhanced metadata structure and associated process is provided which captures and stores metadata gathered about the source and usage of a media asset or file. The source and usage metadata is integrated, such as by encoding within the enhanced media file, as the media asset is transferred and used.... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070198571 - Data object access system and method using dedicated task object: A task management system for providing a graphically displayable worklist having one or more rows of work items, one or more of the work items each representing one or more data rows to be worked from one or more application data tables that are not a task object table of... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20070198568 - \"grid plus t tree\" index method for quick orientation in massive memory database: “Grid Plus T Tree” multidimensional index method in memory database partitions the whole record sets to different grid cells. Every grid data unit is connected with one data barrel, which loads records, through the grid directory. Every data unit is only mapped with one data barrel. For memory database, setting... Agent: GlobalIPServices

20070198572 - Automated system and method for managing a process for the shopping and selection of human entities: A matching system and method for providing a degree of matching between a plurality of entities. There are: first, second and additional attribute receiving modules each configured to receive attribute information from an entity; an electronic storage device including a cascading condition module configured to define: a cascading condition; and/or... Agent: Advantia Law Group

20070198569 - Counterfeit detection: A method for detecting counterfeit objects relies on participation by customers who check on the validity of the unique, random, and unpredictable ID assigned to each object. Potential counterfeiters cannot reliably guess valid IDs and also cannot easily acquire large numbers of existing valid IDs. Counterfeit pharmaceuticals are detected when... Agent: Los Alamos National Security, LLC

20070198573 - Data classification methods and apparatus for use with data fusion: Methods and apparatus for classifying data for use in data fusion processes are disclosed. An example method of classifying data identifies classification tree information and assigns values to each of a plurality of nodes associated with the classification tree information. Each of the values is indicative of a relationship between... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20070198567 - File storage and retrieval method: A file storage and retrieval method or technique for processing alpha numeric information that has particular advantages when accessing data in a database on a computer. The retrieval technique uses the ASCII values of characters in a search string concatenated together to form a numeric value which serves as the... Agent: Richard A. Van Voorhis

20070198566 - Method and apparatus for efficient storage of hierarchical signal names: A method, computer program product, and data processing system for efficiently storing a set of hierarchically-specified names in a modular hardware design are disclosed. In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a data structure for storing the names is built from a master trie. The master trie... Agent: Ibm Corp. (mrn) C/o Law Office Of Michael R. Nichols

20070198575 - Method and system for intelligent storage management: A storage management system is provided. The storage management system may includes a data collector configured to receive storage management information for storage. The storage manager includes an agent configured to collect storage management information for a storage object and to communicate the storage management information to the data collector.... Agent: Andrew L. Reibman Kenyon & Kenyon

20070198574 - Mpv file creating method and appartus, and storage medium therefor: A method and apparatus are provided for creating a MultiPhotoVideo or MusicPhotoVideo (MPV) file that enables minimization of resources and/or storage capacity required to use the MPV file in a multimedia application environment, and a storage medium having recorded thereon a computer readable program for performing the method. The method... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070198570 - Systems and methods for classifying and transferring information in a storage network: Systems and methods for data classification to facilitate and improve data management within an enterprise are described. The disclosed systems and methods evaluate and define data management operations based on data characteristics rather than data location, among other things. Also provided are methods for generating a data structure of metadata... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070198565 - Visual design of annotated regular expression: A system that provides a visual mechanism (e.g., user interface (UI)) by which a user can design a regular expression is provided. The graphical interactive mechanism enables a user to develop regular expressions without an understanding of the intricacies of the regular expression syntax. The UI can provide an interactive... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070198580 - Method for indirect representation and access in an object-oriented programming language: A method is provided for indirect representation and access in an object-oriented programming language. The method is based on using a new programming construct, called concept, which is a pair consisting of one object class and one reference class. A concept-oriented program is described as a hierarchy of concepts where... Agent: Alexandr Savinov

20070198579 - Database having heterogeneous object types: A method for extracting metadata for plural related objects of different types from a database includes defining a heterogeneous object type as a collection of database objects of different types. Upon a request to fetch a particular heterogeneous object, member objects of the heterogeneous object are fetched from the particular... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20070198577 - Id persistence through normalization: A system and method for maintaining persistent object identifiers across versions of a collection of data. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a first collection of objects is compared to a second collection of objects. If an object in the first collection matches an object in the second... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070198578 - Patent mapping: The present subject matter provides systems, methods, software, and data structures for patent mapping, storage, and searching. Some such embodiments include mapping patent documents, claims, and claim limitations. Some further embodiments provide for searching a universe of patent documents by patent document, claim, limitation, class, element, or concept.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth/cpa

20070198581 - Process for selecting an object in a plm database and apparatus implementing this process: The invention is directed to a process, an apparatus and a program for selecting an object in a PLM database containing modeled objects. The invention allows a user to rapidly display a view of the set of objects while allowing for selecting an object in the view, for example through... Agent: Clifford Chance US LLP

20070198576 - Stateless-object software environment: A stateless-object method is provided for executing instructions. The method: establishes a central repository of states, cross-referencing state locations in memory, to identifiers; calls a first method; accesses a stateless-object in response to the first method, the stateless-object including an identifier and a second method; reads the identifier; uses the... Agent: Sharp Laboratories Of America, Inc. C/o Law Office Of Gerald Maliszewski

20070198589 - Flexibly configured presence server: A presence server includes a receiver to receive a variety of publishing and subscribe requests from a variety of sources; a plurality of elements to process the requests; and a presence manager to flexibly configure the elements as a function of the type of the requests received. A method for... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070198587 - Numerical analysis data creating method and apparatus, and computer-readable program: A numerical analysis data creating method creates numerical analysis data that are obtained by analyzing an analyzing target. The method judges whether or not to create the numerical analysis data of the analyzing target using data that have been stored in a database part, searches the database part based on... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070198588 - Automatic qualification of plant equipment: A method for automatically linking resource data to graphical data includes: identifying a graphical data object in a set of data; selecting resource data for linking to the graphical data object; detecting repeated graphical data objects in the set of data; and linking the selected automation data to the detected... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070198584 - Database-managed rendering: A method, apparatus, system, and article of manufacture provide the ability to track image processing data in a collaborative environment in a database. Non-creative information is received that relates to image processing. The non-creative information is generated by a computer pursuant to a rendering operation performed by said computer. The... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP

20070198582 - Information presentation system, management device, and terminal device: An information presentation system simplifies entry of information relating to a package media of a user, and management of the information. The information presentation system is made up of a playback apparatus, a library information management apparatus, and a terminal apparatus. The playback apparatus reads an identifier identifying a content... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070198585 - Method for encouraging home ownership: A method of enabling a buyer to transition from renting a home to owning a home is provided.... Agent: Summa, Allan & Additon, P.A.

20070198586 - Methods and apparatus for providing a configurable geospatial data provisioning framework: An interactive geospatial data provisioning application presents a graphical user interface operable to present a map of geographic regions and corresponding geospatial data sets. The user selects the area of interest from the mapped regions corresponding to the available geospatial data sets. The application identifies geospatial data sets within the... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20070198590 - Mpv file creating method and appartus, and storage medium therefor: A method and apparatus are provided for creating a MultiPhoto Video or MusicPhoto Video (MPV) file that enables minimization of resources and/or storage capacity required to use the MPV file in a multimedia application environment, and a storage medium having recorded thereon a computer readable program for performing the method.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070198583 - Safety test support system,method,and program: A main aspect of the present invention comprises the provision of a storage unit 5 for storing applications related to multiple types of safety tests, functionally divided by data items and/or operations; application running means 7 for running at least one application selected from among the aforementioned multiple types of... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070198596 - Attachment integrated claims systems and operating methods therefor: Systems and methods for processing textual messages which are integrated with one or more digital attachments is described. These systems and methods are useful in the electronic filing and processing of, for example, image data, and of textual data associated with the image data. One particular application of these systems... Agent: Leffert Jay & Polglaze, P.A.

20070198592 - Computer-implemented system for managing a database system with structured data records: In a computer-implemented system for managing a database system with structured data records, two internal databases separate from one another are maintained, an interface for an input at least of parts of a structured data record into one of the databases is provided, at least one interface for communicating with... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070198595 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: An information processing apparatus includes a basic file manager that manages files stored on a storage medium using basic file management information stored on the storage medium; a specific file manager that manages a file of a specific type, among the managed files, using specific file management information stored on... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20070198591 - Partition by growth table space: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing a table space for a database. The table space is searched to find available free space in a set of partitions in the table space in response to receiving a request to insert a record into a database... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070198593 - Systems and methods for classifying and transferring information in a storage network: Systems and methods for data classification to facilitate and improve data management within an enterprise are described. The disclosed systems and methods evaluate and define data management operations based on data characteristics rather than data location, among other things. Also provided are methods for generating a data structure of metadata... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070198594 - Transferring electronic file constituents contained in an electronic compound file using a forensic file copy: A computer-implemented method and program for separating one or more selected file constituents from a compound file (such as a mail file) that contains a plurality of file constituents each containing one or more native attributes. The file constituents are stored in a non-individually-manipulable manner in the file. The method... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20070198597 - Attribute entropy as a signal in object normalization: A system and method determines whether two objects are duplicate objects. The system and method matches common facts of the two objects based on a match measure, combines the entropies of the matching common facts, and determines whether the two objects are duplicate objects based on the sum of entropies.... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070198599 - Distributed conflict resolution for replicated databases: One or more resolution processes run concurrently with the synchronization process of each replica, in response to detection of one or more synchronization conflicts. Each resolution process works to resolve the conflict for a data object while the synchronization process continues to process other synchronization updates. After a conflict resolution... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070198600 - Entity normalization via name normalization: A system and method identifying duplicate objects from a plurality of objects. The system and method normalizes name values of objects, groups objects into buckets based at least in part on the normalized name values, matches objects within the same bucket based on a selected matcher, and identifies the matching... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070198598 - Modular architecture for entity normalization: A system and method identifying duplicate objects from a plurality of objects. The system and method groups similar objects into buckets based on a selected grouper, matches objects within the same bucket based on a selected matcher, and identifies the matching objects as duplicate objects.... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070198601 - Systems and methods for classifying and transferring information in a storage network: Systems and methods for data classification to facilitate and improve data management within an enterprise are described. The disclosed systems and methods evaluate and define data management operations based on data characteristics rather than data location, among other things. Also provided are methods for generating a data structure of metadata... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070198602 - Systems and methods for resynchronizing information: Methods and systems for synchronizing data files in a storage network between a first and a second storage device is provided. The method includes storing first data files associated with the first storage device to a storage medium, whereby the first data files include first data records. The storage medium... Agent: Brown, Rudnick, Berlack & Israels, LLP.

20070198604 - Computer system, computer system management console, and data recovery management method: A computer system that is able to recover data at an arbitrary point in time using journals even after a data volume has been migrated between storage apparatuses. The computer system has a data recovery management unit create continuous journal data that ensures the continuity of journals before and after... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070198607 - Reassembling fragmented files or documents in a file order-independent manner: Files can be reassembled from fragments by (a) accepting (or determining) adjacency scores for each pair of fragments from the set of fragments, (b) identifying header fragments from among the fragments of the set of fragments, and (c) for each of the header fragments identified, reconstructing a corresponding one of... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070198606 - Reassembling fragmented files or documents in a fragment order-independent manner: Files can be reassembled from fragments by (a) accepting adjacency scores for each pair of fragments from the set of fragments, (b) identifying header fragments from among the fragments of the set of fragments, and (c) for each of the header fragments identified, (i) setting a current fragment to the... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070198605 - Snapshot management device and snapshot management method: A snapshot management device and snapshot management method whereby a snapshot is obtained on a regular basis, the amount of difference between two obtained snapshots is detected and, when the detected difference amount is smaller than a threshold value, of the two snapshots, the snapshot obtained earlier than the other... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070198608 - Systems and methods for classifying and transferring information in a storage network: Systems and methods for data classification to facilitate and improve data management within an enterprise are described. The disclosed systems and methods evaluate and define data management operations based on data characteristics rather than data location, among other things. Also provided are methods for generating a data structure of metadata... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070198603 - Using exceptional changes in webgraph snapshots over time for internet entity marking: Techniques are provided through which “suspicious” web pages may be identified automatically. A “suspicious” web page possesses characteristics that indicate some manipulation to artificially inflate the position of the web page within ranked search results. Web pages may be represented as nodes within a graph. Links between web pages may... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070198610 - System and method for backing up a database: An exemplary system for backing up a database is disclosed. The system includes at least one remote server (1), and an application server (4) configured between the database and the at least remote server. A related method is also disclosed. The method includes the steps of: receiving parameters; backing up... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070198612 - Data classification systems and methods for organizing a metabase: Systems and methods for managing electronic data are disclosed. Various data management operations can be performed based on a metabase formed from metadata. Such metadata can be identified from an index of data interactions generated by a journaling module, and obtained from their associated data objects stored in one or... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070198609 - Method and apparatus for doing electronic asset inventory from backup tapes: A system to conduct automatic asset discovery inventory of a company's computing assets from backup images stored on a backup system. In more complex embodiments, user interface tools are provided to provide a choice of sources of data from which to conduct said inventory discovery. The user can choose between... Agent: Ronald Craig Fish A Law Corporation

20070198611 - Systems and methods for classifying and transferring information in a storage network: Systems and methods for data classification to facilitate and improve data management within an enterprise are described. The disclosed systems and methods evaluate and define data management operations based on data characteristics rather than data location, among other things. Also provided are methods for generating a data structure of metadata... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070198613 - User interfaces and methods for managing data in a metabase: Systems and methods for managing electronic data are disclosed. Various data management operations can be performed based on a metabase formed from metadata. Such metadata can be identified from an index of data interactions generated by a journaling module, and obtained from their associated data objects stored in one or... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070198615 - Flashback support for domain index queries: Techniques for executing flashback queries using domain indexes in a database system are provided. In one technique, a flashback parameter of the flashback query is not included in a call-out invocation of domain index routines that implement a domain index. A call-back query execution unit nonetheless retrieves, for call-back queries... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070198614 - Disk drive storage defragmentation system: The present invention provides a disk drive storage defragmentation system, comprising providing a cache buffer system coupled to a host system, coupling a disk drive storage system to the cache buffer system, performing a defragmantation process on the disk drive storage system utilizing the cache buffer system and servicing a... Agent: Irene Y. Hu

20070198616 - File storage apparatus: It is an objective of the present invention to provide a solution to automatically remove the redundancy among the user's files, and to efficiently use the memory area of the server without placing an unreasonable cost on a service provider and on a user. In order to attain the above... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20070198617 - Eager reference-counting garbage collection: An eager reference-counting garbage collection system performs a static analysis on the intermediate representation of a program. The system then uses liveness information to inject eager reference-counting updates into the program. Through the use of the liveness information, reference-counting decrements can be made earlier in execution than in traditional reference-counting... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20070192284 - Method of reducing search space complexity using suggested search terms with display of an associated reduction factor: A method of searching is performed by providing a term for use in searching of information. The term is useful in determining documents relating to the term. In response to the provided term, search results within a search result set are determined. The search results include an indication of some... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20070192300 - Method and system for determining relevant sources, querying and merging results from multiple content sources: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a computer implemented method and system for processing a query may include receiving a query from a user device; categorizing the query to identify one or more content sources; formatting the query according to one or more content source specifics for the... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070192297 - Minimal difference query and view matching: The subject disclosure pertains to efficient computation of the difference between queries by exploiting commonality between them. A minimal difference query (MDQ) is generated that roughly corresponds to removal of as many joins as possible while still accurately representing the query difference. The minimal difference can be employed to further... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070192301 - Systems and methods for indexing and searching data records based on distance metrics: A computer implemented method for searching a data structure is disclosed. A first node on the data structure is examined. A determination is made as to whether the first node is associated with one or more child nodes. When the first node not associated with one or more child nodes,... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070192305 - Search term suggestion method based on analysis of correlated data in three dimensions: An enhanced search engine compares a received search query with a history of previous search queries. When equivalent search queries are found the search engine provides a set of sub-categories to the user to further refine their search. Optionally a sub-category corresponds to a specific result. These sub-categories and results... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20070192313 - Data search method with statistical analysis performed on user provided ratings of the initial search results: A method of searching for content that is stored on a computer system includes receiving a plurality of initial search results based on an initial search query. At least some initial search results of the plurality of initial search results are rated according to a predetermined criterion. First data relating... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20070192315 - Database search with rfid: Methods and apparatuses for extracting information from a database based on tag data are provided. One method includes interrogating a plurality of RFID tags coupled with objects within in an area to obtain tag data. The contextual environment of the area is determined based on the tag data. A search... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070192317 - Method of assessing consumer preference tendencies based on correlated communal information: A method of providing users with improvements in the acquisition of data and the presentation of the acquired data is provided in respect of users searching for a consumer good or service. The method exploits the storing of other users consumer-history data for a plurality of different users within databases... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20070192319 - Search engine application with ranking of results based on correlated data pertaining to the searcher: A method of providing users with improvements in the acquisition and display of content from the World Wide Web is provided in respect of users searching the World Wide Web. The method exploits the storing of user dependent information, including both limited to their personal information, personal contacts, personal preferences,... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20070192327 - Aggregating content of disparate data types from disparate data sources for single point access: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for aggregating content of disparate data types from disparate data sources for single point access by a user. Embodiments include establishing a user account for the user; retrieving content of disparate data types from identified disparate data sources associated with the user account; storing... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20070192331 - Context information management system: The context information management system enables the management of context information while maintaining the security of user information. It includes a user domain management server that manages a list of domains in which users have an account, and a one-time account management server that manages temporarily issued one-time accounts for... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070192332 - Distributed automation system: A distributed automation system is described with at least one first order network device (1, 1′, 1″) and at least one piece of data available on the first order network device, at least one database system (2) and at least one first order network (3). With the distributed automation system,... Agent: Roberts, Mlotkowski & Hobbes

20070192330 - Information processing apparatus and method and program: An information processing apparatus which functions, in a network environment wherein data is communicated between a server and a client, as an end point on the server side or the client side, includes a setter and a controller. The setter is configured to set at least a permissible maximum latency... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070192333 - Web-based application or system for managing and coordinating review-enabled content: A network based review management system and method for managing a plurality of enrolled websites and a plurality of review content items includes a network, a first database of enrolled websites connected to the network, and a second database of review content items connected to the network. Each of the... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20070192279 - Advertising in a database of documents: A database, such as a patent database, including a plurality of electronic documents, such as patents and patent applications, is described. The documents include words, phrases, and/or pictures that have been hyperlinked to advertisements or other documents. Also described are methods of indexing words and phrases in the documents and... Agent: Gonzales Patent Services

20070192275 - Automatic document exchange with archiving capability: The exchange of documents for execution can be performed efficiently using an automated system that routes and archives documents. The system may facilitate the exchange of drafts between parties by highlighting changes of the current draft with respect to the previous draft. Documents may be conveniently archived for efficient document... Agent: Dardi & Associates, PLLC

20070192278 - Method and apparatus for providing selective access to information: A reporting system provides users selective access to information, such as standard reports, custom reports, and ad hoc reports. Reports are represented as report objects that store characteristics that must be fulfilled prior to a user being granted access to a report. Upon a user request for a specific report,... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070192276 - Method and apparatus for temporarily using drm contents: A method and apparatus for temporarily using Digital Rights Management (DRM) contents is provided. The method includes receiving a rights object having information required for using the contents, converting the rights object into a first temporary rights object and a second temporary rights object such that the contents are temporarily... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070192274 - Method, program and apparatus for document retrieval system: The present invention realize a high speed retrieval performance in a document retrieval system referring to partial data of documents including structured data such as XML documents and electric mails, without providing further memory. The present invention includes storage means for storing documents to be retrieved onto a disk device,... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070192273 - Online data volume deletion: A system to delete a data volume may include storage of a plurality of data pages of the data volume of a data area into a cache, prevention of writing of data pages to the data volume, and designation of each of the plurality of data pages in the cache... Agent: Sap Ag C/o Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20070192277 - Personalized concierge system with optimized user interface: The present invention relates to a system, apparatus and method for implementing a personalized concierge system with an optimized user interface. The present invention adds significant value relative to prior-art LBS systems by providing a group of features that simplifies use of the system, provides personalized search capability, and supports... Agent: Rutan & Tucker, LLP. Hani Z. Sayed

20070192283 - Maintenance of materialized outer-join views: Maintenance of materialized view for query optimization in a database. The architecture provides the first practical algorithms for incrementally maintaining views with multiple outer joins and aggregated outer-join views. Materialized views with any combination of inner joins, one-sided outer joins and full outer joins, plus an optional aggregation on top,... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070192281 - Methods and apparatus for displaying real-time search trends in graphical search specification and result interfaces: The present invention concerns methods and apparatus for displaying real-time search trends in graphical search specification and result interfaces. In the methods and apparatus of the present invention, a user enters a text-based search argument using a search specification and result interface associated with a search engine. Search results received... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070192286 - Methods and systems for multi-pattern searching: Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for optimizing and reducing the memory requirements of state machine algorithms in pattern matching applications. Memory requirements of an Aho-Corasick algorithm are reduced in an intrusion detection system by representing the state table as three separate data structures. Memory requirements... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070192282 - Minimal difference query and view matching: The subject disclosure pertains to efficient computation of the difference between queries by exploiting commonality between them. A minimal difference query (MDQ) is generated that roughly corresponds to removal of as many joins as possible while still accurately representing the query difference. The minimal difference can be employed to further... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070192285 - Optimizing aggregate processing: Disclosed is method for processing an aggregate function. Rows that contain a reference to intermediate result structures are grouped to form groups. For each group, aggregate element structures are formed from the intermediate result structures and, if the aggregate function specifies ordering, the aggregate element structures are sorted based on... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20070192280 - Sequence based physical design tuning: The subject disclosure pertains to exploitation of sequence information in a workload for the purpose of performance tuning. An optimal or exhaustive approach to tune sequences by mapping to a shortest path problem is provided as well as powerful techniques that result in optimal or nearly optimal solutions. Also disclosed... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070192288 - Data adapter: A data adapter including method and apparatus is presented. In one embodiment, the data adapter is a method. The method includes finding a set of records of a relational database matching an object instance of an object type. The method further includes updating the set of records of the relational... Agent: Csa LLP

20070192290 - Difference-based database upgrade: A method for updating a database that combines the advantages of both the migration and incremental approach may resolve some of the problems associated with earlier methods. This may be accomplished by a methodology which incrementally updates new data while using the migration approach to create an entirely new schema.... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20070192289 - Enhanced search results: A method includes receiving a search query from a user and generating search results based on the search query. The method may also include providing the search results and information identifying at least one of a telephone number or an address associated with a first one of the search results... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20070192302 - Geometric search engine: One implementation provides a method to provide information associated with a previously designed component having a geometry that is similar to a geometry of a source component. In this implementation, the method includes obtaining a first set of coefficients for a non-invertible representation of the geometry of the source component,... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070192296 - Managing the execution of a query: A method and system for managing execution of a query that provides an avenue for runtime optimization, or more specifically runtime re-optimization. This allows for more efficient execution plans to be generated, and reduces the risk of major complications due to inadvertently poor estimates. In other cases such a query... Agent: James M. Stover Ncr Corporation

20070192303 - Method and apparatus for longest prefix matching in processing a forwarding information database: A hardware circuit implemented on a DRAM foundry is provided for finding the longest prefix key match. The hardware circuit includes the use of prefix search engines to store prefix keys. Each prefix search engine may advantageously include an n-dimension memory for fast efficient access. Each prefix search engine is... Agent: Priest & Goldstein PLLC

20070192298 - Method and device for processing data of a plurality of different products: A device for processing data of a plurality of different products, e.g., motor vehicles, includes an electronic processing unit having a databank device, in which first and second product data of a first and a second product of the plurality of products are stored, and having a data interface for... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070192287 - Method and system for providing objects with extendable attibutes: A hierarchical class architecture of objects is disclosed. The hierarchical class architecture includes an upper level class, a lower level class and an attribute. The attribute is assigned to the upper level class and describes the objects. The objects are members of at least one of the upper level class... Agent: Csa LLP

20070192293 - Method for presenting search results: Methods and systems are provided to present the search results in response to a search query that is submitted to a document retrieval system, such as a search engine. The search results are presented with a second-retrieval model that constructs multiple derived queries for the search query with a first... Agent: Dr. Bolesh J. Skutnik Bj Associates

20070192294 - Mobile comparison shopping: Improved capabilities are disclosed for receiving a product selection from a mobile communication facility, identifying merchants that sell such product and products associated with the product selection, receiving information relating to the mobile communication facility and presenting an ordered list of merchants selling the product. In embodiments, based at least... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070192291 - Personal object work lists: A method for creating a custom work list includes executing a query based on search criteria. Results of the query comprising at least one of a business object and a task conforming to the search criteria. The search criteria and the returned results are combined to create said custom work... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070192295 - Relational database management system having integrated non-relational multi-dimensional data store or aggregated data elements: Improved method of and apparatus for joining and aggregating data elements integrated within a relational database management system (RDBMS) using a non-relational multi-dimensional data structure (MDD). The improved RDBMS system of the present invention can be used to realize achieving a significant increase in system performance (e.g. deceased access/search time),... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., P.C. Soundview Plaza

20070192292 - Searching for services in natural language: A method for answering search queries about services is disclosed. The method includes searching a plurality of storage media on a network for a natural language service metastatement. The natural language service metastatement is typically generated by a service provider and describes the services provided by the service provider in... Agent: Stephen M. De Klerk Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20070192299 - Systems and methods for social mapping: A system, method, and computer program for social mapping is provided. Data about a plurality of social network members is received. A first member of the plurality of social network members is allowed to identify a second member of the plurality of social network members with whom the first member... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070192304 - Method and system for an operation capable of updating and inserting information in a database: A Structured Query Language (SQL) adapter business service that converts data from a data set to a common representation format used for all data sets with which the SQL adapter business service interacts. Hence the SQL adapter business service can communicate with various internal and external systems independently of the... Agent: Csa LLP

20070192314 - Business-oriented search: A system and architecture for enhancing search results generated by an Internet search engine, so that those search results include enhanced buyer-oriented information, is disclosed. According to one aspect, a list of search results generated by an Internet search engine comprises one or more search results that are associated with... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070192310 - Information processing apparatus and method, and program: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit acquiring keywords extracted from text data representing a first content to be a base of a search and scores of the respective keywords, and keywords extracted from text data representing a second content for calculating a degree of matching with the first... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070192307 - Interactive filtering model to enhance a software component meta management system: Provided is a method for generating an on-demand, custom runtime solution to a user or business's computing needs. A library of software components corresponding to different computing tasks of a business situation is created. Each software component is associated with one or more meta descriptors. The software components and related... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20070192309 - Method and system for identifying sentence boundaries: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for isolating sentence boundaries between sentences in text. Sentences of the normalized document feeds or source text are separated by determining boundaries between individual sentences, by a Bayesian algorithm, that has been seeded with rule frequencies, developed from a previous training... Agent: Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC

20070192311 - Method and system of identifying an ideographic character: A method and a system for identifying an ideographic character is disclosed. A keypad is used to identify two parts of a linguistic character. A microprocessor queries a database for characters corresponding to the identified parts, and then displays the associated characters on a monitor for selection by a user.... Agent: Hodgson Russ LLP The Guaranty Building

20070192308 - Recommendation system: A method and system of providing a recommendation measures a distance between a first document and group of clustered historic documents using a compression-based dissimilarity measurement (CDM). The CDM identifies the closest clustered historic documents and identifies a recommendation corresponding to the closest cluster.... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20070192306 - Searching digital information and databases: This application describes methods for searching digital information such as digital documents (e.g., web pages) and computer databases, and specific search techniques such as authority ranking and information retrieval (IR) relevance ranking in keyword searches. In some implementations, the technique includes analyzing digital information viewed as a labeled graph, including... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20070192312 - System and method for dynamic, multivariable comparison of financial products: A multivariable search system for the comparative analysis of financial products allows the user to enter a set of criteria of their choice with desired ranges and in addition, a weighting factor to be applied to the criteria. Mutual funds, for instance, may be searched according to desired rates of... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070192316 - High performance vector search engine based on dynamic multi-transformation coefficient traversal: A similarity search engine includes a transformation module performing multiple iterations of transformation on a high dimensional vector data set. A scanning module supports dynamic selection of coefficients generated by the multiple iterations, and store and utilize search results in subsequent search operations. A dynamic query vector tree constructed from... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20070192318 - Creation of a mobile search suggestion dictionary: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for creating a list of expected search queries associated with a search vertical, ordering the list based on at least one factor, and presenting the ordered list of search queries to a mobile communication facility for user selection.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20070192320 - System and method for flushing bean cache: Servers in a network cluster can each store a copy of a data item in local cache, providing read access to these copies through read-only entity beans. The original data item in the database can be updated through a read/write entity bean one of the cluster servers. That cluster server... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070192321 - Content provisioning method and system: Content items or data defining access to content items for provision to one or more users is respectively maintained. Respective content access data for those users from which content items or data defining access to content items are received is changed and a sub-set of the content items or data... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070192322 - Porting security application preferences from one system to another: Configuring a security application includes determining whether user preferences for the security application are pre-loaded in an information handling system (IHS) received by a user. If the user preferences have not been pre-loaded a request to receive the user preferences corresponding to the user and the security application is sent... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070192323 - System and method of access and control management between multiple databases: A system and method of automatic access and control management of databases within a system includes a data management computer system and interconnected local computer systems. An accessing system requests information from a target system by data management system. The database management determines whether or not the information request satisfies... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20070192328 - Automatic connection and query management: A method for accessing data from a network storage medium is disclosed. An application supplies a query interface to a software object. The software object then establishes a connection between the application and the network storage medium using database information supplied by the query interface. Next, an annotated method supplied... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20070192335 - Data processing apparatus, data processing method, and computer-readable recording medium: A data processing apparatus includes a setting part for setting a combination including location data indicating the location of a data source located in a target data item and a designated process corresponding to the location data, an acquiring part for acquiring the target data item and a data processing... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070192326 - Distributed session failover: A distributed session failover mechanism is disclosed for facilitating the replication and retrieval of session information. A first server, in a trusted network, providing a single sign-on (SSO) solution, stores session information pertaining to a particular client requesting services associated with the server. In order to provide session failover, the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP And Sun Microsystems, Inc.

20070192325 - Http publish/subscribe communication protocol: A communication protocol for distributing information related to a resource in substantially real-time to a subscriber includes a first HTTP request message for allowing the subscriber to request a subscription to the information related to the resource, where the first HTTP request message includes subscription data in a header and/or... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20070192324 - Method and device for advanced cache management in a user agent: According to principles consistent with the present invention, data may be designated for persistent storage in the cache of a client device, such that the persistently stored data is not subject to removal from the cache as a result of normal cache management. In response to executing a user agent,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070192329 - Methods and systems for executing, by a virtual machine, an application program requested by a client machine: A method for executing, by a virtual machine, an application program requested by a client machine includes the step of receiving a file including access information for accessing a plurality of application files and for executing a first client capable of receiving an application stream. An identification of the plurality... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070192334 - System and method for heterogeneous caching: The caching of heterogeneous bean sets has been improved from requiring each bean to have its own cache instance to caching the beans in a single cache. The beans can be identified by generating a unique identifier that is a combination of the bean's primary key and a self-reference identifier... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070192345 - Method of assessing consumer preference tendencies based on an analysis of correlated communal information: A method of providing users with improvements in the acquisition of data and the presentation of the acquired data is provided in respect of users searching for a good or service. The method exploits the storing of other users consumer-history data for a plurality of different users within databases distributed... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20070192338 - Content analytics: A method and system of content analytics wherein users can populate a database with documents or assets that have corresponding profiles containing metadata. Documents can later be retrieved during a database search. A content analysis view can display information, consisting of calculations of the documents' metadata based on a metric... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070192339 - Extensible user interface framework for a componentized application environment: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to extending the user interface of an application, and provide a method, system and computer program product for extending the user interface of an application in a componentized application environment. In one embodiment of the invention, a user... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070192343 - Object metamodel comprising views on a join graph: A method is disclosed for modeling application-level objects in terms of join graphs defined over tables containing structured data residing in a relational database. In accordance with the disclosed metamodel, each object is modeled logically as a join graph. A query received from an application that requests the return of... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070192342 - Primitive operator for similarity joins in data cleaning: A set similarity join system and method are provided. The system can be employed to facilitate data cleaning based on similarities through the identification of “close” tuples (e.g., records and/or rows). “Closeness” can be is evaluated using a similarity function(s) chosen to suit the domain and/or application. Thus, the system... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070192336 - Sql adapter business service: A Structured Query Language (SQL) adapter business service that converts data from a data set to a common representation format used for all data sets with which the SQL adapter business service interacts. Hence the SQL adapter business service can communicate with various internal and external systems independently of the... Agent: Csa LLP

20070192337 - Sql adapter business service: A Structured Query Language (SQL) adapter business service that converts data from a data set to a common representation format used for all data sets with which the SQL adapter business service interacts. Hence the SQL adapter business service can communicate with various internal and external systems independently of the... Agent: Campbell Stephenson Ascolese, LLP

20070192341 - System and method for building decision tree classifiers using bitmap techniques: A method, system, and computer program product for counting predictor-target pairs for a decision tree model provides the capability to generate count tables that is quicker and more efficient than previous techniques. A method of counting predictor-target pairs for a decision tree model, the decision tree model based on data... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen, LLP

20070192340 - System and method for managing hierarchically related software components: Provided is a method for generating an on-demand, custom runtime solution to a user or business's computing needs. A library of software components corresponding to different computing tasks of a business situation is created. Each software component is associated with one or more meta descriptors. Aggregate descriptors are created that... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20070192344 - Threats and countermeasures schema: An threats and countermeasures schema that can incorporate expertise into an application engineering activity is provided. For example, a threats and countermeasures schema can be applied to a threat modeling component to converge knowledge into the activity by identifying categories, vulnerabilities, attacks and countermeasures based upon an application type, user... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070192347 - Retail deployment model: A method of determining and optimizing the location of a new insurance agency is disclosed to increase market penetration of underrepresented markets. The method comprises the use of a scoring algorithm to rank various geographic regions or related zip codes. The scoring algorithm may be implemented by a location modeling... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20070192346 - Apparatus for storing variable values to provide context for test results that are to be formatted: In response to an ordered sequence of events corresponding to execution of a plurality of tests on at least one device under test, a method: creates a plurality of data objects, some of which correspond to logical groupings of test results implied by ones of the events; relates ones of... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070192353 - Media content generation methods and systems: A playable volume generation method. A playlist comprises a plurality of playlist items, each targeting one of the playable items to be displayed according to the arrangement of the playlist items. A designated inter-item position on the playlist for inserting a new playlist item is received. A former playlist item... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070192356 - Open media exchange platforms: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for identifying a set of business entities eligible to participate in a transaction involving an online advertisement space; generating a graph of the set of business entities using pre-stored information defining relationships between the business entities in the set, each business entity... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20070192359 - Portable dataport device and method for retrieving, inter-relating, annotating and managing electronic documents at a point of need: A method and device for using a portable dataport for electronic document retrieving, annotating, inter-relating, and managing, comprising a view manager having an at least one-dimensional grid. The view manager and grid provide document inter-relation and management in a user friendly fashion. The view manager is electronically linked to an... Agent: Meyer Unkovic & Scott LLP

20070192350 - Co-clustering objects of heterogeneous types: A method and system for high-order co-clustering of objects of heterogeneous types using multiple bipartite graphs is provided. A clustering system represents relationships between objects of a first type and objects of a third type as a first bipartite graph and relationships between objects of a second type and objects... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20070192352 - Content metadata directory services: A method of associating a content object with metadata uses a combination of a content identifier and a bounding identifier to enable handling of disparate sets of content identifiers for content objects with potentially conflicting content identifiers. The method receives a content identifier for a content object from among a... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070192348 - Data adapter: A data adapter including method and apparatus is presented. In one embodiment, the data adapter is a method. The method includes finding a set of records of a relational database matching an object instance of an object type. The method further includes updating the set of records of the relational... Agent: Csa LLP

20070192349 - Data provisoning method and system: Data items or data defining access to data items for provision to one or more users and respective service level data usable to determine a level of service to be provided to the respective users is maintained. Data items or data defining access to data items is received from users... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070192355 - Definitions in master documents: The present invention relates to the generation of customised documents using document templates or master documents in a document generation system. In particular, the present invention relates to master documents requiring information specifying various definitions used in the document generation process.... Agent: Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070192357 - Graphic search initiation: A system for retrieving information. The system comprises a storage unit for storing an image that includes first and second selectable objects. The first selectable object is associated with a first metadata and the second selectable object is associated with a second metadata. The system also includes a visual output... Agent: Potomac Patent Group, PLLC

20070192354 - Methods and system for process sharing among independent systems/applications via data encapsulation in medical imaging: A method and system is provided for data/process sharing. A decapsulating unit is provided and resides on first system where a first application system resides. The decapsulating unit monitors, on the first system, when encapsulated data from a second application system residing on a second system, is present in the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070192351 - System and method for high performance template driven metadata schema mapping and data storage for surveillance and sensor devices: A metadata database adaptor for use with a surveillance and/or sensor system is capable of adapting metadata messages of varying formats according to needs of metadata databases. In other aspects, a metadata data model template can allow a user to define a data definition that is used to map user... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20070192358 - Workflow management system for generating output material based on customer input: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for automated creation and delivery for generating output material. A customer record is generated in a customer database to include fields specifying at least one product, customer preferences, and a selected output method to deliver generated output material on the product... Agent: Konrad Rynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm36e

20070192361 - Master data management system for centrally managing core reference data associated with an enterprise: A system is provided for centrally managing core enterprise reference data associated with an enterprise. A centralized master repository contains the core enterprise reference data. An internal services framework coupled to the centralized master repository provides a business process toolkit for managing models associated with the system. The business process... Agent: I2 Technologies Us, Inc.

20070192360 - Systems and methods for using metadata to enhance data identification operations: Systems and methods for managing electronic data are disclosed. Various data management operations can be performed based on a metabase formed from metadata. Such metadata can be identified from an index of data interactions generated by a journaling module, and obtained from their associated data objects stored in one or... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070192364 - Apparatus and method for porting of business logic among computer platforms: An apparatus and method port business logic between platforms in a non-platform specific manner to reduce the cost of porting and maintaining software across multiple platforms. In the preferred embodiments, a logic porting mechanism ports business logic of a first platform to business logic for a second platform using a... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20070192365 - Common inventory interface for order entry and payment systems: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to accessing an inventory management system and provide a method, system and computer program product for allocating inventory using a common inventory interface for ordering and payment systems. In one embodiment of the invention, an e-commerce data processing... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20070192362 - Data structure for a complex order processing system: A data structure for a complex order processing system is implemented in a set of tables for assets, quotes, and orders. The asset table includes information regarding products currently installed and services being delivered to a customer's premises. The aggregate asset tables for a customer represent the customer's service profile.... Agent: Csa LLP

20070192363 - Document-centric application environment: An aspect-oriented document that controls both the granularity of functionality and content integration. As such, embodiments of the innovation enable programmatic interoperability prompted via the content of a document. The document-centric environment can utilize an aspect-oriented document component that controls/dictates appropriate expert applications based at least in part upon content... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070192367 - Generic expression framework for computer implementable expressions: An expression framework for creating and executing computer implementable instructions using context elements is disclosed. The context elements are defined through the expression framework via expression tools. The expression framework is configured to generate a generic expression tree which utilizes the context elements to specify a translator for one or... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070192366 - Method and system for selectively processing test data using subscriptions in a multi-formatter architecture: In an embodiment, there is disclosed a system for selectively processing test data using subscriptions in a multi-formatter architecture. The system includes a set of designators specifying types of data; a set of formatters for writing data to files; and a monitor for polling the formatters for designators and for... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070192370 - Multimedia content production method for portable device: A multimedia content production method using a portable device. The multimedia content production method according to the present invention retrieves at least one picture file from a storage, produces at least one sound file corresponding to the retrieved picture file, creates a combination file by combining the picture file and... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070192368 - Programming content on a device: Discovering content on a device. Content stored on a device can be examined or searched based on the programming of channels that are available to the device. The content can be searched using other rules related to user preferences. Based on the results of the examination of the content, playlists... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070192369 - System & method of evaluating content based advertising: A system and method searches, identifies, tests and/or evaluates websites and content related ads for suitability. The results can be used to identify and promote services to prospective advertising affiliates as part of an advertising campaign.... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney

20070192371 - System and method for enabling wireless internet access in public areas: The computerized inventive system enables both the wireless internet service providers and conventional wired internet service providers to redirect users to partner websites through appropriate affiliate links and to enable the aforesaid service providers to participate in revenue sharing with internet content providers. Using the inventive methodology and the inventive... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070192379 - Method of analyzing information flow within an organization: A method of analyzing information flow within an organization includes defining a three-dimensional data visualization structure of the organization including interconnections between organizational elements of the organization. Data flow is processed based on a set of known rules relating to information flow via the interconnections and based upon a flow... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20070192377 - Systems and methods for saving and applying user-specified file naming conventions: In one aspect, the invention comprises software stored in a computer readable medium, comprising: (a) software for receiving a user-specified file naming convention; (b) software for electronically storing said file naming convention; (c) software for detecting whether a file has been selected for download; and (d) software for displaying a... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070192374 - Virtual repository management to provide functionality: Virtual repository management to provide functionality is disclosed. An indication is received that a content management functionality is desired to be performed with respect to one or more external content items stored in a repository that does not provide the content management functionality as a native functionality. The repository is... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Emc Corporation

20070192372 - Method and apparatus for projecting the effect of maintaining an auxiliary database structure for use in executing database queries: A database management system maintains a record of queries which can be executed against the database. For a given auxiliary database structure, an advisory function automatically reviews the query record and identifies those queries which might execute with greater efficiency using the auxiliary database structure, presenting analytical information to the... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070192375 - Method and computer system for updating data when reference load is balanced by mirroring: Provided is a method of updating a mirror in a storage system that has a plurality of servers in which a mirror is created as a replica of a file system and the access load is balanced among a plurality of servers each having the mirror. Upon reception of an... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070192380 - Method and system for intelligent storage management: A storage management system is provided. The storage management system may includes a data collector configured to receive storage management information for storage. The storage manager includes an agent configured to collect storage management information for a storage object and to communicate the storage management information to the data collector.... Agent: Andrew L. Reibman Kenyon & Kenyon

20070192376 - Method and system for storing large data files: An enhanced file format to store large quantities of variable-sized data records on a storage medium and to permit efficient access and control over data stored in the enhanced file format. A file format is the structure of a file that defines the way it is stored and laid out... Agent: Venable LLP

20070192378 - Method, systems and computer program products for monitoring files: A method for monitoring files including receiving a folder including at least one file path specifying a server machine and a directory. For one or more of the file paths in the folder, a query is transmitted to the server machine requesting current directory data corresponding to the directory. The... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20070192373 - Recovery of logless components: Recovery processing of logless components is disclosed. Logless components in middle-tier systems can be checkpointed to provide faster recovery. In particular, a client system, executing a persistent component and itself logging, initiates a snapshot method that returns to the client the values of all variables and other state of the... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070192381 - Recalling website customer information across multiple servers located at different sites not directly connected to each other without requiring customer registration: According to a first aspect of the invention SQL (structured query language) statements are sent from one server to another so that customer databases are synchronized. As SQL statements are generated, they are added to a table and flagged as new. At regular intervals, new formatted SQL statements together with... Agent: Thomas M. Galgano, Esq. Galgano & Associates, Plllc

20070192382 - Systems and methods for server management: Exemplary systems and methods for server management are provided. An exemplary system comprises a plurality of servers, with each server having the ability to access a database or, in some embodiments, be configured to perform a calculation, computation or make a determination of a particular value, values or other information.... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20070192384 - Computer implemented method for automatically managing stored checkpoint data: Computer-implemented methods and computer systems for automatically managing stored checkpoint data are described. The method includes accessing a first user defined time period. The first user defined time period is related to a plurality of stored checkpoint data, and each checkpoint data of the plurality of stored checkpoint data has... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20070192383 - Extension specified undo transactions: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing extension specified undo transactions. The disclosed systems and methods may include receiving a first plurality of operations from an extension. The first plurality of operations may include a first open undo transaction command and a first close undo transaction command. The first plurality... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20070192385 - Systems and methods for using metadata to enhance storage operations: Systems and methods for managing electronic data are disclosed. Various data management operations can be performed based on a metabase formed from metadata. Such metadata can be identified from an index of data interactions generated by a journaling module, and obtained from their associated data objects stored in one or... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070192386 - Automatically determining file replication mechanisms: A backup administrator can backup files from a production server on any of a plurality of different bases. In particular, some files can be replicated on a changed-byte basis. In other cases, files can be backed up by replicating updated copies of the entire file, or even byte blocks of... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070192387 - Information processing device, method and program for controlling information processing device: An information processing device to which an application program is delivered from an external information delivery device via a communication line, includes an application storage section that stores the application program in a condition operable by the information delivery device via the communication line, a process discrimination section that discriminates... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070192388 - Method of and apparatus for managing memory: A method of and apparatus for managing memory are provided. The method includes scheduling a garbage collection to be carried out on a predetermined heap in a memory after running of real-time threads is completed and carrying out the garbage collection according to the scheduling. Since the memory areas allocated... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070185829 - Method and system for accessing a file system: A method for accessing a file system and for subsequently presenting to a user a list of files in store, where files in the list are identified by names derived from the contents of the files. the method is suitable for use in a reprographic apparatus, for access to a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070185843 - Automated tool for human assisted mining and capturing of precise results: An automated tool for human assisted analysis of search results for obtaining precise results responsive to a request. A single query entry triggers a search using one or more resources and results returned from the resources are displayed in a corresponding embedded renderer. A human provider analyzes the returned results... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070185839 - Methods and systems to communicate information: There is provided a method and system to communicate information. The system receives a first query that contains at least one constraint and retrieves a first plurality of data items from a database based on the first query. Next the system generating a first distribution based on the first plurality... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070185841 - 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

20070185860 - System for searching: A system compares two sets of database entries to prepare a list of indexed database entries based on similarity. The system is capable of providing a hypertext linked output displayed according to similarity or other user preferences, and the hypertext links are capable of querying a search engine providing links... Agent: Christopher Paradies, Ph.d.

20070185885 - Image processing apparatus, document management server, document management system, and document management control method: An image processing apparatus communicates with a document management server and a client apparatus. The image processing apparatus receives document entity data and document property information required for determining accessibility to the document entity data stores the received document entity data in a storage unit. The image processing apparatus transmits... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20070185826 - Configurable search graphical user interface and engine: A configurable search engine is provided in which, in an embodiment, by running the search engine an administrator can configure the search options available to a user by selecting from a choice of options without writing code. The user may be able to further configure the search options. In an... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070185828 - Graphical portal in an information management system and process: A graphical portal in an information management system, said system comprising a host computer and software capable of allowing a user to publish a drawings representing items in an environment, such as a laboratory, on an intranet, and allowing a user to remotely access the drawing.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070185827 - Reporting of search results: A method of reporting to a user results of a search carried out in a computer network, the results of the search processed by a common access device and including the steps of assigning a first weight to the number of cross-references pointing to a network resource, assigning a second... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070185830 - Database analysis tool: A method to be performed in a database analysis tool includes displaying selected contents of a database table in a database analysis tool being executed in a computer system. A user's selection of a portion of the selected contents is received. The portion contains information that identifies an object associated... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20070185848 - Accessing data in a data processing system: A plurality of data items are distributed across a plurality of computers, some of which may form a peer-to-peer network. A first computer receives a request for a data item from a requesting computer. The request includes a True Name of the data item. The first computer causes the requesting... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20070185850 - Apparatus and method for displaying records responsive to a database query: An apparatus and method for simultaneously displaying both record names and the associated files responsive to a user's search over a database. A user conducts a routine search query over a database or group of databases of records containing, for example, text documents, or alphabetical concordances thereof. The search engine... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20070185840 - Audio-based internet search methods and sub-combinations: A portable device uses a microphone to listen to ambient audio, ascertains a corresponding identifier, and uses the identifier to enable one or more further functions. One of these can be internet search. Such functionality can also be based on digital data—without requiring a microphone-equipped device.... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070185844 - Customizing web search results based on users' offline activity: A method for improving web search results based on analysis of users' offline activities that are related to their online search. Web search results, including local search results, for a user may be improved by monitoring the actions of users when not interacting with the web search engine. By monitoring... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070185849 - Data structure traversal instructions for packet processing: Embodiments of the invention relate to data structure traversal instructions that perform efficient data structure traversal operations in packet processing applications. In one embodiment, a data structure traversal instruction for use in packet processing includes a control. In response to the control, the data structure traversal instruction accesses at least... Agent: Intel/blakely

20070185837 - Detection of lists in vector graphics documents: Various technologies and techniques detect lists in vector graphics based documents and use them in meaningful ways. The system detects at least one list in a vector graphics based document using a set of rules. Pattern detection logic identifies characters, symbols, numbers, letters, and/or images that may start a list.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070185838 - Efficient calculation of sets of distinct results: Systems and methods are provided for efficient calculation of sets of distinct results in an information retrieval service. A query is received having at least one requested attribute and one or more conditions. For each row identifier in a database table that matches the one or more conditions, a tuple... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20070185835 - Identifying and/or extracting data in connection with creating or updating a record in a database: The invention provides systems, methods, and computer programs to improve the accuracy and efficiency with which data analysts can use news stories, press releases, and other sources of information to maintain databases that contain information about individuals and businesses and other organizations. Documents containing material information are acquired in computer-readable... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070185831 - Information retrieval: An information retrieval system, and a method of operating an information retrieval system for retrieving information from a database in response to related queries submitted by a user, wherein information relating to possible interpretations of previous queries is stored and updated such that it may be used in order to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070185832 - Managing tasks for multiple file types: Tasks associated with different types of files are managed. The files may include text files, application files, application documents and other files. The files may be located in memory of a local computer or over a network. The tasks for the different files may be identified, stored in a task... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20070185834 - Method and apparatus for optimistic locking using sql select, update, delete, and insert statements: A method, computer program product and data processing system for optimistic locking is provided. An integer column is added to a database table. A Structured Query Language statement is constructed and prepared to form a prepared Structured Query Language statement, wherein a result set of the prepared Structured Query Language... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070185836 - Method for caching faceted search results: A method of caching faceted search results includes providing a rule set and receiving system criteria. The method further includes generating at least one faceted search result based on a first faceted search using a plurality of search terms, and maintaining at least a portion of the faceted search results... Agent: Ibm Corp. (clg) C/o Cardinal Law Group

20070185847 - Methods and apparatus for filtering search results: Methods and apparatus assessing, ranking, organizing, and presenting search results associated with a user's current work context are disclosed. The system disclosed assesses, ranks, organizes and presents search results against a user's current work context by comparing statistical and heuristic models of the search results to a statistical and heuristic... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070185846 - Methods and apparatus for organizing search results: Methods and apparatus assessing, ranking, organizing, and presenting search results associated with a user's current work context are disclosed. The system disclosed assesses, ranks, organizes and presents search results against a user's current work context by comparing statistical and heuristic models of the search results to a statistical and heuristic... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070185842 - Peripheral device, search result storage method and computer program product: A peripheral device that includes: a search condition transmitting unit that transmits a search condition by using a protocol, in which support for a method of designating to an external device the number of an information piece from which information pieces are returned when the plural information pieces exist as... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070185833 - Query generation method: A query generator for generating a query which retrieves a desired set of data from a relational database and performs one or more aggregation functions on the set of data is disclosed. The query generator is adapted to: a) receive user input indicating the desired set of data and the... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen, LLP

20070185845 - System and method for searching in structured documents: A document managing apparatus includes: a structured document storing unit that stores a partial-character-string; and a first search processing unit that acquires the partial-character-string according to an acquisition request, transmits an acquisition request for a portion of the partial-character-string, and transmits the acquired partial-character-string to a searching apparatus. A searching... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070185854 - Case-based reasoning system and method having fault isolation manual trigger cases: A case based reasoning system and method for determining a root cause of a problem case. A case database stores case data correlated to a plurality of cases. The plurality of cases includes at least one solved case, and at least one trigger case. Each solved case in the case... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070185851 - Generating queries using cardinality constraints: A query generation using cardinality constraints process including choosing a first set of parameters for a query, calculating an additional set of parameters based on the first set of parameters, executing the query using additional set of parameters, evaluating the cardinality error the additional set of parameters, and refining the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070185852 - Pathname translation in a data replication system: Performing data management operations on replicated data in a computer network. Log entries are generated for data management operations of an application executing on a source system. Consistency point entries are used to indicate a time of a known good, or recoverable, state of the application. A destination system is... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070185853 - Security model using security domains in a security model applied to abstract database: The present invention generally is directed to a method, system and article of manufacture for controlling the access to data granted to a requesting entity based upon data accessed by the entity in the past. Additionally, embodiments of the present invention allow for access control independent from the particular manner... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20070185855 - Method of analyzing link popularity and increasing click-through ratios: A method for tracking information about a visitor to a website, such as how the user arrived at the website, geographical location of the user, operating system, screen size, etc. The information is used to present optimized pages for the user based on similar user preferences. The preferences are gathered... Agent: Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC

20070185861 - Methods and apparatus for chaining search results: Methods and apparatus assessing, ranking, organizing, and presenting search results associated with a user's current work context are disclosed. The system disclosed assesses, ranks, organizes and presents search results against a user's current work context by comparing statistical and heuristic models of the search results to a statistical and heuristic... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070185863 - Methods and apparatus for characterizing a search result as potential spam: Methods and apparatus assessing, ranking, organizing, and presenting search results associated with a user's current work context are disclosed. The system disclosed assesses, ranks, organizes and presents search results against a user's current work context by comparing statistical and heuristic models of the search results to a statistical and heuristic... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070185862 - Methods and apparatus for determining if a search query should be issued: Methods and apparatus assessing, ranking, organizing, and presenting search results associated with a user's current work context are disclosed. The system disclosed assesses, ranks, organizes and presents search results against a user's current work context by comparing statistical and heuristic models of the search results to a statistical and heuristic... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070185864 - Methods and apparatus for displaying ranked search results: Methods and apparatus assessing, ranking, organizing, and presenting search results associated with a user's current work context are disclosed. The system disclosed assesses, ranks, organizes and presents search results against a user's current work context by comparing statistical and heuristic models of the search results to a statistical and heuristic... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070185865 - Methods and apparatus for generating a search results model at a search engine: Methods and apparatus assessing, ranking, organizing, and presenting search results associated with a user's current work context are disclosed. The system disclosed assesses, ranks, organizes and presents search results against a user's current work context by comparing statistical and heuristic models of the search results to a statistical and heuristic... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070185859 - Novel systems and methods for performing contextual information retrieval: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for encoding and retrieving information from a variety of sources using novel search techniques. The systems and methods of the invention are capable of extracting all types of structural and relational information from a query or a source data allowing for... Agent: Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC

20070185866 - System and method for arranging clusters in a display by theme: A system and method for arranging clusters in a display by theme. Themes are found within a plurality of clusters. There are one or more concepts per theme and one or more documents per cluster. Those clusters that meet a best fit criteria are assigned by theme into a set... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20070185857 - System and method for extracting salient keywords for videos: Computer implemented method, system and computer program product for extracting salient keywords for videos. A computer implemented method for extracting salient keywords for videos includes extracting a set of candidate keywords from a text source of a video, assigning a salience value to each candidate keyword based on statistical information... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20070185856 - System and method for managing attestations: A system, method and computer program product to manage attestations. The attestations may be required for documents that include, for example, balance sheet accounts including financial information related to one or more business units of an organization. The system includes a database and one or more user interfaces. The database... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20070185858 - Systems for and methods of finding relevant documents by analyzing tags: A method of determining relevancies of objects to a search query includes associating multiple tags with multiple objects, recording bookmarks to the multiple objects, or both, and determining a relevance score for each of the multiple objects and a search query. One embodiment of the method combines full-text relevance algorithms... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20070185869 - Database networks including advanced replication schemes: To update a database of records having person attributes using an input record containing person attributes and authorization information, a person attribute of an input record is compared to a person attribute for each record in the database, and records in the database are identified as matched records. A composite... Agent: Nath & Associates

20070185868 - Method and apparatus for semantic search of schema repositories: Mechanisms for searching XML repositories for semantically related schemas from a variety of structured metadata sources, including web services, XSD documents and relational tables, in databases and Internet applications. A search is formulated as a problem of computing a maximum matching in pairwise bipartite graphs formed from query and repository... Agent: Ip Authority, LLC Ramraj Soundararajan

20070185867 - Statistical modeling methods for determining customer distribution by churn probability within a customer population: A system and method for managing churn among the customers of a business is provided. The system and method provide for an analysis of the causes of customer churn and identifies customers who are most likely to churn in the future. Identifying likely churners allows appropriate steps to be taken... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070185870 - Data object visualization using graphs: A presentation engine presents facts in a UI having a graph. Through manipulation of the UI, an end-user can add or remove facts from the graph, and can sort the facts shown in the graph based on values that are shown, or not shown, in the graph. The presentation engine... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070185871 - Document similarity scoring and ranking method, device and computer program product: A device, computer program product and a method for searching, navigating or retrieving documents in a set of electronic documents, including performing a link analysis of the set of electronic documents. The link analysis includes one of analyzing at least two of the set of documents with at least a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070185872 - Adaptive region locking: A method and apparatus for managing locks in a database system is provided. A master node grants a lock on a first resource and a group of resources that includes the first resource to a first requester node. The requester node receives a mapping corresponding to the group of resources... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070185874 - Communication system management apparatus, methods, and interfaces: Communication system management apparatus, methods, and interfaces are disclosed. A group of objects that are associated with different types of communication system components in a representation of a communication system are configured in a group. A further representation of the objects of the group is provided, and includes an indication... Agent: Arnold B. Silverman Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

20070185875 - Extensible role based authorization for manageable resources: Methods and systems are provided for dynamically altering the access capabilities to the data resources for users of a computer based application. The access capabilities are defined by a dynamic role that specifies which of the resources a user may access, and a set of permissions associated with the dynamic... Agent: Mcgrath, Geissler, Olds & Richardson, PLLC

20070185873 - Processing disparate artifact attributes for a shared artifact in a collaborative environment: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to assigning attributes to shared artifacts in a collaborative environment and provide a method, system and computer program product for end-user based processing of different attributes for a common shared artifact in a collaborative environment. In one embodiment,... Agent: Steven M. Greenberg, Esquire Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20070185884 - Aggregating and presenting information on the web: Methods and apparatus are described for aggregating and presenting information in a network. A plurality of information sources relating to a category of subject matter are identified. Each information sources represents content from an associated site on the network. Each site has at least one parameter associated therewith representative of... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070185876 - Data handling system: Media objects such as film clips that have been stored for subsequent retrieval are represented in a display. In order to apply metadata tags to the objects, a user selects an individual media object from the display, and allocates a designated tag or set of such tags to the selected... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070185881 - Database-managed image processing: A method, apparatus, system, and article of manufacture provide the ability to track the processing of image data in a collaborative environment. A dependency graph that represents an image composition is obtained. Metadata for each element of the dependency graph are stored in a database that is accessible across a... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP

20070185882 - Method and system for selective tracking of semantic web data using distributed update events: Disclosed are a method of and system for selective tracking of semantic web data. The method comprises the steps of providing a set of semantic web statements, identifying one or more subsets of said set of semantic web statements, and storing said one or more subsets on a given computer... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070185883 - Multiple submits off a single web form: Provided is a system and method for employing a single instantiation of a web form for multiple data requests. A user displays a form that the user would like to submit for multiple data requests. The user executes a form extension utility. The form extension utility either modifies the form... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20070185877 - System and method for assembling timing data in a multi-layer server environment: A system and method for assembling timing data in a multi-layer server environment are disclosed. An HTML based request is generated. A time of generation of the HTML based request is then deposited in one or more hidden data fields associated with the HTML based request. The HTML based request... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070185880 - System and method to lease e-real estate: A system to lease e-private space to providers has a local e-real estate manager. The local e-real estate manager resides in a personal e-device of a user. The local e-real estate manager allows the user to configure an e-real estate of a user into a plurality of e-real estate elements... Agent: Weiss & Moy PC

20070185879 - Systems and methods for archiving and retrieving digital assets: Systems and methods provide a digital asset management system with archival and retrieval features. A database is synchronized with an online file system and maintains information related to files in the system. During an archiving operation, a user selects files to be archived, and a plurality of archiving parameters. The... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070185878 - Transcryption of digital content between content protection systems: Technology for protecting a digital content including a first content protection system capable of decrypting the digital content, the digital content including an inclusion list; a linkable library providing access for an application to the functionality of the first content protection system, the application including a second content protection system;... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070185888 - Recycle-free directory entry system and method: A recycle-free directory entry system and method thereof applicable in a file system are provided. The file system uses one or more directory entries to record a unique file/directory name. The recycle-free directory entry method consists of plural directory entries stored in a storage device with a plurality of sectors,... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070185886 - Development of progressive disclosure applications: A system and method for manipulating the fields of a business object using a model is disclosed. A configuration file has a first model to facilitate management of a first set of fields of a business object during runtime. The configuration file has a second model to facilitate management of... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070185887 - Systems and methods for attribute binding: Various systems and methods for performing attribute binding are disclosed herein. As one example, a method for binding entities is provided that includes identifying two entities that are each include attributes. An attribute of the first entity is bound to an attribute of the second entity, and a rule is... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070185890 - Automatic multimode system for organizing and retrieving content data files: A method for selecting a method for categorizing a collection of content data files from among a plurality of categorization methods, the method comprising the steps of identifying a collection of content data files, each content data file comprising image or audio data, determining a number of groups (G1) of... Agent: Mark G. Bocchetti Patent Legal Staff,

20070185891 - Generation of xml search profiles: A system for generating a nested field record related to a corresponding data record is described. The system comprises a structured database for storing a plurality of the corresponding data records and a nested field record generator to query the structured database and generate the nested field record according to... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070185892 - Method and apparatus for coding information: The invention provides a method and apparatus for coding information that is specifically adapted for smaller presentation formats, such as in a hand held video player. The invention addresses, inter alia, reducing the complexity of video decoding, implementation of an MP3 decoder using fixed point arithmetic, fast YcbCr to RGB... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070185889 - Process agents for process integration: The addition of process agents into an application system allows a much simpler integration between business objects by placing the integrating components into separate, independently updateable process agents. Process agents observe business objects with which they are associated and communicate with other process agents. Alternatively, process agents may be notified... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070185899 - Likelihood-based storage management: A storage device including: a local storage for storing items on the storage device; a display for displaying prioritized menus of item entries, wherein the item entries represent high-use items and low-use items; a memory in which is stored: program code for setting criteria related to parameters external to the... Agent: Dr. Mark Friedman Ltd. C/o Bill Polkinghorn

20070185896 - Binning predictors using per-predictor trees and mdl pruning: Binning of predictor values used for generating a data mining model provides useful reduction in memory footprint and computation during the computationally dominant decision tree build phase, but reduces the information loss of the model and reduces the introduction of false information artifacts. A method of binning data in a... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen, LLP

20070185901 - Creating taxonomies and training data for document categorization: Methods, apparatus and systems are provided to generate from a set of training documents a set of training data and a set of features for a taxonomy of categories. In this generated taxonomy the degree of feature overlap among categories is minimized in order to optimize use with a machine-based... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20070185895 - Data object visualization using maps: A fact repository stores objects. Each object includes a collection of facts, where a fact comprises an attribute and a value. A set of objects from the fact repository are designated for analysis. The presentation engine presents the facts of the objects in a user interface (UI) having a table.... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070185898 - Dynamic schema-based silicon ip analysis, qualification, data exchange, and integration: Systems, methods, and media for dynamic schema-based silicon IP analysis, qualification, data exchange, and integration are disclosed. Embodiments include determining a new resident schema associated with a function of a silicon IP design system that is different than a previous resident schema associated with a current view. Embodiments further include... Agent: Ibm Coporation (rtp) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20070185900 - Method and apparatus for database induction for creating frame based knowledge tree: An automated process (and system) for facilitating the creation of a frame based Knowledge tree for use with a configuration system is provided. In accordance with a preferred embodiment, a database induction module interacts with a user interface and a vendor provided database containing product information in the form of... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070185897 - Method and system for tracking and storing semantic web revision history: Disclosed are a method of and system for tracking and storing semantic web revision history. The method comprises the steps of providing a first semantic web statement, adding a unique identifier, such as a reification, of said statement, adding a revision statement including a revision number, and updating said first... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070185893 - Method of and a system for logging on a project which contains a footage: Logging on a project which contains a footage includes providing a web interface, placing the project on the web interface with a proposal to log on the project, submitting proposals by multiple operators to the interface expressing their willingness to log on the project or parts of it, obtaining by... Agent: Ilya Zborovsky

20070185894 - Selection and deselection of objects at multiple levels of a hierarchy: Provided are techniques for viewing objects. A hierarchical structure is displayed, wherein the hierarchical structure includes two or more levels, and wherein each of the levels includes one or more objects. A control is provided to enable selection of one or more objects at each of the levels of the... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20070185902 - Object-based data storage device: A data storage device includes storage media with multiple media zone attributes of storage performance. The storage device includes a data channel that is connectable to a host system. The data channel receives an object from the host system that has a requested storage attribute attached to the object. The... Agent: Seagate Technology LLC C/o Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20070185903 - System and method for retrieving information from a database: A method for retrieving information from a database includes identifying a cylinder. The cylinder includes a plurality of data segments. The method also includes retrieving the plurality of data segments from the cylinder during a single retrieval operation. In addition, the method includes storing the plurality of data segments in... Agent: Charles Maney Ncr Corporation, Law Dept.

20070185910 - Similar concept extraction system and similar concept extraction method utilizing graphic structure: Similar concepts are deduced in consideration of relationships among concepts belonging to a plurality of categories. Concepts belonging to a plurality of categories are shown in the form of a graph in which concepts are represented by nodes and relationships between pairs of concepts are represented by edges. The number... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070185908 - System and method for recording timesheet entry data of employees: A system for recording timesheet entry data of employees is provided. The system includes at least one client computer and an application server. Each client computer includes a timesheet entry data inserting module used for receiving timesheet entry data input by an employee, attaching the timesheet entry data to the... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20070185906 - Automatically determining a current value for a home: A facility for valuing a distinguished home located in a distinguished geographic area is described. The facility receives home attributes for the distinguished home. The facility obtains valuation for the distinguished home by applying to the received home attributes evaluation model for homes in the distinguished geographic area that has... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070185904 - Graphics image generation and data analysis: Provides graphics display apparatus, systems and methods for effectively presenting information obtained by data mining, and to improve the visibility of the display of individual data elements and attributes of data included in a particular category while allowing an overview of whole large-scale hierarchical data to be provided. An example... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20070185907 - Method and apparatus for displaying information on personal relationship, and computer product: An apparatus for displaying information on personal relationship include, an extracting unit that extracts pieces of metadata each including information on a person, from electronic data that includes identification information identifying each person; a linking unit that links the pieces of the metadata with each other based on co-occurrences of... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070185905 - Single session object-based navigation for progressive disclosure: A system and method for manipulating the fields of a business object using a floorplan is used. The object based navigation system may create a portal page connection between a object based navigation system and a pattern application. The object based navigation system may receive a request for a first... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070185909 - Tool for authoring media content for use in computer applications or the likes and method therefore: A method in a computer system for authoring media content for a computer application is provided. The authoring is accomplished by making use of a hierarchical structure including media objects, containers to group objects, and meta-containers to group containers and objects, where the media objects are working copies of provided... Agent: Venable LLP

20070185911 - User matriculation status determination via a computer network: Methods and systems for verifying a user as a member of an affinity group, including receiving user information identifying a user identity and at least one affinity group, and based on the user information, querying at least one networked data source to associate at least one status with the user... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20070185913 - Automatic problem-oriented transformation of database performance data: Methods and systems, including computer program products, for monitoring and analyzing a database performance problem stored in a separate performance database with cube-based analysis program tools. The methods and systems include means for detecting one or more performance problems, mapping performance problems to cubes, filling the cubes with performance data... Agent: Mollborn Patents Attn: Ibm

20070185918 - Method for consolidating data records: A method for operating a computer system (100) to consolidate data records received from at least one network element (NE1, NE2) in consolidation node (200), wherein incoming data records are distributed to different links (L1, L2, L3) in the consolidation node (200) by routing the data to be processed in... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070185912 - Off-loading i/o and computationally intensive operations to secondary systems: Various embodiments of a computer-implemented method, database environment and computer program product are provided which off-load the processing of a database operation. A first database is accessible to a first database server, and a second database is accessible to a second database server. Data is replicated from the first database... Agent: International Business Machines Corp.

20070185915 - Systems and methods for classifying and transferring information in a storage network: Systems and methods for data classification to facilitate and improve data management within an enterprise are described. The disclosed systems and methods evaluate and define data management operations based on data characteristics rather than data location, among other things. Also provided are methods for generating a data structure of metadata... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070185916 - Systems and methods for classifying and transferring information in a storage network: Systems and methods for data classification to facilitate and improve data management within an enterprise are described. The disclosed systems and methods evaluate and define data management operations based on data characteristics rather than data location, among other things. Also provided are methods for generating a data structure of metadata... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070185917 - Systems and methods for classifying and transferring information in a storage network: Systems and methods for data classification to facilitate and improve data management within an enterprise are described. The disclosed systems and methods evaluate and define data management operations based on data characteristics rather than data location, among other things. Also provided are methods for generating a data structure of metadata... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070185914 - Systems and methods for using metadata to enhance data management operations: Systems and methods for managing electronic data are disclosed. Various data management operations can be performed based on a metabase formed from metadata. Such metadata can be identified from an index of data interactions generated by a journaling module, and obtained from their associated data objects stored in one or... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070185920 - Method and system combining state replication and operational-replay synchronization: A system, method and computer program product for synchronizing replicas of shared data structures associated with one or more computer systems. The method comprises: evaluating a metric for performing a replica synchronization operation on a first computer system according to a first synchronization method; evaluating the metric for performing a... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070185921 - Systems and methods for cataloging metadata for a metabase: Systems and methods for managing electronic data are disclosed. Various data management operations can be performed based on a metabase formed from metadata. Such metadata can be identified from an index of data interactions generated by a journaling module, and obtained from their associated data objects stored in one or... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070185919 - Using directory historical data to facilitate automated file updates: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for using directory historical data to facilitate automated file updates. A pair of directories is updated, for example, synchronized, with one another. Directory historical data, such as, for example, previous contents of the directories, is utilized to determine what... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20070185923 - Database recovery method applying update journal and database log: A database recovery method including a computer and a storage system, in which: the storage system includes a disk drive for storing data; the disk drive includes a data volume, a snapshot volume, a database log for storing an update log, and an update journal for storing update information of... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070185922 - Point-in-time database restore: This disclosure concerns systems and methods for restoring data. In one example, a method for restoring a database to a particular state begins when a query is sent to a backup server requesting a list of all backup versions for the database. Next, the list of all backup versions is... Agent: Workman Nydegger (f/k/a Workman Nydegger & Seeley)

20070185924 - Storage control method for storage system having database: The present invention is constituted so as to enable the recovery of a database even when a log comprising a DB update history is not created. When executing a transaction in the logless mode, a logless-start log is created and written to a primary log VOL 55A at the start... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070185925 - Systems and methods for classifying and transferring information in a storage network: Systems and methods for data classification to facilitate and improve data management within an enterprise are described. The disclosed systems and methods evaluate and define data management operations based on data characteristics rather than data location, among other things. Also provided are methods for generating a data structure of metadata... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070185926 - Systems and methods for classifying and transferring information in a storage network: Systems and methods for data classification to facilitate and improve data management within an enterprise are described. The disclosed systems and methods evaluate and define data management operations based on data characteristics rather than data location, among other things. Also provided are methods for generating a data structure of metadata... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070185931 - Apparatus for policy based storage of file data and meta-data changes over time: A time domain server includes a version storage. The time domain server declares epochs for a source server, then requests events from the source server. As the time domain server receives events, it uses the events to update the version storage to store versions of files from the source server.... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20070185928 - Controlling consistency of data storage copies: A data storage system which copies data from source data storage volumes to target data storage volumes restricts a write operation to at least one source data storage volume (FREEZE), to prevent the updating of a source while the data of a consistency group of interdependent data is being copied.... Agent: John H. Holcombe IBM Corporation,IPLaw Dept.

20070185929 - Method and apparatus for processing monitoring: A method and device for monitoring processing in a multi-user computerized environment, such as a coding and compilation environment. An on-going process checks every predetermined time for new changes in the compiled code. When a change is found, the critical set of entities affected by the change is processed. If... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20070185927 - System, method and computer program product for shared user tailoring of websites: Users create, share, and build collaboration communities around tailored versions of the functional pages of a web site, such as the pages used to select and purchase products, or the pages used to present course materials in an online-learning site. The tailored versions of the web site are stored at... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070185930 - System, method and program product for adding, updating and removing rdf statements stored on a server: A method, apparatus, and program product for modifying Resource Description Framework (RDF) statements in a client-server system which include storing RDF statements in a server, assembling a service request at a client connected to the server for requesting modifications to an RDF statement stored in the server, sending the service... Agent: John E. Campbell IBM Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20070185937 - Destination systems and methods for performing data replication: Performing data management operations on replicated data in a computer network. Log entries are generated for data management operations of an application executing on a source system. Consistency point entries are used to indicate a time of a known good, or recoverable, state of the application. A destination system is... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070185936 - Managing deletions in backup sets: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein image data corresponding to data stored in a storage unit is stored in a backup set. Metadata that indicates deletions made to files and directories in the storage unit is stored in the backup set, subsequent to the storing of... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070185933 - Predictive data object retrieval: A solution for managing data in which historical execution information for a process is used to determine a set of data requirements for the process. The set of data requirements is then used to move data for the process from a slower storage device (e.g., a magnetic tape) to a... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20070185934 - Restoring a file to its proper storage tier in an information lifecycle management environment: A technique for implementing policy-aware backup and restore capability in a tiered storage system. If a data set's contents are backed up from the tiered storage system to a backup storage system, metadata for the data set may also be backed up. Prior to the data set being restored from... Agent: Walter W. Duft

20070185932 - Scalable file replication and web-based access: Various embodiments introduce the notion of a replication entity which implements a highly scalable file replication system. In one embodiment, the replication entity resides in the form of a scalable replication service. In at least some embodiments, the replication service provides a “drive in the sky” facility that can be... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20070185940 - System and method for performing an image level snapshot and for restoring partial volume data: The present invention relates to a method for performing an image level copy of an information store. The present invention comprises performing a snapshot of an information store that indexes the contents of the information store, retrieving data associated with the contents of the information store from a file allocation... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20070185939 - Systems and methods for monitoring application data in a data replication system: Performing data management operations on replicated data in a computer network. Log entries are generated for data management operations of an application executing on a source system. Consistency point entries are used to indicate a time of a known good, or recoverable, state of the application. A destination system is... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070185938 - Systems and methods for performing data replication: Performing data management operations on replicated data in a computer network. Log entries are generated for data management operations of an application executing on a source system. Consistency point entries are used to indicate a time of a known good, or recoverable, state of the application. A destination system is... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070185935 - Systems, methods, and media for processing a spreadsheet for storage in a database: Generally speaking, systems, methods and media for processing a spreadsheet for storage in a database are disclosed. Embodiments may include a method for processing records of a spreadsheet by receiving a request to process a spreadsheet having a plurality of records for storage in a database. Embodiments may also include... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20070185942 - Allocating files in a file system integrated with a raid disk sub-system: Integrating a file system with a RAID array that exports precise information about the arrangement of data blocks in the RAID subsystem. The present invention uses separate current-write location (CWL) pointers for each disk in the disk array where the pointers simply advance through the disks as writes occur. The... Agent: Network Appliance/blakely

20070185941 - Information recording medium, multiplexer, and decoder: A multiplexer (10a) generates data by assigning different packet identifiers to (i) one of coded video data and coded audio data, and (ii) table data regarding the coded data, and packet-multiplexing the coded data and the table data. The multiplexer (10a) includes: a sub-descriptor generating unit (14) which generates sub-descriptors,... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20070185943 - Concurrent collection of cyclic garbage in reference counting systems: The present invention provides techniques that allow concurrent collection of cyclic garbage on reference counting systems. In general, candidate objects are found that may be part of cyclic garbage. Each candidate object has a reference count. Two tests are performed to determine if concurrent operations have affected the reference counts... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070179928 - Schema annotations for cache management: The challenge of communicating document caching policies from document servers to client processes in the most generally applicable manner is solved by enabling the application of caching policies to classes of documents, rather than single instances of documents. Caching policies are applied to a given class of documents by specifying... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070179929 - System and method for producing data replica: In a method of producing a data replica, data processing requests are issued from application programs running in application servers. Data processing corresponding to each of the data processing requests is executed in each of database servers, and a result of the data processing is replied as a response to... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070179951 - Content acquisition and management system and method: A content acquisition and management system (CAMS) and method to enable acquisition of printed content for subsequent management. In one embodiment, the invention includes a portable device that is capable of communicating with one or more server(s) and digital content databases. The server(s) has the ability to recognize partial information... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070179952 - Displaying facts on a linear graph: A set of objects having facts is established. Facts of objects having positions in a order are identified. Some facts explicitly describe the positions in the linear order, while are facts do not explicitly describe the positions. The facts are presented in the order on a linear graph, such as... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070179926 - Data backup and restoration methods: A data backup method is implemented in a mobile phone. Backup occasion options respectively corresponding to different situations of the mobile phone are displayed. An option corresponding to a situation is selected from backup occasion options. When satisfying the situation corresponding to the selected option, the mobile phone automatically generates... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070179927 - Method and apparatus for reducing execution time for parallel support vector machine computations: A system that reduces execution time of a parallel SVM application. During operation, the system partitions an input data set into chunks of data. Next, the system distributes the partitioned chunks of data across a plurality of available computing nodes and executes the parallel SVM application on the chunks of... Agent: Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20070179931 - Method and program product for automating the submission of multiple server tasks for updating a database: A method for updating data in a database is provided. The method comprises initiating a plurality of tasks adapted to update data in the database, wherein the plurality of tasks run substantially contemporaneously. The method further comprises automating a collection of statistics associated with and subsequent to completing a first... Agent: Silvy Anna Murphy

20070179930 - Method for ranking and sorting electronic documents in a search result list based on relevance: A method of evaluating the relevance rank of a target document in a search result list, includes the steps of assigning a basic credit to all keywords that are found in the target document; grouping keywords that are found in the target document; assigning extra value of credit to each... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.

20070179935 - Apparatus and method for efficient data pre-filtering in a data stream: An apparatus and method for enabling rapid transfer of safe data in a data communication network. The apparatus includes a plurality of query modules, a search window, a shift detector, and a database of unsafe data. A predetermined portion of the unsafe data's signature is populated into the query modules,... Agent: Carlton Fields, Pa

20070179937 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for extracting structured document: An apparatus for retrieving a structured document including a first specifying unit that specifies a plurality of object documents from a plurality of structured documents being accessible via a network, the object document being the structured document according to retrieval condition; a first extracting unit that extracts text included in... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070179938 - Information search apparatus, information search method, information search program, and graphical user interface: Disclosed herein is an information search apparatus includes: search means configured to search for an associated object associated with a specified search source object; associated object display means configured to display a searched associated object onto a display screen; display count setting object display means configured to display a display... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070179934 - Method and apparatus for performing bulk file system attribute retrieval: Accordingly a method and interface allows an attribute data base used by an Information Manager to be quickly populated and accurately maintained. A single Bulk Attribute Retrieval Request triggers the primary storage device to collect object attribute information. The method allows for selective collection of objects and attributes by providing... Agent: Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20070179933 - Method and system for providing information on article of commerce: Disclosed is a method for generating a list of search results of goods in response to a search request for goods of a searcher and providing the searcher with goods information, the method comprising the steps of: maintaining a goods information database for storing a search listing including seller identification... Agent: Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin LLP

20070179936 - Method and system for utilizing shared numeric locks: A method and system for performing at least one transaction on at least one column of a table in a database system is disclosed. The method and system include determining whether a first transaction of the at least one transaction fulfills all of the criteria and ensuring that the at... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20070179932 - Method for finding data, research engine and microprocessor therefor: The invention concerns a method for finding data in documents stored in an electronic memory comprising the following steps: selecting at least one document among the stored documents, based on a request including at least one predetermined character string; extracting a result for display in the form of a summary... Agent: Alain Hicolas Piaton

20070179939 - System and method for automatic data mapping: A system and method for automatic data mapping of a source object to a target object. Field maps can be automatically determined from the source and target objects, database platform, ETL maps, user-defined and data conversion rules, default values, or other pre-defined parameters. Where a change occurs in the source... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070179940 - System and method for formulating data search queries: A system and method for formulating data search queries is presented. A user interface operable to specify an unstructured search criteria for a search query on one or more documents is provided. An input portal is exported to receive a data excerpt selected to be searched against the documents. A... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20070179941 - System and method for performing an inexact query transformation in a heterogeneous environment: An inexact query transformation system selects a query element from a query statement. If an inexact transformation improves the query performance, the system prioritizes the candidate transformation rules applicable to the selected query element. The system applies the candidate transformation rules to the selected query element to generate a transformed... Agent: Samuel A. Kassatly Law Office

20070179945 - Determining relevance of electronic content: In an electronic mail system, a user's actions with an application for managing electronic content are monitored. Based on the user's actions and/or on the actions of other users in the system, a relevance analysis module determines a relevance to the user of a piece of electronic content based on... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20070179947 - Efficient interaction among cost-based transformations: During query optimization, when a particular type of transformation is considered, the effect of performing one or more subsequent kinds of transformations is also considered in conjunction with the first. When applying a transformation, which forecloses applying another, both are considered independently.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20070179942 - Enhanced buyer-oriented search results: A system and architecture for enhancing search results generated by an Internet search engine, so that those search results include enhanced buyer-oriented information, is disclosed. According to one aspect, a list of search results generated by an Internet search engine comprises one or more search results that are associated with... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20070179944 - Hierarchical ant clustering and foraging: A clustering method yields a searchable hierarchy to speed retrieval, and can function dynamically with a changing document population. Nodes of the hierarchy climb up and down the emerging hierarchy based on locally sensed information. Like previous ant clustering algorithms, the inventive process is dynamic, decentralized, and anytime. Unlike them,... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20070179946 - Method for creating a topical reading list: A method for creating an ordered reading list of predetermined length of relevant topics from a hyperlinked database source of information website for a user. The method includes determining at least one topic of interest based on a plurality of methods and choosing a topic ordering algorithm from a plurality... Agent: Brown, Rudnick, Berlack & Israels, LLP.

20070179943 - Method for node classification and scoring by combining parallel iterative scoring calculation: A plurality of documents is scored, where at least some of the documents are characterized by at least one link from at least one other of the documents. For each of at least particular ones of the plurality of documents, a score is assigned to that particular document, with respect... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070179949 - Learning retrieval functions incorporating query differentiation for information retrieval: The system and method of the present invention allows for the determination of the relevance of a content item to a query through the use of a machine learned relevance function that incorporate query differentiation. A method for selecting a relevance function to determine a relevance of a query-content item... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20070179948 - Method and apparatus for disseminating new content notifications in peer-to-peer networks: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for advertising new content available for sharing in a network by a first node includes detecting the new content at the first node and sending a new content message to at least one neighbor node of the first node, where the new... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan LLP IBM Corporation

20070179950 - System and method for adapting an internet filter: A system and method for updating a filtering system which controls access to a website/page between a local area network (LAN) and an Internet. The LAN includes an Internet gateway system coupled to a workstation and configured to receive a URL request. The system controls access to the website/page associated... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070179954 - Access control system and methods: An access control system comprises: an access controller 200 for, in accordance with the access request, employing an access control rule defining an access right for the object to determine whether or not access to the object should be permitted; and an object storage unit 500 for storing a set... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (yor)

20070179953 - Methods and systems for presence management in a collaboration system: Methods (1100) and systems (102) for presence management in a collaborative environment (102) are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, rules are established to determine under what circumstances an entity is fully, partially or not accessible. In this embodiment, access to that entity is controlled based on the established... Agent: Jlb Consulting, Inc. C/o Intellevate

20070179955 - Methods and systems for providing authorized remote access to a computing environment provided by a virtual machine: A method for providing authorized remote access to a computing environment provided by a virtual machine, includes the step of requesting, by a client machine, access to a resource. A collection agent gathers information about the client machine. A policy engine receives the gathered information. The policy engine makes an... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20070179958 - Methods and apparatuses for searching and categorizing messages within a network system: In one embodiment, the methods and apparatuses detect a query; detect a plurality of available participants; search a plurality of electronic mail messages associated with the plurality of available participants based on the query; and identify a qualified participant from the plurality of available participants based on searching the plurality... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070179956 - Record protection system for networked databases: A record protection system for a networked database is provided. The system includes a client, a host processor accessible by the client via a telecommunications network, a database accessible by the host processor and containing at least one data record, software executing on the host processor for receiving data from... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20070179957 - System and method for disseminating drug information: Systems and methods are disclosed for disseminating updates of product information documents on a server to a plurality of clients. One exemplary method comprises: receiving updates to a plurality of prescription drug package insert (PDPI) documents; storing the updated versions of the PDPI documents; building an update package specific to... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070179959 - Automatic discovery of data relationships: A system that can facilitate automatic determination of relationships/patterns corresponding to data and appropriate mappings therewith is provided. One key concept is to employ idle time resources available when a computer is not being utilized to discover these relationships. In another aspect, the system can trigger relationship discovery in accordance... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070179960 - Enhanced human computer user interface system for searching and browsing documents: A system and method for presenting document records to a user through a display interface, comprising means for processing data of the first type through a first applet and data of the second type through a second applet and separately extracting data of the two different types using the separate... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070179961 - Hierarchical storage: A system and method is provided for implementing hierarchical storage of information. The system comprises a hierarchical repository having at least two levels. The first level comprises a folder and a markup language based file within the folder for storing information. Also stored within the folder is a second level... Agent: Tucker, Ellis & West LLP

20070179963 - Computer system incorporating duplicated database servers: A computer system is composed of a plurality of application servers each installed with an application program configured to issue data processing requests; and a plurality of database servers. Each of the database servers is composed of a storage, and installed with a database server middleware receiving the data processing... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070179962 - Schema mapping specification framework: A method and system for specifying, in a schema mapping framework, a mapping between a source schema and a target schema. The source and target schemas are schemas included in respective groups of registered, heterogeneous schemas. The source and target schemas may be of different types. Serialized versions of the... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20070179968 - Information registry: Systems and methods allow independent users to both search and classify third party information, in inconsistent ways, using lists of predefined topics. Users can preferably add their own topics, with the system providing information as to frequency of use of various topics to encourage conformity. Users are encouraged to classify... Agent: Rutan & Tucker, LLP. Hani Z. Sayed

20070179969 - Method of managing knowledge within an organization: A method of managing knowledge within an organization includes defining a three-dimensional data visualization structure of the organization, including interconnections between organizational elements of the organization in three dimensions. The three-dimensional data visualization structure of the organization includes first data relating to knowledge that is associated with a first organizational... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20070179967 - intuitive and dynamic file retrieval method and user interface system: A system and method for managing and retrieving computer files comprising a user interface system that dynamically coordinates and displays files by intuitive cues supplied by a user. The user interface system further comprises a database for storing file attributes namely, subject, keywords, information related to time, location in file... Agent: Xiaoge Gregory Zhang

20070179965 - Designating data objects for analysis: A fact repository stores objects. Each object includes a collection of facts, where a fact comprises an attribute and a value. An object access module receives objects from the fact repository. The objects can result from multiple different queries executed against the fact repository. A user interface (UI) generation module... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20070179964 - Protocol for communication of data structures: A system and method are provided for communicating information in a data structure between applications. According to the method, a description of a data structure is sent from a first application to a second application, and there is received from the second application an identification of at least one portion... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco Pl

20070179966 - System and method for building decision trees in a database: Decision trees are efficiently represented in a relational database. A computer-implemented method of representing a decision tree model in relational form comprises providing a directed acyclic graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of links, each link connecting a plurality of nodes, encoding a tree structure by including... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen, LLP

20070179972 - Method and apparatus for creating and categorizing exemplar structures to access information regarding a collection of objects: A method for managing a collection of objects, comprises selecting a property which is common to all of the objects; creating a plurality of exemplar structures, at least one exemplar structure for each object; prototypically categorizing the exemplar structures; and using the exemplar structures to access information regarding said collection.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070179970 - Methods and apparatus for storing and formatting data: In one embodiment, and in response to a plurality of events, 1) a plurality of data objects are created in memory, 2) data corresponding to ones of the events is related to ones of the data objects, and 3) the data is stored in the memory. At least some of... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20070179971 - System and method for context-rich database optimized for processing of concepts: A computer-implemented method and system of disciplining data input to a multi-contextual and multi-dimensional database is described. A template identifying subject matter specific settings is provided, where the settings comprise a default ontology or taxonomy, a reserved word or phrase list, and restricted value ranges, and where the template includes... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070179979 - Method and system for online remixing of digital multimedia: Systems and methods have been developed for manipulating media assets in a networked computing environment where processing power, bandwidth and/or storage capacity may be limited. More specifically, systems and methods have been developed whereby low-resolution media assets may be created that are optimized for transfer over low bandwidth networks and... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20070179976 - Graphic interactive method to reorder sequential data values on graphic objects: A reordering tool for sequentially reordering data values assigned to graphical objects in a CAD model is described. The reordering tool can be a software application or a tool included in a software application. The reordering tool can have one or more graphical user interfaces configured to receive input from... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20070179977 - Multimedia search system: A database search system that retrieves multimedia information in a flexible, user friendly system. The search system uses a multimedia database consisting of text, picture, audio and animated data. That database is searched through multiple graphical and textual entry paths. Those entry paths include an idea search, a title finder... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070179975 - Report generation using metadata: A system for use in rendering a report for a client application, client server application or multi-tier applications. The system includes a report definition generator that is configured to generate a report definition using metadata located in a metadata store. A database in the application configured to receive a query... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20070179973 - Status tool to expose metadata read and write queues: A method to expose status information is provided. The status information is associated with metadata extracted from multimedia files and stored in a metadata database. The metadata information that is extracted from the multimedia files is stored in a read queue to allow a background thread to process the metadata... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20070179974 - System and method for integrating policy management into converged prepaid/postpaid telecommunications services: A system and method of providing prepaid/postpaid telecommunications services in a telecommunications network using a Rules Editor for provisioning rules for use by a Rules Engine operating as a software process separate from a telecommunications service Application is provided. The Rules can be provisioned in a variety of different manners... Agent: Richard J. Minnich, Esq. Fay, Sharpe, Fagan, Minnich & Mckee, LLP

20070179978 - Systems and methods for anti-counterfeit authentication: Systems and methods for preventing counterfeit are described. Consumers are able to authenticate the products they wish to buy and also authenticate the sellers selling the products. Manufacturers or brand owners of the products are able to track and control the distribution of the products to prevent counterfeit and undesired... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP

20070179987 - Analyzing activity data of an information management system: In an information management system, activity data is collected and analyzed for patterns. The information management system may be policy based. Activity data may be organized as entries including information on user, application, machine, action, object or document, time, and location. When checking for patterns in the activity or historical... Agent: Aka Chan LLP

20070179981 - Efficient data management in a cluster file system: Methods and systems manage datasets in a cluster file system. A request is received from a client to perform a file system operation on a specified dataset stored in one of a plurality of nodes in a cluster. The specified dataset is retrieved from a first node through a backbone... Agent: Law Office Of Dan Shifrin, PC - Ibm

20070179988 - Efficient transformation of information between a source schema and a target schema: A method is described for relaying information from a first body of information defined by a source schema to a second body of information defined by a target schema. The method involves mapping content associated with one or more source schema fields from the first body of information to a... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20070179984 - Information element processing method and apparatus: This invention is to generate an information element map where the associations between information elements of different types can be easily understood. For this purpose, the method includes: extracting a plurality of information elements from an information group; calculating a degree of each association between the extracted information elements; identifying... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070179983 - Method and program product for migrating data from a legacy system: A method for migrating data from a legacy system is provided. The method comprises providing a legacy database having metadata describing one or more legacy data fields in the legacy database and creating a legacy value table in the legacy database that corresponds to a recipient value table in the... Agent: Silvy Anna Murphy

20070179985 - Method for detecting state changes between data stored in a first computing device and data retrieved from a second computing device: A method for detecting state changes between data stored in a first computing device and data retrieved from a second computing device includes: generating a first hash value of the data stored in the first computing device; generating a second hash value of corresponding data retrieved from the second computing... Agent: Perry + Currier (for Rim)

20070179980 - Methods and apparatus to manage shadow copy providers: A data storage management system includes a virtual provider for interacting with a coordinator to receive shadow copy requests from a requestor and for interfacing with a plurality of providers that support various logical units on which data volumes can be stored. The virtual provider appears to the coordinator as... Agent: Emc Corporation C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20070179986 - System and method for event log review: An event log management system includes an event log source to generate event log data associated with an asset of an electronic network, an event log database to store the event log data, an asset database to store asset information, and a log report generator to package the event log... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20070179982 - Temporal summarization of a data subset: A relational database system and method to perform a method of temporal summarization of a data set comprising data that are initially unevenly distributed with respect to a period of time in the set and have attributed data categories and dates, wherein the method comprises creating N different buckets in... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20070179989 - Data synchronization via three or more paths: A server is used to send data records to clients. A client #1 may synchronize with the server using a first path and a first protocol. The client #2 may synchronize with the server using a second path and a second protocol. In addition to synchronizing with the server, client... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070179992 - Maintaining coherency in a symbiotic computing system and method of operation thereof: A symbiotic computing system includes a plurality of symbiotic partners that are communicatively coupled with one another and each of which has a respective instance of a managed resource. One (or more) of the symbiotic partners receive input that affects a respective instance of the managed resource. Based upon the... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP

20070179990 - Primary stub file retention and secondary retention coordination in a hierarchical storage system: A protected file is retained in secondary storage for a retention period, and a corresponding stub file is retained in primary storage for the retention period. The stub file retains attributes of the file indicating a location of the file data in the secondary storage and indicting that the stub... Agent: Richard Auchterlonie Novak Druce & Quigg, LLP

20070179991 - System and method for emulating a virtual boundary of a file system for data management at a fileset granularity: A file system boundary emulation system emulates a virtual boundary of a filesystem within an existing file system for data management at a fileset granularity, within the framework of a wide area filesystem federation. The system dynamically assigns a fileset ID to the file that belongs to that fileset. The... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20070179995 - Metabase for facilitating data classification: Systems and methods for managing electronic data are disclosed. Various data management operations can be performed based on a metabase formed from metadata. Such metadata can be identified from an index of data interactions generated by a journaling module, and obtained from their associated data objects stored in one or... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070179993 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for detecting and restoring missing or corrupted data in a distributed, scalable, redundant measurement platform database: Methods, systems, and computer program products for detecting and restoring missing or corrupted data in a distributed, scalable, redundant measurement platform database are disclosed. According to one method, a local database including local database entries is audited to identify suspect local database entries having at least one of missing and... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20070179994 - Storage system: When an event occurs in a storage system that is not recognized by a host, it is not possible to recover data at the point before and after this event. Provided is a storage system including a first storage area storing data to be used by a computer, and a... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070179996 - Structured data storage device and structured data storage method: Structured data is stored into a structured data file, which is a text file. Index information is generated to speed up searching or updating of the structured data and stored into an index file, which is a binary file. When a general-purpose structured data processor on an external device side... Agent: Nath & Associates, PLLC

20070180001 - Method and data processing system for managing a mass storage system: A method for managing a mass storage system wherein the mass storage system comprises a first storage space and a second storage space. A file index is generated which lists in a uniformly distributed way each file along with a first characteristic quantity, a second characteristic quantity, and a status... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20070179999 - Backup system, file server and backup method: When any file sharing server among a plurality of file sharing servers configuring a virtual file system receives a backup requests from a backup server, the file sharing server that received the backup request searches a file sharing server managing the files to be backed up among the plurality of... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20070179997 - Computer backup using native operating system formatted file versions: An improved backup storage system and method for use, yielding the effect of employing baseline or full backups at the speed of incremental backups once an initial full backup has been done, with a filtering system to minimize repetitive and unnecessary backed up data, as well as a menu system... Agent: Malcolm H. Nooning Iii

20070179998 - Methods and apparatus for modifying a backup data stream including a set of validation bytes for each data block to be provided to a fixed position delta reduction backup application: Methods and apparatus for modifying a data stream of backup data to be provided to a fixed position delta reduction backup method are disclosed. When the data stream is received, at least a portion of the data stream is parsed into a plurality of data blocks and a plurality of... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070180000 - Storage apparatus and storage system: In a storage apparatus recording the writing operation of data as journal information, it was necessary to fully overwrite the data to be newly written over the previously written data in order to reduce the journal information. Further, when journal information is reduced, it was not possible to perform accurate... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070180002 - Method and apparatus for reducing object pre-tenuring overhead in a generational garbage collector: In some circumstances a generational garbage collector may be made more efficient by “pre-tenuring” objects or directly allocating new objects in an old generation instead of allocating them in the normal fashion in a young generation. A pre-tenuring decision is made by a two step process. In the first step,... Agent: Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC