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 search query: Methods and systems for reconstructing a full query based on a partial query are disclosed. Existing interfaces for search engines may be rigid and require users to submit full queries to perform searched. The methods and systems described herein may solve these problems by allowing a flexible way for users... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080040320 - Method and system for filtering data: A method, system and article of manufacture for managing execution of an abstract query against an underlying database. One embodiment comprises receiving an abstract query against one or more databases having physical data and receiving a user-selection specifying how to apply an abstract filter for filtering data. The abstract query... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080040324 - Search result-based advertisements: An embodiment of the present invention is a technique for advertisement placement. A search result is obtained from a query provided by a user. An advertisement is placed using the search result.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080040319 - System and method for employing an extended boundary lookup table: The subject application is directed to a system and method for employing an extended boundary lookup table. A table of data elements in each of N addressable locations is first stored, with the value stored in the Nth location replicated in a terminus data element storage location. Address data representative... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080040318 - System and method for generating creatives: Attribute data regarding an entity, such as a business entity, are identified. Thereafter, one or more creative templates are selected based on the attribute data related to the entity. Creatives for the entity are then generated from the creative templates and the entity attribute data.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080040327 - System and method for searching deep web services: A system and method for searching deep web services are provided. The system and method in one aspect allow organizing communities, sources and schema attributes in a multi-tier containment relationship; searching representative schema attributes in one or more communities; searching representative services in one or more communities; searching for related... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080040321 - Techniques for searching future events: A future retrieval system operable to enable searching for future events associated with a set of documents includes at least one memory device configured to store a database of the documents. The system identifies future events associated with the documents and generates temporal data and a confidence value for each... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080040325 - User-directed search refinement: A search query is used to search on a corpus of documents. A statistical collocation analysis is performed on the search results. A list of collocations is determined and can be presented to a user. The search can be refined by modifying the search query, so that the search results... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080040322 - Web presence using cards: An Internet web-based system which provides a discrete visual container of multimedia information with interactive functionality using what are termed here cards which are objects displayed on the user's computer screen providing information. The cards can be saved, edited, searched, manipulated, linked and embedded. Unlike conventional web pages, the cards... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080040335 - Multi-tenant cim namespace association discovery and proxy association creation: A system and method is disclosed for providing Common Information Model (CIM) clients access to classes and metadata that do not reside in the same CIM namespace by creating shadow association classes in each namespace referenced by associated classes. Classes in a predetermined namespace are enumerated by a CIM Object... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080040334 - Operation of relational database optimizers by inserting redundant sub-queries in complex queries: Methods and systems are provided to facilitate the optimization process of existing relational database managers when processing complex queries. Specialized constraining clauses are inserted in or added to SQL queries, which do not affect the semantics of the queries. This operation causes the RDBMS to partition the query into sub-queries,... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20080040338 - Distribution of topic centric media: Topic-centric-media sharing allows a user to search for and share media objects related to a topic. The user can associate media objects with other sets of media objects related to the topic. Subscription software can be configured to locate possible sets of media objects of interest to the user. The... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080040339 - Learning question paraphrases from log data: Question paraphrases useful for systems such as natural language processing and information retrieval are ascertained by examining log data from a computer based information source such as an Internet search engine or a computer based encyclopedia.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080040343 - Extending the sparcle privacy policy workbench methods to other policy domains: A method and system enable a user to develop domain-specific policy workbench. Domains may include, but are not limited to security, autonomic computing, workload management and systems management. The method and system in one aspect determines syntax of a policy in a selected domain and creates an instance of policy... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080040348 - Automatic vertical-database design: An automatic physical-layout designer for a database-management system determines the database's physical layout from a set of training queries, the database's logical design, and a parameter k that indicates how many storage nodes can be lost without losing access to any of the data. The designer lays the database out... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20080040349 - Geospatial modeling system for performing filtering operations based upon a sum of differences of a given and neighboring location points and related methods: A geospatial modeling system may include a geospatial model database and a processor cooperating therewith for performing at least one noise filtering operation on data comprising elevations associated with respective location points. The at least noise filtering operation may include determining a respective center point elevation difference for each location... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist

20080040350 - Image log record management system, image processor, image log record management device, and computer-readable medium: There is provided an image processor having a processing unit that executes an image output process; a first registration unit that registers recording image data corresponding to an output image of the image output process in a predetermined retaining device which can be accessed from an image log record management... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080040351 - Method and apparatus for managing content using remote user interface: A method and apparatus are provided for managing content using a remote user interface (RUI). A method for a first RUI server to provide content to a second RUI server includes: receiving a request to provide content from a device using an RUI provided by the first RUI server; and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080040357 - Communication control system, motor vehicle, communication control program, system establishing the communication control system, and external system: An information management system and the like capable of managing communication processing by an internal system mounted on a mobile apparatus such as a motor vehicle to ensure efficient use of information processing resources for packets distributed from an external system are provided. According to the information management system (100),... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080040352 - Method for creating a disambiguation database: A disambiguation database is created from a digital encyclopedia database. The digital encyclopedia database comprises a plurality of pages. A list of pages of the digital encyclopedia database is obtained. It is determined if each page of the list is a disambiguation page or a redirect page. For each disambiguation... Agent: Elliot Furman

20080040354 - System and method for media content delivery: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate the automated delivery of media content, such as music, audio clips, advertisements and including other digitized multi-media files, in a wireless communication environment. In an aspect, the media content may be downloaded to a user based on various user-characteristics, such as a profile... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080040353 - System and method of manufacturing management: A manufacturing management system comprises a plurality of management modules, where each module operable to perform functions associated with a phase of a manufacturing cycle, a plurality of engineering chain agents associated and communicating with each of the plurality of management modules and operable to perform specific functions related to... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080040310 - Method, system and program product for developing a data model in a data mining system: A database table of predefined data transformations is provided. Each predefined data transformation is associated in the table with a unique identifier, a corresponding description and a validity period. When a data modeler wishes to develop a data model for a desired prediction, he/she will first determine a set of... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & D'alessandro, LLC

20080040309 - System and method for transforming and using content in other systems: A computer system and method is disclosed that transforms data for use in other applications. Several client workstations and servers are coupled together over a network. A client computer contains a user interface for performing the mapping and transformation. Data elements are mapped from a data source to a multi-dimensional... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20080040314 - Method and apparatus for identifying, extracting, capturing, and leveraging expertise and knowledge: The invention comprises a set of complementary techniques that dramatically improve enterprise search and navigation results. The core of the invention is an expertise or knowledge index, called UseRank that tracks the behavior of website visitors. The expertise-index is designed to focus on the four key discoveries of enterprise attributes:... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080040331 - Computer-implemented social searching: A computer-implemented method of searching comprises: accepting user input regarding a social profile of the user, wherein the social profile includes at least two factors; displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) adapted to receive a user selection indicative of which of the at least two social profile factors to use... Agent: Venable LLP

20080040333 - Evaluating queries against in-memory objects without serialization: At least one implementation described herein relates to evaluating queries structured according to a first format against one or more objects structured according to a second, different format without serializing the object. Typically, evaluating an XML (eXtensible Markup Language) query against a CLR (Common Language Runtime) object required serializing the... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080040330 - Information searching method, information searching apparatus, information searching system, and computer-readable information searching program: An information searching method to be implemented in a computer includes accepting a first character string from characters or a character string in a reading or inspecting document that is displayed on a display unit, acquiring a second character string from index information for searching the reading or inspecting document,... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080040329 - System and method for influencing a computer generated search result list: A method of generating a search result list in response to a search request from a searcher, comprising: (a) maintaining a database of search listings each associated with an advertiser, wherein each search listing is associated with; (i) a network location or other contact information; (ii) at least one search... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080040316 - Systems and methods for analyzing boilerplate: Systems and methods for analyzing boilerplate are described. In one described system, an indexer identifies a common element in a plurality of related articles. The indexer then classifies the common element as boilerplate. For example, the indexer may identify a copyright notice appearing in a plurality of related articles. The... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20080040315 - Systems and methods for generating a user interface: Systems and methods for generating a user interface are described. In one described system, an aspect associated with an article is identified. Next, an insert comprising a search result is generated based, at least in part, on the aspect. The insert is then caused to be output in association with... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20080040332 - Web service provision system and web service provision method for providing digital broadcast receiver terminal with web service: A web service provision system includes a web server for receiving program guide information from a digital broadcasting station, searching for a web page related to digital broadcasting content broadcasted by the station, creating link information containing broadcasting information regarding digital broadcasting content corresponding to each web page found, inserting... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080040337 - Isolated ordered regions (ior) node order: Method for ordering nodes within hierarchical data. The concept of isolated ordered regions to maintain coordinates of nodes is used by associating each node with coordinates relative to a containing region. Modifications to nodes within a region only affect the nodes in that region, and not nodes in other regions.... Agent: Ip Authority, LLC Ramraj Soundararajan

20080040336 - Systems and methods for presenting results of geographic text searches: Under one aspect, an interface program stored on a computer-readable medium causes a computer system with a display device to perform the functions of: accepting search criteria from a user, the search criteria including a free-text query and a domain identifier, the domain identifier identifying a domain in a metric... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080040341 - Computer processes for adaptively selecting and/or ranking items for display in particular contexts: A computer-implemented system and method are disclosed that are capable of refining the order and/or content of a list of items. In one embodiment, user activity associated with each item displayed to users in a given context is monitored, and is used together with item exposure data to generate context-specific... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080040342 - Data processing apparatus and methods: Data processing apparatus and methods are described. According to one embodiment, a data processing method includes identifying a plurality of tokens for a plurality of data items, first selecting some of the tokens of the data items as being indicative of content of respective ones of the data items, after... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20080040340 - System and method for automatic generation of presentations based on agenda: In enterprises, presentations are designed and made to visiting clients on a routine basis and it is expected that such presentations be effective as much of business depends on right kind of information in right depth and volume made to right audience. The typically followed manual process depends on the... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080040345 - Method and apparatus for string search using parallel bit streams: One embodiment of the present invention is a method for searching a data stream for a string matching a search pattern including: (a) iteratively comparing selected bits of the search pattern with bits in the data stream to determine match positions; (b) removing false positives from the match positions; and... Agent: Michael B. Einschlag, Esq.

20080040347 - Method for gathering and summarizing internet information: A computer method of gathering and summarizing large amounts of information comprises collecting information from a plurality of information sources (14, 51) according to respective maps (52) of the information sources (14), converting the collected information from a storage format to XML-language documents (26, 53) and storing the XML-language documents... Agent: Quarles & Brady

20080040346 - Methods and apparatus for privacy preserving data mining using statistical condensing approach: Methods and apparatus for generating at least one output data set from at least one input data set for use in association with a data mining process are provided. First, data statistics are constructed from the at least one input data set. Then, an output data set is generated from... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080040344 - Sense database: There has been conventionally a problem that when the searcher uses, for example, “dry wine” selected according to the searcher's preference as a search key, the searcher cannot be satisfied with the search result because wine entries stored in a database as “dry wines” depend on objective evaluation by another... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20080040355 - System and method for focused routing of content to dynamically determined groups of reviewers: A mechanism for routing content, e.g., an electronic document, an invention disclosure, etc., to a person or group of persons, e.g., a reviewer/review team, for review and evaluation of the electronic document. This mechanism involves receiving the content and analyzing the content to generate identifiers of subject matter of the... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080040356 - Web site automating transfer of intellectual property: A system for automating the transfer of intellectual property is provided. The system includes a central computer, a client computer, a communications link between the central computer and the Internet, and a communications link between the client computer and the Internet. The system also includes at least one database containing... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20080040358 - Data managing method in a removable storage device: The invention provides a method for managing the data in the removable storage device. The method includes: applying or organizing or establishing or re-building the file managing system of the storage medium of said removable storage device according to the uses of said memory chips; and utilizing said file managing... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd

20080040360 - Design pattern for choice types in object oriented languages: A design pattern for choice types in object oriented programming languages is described herein. The design pattern enables discrimination among branch types in a type-safe and discoverable manner. Additionally, the design pattern enables object types that will eventually serve as branch types to be initially defined without placing them in... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080040364 - Extensible multi-dimensional framework: Extensible Multi-Dimensional Framework (EMDF) is a system engineering framework for designing, developing and managing enterprise information technology systems. It includes two parts: multi-dimensional architecture framework (MDAF) and three-dimensional unified process (3DUP). MDAF includes comprehensive concepts for modeling an enterprise information technology system. 3DUP provides an iterative system development process. EMDF... Agent: Di Li

20080040359 - Methods and systems for managing composite data files: Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata or non-metadata such as content. In one exemplary method, a composite document is received and it is determined whether the composite document contains at least one subdocument and if it does, the method captures metadata and/or content from the subdocument and... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080040362 - Hybrid audio-visual categorization system and method: Meta-data (tags) for an audiovisual file can be generated by producing an initial estimate of the tags and then revising the estimate (notably to expand it and/or render it more precise) based on the assumption that the relationships which hold between the different tags for a set of manually-tagged training... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080040361 - System and method for storing and retrieving filenames and files in computer memory: The invention receives a request to store a file having a filename written in a first text encoding, converts the filename into a Unicode filename and stores the Unicode filename and the file into memory. The invention then sets a flag, associated with the memory, indicating that a first text... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080040363 - System for processing relational database data: A system assigns a branch number to each record derived from a database and generates XML using this branch number to sequence parent/child records so that output XML is nested properly, regardless of how many levels exist for each branch in order to organize a set of hierarchical data with... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080040365 - Table arrangement for a directory service and for related method and facilitating queries for the directory: A directory services system, such as one providing a X.500 or LDAP directory service, having a design and a method of operation which facilitates queries in and out of the directory, table organization/layout and clustering. In the arrangement of the directory service, tables are organized corresponding to their function, thereby... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080040373 - Apparatus and method for implementing match transforms in an enterprise information management system: A computer readable medium has executable instructions to present an interface that defines a match transform within a pipeline of data processing operations. Match criteria associated with the match transform is selected. The match criteria is selected from a set of match strategies. The match criteria is used to identify... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080040374 - Automated identification and tagging of pages suitable for subsequent display with a mobile device: A system, apparatus, and method are disclosed to identify and tag documents that are mobile documents in that they are compatible with limited capability devices, such as mobile phones. A website hosting a document is checked to determine whether the website considers the document to be a mobile document. The... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080040366 - Device and method for extracting information from a database, and associated products: The invention relates to a device and a method for processing information of a database. The device consists of means for pre-defining at least one related area in a representation space comprising positions that can receive elements that are representative of the data, said space including at least one complementary... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20080040371 - Generic architecture for providing data to flash model: In general, the disclosure includes managing foreign data from multiple sources. In one embodiment, a software application is operable to receive a request for a display page including data foreign to a Flash application embedded in the display page. In response to at least the request, the technical information for... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080040367 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for using graphs to solve circular dependency in object persistence: A method, system, and computer program product for reducing dependency calculation time in object persistence with circular referential integrity dependency is provided. The method includes building a graph using foreign key dependency from object to relational mapping, where nodes of the graph are object types and connected directionally from a... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rsw

20080040368 - Recording notations per file of changed blocks coherent with a draining agent: Provided are techniques for transferring data. It is determined whether an indicators map is to be associated with a source file that is being opened, wherein the indicators map indicates which source blocks of the source file have been updated since last being transferred to a target file. In response... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080040372 - System for generating a table: The present invention relates to a system for generating a table comprising generating means for generating a table which contains at least a column or line depicting one or more first categories and at least a column or line depicting first values associated with said first categories and wherein the... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20080040370 - Systems and methods for generating dynamic relationship-based content personalized for members of a web-based social network: Systems and methods for generating dynamic relationship-based content personalized for members of a web-based social network are provided. At least one action of one or more members of a web-based social network is associated with relationship data for the one or more members to produce consolidated data. One or more... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080040369 - Using xml for flexible replication of complex types: Instances of complex types are logically replicated. In general, the logical replication of complex types involves converting a complex type instance from its storage format into a logical representation written in a markup language, like XML. The logical representation is then propagated to a destination (or destinations), which converts the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080040375 - Method and apparatus for windowing in entropy encoding: The present invention provides efficient window partitioning algorithms for entropy-encoding. The present invention enhances compression performance of entropy encoding based on the approach of modeling a dataset with the frequencies of its n-grams. The present invention may then employ approximation algorithms to compute good partitions in time O(s*log s) and... Agent: Mr. S.h. Dworetsky At&t Corp.

20080040376 - Localization of cim-based instrumentation: A system and method for Common Information Model (CIM) management clients to predetermine a data provider's support for localization, select an available locale implementation, and receive the provider's indications and responses in the selected locale. A registered locale class is added to the CIM schema for instantiating predetermined locales within... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080040379 - Media package format for submission to a media distribution system: The disclosed embodiments relate generally to the submission of media content to a media distribution system and the generation of media items from the media content. The media items may include, for example, audio, video, image, or podcast data. In accordance with one embodiment, a package for use in generating... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20080040380 - Providing revisory scenes in a media environment: A system and method for providing revisory scenes in a media environment is provided. A digital item of media may be revised by dividing an item of digital media into one or more segments. A tag may be assigned to the one or more segments. The item of digital media... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080040378 - Systems and methods for navigating page-oriented information assets: Techniques provide for the dynamic display of a page-oriented information asset using an audio output mode. Pluralities of elements in the page-oriented information asset are determined based on chapters, sections, paragraphs, sentences, words and the like. The elements are rendered to an audio output mode. Optionally selectable representations of the... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20080040377 - Apparatus and method for determining a user preference: A user device comprises an access interface (109) for accessing a web service by exchanging information with the web service over the Internet (105). An application processor (107) executes a user application accessing the web service through the access interface (109) and the Internet (105). The application processor (107) is... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080040383 - Electronic device, computer program product, and data ranking method: An electronic device includes: a comment appending unit that appends a desired comment to each of a plurality of rankings prepared for assigning a ranking to a data item; and a correspondence establishment unit that establishes correspondence between the data item, and one of the plurality of rankings and the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080040381 - Evaluating queries against in-memory objects without serialization: At least one implementation described herein relates to evaluating queries structured according to a first format against one or more objects structured according to a second, different format without serializing the object. Typically, evaluating an XML (eXtensible Markup Language) query against a CLR (Common Language Runtime) object required serializing the... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080040382 - Reproducible selection of members in a hierarchy: A method for selecting members in a hierarchy includes determining a sequence of one or more actions associated with a member selection tree. The actions collectively selecting one or more members from a hierarchy of members. The hierarchy of members is associated with a particular dimension of an organization of... Agent: I2 Technologies Us, Inc.

20080040385 - Apparatus and method for hardware-based file system: A hardware-based file system includes multiple linked sub-modules that perform functions ancillary to client data handling. Each sub-module is associated with a metadata cache. A doubly-rooted structure is used to store each file system object at successive checkpoints. Metadata is stored within an object and/or as a separate object. Provisions... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080040384 - Nearest search on adaptive index with variable compression: A search system can search nodes of a tree to find the object stored in the tree that is nearest to a position input by the user. The tree can be constructed using object keys with interlaced coordinates such that nodes in the tree correspond to a bounding box that... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080040392 - Image processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, program management method, and management program for managing programs: There is disclosed an image processing apparatus in which plural programs mutually having dependence and dependence information indicating the dependence between the programs are stored. The apparatus includes a configuration management unit that generates hierarchical structure information, where the dependence between the programs is stratified, based on the dependence information;... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080040389 - Landing page identification, tagging and host matching for a mobile application: A system, apparatus, and method are disclosed to provide an enhanced search index for searchable content by limited capability devices, such as mobile phones. A URL analyzer determines clusters of mobile web page URLs and corresponding tokens. A landing page identifier evaluates cluster URLs and the tokens to identify landing... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080040388 - Methods and systems for tracking document lineage: Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata, are disclosed. In one exemplary method, metadata representing a document lineage are stored, and the stored metadata are searched. The metadata representing a document lineage may comprise a document identifier, identifying a collection of related documents; a file identifier, identify document... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080040386 - Shared personalized auto-open work scheduler system and method: System and method for implementing a shared personalized auto-open work scheduler are described. In one embodiment, a method for implementing an auto-open work scheduler system comprises creating a work group comprising a plurality of members, wherein the creating further comprises providing for each of the members an e-mail address and... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080040387 - Topic centric media sharing: Topic-centric-media sharing allows a user to search for and share media objects related to a topic. The user can select media objects stored on a client computing device to share with other users. The client computing device contains software that, in operation, searches for a set of media objects related... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080040394 - Audio and/or video generation apparatus and method of generating audio and/or video signals: An audio and/or video generation apparatus configured to generate audio and/or video signals representative of an audio and/or video source, the audio and/or video generation apparatus comprising a recording unit configured to record the audio and/or video signals on a recording medium, wherein the audio and/or video generation apparatus is... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080040391 - Remote mailbox management system and method: Methods and systems consistent with this invention manage a database of delivery destination information. Such methods and systems identify an item to be delivered to a destination; determine a batch of items for delivery having the item to be delivered to the destination; determine when the batch of items has... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080040393 - System and method for data migration: A method for concurrent data migration includes classifying files to be migrated into plural jobs, selecting media to which to migrate each job, and using plural drives concurrently to write the jobs to the media. The selection of a medium is performed in a way that prevents the number of... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080040390 - Vendor msds management and regulatory compliance systems and methods: Systems and methods are described that provide regulatory data associated with chemical products. Methods and systems are provided for identifying constituents of the chemical products and for obtaining regulatory data and other information associated with the chemical products. Regulatory data and other chemical data can be obtained from various sources,... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080040396 - Method for attaching to a partitioned queue spread across a plurality of messaging servers: There is disclosed a method, apparatus and computer program for an application instance to request attachment to a queue partition on a messaging server within a plurality of messaging servers, each messaging server holding at least one queue partition, the set of queue partitions together forming a single queue. An... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080040395 - System and method for updating a cache using a gating mechanism and events: A client caches objects from a data set on a server. The client registers to receive notification of events that occur to cached objects. As events occur to cached objects, the client determines if a specified time interval has elapsed since the cached objects were last updated. If a specified... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C. - Novell

20080040397 - Method and system for enhanced attribute synchronization in a content management system: Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system, and article of manufacture for enhanced attribute synchronization in a content management system (CMS). One-way synchronization rules associated with objects stored in the CMS may be applied to synchronize both the substantive content and/or metadata included in a particular data object (e.g.,... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080040398 - Propagating contexts between a first and second system: Contexts are propagated between a first and second system. The contexts provide information about the environment within which work in the first and second systems is to be performed. The contexts have a hierarchical structure in which the bottom most context in the hierarchy is identified as a leaf context.... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080040399 - Method and apparatus for providing efficient space utilization of worm media while maintaining transactional consistency: A method and apparatus for providing efficient space utilization of WORM media while maintaining transactional consistency are disclosed. In response to a transaction, a binary large object (BLOB) associated with the transaction is stored on a staging area of a non-volatile storage medium. A determination is then made as to... Agent: Dillon & Yudell, LLP

20080040402 - Storage management system with integrated continuous data protection and remote copy: A storage control system is adapted to operate as a primary of a remote copy pair by communicating with a secondary of the remote copy pair, and comprises: an I/O receiving component for receiving read and write commands; a continuous data protection component operatively coupled to the I/O receiving component... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080040400 - System and method for managing legal documents: The present invention provides a system for managing legal documents. The system includes: a document organizing module (10) for classifying and grouping the legal documents into classes, and for further classifying and grouping the legal documents in each of the classes into subclasses; an option extracting module (11) for extracting... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080040401 - Processing of compact functional diferences: Embodiments include systems and methods for pre-processing and post-processing original and new versions of files as part of difference file generation between the original and new file versions. The systems and methods of an embodiment include a set of algorithms that reduce the difference file size by preprocessing a variety... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20080040403 - Electronic apparatus, content recording method, and program therefor: An electronic apparatus communicable with another electronic apparatus via a network is disclosed. The electronic apparatus may include receiving means for receiving a content recorded on a first recording medium of the other electronic apparatus from the other electronic apparatus, determining means for determining whether the received content is reproducible... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080040404 - Host computer i/o filter re-directing potentially conflicting i/o commands from instantiations of legacy application: A host computing device has multiple instantiated copies of a legacy application. Each copy may issue a data request to access data at an absolute location common to all of the copies. To respond to the data request from a particular copy, it is determined that the absolute location of... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080040406 - System and method for controlling free space distribution by key range within a database: An improved method and system for controlling free space distribution by key range within a database. In one embodiment, a data structure including key ranges of a plurality of database tables and indexes, and a plurality of key range free space parameters is created. The plurality of database tables and... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20080040405 - System and method for managing additional information of mp3 music file stored in media player: A management system and method for managing additional information of MP3 music files stored in a media player terminal are disclosed. In correcting the tag information of a media file, all media file data are not transmitted between a PC and a media player terminal. The media player terminal transmits... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080040407 - Identification of a cause of an allocation failure in a java virtual machine: A method of identifying a cause of an allocation failure in a Java virtual machine is presented. The method includes getting a stack trace of a thread that triggers an allocation failure. In response to the allocation failure that meets specified criteria, including the stack trace in the Verbose garbage... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Austin

20080033902 - A method for providing live file transfer between machines: The present invention is directed to a system and method for transferring operating systems, applications and data between a source machine and a target machine while the source machine is running. Attempting to do so introduces the problem of attempting to transfer files that may be in use or “live”,... Agent: Integral Intellectual Property Inc.

20080033904 - Method for culling a litigation discovery file set: Methods and systems for culling a litigation discovery file set are described. A directory of the litigation discovery file set is traversed. A hashcode corresponding to a file in the directory is computed. The hashcode is compared to a database and if the hashcode matches an entry in the database,... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080033903 - Methods and apparatuses for using location information: Methods, machine readable media and apparatuses which allow searching based on location information. In one exemplary method, a representation of a location is determined from a network connection and the representation of the location is stored in association with a document for use in searching for documents based on location... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080033905 - 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 connects the invention to an electronic communications network. Network packets are received on the network interface card and sent to a pseudo TCP/IP stack, which reconstructs the network packets... Agent: Terry L Stokes

20080033907 - Business object search using multi-join indexes and extended join indexes: A method and search system for implementing fast access to business objects in a Service Oriented Architecture. The method and search system enables near real-time update of the data used for the results. The method is based on multi-join indexes with anchor surrogate identifiers combined with extended join indexes. The... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20080033910 - Dynamic checkpointing for distributed search: A distributed search system can comprise a group of nodes assigned to different partitions. Each partition can store indexes for a group of documents. Nodes in the same partition can independently process document-based records to construct the indexes. A set of nodes can be used to create a checkpoint for... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080033906 - Improved performance and availability of a database: The invention provides a method, system, and program product for improving the performance and/or availability of a database by controlling access to data objects within the database.... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080033909 - Indexing: Systems and methods for improving indexing are described. In one exemplary method, a 2-level table is used to improve performance when searching an index. A first table contains a subset of more frequently occurring terms and a second and larger table contains terms that occur rarely, with the first table... Agent: Apple Computer, Inc./blakely

20080033908 - Method and system for data processing in a shared database environment: A method and system for data processing in a shared database environment is provided. The database entries may be updated or read with parallel processes. The processes on the database entry are classified as non-synchronizing process and synchronizing process. The synchronizing process updates the database entry using data obtained by... Agent: Gowling, Lafleur & Henderson LLP

20080033925 - Distributed search analysis: A distributed search system can comprise a group of nodes assigned to different partitions. Each partition can store partial analytics data for a group of documents. At least one of the nodes can receive an analytics request from a user, send the request to a set of nodes, receive partial... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080033916 - Document catalog system: A method for open-text searching of information sources owned by a library is provided. The method uses existing full-text search engines and databases of open-text scans of text documents to provide searches which are limited to the actual set of information sources owned by or within a physical library. This... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080033915 - Group-by attribute value in search results: Search results are ranked by applying sub-relevancies within a search result list. This permits search result lists to be further refined into more manageable relevant groupings from a user's perspective. The sub-relevancies or ‘group-by’ parameters are derived from search result attributes. Attribute values from the attributes are employed in a... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080033924 - Keyword advertising in invention disclosure documents: A system that allows advertisers to select keywords in invention disclosure documents such as patents, patent applications, defensive publications and the like, to which advertisements are to be hyperlinked. The number, content, and types of documents in which the hyperlinks appear may be narrowed down based on parameters set by... Agent: Gonzales Patent Services

20080033917 - Macro programming for resources: A system and a method are disclosed for generating, storing, retrieving, and utilizing a search macro or shortcut link to a resource, such as a web site that provides access to an information database. The system may load a page into an application from the resource. The resource may have... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080033921 - Method and apparatus for processing metadata: A method and apparatus for processing metadata search with plug-in applications is disclosed. In one embodiment, in response to a search request for metadata stored in a metadata store, a plug-in associated with the metadata store is invoked to perform the request search within the metadata store. In addition, according... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080033920 - Method and apparatus for searching metadata: Methods and apparatuses for searching metadata are described herein. In one embodiment, an example of a process for search metadata includes, but is not limited to, in response to a search query for metadata stored in one or more of metadata stores, the search query is partitioned into multiple search... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080033919 - Methods and systems for managing data: Various methods, machine readable media, and data processing systems for performing searches and presenting the results of the searches. In one exemplary method, a user input causes a search in a mode based upon at least one field attribute designating a person and causes results of the search to be... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080033914 - Query optimizer: For a database query that defines a plurality of separate snowflake schemas, a query optimizer computes separately for each of the snowflake schemas a logical access plan for obtaining from that schema's tables a respective record set that includes the data requested from those tables by that query. The query... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20080033922 - Searching a backup archive: Systems and methods are provided for searching. In one implementation, a method is provided. A current view of a search application is displayed in a user interface. The current view of the search application includes a search result including one or more elements. A first user input is received while... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080033918 - Systems, methods and computer program products for supplemental data communication and utilization: Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for supplemental data communication and utilization. Supplemental data associated with a user request, such as a search query, can be generated and communicated either invisibly or visibly to the user. In one aspect, the supplemental data can be or include predictive supplemental... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20080033923 - Targeted advertising based on invention disclosures: A system that allows advertisers to select keywords in invention disclosure documents such as patents, patent applications, defensive publications and the like, to which advertisements are to be hyperlinked. The number, content, and types of documents in which the hyperlinks appear may be narrowed down based on parameters set by... Agent: Gonzales Patent Services

20080033913 - Techniques for preventing insider theft of electronic documents: Techniques for protecting electronic documents from unauthorized access by insiders create a protected document fingerprint of each document to be protected and comparing a similar fingerprint of a suspected document or text. When the two fingerprints match to a certain degree of similarity, a security alert is activated. The techniques... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20080033927 - Dynamic repartitioning for distributed search: A distributed search system can comprise a group of nodes assigned to different partitions. Each partition can store indexes for a group of documents. Nodes in the same partition can independently processing document-based records to construct the indexes. One of the nodes can process a stored checkpoint to produce a... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080033926 - Search tool using multiple different search engine types across different data sets: Various embodiments provide a search tool that utilizes multiple different search engines. The individual search engines are configured to conduct searches in different ways across a search space that includes different types of data sets. In at least some embodiments, the type of search engine that is utilized is a... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080033931 - Cap-sensitive text search for documents: A capitalization-sensitive (“Cap-sensitive”) search is a feature that provides the ability to specify as search criteria both a term and a capitalization characteristic or signature of the term. There are conventional approaches that enable a capital-sensitive approach to be performed from within a document.... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080033930 - Computer-implemented method and system for enabling communication between networked users based on common characteristics: A computer-implemented method and system for enabling communication between networked users based on search queries and common characteristics is disclosed. Particular embodiments relate to receiving a search query from a first user and establishing a communication link between the first user and a second user based on the first user's... Agent: James H. Salter

20080033934 - Distributed query search: A distributed search system can comprise a group of nodes assigned to different partitions. Each partition can store a partial index for a group of documents. At least one of the nodes can receive a search request from a user, send the request to a set of nodes, receive partial... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080033939 - Method for relevancy ranking of products in online shopping: A method, system and computer program product for ranking of products related to a product category in online shopping. A search query for one or more products is received from a user. A set of attributes and features of each attribute are extracted related to a product category for each... Agent: William L. Botjer

20080033929 - Systems, methods, and software for identifying relevant legal documents: To facilitate legal research, companies, such as Thomson West provide subscription-based online information-retrieval systems. Seeking to improve these and/or related systems, the present inventors devised, among other things, an exemplary legal research system that performs a conventional search to identify a set of starter documents and then leverages the metadata... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080033940 - Database query enabling selection by partial column name: A system and method for allowing selection of data columns from a database or data table by specifying a partial column name, such as an improved or extended Structured Query Language (SQL) SELECT command, by first determining if a partial column name has been specified in a phrase or option... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20080033943 - Distributed index search: A distributed search system can comprise a central queue of document-based records and a group of nodes assigned to different partitions. Each partition can store indexes for a set of documents. Nodes in the same partition can independently processing the document-based records off of the central queue to construct the... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080033942 - Substring search algorithm optimized for hardware acceleration: Techniques are provided for generating a hash value for searching for substrings in a data stream without reading more than one element (e.g. one byte) at a time. According to one technique, a before a next element is added to an old hash value, the old hash value is circularly... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080033941 - Verfied network identity with authenticated biographical information: A method of limiting chat room anonymity. The method may include receiving biographical information pertaining to an unverified individual, authenticating that the biographical information is correct for the individual, assigning the individual a verified chat room username that is linked to the authenticated biographical information, and using the authenticated biographical... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20080033949 - Electronic apparatus and method therefor: An electronic apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an interface for connecting to a host; an input unit; a display unit; a storage unit for storing files, attributes associated with the files, a file list which stores file records each of which corresponds to one of the files and stores... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080033946 - Method and system to provide contextual, intelligent address book listings: A system and method of providing address book listings. The system and method includes determining a weight of each identifier in an address book and sorting each identifier in a descending order or ascending order according to the determined weight. The list is provided to a user based on the... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080033947 - Rating system and method of monitoring ratings: A rating system is provided including means for a user to submit a rating with an indication of the identity of the user. A retrieval means retrieves a user group type from a directory using the indication of the identity of the user. A storage means stores the rating together... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20080033948 - Storage apparatus and method therefor: A method for selecting files from a storage apparatus is provided. The apparatus stores files, attributes associated with the files, and a file list. The file list stores a predetermined number of file records each of which corresponds to one of the files and stores a predetermined number of the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080033950 - Methods and systems for managing to do items or notes or electronic messages: Methods and systems for managing To do items and/or notes and/or emails (or other electronic messages) are described. On exemplary method includes receiving an input to create a To do item based on a portion of an email record, such as a received email, and creating, in response to the... Agent: Apple Computer, Inc./blakely

20080033955 - Data management system, and access authorization setting method, and computer product: A mail server receives and analyzes email, and extracts an identifier. The mail server sends the identifier and address information related to the email to a management server. The management server sets access authorization to data specified by the identifier to allow a user corresponding to the address information to... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20080033958 - Distributed search system with security: A distributed search system can comprise a group of nodes assigned to different partitions. Each partition can store indexes for a group of documents. Nodes in the same partition can independently process document-based records to construct the indexes. The document-based records can include an access control list for the document.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080033956 - Distribution of content document to varying users with security customization and scalability: A system and method for receiving a request for a container document, determining whether the request is for a container document associated with a user group, determining whether a requestor of the request is associated with a level of status within the user group among a plurality of levels of... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080033957 - Electronic calendar events drop box: A meeting originator associates a file with a meeting event by dropping the file on a meeting event window displayed within a calendar window. The file is copied to a directory on the originator's computer and a meeting invitation is created containing a directory path to a corresponding directory on... Agent: Apple Computer, Inc./blakely

20080033954 - Method and system for securing application information in system-wide search engines: A system for securing application information in a shared, system-wide search service. Each application can register a security filtering module that is to be used at search time to filter data associated with that application. When a user performs a search, initial, unfiltered search results are obtained based the contents... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software Mcguinness & Manaras LLP

20080033953 - Method to search transactional web pages: A method of performing transactional web page searches is disclosed. The method includes examining a plurality of web pages, identifying transactional features within a set of the plurality of web pages, and classifying the set of web pages as transactional. The method proceeds with annotating and indexing the transactional web... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Tuscon Division

20080033964 - Failure recovery for distributed search: A distributed search system can comprise a group of nodes assigned to different partitions. Each partition can store indexes for a group of documents. Nodes in the same partition can independently processing document-based records to construct the indexes. In case of a failure, a checkpoint can be loaded into a... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080033965 - Flexible request and response communications interfaces: Methods and systems for database storage allowing subscriber entities to create specialized interfaces for storing different classes of information based on subscribed-defined categories and parameters, allowing for efficient search and retrieval of the information by users using the subscriber-defined categories and parameters. A method for processing a search request comprises... Agent: Fernandez & Associates LLP

20080033962 - Proxy service providing apparatus, control method, and network system: A proxy service providing apparatus includes a service search unit adapted to, upon receiving, from a connection device connectable to a network, a request of a service provided by each device connected to the network, search for a providable service to the connection device in accordance with a relationship with... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080033966 - System and method for recovery detection in a distributed directory service: A distributed information processing system comprising a collection of servers providing a directory service with a shared view of a directory information tree is augmented with the ability to determine whether one or more of those directory servers have had their view of the directory information tree replaced with one... Agent: Mark Wahl

20080033911 - Microeconomic mechanism for distributed indexing: A distributed index for discovering distributed data sources and computing resources based on predicates on attributes is provided. Proposed is a non-altruistic scheme for indexing distributed data, in which nodes are provided with incentives to cooperate in the referencing of data and the routing of search requests for indexed data.... Agent: Ip Authority, LLC Ramraj Soundararajan

20080033912 - Query workload statistics collection in a database management system: In various embodiments, a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture collect statistics in a database management system. A workload comprising a plurality of database queries is received. Query statistics for the database queries are identified. The query statistics for the database queries are consolidated to provide consolidated statistics. One or... Agent: International Business Machines Corp.

20080033928 - Efficient fuzzy matching of a test item to items in a database: A database includes a repository of data segments to be searched, called standard streams. But rather than searching all possible segments of each standard stream, the database includes a set of index files that reference a number of different segments in the repository. Each index file provides information about whether... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080033932 - Concept-aware ranking of electronic documents within a computer network: Techniques are described for ranking the relevance of electronic documents, such as web pages. An algorithm extracts keywords and recurring phrases from the anchor tag data in electronic documents to define a set of concepts. The algorithm then uses link, concept pairs to create nodes in a graph. In this... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20080033933 - Correlating genealogy records systems and methods: A method of consolidating genealogy records includes partitioning the records using at least one index file to form one or more partitions, sorting the records in a partition based on a data element in the records, comparing records within a sort range, based on the comparison, identifying same person records,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080033937 - Indexing system and method for nearest neighbor searches in high dimensional data spaces: Vectors representing objects in n-dimensional space are approximated by local polar coordinates on partitioned cells of the data space in response to a query, e.g., a query data vector entered with a request to find “k” nearest neighbors to the query vector. A set of candidate near neighbors is generated... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080033938 - Keyword outputting apparatus, keyword outputting method, and keyword outputting computer program product: A keyword outputting apparatus includes a document receiving unit that receives documents in a specific time period. A keywords analyzing unit analyzes the documents for possible keywords. A keyword extracting unit calculates a score for each keyword and extracts the keywords in order of the score. A keyword-structure generating unit... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080033935 - Systems and methods for presenting results of geographic text searches: Under one aspect, an interface program stored on a computer-readable medium causes a computer system with a display device to perform the functions of: accepting an initialization request from a user to initialize an interface with a location-related search engine; in response to accepting the initialization request from the user,... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080033936 - Systems and methods for presenting results of geographic text searches: Under one aspect, an interface program causes a computer system to accept search criteria including a free-text query and a domain identifier identifying a domain in a metric vector space; obtaining a set of document-location tuples satisfying the search criteria from a corpus of documents; and determining whether the tuples... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080033945 - Search engine system supporting inclusion of unformatted search string after domain name portion of url: A web site system provides functionality for searching a repository of information, such as the World Wide Web, by including a search string at the end of a URL without any special formatting. In one embodiment, when the system receives a request for a URL of the form www.domain_name/char_string, where... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080033944 - Systems and methods for presenting results of geographic text searches: Under one aspect, an interface program stored on a computer-readable medium causes a computer system to perform the functions of: accepting search criteria from a user, the search criteria including a free-text query and a domain identifier, the domain identifier identifying a domain in a metric vector space; in response... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080033952 - Atomically moving list elements between lists using read-copy update: A system, method and computer program product for atomically moving a shared list element from a first list location to a second list location includes inserting a placeholder element at the second list location to signify to readers that a move operation is underway, removing the shared list element from... Agent: Walter W. Duft

20080033951 - System and method for managing context-rich database: A system and method for maintaining a data cluster of records referring to a same object or phenomenon in a context-rich database are provided. The method comprises assessing each record of the data cluster entered by a source on a predetermined number of parameters to develop a quality score for... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080033960 - Database system providing encrypted column support for applications: A database system providing encrypted column data support with decrypt default functionality. In a database system, a method providing automated encryption support for column data comprises steps of: defining Structured Query Language (SQL) extensions for creating and managing column encryption keys and database tables with encrypted column data; receiving an... Agent: John A. Smart

20080033959 - Method, system, and computer readable storage for affiliate group searching: A method for allowing an information seeker to utilize affiliate group searching involving human searchers who are members of particular information affiliate groups. Each affiliate group has an area of expertise in which they are particularly skilled. In at least one embodiment, the method includes accepting designation of an affiliate... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080033961 - Electronic document browsing: According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of operating a browser, the browser operable for accessing electronic documents accessible via a document server, at least some of the electronic documents having associated therewith a data package intended for storage by the browser, comprising: receiving... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080033963 - System and method for efficient replication and distribution of data objects: A main execution thread retrieves a data object from a comparatively slow, mass storage device as a series of data blocks and stores each data block within an addressable element of a global counted list stored in memory. The main execution thread initiates a communication thread for each recipient device.... Agent: Edell, Shapiro, & Finnan, LLC

20080033969 - Electronic document management method and system: A virtual online document management system wherein an original document is broken down into logical pages before uploading into the document repository in a network environment. Each logical page is converted into a separate electronic image file. Each logical page is an addressable unit within the computer's storage. A virtual... Agent: Sing Chi Koo

20080033970 - Electronic previous search results log: A method for providing a viewable search results log to allow determination of the effectiveness of search strategies and sharing results of searches with others. The search results log reveals search strategies utilized by a human searcher with which the search results log is associated. The search results produced by... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080033968 - Methods and apparatus for input specialization: A program specializer employs input specialized data structures by generating an input specialized definition of a set of data elements, and parsing an application program to identify data element references to data elements in the generated input specialized definitions of data elements. A data structure generator responsive to the program... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20080033967 - Semantic aware processing of xml documents: Semantic aware processing of XML documents treats elements that have different names but that are semantically equivalent as being the same element when performing operations that depend on element names, such as querying and schema validation. The semantic aware processing is based on a mapping that maps each element name... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080033971 - Analyzing the ability to find textual content: A method and system for analyzing a document set (202, 420) are provided. The method includes determining a set of terms (312) from the terms of the document set that minimizes a distance measurement (405) from the given set of documents (420). The method includes using a greedy algorithm to... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20080033972 - Common information model for web service for management with aspect and dynamic patterns for real-time system management: A system and method is disclosed for reducing the effects of cross-profile crosscutting concerns to enable just-in-time configuration updates and real-time adaptation in the Common Information Model (CIM). The CIM object model is thereby allowed to adapt to dynamic role, resource, or service changes such as logging, debugging, security or... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080033973 - Data registration method and apparatus: A data registration apparatus sets first data compression and second data compression, acquires the limit of the data amount of data to be registered in a database, and inputs data to be registered in the database. The data registration apparatus performs the first data compression and the second data compression... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080033975 - Isolated ordered regions (ior) node order: Method for ordering nodes within hierarchical data. The concept of isolated ordered regions to maintain coordinates of nodes is used by associating each node with coordinates relative to a containing region. Modifications to nodes within a region only affect the nodes in that region, and not nodes in other regions.... Agent: Ip Authority, LLC Ramraj Soundararajan

20080033976 - Metadata management for a data abstraction model: A method, system and article of manufacture for managing metadata associated with a data abstraction model abstractly describing data in a database. One embodiment provides a method of managing metadata describing objects of a data abstraction model with logical fields that define abstract views of physical data in a database.... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080033974 - Method and apparatus for xml parsing using parallel bit streams: One embodiment of the present invention is an apparatus that processes XML, which apparatus comprises (a) an XML interface module that applies Document Type Definitions, XML Schema, XPath expressions and other XML model information to an XML model processor and applies XML character stream data to a parallel bit stream... Agent: Michael B. Einschlag, Esq.

20080033978 - Program, data processing method, and system of same: An MXF parser thread 43 parses data MXF_D, being, mixed together, a plurality of video data PIC, a plurality of audio data SOU, and system data SYS. Then, it generates video file attribute data VFPD concerning the video based on the parsed system data and metadata META and generates video... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080033977 - Script generating system and method: A method includes receiving data from a user indicating a selection of a procedure, automatically selecting at least one template to implement the procedure, and extracting table structure information related to the procedure from a database management system dictionary. The method further includes manipulating the table structure information and automatically... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080033983 - Data recording and reproducing apparatus and method of generating metadata: A data recording and reproducing apparatus and a method of generating metadata are provided. The data recording and reproducing apparatus includes: a signal processor capturing images, processing the captured images to generate image data, and generating an image file that includes the image data; a speech recognition unit recognizing speech... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080033979 - Integrated playlist generator: A system and method for playlist generation is configured to augment a playlist derived from selections from a user's collection with selections from beyond the user's collection. Both the user's collection and external sources are searched for entertainment items that conform to the user's preferences, and the resultant playlist includes... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080033981 - Method and system for navigating within a body of data using one of a number of alternative browse graphs: A facility for navigating within a body of data using one of a number of distinct browse graphs is described. Initially, a navigation request is received. Based upon information contained in the received navigation request, the facility selects one of the plurality of browse graphs. In response to user input,... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080033980 - System and method for automatically adjusting file system settings: There is provided a system and method for automatically adjusting file system settings. More specifically, in one embodiment, there is provided a a method comprising accessing a data file containing performance data for a computer, wherein the data file was created by a stacked module, identifying a setting of the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080033982 - System and method for determining concepts in a content item using context: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for indexing one or more items of content. The method of the present invention comprises extracting one or more items of text from a given item of content. The one or more items of extracted text are tokenized into one or... Agent: Seth H. Ostrow, Esq. Dreier LLP

20080033984 - Systems and methods for data point processing: Systems and methods for processing a data point in a selected data file. A data file is processed and value for each data point is stored in a first system cache. A data operation using a predetermined operator is executed on at least one data point. A second system cache... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080033985 - Biomedical information modeling: Among other things, configuring an information collection/retrieval system includes receiving a data file structured to describe biological data, generating a first metadata representation of a first part of the data file, generating a first configuration file based on the first metadata representation; and configuring the information collection/retrieval system using the... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080033986 - Search engine for audio data: Audio streams are captured and simultaneously indexed in real time from a plurality of audio sources. The captured audio streams and index data of the captured audio streams from the plurality of audio sources are then stored. The storing process operates by temporarily storing the most recently captured audio streams,... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20080033987 - Primenet data management system: A data structure includes a plurality of records that are mapped to the nodes of a primenet structure, where each node is uniquely identified by an integer node identifier. In the primenet structure, each node is associated with an integer node identifier and an information item. Each particular node having... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080033988 - System and method of processing content: A system and method for centrally processing content, independent of an end user application. The method includes receiving a request for information from one or more end user applications and retrieving all pieces of content, associated with the request, from one or more repositories. The method further includes centrally processing... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080033989 - Compression scheme for improving cache behavior in database systems: A scheme for accessing a multi-dimensional index structure resident in main memory to refer to data objects stored in a database is disclosed. To reduce the amount of accessed index data, the scheme compresses a minimum bounding rectangle (“MBR”). The first step to compress the MBR is to represent the... Agent: Chung K. Ko #2190

20080033998 - Agent for identifying domains with content arranged for display by a mobile device: A system, apparatus, and method are disclosed for providing a single source for searchable content by mobile devices. Mobile user agents crawl host sites to determine whether there is content that may be viewed by any of the mobile user agents. If files are identified as viewable for a given... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080034001 - Cell phone nutrition service: A cellular phone-based nutrition information system. The cellular phone-based nutrition information system is designed to provide nutrition information to an end-user corresponding to the menu of a specified food service provider in order to allow the end-user to make informed decisions when ordering a meal through the use of a... Agent: Pitts And Brittian P C

20080033993 - Database access through ontologies with semi-automatic semantic mapping: A method for accessing databases through ontologies by using an IRIS (Information Representation, Inferencing and Sharing) architecture that includes nodes and links, the method comprising: representing a graph model of the ontologies, where the ontologies include concepts, properties, and relations; defining the graph model through high-level constraints; using a plurality... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080033995 - Identifying events that correspond to a modified version of a process: Events are received from at least one source. An abstract definition of a process provides a modified version of the process. In accordance with mapping information, events from the received events corresponding to the modified version of the process are identified. Data relating to execution of the process is stored... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080033994 - Interactive voice controlled project management system: A method for facilitating project management includes identifying a user, identifying a project management access level for the user, dynamically generating a voice dialog based on the identified project management access level, dynamically generating grammars associated with the voice dialog based on the identified project management access level, and serving... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080033990 - Media playback system and method: A method of playing media stored on a media player (MP) is disclosed. The method includes identifying at least one media program and specifying a date and time to begin playing each media program, to provide a time-schedule playlist. The method further includes specifying a gap-response to a gap in... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rsw

20080033991 - Prediction of future performance of a dbms: A method and system to predict future performance of a database management system (DBMS) is disclosed. The invention uses a time series of historical data of operating parameters to predict future values of the operating parameters. The predicted future values of the operating are used to predict the future performance... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080033992 - Related media content assets: Related media content assets is described. In an embodiment, an index of media content assets which are associated with defining attributes can be maintained. At least some of the media content assets in the index can have in common one or more of the defining attributes. The media content assets... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080033996 - Techniques for approximating the visual layout of a web page and determining the portion of the page containing the significant content: To approximate a visual layout of a web page without rendering the page, an object tree representing elements within the page is recursively traversed to determine bounds for the width of the elements, resulting in lower bounds induced for non-leaf nodes by elements within these nodes and upper bounds induced... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080033997 - Transformation tool for migration of web-based content to portal: A transformation tool is provided to web designers and developers, allowing the output of conventional web development and design tools to be applied to a wide range of portal components. As a result, web designers and developers are enabled to reuse, redefine, rename, and remold portal facilities to create new... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20080033999 - Bioinformatics system architecture with data and process integration: A bioinformatics system and method is provided for integrated processing of biological data. According to one embodiment, the invention provides an interlocking series of target identification, target validation, lead identification, and lead optimization modules in a discovery platform oriented around specific components of the drug discovery process. The discovery platform... Agent: Roberts, Mlotkowski & Hobbes

20080034000 - Document validation system and method: The present invention relates generally to the field of self-validating documents in supply chain management, documentation services and method for creating the same.... Agent: Peacock Myers, P.C.

20080034002 - Skills database management system and method: A computer-based on-line skills/résumé management system, the system comprising: (a) a relational database having a plurality of fields wherein a portion of the fields are arranged in a hierarchical relationship; (b) database population mechanism for populating the database with information, the population mechanism interfacing with a first user and prompting... Agent: Synnestvedt & Lechner, LLP

20080034005 - Control device for storage system capable of acting as a constituent element of virtualization storage system: A management target constituting the target of processing executed by a first storage system in accordance with a request transmitted from a higher-level device is managed by first and second management identifiers. A request designating the first management identifier is received from the higher-level device, and a first management identifier... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080034003 - Efficient non-database file-expiration management for document retention: Disclosed are a method, system, program and data structure for implementing a records retention policy by storing selected files for designated lengths of time and then deleting them only when that time has passed. Embodiments of the invention perform this function in an efficient database-free manner. Embodiments of the invention... Agent: Canady & Lortz LLP- Ibm

20080034006 - Method and apparatus for automatically classifying files on mobile communication terminal: A method and apparatus for automatically classifying files on a mobile communication terminal are provided. The inventive method and apparatus enable the files to be automatically classified and copied into a desired storage folder on the mobile communication terminal. An exemplary method for automatically classifying files on a mobile communication... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20080034004 - System for electronic backup: Systems and methods are provided for storing backup data. In one implementation, a method is provided. An external device coupled to a computer system for use in storing backup data is automatically identified. Backup data for the system is stored on the identified storage device. The stored backup data includes... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080034007 - Dynamic optimization of prepared statements in a statement pool: An apparatus, program product and method dynamically optimize prepared statements resident in a statement pool to permit subsequent reuses of such statements to utilize the optimized representations of such statements. The optimization of pooled statements may be performed responsive to the tracked usage of the statements in a statement pool,... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20080034009 - Method and system for using global equivalency sets to identify data during peer-to-peer synchronization: Systems and methods for synchronization including the use of a global equivalency identification datum or set of datum. A universally unique identification datum may be associated with each independently created associated data set. In some embodiments, a synchronization server software element may be responsible for maintaining synchronization for a plurality... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20080034010 - Methods and apparatus for views of input specialized references: A program specializer employs input specialized data structures by generating an input specialized definition of a set of data elements, and parsing an application program to identify data element references to data elements in the generated input specialized definitions of data elements. The program specializer replaces or rewrites the identified... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20080034008 - User side database: Internet applications provide personalized experiences, such as, a personalized greeting, by retrieving user information from a database maintained by a network content provider. A copy of at least some of the user information stored by the network content provider is saved on the user's computer by a user information manager... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080034011 - Restoring electronic information: Systems and methods are provided for automatic detection of data loss to system or a particular application. In one implementation a method is provided. The method includes identifying a loss of data associated with a current view. An alert is generated identifying the loss of data. A user is prompted... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080034012 - Extending hierarchical synchronization scopes to non-hierarchical scenarios: Extending hierarchical synchronization (sync) scopes to non-hierarchical scenarios may involve a method for synchronizing differently organized data stores comprising mapping different physical organizations to similar logical organizations and utilizing an organization-based synchronization algorithm to synchronize the differently organized stores. Also, the uniqueness constraints of the organizations may be preserved as... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080034013 - User interface for backup management: Systems and methods for providing a user interface including earlier versions of data. In one implementation, computer program product is provided. The computer program product generates a user interface. The user interface includes a view display area for presenting a current view and a history view display area for presenting... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080034016 - Consistent back up of electronic information: Systems and methods are provided for performing backup operations while a user is using a device. In one implementation, a method is provided. A backup operation of data including a plurality of related items is initiated. Modifications to one or more items of the plurality of related items are monitored... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080034020 - Information processing apparatus, content processing method, storage medium, and program: An information apparatus searches content that is stored in a database by using a search engine based on a newly input keyword; acquires a search operation history of the content that is acquired by the search engine via an operation history engine; and updates the keyword associated with the content... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080034017 - Links to a common item in a data structure: Systems and methods are provided for linking data. In one implementation a method is provided. A first backup is generated. The first backup includes a first hierarchical file system, where entries in the first hierarchal file system reference corresponding source data of the first backup. A second backup is generated.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080034018 - Managing backup of content: Systems and methods for generating incremental backups are provided. In one implementation a method is provided. The method includes receiving, while a current view is displayed in a user interface, a first user input requesting that a history view associated with the current view be displayed. The history view is... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080034014 - Replication system with methodology for replicating stored procedure calls: A replication system with methodology for replicating stored procedure calls is described. In one embodiment, for example, in a database system without support for logging stored procedure invocations, a method of the present invention is described for replicating invocation of a stored procedure from a primary database to a replicate... Agent: John A. Smart

20080034015 - System and method for automated on demand replication setup: A method of automatic replication setup is disclosed. The method allows the business application user to focus on the requirements posed by the business application and to abstract from the low level infrastructure details. Information specific to the databases and infrastructure design decisions can be provided by a subject matter... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rsw

20080034019 - System for multi-device electronic backup: A system creates electronic backups on one or more devices. In one implementation, a method is provided. A backup operation is initiated for a system. The backup operation is configured to store backup data to a storage device. A determination is made as to whether the system is coupled to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080034021 - Efficient computer file backup system and method: A system and method for efficiently backing up and restoring computer files to a central storage system. A hashing key is computed for each file to be backed up on a target computer. The hashing key is compared to a list of hashing keys stored locally to see if the... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080034022 - System and method for updating references when incrementally compacting a heap: A method, system, and computer-usable medium for updating references while incrementally compacting a heap. A compaction manager initializes each entry in a compaction data structure with a terminating value, where each entry within the compaction data structure corresponds to an address within a first compaction region. The compaction manager locates... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP