Data processing: database and file management or data structures inventions 03/08

20080077549 - Data verification systems and methods based on messaging data: Embodiments consistent with the present invention relate to methods and systems for verifying data of an application system. Consistent with exemplary embodiments, such methods and systems may send a message including data copied from a first data set processed by a first processing component and then store outbound messaging data... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20080077550 - Electronic apparatus having data playback function, database creation method for the apparatus, and database creation program: An electronic apparatus having a data playback function may include a display; a connection unit through which the electronic apparatus is connected to an external medium storing data that can be played back; a database creation unit that extracts retrieval information used for retrieving the data stored in the external... Agent: Alpine/bhgl

20080077553 - Dynamic reprioritization of search engine results: A computer implemented method and computer program product for reprioritizing the search results of a search engine. A user, using a search engine performs an initial search. The search engine ranks and displays the search results to the user. The user then accesses one or more links displayed on the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080077554 - Methods and devices for optimizing the processing of xml documents: Methods and devices for optimizing the processing of documents of the XML type comprising components are described. After having identified the required XML document and the processing mode that is to be performed on this document, for example forward or backward, the client sends a request comprising this information. On... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080077556 - System and method for applying real-time optimization of internet websites for improved search engine positioning: A system and method providing real-time search engine optimization comprising creating a static URL addressing and hierarchical structure, analysis to determine an optimized search engine configuration for each Web page or document, and dynamic processing for each Web page requested by an end user or search engine crawler.... Agent: Eugenio J. Torres

20080077552 - Systems and methods for analyzing multiple states in one or more groups of data: Systems and methods are disclosed that allow a user to create a template for analyzing data in a database. The template specifies at least one table, columns from at least one table to be included in the analysis, and analysis options for the columns. The options for one of the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080077563 - Determining logically-related sub-strings of a string: Techniques are provided for determining which sub-strings of a string are logically related to the string. In one embodiment, sub-strings of a string are considered logically related to the string if the sub-strings frequently appear as queries in the same sessions in which the string itself appears as a query.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080077561 - Internet site access monitoring: Internet site access monitoring techniques are disclosed. A method may include receiving a search query and preparing a search response. The search response may include a trigger script and one or more advertiser links. The search response is provided to the user. User activation of an advertiser link may be... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20080077565 - Method for finding at least one web service, among a plurality of web services described by respective semantic descriptions, in different forms or languages: t

20080077559 - System and method for automatic 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

20080077562 - System and method for relating ratings by entities to associations among the entities: Systems and methods for relating provider ratings by entities to associations among the entities. In one embodiment, a request may be received by a requesting entity for a provider rating; a search for existing provider ratings by other entities may be performed; and the existing provider ratings may be provided... Agent: Giorgos A. Georgakis Chowdhury & Georgakis, PC

20080077558 - Systems and methods for generating multiple implicit search queries: Systems and methods for generating multiple implicit search queries are described. In one described system, a query system receives a user context attribute and generates a plurality of implicit search queries based at least in part on the user context attribute. The query system then receives result sets associated with... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20080077560 - Systems, methods, and language for selection and retrieval of information from databases: The invention provides a system configured to enable a first entity to query a second entity for a result, the system comprising a language specification component and an interface between the first entity and the second entity. The language specification component defines a communications language by which the first and... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20080077566 - System, method and computer program product for querying data relationships over a network: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for querying data relationships over a network. These mechanisms and methods for querying data relationships over a network can enable embodiments to provide the capability to query for more than a single entity at a time. The ability of embodiments... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080077572 - clustering data objects: A system for clustering data objects includes a module for calculating an importance value of at least one member in a first data object represented as a variable length vector of 0 to N members and a clustering module for dynamically forming a plurality of clusters containing one or more... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080077579 - Classification for peer-to-peer collaboration: A system and method for classifying content objects. The system includes a database and a classification application. The database is configured to store a plurality of content objects. The classification application is coupled to the database and configured to cluster content objects and implement at least one level of classification,... Agent: HolmanIPLaw

20080077580 - Content searching for peer-to-peer collaboration: A system and method for searching content objects. The system includes a client, a cache, and a content searching application. The client is capable of accessing content objects over the internet. The cache is coupled to the client and configured to store at least a partial copy of object vectors... Agent: HolmanIPLaw

20080077578 - Feature extraction for peer-to-peer collaboration: A system and method for feature extraction of a content object. The system includes a database and a feature extraction application. The database is configured to database to store a plurality of content objects. The feature extraction application is coupled to the database and configured to process each content object,... Agent: HolmanIPLaw

20080077567 - Identification of job candidates based on statistical process: A method for identifying at least one candidate for a job is disclosed. The method includes calculating, for each candidate from a plurality of candidates, a list of attribute values and a first value based on the list of attribute values. The method further includes reading a list of ideal... Agent: Kaliko & Yeager, L.L.C.

20080077575 - Information processing apparatus and method, program and recording medium: Herein disclosed an information processing apparatus for providing a service of introducing, from a predetermined item which is to make a reference, associated items associated with the reference item to one or more different information processing apparatus, including: an association degree collection section configured to collect association degrees applied between... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080077569 - Integrated search service system and method: In particular embodiments, an integrated search system and method for clustering search results into a plurality of groups based on its contents, each of the groups linked by a representative image, is disclosed. The system includes a clustering engine, an image engine, a database, and a web server. The clustering... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080077576 - Peer-to-peer collaboration: A system and method for indexing content. The system includes a crawler, a crawl database, an indexer, a classification application, and an indexed data server. The crawler is configured to crawl the internet for content objects. The crawl database is coupled to the crawler and configured to cache the content... Agent: HolmanIPLaw

20080077581 - System and method for providing medical disposition sensitive content: A system and method operable to collect user created content uploaded to an online community, including uniform codes and terms, and determine a category of related content that the user is most likely to be interested in. Embodiments of the system and method are particularly adapted to systematically parse and... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20080077568 - Talent identification system and method: Systems and methods are disclosed for automatically identifying talent from quality and popularity data available on a computing network. The computing network is monitored and new content items and their associated publishers are identified. In addition, quality and popularity data associated with each content item are retrieved from one or... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080077574 - Topic based recommender system & methods: A recommendation system is used to provide suggestions in environments such as message boards, RSS aggregators, blogs and the like by comparing member interests and creating recommendation items corresponding to categorized topics or other members. In some instances a natural language can assist in processing content to sort it into... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney

20080077585 - Recommending keywords based on bidding patterns: Techniques for cross-selling keywords among keyword bidding entities (e.g., advertisers) based upon bidding patterns are provided. Utilizing a keyword suggestion tool in accordance with one embodiment, upon receipt of a first keyword, may examine all additional keywords that have been paired with the first keyword in the bidding patterns of... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080077591 - Computer program product for conducting a lock free read: The present invention expounds upon the ANSI “read committed” isolation level by allowing readers to read committed data without waiting for a concurrent writer to the data to finish. The method returns a last committed version of the data as it existed prior to changes made by the concurrent writer.... Agent: Kunzler And Associates David J. Mckenzie

20080077590 - Efficient journaling and recovery mechanism for embedded flash file systems: Implicit journaling of a file operation relating to a file stored in a flash memory is performed by locking a semaphore corresponding to the file on which a file operation is to be performed, by initializing journaling of the file operation using the file map, by performing the file operation... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080077592 - method and apparatus for device authentication: In some embodiments, an apparatus and method includes storing in a database at least one device record of an associated pair of parameters received from at least one client device during a provisioning of the at least one client device, with the associated pair of parameters including a build predefined... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20080077594 - Providing a user access to data files distributed in a plurality of different types of user devices: A method of providing a user access to data files distributed in a plurality of different types of user devices is described. According to the method, a copy of data files stored locally at each user device is received at a server via a respective network communication link. Index information... Agent: Sony C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080077595 - System and method for facilitating online social networking: A method for operating a website for an online social networking includes the steps of receiving a group picture containing a plurality of individuals, receiving identification information regarding the individuals in the group picture, displaying the group picture, and selectively displaying labels for the individuals after the individuals confirm that... Agent: Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff LLP Attn:IPDepartment Docket Clerk

20080077596 - System and method for multi-camera live video feed over a network: An internet user visits a web site and requests to see imagery from a specified one of a plurality of video cameras. At a system associated with the web site, a load distribution server assigns the user's request to one of a plurality of image servers. The assigned image server... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20080077551 - System and method for linking multiple entities in a business database: Embodiments of a system and method are described for determining whether an applicant is a multiple-business owner and for providing information related to multiple-business owners to a financial service provider or other client. According to one embodiment, a computing system is provided to collect and store business data and identify... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080077557 - Detecting and processing cache hits for queries with aggregates: Techniques to improve query caching performance by efficiently selecting queries stored in a cache for evaluation and increasing the cache hit rate by allowing for inexact matches. A list of candidate queries stored in the cache that potentially could be used to answer a new query is first determined. This... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20080077555 - Variable data workflow system and method: The variable data workflow system and method of the present invention can provide a one:many relationship between input/variables and a plurality of different types of items produced by the system and method. The invention allows for the collection of data and further analysis of recipients, in particular for adding them... Agent: Burns & Levinson, LLP

20080077564 - Document-search supporting apparatus and computer program product therefor: A user is prompted to select two source queries. By using each of the two selected source queries, a searching process is performed on a structured document database so that source query results are presented to the user. With regard to predetermined structural parts from the source query results obtained... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080077570 - Full text query and search systems and method of use: Roughly described, a database searching method for searching a database, in which hits are ranked in dependence upon an information measure of itoms shared by both the hit and the query. The information measure can be a Shannon information score, or another measure which indicates the information value of the... Agent: Haynes Beffel & Wolfeld LLP

20080077573 - Method and apparatus for matching non-normalized data values: Enables locating and merging potential data record matches. Enables locating duplicates through the definition of matching strategies. Each strategy may include transformations, matching rules and scoring thresholds to implement fuzzy matches that match closely related data records that are not exact matches. Performing a search allows for narrowing down the... Agent: Sap_dlg

20080077584 - Method for deferred deletion of entries for a directory service backing store: A method for deleting entries from a directory in which directory information is stored in a set of database tables begins upon a request to delete a directory entry. In response, the directory entry is tagged, preferably by setting the entry's creation time to a null value. If a search... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080077571 - Methods, systems, and computer-readable mediums for providing persisting and continuously updating search folders: Providing persisting search folders within a computer that continuously identify data items having metadata matching a query of search criteria. A query of search criteria formulated via a graphical user interface is applied to a search filter to create a search folder. When the search folder is made live, the... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080077577 - Research and monitoring tool to determine the likelihood of the public finding information using a keyword search: A method and system of ranking information according to the likelihood of its being seen as result of a keyword search on any given issue.... Agent: Grace J Fishel

20080077582 - System and method of ad-hoc analysis of data: It is a first aspect of the present invention to provide a computer implemented method of performing ad-hoc analysis including the steps of: generating a text index of the textual information items, generating a metadata lookup structure based, at least in part, on the text index, searching the text index... Agent: Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP

20080077583 - Visual interface for identifying positions of interest within a sequentially ordered information encoding: Embodiments of the present invention provide intuitive, easily used, and efficient visual representation of positions of interest to a user within a sequentially ordered information encoding. In particular, various embodiments of the present invention provide a heat-map-like representation of the relatedness, at each location or position within a sequentially ordered... Agent: Olympic Patent Works PLLC

20080077588 - Identifying and measuring related queries: A system and method are disclosed for identifying similar queries. A user query may be compared with known search keywords. The user query may be a Chinese related query, which is converted into a different form before comparing with other converted queries or keywords. A similarity score based on different... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080077587 - System and method for determining the start of a match of a regular expression: A system for determining the start of a match of a regular expression has a special state table which contains start state entries and terminal state entries; a plurality of start state registers for storing offset information indicative of the start of a match of the regular expression; a deterministic... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20080077586 - System and method for identifying and mitigating redundancies in stored data: In an example of an embodiment of the invention, a repeating pattern is identified within stored data comprising a plurality of data files, each data file comprising at least a header section and a data section stored in an unknown format. At least one occurrence of the repeating pattern is... Agent: Brandon N. Sklar. Esq. (patent Prosecution) Kaye Scholer, LLP

20080077589 - Data presentation device, computer readable medium and data presentation method: A data presentation device with a memory storage area being used without any futility is disclosed. The data presentation device has a function of preparing on a memory and displaying on a display the first through Nth records of presentation target data group in designated sort data that is obtained... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080077593 - Multi-organizational information management system: A multi-organizational information management system provides for full lifecycle tracking of business activities of a complex mix of governmental entities and business organizations by maintaining a secure database of data entities or records to track such activities. The system provides for secure sharing of information among the governments and organizations... Agent: Shughart Thomson & Kilroy, PC

20080077597 - Systems and methods for photograph mapping: Systems and methods for photograph mapping are disclosed herein. In one embodiment a first digital image and at least one user-generated datum is received from at least one user. The first image is geographically organized according to the at least one datum. The first image is associated with at least... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080077600 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method and information processing program: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus including: terminal registration means; sender means; receiver means; history information management means; information selection means; and user registration means.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080077598 - Querying of distributed databases using neutral ontology model for query front end: According to an embodiment, a method includes constructing a neutral ontology model of a query front end characterized by ontology schemata which subsume the plurality of different databases on the network in order to provide a common semantic interface for use in generating queries for data from any of the... Agent: Ostrager Chong Flaherty & Broitman, P.C.

20080077601 - Method, apparatus and system for transforming, converting and processing messages between multiple systems: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method of sending change information from a first database to a second database. The method includes managing a set of transactions to produce a first message. The method also includes transforming the first message into a second message. The method further includes... Agent: Glenn E. Von Tersch Blakeley, Sokoloff, T Aylor & Zafman LLP

20080077599 - Systems and methods for providing adaptive tools for enabling collaborative and integrated decision-making: A system and method for presenting data relating to at least one individualized instructional program, comprising: receiving filtering criteria, accessing at least one repository of data relating to the individualized instructional program, and identifying data responsive to the filtering criteria.... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080077603 - Automated product knowledge catalog: A product catalog is associated with a rules service allowing administrators to conduct examinations of a computer system's health. Rules services establish a set of rules to be run against a particular computer system and thereafter invoke a rules engine. The rules service accesses a product catalog to supply product... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20080077605 - Automatic discovery of application settings' storage locations: Transferring user state data for an application program from a first execution environment to a second execution environment. An interceptor component records interactions between the application program and a data repository when the application program is executed in the first execution environment. The locations of the recorded interactions in the... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20080077602 - Database access computer language: An operating system independent computer language to enable non-technical users to manipulate data from within large pre-existing files or databases with limited involvement of programmers. This language can also be used to distribute the processing for such file manipulations across any group of networked computers.... Agent: Fox Rothschild, LLP

20080077606 - Method and apparatus for facilitating efficient processing of extensible markup language documents: Both an XML schema and XML instance data as correspond to an XML document are provided (301). The XML schema is processed (302) apart from the XML instance data to provide resultant compressed XML schema data while the XML instance data is processed (303) to provide a corresponding XML instance... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080077604 - Methods of de identifying an object data: In an embodiment, the invention provides a method of de identifying an object data. The method comprises steps of obtaining the object data, the object data being data concerning a medical object, identifying at least one confidential identification data in the object data, the confidential identification data being a confidential... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080077607 - Methods and systems for compressing and comparing genomic data: Systems and methods are disclosed for compressing and comparing data such as genomic data. The disclosed systems and methods may include selecting a segment, creating a delta representation of the segment, the delta representation comprising a script, and storing the script. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include receiving... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080077611 - Device, method, and computer program product for structuring digital-content program: A program structuring device includes a play-list collecting unit that collects a play list for a content in which a time series is defined; a first storage unit that stores cutoff points that appear in the play list and are breakpoints of a program structure of the content, in correspondence... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080077610 - Opaque mechanism for web service interoperability: A system, method, and computer program for parsing a schema across a system to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network, comprising the steps of communicating a plurality of data in a data defining mark-up language file by a transport protocol stack; parsing said data defining mark-up language to determine... Agent: Siemans Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.

20080077608 - System and method for appraising risk: A system for appraising risk in a facility may include a computer assembly. The system may also include an appraisal tool program having a summary section and facility process sections. The appraisal tool program may be configured to receive input values in the facility process sections. The input values may... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080077609 - System and methods for context based navigation: A system and method to allow a user in a portal environment to obtain content relevant to the user in resolving and investigating alerts and performing tasks is described. In one embodiment, when a user is notified by an alert associated with the user, a content navigation system dynamically asses... Agent: Sap Portals Israel Ltd.

20080077613 - User interface displaying hierarchical data on a contextual tree structure: A method of creating a document is disclosed. Parent nodes and child nodes associated with the parent nodes are defined in a hierarchical tree. Each parent node contains information associated, with a process. Information in the child nodes are dependent on a position within a hierarchy of the tree and... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080077612 - Working with temporal data: A database including a set of objects, each object being associated with a set of attributes; and a database including a set of objects, each object being associated with a set of attributes, each attribute being associated with a set of business rules for use or modification thereof. The database... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080077615 - Location based information: Location based information may be provided. Data may be received having an entry predicate. The data may comprise, for example, a weblog (blog). The entry predicate may comprise location information defining an applicable zone for the data. Location information may be provided in the received entry predicate when it is... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080077618 - Production monitoring system and method: A production monitoring system for remotely monitoring a production device includes a database, a monitoring device, and a translating device. The database saves attribute data of the production device, and the attribute data includes operation signals, operation statuses, and production data. The monitoring device sends a monitoring message. The translating... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080077614 - System and method for creating user profiles: A computer-implemented method for constructing a profile for a target user is disclosed. The method comprises monitoring electronic communications across a network to identify at least one electronic communication that identifies a target user as an intended message recipient, extracting metadata from content associated with the at least one electronic... Agent: Dreier LLP

20080077619 - Systems and methods for facilitating group activities: Methods and systems for providing a lifestyle companion system are provided. The lifestyle companion system can provide a platform to conduct a user interview. Based on the user interview responses, the system can suggest activities, references, and/or plug-in modules. During performance of activities, the system can provide audio and/or visual... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP Patent Docketing 39/361

20080077620 - Systems and methods for providing audio and visual cues via a portable electronic device: Methods and systems for providing a lifestyle companion system are provided. The lifestyle companion system can provide a platform to conduct a user interview. Based on the user interview responses, the system can suggest activities, references, and/or plug-in modules. During performance of activities, the system can provide audio and/or visual... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP Patent Docketing 39/361

20080077617 - Universal, hierarchical layout of assets in a facility: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates asset management within an industrial environment. A data repository can retain a hierarchical representation of at least one asset persisted within a computer-readable medium. A receiver component can receive an input related to a selection of at least one... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20080077616 - Vehicle management and mission management computer architecture and packaging: A vehicle management and mission management computer architecture and packaging may include a first line replaceable unit and a second line replaceable unit. The first line replaceable unit may include a vehicle management system computer channel coupleable to a group including at least one mission related system and at least... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Boeing

20080077621 - Job scheduling for automatic movement of multidimensional data between live datacubes: Techniques are described for sharing multidimensional data between software systems, such as enterprise software systems. Specifically, the techniques provide mechanisms for defining inter-application “links” for automatically moving data among different databases associated with the enterprise software systems. For example, a system may include a first database storing multidimensional data for... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20080077627 - Data management system: A data management system is provided. The data management system has a management terminal for displaying a list of data recorded in a recording apparatus on a screen to perform an operation of giving a command of deleting the data an item of which is displayed in the list on... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080077624 - Method for high performance optimistic item level replication: A method, article, and system for rapidly replicating a data record change in a database while minimizing the need for the database servers to negotiate what data will be replicated, by allowing the source server to independently decide what changes the destination server requires. The minimization of the required negotiations... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Lotus

20080077622 - Method of and apparatus for managing data utilizing configurable policies and schedules: A system and method for managing data is described herein. A Data Manager (DM) is an application that is able to be situated on a server or a user system to provide capabilities of managing user data. The user data is located and knowledge of where the data is located... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20080077625 - Output processing with dynamic registration of external translators: Output processing includes inputting an electronic file of a document to an outputting device capable of output processing operations. A database of external translators is maintained by the device for conversion of file formats from non-native file formats. If the format of the file is a native format, it is... Agent: Law Offices Of Larry K. Roberts, Inc.

20080077623 - Representing file data using virtual hierarchy: Data in a file is read to virtual, autonomous, hierarchically structured object classes that are independent of an application implementation. The object classes are navigable and/or actionable allowing various operations including, but not limited to, validation, integrity testing, “file open”, and file repair at the data level. By rendering a... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080077626 - System and method for modifying a media library: A method, computer program product, and client electronic device for rendering a radio media data file on a client electronic device. An indication of the user's desire to add the radio media data file to a media library file is received from the user of the client electronic device. In... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080077628 - Conflict resolution for distributed processing systems: Disclosed are a method, information processing system, and computer readable medium for managing data conflicts in a remote shared data store. The method includes receiving at least one modification request for a set of data elements stored in shared data storage. A unique identifier is generated for at least one... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20080077629 - System, method and computer program product for managing data versions: A method, device and computer program product for managing data versions. The method includes: (i) receiving a first request to generate a first version of a source volume; (ii) selectively updating a first control data structure that is indicative of changes of blocks of data associated with different versions of... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20080077630 - Accelerated data transfer using common prior data segments: Accelerating data transfers is described herein. When a second computing system is requested to transfer a file to a first computing system, a data segment is sent to the first computing system instead of the entire file. The data segment is then compared to data stored within a data store... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20080077634 - Clone file system data: Metadata about an original file system in an example is saved approximately at a time of creation of a clone file system of the original file system. The metadata in an example is employed at a later time to apply to the clone file system data changes from activity on... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080077635 - Highly available clustered storage network: A computing method and system is presented that allows multiple heterogeneous computing systems containing file storage mechanisms to work together in a peer-to-peer fashion to provide a fault-tolerant decentralized highly available clustered file system. The file system can be used by multiple heterogeneous systems to store and retrieve files. The... Agent: Manushantha Sporny

20080077633 - Method for policy-based data placement when restoring files from off-line storage: During file backup to an off-line storage facility, attributes are included which facilitate the placement of the file into a proper pool during a subsequent restoration operation. This avoids multiple data transfers that may have otherwise been occasioned as a result of improper pool selection during the restore due to... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20080077631 - Multi-document attribute synchronization in a content management system: Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and article of manufacture for synchronizing multi-document attributes in data objects managed by a content management system (CMS). Generally, when a document is checked into or out of the CMS, document attributes may be synchronized; maintaining document consistency for multi-document attributes across... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080077632 - Schema updating for synchronizing databases connected by wireless interface: A method of updating a database, including data records, to accord with an updated schema. The method includes obtaining, at a portable electronic device, the updated schema associated with the database. If a field is deleted in the updated schema, the data records are updated by deleting the field from... Agent: Perry + Currier Inc. (for Rim)

20080077636 - Database backup system using data and user-defined routines replicators for maintaining a copy of database on a secondary server: In a database system having a primary server side (10) and a secondary server side (30), a high availability data replicator (26, 46) transfers log entries from the primary side (10) to the secondary side (30) and replays the transferred log entries to synchronize the secondary side (30) with the... Agent: Rankin, Hill, Porter & Clark, LLP

20080077638 - Distributed storage in a computing environment: Embodiments provide an amount of distributed storage by using a number of computing devices which are distributed throughout a computing environment. Each computing device can be associated with a group policy and can provide an amount of storage to the computing environment. For example, each computing device can provide a... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080077639 - Information processing apparatus: The invention provides an information processing apparatus that includes: a file management information acquisition unit that acquires file management information, which is information for managing content files, the file management information having the managed content files registered therein and having an album defined therein, the content files being registered as... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080077640 - Method and apparatus for storage provisioning automation in a data center: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for storage provisioning automation in a data center. A storage manager is provided in the present invention to facilitate end-to-end deployment of storage resources for a server in the data center. The storage manager includes functionalities of a volume manager, file system,... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080077637 - Unit and method for managing the display of a current portion of a document on a screen: The invention relates to a display control unit which is used to display a current portion of a document on a screen (15) when an interactive or scrollable page of said document requires a larger display area than that of the screen. The inventive unit consists of: a unit (10)... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080077641 - System and method for editing contract clauses in static web pages: A system for editing contract clauses in static web pages is provided. The system includes a database and a web server. The web server includes: a contract reading module for reading a contract in a static web page on the web server; a clause writing module for writing a selected... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080077642 - Geographical information display system and method: In one embodiment, a geographical information system has an information database and a client computing system that is coupled to a web server. A web based application is operable to display a map that includes a particular geographical location, retrieve at least one of a plurality of data records from... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20080071726 - Cascaded discovery of information environment: Discovering environment objects for information management in a networked environment. Information management provides services such as data protection, backup, retention, compliance, etc., by classifying the objects and/or infrastructure of an entity according to its value to the entity. Information management begins by discovering the data in a network and by... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080071724 - Database access server with compression translator: A database access server includes a network interface device and a processing device coupled to the network interface device via a bus. The network interface device receives a data request that includes a data identifier. The processing device retrieves data having the data identifier. The processing device determines if the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080071727 - Environment classification: A method and system for classifying environment components within a computer system. The computer system includes an information management service for defining services to be provided to data objects residing in the computer system. One exemplary method identifies environment components, such as servers, storage locations, databases, applications, and the like,... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080071723 - Optimizing memory usage and system performance in a file system requiring entire blocks to be erased for rewriting data: A file system which ensures that some of the (desired) files (“linear files”) are stored in corresponding exclusive blocks (i.e., a block that stores data corresponding to one file only). Due to such a feature, rewriting of data corresponding to other files would not cause data corresponding to linear files... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080071725 - User-converted media marketplace: At a server on a network, the reformatting of media is enabled by indicating that a media object in a first format is available for conversion into a second format, receiving, over the network, a representation of the media object in the second format, associating the media object in the... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080071732 - Master/slave index in computer systems: The master/slave index is an indexing method and apparatus that does not suffer from poor performance when stored in a file system by completely avoiding any seek operation when searching or updating the indexed information. Heterogenous attributes from objects of different types are split in a master index and at... Agent: Konstantin Koll

20080071730 - Method and apparatus to calculate relational database derived fields during data modification: The “Derived Field Calculator” calculates and updates derived fields within a relational database when objects in the database are modified rather than when the database is queried. The derived fields are maintained in the relational database independently from the applications accessing or modifying the database. Independence from external applications is... Agent: Ibm Corp. (raleigh Software Group) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Gordon & Rees, LLP

20080071731 - System and method for automatically refining ontology within specific context: The present invention provides a system and method for automatically refining ontology within a specific context. The system comprises: a rich context extractor for discovering a semantics relationship conflict existing between an original ontology schema and application data; and an ontology schema and mapping refiner for refining the original ontology... Agent: Bond Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20080071736 - Apparatus, system, and method for criteria-based grouping and searching of database management system log records: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for criteria-based grouping and searching of database management system log records. The method performs criteria-based grouping and searching of database management system log records by: interpreting a search criteria; interpreting a log record data description; extracting a plurality of log records from a... Agent: Kunzler And Associates David J. Mckenzie

20080071740 - Discovering associative intent queries from search web logs: A system is described for discovering associative intent queries based on search web logs. The system may mine one or more user sessions comprising data from search engine query logs and generate query pairs based on the data. The system may use statistics and morphology to identify relationships among the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080071743 - Efficient navigation of search results: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for navigating search results are provided. In response to receiving a search query, at least one individual search result is presented in an overlay window, the overlay window being configured to overlay at least a portion of a document viewing window. Navigation between the overlay... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080071741 - Method and an apparatus to perform feature weighted search and recommendation: A method and an apparatus to perform feature weighted data search and recommendation are presented. A process for search and recommendation is driven by agents with features. The process may determine a recommended set of items out of a population of items based on a single sample item or on... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080071738 - Method and apparatus of visual representations of search results: A method and system of visually coding search results is provide. Using a search query containing a plurality of search terms, a web search is conducted and a set of search results is obtained. Occurrence frequencies of the search terms in the returned document are tallied and used to formulate... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080071744 - Method and system for interactively navigating search results: A method and system for interactively navigating search results is provided. The method includes searching a set of documents (502) by applying a query (501), wherein the query (501) is formed of at least one relevant term and retrieving a set of result documents (503). The method includes analyzing the... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20080071748 - Method and system for storing, organizing and processing data in a relational database: A system and method of processing a data query in a data processing system is provided. The data in the data processing system includes a plurality of individual data elements. The data elements are grouped and stored in at least one data unit. The information about the at least one... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080071746 - Method for interactive employment searching, rating, and selecting of employment listing: The present disclosure details apparatuses, systems and methods for an Interactive Employment Search Platform enabling interactive searching, rating, and selecting of employment listings. The Platform enables employers and job seekers to easily identify, connect, and coordinate with one another. The disclosed systems and methods collect profile data for job seekers... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20080071737 - Method for retrieving searched results: A method and system for retrieving information from a query within a website. In one embodiment, a first search engine or program of such first engine is used to visit al website, wherein a search engine of the website is used to produce a search of a database within the... Agent: Frank John Williams

20080071735 - Method, apparatus, and computer progam product for data transformation: Method, apparatus and computer program product for data transformation. A message is received and transformed into an input tree of elements, each element having a value associated therewith. At least one transformation expression is issued against the input tree in order to create an output tree of elements having values... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080071742 - Systems and methods for aggregating search results: Systems and methods for aggregating search results are disclosed herein. The systems and methods include receiving a user search query, analyzing the user search query to identify a plurality of properties of the user search query, identifying a plurality of search results that match the user search query, each search... Agent: Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor, & Zafman LLP

20080071739 - Using anchor text to provide context: A search engine can provide referencing information as context for a particular search result when an excerpt from the search result, comprising at least some similar elements to the user's query, is not generated. Referencing information can include one or more anchor texts having similarity to at least some elements... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080071756 - Control, sorting and posting of digital media content: A method and system for selecting content items for on-line posting is provided. The method may include receiving from voter(s) respective voting values for a stored content item and posting the content item if the voting values comply with a predefined distribution policy. The method may further include mitigating a... Agent: Eitan Law Group C/o LandonIPInc.

20080071755 - Re-allocation of resources for query execution in partitions: Embodiments of the invention provide methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for executing a query against a partitioned database. The query may be executed against each partition of the database to retrieve results from each partition. The results from the partitions may be integrated to provide the results of the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080071757 - Search engine having multiple co-processors for performing inexact pattern search operations: A search engine configured to determine whether an input string including a plurality of input characters matches a regular expression including an inexact pattern including a specified range of instances of pattern characters each belonging to a specified set of characters, the search engine including a microcontroller having an input... Agent: William L. Paradice, Iii

20080071766 - Centralized web-based software solutions for search engine optimization: A system and method for modifying a parameter of a website in order to optimize an organic listing of the website at one or more search engines is described. Several embodiments include methods and systems for generating scored representations based upon different portions of data associated with a website, and... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080071763 - Dynamic updating of display and ranking for search results: Presenting search results is disclosed. At least a portion of a first set of results is displayed in an order determined at least in part by a corresponding attribute of each respective result. An updated display of at least a portion of a combined set that includes at least a... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Emc Corporation

20080071776 - Information retrieval method in mobile environment and clustering method and information retrieval system using personal search history: A mobile information retrieval method, clustering method, and an information retrieval system using a user's search history. The mobile information retrieval method includes receiving the user's query information and retrieving information related to the query information through predetermined networks in a database in which history information generated by previous retrieval... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080071764 - Method and an apparatus to perform feature similarity mapping: A method and an apparatus to perform feature similarity mapping are presented. In one embodiment, the method includes mapping a set of data items onto a feature similarity matrix (FSM) in a feature similarity system. The FSM has multiple dimensions (generally ten or more). Each item has a number of... Agent: Judith A. Szepesi Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080071765 - Regular expression searching of packet contents using dedicated search circuits: A network system includes a content search system for determining whether an input string matches a regular expression comprising an exact pattern and an inexact pattern, the content search system including a first search circuit dedicated to perform an exact string match operation to determine whether the input string contains... Agent: William L. Paradice, Iii

20080071773 - System & method of modifying ranking for internet accessible documents: A system and method is disclosed for altering a relevance ranking for a web accessible document or page containing target content. A set of pages containing the content in question are intentionally imbued with spam features (or other characteristics indicative of low value relevance) so that a search engine is... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney

20080071761 - System and method for identifying a location of interest to be named by a user: An apparatus for identifying a location for naming includes a monitoring module that is configured to monitor actions taken by a user via a mobile communication device and to monitor a location of the mobile communication device when an action is taken by the user and at predetermined time intervals.... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20080071768 - System and method for ordering items: A system and method for retrieving items, the method includes the steps of receiving a text request comprising a unique identifier identifying and electronic file and unformatted text, parsing the text request to identify the unique identifier, and requesting the electronic file associated with the unique identifier. Where the request... Agent: Amy Atzel

20080071762 - Text analysis devices, articles of manufacture, and text analysis methods: Text analysis devices, articles of manufacture, and text analysis methods are described according to some aspects. In one aspect, a text analysis device includes a display configured to depict visible images, and processing circuitry coupled with the display and wherein the processing circuitry is configured to access a first vector... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20080071774 - Web page link recommender: An electronic web page management system monitors links on a web page and provides recommendations on alterations to the link set, such as by adding or removing uniform resource locators (URLs) or other content. The system also permits enhancements to search engine indexes, rankings and results based on an evaluation... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney

20080071782 - Conceptual network generating system, conceptual network generating method, and program product therefor: A conceptual network generating system that generates a conceptual network showing conceptual relations between words, the conceptual network generating system including: a first searching unit that searches a knowledge source storing search sentences; a first generating unit that analyzes the retrieved first search result sentence; a holding unit that stores... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080071781 - Inexact pattern searching using bitmap contained in a bitcheck command: A search circuit for determining whether an input string including a plurality of input characters matches an inexact pattern including a number of pattern characters that are members of a specified character set, the search circuit including an input for receiving a bitcheck command, the bitcheck command containing a bitmap... Agent: William L. Paradice, Iii

20080071779 - Method and apparatus for managing multiple data flows in a content search system: A content search system for determining whether a plurality of input strings each belonging to any one of a number of different process flows matches one or more of a plurality of regular expressions, including a search circuit for searching the input strings for the regular expressions and a data... Agent: William L. Paradice, Iii

20080071780 - Search circuit having individually selectable search engines: A content search circuit for determining whether an input string matches one or more of a plurality of regular expressions, the content search circuit including an instruction memory for storing a plurality of microprograms, each microprogram embodying a corresponding one of the regular expressions, a control circuit having an input... Agent: William L. Paradice, Iii

20080071783 - System, apparatus, and methods for pattern matching: A computer software product, methods and apparatus for target report generation are provided. In one embodiment, a trigger pattern is derived from at least one target pattern. Locations within a data set containing the trigger pattern are identified and a target report is generated. In another embodiment, a computing apparatus... Agent: Heller Ehrman LLP

20080071784 - Enhancing posting of digital media content: A method and system are provided for enhancing the selection process associated with on-line posting of content items. The method may include identifying clients-computer interactions associated with a content item being introduced to the clients, and ranking the content item based on the clients-computer interactions. The method may further include... Agent: Eitan Law Group C/o Landon Inc.

20080071787 - Computer controlled display system for coordinating many users participating in long running processes for producing products: Correlating user actions in a long running process displayed on a computer controlled user interactive display system by an implementation, which, in response to a participating user login into said system, determines the role of said user in said long running process, displays a sequence of steps in the process,... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080071785 - Fine-grained access control in a database by preventing information leakage and removing redundancy: Fine-grained access control for querying a database with low overhead and safety plans. In a view placement approach, base relations of the query expression are replaced by views that are appropriate for the particular user. Information leakage via UDF pushing, exception processing, and error messages can be prevented by generating... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080071788 - Method for membership propogation with membership-pattern exception detection: A method, article, and system for monitoring the granting of access rights to objects and files during the execution of new membership to an activity thread or an activity, which constitutes the propagation of the new membership across multiple objects. When a user executes the “propagate” command or function, the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Lotus

20080071786 - Personal profile data repository: A personal profile data repository is disclosed. The personal profile data repository stores information about a user. The user has complete control over the content of the profile and over what third parties may access information stored in the repository.... Agent: Moazzam & Associates, LLC

20080071789 - Ifslgovwatch: IFSLGOVWATCH provides a methodically unique instrument within the realm of intellect as it so relates to the field of political science. Tangible application aspect utilizes the numerous, well-known facets of mass media (FFDI/FFDS/FFDR—FT) to provide highly organized, centralized access to geo-govermmental databases from a peripheral or remote vantage point. A... Agent: Staniey Anthony Kwasiborski Iii

20080071795 - Information display apparatus and meta-information display method: An apparatus receives meta-information from a plurality of external apparatuses, and caches the received meta-information per external apparatus that is the origin of the meta-information. Then, the meta-information cached per external apparatus is consolidated, and display of the meta-information is managed. Based on this display management, display management information corresponding... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080071791 - Metaphor interface:

20080071792 - Method and apparatus for managing internet content: A method and apparatus for managing Internet content is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an Internet content manager (ICM) having a computing element that monitors Internet content supplied to subscribers of an Internet Service Provider (ISP) by one or more Internet... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080071797 - System and method to calculate average link growth on search engines for a keyword: The present invention relates to a system and method for determining the rate that domains, or web pages, build links in an industry over a set period of time based on a search term. The rate of links that domains acquire is determined by obtaining elements, or the number of... Agent: Ty Ung

20080071793 - Using network access port linkages for data structure update decisions: A device, method, computer program product, and network subsystem are described for displaying a portion of a data structure or for obtaining an inter-core linkage in association with a tabular data object and for deciding whether to update the data structure in response to an inter-core linkage and to input... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080071790 - Web viewer setup dialog and grammar for generating web addresses: A setup dialog for a web viewer dynamically changes to reflect parameters needed to generate a web address. The setup dialog can include a list box containing websites for which website templates are available for assisting the user in generating web addresses. The list box can also include an option... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080071728 - Detecting behavioral patterns and anomalies using information usage data: Activity data is analyzed or evaluated to detect behavioral patterns and anomalies. When a particular pattern or anomaly is detected, a system may send a notification or perform a particular task. This activity data may be collected in an information management system, which may be policy based. Notification may be... Agent: Aka Chan LLP

20080071729 - Service providing system, computer which executes program providing service and repository service control program: In a service providing system which provides, through a network, service which is provided by a program executed on a computer to other computer, a unit is provided for providing service which can not be provided by the computer to other computer than the computer in question.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080071733 - Efficient traversals over hierarchical data and indexing semistructured data: A method for encoding hierarchical data stored in an index, partitioned into blocks, over keys representing the data. For every key K representing a record R in the index, the key of the children records of record R are prefixed with K. The method includes traversing to a first R... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080071734 - Iterative data analysis enabled through query result abstraction: The present invention is generally directed to a system, method and article of manufacture for accessing data represented abstractly through an abstraction model. In one embodiment, a data repository abstraction layer provides a logical view of an underlying data repository that is independent of the particular manner of data representation.... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080071754 - Estimating a number of rows returned by a recursive query: A number of rows that a recursive query will retrieve from a table is estimated by recursively probing an index associated with the table. A recursive query includes a seed and a recursive predicate, each of which is associated with a respective column in the table. If the index has... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080071751 - Method and apparatus for applying a parametric search methodology to a directory tree database format: A method of and apparatus for applying a parametric search methodology to a searchable database formatted in a directory tree structure. The directory tree structure includes nodes comprising a collection of related data and branches comprising links between the nodes. Each specific node provides a corresponding set of parameters by... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP. Attn: Jonathan O. Owens

20080071749 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for a tag-based visual search user interface: An apparatus for providing a tag-based visual search user interface may include a processing element. The processing element may be configured to receive an indication of information desired by a user, receive data retrieved based on the indication, the retrieved data including a portion associated with a tag, and replace... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080071750 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing standard real world to virtual world links: An apparatus for providing standard real world to virtual world links may include a processing element configured to receive indications of an image including an object, determine whether the object corresponds to a particular object having a predefined association based on a recognition of the object, and execute a function... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080071752 - Public relations communication methods and systems: An arrangement for distributing information from Information Providers (IP) to Information Recipients (IR) that utilizes the email system and the Internet to communicate with popular hardware devices—computers, PDAs, cellular phones, etc. IRs receive information anonymously and only the information desired. IPs do not need to “spam” the world in the... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080071753 - Synthesizing information-bearing content from multiple channels: A computing system and method receive a query; separate a plurality of information sources into individual elements of content (EOC); tag each EOC with metadata that indicate source, date, and other relevant information; pattern match each EOC; calculate the respective distance function from every EOC to every other EOC; and... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l

20080071747 - Target query system and method: A method of performing a query of a database system includes the steps of providing a query user with query attributes in the form of question and answer combinations, constructing a logical expression from the data and the Boolean operators selected by the user, executing a query of the database... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080071745 - Web based telephony access method: A system and apparatus are disclosed that facilitate a person (an end user) making a telephone call to another person or a service (for example a mobile service provider) by the end user clicking on a representation of a telephone number or other telephony identifier that is sourced from any... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080071758 - Iterative data analysis enabled through query result abstraction: The present invention is generally directed to a system, method and article of manufacture for accessing data represented abstractly through an abstraction model. In one embodiment, a data repository abstraction layer provides a logical view of an underlying data repository that is independent of the particular manner of data representation.... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080071759 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for implementing enhanced query governor functions: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for implementing enhanced query governor functions. Query execution includes first checking for a timeout value for a query. Responsive to identifying a timeout value for the query, an execution time for the query is reset and a monitor for each timeout... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20080071760 - Transformation of a physical query into an abstract query: Embodiments of the invention provide methods, systems and articles of manufacture for transforming a physical query (e.g., written in SQL) into an abstract query than can be run against an abstract database described by a database abstraction model. In one embodiment, the transformation occurs as a multiple step process: first,... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080071778 - Apparatus for selecting documents in response to a plurality of inquiries by a plurality of clients by estimating the relevance of documents: A system and method implemented by a computer for performing query based electronic document retrieval implementing a Markov process model adapted for determining a relationship or relevance between documents. The system ranks documents for retrieval based on their relevance measure. The model calculates the measure of relevance that a document... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080071769 - Efficient search result update mechanism: A method/algorithm allows database queries to be saved and an efficient mechanism that matches records whenever they are added or modified to all of the saved queries and returns the list of those queries that match a given record as soon as the record is added or modified. If used... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080071772 - Information-retrieval systems, methods, and software with content relevancy enhancements: The present inventors devised, among other things, systems, methods, and software for enhancing the relevancy of content presented to users in response to queries in an online information retrieval system. One exemplary system refines a user input query by making suggestions of alternatives queries, classifying the query using language processing,... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080071777 - Iterative data analysis enabled through query result abstraction: The present invention is generally directed to a system, method and article of manufacture for accessing data represented abstractly through an abstraction model. In one embodiment, a data repository abstraction layer provides a logical view of an underlying data repository that is independent of the particular manner of data representation.... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080071770 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for viewing a virtual database using portable devices: An apparatus for combining a visual search system(s) with a virtual database to enable information retrieval may include a processing element. The processing element may be configured to receive an indication of an image including an object, provide a tag list associated with the object in the image, the tag... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080071771 - Methods and systems for dynamically rearranging search results into hierarchically organized concept clusters: Methods of and systems for dynamically rearranging search results into hierarchically organized concept clusters are provided. A method of searching for and presenting content items as an arrangement of conceptual clusters to facilitate further search and navigation on a display-constrained device includes providing a set of content items and receiving... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080071767 - System and method for measuring the effectiveness of an on-line advertisement campaign: A system and method for modeling and optimizing the effectiveness of search engine optimization (“SEO”) initiatives and search engine marketing (“SEA”) campaigns is described. Several embodiments include methods and systems for classifying each of a plurality of websites using at least one of a plurality of classifications. Data associated with... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080071775 - System and method for ranking items: A system and method for ranking items is disclosed. In one embodiment, the items constitute offerings offered by at least one on-line vendor. The system includes a ranking module that estimates the likelihood that a user will select the offerings and the likelihood that the user will purchase the items... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080071798 - Apparatus and methods for managing data used by a mobile device: Apparatus and methods for managing data used by mobile devices. Data can be retrieved from a second computing device (e.g. a server) where it is stored on a storage medium (e.g. a disk). A subset of the data of a data record stored in the storage medium, or one or... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080071796 - System and method for collecting and processing data: A system and method for collecting and processing data over a communications network. A data mining marshaller module associates each plugin to a particular data source and manages the plugin to periodically retrieve unstructured data from the data source based on a plurality of data items to be monitored on... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20080071794 - Virtual personal trainer: Apparatus and method are provided that allows a person using a gym or playing a sport to interact via a cell phone with an internet database via communication protocols to access a training program, update same, measure progress to defined goals, receive news of sporting and other events and receive... Agent: Hahn And Moodley, LLP

20080071799 - Apparatus and method for an extended semantic layer specifying data model objects with calculated values: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to define a semantic domain describing a data source. At least one base dimension is established as a data model object for the semantic domain. At least one base measure is specified as a data model object for the semantic domain. At... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080071806 - Difference analysis for electronic data interchange (edi) data dictionary: A tree based EDI data dictionary difference analysis tool is provided that performs an analysis of tree structures of EDI building blocks that compose EDI schema to determine and display change histories for particular versions, or EDI building blocks, or the differences between EDI building blocks of two versions of... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080071805 - File indexing framework and symbolic name maintenance framework: The present invention provides a file management system that includes a file indexing framework that allows third parties to contribute index handlers that are responsible for populating index entries for the artifacts they own and/or generate. The framework manages the creation, maintenance, and update of the index, and calls the... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC

20080071804 - File system access control between multiple clusters: Disclosed are a method, information processing system, and computer readable medium for managing filesystem access control between a plurality of clusters. The method includes receiving, on a node in a home cluster, a request from a remote cluster. The request includes information to access a given filesystem managed by the... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20080071808 - Internet identity manager: An identity agent stores identity information for a user and provides form filling functionality to online forms using users user generated mapping system to determine a map between the requested and stored information. The maps uses to associate the stored information to the requested information are generated by users of... Agent: Perley-robertson, Hill & Mcdougall LLP

20080071807 - Methods and systems for enterprise performance management: A method and system for managing performance of an enterprise is provided. The method includes, defining one or more performance characteristics of the enterprise corresponding to one or more dimensions of the enterprise. The method further includes, identifying one or more objects of the enterprise based on a topology of... Agent: Schneck & Schneck

20080071803 - Methods and systems for real-time citation generation: Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention generate correct citations dynamically, interactively and in real time based on the context in which the citation appears and on certain user preferences. As will be described in more detail below, a user inputs information for a citation and... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080071800 - System and method for representing and using tagged data in a management system: Disclosed is a management system of a managed system. The management system includes a data sensor layer that interfaces with the managed system to collect raw data. The data sensors in the data sensor layer add semantic tags to the raw data to form tagged data. The semantic tags are... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080071802 - Tranformation of modular finite state transducers: A Q Framework, or QFX for short, is provided for performing efficient tree transformation in a generalized manner that achieves preservation of action semantics for FSTs that support action information in their representations across a diverse set of types of representations for FSTs. Among other features, the QFX also enables... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080071801 - Transformation of modular finite state transducers: A Q Framework, or QFX for short, is provided for performing efficient tree transformation in a generalized manner that achieves preservation of action semantics for FSTs that support action information in their representations across a diverse set of types of representations for FSTs. Among other features, the QFX also enables... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080071809 - Concurrency control for b-trees with node deletion: A data structure, added to a modified form of the Blink-tree data structure, tracks delete states for nodes. The index delete state (DX) indicates whether it is safe to directly access an index node without re-traversing the B-tree. The DX state is maintained globally, outside of the tree structure. The... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080071810 - Device using multi-line fast list scrolling and method of using same: A system and method for scrolling through a list of labels where the format in which labels are made manifest can be influenced by the current “search state” of the system. The current “search state” of the system can be influenced by a speed metric. The speed metric can be... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080071817 - Electronic data interchange (edi) data dictionary management and versioning system: An EDI data dictionary management and versioning system is provided having reusable EDI building blocks that are stored in relational format. Reusable EDI elements include, but are not limited to, data types, simple data elements, composite data elements, segments and loops. Storage of EDI building blocks is performed such that... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080071812 - Evolution of xml schemas involving partial data copy: XML schema evolutions can be performed on an XML-type database using partial data copy techniques. The partial data copy techniques provide mechanisms to identify a minimal set of data in the database that needs be copied out in order for schema evolution operations to occur. Identifying the minimal set of... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080071813 - Information classification: Providing information classification in a computer system for use in an information management system. Information management provides services such as data protection, backup, retention, compliance, etc., by classifying the objects and/or environment of an entity according to its value to the entity. Initially a series of rules are identified relating... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080071818 - Method and system for data compression in a relational database: A method for applying adaptive data compression in a relational database system using a filter cascade having at least one compression filter stage in the filter cascade. The method comprises applying a data filter associated with the compression filter stage to the data input to produce reconstruction information and filtered... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080071811 - Priority queue to determine order of service for ldap requests: Techniques for improving the performance of a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (“LDAP”) server are described. The server computes the priority of an LDAP request and enqueues it on a priority queue according to the priority. A high-priority LDAP request is removed from the queue to prepare a corresponding LDAP response.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080071814 - Queriable hierarchical text data: There is disclosed a method, apparatus and computer program product for generating a queriable text. User role map information is applied to the source hierarchical text. The role mapped text is separated into a structure component and a content component. The content component is compressed. A method for processing intermediate... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080071815 - Revenue sharing based on geographic areas: SMS and telephony end users are associated with media outlets by mapping media outlets to geographic locations associated with telephone numbers, collecting telephone number information from responsive SMS and telephony end users, determining the resulting correspondence, and utilizing the resulting correspondence in furtherance of a business plan or contractual arrangement.... Agent: Newman & Newman, Attorneys At Law, LLP

20080071816 - Transmission of server-based system events to web service clients: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for transmission of server-based system events to web service clients. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080071819 - Automatically extracting data and identifying its data type from web pages: A system for automatically locating and data-typing information originating from many Web pages, and then collecting that information in a database. The database is then made available via an online data marketplace which allows users from different organizations to buy and sell related data, associated advertisements, and access to the... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080071820 - Apparatus and method for managing an encapsulated document: An apparatus for managing an encapsulated document is disclosed that includes a file management unit to manage one or more content files; a program management unit to manage one or more programs for causing the content files to be manipulated; a document creation unit to create the encapsulated document by... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080071822 - Browser for managing documents: A method for classifying documents to a browser is disclosed, the method comprising establishing communication with a selected network address; displaying at least one document with the browser; moving the at least one document inside the browser; and generating a document vector grouping a plurality of documents.... Agent: Maya-systems Inc.

20080071821 - Method for sending an electronic message utilizing connection information and recipient: A method comprises displaying a mail server information screen, and receiving connection information via the mail server information screen. Further, the method comprises displaying an address page, and receiving recipient information via the address page. In addition, the method comprises displaying a content page, and receiving content in the content... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080071824 - Record relationship processing: A method and implementing computer system are provided in which a unique primary key is generated to identify an original message which is received for processing. The record for the original message is stored at the primary key. As the message is propagated to the services that are to be... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rvw)

20080071823 - System with user interface for efficiently checking availability statuses of, and selecting, muliple items such as domain names: A system is disclosed that includes a user interface through which a user can submit a query to check the availability statuses of multiple items, such as domain names. After the query results are returned, the user is presented with a web form which includes a tabular display indicating, at... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080071825 - Techniques for checking whether a complex digital object conforms to a standard: Techniques for validating complex digital objects such as DICOM objects. The techniques employ a declarative validation document which employs a declarative constraint language to specify the constraints to which the complex digital object is subject. A validator performs an evaluation of the constraint document with regard to the complex digital... Agent: Gordon E. Nelson, Patent Attorney, PC

20080071826 - Using network access port linkages for data structure update decisions: A device, method, computer program product, and network subsystem are described for displaying a portion of a data structure or for obtaining an inter-core linkage in association with a tabular data object and for deciding whether to update the data structure in response to an inter-core linkage and to input... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080071832 - Content-reproducing apparatus: A content reproducing apparatus includes a display unit configured to display a play list and candidate contents able to be added to the play list, a selection unit configured to select, from the candidate contents, an undesired content which a user does not want to add to the play list,... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080071831 - Creating animation based on a keyword search: In one aspect, the invention provides a method for creating animation. The method comprises generating an exemplary animation file for each of a plurality of animation effects; associating at least one keyword with each exemplary animation file; receiving a search string from a user, the search string being indicative of... Agent: Hahn & Moodley

20080071828 - Formular update: The subject mater relates to software application collaboration and, more particularly, collaboration between software applications via formular updates. Some such embodiments include systems, methods, and software to receive a definition of a content item from a first party, wherein the content item is operable within an application of a second... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20080071830 - Method of indexing and streaming media files on a distributed network: The present invention provides a method and system of delivering media content on a network, such as the Internet. Specifically, the present invention includes a database indexing media content available on the network. The database is searchable for selection of a subset of the available media content. The system retrieves... Agent: Law Office Of Wayne Carroll

20080071829 - Online marketplace for automatically extracted data: A system for automatically locating and data-typing information originating from many Web pages, and then collecting that information in a database. The database is then made available via an online data marketplace which allows users from different organizations to buy and sell related data, associated advertisements, and access to the... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080071833 - Sporting event planning and management system: An event planning and management system comprising a system module for storing event data comprising sponsor information, logo information, marketing information, products information, venue information, participant information, current event information, and past event information. The system further comprising a plurality of service management modules using event data to provide services... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080071827 - System for and method of visual representation and review of media files: This document describes, among other things, systems and methods for visual representation and review of media files. A method comprises: 1) accessing a media file that includes at least an audio track; accessing a media review file, wherein the media review file is associated with the media file and further... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080071835 - Authoring and managing personalized searchable link collections: A computer implemented method, and a carrier medium carrying computer code to implement the method to generate a customized “link collection” of topics and items attached to the topics related to a subject of interest to a group of people. The link collection includes items of information, provided, in one... Agent: Dov Rosenfeld

20080071836 - Metadata editing apparatus, metadata reproduction apparatus, metadata delivery apparatus, metadata search apparatus, metadata re-generation condition setting apparatus, metadata delivery method and hint information description method: Multimedia content containing moving pictures and audio is divided into multiple scenes and metadata is generated for each of the scenes obtained as a result of the division. It is possible to generate metadata containing scene structure information metadata that describes the hierarchical structure of the content in addition to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080071837 - Metadata editing apparatus, metadata reproduction apparatus, metadata delivery apparatus, metadata search apparatus, metadata re-generation condition setting apparatus, metadata delivery method and hint information description method: Multimedia content containing moving pictures and audio is divided into multiple scenes and metadata is generated for each of the scenes obtained as a result of the division. It is possible to generate metadata containing scene structure information metadata that describes the hierarchical structure of the content in addition to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080071838 - Metadata editing apparatus, metadata reproduction apparatus, metadata delivery apparatus, metadata search apparatus, metadata re-generation condition setting apparatus, metadata delivery method and hint information description method: Multimedia content containing moving pictures and audio is divided into multiple scenes and metadata is generated for each of the scenes obtained as a result of the division. It is possible to generate metadata containing scene structure information metadata that describes the hierarchical structure of the content in addition to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080071834 - Method of and system for transferring data content to an electronic device: A computer readable storage medium such a DVD or CD stores media files, some of which are playable by a DVD or CD player, others of which are provided with various formats that are playable by various different media players. The computer readable storage medium also includes program instructions for... Agent: Andre M. Szuwalski Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP

20080071839 - Content authoring: The present subject mater relates to configuring software applications and, more particularly, content authoring of content within software applications. The various embodiments described herein provide systems, methods, and software to provide one or more user interfaces operable within an application. The user interfaces receive input creating, modifying, and deleting content,... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20080071840 - Introducing multi-level nested kits into existing e-commerce systems: A representation of static and dynamic nested kits in an existing e-commerce ordering system to facilitate migration of existing e-commerce systems to support nested kits. Physical components of a nested kit remain in an order item table of a database, but non-physical components are placed in a separate database table,... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Rsw

20080071842 - Database management system to reduce capacity of storage volume: Provided is a database management system coupled to a storage system comprising a first storage device for storing a database file and a control file, a second storage device for storing a journal corresponding to an update history of the data stored in the first storage device, and a third... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080071841 - Recovery method using cdp: First information representing a plurality of snapshot acquisition time points of the data storage device, journal management data which are second information including the time point at which data are written to the data storage device and the size of the journal for writing the data, and third information representing... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080071844 - Detecting and managing changes in business data integration solutions: Methods, systems, and computer program products detect and manage changes in business data integration (BDI) solutions. BDI solutions include extracting, mapping, or loading source information from disparate sources as targets presented to business applications that consume targets. A method involves detecting changes in a BDI solution, classifying each of the... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080071845 - System environment recovery method: In order to provide a system environment recovery method that enables easy system environment recovery of a plurality of information processor apparatuses without a special environment, the plurality of information processor apparatuses comprise an image file obtaining unit 101 for obtaining an image file 107, an image file writing unit... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080071843 - Systems and methods for indexing and visualization of high-dimensional data via dimension reorderings: Systems and methods for reordering dimensions of a multiple-dimensional dataset includes ordering dimensions of multi-dimensional dataset such that original D dimensions of the data are reordered to obtain a smooth sequence representation which includes placement of the D dimensions with similar behavior at adjacent positions in an ordered sequence representation.... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080065585 - Computer-implemented processing of hetrogeneous data: A computer-implemented method for a computing environment employing a matrix-based mathematical programming language includes: generating a heterogeneous dataset in the computing environment, where the heterogeneous dataset embodies a plurality of variables for a plurality of subjects, where each element of a respective variable has a same data type, where the... Agent: Venable LLP

20080065582 - Data library background operations system apparatus and method: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for performing data library background operations. The present invention teaches one or more data storage drives capable of entering a phantom load mode and a library controller capable of initiating the phantom load mode for the data storage drives. The phantom load mode... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080065587 - Data management system and data management method: A file system transfer designation section for transferring the file system matching with file system transfer rules from the first volume of the first storage apparatus to the second volume of the second storage apparatus based on the first file system transfer rules, a file system storage information manager for... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080065583 - Delegation in a file system with distributed components: Various systems and methods of a distributed file system architecture are disclosed. A method for creating a file may include receiving a message to open or create a file with a given name from a file system call handler. Once the message has been received a determination may then be... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C. / Sun / Stk

20080065586 - Integrated, context passing user display: Systems and methods are provided to facilitate an integrated display of information to a user. According to some embodiments, a first service and a second service may be registered with a registry. The information stored in the registry might include, for example, indications that the first and/or second services are... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20080065581 - Method, system, and program product for shell executable search path optimization: A method of data processing in a data processing system includes an operating system shell receiving a command identifying a target executable. In response to receiving the command, the operating system shell determines whether or not a directory re-order option is set. In response to determining that the directory re-order... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080065584 - System, method, and computer program product for obtaining vendor identification of a remote device of merged companies: There is provided a method, system, and computer program product for extracting information related to a monitored device communicatively coupled to a network using an HTTP communication protocol. The method includes: retrieving, from a first memory, vendor and model information of the monitored device; determining vendor and model through the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080065591 - Configurable software database parallel query system and method: A system and method for generating and performing parallel queries of a software database are provided, wherein the software database is distributed within a plurality of localized databases. The system may include several components, to include a user query interface. The user generates and transmits a query to a parallel... Agent: Patrick Reilly

20080065590 - Lightweight query processing over in-memory data structures: Lightweight query processing for in-memory or cache memory data structures, such as DataSet, is provided. Prior to executing a query over an in-memory data structure, a query processor determines whether any benefits can be obtained by first optimizing the query execution strategy. Additionally, one or more bail out points can... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080065592 - Method, system and computer-readable media for software object relationship traversal for object-relational query binding: A system method and computer-readable media for searching an object oriented database are provided. The present invention may be employed to detect software bugs, deficiencies and/or errors in, affecting, or related to, an object database management system. The invented technique may use an SQL table join query to search for... Agent: Patrick Reilly

20080065588 - Selectively logging query data based on cost: If the cost of an access plan meets a condition, and an exit program is registered, data is logged for the access plan if logging is requested by a return code from the exit program. Execution of the access plan is continued or canceled if requested by the return code.... Agent: Steven W. Roth IBM Corporation, Dept. 917

20080065589 - Server side bucketization of parameterized queries: Efficient server-side query statement parameter bucketization is provided for a query language, such as the structured query language (SQL). A process is applied for replacing the parameters of a parameterized query with new parameters, whose types are normalized to enable more query execution plan sharing. In one embodiment, in response... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080065604 - Feeding updates to landing pages of users of an online social network from external sources: Updates to landing pages of users in an online social network are fed from external sources so that content maintained by any one user can be consolidated in a single location regardless of where the changes are made to the content. When an update event occurs, users of the online... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080065599 - Generating event data display code: Techniques for republishing event data are provided. An event data repository contains event records defining real world events. Users request instructions for republishing event data. The request includes data identifying a set of event data and display characteristics for republication. In response to the request, event data display code is... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080065598 - Indexing and searching for database records with defined validity intervals: A computer-implemented method of indexing an electronic database record to facilitate searching is provided, as well as a method of performing a search using the index. The method includes receiving a value for one of a start field and an end field for a database record that defines a validity... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20080065600 - Method and apparatus for providing search results from content on a computer network: A user enters a search query at interface 1 for performing a search on a computer network, such as the Internet. The search results are enhanced by adjusting their weightings to take into account previous searches carried out by members of a group, the membership of which is selected by... Agent: Lucent Technologies Inc. Docket Administrator - Room 3j-219

20080065606 - Method and apparatus for searching images through a search engine interface using image data and constraints as input: A system for searching for image data based on a likeness constraint of the image data to candidate image data submitted as search criteria includes a network appliance having access to servers on the network and access to candidate image data, a server running a search interface application, the server... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080065605 - Rich browser-based interface for address standardization and geocoding: A method of interfacing data entry to an address matching engine includes of entering into a client processing system browser locale data for an address and entering into the client processing system browser an alphanumeric value of the street portion of said address. The client processing system sends to a... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080065602 - Selecting advertisements for search results: In response to a search request that specifies a search keyword, search results are created that include identifiers of pages. An advertisement is selected that has the largest number of associated target terms that match selected words contained in the pages, where at least one of the selected words is... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080065607 - System and method for building and retrieving a full text index: An indexing engine generates a full text index of English and non-English files provided to the indexing engine. The indexing engine receives an input file for indexing, and normalizes the unique words contained in the input file. The normalizing includes stripping the words of any diacritical marks, taking into account... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080065601 - System for disseminating product information: A product information dissemination system comprising at least one computer associated in physical proximity to a product, said computer having a database with product information and further having a user interface for accessing product information from the server and database.... Agent: Jon Korbonski

20080065603 - System, method & computer program product for concept-based searching & analysis: Systems, methods, and computer programs for performing concept-based searches and for creating content are described. According to one embodiment, a method is described wherein one or more concepts are identified and a search query is formed based on the identified concepts. The search query is used to perform one or... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080065597 - Updating content index for content searches on networks: According to an aspect of the present invention, update requests indicating the changes in content are created external to an application causing the changes, and a content index is updated based on the update requests. In an embodiment, the changes are detected based on examining packet contents on the way... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20080065616 - Metadata integration tool, systems and methods for managing enterprise metadata for the runtime environment: A metadata integration tool identifies database communications in a network runtime environment and forwards information about identified database communications to a data store. Although the data is accessed from disparate programs and database technologies, the linkage between programs and data is stored in a centralized data store. The information documents... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080065621 - Ambiguous entity disambiguation method: Ambiguous entities extracted from an article are disambiguated to determine an entity type. Entities are extracted, combined, and entity aliases are created. The entity type is determined by searching a disambiguation database for matching pages in a digital encyclopedia database. A score is computed for each entity and entity alias... Agent: Elliot Furman

20080065624 - Building bridges for web query classification: Described is a technology by which an intermediate taxonomy is processed (e.g., offline) with respect to a target taxonomy to determine relationship values between categories represented in the intermediate taxonomy and the target taxonomy. The relationship values are used to construct a bridging classifier for use in online query processing... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080065626 - Contextually analyzing data in tabular and graphical reports: Techniques are provided for analyzing data called “pivot points” which allows users to instantly generate a report based on all available dimensions for any cell in a tabular report or any data point in a graphical report. In one embodiment, the techniques involve placing a unique UI element or menu... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080065618 - Indexing for rapid database searching: Methods and systems for implementing a rapid search of information items in a database. Each relevant Word (an individual word and/or a phrase including two or more words) in a collection of documents is associated with a location number within the collection, as a Word pair, including a Word and... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080065619 - Method, system, and program product for sharing collaborative data among a plurality of authors: The invention provides a method and system for sharing collaborative data among a plurality of authors using one or a plurality of digital pens. In one embodiment, the invention includes recording information entered by a first author using a digital pen and a substrate; and recording information entered by a... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080065623 - Person disambiguation using name entity extraction-based clustering: Described is a technology for disambiguating data corresponding to persons that are located from search results, so that different persons having the same name can be clearly distinguished. Name entity extraction locates words (terms) that are within a certain distance of persons' names in the search results. The terms are... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080065620 - Recommending advertising key phrases: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products for generating key phrases for advertising are provided. In one implementation, a method is provided. The method includes receiving input from an advertising user specifying an advertisement that is associated with a particular landing page. A key phrase for the advertisement is... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080065617 - Search entry system with query log autocomplete: A search entry system and method of search entry where the query terms can be autocompleted based on entries in a search history query log. A search system can include one or more entry modules, that can include a query window, configured to accept a search query. A query log... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080065628 - Associating metro street address guide (msag) validated addresses with geographic map data: Master Street Address Guide (MSAG)-validated street address data is correlated with real-world geographic (e.g., latitude/longitude) data. Conventional MSAG-validated street address data is processed, or geocoded, into an additional (or integrated) database that associates latitude/longitude information with a particular entry in the existing MSAG-validated database. The association of the lat/lon data... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC 7th Floor

20080065629 - Business intelligence data reconciliation system: A sending device sends a key and financial data to a receiver device and a reconciliation device in a business intelligence system. The receiver device verifies the key and sends the verified key and financial data to the business intelligence system. The reconciliation device selects the data sets based on... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080065630 - Method and apparatus for assessing similarity between online job listings: Job listings retrieved from external sources are pre-processed prior to being stored in the search engine production database and duplicate records identified prior to storage in a production database for the search engine. Inter-source and intra-source hash values are calculated for each job listing and the values compared. Job listings... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080065631 - User query data mining and related techniques: Methods and apparatus are described for mining user queries found within the access logs of a website and for relating this information to the website's overall usage, structure, and content. Such techniques may be used to discover valuable information to improve the quality of the website, allowing the website to... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP/yahoo

20080065637 - Locating last processed data: Locating data last saved during backup is disclosed. A segment ending offset relative to a reference point of a last segment of data associated with a hierarchical data set is determined. The last segment is the last data associated with the hierarchical data set to be saved on a storage... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080065638 - Organizing and sorting media menu items: A method of organizing episodic content includes identifying a list of items associated with episodic content and sorting the list of items based on at least episode order upon a prompt.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080065639 - String matching engine: String matching a first string to a string stored in a string dictionary is performed by k-way hashing the first string and locating corresponding k hash locations in a first memory. When any of the k hash locations has a zero Bloom bit, the first string is deemed to not... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080065640 - Method for monitoring stored procedures: A method for monitoring stored procedures is disclosed. The method performs on-line and inline monitoring of stored procedures for detecting table access operations performed by the procedures. This allows the enforcing of access control policies, correlation rules and audit rules on stored procedures. The monitoring is performed using mapping information... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080065642 - Data broadcasting system, data receiving system, data broadcasting method and data receiving method: A data broadcasting system includes a data generator and a broadcasting device. The data generator is configured to generate live information data having identification for relating the live information data to stored data which is stored in a data receiving system and has the identification. The broadcasting device is configured... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080065646 - Enabling access to aggregated software security information: A method for enabling access to software security data is provided. The method includes accessing data associated with software vulnerabilities from a plurality of on-line sources. The method further includes aggregating the data from the plurality of on-line sources and identifying attributes associated with the data. The method also includes... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080065649 - Method of associating independently-provided content with webpages: The inventive system includes a content server that communicates with access programs on a plurality of client computers. The access programs monitor the URIs input into the web browser program on each computer. When a URI is detected, or when certain housekeeping tasks must be performed, the access program transmits... Agent: Dergosits & Noah LLP

20080065647 - Mobile terminal: A mobile terminal includes a destination specifying unit which is configured to specify a communication destination. A server connection unit is configured to connect the mobile terminal with a history server which manages communication history. A history information acquisition unit is configured to transmit a request to the history server... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080065644 - System and methods for optimizing data transfer among various resources in a distributed environment: System providing methodology for optimizing data transfer in a distributed environment is described. In one embodiment, for example, in a distributed shared disk cluster environment comprises a plurality of nodes, each node storing database pages in different size buffer pools configured for local access and configured independent from other nodes... Agent: John A. Smart

20080065595 - Apparatus and method for optimizing a computer database query that fetches n rows: An apparatus and method to optimize a query access plan in a computer database system. In preferred embodiments, the query optimizer determines the query can be optimized and generates for the query an optimized access plan that eliminates records defined by a Where clause and one or more ordering criteria... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080065596 - Encoding semi-structured data for efficient search and browsing: A method for encoding XML tree data that includes the step of encoding the semi-structured data into strings of arbitrary length in a way that maintains non-structural and structural information about the XML data, and enables indexing the encoded XML data in a way that facilitates efficient search and browsing.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080065594 - 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

20080065593 - Software and method for performing database operations: Elements of one or more database manipulation language (DML) commands strings are stored in tables, read from those tables and DML commands are generated. Storing these command elements in tables facilitates access to and modification of database commands used in data processing applications. Temporary storage control elements are also stored... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20080065608 - Implicit context collection and processing: The present invention is directed to a method and system for managing context information in a web portal or enterprise portal comprising a hierarchical structure of portal pages and portlets for accessing web content or enterprise content accessible via the portal. A method for collecting context information based on user... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080065614 - Method and apparatus for representing and searching for an object using shape: A method is disclosed for representing a sequence of images constituting a moving image by processing signals corresponding to the image. An object appearing in one image is identified in the sequence in a first perspective view, and the same object appearing in another image is identified in the sequence... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080065615 - Method and apparatus for representing and searching for an object using shape: A method is disclosed for representing a sequence of images constituting a moving image by processing signals corresponding to the image. An object appearing in one image is identified in the sequence in a first perspective view, and the same object appearing in another image is identified in the sequence... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080065611 - Method and system for searching and monitoring internet trademark usage: A system for searching and reporting an incidence of at least one trademark, tradename, celebrity name, and/or famous name on the Internet, which includes a computer system having a connection to the Internet, and a software program executing on the computer system. The software program is adapted to receive an... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080065613 - Method, apparatus, computer program, computer system and computer-readable storage for representing and searching for an object in an image: A method of representing an object appearing in a still or video image, by processing signals corresponding to the image, comprises deriving a curvature scale space (CSS) representation of the object outline by smoothing the object outline, deriving at least one additional parameter reflecting the shape or mass distribution of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080065610 - Method, apparatus, computer program, computer system, and computer-readable storage medium for representing and searching for an object in an image: A method of representing an object appearing in a still or video image, by processing signals corresponding to the image, comprises deriving a plurality of numerical values associated with features appearing on the outline of an object starting from an arbitrary point on the outline and applying a predetermined ordering... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080065612 - Search-on-the-fly/sort-on-the-fly search engine: A Sort-on-the-Fly/Search-on-the-Fly search engine provides an intuitive means for searching databases, allowing a user to access data in the database without having to know anything about the database structure. A user selects a desired search term, and the search engine searches the database for all instances of the desired term,... Agent: Andrews Kurth LLP

20080065609 - System and method for providing a searchable library of electronic documents to a user: A method and system for publishing a plurality of books for user access to information includes selecting a plurality of books, converting each book from a publisher's digital form, e.g., by training a tool to detect characteristic features (such as layout, typeface, and hierarchical or organizational features such as chapter... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20080065625 - Cad data evaluation method and evaluation apparatus: The apparatus has an evaluated value calculating means 102 for calculating the complexity of the object shape and the complexity of the modeling structure of the object CAD data input by the CAD data inputting means 101; a searching means 104 for searching the reference CAD data in the reference... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080065622 - Content search/display device, method, and program: e

20080065627 - Method and system for identifying image relatedness using link and page layout analysis: A method and system for determining relatedness of images of pages based on link and page layout analysis. A link analysis system determines relatedness between images by first identifying blocks within web pages, and then analyzing the importance of the blocks to web pages, web pages to blocks, and images... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080065633 - Job search engine and methods of use: A method of accumulating, processing, and classifying online job listings for searches by users. Job listings are automatically, and more effectively, categorized, allowing users to more quickly and easily search job listings. Also provided are expanded tools for more powerful job searching. First, online job listings are automatically accumulated and... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080065634 - Method and system for replacing data in a structured design template: A method and system for replacing data in a design template. An end-user may provide a dynamic, structured client data set to be adapted to a predetermined, structured design template (e.g., a map or report). A repository of design templates may be searched to discover a list of candidate templates... Agent: Christopher Paul Mitchell

20080065636 - Method for storing and retrieving data objects: The invention applies the economies of scale to data processing and provides automated methods of collecting, categorizing, indexing, storing and retrieving large amounts of data from a wide variety of sources. The invention discloses the use of location and industry templates to categorize documents and other data objects. Location and... Agent: C. Dale Quisenberry

20080065632 - Server, method and system for providing information search service by using web page segmented into several inforamtion blocks: Disclosed is a method, system, and server for providing an information search service using a web page divided into a plurality of information blocks. The method of providing a division search service includes: (a) analyzing collected data to divide each of the data into a plurality of information blocks; (b)... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080065635 - Similarity-based access control of data in a data processing system: Similarity of data items is determined by analyzing corresponding segments of the data items. A function is applied to each segment of a data item and the output of that function is compared to the output of the same function applied to a corresponding segment of another data item. A... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20080065641 - Method, system and program product for verifying access to a data object: An improved solution for verifying access to a data object. In particular, the invention automatically determines when access to the data object requires verification and provides an owner of the data object a set of current users for verification. The set of current users can include all or a subset... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080065643 - Contents receiving apparatus and recording medium for storing program thereof: Disclosed are a contents receiving device for automatically contents and a recording medium for a contents receiving program. The contents receiving device refers to an agent table, receives contents having the greatest weight of the agent having the least preference deviation as a top priority from a contents providing server... Agent: Harrity Snyder, LLP

20080065648 - Managing real-time execution of transactions in a network: Real-time execution of transactions can be managed between network devices. A method for managing real-time execution of transactions can comprise receiving one or more transactions, storing details associated with the one or more transactions, and synchronizing the details from a first network device to a second network device. Synchronizing details... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080065651 - System and method for acquisition, assimilation and storage of information: In accordance with the present invention, an improved data handling system facilitates the collection, storage and distribution of information for use by one or more recipient performing a process such as assessing the risk associated with a transaction. A system for handling information includes an administrator for facilitating communication with... Agent: American Express Travel Related Services Co., Inc. C/o Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.

20080065645 - System and method for managing images over a network: Images created by one or more image acquisition devices are initially stored in remote data bases at one or more remote or satellite locations and copies of the images are subsequently transferred to a central server at a central storage location over a network and stored in a central data... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080065650 - System and method for managing server configurations: A computer system comprises servers running application programs which are controlled, at least in part, by configuration parameters. The parameters are updated by first updating a database of configuration parameters, and then automatically updating the servers in accordance with the database updates to automatically maintain synchronization between the server configuration... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080065655 - Automatically linking documents with relevant structured information: A method of associating a given text document with relevant structured data is disclosed. The method receives as inputs a text document, and structured data in the form of a relational database. The method then identifies terms in the text document, and searches and queries the structured data using the... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080065656 - Discovery web service: This invention concerns an arrangement for identifying a data model of at least one service (2103, 2104, 2105), the arrangement comprises a discovery service (2106), comprising storage means for storing data models of the at least one service and for storing a relationship between the data models, and the arrangement... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080065652 - Maintaining and establishing subscriptions with load-balanced servers: A notification subscription application allows a subscriber to maintain event notification continuity in a load-balanced work environment. The notification subscription application proactively provides the subscriber notifications indicating an operating status of the subscription. In this manner, subscribers can reduce the number of missed event notifications, by readily reestablishing a subscription... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20080065654 - Management of complex xml schemas in a database system: Techniques manage the presence of repeated constructs within a complex type at the time of schema registration. At registration, techniques detect repeated elements in the XML schema and analyze whether the repeated elements are from the same complex type. If so, techniques perform additional analysis to determine a minimal common... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080065653 - System and method of generating databases: A database schema generator and a method of converting web service description language (WSDL) structures into database (DB) schemas are provided. The database schema generator comprises a WSDL analyzer for obtaining operations and data types from a WSDL and a DB element definition builder for building a DB element definition... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20080065659 - Information processing apparatus, method and program thereof: An information processing apparatus includes an identification means for identifying categories to which contents belong among predetermined categories based on metadata indicating the details of the contents and a clustering means for classifying a group of contents into clusters by performing clustering processing with respect to the group of contents... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080065658 - Method and system for developing geographic information web service framework: A method, a system and a computer program product developing a Geographic Information System (GIS) web service framework for a user is provided. The method includes developing the GIS web service framework using a database that comprises spatial data. Further, the GIS web service framework provides a GIS web service... Agent: Puneet Sharma

20080065657 - Resource management system using pre-established hierarchical structure: Each component type to be utilized within a system is given a generic component type identifier. Thus, for example, it may be determined that in a particular system, there are eight component types, comprising a rack, a panel, a unit, a pin, a main distribution unit (MDU), a node, a... Agent: Synnestvedt & Lechner, LLP

20080065661 - Saving and restoring an interlocking trees datastore: A tree-based datastore comprising a forest of interconnected trees that can be generated and/or accessed may require specialized saving and restoring processes to ensure that all the links are properly maintained whether it will be restored in full or in part. The processes act on known features of the trees... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20080065660 - System and method for flexible data transfer: A method and system for flexibly transferring data from one or more data sources to one or more data destinations within an information network where each of the one or more data sources have data in a particular source format and each of the one or more data destinations have... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080065666 - Apparatuses, data structures, and methods for dynamic information analysis: Apparatuses, data structures, and computer-implemented methods for mapping relations of items as those items occur in sets, and/or as they are associated with sets, locations and/or attributes are disclosed according to some aspects. In one embodiment, mapping comprises ingesting a corpus of data having one or more initial sets, which... Agent: Battelle Memorial Institute Attn:IPServices, K1-53

20080065664 - Computer-implemented method, tool, and program product for more efficiently utilizing java resource bundles: A method, system, tool, and program product for more efficiently utilizing Java property resource bundles. Specifically, under the present invention, the string key of a resource bundle is changed to allow it to take up less space in memory. This may be accomplished by converting the key values from string... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC

20080065665 - Data masking system and method: A system and method for data masking target data fields of a data record uses an original database with data records having at least one target data field and a copied database including a copy of at least a portion of the original database. Data masking consists of adding a... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080065668 - Presentation of information based on current activity: Data elevation architecture for automatically and dynamically surfacing to a user interface (UI) context-specific data based on specific workflow or content currently being worked on by a user. Data is broken down into data elements and stored at a data element level in a data catalog using metadata, attributes, and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080065663 - Reestablishing process context: Resuming processing of a hierarchical data is disclosed. A previously-processed part of the hierarchical data is traversed by starting at a first level of the hierarchical data, omitting at least one processing operation with respect to data in the previously-processed part. Sub-levels, if any, are descended only if they lead... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080065662 - System and method for compressed tag codes and code mapping: The invention according to one embodiment is a method of distributing information in an RFID tag code that allows a decrease in the tag code length and, at the same time, retains all the information required by longer hierarchical code specifications, such as the ePC code and G-tag code specifications.... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080065669 - System, method and computer program product for managing data: A method and computer readable product for managing data, the method includes: providing a first data structure representative of insert or update operations to entries identified by keys and providing a second data structure representative of branch creation operations wherein the second data structure stores branch identifiers and branch timing... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20080065667 - Transaction oriented resilient file system: In one embodiment a computer system, comprises one or more processors a memory module communicatively connected to the one or more processors and comprising logic instructions which, when executed on the one or more processors configure the one or more processors to receive, in a file system, a file creation... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080065670 - Cache-conscious concurrency control scheme for database systems: An optimistic, latch-free index traversal (“OLFIT”) concurrency control scheme is disclosed for an index structure for managing a database system. In each node of an index tree, the OLFIT scheme maintains a latch, a version number, and a link to the next node at the same level of the index... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20080065677 - Analyzing web site traffic: Methods and arrangements to analyze web traffic of a portal are contemplated. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic to analyze web traffic of a portal by a portlet receiving a request for web page content from the portal and generating a fragment of a web page. The... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20080065680 - Change and release management system: A change and release management process tool allows storing change and release records in a common record schema. A database may be used to store change and release records. The tool provides a unified tracking and reporting system. Reports are provided at various aspects of the process. The technology facilitates... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20080065683 - Concatenation discovery web service: This invention concerns an arrangement for invoking a requested service, the arrangement comprises a discovery service (2106), the discovery service (2106) comprising storage means for storing a data model of at least one service and retrieval means for retrieving a service (2103, 2104, 2105), where the storage means are adapted... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080065673 - Data receiving system, data broadcasting system, data receiving method and data broadcasting method: A data receiving system includes a receiver which is configured to receive broadcast data. The broadcast data includes live information data and announcement data. The live information data has live information relating to a place. The announcement data includes a time indicator and content information regarding contents of the live... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20080065678 - Dynamic schema assembly to accommodate application-specific metadata: Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system, and article of manufacture for the dynamic schema assembly for documents managed by a content management system (CMS). In one embodiment, a transient, application specific markup schema is dynamically generated when a user accesses a data object managed by the CMS. For... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080065675 - Flexible data presentation enabled by metadata: Architecture that defines a document or portions thereof as data elements that are related and categorized. A data catalog is created that uses a schema for the data elements and a set of relationships, attributes and values that further define the data elements, all stored as metadata about the data... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080065672 - Insertion rate aware b-tree: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with insertion rate responsive b-trees are described. One system embodiment includes a capacity logic to detect a divide condition for a leaf node and an insert logic to determine an insertion level for the leaf node. The system embodiment may include an allocation logic... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC

20080065684 - Method and a system for analyzing plays of sports teams: There is provided a multi-player sports teams ball games analysis method, including entering into a computer data concerning a team players' identity, displaying a portion of two specific games of the team, entering data concerning ball passing between individual players during the games, storing the data, entering data regarding the... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080065679 - Method for rules-based drag and drop processing in a network environment: A mechanism to efficiently classify and pre-process rules, encode and embed portions of the rules in the client page, and process them with minimal return trips to the server. One embodiment of the invention comprises a method for providing web applications, comprising generating a rules mapping for a web application... Agent: Grant A. Johnson IBM Corporation, Dept. 917

20080065671 - Methods and apparatuses for detecting and labeling organizational tables in a document: A document (10) includes one or more organizational tables (40). Each organizational table includes a substantially contiguous sub-set of text fragments of the document identified as entries of the organizational table, and each entry has an associated linked text fragment. An organizational tables scorer (42) assigns a score to each... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080065682 - Search index generation apparatus: A search index generation apparatus includes: an information manipulation monitor unit detecting an information manipulation performed by a user on a computer by monitoring the information manipulation of the user on the computer; an information manipulation database for accumulation of data relating to an information manipulation detected by the information... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080065676 - System and method for tracing data storage devices: An electronic data storage device tracing system includes at least one data storage device and a reader system. The data storage device includes a housing having an optical label and a device RFID tag coupled to the housing. In this regard, the optical label is printed with a volser number... Agent: Imation Corp.

20080065674 - Techniques of optimizing queries using null expression analysis: A method for optimizing queries is described. A query, which includes a first expression for determining whether each of a set of values evaluates to NULL or NOT NULL, is received. At compile-time, a first representation of the query is generated, where the first representation indicates that the query is... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080065681 - Method of annotating timeline files: The invention describes a method of annotating a timeline file (T) which method comprises identifying distinct key resources (K1, K2, K3, . . . , Km) in the timeline file (T), and describing a number of annotations for one or more key resources (K1, K2, K3, . . . ,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080065686 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for locating data in large datasets: To analyze a data set having one-to-many relation, the number of simultaneous occurrences of data in which two data elements are coexistent is obtained for all combinations of two data elements. A dependence ratio of one data element upon the other data element is calculated from the numbers of simultaneous... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080065687 - Methods, systems, and media for generating a regression suite database: Methods, systems and media for generating an improved regression suite by applying harvesting models and/or regression algorithms to tests utilized in verification of a system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a regression manager responsive to user input may be coupled to a harvester module, an analysis module, and a management... Agent: Ibm Coporation (rtp) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20080065685 - 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

20080065688 - Mediated plug-in registration of client applications and content providers with push content delivery system: A method and apparatus for connecting a generic element to a content delivery architecture in a push content delivery system having the steps of: providing a mediator between the generic element and the content delivery architecture; extracting at the mediator metadata for the generic element; and registering the generic element... Agent: Research In Motion, Ltd

20080065690 - Enterprise planning and performance management system providing double dispatch retrieval of multidimensional data: An enterprise software system provides an innovative double dispatch data retrieval technique that facilitates determining type safety during compile-time. The system includes an object store for storing a multi-dimensional dataset object. The dataset object provides an interface having a first function for instantiating a non-type-specific indexer object and a second... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20080065689 - Method, system and program product for interning invariant data objects in dynamic space constrained systems: Under the present invention, a hierarchical tree and corresponding Least Recently Used (LRU) list are provided. Both include a predetermined quantity of nodes that are associated with invariant data objects. The nodes of the tree typically include a set of pointers that indicate a position/arrangement of the associated invariant data... Agent: Gregory M. Doudnikoff International Business Machines

20080065694 - Local search using address completion: A local search server receives queries for information about businesses from clients. The local search server searches a local information database for information about a business and reports the information about the business to the client that requested it. Sometimes, the database lacks complete information for the business. For example,... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20080065691 - Metadata for providing media content: Providing digital media content is disclosed. A metadata file and a plurality of data files are received. The metadata file is used to process the plurality of data files. The processing of the plurality of data files using the metadata file is performed without human intervention to provide a downloadable... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Apple Computer, Inc.

20080065693 - Presenting and linking segments of tagged media files in a media services network: Media segments are extracted from tagged media program files which may be associated with broadcast media programs in a media services network. Each media segment may be associated with a portion of a broadcast media program which is associated with a media attribute, as a character or storyline in a... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20080065692 - Vehicle identification system: The specification and drawing figures describe and show a vehicle identification system that includes a programmable application for database management of a plurality of customer-specific vehicle descriptors. The vehicle identification system also includes a mobile computing platform in a mobile satellite communications system adapted to operatively associate the customer-specific vehicle... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080065697 - Metadata editing apparatus, metadata reproduction apparatus, metadata delivery apparatus, metadata search apparatus, metadata re-generation condition setting apparatus, metadata delivery method and hint information description method: Multimedia content containing moving pictures and audio is divided into multiple scenes and metadata is generated for each of the scenes obtained as a result of the division. It is possible to generate metadata containing scene structure information metadata that describes the hierarchical structure of the content in addition to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080065696 - Metrology tool recipe validator using best known methods: A method of preparing recipes for operating a metrology tool, wherein each recipe comprises a set of instructions for measuring at least one dimension in a microelectronic feature. A database includes a plurality of known instructions with best known methods for measuring different dimensions in a microelectronic feature by creating... Agent: Law Office Of Delio & Peterson, LLC.

20080065695 - System and method for nondeterministic media playback selected from a plurality of distributed media libraries: A system for the capture, classification, and playback of media content provides users with a turn-key solution for uploading captured media content and classifying it. The playback of media content is based on user selected classification preferences, whereby the system automatically generates media content sequences and music tracks based on... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20080065698 - Method and apparatus for emulating alternate data streams across heterogeneous file systems: Illustrative embodiments show a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for supporting a stream. A stream request is received. A file name associated with the stream is created. Responsive to receiving the stream request, the stream is stored as a file in a directory tree in the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080065699 - System and method for collection and synchronization of metadata to facilitate distributed content search: A distributed content search system comprises a synchronization component, a distributed content search database, and a distributed content search component. The synchronization component receives, from each of a plurality of participating devices: i) identification of at least one content item being obtainable from the participating device; and ii) metadata associated... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080065700 - Analyzing usage information of an information management system: In an information management system, activity data is collected and analyzed for patterns. The information management system may be policy based. Activity data may be organized as entries including information on user, application, machine, action, object or document, time, and location. When checking for patterns in the activity or historical... Agent: Aka Chan LLP

20080065701 - Method and system for tracking changes to user content in an online social network: Content maintained in an online social network or other online communities is tracked for changes and updates. The content may include user profiles, digital photos, digital audio and video files, testimonials, and identification of users who are friends. When such change or update occurs, users of the online social network... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080065702 - Method of detecting changes in edn-user transaction performance and availability caused by changes in transaction server configuration: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for automatically detecting changes in end-user transaction performance and availability caused by a transaction server configuration change. When a configuration change to an element in a distributed computing system is proposed, a set of instrumented synthetic transactions in the distributed computer system is... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080065703 - Configurable views of archived data storage: In one embodiment, a method for creating a view for a plurality of data units is provided. A portion of the plurality of data units are stored in one or more storage drives that are in a lower power mode of operation in the storage system. The method includes determining... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080065704 - Data and replica placement using r-out-of-k hash functions: A distributed data store employs replica placement techniques in which a number k hash functions are used to compute k potential locations for a data item. A number r of the k locations are chosen for storing replicas. These replica placement techniques provide a system designer with the freedom to... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080065705 - Process data collection for process plant diagnostics development: A number of techniques are disclosed to facilitate process data collection and monitoring. The techniques may involve and support the selection of process parameters to be monitored, including scanning techniques for automated identification of such parameters. The techniques may also involve the management of data storage and archiving operations to... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20080065707 - Data management system and data management method: A file system transfer designation section for transferring the file system matching with file system transfer rules from the first volume of the first storage apparatus to the second volume of the second storage apparatus based on the first file system transfer rules, a file system storage information manager for... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080065706 - Process data storage for process plant diagnostics development: A number of techniques are disclosed to facilitate process data collection and monitoring. The techniques may involve and support the selection of process parameters to be monitored, including scanning techniques for automated identification of such parameters. The techniques may also involve the management of data storage and archiving operations to... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (fisher)

20080065708 - System and method for reducing memory leaks in virtual machine programs: A system and method is provided for reducing memory leaks in virtual machine programs, such as those encountered in programs running in the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) environment. A compiler, such as a Java Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler, is used to identify the last use of an variable and, subsequent to... Agent: Ibm Corporation - Rsw (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080059396 - Database access server with reformatting: A database access server includes a network interface device and a processing device coupled to the network interface device via a bus. The network interface device receives a data request. The processing device retrieves data having a first data type. The processing device further reformats the retrieved data to create... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080059397 - Systems and methods providing data warehousing capability to sqr: An advantageous system and method are provided for supporting and/or enabling the creation of Data Warehouse Scripts and/or data transfer in connection with a SQR-based application or program. The disclosed system and method offer a full complement of data warehousing and data transfer capabilities. In addition, the system and method... Agent: David J. Ballesty

20080059413 - Apparatus and method for an extended semantic layer with multiple combined semantic domains specifying data model objects: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to define a first semantic domain and specify a second semantic domain. The first semantic domain and second semantic domain are combined to establish a third semantic domain. At least one base dimension is identified as a data model object for the... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080059414 - Encrypted data search: An indexing value may be determined, transparently with respect to a requester, based on a desired plaintext item of data and a cryptographic key. The indexing value may be used to access an entry in an indexing structure to obtain a corresponding database entry which includes a non-deterministically encrypted ciphertext... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080059408 - Managing execution of a query against selected data partitions of a partitioned database: The present invention generally relates to data processing, and more specifically to executing queries against a partitioned database. One embodiment provides a computer-implemented method of managing execution of a query against a partitioned database having a plurality of data partitions. The method comprises receiving a query having conditional filtering logic... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080059409 - Method and apparatus for controlling access to content streamed to remote devices: The method and apparatus allow a subscriber to limit streaming of content from subscriber premises equipment (e.g., a STB, a DVR, a PVR, etc.) or from an element in the network (e.g., a streaming server) to a mobile device such as a mobile telephone. Thus, the streaming of content can... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20080059406 - Method and device to process network data: A method and network device to process network data is described. The method may comprise, when the network device is unable to process the network data, communicating a translation request including data for translation to a remote translator. The translation request may identify a format into which the network data... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080059407 - Method and system for managing execution of a query against a partitioned database: The present invention generally relates to data processing, and more specifically to executing a query against a partitioned database. One embodiment provides a computer-implemented method of managing execution of a query against a partitioned database having a plurality of data partitions. The method comprises issuing a query for execution against... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080059410 - Method for accelerating range queries using periodic monotonic properties of non-monotonic functions: A method for accelerating range queries using periodic monotonic properties of non-monotonic functions including mapping a base column x to an existing index on a column y that is correlated with column x through a periodic piecewise monotonic function F(x), rewriting an index construction statement to force the existing index... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080059404 - Method of searching in a collection of documents: The present invention relates to a method of searching in a collection of documents having a tree-like structure and complying with at least one document structure definition in a collection of document structure definitions. This method comprises the steps of receiving (1) a certain branch, determining (3) a subset of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080059411 - Performance-based job site management system: A performance-based job site management system for a machine environment includes a plurality of monitoring devices for collecting productivity data associated with a machine and transmitting the productivity data to an on-board data collector associated with the machine. The system also includes a project management system communicatively coupled to the... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080059405 - Priority reduction for fast partitions during query execution: The present invention generally relates to data processing, and more specifically to executing a query against a partitioned database. The query may be executed against each partition of a database to retrieve results from each partition. The results from the partitions may be integrated to provide the results of the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080059412 - Value-instance connectivity computer-implemented database: A computer-implemented database and method providing an efficient, ordered reduced space representation of multi-dimensional data. The data values for each attribute are stored in a manner that provides an advantage in, for example, space usage and/or speed of access, such as in condensed form and/or sort order. Instances of each... Agent: Jones Day

20080059428 - Automatic completion with ldap: A method and apparatus for searching data in a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory.... Agent: Daniel E. Ovanezian Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080059425 - Compliance information retrieval: Providing compliance information is disclosed. Providing compliance information includes receiving an indication that a link from an object has been selected, wherein the link is to a reference to an entity that hosts the compliance information, determining the compliance information based at least in part on an association between the... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080059426 - Content monitoring and compliance enforcement: Responding to a use of controlled content is disclosed. Responding includes receiving an indication of the use of the controlled content including a context of the use of the controlled content, automatically determining using the context an engagement action for responding to the use, and automatically initiating the engagement action.... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080059430 - Information managing apparatus, information managing method, and computer product: A storing unit stores therein hierarchical-relation information indicating information on a user having a hierarchical relation. A determining unit determines, when information on an article is acquired from a user who created the information on the article, a user to which the information on the article is to be output,... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080059429 - Integrated search processing method and device: A system capable of searching information provided by multiple databases and WWW servers as if the information were stored in multiple tables of a single database, and an environment which allows easy installation of the system, are provided to a user. An integrated search processing device holds definition information obtained... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080059427 - Invoking actions on data via ldap requests: A method and apparatus for invoking actions on data in a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) repository. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a request pertaining to data in the LDAP repository. The request indicates at least one action identified in the definition of the LDAP repository. The method... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080059422 - Media recommendation system and method: A system and method for providing content offering recommendations to users based on the users' preferences. Content offerings may be assigned to a primary metagenre and one or more sub-genres, as well as a secondary metagenre (and additional sub-genres if desired). The offerings may also be identified by their source,... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080059421 - Method and apparatus for resolution of abbreviated text in an electronic communications system: Electronic messaging systems, a machine-accessible medium, and methods for text-based electronic communication. In one embodiment, a plurality of databases are provided. The databases each define shorthand terms with one or more longhand terms. A shorthand term is targeted within a text message, and the databases are searched for corresponding longhand... Agent: Ibm Corporation (ss/roc) C/o Streets & Steele

20080059423 - Method of administering a search engine with a marketing component: A computer system capable of administering a search engine program with a marketing component, which includes at least one client device operatively connected to a host server through a communication network to communicate data between the client device and the host server. The marketing component includes free or discounted access... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20080059436 - Providing a visual representation of a sub-set of a visual program: To provide a visual representation of a sub-set of a visual program generated using a visual programming tool, wherein a trace operation is executed against the visual program and resulting trace data is stored in a trace file, an apparatus includes a parser for parsing the trace file to obtain... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080059431 - Search apparatus, search program, and search method: The search apparatus of the present invention searches for a document corresponding to a specified search term from among a plurality of documents, and includes a search term pair generation unit for generating at least one search term pair including a first search string with a length equal to the... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080059433 - System and method for communicating between graphical user interfaces: The invention relates to a method of communicating between graphical user interfaces by monitoring events of a first graphical user interface and by updating a second graphical user interface with respect to the monitored events of the first graphical user interface. It comprises monitoring events of the first graphical user... Agent: Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, LLP (other)

20080059432 - System and method for database indexing, searching and data retrieval: A method of searching a database, the database comprising a plurality of records stored in a machine readable device, each of the plurality of records comprising one or more of the plurality of documents; an index file comprising a plurality of device identifiers; each of the device identifier comprising a... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080059424 - System and method for locating-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

20080059420 - System and method for providing a trustworthy inverted index to enable searching of records: A trustworthy inverted index system processes records to identify features for indexing, generates posting lists corresponding to features in a dictionary, maintains in a storage cache a tail of at least one of the posting lists to minimize random I/Os to the index, determines a desired number of the posting... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20080059419 - Systems and methods for providing search results: Systems and methods for providing search results are described. In one described system, a term is received in an input field. An article index is searched for an article identifier associated with the term. The article identifier is associated with an article. The article identifier is received and caused to... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20080059440 - Method and system for managing operation of a user-defined function on a partitioned database: The present invention generally relates to data processing and, more particularly, to managing operation of user-defined functions on a partitioned database. One embodiment provides a computer-implemented method for managing execution of a query against a partitioned database having a plurality of data partitions. The method comprises, for each of the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080059439 - Query translation from xpath to sql in the presence of recursive dtds: The invention provides a system and method for translating XPATH queries into SQL queries with a simple least fixpoint (LFP) operator, which is already supported by most commercial RDBMS. The method comprises the steps of (a) rewriting an input query into a regular query, which is capable of capturing both... Agent: Synnestvedt & Lechner LLP Lucent Technologies Inc.

20080059449 - Apparatus and method for processing queries against combinations of data sources: A computer readable medium includes executable instructions to receive a query based on a semantic abstraction that describes at least one underlying data source. The semantic abstraction includes at least one nested semantic abstraction. The query is analyzed to produce data source specific queries. The data source specific queries are... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080059458 - Folksonomy weighted search and advertisement placement system and method: A method for folksonomy weighted searching is provided. The method includes identifying two or more Internet resources associated with a folksonomy. One or more words or phrases are identified in the Internet resources. The words or phrases are weighted based on a frequency of use, and a database is generated... Agent: Jackson Walker LLP

20080059446 - Improving results from search providers using a browsing-time relevancy factor: A method for searching Web pages that begins with the identification of query criteria entered into a search provider. A set of Web pages that satisfies the query criteria are determined. Then, a page ranking is ascertained for each Web page in the set. The Web pages are presented in... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080059455 - Method and apparatus of obtaining or providing search results using user-based biases: Methods, apparatus, processors, and computer program products for obtaining or providing search results are provided. A method of providing search results includes receiving a query initiated by a user and performing a search based on the query. The method further includes determining a friends bias associated with the user, biasing... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080059450 - Service composition environment: A service composition environment is used to create a collaborative application that links services, composite services as well as with other collaborative applications. An application that is created using the service composition environment may include any combination of composite services, individual services and aggregated composite services. Metadata is obtained from... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080059453 - System and method for enhancing the result of a query: A system and method for enhancing the result of a query is disclosed. In some embodiments, the system comprises a plurality of data sources, an interface configured to query the plurality of data sources, and logic coupled to the interface and configured to enhance the result of a query to... Agent: Kevin J. Mack

20080059459 - System and method for providing focused search term results: A system and method for providing focused search term results is provided. The present invention enables a quick and efficient search without having to search more Internet content than necessary for desired information. A user is able to include selected websites, web pages or classifications in a repository to create... Agent: Jackson Walker LLP

20080059448 - System and method of determining and recommending a document control policy for a document: This specification describes technologies relating to identifying an appropriate document control policy for a given document. In general, a method can include determining for a document a genre classification including multiple terms and corresponding scores indicating confidence levels for the terms with respect to the document; identifying a relevant node... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080059447 - System, method and computer program product for ranking profiles: A system, method and computer program product are provided. In use, feedback relating to tags associated with a plurality of profiles is received. In addition, a search query is received. Further, a subset of the profiles is identified based on the search query. The subset of the profiles is also... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080059461 - Content search using a provided interface: Searching for content is disclosed. Searching includes determining a unique feature associated with the content, using a provided interface to obtain a candidate set of matches, and searching the candidate set of matches to obtain a matching set of content.... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080059463 - System and method for launching a specific program from a simple click on a string of characters: A method, system and computer program for automatically launching a target application based on characteristics of a selected string of characters in a source application includes the steps of receiving a command resulting from a user's action, selecting a string of characters in a source application; identifying among one or... Agent: Pastel Law Firm

20080059467 - Near full motion search algorithm: A method and system of processing multimedia data is provided. The method includes associating a constant identifier with a current block of the multimedia data. A frame of blocks of the multimedia data, including streaming video data, can be sorted based on the identifier. The identifier of the current block... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP

20080059466 - System and method for resource-adaptive, real-time new event detection: There are provided a system and method for resource adaptive, real-time new event detection. The method includes capturing, from among documents in a document streaming environment, first-story documents that mention previously unmentioned events. The method further includes dynamically adjusting a thoroughness of the capturing step by controlling a number of... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080059470 - Method and system for implementing a concurrent set of objects: A method for inserting an object into a concurrent set including obtaining a key associated with the object, traversing the concurrent set using a first thread containing the key, identifying a first insertion point while traversing the concurrent set, where the first insertion point is before a current node and... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080059468 - Method, system, and program product for grouping statements against database objects: The present invention provides a method, system, and program product for grouping statements against database objects. Specifically, under the present invention, a set of statements against a database object are preceded by a start command, and then followed with an end command so that the set of statements will be... Agent: Hoffman, Warnick & D'alessandro LLC

20080059469 - Replication token based synchronization: A method, system and computer program product that synchronize a table are provided. The rows of a source table of a database are scanned. The source table comprises a plurality of rows. The rows that are scanned are locked with at least one lock. At least one scan block comprising... Agent: International Business Machines Corp.

20080059473 - Display system, display method, display program, display control method and display apparatus: A display system includes a display apparatus including a file identifier storing section, a viewing and editing information storing section storing thereon viewing and editing information permitted to file data, a first display section, and a first communicating section transmitting the file identifier and viewing and editing information, and an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080059472 - Information managing apparatus, information managing method, and computer product: A storing unit stores hierarchical-relation information indicating information on a user having a hierarchical relation and article information created by a user in an associated manner. a determining unit determines, when an access request to the article information is received, whether to authorize a terminal of a source of the... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20080059481 - Electric comic book delivering server, apparatus for creating translated electric comic book and method of creating translated electric comic book: An electric comic book delivering server delivers translated electric comic book by transmitting original electric comic book data, mask data and translation data to a client terminal via a communication network. The mask data is used to mask a display portion of first language. The translation data is used to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080059479 - Method and apparatus for invoking a plug-in on a server: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for invoking a plug-in that is dynamically associated with a database operation. During operation, a client sends a request to a database system to perform an operation on the database, wherein the request includes a control-message which specifies a plug-in which... Agent: Oracle International Corporation C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080059477 - Method and system for tracking service orders: A method and system for tracking service orders of service activities each having a service activity date from a sender to a recipient with an email application operating via a communications network. Emails are generated by the sender that have a first portion including a first data from the service... Agent: Patton Boggs, L.L.P.

20080059476 - Method for protecting user privacy in short range communication: A method of communicating information between an object and an information collection point via a short-range wireless network while protecting the privacy of a user of the object. Initially, a prompt is sent from the information collection point via the wireless network. The object detects the prompt and establishes a... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080059478 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for organizing and sharing content: Methods, systems and computer program products for creating and sharing content lists are provided. A user content list is created via a user device, and shared with selected other users via a network service. A user's content list can be shared with other users selected by the user. A user's... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080059475 - Numeric identifier assignment in a networked computer environment: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method of assigning unique identifiers in a multi-master directory service. In particular, each server in the system assigns numeric user identifiers in a linear fashion that compliments the series of user identifiers assigned by the other servers. In particular, a first... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080059480 - System and method for filtering contents of a web page: A method for filtering contents of a Web page is disclosed. The method includes the steps of downloading and storing the Web page to be selected in the database; converting the Web page from the HTML to the XML; detecting whether the XML Web page contains the elements corresponding to... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang Jeffrey T. Knapp

20080059398 - Data transfer system capable of converting file formats: In a data transfer system, when transferring data which has been transferred to a storage in a PC, to a mobile terminal connected to the PC, the PC acquires the file format of the data and the file format which can be processed by the mobile terminal and determines whether... Agent: William S. Frommer, Esq. Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080059403 - Method and apparatus for obtaining and storing medical history records: A system and method for taking a medical history uses a questionnaire database in which answers to questions are correlated with subsequent questions. The answers given for the medical history provide a path through the database and a compact form for storage of the medical history. A computerized system is... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20080059399 - Method for supporting multiple filesystem implementations: A data structure used by an operating system to refer to a filesystem object includes information that permits the structure to be associated with filesystem objects having different filesystem implementations. The data structure is associated with a filesystem object that is linked into different directories that have different filesystem implementations.... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20080059401 - Network-extensible reconfigurable media appliance: Extensible reconfigurable media appliance for security and entertainment captures images digitally for storage. Digital effects and filters are applied to incoming video stream on-the-fly or to video data stored in memory. Digital effects and filters are dynamically stored, modified, updated or deleted, providing extensible reconfigurable effects studio. Digital media appliance... Agent: Fernandez & Associates LLP

20080059400 - Network-extensible reconfigurable media appliances: Extensible reconfigurable media appliance for security and entertainment captures images digitally for storage. Digital effects and filters are applied to incoming video stream on-the-fly or to video data stored in memory. Digital effects and filters are dynamically stored, modified, updated or deleted, providing extensible reconfigurable effects studio. Digital media appliance... Agent: Fernandez & Associates LLP

20080059402 - System and method for managing and updating information relating to economic entities: Methods and systems for managing and updating information relating to economic entities using sets of unique identifiers. A universe database contains record entries. Each of the record entries is associated with a unique universe identifier. A customer database contains customer record entries. Each customer record entry is associated with a... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20080059415 - Data aggregation module supporting dynamic query responsive aggregation during the servicing of database query requests provided by one or more client machines: Improved method of and apparatus for aggregating data elements in multidimensional databases (MDDB). In the preferred embodiment, the apparatus is realized in the form of a high-performance stand-alone (i.e. external) aggregation server which can be plugged-into conventional MOLAP systems to achieve significant improvements in system performance. In accordance with the... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., PC

20080059418 - Method and system for creating profiling indices: A database engine and optimizer framework support creation of a series of profiling indices over a column having character string data, such as a traditional “varchar” data type. The profiling indices result in a reduction of the number of records that are searched when searching for a sub-string match within... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20080059416 - Software system for rules-based searching of data: In one embodiment, data associated with a process rules query is received. The data includes values associated with a predetermined constraint. Results for the process query are obtained from at least one data store. The obtained results for the process query are output in a first form and a second... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080059417 - Structured document management system and method of managing indexes in the same system: On the basis of an index generation request which is sent from the outside to direct generation of character string concatenation index and which designates a tag assigned the generated character string concatenation index, a tag detection unit detects the tag designated by the index generation request, in a structured... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080059434 - Api-accessible media distribution system: A media distribution system and method for storing a plurality of media data files within a media repository. A user of a client electronic device is enabled to access one or more media data files chosen from the plurality of media data files. The user of the client electronic device... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080059437 - Data mining system: A method for data mining of at least one database by means of computer-implemented software; said method including the steps of: (g) creating at least one task defining Document for each of said at least one task, (h) defining within said Document a Business Rules diagram for said at least... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20080059438 - Method and apparatus for optimizing queries in a logically partitioned computer system: A database query optimizer for a computer system having dynamically configurable logical partitions generates an optimized query strategy which is dependent on a logical partition configuration. When the query is executed, the configuration of the logical partition in which the query is executed is compared to the logical partition configuration... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080059435 - Systems, methods, software, and interfaces for formatting legal citations: The present inventor devised, among other things, a citation formatting system, method, and software. The exemplary system provides the citation formatting function in a client-server architecture, receiving citations from a user's client access device over a computer network and communicating citation format suggestions back to the client access device for... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080059444 - Knowledge archival and recollection systems and methods: A method of extracting knowledge from a knowledge archival and recollection system, comprising the steps of: recognizing a user actuation; initiating a search application; displaying a user search interface; receiving input parameters via the search interface; identifying a query type based on the received input parameters; formulating a database query... Agent: Meredith & Keyhani, PLLC

20080059443 - Method and system for the extraction of a data table from a data base, corresponding computer program product: A method is provided for the extraction of a data table from a database. The data table includes instances in rows and columns, respectively, and includes indicators characterizing the instances in columns and rows, respectively. The method includes the following steps: a) obtaining an initial specification of the study; b)... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080059442 - System and method for automatically expanding referenced data: A system and method for automatically extracting entity reference data from a data resource, which can incrementally mine new reference data tuples from the existing data sources (e.g. data warehouse, web, etc.) with low cost. The system of the invention includes an_entity data parsing means coupled with the data resource,... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080059441 - System and method for enterprise-wide dashboard reporting: A system and method for presenting real-time enterprise data to a user, receiving selections from the user, and providing query results from multiple databases in real time to the user, where the databases may be accessible through disparate networks and the Internet.... Agent: Burns & Levinson, LLP

20080059445 - System and method for manipulating data using iconic representations: A Sort-on-the-Fly/Search-on-the-Fly search engine provides an intuitive means for searching databases, allowing a user to access data in the database without having to know anything about the database structure. A user selects a desired search term, and the search engine searches the database for all instances of the desired term,... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP

20080059456 - Domain expert search: Expert domains for a query category represent domains from which a high percentage of search results for queries associated with the query category are retrieved. The expert domains are identified by establishing a base statistical model that indicates frequencies of appearance for domains in search results retrieved for queries corresponding... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080059460 - Metasearching a plurality of servers and placing at least one order: A process and system for metasearching on a distributed network activated by a request executed on a client device to request a metasearch engine to send at least one search query to a plurality of server devices, which may be search engines, the at least one search query comprising at... Agent: Harvey Lunenfeld

20080059454 - Search document generation and use to provide recommendations: Particular embodiments provide a search service using a search document. Complex, multi-site, multi-query searches may be performed using the search document. To use a search document, a user may activate the service. The search document may then capture data for an entire search performed for the users search across various... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080059451 - Search system and method with text function tagging: A search system with a user interface module that generates a search engine results page including a listing of reference documents, each with a hyperlink to at least one secondary document relevant to the reference document. The search system also includes a text function tagger that parses text excerpts of... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080059457 - Sustainability ratings for legal entities with data inspection: A computer implemented rating system for rating a company using at least one non-economic factor stored in a database populated with hierarchical data and metadata. The system displays at least a portion of the hierarchical data and a formula that generates a sustainability score, the sustainability score defining a rating... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080059452 - Systems and methods for obtaining and using information from map images: 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: obtaining a text string apparently corresponding to a name of a location; obtaining coordinates for the location; displaying a plurality of text phrases that contain the... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080059462 - Abbreviated index: Abbreviated index of parameter patterns. An abbreviated index includes indicators that a parameter pattern may be in a set of parameter patterns. To create the abbreviated index, indicators for overlapping parameter patterns of a given parameter pattern are placed in the index. Different patterns may have the same indicator, so... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080059464 - Positionally dependent pattern checking in character strings using deterministic finite automata: A deterministic finite state machine organised for the detection of positionally significant matches of characters in a string of characters examines each character in turn to determine a exit transition for a current state of the machine to another state The machine responds to an examination of the string of... Agent: 3com Corporation

20080059465 - String search scheme in a distributed architecture: Methods and apparatuses for searching network data for one or more predetermined strings are disclosed. In one embodiment, the string search is a multi-stage search where the stages of the search are performed by different hardware components. In one embodiment in a first search stage, a first processor performs a... Agent: Intel/blakely

20080059471 - Using local locks for global synchronization in multi-node systems: Described herein are techniques for global synchronization that under various scenarios eliminate or defer the acquisition of global locks. In many cases, the need to acquire global locks is eliminated, thereby saving the overhead attendant to processing global locks.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080059474 - Detecting behavioral patterns and anomalies using activity profiles: Activity data is analyzed or evaluated to detect behavioral patterns and anomalies. When a particular pattern or anomaly is detected, a system may send a notification or perform a particular task. This activity data may be collected in an information management system, which may be policy based. Notification may be... Agent: Aka Chan LLP

20080059482 - Analysis of financial and business information based on interactive data: Systems and methods are provided for analysis of financial and business information based on interactive data, such as XBRL data. According to one embodiment, an intelligent financial and business information reporting application includes methods to allow the results of many companies to be more efficiently compared by regulators, investors, and... Agent: Hamilton Desanctis & Cha Michael A. Desanctis

20080059483 - Api-accessible media distribution system: A media distribution system, method, and computer program product for storing a plurality of media data files within a media repository. One or more of the plurality of media data files are identified within a file catalog. A data request is received, using a standardized protocol, from a client electronic... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080059484 - Multimedia system and method for teaching in a hybrid learning environment: A hybrid learning environment may include a hybrid learning environment system; a learning center, including a first client computer, and an online class display coupled to the first client computer to display instructional material; a second client computer at a remote location displaced from the learning center to present instructional... Agent: Venable LLP

20080059485 - Systems and methods for entering and retrieving data: This document provides systems and methods for entering and retrieving data. For example, systems and methods that can allow providers to enter information about available (e.g., assignable or licensable) intellectual property into a searchable database accessible to users having an interest in buying or licensing intellectual property are provided. In... Agent: James Patrick Finn Iii

20080059497 - Data storing device, recording medium, computer data signal, and control method for data storing: Provided is a data storing device which stores plural data items and management information related to storing of each data item in an associated manner, detects, from the plural stored data items, plural data items of which at least a part of contents are common to each other, selects a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080059490 - Design time: The present subject mater relates to configuration of computer applications and, more particularly, to design time application configuration. Various embodiments provide systems, methods, and software to store, in a memory device, a scoping input database, wherein the scoping input database holds one or more customer profiles, and store, in the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20080059494 - Document database system and method: A document database system is provided. The document database system includes a database creation system receiving a document having one or more defined fields and generating a database structure for storing data associated with the fields and a document identifier. A form publication system receives user-entered data associated with the... Agent: Mr. Christopher John Rourk Jackson Walker LLP

20080059486 - Intelligent data search engine: A method includes automatically extracting information that matches a predetermined criterion from one or more web pages at one or more web sites and automatically producing one or more extracted data-field names from the information extracted from the one or more web pages at the one or more web sites.... Agent: Xin Wen

20080059489 - Method for parallel query processing with non-dedicated, heterogeneous computers that is resilient to load bursts and node failures: A method is provided for query processing in a grid computing infrastructure. The method entails storing data in a data storage system accessible to a plurality of computing nodes. Computationally-expensive query operations are identified and query fragments are allocated to individual nodes according to computing capability. The query fragments are... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20080059493 - Presence enhanced online processes: In some embodiments, a managed presence online processing system may include one or more of the following features: (a) a memory comprising, (i) presence information submitted from a user, and (ii) a presence online processing program that initiates online processes on the user's computer based upon the presence information of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080059491 - System and method for mapping events into a data structure: A system and method is disclosed translating asynchronous system events into a data structure. The system and method disclosed herein involves translating the conditional text elements and the dynamic data fields of an event into the predetermined format of a data structure. The conditional text elements and dynamic data fields... Agent: Roger Fulghum Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080059488 - System and method for positional representation of content for efficient indexing, search, retrieval, and compression: A method of generating a positional representation of a document, including identifying each unique term in a document and positions in the document at which the unique term appears, and for the each unique term, storing positional information derived from the positions into a positional representation.... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080059492 - Systems, methods, and storage structures for cached databases: Systems and methods for clustered access to as many columns as possible given a particular ongoing query mix and a constrained amount of disk space is disclosed. A compressed database is split into group of columns, each column having duplicates removed and being sorted. Then certain groups are transferred to... Agent: Jones Day

20080059487 - Tree-based information query model: A mechanism and method for querying between two data centers managed by two different data center management products is described. A single information query model is utilized to query multiple instances of another data center, which receives, translates and responds to the information query through the use of a schema.... Agent: Aka Chan LLP / Oracle

20080059495 - Graphical user interface for system and method for managing content: A system and method for electronic file management includes an object-oriented file management database, a volume manager, and a coherency manager. The volume manager manages electronic files and metadata relating to the files of one or more volumes. Each volume may include folders, files, and/or other digital content. A user... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.C.

20080059498 - System and method for document section segmentation: A system and method for facilitating the processing and the use of documents by providing a system for categorizing document section headings under a set of canonical section headings. In the method for categorizing section headings, there may be a process of training a database and matching methods to categorize... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20080059496 - Thin-client and distributed development using data programming: According to an embodiment of the disclosed subject matter, a system and method of data programming includes declarative rule-based programming in which a distributed program for computers on a network is defined through tabular structures. The tabular structures can store logic, including data (e.g., primitive variables and dynamic data structures)... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080059503 - Data management system and method for updating data: Systems and methods store information data in an information data frame, including retrieval keys, and store pertinent data specifying the information data in a pertinent data frame for each individual category specified by the retrieval keys. The systems and methods receive an updating file containing updating information data for updating... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080059502 - Data management system, update file generating system, and data updating method: Systems and methods store data in records, each record comprising a plurality of fields. The systems and methods receive an update file that contains a stored field specifying structure that specifies a field that is to be updated in a particular record and that contains the updated data for the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080059499 - Dedicating threads to classes of ldap service: Improved lightweight Directory Access Protocol (“LDAP”) server architectures using dedicated threads to respond to different classes of LDAP requests are described and claimed. Some servers classify an LDAP request from a client, then store the classified request with similarly-classified requests. One of the classified LDAP requests is selected and executed... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080059501 - Method and system for automated process distribution: A method for automated process distribution includes selecting a process definition; identifying a first process portion and at least one second process portion in the process definition; generating a first further process definition for the first process portion; generating a second further process definition for each the second process portion;... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080059500 - System and method for collaborative data sharing and analysis: A collaborative data sharing and analysis system comprises a primary database utilizing a plurality of tables, and a user client that provides an interface that displays a retail and supplier data perspective. The primary database utilizes a recursive load function to load data recursively from the database tables so that... Agent: Renner Kenner Greive Bobak Taylor & Weber

20080059507 - Changing number of machines running distributed hyperlink database: The number of machines in a cluster of computers running a distributed database, such as a scalable hyperlink datastore or a distributed hyperlink database, may be changed such that machines may be added or removed. The data is not repartitioned all at once. Instead, only new and merged data stores... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080059511 - Dynamic information retrieval system for xml-compliant data: Data that is in a tagged format, such as XML, is dynamically accessed on demand, without the requirement for pre-parsing documents containing the data and storing it in a database. A dynamic processor discovers and processes taxonomy documents pertinent to a data request by traversing linked relationships between documents. Pre-stored... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080059512 - Identifying related objects using quantum clustering: Techniques for grouping related objects such as documents and files using quantum clustering are disclosed. A method may include constructing a feature-object database of multiple objects. The feature-object database may have quantized selected features as keys. A connected objects database maybe built. Clusters of connected objects may be identified in... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20080059505 - Message validation model: The present invention generally provides a message validation model. Specifically, the present invention provides a message validation layer/framework that allows rules such as message validation rules to be plugged into/attached to a logical model. This model allows (among other things) schema level rules or the like to be converted to... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC

20080059504 - Method and system for rendering graphical user interface: Methods, systems and computer-usable media for storing program code for generating a customized graphical user interface for specified functions using generic base code are described. The methods include the automatic discovery and rendering of graphical user interface elements. User selected component data associated with the specified functions is stored in... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080059506 - Method, system and schema for building a hierarchical model schema definition from a flat model definition: A system, method and schema for building a hierarchical model schema definition from a flat model definition are disclosed. The system, method and schema identifies a local parent element and type definition pertaining to a hierarchical loop containing the element identifier data element, a parent identifier segment if a parent... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC

20080059510 - Multimedia system framework having layer consolidating access to multiple media devices: A multimedia system is set forth that comprises a multimedia engine, a database, and a human machine interface. The multimedia engine may be adapted to access multimedia files from a plurality of multimedia data sources for playback on one or more of a plurality of multimedia output devices. The database... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080059508 - Techniques for navigational query identification: To accurately classify a query as navigational, thousands of available features are explored, extracted from major commercial search engine results, user Web search click data, query log, and the whole Web's relational content. To obtain the most useful features for navigational query identification, a three level system is used which... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080059509 - Data processing device, data processing method, program, program recording medium, data recording medium, and data structure: A process corresponding to a reproduction time of data and an argument information is executed. When mark_time_stamp representing one reproduction time on a time axis of a play list, mark_type representing a type of Mark( ), and mark_type are of a type of an event that is generated, if a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080059514 - Mechanism for supporting indexed tagged content in a general purpose data store: A schema identifies a field in a document as a key field. Using an XML schema, the key field can be identified by attaching a property to the element or attribute to be used as a key field (if the XML schema standard is modified to support properties). Otherwise, attributes... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C. - Novell

20080059513 - Method of generating molecule-function network: A method of generating a molecule-function network including bio-events by carrying out a connect search using a biomolecule-linkage database including information on the bio-events, and a method of predicting a pathway between an arbitrary biomolecule and an arbitrary bio-event in said network or a method of predicting the bio-events to... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080059515 - Method, system, and program product for organizing a database: The invention provides a method, system, and program product for organizing a database containing a plurality of objects based on a task list of a user. In one embodiment, the invention includes accessing a database containing a plurality of objects; defining at least one of the plurality of objects as... Agent: Hoffman Warnick & Dalessandro LLC

20080059517 - Data verification systems and methods using business objects: Embodiments consistent with the present invention relate to methods and systems for verifying data of an application system. Consistent with exemplary embodiments, the method may generate a first business object and generate a second business object from the data related to the first business object. The method may then access... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20080059516 - System and method for managing activities in project management: A system, a method and a computer program product for managing activities in project management. The system includes an activity sensor for collecting activity data from user inputs and event logs; a model builder for creating a project model by integrating said activity data with project tasks; and a central... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080059518 - 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

20080059525 - Exposing file metadata as ldap attributes: A method and apparatus for providing virtual Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) attribute subtypes based on metadata associated with a relevant data type. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a data request indicating an LDAP attribute having one or more attribute values associated with at least one data type.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20080059524 - Hybrid data provider: Systems and techniques for the hybrid provision of data are described. In one aspect, a system includes a first collection of information stored in accordance with a reporting data model, a second collection of information setting forth a collection of one or more additive delta records, and an analytic engine... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080059521 - Method and apparatus for using item dwell time to manage a set of items: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing a serially presented set of items. The process displays a content for a given item for an amount of time based on user input in response to a user selection of the given item. The process identifies a... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080059528 - Patient care order and scanned document processing system: A pharmacy information and scanned document processing system includes an input processor for receiving data representing a scanned image of a physician prepared order for a medication for a particular patient. At least one repository stores data associating scanned images, patients and electronic records of orders for medication. A data... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080059526 - Playback apparatus, searching method, and program: A playback apparatus includes: playback means for playing back a content to display images; extraction means for extracting keywords from subtitles tied to an image being displayed; keyword presentation means for presenting the keywords extracted by the extraction means; and searching means for searching a content on the basis of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080059529 - Projector, information storage medium, and image processing method: A projector including: a communication section; a storage section which stores initial projection target data, updated projection target data, layout data and others; an update request reception section which receives an update request from PC via the communication section, and sequentially writes update request data indicating details of the update... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080059520 - Segmented questionnaire validation of business rules based on scoring: A method, system and computer-usable medium for a policy validator that automates the validation of existing or proposed policies. A segmented questionnaire wizard is implemented to guide a policy creator through a series of policy-related questions, resulting in the automated generation of a questionnaire used for validating the policy. The... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Rsw

20080059522 - System and method for automatically creating personal profiles for video characters: A system, method and computer program product for generating personal profiles for subjects appearing in a video media source. The method includes extracting audiovisual-related personal information related to a subject appearing in the video media source; extracting text-related personal information that are related to the subject in the video source;... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080059527 - System and method for standardized process monitoring in a complex manufacturing environment: By monitoring a process flow in a complex manufacturing environment on the basis of a technique using standardized data structures, process-related evaluated data structures corresponding to a process history of objects may be recorded with a high degree of coverage. Furthermore, the respective data structures may be stored and maintained... Agent: J. Mike Amerson Williams, Morgan & Amerson, P.C.

20080059519 - System, method, and apparatus for providing storage operations on an online computer system: An online storage system, method, or apparatus for use on the Internet that allows an individual or computer means to use previously recorded or stored file media for upload to the online storage system. This system, method, or apparatus concurrently provides means to create new media for upload to the... Agent: Tony Olusegun Griffith

20080059523 - Systems and methods of matching requirements and standards in employment-related environments: Systems and methods of matching employers to job applicants are provided. Job applicants provide self-assessment of their capabilities in certain abilities, skills, knowledge, and other employment-related attributes. Associates of the job applicants provide their assessment of the job applicant with respect to the same or substantially similar attributes. Employers post... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080059530 - Implementing group content substitution in media works: A classification method and system for possible content alteration of a media work may include criteria regarding content that is feasible for alteration. Such criteria may be maintained in records that are accessible to an interested party. Some embodiments may include a record of primary authorization rights applicable to a... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080059531 - Knowledge archival and recollection systems and methods: A knowledge archival and recollection system accessible by a user, comprising: a data acquisition module in communication with a database server, a file archive and a database connectivity module; a data presentation module in communication with a report module and a search module; a timing module in communication with the... Agent: Meredith & Keyhani, PLLC

20080059534 - Livestock management systems and methods: This invention relates to systems and methods for managing livestock, such as cattle, from conception to consumption. More particularly, this invention relates to systems and methods in which users, such as producers, feedlot managers, packers, buyers, sellers, and consumers, are brought together through shared information and improved communication. Users may... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080059532 - Method and system for managing digital content, including streaming media: Methods and systems for uploading, managing and delivering digital content, including streaming media. The system according to one embodiment allows receives digital content from the client, assigns a stream identifier (ID) to the content and stores the content. The client is given a playlist uniform resource locator (URL) for publishing... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080059533 - Personal video recorder functionality for placeshifting systems: PVR functionality is enabled on a media player of a placeshifting system, which allows a user to record media programs from locations that are physically remote from a source of the media programs. The media player may receive program schedule information and present the program schedule information to the user.... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080059535 - Annotating media content with related information: A method 300 for retrieving media content (120). The method can include receiving metadata (118) associated with a first media file, receiving the first media file, processing at least the metadata to identify at least a second media file (124) likely to be of interest to a user, and automatically... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C.

20080059536 - Content monitoring and host compliance evaluation: Evaluating content is disclosed. Evaluating includes determining a host policy associated with one or more host policy rules, wherein the host policy specifies one or more conditions under which the content may be hosted, automatically assessing compliance with the one or more host policy rules based at least in part... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080059537 - Content subscription: The present subject mater relates to configuring computer applications and, more particularly, computer application content subscription. The various embodiments herein provide systems, methods, and software that maintain a representation of configuration settings in a database of one or more application instance configurations and receive new content, wherein the new content... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20080059538 - Method and system for synchronizing offline records: A method and system are provided for synchronizing records between a mobile terminal and a records management server. The method includes selecting at least one master file to be synchronized, wherein the master file includes a set of master records and is stored on a records management server, the server... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080059539 - Document collaboration system and method: A system that allows users to create, edit, manage, collaborate and communicate on documents such as word processor documents, spreadsheets, databases, slides, and diagram editors is disclosed. Each document type is broken down into basic workable elements. Each change to a document is tracked in a centralized database under control... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20080059542 - Ensuring data persistence and consistency in enterprise storage backup systems: Ensuring data persistence and consistency in enterprise storage backup systems method and apparatus are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes creating a data log structure (e.g., a log file) on a storage device (e.g., a Serial ATA drive, a SCSI drive, a SAS drive, a storage are network, etc)... Agent: Raj Abhyanker, LLP C/o Intellevate

20080059543 - Esa enablement of records management for application integration: Systems and methods for archiving documents are described that permit the integration of a centralized archive management system (“AMS”) into various applications in a streamlined fashion. An application may generate metadata from a document to be archived and place the metadata and document into a document archival and retention request.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080059540 - Flexible, efficient and scalable sampling: A sampling infrastructure/scheme that supports flexible, efficient, scalable and uniform sampling is disclosed. A sample is maintained in a compact histogram form while the sample footprint stays below a specified upper bound. If, at any point, the sample footprint exceeds the upper bound, then the compact representation is abandoned, the... Agent: Ip Authority, LLC Ramraj Soundararajan

20080059541 - 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

20080059545 - Method to maintain the integrity of remote data by making it disposable: In a networked system having a protected central server network connected to one or more satellite servers, the central server includes master data, and each satellite system includes replicated data derived from the master data. A corruption of at least a portion of the replicated data in one of the... Agent: Ibm/fay Sharpe

20080059544 - System and method for providing secure third party website histories: Disclosed is a system and method for archiving websites, with which a customer may designate a target domain that is to be scanned and archived. At times or frequencies designated by the customer, the system scans every web page and link associated with the target domain. The system securely archives... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP