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

20080208790 - Document processing device, and document processing method: A technique is provided for adding an annotation to a document described in a markup language. Upon acquisition of a document described in a markup language, a document processing apparatus 100 detects an element which is included in the document and which has been defined so as to enable an... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080208793 - Image file searching method and electronic device: An image file searching method includes the following steps. First, an image searching command, which includes image color searching information or image shape searching information, is received. Then, the image searching command is compared with a plurality of image files. The image color searching information or the image shape searching... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080208795 - Method for homogenizing measurement units used displaying communication messages: The present invention relates to a method for homogenizing measurement units used for displaying communication messages containing numerical data notably messages exchanged by an aircraft with the air traffic control authority. The choice of the working units of the flight management computer are recovered in the configuration database. The measurement... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080208794 - Method, system, and computer program product for integrating data between disparate and host systems: A method, system, and computer program product are provided for integrating one or more disparate systems with a host system. For example, a computer program product including at least one computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code portions stored therein includes a first executable portion for receiving data associated with... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080208792 - Methods and apparatus for management of configuration item lifecycle state transitions: Techniques for managing a plurality of configuration items in an information repository are provided. Lifecycle state transitions of the plurality of configuration items are regulated in accordance with one or more lifecycle state transition diagrams and, when a life cycle state transition involves a protected life cycle state, one or... Agent: Robert W. Griffith Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080208791 - Retrieving images based on an example image: A method is disclosed for retrieving images relevant to an example image from among a plurality of stored images, each of the stored images being associated with metadata of different types, including retrieving set(s) of images from the stored image(s) for each different type of metadata that are based on... Agent: Eastman Kodak Company Patent Legal Staff

20080208797 - Automated record attribute value merging from multiple directory servers: Merging records from a first directory server and a second directory server to augment data from the first server with data from the second server. The records of the second server could contain only data augmenting the data from the record of the first server, or could contain duplicative data... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri LLP

20080208798 - Detecting and tracking monotonicity for accelerating range and inequality queries: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for detecting monotonicity. A determination is made as to whether a function that is assumed to be monotonic will remain monotonic after performing an operation in response to receiving the operation. The operation is allowed to be performed in response... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080208799 - Direct call threaded code: A pre-pass and direct call mechanism which replaces the interpreter. The mechanism moves static decisions out of the repeated runtime path, into a pre-pass operation. Advantageously, the mechanism reduces runtime overhead, and improves overall performance of the DBMS during runtime, while maintaining the considerable investment in opcode generation and plan... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080208796 - Method and system for providing sponsored information on electronic devices: A system implementing a method for providing sponsored information on an electronic device determines information of interest to the user as relevant information, accesses sponsored information, and provides sponsored information based on said relevant information.... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080208822 - Analytic enhancements to model clause in structured query language (sql): A method for processing queries is provided. A database server receives and executes a query to generate a relation. The query comprises first one or more clauses and a model clause. The model clause comprises a rule that has a left-side expression and a right-side expression. In one embodiment, the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080208805 - Apparatus and method for remote querying of data sources: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to receive a report document at a report query engine. The report document includes a definition of a report. The report document is processed to extract a remote location for a data source driver for the report. A request for the data... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080208808 - Configuring searches: A GUI is generated to receive parameters that specify properties of a search engine. Certain parameters are received via the user interface, which specify the properties for a certain search engine. The search engine is configured according to the parameters specified. A request for executing the search engine is received... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080208816 - Data processing method and system: A data processing method comprises receiving an electronic document, rendering at least a portion of the electronic document, detecting the portion of the electronic document that is unrendered, generating a feedback document comprising a portion of the electronic document, and transmitting the feedback document. Preferably, the feedback document comprises the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080208819 - Gui based web search: An exemplary computer implemented graphics-based Web search system includes a search input control and a results presentation control where the search input control is configured to receive user input to establish a relationship between a query and one or more information tags associated with search results provided by a search... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080208821 - Information retrieval from a collection of data: A method of accessing information from a collection of data includes receiving a query, generating an inverse index of the collection of data and generating results to the query in conjunction with the inverse index.... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP

20080208812 - Instant contact searching and presentation by category: A device, system, and method are directed towards enabling a mobile device user to perform a federated search across a plurality of disparate contact data stores, including a phone directory, IM store, an email address book, a buddy list, a social networking group, a SMS list, or any of a... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.c.

20080208818 - Method and mobile terminal for efficient file list creation: The present invention relates to a method and mobile terminal that enable efficient creation of a file list. The file list creation method includes selecting a directory having at least one file, setting a reference search location to the beginning of the selected directory, reading a directory entry at the... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, Plc

20080208800 - Method and system for increasing invention: A computer assisted, convergent iterative method and system for creating an optimal definition of a problem or need, the optimal definition including a critical challenge (CC), and producing a solution thereto, including providing an initial statement of the problem or need, and iteratively performing a computer assisted search method until... Agent: Carlos R. Villamar Nixon Peabody

20080208815 - Method and system for optimizing investments in web marketing: Contemplated systems and methods provide cost/benefit projections for alternative web site marketing strategies. In preferred embodiments the system classifies search terms into primary, secondary, and tertiary words, and projects Return on Investment (ROI) and Net Operating Income (NOI) for multiple permutations of the words. Preferred embodiments also include a budget... Agent: Fish & Associates, Pc Robert D. Fish

20080208802 - Method and system for utilizing a hierarchical bitmap structure to provide a fast and reliable mechanism to represent large deleted data sets in relational databases: A method and system utilizes a hierarchical bitmap structure to represent deleted data sets. Each level in the hierarchical bitmap structure may have progressively larger size and represent finer granularity of number of data blocks than its parent level. A method in one aspect may comprise allocating a first level... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.c.

20080208824 - Methods and systems for providing a response to a query: Methods and systems for providing a response to a query. Multiple users' search engine activity in regard to a query is correlated. A response is provided based upon this correlated search engine activity information. For one embodiment of the invention, in the context of search engine result optimization, the user... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080208825 - Methods and systems for providing a response to a query: Methods and systems for providing a response to a query. Multiple users' search engine activity in regard to a query is correlated. A response is provided based upon this correlated search engine activity information. For one embodiment of the invention, in the context of search engine result optimization, the user... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080208811 - Nested and roles: A method and apparatus for managing a nested AND role in a directory server is described. In one embodiment, a plurality of entries is defined in the directory server. At least one of the plurality of entries possesses a role. An entry is queried to determine its possessed role. A... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080208810 - Nested xor roles: A method and apparatus for managing a nested XOR role in a directory server is described. In one embodiment, a plurality of entries is defined in the directory server. At least one of the plurality of entries possesses a role. An entry is queried to determine its possessed role. A... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080208807 - Role based groups: A method and apparatus for managing group based roles in a directory server is described. In one embodiment, a group of entries is defined in the directory server. One or more of the entries possess a group based role. The group based role points to one or more groups. Entries... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080208809 - Role based groups: A method and apparatus for managing role based groups in a directory server is described. In one embodiment, a role attribute is defined for one or more entries in the directory server. A group of entries in the directory server is defined with a group role. The group role comprises... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080208823 - Sharing playlists in a recommendation system: A system for sharing playlists and playlist essence with different users. A user desiring to share his or her playlist generates the playlist and a playlist characterization. The playlist characterization is based on acoustic analysis data of one or more songs in the playlist. The playlist and playlist characterization is... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080208826 - System and method for a modular used controlled search engine: Method and system for delivery of personal search services and advertising. The method includes collecting information from the user about the user's personal search engine, including, but not limited to digital content data sources, link crawl depth of those digital content data sources, and time interval to refresh the index... Agent: Doster Greene, Llc

20080208803 - System and method for characterising a web page: The present invention relates to a method, computer system and computer program product for the characterising of web pages. The improved system and method for the characterising of web pages provides an improved search outcome for the user.... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080208801 - System and method for deriving a hierarchical event based database optimized for analysis of biological systems: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for inferring a probability of a first inference absent from a database at which a query regarding the inference is received. Each datum of the database is conformed to the dimensions of the database. Each datum of the plurality of... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080208813 - System and method for quality control in healthcare settings to continuously monitor outcomes and undesirable outcomes such as infections, re-operations, excess mortality, and readmissions: A method for inferring a probability of a first inference. The inference is related to identification of a cause of an outcome in a healthcare setting. A fact, related to the query, is related to the healthcare setting. The fact further relates to a network of interactions associated with the... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080208817 - System and method for retrieving data using agents in a distributed network: A method and apparatus for data retrieval by a computing system and a plurality of agent computers in a distributed network is disclosed. The computing system sends a request to each agent computer to perform a search at a node. The agents perform the searches. The agents thereupon send the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080208814 - System and method of accident investigation for complex situations involving numerous known and unknown factors along with their probabilistic weightings: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for inferring a probability of a first inference related to a chaotic event. Each datum of the database is conformed to the dimensions of the database. Each datum of the plurality of data has associated metadata and an associated key.... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080208820 - Systems and methods for performing semantic analysis of information over time and space: Systems and methods for collecting, processing, analyzing, and indexing large amounts of data in such a manner that queries can be formulated and exercised against the data in an expedient manner. Embodiments of the present invention provide for static or dynamic presentation of the indexed data based upon the queries.... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080208806 - Techniques for a web services data access layer: Techniques for a web services data access layer are described. An apparatus may comprise a client device having an application program, a data access layer, and a client data store. The data access layer may comprise a cache manager component and a queue manager component. The application program may request... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080208804 - Use of search templates to identify slow information server search patterns: Statistical information related to performing information searches based on search templates may be automatically generated and stored in statistical records. The statistical records may be automatically updated. The statistical records may be sorted to indicate which information searches are most efficient.... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.l.c.

20080208830 - Automated transformation of structured and unstructured content: A device, system, and method are directed towards enabling a user to employ a set of database-like structured query expressions to manage data retrieval over a network, and the transformation and/or normalization of the data. In one embodiment, the retrieval expressions are configured as database-like structured query commands that may... Agent: Darby & Darby P.c.

20080208828 - Detecting irregularities: Method and apparatus for inferring irregularities in query data relative to referential data includes attempting to compose the query data, like a puzzle, from large chunks of the referential data, and inferring irregularities in the query data based on at least the size of the matching chunks. The larger the... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20080208827 - Device, system and method of modeling homogeneous information: Device, system and method of modeling homogeneous information. For example, a method that includes providing to a model-based application an input model including a refinable homogeneous record having a base type, wherein said homogeneous record is defined with a homogeneous constraint to only include data members of a type compatible... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20080208829 - Method and apparatus for managing files and information storage medium storing the files: A file management method of efficiently searching for and managing files, and an information storage medium storing the files, the method of searching for a file from an information storage medium storing at least one file including: combining at least one tag item selected or excluded by a user through... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080208842 - Apparatus and method for selecting and performing at least one data function: A method for displaying data items in a mobile terminal includes receiving a user search request, automatically identifying data items which individually comprise the search request, and displaying a distinct number in association with each of the identified data items, wherein each of the identified data items are individually selectable... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080208841 - Click-through log mining: Click-through log mining is described. Raw search click-through log data is processed to generate ordered query keywords, utilizing an algorithm to expand user-submitted keywords to include high frequency user queries, managing the keywords for a keyword expansion file, analyzing the algorithm performance on a bidding criteria, and identifying related phrases... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080208833 - Context snippet generation for book search system: A book search system and media for generating a book index corresponding to a collection of books and for providing context snippets related to a search string formulated by a user based on the book index are provided. The book index includes a word hash that represents unique words and... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080208831 - Controlling search indexing: Computer readable media, systems, and methods for controlling search indexing are described. In embodiments, a search index control instruction is received and, if permitted by the search index control instruction, content pertaining to the received instruction is indexed and presented in accordance therewith. In one embodiment, receiving the search index... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.l.p. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080208840 - Diverse topic phrase extraction: Systems and methods for implementing diverse topic phrase extraction are disclosed. According to one implementation, multiple word candidate phrases are extracted from a corpus and weighed. One or more documents are re-weighed to identify less obvious candidate topics using latent semantic analysis (LSA). Phrase diversification is then used to remove... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080208843 - Document searching system and document searching method: In a document searching system, a first storing apparatus, a second storing apparatus, and a document managing apparatus are connected to one another. The document managing apparatus stores structure information that shows a hierarchical structure regarding hierarchy positional relationships among the elements in the structured documents stored in the first... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080208834 - Enhanced search system and method for providing search results with selectivity or prioritization of search and display operations: Application usage in a computing environment is monitored to record information that is indicative of what applications are most extensively or recently used, or otherwise preferred by the user. Applications (or data items of a data type of the application) are selected or prioritized over other applications (or data items)... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080208844 - Entertainment platform with layered advanced search and profiling technology: This disclosure provides various implementations for locating industry profiles representing members of an entertainment platform community. The software can query a plurality of industry profiles with a first set of search criteria associated with a target member of the entertainment platform community and generate a first cache of industry profiles... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080208839 - Method and system for providing information using a supplementary device: A method and system for providing access to information via a supplementary device is provided. User access to primary information via a primary device is monitored. Key information related to the primary content is obtained by extracting and analyzing metadata sources for the primary information. Then, supplementary information related to... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080208837 - Methods and apparatus for term normalization: Methods and data processing apparatus for normalization of mentions of subcellular entities, such as proteins and/or genes, in a natural language biomedical text document, in which the species of the individual mention of a subcellular entity is determined before an identifier is assigned to the individual mention of a subcellular... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080208849 - Methods for identifying audio or video content: The disclosed technology generally relates to methods for identifying audio and video entertainment content. Certain shortcomings of fingerprint-based content identification can be redressed through use of crowdsourcing techniques.... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080208845 - Network system and communication device: A network system includes a first communication device, a second communication device and a keyword database. The first communication device includes a first input device and a first search device. The first input device allows a user to input a keyword. The first search device is capable of carrying out... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080208836 - Regression framework for learning ranking functions using relative preferences: A method and apparatus for determining a ranking function by regression using relative preference data. A number of iterations are performed in which to following is performed. The current ranking function is used to compare pairs of elements. The comparisons are checked against actual preference data to determine for which... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080208847 - Relevance ranking for document retrieval: Documents and/or document clusters are ranked with respect to their geographical locations and/or user specific (e.g., user input) relevance. Highly relevant documents and/or document clusters are assigned higher ranks than less relevant documents and/or clusters. In this way, ranked lists of documents and/or clusters, top clusters (e.g., top stories), top... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080208835 - Synonym and similar word page search: A search tool enables users to search for synonyms of, and/or syntactically similar words to search terms that they enter. In at least some embodiments, the search tool is implemented in the context of a web browser for searching web pages. In some embodiments, search terms can be distinctly, visually... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080208838 - System and method for deriving a hierarchical event based database having action triggers based on inferred probabilities: Inferring a probability of a first inference absent from a database at which a query regarding the inference is received. The query is used as a frame of reference for the search. The database returns a probability of the correctness of the first inference based on the query and on... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080208832 - System and method for deriving a hierarchical event based database optimized for pharmaceutical analysis: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for inferring a probability of a first inference absent from a database at which a query regarding the inference is received. Each datum of the database is conformed to the dimensions of the database. Each datum of the plurality of... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080208848 - System and method for managing bundle data database storing data association structure: A bundle database management system comprises a search server including a bundle definition unit for defining a core word and a relevant word connected to the core word, and connection relation between the core and relevant words to generate and store bundle data; a description definition unit for defining description... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080208846 - Web site search and selection method: According to the web site search and selection method, in response to a search query a relevance score is assigned to each page of the web sites addressed by the search engine. Then, for each web site addressed by the search engine, the relevance scores of the individual pages are... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080208856 - Classification-based method and apparatus for string selectivity estimation: Histogram construction and selectivity estimation for string and substring match queries in databases of data having strings associated with attributes. The histogram construction counts string-attribute pairs in the documents, and outputs string-attribute-count triples sorted by count. The collection is partitions the collection into buckets. A synopsis is generated for the... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P. C.

20080208852 - Editable user interests profile: A method for an online information system includes tracking user interactions with the online information system, storing profile information for the user based on the user interactions, and providing user access to modify the user's profile information. This system improves confidence in system for users who are reluctant to have... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080208850 - Fast identification of complex strings in a data stream: A method for detecting and locating occurrence in a data stream of any complex string belonging to a predefined complex dictionary is disclosed. A complex string may comprise an arbitrary number of interleaving coherent strings and ambiguous strings. The method comprises a first process for transforming the complex dictionary into... Agent: Victoria Donnelly

20080208855 - Method for mapping a data source to a data target: The invention relates to a method for mapping at least one data column from a database source to at least one data column of a data target, the method comprising: defining at least one reference column of the data target and at least one database source column; performing a comparison... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.c.

20080208858 - Method of managing websites registered in search engine and a system thereof: The present invention relates to a search engine that provides information on a predetermined website on the Internet. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method of managing websites registered in a search engine in a search engine administration system, comprising the steps of... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080208854 - Method of syntactic pattern recognition of sequences: This invention relates to the Pattern Recognition (PR) of noisy/inexact strings and sequences and particularly to syntactic Pattern Recognition. The present invention presents a process by which a user can recognize an unknown sting X, which is an element of a finite, but possibly larger Dictionary, H, by processing the... Agent: Thompson Hine L.l.p. Intellectual Property Group

20080208853 - Processing device for detecting a certain computer command: The invention provides a processing device for detecting a certain computer command in a string of characters representing a uniform resource identifier, the certain command comprising a predefined command header, the command header being followed by a command name from a plurality of predefined command names. The processing device comprises... Agent: Jacob Eisenberg C/o Tom Tom

20080208857 - Processing, browsing and extracting information from an electronic document: The present invention relates to methods, apparatus and systems for processing an electronic document and its corresponding device. It provides methods for browsing an electronic document and its corresponding browser, and methods for extracting information segments from an electronic document and its corresponding system for the same. An example of... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.c.

20080208851 - System and method for monitoring and recognizing broadcast data: A system for monitoring and recognizing audio broadcasts is described. The system includes a plurality of geographically distributed monitoring stations, each of the monitoring stations receiving unknown audio data from a plurality of audio broadcasts. A recognition system receives the unknown audio data from the plurality of monitoring stations and... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080208861 - Data sorting method and system: In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for data sorting. A method for use with one or more processing devices in order to merge sorted runs of data may include the steps of: defining a plurality of floating buffers; calculating a number of data blocks... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20080208859 - Method and system for generating an organizational display of entity relationships: An enterprise database system generates organizational and consolidation organizational charts for an entity. Organizational charts are generated by accepting one or more ownership thresholds, including: voting percentage, equity ownership, and the number of board members under entity control. The system also accepts inclusion thresholds used to determine which entities will... Agent: King & Spalding Credit Suisse Securities (usa) Llc

20080208860 - Method for sorting a set of electronic documents:

20080208864 - Automatic disambiguation based on a reference resource: A novel system for automatically indicating the specific identity of ambiguous named entities is provided. An automatic disambiguation data collection is created using a reference resource. Explicit named entities are catalogued from the reference resource, together with various abbreviated, alternative, and casual ways of referring to the named entities. Entity... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080208863 - Compound item locking technologies: The present invention provides technologies including an item management system for the management of compound items and the storage of such items in tabular format using storage systems such as a database management system. Compound items may include file items which may be stored in a file format using storage... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080208862 - System and method for locking context of sets of members in crosstabs: A context locking system locks context of a set of members in a crosstab for further data exploration and analysis. The context locking system has a context information manager and a locking manager. The context information manager collects context information of the selected member. The locking manager locks the context... Agent: Perman & Green

20080208865 - Transaction processing system and method: A method of conducting transactions in a gaming system comprising: providing a back end database; providing a front end database comprising at least one front end transactional data table partitioned into a plurality of time interval partitions; (a) conducting transactions for a client in one of the time interval partitions... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080208866 - Identification, notification, and control of data access quantity and patterns: A device for limiting access to data in a database includes an input for receiving a request to access data in a database and a processor that is communicatively coupled to the input and allows access to the data in the database. A data counter for counting an instantaneous rate... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20080208867 - Method and system for invitational recruitment to a web site: A current registered member of a web site is enabled to send a message to a person not currently a member, containing a link to a newly created membership page for that person, to which access may be confirmed by only the entry of a password, rather than a multi-step... Agent: Albihns Stockholm Ab

20080208872 - Accessing multimedia: An approach to accessing audio or multimedia content uses associated text sources to segment the content and/or to locate entities in the content. A user interface then provides a user with a way to navigate the content in a non-linear manner based on the segmentation or linking of text entities... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20080208869 - Distributed online content: Embodiments of the present invention provide a way to combing websites that can be edited over the Internet using distributed revision control. This also makes it possible to use writable web sites while not being connected to the Internet. In some embodiments, the present invention is applied to wikis. When... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080208871 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: Content is transferred to destination equipment while at the same time it is retained on the source equipment. This allows the content to be used on both source and destination equipment in contrast to the usual move operation in which content is removed from the source equipment and used only... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080208870 - Managing files on multiple computing devices: The present technique provides a combined file space for files from multiple partner computing devices. An individual cache policy associated with each partner computing device determines the manner in which the files in the combined file space are filtered for the respective partner computing device. Files data that do not... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080208873 - Method for communicating confidential, educational information: A method for receiving, processing, and responding to requests relating to educational degree, enrollment, transcript, and loan information via secured and non-secured channels. In a disclosed embodiment, a requestor submits an order to verify degree or enrollment information consisting of a student's first name, last name, and/or social security number.... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080208868 - System and method of controlling access to the internet: Certain embodiments provide for systems and methods of monitoring data sent from a requested device to a requesting device and removing certain portions of the data such as malicious or otherwise objectionable content. Objectionable content may include, for example, potentially executable web content. In certain embodiments, the systems and methods... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080208878 - Computer-readable recording medium recording file processing program, and file processing method and apparatus, and computer-readable recording medium recording functional program: Disclosed is a computer-readable recording medium recording a file processing program capable of achieving reduction of a processing time. A notifying section sequentially notifies, based on information acquisition instructions from an application, the application of a plurality of data blocks stored in a storing section. An identifier grasping section refers... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080208874 - Handling multi-dimensional data including writeback data: Embodiments are provided to use metadata to provide readable and/or writeable regions of a multi-dimensional space. In an embodiment, metadata can be used to define readable and/or writeable regions of a multi-dimensional data store. The various embodiments also use relational and/or multi-dimensional representations to resolve and validate readable and/or writeable... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080208879 - Mapping of data from xml to sql: A method, an apparatus and a computer program product for converting an XML encoded dataset into a minimal set of SQL tables and provided. In the method, a hierarchical structure in the XML encoded dataset is identified. A node element set for the XML encoded dataset is determined, wherein each... Agent: Jones Day

20080208877 - Method for filing roadways included on digital maps: The invention relates to a method for filing roadways which are included on digital maps and which comprise dotted lines formed by a multiplicity of measurement points, where the roadways are divided into a plurality of segments, a segment function is ascertained for each segment on the basis of the... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.c.

20080208876 - Method of and system for providing random access to a document: The invention relates to a method and a system (101) for providing random access to documents, in particular large XML documents. Thus, the invention addresses the problem that current XML processors either can not provide random access to large XML documents, or that they can provide random access, however at... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080208875 - System and method for deriving a hierarchical event based database optimized for privacy and security filtering: Inferring a probability of a first inference absent from a database. Each datum of the database is conformed to the dimensions of the database. Each datum of the plurality of data has associated metadata and an associated key. The associated metadata includes data regarding cohorts associated with the corresponding datum,... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080208880 - Extended cell information in multidimensional data models: Sharable extended cell information is used by multidimensional data models to enable cell annotations and line item details. Annotations are notes stored with a cell in a multidimensional dataset. Line item details permit levels of numeric detail below the lowest dimensional granularity. When receiving a multidimensional dataset in response to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080208881 - Method and apparatus for local insertion of advertion of advertising media into a networked digital advertising system: A user, seeking to modify an established content play list will enter an alteration request specifying the desired alterations, which can include the deletion and/or addition of content as well as alteration of the content order. A user profile (127) authenticates the user to determine whether the user has the... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing Llc

20080208883 - Method and system for a user-customizable interactive physician recall message database: Techniques for analyzing physician pharmaceutical product recall messages are disclosed. In a preferred embodiment, a method is presented which involves receiving physician recall messages and inputting the messages into a searchable database. A computer program allows a user to define customized message categories. The user definitions include full-text search strings... Agent: Baker Botts L.l.p.

20080208882 - Method of assisting users in detection and correction of errors in complex databases: A method and system for conflict detection during construction of complex databases, such as a data model for driving or modeling a complex system. Components of a data model may be defined in rules that specify objects of various types and containing various elements. The rules are declarative, and may... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080208884 - Process for distributed production and peer-to-peer consolidation of subjective ratings across ad-hoc networks: A rating program on a mobile computing device communicates with other mobile devices regarding collected ratings. A user enters ratings and requests for information; the mobile computing device will then operate in the background, actively scanning for other users with the same type of short-range communications and a ratings program.... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080208886 - Encryption based silicon ip protection: A method and system for protecting silicon IPs from unauthorized use, transfer and sale, and for hiding confidential technology information contained in silicon IPs is described. The method and system create a content-encrypted silicon IP layout database from its original layout database. Both the layout database may be GDSII files,... Agent: Schein & Cai LLP

20080208888 - Historical data management: An apparatus and method for managing historical data includes receiving a compiled application program and a declarative specification. An enhancer generates one or more representations of at least one data class defined in the application program based on at least one historical metatag and historical metadata associated therewith from the... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080208889 - Method and system for collecting user update requests regarding geographic data to support automated analysis, processing and geographic data updates: A system and method provide functionality for collecting user update reports of geographic inconsistencies between geographic data and the real world to enable automated processing of updates to the geographic data. A user's input is collected and describes an anomaly, which is a geographic inconsistency between geographic data and the... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080208885 - Method for creating and tracking external system data via a mind map: A mind mapping system uploads mind map data to an external system and tracks changes to such data in the external system through the mind map. The invention enables a user to create data objects in an external system through the mind map by classifying topics in a mind map,... Agent: Tina M. Lessani Lessani & Lessani LLP

20080208887 - Method, apparatus, and program product for creating and maintaining a data model: Apparatus, methods, and computer program products are disclosed that teach a method of generating a concrete-schema-instance as a result of modifying a representation of an abstract-instance-object-model. The concrete-schema-instance so generated represents an information-model used to process a concrete-information-instance.... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080208892 - Seamless remote traversal of multiple nfsv4 exported file systems: A method for transparently navigating through exported file system namespaces on a server using a single mount. When an exported file system is mounted onto a client, the client creates a file system ID structure for the exported file system, wherein the file system ID structure is populated with unique... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080208890 - Storage of multiple, related time-series data streams: A method and system may receive time-series data of each of a plurality of real-time data streams from one or more sensors and create an electronic file based on the plurality of real-time data streams. The plurality of real-time data streams comprises a primary data stream, a low limit data... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080208891 - System and methods for recognizing sound and music signals in high noise and distortion: A method for recognizing an audio sample locates an audio file that most closely matches the audio sample from a database indexing a large set of original recordings. Each indexed audio file is represented in the database index by a set of landmark timepoints and associated fingerprints. Landmarks occur at... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080208898 - Decentralized many-to-many relationship management in an object persistence management system: A many-to-many relationship management system. In an object persistence management system, a many-to-many relationship manager can include one or more related objects; a junction table storing relationships between the related objects; and, one or more corresponding links. Each link can correspond to one of the objects. Furthermore, each link can... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080208897 - Global inventory warehouse: Building and maintaining an accurate and up-to-date global inventory of hardware, software, and telecommunications assets deployed throughout an organization is described. A global inventory warehouse (GIW) receives an identification and physical location of these assets from multiple source systems. Some of these source systems contain information pertaining to the assets... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080208894 - Method and apparatus for multi-file controls: A method and apparatus for enabling a unit such as a complex control comprising multiple pages, which should be implemented as a single pair of user interface file and code file, to be implemented in a multiplicity of files, to enable multiple developers to work concurrently on the control, and... Agent: Soroker-agmon Advocate And Patent Attorneys

20080208895 - Method and system for dynamically generating category-based views: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for dynamically creating a view in a distributed processing system. The system can have nodes such as a service node and a directory with entries. An object class of a view can be defined as including an attribute type that... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080208896 - Methods, apparatus and media for system management of object oriented information models: Computer implemented methods comprising receiving a client request from a client within an object-oriented model, intercepting the client request with a client manager able to communicate with the client and a management database, and generating with the client manager a request for information from the management database, wherein the database... Agent: Andrea E. Tran Pramudji Wendt & Tran, LLP

20080208893 - System and method for adaptive content processing and classification in a high-availability environment: The embodiments of the invention provide a systems, methods, etc. for adaptive content processing and classification in a high-availability environment. More specifically, a system is provided having a plurality of processing engines and at least one server that classifies data objects on the computer system. The classification includes analyzing the... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, Llc

20080208899 - Method and system of remote monitoring and support of devices, including handling email messages having message types specified within the e-mail message: In a system for remotely monitoring networked devices and appliances, email messages are sent across networks, the email messages containing configuration, status or other information. For flexibility, it is desirable to quickly and easily change the message type designation, and to easily determine a data structure definition based on the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080208900 - Systems and methods for providing an enhanced status management service: Systems and methods are provided for implementing an enhanced service-oriented architecture in a service-oriented architecture. The service-oriented architecture may include a plurality of foundation business objects and at least one dependent business object for providing an enhanced status management service for the plurality of foundation business objects. In one embodiment,... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20080208913 - method and apparatus for one click forwarding of dental images to or for the benefit of a referring source: The invention is an apparatus, recorded computer program, and a method for use in dentistry, orthodontics, or medical/dental fields, which method includes the steps of designating a referring source for a data image or scan, making the data image or scan, storing the data image or scan in a file... Agent: Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080208906 - Apparatus and method for defining and processing publication objects: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to create a publication object, associate a set of report templates with the publication object, and define a set of recipients for the publication object. A format and a destination for each report template associated with the publication object is defined. A... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080208905 - Apparatus and method to evaluate a holographic data storage medium: A method to evaluate a holographic data storage medium is disclosed. In certain embodiments, the holographic data storage medium is evaluated by a manufacturer. In certain embodiments, the holographic data storage medium is evaluated by a customer prior to encoding customer information into the storage medium. In certain embodiments, the... Agent: Dale F. Regelman Quarles & Brady, LLP

20080208916 - Bioinformatic transaction scheme: Secure network transaction system obtains user-authorized genetic term or bioinformatic profile, and transacts online service according to genetically-based user medical or other risk determined therefrom. Insurance policy, promotional offer, or other service may dynamically address genetically-based condition. Bioinformatic data classifies user per personal mask which filters subset of user genetic... Agent: Fernandez & Associates LLP

20080208914 - Centralized mining of remote medical records databases: In accordance with an embodiment, a remote logical interface for mining medical data records comprises a data processor for receiving input of a selection of criteria for a medical records query, a database of medical records, responsive to a query, for outputting patient medical record data responsive to the query,... Agent: Powell Goldstein LLP

20080208909 - Database-based logs exposed via ldap: A method and apparatus for maintaining logs for a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory server. The method includes receiving or detecting events or activities in the system to be logged. The events are transformed into LDAP entries and stored in an LDAP repository. The LDAP entries may then be... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080208907 - Employment recruiting: The disclosure includes recruiting systems having a job definitions database (the definitions having subject-level job criteria and offerings), a workforce-profile database of individual profiles (the profiles having subject-level individual qualifications and individual preferences), an information manager, and a communications port for access to the system. The information manager interacts with... Agent: The Law Office Of Anthony M. Palazzolo Jr.

20080208915 - Episodic memory with a hierarchical temporal memory based system: A hierarchy of computing modules is configured to (i) learn a cause of input data sensed over space and time, and (ii) determine a cause of novel sensed input data dependent on the learned cause. When determining the cause of the novel sensed input data, the computing modules determine likely... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080208911 - Method and apparatus for evaluating internet contents, and recording media for storing program implementing the same: Disclosed is a method for evaluating Internet contents created by users through an automatic analysis and output and recording media for storing a program implementing the same. The method includes inputting location information of Internet contents to be evaluated; automatically extracting predetermined evaluation factors from the Internet contents corresponding to... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080208902 - System and method for deriving a hierarchical event based database optimized for analysis of chaotic events: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for inferring a probability of a first inference absent from a database at which a query regarding the inference is received. Each datum of the database is conformed to the dimensions of the database. Each datum of the plurality of... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080208904 - System and method for deriving a hierarchical event based database optimized for analysis of complex accidents: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for inferring a probability of a first inference absent from a database at which a query regarding the inference is received. Each datum of the database is conformed to the dimensions of the database. Each datum of the plurality of... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080208901 - System and method for deriving a hierarchical event based database optimized for analysis of criminal and security information: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for inferring a probability of a first inference absent from a database at which a query regarding the inference is received. Each datum of the database is conformed to the dimensions of the database. Each datum of the plurality of... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080208903 - System and method for deriving a hierarchical event based database optimized for clinical applications: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for inferring a probability of a first inference absent from a database at which a query regarding the inference is received. Each datum of the database is conformed to the dimensions of the database. Each datum of the plurality of... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080208912 - System and method for providing contextually relevant medical information: A system and method for the real-time presentation of context-relevant information to a user of a medical intervention system is disclosed. Embodiments of the invention provide for the definition of a current system context, analysis of the current system context, generation of a search parameter set, search of a set... Agent: Kevin Pumm

20080208908 - System and method for synchronization of user preferences in a network of audio-visual devices: A system and method for synchronizing user preferences in a network of audio-visual devices is disclosed. According to various embodiments, networked audio-visual (AV) devices are configured to store device settings applicable to other devices on the network. Account data related to users of the network is stored in a database... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080208910 - System, method, and computer program product for processing and visualization of information: Systems and methods for processing and reporting information and data, such as business information, and more particularly, to systems, software, hardware, products, and processes for use by businesses, individuals and other organizations to collect, process, distribute, analyze and visualize information, including, but not limited to, business intelligence, data visualization, data... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.c.

20080208917 - Apparatus and a method to make data sets conform to data management policies: An apparatus and a method to make data sets conform to data management policies are presented. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a conformance checker and a conformance engine. The conformance checker may be operable to compare a state of a data set against a data management policy associated with... Agent: Network Appliance/blakely

20080208918 - Efficient data handling representations: Embodiments are provided to use metadata to provide readable and/or writeable regions of a multi-dimensional space. In an embodiment, metadata can be used to define readable and/or writeable regions of a multi-dimensional data store. The various embodiments also use relational and/or multi-dimensional representations to resolve and validate readable and/or writeable... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080208920 - Efficient detection of deleted objects against a stateless content directory service: The exemplary embodiments of this invention provides a method and apparatus that features synchronizing of data objects in a client device with a server in a system since a last synchronization between the client device and the server by obtaining a list of added or modified data objects since the... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080208921 - Mobile software terminal identifier: An electronic device, including at least one software component and at least one hardware component, generates a hash value by performing a hashing algorithm on an identifier of the at least one software component and an identifier of the at least one hardware component. The electronic device uses this generated... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080208919 - Techniques to cross-synchronize data: Techniques to cross-synchronize data are described. An apparatus may comprise a cross-synchronization component to synchronize multiple data items for different application programs between multiple client devices synchronized using multiple synchronization circuits. The cross-synchronization component may determine whether changes to the multiple data items made at a first client device are... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080208925 - Communication method and system: A communication method is disclosed as including the steps of (a) associating sensor with an object; (b) associating a mobile phone or personal digital assistant with a secure token capable of communication contactlessly with the sensor; (c) setting a number of rules of possible allowable ways of interaction between the... Agent: William J. Sapone Coleman Sudol Sapone P.c.

20080208922 - Image metadata action tagging: Data files are action tagged by electronic devices as the files are used, and such tags are used to compute a total value for each data file among a group of data files for the purpose of running comparative-type operations, e.g., sorting or organizing the group of data files, or... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080208923 - Method for verifying data consistency of backup system, program and storage medium: A technology for verifying backup data capable of synchronizing timings of checksum calculation and verifying data consistency regardless of the storing position of the data is provided. In a backup system using a data update log, a checksum of data of a backup source and a checksum of backup data... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080208924 - Security model for common multiplexed transactional logs: A security model is provided in a transactional logging infrastructure that is arranged as a protected subsystem built on an underlying secure file system. Files in the underlying file system used by virtual log streams are protected from direct user writes, and are written-to only through the protected subsystem that... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080208926 - Data management in a data storage system using data sets: A method and an apparatus to manage data using data sets are presented. In one embodiment, the method includes allowing an administrator of a data storage system to define a data set having a plurality of storage objects and to associate the data set with a data management policy, wherein... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080208928 - Device management system and method for managing device management object: A device management (DM) system and a method for managing a DM object are disclosed. The DM system includes a server for determining whether to copy a DM object within a terminal to an external storage device and transmitting a command for copying the DM object according to the determining... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080208927 - Storage system and management method thereof: One or more storage controllers include a folder configuration unit for configuring a plurality of folders to store the plurality of contents in the plurality of logical volumes, a core-contents management unit for specifying and managing core-contents to become the core from the plurality of contents to be stored in... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080208935 - Computer program product and computer system for controlling performance of operations within a data processing system or networks: Provided are methods, apparatus and computer programs for identifying matching resources (data files and executable files) within a data processing network, by comparison of hash values computed for each of a set of resources. A match between a newly computed hash value and a previously computed hash value for a... Agent: Ibm Endicott (anthony England) Law Office Of Anthony England

20080208930 - Management of redundancy in data arrays: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein a determination is made that a first data array in a plurality of data arrays has to be repaired to replace a failed storage device within the first data array. A storage device is selected from a selected data array... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080208931 - Method and system for continuous availability subscription service: Embodiments related generally to a method of providing continuous availability subscription service. The method includes retrieving a configuration data of a customer, where the configuration data relates to the hardware and application requirements of the customer. The method also includes creating a virtual machine for the customer based on the... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080208932 - Method and system for continuous data protection: In operation of continuous data protection, a continuous data protection method enables the user to easily select a copy data storage volume and an update request storage volume. A storage management server calculates selection conditions of candidates for a copy data storage volume and an update request storage volume based... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080208934 - Method and system for updating attachment files: A method of updating a file attached to an electronic document can include attaching a file to an electronic document and storing a reference to the attached file. The reference can specify a location from which the attached file was obtained. Responsive to a user input, the attached file can... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080208933 - Multi-client cluster-based backup and restore: Backup and restore technology comprising a backup engine, one or more client backup modules coupled to the backup engine via a backup protocol, and a backup database coupled to the backup engine, the backup database including a set of clusters, the set of clusters forming one or more backups, wherein... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080208929 - System and method for backing up computer data: A system and method are disclosed that may include providing a computer network; maintaining a backup database for the computer network; establishing a value of at least one backup parameter for at least one given data element based on at least one attribute of the at least one given data... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.l.p.

20080208936 - System and method for managing media for a portable media device: A method is provided for managing media for a wireless communications device having a memory with media files stored therein. The method comprises the steps of: retrieving information related to the media files stored in the memory of the wireless communications device that are protected; retrieving information related to the... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080208938 - Distributed database system providing data and space management methodology: A distributed database system providing data and space management methodology. In a distributed system comprising a plurality of servers sharing access to data pages, a method for setting a timestamp indicating when modifications to data pages are made in a non-regressing fashion comprises steps of: maintaining a local sequence at... Agent: John A. Smart

20080208937 - Image input apparatus and information registration method: A disclosed image input apparatus is connected via a network to one or more information processing apparatuses and is capable of registering multiple service entries at once according to a registration request sent from any one of the information processing apparatuses. The disclosed image input apparatus includes a service entry... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080201290 - Computer-implemented methods, systems, and computer program products for enhanced batch mode processing of a relational database: Computer-implemented methods, systems, and computer program products for enhanced batch mode processing of a relational database are provided. A computer-implemented method includes creating a sequential file for a relational table in a relational database, receiving an input file and a database query for the relational table, and, if needed, sorting... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080201292 - Method and apparatus for preserving control information embedded in digital data: Control information embedded in digital data is preserved by inputting digital data into a data processor, wherein the digital data includes real-time samples of recorded data and control information, the control information being organized in a format within the digital data, separating at least some of the control information from... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080201291 - Personnel accounting system: The present invention provides a distinct advance in the state of the art. The personnel accounting system for efficiently accounting of individuals after or or during an event, such as a natural disaster or during an emergency, preferably is a computer-aided system that operates to provide an improved communication system... Agent: Mark F. Smith

20080201298 - administrable command line interface: A command line interface administration for a data processing system is provided. According to one embodiment, a method for an improved command line interface for a data processing system in a telephony device is provided. The method comprising administering a language definition for an improved command line interface, the improved... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080201295 - Caching plans with using data values: A method of selecting for use a stored execution plan for a dynamic SQL query within a database system. Respective selectivity values are maintained that are associated with one or more predicates in the dynamic SQL query for respective historical data values. Respective confidence level values are maintained that are... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20080201294 - Community-based strategies for generating reports: A strategy is described for maintaining a plurality report logic units in a network-accessible community report system. An agnostic reporting module in a local environment can peruse the reports offered by the community report system and download a report logic unit corresponding to a selected report. The reporting module generates... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080201297 - Method and system for determining relation between search terms in the internet search system: A method of determining a relation between search queries, includes: maintaining a database comprising a search session and a record about a search query which is received from a user terminal during the search session; recording and maintaining click rate information for each of the search queries in a predetermined... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080201293 - Multidimensional query simplification using data access service having local calculation engine: An enterprise business intelligence system includes a data access service that provides consistent availability of functionality for querying multidimensional data sources regardless of the capabilities of the underlying data sources. The data access service disassembles a multidimensional query into execution units, and may optimize the multidimensional query such that individual... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A.

20080201296 - Partitioning of nested tables: Techniques for partitioning nested tables are provided. A parent table includes a column for collection items. A nested table is created for storing items that belong to the collection items. The nested table is partitioned to create a plurality of nested table partitions. Each nested table partition is a distinct,... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080201305 - Apparatuses, methods and systems for information querying and serving on mobile devices based on ambient conditions: The disclosure details the implementation of apparatuses, methods, and systems for information querying and serving on mobile devices based on ambient conditions. Such conditions may include weather, traffic, market prices, news and events, and/or the like. Information and/or advertisement providers may use a code triggered information server to serve context,... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20080201301 - Extended index searching: Processing a query involves directing the query to an extended index database, the extended index database comprising a core database and one or more supplemental indexes, wherein the query seeks an item. Directing the query for processing includes determining if the sought item is located within the core database and,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080201304 - Federated searches implemented across multiple search engines: A plurality of search engines is selected from multiple search engines based on a search query and one or more criteria. To obtain search results for the search query, one or more search queries are submitted to the plurality of search engines. For each search engine of the plurality of... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080201303 - Method and system for a wizard based complex filter with realtime feedback: A method for implementing a software based wizard interface to filter a set of targets in real-time with filter criteria includes receiving, at the wizard interface, user filter criteria; querying a data set based on the filter criteria; providing filtered data from the data set to a user; determining whether... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Tuscon Division

20080201299 - Method and system for managing metadata: Methods and systems for managing metadata are described. The method comprises steps of receiving a request from an application to access a metadata attribute corresponding to a piece of content, determining whether the application is authorized to access the metadata attribute, retrieving the metadata attribute upon determining that the application... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080201300 - Method and system for storing and accessing large scale ontologies using a relational database: A method for providing ontology management that leaves existing instance data stored in a relational database, while virtualizing the existing instance data for accesses originating from an ontology application, wherein the method includes: submitting an ontology application query to an ontology management system; rewriting the ontology application query with a... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080201306 - Personal virtual assistant: A computer-based virtual assistant includes a virtual assistant application running on a computer capable of receiving human voice communications from a user of a remote user interface and transmitting a vocalization to the remote user interface, the virtual assistant application enabling the user to access email and voicemail messages of... Agent: Mg-ip Law, PLLC

20080201307 - System and method for iconic software environment management: A system and method for iconic software environment management. The system and method provide storing, navigating and accessing files within an operating system on a stand alone device or on a networked device with internal files and external files (e.g., from web-sites, etc.) through the use of graphical thumbnail icons... Agent: Lesavich High-tech Law Group, P.C.

20080201302 - Using promotion algorithms to support spatial searches: Computerized methods and systems for performing a search utilizing a spatial index are provided. Upon receiving a search query having a zoom level component (e.g., “Italian Restaurants in Seattle”), a search is initially conducted of the zoom level tags associated with the content items in the spatial index to determine... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080201310 - Apparatuses, methods and systems for information querying and serving on the internet based on profiles: The disclosure details the implementation of apparatuses, methods, and systems for information querying and serving on the internet based on profiles. Information and/or advertisement providers may use a code triggered information server to serve context, demographic, and behavior targeted information to users on the internet. Users, in turn, trigger the... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20080201308 - Dynamic data hierarchies: A flexible database schema allows changes to the types of digital media objects, metadata types, and/or metadata relationships without corrupting the database, breaking applications functionality, or requiring the database reconstruction. A database schema stores all objects in a single table. The objects table contains common fields and generic metadata fields.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080201313 - Dynamic graphical database query interface: A graphical query interface provides visual feedback to a user during the construction of a query. In a first embodiment, the visual feedback helps the user determine the quality of the query as the query is being built. The relationship of columns in the database is graphically displayed to a... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080201309 - Rendering database queries with blank space: A computer-implemented method includes selecting a first member of a first dimension of a database to be included at a first location in a report. The first member includes first data to be retrieved from the database. A blank space to be added at a second location relative to the... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080201312 - Systems and methods for a devicesql parallel query: A system for parallel processing of a database query in a multi-core processor is disclosed. The system includes a core database instance and a main database instance. The core database instance includes a local storage manager, a local page manager, and a core stream processing component. The local storage manager... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20080201311 - Systems and methods for channeling client network activity: As one example, a system for monitoring client Internet activity is provided. The system comprises a channel server including multiple channels, each of which are defined at least in part by an activity profile associated with the channel, and a monitor configured to monitor Internet activity of a plurality of... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20080201322 - Apparatus and method for retrieval of contents: A keyword determining section determines a keyword among a search query input by a user. A related word searching section searches a thesaurus database and retrieves words related to the determined keyword and information on relevancy of each related word to the keyword. Based on the keyword and its related... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080201321 - Apparatuses, methods and systems for information querying and serving in a virtual world based on profiles: The disclosure details the implementation of apparatuses, methods, and systems for information querying and serving in a virtual world based on profiles. Such virtual worlds may include, for example, massively multiplayer online games like The Sims Online, Everquest, World of Warcraft, Second Life, and/or the like. Information and/or advertisement providers... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20080201324 - Computer implemented system and method for enhancing keyword expansion: A computerized system which implements a method for obtaining an improved set of relevant keywords from an initial set of relevant keywords and their associated relative ratings, utilizing the proven expertise and reliability of existing keyword expansion tools and the accumulated experience of search engines. The method comprises iterating over... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080201315 - Content item query formulation: A system and method for formulating a related content query are provided. A search engine receives queries having terms for content items and stores the queries and user interaction data in a query log. Also, the search engine provides a collection of content items and related content item queries for... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080201327 - Identity match process: An online computer system enables users to identify and contact, if they so desire, users with similar attributes. The primary method of matching identity matches facial and at least one other physical, astrological, or other defined attribute. This matching is done by computer comparison of the photographs and other data... Agent: Etherton Law Group, LLC

20080201323 - Method and apparatus for a ranking engine: A computer-implemented method is provided for ranking files from an Internet search. In one embodiment, the method comprises assigning a score to each file based on at least one of the following factors: recency, editorial popularity, clickthru popularity, favorites metadata, or favorites collaborative filtering. The file may be organized based... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080201314 - Method and apparatus for using multiple channels of disseminated data content in responding to information requests: Embodiments of the invention exploit the complementary and correlated information that is available across multiple channels of digital multimedia distribution, in order to ensure more efficient multimedia data access. One embodiment of the invention, directed to a method for generating a response to a specified request for information, is associated... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080201325 - Method and system for providing contextual based medication dosage determination: Methods and devices for statistical determination of medication dosage level such as bolus amount based on contextual information are provided.... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20080201318 - Method and system for retrieving network documents: In one embodiment, a document retrieval server and method for its operation are described. The document retrieval server allows a user to search a classification index for the location of documents in an enterprise network that meet specified search criteria, and then automatically export a subset of the documents meeting... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080201319 - Method, system and computer software for using an xbrl medical record for diagnosis, treatment, and insurance coverage: A method, system and program product for integrating intelligence and business systems, the method comprising: receiving a search query; searching, using the search query, a plurality of XBRL data fields in records in a plurality of different data repositories, with each of the XBRL data fields having metadata representing attributes... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080201326 - Multi-view internet search mashup: An internet search utility that combines and presents search results from disparate data sources to the user in a multi-view format. The search terms are disambiguated and a series of prioritized Views is displayed to the user in a View Mix interface. Each View includes a unique interface, processing widgets,... Agent: Carstens & Cahoon, LLP

20080201316 - Providing certified patent searches conducted by third party researchers: Improved methods for drafting, preparing, and submitting a patent application are described. The system incorporates a web-based tool in which applications are drafted. The web-based tool allows for real time analysis of the application as it is being drafted. Automated suggestions, prior art searching, researcher and attorney recommendations are also... Agent: Gonzales Patent Services

20080201317 - Ranking documents: A plurality of documents are ranked. The documents are returned as the result of a query computed for each search engine of a plurality of search engines. Each document of the plurality of documents is associated with a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). The plurality of documents includes at least one... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080201320 - System and method for searching annotated document collections: Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture therefor, are disclosed sharing and searching annotated document collections. In one embodiment, the method may be performed by: transforming a plurality of document identifiers and their associated set of tags into a set of URL/TAG pairs; constructing a bigraph using the set of URL/TAG... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20080201328 - Data processing system and method: A system and method for grouping separate elements, having a common characteristic, to produce at least one of an output document corresponding to a presentation or for producing the presentation.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080201329 - Method and the associate mechanism for stored-image database-driven spectacle frame fitting services over public network: A method of spectacle frame fitting over public network, such as Internet, based upon database of product information and digitized user images as acquired via devices connected to computer. Particularly, consumers can take advantage of present method to choose spectacle frames from wide variety of selections, expeditiously by the use... Agent: Law Offices Of J.f. Lee

20080201330 - Software repositories: The present invention extends to methods, systems, computer program products, and data structures for software repositories. Embodiments of the invention permit a user to group software related items from a software repository in repository container versions such that software related items can be accessed and processed together. A user has... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080201334 - Computer system for distributing a validation instruction message: A computer-implemented system for providing validation instructions to European attorneys. The computer system is designed to send a validation instruction message to a number of European attorneys, asking them to validate a granted European patent. The computer system is designed to communicate with an interface, a specification database and a... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080201336 - Distributed data storage system, data distribution method, and apparatus and program to be used for the same: There is provided a distributed data storage system for splitting content-data into a plurality of split data and storing a plurality of copy data corresponding to at least one of the plurality of split data in a plurality of memory devices. The system comprises a copying management information storing unit... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080201335 - Method and apparatus for storing data in a peer to peer network: A fixed prefix peer to peer network has a number of physical nodes. The nodes are logically divided into a number of storage slots. Blocks of data are erasure coded into original and redundant data fragments and the resultant fragments of data are stored in slots on separate physical nodes... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20080201337 - Method and system for collecting information from computer systems based on a trusted relationship: A method and system for retrieving data from devices in a way that seeks to preserve privacy and ensure the integrity of the retrieved data is provided. A retrieval system is implemented on a network of devices that communicate with each other via a secure communications link. Each device is... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080201333 - State transition controlled attributes: Some embodiments of managing data using state transition controlled attributes have been presented. In one embodiment, a workflow management policy and a set of states are defined at a server coupled to one or more client machines, each of the states corresponding to a distinct value of a set of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080201332 - System and method for preloading content on the basis of user context: The present invention relates to systems and methods for preloading one or more content items. The method according to one embodiment comprises receiving a content item at a client device in response to a first request from a user, determining a context for the user and preloading one or more... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080201331 - Systems and methods for cache optimization: A server computer identifies a cached document and its associated cache update history in response to a request or in anticipation of a request from a client computer. The server computer analyzes the document's cache update history to determine if the cached document is de facto fresh. If the cached... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20080201345 - Apparatus and article of manufacture for determining a target data type in a heterogeneous multi-level environment: An apparatus and article of manufacture for determining a target data type in an environment having a plurality of levels are provided. Zero or more intermediate levels are between the source level and the target level. A target data type representing the transformation of a data type of an associated... Agent: International Business Machines Corp. (jms)

20080201341 - Contents management method: An increase in the amount of resources necessary for storing contents is prevented, and a wait time taken from issuance of a content read request from a client to start of replay of the content is shortened. A file server stores header parts of contents cut off from heads of... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080201342 - Data storage device management system and method: A computing host executes a web browser to access a utility application for managing one or more storage devices connected to the computing host. Management of each storage device may include updating firmware of the storage device, updating programmable hardware of the storage device, erasing the storage device, sanitizing the... Agent: Stec, Inc. C/o Legal Department

20080201340 - Decision tree construction via frequent predictive itemsets and best attribute splits: A decision tree can be constructed via frequent predictive itemsets and best item splits. A hierarchical frequent predictive itemsets tree data structure can be used to construct the decision tree. A bottom-up traversal of the data structure can be used during determination of best item splits. The described technologies can... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080201343 - Hierarchical systems and methods for performing data storage operations: The invention is a hierarchical backup system. The interconnected network computing devices are put into groups of backup cells. A backup cell has a manager software agent responsible maintaining and initiating a backup regime for the network computing devices in the backup cell. The backups are directed to backup devices... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080201344 - Internet server access control and monitoring systems: This invention relates to methods for controlling and monitoring access to network servers. In particular, the process described in the invention includes client-server sessions over the Internet. In this environment, when the user attempts to access an access-controlled file, the server subjects the request to a secondary server which determines... Agent: James M. Smith, Esq. Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080201339 - Providing unique views of data based on changes or rules: In one embodiment, a method comprises creating and storing, in a revisioning database, one or more data objects; wherein a first plurality of the data objects is associated with a base realm representing data shared across all users of the database; wherein a second plurality of the data objects is... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080201338 - Rest for entities: The claimed subject matter provides a representational state transfer (REST) interface over a data store characterized by an entity data model (EDM) architecture. Such characterization can be presented by way of an Entity Framework that can transform data characterized in one manner at a relational database into an EDM characterization... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080201346 - Hierarchical update scheme for extremum location with indirect addressing: Implementations related to hierarchical update schemes for extremum location with indirect addressing are disclosed.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080201347 - Structural formula display system, method, and program storage medium storing program thereof: Character string divider divides a targeted character string into a plurality of groups at each bonding sites on a main chain. In the character string dividing process, the character string divider adds starting/ending symbols to the targeted character string, inserts a delimiter between adjacent characters, changes a notation related to... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080201348 - Tag-mediated review system for electronic content: A tag-mediated review system for electronic content that ranks content based upon several ascertainable factors, including the implicit engagement with the content by users (typically online viewers); the expertise and success in the topical domain by reviewers; and the review activity of users or viewers. The system extends implicit metrics... Agent: Mehrman Law Office, P.C.

20080201351 - Automated transformations for style normalization of schemas: Systems and methods that facilitate mapping from an XML schema to an object model, while mitigating object impedance mismatch. A normalization component can flatten nesting scopes and/or and reduce the number of types in subtyping hierarchies, and a core mapping component can supply the object type. A subsequent object level... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080201350 - Context-based information retrieval: In accordance with aspects of the present technique, a method of retrieving information of interest is presented. The method includes parsing data based upon a predefined context definition. Further, the method includes interpreting the parsed data based on the predefined context definition. In addition, the method includes adding contextual attributes... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20080201353 - Data delivery: A system and method for sending a first request for first data, receiving, in reply, one or more data structures for accessing a first plurality of data fragments, using the one or more data structures to create and send a second plurality of second requests for data fragments of the... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080201358 - Data processing for objects with unknown data structures: Data processing for objects with unknown data structures, including receiving a processing request for a business object having an unknown business object data structure, where data for the business object is stored in a persistent data store having an unknown persistent data structure, and the processing request includes a reference... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080201355 - Easily queriable software repositories: In one embodiment, tables are created in such a way that allows rich querying using standard database routines and other tools. This is accomplished by providing developers and repository users with a set of schema guidelines that describe how the software related items are to be categorized in the tables... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080201352 - Hierarchical update scheme for extremum location: Implementations related to hierarchical update schemes for extremum location are disclosed.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080201354 - Host context framework: Techniques for host context framework are described. An apparatus may comprise a client device having a host application program with multiple host item objects, and a host context manager to manage multiple host contexts corresponding to the host item objects. The host context manager may create a host context for... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080201359 - Method and apparatus for mapping between xml and relational representations: A method to convert data between a relational format and an XML document, by creating a set of XML Mapping Definition from metadata; selecting relational data from a relational application database, and converting the relational data to the XML document using the set of XML Mapping Definition.... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20080201357 - Page grouping for site traffic analysis reports: Website administrators can specify page groups and/or single pages as checkpoint nodes for site analysis reporting purposes, and can configure the system of the invention to provide information as to a particular visitation path through the checkpoints. Any group of pages can be designed as a single check-point node for... Agent: Raubvogel Law Office

20080201349 - Rule conditions and dynamic content alterations in a content management system: A content management system (CMS) includes rule conditions that determine when the rules are applied, and additionally includes alteration instructions for dynamically changing content in the repository and alteration conditions that determine when the alteration instructions will be executed. Rule conditions and alteration conditions may include values from metadata related... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080201356 - System and method of report representation: A report representation system and method of transforming report outputs into a standard representation format are provided. The report representation system comprises a report parser for parsing a report output, a code generator for generating a standard representation code of the report output and a code compiler for converting the... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20080201362 - Data transfer and synchronization system: A data transmission system is disclosed which optimizes transfer and updates of information between systems by providing difference information between the systems. The system transmits data packages having instructions for manipulating user data. The data packages include a header identifying the respective packages, as well as transaction objects for effecting... Agent: Vierra Magen Marcus & Deniro LLP

20080201363 - Journaling database changes using minimized journal entries that may be output in human-readable form: A minimized journaling mechanism stores minimized journal data in a format that allows for display and outputting the journal data in human-readable form. When a change to a record occurs, instead of writing only the changed bytes, all of the bytes in each field that changed are written to the... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080201360 - Locating persistent objects in a network of servers: A computer system can advantageously include a location service that minimizes changes to a directory in the event of moving a storage unit. Each storage unit can use its meta data to indicate the persistent objects the storage unit contains. The directory can store a translation between a persistent object... Agent: Bever Hoffman & Harms, LLP 2099 Gateway Place

20080201364 - System for the management of files and mail attachments: The invention is directed to a system for managing files and mail attachments. A system for managing files received by a user as an attachment to an e-mail in accordance with an embodiment of the invention includes: a system for detaching a file from an e-mail; a system for storing... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080201361 - Targeted insertion of an audio - video advertising into a multimedia object: A method, system, and computer readable medium for inserting a contextually relevant advertisement object into a multimedia object is presented. The method includes identifying context information from one or more portion of the multimedia object, selecting the advertisement object based on the identified context information, and determining an appropriate position... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080201365 - Method for multicontext xml fragment reuse and validation in a content management system: Method, article and apparatus for the reusability of data objects such as XML document fragments managed by a content management system (CMS). Embodiments of the invention may be used to enforce validation requirements for a multi-context XML fragment (i.e., for a fragment referenced in two or more documents managed by... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080201366 - Changed files list with time buckets for efficient storage management: There is provided, in a computer processing system, an apparatus for managing object data. The apparatus includes a changed objects manager for creating and managing a changed objects list that at least identifies the objects that have changed based on time of change. The changed objects list is associated with... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080201372 - Apparatus and method for storing medical information: There are provided an input unit which inputs an object with scan information attached thereto into an image of a subject acquired on the basis of the scan information, and an insertion unit which inserts report information to the object when preparation of an image interpretation report of a study... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080201373 - Evaluator credibility based content credibility evaluation apparatus and method thereof: An evaluator credibility based content credibility evaluation apparatus and method thereof are disclosed. A content credibility e valuation method that includes obtaining evaluation information of a content evaluator about content; obtaining credibility of the content evaluator from a user information database; and calculating content credibility based on the credibility of... Agent: Neal, Gerber, & Eisenberg

20080201378 - Image processor, preview image display method, and computer program product: an image-retrieving unit retrieves only the image data that is to be displayed on a display unit based on a page number associated with each image data. A preview image generator generates a preview image of the retrieved image data. An operation display controller displays the generated preview image on... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080201371 - Information delivery system, information delivery method, delivery device, node device, and the like:

20080201374 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: An information processing apparatus configured to monitor a status of consumables of an image forming apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store the status of the consumables of the image forming apparatus, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a consumption rate of the consumables of the image forming apparatus,... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080201379 - Method and apparatus for generating digest of captured images: A tag is generated for each of moving-image files. The tag includes genre information and event identification information. The genre information represents a genre of an event relating to the moving-image file. The event identification information identifies the event relating to the moving-image file. The moving-image files are classified into... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20080201370 - Method and device for mood detection: A Method for mood detection is proposed, comprising: receiving audio data (1), determining a mood (3) for said audio data (1) based on at least one mood model (8-1, 8-2, 8-3), receiving user feedback (F) of a user for said determined mood (3), said user feedback being indicative as to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080201375 - Method and portable device with local catalog management: A portable wireless communications subscriber audio and/or video player apparatus and system and method for selecting, requesting, downloading, and playing audio and/or video data content files from an Internet-based database server. The wireless link is preferably implemented in accordance with the WiFi protocol, which allows connectivity to the Internet by... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20080201368 - Method and system for registering and retrieving production information: In particular embodiments, an online trading system receives a product registration request including product description from a user terminal. Then, image information is extracted from the product description and a resource locator of the image information is generated. Then, an image list is generated based on the product description and... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080201376 - Method for sharing content with several devices: A portable wireless communications subscriber audio and/or video player apparatus and system and method for selecting, requesting, downloading, and playing audio and/or video data content files from an Internet-based database server. The wireless link is preferably implemented in accordance with the WiFi protocol, which allows connectivity to the Internet by... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20080201380 - System and method for aggregating and extending parental controls auditing in a computer network: A system and method for aggregating and extending parental controls auditing in an unmanaged computing network are provided. A parental control system, including a parental control database, logging interface, and audit process, resides on each host computing device in an unmanaged computing network that is capable of synchronizing data residing... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080201369 - System and method of modifying media content: A method of modifying media content is disclosed that includes receiving data from a destination device identifying a media content selection and an attribute preference. The method further includes identifying an attribute associated with media content related to the media content selection. The method further includes modifying the attribute based... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080201367 - Unifying discoverability of a website's services: Various embodiments provide a unified discovery control that can be incorporated as part of a web browser. The unified discovery control provides a central location that describes various services that a website has to offer. In addition, the unified discovery control can allow the user to interact with the individual... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080201377 - Wireless lan intrusion detection based on location: A intrusion detection method is disclosed for use in a wireless local area data communications system, wherein mobile units communicate with access points, and wherein the system is arranged to locate transmitters using signals transmitted by the transmitters. A database relating authorized transmitters to location is maintained. Selected signals are... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20080201385 - Method and system for collecting user update requests regarding geographic data to support automated analysis, processing and geographic data updates: A system and method provide functionality for collecting user update reports of geographic inconsistencies between geographic data and the real world to enable automated processing of updates to the geographic data. A user's input is collected and describes an anomaly, which is a geographic inconsistency between geographic data and the... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080201382 - Method and system for computer folder management: Disclosed are a method and system for managing groups of folders on a computer. The method comprises the step of presenting a graphical user interface (GUI) view to a user, said view identifying a multitude of folders, wherein some of said folders are empty, and in said view, the empty... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080201381 - Method and system for increasing data reliability using source characteristics: A method for increasing reliability of data may include tagging data from a data source with an indication of reliability based on characteristics of the data source. The method may also include performing a predetermined action in response to the indication of reliability.... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Ibm

20080201384 - System and method for indexing user data on storage systems: A system and method for indexing user data on storage systems is provided. A client of the storage system executes a novel client side agent that is configured to detect changes to data stored by the client on the storage system. In response to detecting that data has been modified,... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080201383 - System for managing data collection processes: A system for managing data collection processes is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure can include, a data collection system having a controller element that assigns a priority level for processes, assigns to each of the processes a query interval for requesting use of processing resources,... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080201387 - Backing up of heterogeneous terminal user information in (internet protocol) ip terminal: An apparatus to back up heterogeneous terminal user information in an IP terminal includes a terminal connection interface, a temporary synchronization storage unit, a synchronization controller, and a data converter. The terminal connection interface connects to a heterogeneous terminal. In the apparatus and its method, the temporary synchronization storage unit... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080201386 - Mediation and settlement for mobile media: In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for mobile media event mediation, normalizing mobile media event information from a plurality of sources, wherein at least some of the information is represented differently in each of the plurality of sources, producing a mobile media data record from the... Agent: John J. Brooks, Iii

20080201389 - Cross-media storage coordination: Methods and a media system and storage system for cross-media storage coordination include but are not limited to storing a first data version of specified content based on a particular media format; storing at least a second data version of related content based on a different media format; providing a... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080201388 - System and method for equipment tracking and preventative maintenance scheduling and verification: An asset tracking and maintenance scheduling and verification system for coordinating preventative or periodic maintenance activities for a collection of assets. A system server is responsible for maintenance of an asset database including a database record for each asset identifying tracking and maintenance information for the asset. The system server... Agent: C. James Bushman

20080201390 - High-availability and data protection of oltp databases: A method is for use with a primary online transactional processing (OLTP) database, to maintain a secondary storage usable by a backup OLTP database, wherein the primary storage, of the primary OLTP database, includes data files. In accordance with the method, as transaction indications for the primary OLTP database are... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20080201391 - Methods and apparatus for adjusting a journal area for continuous data protection: In a storage system implementing journaling for data backup and restore, users are able to easily determine information regarding amounts journal data generated over specified periods of time. Flexible and automatic adjustment of the journal area is enabled by providing the user with the information on the relationships between the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080201392 - Storage system having plural flash memory drives and method for controlling data storage: Provided is a storage system having a storage device including memory drives formed of the non-volatile memory, a group is constituted by the memory drives whose number is larger than the number of memory drives necessary to provide the memory capacity, the divided storage areas are managed in each of... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080201393 - Identifying unnecessary synchronization objects in software applications: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for identifying unnecessary synchronization objects in software applications. A computer-implemented method for determining a usefulness of synchronization objects includes, in a multi-threaded application program, tracking threads as they are created and terminated, intercepting application program interfaces (APIs) used to create and destroy thread... Agent: Holland & Knight

20080195575 - Electronic data display management system and method: A system and method for providing personalized content to a user on a personalized portion of a webpage. The personalized content is selected based on one or more user attributes using two dimensional lookup tables that contain indexes to the appropriate content. The two dimensional lookup tables may be linked... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080195574 - Printed document concordance searching systems and methods: Embodiments herein include a method of creating an electronically searchable concordance document that identifies locations within printed publications of text search results. The method includes laying out one or more articles (that include at least some text) into a publication to create a layout for a printed publication that is... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb I.p. Law Firm, Llc

20080195573 - Transmission apparatus, content reproduction apparatus, and content and license distribution system: The content reproduction apparatus (102) includes: a receiving unit (301) that receives multiplexed data; a demultiplexer (302) that extracts license data and a broadcast content from the received multiplexed data; and a content reproduction unit (307) that reproduces the extracted broadcast content, and when obtaining a storage content whose reproduction... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080195577 - Automatically and adaptively determining execution plans for queries with parameter markers: A method for automatically and adaptively determining query execution plans for parametric queries. A first classifier trained by an initial set of training points is generated using a set of random decision trees (RDTs). A query workload and/or database statistics are dynamically updated. A new set of training points collected... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080195578 - Automatically determining optimization frequencies of queries with parameter markers: A method for automatically determining optimization frequencies of queries having one or more parameter markers. Bind value sets and associated measurement sets are obtained. Ouerv execution plans and associated execution costs for optimal query execution with a bind value set are determined. Bind value set pairs for execution plans with... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080195576 - Method, and computer based-system and virtual asset register: A method and computer-based system for retrieving, accessing and storing data otherwise stored in a plurality of IT systems arranged for operating a part of one or more electrical power networks. The method and computer-based system provide integration of otherwise separate systems such as GIS, SCADA, ERP and/or CMMS. The... Agent: Venable LLP

20080195591 - Apparatus and method of semantic-based publish-subscribe system: A semantic publish/subscribe system enables semantic event routing and allows publishers (resp. subscribers) to use self-defined event schemas to publish (resp. subscribe) events. The constraints on value-based publish/subscribe systems that publishers and subscribers must share the same event schemas are removed. With ontology support, the system conducts event correlation based... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.c.

20080195584 - Communication efficient spatial search in a sensor data web portal: Techniques for collecting and displaying sensor data captured by a spatially representative sample of sensors requested in a search query are described. The sensors are represented in an index structure (e.g., a data tree). In response to a query, the index structure is leveraged to identify a subset of sensors... Agent: Lee & Hayes Pllc

20080195582 - Context based keyword search: Embodiment of the present disclosure can also be viewed as providing methods for inputting characters into a user interface. In this regard, one embodiment of such a method, among others, can be broadly summarized by the following: receiving a character string; determining possible keywords corresponding to the character string based... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP/ At&t Delaware Intellectual Property, Inc.

20080195589 - Data profiling method and system: A data profiling method and system for reading an input data entry set and labeling semantic fragments according to fragments of data entries and semantic features of fragments and, based on the labeled semantic fragments performing a semantic-level data analysis of the input data entry set to obtain analysis results.... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080195581 - Method and apparatus for identifying enclosures and devices: A method, device, and system are provided for the automatically assigning identification numbers or enclosure IDs to enclosures in a data storage system. Each enclosure is assigned a unique enclosure ID that can be used to reference the enclosure in the data storage system. The enclosure IDs are generated and... Agent: Sheridan Ross Pc

20080195587 - Method and system for analyzing similarity of concept sets: A method and system are described for determining similar concept sets. An example method includes obtaining taxonomies, each including one root node and hierarchically ordered paths; receiving first and second sets each including set concepts; determining concept pairs, each including a first and second set concept; determining lengths of nondiverging... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080195580 - Method and system for determining whether an entered character string corresponds to terminology utilized in a database: A method for determining whether an entered character string corresponds to terminology utilized in a catalogue database, comprising: accepting the entered character string; determining if the character string matches terminology utilized in the database; if the character string does not match terminology utilized in the database, applying at least one... Agent: Kacvinsky Llc

20080195592 - Method, system, and storage medium for providing web-based electronic research and presentation functions via a document creation application: An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method and storage medium for providing web-based electronic research and presentation. The method includes scanning an active document on a computer to identify relevant keywords, searching a database for reference materials relating to the relevant keywords, and displaying relevant reference materials... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Ibm Fishkill

20080195579 - Methods and systems for extraction of transaction data for compliance monitoring: Methods and systems for extraction of transaction data for compliance monitoring, particularly useful in a system for monitoring electronic transactions of an enterprise and detecting exceptions indicating noncompliance with enterprise policies. Data extractors obtain data from various data sources and provide the data for use by a transaction analysis engine... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080195590 - Network device, image forming device, and data searching method: A network device is disclosed that enables simple searching and acquisition of control data for an external device. The network device is connected to the external device through a network and performs data communications with the external device through a HTTP protocol. The network device includes a storage unit configured... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080195588 - Personalized search method and system for enabling the method: A method and system for storing information on a search result selected by a user with respect to a predetermined query, reflecting the user's preference by utilizing the information when the user inputs an identical query and requests a search, and providing a personalized search result in which user preferences... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080195586 - Ranking search results based on human resources data: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for ranking search results based on context information, such as organization information obtainable from human resources information. In one aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method. The method may include receiving a keyword used to perform a search for one or... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.c. Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64280

20080195583 - System and method for verifying the integrity and completeness of records: A correctness verification system receives a query, executes the query using a query logic, and produces a query result. The query result comprises data records that satisfy the query, data verification objects associated with the data records, index segments accessed during the execution of the query, index verification objects associated... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.c.

20080195585 - Systems and methods to facilitate searches: Methods and apparatuses to facilitate searches for information to request for real time communication connections. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving a request, via a communication reference embedded in a web page and storing data to associate the communication reference with the web page based on the request. The... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv) Ip Docketing

20080195608 - Computer-implemented system and method for visualizing olap and multidimensional data in a calendar format: Computer-implemented systems and methods for displaying multidimensional data as graphical time-based objects. A system and method could include associating actual calendar units with time dimension members. The association can be based on the time periods and the corresponding time-level information in the cube's time dimension hierarchies. Query results involving time... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20080195594 - Computerized comprehensive health assessment and physician directed systems: The system and process of the present invention employs encrypted data input from both users and physicians to identify disturbances in human biologic function. Physical and metabolic characteristics, historical data and current symptoms are compiled through use of a computerized expert system that recognizes patterns predictive of metabolic dysfunction or... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080195606 - Document matching engine using asymmetric signature generation: An automated method of matching an input document to a set of documents from a document repository. A signature database is stored, the signature database including a document identifier and signatures generated by a first signature generator for each of the set of documents. The input document is received and... Agent: Okamoto & Benedicto, LLP

20080195600 - Efficient method and process to search structured and unstructured patient data to match patients to clinical drug/device trials: A method and system that automatically matches patients to clinical drug and device trials with: a database component operative to maintain a hospital/RHIO/medical practice patient database and their corresponding medical records, and a medical practice database and their corresponding plurality of specialties, and a clinical studies database component and their... Agent: Daniel R. Deakter, M.d

20080195599 - Hyperlink content abstraction: Embodiments for hyperlink content abstraction are disclosed. In one embodiment a method of hyperlink content abstraction includes selecting a hyperlink with a user directed pointing device, implementing computing device executable instructions to access an electronic document linked to the hyperlink, analyzing a number of content items within the electronic document... Agent: Brooks, Cameron & Huebsch , Pllc

20080195607 - Information recommendation apparatus and information recommendation system: b

20080195595 - Keyword extracting device: A keyword extracting device includes high-frequency term extracting means (30) for extracting high-frequency terms which are index terms having a great weight among the index terms in a document group (E) including a plurality of documents (D), the weight including evaluation on the level of an appearance frequency of each... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.l.p.

20080195601 - Method for information retrieval: A method of retrieving documents using a search engine includes providing a reverse index including one or more keywords and a list of documents containing the one or more keywords, the reverse index further including a measure of confidence (MOC) value associated with the one or more keywords. One or... Agent: Vista Ip Law Group LLP

20080195593 - Online media content transfer: The invention relates to a system and a method and a computer program product for transferring media content via network. The system includes a content provider (210) and at least one client device (280) and a network connection (290) configured between them, and also a database (220) for storing the... Agent: Perman & Green

20080195597 - Searching in peer-to-peer networks: A searching system for a peer-to-peer network, for example, a cellular telephone network, where loads on each peer is limited, for example, by providing only a limited index on each peer.... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080195605 - Service directory and management system: A unique process-oriented task database contains a hierarchal organization of work tasks. A service provider selects one or more tasks from the database to populate a record corresponding to the service provider; and the record is recorded in a service provider database. A consumer selects tasks from the task database... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20080195604 - Synthesis-based approach to draft an invention disclosure using improved prior art search technique: A automated method using an intelligence technology (IT) system for drafting an invention disclosure from an initial invention concept using steps and means for parsing either an invention statement as to conception of invention of an inventive concept, and determining prior art relevant to salient features of the invention concept,... Agent: Christopher Nordby Sears

20080195602 - System and method for aggregating and monitoring decentrally stored multimedia data: System and method for aggregating and monitoring locally stored multimedia data, where a data store (32) is used to store at least one rating parameter (320, 321, 322) and at least one source database (401, 411, 421, 431) is associated with a search term (310, 311, 312, 313) and/or with... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080195596 - System and method for associative matching: Various embodiments are directed to a system and method providing associative matching of terms. Candidate terms are selected for building one or more associative matching models from one or more selected candidate sources. Associativity is defined to give editors the ability to label sample associative term pairs from the one... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080195603 - Transparent search engines: A search apparatus includes a search engine administrator configured to receive at least one bid from a plurality of sponsors, each bid corresponding to a fee to be paid by a corresponding one of the sponsors for placement of an associated listing; and a search engine configured to receive a... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080195598 - Uddi registry extension for rating uddi artifacts: A method and system to provide subjective evaluations for artifacts in a Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI) registry (version 3 or later). An extension to a UDDI registry receives a request from a client to add a subjective evaluation to an artifact in the UDDI registry, the request including... Agent: Sap/blakely

20080195610 - Adaptive query expression builder for an on-demand data service: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to database query management and execution and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and apparatus for processing an adaptive query expression in an on-demand data service. In one embodiment of the invention, an adaptive query handling method... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080195613 - Apparatus and method for identifying device types of series-connected devices of mixed type: A memory controller is unaware of device types (DTs) of a plurality (N) of series-connected memory devices in an interconnection configuration. Possible DTs include, e.g., random access memories and Flash memories. First, the memory controller sends a specific DT (“don't care”) and an initial number of binary code to the... Agent: Mosaid Technologies Incorporated

20080195612 - Application package to automatically identify some single stranded rna viruses from characteristic residues of capsid protein or nucleotide sequences: A system implemented on a computer is disclosed for automatically identifying strains of partial or complete capsid sequences of picoma and caliciviruses, two of the most highly diverse ssRNA virus families.... Agent: Robert W Strozier, P.l.l.c

20080195609 - Method and system for generating a population representative of a set of users of a communication network: This invention relates to a method of generating a population representative of the behaviour of a set of users of a communication network, starting from a reference population composed of known network users listed in a database, characterised in that it comprises steps consisting of: or each site or part... Agent: Pauley Petersen & Erickson

20080195611 - Methodologies and analytics tools for locating experts with specific sets of expertise: A method and analytics tools for locating experts with specific sets of expertise are disclosed, the method including providing a collection of documents P0; generating categories representing fields of expertise derived from the collection of documents P0; refining the taxonomy of the categories by applying user domain knowledge; extracting structured... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.c.

20080195614 - Proactive analysis of communication network problems: Customer problem reports are collected and analyzed in order to monitor, analyze, and proactively prevent the same or similar problems from reoccurring in the future. A selection of customer problem reports are received and may be prioritized for analysis. Associated network elements may be scheduled for monitoring and/or testing at... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080195617 - Modified machine architecture with machine redundancy: A multiple computer system in which a single application program, written to execute on only a single computer, runs on multiple computers is disclosed. Each computer (M1, . . . Mn) has a substantially identical local memory structure. Synchronizing locks are used to ensure that only one computer is able... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080195616 - Multi-master attribute uniqueness: A distributed database server receives a recursive lock/search request, acquires a local lock, and propagates the recursive lock/search request to a peer database server. Specific implementations within a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (“LDAP”) server are described, and applications that can benefit from the recursive locking and searching functionality are discussed.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080195615 - Recursive lock-and-propagate operation: A distributed database server receives an operation request including a flag to cause recursive lock-and-propagate operation, acquires a local lock, tests the operation locally and propagates the recursive request to a peer database server. Specific implementations within a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (“LDAP”) server are described.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080195619 - Electronic device and method of sharing calendar-event information: A method of sharing with a portable electronic device of a first entity, calendar-event records associated with a second entity and accessible by a server. The method includes receiving at the server permission to share with the first entity the calendar-event records associated with the second entity, receiving at the... Agent: Perry + Currier Inc. (for Rim)

20080195625 - Interactive credential system and method: An interactive credential system and method is provided. The system comprises a database containing employee-employer-applicant surveyed information, industry specific criteria such as insurance loss history and account performance, an authorization code for authorizing access to the database and a control device, operatively associated with the database, for presenting weighted scores.... Agent: Litman Law Offices, Ltd.

20080195621 - Media device presence management: A media player may be adapted to manage presence information distribution and access to facilitate media communication between compatible devices. Devices connecting in an ad-hoc or other network topology include a plurality of presence settings that determine how or if the device appears to be available for communication to other... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080195618 - Method for authorizing a telephone transaction and local node: m

20080195620 - Nearby media device tracking: A media player is adapted to organize and display nearby media device information between communicating media devices before a complete connection is established. A nearby media device receives a message that is either generally or specifically sent from another media device. The nearby device determines whether the sending media device... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080195623 - Risk management system: A system manages risks. The system includes a processor for executing the system. A risk manager determines a team structure. The risk manager has the ability to lock/unlock a database to external users. A team administrator creates a risk team. The team administrator is notified when the database is locked... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino LLP Suite 1700

20080195622 - Service provisioning system: A method for generating objects which facilitate access of application platform system and service provisioning system to a shared database. The method includes generating automatically objects for incorporating in the application platform system as well as objects for incorporating in the provisioning system. The generated objects facilitate access of the... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080195624 - System and method for administration of virtual servers: A system and method administers virtual servers executing on one or more physical storage systems. One or more virtual servers are created and associated with a management group. An administrator is then granted permissions to the group. Upon logging into management software, only information relating to the virtual servers associated... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080195626 - Data processing device,document processing device,data relay device,data processing method ,and data relay method: A technique that can generally handle data of an external apparatus connected to an apparatus is provided. A document processing apparatus has a function that edits data, while handling data stored in a XML file as a DOM. An I/O apparatus stores dynamic data acquired from an external apparatus connected... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080195632 - Method for composing a resource locator address, corresponding device and computer program product: A method is provided for composing an address for locating a resource on the Internet. The method includes a phase of conversion of a piece of data into a locator address. The phase of conversion includes a step for the entry by a user, into a browser software, of a... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.a.

20080195631 - System and method for determining web page quality using collective inference based on local and global information: An improved system and method is provided for determining web page quality using collective inference based on local and global web page information. A classification engine may be provided for classifying a web page using local features of a seed set of web pages and global web graph information about... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20080195627 - System and method for managing databases associated with respective personal information manager service accounts: A method of managing databases at an electronic device, associated with respective ones of a first PIM service account and a second PIM service account. The method includes: receiving representative data of records at a server associated with the second PIM service account and obtaining data representative of records already... Agent: Perry + Currier Inc. (for Rim)

20080195629 - Using structured data for online research: Various embodiments utilize structured data contained within a resource, such as a web page, to enable a user to define collections of data. Individual constituent parts of a collection or “links” are collected within a collection. In one or more embodiments, a full page viewing experience can be provided which... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080195628 - Web data usage platform: An application programming interface (API) layer is implemented on a computing device. The API layer allows a local application(s) executing on the computing device to access web data in a data store layer, and further allows a remote application(s) that is executing on some other computing device to access the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080195630 - Web service interrogation method and apparatus: A web service interrogation method comprises receiving natural language request data at a processor. The processor parses the request data. A data structure comprising a directory of web service resources is interrogated based upon the parsed input data. Fields within a web service identified from said data structure are matched... Agent: Gregory J. Lavorgna Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

20080195634 - Complete mapping between the xml infoset and dynamic language data expressions: Converting data to an appropriate format for use with a service. An example method is illustrated where a message including data expressed using dynamic language data expressions is received. The dynamic language data expressions include a tree structure organization for the data. The data expressed using dynamic language data expressions... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080195639 - Document stream operating system: A document stream operating system and method is disclosed in which: (1) documents are stored in one or more chronologically ordered streams; (2) the location and nature of file storage is transparent to the user; (3) information is organized as needed instead of at the time the document is created;... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080195636 - Extraction of logical events from network data: In an embodiment of the present invention, a record is read a single time, and it is evaluated against all conditions to identify the ones that it satisfies. By organizing the conditions into appropriate data structures, the process may be further optimized by ensuring that the record is not scanned... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20080195633 - Management of vertical sales and agent referrals: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media provide for the management of vertical sales and sales agent vertical product referrals. According to implementations, transaction data corresponding to the sale of a product to a customer is received. Vertical product information corresponding to the transaction data is retrieved. A correspondence is created that... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080195640 - Method and system for automatic detection, inventory, and operating system deployment on network boot capable computers: A system for the automatic detection and inventory of a network boot capable computer and for the automatic deployment of an appropriate operating system to the network boot capable computer. First, an initial broadcast packet from the network boot capable computer is received. In response to receiving the initial broadcast... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080195638 - Method and system for collecting user update requests regarding geographic data to support automated analysis, processing and geographic data updates: A system and method provide functionality for collecting user update reports of geographic inconsistencies between geographic data and the real world to enable automated processing of updates to the geographic data. A user's input is collected and describes an anomaly, which is a geographic inconsistency between geographic data and the... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080195635 - Path indexing for network data: A solution is provided wherein path information is stored for efficient retrieval. Raw path information may be stored in a path file. A node path index file may then be created containing entries for each of one or more corresponding nodes in the path information. Each node path entry corresponds... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20080195637 - Photographed information management system and method thereof, and photographed information search system: An image information management system includes: a storage medium on which peculiar information is stored; a reading device which reads the peculiar information stored on the storage medium; an image imaging device which shoots a video of a vicinity of a place at which the reading device is provided when... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080195641 - Apparatus and method for aggregating and accessing data according to user information: An apparatus and method for aggregating and accessing data according to user information are provided. According to one aspect, an interface device for providing data between a first device and a second device comprises an input, an output, logic, and a repository for storing personal data and data associated with... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, Llc

20080195643 - Graphical database interaction system and method: Various aspects of the present invention include a database interaction system and method comprising: a display, a set of user input devices, and a database comprising a data set including a plurality of fields and associated field values; a graph model configured to define a plurality of nodes and states,... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20080195642 - Knowledge management and result generation system where items are electronically presentable work and knowledge elements or their references, its application method for producing other work or knowledge elements, and the method of delivering knowledge or: The method of work delivery in the form of reusable system items significantly improves the design, modularity, and reusability of the items, even though it might require more advanced technical skills and longer time to create them. It results into accumulating modular reusable work items and the related knowledge for... Agent: Igor Voln

20080195644 - Method, system and program product for developing a data model in a data mining system: A database table of predefined data transformations is provided. Each predefined data transformation is associated in the table with a unique identifier, a corresponding description and a validity period. When a data modeler wishes to develop a data model for a desired prediction, he/she will first determine a set of... Agent: Hoffman Warnick Llc

20080195651 - Batch management of metadata in a business intelligence architecture: A metadata management system is described for a business intelligence architecture having a metadata repository for content that defines a user environment of the business intelligence architecture. The metadata management system includes a user interface generator to display information regarding a plurality of objects in the metadata repository and to... Agent: Lempia Braidwood Llc

20080195653 - Communication system and data management method thereof: The present invention discloses a data management method applied in a communication system. The data management method includes the steps of: receiving a data from a transmitting end; determining a specific user identification code corresponding to the data; and storing the data into a data group according to the specific... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080195649 - Dynamic user interface and a method for generating a dynamic user interface for interfacing with an electronic data repository storing a collection of data elements: A system (2) is provided for generating a dynamic user interface (1) in the form of a graphical user interface display on a visual display unit (8) of a computer (3) for facilitating interfacing with an electronic data repository storing a collection of data elements on a remote magnetic hard... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080195647 - Evalbinding extension: EvalBinding, a markup extension for the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) extensible application markup language (XAML), allows a WPF dependency property value to be dynamically bound to a markup based code expression that is dependent upon one or more other Common Language Runtime (CLR) property values. A change in any of... Agent: Lee & Hayes, Pllc

20080195650 - Method for determining a time for retraining a data mining model: The invention relates to a method for determining a time for retraining a data mining model, comprising the steps of: calculating multivariate statistics of a training model during a training phase; storing the multivariate statistics in the data mining model; monitoring at least one distribution parameter of application data as... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.c.

20080195645 - Method of providing information via context searching of a printed graphic image: e

20080195648 - Method, system and program for providing printed matter: Content classifying means 24 for storing content data, identification information of the content data, and content provider information received from a terminal device 12 of a content provider, and creating a content table 25; searching means 27 for searching the content table 25 using a keyword and a search formula... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080195646 - Self-describing web data storage model: A type system and query language for interpreting, storing, and communicating data is provided wherein the data is of hierarchical structure. The data is defined according to a web data model and materialized views are provided in conjunction with the available data as well as general hierarchical querying functionality.... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080195654 - System and methods for providing adaptive media property classification: A system and methods are provided for automatically classifying data according to perceptual properties of the data to form a classification chain that is suited to the searching and sorting of large databases of media entities. During classification, experts assign each media entity in the training data set to one... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080195652 - User interface forming method and apparatus based on human relations for mobile terminal: An apparatus and method for forming a user interface for a mobile terminal based on human relations are provided. The method includes creating a piece of log data corresponding to a communication event, calculating a level of intimacy between the user and a counterpart for a target duration using the... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080195656 - Method and system for collecting user update requests regarding geographic data to support automated analysis, processing and geographic data updates: A system and method provide functionality for collecting user update reports of geographic inconsistencies between geographic data and the real world to enable automated processing of updates to the geographic data. A user's input is collected and describes an anomaly, which is a geographic inconsistency between geographic data and the... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080195655 - Video object representation data structure, program for generating video object representation data structure, method of generating video object representation data structure, video software development device, image processing program: A video object representation data structure defines behavior of a video object to be displayed on a screen of an image processing device. The video object representation data structure includes a data file that includes a resource identifier list to specify one or more resources to be used for generating... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080195664 - Automated content tag processing for mobile media: In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for delivery of content on a mobile media platform, providing an automated tag processing facility, and delivering content to a mobile device, wherein content delivery is based at least in part on the automated tag processing.... Agent: John J. Brooks, Iii

20080195662 - Automated display of selected press releases of legal institutions within websites: A method to compile, reconcile and display press releases of legal institutions according to the user's choice. By this method such press releases are read out, stored in a database and kept up-to-date; by signing up for this service the user will be provided with a specific source code on... Agent: Norbert Gugerbauer

20080195659 - Automatic contact center agent assistant: A method and apparatus are provided for presenting information to an agent of an organization. The method includes the steps of the organization detecting a contact with a client of the organization, classifying the contact based upon information delivered along with the contact and delivering the contact to the agent.... Agent: Welsh & Katz, Ltd. Jon P. Christensen

20080195666 - Automatic file saving method for digital home appliance system: The invention provides an automatic file saving method for a digital home appliance system. A storage position for saving a multimedia file is automatically selected based on collected information related to the multimedia files. In addition, the file size in the digital home appliance system also may be recorded, and... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, Pllc

20080195657 - Context-based community-driven suggestions for media annotation: Disclosed are apparatus and methods for facilitating annotation of media objects by a user. Mechanisms present a user with an easily usable set of annotation suggestions that are most likely to be relevant to the particular user and/or media context. In general, existing annotations are analyzed to determine a set... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP/yahoo

20080195661 - Digital media recognition using metadata: s

20080195668 - Efficient extraction of xml content stored in a lob: A method and system are provided for extracting a valid, self-contained fragment for a node in a XML document stored in a database management system. An XML index is used to identify a location in which XML fragment data corresponding to the node is located. Ancestors of the node are... Agent: Attention Of Brian D. Hickman Oracle International Corporation

20080195663 - Information processing device, information processing system, information processing method, computable-readable recording medium, and computer data signal: There is provided an information processing device that has a display control unit that causes, when one or more of setting items for specifying a processing are sequentially specified by a manipulation made by an operator, a display unit to display processing information sets each including setting items in a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080195658 - Methods and apparatus for including customized cda attributes for searching and retrieval: A method for storing customized attributes in a clinical document architecture (CDA) document to provide searching functionality in a clinical environment includes retrieving, from a clinical database, attributes to be attached to a document in accordance with scripted instructions received from a user. The method further includes concatenating the retrieved... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (12553 - 1000)

20080195660 - Providing additional information related to earmarks: Metadata related to a media object may be used to obtain additional information about a mark created by a user in the media object. A media object being played by a user may be marked by creating a mark object, the mark object being used to determine the metadata to... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080195667 - System and method for configuring access to electronic mailboxes: A system and method for configuring access to an electronic mailbox based on limited configuration parameters received from a user. A database stores configuration conventions for a mail domain. A mailbox interface module receives configuration information from a user that is limited in the configuration parameters required for accessing the... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.a.

20080195665 - Tracking web server: A web server is disclosed that is configured to track requests for web pages on a third party web server. The tracking web server traps a web page request, such as a PURL (Personalised URL) for a personalised web page, before it attempts to serve the web page requested. The... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080195669 - System and method for generating files: A system and method for generating files are disclosed, which is applicable to an electronic apparatus containing first and second source file data. The first source file data include first annotation data of first component data of a specific object. The second source file data include second annotation data of... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080195671 - Device management system using log management object and method for generating and controlling logging data therein: A device management (DM) system using a log management object and a method for effectively generating and controlling logging data in the system are disclosed. A DM server includes only information that a client can transfer processing of a corresponding command to a logging sub-tree manager in the logging data... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080195673 - Method, system, and program product for sequential coordination of external database application events with asynchronous internal database events: Database management systems, methods, and program products that exploit time dependent sequential database management system processes to ensure presentation of the same data or view to one or a plurality of users through sequencing asynchronous database management operations such as recovery and replication. Sequencing is accomplished through the use of... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080195670 - System and method for log management: A system, method, and computer program for managing a plurality of software logs across a multi-tiered network having multiple depositories, comprising establishing a plurality of applications, wherein each of said applications has a logging engine with a log writer; producing a log file from each of said log writers; associating... Agent: Siemans Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.

20080195672 - System and program product for sequential coordination of external database application events with asynchronous internal database events: Database management systems and program products that exploit time dependent sequential database management system processes to ensure presentation of the same data or view to one or a plurality of users through sequencing asynchronous database management operations such as recovery and replication. Sequencing is accomplished through the use of entries... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080195674 - Managing web page links using structured data: In accordance with certain embodiments, requests to collect structured data in a web page and to subscribe to that structured data are received. This structured data is stored in a data store to allow offline use of the structured data. In accordance with other embodiments, a computing device displays multiple... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080195675 - Method for pertorming distributed backup on client workstations in a computer network: The invention concerns the field of computers and the saving of digital data. The invention concerns a method for saving digital data on a multiple machines connected to a computer network. The invention is characterized in that it does not employ a centralized computer server, and in that it comprises... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20080195676 - Scanning of backup data for malicious software: A backup system may create one or more archived copies of a file system, such as through successive periodic backup operations. When a virus or other malicious software is found on a system, that system's backup data is scanned to determine the last uninfected backup. A full or partial restore... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080195677 - Techniques for versioning files: Techniques are presented for versioning files. Base files are acquired for files on a primary volume. At configurable points in time changes to the files are noted on different volumes, these changes are represented as deltas. The deltas are stored on an archive volume and represent versions and a version... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20080195678 - Methodologies and analytics tools for identifying potential partnering relationships in a given industry: Disclosed is a method of identifying partnering potential by: assembling a set of target patents representative of an industry of interest; building a dictionary of text feature entries; generating a set of text feature clusters; creating one or more contingency tables for assignees; and deriving an indication of partnering potential... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.c.

20080195679 - Systems and methods for managing data storage: In one embodiment, the method includes determining in which of a plurality of memory portions to store a received file based on received characterizing information characterizing content of the file. For example, at least two of the plurality of memory portions are in a same memory. As another example, at... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080195681 - Method and system for garbage collection in a multitasking environment: A method for garbage collection involves allocating multiple objects in a young generation, where the objects are specific to a task, and where the young generation is specific to the task, performing a minor garbage collection, where an object of the multiple objects is promoted to a promotion area in... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p./sun

20080195680 - Method and system for minor garbage collection: A method for minor garbage collection involves marking cards as clean, where the cards designate ranges of memory locations in a shared older generation, marking a card as dirty to obtain a dirty card when a reference field of an object is modified, where the object is allocated in one... Agent: Osha Liang L.l.p./sun

20080195682 - Multiple computer system with enhanced memory clean up: The updating of only some memory locations in a multiple computer environment in which at least one applications program (50) executes simultaneously on a plurality of computers M1, M2 . . . Mn each of which has a local memory, is disclosed. Memory locations (A, B, D, E, X) in... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080189236 - Monitoring a delivery chain network: Methods, systems and computer program products for monitoring a delivery chain network. An exemplary method includes accessing a database of delivery records. Each delivery record includes delivery characteristics including delivery time data for an item transported along a route. A group of delivery records having one or more specified delivery... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20080189238 - Detecting and displaying exceptions in tabular data: Data expressed as tabular data having columns and rows can be analyzed and data determined to be an exception can be flagged. In addition, reasons for flagging such data as exceptions can be presented to a user to facilitate further analysis and action on the data. A predictive analysis component... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080189244 - Efficiently and reliably providing message related data: The principles of the present invention extend to efficiently and reliably providing message related data. Generally, data fields of electronic messages and attachments are created in accordance with an electronic message schema hierarchy. An electronic message can include links to folder items that represent message folders. An electronic message can... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080189237 - Goal seeking using predictive analytics: Seeking goals in data that can be expressed as rows and columns is provided through predictive analytics. If a desired goal is achievable, the changes to the rows and/or columns that can achieve the goal are presented to a user. If the desired goal is not achievable, an error message... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080189242 - Method for retrieving a record from a database: e

20080189243 - Query routing of federated information systems for fast response time, load balance, availability, and reliability: Disclosed are embodiments of a system for optimizing query processing in a federated information system. The system may be used to identify alternative query plans in a simulated environment and to calculate cost estimates associated with the alternative query plans, based not only on database statistics and query statements, but... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080189239 - System and method for join-partitioning for local computability of query over shared-nothing clusters: The present invention addresses the problem of partitioning database relations across a plurality of hosts in a shared-nothing cluster while minimizing communication costs. A new partitioning approach for database relations—join-partitioning—is introduced that focuses on relations and their dependencies to a priori partition the plurality of relations to the plurality of... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080189241 - System and method for real-time materialized view maintenance: There are provided a method, a computer program product, and a system for maintaining a materialized view defined on a relation of a relational database. The method includes the step of performing content-based filtering on the relation to identify an update to the relation as being irrelevant with respect to... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080189240 - System, method and software for creating or maintaining local or distributed mapping and transparent persistence of complex data objects and their data relationships: The invention provides computer systems, computer data stores and methods and software for accessing and utilizing data stores. More particularly, the present invention provides systems, methods and software for creating or maintaining local or distributed mapping and optional transparent persistence of data objects, objects for stored procedures, complex data objects,... Agent: J G Mullins

20080189253 - system and method for adaptive text recommendation: Network system provides a real-time adaptive recommendation set of documents with a high statistical measure of relevancy to the requestor device. The recommendation set is optimized based on analyzing text of documents of the interest set, categorizing these documents into clusters, extracting keywords representing the themes or concepts of documents... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080189245 - Accessing data from diverse semiconductor manufacturing applications: Data extraction for semiconductor process analysis may be implemented across multiple databases. A user may select a given level of interest, such as a wafer, a lot, or a die, and may extract specified information across more than one database if desired. The databases may include separate information such as... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080189256 - Change approvals for computing systems: A proxy directory server discovers the topology of distributed directory server immediately after starting up and before accepting client requests. Immediately after starting up, the proxy server executes queries to extract the structured data corresponding to directory distribution information from the distributed directory servers. Dynamic topology reconfiguration of the distributed... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080189252 - Hardware accelerated reconfigurable processor for accelerating database operations and queries: Embodiments of the present invention provide a hardware accelerator that assists a host database system in processing its queries. The hardware accelerator comprises special purpose processing elements that are capable of receiving database query/operation tasks in the form of machine code database instructions, execute them in hardware without software, and... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080189255 - Media playing on a portable media player including shop and play remote media: A software and/or hardware facility that enables shop and play remote media using a portable media player is disclosed. Shopping may include, but is not limited to, allowing a user to identify media and acquire (via download or stream) the media to a portable media player for free or for... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080189247 - Method and system for improved categorical searching: Systems and methods have been developed for searching an index by category. More specifically, systems and methods have been developed for launching a search program that sends to a browser a search address associated with a selected search category for transmission to a remote computing device.... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080189248 - Multi-site common directory and method for using the multi-site common directory: A common directory and method are described herein that maintains and accesses multiple subscriber profiles by using a directory service logic, a search/index database (which contains subscriber search keys for all of the subscribers in a communication network) and a local profile database (which contains the subscriber profiles for only... Agent: Ericsson Canada Inc. Patent Department

20080189254 - Presenting web site analytics: Site metrics are presented in association with search results. The site metrics are derived from site analytics that uses clickstream data collected from a panel of internet users to generate and present internet activity metrics. Data collected from a community of internet users may be augmented by clickstream data store... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080189251 - Processing elements of a hardware accelerated reconfigurable processor for accelerating database operations and queries: Embodiments of the present invention provide processing elements that are capable of performing high level database operations in hardware based on machine code instructions. These processing elements employ a dataflow architecture that operates on data in hardware without interruption or software. A scanning/indexing processing element may comprise logic that analyze... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080189249 - Searching structured geographical data: Data is identified from one or more data sources, where the data is associated with at least one structured document. Data sets contained within the at least one structured document are extracted, and one or more record items are added to a searchable database, where the one or more record... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080189250 - Techniques for database structure and management: An embodiment is related to a database system for protecting data privacy and efficient organization of data. An enhanced database system comprises a DBMS, a data classifier, a database of applications and a rules and policy unit. The DBMS includes a query processor for processing a query from a user.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept. Icc

20080189246 - Transient-sensitive indicators for hmi devices: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates optimizing a human machine interface (HMI). An interface component can facilitate receipt of data associated with an industrial automation environment. A human machine interface (HMI) component can be communicatively coupled to the interface component to include a capture component... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(at)

20080189258 - Compositional query comprehensions: The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can facilitate query comprehension that are constructed in a compositional manner. In accordance therewith, the query comprehensions can be assembled together in virtually in order without common requirements that force query operators of a query expression to follow ordering/syntactic rules. In... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080189257 - World-wide classified listing search with translation: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates querying data across various languages. An interface component can receive data related to a portion of a listing associated with commerce in a first language. An interpreter component can translate a query in a second language to the... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080189264 - Cherry picking search terms: In an electronic presentation of information, search is made easier and more personal by identifying words, symbols or images (collectively called terms) in text and allowing users to select any of those terms to refine their search. The technology is called “cherry picking” because it allows each user to select... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20080189272 - Collective ranking of digital content: Methods and systems for collaboratively ranking a set of digital content items are disclosed. The invention utilizes users of a website who wish to participate in ranking a set of digital content items. In one embodiment, the method to determine a new collaborative ranking of a set of digital content... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20080189267 - Harvesting data from page: Among other disclosure, computer-implemented methods and computer program products for obtaining data from a page. A method can include initiating a harvesting process for a page available in a computer system. The method can include identifying a feed representation that has been created for the page. The method can include... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080189270 - Image retrieval apparatus, image retrieval method, image pickup apparatus, and program: An image retrieval apparatus retrieving an image may include metadata selecting means for selecting metadata that concerns the image and that belongs to any of a plurality of categories in response to an operation by a user, image retrieving means for retrieving the image on the basis of the metadata... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080189266 - Managing information related to communication: In one aspect, a method related to receiving, retrieving and presenting information. In addition, other method, system, and program product aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and/or text forming a part of the present disclosure.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080189268 - Mechanism for automatic matching of host to guest content via categorization: An automatic matching mechanism includes a method for mapping a unit of content to other units of content. The method includes a host display sending a request for guest content. The method may also include: querying a category content index for the guest content and providing indexed and categorized content... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080189276 - Method and apparatus for dynamically creating historical groups in a messaging client: A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing user lists. A group of instant messaging addresses used most frequently by a user of an instant messaging client on the communications device is identified. The identified group of instant messaging addresses is displayed visibly within a display in the communications device.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080189261 - Method and system for searching and retrieving reusable assets: A method and system for searching and retrieving reusable assets is disclosed. An index file in a database stores reusable assets. A search request history in the database stores past search requests and corresponding past search results. A search program performs a search upon receiving a new search request within... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080189259 - Method for preserving access to deleted and overwritten documents by means of a system recycle bin: A method for preserving access to deleted or overwritten document data within a system, wherein said document data is stored in a system filestore associated with a system database containing reference data to point to the document data within the system filestore, the method comprising the steps of: determining that... Agent: Rajesh Kapur

20080189275 - Program, method, and apparatus for sending and receiving mail messages: A computer converts elements of a mail message, neither requiring prior manual registration of conversion process details, nor increasing complexity of the system. When a mail message arrives at this computer, an analysis record registration unit produces an analysis record that gives its sender's identifier and a source mailer type... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080189269 - Relevance-weighted navigation in information access, search and retrieval: In a method for information access, search, and retrieval over a data communication system generally, wherein a query is applied to a set of documents, a result set of the matching documents and query-dependent subsections of the matching documents are identified. The method comprises computing summary information on document scopes,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080189271 - Search system and search method: In a search system for searching a database based on a keyword input from a portable terminal while outputting a result of the search to the portable terminal to display, there are provided a search server that searches the database for information including the input keyword, a degree-of-popularity calculating apparatus... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20080189263 - System and method for improving integrity of internet search: A system and method are provided to receive a search query from a user, typically via a web browser, the Internet, and a web server. A search engine obtains a set of potential search results based on the search query. For each Internet domain or web site mentioned in the... Agent: William C. Milks, Iii Russo & Hale LLP

20080189273 - System and method for utilizing advanced search and highlighting techniques for isolating subsets of relevant content data: A system and methods for utilizing advanced automated search techniques including highlighting capability for determining subsets of relevant content data (in paper or electronic form) is disclosed. These techniques are advantageous in reviewing vast collections of content data or documents to identify relevant data or documents from the collections. The... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20080189274 - Systems and methods for connecting relevant web-based product information with relevant network conversations: Search systems and methods for connecting users with relevant information about products or services in which they are interested. Relevant information provided to the users includes links to web pages where the product or service is available and links to discussion groups or other social networking communities where the product... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080189265 - Techniques to manage vocabulary terms for a taxonomy system: Techniques to manage vocabulary terms for a taxonomy system are described. An apparatus may comprise a managed taxonomy system having a vocabulary management module to manage a taxonomy of formal vocabulary terms organized in a hierarchical structure. The taxonomy may include a category for informal vocabulary terms stored as a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080189260 - Use of associate memory learning agent technology to identify interchangeable parts in parts catalogs: The present invention provides a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for identifying interchangeable parts in parts catalogs. In one illustrative embodiment, a set of catalogs is searched for first attributes for a set of parts using an intelligent agent. The intelligent agent compares the first attributes... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080189262 - Word pluralization handling in query for web search: Techniques for determining when and how to transform words in a query to its plural or non-plural form in order to provide the most relevant search results while minimizing computational overhead are provided. A dictionary is generated based upon the words used in a specified number of previous most frequent... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080189280 - Data processing based on data linking elements: A computer controlled method for automatically segmenting an ensemble of data. The method starts by acquiring an ensemble of data and data is segmented by identifying a first subset of sequences of Linking Data Elements based on a repository of Linking Data Elements. A second subset of sequences of Information... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080189279 - Fast accurate fuzzy matching: A computer-implemented technique for fuzzy matching. This works quickly yet accurately to determine if a given computer-readable record is represented, by exact match or pretty close match, in a large collection of computer-readable records. Further tools may be provided to assess the character of the match.... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 76615

20080189278 - Method and system for assessing and refining the quality of web services definitions: A system and method of assessing and refining quality of Web services (WSDL) definitions for enabling automatic discovery and matching thereof, which includes normalizing definition elements and identifying at least one element as being at least one of cryptic, ambiguous, and unclear to provide a normalization output, assessing a quality... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080189281 - Presenting web site analytics associated with search results: Site metrics are presented in association with search results. The site metrics are derived from site analytics that uses clickstream data collected from a panel of internet users to generate and present internet activity metrics. Data collected from a community of internet users may be augmented by clickstream data store... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080189277 - Query pattern to enable type flow of element types: The claimed subject matter relates to a formalization of operator patterns that can facilitate type flow of element types between an operator in a first clause of an expression to an operator in a next clause of the expression. The type that flows to, and the operator extant in, the... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080189282 - Method and system for robust futexes: An embodiment relates to a method of managing primitives. The method includes providing a data structure available in user-space where the data structure comprises at least one futex. The method also includes detecting a termination of the process and searching the data structure for status of the at least one... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080189285 - Attribute level access control: A method and apparatus for applying access control instructions to attributes. A request is received for permission to perform an operation on an attribute associated with an access control instruction. The access control instruction specifies an allowed type of channel for the operation. If a secure channel has been established... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080189284 - Content management system and method for managing and classifying data about entities and for providing content including the classified data: A content management system manages data about entities and provides content including data about the entities. The content management system receives data about entities from originators associated with the entities. The content management system classifies the data and stores the classified data. The content management system may authenticate the data... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group, LLP

20080189283 - Method and system for monitoring and moderating files on a network: Systems and methods have been developed for monitoring and moderating files on a network. The systems and methods may provide the ability for a publisher of a file to review the uses and users of the file on a network and the ability for a publisher to negotiate and sell... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080189287 - System and method for a central index for rfid data with data privilege indicia: In one embodiment, a central data repository stores product code information. The central data repository can receive permissions from providers of the produce code information. The permissions can indicate whether the product code information can be provided to a third party.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080189286 - System for managing and protecting personal information on internet and method thereof: A system for managing and protecting personal information on the Internet and a method thereof are disclosed. The management and the access control of the personal information stored in a plurality of ID management servers that store and provide the personal information of users are performed using an Identity search... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080189295 - Audio visual player apparatus and system and method of content distribution using the same: A system is presented providing content to a plurality of handheld devices (including musical selections). The devices can access a server over the Internet via a WIFI or other similar wireless interconnection and can download songs requested by a user from the server or from other users using, e.g., a... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20080189289 - Generating logical fields for a data abstraction model: A method, system and article of manufacture for generating logical fields for a data abstraction model that abstractly describes physical data in a database is disclosed. A data abstraction model may define one or more dynamic entities used to generate a plurality of logical fields. Each dynamic entity may identify... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080189294 - Method and apparatus for sharing content: A method and apparatus for sharing contents are provided. The method includes receiving a download request for contents from a first client; confirming whether the contents required to be downloaded are stored or not; transmitting the contents when the contents are stored; and transmitting the location information of the contents... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080189298 - Method and apparatus for wireless access to personalized multimedia at any location: A system and method for providing an online personalized inventory of authorized content that is accessible from virtually any location by a wirelessly connected user. A server in communication with a personalized database is accessible from a plurality of locations via RF, permits automatic viewing of an authorized library, and/or... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080189290 - Method and system for representing an exploration of resources over a communication network: In particular embodiments, a system and method for representing an exploration of resources over a communication network is disclosed. According to the embodiments, if a search query representing a target resource locator is received from a user, resources having links to the target resource locator are searched. Then, a data... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080189288 - Query governor with network monitoring in a parallel computer system: An apparatus and method for a query governor to govern query execution in a parallel computer system with one or more networks. The query governor uses a network monitor to gather network status information to determine how to govern query execution. The query governor may also use historical information of... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080189297 - Securely storing and accessing data: A method of allowing members of a group to access a plurality of data blocks stored at one or more storage locations, where each data block is associated with at least one of the members. The method comprises providing each of the group members with a shared secret, storing at... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080189293 - Sharing of media using contact data: Media sharing using contact data involves identifying contact records on a personal electronic device of a user. Each of the contact records includes a contact address of a person associated with the respective contact record. The contact records are communicated to a media sharing service via a network. Media items... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20080189292 - System and method for automatic population of a contact file with contact content and expression content: A system and method for automatically populating a contact file with contact content and expression content are provided. An identifier is received on a device that is used to query a server in communication with a web-based social network database. According to one embodiment, contact content automatically populates a contact... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080189291 - System for measuring and displaying vital signs and method therefor: A system and method for measuring and displaying vital signs are provided. A band is wrapped around the wrist of a person. The band includes a first measurement device for measuring blood pressure of the person. A device electrically connected to the band includes a second measurement device for measuring... Agent: Troxell Law Office PLLC

20080189296 - Vendor management system and process: Disclosed is a novel vendor management system and method that enables one or more parties to assign various types of files to one or more other parties for review and processing. Multiple business clients are able to refer a variety of files to a select group of vendors having expertise... Agent: Ward & Olivo

20080189308 - Apparatus and methods for displaying and determining dependency relationships among subsystems in a computer software system: A method is provided for managing, in a computer system, design of a database system having a set of schemata. The method includes, in a first computer process, extracting dependencies from the database system and identifying the set of schemata. The method further includes, for each specific schema in the... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080189309 - Data writing system and method for multi-type air conditioning system: A data writing system and method for a multi-type air conditioning system according to the present invention associates data related to each system device (for data that was otherwise independently maintained) and performs management thereof, while allowing the deletion of any redundant data, and writes data to form a hierarchical... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080189306 - Flexible domain handling: Methods and systems for providing a virtual network of real-world entities are provided. In various embodiments, the methods and systems receive a database identifying real-world entities wherein the database can include relationships between entities and attributes. Some attributes can be associated with strengths. Upon receiving a search query from a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080189302 - Generating database representation of markup-language document: A database representation of a markup-language document is generated. Such a document formed in a markup language, such as the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and that has a number of nodes organized in a tree structure is parsed. For each node of the document, at least the following is performed.... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080189304 - Linked ldap attributes: Information to link two attributes in a database is stored, and when one of the attributes is updated, a new value for the second attribute is computed and stored. Related systems and applications are also described.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080189300 - Management of warranty information in vital product data for replaceable units of data handling systems: A vital product data system memory stores warranty information in vital product data relating to replaceable unit(s) of a data handling system. The data comprises a date of first use, and a device state field comprising an identifier representing one of the states: “new”, “recertified”, and, “in-use”. Management control, in... Agent: John H. Holcombe IBM Corporation,IPLaw Dept.

20080189299 - Method and apparatus for managing descriptors in system specifications: The invention includes a method and apparatus supporting system specification creation by providing descriptor management functions. A method according to one embodiment of the invention includes receiving a request for descriptor information maintained in a descriptor dictionary comprising a plurality of descriptor entries defining a respective plurality of descriptors, determining... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20080189307 - Method for categorizing content published on internet: The present invention provides method and system for categorizing a content published on Internet. The method comprising gathering one or more feeds associated with the content. The method further comprises extracting contextual information from the one or more feeds. Thereafter, the content is categorized into one or more general web-based... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20080189305 - Predictive database pool preparation: A method, system, and computer program product are provided for operating a relational database management system (RDBMS). In order to operate a RDBMS, information is read from a first execution plan in response to an execution request for a second individual database statement of a second sequence of database statements.... Agent: Walder Intellectual Property Law PC

20080189303 - System and method for defining application definition functionality for general purpose web presences: An application specification system and method are provided.... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080189301 - System and method of handling historical activities for membership changes in group collaboration: A system and method of handling historical activities for membership changes in group collaboration is presented. A membership manager uses a register service to log group actions that components send to user groups. As such, when the register service receives a member change notification corresponding to a user group, the... Agent: Ibm Corporation - Rsw (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080189310 - Method for encoding an xml-based document: The root element of an encoded fragment is stored in a table by name and the name of a parent element, i.e., according to their paths. The path is an absolute path which starts at the root node of the document tree and leads to an element of the document... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080189312 - Techniques to manage a taxonomy system for heterogeneous resource domain: Techniques to manage vocabulary terms for a taxonomy system are described. An apparatus may comprise a managed taxonomy system having a vocabulary management module to manage a taxonomy of formal vocabulary terms organized in a hierarchical structure. The taxonomy may include a category for informal vocabulary terms stored as a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080189311 - Visual controls for stored procedure and object relational class development: A development system is provided. The system includes a workspace component to visually display one or more stored procedures and one or more class components. A manipulation component locates the stored procedures onto the class components in order to automatically create methods for the class components.... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080189319 - Automatic personal play list generation based on external factors such as weather, financial market, media sales or calendar data: A play list of songs or other media items is automatically generated (380) based on external factors (314, 324, 334) such as weather conditions, stock market conditions, sales of songs, or calendar data, e.g., day of week, holidays or user designated dates such as birthdays, anniversaries and the like. External... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080189316 - Data cleansing system and method: An automated system and method is provided for debugging training data used to train an automated language identifier. The system and method collects texts written in a particular language, generates an occurrence count for words in each text by counting the number of times each of the words is found... Agent: Richard L. Sampson Sampson & Associates, P.C.

20080189322 - Data exchange tool: A software reference tool and method enables users to easily understand XML and other file types, including proprietary file types, and that provides the user the capability to map from one file type to another by using system templates that correspond to each file type. The data mapped from one... Agent: Patterson, Thuente, Skaar & Christensen, P.A.

20080189314 - Generation of template for reformatting data from first data format to second data format: A template is generated for reformatting, or converting, data from a first data formal to a second data format, where such template generation is achieved without human interaction. Particularly, data formatted in accordance with a first data format, as well as the same data but formatted in accordance with a... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080189313 - Method and apparatus for managing system specifications: The invention includes a method and apparatus for managing a system specification. The method includes identifying a first system specification defined at a first refinement level where the first system specification includes specification data, generating a second system specification at a second refinement level where the second system specification inherits... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20080189315 - Method and server system for creating sensor data record: The present invention discloses a method and a server system for creating a sensor data record, wherein the server system has a first product code stored therein in advance. After the server system reads the first product code, the server system is able to read all monitoring information stored in... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080189317 - Object cloning management system and method: A system and method for automatically handling data objects within groupings in a PACS network. Where a data object belonging to one grouping is moved to or copied into another grouping, certain associated data objects will automatically be moved or copied to the other grouping. Similarly, where some data objects... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080189318 - Playlist override queue: In one embodiment, a method for determining files to play is provided. The method includes determining an override file. For example, files may be designated and put into an override queue. A point in the playlist of files currently being played on a device is determined. This is a point... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080189323 - System and method for developing and enabling model-driven xml transformation framework for e-business: A system and method for developing and enabling model-driven extensible Markup Language (XML) transformation to XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) format incorporate a strong built-in validation capability. A platform independent framework applies multiple passes of transformation, where each pass performs specific operations on internal models. Different source models are then merged... Agent: Whitham, Curtis, & Christofferson, P.C.

20080189321 - System and method to collect and modify calibration data: A system and method modifies calibration data used to geo-locate a mobile station. Calibration data measured via a calibration data collection device may contain errors due to the physical limitations of the collection device and/or the collection process. Any data collection device may produce some degree of signal degradation or... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080189320 - Website generator capable of creating dynamic website in off-line status and related method: To eliminate inconvenience of creating dynamic web pages on line, the present invention provides a website generator capable of creating a dynamic website at an off-line status. The website generator disconnects with a web server, which is used for publishing the dynamic website on Internet, during the off-line status. The... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080189324 - Systems and methods for expressing temporal relationships spanning lifecycle representations: Techniques for expressing temporal relationships between lifecycle representations are provided. For example, one computer-implemented technique includes obtaining two or more lifecycle representations of at least two components of at least one computing system, annotating the two or more lifecycle representations with at least one temporal relationship, and storing the two... Agent: William E. Lewis Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080189331 - Apparatus and method of managing content: An apparatus for and a method of managing contents, the apparatus including an inserting unit to insert a mood tag so as to display a user's mood with respect to predetermined content or an importance tag so as to display the importance of the content, a classifying unit to classify... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080189336 - Creating and managing digital media content using contacts and relational information: Tags are used to describe the contents of digital content, such as photographs. Tags can be linked across different user accounts such that clicking on a tag/keyword in a user's account will bring up all photos in the user's account, as well as the photos from other users that are... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080189326 - Dynamic software fingerprinting: Embodiments of dynamic software fingerprinting techniques are presented herein. In an implementation, an inventory of applications installed on a client is performed by examination of one or more inventory categories. Relationships are then created between the installed applications from the inventory and one or more supplemental categories. Based on the... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080189327 - Handheld electronic device and associated method for obtaining new language objects for use by a disambiguation routine on the device: A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate text input. The device has a generic word list and a new words database stored thereon as linguistic data sources and which provide linguistic data to the disambiguation software. When... Agent: Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

20080189335 - Installing a solution: Tool(s) enabling installation of a solution are described. These tool(s) may follow appropriate security precautions to contain possibly dangerous code in a data file's solution even when the solution is installed from a local source, such as when a user is offline. These tool(s) determine what level of security is... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080189325 - Intelligent assembly system and method of use: A manufacturing system and method for manufacturing a product include storing product-related information with the product during at least one of a time of manufacture and during the life of the part after manufacturing. The product-related information may be stored on one or more tags secured to a portion of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080189333 - Method and device for supplying data: The invention concerns a method of transmitting and providing data, comprising the steps: providing data units in a base main data memory of a base device, providing a reference set for each data unit, in which there is contained at least one individual identification which is different for each data... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080189334 - Method of global popularity based prioritization in information engine with consumer ==author and dynamic web models for global, multimedia, and mobile internet: With consumers becoming authors, i.e. “consumers==authors” model, the new web is growing at an ever faster pace, making the job of a search engine more complex than most present day search engines were designed for. In this new generation of web, information and content is “Multi-media” and/or “Mobile” friendly, and... Agent: Anup Mathur

20080189329 - Methods, systems, and products for targeting media: Methods, devices, and products are disclosed for targeting media. Descriptive information is received that describes media. The descriptive information is compared to a stored set of user-defined criteria. If the descriptive information contains any criterion, then the media is stored in memory, wherein the stored media is targeted to a... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20080189328 - Mobile e-learning method and apparatus based on media adapted learning objects: A method, apparatus and a system of a mobile e-learning method and apparatus based on media adapted learning objects are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes processing an e-learning course based on a set of executable files and a number of auxiliary files associated with the executable files to... Agent: Raj Abhyanker, LLP C/o Intellevate

20080189330 - Probabilistic audio networks: Systems and methods for selecting media tracks for playback from among a network of accessible media tracks involve providing a probabilistic network of accessible media tracks and a current track from among the tracks in the network. The network comprises, for each individual track, a corresponding plurality of potentially subsequent... Agent: Chernoff, Vilhauer, Mcclung & Stenzel

20080189332 - System and method for optimizing business intelligence data queries within a client-server architecture: Method and server in a business intelligence analysis system for building a response to a client request. The response includes information regarding the response in an updated server context. The updated server context is round tripped to the client and included in a subsequent request. After being received from the... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20080189337 - File managing method and data recording apparatus: A method for efficiently managing the size of a file and an apparatus for recording data constituting such a file are disclosed. The file includes a header area and a data area. The header area includes a file size indicator. The file size indicator includes first information and second information.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080189339 - Method and system for scheduling workload in databases: A method for scheduling a workload comprising a plurality of transactions relating to a database management system is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of determining a log space amount required by each transaction in the workload, estimating the total log space required for executing the workload based on the... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080189338 - Methods, systems, and products for restoring media: Methods, devices, and products are disclosed for restoring media. A user's media catalog is received and stored in a database of media catalogs. When restoration is desired, the user's media catalog is retrieved that describes an identity of a media file to be restored. The database of media catalogs is... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20080189341 - Apparatus, system, and method for initializing a synchronized remote database: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for initializing a synchronized remote database. A creation module creates a first backup table of a backup database from a schema for a primary table of a primary database. A read module reads each row from the primary table with an application server... Agent: Brian C. Kunzler Kunzler And Associates

20080189340 - Apparatus, system, and method for synchronizing a remote database: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for synchronizing a remote database. A monitor module monitors an update from a database application to a primary table of a primary database. The update is communicated through an application server. The application server is configured to manage access to the primary database... Agent: Brian C. Kunzler Kunzler And Associates

20080189342 - Method for implementing persistent file pre-allocation: A method and apparatus are provided for pre-allocating non-initialized blocks of data in a file system. Each file contains a primary i-node to maintain file metadata. A secondary i-node is created and associated with the primary i-node. The secondary i-node contains non-initialized data blocks, and the primary i-node contains valid... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20080189343 - System and method for performing distributed consistency verification of a clustered file system: A system and method for performing a distributed consistency check of a clustered file system. File system functions for loading an inode and/or buffer tree are modified so that in response to either of these functions being invoked, a consistency check is performed. The consistency check verifies both local consistency... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP