Data processing: database and file management or data structures inventions 02/08

20080052264 - Content transfer system, information processing apparatus, transfer method, and program: A content transfer system composed of a content reproduction terminal and an information processing apparatus is disclosed. A storage section stores information representing a file format and a bit rate of content reproducible by the reproduction terminal. A transmission section transmits the information stored in the storage section to the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080052261 - Method for block level file joining and splitting for efficient multimedia data processing: Processing data of a first file of a processing system may be accomplished by splitting the first file into the first file and another file at the location of a split offset without copying the files; repeating the splitting of the first file a number of times using a specified... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080052262 - Method for personalized named entity recognition: Personalized named entity recognition may be accomplished by parsing input text to determine a subset of the input text, generating a plurality of queries based at least in part on the subset of the input text, submitting the queries to a plurality of reference resources, processing responses to the queries... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080052263 - System and method for identifying web communities from seed sets of web pages: An improved system and method is provided for identifying web communities from seed sets of web pages. A seed set of web pages may be represented as a set of seed vertices of a graph representing a collection of web pages. An initial probability distribution may be constructed on vertices... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20080052266 - Optimizing parameterized queries in a relational database management system: Parameterized queries are optimized by a transformational optimizer. The optimizer produces a dynamic plan that embeds multiple plan options that may be selected to execute a particular query. Parameter distribution improves query execution efficiency and performance by exploring a sample parameter space representative of the parameter values actually used. The... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080052267 - Replay device: This replay device includes a replay means which reads in and replays a designated file from a medium upon which a folder is recorded. Moreover, this replay device includes a selection means which receives selection, from contents recorded upon said medium, of said folder which is to be replayed. And... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080052273 - Apparatus and method for term context modeling for information retrieval: A novel method for going beyond the observed properties of a keyword, to a model in which the presence of a term in a document is assessed not by looking at the actual occurrence of that term, but by a set of non-independent supporting terms, defining the context. In other... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080052279 - Device and network capable of providing personalized services: A method and system for interfacing to an electronic device is disclosed. At least one server may gather Information from the electronic device, which may be, for example, a mobile terminal. Information may also be gathered regarding the user of the mobile terminal. At least one user profile may be... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080052270 - Hash table structure and search method: A device and search method are described herein which minimizes the cost associated with searching and accessing a memory to obtain a particular piece of stored data. In one embodiment, the device performs the following steps: (1) input search information into a hash function; (2) run the hash function which... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080052271 - Method to converge a plurality of sql statements into sql skeletons for enhanced database performance analysis and tuning: This present invention is a method for converging a plurality of SQL statements into SQL skeletons to enhance database performance analysis and tuning for identifying the most influential SQL skeletons for databases on an RDBMS platform dependent on different standards. In this present invention, the SQL Normalization technique is combined... Agent: Lin & Associates Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080052280 - Method, system and apparatus for dynamic registry of books and for modeling real-time market demand for books within academic sectors: A system provides a connection between education administration, particularly as such administration assigns or selects books, and the marketing and use of those books. Such marketing and use of those books and information related to those books can include, without limitation, consumer product information, the publishing industry and specifically book... Agent: Dobrusin & Thennisch PC

20080052272 - Method, system and computer program product for profile-based document checking: A method for content checking a document, the method including: if the document is a word processing document then: determining if a profile category has been associated with the word processing document; if a profile category has not been associated with the word processing document, applying a default profile rule... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Austin

20080052274 - Related actions server: Methods and apparatuses enable providing an action related to a business object in response to receiving a request to access the business object. In one embodiment, a related action is identified based on a context of a work environment from which the request is generated. The context may include a... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080052275 - Structured match in a directory sponsored search system: A method for processing structured search queries received at an internet search includes receiving at the internet search site a structured search query containing a user's search intent and other pertinent information about the user and the site. The structured search query is constructed as a conforming structured search string.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080052276 - System and method for location-based searches and advertising: A system and method provides location-aware search results from a navigation or other device and provides one or more enhanced listings or advertisements with the results to offset the communication cost of the search. The sponsor may be charged for the listing or advertisement and the charge may be based... Agent: Innovation Partners

20080052278 - System and method for modeling value of an on-line advertisement campaign: A system and method, in the context of a search engine marketing campaign, for determining a value to be placed upon at least one mode through which an Internet user is referred to or otherwise enters a website of interest is described. Several embodiments include systems and methods for valuing... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080052281 - Database insertion and retrieval system and method: A database processing system and method for inserting into a database and retrieving from database documents formatted in accordance with a markup language.... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080052288 - Mutual commit people matching process: A method and system for an automatic people matching with a mutual commit process is disclosed. The process includes a recommender system that generates people recommendations based, at least in part, on inferences of preferences derived from system usage behaviors. The process also includes variations of a mutual commitment process... Agent: Manyworlds, Inc.

20080052290 - Session file modification with locking of one or more of session file components: An apparatus comprising a session file and session file editor with main window and one or more document windows and annotation window and lock/unlock features. The session file may include text, audio, image, and other data elements with source data divided into segments or other bounded divisions and other data... Agent: Loeb & Loeb, LLP

20080052291 - Database entitlement: A method, system and computer-readable medium for controlling access to a relational database is presented. The method includes: defining and creating a plurality of entitlement tables, wherein the entitlement tables are usable by multiple relational databases; receiving a request, from a user, for access to requested data in a relational... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080052293 - File system with distributed components: A distributed file system is disclosed which may include one or more input/output (I/O) nodes and one or more compute nodes. The I/O nodes and the compute nodes may be communicably coupled through an interconnect. Each compute node may include applications to perform specific functions and perform I/O functions through... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Sun / Stk

20080052265 - Database management system and method which monitors activity levels and determines appropriate schedule times: A system and method for automated database management are provided. Statistics relating to operation of a database may be collected, wherein the database comprises one or more database objects. Characteristics of the database objects may be determined, either automatically or by user intervention, using the collected statistics, one or more... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20080052269 - Estimation and use of access plan statistics: In processing a query including a selection criterion on one or more attributes of a relation, a prior statistic generated for a prior different selection criterion on the same one or more attributes of the relation, may be revalidated for use in processing the query, based upon a measure of... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20080052268 - Method and apparatus for optimizing queries under parametric aggregation constraints: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for optimizing queries. The present invention discloses an efficient method for providing answers to queries under parametric aggregation constraints.... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080052277 - Automatic matching method and automatic matching system: An automatic matching method and system which can initially automatically match a category and an original query, and then perform a search within a designated category when matching a subsequent query, and thereby enable a more accurate query matching is provided. According to the present invention, there is provided an... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080052283 - Construction, manipulation, and comparison of a multi-dimensional semantic space: A directed set can be used to establish contexts for linguistic concepts: for example, to aid in answering a question, to refine a query, or even to determine what questions can be answered given certain knowledge. A directed set includes a plurality of elements and chains relating the concepts. One... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C. - Novell

20080052282 - Dynamic look ahead predicate generation: An apparatus, program product and method that employ a dynamic use of Look Ahead Predicate Generation that will enable the database, database engine, and/or query optimizer to alter the processing of a query, and react to sub-optimal access plan selection and additional factors arising after processing has begun, to heal... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20080052287 - Correlation, association, or correspondence of electronic forms: Determining correspondence, association, and/or correlation between nodes of electronic forms based on schemas of those forms is described. Importing, merging, and/or annotating data from one electronic form into another electronic form based on correspondence, association, and/or correlation between nodes is also described.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080052286 - Method and apparatus for predicting selectivity of database query join conditions using hypothetical query predicates having skewed value constants: A database management system predicts a selectivity for database query conditions requiring a join of records from different tables. The system identifies at least one skewed value in a field specified in the join condition, and constructs, for each skewed value, a set of hypothetical query predicates in which the... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080052284 - System and method for the capture and archival of electronic communications: A system and method for the capture and archival of electronic communication is disclosed. A network interface card in promiscuous mode connected to an electronic communications network is employed to capture network packets, which are reconstructed into the original electronic message. The electronic message is then hashed, parsed, analyzed and... Agent: Terry L Stokes

20080052285 - Using text search engine for parametric search: A method, system, and computer program for enabling parametric searches on source data using text search engine. The invention is generally divided into a build-time process and a run-time process. During the build-time process, a crawler extracts data units from source data. A data translator then translates data units into... Agent: Ido Tuchman Suite 503

20080052289 - System and method for the triage and classification of documents: A technique is provided for the classification of a document based on a lexicon structured into categories. Terms in the document may be matched with terms in the lexicon along with the relative position of the term in the document. A weight function may be used to compute a score... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20080052292 - Systems and methods for vehicle information management: A computerized system for vehicle management. The system may include a database including information regarding vehicles in a set of vehicles and customer accounts. The system may also include: a server coupled to the database that serves user interface pages; a login mechanism; logic implementing rules regarding a relationship between... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20080052296 - Method, system, and article of manufacture for storing device information: A method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein a plurality of references to a plurality of files corresponding to a plurality of devices are stored in a data structure implemented in a computational device, wherein the computational device is coupled to the plurality of devices via a network. Access is... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080052295 - Remote feature activator feature extraction: A database record controls a license to use a computational component. An input receives an order identifier associated with an order related to a computational component and an interface retrieves order information associated with the identifier. The order information comprises at least one material code. A material code mapping agent... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20080052294 - Web services data aggregation system and method: A method and system for collecting and reviewing data related to web services receives service criteria from a service requester, selects candidate services that match the service criteria, invokes the selected candidate services, and aggregates results provided by the candidate services. In conjunction with aggregating results, the method and system... Agent: Brian C. Kunzler Kunzler And Associates

20080052298 - Method and system for addressing a node in tree-like data structure: A system and method for addressing a node in a tree-like data structure evaluates a relative path expression of a node from one or more marker nodes. In one aspect, a single path expression is determined from a nearby marker node. In another aspect, multiple path expression are determined and... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080052301 - Print controlling system, controlling method, and computer usable medium therefor: A method to control a computer is provided. The computer executes steps of designating the image data file to be replaced with a previously designated image data file, generating a locator information to indicate a location of a storage folder based on a unique identification of the image data file,... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080052299 - Reverse engineering support system: A reverse engineering support system is provided which has a high abstract degree of an analysis target system and supports high level understanding. The reverse engineering support system stores a physical model which is a graph having as vertexes a program and input/output physical data, a business model which is... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080052297 - User-editable contribution taxonomy: Database users can extend the database schema and associated taxonomy without requiring use of a database administration view. A system includes a server computer for communicating with users of the system, a taxonomy database for storing records having attributes and values forming the taxonomy, and a taxonomy engine for enabling... Agent: Gunnison, Mckay & Hodgson, L.L.P.

20080052300 - Apparatus and method for classifier identification: A method for classifying an incoming packet. The method includes maintaining a database associated with patterns of fields, where the fields can be network addresses. The database can be developed by mapping each pattern to a unique numeric identifier. The number of unique numeric identifiers is equal to the number... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080052302 - Managing clusters of trading locations: A method and system of creating and populating clusters of retail stores or trading locations, using qualitative or quantitative data such as store performance, historical data, demographic etc. is described herein. A user specifies criteria, which is applied to store data. Cluster definitions are acquired from user defined metadata and... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080052303 - Reducing index size for multi-level grid indexes: The number of index entries in a grid index for indexing geometric shapes is reduced by establishing a pool storage area for geometric shapes, selecting a threshold number of grid cells which a geometric shape may overlap, storing the shape in the grid index if a geometric shape overlaps a... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20080052305 - Table editing apparatus and method thereof: A form system 104 creates a table layout in accordance with an XML document that possesses a structure that is described by an XML schema. If a complex type of table element is present, the field name of the element is saved, and the child table elements of the complex... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080052304 - Techniques for accessing a table: Techniques are described herein that can be used to access entries in a packed table. An unpacked table includes empty and filled elements. Filled elements can be accumulated and included in a packed table. An element in the packed table can be accessed by considering the location the element would... Agent: Caven & Aghevli C/o Intellevate

20080052307 - Composite user interface and framework: Computer-implemented methods of processing contact records are provided. A user may merge and unmerge contact records to control which records are synchronized with each other. Identity claims of records may be compared to identify possible duplicate records. Identity claims may include addresses, phone numbers, instant messenger addresses or other contact... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080052306 - System and method for indicating track relationships in media files: A system and method for signaling and indicating track relationship information in media files. The present invention provides a mechanism for signaling the information of layered track groups and the information of MDC track groups, as well as a mechanism for signaling track relationship information in an efficient way. In... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080052308 - Method and system for realizing automatic adaptation of data object model: A method for realizing automatic adaptation of a data object model includes: generating, by a business rule management system (BRMS), a first data object model (DOM) according to a second DOM, the first DOM being a DOM for use with a rule, the second DOM being a DOM provided by... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP

20080052310 - Enterprise solution framework incorporating a master data management system for centrally managing core reference data associated with an enterprise: In one embodiment, an enterprise solution framework is provided. A configuration segment is provided for specifying a configuration of an enterprise. The configuration segment includes a system for centrally managing core enterprise reference data, including: (1) a centralized master repository containing the reference data; (2) an internal services framework providing... Agent: I2 Technologies Us, Inc.

20080052311 - Master data management system for centrally managing core reference data associated with an enterprise: In one embodiment, 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 internal services for managing the core enterprise reference data within the... Agent: I2 Technologies Us, Inc.

20080052309 - System and method for building a database defining a plurality of communication interfaces: A system and method for providing seamless communication with threads executing on an embedded computer. Using a DAT system, a programmer can test the communication interfaces of a thread via a scripting program, any COM-compliant program, or a graphical test utility. The DAT system automatically formats a block of data... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080052314 - E-enabler framework: A system and application design paradigm in the form of web-architecture, uses self describing modules of reusable services, offering SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) based composite solutions and multiple processes in a dynamic business environment. The system is termed e-Enabler Framework, and in one form, includes three frameworks, i.e., web processing... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC 198 F

20080052312 - Image-based face search: A search includes comparing a query image provided by a user to a plurality of stored images of faces stored in a stored image database, and determining a similarity of the query image to the plurality of stored images. One or more resultant images of faces, selected from among the... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080052313 - Service bus-based workflow engine for distributed medical imaging and information management systems: A computer-implemented architecture implementing Picture Archiving and Communication Systems functionality makes use of a virtual software service bus that allows communicating subsystems to listen in an asynchronous manner to a wide range of data streams and commands transmitted over the bus, and to respond only where appropriate. Automatic failover switching... Agent: Andrus, Sceales, Starke & Sawall, LLP

20080052318 - Computerized medical diagnostic system utilizing list-based processing: A system and method for providing computerized, knowledge-based medical diagnostic advice. The medical advice is provided to the general public over a network, such as a telephone network with the use of a telephone or the Internet with the use of an Internet access device. Alternatively, the medical advice can... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080052315 - Event importance adjustment method and device for carrying out the method: The present invention has an object to provide an event importance adjustment device which is able to extracting events which reflect a course of video contents, and to extract events in correlation thereto to allow thereby extracting scenes which reflects the course of the video contents. The event importance adjustment... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080052319 - File splitting, scalable coding, and asynchronous transmission in streamed data transfer: Files are divided into parts and at least some of the parts are transmitted to a client using a communication channel. At least some of the transmitted parts are cached locally. This allows subsequent streaming playback of the file while using less bandwidth by transmitting the part of the file... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080052316 - Master data management system for centrally managing core reference data associated with an enterprise: In one embodiment, 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.... Agent: I2 Technologies Us, Inc.

20080052317 - Medication dose calculator and associated methods: A medication dose calculator and method for comparing an inputted, ordered medication dosage with a known medication dosage range in a database including an input device for inputting a desired drug name, indicating whether the drug is for a child or an adult, an amount of the drugs that are... Agent: Husch & Eppenberger, LLC

20080052320 - Method, system, and program for customer service and support management: In accordance with the present invention, a method, system, and program for managing the customer and product information of a client by maintaining a common database is disclosed. The present invention connects the client, call center, repair facility and warehouse to efficiently coordinate the customer and product management process. By... Agent: White & Case LLP Patent Department

20080052321 - Information display apparatus and method: An information display apparatus which reproduces images stored in a detachable recording medium acquires file identifying information which identifies a file stored in the recording medium. Also, it determines whether or not specific attribute information about the file identified by the file identifying information exists and acquires attribute information existence... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080052322 - Conflict resolution in database replication through autonomous node qualified folding: In a method for distributed database replication, local change records describing the local changes to the database at a node are transmitted to other nodes. Each node receives from the other nodes other change records describing changes to the database at the other nodes, and a log of change records... Agent: Lumen Intellectual Property Services, Inc.

20080052323 - Multimedia filesystem having unified representation of content on diverse multimedia devices: A multimedia system comprising at least two multimedia devices having differing filesystems and/or no filesystem(s), one or more applications, and a media filesystem adapted to communicate with the at least two multimedia devices and the one or more applications is disclosed. The one or more applications are adapted to issue... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080052324 - Reducing data storage requirements on mail servers by storing a shared copy of a message: A mail server detects if an incoming message is addressed to multiple recipients, in which case redundant data storage is reduced. A single shared copy of the message is stored, and a reference message, which refers to the shared message, is provided to the addressed recipients. A record of the... Agent: Ibm Endicott (anthony England) Law Office Of Anthony England

20080052325 - Schema framework and method and apparatus for normalizing schema: The schema framework of the present invention is a set of rules and best practices that a user follows when creating schema in accordance with the present invention. By following these rules, schema are produced that can be used, reused, and managed in a distributed computing environment, thus reducing the... Agent: Gardner Groff Greenwald & Villanueva. PC

20080052327 - Secondary backup replication technique for clusters: A method, system and program product for backing up a replica in a cluster system having at least one client, at least one node, a primary replica, a secondary replica, and a secondary-backup (S-backup) replica each replicating a process running on the cluster system. A hierarchy is assigned to each... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080052326 - Signature based client automatic data backup system: A client computer identifies data files to be backed up according to corresponding backup signatures in a backup signature list. The client computer sends a backup copy of each of the identified data files to backup server(s) according to a predetermined plan. The backup copies are preferably associated with the... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080052328 - Abstracted and optimized online backup and digital asset management service: A system and method for providing online storage and security. Digital assets are sent from client applications to server applications. The server implements an algorithm that optimizes the storage of digital assets. The server extracts the meta-data from digital assets and stores the meta-data in a relational database. The storage... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20080052331 - Data arrangement management system, method, and program: An ILM device manages data arrangement in multiple storage areas to each of which a service level (called SLA), which guarantees a service level to data, is assigned, checks whether the SLA of a storage area satisfies a required service level object (SLO) of data to which the SLO is... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080052329 - File system having variable logical storage block size: A system is set forth that includes a processor, a data storage device that accessible by the processor, and filesystem software that executable by the processor to organize files on the data storage device. The filesystem software is executable to organize files on the data storage device in storage areas... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080052330 - System and method for automated transfer and evaluation of the quality of mass data of a technical process or a technical project: The invention relates to a system and a method for automated transfer and subsequent evaluation of the quality of mass data of a technical process or a technical project in a standardized environment (70) of one or more data processing devices with an assignment module (20) for allocating the mass... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080052332 - Method of removing an instance of a stateful session bean: A method of removing an instance of a stateful session bean from a passive state, and a computer program product to execute this method. An event initiates the removal of said instance of the SFSB from the passive state to a does-not-exist state. Upon that event, a function of a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080046399 - Apparatus for managing outputs of applications: An apparatus for managing outputs of a first application and a second application is provided. Each application is operable to execute on a data processing system and output of the first application is executed on the data processing system. The apparatus comprises a classifier for associating the first application and... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080046397 - Information processing device, information processing method, and program for the same: An information processing device includes: a storage unit; a first display control unit; and a demanding unit. The storage unit that stores attribute data representing specified attribute of contents and category data representing a category of the attribute correlated to each other. The first display control unit that provides controls... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080046401 - System and method for processing continuous integrated queries on both data stream and stored data using user-defined share trigger: Provided are a system and method for processing continuous integrated queries on both data stream and stored data using user-defined shared trigger. The system includes a data stream manager for managing data stream inputted from outside; a continuous integrated queries manager for managing the continuous integrated queries inputted from an... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080046407 - Application search interface: A flexible data search interface is provided. The search interface incorporates multiple tabbed display components, each of which is dedicated to user-entry of a different type of search criteria. When a search is initiated, the search is based on an amalgamation of search criteria entered into each of the multiple... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080046406 - Audio and video thumbnails: A new way of providing search results that include audio/video thumbnails for searches of audio and video content is disclosed. An audio/video thumbnail includes one or more audio/video segments retrieved from within the content of audio/video files selected as relevant to a search or other user input. For an audio/video... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080046410 - Color indexing and searching for images: In one embodiment, a method is presented. The method includes compiling a database of discreet color values associated with images. The method further includes searching the database of discreet color values based on a query including color information. The method also includes returning results of the searching to the user... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080046409 - Color searching for images: In one embodiment, a method is presented. The method includes receiving a user-specified precise color value. The method also includes searching a database of precise color values for the user-specified precise color value. The method further includes matching the user-specified precise color value to a precise color value of the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080046413 - Information processing system, information processor, information processing method, recording medium, and computer data signal: This system has a unit that specifies storage location of electronic information of which publication is to be validated; a unit that acquires the publicized electronic information to be validated from the specified storage location; a unit that registers, in a memory, publication validation information of the acquired publicized electronic... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080046414 - Intelligent storing and retrieving in an enterprise data system: A method and system is presented which provides a TDM framework for managing self-describing measurement data. The TDM framework provides applications with a central platform for accessing measurement data across an entire enterprise system. By means of individual plug-ins, which may be specific to a given data file format, meta-data... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel PC

20080046405 - Query speller: Candidate suggestions for correcting misspelled query terms input into a search application are automatically generated. A score for each candidate suggestion can be generated using a first decoding pass and paths through the suggestions can be ranked in a second decoding pass. Candidate suggestions can be generated based on typographical... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080046408 - System and method for automatically generating a result set: A method, computer program product and computing device for automatically generating a result set includes monitoring one or more actions taken by a user while browsing a website. One or more search terms are assigned to each of the one or more actions taken by the user, thus defining one... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080046412 - System and method for monitoring information of trademarks: A method for monitoring information of trademarks via a trademark information Web site is disclosed. The trademark information Web site is accessible via the Internet. The method includes the steps of: setting search conditions, and periodically searching trademarks via the trademark information Web site according to the search conditions; obtaining... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080046416 - Dynamic program support links: Described is a technology by which support information (e.g., help and/or other information) related to a computer program is automatically and dynamically searched with respect to a task of that program, with the results of the search aggregated for output in relation to the program. For example, the search may... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080046425 - Gesture detection for a digitizer: A method for implementing combination gestures with a digitizer comprises storing a database of pre-defined combination gestures, wherein the combination gestures includes input from two different types of user interactions, detecting a combination event, wherein the combination event includes input from the two different types of user interactions, and matching... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080046423 - Method and system for multi-character multi-pattern pattern matching: Disclosed is a method and system for multi-character multi-pattern pattern matching. In the multi-character multi-pattern pattern matching method, patterns in an input stream are detected by transitioning between states of a “compressed deterministic finite state automaton (DFA)”, with each transition based on multiple characters of the input stream. The compressed... Agent: Weinick & Associates, LLC

20080046430 - Clustering for structured data: A system and method for processing data using a bubble clustering algorithm are presented. In the system and method, a set of data is formatted for processing. A set of business objects containing the formatted data is grouped into a smaller set of bubbles, each bubble comprising a container that... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20080046431 - Document processing method: Document sets, such as real estate deeds, are recorded at multiple recording stations with each deed set being recorded in the order that the set is presented, thereby preserving the arrival sequence of the documents as required by first-to-file recording systems. Document sets, with each set containing at least one... Agent: William J. Mason Maccord Mason PLLC

20080046429 - System and method for hierarchical segmentation of websites by topic: An improved system and method is provided for hierarchical segmentation of websites by topic. To do so, an organization of topics may be determined within directories of a website, the hierarchical arrangement of the web pages in the website may be segmented by topic, and the segments representing regions of... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20080046432 - Systems and methods for a snapshot of data: In one embodiment, a user or client device is connected to a distributed file system comprised of one or more physical nodes. The data on each of the physical nodes store metadata about files and directories within the file system. Some of the embodiments permit a user to take a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080046434 - Centralized management of technical records across an enterprise: A method, system and computer-readable medium for managing technical records across an enterprise are presented. The method includes controlling access to a technical records repository through a centralized technical records security service, wherein the technical records security service controls access to multiple independent technical records repositories for an enterprise, wherein... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080046433 - Role template objects for network account lifecycle management: Described is a computer networking-related technology by which an association is maintained between network account objects (e.g., for network users, computers, services and so forth) and a role template object for those types of account objects. The network account objects for a role may be located based on the association,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080046435 - Service discovery and automatic configuration: Described is a technology by which a client discovers services (e.g., Internet services) via a service listing server, and upon selecting a service, the client and/or service are automatically configured to couple to one another such that the client may host the service. In one example, a client includes or... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080046396 - Indexing big word lists in databases: A vehicle navigation system is disclosed. The vehicle navigation system has an input device, a storage device, a processor, and an output device. The storage device stores a database of geographical locations, such as the names of states, cities, streets, or countries. The database has a data list that includes... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080046398 - Retrieving personal user information for storage in a device: This invention relates to a method for retrieving personal user information from a user of a device, wherein personal user information retrieved from said user is stored in the device, the method including automatically deciding if retrieving of the personal user information is required; and taking action to retrieve the... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080046400 - Apparatus and method of optimizing database clustering with zero transaction loss: An efficient database cluster system that uses multiple stand-alone database servers with independent datasets to deliver higher processing speed and higher service availability at the same time with zero transaction losses. In one embodiment, a dynamic serializing transaction replication engine with dynamic load balancing for read-only queries is implemented. In... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20080046402 - Computerized method, system and program product for generating a data mining model: A computerized method, system and program product for generating a data mining model. A user can provide objectives for the model and sample data to train, validate, and test the model. A rules system can automatically select a set of algorithms based on the objectives and/or sample data. A plurality... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & D'alessandro, LLC

20080046403 - Easy-to-use data report specification: A method and system for the graphical specification and modification of reports is disclosed which enables data reports to be easily created via a report design dialogue. The report design dialogue includes a group-level outline panel containing controls for grouping, as well as other report controls such as those for... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080046404 - Method and apparatus for managing file systems and file-based data storage: Embodiments of the present invention can comprise systems and methods for managing filesystems and can provide a programmable filesystem with active rules and policies, an n-tier network filesystem, stack mounting, a union filesystem with write-through semantics, a filesystem middleware with selective delegation, a filesystem with a statistical warehouse and/or other... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080046411 - Method and system for managing the impressing of the search listing based on advertisement group: Disclosed are method and system for managing an impression of a search listing, the comprising the steps of: maintaining a search information database for storing a keyword and a search listing corresponding thereto; selecting the predetermined number of keywords from the stored keywords and recording the selected keyword in a... Agent: Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080046415 - System and method for real-time web page context analysis for the real-time insertion of textual markup objects and dynamic content: A technique is described for delivering contextual information to end users of a data network which includes at least one client system associated with an end user. According to a specific embodiment, the technique of the present invention provides a contextual-based platform for delivering to an end user in real-time... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080046417 - Document management system for searching scanned documents: A method for storing, organizing and providing remote electronic access to documents. A cover sheet including a standard set of identification data characterizing each document is developed and stored. A digital version of each document is created and stored by scanning each contract. Each digital version includes a scanned image... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080046420 - Replacing an unavailable element in a query: A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium that in an embodiment replace an element in a query with a backup if the element is not available, but the backup is available. An element may also be removed from the query if the element is not required. In various embodiments, the... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080046419 - System and method for planning and generating queries for multi-dimensional analysis using domain models and data federation: Data integration and data analysis using computing equipment, software as well as hardware, includes a system and method for integrating data from various data sources, structured and unstructured, without physically creating a data warehouse and automatically generating queries for analysis of the integrated data from a multitude of different views.... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080046418 - Systems and methods for generating markup-language based expressions from multi-modal and unimodal inputs: When using finite-state devices to perform various functions, it is beneficial to use finite state devices representing regular grammars with terminals having markup-language-based semantics. By using markup-language-based symbols in the finite state devices, it is possible to generate valid markup-language expressions by concatenating the symbols representing the result of the... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080046421 - Consistent set of interfaces derived from a business object model: A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080046422 - System and method for planning and generating queries for multi-dimensional analysis using domain models and data federation: Data integration and data analysis using computing equipment, software as well as hardware, includes a system and method for integrating data from various data sources, structured and unstructured, without physically creating a data warehouse and automatically generating queries for analysis of the integrated data from a multitude of different views.... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080046426 - Computerized method, system and program product for generating a data mining model: A computerized method, system and program product for generating a data mining model. A user can provide objectives for the model and sample data to train, validate, and test the model. A rules system can automatically select a set of algorithms based on the objectives and/or sample data. A plurality... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & D'alessandro, LLC

20080046428 - Method and system for providing cascaded trie-based network packet search engines: A method for providing cascaded trie-based network packet search engines is provided. A search command is received at one of the network packet search engines. The search command comprises a specific search key. A determination of a longest prefix match based on the specific search key is made at the... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20080046427 - System and method for planning and generating queries for multi-dimensional analysis using domain models and data federation: Data integration and data analysis using computing equipment, software as well as hardware, includes a system and method for integrating data from various data sources, structured and unstructured, without physically creating a data warehouse and automatically generating queries for analysis of the integrated data from a multitude of different views.... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080046424 - System and method of selecting images according to color content: A method and apparatus are provided that include a database of images, a user interface device, and a search device. The search device receives a search color, calculates a similarity measure for a plurality of images in the database, selects an image having a similarity measure indicating a greatest similarity... Agent: Docket Clerk

20080046439 - Automatic capture of associations between content within a content framework system: A content framework system and method. The content framework system comprises a content infrastructure, a content flow management system, and a content association system. The content infrastructure comprises content management systems. Each of the content management systems comprises content. The content flow management system comprises an acquisition tool comprising an... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080046436 - Image management apparatus and image management method as well as program and storage medium therefor: An information management apparatus which is capable of managing products owned by a user by making the products easily registered in a device on a network. A user ID is registered in correspondence with model information on an image-pickup device. The user ID is received from a user terminal. When... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080046437 - Manual conflict resolution for background synchronization: A background data synchronization process employs human-readable communication channels to contact a user and request resolution of synchronization conflicts as they arise.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080046438 - Network interface for distributed intelligence database system: A database appliance in which two or more internetworked data storage units are used to coordinate the storage and retrieval of database records. One or more central database processing units are also associated with the data storage units. A network infrastructure provides the ability for the central database processors and... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080046441 - Joint optimization of wrapper generation and template detection: A method and system for generating wrappers for hierarchically organized documents by jointly optimizing template detection and wrapper generation is provided. A wrapper generation system generates a wrapper for documents with similar templates by identifying a cluster of document trees and generating a wrapper tree for the cluster. A wrapper... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080046448 - Method and apparatus for storing contents according to attribute of storage space: A method and apparatus for storing contents according to an attribute of a storage space designated by a user are provided. The method of storing contents according to an attribute of a storage space, includes: receiving input attribute information on sizes and uses of a plurality of regions; partitioning the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080046440 - Method and system for enforcing user-defined relational limitations in a recursive relational database table: A method for utilizing an enhanced relational database management system to enforce user-defined relational limitations in a relational database table containing tree-like data that includes marking a database table as containing a tree structure relationship suitable for recursive queries, inserting a parent-child relationship schema into the tree-based database table, receiving... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080046449 - System and method for downloading hypertext markup language formatted web pages: A method for downloading HTML formatted Web pages is provided. The method includes the steps of writing a URL of a Web page to be downloaded to an XQuery script; analyzing the XQuery script to obtain the URL of the HTML Web page and saving the downloaded Web page in... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080046446 - System, method, software arrangement and computer-accessible medium for incorporating qualitative and quantitative information into an economic model: A system, method, software arrangement and computer-accessible medium can be provided for incorporating quantitative and qualitative information into an economic model is provided. An exemplary method for analyzing qualitative information associated with a characteristic of at least one entity based on associated quantitative information, includes, obtaining first information which contains... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080046443 - Systems and methods for providing nonlinear journaling: In one embodiment, systems and methods are provided for nonlinear journaling. In one embodiment, groups of data designated for storage in a data storage unit are journaled into persistent storage. In one embodiment, the journal data is recorded nonlinearly. In one embodiment, a linked data structure records data and data... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080046444 - Systems and methods for providing nonlinear journaling: In one embodiment, systems and methods are provided for nonlinear journaling. In one embodiment, groups of data designated for storage in a data storage unit are journaled into persistent storage. In one embodiment, the journal data is recorded nonlinearly. In one embodiment, a linked data structure records data and data... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080046445 - Systems and methods of reverse lookup: One embodiment includes a process for reverse lookups using a map structure and a structure being referenced by the map structure that comprises receiving a structure that comprises a reference to the structure and a reverse lookup hint; locating one or more entries in a map structure that correspond to... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080046442 - Web-based collaborative framework: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for facilitating network communications. Briefly described, one embodiment of the system, among others, includes a server-based application configured to produce web pages for a web site in accordance with input received from a user; and an interface to the server-based application... Agent: Jodi L. Hartman Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC

20080046452 - Computerized method, system and program product for generating a data mining model: A computerized method, system and program product for generating a data mining model. A user can provide objectives for the model and sample data to train, validate, and test the model. A rules system can automatically select a set of algorithms based on the objectives and/or sample data. A plurality... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & D'alessandro, LLC

20080046451 - Methods, systems and program products for classifying and storing a data handling method and for associating a data handling method with a data item: Under the present invention, a multidimensional data structure (MDS) is populated with data handling methods. Specifically, each data handling method is stored in the MDS at an address that corresponds to a set of coordinate values. The sets of coordinate values are determined using responses to a plurality of questions.... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080046450 - System and method for collaborative knowledge structure creation and management: A collaborative, semantic-based knowledge structure creation and management system and method are provided. The system and method may include knowledge structures which include concept based maps which may be linked according to topic, relationship types, conceptual equivalence, and temporally. The knowledge structures may be managed by users, wherein users may... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20080046447 - Two-step method to align three dimensional lc-ms chromatographic surfaces: A two-step alignment method for temporally aligning LC-MS data files representative of three-dimensional chromatographic surfaces is disclosed. The method includes a pre-alignment step whereby the data files are roughly aligned using a transformation-based correlation analysis of base peak information. The pre-aligned files are used as input to a full alignment... Agent: Thermo Finnigan LLC

20080046453 - Method for construction of a linear-sized validation-plan of w3c xml schema grammars: A method for constructing a highly optimized linear-sized validation plan, the method comprising: providing a schema having a plurality of schema components; compiling the schema in three stages: a first stage in which the schema is read and modeled in terms of abstract schema components; a second stage in which... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Lotus

20080046454 - Methods for partitioning an object: The concept of portioning is expanded with a variety of techniques. In particular, one technique involves partitioning an object at multiple levels, where at least one of the levels uses list-based partitioning. Further, a partitioning technique is provided which involves storing a data item in a default partition when the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080046457 - Configuration of optimized custom properties in a data finder tool: A method and system is presented which provides a TDM framework for managing self-describing measurement data. The TDM framework provides applications with a central platform for accessing measurement data across an entire enterprise system. By means of individual plug-ins, which may be specific to a given data file format, meta-data... Agent: Jeffrey C. Hood Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel PC

20080046460 - Meta data customizing method: A user apparatus makes a meta data obtaining request to a delivering apparatus, the request including designation of an element to customize, which element exists in a predetermined location of a description of the structured language of the meta data to obtain, as well as format designation designating a variable... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080046459 - Method for generating metadata and electronic device having metadata delivery function: A method for generating metadata, the metadata being described in a document language, the method includes a step of obtaining contents from a contents holding part, the contents including an image being a subject of the metadata; a step of analyzing a request for metadata delivery from an opponent for... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080046455 - Query feedback-based configuration of database statistics: A method is disclosed for automatically configuring database statistics by: collecting information from a database system, the database information including data query feedback; consolidating and formatting the database information into a plurality of intervals; converting the plurality of intervals into a plurality of non-overlapping buckets; computing frequencies for the buckets... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20080046456 - Syntax for members added through object protocol systems and methods: A special syntax is developed to differentiate between accesses to a primary and one or more secondary object protocols in a programming language. The syntax allows the compiler to differentiate between the primary and secondary object model based on syntax, rather than type. The syntax is created in such a... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080046458 - User created tags for online social networking: The present invention provides a social networking system and method by which customized tags can be created by a registered user in an online social networking environment and distributed to facilitate social networking. The tags represent personal characteristics and preferences associated with users of the online social networking environment. A... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080046461 - Method and apparatus for generating a web page: On receiving a page request from a WWW browser of a user, a WWW server acquires a previously generated fixed page and transmits the fixed page to the WWW browser as a reply. The browser displays the fixed page received from the WWW server and transmits a request for a... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080046462 - System and method for generating automatic user interface for arbitrarily complex or large databases: A software system automatically and dynamically generates a fully functional user interface (UI) based upon, and connected directly to, an underlying data model (as instantiated within a relational database management system (RDBMS)). The UI derives from an automated interrogation of the RDBMS, and comprises all mode displays (e.g., browse, search,... Agent: Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP

20080046463 - Integration framework: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for real-time data transfer between sensor or actuator devices and higher-level applications. In one aspect, an integration engine receives a set of rules from an external application and receives item data including item identifiers from one or more tag readers, each item identifier... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080046464 - Apparatus and method for storing and distributing information in an emergency situation: The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for storage and distribution of individualised information concerning specific treatments, desires and identification in case of an emergency situation, comprising a first database (60), which is accessed by individuals from communication terminals (50), the individuals inputting or updating their own personalised... Agent: Thompson & Knight, L.L.P. Patent Prosecution Group

20080046468 - Font processing system and method: An embodiment of a font processing system is provided, comprising a font database, a first array, a second array, and a processor. The font database stores multiple font files, each of which corresponds to a character identified by a character code, with each of the font files stored at a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080046467 - Information processing system, information processing method, and program and storage medium for the same: Device information identifying a device to which a user has previously instructed execution of processing is acquired from a memory unit configured to store the device information. A device that the acquired device information indicates is requested to send history information including at least information of a history relating to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080046465 - System and method for managing profiles in communications devices based on a computer application environment: A system and method for managing a device profile in a communications device based on a computer application environment wherein the device profile is indicative of a computer application environment. A computer software agent inspects application program attributes of at least one running application on the user's computer. The device... Agent: Janis E. Clements

20080046471 - Calendar synchronization using syndicated data: A calendar synchronization system uses syndicated data to transfer calendar items among calendars in disparate calendaring systems.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080046470 - Operation-processing device, method for constructing the same, and operation-processing system and method: As shown in FIG. 1, an operation-processing device of the present invention comprises a register array (11) having plural registers for holding an arbitrary value based on a write address Aw and a write control signal Sw and outputting this value based on a read address Ar, an ALU (12)... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080046466 - Service method and system of multimedia music contents: The present invention relates to multimedia music contents service in which sound source and text are synthesized to form one file. In the case where a music file is provided by way of web service by applying DRM being contents protection technology, there is a problem in that a user... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080046469 - System and method for continuous data analysis of an ongoing clinical trial: System and method of continuously analyzing trial data of an ongoing clinical trial is provided. A statistical analysis is performed on a trial database containing subject trial data without suspending the ongoing clinical trial. If the result of the statistical analysis does not exceed a predetermined threshold value, then the... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20080046472 - Techniques supporting collaborative product development: A plurality of artifacts, in a plurality of repositories, are maintained under revision control. A plurality of artifact tuples, in another repository, are maintained under revision control. At least one first artifact tuple comprise first information providing access to at least one of the artifacts. At least one second artifact... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080046474 - Efficient discovery of keys in a database: A method and system for discovering keys in a database. A minimal set of non-keys of the database are found. The database includes at least two entities and at least two attributes. The minimal set of non-keys includes at least two non-keys. Each entity independently includes a value of each... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080046473 - Method and system for using index lead key self-join to take advantage of selectivity of non-leading key columns of an index: A method of searching for information within a database that includes: identifying a set of leading index key columns, from among a plurality of index key columns, that has a limited number of unique values; utilizing the identified set of leading index key columns to perform an index scan in... Agent: Dillon & Yudell, LLP

20080046475 - Systems and methods for a snapshot of data: In one embodiment, a user or client device is connected to a distributed file system comprised of one or more physical nodes. The data on each of the physical nodes store metadata about files and directories within the file system. Some of the embodiments permit a user to take a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080046476 - Systems and methods for a snapshot of data: In one embodiment, a user or client device is connected to a distributed file system comprised of one or more physical nodes. The data on each of the physical nodes store metadata about files and directories within the file system. Some of the embodiments permit a user to take a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080046477 - System and method for auditing a telephone number inventory of a telecommunications carrier: A system and method for auditing telephone number records of a telecommunications company. The process may include querying at least one database managed by a telecommunications carrier to obtain first data records associated with telephone numbers owned by the telecommunications carrier. A database external from the telecommunications company may be... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080046478 - Synchronising contacts: A method of synchronising the contact information of a group of users of a telephony system between the group of users over a communications network is provided. Each user of the group of users has a user terminal connected to the communications network and executes a client, the client comprising... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080046479 - Apparatus and method for read consistency in a log mining system: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to receive a specification for requested data in a log based replication system where data changes are retrieved from both a transaction log and a database. It is determined that the requested data is compromised. A search for a data image containing... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080046480 - Architecture of database application with robust online recoverability: An architecture for efficiently identifying the scope and timeframe of database errors, providing online history images, creating online point-in-time views of application tables, reconstructing equivalent SQL statements of a committed transaction or of a user session, providing a selective audit trail report on demand, and permitting selective online rollbacks in... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080046481 - Virtual multidimensional datasets for enterprise software systems: Techniques are described for specifying virtual datasets within an enterprise software system. A computer-implemented system, for example, includes an enterprise planning system and a computing device coupled to the enterprise planning system via a network connection. The computing device includes an object store that stores a dataset, an application programming... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20080046482 - Xdm system and method for implementing xml document management function by using position description of xml document: A method for indirectly creating an XML (eXtensible Markup Language) document in an XDMS (XML Document Management Server) by using a URL (Uniform Resource Locator), which indicates the position of an XCAP (XML Configuration Access Protocol) document, in an XDM (XML Document Management) system including an XDMC (XDM Client) and... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080046485 - Method and system for disaster recovery of servers with optimized positioning of backups on volumes: The storage system and method stores both primary data and backups of the primary data so that the need for separate storage appliances to store backups is eliminated. In one embodiment, the backup data is located on parts of a disk with lower read and write speed and the parts... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080046483 - Method and system for selecting the timing of data backups based on dynamic factors: A system, method and computer program product for directing data backups with flexible timing of data backups based on the importance of the data and on the dynamic nature of the data content. Specifically, a Data Backup Timing (DBT) utility directs granular data backups by implementing the functions of monitoring... Agent: Dillon & Yudell, LLP

20080046484 - System and method of visualization for aggregation of change tracking information: A system for identifying one or more social patterns in a status history of one or more change requests includes: a processor for executing instructions and memory comprising logic for: receiving as input change request data history; detecting social patterns in the change request data history; storing information about the... Agent: Michael J. Buchenhorner

20080046486 - Facilitating document classification using branch associations: Systems and methods for classifying documents into categories based on text associated with the documents are disclosed. Embodiments of the present invention further provide methods for establishing a database of hierarchical classes and a system for classifying text-related content into the hierarchical classes. Text relating to documents is parsed into... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080046487 - Data processing system and method with data sharing for the same: If relocation of a table with a high reference frequency is made possible, the database management method and system are arranged to improve performance according to the number of increased nodes and accumulate a reference frequency of each external storage unit allocated to each database management node. A data storage... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080046488 - Populating a database: A method of populating a database of textural representations of spoken dialogue forming part of a video asset. The method comprises the steps of playing a recording of the video asset that includes graphical subtitles; converting the graphical subtitles into a plurality of text strings; and storing each of the... Agent: James C. Wray

20080046489 - Device and method for managing the content of a file: The invention relates to a method of managing the content of a file belonging to a file system allocating resource cells of a recording medium to files, the allocation of the cells being structured by so-called structural information. According to the invention the method according to the invention comprises a... Agent: Joseph J Laks Patent Operations

20080040307 - Index compression: Systems and methods for compressing an index are described. In one exemplary method, the results of a search are annotated and then encoded into one or more chunks of compressed data in accordance with the annotations of the results. The annotations include an indication of a best encoding method selected... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080040311 - Information processing apparatus, information acquiring method, and computer program product: A request receiving unit receives requested information input by a user. A corresponding-program acquiring unit acquires processing-program identification information corresponding to the requested information from a corresponding-program storing unit. A processing-program reading unit reads a processing program corresponding to the processing-program identification information from a processing-program storing unit. The request... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080040308 - Information retrieval from relational databases using semantic queries: In the realm of managing relational databases, a system that uses both the data in a relational database and domain knowledge in ontologies to return semantically relevant results to a user's query. Broadly contemplated herein, in essence, is a system that bridges a semantic gap between queries users want to... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20080040306 - Techniques for remapping content requests: Techniques for routing content requests are provided. In one embodiment, a first device at a network device sends a request from a first device at a first site for content to a second device at a second site. The second device determines if the request should be redirected to a... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080040312 - Programmatic retrieval of tabular data within a cell of a query result: A method, system and article of manufacture for processing a database query result that includes multiple data elements in a single result field. One embodiment provides a method of processing a query result. The method includes receiving a query result that includes at least one result field having multiple data... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080040313 - System and method for providing tag-based relevance recommendations of bookmarks in a bookmark and tag database: A method comprises identifying a first user having stored in a database a set of first bookmarks associated with a topic of interest; determining a level of relatedness of a second user to the first user by comparing a first number of overlapping bookmarks that were stored in the database... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080040328 - Creation, management and delivery of map-based media items: Improved techniques to facilitate generation, management and delivery of personalized media items for users are disclosed. Users are able to influence or control content within a personalized media item. According to one aspect, personalized media items can pertain to generation and delivery of map-based media items. These media items are... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20080040317 - Decomposed query conditions: A method, article of manufacture and apparatus for decomposing an initial query into smaller conditional groups for execution on a database is disclosed. A separate database query may be generated for each of the conditional groups, and the results of executing these separate database queries may be combined and returned... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080040326 - Method and apparatus for organizing data sources: A method and apparatus for organizing deep Web services are provided. In one aspect, the method and apparatus obtains a collection of sources and their associated attributes and/or input modes, for instance, using a crawling algorithm. The method and apparatus uses this information to organize the sources into communities. A... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080040323 - Method and apparatus for reconstructing a sea