Data processing: database and file management or data structures inventions 09/08

20080235176 - Data comparator: A system that identifies commonalities and/or differences in data is disclosed. Specifically, the innovation employs hashing algorithms to identify similarities and/or differences in data from one entity by comparing a hash of the data to a hash of data of another entity. The hashing functionality maintains privacy and/or confidentiality of... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080235178 - Presence service system: A presence service system includes at least two presence servers, at least two presence databases storing therein presence information of users, each of the presence databases being associated with any one of the presence servers, and an assignment presence server which, when a request relating to presence service is transmitted... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080235175 - Secure document management system: A computer implemented method of securely accessing an electronic document storage system includes maintaining a secure data management system. A secure data management system receives a secure user login. The secure user login is transferred to an electronic document storage system via a secure transfer system.... Agent: Technology, Patents And Licensing, Inc.

20080235177 - System and method for analyzing corporate regulatory-related data: A system, computer program product and method for categorizing, storing, accessing, returning, displaying and analyzing corporate regulatory-related data is disclosed. Embodiments may include accessing corporate regulatory-related data from one or more storage mediums having plurality of corporate regulatory-related data, HTML tags and/or source documents. Also embodiments may include returning corporate... Agent: Maier & Maier, PLLC

20080235180 - Extensibility mechanism for analysis services unified dimensional model: Systems and methods that supply extensibility mechanisms for analysis services, via a plug-in component that enables additional functionalities. The plug-in component provide additional custom logic for the analysis services unified dimensional model (UDM). Accordingly, server functionalities can be extended in an agile manner, and without a requirement for a new... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080235179 - Identifying executable scenarios in response to search queries: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for identifying executable scenario solutions relevant to a user query and returning such executable scenario solutions as search results in response to the user query are provided. Upon receiving a user query, a plurality of results is returned, each result being representative of a series... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080235182 - Isolating database queries for performance processing: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for isolating database queries for performance processing. Embodiments typically include presenting to a user a prioritized list of potentially poorly performing queries; receiving from the user a selection of one or more potentially poorly performing queries; and executing performance processing of the... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20080235181 - Query expression evaluation using sample based projected selectivity: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for query expression evaluation for query optimization. Embodiments include receiving a query including a plurality of predicates; creating a truth table representing the possible solutions to the query; identifying a plurality of intersections of the truth table, the plurality of intersections including... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20080235183 - Workload aware checking of database reorganization: The present solution addresses the need to carry out reorganization of a database storage. A statistics-based reorganization check procedure is performed on at least first database tables and indexes, resulting in a preliminary reorganization recommendation. Information on workload on tables and indexes of said database storage is received. Based on... Agent: Walder Intellectual Property Law PC

20080235193 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for processing query: A plan combining unit combines a plan including all predicate nodes by increasing a size of a subplan stepwise while selecting the subplan with a low cost using an analysis graph generated by a query analyzing unit and plan combination constraint data extracted by a constraint extracting unit. The analysis... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080235185 - Communication system and method of accessing therefor: A communication system comprises a user equipment which may access a network via an access network element. Initially, the user equipment transmits a query message to a default network entry point which then contacts a home registration server for the user equipment. The home registration server determines an access network... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080235196 - Confidential content search engine: A security compliance search engine is provided for searching one or more client computing devices for items of information that meet a security criteria identifying items of information containing confidential content. Results of the search are provided to an analysis engine for determining if the items of information identified by... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080235195 - Dynamic database access via standard query language and abstraction technology: Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture that allow saved abstract queries to be referenced from within query statements constructed using standard query languages, such as Structured Query Language (SQL), are provided.... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080235184 - Image search method, image search apparatus, and recording medium having image search program code thereon: Disclosed is an image search apparatus capable of efficiently and conveniently searching a large number of images accumulated in a storage device such as HDD for an image desired by the user. This image search apparatus comprises a storage device for accumulating a plurality of images to be searched; a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080235192 - Information retrieval system and information retrieval method: An information retrieval system includes a a database which holds information items arranged in a hierarchical data structure. An information retrieval device outputs a search result from the database in response to a goodness of fit computed for each of the information items to search criteria. An input unit inputs... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080235186 - Lawful interception of search functionalities: A method, a computer program product, apparatuses and a system are shown for performing Lawful Interception of Search Functionalities, by extracting at least one search related information from a search message in a communication system, wherein the search message is based on a query programming language and is associated with... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080235190 - Method and system for intelligently retrieving and refining information: A system and method for intelligently retrieving and refining information, wherein the system includes an intelligent data refining sub-system, a refining database, a releasing and management module, a retrieving database, and intelligent retrieving sub-system. The releasing and management module comprises a releasing and synchronization module, and a data open and... Agent: Zhen Zheng Lu

20080235191 - Organizing content using a dynamic profile: A portable data storage device (1) is disclosed to be used for organizing content (10, 11, 18) available to the data storage device (1). The device comprises means (12) for setting an information source (6) for a storage profile (9), a means (3) for receiving storage profile update data (7)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080235187 - Related search queries for a webpage and their applications: An inversion of the basic format of searching is provided herein. Instead of receiving a search query and providing web page results, a search engine receives a web page identifier as search input from an end user, determines related search queries for the associated web page, and provides the related... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080235189 - System for searching for information based on personal interactions and presences and methods thereof: A method and system of searching for information on a network includes receiving a search query from a user by a search system, processing the search query by a profile engine of the search system, providing a listing of search results, including personas who know about the search query, based... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20080235197 - Systems and methods for user-constructed hierarchical interest profiles and information retrieval using same: Systems and methods for delivering Web content are provided. The systems and methods include a mechanism for providing interest data that may be applied to filter Web content at the provider side. A hierarchical data set of user-identified interests in received from the user's Web client. The hierarchical data set... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080235194 - Technique for managing data in association with tag information: To enhance the convenience of a bookmark function for web pages, a system for displaying identification information enables a user to select a file. Included is a storage section that stores identification information of each of classified files in association with tag information indicating classification of contents of that file,... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080235188 - Universal media guide: A universal media guide may be provided. A first menu may be provided configured to indicate a plurality of content programs. In response to the provided first menu, a first input may be received indicating the selection of the one of the plurality of content programs. Then, in response to... Agent: Merchant & Gould P.C.

20080235201 - Consistent weighted sampling of multisets and distributions: Techniques are provided that identify near-duplicate items in large collections of items. A list of (value, frequency) pairs is received, and a sample (value, instance) is returned. The value is chosen from the values of the first list, and the instance is a value less than frequency, in such a... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080235202 - Method and system for translation of cross-language query request and cross-language information retrieval: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for translation of a cross-language query request as well as a cross-language information retrieval method and system. The method for translation of a cross-language query request comprises: translating the cross-language query request from source language into a target language respectively with a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080235199 - Natural language query interface, systems, and methods for a database: A method for translating a natural language query into a structured query for a database is provided. The method generally includes: generating a parse tree which represents a natural language query for a database; mapping terms in the parse tree to components of a structured query language for the database;... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080235200 - System and method for identifying content: A method for processing media files includes receiving a first signature. The first signature describes a first characteristic of a first media file. The method also includes determining whether the first signature matches any of a first plurality of stored signatures and, in response to determining that the first signature... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080235198 - Translation service for a system with a content directory service: A system includes a device (MS-a) which stores media content information using a form of Content Directory Service (CDS) and querying devices (CP-a) which make queries for media content information. An entity (70) provides a translation service for querying devices (CP-a). Entity (70) translates a query (302) from the querying... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080235207 - Coarse-to-fine navigation through paginated documents retrieved by a text search engine: A method and apparatus for visualizing results from a text search engine are described. A query term is first received. A first set of results is generated based on the query term using a database storing documents, and an index of documents, each document having at least one structural element.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080235215 - Data search method, recording medium recording program, and apparatus: When a plurality of pieces of data matching the search conditions are extracted by the search step, the computer determines a priority of each piece of extracted data by reading the attachment count of the extracted data attached to E-mails by referring to the table and reflecting the attachment count... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080235205 - Database search results user interface: A system and method for retrieving and displaying search results by retrieving a user's search results from a database and providing an interface with which the user scrolls through the search results. The system and method approximate a rate at which the user scrolls through the search results based on... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080235219 - Decision making and implementation system: A system and method for generating recommendations of analyses of circumstances in business, accounting, science, medicine and other fields. An algorithm is generated using an interactive generation process based on decision tree type inquiries. The algorithm is translated into a computer language and code and loaded onto a computer, preferably... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080235212 - Evaluating real estate properties: The present invention is an improved system and method for analyzing multiple real estate properties. The system includes a pool of properties that are searched based on user-defined search criteria. The system identifies comparison properties from the search pool. The comparison properties include attributes that match or are a near... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20080235203 - Information retrieval: A method and apparatus are provided for accessing a relevant information resource in response to a user query. An ontology is provided, defining relationships between a plurality of predefined concepts, and between each of the predefined concepts and one or more predefined context phrases. On receipt of a user query,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080235209 - Method and apparatus for search result snippet analysis for query expansion and result filtering: The present invention provides a method and system that enable search result snippet analysis for query expansion and result filtering. Further, a technique for post processing search result snippets is provided to suggest topics for further search and extracting terms related to the search topic for later use.... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080235208 - Method for fast large scale data mining using logistic regression: A classifier using a logistic regression technique permits previously acquired search results to be used to perform a new search. A user inputs search terms and queries a database of previous search results. A logistical regression calculation is performed using sets of data such that the time execution performance is... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080235216 - Method of predicitng affinity between entities: In one embodiment, the invention includes a method of predicting affinity between a first entity and a second entity including associating a first plurality of characteristic tags with the first entity. The first plurality of characteristic tags are preferably associated with a first reference entity, generating a comparison matrix, and... Agent: Schox PLC

20080235220 - Methodologies and analytics tools for identifying white space opportunities in a given industry: A method for analyzing predefined subject matter in a patent database being for use with a set of target patents, each target patent related to the predefined subject matter, the method comprising: creating a feature space based on frequently occurring terms found in the set of target patents; creating a... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20080235211 - Optimization method and process using tree searching operation and non-overlapping support constraint requirements: A method and process provides a selection process designed to select optimized results from a plurality of possible results represented in a search tree. A tree search is employed, wherein bounds are used to prune at least one node or branch of the search tree. A non-overlapping support constraint in... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Parc

20080235210 - Searching related documents: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with logically expanding a document and determining the relevance of the logically expanded document to a query are described. One method embodiment includes searching an index to locate a document identifier for a document in which a query term appears. The method includes determining... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC

20080235217 - System and method for creating, verifying and integrating metadata for audio/video files: The present invention discloses a system and method for insuring the integrity and format of metadata. In the preferred embodiment, a local database is created into which metadata information can be stored. Since the database is maintained locally, it can be guaranteed to have correct and complete metadata information. Metadata... Agent: Nields & Lemack

20080235214 - System and method for event search: The present invention discloses a system that provides for online search of events using electronic devices where the system comprises, a portal page, a poster tree structure, and a search engine configured to search events using what functionality, where functionality and when functionality. Further it is disclosed a method that... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080235206 - Using scenario-related information to customize user experiences: Methods for using scenario solution-related information to generate customized user experiences are provided. Upon receiving a user query, a plurality of results is returned, each result being representative of a scenario solution which may be utilized to address a particular issue relevant to the received query. At the time of... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080235204 - Using user feedback to improve search results: The invention discloses a system and method for managing feedback data that will be used for ranking search results. The invention can aggregate a plurality of user feedback data from more than one user into a search index. The user feedback data can be associated with one or more documents... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080235213 - Utilization of copyright media in second generation web content: Content provision apparatus for suggesting media content from a media database to augment new textual content being published as a blog or the like, comprises: a text retrieval unit for retrieving new textual content over a network; a text analysis unit for analyzing the retrieved textual content; a search unit... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan Prtsi, Inc.

20080235218 - Wide-spectrum information search engine: A method and computer program product for comparing documents includes segmenting a judgment matrix into a plurality of information sub-matrices where each submatrix has a plurality of classifications and a plurality of terms relevant to each classification; evaluating a relevance of each term of the plurality of terms with respect... Agent: Dergosits & Noah LLP

20080235224 - Digital display of color and appearance and the use thereof: The present invention is directed to a method for digital displaying images of various colors and appearances of an article and the use thereof. The invention is particularly directed to a method for displaying one or more images to select one or more matching formulas to match color and appearance... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20080235225 - Method, system and computer program for discovering inventory information with dynamic selection of available providers: A solution (200) for discovering inventory information in a data processing system is proposed. For this purpose, a corresponding discovery request is submitted (A1) to an inventory tool (200); the discovery request specifies a selected query pattern for the desired inventory information (for example, all the files included in a... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080235223 - Online compliance document management system: A method for a performing a real time audit of compliance statistics is provided which includes storing a plurality of compliance items into a database, inputting a job application for an employee having a job designation and a work location, using the job designation, work location, and compliance items to... Agent: Scott L. Terrell, P.C.

20080235221 - Previews providing viewable regions for protected electronic documents: A computer system and media for generating previews for protected electronic documents are provided. The computer system provides servers that receive rules corresponding to the protected electronic documents from owners of the protected electronic documents. The rules specify quantity and quality of each interaction, by client devices, with each protected... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080235226 - Providing interaction between a first content set and a second content set in a computer system: Interaction is provided between a first content set and a second content set, both of which are loaded into a data structure. When an event associated with loading of the second content set is detected, the second content set is parsed to identify at least one sub-set of the second... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080235222 - System and method for measuring similarity of sequences with multiple attributes: A method (and structure) for quantifying an ordered sequence of data, includes receiving data of the ordered sequence and determining a skeleton of the ordered sequence. The skeleton includes a plurality of perceptually important points (PIPs) of the ordered sequence, as derived by determining one or more points of local... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080235227 - Systems and methods to extract data automatically from a composite electronic document: A system and method for automatically extracting contract data from electronic contracts includes an administrator module configured to provide templates for inputting document patterns and a list of contract data tags for each of a plurality of contract document types. A parser is configured to convert an electronic contract document... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080235228 - Efficient string sorting: A method for processing data includes reading respective initial substrings of the strings in a group, and computing respective codewords for the initial substrings. The codewords indicate differences between the substrings and point to the strings from which the substrings were respectively read. The codewords are arranged in a heap,... Agent: Stephen C. Kaufman IBM Corporation

20080235234 - Access control list (acl) binding in a data processing system: Systems for updating an access control list (ACL) associated with one or more resources in a data processing system are provided. The system provides a table including a list of one or more first ACLs that map to a corresponding one or more previously computed second ACLs. The system also... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080235231 - Computer-implemented systems and methods for database access: Computer-implemented systems and methods for providing row-level security. A system can be configured to receive a request for data that is contained in tables and to use one or more row-level security policies to augment the received request with one or more row-level security query-related clauses.... Agent: Jones Day North Point

20080235233 - Genetc profiling and banking system and method: A genetic banking system allows the ability to securely store genetic profile data while allowing access to individuals authorized to access the profile for authorized purposes.... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20080235229 - Organizing scenario-related information and controlling access thereto: Mechanisms for organizing scenario solution-related information based upon a user's locality are provided. Locality refers to a collection of metadata created based upon scenario solutions executed by a user and/or enablers acquired by a user during scenario solution execution. Such metadata may be stored in association with a scenario solution... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080235232 - System and/or method for sharing and evaluating dietary information: The present invention provides a system (10) and/or method (100,200,300) for sharing and evaluating dietary information. The system (10) enables the creation of an interactive community of diet, nutrition and/or weight conscious individuals that can interactively exchange opinions, information and results to generate objective and useful information that other members... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080235230 - Using location as a presence attribute: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for determining location of a principal. According to one embodiment, a method of providing location information for a principal can comprise receiving a presence event related to the principal. A location of the principal can be indicated by or determined based on... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080235242 - Advanced contact management in communications networks: A system provided herein permits a communications network subscriber to establish a local contact database on at least one communications device. The local contact database can communicate with a global contact database to receive contact information updates for a group of subscribers stored within the local contact database. The contact... Agent: Parks Knowlton - C001

20080235245 - Commitment of transactions in a distributed system: A computer program product and system for committing transactions in a distributed system are provided. The method, computer program product, and system provide for receiving a request from a client to commit a transaction at a coordinator node in the distributed system, tracking a tail log sequence number for every... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080235237 - Computerized scenario development and execution system: A computer based scenario development and execution system permitting a plurality of players (co-located or geographically dispersed) to execute any number of different scenarios that have been defined to the system and are available for execution. During normal use the Scenario Engine (SE) will be running, a user will log-on... Agent: Wood And Eisenberg, PLLC

20080235244 - Distributed content storing system, node device, node process program, and content data providing method: c

20080235238 - E-mail tool management shell command set: A method to execute verb-noun cmdlets to retrieve mailbox information or receive connector information from an e-mail server includes opening an e-mail management tool and receiving and parsing at least one cmdlet having a verb-noun syntax. A get-mailbox cmdlet retrieves mailbox information from an e-mail server and a get-receiveconnector cmdlet... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080235240 - Method and apparatus for application-driven storage provisioning on a unified network storage system: A configuration for a network-accessible storage device is prepared by automatically computing a configuration parameter based on a setup parameter that pertains to an application-level function of the network accessible device. Software and systems that implement or use aspects of the invention are also described and claimed.... Agent: Network Appliance/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080235235 - Page title display method: In the source of the page “A Company—the Page for Selling CDS”, the number of characters of the bookmark title information is limited to 21 characters. Thus, even if the size of the bookmark display area AR2 is not large, the client terminal 2 can display all of the bookmark... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080235239 - Pre-fetching web proxy: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for providing access to network content. Certain embodiments provide a proxy system for providing access to network content. The system includes a content retriever for retrieving a first content on a network. The content retriever is configured to pre-fetch additional... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080235241 - Print web portal: A web portal is provided for accessing information from a plurality of heterogeneous systems connected through a network, in connection with printing and other operations for forming images. The web portal includes means for registering dynamically a sequence of actions as a scenario, and applying the registered scenario of actions... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080235236 - Secure document management system: A method for providing access to electronic documents including presenting to a user a first graphical user interface containing a listing of at least one secure user account and at least one secure electronic document storage system corresponding to the user. A selection is received from the user, wherein the... Agent: Technology, Patents And Licensing, Inc.

20080235243 - System and method for expanding target inventory according to browser-login mapping: A target advertising system includes a user profile database configured to store browser-login mapping information associated with mapping of browser cookie information and login cookie information, an advertisement server configured to identify an access by a web browser and to transfer browser cookie information of the web browser to a... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080235246 - Filter sequencing based on a publish-subscribe architecture for digital signal processing: In general, the present invention allows any number of sequential filter graphs to be created based on a pub-sub architecture/model. Specifically, under the present invention, the filters (components) will publish their ideal priorities of accessing data source, an ideal input data type, and a unique alternative input data type. A... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080235249 - Hierarchy global management system and user interface: Embodiments disclosed herein provide data management systems with an ability to integrate parent-child and peer-to-peer relationships (e.g., hierarchies) in a single interface, allowing a user to parent/unparent, link/unlink, merge/unmerge, and modify trusted attributes in a single interaction using highly accurate algorithms to provide data, including hints and recommendations for the... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080235251 - Incremental validation of key and keyref constraints: The present invention relates to a method, and system for implementing the method, for performing incremental validation of an XML document with respect to XML Schema key and keyref constraints, and handling the semantics dictated by the XML Schema specification. Several operations are defined that change the content of a... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080235253 - Method and apparatus for formally checking equivalence using equivalence relationships: An equivalency testing system, for formally comparing an RTLM and HLM, is presented. RTLM and HLM are first converted into DFGs RTLMDFG and HLMDFG. RTLMDFG and HLMDFG are then put into timestep form and are called RTLMts and HLMts. A test bench CSts is selected that couples RTLMts and HLMts.... Agent: Pvf -- Synopsys, Inc C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080235254 - System and method for storing and retrieving data through an inferencing-enabled metadata system: A system and method, which registers and stores data and is responsive to queries through management of an inferencing-enabled metadata includes an intelligent database, which receives data or queries and manages data models. An ontology management system is associated with the intelligent database and receives and stores classes of information... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080235247 - System and method of adding data objects to a multimedia timeline: Systems, methods, and computer readable media to provide a multimedia timeline are disclosed. A first data object is added to a first multimedia timeline. The first multimedia timeline corresponds to a first life event. A first date reference for the first data object is received. The first data object is... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080235248 - System and method of providing a multimedia timeline: Systems, methods, and computer readable media to provide one or more multimedia timelines are disclosed. A selection of data objects to add to a multimedia timeline may be received at a computer. The data objects may be sent to a server to be included in the multimedia timeline. The multimedia... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080235252 - System for and method of searching structured documents using indexes: A structured document search system comprises an index storage unit and a search unit. The index storage unit stores indexes caused to correspond to the nodes included in the structured documents stored in a database. The indexes include node information items about the nodes to which the indexes are caused... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080235250 - Value-instance-connectivity computer-implemented database field of the invention: A computer-implemented database and method providing an efficient, ordered reduced space representation of multi-dimensional data. The data values for each attribute are stored in a manner that provides an advantage in, for example space usage and/or speed of access, such as in condensed form and/or sort order. Instances of each... Agent: Jones Day

20080235264 - method for logging of a remote control session: A method for logging of a remote control session, for use in a remote control system comprising a session initiator operable to initiate a remote control session having a session identifier between a first computer and a second computer and a generator for generating a secure data structure comprising a... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080235266 - Application server provisioning system and method based on disk image profile: An application server disk image generating apparatus and method comprising a basic disk image generating component for generating basic disk images for basic programs used by the server; an incremental disk image generating component for generating incremental disk images including heritage relationship for other respective applications based on the basic... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080235263 - Automating creation of digital test materials: A system and method for automatically creating a digital test materials to qualify and test forms processing systems, including preparing a handprint snippet database containing labeled handprint image snippets representing a unique human hand, preparing a form description file and a data content file, selecting handprint snippets from the handprint... Agent: Stephen B. Salai, Esq. Harter, Secrest & Emery LLP

20080235257 - Customizing the format of web document pages received at requesting computer controlled web terminals: In a World Wide Web (Web) communication network with user access via a plurality of computer controlled interactive receiving display terminals, there is provided an implementation for transmitting, from a Web site, the content of said requested Web document as a stream of data combined with a function at the... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080235256 - Definable application assistant: A user creates an application assistant by recording a series of steps to complete a specific task involving one or more computer applications. Additional steps that may not involve the use of a computer application may be included. For each step, annotations may be created. The series of steps and... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080235269 - Detecting granular data store changes: A system and program product for detecting granular data store changes in a computing environment. Data values stored in a first relational database are changed. Each data value is stored in a row and a column of the first relational database. Rows (i.e., changed rows) including the changed data values... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080235262 - Digital file management system with file mapping for high resolution and other images: Uploading high resolution or other digital assets includes searching a first directory in a web-enabled digital asset management system for one or more digital assets that have the same file name, but a different file extension or a different file type, as a corresponding digital asset in an external directory.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080235255 - Extensible data repository: In telecommunication networks, the need for real-time extension of data repositories is increasing. The present application provides an extensible data repository that can be used by a plurality of different applications that each has a local data format structure and database command structure. A single data repository is available to... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080235259 - Fine grained jump-points in digital metadata: A method, computer program product, and system are provided for accessing media content. A media device outputs first content that includes an indicator to an output device. The media device determines if related second content exists for the first content based on the indicator. Responsive to the existence of the... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080235261 - Generating a new file using instance information: Embodiments are provided to generate a new file and any appropriate markup for the new file. In an embodiment, the new file and the appropriate markup can be automatically generated based in part on an examination of parameters associated with a source file and an instance of the source file.... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080235267 - Method and apparatus for automatically generating a playlist by segmental feature comparison: A playlist of content items, e.g. songs, is automatically generated in which content items having features similar to features of a seed content item are selected. At least one feature of the seed content item is compared with at least one feature of each candidate content item to identify specific... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080235270 - Method and apparatus for automatically providing network services: An embodiment of the invention is directed to a method and apparatus for automatically providing network services in a way that improves upon the prior art. Systems implementing aspects of the invention can, for instance, provide developers with a mechanism for creating Web Services without having to write low-level SOAP,... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Apple Computer, Inc.

20080235258 - Method and apparatus for processing extensible markup language security messages using delta parsing technology: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for processing markup language security messages. A template corresponding to a markup language security message is identified. The markup language security message is parsed for variable values using the template. A transition sequence is generated that represents the entire markup language... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080235260 - Scalable algorithms for mapping-based xml transformation: A computer-implemented method for use with an extensible markup language (XML) document includes inputting a high-level mapping specification for a schema mapping; and generating a target XML document based on the mapping. The method may perform schema mapping-based XML transformation as a three-phase process comprising tuple extraction, XML-fragment generation, and... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20080235265 - System and method for a stenographic sharing network: A method and system provide a stenographic sharing network. The system includes a network. The system includes a server in communication with at least one user over the network, the user associated with a user role selected from the set consisting of: a court reporting agency, a court reporter, and... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080235268 - System, apparatus, method and program for processing information: Incidental content as metadata contains one of primary content and usage editing material content information. The primary content has been used directly as an editing material in a secondary usage mode fashion in order to produce the incident content data and the usage editing material content information indicates the incidental... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080235271 - Classification dictionary updating apparatus, computer program product therefor and method of updating classification dictionary: A classification dictionary updating apparatus includes an update proposal receiving unit that receives a proposal for updating a hierarchical classification dictionary which has a hierarchical structure which includes a class that defines the hierarchical structure, a property that defines a hierarchical class structure, and an attribute that is a detailed... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080235272 - System and method for managing object to relational one-to-many mapping: Instructions are generated to manipulate target objects and relationships in a relational database when a source object having a one-to-many relationship of privately owned type with the target objects is manipulated. To generate instructions, mapping meta-data is used which contains information as to how object classes of the object model... Agent: Pvf -- Oracle International Corporation C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080235273 - Automatic multi-cursor management: The present invention provides an executable program loaded in the computer memory as a process and periodically automatically polling computer's communication ports to identify pointing devices coupled to the computer via the corresponding communication ports, managing a set of views of the file-mapping objects of the corresponding conventional cursor driver... Agent: Yuly Shipilevsky Apt 1108

20080235281 - Digital file management system with unstructured job upload: Uploading digital assets from a source media directory into a web-based digital asset management system includes representing a structure of the source media directory, and the digital assets, as a XML object, and storing the XML object in a database. Based on the XML object, the source media directory structure... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080235283 - Generating audio annotations for search and retrieval: Embodiments of a computer system to determine one or more annotation items associated with an audio file are described. During operation, the computer system provides an interactive environment in which multiple users listen to the audio file within a time interval. Next, the computer system receives one or more annotation... Agent: Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080235287 - Handheld electronic device including appointment and meeting conflict notification, and associated method: A method of checking a new entry in a calendar application having a cache that includes a first subset of existing entries falling within a first date range. Also, an electronic device implementing the method. The method includes determining whether the date of the new entry falls within the first... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20080235275 - Image managing method and appartus recording medium, and program: The present invention makes it possible to search desired images more quickly and surely. A keyword searching part 121 searches keywords set to image data from a recording medium on the basis of a keyword. An imaging information searching part 122 searches imaging information set to image data from the... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080235285 - Instant messaging service with categorization of emotion icons: A method for sending messages in a data processing system (100) includes the steps of: providing a plurality of emotion images (240) each one including a digital graphic representation of an emotional state, the emotion images being partitioned into a plurality of categories, providing a plurality of category images (230)... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080235286 - Media playback system and method: A method of playing media stored on a media player (MP) is disclosed. The method includes identifying at least one media program and specifying a date and time to begin playing each media program, to provide a time-schedule playlist. The method further includes specifying a gap-response to a gap in... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rsw

20080235284 - Method and apparatus for analysing an emotional state of a user being provided with content information: The invention relates to a method of analysing an emotional state of a user being provided with content information in a consumer electronics interface. The method comprises steps of: (210) obtaining physiological data indicating the user's emotional state; (230) identifying a part of the content information related to the physiological... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080235280 - Method and apparatus for oilfield data repository: The invention relates to a method for performing operations of an oilfield having at least one wellsite, a surface network, and a process facility, each wellsite having a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation for extracting fluid from an underground reservoir therein. The method includes storing oilfield data associated with a... Agent: Osha . Liang L.L.P. / Slb

20080235279 - Method of generating and playing playback file and apparatus using the same: A method of generating and playing a playback file including a multimedia data and a player, includes steps of: (A-1) generating the playback file by sequentially storing a loader for loading the player, the multimedia data, and the player for playing the multimedia data; and (A-2) executing the player using... Agent: Duane Morris, LLPIPDepartment

20080235276 - Methods for scanning, printing, and copying multimedia thumbnails: A method, apparatus and article of manufacture for creating visualizations of documents are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an electronic visual, audio, or audiovisual content; generating a display for authoring a multimedia representation of the received electronic content; receiving user input, if any, through the generated display;... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080235282 - Personal computing apparatus and a method therein: A personal computing apparatus has a position code repository, which stores a representation of a plurality of subsets of a position code, and a code assigner, which on request assigns at least one of said subsets to a document stored in the personal computing apparatus. In this way local on-demand... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080235274 - Program table creation method, program table creation device, and program table creation system: There is disclosed a technique for automatically creating a detailed program table for playing contents according to various conditions. According to this technique, a constraint condition generation unit 103 acquires a condition (constraint condition) related to a user and describes this constraint condition through the use of a constraint condition... Agent: Louis Woo Law Office Of Louis Woo

20080235277 - System and method for temporal recall of related items in an information workspace: A system and method are described for recording events in different applications within a workspace. For example, a system according to one embodiment of the invention comprises: an action recorder module for generating event records representing actions performed by a user in a plurality of different applications over a period... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080235278 - System and method of presenting assets related to media content: In a particular embodiment, a method of presenting assets related to media content includes receiving data indicating a selection of a selectable trigger from a destination device and identifying video content associated with the selectable trigger. The method further includes providing an electronic storefront to the destination device in response... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080235288 - Data quality enrichment integration and evaluation system: Data quality enrichment integration and evaluation system that enables the import of data into a database and the turnkey integration with data enrichment entities. The data imported into the database may be validated using validation rules. Data with particular data quality problems may be sent to a particular bucket for... Agent: Sap_dlg

20080235290 - Information update system, information update method, and computer-readable medium: A system includes a first server apparatus storing information and a plurality of second server apparatuses being connected to the first server apparatus. Each of the plurality of second server apparatuses transmits an update request signal for request to update the information stored in the first server apparatus to the... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080235289 - Method and device for managing unstructured data: Methods and systems for managing unstructured data. Embodiments involve providing a portion of data within a client in the networked computing system. A profile is created that is associated with the portion of data, the profile having at least a first tag and a user identifier. The portion of data... Agent: David C. Carnes C/o Arcstone

20080235291 - Readable physical storage replica and standby database system: A standby database system or another replica data system replicates changes, made to data blocks at a source database system or another primary data copy, to replicas of the data blocks at the standby database system or other replica. While replicating the changes to the data blocks thereof, the standby... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080235292 - System and method to maintain coherence of cache contents in a multi-tier system aimed at interfacing large databases: A method and a system for maintaining coherence of cache contents in a multi-tiered architecture of servers are described. This includes a front tier of satellite servers, each operating a local cache, and a middle tier of central servers each operating a central cache. Central servers interface with databases through... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080235296 - Database management using a file to accumulate changes: Database management is described. A source data structure is copied to create a new data structure. Changes to the source data structure that occur during and after creation of the new data structure are accumulated in a file before they are added to the new data structure. Changes included in... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080235298 - Distributed database system providing data and space management methodology: A distributed database system providing data and space management methodology. In a distributed database system having an allocation page for tracking allocation and deallocation of data pages including a deallocation bit for tracking data page deallocation, a method for determining when to clear the deallocation bit during recovery comprises: during... Agent: John A. Smart

20080235295 - High availability of jca inflowed transactions: Recovery of inflowed transactions are provided by any instance in a cluster, along with peer recovery of transactions in a cluster, and administrative functionality related to these aspects. A method of managing transaction processing comprises performing transaction processing using a first process, wherein the first process logs the transaction processing... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080235293 - Method for enhanced file system directory recovery: A method is provided for directory recovery in a file system. Once a directory object problem is identified, a problem directory associated with the directory object problem is determined. A repaired directory is created to take the place of the problem directory, and the repaired directory is linked into the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20080235297 - Method for indexing a large log file, computer-readable medium for storing a program for executing the method, and system for performing the same: A system for performing a method for indexing a large log file includes a log line indexing section, a character string matching report file and a file pointer list file. The log line indexing section receives a character string by a user operation to extract a log line comprising the... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080235294 - No data loss system with reduced commit latency: Techniques for reducing commit latency in a database system having a primary database system and a standby database system that is receiving a stream of redo data items from the primary. The standby sends an acknowledgment for a received item of redo data before the standby writes the redo data... Agent: Gordon E. Nelson, Patent Attorney, PC

20080235300 - Data migration processing device: A migration target comprising one or more objects is migrated to a migration-destination file server, which is the file server specified as the migration destination, and object correspondence management information, which is information showing the corresponding relationship between respective migration-source object IDs for identifying in a migration source respective objects... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080235299 - Determining which user files to backup in a backup system: A backup program, method and system is disclosed that monitors changes to a file in a storage, checks whether backup settings related to the file already exist and requests and applies backup settings related to the file in response to the file being changed if they do not. The backup... Agent: Canady & Lortz LLP- Ibm

20080235301 - Free space management: An attribute is associated with one or more files stored on a storage medium, wherein the attribute is indicative to software utilized by a processor to access the files that the files are deletable. One or more files associated with the attribute can be deleted. Files can be deleted, for... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080235303 - Image readout system, server apparatus, image readout apparatus, and terminal apparatus: An application folder associated with a client PC and an application software of the client PC is generated in a storage section of a station PC. Scan data stored in the application folder is then moved to an application data folder of the client PC, which folder corresponds to the... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080235304 - Storage system and storage device archive control method: An archive management that allows random access. An archive managing part reads out files stored in an on-line volume at a timing determined by the respective file type, and stores these files in a specified volume among archive volumes. A retention term is designated for each set of file data,... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080235302 - Transparent allocation of a unique per user/tmp fs: The invention is directed to the transparent allocation of a unique per user /tmp file system. A method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: manipulating an operating system to provide each user with a private temporary file system; and constraining a process of the user to... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080235309 - Concurrent collection of cyclic garbage in reference counting systems: The present invention provides techniques that allow concurrent collection of cyclic garbage on reference counting systems. In general, candidate objects are found that may be part of cyclic garbage. Each candidate object has a reference count. Two tests are performed to determine if concurrent operations have affected the reference counts... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080235305 - Dense prefix generation for garbage collection: A technique for establishing a dense prefix for a memory in a computer system. Memory is divided into a plurality of chunks. An efficiency factor is generated for each chunk in one or more chunks contained in the plurality of chunks. The efficiency factor may be based on an amount... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20080235306 - Garbage collection in nonvolatile memories using data attributes, computer program products and methods of operating the same: A garbage collection apparatus of a nonvolatile memory can include a first-block management module that is configured to manage a plurality of first blocks, where each of the first blocks includes at least one respective invalid page of the nonvolatile memory. A second-block management module is configured to manage a... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080235307 - Locality with parallel hierarchical copying garbage collection: Disclosed is a garbage collection algorithm that achieves hierarchical copy order with parallel garbage collection threads. More specifically, the present invention provides a garbage collection method and system for copying objects from a from-space to a to-space. The method comprises the steps of (a) having multiple threads that simultaneously perform... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080235308 - Locality with parallel hierarchical copying garbage collection: Disclosed is a garbage collection algorithm that achieves hierarchical copy order with parallel garbage collection threads. More specifically, the present invention provides a garbage collection method and system for copying objects from a from-space to a to-space. The method comprises the steps of (a) having multiple threads that simultaneously perform... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080228691 - Concurrent extensible cuckoo hashing: Concurrent cuckoo hashing is performed on a hash table that includes a number of locations; each may hold a value. A plurality of processes may concurrently execute on the table; each process includes a sequence of operations, which are divided into a number of phases. Each phase corresponds to one... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20080228694 - Predicate selection in bit-level compositional transformations: A method for performing verification includes selecting a first set containing a seed register and adding to a second set a result of a subtraction of a fanout of the first set from a fanin of the first set. A third set is rendered equal to a result of a... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080228693 - Recycle bin function: A method for implementing a recycle bin function for a first electronic device comprising data storage for storing electronic files. The method comprises receiving an indication to delete a file stored on the first electronic device, determining a further electronic device also storing the file, storing on the first electronic... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080228692 - Service desk interface: Notification of a system incident is received at a first help desk system. In response, an incident record is generated and maintained for the system incident. The incident record includes incident data and a record identification (ID). The incident data and record ID are transmitted from the first help desk... Agent: Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman, LLP

20080228700 - Attribute combination discovery: A method and system are presented in which stored attribute combinations and statistical results that indicate the strength of association of each attribute combination with the query attribute are accessed, and attribute combinations and their strength of association with the query attribute are tabulated based on the statistical results.... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080228709 - Building database statistics across a join network using skew values: An apparatus and program product that build column statistics utilizing at least one skew value. The column statistics built using skew values, instead of column statistics built only through random sampling, may be used to more accurately reflect skew values across join networks, and thus enable a query optimizer to... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20080228710 - Building database statistics across a join network using skew values: An apparatus, program product and method that build column statistics utilizing at least one skew value. The column statistics built using skew values, instead of column statistics built only through random sampling, may be used to more accurately reflect skew values across join networks, and thus enable a query optimizer... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20080228699 - Creation of attribute combination databases: A method and system are presented in which the attributes associated with individuals having a query attribute of interest (query-attribute-positive individuals) are compared against attributes associated with individuals not having the query attribute of interest (query-attribute-negative individuals) to create to create a compilation of attribute combinations that co-occur with the... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080228701 - Destiny modification using attribute combinations: A method and system for computer based destiny modification are presented in which a set of attributes associated with an individual is compared against attribute combinations that are statistically associated with a query attribute, the query attribute representing an attribute which may desirable for the individual to have, or which... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080228706 - Determining bioattribute associations using expanded bioattribute profiles: A bioinformatics method, software, database and system are presented in which an expanded attribute profile is used to determine the strength of association between an individual and a query attribute (i.e., an attribute of interest). Primary attributes in an attribute profile of the individual are used as the basis for... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080228707 - Encoding and decoding data system and method: A system and method for encoding and decoding data. A method includes selecting a subgroup of bits from one or more bytes of binary encrypted information, wherein the binary encrypted information is for tracking, locating, and disabling an electronic device; passing the subgroup of bits to an encoding function that... Agent: Apurva M. Bhansali Softex, Inc.

20080228703 - Expanding attribute profiles: A method and system for expanding attribute profiles are presented in which primary attributes from one or more attribute profiles are used to derive secondary attributes which are added to the respective attribute profiles to generate expanded attribute profiles. The expanded attribute profiles are generated to increase the strength of... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080228704 - Expanding bioattribute profiles: A bioinformatics method, software, database and system for expanding attribute profiles are presented in which primary attributes from an attribute profile of an individual are used to derive secondary attributes that can be added to the individual's attribute profile to generate an expanded attribute profile having a higher strength of... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080228708 - Goal achievement and outcome prevention: A method, software, database and system for determining approaches for an individual to achieve a goal or prevent an undesired outcome are presented in which an attribute profile of the individual containing genetic and non-genetic attributes is compared against a database containing combinations of genetic and non-genetic attributes that are... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080228696 - Optimization of analytical effectiveness in an analyst network: Optimization of analytical effectiveness of a plurality of analysts is achieved, in part, this through the routing of information elements (i.e., discrete quantities of content suitable for analysis by one or more analysts) to selected analysts in order to maximize achievement of analysis goals defined as part of an analysis... Agent: Accenture C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20080228702 - Predisposition modification using attribute combinations: A method and system for computer based predisposition modification are presented in which the attribute profile of an individual is compared against attribute combinations that are statistically associated with a query attribute. Those attribute combinations which contain attributes that are also present in the individual's attribute profile are tabulated along... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080228705 - Predisposition modification using co-associating bioattributes: A bioinformatics method, software, database and system are presented in which attributes that modify an individual's predisposition for association with a query attribute (i.e., an attribute of interest) are identified. A predetermined set of attribute combinations that are statistically associated with the query attribute is used as the basis for... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080228695 - Techniques for analyzing and presenting information in an event-based data aggregation system: Methods and apparatus are described for presenting information relating to event-based data aggregated in an event-based data aggregation system. A dashboard interface is presented which includes report summary data for each of a plurality of reports to which a user has access. Each report corresponds to a subset of the... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080228711 - Usage-based optimization of network traffic and data warehouse size: The present invention generally provides systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for maintaining a data warehouse having a plurality of fields updated with data from one or more data sources. Rather than automatically update every field of data available in the warehouse, a limited subset of fields identified through their... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080228697 - View maintenance rules for an update pipeline of an object-relational mapping (orm) platform: A database update pipeline may be incorporated into a data access architecture for providing data services to applications, thereby bridging the gap between application data and data as persisted in databases. The update pipeline has the ability to translate changes made to object instances into data store change constructs, and... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080228715 - Apparatus and method for distributed information retrieval and processing: A distributed information retrieval and processing system (10) and process (100) is provided. The system (10) includes a client apparatus (20), an encoding server (30), and service providers (40). The client apparatus (20) originates (202) a primary request (21) and transmits (204) the primary request (21) to the encoding server... Agent: Meschkow & Gresham, P.L.C

20080228722 - Attribute prediction using attribute combinations: A method and system are presented in which statistical predictions are generated to indicate whether an individual has or will acquire an attribute designated in a query. The predictions are generated based on a first set of attributes associated with the individual and a second set of attribute combinations and... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080228730 - Compiling co-associating bioattributes using expanded bioattribute profiles: A bioinformatics method, software, database and system for compiling attribute combinations that co-associate with a query attribute (i.e., an attribute of interest) are presented in which expanded attribute profiles associated with a group of query-attribute-positive individuals and expanded attribute profiles associated with a group of query-attribute-negative individuals are accessed, and... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080228731 - Debugging system and debugging method: A debugging system includes a plurality of computers. Each of the plurality of computers includes a process data storage section; and a debug control section configured to collect process data of a process executed on the computer and to store the process data in the process data storage section of... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080228714 - Desktop, stream-based, information management system: A steam-based document storage and retrieval system accepts documents that are in diverse formats and come from diverse application, automatically creates document model objects describing these documents in a consistent format and associating time stamps with the documents to automatically create a main stream in chronological order. The stream, or... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080228732 - Document image management device and document image management method: The present invention is to improve user operability when the same operation is repeated on a document image management device. A device having a executing unit for receiving selection of processing to be executed on a file or folder from an operator, and executing the processing, which selection is received,... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080228734 - Document management method and document management apparatus using the same: A document management method includes generating a category list based on identification information of a document; and assigning at least one category in the category list to the document.... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080228728 - Geospatial search method that provides for collaboration: A computer-implemented method involving a user communicating with a search engine that is also accessible by other users, the method involving: receiving a search query from the user and causing the search query to be submitted to the search engine; on a display device operated by the computer, displaying a... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080228713 - Image formation device and image formation method: The present invention is provided with a text string/material correspondence table in which material data for creating computer graphics is associated with a set of the material names of material data, and a hierarchical structural description which describes a feature of material data in a hierarchical structure. Material data corresponding... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080228720 - Implicit name searching: Techniques and tools described herein provide mechanisms for displaying information that is contextually related to a search query. Using these techniques and tools, a user can lookup and discover a person or other entity from contextually related information. For example, if the user submits a search query on the title... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080228735 - Lifestyle optimization and behavior modification: A method, software, database and system for determining an approach to achieve a desired lifestyle, behavioral disposition, and genetic based predisposition for an individual are presented in which an attribute profile of the individual containing genetic and non-genetic attributes is compared against a database containing combinations of genetic and non-genetic... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080228733 - Method and system for determining content treatment: Metadata determines treatment of content by automated systems, including “user generated content” web sites. The metadata may be conveyed with the content or may be determined by other techniques, including systems based on digital watermarking or content fingerprinting. In some arrangements, treatment depends on the temporal length of a content... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080228717 - Multiple parameter data media search in a distributed network: Disclosed is a method and system directed to a management of distributed database data and file access and retrieval by providing multiple parameter data media search. Conventional model generate search results based upon the text entered into the search box by the user. Unfortunately, the existing conventional models have certain... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080228726 - Patent searching method and patent searching system using the same: A patent searching system includes a patent search interface, at least one patent database system and an executive program. The patent searching system has at least one set of search schedule data provided in the patent database system. The patent searching system is operated to execute the executive program to... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080228719 - People and business search result optimization: A method, apparatus, and system of people and business search result optimization are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes providing a query prompt to a user to enter a search data, referencing a request of the user of a particular listing with a database and automatically creating a profile... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080228727 - Predisposition modification: A method and system for predisposition modification are presented in which a set of attributes for selective modification of the attribute profile of an individual are determined to enable the individual to modify their predisposition for acquiring an attribute of interest. The attribute of interest can be input in the... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080228723 - Predisposition prediction using attribute combinations: A method and system are presented in which predisposition predictions are generated for an individual with respect to an attribute indicated in a query. The predictions are based on the identification of predisposing attribute combinations within the attribute profile of the individual and statistical results that indicate the strength of... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080228725 - Problem/function-oriented searching method for a patent database system: A problem/function-oriented searching method includes the steps of: arranging at least one computer system and at least one patent database system provided therein, the patent database system including a plurality of patent brief forms; operating the computer system to access a problem/function-defined search interface to select at least one first... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080228712 - Search data update method and search data update system: A search data update system includes a navigation apparatus 1 that uses search data and a data providing center 9 that provides update data to be used to update the search data to the navigation apparatus. The navigation apparatus 1 reads a search data main body constituted with search tree... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080228729 - Spatial indexing of documents: A computer-implemented method involving: gathering a set of files from one or more computers; analyzing the set of files to identify a plurality of files among the set of files that contain spatial information; storing information about the plurality of files, the stored information indicating that the identified files contain... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080228716 - System and method for accessing unstructured data using a structured database query environment: Method, system and article of manufacture for processing database queries and, more particularly, for executing queries to retrieve data from both structured and unstructured data sources. A method of retrieving data from a database and an unstructured data source includes accessing the database to retrieve a first structured result set,... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080228721 - System and method for calendar-based anomalous access detection: An access control system is augmented with the ability to categorize access requests as anomalous, by correlating the time and location of the requesting user with information provided by the requesting user's calendar entries. These entries provide the dates and times that a user is anticipated to be located in... Agent: Mark Wahl

20080228736 - System and method for creating and accessing outgoing telephone call log: Access is provided to network connection data for a user terminal. A query based on a request from a communications device to access the network connection data is received over a first network. The network connection data corresponding to the request is retrieved from a database based on the query.... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080228718 - System and method for multi-dimensional aggregation over large text corpora: Systems and methods for multidimensional aggregation. Exemplary embodiments include a method for retrieving data from an inverted list index within a computer system, wherein the index comprises annotated postings, the method including receiving a query in a system, converting the query into a query language, scanning at least one list... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20080228724 - Technical classification method for searching patents: A technical classification method for searching patents includes the steps of: entering a technical term to determine a user-defined search, and to obtain a set of patents of search results; classifying the patents according to codes of a patent classification system, so as to build a plurality of patent classification... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080228737 - Utilization of logical fields with conditional constraints in abstract queries: Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture are provided for enhancing abstract queries by utilizing logical fields with conditional constraints. Building abstract queries with logical fields configured with conditional constraints allows for optimized physical queries to be generated from corresponding abstract queries.... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080228738 - Web based open knowledge system with user-editable attributes: A method of providing an open knowledge system includes: providing, via network communications, access by users to the open knowledge system; searching the open knowledge system for informational content by comparing metadata in the open knowledge system with user-specified search data, the metadata in the open knowledge system representing particular... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20080228739 - Database query generation for project task management system for managing project schedules over a network: A client-server based project schedule management system comprises multiple editors accessible through a web browser to perform various scheduling tasks by members of a project. Client-executable code is generated by the server for the client, which is passed to the client along with schedule-related information for populating the respective editors.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080228741 - Enhanced searching using a thesaurus: A method of providing enhanced on-line computer searching capabilities comprises: (a) forming a thesaurus database including first core concept terms and a series of secondary related terms; (b) providing a user interface to said database for selection of first core concept terms by a user; (c) carrying out a search... Agent: David A. Guerra International Patent Group, LLC

20080228742 - Method and apparatus of automatic method signature adaptation for dynamic web service invocation: A method (and apparatus) for adapting an input parameter, for dynamically invoke the target Web services, and for adapting output results, the method including: receiving an invocation request including an input parameter in a first format; retrieving MetaWSDL (Meta Web Service Description Language) wherein said MetaWSDL includes a universal XML... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080228743 - System and method for multi-dimensional aggregation over large text corpora: Systems and methods for multi-dimensional aggregation. Exemplary embodiments include a method for retrieving data from an inverted list index within a computer system, wherein the index comprises annotated postings, the method including receiving a query in a system, converting the query into a query language, scanning at least one list... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20080228740 - Systems and methods for searching a network of distributed content servers: A system that provides search results for searches of a distributed network of content servers includes a server that receives search request from a given user, wherein the user provides a search parameter; a searchable database having a plurality of web-usage histories stored therein; and a search engine module in... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080228750 - \"query-log match\" relevance features: Techniques for generating features that are used to rank documents in a search results page are provided. A query is received and may be modified before being compared to queries in a query log of previously-issued queries. The comparisons may be made in a variety of ways. The comparisons may... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080228758 - Ad sponsors for mobile devices based on download size: The present invention relates to a method and system for ranking search results and is particularly, but not exclusively, suited to providing search results when the delivery of data corresponding to the search results is metered, such as when data are delivered to terminals connected to mobile networks.... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080228751 - Attribute combination discovery: A method and system are presented in which a query attribute is used as the basis for accessing stored attribute combinations and their frequencies of occurrence for query-attribute-positive individuals and query-attribute-negative individuals and tabulating, based on frequencies of occurrence, those attribute combinations that are most likely to co-occur with the... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080228749 - Automatic tagging of content based on a corpus of previously tagged and untagged content: An automated mechanism of automatically tagging media files such as podcasts, blog entries, and videos, for example, with meaningful taxonomy tags. The mechanism provides active (or automated) assistance in assigning appropriate tags to a particular piece of content (or media). Included is a system for automatic tagging of audio streams... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080228745 - Collections of linked databases: This invention is generally directed to one or more methods or systems relating to collections of linked databases. This invention is further directed to methods and systems for conducting social-network analysis. Still further, this invention is generally directed to one or more systems or methods relating to personal communication networks... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20080228746 - Collections of linked databases: In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for conducting a search of a network for information related to a topic specified by a search initiator. A query may be generated that includes search information and a first-degree contact. The first-degree contact may be an electronic... Agent: Patent Group 2n Jones Day

20080228756 - Compiling co-associating bioattributes: A bioinformatics method, software, database and system are presented in which attribute profiles of query-attribute-positive individuals and query-attribute-negative individuals are compared, and combinations of pangenetic and non-pangenetic attributes that occur at a higher frequency in the group of query-attribute-positive individuals are identified and stored to generate a compilation of bioattribute... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080228761 - Contextual data mapping, searching and retrieval: An example method is illustrated as including receiving a first content set, the first content set organized according to a rules set, using the rules set to parse the first content set to generate a first pattern set having a plurality of members, assigning a weighted value to each member... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080228753 - Determining attribute associations using expanded attribute profiles: A method and system for determining attribute associations are presented in which primary attributes in an attribute profile are used to derive secondary attributes which are added to the attribute profile to create expanded attribute profile. A statistical association between a query attribute and attribute combinations occurring in the expanded... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080228759 - Electronic bulletin board apparatus, computer-readable storage medium having an electronic bulletin board control program and electronic bulletin board control method: An electronic bulletin board apparatus and method enabling a second user to answer a question of a first user using an answer input picture, including generating guide information for guiding the second user to an answer input picture as a guide destination picture through which to respond to a first... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080228763 - Fast source file to line number table association: A mechanism is provided in a debugger for building a file information database while significantly reducing debug startup time. For each line number table, the mechanism of the present invention reads the header section and determines all the source files that contribute to the line number table. The mechanism also... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080228764 - Hypercube topology based advanced search algorithm: The present invention is a system and method of conducting an adaptive search from a plurality of data sources utilizing a hypercube topology. The system includes a search engine which utilizes a hypercube architecture having a plurality of hypercubes. Each hypercube indexes several data sources in a manner such that... Agent: Michael L. Diaz Michael L. Diaz, P.C.

20080228757 - Identifying co-associating bioattributes: A bioinformatics method, software, database and system are presented in which combinations of pangenetic and non-pangenetic attributes that are most likely to co-associate with a query attribute (i.e., an attribute of interest) are identified from a database containing attribute combinations and corresponding statistical results that indicate the strength of association... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080228760 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program: An information processing apparatus detecting a characteristic amount of a group of contents of a series configured of contents corresponding to episodes, the information processing apparatus including: a first generating means for detecting a characteristic amount in a time series of the contents corresponding to the episodes and generate a... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080228747 - Information system providing academic performance indicators by lifestyle segmentation profile and related methods: An information processing method may include providing past academic performance data for at least one student associated with at least one lifestyle segmentation profile (LSP). The past academic performance data may include academic test score data, for example. The method may further included generating an academic performance indicator for the... Agent: Stephen H. Luther Allen, Dyer, Doppeit, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A.

20080228748 - Language independent stemming: A stemming framework for combining stemming algorithms together in a multilingual environment to obtain improved stemming behavior over any individual stemming algorithm, together with a new language independent stemming algorithm based on shortest path techniques. The stemmer essentially treats the stemming problem as a simple instance of the shortest path... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080228744 - Method and a system for automatic evaluation of digital files: There is provided a method for automatic evaluation of target files, comprising the steps of building a database of reference files; for each target file, forming a training set comprising files from the database of reference files and building a test set from features of the target file; dynamically generating... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080228755 - Policy creation support method, policy creation support system, and program therefor: A policy creation support system is provided, which is capable of reducing cost for creation of an effective autonomic control policy. The policy creation support system measures information indicating performance of a monitoring target system, with regard to a monitoring item of a designated type, for each resource amount of... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080228754 - Query method involving more than one corpus of documents: A method of querying a first corpus of documents and a second corpus of documents, the method involving: accepting search criteria from a user, the search criteria including a free text entry query and a domain identifier identifying a domain; requesting a search of the first corpus of documents to... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080228762 - Systems and methods for managing data associated with computer code: Methods and arrangements to manage comment data that is associated with computer executable code are provided. Comment data associated with a line or lines of executable code can be stored, and a tag can be assigned to the comment, data or the line(s) of code. When it is desired to... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20080228752 - Technical correlation analysis method for evaluating patents: A technical correlation analysis method for evaluating patents includes the steps of: entering a technical term to determine a user-defined search, and to obtain a set of patent documents of search results; counting the number of times citing patent references in the patent documents, so as to generate a correlation... Agent: Joe Mckinney Muncy

20080228767 - Attribute method and system: A method, software, database and system for attribute partner identification and social network based attribute analysis are presented in which attribute profiles associated with individuals can be compared, attribute partners can be identified, groups of individuals can be formed, associations between individuals can be determined, and attribute based information can... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080228766 - Efficiently compiling co-associating attributes: A method, software, database and system are presented in which attribute profiles of query-attribute-positive individuals and query-attribute-negative individuals are compared, and combinations of attributes that occur at a higher frequency in the group of query-attribute-positive individuals are identified and stored to generate a compilation of attribute combinations that co-associate with... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080228765 - Genetic attribute analysis: A method and system for genetic attribute analysis are presented in which non-identical sets of genetic attributes comprising nucleotide sequence are compared to determine whether proteins encoded by those nucleotide sequences are functionally equivalent, and therefore whether genetic information contained in the sets of genetic attributes can be considered to... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080228768 - Individual identification by attribute: A method, software, database and system for attribute partner identification and social network based attribute analysis are presented in which attribute profiles associated with individuals can be compared and potential partners identified. Connections can be formed within social networks based on analysis of genetic and non-genetic data. Degrees of attribute... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080228769 - Medical entity extraction from patient data: Members of a medical entity class are extracted from patient data. A semi-supervised approach uses one or more initial medical terms such as terms from an ontology, for a given category or medical canonical entity. A larger set of medical terms is extracted from the medical information. In one example,... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080228770 - Method for performing recoverable live context migration in a stacked file system: A method, system and program are provided for selectively managing data migration in a stacked filesystem that receives a request to migrate a data file to a destination context, where the data file is divided into a plurality of sub-regions such that data stored in different sub-regions may have different... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Austin

20080228771 - Method and system for searching stored data: A complete document management system is disclosed. Accordingly, systems and methods for managing data associated with a data storage component coupled to multiple computers over a network are disclosed. Systems and methods for managing data associated with a data storage component coupled to multiple computers over a network are further... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080228773 - Apparatus and method for data input device: A client apparatus to receive scan data. The client apparatus comprises configuration files including a plurality of settings to control operations of the client apparatus, logic to receive scan data and to request web pages from a web server using the scan data and the settings in the configuration files.... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080228777 - Capture and transfer of rich media content: Disclosed herein is a method and system for transferring rich media content from a mobile device to one or more publishing websites via a network. A client application is provided on a user's mobile device. The client application downloads media control widgets on the mobile device from a host website.... Agent: Ashok Tankha

20080228774 - Collaboration system: A user terminal may be employed to generate a first message and, substantially simultaneously or thereafter, append a first plurality of metadata values to the first message, which metadata values are based on standardized metadata attributes. Subsequent messages may likewise have a second plurality of metadata values appended thereto, which... Agent: Accenture C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20080228779 - Database server capable of relocating data distributed among plural processors and relocation method: A new conversion database associated with information to be finally stored in a host information database is stored in a RAM along with a previous conversion database. Each processing unit refers to the new conversion database to identify data to be held in the host information database of the processing... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080228776 - Devices and methods for searching a network of distributed content servers: A client user device for communicating with a web of distributed content servers includes a web browser and a web-usage monitor. The web browser is configured to receive web pages of content. The web usage monitor is configured to interface with the web browser and determine web-usage information for content... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080228778 - Distributed database system and retrieval server and retrieval method for the same: A plurality of database hosts hold subscriber information in a distributed manner. A retrieval server processes inquires (host retrieval requests) on which of the database hosts has desired subscriber information stored therein. The retrieval server includes a plurality of processors, and the plurality of processors performs processing in parallel. Therefore,... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080228780 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program: An information processing apparatus comprises a plurality of control units, a shared memory, a processing number table and a start-up time table. When a transaction is received, each of the control units determines whether the current time in the shared memory coincides with the most recent start-up time in the... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080228781 - Method and apparatus for managing data center using web services: Access of data center resources is provided by the present invention using stateless and stateful Web services. For stateless Web services, the present invention provides an invoker API that allows a client to invoke a specific resource and perform an operation on the resource. For stateful Web services, the present... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080228772 - Systems and methods of prefreshening cached objects based on user's current web page: The present solution provides a variety of techniques for accelerating and optimizing network traffic, such as HTTP based network traffic. The solution described herein provides techniques in the areas of proxy caching, protocol acceleration, domain name resolution acceleration as well as compression improvements. In some cases, the present solution provides... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20080228775 - Youth communities in a geo-spatial environment: A method, apparatus and system of youth communities in a geo-spatial environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a set of user profiles above a general mapping environment, determining that one of the set of user profiles in a guardian profile through a verification technique, creating a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080228698 - Creation of attribute combination databases: A method and system are presented in which attributes of query-attribute-positive individuals and query-attribute-negative individuals are compared in order to identify combinations of attributes that have higher frequencies of occurrence for query-attribute-positive individuals than for query-attribute-negative individuals, and to create a compilation of attribute combinations that co-occur with the query... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080228782 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for creating hierarchical dictionary: A hierarchical dictionary creating apparatus includes an operation file editing unit that edits a logic operation file by adding a new class using an inter-class logic operation, the logic operation file in which the inter-class logic operation is described, the inter-class logic operation being employed in a hierarchical dictionary having... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080228783 - Data partitioning systems: This invention generally relates to methods, systems, data structures and computer program code for managing spatial data, in particular very large volumes of data such as map data for a region or country. Thus we describe a method of partitioning a database of spatial data, the database including a plurality... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20080228790 - Data storage and retrieval system: A user based computer system for information storage and retrieval in which information data items are stored in a persistent memory for later searching, retrieval and/or browsing and related in the memory by a frame system wherein the stored information includes primary information from outside the system and additional information... Agent: H. Michael Brucker

20080228784 - Double word compare and swap implemented by using triple single word compare and swap: A Lock Free and Wait Free method of the appearance of an atomic double word compare and swap (DCAS) operation on a pointer and ABA avoidance sequence number pair of words while using atomic single word compare and swap (CAS) instructions. To perform this function an area of memory is... Agent: James G. Dempsey

20080228789 - Editing structured electronic document represented by tree structure in which object to be processed in computer forms each node: A computer program for editing a structured electronic document that is represented by a tree structure, in which an object to be processed by a computer forms each node, is provided. The program causes the computer to operate as (1) means for selecting a predetermined node from the nodes, (2)... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (yor)

20080228787 - Error correction apparatus and method: A system, method and data structure for error correction for use in the transmission of content data distribution networks uses a compressed memory, for example a bitmap, to identify portions of transmitted content data files where transmission errors have occurred. The error memory, is used to generate an error status... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080228788 - Information processing apparatus, method, and recording medium: A method manages a data to which storage expiration is set, in a case where the data is returned to an original apparatus after transferring the data to another apparatus for back-up. The method includes selectively performing a first process for storing data read from a first storage unit, in... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080228786 - Media data access system and method: In a solution for accessing digital media files, in which each file is associated with a tag characterizing information in the file, a data storage stores the media files. An input interface receives commands and forwards them to a data processor. An output interface presents graphical representations of the media... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080228791 - System and method for determining client metadata using a dynamic rules engine: A system and method for determining client metadata using a dynamic rules engine is disclosed. The system may include a universal data agent, a site management tool, a targeting engine, an ad server, and a data warehouse. When a visitor visits a site on a content delivery system, the universal... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20080228792 - System and method for message processing and routing: A message routing system that allows applications at either end of the system to run as-is without modification. The system functions in a multithreaded environment and is capable of handling complex routing rules and message transformation. It is also capable of learning and executing new routing rules and message transformations... Agent: John F. Letchford Archer & Greiner, P.C.

20080228793 - System and program for append mode insertion of rows into tables in database management systems: Implementation of append mode concurrent insert operations in tables in a page-based concurrent relational database management system is carried out by defining a set of last pages as a current cache into which rows may be inserted by appenders. Append mode insert operations for each page in the current cache... Agent: Sughrue Mion PLLC Uspto Customer No With Ibm/svl

20080228785 - Systems and methods of hierarchical storage management, such as global management of storage operations: A system and method for setting global actions in a data storage system is described. In some examples, the system determines a policy based on information from the system, and implements that policy to the system. In some examples, the system adds or modifies global filters based on information from... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080228794 - Use of browser cookies to store structured data: A system and process are disclosed for encoding selected data structures in browser cookies. The data structures may contain a variety of different types of data elements, including N-bit integers and other non-character elements. A version tracking scheme provides forward and backward compatibility between client and server software. The process... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080228797 - Creation of attribute combination databases using expanded attribute profiles: A method and system for compiling attribute combinations are presented in which expanded attribute profiles associated with a group of query-attribute-positive individuals and expanded attribute profiles associated with a group of query-attribute-negative individuals are accessed, and combinations of attributes having a higher frequency of occurrence in the set of expanded... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080228798 - Method and apparatus for deep packet processing: A method and apparatus for deep packet processing including a parsing and a searching method supported by a data structure storing the state-transition rules in the state-transition rule tables of a programmable state machine for parsing. The state-transition rule table is then compressed using the BaRT compression algorithm. Each transition... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080228796 - System and method for web services packaging: A system and method for Web services packaging. In one embodiment, binding and portType templates are created from an existing WSDL file. One or more of these templates are packaged into a Web services archive file.... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080228795 - Transaction time indexing with version compression: A system and method that facilitates and effectuates transaction time indexing with version compression. The system includes an indexing component that partitions a database page containing multiple temporally related versions of a record into a historical page and a current page based at least in part on a time or... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080228801 - Context-variable data framework for hierarchical data warehousing: A method and system are provided for hierarchical data warehousing in a context-variable data framework. The method includes building a context-variable data framework. The context-variable data framework comprises 1) a data point of interest 2) one or more contextual hierarchies based on a type for the data point of interest,... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20080228800 - Determining query entities for an abstract database from a physical database table: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for determining query entities in physical tables for an abstract database. A query entity may be created to store a particular set of data. The query entity may be defined in terms of the structure of the physical database, such as an SQL statement,... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080228809 - Method and apparatus for generatng a dynamic web page: A method and apparatus are provided for generating a dynamic web page. A structured data context is generated based on the result of a business logic process performed in response to a request from a browser, and a template associated with the request is loaded. The structured data context includes... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l

20080228805 - Method for testing a system: A method for testing a system is disclosed. The technology initially accesses a database having a plurality of stand-alone pieces-of-code, wherein each piece-of-code includes a sequence of operations to be performed on a system. One or more of a plurality of stand-alone pieces-of-code within a database are selected to generate... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080228810 - Method for validating ambiguous w3c schema grammars: A method for generating XML (Extensible Markup Language) parsers, including: parsing an input document with a generated parser where the generated parser is generated by a three-stage compilation of an XML Schema, where in a first stage the XML Schema is read and modeled in terms of abstract schema components,... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080228803 - Monitoring and control of analytical effectiveness in an analyst network: Monitoring and/or controlling analytical effectiveness of a plurality of analysts in an analyst network is provided. In one embodiment, information concerning treatment of information elements (i.e., discrete quantities of content suitable for analysis by one or more analysts) within an analyst network by the plurality of analysts is provided to... Agent: Accenture C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20080228804 - Presentation of information elements in an analyst network: In an analyst network, at least representative data of information elements (i.e., discrete quantities of content suitable for analysis by one or more analysts), acquired by a routing controller, is provided to a workstation. Based on the representative data, displayed results are provided including information indicative of processing performed by... Agent: Accenture C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20080228811 - System and method for identifying computer users having files with common attributes: A system and a method for identifying computer users having files with common attributes are provided. The method includes generating a first table having a set of attributes for each file in a first set of files associated with a first computer user. The set of attributes for each file... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20080228799 - System and method for performing an inverse schema mapping: Given a target schema in which instances have been mapped from a source schema, an inverse schema mapping system generates an instance of a target relation for each of a plurality of target relations in the target schema, chases the target relation using a schema mapping to generate a plurality... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20080228802 - System and method for rebuilding indices for partitioned databases: A method comprises storing a partitioned database comprising a plurality of partitions, wherein each of the plurality of partitions comprises a respective set of data records. The method continues by storing at least one secondary index associated with each of the plurality of partitions. The method continues by taking offline... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080228806 - System and method of providing context information for client application data stored on the web: An improved system and method for supporting web system services is provided for storing data and context of client applications on the web. A client application may include a web system services interface for invoking web system services to support web applications to operate over the web using different devices... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20080228807 - System and method of storing data and context of client application on the web: An improved system and method for supporting web system services is provided for storing data and context of client applications on the web. A client application may include a web system services interface for invoking web system services to support web applications to operate over the web using different devices... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20080228808 - System for deploying data from deployment-source device to deployment-destination device: An identifier generation unit generates first identifiers corresponding to a plurality of first fragmentary data, into which first data that is stored in a database is divided. A database stores the first data and the first identifiers. The identifier generation unit generates, when the first data is updated to second... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080228812 - Method and system for metamodeling using dynamic ontology objects: A system and method for providing ontology objects for use in a metamodeling environment is disclosed herein. The method comprises (a) providing a framework for creating a metamodel, wherein the metamodel comprises one or more entities, relationships, and semantics and the framework accepts input from a user to create the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080228813 - Trusted-referral systems and methods: A system for providing trusted-referrals includes a database of member-assessments. The member-assessments are related to user-appraisals that are provided by members of a trusted network of users. The system receives a referral-request from a member of the trusted network, and a module creates a trusted-referral using at least a portion... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080228818 - Compiling co-associating bioattributes: A bioinformatics method, software, database and system are presented in which attribute profiles of query-attribute-positive individuals and query-attribute-negative individuals are compared, and combinations of pangenetic and non-pangenetic attributes that occur at a higher frequency in the group of query-attribute-positive individuals are identified and stored to generate a compilation of bioattribute... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080228817 - Content hook-up apparatus and method: The present invention relates to a content hook-up apparatus and method. In particular, the present invention relates to a content hook-up apparatus that searches and downloads various formats of content corresponding to a search list input from a user, performs format conversion on the downloaded content so as to be... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080228814 - Determining software rationalization for optimizing information handling system deployments: An asset discovery tool and process in which information from a customer's hardware and software environment is collected and the resulting customer data is processed using statistical algorithms based upon supplier specific information. After the data is processed, the asset discovery tool use the results to build reports that help... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080228820 - Efficiently compiling co-associating bioattributes: A bioinformatics method, software, database and system are presented in which attribute profiles of query-attribute-positive individuals and query-attribute-negative individuals are compared, and combinations of pangenetic and non-pangenetic attributes that occur at a higher frequency in the group of query-attribute-positive individuals are identified and stored to generate a compilation of bioattribute... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080228816 - Electronic planner for the caretakers of infants: An electronic planner for the caretakers of infants. The planner includes a central processing unit (CPU) and a digital memory connected to the CPU. A bar code reader is connected to the CPU for gathering reference numbers from bar code symbols that direct the CPU to files stored in the... Agent: Stephen R. Greiner, Esquire Greiner Law Offices, P.C.

20080228823 - Frame transfer apparatus: A frame transfer apparatus has a common storage unit having a plurality of areas. The frame transfer apparatus has a write control unit that stores a transmitted frame in an area fitting to the frame of the plurality of areas. The frame transfer apparatus has a read control unit that... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080228821 - Method and apparatus for managing a digital inventory of multimedia files stored across a dynamic distributed network: A video network includes public kiosks having digital storage capacity. Centralized inventory control manages the video files stored at individual kiosks or network LANs. A user requests a multimedia file for download, and selects various ancillary files and control features, such as languages, subtitles, control of nudity, etc. The requested... Agent: Law Office Of Ronald Shea

20080228815 - Methods and systems for managing risk: A method for managing risk associated with a construction project by a business entity using a computer system coupled to a database is provided. The method includes storing within the database information relating to at least one construction project including tasks to be performed and deadlines associated with each task,... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080228822 - System and method for country of origin compliance: A multi-faceted portal and method is provided for the pursuit, capture, maintenance and provisioning of Country of Origin data that confirms a government-contractor's compliance with at least one of the Buy Americas Act, the Trade Agreement Acts, and other trade acts as will be determined in the future. The current... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20080228826 - System and method for updating a geographic database using satellite imagery: A reporting program and system for updating a master copy of a geographic database is disclosed. According to the method and system, reports are obtained that relate to data contained in a geographic database. Satellite images of the geographic locations represented by the data in the reports are obtained. The... Agent: Navteq North America, LLC

20080228825 - System and method of organizing data to facilitate access and streaming: File formats systems and methods are disclosed that provide a framework that integrates concepts, such as objects based audio-visual representation, meta-data and object oriented programming, to achieve a flexible and generic representation of the audiovisual information and the associated methods to operate on the audiovisual information. A system and method... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080228824 - Treatment determination and impact analysis: A method, software, database and system for determining an optimal treatment for an illness in an individual and for determining the impact (e.g., side effects and intended benefits) of the treatment in the individual are presented in which an attribute profile of the individual containing genetic and non-genetic attributes is... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080228819 - Use of behavioral portraits in web site analysis: A method is provided for determining a website user behavioral portrait based on navigation on the website and dynamically reconfiguring web pages based on those portraits. In accordance with the method, data relating to the progress of a user through a website is recorded, and an ongoing behavioral portrait of... Agent: Fortkort & Houston P.C.

20080228828 - Management of collections within a data storage system: Methods of managing collections within a data storage system are disclosed. Computer readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions for performing methods of managing collections within a data storage system are also disclosed. Further, computing systems containing at least one application module, wherein the at least one application module comprises... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080228830 - Method and system for managing information: A method for managing information associated with an oilfield operation of an oilfield, the oilfield having a subterranean formation with geological structures and reservoirs therein. The method includes specifying a first site of interest, where a first data source includes data stored at the first site of interest, designating a... Agent: Osha . Liang L.L.P. / Slb

20080228831 - Method, system and program for prioritizing maintenance of database tables: There is disclosed a data processing system implemented method, a data processing system, and an article of manufacture for directing a data processing system to maintain a database table associated with an initial maintenance scheduling interval. The data processing system implemented method includes selecting a randomizing factor, and selecting a... Agent: Sughrue Mion PLLC Uspto Customer No With Ibm/svl

20080228829 - Partitioning fact tables in an analytics system: An analytics system can obtain analytics data. The analytics system can automatically partition data based on months or another time period, into fact tables. A scrolling window system can combine multiple eligible fact tables into a single view. A reporting engine can then use the single view.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080228827 - Safe processing of on-demand delete requests: Methods and apparatus for safe processing of on-demand delete requests are disclosed. An item is stored in a storage entity that is associated with a trusted secure device. A delete request to delete the item is received at the trusted secure device. However, the trusted secure device does not yet... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20080228832 - Interfaces for high availability systems and log shipping: Architecture for replicating a database through log shipping. A replication service replicates data using one or more new internal application program interfaces (APIs), a replay configuration API which abstracts configuration information for each destination (or target) instance. APIs for log file management as part of the replication process are provided... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080228839 - Apparatus for highly available transaction recovery for transaction processing systems: A highly available transaction recovery service migration system in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention implements a server=s Transaction Recovery Service (TRS) as a migratable service. In one embodiment of the present invention, the TRS is a server instance or software module implemented in JAVA. The TRS migrates... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080228834 - Delaying database writes for database consistency: A continuous set of committed transactions can be lost without destroying the integrity of the database, by deferring the writing of the database pages stored in cache to the database on stable storage. A waypoint tracks a point in the transaction log following which transactions have not been applied to... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080228838 - 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

20080228836 - Network flow for constrained replica placement: A deterministic technique is used for assigning locations to object replicas in a data center, while taking the various constraints into account that guarantee high availability and fast recovery. Example constraints include not putting the replicas on the same machine and not on the same rack, in case the rack... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080228835 - Shared disk clones: Embodiments of the invention generally relate to data processing systems and more particularly to high availability data processing systems. A primary server may share a storage device with one or more clone systems. Each clone generally replicates the state of the primary server, but relies on the same disk-based storage... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ibm Svl

20080228833 - System and method for managing consistency among volumes based on application information: In accordance with new technique, a computerized data recovery system includes a storage subsystem and a backup server operatively coupled to backup storage medium, the storage subsystem including a continuous data protection system. The backup server executes a recovery manager which: collects consistency points from at least two database applications... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080228837 - System and method of restoring data and context of client applications stored on the web: An improved system and method for supporting web system services is provided for storing data and context of client applications on the web. A client application may include a web system services interface for invoking web system services to support web applications to operate over the web using different devices... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20080228840 - Data updating method and data processing system: A data updating method includes the steps of updating data in a first information processing apparatus by the first information processing apparatus, acquiring apparatus information of a second information processing apparatus by the first information processing apparatus when the data is updated, comparing apparatus information of the first information processing... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080228841 - Information processing system, data storage allocation method, and management apparatus: An information processing system includes: information processing apparatuses, each replicating data sent from a host computer according to redundancy designated by the host computer and creating copy data; a first storage system having volume(s) for storing the data and the copy data; and a management apparatus for managing the information... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080228842 - System, method and apparatus for creating, viewing, tagging and acting on a collection of multimedia files: A multimedia archive system is disclosed along with a system, method and apparatus allowing a user to review multiple multimedia files quickly, tagging and acting on their contents as well as a means of providing feedback thereon.... Agent: Ungaretti & Harris LLP Intellectual Property Group - Patents

20080228843 - Filesystem having a filename cache: A system comprising a processor, a data storage device that is accessible by the processor, and filesystem software that is executable by the processor to organize files on the data storage device are provided. The filesystem software is executable to maintain a filename cache having variable size filename entries. The... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080222078 - Architecture for performing file system checking on an active file system: A system and method for performing File System checKing (FSCK) allows a file system to be accessed while the file system is being checked for consistency in the background. In the event that a file is accessed prior to having been checked for consistency by the background FSCK process, the... Agent: Emc Corporation Office Of The General Counsel

20080222075 - Autonomic retention classes: The embodiments of the invention provide methods, computer program products, etc. for autonomic retention classes when retaining data within storage devices. More specifically, a method of determining whether to retain data within at least one storage device begins by storing data items in at least one storage device. Furthermore, the... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, Llc

20080222085 - Communication profiles for integrated database messaging system: Systems, methods and media for providing communication profiles for an integrated database messaging system are disclosed. Embodiments of the method may include receiving from a user of the database messaging system a request for one or more profiles and determining one or more profiles associated based on the attributes of... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson Pllc

20080222084 - Displaying text of video in browsers on a frame by frame basis: A method, system, and computer program product for presenting text from multimedia data to a user is provided. In one embodiment, multimedia data containing associated text data is received by a data processing system. The associated text data is extracted from the multimedia data. The associated text data is then... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080222076 - Enabling instant productivity functionality on information handling systems: A method for enabling instant on access of productivity content on an information handling system. The method includes providing the information handling system with a first operating system partition and a second operating system partition wherein the first operating system partition is a main operating system partition and the second... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP

20080222079 - Enterprise data as office content: Techniques for enterprise data as office content are described. An apparatus may comprise a client device having an application program, an insertion component and an update component. The insertion component may be arranged to insert source data elements from a data source into a document for the application program. The... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080222080 - Inferred index of circular tables in a database: A database system uses indexes to improve performance. The system can use one or more of the following: differentiated subfields for index clustering; set function calculations to reduce the amount of I/O; and/or using an inferred index in a circular table.... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080222082 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program: An information processing device, an information processing method, and an information processing program capable of reducing the workload of a developer and human errors and easily customizing a display menu are disclosed. The method includes the steps of reading the display menu data stored in an HDD based on an... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080222086 - Live profile: Systems and methods for reconstructing the state of a market are provided. Orders are arranged as a non-indexed collection of orders and may be stored in the cache memory of a processor. The physical locations of orders stored in the memory may correspond to the order in which they were... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd., Attorneys For Client No. 006119

20080222081 - System and method for identification of displays: A data structure (100) for formatting and storing properties of a visual display (210) is disclosed. The data structure (100) comprises a plurality of fields that include information relating to stable properties of a visual display (105, 110). The data structure (100) also includes at least one field that includes... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20080222077 - System for document digitization: A system for digitizing a set of documents, the documents belonging to a domain. The system includes an input module for providing documents in electronic form, a digitization module for digitizing the documents provided by the input module, an image repository and digitization database system, the image repository and digitization... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.c.

20080222083 - System for generating permalink of mash-up map: A system and method for generating a unique link (i.e., map permalink) of mash-up map data including various information are provided. The system receives a request for generation of the map permalink of specific mash-up map data, and generates a map URL including map information in response to the request... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080222088 - Apparatus and methods for generating an implicit vote for a media item based on user behavior relative to a media client: A method of generating an implicit vote for a media item based on user behavior may comprise recording information identifying a first set of user inputs to a media client associated with playing of a first media item, receiving and storing an explicit vote for the first media item, and... Agent: Prass & Irving LLP

20080222093 - Automatically and adaptively determining execution plans for queries with parameter markers: A method and system for automatically and adaptively determining query execution plans for parametric queries. A first classifier trained by an initial set of training points is generated. A query workload and/or database statistics are dynamically updated. A new set of training points is collected off-line. Using the new set... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080222092 - Automatically determining optimization frequencies of queries with parameter markers: A method and system for automatically determining optimization frequencies of queries having one or more parameter markers. Execution plans for a query are generated and each plan is associated with one or more bind value sets. An optimization frequency is selected based on differences between pairs of execution costs where... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080222090 - Load estimating system and computer load estimating method: A load estimating system which estimates a load of a database, includes a storage unit, a record number calculating module, and an access number calculating module. The storage unit includes structure information defining a structure of a table in said database, first distribution information indicating probability distribution of condition variables... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080222091 - Retrieving documents transitively linked to an initial document: A method for creating a distinguishing identifier of a collection of data including a primary document and one or more auxiliary documents digests each auxiliary document to create a respective auxiliary document digest, and creates a distinguishing identifier by digesting a concatenation of the primary document with all auxiliary document... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080222089 - Set function calculation in a database: A database system uses indexes to improve performance. The system can use one or more of the following: differentiated subfields for index clustering; set function calculations to reduce the amount of I/O; and/or using an inferred index in a circular table.... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080222087 - System and method for optimizing query access to a database comprising hierarchically-organized data: An cost based optimizer optimizes access to at least a portion of hierarchically-organized documents, such as those formatted using eXtensible Markup Language (XML), by estimating a number of results produced by the access of the hierarchically-organized documents. Estimating the number of results comprises computing the cardinality of each operator executing... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080222101 - Apparatus and method for handling a let binding: An apparatus and method are disclosed for handling a LET binding used in a WHERE clause of an XQuery FLWOR expression during an XML pivot join procedure. The disclosed apparatus and method enable an XML pivot join procedure to accurately process a query and return one or more qualifying document.... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080222094 - Apparatus and method for searching for multiple inexact matching of genetic data or information: A computer implemented method of searching genetic data or information for a plurality of query sequences in a set of target sequence fragments, allowing for mismatches at up to n sequence positions, including dividing each query sequence of the plurality of query sequences into n+1 query sequence segments and dividing... Agent: Klauber & Jackson

20080222097 - Apparatus, system, and method for an inline display of related blog postings: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for an inline display of related blog postings. The apparatus, system, and method include searching a first blog for material common to the first blog and to a second blog and adding a link to the common material in the second blog. The... Agent: Brian C. Kunzler Kunzler And Associates

20080222104 - Clustered index with differentiated subfields: A database system uses indexes to improve performance. The system can use one or more of the following: differentiated subfields for index clustering; set function calculations to reduce the amount of I/O; and/or using an inferred index in a circular table.... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080222099 - Concordance searching systems and methods: Embodiments herein include a method of performing a computerized search of the electronic document based on a multi-term inclusive query supplied by the user. The process checks each search term match to determine if other terms in the query are in close enough proximity to allow the search term match... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb I.p. Law Firm, Llc

20080222118 - Contact query data system and method: A processor-implemented method of operating a mobile communication device operable to execute one or more communication applications includes issuing a query for contact data over a communication network, creating a contact resolution object, receiving contact data responsive to the query over the communication network, the contact data comprising communication contact... Agent: David B. Cochran, Esq. Jones Day

20080222111 - Database system with dynamic database caching: A fully transactional mid-tier database system services database transactions. A cache manager dynamically loads database entries from a fully transactional backend-tier database system into the mid-tier database system according to the received database transactions. Time based aging or usage based aging can be assigned to selected tables in the mid-tier... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080222110 - Design method and recording medium: A method executed by a computer includes searching a design subject having similar attribute information from attribute information on a design subject designed in the past and histories of descriptions of improvements based on input information on a design subject;, obtaining a description of an improvement on the searched design... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080222095 - Document management system: A document management system includes an image input unit that inputs a document as an electronic image; a character extraction unit that extracts character information from the input electronic image; a word extraction unit that extracts words from the character information; a document search unit that normalizes the extracted words,... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080222096 - Dynamic computation of identity-based attributes: Enterprise Identity Management systems control access to information derived from identity-related data stored in various data repositories. An identity-based management system can automatically and dynamically compute derived data when the source data changes. Rule-base tools can be used to compute derived data from arbitrary attribute-based datasets. Dynamic computation of identity-based... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080222114 - Efficient directed acyclic graph representation: An efficient representation of a changing directed acyclic graph (DAG) in a computer system. A representation of all the paths in the DAG are stored in memory and kept synchronized with the representation of the DAG which may change over time. This allows some important queries to be performed very... Agent: Simon Kahn - Pyi Tech, Ltd. C/o Landonip, Inc

20080222117 - Efficient multifaceted search in information retrieval systems: A method and system for querying multifaceted information. An inverted index is constructed to include unique indexed tokens associated with posting lists of one or more documents. An indexed token is either a facet token included in a document as an annotation or a path prefix of the facet token.... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080222105 - Entity recommendation system using restricted information tagged to selected entities: An entity recommendation system for providing a search result in response to a search request of a user communicated over a communications network. The system comprises a storage for storing a plurality of profiles for a corresponding plurality of registered entities of different entity types, such that the plurality of... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.c.

20080222113 - Image search method, apparatus, and program: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method for searching image data representing an image from a database by using a query image, the image data including information indicative of a shape of a contour of the image, comprising: obtaining a query image data representing the query image; extracting... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080222100 - Internet forum management method: A method of automatically managing an Internet forum is disclosed. Metatags are created from user searches. When a user enters text and searches for a particular topic a list of content or topics containing the text or relevant to the text are presented to the user. If the search text... Agent: Sinorica, Llc

20080222116 - Longest prefix match (lpm) algorithm implementation for a network processor: Novel data structures, methods and apparatus for finding the longest prefix match search when searching tables with variable length patterns or prefixes. To find the exact match or the best matching prefix, patterns have to be compared a bit at a time until the exact or first match is found.... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080222106 - Media content search results ranked by popularity: Media content search results ranked by popularity is described. In embodiment(s), a search request for television media content can be initiated by a viewer, and television media content that is relevant to the search request can be identified. The relevant television media content can then be ranked based on a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080222108 - Method and system for collaborative searching: A system and method for leveraging a collaborative document or information management system for improving searches for multiple users are provided, referred to as a collaborative search system. A search may be based on keywords within a document or supplemental information, such as data classification tags associated with the document.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080222112 - Method and system for document searching and generating to do list: A method and system for assigning a document review lists to users based on a search query. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a search query; generating a first list of documents based on the search query; distributing the first list of documents into N document lists; assigning each... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv) Ip Docketing

20080222107 - Method for multiplexing search result transmission in a multi-tier architecture: A method for querying a database comprises receiving a query from a client, querying a plurality of databases, receiving replies from the databases, relaying the replies from the databases to the client as they are received from the databases. A system for querying a database comprises a client, a plurality... Agent: Zilka-kotab, Pc

20080222102 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing a customizable safety management center: An apparatus for providing a safety management center includes a communication element, a memory device, a reporting element and a planning element. The communication element is configured to receive safety related event data via an event record that is customizable at a plurality of levels within an organization. The memory... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080222098 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing consolidated order information: Exemplary embodiments relate to methods, systems, and computer program products for providing consolidated order information. Methods include receiving one or more order numbers corresponding to customer orders for network provider services. Information corresponding to the orders numbers are retrieved from a plurality of sources including order summary data, order detail... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Bellsouth

20080222115 - Software system and interface for database searching: A flexible user interface allows a user to build a search request using common English vernacular so that the user does not need to know or understand database wildcards and other operators—which can vary from software to software. Once the user has built his search request, the computer search software... Agent: Law Office Of Polly L. Oliver

20080222103 - System, and method for interactive browsing: The present invention provides a system and method for achieving interactive browsing. Said system is coupled to a knowledge base and a document database, said knowledge base stores a plurality of terms and information relating to each term, and said document database stores a plurality of documents. Said system comprises... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080222109 - Time-series pattern finding apparatus, method and program: A time-series pattern finding apparatus, includes decomposing unit decomposing a condition, which indicates a condition of time-series relationship between first elements each defined as including first events each including an attribute and an attribute value of the attribute, into a partial condition, determining unit determining whether the partial condition holds... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080222124 - Abstractly mapped physical data fields: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for managing access to an abstract database are provided. The abstract database may include a data abstraction model comprising a plurality of logical field definitions, each of the definitions comprising a logical field name, and an access method maps the logical field to... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080222125 - Analyzing a query log for use in managing category-specific electronic content: Providing category-specific electronic content includes receiving a request for electronic content. The request has an attribute. The attribute of the received request is compared to an attribute related to a query included in a log of search queries. An indication of a category that represents a search query from a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.c.

20080222119 - Detecting a user's location, local intent and travel intent from search queries: A search query history for a user is analyzed to determine a home location of the user. Subsequent search queries are analyzed to discern whether the search query contains local intent, meaning that the search query requests information having an area of geographic relevance. In cases where a search query... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080222122 - Information search apparatus, information search method thereof, and recording medium: An information search apparatus for searching an internal information resource within an apparatus and an external information resource connected via a network includes a search unit searching the internal information resource and the external information resource at the same time or in series based on an inputted search condition, and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080222123 - Method and system for cleansing sequence-based data at query time: A method and system for cleansing anomalies from sequence-based data at query time. Sequence-based data such as RFID data is loaded into a database. One or more cleansing rules are received at a cleansing rules engine. The cleansing rule engine converts the cleansing rule(s) to a template that includes logic... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080222120 - System and method for video recommendation based on video frame features: Video recommendations are generated based on video features such as motion vectors, color saturation, and scene changes.... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080222121 - System for adaptively querying a data storage repository: An input processor receives a plurality of different first query messages in a corresponding plurality of different formats. A repository includes stored data elements in a first storage data structure. An intermediary processor automatically: parses the plurality of first query messages to identify requested data elements; maps the identified requested... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080222140 - Comparative web search system and method: A system and method for a comparative web search engines, search result summarization, web snippet processing, comparison analysis, information visualization, meta-clustering, and quantitative evaluation of web snippet quality are disclosed. The present invention extends the capabilities of web searching and informational retrieval by providing a succinct comparative summary of search... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20080222128 - Content data retrieval apparatus: The content data retrieval apparatus of the present invention includes: an impression value database which stores attribute values; a conversion table in which an impression value is associated with a search word range that is a range of the attribute values associated with a search word; a range modification unit... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.l.p.

20080222142 - Context based data searching: Systems, methods, and software are provided for facilitating data searching over a network. For example, in one implementation, a first component may be adapted to communicate with a user via a user device over the network. A second component may be adapted to receive a search request from the user... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080222137 - Information analyzing device, and computer readable recording medium: For information about a plurality of objects with respect to which directed relation and relation weight are set, a virtual bidirectional relation is set between objects in a pair, and a weight for the virtual relation is set different from that of the predetermined relation. Then, a process to produce... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, Plc

20080222126 - Information processing device, information processing method, and computer program: An information processing apparatus and an information processing method are provided to carry out an efficient content transfer process. When the contents stored in and managed by the information processing apparatus are to be transferred to an external device, a check-out log is acquired from the external device as information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080222129 - Inheritance of attribute values in relational database queries: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for processing a database query that allows data values for attributes of a child database record to be inherited from an associated parent record. A hierarchical query function may automatically determine the inheritance of attribute values in queries of hierarchical data. In the case... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080222130 - Link optimization: In an embodiment of the present invention, keywords may be dynamically optimized. This may include techniques for reducing the number of keywords assigned to a particular web page (and selecting which keywords to eliminate). This may also include techniques for reordering keywords, introducing new keywords, and/or changing the attributes of... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20080222138 - Method and apparatus for constructing a link structure between documents: A method and computer system for constructing a link structure for T documents. An initial link structure G0 between the T documents is generated. For each document d of D documents of the T documents, a loop of no more than M iterations is performed. In each iteration: a search... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080222139 - Method and apparatus for providing instant-review of multimedia material: A method for organizing data in a multimedia presentation (100) providing for an instant summary review is disclosed. Further disclosed is a method and apparatus for presenting summary information (102, 104) up to a current scene in a multimedia presentation (100). The method of presenting summary information comprises the steps... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080222143 - Method and system for displaying links to search results with corresponding images: Methods and systems for displaying search engine results where the file links are displayed with corresponding images of things that fall within a given category are disclosed. Object detection software can be used with a search engine to provide search results to a user that contain specific images found within... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080222141 - Method and system for document searching: A method and system for comparing search results is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a search query; searching a plurality of documents using the search query to generate a first query result; storing the first query result; searching a plurality of documents using the search query to... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv) Ip Docketing

20080222131 - Methods and systems for unobtrusive search relevance feedback: Methods and systems for receiving feedback from a user regarding the relevance of search results to a search query are provided. The method includes presenting at least one search result responsive to a search query by the user, selecting ones of the at least one search result that are determined... Agent: John S. Beulick (24691) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080222132 - Personalized shopping recommendation based on search units: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating recommendations in response to one or more users based on user search queries. The method of the present invention comprises generating a recommendation model based on aggregate activity generated though use of a network resource. A user profile is... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080222144 - Search engine refinement method and system: Methods for displaying Web search engine results are disclosed. A method for refining search results based on selecting icons indicating which links or keywords are appropriate or not appropriate for the desired results is disclosed. A method for refining search results based on a telephone reverse-lookup of an incoming call... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080222135 - Spam score propagation for web spam detection: A SPAM detection system is provided. The system includes a graph clustering component to analyze web data. A link analysis component can be associated with the graph clustering component to facilitate SPAM detection in accordance with the web data.... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080222146 - System and method for creation, representation, and delivery of document corpus entity co-occurrence information: To respond to queries that relate to co-occurring entities on the Web, a compact sparse matrix representing entity co-occurrences is generated and then accessed to satisfy queries. The sparse matrix has groups of sub-rows, with each group corresponding to an entity in a document corpus. The groups are sorted from... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080222134 - System and method of processing database queries: Systems and methods of processing database search queries are provided. A method of processing database search queries includes receiving a database query from a query source. The method also includes determining location information associated with the query source based at least partially on an Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080222133 - System that automatically identifies key words & key texts from a source document, such as a job description, and apply both (key words & text) as context in the automatic matching with another document, such as a resume, to produce a numericall: The present invention relates to a data processing system that automatically identifies key words & key texts from a source document, such as a job description, and apply both (key words & text) as context in the automatic matching with another document, such as a resume, to produce a numerically... Agent: Furr Law Firm

20080222127 - Systems and methods for management of contact information: Systems and methods for the management of contact information, which may include automatic transfer processes (102,103), automatic update processes, automatic customization processes, automatic delivery processes (1061,1062,1063), automatic storage processes (101), automatic portability processes (106), and/or automatic radial mining processes.... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20080222136 - Technique for compressing columns of data: An approach for providing compression of a database table that uses a compiled table algorithm (CTA) that provides leverage. Data within any given column in adjacent rows is often the same as or closely related to its neighbors. Rather than storing data in each column of each row as a... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.c.

20080222145 - Visual method and apparatus for enhancing search result navigation: A visual method for enhancing search result navigation, comprising: obtaining a first search result from a search engine; clustering the first search result to get clustering information; calculating the correlations between the clustering information and the ranked list of the first search result, and performing visualization processing on the clustering... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, Llc

20080222147 - Workflow system matrix organization search engine: A rule-based search engine is used in conjunction with an automated network-based workflow system (which in turn is interfaced with an organizational database) to efficiently determine service routing requests from users/clients. The search engine employs search techniques adapted for use with multi-dimensional tree structures that define the matrix organizational model.... Agent: Hoffman Warnick Llc

20080222149 - Collation regression testing: A method, data processing system, and computer usable code are provided for collation regression testing. Collation elements are extracted from a locale seed file into an element list. A sorted list is generated from the element list both in a released product and an updated product that is being validated.... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080222148 - Lexicographical ordering of real numbers: A computer implemented method of representing real numbers of positive and negative sign as a character string such that the a lexicographical ordering of the character string matches the numeric ordering of the real numbers. In the method, a real number is expressed as at least one whole number followed... Agent: Simon Kahn - Pyi Tech, Ltd. C/o Landonip, Inc

20080222151 - Information handling system employing unified management bus: An information handling system includes a host including a central processing unit, a first management controller (MC) enabled to communicate with the host, and a network interface resource (NIR) in communication with the host and operable to enable the information handling system to communicate via an external network. The NIR... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20080222150 - Optimizations for a background database consistency check: Two features allow for increased performance in running database consistency checks. First, a database consistency check runs directly on a database, as opposed to running on a saved database snapshot. This saves memory since there is no need to save a database snapshot. To handle any pages modified since a... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080222152 - System and method for performing file system checks on an active file system: A system and method for performing File System checKing (FSCK) allows a file system to be accessed while the file system is being checked for consistency in the background. In the event that a file is accessed prior to having been checked for consistency by the background FSCK process, the... Agent: Emc Corporation Office Of The General Counsel

20080222153 - Administrator level access to backend stores: An API called AdminRPC written in managed code allows background applications written in managed code to access backend data stores. Functions within this API provide administrator level access to a mailbox or a public folder on a backend server.... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080222163 - Automatic data consolidation: The present invention discloses a method, request detector, inference engine, and system for consolidating data from distributed databases into a central database. The method comprises the steps of receiving access information comprising request information to the distributed databases, analyzing the received access information, and aggregating into the central database the... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, Llc

20080222159 - Database system with active standby and nodes: A system includes an active node and a standby node and zero or more replica nodes. Each of the nodes includes a database system, such as an in-memory database system. Client updates applied to the active node are written through to the standby node, and the standby node writes the... Agent: Stolowitz Ford Cowger LLP

20080222154 - Decentralized adaptive management of distributed resource replicas in a peer-to-peer network based on qos: Methods and systems are provided relating to a decentralized algorithm for managing replicas of a resource in a peer-to-peer network to satisfy quality of service requirements. Individual nodes within the network storing a resource replica continually monitor the node performance against quality of service (QoS) parameters and when necessary, take... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080222161 - Distributed directory deployment: Each LDIF entry of a directory tree is read, split to a domain of LDIF fragments (corresponding to backend servers) and written to each LDIF fragment. The split may be accomplished through a hash function, establishing, for that iteration of LDIF entry, a write file. The LDIF entry is appended... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080222157 - Information providing method and information providing system: An information-requesting terminal includes a transmission control unit that controls a transmission of an information acquisition request including an address of a requested Web page before collection and generation information or management information with which the generation information can be identified to a Web archive server. The Web archive server... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080222155 - Method and apparatus for partial publication and inventory maintenance of media objects in a region: Methods, apparatuses, and articles for regional and enterprise servers in a media object partial publication and inventory maintenance system are described herein. In various embodiments, a regional server may repeatedly request and receive, from an enterprise server, media objects of a collection of media objects based on actual and/or perceived... Agent: Olympic Patent Works Pllc

20080222164 - Method and apparatus to provide guaranteed deployment of applications to nodes in an enterprise: A method, system and computer program product for updating distributed applications in a multiple application-server environment, in which at least one server receives updates later than another server and update delivery is tracked by an update tracker in the form of a message history, is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment,... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080222160 - Method and system for providing a program for execution without requiring installation: In a method and system for performing a task for a software application that facilitates implementation of the software application with minimized installation requirements, in response to a request by the software application for a local system file of an operating system used for execution of the software application, a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080222158 - Method of reconfiguring nas under gns: Provided is a file management method for a computer system having: one first server; a plurality of second servers; and a plurality of storage subsystems, the file management method including: providing, by the second server, as at least one file, data stored in the storage subsystem; executing, by the second... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080222156 - Personalizing handheld electronic book readers: Tools and techniques are described herein for personalizing handheld electronic book readers. The tools provide methods that include receiving an indication of a customer transaction involving an electronic book reader device. The methods may also receive an identifier associated with the customer, obtain personalization information associated with the identifier, and... Agent: Lee & Hayes, Pllc

20080222162 - System for managing program applications storable in a mobile terminal: Management server 16 may obtain application programs from content server 20 in response to requests of mobile terminal 11. Management server 16 may transmit the obtained application programs to mobile terminal 11 with information concerning reliabilities of the application programs. After mobile terminal 11 receives the application programs from management... Agent: Indianapolis Office 27879 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080222170 - Computer system architecture for automatic context associations: A computer system models human memory by deriving associations between objects, events, and the context of the computer user or users. These associations can be dynamically generated, changing depending on the behavior of the user and context. Examples of areas in which this system can be used include time management... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080222166 - Data and file management system: A data or file management system, communicating with a database directly or via a network interface, using a tree structured interface with simultaneous navigation within a tree branched map and display of content in a first, map, and second, content, window, respectively. Filter or sorting functions may be applied between... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080222169 - Image processing apparatus, data delivery method and data delivery program: An image processing apparatus comprises: a personal storage area provided for a user; a group storage area shared with a plurality of users who are members of a group; an identifier that identifies from one consolidated data that is made from user's data created for one or more than one... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney Pc

20080222172 - Method and device for authoring a digital videodisc; programme, recording medium and instantiating module for said method:

20080222168 - Method and system for hierarchical document management in a document review system: A method and machine-readable medium for reviewing documents are described. A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving a plurality of documents; for each document in the plurality of documents: determining if the document is attached to a parent document; if the document is not attached to a parent document, creating a root... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv) Ip Docketing

20080222173 - Recording method, recording apparatus, and record medium: The present invention is a recording method for recording, data to a disc shaped record medium 10 corresponding to a hierarchical file system, the method comprising the steps of recording management information for managing a hierarchical structure of the file system to a particular area 16 of the disc shaped... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080222176 - Streaming xpath algorithm for xpath expressions with predicates: A method and system for evaluating a path query are disclosed. The path query corresponds to a query tree including a plurality of query nodes. At least one query node corresponds to at least one predicate and is at a level. The predicate(s) are evaluated for previous query node(s). The... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080222167 - Submission system and method: A submission data system is used by various organizations each to receive, process, and use information originating outside of the organization. The submission system includes a submission center and various stations communicatively linked thereto. The stations are used by administrators, submitters, and post-submission users to communicate with the submission center.... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080222174 - System and method for distributed communication control within an enterprise: Systems and methods for providing distributed call control are provided. In exemplary embodiments, a communication user interface is provided on a client device associated with an individual. The communication user interface comprises a plurality of selectable communication control operations configured to provide control over communications of users within an enterprise.... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080222171 - System for defining data mappings between data structures: Computer system and program for defining data mappings between data elements in a first data structure and data elements in a second data structure are provided. The computer system executes instructions for selecting a first data element in the first data structure for mapping, suggesting a first possible data mapping... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080222175 - Use of agents and control documents to update a database structure: A method and system for updating a database structure. The database structure includes a dynamically changing list of control documents. A control document specifies tasks to be performed on the database structure. An agent finds an approved control document on the list such as by looking into a view of... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080222165 - Method and system for providing universal remote control of computing devices: A universal console (UC) platform for a UC device is provided. The user sets up or initializes the UC by describing his or her preferences and disabilities. The UC digests and stores this user information. Later, as the user encounters various devices and applications to be controlled, and indicates a... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080222179 - Apparatus and method for sharing and reuse of structured knowledge artifacts: In areas that require repetitive data collection and entry, an efficient way to reuse data that is already available in the system is proposed. This technique involves the reuse of data artifact fields, validation and categorization of data artifacts, and computerized filling in of “inheritable” data into reports such as... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, Llc - (boeing)

20080222178 - Bursting multiple elements in a single object in a content management system: A content management system (CMS) allows defining multi-element burst rules that allow multiple elements to be bursted to a single object. A multi-element burst mechanism performs the bursting of multiple elements when a multi-element burst rule is processed. A multi-element burst policy allows a user to specify conditions that govern... Agent: Martin & Associates, Llc

20080222181 - Data processor, data processing method, and computer product: A data processor includes a storage unit, a decompressing module, an interface module, and a data retrieving module. The storage unit stores therein a compressed setting data file including setting data files each compressed in a compression format. The decompressing module decompresses a setting data file, in the compressed setting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080222182 - Method for fast deletion of physically clustered data: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for deleting rows in a multidimensional clustering database. A multidimensional clustering processor receives a request to delete a set of multidimensionally clustered data. The multidimensional clustering processor determines whether all multidimensionally clustered data is located in a block. Responsive to... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080222177 - Method, system and program product for maximizing virus check coverage while minimizing redundancy in virus checking: A method, system and program product for maximizing virus check coverage, while minimizing redundancy in virus checking. The method includes evaluating, using an audit checking tool, whether or not a file in a working directory to be virus checked is a compressed file and, if the file is evaluated as... Agent: Silvy Anna Murphy

20080222180 - Recording medium containing sample data and reproducing thereof: The present invention provides according to an embodiment a method of reproducing digital content, comprising the steps of: (a) reading a position information where a sample data is present, the sample data being same as a portion of digital content and not encrypted; and (b) reproducing the sample data based... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080222189 - Associating multidimensional data models: A source multidimensional data model is associated with a target multidimensional data model, for purposes of, for example, copying or linking data between the source and the target. Individual dimensions are mapped from the source to the target. Within each mapped dimension, individual dimension members are mapped from the source... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080222183 - Autonomic rule generation in a content management system: A content management system (CMS) includes an autonomic rule generation mechanism that autonomically analyzes existing content and generates rules according to a defined rule generation policy. Autonomically generated rules may include bursting rules, synchronization rules and linking rules. By autonomically generating rules based on the characteristics of content in the... Agent: Martin & Associates, Llc

20080222193 - Computer-implemented method and executable program for updating reference data: A computer-implemented method is provided for updating reference data. The method includes a step of providing update data structured according to a given data structure. The data structure has at least two streams of data, wherein one of the streams includes patterns of instructions to a processor, and at least... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.a.

20080222190 - Device user interface xml string table manager: c

20080222187 - Method and apparatus for handling a let binding: An apparatus and method are disclosed for handling a LET binding used in a WHERE clause of an XQuery FLWOR expression during an XML pivot join procedure. XPath steps under a LET binding are identified and marked as bindings. During a match graph construction phase of the pivot join procedure,... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080222191 - Method and system for posting ideas: A site is maintained that allows consumers to suggest, comment on and/or vote on ideas about a product or service. Some site embodiments can enable sponsoring organizations (customers) to maintain their own sites for displaying articles and allowing multiple viewers to vote on these articles. Site information for multiple tenants... Agent: David Lewis

20080222192 - Method and system for transferring information using metabase: A method and system for application-to-application data exchange provides data conversion from the format of a source application to the format of a target application upon receipt of data by the target application. To achieve compatibility among applications exchanging data, the preferred system uses a standard set of terms (metaterms... Agent: Garvey Smith Nehrbass & North, Llc

20080222194 - Method for operating an automation system: There is described a method for operating an automation system, in which automation-specific data is filed in a database, an access to the data taking place using a database interface, all access to the data taking place via one and the same database interface and when an access to the... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080222184 - Methods and systems for task-based search model: Methods and systems for a computer-implemented method for managing service requests from a customer by a business entity are provided. The method includes generating a project folder relating to a first service request received from the customer by a first user, searching a plurality of information sources using keywords relating... Agent: John S. Beulick Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080222188 - Playlists responsive to coincidence distances: A method, apparatus, and memory storing instruction that generate one or more playlists. In one aspect, a playlist is generated by calculating coincidences distances between pairs of items in a group and generating a playlist of plural of the items in the group responsive to the coincidence distances. In another... Agent: Kaleidescape, Inc.

20080222185 - System and method for generating event related document output: The subject application is directed to a system and method for generating date range related document output. User identification data is first received by a document processing device corresponding to an associated user. The user then requests the generation of a date range related document via a user interface associated... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080222186 - System and method for on demand logging of document processing device status data: The subject application is directed to a system and method for document processing device status logging. Status data is first received corresponding to operations of an associated document processing device. The received status data is then stored in a suitable storage location. A determination is then made whether a predefined... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080222195 - Systems, methods and computer program products for automating retrieval of data from a db2 database: Data is automatically retrieved from a DataBase 2 (DB2) database using a DB2 scripter module that is configured to automatically log on to the DB2 database, to automatically perform a query of the DB2 database, and to automatically extract from the DB2 database a dataset that results from the query.... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.a.

20080222196 - Systems, methods, and media for processing a spreadsheet for storage in a database: Generally speaking, systems, methods and media for processing a spreadsheet for storage in a database are disclosed. Embodiments may include a method for processing records of a spreadsheet by receiving a request to process a spreadsheet having a plurality of records for storage in a database. Embodiments may also include... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson Pllc

20080222198 - Data processing apparatus, method and computer program product for reducing memory usage of an object oriented program: The present invention provides a method, computer program product and data processing apparatus for reducing memory usage of an object oriented program. The object oriented program comprises at least one class definition used to create objects, each class definition providing at least one function that can be run in respect... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080222197 - Regression-based system and method for determining resource costs for composite transactions: A method comprises receiving a representative workload of a computing system, where the representative workload comprises at least one composite transaction. In certain embodiments, the representative workload is a historical workload of a computing system. In general, a composite transaction refers to a transaction that comprises a plurality of transactions.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080222204 - Data processing apparatus, data processing method, and computer program: A data processing apparatus includes an input section configured to receive data to be encoded, a first pseudo-random-number generating section configured to generate a first pseudo-random number, a second pseudo-random-number generating section configured to a second pseudo-random number, an address determining section configured to determine matrix address candidate values on... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080222205 - Development of assertions for integrated circuit design simulation: One embodiment of the present application includes the preparation of an assertion for inclusion in an integrated circuit simulation performed with a processing device (21). In response to an input to this processing device (21), a set of integrated circuit waveforms are defined to test the assertion. The processing device... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080222203 - Digital image processing apparatus and file managing method performed therein: A digital image processing apparatus capable of reducing the number of calculations performed when a new image file satisfying a DCF standard generated for a captured image is edited, so as to reduce the time required for performing the edit, and a file managing method performed in the digital image... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20080222201 - Digital media metadata management: Network-side and client-side systems and techniques for managing metadata items describing digital media content available from a number of digital media content sources are described. Disparate metadata items are collected and transcribed based on a common format. The common format facilitates computerized cataloging, searching, and presentation of relevant metadata and/or... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080222202 - Dynamic adaptive distributed computer system: A system, methods and apparatus are described involving the self-organizing dynamics of networks of distributed computers. The system is comprised of complex networks of databases. The system presents a novel database architecture called the distributed transformational spatio-temporal object relational (T-STOR) database management system (dbms). Data is continuously input, analyzed, organized,... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080222199 - Multimedia aggregation in an online social network: Multimedia content is featured on user pages of an online social network using embed codes that are generated using a configuration file associated with the source ID for the multimedia content and a content ID for the multimedia content. The configuration file, the source ID and the content ID are... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.l.p.

20080222200 - Rich data tunneling: When rich data is tunneled, its associated link identified by a primary data reference is changed by swapping primary references of original data with changed data. Thus, without duplicating the rich data, it is now associated with the changed data, preserving it in constant time. The primary references can include,... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080222206 - System and method for a logical-model based application understanding and transformation: Disclosed is a method of and a system for establishing a logical-model based understanding of a legacy application. The method comprises the steps of providing a physical data model of the legacy application, said physical data model having a plurality of physical elements; establishing a logical data model for the... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.c.

20080222207 - Data cleaning program: A data cleaning program capable of deleting data recorded in a data recording medium so as not to be restored. Further, there is provided a data cleaning program capable of making it impossible to read unnecessary data remaining in a data recording medium. A part of an operating system required... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20080222209 - Database management method and database management apparatus: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method for managing a database for records of transactions, each of the transaction specifying an order of processing, and being associated with a value related to generation of the transaction, said database comprising a plurality of page data containing a plurality of... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080222210 - Efficiently handling information on changes to a uddi registry including those resulting in virtual deletes: One aspect of the present invention can include a method, a computer program product, an apparatus, and a system for handling Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) updates to entities. The aspect can receive at least one update to be applied to a UDDI entity within a UDDI registry. Each... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.a.

20080222211 - Method and apparatus to capture and transmit dense diagnostic data of a file system: A processor selects file system metadata. A processor identifies each unit of data in a file system. The processor determines if the unit of data contains file system metadata. The processor writes a unit of data of metadata to a diagnostic file system, provided it was determined that the unit... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates Pc

20080222208 - Methods for managing files according to application: The present invention discloses methods for managing files according to application. A method for accessing files in a digital storage device, the method including the steps of: providing an application having an application identity; and adjusting a storage mode of a file according to the application identity upon the application... Agent: Mark M. Friedman

20080222213 - Image processing device: An image processing device which is provided with a communication unit configured to communicate with an information processing device, and a web server unit configured to generate a webpage which can be browsed by a web browser executed in the information processing device and transmit the generated webpage to the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080222212 - Peer-to-peer data synchronization architecture: To enable the peer-to-peer synchronization among multiple devices, each device in the peer network keeps track of the changes it makes to any shared data and also keeps track of its own knowledge of the changes made by other devices. When two or more peer devices communicate, they share with... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080222215 - Method for deleting virus program and method to get back the data destroyed by the virus: The present invention discloses a method of recovering data corrupted by a virus program, comprising: obtaining a devastating behavior operation step that can be performed by the virus program; establishing a reverse behavior operation step corresponding to the devastating behavior operation step; performing the corresponding reverse behavior operation step in... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20080222214 - Storage system and remote copy system restoring data using journal: This invention provides a storage system including: a control unit; a first storage device for storing data; and a second storage device for storing journals of the data stored in the first storage device, in which: the first storage device has a RAID configuration for recording parity data dispersedly in... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.c.

20080222216 - Application migration file scanning and conversion: An application migration planning manager is provided for scanning and reporting compatibility information of stored application files, followed by conversion of selected files from a first application version format to a target application version format. A scanning module scans selected files to determine whether the scanned files are formatted according... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080222217 - Parameters passing of data structures where api and corresponding stored procedure are different versions/releases: A system and computer program product for passing parameters of data structures where an API and corresponding stored procedures are at different version/release levels is provided. A received data structure is parsed for a version identifier of a caller. The parsed version identifier is compared to a stored procedure version... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080222220 - 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

20080222219 - Method and apparatus for efficiently merging, storing and retrieving incremental data: In a method and apparatus for retrieving data from a snapshot data storage system, for each epoch, a snapshot including (i) all changed data, and (ii) an index is created. The index includes an entry for each page that has changed during the epoch. For rapidly retrieving the data as... Agent: Dla Piper Us LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080222218 - Risk-modulated proactive data migration for maximizing utility in storage systems: The embodiments of the invention provide a method, computer program product, etc. for risk-modulated proactive data migration for maximizing utility. More specifically, a method of planning data migration for maximizing utility of a storage infrastructure that is running and actively serving at least one application includes selecting a plurality of... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, Llc

20080222222 - Information recording apparatus and information recording method: An information recording apparatus recording contents on a recording medium and managing the contents by using a content management file includes a control unit that checks a recording state of the recording medium loaded in the information recording apparatus to determine how to set up the content management file to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080222221 - Reducing database fragmentation: Reducing database fragmentation is disclosed. One embodiment includes determining whether the building of an index of data that is to be stored in a database has been initiated and determining whether the size of a sub-range of the index exceeds a predetermined size. A block of data storage space is... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080222223 - Storage allocation in a distributed segmented file system: A file system (i) permits storage capacity to be added easily, (ii) can be expanded beyond a given unit, (iii) is easy to administer and manage, (iv) permits data sharing, and (v) is able to perform effectively with very large storage capacity and client loads. State information from a newly... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080222225 - Autonomic retention classes: The embodiments of the invention provide methods, computer program products, etc. for autonomic retention classes when retaining data within storage devices. More specifically, a method of determining whether to retain data within at least one storage device begins by storing data items in at least one storage device. Furthermore, the... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, Llc

20080222224 - System and method of identification of dangling pointers: A method and system to identifying the use of dangling pointers in software instrumentation irrespective of the location of the pointer in the memory. The main memory is preferably segmented into three parts defined as a first memory, a version segment and a pointer version segment. By use of the... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds

20080215527 - Apparatus and system for defining a metadata schema to facilitate passing data between an extensible markup language document and a hierarchical database: The apparatus and system are provided for defining a metadata schema to facilitate passing data between an XML document and a hierarchical database. The invention includes a database accessor, a document accessor, and an association module. The database accessor accesses a database schema indicative of database field names and a... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080215526 - Information processing apparatus, informaition processing method, and information processing program: In an information processing apparatus, an acquisition unit acquires a keyword, and a calculation unit calculates the importance level of each keyword by adding a value determined depending on an increase in the number of occurrences to the importance level and subtracting a value determined depending on an increase in... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080215525 - Medical image retrieval system: A medical image retrieval system includes an image database which stores medical images. An interpretation unit acquires a currently diagnosed image for use in performing interpretation of one of the medical images and provides the currently diagnosed image to a computer terminal. An image requesting unit issues an image request... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080215523 - Method for association checking of structured data sets from which patient identification data can be determined in a patient administration system with electronic patient records: In a method for association checking of structured data sets from which patient identification data can be determined in a patient administration system with electronic patient records that respectively include a structured base data set containing patient identification data upon an access to a patient record and/or at least one... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080215528 - Multi-model access to data: Techniques are provided for accessing data stored in a database. According to one technique, an application makes one or more calls to an operating system to access a file. The operating system includes routines that implement an operating system file system. The one or more calls are made to the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080215522 - Retrieval method for contents to be selection candidates for user: Each of information on user characteristic and information on game content characteristic is arranged as position information using two or more parameters on the same coordinate system. The contents are divided into a plurality of content groups. Upon reception of an information search request from a user, a distance between... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080215524 - System and method for associating geographic location information from multiple sources: A system and method for providing a virtual map database, referred to herein as the “Virtual Database System” (VDB). The VDB allows integration of map data, often from various sources, in a consistent manner for supply to an end user, while simultaneously ensuring that the entity best able to support... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080215535 - Autonomically generating a query implementation that meets a defined performance specification: A database query optimizer allows specifying a performance specification for a query. When an access plan is created, the actual performance for executing the query using the access plan is determined and compared to the performance specification for the query. If the actual performance does not satisfy the performance specification... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080215536 - Autonomically generating a query implementation that meets a defined performance specification: A database query optimizer allows specifying a performance specification for a query. When an access plan is created, the actual performance for executing the query using the access plan is determined and compared to the performance specification for the query. If the actual performance does not satisfy the performance specification... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080215534 - Cost-based subquery correlation and decorrelation: Techniques are provided that determine that a query includes at least one subquery that may be correlated or decorrelated. An internal representation of the query that represents the subquery in both correlated and decorrelated form is generated, wherein the internal representation includes at least one virtual table.... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20080215537 - Data ordering for derived columns in a database system: Optimized query execution for queries that return data sorted by a derived column. The query optimizer is used to determine if the data is already sorted or if existing database metadata can be utilized to provide the sort. The optimizer will examine the query field being derived and attempt to... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080215538 - Data ordering for derived columns in a database system: Optimized query execution is disclosed for queries that return data sorted by a derived column. The query optimizer is used to determine if the data is already sorted or if existing database metadata can be utilized to provide the sort. The optimizer will examine the query field being derived and... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080215539 - Data ordering for derived columns in a database system: Optimized query execution is disclosed for queries that return data sorted by a derived column. The query optimizer is used to determine if the data is already sorted or if existing database metadata can be utilized to provide the sort. The optimizer will examine the query field being derived and... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080215532 - Database optimization through schema modification: A database optimizer collects statistics regarding applications accessing a database, and makes one or more changes to the database schema to optimize performance according to the collected statistics. In a first embodiment, the optimizer detects when a certain type of application accesses the database a percentage of time that exceeds... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080215531 - Determining validity ranges of query plans based on suboptimality: A method for approximating a validity range for a domain of cardinalities of input to an optimal query plan is provided. Such a validity range is iteratively approximated using a modified Newton-Raphson method to find roots of cost functions for optimal and alternative query plans, respectively. The Newton-Raphson method is... Agent: Ip Authority, LLC Ramraj Soundararajan

20080215533 - Method for interfacing application in an information search and retrieval system: In a method for interfacing search, analysis, and report applications in an information search and retrieval system with a complex structured record or content repository, a schema discovery is performed on the basis of a search application, schema paths associated with a search result are extracted, and summary information of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080215529 - Method for using lengths of data paths in assessing the similarity of sets of data: A method for finding sets of data (SDDs) for presentation in one-dimension, which are similar to a target SDD, is invented. The method leverages a new category of signatures, called equivalence signatures, to characterize the SDDs and is applicable to all types of data with special interpretation for data that... Agent: Roger K. Brooks

20080215530 - Method for using two-dimensional dynamics in assessing the similarity of sets of data: A method for finding sets of data (SDDs) for presentation in two-dimensions, which are similar to a target SDD, is invented. The method leverages a new category of signatures, called equivalence signatures, to characterize the SDDs. The equivalence signature is computed as the action for the motion of a string... Agent: Roger K. Brooks

20080215540 - Optimizing a query to a partitioned database table using a virtual maintained temporary index that spans multiple database partitions: A query optimizer optimizes a query to a partitioned database table by determining common characteristics of the partitions and generating a virtual maintained temporary index that spans multiple partitions. Using the virtual maintained temporary index allows the query optimizer to generate an access plan based on the virtual maintained temporary... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080215545 - Data file management and search method and system based on file attributes: A data file management and search method based on file attributes is disclosed. At least one data file, externally imported or generated by a user, is retrieved. Attributes of the data file are edited, a virtual catalog corresponding to the data file is generated, and a catalog tree is built... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080215554 - Data plotting extension for structured query language: Information is typically obtained from a relational database using a query in structured query language (SQL). An extension to the SQL standard is described which permits plotting the results of a query. SQL keywords are provided for specifying a format for graphing selected data, and syntax for recognizing those keywords,... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20080215543 - Graph-based search leveraging sentiment analysis of user comments: A search system and method is provided. The method includes constructing a graph-based query that is indicative of a user's preference-levels for different features of a search item (a product, for example). The constructed graph-based query is executed by comparing the user's preference-levels for the different features of the product,... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080215555 - Hybrid approach for query recommendation in conversation systems: Techniques are disclosed for combining natural language generation with query retrieval for context appropriate query recommendation. For example, a computer-implemented method for generating a recommended query for a conversation system in response to an original user query, wherein at least a portion of the original user query is not understandable... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080215548 - Information search method and system: An information search system for search in plural images as content information is provided. An input interface inputs a first image. An dominant color extractor extracts an dominant color as attribute of the first image. A tag extractor extracts a tag or descriptor as meta information associated with the dominant... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080215547 - Introduction supporting apparatus and recording medium storing computer program: According to an aspect of the invention, an apparatus for supporting an introduction among a plurality of users includes: a receiving unit; a member database; a community database; an extracting unit; a determining unit; and a transmitting unit.... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080215549 - Method and apparatus for query and analysis: A data handling method combines search capabilities with analytical functionality. The invention provides advantages when dealing with structured documents (such as electronic catalogs, XML documents, text documents, HTML documents, Internet documents, etc.) and other data stored in a computer system. Various embodiments include simplified ways to express search/analysis requests of... Agent: Sf Bay Area Patents, LLC Attn: Andrew V. Smith, Ph.d.

20080215542 - Method for supporting ontology-related semantic queries in dbmss with xml support: A method for supporting semantic matching queries in a database management system (DBMS) by extracting and storing the transitive/subsumption relationships from a given ontology data in a DBMS with native XML support. These transitive relationships are transformed into a set of XML documents that are natural mappings of the hierarchical... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20080215553 - Personalized network searching: Personalized network searching, in which a search query is received from a user, and a request is received to personalize a search result. Responsive to the search query and the request to personalize the search result, a personalized search result is generated by searching a personalized search object. Responsive to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080215551 - Physically locating content in a network: A system (11, 50) and method is disclosed to be used for physically locating content (12) in a network (10). Further, a device is disclosed for use in the system and a computer program product enabling the disclosed method. The system comprises an input means (53) allowing a user to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080215550 - Search support apparatus, computer program product, and search support system: A search support apparatus estimates, based on a document and a specific phrase (keyword) in the document, a theme of the document, a site type of a website that provides the document, and a content type of the document, and selects a search condition corresponding to the theme, the site... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080215544 - Systems and methods for modeling partitioned tables as logical indexes: Technologies for forming logical indexes and utilizing such indexes so as to abstract many of the complexities resulting from referencing partitioned database tables. Included are technologies for making use of order-preserving properties of table metadata, for adding a partition equality predicate to an explicit predicate in merge-join processing on partitioned... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080215541 - Techniques for searching web forums: A search system provides various techniques for facilitating information retrieval. The search system may identify alternate queries for an initial query submitted by a user to a search system. Upon receiving the initial query, the search system identifies questions that are related to the initial query and presents to the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080215546 - Time series search engine: Methods and apparatus consistent with the invention provide the ability to organize, index, search, and present time series data based on searches. Time series data are sequences of time stamped records occurring in one or more usually continuous streams, representing some type of activity. In one embodiment, time series data... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080215552 - Time-conditioned search engine interface with visual feedback: A human-computer interface for a search engine or similar application includes specification means for a time condition applicable to a search query, and visual feedback means expressive of relative availability of sought or potentially sought database items at one or more specific times within a time period under consideration. The... Agent: Michael J. Safoutin

20080215556 - Dynamic filters for relational query processing: Systems and methods that eliminate non-qualifying data for queries against data warehouses and improve execution time, via a dynamic filter component(s). In general, such dynamic filter components are derived from data during processing of the query and without being explicitly defined by the users within a query forwarded to the... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080215557 - Methods and systems of mobile query classification: In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for receiving a search query from a mobile communication facility, receiving an indicator input, classifying the search query in association with the indicator input, and formatting the presentation of a search result of the search query based at least in... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080215559 - System and method for querying xml streams: A system and method for querying a stream of XML data in a single pass using standard XQuery expressions. The system comprises: an expression parser that receives a query and generates a parse tree; a SAX events API that receives the stream of XML data and generates a stream of... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080215558 - System for managing configuration changes in a data processing system: A method of managing configuration changes in a data processing system, particularly a network wherein software products (250) must be distributed to client workstations. The method provides the definition of reference models (220e-220d) arranged in a tree (215); each reference model includes configuration elements (such as software products and/or hardware... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080215569 - Ad placement method with frequency component: A method of generating a search result list in response to a search request from a client using a computer network is described. The search request is received, and a set of network addresses associated with search terms that match the search request is identified, each network address being associated... Agent: Quickpatents, Inc.

20080215574 - Efficient retrieval algorithm by query term discrimination: An exemplary method for use in information retrieval includes, for each of a plurality of terms, selecting a predetermined number of top scoring documents for the term to form a corresponding document set for the term; receiving a plurality of terms, optionally as a query; ranking the plurality of terms... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080215576 - Fusion and visualization for multiple anomaly detection systems: The present invention is a method for detecting anomalies against normal profiles and for fusing and visualizing the results from multiple anomaly detection systems in a quantifying and unifying user interface. The knowledge patterns discovered from historical data serve as the normal profiles, or baselines or references (hereinafter, called “normal... Agent: Charles C. Zhou Ying Zhao

20080215579 - Including annotation data with disparate relational data: Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture that may be used for identifying and indicating annotations made for a variety of different type (i.e., heterogeneous) data objects are provided. According to some embodiments, an annotation store may be queried to identify annotations for data objects in a current view of data.... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080215577 - Information processing apparatus and method, program, and storage medium: An information processing apparatus includes: an acquiring section acquiring metadata of content; a morphological analysis section performing a morphological analysis of text information included in the metadata of the content; a genre extracting section extracting genre information for each individual content in the metadata of the content; and a keyword... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080215575 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: An information processing apparatus is disclosed which includes: a creation section configured to create, through learning, a search axis which serves as a reference for presenting contents and which is determined by feature quantities of the contents and either by a history of reproduction of the contents by a user... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080215560 - Information technology management system database for coordinating the inforamtion technology activites for a business enterprise: A business enterprise level information technology management system database implementation providing search results responsive to a user query that filters the extensive data that may be generated in the search result so that the user and his need for data is taken into account. An implementation determining the role of... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080215573 - Inter-frequency neighbor list searching: Techniques for inter-frequency neighbor list searching are disclosed. Embodiments disclosed herein address the need for inter-frequency neighbor list searching. In one embodiment, a searcher is deployed to search a PN space with a first set of search parameters and to return search results. A subset of those results is selected,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080215578 - Materialized query table matching with query expansion: Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for materialized query table matching are provided that include receiving a database query, retrieving a materialized query table (MQT) from data storage accessible to a database management system, selecting a join in the materialized query table between a table that is not invoked by... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20080215570 - Medical literature database search tool: This invention provides a method of identifying clinically relevant, evidence based medical literature on diseases and their treatment to physicians, nurses and other healthcare personnel. This method accesses a medical literature database that is then searched using a medical literature classification system identifier for a disease integrated with an evidence... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20080215572 - Method and apparatus for evaluating equipment leases: A lease information processing system provides subscribers, such as funding sources and lease brokers, with information indicating whether a proposed lease may have an enhanced chance of premature termination, based on prior leases and concurrent leases by the vendor and lessee, along with reports of suspicious activity reported by other... Agent: Anderson, Levine & Lintel L.L.P.

20080215567 - Method for using isometries on the space of signatures to find similar sets of data: A method for finding sets of data (SDDs) which are similar to a target SDD, is invented. By virtue of the isometrics on the space of equivalence signatures the lengths of the equivalence signature vectors of similar SDDs must be equal. A filter is then applied to the database of... Agent: Roger K. Brooks

20080215566 - Method for using one-dimensional dynamics in assessing the similarity of sets of data: A method for finding sets of data (SDDS) for presentation in one-dimension, which are similar to a target SDD, is invented. The method leverages a new category of signatures, called equivalence signatures, to characterize the SDDs and is applicable to all types of data with special interpretation for data, such... Agent: Roger K. Brooks

20080215568 - Multimedia file reproducing apparatus and method: An apparatus and method to check whether a user likes a multimedia file based on the user's emotional reaction index of the multimedia file and repeatedly reproducing the multimedia file if the user likes the multimedia file. The multimedia file reproducing apparatus can include an emotional reaction index calculation unit... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080215571 - Product review search: This disclosure describes various exemplary methods, computer program products, and user interfaces that provide results for a product review search with opinion snippets and opinion visual graphs. This disclosure describes identifying user opinions by extracting passages that contain subjective opinions from web pages; ranking the user opinions by incorporating sentiment... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080215563 - Pseudo-anchor text extraction for vertical search: A search method uses pseudo-anchor text associated with search objects to improve search performance. The pseudo-anchor text may be extracted in combination with an identifier of the search objects (such as a pseudo-URL) from a digital corpus such as a collection of documents. Pseudo-anchor texts for each object are preferably... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080215564 - Query rewrite: A method and apparatus for rewriting of search engine queries is provided. Queries are rewritten by applying a set of rules. The rules represent domain knowledge and can be created by developers or users outside the search engine. There are two types of rules, production rules and definitions. Production rules... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080215561 - Scoring relevance of a document based on image text: A method and system for determining relevance of a document having text and images to a text string is provided. A scoring system identifies image text associated with an image of the document. The scoring system calculates an image score indicating relevance of the image text to the text string.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080215565 - Searching heterogeneous interrelated entities: Systems and methods for searching heterogeneous interrelated entities for a heterogeneous entities search query are disclosed herein. A user may enter the heterogeneous entities search query. The search retrieves and returns multiple types of heterogeneous entities. The retrieved heterogeneous interrelated entities are searched in a unified matrix that represents relationships... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080215580 - System and method for adaptive database caching: A local database cache enabling persistent, adaptive caching of either full or partial content of a remote database is provided. Content of tables comprising a local cache database is defined on per-table basis. A table is either: defined declaratively and populated in advance of query execution, or is determined dynamically... Agent: Ip Authority, LLC Ramraj Soundararajan

20080215562 - System and method for improved name matching using regularized name forms: A system and method for improved name matching using regularized name forms is presented. A regularization rule engine uses culture-specific regularization rules to iteratively convert candidate names and query names to a canonical form, which are regularized candidate names and regularized query names, respectively. The regularization rules are context-sensitive or... Agent: Ibm Corporation - Svl (jvl) C/o Vanleeuwen & Vanleeuwen

20080215581 - Content/metadata selection and propagation service to propagate content/metadata to client devices: In various embodiments, one or more servers is (collectively) endowed with a core data collection and management service, and a core content/metadata selection and propagation service, to receive from client devices automatically collected user activity associated data and in response, to select and propagate content/metadata to the client device, in... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20080215582 - Generating statistics on text pattern matching predicates for access planning: Statistics for a pattern matching predicate are generated using stored character statistics. A first structure stores, for each of a plurality of character positions, frequently occurring characters in that character position, and a count of the number of occurrences of that character. A second structure stores frequently occurring characters that... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20080215583 - Ranking and suggesting candidate objects: A method of ranking and suggesting objects, such as tags, is described in which a group of objects are suggested to a user in relation to a particular information object, such as a web page or file. A user either selects one of the suggestions or enters an alternative object... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080215584 - Shared-memory multiprocessor system and method for processing information: Large-scale table data stored in a shared memory are sorted by a plurality of processors in parallel. According to the present invention, the records subjected to processing are first divided for allocation to the plurality of processors. Then, each processor counts the numbers of local occurrences of the field value... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080215585 - System and method for creation, representation, and delivery of document corpus entity co-occurrence information: To respond to queries that relate to co-occurring entities on the Web, a compact sparse matrix representing entity co-occurrences is generated and then accessed to satisfy queries. The sparse matrix has groups of sub-rows, with each group corresponding to an entity in a document corpus. The groups are sorted from... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080215587 - Object state transfer method, object state transfer device, object state transfer program, and recording medium for the program: When the states of a large number of objects must be transferred to another device, the overhead can be greatly reduced and the object states can be synchronized in a short period of time. At the time of creating an object, an object creation function arranges the internal state of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080215586 - Simulating multi-user activity while maintaining original linear request order for asynchronous transactional events: A system and article of manufacture maintain the original order of a sequence of transactions originating from a source database and being replicated to a target database. A lockable object is associated with each transaction of the sequence of transactions from the source database. Each transaction has one or more... Agent: International Business Machines Corp. (jms)

20080215588 - Electronic object sharing system: According to one embodiment, a system and method is described for assigning access rights to documents and controlling these access rights within a database environment thereby preventing unauthorized persons from viewing certain documents. According to one embodiment of the invention, a method of operation comprises determining if a user has... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080215594 - Contents distribution system, terminal apparatus, contents distribution method, and recording medium on which is recorded a program used therein: A terminal apparatus in a contents distribution system stores previously connected terminal apparatus, correlated to a contents channel. Also, the terminal apparatus, in the event that an instruction to change a contents channel is issued, selects a terminal apparatus, from among the previously connected terminal apparatus, corresponding to the contents... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080215595 - Data distribution system, terminal apparatus, connection candidate introduction apparatus, information processing method and recording medium with program recorded thereon: In a data distribution system including a data distribution apparatus, a connection candidate introduction apparatus, and a plurality of terminal apparatus, logically connected, in a multilevel hierarchical structure with the data distribution apparatus as an apex, which carry out a reception and relay of data, each terminal apparatus acquires connection... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080215591 - Email interface for weblog entries: Posting to a blog is accomplished by sending an email to a specified address uniquely associated with the blog. When the email message is received, information on the associated blog is accessed from a database and publication data is extracted from the email message. Using information from the database, a... Agent: Anderson, Levine & Lintel L.L.P.

20080215592 - Information processing apparatus and identification information registration method: An information processing apparatus and method determining whether a site corresponding to identification information of a request exists on a network, and registering identification information in a storage device based on a result of the determination.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080215593 - Replication of object graphs: 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. Objects A and B in each local memory... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080215596 - Selecting storage clusters to use to access storage: Provided are a method, system and program for selecting storage clusters to use to access storage. Input/Output (I/O) requests are transferred to a first storage cluster over a network to access storage. The storage may be additionally accessed via a second storage cluster over the network and both the first... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080215590 - System and method for assessing the importance of a web link: A system and method for determining the most relevant web links to a destination web page is disclosed. The method generates a link value for a linking web page by analyzing the position of the link to the destination web page, the number of links to the destination web page,... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20080215589 - System, method, and computer-readable medium for collection and distribution of user-supplied comments associated with network and local content: A system, method and computer-readable medium for collection and distribution of user-supplied comments associated with network and local content is provided. User-supplied comments may be associated with network content and may be stored in a network repository in association with an identifier of the network content for which the comments... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20080215600 - Data processor: A data processor requires setting a plurality of items to a plurality of data sets. The data processor includes a setting unit, a determining unit, a first prompting unit, and a second prompting unit. The setting unit sets an item to a data set. The first prompting unit prompts the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080215598 - Data storage apparatus, data storage method and image processing apparatus: In a data storage apparatus for storing data by making the data to be a file, a file is deleted, in a normal deletion processing, after contents of the file are destructed by overwriting the file to be deleted with data for elimination such as “all-zeros”. On the other hand,... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080215597 - Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and program: Conventional information processing apparatuses have a problem that the precision of related term collection is low. An information processing apparatus is provided which comprises a document information storing section for storing one or more pieces of document information, a term information receiving section for receiving term information, a document information... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080215599 - Internet music composition application with pattern-combination method: This invention relates to the method and system of producing/composing user's own music (musical composition, arrangement, and performance) on the web site. The system creates musical patterns out of all kinds of music, recommends the ideal patterns in accordance with genres selected by users, and ultimately enables ordinary internet users... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080215601 - System monitoring program, system monitoring method, and system monitoring apparatus: A system monitoring apparatus, method and program determining whether each unit process executed by a system matches one of a plurality of unit process models generated by individually modeling a plurality of types of unit processes, determining whether an analysis of a processing status of the system is needed based... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080215602 - \"methods and apparatus for fusing databases\": Methods and apparatus for fusing multiple databases into a single database are disclosed. A disclosed method determines a ranking of a plurality of matching variables associated with first and second datasets and generates a hierarchical matching grid including a plurality of levels based on the ranking of the plurality of... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080215606 - Focal point compression method and apparatus: A method for compressing and decompressing files is provided. The method includes creating a list of shift-invariant focal points of neighborhoods in the stream and comparing those focal points to a list of focal points created using the same method on the reference stream. The method of the present invention... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP

20080215605 - Method for embedding data: Watermarking schemes are known that embed the watermark directly in the MPEG domain. A requirement for these algorithms is that the watermarked MPEG stream does not increase in size. Therefore, a bit rate controller allows a modification of a DCT coefficient only if such modification does not increase the stream... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080215604 - Processing pedigree data: A device, namely, one of a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) device and an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) is described. The FPGA or ASIC is configured to represent one or more pedigree data structures, each structure comprising at least two generations. The device comprises a plurality of logic cells... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080215603 - Serialization of run-time state: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates re-locating a web application associated with a network service utilizing a portion of serialized data. The network service can be any collection of resources that are maintained by a party (e.g., third-party, off-site, etc.) and accessible by an... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080215608 - Computer program product and computer system for information organization using markup languages: The presentation of information in HTML files is desirably enhanced by the use of one or more separate scripting Javascript™ files, referenced from the HTML, file, which uses information presented as variables in the HTML file. In this manner, a high degree of formatting flexibility can be achieved, while reducing... Agent: Ibm Endicott (anthony England) Law Office Of Anthony England

20080215609 - Method and system for data aggregation in a sensor network: A sensor profile based data aggregation method for aggregating data in a sensor network, which includes a plurality of sensor nodes, is provided. This method includes steps of determining types of sensors included in the sensor nodes, and generating a sensor profile that includes information on each type of the... Agent: Robert E. Bushnell

20080215610 - Methods involving artificial intelligence: One aspect of the present invention relates to methods of generating a profile data set. In an exemplary embodiment, data is accessed and the accessed data is processed using a dynamic cluster method, mobile center method, and/or a k-means algorithm, each using neighborhood data. Other aspects relate to methods of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080215611 - Sequenced modification of multiple entities based on an abstract data representation: The present invention is generally directed to a system, method and article of manufacture for modifying data represented abstractly through an abstraction model. In one embodiment, a data repository abstraction layer provides a logical view of an underlying data repository that is independent of the particular manner of data representation.... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080215612 - Sequenced modification of multiple entities based on an abstract data representation: The present invention is generally directed to a system, method and article of manufacture for modifying data represented abstractly through an abstraction model. In one embodiment, a data repository abstraction layer provides a logical view of an underlying data repository that is independent of the particular manner of data representation.... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080215607 - Tribe or group-based analysis of social media including generating intelligence from a tribe's weblogs or blogs: A computer-based method for generating intelligence from social media data, such as blog data, that is publicly available on the Internet. A server is provided that runs a tribe analysis tool, and the method includes accessing a set of the social media data with the tribe analysis tool. The social... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080215613 - Method and system for transferring objects between programming platforms computer program product thereof: Objects are transferred between a first and a second platform, the platforms being, e.g. Java and Net platforms, providing a reflection framework adapted to allow introspection of the meta-information that describes the structure of the objects. The arrangement provides for translating the objects to be transferred into XML payloads by... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080215617 - Method for using psychological states to index databases: The present invention provides a method for capturing and storing physiological response attributes measured from a user while different stimuli are presented. Each stimulus may be any multimedia object, for example text, picture, or audio/video. The measured physiological response attributes are paired with the input stimulus, and stored conjointly in... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20080215614 - Pyramid information quantification or piq or pyramid database or pyramided database or pyramided or selective pressure database management system: Embodiments of the present invention allow for methods to catalog, classify and stratify data, producing an optimized and finitely targeted database, database subset or data model, including networks of any scale, and their contents. This would include World Wide Web pages and their objects or resources. Four controls and constraints:... Agent: Michael Slattery Lawrence Branum

20080215615 - Social online memory systems: A system is described having the steps of receiving a roster of an organization; when the roster includes a name of a person associated with the organization; electronically storing a digital-medium; when the digital-medium includes a likeness of the person; assisting relating the digital-medium with the name; when the step... Agent: Law Office Of Andrew P. Lahser, PLC

20080215616 - Virtual foldering system for blending process and content in a collaborative environment: A computer system that includes a processor and a storage medium. The storage medium stores a database of tables and a calculation engine. Each table includes columns and rows. The tables describe components of a hierarchy in which hierarchical relationships between components of the hierarchy are defined. The tables include... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080215619 - Financial line data-base: A computerized method for managing data performed in a computer system. The data is stored in a data base including flat lines. Each of the flat lines includes values of the data and tags associated with the values forming tag-value pairs. The flat lines are scanned and an object of... Agent: Ehud Ben-reuven

20080215618 - Natural language interaction with large databases: A method includes applying at least one tag to at least one data element stored in a database the tag having at least one associated rule, utilizing the at least one associated rule to generate at least one variant of the data element, and storing the at least one variant... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080215624 - Apparatus and method for producing play list: A play list producing apparatus retrieves words related to a query from a thesaurus database, and selects one of the related words based on the respective degrees of relevancy of the related words to the query. Music data files having such metadata that correspond to the selected related word are... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080215633 - Digital media asset conversion system and method: The present invention provides a system and method for identifying and converting digital media assets within a system through the use of identification data. A client device is examined to detect media assets lacking such identification data; the identification data is then applied to each detected asset with data specific... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney

20080215632 - Digital media asset identification system and method: The present invention provides a system and method for identifying and transferring digital media assets within a system through the use of identification data. The identification data is applied to each transferred copy and includes data specific to the customer and digital media asset. To facilitate transfers and ease of... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney

20080215626 - Digital system and method for building emergency and disaster plain implementation: An emergency and disaster preparedness implementation system hosted on an integrated computer system with a secure network interface (14). At least one terminal (12) for user interface to the system communicates through the network interface. The system includes a security management module (220) for user authentication and connects an authenticated... Agent: Felix L. Fischer, Attorney At Law

20080215631 - Enhancing web experiences using behavioral biometric data: A computerized method that provides a Web page having control structures for gathering behavioral biometrics. The method can receive behavioral biometric data in accordance with the control structures and in accordance with interactions of a user with the Web page. Additionally, the method can compare the received behavioral biometric data... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080215622 - Enterprise confidential electronic data inventory systems, methods and computer program products: Enterprise confidential electronic data inventory systems, methods and/or computer program products include a database management system, method and/or computer program product that is configured to store identifying information for the confidential electronic data of the enterprise without storing the confidential electronic data itself. Querying of the identifying information for the... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080215625 - Marking sample carriers: A method of marking a biological sample carrier by transferring information from a first information medium forming part of the sample carrier to a second information medium. The first information medium is optically readable and the second information medium is electronically readable. The method comprises the steps of determining first... Agent: Glaxosmithkline Corporate Intellectual Property, Mai B482

20080215621 - Metamodel-based automatic report generation: A metamodel-based system for automatically generating reports is provided. Much of the work involved in creating report designs and reports is automated, allowing developers to produce a broad variety of report designs and reports in a fraction of the time required with standard report development, according to one illustrative embodiment.... Agent: Bryan F. Erickson Westman Champlin & Kelly

20080215620 - Method and system for social remixing of media content: Systems and methods have been developed for manipulating media assets in a networked computing environment where processing power, bandwidth and/or storage capacity may be limited.... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080215623 - Mobile communication facility usage and social network creation: In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for associating a mobile subscriber characteristic with a mobile communication facility, creating a first user profile based at least in part on the mobile subscriber characteristic, identifying a relevancy between the first user profile and a second user profile, and... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080215628 - Replacement part order processing apparatus, method for ordering replacement parts and computer-readable recording medium: A controlling unit of a replacement part management server specifies a maintenance target equipment and acquires order conditions from a responsible personnel terminal. The controlling unit acquires maintenance information and part information both relating to the maintenance target equipment. The controlling unit calculates prediction residual regarding target parts of an... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080215630 - Similar case search apparatus and method, and recording medium storing program therefor: More accurate search for similar cases can be carried out in the case where images by different imaging methods exist. An imaging information analysis unit obtains imaging information of search target images obtained by different imaging methods in the same examination from accompanying information of the images, and a similar... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080215627 - Standardized health data hub: A central health data repository stores health data from various data providers and provides data to various data consumers. The data hub is a standardized central repository that conforms to various standards, such as Health Level Seven (HL7). The data is received according to the HL7 specification and is transmitted... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080215629 - Track shuffling system and method: A method and computer program product for defining an active playlist of media tracks for rendering in a defined sequence. A portion of the media tracks defined in the active playlist are rendered. A shuffle command is received from a user concerning the active playlist. A non-rendered playlist is generated.... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080215635 - Document management apparatus, document management program, and recording medium: A document management apparatus for managing stored documents together with document properties that are attribute information attached to the documents includes a document property continuous setting unit that continuously changes the document properties of each document of a plurality of documents when changing the document properties of the plurality of... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080215634 - Methods and systems for extracting related information from flat files: Methods and systems for extracting related information from multiple two-dimensional files are provided. The method includes comparing data contained in at least one field of each record of a first file to data in a related field of each record of a second file. A record is created in a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080215636 - Systems and methods facilitating communication with remote computers: A variety of systems and embodiments are disclosed. One embodiment provides a method including: maintaining a database including a plurality of records stored therein; obtaining first information derived from image or video data, the first information being derived remotely relative to performance of said method, the first information comprising a... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080215637 - Logging last resource: A logging last resource (LLR) system can provide a transaction log and transaction data to a LLR resource after a number of two-phase-commit resources have been prepared. The LLR resource manager can operate on the transaction log and transaction data in an atomic fashion so that the one-phase or local... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080215639 - Data synchronization: Synchronizing data between two data storage devices includes receiving, from an operating system, a file system message that includes an instruction to modify a first data storage device and executing the instruction on first and second data storage devices. In some implementations, the synchronization can create mirrored data without the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080215638 - Operational qualification by independent reanalysis of data reduction patch: Methods systems and computer readable media for testing operation of an instrument controlled by a system under test. Raw data, used by the system under test to calculate reduced data, is inputted to an independent data reduction engine. Independent reduced data is calculated using at least one independent algorithm independent... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080215641 - High speed data historian: Techniques for operating an archival database, referred to as a historian, are disclosed. The historian may be used to archive values from a real-time database. Data values to be archived in the historian are first written to a short-term, high-availability repository, such as a memory-mapped database. As data values “fill”... Agent: Air Liquide Intellectual Property Dept.

20080215643 - Mapping apparatus for backup and restoration of multi-generation recovered snapshots: Restoration of data is facilitated in the storage system by combining data snapshots made by the storage system itself with data recovered by application programs or operating system programs. This results in snapshots which can incorporate crash recovery features incorporated in application or operating system software in addition to the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080215640 - Method of processing apartment tenant status information: In a method of processing tenant information, a first set of tenant history data, in a first format, is pushed from a first apartment rental management organization database to a central server. A second set of tenant history data, in a second format different from the first format, is pushed... Agent: Bryan W. Bockhop, Esq. Bockhop & Associates, LLC

20080215642 - System, method, and service for migrating an item within a workflow process: An item migration system generates a workflow process comprising logical nodes and physical nodes. Candidate physical nodes are associated with the logical nodes. An item generated at an initial logical node within the workflow process is inserted into the workflow and logically migrated to a subsequent logical node. The system... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080215646 - Extensible file system: An extensible file system format for portable storage media is provided. The extensible file system format includes the specification of primary and secondary directory entry types that may be custom defined. The primary and secondary directory entry types can be further classified as critical and benign directory entries.... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080215647 - Naming protocol for extensible file systems: An extensible file system format for portable storage media is provided. The extensible file system format includes the specification of primary and secondary directory entry types that may be custom defined. The primary and secondary directory entry types can be further classified as critical and benign directory entries.... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080215644 - Processing a data array with a meandering scanning order using a circular buffer memory: The present invention relates to a data buffering device (600) particularly suited for use in a data processing device (700), which sequentially provides a two-dimensional array of data structures in a meandering manner. The data buffering device (600) comprises a circular buffer memory having a number of memory locations and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080215645 - Systems and devices for personalized rendering of digital media content: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing devices capable of the reception and playback of one or more crafted media channels transmitted over an intermittent connection. The one or more channels may be customized by the end user to bias the programming towards individual tastes or moods. The channels may... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080215648 - Efficient parallel bitwise sweep during garbage collection: A method, system, and program for efficient parallel bitwise sweeps of larger objects during garbage collection are provided. During a bitwise sweep, a helper thread scans a mark vector looking for a consecutive sequence of unmarked bits of a sufficient length following a marked bit. Once a consecutive sequence of... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20080215649 - System for detecting program phases with periodic call-stack sampling during garbage collection: detecting phases in a running computer program, creates an activation count associated with each stack frame. The activation count is zeroed whenever a new frame is created in a stack and incremented for each frame encountered during periodic intervals. A phase is detected with an activation whose activation count is... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.