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Data processing: database and file management or data structures October patent listing 10/08

20080262993 - Document management device and document management method: A document management system 21 includes: a document processing apparatus 100 which performs processing such as editing of a document, displaying of a document, etc.; and a document management server 23 which manages division and combining of the document thus created. The document processing apparatus 100 transmits an XML document... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080262996 - Methods and apparatus for indexing and archiving encoded audio/video data: Archival storage and retrieval of audio/video information is described. Audio and/or video information is digitized, compressed and stored in an intermediate archive format (IAF), which preserves the content at a high-enough quality for subsequent retrieval and conversion into various formats required at the time of use or distribution. A single... Agent: Neugeboren O''dowd PC

20080262995 - Multimodal rating system: A method of communicating information about a product evaluation between a system having a data store and a wireless client device is discussed. The method includes receiving a signal representative of an audible indication from the client device via a wireless communication link identifying the product about which evaluation information... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080262994 - Populating requests to multiple destinations using a mass request: A method, system and computer program product for communicating requests to multiple destinations in a business transaction are disclosed. A mass request is communicated to a processing center, the mass request including an identification portion and a content portion. The identification portion is used to obtain a parent attribute common... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080262999 - Handling of queries of transient and persistent data: A query of a meta-object facility repository that includes transient data being modified or processed in memory and persisted data can be received. Thereafter, portions of the received query can be executed on partitions associated with the persisted data and other portions of the received query can be executed on... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C. Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64280

20080262997 - Information processing method and information processing system: There is provided an information processing method for managing a large amount of data by dividing the data between a plurality of processors. Each processing module holds a local information block containing a pointer arrangement containing information specifying the item value number in the order of records of the table-formatted... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20080263001 - System and method for automating data partitioning in a parallel database: A system for automating data partitioning in a parallel database includes plural nodes connected in parallel. Each node includes a database server and two databases connected thereto. Each database server includes a query optimizer. Moreover, a partitioning advisor communicates with the database server and the query optimizer. The query optimizer... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080262998 - Systems and methods for personalizing a newspaper: Systems and methods for presenting news information and personalizing presentation of news information are disclosed. Users are presented with a selectable, visual representation of the news information. Users can access additional news information and/or a personalized newspaper by selecting a visual representation of the news information. Systems and methods for... Agent: Jennifer Hayes Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080263000 - Utilizing aggregated data: The present invention describes a method for receiving data within an aggregation facility, precalculating, and fixing a dimension of the data table. The data may be aggregated, wherein at least one data dimension remains flexible. An analytic query may be received that is associated with at least one data dimension.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080263016 - Accessible service provider clearinghouse: A service that maintains a minimum criteria level for service providers to be listed and available for public access. It can list not only the service provider's credentials and insurance support (with monitored expiration dates), but may also provide a current up-to-date rating system by the users themselves, as to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080263008 - Apparatus and method for optimizing descendant path evaluation in xpath/xquery: An apparatus and method for optimizing descendant path evaluation in XPath/XQuery includes generating a list of unique paths in a tree structure of an XML document. Each unique path includes one or more nodes of the tree structure. A query is received specifying a descendant node for retrieval from the... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080263002 - Base sequence retrieval apparatus: An apparatus, method, etc. that in designing of the base sequence of, for example, siRNA, realize high-speed retrieval any genes containing analogous base sequences without omission. Accordingly, retrieval is carried out in such a manner that two partial sequences of given length and any extra part are identified from inputted... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20080263006 - Concurrent searching of structured and unstructured data: The present disclosure relates to methods, systems, and software for querying heterogeneous business data comprising structured data and unstructured data. The structured data and unstructured data may be stored across one or more repositories. The combined query may be initiated when the system receives a query for the heterogeneous business... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080263005 - Framework for the dynamic generation of a search engine sitemap xml file: The present invention relates to a method for the generation of a Sitemap XML file. The method comprises retrieving input parameter values and determining at least one target entity (an online retail store) within a target environment (a retailer) for which a search engine sitemap definition page will be generated... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rsw

20080263015 - Generalized language independent index storage system and searching method: The invention may be embodied as a system having and/or a method utilizing a searchable database of index information. Each index in the database may have (a) at least one descriptor, which matches an entry that a user might provide in order to identify an item, (b) a first pointer... Agent: Hodgson Russ LLP The Guaranty Building

20080263007 - Managing archived data: This disclosure provides various embodiments of systems, methods, and software for managing archived data. For example, software for archiving data may receive a request to archive an unstructured data object and archive the unstructured data object into an archive object in an offline storage media. The archive object is associated... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080263004 - Method and apparatus for helping user form structured diagram from unstructured information source: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for helping a user form a structured diagram from an unstructured information source. Starting with one or more key information elements such as some special words, the requests of a customer contained in the information source can be obtained by performing interactive... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080263003 - Method and apparatus for increasing query traffic to a web site: In one embodiment, a method for increasing query traffic to a web site includes providing initial information pertaining to an initial object for presentation to a user, and providing connection information identifying a logical connection between the initial object and one or more additional objects for presentation to the user.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080263014 - Method, device and program for personal information management: Method, device, and computer program for managing information relating to a person, including a stage of storing at least one item, wherein the stage of storing includes selecting an item which is to be saved; assigning to the item one or several identifying markers, wherein the markers are based on... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080263013 - System and method for creating a list of shared information on a peer-to-peer network: Today information Peer-to-Peer networks sometimes share improper information. Embodiments of the invention solve this problem by creating a list of shared information for analysis. In particular, a method or corresponding apparatus of an example embodiment includes a network node to obtain one or more searches from a Peer-to-Peer network. Next,... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080263009 - System and method for sharing of search query information across organizational boundaries: Disclosed is a method and system for capturing and reporting information relating to an organization's queries, such as Internet search queries generated by particular groups within an organization, and making such information available to others to support various decisions organizations must make. The search activity of search-level users may be... Agent: Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP Attn: Gregory M Stone

20080263017 - System for unordered relational database retrieval returning distinct values: The retrieval of distinct tuples in a relational database management system. In response to a request from a consumer process for distinct tuples in a relational database table matching a defined criteria, a distinct operator component sequentially requests tuples from a source component. The source component access the database table... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080263011 - Systems and methods for a consumer to determine food/medicine interactions: One embodiment of the present invention relates to systems and methods for detecting harmful and/or hazardous ingredients that may cause an allergic reaction, interfere with the effectiveness of a prescription drug, exacerbate symptoms associated with a chronic illness, and/or cause another undesired reaction.... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080263010 - Techniques to selectively access meeting content: Techniques to selectively access meeting content are described. An apparatus may comprise a capture module operative to record multiple data tracks from multiple sources for a multimedia event, a publishing module operative to publish the recorded multiple data tracks in a universal format, an authentication module operative to authenticate a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080263018 - Method and system for mapping business objects to relational database tables: A method comprises receiving information from a user and passing the information to an SQL builder. The method further comprises accessing a configuration file, and based on the contents of the configuration file, determining an appropriate database type. One or more SQL statements are generated, and the one or more... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080263019 - Natural language query processing: An enhanced natural language information retrieval technique tokenizes an incoming query, comparing the tokenized representation against a collection of query templates. Query templates include a first portion having one or more query patterns representative of a query and in a form suitable for matching the tokenized representation of an incoming... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080263029 - Adaptive archive data management: In one embodiment, input is received from a user defining a classification and an analytic for the classification. Multiple classifications and analytics may be defined by a user. A definition of relevance parameters is determined that characterize the classification and a set of analytics measures associated with the analytic. The... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080263020 - Content providing system, content providing apparatus and method, content distribution server, and content receiving terminal: A content providing system includes a content distribution server and a content receiving terminal connected to each other through a communication channel. The content receiving terminal includes an operation input unit specifying one point on a line, a time information output unit outputting the specified point as time information, a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080263024 - Electronic device with a ranking of applications based on location and method of using the same: The present invention provides for a portable electronics device and a method of using the same. In one embodiment, the portable electronics device is comprised of (1) a position locator for determining an approximate location of the device; (2) an application correlator for correlating the approximate location with an application;... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Lsi Corporation

20080263023 - Indexing and search query processing: A method for processing a search query according to one embodiment includes receiving a search query containing terms; looking up at least some of the terms in a search index for identifying sections of documents containing the at least some of the terms; generating a content score for each of... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080263031 - Method and apparatus for creating searches in peer-to-peer networks: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for creating searches in peer-to-peer networks includes forming clusters comprising data from a user's media library and formulating at least one search request message in accordance with the clusters. Formation of the clusters may be guided at least in part by data... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080263030 - Method and apparatus for managing peer-to-peer search results: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for processing a search request message received over a network includes computing a threshold value in accordance with the search request message and returning at least one search result to a user in response to the search request message, if a rank... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080263021 - Methods of object search and recognition: The proposed technical solution allows processing of machine-readable forms of unfixed format. An auxiliary brief description may be optionally specified to determine the spatial orientation of the image. A method of searching for elements of a document comprises the following main operations in addition to the operations of preliminary image... Agent: Abbyy Software Ltd. Attn. Sergey Platonov

20080263027 - Portable data storage apparatus and method of allowing user to select digital data using the portable data storage apparatus: A data storage apparatus includes a data storage unit which stores digital data; a metadata storage unit which stores metadata regarding a plurality of categories for a plurality of pieces of digital data including the digital data stored in the data storage unit; a search criterion input unit which receives... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080263028 - Report search method, report search system, and reviewing apparatus: In order to achieve the above object, the present invention has a configuration in which an image of a defective appearance and supplementary information on the image are memorized as a report file as one unit in a database for an observation result of the defective appearance of a sample... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080263022 - System and method for searching and displaying text-based information contained within documents on a database: This invention provides a system method for search and displaying text-based documents, based upon user-input search terms that organizes and displays documentary search results in a series of clusters of documents that have been sorted in a manner that relates to the general relevance of those documents to the search... Agent: Hinckley, Allen & Snyder, LLP

20080263026 - Techniques for detecting duplicate web pages: Techniques are disclosed for detecting web pages with duplicate content. In one embodiment, a set of shingles is computed for each page of a group of pages. An aggregate set of shingles is determined based on the sets of shingles computed for the group of pages. A first subset from... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080263025 - Use of natural search click events to augment online campaigns: A method is described for augmenting sponsored search results in a search engine, which includes extracting attribute data from a plurality of natural searches for a search term linked to a plurality of uniform resource locators (URLs), analyzing the attribute data of one or more attributes for clickers and non-clickers... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080263036 - Document search apparatus, document search method, program, and storage medium: An apparatus is configured to search for a document including a plurality of image components. The apparatus designates a key image to be used as a search key for an image search, sets a pattern of appearance in a document of the image component equivalent to the designated key image... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080263035 - Grouping business partners in e-business transaction: A method, system and computer program product for conducting an electronic business are disclosed. An attribute of a business partner is used to identify the business partner. Business partners having the same attribute will be grouped as a business partner group. The business partner group will be used in conducting... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080263033 - Indexing and searching product identifiers: A method for indexing a product identifier and logical parts thereof according to one embodiment of the present invention includes receiving a product identifier; splitting the product identifier into logical parts; indexing the product identifier and the individual logical parts in association with a particular document or portion thereof in... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080263041 - Method and apparatus for automatic detection and identification of unidentified broadcast audio or video signals: A system and method of detecting unidentified broadcast electronic media content using a self-similarity technique is presented. The process and system catalogues repeated instances of content that has not be positively identified, but are sufficiently similar as to infer repetitive broadcasts. These catalogued instances may be further processed on the... Agent: Ted Sabety, C/o Sabety +associates, PLLC

20080263037 - Method and apparatus for indicating content search results: The present description provides a method and an apparatus of indicating content search results. According to an embodiment of the present description, provided is a method of indicating content search results, comprising: inputting a search keyword; searching a match of the keyword among displayed contents and determining a location of... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20080263034 - Method and apparatus for querying between software objects: A query fetches data from a source software object into a target software object using services and data types of the source software object. The target software object can then provide additional services which are not provided by the source software object.... Agent: Sap Ag

20080263038 - Method and system for finding a focus of a document: Method and apparatus for finding the focus of a document. A semantic network includes a plurality of nodes, each representing a concept, and links, connecting the nodes, representing relations between the concepts is used. The method including: providing a list of terms in an input document which match concepts represented... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080263039 - Pattern-matching system: An XML parsing system includes a pattern-matching system 1 that receives an input stream 2 of characters corresponding to the XML document to be parsed, and provides an output 3 for subsequent processing in software by a processor 4. The pattern matching system 1 includes two main components, a controller... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080263040 - System and method for making a face call: A system and method for making a face call is provided. The method includes receiving (402) a first picture, where the first picture is sent from a first communication device (102) by a first user. Further, the method includes performing a visual search (404) of the first picture and presenting... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080263032 - Unstructured and semistructured document processing and searching: A method for analyzing and indexing an unstructured or semistructured document according to one embodiment includes receiving an unstructured or semistructured document; converting the document to one or more text streams; analyzing the one or more text streams for identifying textual contents of the document; analyzing the one or more... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080263042 - Object similarity search in high-dimensional vector spaces: An object search system generates a hierarchical clustering of objects of a collection based on similarity of the objects. The object search system generates a separate hierarchical clustering of objects for multiple features of the objects. To identify objects similar to a target object, the object search system first generates... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080263044 - Mechanism for data aggregation in a tracing framework: A method is disclosed for obtaining data from a kernel, including obtaining data from the kernel, and storing the data in a data set an aggregation buffer using an aggregation function. A method is disclosed for storing data in a data set, wherein the data set includes a key component,... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080263043 - System and method for processing concurrent file system write requests: A method for processing concurrent write operations in a computer system, the method comprising a first step of copying data residing in one or more source buffers to a contiguous intermediate buffer, prior to acquiring a lock for a write operation. In a second step, on acquiring the lock performing... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080263048 - File access management system: The present invention provides systems and methods for a medical record and image and data managing system for storing electronic records and data from multiple sources including but not limited to medical databases and file capture or data storage and file management systems and then making the data and the... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20080263046 - Media portion selection system and method: A device may store a media file. A portion of the media file may be identified and played back in response to an event associated with the device. In one implementation, a portion of an existing audio file may be used as a ring tone in response to a received... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080263047 - Method and apparatus for implementing user personalized operation of chemistry analyzer: The present invention discloses a user personalized operating method and operating apparatus for use in a Chemistry analyzer, said method comprises following steps: initiating the operating software of the Chemistry analyzer; loading a profile, said profile comprising at least a database containing combinations of controls for respective users; retrieving configuration... Agent: Mindray C/o VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20080263045 - Multi-tiered secured information hub: A multi-tiered, secured information hub includes a plurality of information folders each containing information provided by an account owner. An Manage Account section permits the account owner to designate authorized users who have permission to access the information hub and to designate which portions of the information can be viewed... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20080263049 - Autonomic management of uniform resource identifiers in uniform resource identifier bookmark lists: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to URI management for bookmarks and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for autonomic management of URIs in a URI bookmark list. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for autonomically managing... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080263050 - Decision support response systems and methods: A computer-implemented method for managing data for a clinical decision support system includes providing a computer management system including a server and a database, and downloading the decision support system onto the computer management system. The decision support system includes a plurality of rules and receives data. The method also... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (12553 - 1000)

20080263056 - Electronic content asset publication system: The Electronic Content Asset Publication System operates as an overlay application on the native multi-media communication network to receive individual subscriber requests for a selected electronic content asset and deliver that asset to the requesting subscriber. This system acquires, stores, publishes, distributes, accesses and processes electronic content on demand and... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20080263054 - Knowledge archival and recollection systems and methods: A computer implemented method of recording user activity in a knowledge archival and recollection system, comprising: initiating a network browser plug-in on detecting that a network browser has been opened; providing at least one file to a user from the network; transmitting and storing at least one file to a... Agent: Meredith & Keyhani, PLLC

20080263057 - Methods and apparatus for transferring data: Methods and apparatus for data transfer according to various aspects of the present invention operate in conjunction with acquiring file segments associated with a sequence, and may include requesting a preceding file segment in the sequence from a faster and/or more reliable source, such as a file server, and requesting... Agent: The Noblitt Group, PLLC

20080263052 - Multi-format centralized distribution of localized resources for multiple products: A multi-format centralized framework for the distribution of resources. The framework allows product teams to update resources independent of a product build process and, to store and distribute the resources from a central repository (a shared resource server system) in multiple formats. The central repository includes a storage structure that... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080263053 - System and method for creating online social-networks and historical archives based on shared life experiences: The invention is an online social-networking site that enables users to form relationships based on shared life experiences while creating a valuable and easily accessible database of historical material. Unlike existing sites, which allow users to create digital albums that are then shared with friends and relatives, the subject site... Agent: Stallman & Pollock LLP

20080263058 - System and method for tenant screening: A system and method for collecting and dispersing information for the purpose of tenant screening includes, according to one exemplary embodiment, a database configured to both receive information regarding tenants and also provide information to landlords about potential tenants. Landlords registered with a consumer information bureau for the purpose of... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080263051 - System for management of a professional employment organization using best suited heterogeneous systems: According to one example embodiment, the inventive subject matter herein provides a system that integrates a plurality of heterogeneous systems in support of a Professional Employment Organization (PEO). According to one example embodiment, the system of the inventive subject matter connects a plurality of heterogeneous systems using a shared data... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080263055 - Taxonomy-based platform for comprehensive health care management: A Web-Native, HIPAA compliant technology provides for real-time management of incident workflow and the delivery of actionable knowledge throughout the healthcare provider organization. More particularly, the technology provides a web-based data capture, analysis and workflow management solution that simplifies the data capture, validation, and submission of health care safety event... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080263012 - Post-recording data analysis and retrieval: When making digital data recordings using some form of computer or calculator, data is input in a variety of ways and stored on some form of electronic medium. During this process calculations and transformations are performed on the data to optimize it for storage. This invention involves designing the calculations... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080263066 - Data management system, data registration device, data retrieval device, data management method and program: A technology is provided of obtaining a retrieval result suited for a user' desire in a case of retrieving data expressed by the code system such as UNICODE in which techniques of expressing one character exist in plural. With registration data including a composing character or a compatibility character, a... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080263065 - Data perturbation of non-unique values: In embodiments of the present invention, improved capabilities are described for perturbing non-unique values may comprise finding the non-unique values in a data table, perturbing the non-unique values to render unique values, and using the non-unique values as an identifier for a data item.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080263064 - File processing method and apparatus for mobile terminal using an external device: The present invention relates to a file processing method and an apparatus for a mobile terminal using an external device. The file processing apparatus includes a storage unit to store files, and a control unit to divide a data file into a file header and a file body, to store... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080263059 - File profiling to minimize fragmentation: A storage device implements a file profiling mechanism to minimize fragmentation. A plurality of files is organized according to a high or low read/write access frequency. A plurality of unchanging file types are placed in a first grouping. A plurality of oscillating file types are placed in a second grouping... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080263067 - Method and system for entering and retrieving content from an electronic diary: An electronic diary that receives diary annotations, derives metadata from the diary annotations, and stores the diary annotations and the derived metadata. The electronic diary may provide user feedback in response to receiving the diary annotations. The electronic diary may render a previously stored diary annotation based on a correlation... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080263062 - Method and system for including data quality in data streams: A method and system are described for including data quality in data streams. An example method may include obtaining a first group of data items, each data item including one or more data attribute values. A first group of data quality items may be determined, each data quality item including... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080263068 - Method of hierarchical processing of a document and system therefor: The present invention discloses a method for processing document data, wherein the document data comprises at least one page in order and the page comprising at least one layer in order, the method comprises: managing and controlling the at least one layer respectively. The technical scheme of the present invention... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080263060 - Policy-based access control approach to staff activities of a business process: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for dynamically binding business process activities to human entities at deployment time. Identification information about a staff activity in a business process is received from a process server at an access control system external to the process server. Responsive... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080263061 - Self-tuning index for flash-based databases: Techniques for self-tuning indices for databases, including flash-based databases, are described. Using a data tree structure wherein the nodes of the data tree may operate in two modes (e.g. disk mode or log mode), a self-tuning index determines whether it is more economical to perform a requested operation on a... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080263063 - Translating late bound linq expressions into database queries: There is alteration of a late-bound expression produced by a compiler into an early-bound structure. Alteration of the late-bound expression can occur at runtime and a visitor pattern can be used to create the alteration. In one instance, a conversion from late-bound to early-bound takes place through replacing a late-bound... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080263069 - User association of a computing application with a contact in a contact list: Methods and systems may be provided for user association of a computing application with a contact in a contact list. A view of one or more contacts of the user may be transmitted to a user, the view included a first contact. A request may be received from the user... Agent: Sutherland Ii

20080263070 - Common drawing objects: A transparent format can be used to store the content of shape objects so that documents authored by different types of applications can uniformly share information related to the shape objects. Shape objects comprise, for example, properties such as geometries, lines, fills, size and the like. The properties can have... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080263074 - Data conversion system and method: A method and computer program product for receiving a first digital content. The first digital content is processed using a content processing algorithm to generate a second digital content. A value is associated with the processing of the first digital content, thus defining a processing fee.... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080263073 - Detecting apparatus, system, program, and detecting method: A detecting apparatus including a cluster storing unit that stores, for each of clusters into which execution time of previously executed monitored tasks are classified, the range of execution times belonging to the cluster, an acquiring unit that acquires an execution time of the monitored task in response to new... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080263072 - Methods of encoding a combining integer lists in a computer system, and computer software product for implementing such methods: A range covering integers of an input list is divided into subsets according to a predetermined pattern. The encoding produces coding data including, for each subset containing at least one integer of the input list, data representing the position of this subset in the pattern, and data representing the position... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080263071 - Systems and methods for driverless imaging of documents: A method for driverless imaging of documents may include a direct imaging application on a client sending an imaging request message to another device, which may be a direct imaging server or a target imaging device. In response to receiving the imaging request message, the device may create an imaging... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080263075 - Data processing in a mediation or service provisioning system: Embodiments of the invention include a data processing system and method for processing data in a mediation or service provisioning system of a communications network. In the invention, a special logic definition structure is formed based on the processing logic. The logic definition structure is designed so that it is... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20080263079 - Data recovery in an enterprise data storage system: Systems and methods (i.e. the “utility”) presented herein generally provide for data recovery and use of backup data for various applications. More specifically, the utility provides a means for testing data recovery and other database applications on actual data without interfering with general database functionality. For example, the utility may... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080263076 - Dynamic group creation or reconfiguration based upon available metadata: The present invention relates to a method for the dynamic creation or reconfiguration of a contact group listing based upon retrieved metadata. The method comprising identifying a contact that is to be added to a primary contact list, the primary contact list being configured to be accessed by at least... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20080263080 - Group visualization system and sensor-network system: A group visualization system generates a tree structure having a hierachical structure by arranging data built up by a sensor network using small nameplates and further generates an organization topographical diagram expressing group dynamics from the tree structure. True roles of persons and true groups that have not appeared so... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080263081 - Method, system, and storage medium for providing a dynamic, multi-dimensional commodity modeling process: An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method, system, and storage medium for providing a dynamic multi-dimensional commodity modeling process. The system includes a data collection component operable for collecting raw data, a dynamic multi-dimensional commodity model component, and a commodity tree generated by the dynamic multi-dimensional commodity... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080263082 - Recovery segment identification in a computing infrastructure: A solution for managing a computer infrastructure is provided. In particular, the solution can generate a set of tentative recovery segments for the computer infrastructure based on a related resource graph and a set of partition rules. The related resource graph can be generated based on a managed resource graph,... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080263078 - Runtime class database operation: Programmers typically like operating with databases through use of classes. Classes allow a user to function with a database through use of a non-database programming language. To ease use of the classes, a class context is generated at runtime that does not force a programmer to handle various source files... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080263083 - Synchronizing logical systems: A storage control unit detects a change in a configuration of a plurality of logical subsystems included in the storage control unit. The storage control unit sends a notification, wherein the notification indicates the change in the configuration of the plurality of logical subsystems. The storage control unit receives data... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080263077 - Systems, methods, website and computer products for service ticket consolidation and display: Systems, methods, website and computer products for service ticket consolidation and display. Exemplary embodiments include a service ticket display method, including generating a service ticket from a ticket service application, storing the service ticket in a database, accessing the ticket from the database through a ticket display application and displaying... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - At&t

20080263084 - Configuration management database and system: A configuration management database (CMDB) comprising a plurality of statements, where in the statements comprise a first item identifying a resource, a second item identifying an object, and a third item identifying a relationship between the resource and the object, and wherein the statements are made in a markup language.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080263085 - Describing expected entity relationships in a model: Defining target data types within an instance of a target data type definition for inclusion in a reference data type definition to declare expected entity relationships in a model. The model corresponds to, for example, software, a business process, or an organizational structure. The target data type defines one or... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20080263087 - Forming information for the calendar application of an electronic device: The invention relates to an electronic device, which includes a calendar application (CAL), in which event (EVENT) information is arranged to be maintained and processing means (CPU, OCR), which are arranged to form event information from the image information for the calendar application, which image information is formed from an... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080263088 - Spatial data management system and method: A spatial data management system including a spatial database maintained in computer memory, the spatial database including one or more position data sets, the position data sets including respective objective identifiers, geographical data and date/time data. The system also includes an analysis engine configured to retrieve one or more position... Agent: Compudigm Services Inc.

20080263086 - Systems and methods for information exchange using object warehousing: Embodiments of the present invention improve information exchange, and in particular, the exchange of data objects between different software systems. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method of exchanging information comprising analyzing the attributes of the objects. Objects may be stored in a repository and retrieved using attributes.... Agent: Fountainhead Law Group P.C.

20080263089 - Transaction-based storage system and method that uses variable sized objects to store data: The present invention provides a storage system for storing variable sized objects. The storage system is preferably a transaction-based system that uses variable sized objects to store data. The storage system is preferably implemented using arrays disks that are arranged in ranks. Each rank includes multiple stripes. Each stripe may... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080263090 - Enabling interactive integration of network-accessible applications in a content aggregation framework: Enabling network-accessible applications to be integrated into content aggregation frameworks (such as portals) and to become dynamically interactive through proxying components (such as proxying portlets), thereby providing run-time cooperation and data sharing.... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20080263091 - Asynchronous linked data structure traversal: Asynchronously traversing a disjoint linked data structure is presented. A synergistic processing unit (SPU) includes a handler that works in conjunction with a memory flow controller (MFC) to traverse a disjoint linked data structure. The handler compares a search value with a node value, and provides the MFC with an... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080263099 - Affinity based social agent: Systems and methods associated with selectively initiating a social interaction based on affinity between personal electronic devices are described. One example system includes a data store to store playable content and a content organization logic to create a playlist of playable content. The system may include a communication circuit to... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay

20080263097 - Dual-purpose gis data system: Embodiments of the present invention recite method for implementing a dual purpose Geographic Information Systems (GIS) network. In one embodiment, a first data stream which is compatible with a dedicated GIS data collection device is generated. The method further comprises generating a second data stream which is compatible with a... Agent: Trimble Navigation Limited C/o Wagner Blecher

20080263093 - Generation of a set of pre-filters from a set of event subscriptions to more efficiently select events of interest: A method, system and computer program product for achieving a balance between pre-filter efficiency and pre-filter throughput. Event subscriptions are obtained for a given event consumer. The event subscriptions define the events to be routed to this event consumer. Pre-filters of varying complexity and filtering power are constructed based on... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wsm) C/o Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.

20080263096 - Method and system for managing data quality: A method and system are described for managing data quality. An example method may include obtaining a first data stream interval including a first group of data items and a first aggregated data quality value associated with a quality of obtaining the first group, each data item including data attribute... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080263095 - Method and system for navigating electronic documents using an electronic device: A method of navigating an electronic document using an electronic device may include obtaining by the electronic device, an electronic document having one or more navigation elements, and, for each navigation element, automatically generating a corresponding code. The electronic document may be displayed on a display area of the electronic... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080263100 - Method and system for the managing vehicle data: A method for managing vehicle data of a motor vehicle includes storing the vehicle data in an on-board memory. The stored vehicle data is associated with the vehicle using a vehicle identifier. The stored data is transmitted via a telecommunications connection to a data processing center of a telecommunications network.... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080263094 - Multi-rendered multimedia site generation apparatus, systems, and methods: Apparatus, systems, and methods disclosed herein may download one or more sets of presentation rendering property values (PRPVs) to a client processing device. Each set of PRPVs may be associated with a set of presentation characteristics of a sensory output device (SOD) used to present a multimedia presentation, a state... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080263092 - System for correlating psychological profile to customized environment: A method of producing a customized environment for a client includes the steps of identifying the psychological profile of the human client as at least one of a plurality of predetermined psychological profile types. A plurality of selectable personal environment types are determined, and a psychological profile type of the... Agent: Rohm & Monsanto, PLC

20080263098 - Systems and methods for portable personalized radio: Systems and methods for delivering personalized content streams over a variety of devices and networks are disclosed. A user's preferences, customizations, and content are made available to the user through specialized clients for home, car, office, and portable environments. In order to enable personalized content streams on devices that are... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080263101 - Data processing device and data processing method: In FIG. 1, upon reading out a definition file that provides a function of integrating fragments stored in multiple document files, a document processing apparatus 20 reads out the multiple document files, integrates these fragments so as to build a virtual document, and displays the virtual document. Such an arrangement... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080263103 - Digital asset management system (dams): A digital asset management system (DAMS) provides an integrated user experience for the rapid and facile manipulation of a users digital assets in an online environment. Spanning the spectrum of digital assets, the DAMS system set forth herein enables users to tag, filter, collect, and show such digital assets in... Agent: Cislo & Thomas LLP

20080263102 - File management apparatus, file management method and program: A file management apparatus for managing registered files selects multiple files from the registered files, and integrates date stored in the selected files and stores the integrated date in a single file. Then, the file management apparatus calculates a hash value of the file, obtains a time stamp generated based... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080263104 - Updating a data warehouse schema based on changes in an observation model: A method, information processing system, and computer readable medium for modifying at least one data warehouse schema based on detected changes in an associated observation model are disclosed. The method includes determining if at least one new observation model has been created. The method also includes determining if at least... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20080263105 - Method for analyzing data and data analysis apparatus: When logs are analyzed, an analysis with consistency is carried out on the presumption that shifting occurs among time stamps of logs output from a plurality of apparatuses engaged in time correction amount. In a log analysis apparatus which receives logs from a plurality of computers for generating a plurality... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080263106 - Database queuing and distributed computing: This disclosure relates to a high performance database queuing method and apparatus which supports reliable service-oriented architecture. The servers and clients add tasks to the queues, which are database table with records that point to other records in other tables. The application servers pick up tasks in priority (first-in-first-out) order... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20080263107 - Conflict management in a versioned file system: Multiple files in a versioned file system are grouped to form a fusion unit on a server. The fusion unit is exposed to a client as a browsable folder having separate files. When the server receives an indication of a change to file belonging to the fusion unit, the server... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080263110 - Apparatus and method for storing data: The present application provides a storage apparatus for storing data. The storage apparatus comprises storage means for storing data, committing means for committing the availability of a certain storage space to a source device, detecting means for detecting the availability of the certain storage space to produce a detection result,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080263112 - Method and system for electronic file lifecycle management: A method and system for managing a file lifecycle is disclosed. The method incorporates a virtual file cabinet having virtual drawers. Files are moved from drawer to drawer throughout their lifecycle in accordance with policies associated with each drawer. The files are moved automatically and as such, a file's lifecycle... Agent: Venable LLP

20080263109 - Seeding replication: Seeding replication is disclosed. One or more but not all files stored on a deduplicated storage system are selected to be replicated. One or more segments referred to by the selected one or more but not all files are determined. A data structure is created that is used to indicate... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080263111 - Storage operation management program and method and a storage management computer: A managing computer (manager) manages replication of data areas inside a storage or among storages. A storage volume management module of the manager manages policy of the volume and its properties. When replication of a volume is set, a volume of a replication destination appropriate for a volume of a... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080263108 - System, method, and software for managing information retention using uniform retention rules: Systems, methods, and software for archiving structured data and associated unstructured data associated are disclosed. Particularly, the structured and unstructured data are archived such that the structured data and the unstructured data remain associated to each other. Properties of the structured data are also applied to the unstructured data, enabling... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080263113 - Storage system and method: A storage system comprising apparatus for consolidating portions of free space from a plurality of remote storage units; and apparatus for presenting the consolidated portions as a single file system.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080263114 - Efficient access of flash databases: Techniques for efficient access to flash databases are described. In one implementation, a method includes performing an operation on a flash database, supplementing at least one portion of a node translation table corresponding to at least one node involved in the operation, and semantically compressing at least one portion of... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080262993 - Document management device and document management method: A document management system 21 includes: a document processing apparatus 100 which performs processing such as editing of a document, displaying of a document, etc.; and a document management server 23 which manages division and combining of the document thus created. The document processing apparatus 100 transmits an XML document... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080262996 - Methods and apparatus for indexing and archiving encoded audio/video data: Archival storage and retrieval of audio/video information is described. Audio and/or video information is digitized, compressed and stored in an intermediate archive format (IAF), which preserves the content at a high-enough quality for subsequent retrieval and conversion into various formats required at the time of use or distribution. A single... Agent: Neugeboren O''dowd PC

20080262995 - Multimodal rating system: A method of communicating information about a product evaluation between a system having a data store and a wireless client device is discussed. The method includes receiving a signal representative of an audible indication from the client device via a wireless communication link identifying the product about which evaluation information... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080262994 - Populating requests to multiple destinations using a mass request: A method, system and computer program product for communicating requests to multiple destinations in a business transaction are disclosed. A mass request is communicated to a processing center, the mass request including an identification portion and a content portion. The identification portion is used to obtain a parent attribute common... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080262999 - Handling of queries of transient and persistent data: A query of a meta-object facility repository that includes transient data being modified or processed in memory and persisted data can be received. Thereafter, portions of the received query can be executed on partitions associated with the persisted data and other portions of the received query can be executed on... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C. Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64280

20080262997 - Information processing method and information processing system: There is provided an information processing method for managing a large amount of data by dividing the data between a plurality of processors. Each processing module holds a local information block containing a pointer arrangement containing information specifying the item value number in the order of records of the table-formatted... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20080263001 - System and method for automating data partitioning in a parallel database: A system for automating data partitioning in a parallel database includes plural nodes connected in parallel. Each node includes a database server and two databases connected thereto. Each database server includes a query optimizer. Moreover, a partitioning advisor communicates with the database server and the query optimizer. The query optimizer... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080262998 - Systems and methods for personalizing a newspaper: Systems and methods for presenting news information and personalizing presentation of news information are disclosed. Users are presented with a selectable, visual representation of the news information. Users can access additional news information and/or a personalized newspaper by selecting a visual representation of the news information. Systems and methods for... Agent: Jennifer Hayes Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080263000 - Utilizing aggregated data: The present invention describes a method for receiving data within an aggregation facility, precalculating, and fixing a dimension of the data table. The data may be aggregated, wherein at least one data dimension remains flexible. An analytic query may be received that is associated with at least one data dimension.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080263016 - Accessible service provider clearinghouse: A service that maintains a minimum criteria level for service providers to be listed and available for public access. It can list not only the service provider's credentials and insurance support (with monitored expiration dates), but may also provide a current up-to-date rating system by the users themselves, as to... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080263008 - Apparatus and method for optimizing descendant path evaluation in xpath/xquery: An apparatus and method for optimizing descendant path evaluation in XPath/XQuery includes generating a list of unique paths in a tree structure of an XML document. Each unique path includes one or more nodes of the tree structure. A query is received specifying a descendant node for retrieval from the... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080263002 - Base sequence retrieval apparatus: An apparatus, method, etc. that in designing of the base sequence of, for example, siRNA, realize high-speed retrieval any genes containing analogous base sequences without omission. Accordingly, retrieval is carried out in such a manner that two partial sequences of given length and any extra part are identified from inputted... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20080263006 - Concurrent searching of structured and unstructured data: The present disclosure relates to methods, systems, and software for querying heterogeneous business data comprising structured data and unstructured data. The structured data and unstructured data may be stored across one or more repositories. The combined query may be initiated when the system receives a query for the heterogeneous business... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080263005 - Framework for the dynamic generation of a search engine sitemap xml file: The present invention relates to a method for the generation of a Sitemap XML file. The method comprises retrieving input parameter values and determining at least one target entity (an online retail store) within a target environment (a retailer) for which a search engine sitemap definition page will be generated... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rsw

20080263015 - Generalized language independent index storage system and searching method: The invention may be embodied as a system having and/or a method utilizing a searchable database of index information. Each index in the database may have (a) at least one descriptor, which matches an entry that a user might provide in order to identify an item, (b) a first pointer... Agent: Hodgson Russ LLP The Guaranty Building

20080263007 - Managing archived data: This disclosure provides various embodiments of systems, methods, and software for managing archived data. For example, software for archiving data may receive a request to archive an unstructured data object and archive the unstructured data object into an archive object in an offline storage media. The archive object is associated... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080263004 - Method and apparatus for helping user form structured diagram from unstructured information source: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for helping a user form a structured diagram from an unstructured information source. Starting with one or more key information elements such as some special words, the requests of a customer contained in the information source can be obtained by performing interactive... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080263003 - Method and apparatus for increasing query traffic to a web site: In one embodiment, a method for increasing query traffic to a web site includes providing initial information pertaining to an initial object for presentation to a user, and providing connection information identifying a logical connection between the initial object and one or more additional objects for presentation to the user.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080263014 - Method, device and program for personal information management: Method, device, and computer program for managing information relating to a person, including a stage of storing at least one item, wherein the stage of storing includes selecting an item which is to be saved; assigning to the item one or several identifying markers, wherein the markers are based on... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080263013 - System and method for creating a list of shared information on a peer-to-peer network: Today information Peer-to-Peer networks sometimes share improper information. Embodiments of the invention solve this problem by creating a list of shared information for analysis. In particular, a method or corresponding apparatus of an example embodiment includes a network node to obtain one or more searches from a Peer-to-Peer network. Next,... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080263009 - System and method for sharing of search query information across organizational boundaries: Disclosed is a method and system for capturing and reporting information relating to an organization's queries, such as Internet search queries generated by particular groups within an organization, and making such information available to others to support various decisions organizations must make. The search activity of search-level users may be... Agent: Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP Attn: Gregory M Stone

20080263017 - System for unordered relational database retrieval returning distinct values: The retrieval of distinct tuples in a relational database management system. In response to a request from a consumer process for distinct tuples in a relational database table matching a defined criteria, a distinct operator component sequentially requests tuples from a source component. The source component access the database table... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080263011 - Systems and methods for a consumer to determine food/medicine interactions: One embodiment of the present invention relates to systems and methods for detecting harmful and/or hazardous ingredients that may cause an allergic reaction, interfere with the effectiveness of a prescription drug, exacerbate symptoms associated with a chronic illness, and/or cause another undesired reaction.... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080263010 - Techniques to selectively access meeting content: Techniques to selectively access meeting content are described. An apparatus may comprise a capture module operative to record multiple data tracks from multiple sources for a multimedia event, a publishing module operative to publish the recorded multiple data tracks in a universal format, an authentication module operative to authenticate a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080263018 - Method and system for mapping business objects to relational database tables: A method comprises receiving information from a user and passing the information to an SQL builder. The method further comprises accessing a configuration file, and based on the contents of the configuration file, determining an appropriate database type. One or more SQL statements are generated, and the one or more... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080263019 - Natural language query processing: An enhanced natural language information retrieval technique tokenizes an incoming query, comparing the tokenized representation against a collection of query templates. Query templates include a first portion having one or more query patterns representative of a query and in a form suitable for matching the tokenized representation of an incoming... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080263029 - Adaptive archive data management: In one embodiment, input is received from a user defining a classification and an analytic for the classification. Multiple classifications and analytics may be defined by a user. A definition of relevance parameters is determined that characterize the classification and a set of analytics measures associated with the analytic. The... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20080263020 - Content providing system, content providing apparatus and method, content distribution server, and content receiving terminal: A content providing system includes a content distribution server and a content receiving terminal connected to each other through a communication channel. The content receiving terminal includes an operation input unit specifying one point on a line, a time information output unit outputting the specified point as time information, a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080263024 - Electronic device with a ranking of applications based on location and method of using the same: The present invention provides for a portable electronics device and a method of using the same. In one embodiment, the portable electronics device is comprised of (1) a position locator for determining an approximate location of the device; (2) an application correlator for correlating the approximate location with an application;... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Lsi Corporation

20080263023 - Indexing and search query processing: A method for processing a search query according to one embodiment includes receiving a search query containing terms; looking up at least some of the terms in a search index for identifying sections of documents containing the at least some of the terms; generating a content score for each of... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080263031 - Method and apparatus for creating searches in peer-to-peer networks: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for creating searches in peer-to-peer networks includes forming clusters comprising data from a user's media library and formulating at least one search request message in accordance with the clusters. Formation of the clusters may be guided at least in part by data... Agent: Moser, Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080263030 - Method and apparatus for managing peer-to-peer search results: One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for processing a search request message received over a network includes computing a threshold value in accordance with the search request message and returning at least one search result to a user in response to the search request message, if a rank... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP

20080263021 - Methods of object search and recognition: The proposed technical solution allows processing of machine-readable forms of unfixed format. An auxiliary brief description may be optionally specified to determine the spatial orientation of the image. A method of searching for elements of a document comprises the following main operations in addition to the operations of preliminary image... Agent: Abbyy Software Ltd. Attn. Sergey Platonov

20080263027 - Portable data storage apparatus and method of allowing user to select digital data using the portable data storage apparatus: A data storage apparatus includes a data storage unit which stores digital data; a metadata storage unit which stores metadata regarding a plurality of categories for a plurality of pieces of digital data including the digital data stored in the data storage unit; a search criterion input unit which receives... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080263028 - Report search method, report search system, and reviewing apparatus: In order to achieve the above object, the present invention has a configuration in which an image of a defective appearance and supplementary information on the image are memorized as a report file as one unit in a database for an observation result of the defective appearance of a sample... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080263022 - System and method for searching and displaying text-based information contained within documents on a database: This invention provides a system method for search and displaying text-based documents, based upon user-input search terms that organizes and displays documentary search results in a series of clusters of documents that have been sorted in a manner that relates to the general relevance of those documents to the search... Agent: Hinckley, Allen & Snyder, LLP

20080263026 - Techniques for detecting duplicate web pages: Techniques are disclosed for detecting web pages with duplicate content. In one embodiment, a set of shingles is computed for each page of a group of pages. An aggregate set of shingles is determined based on the sets of shingles computed for the group of pages. A first subset from... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080263025 - Use of natural search click events to augment online campaigns: A method is described for augmenting sponsored search results in a search engine, which includes extracting attribute data from a plurality of natural searches for a search term linked to a plurality of uniform resource locators (URLs), analyzing the attribute data of one or more attributes for clickers and non-clickers... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080263036 - Document search apparatus, document search method, program, and storage medium: An apparatus is configured to search for a document including a plurality of image components. The apparatus designates a key image to be used as a search key for an image search, sets a pattern of appearance in a document of the image component equivalent to the designated key image... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080263035 - Grouping business partners in e-business transaction: A method, system and computer program product for conducting an electronic business are disclosed. An attribute of a business partner is used to identify the business partner. Business partners having the same attribute will be grouped as a business partner group. The business partner group will be used in conducting... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080263033 - Indexing and searching product identifiers: A method for indexing a product identifier and logical parts thereof according to one embodiment of the present invention includes receiving a product identifier; splitting the product identifier into logical parts; indexing the product identifier and the individual logical parts in association with a particular document or portion thereof in... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080263041 - Method and apparatus for automatic detection and identification of unidentified broadcast audio or video signals: A system and method of detecting unidentified broadcast electronic media content using a self-similarity technique is presented. The process and system catalogues repeated instances of content that has not be positively identified, but are sufficiently similar as to infer repetitive broadcasts. These catalogued instances may be further processed on the... Agent: Ted Sabety, C/o Sabety +associates, PLLC

20080263037 - Method and apparatus for indicating content search results: The present description provides a method and an apparatus of indicating content search results. According to an embodiment of the present description, provided is a method of indicating content search results, comprising: inputting a search keyword; searching a match of the keyword among displayed contents and determining a location of... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20080263034 - Method and apparatus for querying between software objects: A query fetches data from a source software object into a target software object using services and data types of the source software object. The target software object can then provide additional services which are not provided by the source software object.... Agent: Sap Ag

20080263038 - Method and system for finding a focus of a document: Method and apparatus for finding the focus of a document. A semantic network includes a plurality of nodes, each representing a concept, and links, connecting the nodes, representing relations between the concepts is used. The method including: providing a list of terms in an input document which match concepts represented... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080263039 - Pattern-matching system: An XML parsing system includes a pattern-matching system 1 that receives an input stream 2 of characters corresponding to the XML document to be parsed, and provides an output 3 for subsequent processing in software by a processor 4. The pattern matching system 1 includes two main components, a controller... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080263040 - System and method for making a face call: A system and method for making a face call is provided. The method includes receiving (402) a first picture, where the first picture is sent from a first communication device (102) by a first user. Further, the method includes performing a visual search (404) of the first picture and presenting... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080263032 - Unstructured and semistructured document processing and searching: A method for analyzing and indexing an unstructured or semistructured document according to one embodiment includes receiving an unstructured or semistructured document; converting the document to one or more text streams; analyzing the one or more text streams for identifying textual contents of the document; analyzing the one or more... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080263042 - Object similarity search in high-dimensional vector spaces: An object search system generates a hierarchical clustering of objects of a collection based on similarity of the objects. The object search system generates a separate hierarchical clustering of objects for multiple features of the objects. To identify objects similar to a target object, the object search system first generates... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080263044 - Mechanism for data aggregation in a tracing framework: A method is disclosed for obtaining data from a kernel, including obtaining data from the kernel, and storing the data in a data set an aggregation buffer using an aggregation function. A method is disclosed for storing data in a data set, wherein the data set includes a key component,... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080263043 - System and method for processing concurrent file system write requests: A method for processing concurrent write operations in a computer system, the method comprising a first step of copying data residing in one or more source buffers to a contiguous intermediate buffer, prior to acquiring a lock for a write operation. In a second step, on acquiring the lock performing... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080263048 - File access management system: The present invention provides systems and methods for a medical record and image and data managing system for storing electronic records and data from multiple sources including but not limited to medical databases and file capture or data storage and file management systems and then making the data and the... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20080263046 - Media portion selection system and method: A device may store a media file. A portion of the media file may be identified and played back in response to an event associated with the device. In one implementation, a portion of an existing audio file may be used as a ring tone in response to a received... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080263047 - Method and apparatus for implementing user personalized operation of chemistry analyzer: The present invention discloses a user personalized operating method and operating apparatus for use in a Chemistry analyzer, said method comprises following steps: initiating the operating software of the Chemistry analyzer; loading a profile, said profile comprising at least a database containing combinations of controls for respective users; retrieving configuration... Agent: Mindray C/o VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20080263045 - Multi-tiered secured information hub: A multi-tiered, secured information hub includes a plurality of information folders each containing information provided by an account owner. An Manage Account section permits the account owner to designate authorized users who have permission to access the information hub and to designate which portions of the information can be viewed... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20080263049 - Autonomic management of uniform resource identifiers in uniform resource identifier bookmark lists: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to URI management for bookmarks and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for autonomic management of URIs in a URI bookmark list. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for autonomically managing... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080263050 - Decision support response systems and methods: A computer-implemented method for managing data for a clinical decision support system includes providing a computer management system including a server and a database, and downloading the decision support system onto the computer management system. The decision support system includes a plurality of rules and receives data. The method also... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (12553 - 1000)

20080263056 - Electronic content asset publication system: The Electronic Content Asset Publication System operates as an overlay application on the native multi-media communication network to receive individual subscriber requests for a selected electronic content asset and deliver that asset to the requesting subscriber. This system acquires, stores, publishes, distributes, accesses and processes electronic content on demand and... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20080263054 - Knowledge archival and recollection systems and methods: A computer implemented method of recording user activity in a knowledge archival and recollection system, comprising: initiating a network browser plug-in on detecting that a network browser has been opened; providing at least one file to a user from the network; transmitting and storing at least one file to a... Agent: Meredith & Keyhani, PLLC

20080263057 - Methods and apparatus for transferring data: Methods and apparatus for data transfer according to various aspects of the present invention operate in conjunction with acquiring file segments associated with a sequence, and may include requesting a preceding file segment in the sequence from a faster and/or more reliable source, such as a file server, and requesting... Agent: The Noblitt Group, PLLC

20080263052 - Multi-format centralized distribution of localized resources for multiple products: A multi-format centralized framework for the distribution of resources. The framework allows product teams to update resources independent of a product build process and, to store and distribute the resources from a central repository (a shared resource server system) in multiple formats. The central repository includes a storage structure that... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080263053 - System and method for creating online social-networks and historical archives based on shared life experiences: The invention is an online social-networking site that enables users to form relationships based on shared life experiences while creating a valuable and easily accessible database of historical material. Unlike existing sites, which allow users to create digital albums that are then shared with friends and relatives, the subject site... Agent: Stallman & Pollock LLP

20080263058 - System and method for tenant screening: A system and method for collecting and dispersing information for the purpose of tenant screening includes, according to one exemplary embodiment, a database configured to both receive information regarding tenants and also provide information to landlords about potential tenants. Landlords registered with a consumer information bureau for the purpose of... Agent: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080263051 - System for management of a professional employment organization using best suited heterogeneous systems: According to one example embodiment, the inventive subject matter herein provides a system that integrates a plurality of heterogeneous systems in support of a Professional Employment Organization (PEO). According to one example embodiment, the system of the inventive subject matter connects a plurality of heterogeneous systems using a shared data... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080263055 - Taxonomy-based platform for comprehensive health care management: A Web-Native, HIPAA compliant technology provides for real-time management of incident workflow and the delivery of actionable knowledge throughout the healthcare provider organization. More particularly, the technology provides a web-based data capture, analysis and workflow management solution that simplifies the data capture, validation, and submission of health care safety event... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080263012 - Post-recording data analysis and retrieval: When making digital data recordings using some form of computer or calculator, data is input in a variety of ways and stored on some form of electronic medium. During this process calculations and transformations are performed on the data to optimize it for storage. This invention involves designing the calculations... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080263066 - Data management system, data registration device, data retrieval device, data management method and program: A technology is provided of obtaining a retrieval result suited for a user' desire in a case of retrieving data expressed by the code system such as UNICODE in which techniques of expressing one character exist in plural. With registration data including a composing character or a compatibility character, a... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080263065 - Data perturbation of non-unique values: In embodiments of the present invention, improved capabilities are described for perturbing non-unique values may comprise finding the non-unique values in a data table, perturbing the non-unique values to render unique values, and using the non-unique values as an identifier for a data item.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080263064 - File processing method and apparatus for mobile terminal using an external device: The present invention relates to a file processing method and an apparatus for a mobile terminal using an external device. The file processing apparatus includes a storage unit to store files, and a control unit to divide a data file into a file header and a file body, to store... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20080263059 - File profiling to minimize fragmentation: A storage device implements a file profiling mechanism to minimize fragmentation. A plurality of files is organized according to a high or low read/write access frequency. A plurality of unchanging file types are placed in a first grouping. A plurality of oscillating file types are placed in a second grouping... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080263067 - Method and system for entering and retrieving content from an electronic diary: An electronic diary that receives diary annotations, derives metadata from the diary annotations, and stores the diary annotations and the derived metadata. The electronic diary may provide user feedback in response to receiving the diary annotations. The electronic diary may render a previously stored diary annotation based on a correlation... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080263062 - Method and system for including data quality in data streams: A method and system are described for including data quality in data streams. An example method may include obtaining a first group of data items, each data item including one or more data attribute values. A first group of data quality items may be determined, each data quality item including... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080263068 - Method of hierarchical processing of a document and system therefor: The present invention discloses a method for processing document data, wherein the document data comprises at least one page in order and the page comprising at least one layer in order, the method comprises: managing and controlling the at least one layer respectively. The technical scheme of the present invention... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080263060 - Policy-based access control approach to staff activities of a business process: A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for dynamically binding business process activities to human entities at deployment time. Identification information about a staff activity in a business process is received from a process server at an access control system external to the process server. Responsive... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080263061 - Self-tuning index for flash-based databases: Techniques for self-tuning indices for databases, including flash-based databases, are described. Using a data tree structure wherein the nodes of the data tree may operate in two modes (e.g. disk mode or log mode), a self-tuning index determines whether it is more economical to perform a requested operation on a... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080263063 - Translating late bound linq expressions into database queries: There is alteration of a late-bound expression produced by a compiler into an early-bound structure. Alteration of the late-bound expression can occur at runtime and a visitor pattern can be used to create the alteration. In one instance, a conversion from late-bound to early-bound takes place through replacing a late-bound... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080263069 - User association of a computing application with a contact in a contact list: Methods and systems may be provided for user association of a computing application with a contact in a contact list. A view of one or more contacts of the user may be transmitted to a user, the view included a first contact. A request may be received from the user... Agent: Sutherland Ii

20080263070 - Common drawing objects: A transparent format can be used to store the content of shape objects so that documents authored by different types of applications can uniformly share information related to the shape objects. Shape objects comprise, for example, properties such as geometries, lines, fills, size and the like. The properties can have... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080263074 - Data conversion system and method: A method and computer program product for receiving a first digital content. The first digital content is processed using a content processing algorithm to generate a second digital content. A value is associated with the processing of the first digital content, thus defining a processing fee.... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20080263073 - Detecting apparatus, system, program, and detecting method: A detecting apparatus including a cluster storing unit that stores, for each of clusters into which execution time of previously executed monitored tasks are classified, the range of execution times belonging to the cluster, an acquiring unit that acquires an execution time of the monitored task in response to new... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080263072 - Methods of encoding a combining integer lists in a computer system, and computer software product for implementing such methods: A range covering integers of an input list is divided into subsets according to a predetermined pattern. The encoding produces coding data including, for each subset containing at least one integer of the input list, data representing the position of this subset in the pattern, and data representing the position... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080263071 - Systems and methods for driverless imaging of documents: A method for driverless imaging of documents may include a direct imaging application on a client sending an imaging request message to another device, which may be a direct imaging server or a target imaging device. In response to receiving the imaging request message, the device may create an imaging... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080263075 - Data processing in a mediation or service provisioning system: Embodiments of the invention include a data processing system and method for processing data in a mediation or service provisioning system of a communications network. In the invention, a special logic definition structure is formed based on the processing logic. The logic definition structure is designed so that it is... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20080263079 - Data recovery in an enterprise data storage system: Systems and methods (i.e. the “utility”) presented herein generally provide for data recovery and use of backup data for various applications. More specifically, the utility provides a means for testing data recovery and other database applications on actual data without interfering with general database functionality. For example, the utility may... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080263076 - Dynamic group creation or reconfiguration based upon available metadata: The present invention relates to a method for the dynamic creation or reconfiguration of a contact group listing based upon retrieved metadata. The method comprising identifying a contact that is to be added to a primary contact list, the primary contact list being configured to be accessed by at least... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20080263080 - Group visualization system and sensor-network system: A group visualization system generates a tree structure having a hierachical structure by arranging data built up by a sensor network using small nameplates and further generates an organization topographical diagram expressing group dynamics from the tree structure. True roles of persons and true groups that have not appeared so... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080263081 - Method, system, and storage medium for providing a dynamic, multi-dimensional commodity modeling process: An exemplary embodiment of the invention relates to a method, system, and storage medium for providing a dynamic multi-dimensional commodity modeling process. The system includes a data collection component operable for collecting raw data, a dynamic multi-dimensional commodity model component, and a commodity tree generated by the dynamic multi-dimensional commodity... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080263082 - Recovery segment identification in a computing infrastructure: A solution for managing a computer infrastructure is provided. In particular, the solution can generate a set of tentative recovery segments for the computer infrastructure based on a related resource graph and a set of partition rules. The related resource graph can be generated based on a managed resource graph,... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080263078 - Runtime class database operation: Programmers typically like operating with databases through use of classes. Classes allow a user to function with a database through use of a non-database programming language. To ease use of the classes, a class context is generated at runtime that does not force a programmer to handle various source files... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080263083 - Synchronizing logical systems: A storage control unit detects a change in a configuration of a plurality of logical subsystems included in the storage control unit. The storage control unit sends a notification, wherein the notification indicates the change in the configuration of the plurality of logical subsystems. The storage control unit receives data... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080263077 - Systems, methods, website and computer products for service ticket consolidation and display: Systems, methods, website and computer products for service ticket consolidation and display. Exemplary embodiments include a service ticket display method, including generating a service ticket from a ticket service application, storing the service ticket in a database, accessing the ticket from the database through a ticket display application and displaying... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - At&t

20080263084 - Configuration management database and system: A configuration management database (CMDB) comprising a plurality of statements, where in the statements comprise a first item identifying a resource, a second item identifying an object, and a third item identifying a relationship between the resource and the object, and wherein the statements are made in a markup language.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080263085 - Describing expected entity relationships in a model: Defining target data types within an instance of a target data type definition for inclusion in a reference data type definition to declare expected entity relationships in a model. The model corresponds to, for example, software, a business process, or an organizational structure. The target data type defines one or... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20080263087 - Forming information for the calendar application of an electronic device: The invention relates to an electronic device, which includes a calendar application (CAL), in which event (EVENT) information is arranged to be maintained and processing means (CPU, OCR), which are arranged to form event information from the image information for the calendar application, which image information is formed from an... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080263088 - Spatial data management system and method: A spatial data management system including a spatial database maintained in computer memory, the spatial database including one or more position data sets, the position data sets including respective objective identifiers, geographical data and date/time data. The system also includes an analysis engine configured to retrieve one or more position... Agent: Compudigm Services Inc.

20080263086 - Systems and methods for information exchange using object warehousing: Embodiments of the present invention improve information exchange, and in particular, the exchange of data objects between different software systems. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method of exchanging information comprising analyzing the attributes of the objects. Objects may be stored in a repository and retrieved using attributes.... Agent: Fountainhead Law Group P.C.

20080263089 - Transaction-based storage system and method that uses variable sized objects to store data: The present invention provides a storage system for storing variable sized objects. The storage system is preferably a transaction-based system that uses variable sized objects to store data. The storage system is preferably implemented using arrays disks that are arranged in ranks. Each rank includes multiple stripes. Each stripe may... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080263090 - Enabling interactive integration of network-accessible applications in a content aggregation framework: Enabling network-accessible applications to be integrated into content aggregation frameworks (such as portals) and to become dynamically interactive through proxying components (such as proxying portlets), thereby providing run-time cooperation and data sharing.... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20080263091 - Asynchronous linked data structure traversal: Asynchronously traversing a disjoint linked data structure is presented. A synergistic processing unit (SPU) includes a handler that works in conjunction with a memory flow controller (MFC) to traverse a disjoint linked data structure. The handler compares a search value with a node value, and provides the MFC with an... Agent: Ibm Corporation- Austin (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20080263099 - Affinity based social agent: Systems and methods associated with selectively initiating a social interaction based on affinity between personal electronic devices are described. One example system includes a data store to store playable content and a content organization logic to create a playlist of playable content. The system may include a communication circuit to... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay

20080263097 - Dual-purpose gis data system: Embodiments of the present invention recite method for implementing a dual purpose Geographic Information Systems (GIS) network. In one embodiment, a first data stream which is compatible with a dedicated GIS data collection device is generated. The method further comprises generating a second data stream which is compatible with a... Agent: Trimble Navigation Limited C/o Wagner Blecher

20080263093 - Generation of a set of pre-filters from a set of event subscriptions to more efficiently select events of interest: A method, system and computer program product for achieving a balance between pre-filter efficiency and pre-filter throughput. Event subscriptions are obtained for a given event consumer. The event subscriptions define the events to be routed to this event consumer. Pre-filters of varying complexity and filtering power are constructed based on... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wsm) C/o Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.

20080263096 - Method and system for managing data quality: A method and system are described for managing data quality. An example method may include obtaining a first data stream interval including a first group of data items and a first aggregated data quality value associated with a quality of obtaining the first group, each data item including data attribute... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080263095 - Method and system for navigating electronic documents using an electronic device: A method of navigating an electronic document using an electronic device may include obtaining by the electronic device, an electronic document having one or more navigation elements, and, for each navigation element, automatically generating a corresponding code. The electronic document may be displayed on a display area of the electronic... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080263100 - Method and system for the managing vehicle data: A method for managing vehicle data of a motor vehicle includes storing the vehicle data in an on-board memory. The stored vehicle data is associated with the vehicle using a vehicle identifier. The stored data is transmitted via a telecommunications connection to a data processing center of a telecommunications network.... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080263094 - Multi-rendered multimedia site generation apparatus, systems, and methods: Apparatus, systems, and methods disclosed herein may download one or more sets of presentation rendering property values (PRPVs) to a client processing device. Each set of PRPVs may be associated with a set of presentation characteristics of a sensory output device (SOD) used to present a multimedia presentation, a state... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080263092 - System for correlating psychological profile to customized environment: A method of producing a customized environment for a client includes the steps of identifying the psychological profile of the human client as at least one of a plurality of predetermined psychological profile types. A plurality of selectable personal environment types are determined, and a psychological profile type of the... Agent: Rohm & Monsanto, PLC

20080263098 - Systems and methods for portable personalized radio: Systems and methods for delivering personalized content streams over a variety of devices and networks are disclosed. A user's preferences, customizations, and content are made available to the user through specialized clients for home, car, office, and portable environments. In order to enable personalized content streams on devices that are... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080263101 - Data processing device and data processing method: In FIG. 1, upon reading out a definition file that provides a function of integrating fragments stored in multiple document files, a document processing apparatus 20 reads out the multiple document files, integrates these fragments so as to build a virtual document, and displays the virtual document. Such an arrangement... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080263103 - Digital asset management system (dams): A digital asset management system (DAMS) provides an integrated user experience for the rapid and facile manipulation of a users digital assets in an online environment. Spanning the spectrum of digital assets, the DAMS system set forth herein enables users to tag, filter, collect, and show such digital assets in... Agent: Cislo & Thomas LLP

20080263102 - File management apparatus, file management method and program: A file management apparatus for managing registered files selects multiple files from the registered files, and integrates date stored in the selected files and stores the integrated date in a single file. Then, the file management apparatus calculates a hash value of the file, obtains a time stamp generated based... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080263104 - Updating a data warehouse schema based on changes in an observation model: A method, information processing system, and computer readable medium for modifying at least one data warehouse schema based on detected changes in an associated observation model are disclosed. The method includes determining if at least one new observation model has been created. The method also includes determining if at least... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20080263105 - Method for analyzing data and data analysis apparatus: When logs are analyzed, an analysis with consistency is carried out on the presumption that shifting occurs among time stamps of logs output from a plurality of apparatuses engaged in time correction amount. In a log analysis apparatus which receives logs from a plurality of computers for generating a plurality... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080263106 - Database queuing and distributed computing: This disclosure relates to a high performance database queuing method and apparatus which supports reliable service-oriented architecture. The servers and clients add tasks to the queues, which are database table with records that point to other records in other tables. The application servers pick up tasks in priority (first-in-first-out) order... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20080263107 - Conflict management in a versioned file system: Multiple files in a versioned file system are grouped to form a fusion unit on a server. The fusion unit is exposed to a client as a browsable folder having separate files. When the server receives an indication of a change to file belonging to the fusion unit, the server... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080263110 - Apparatus and method for storing data: The present application provides a storage apparatus for storing data. The storage apparatus comprises storage means for storing data, committing means for committing the availability of a certain storage space to a source device, detecting means for detecting the availability of the certain storage space to produce a detection result,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080263112 - Method and system for electronic file lifecycle management: A method and system for managing a file lifecycle is disclosed. The method incorporates a virtual file cabinet having virtual drawers. Files are moved from drawer to drawer throughout their lifecycle in accordance with policies associated with each drawer. The files are moved automatically and as such, a file's lifecycle... Agent: Venable LLP

20080263109 - Seeding replication: Seeding replication is disclosed. One or more but not all files stored on a deduplicated storage system are selected to be replicated. One or more segments referred to by the selected one or more but not all files are determined. A data structure is created that is used to indicate... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080263111 - Storage operation management program and method and a storage management computer: A managing computer (manager) manages replication of data areas inside a storage or among storages. A storage volume management module of the manager manages policy of the volume and its properties. When replication of a volume is set, a volume of a replication destination appropriate for a volume of a... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080263108 - System, method, and software for managing information retention using uniform retention rules: Systems, methods, and software for archiving structured data and associated unstructured data associated are disclosed. Particularly, the structured and unstructured data are archived such that the structured data and the unstructured data remain associated to each other. Properties of the structured data are also applied to the unstructured data, enabling... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080263113 - Storage system and method: A storage system comprising apparatus for consolidating portions of free space from a plurality of remote storage units; and apparatus for presenting the consolidated portions as a single file system.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080263114 - Efficient access of flash databases: Techniques for efficient access to flash databases are described. In one implementation, a method includes performing an operation on a flash database, supplementing at least one portion of a node translation table corresponding to at least one node involved in the operation, and semantically compressing at least one portion of... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080256021 - Information leak analysis system: An information leakage analysis system is provided. The access route model input device 110 receives an access route model, which represents whether or not to what type of file a user is accessible and represents the corresponding access route. The setting information input device 130 receives the setting information for... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080256019 - Method and system for fast access to metainformation about possible files or other identifiable objects: A method and computer system for determining an existence of a file and, possibly, information related to the file are provided. The method and system include providing a file name, generating a file designator from the file name, and generating a hash value from the file name. The hash value... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080256018 - System and method for extrapolating data from a sample set: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to identifying a source of bias in a sample set and using statistical techniques to overcome the bias, thereby producing extrapolated data that accurately represents a population including the sample set. The method according to one embodiment comprises identifying a plurality of attributes... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080256020 - Variant entries in network data repositories: A logical network directory database compliant with the X.500 standard for a directory data system is disclosed. The network directory database provides a source of subscriber and service data accessible by various control and management processes that require subscriber information. The network directory database may be extensible across various communications... Agent: Mots Law, PLLC

20080256025 - Database query optimization utilizing remote statistics collection: A method, apparatus and program product to optimize a database query. In a first system having a first dataspace, a query plan is generated for the database query. Remote statistics collection associated with the database query is initiated on a second system having a second dataspace. The remote statistics collection... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20080256030 - Fine-grained authorization framework: A system and method for controlling access to an instance method on an instance-specific basis by intercepting an invocation of the instance method on an instance.... Agent: Burns & Levinson, LLP

20080256031 - Method and apparatus for ranking-based information processing: Techniques are provided for ranking-based information processing. Method steps can include integrating information from at least one source (a plurality of heterogeneous sources can also be handled), to obtain integrated information; mapping the integrated information to at least one application; ranking the integrated information based on the mapping and on... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080256023 - Method and system for research using computer based simultaneous comparison and contrasting of a multiplicity of subjects having specific attributes within specific contexts: A method and system for an internet-based online research solution through the comparison and contrasting of a potentially infinite number of subjects having defined attributes within predefined as well as dynamic subject contexts; a method and system for searching a potentially infinite number of subjects against a customized set of... Agent: Anthony D. Pellegrini Rudman & Winchell, LLC

20080256026 - Method for optimizing and executing a query using ontological metadata: A method is provided for optimizing a query. The method includes providing metadata, and inputting an initial query including at least one initial class. The method further includes processing the initial query with the metadata. Additionally, the method includes obtaining an optimized query based on the processing of the initial... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P. A.

20080256029 - Partition management system: A partition management system is disclosed for a database comprising at least one database table. The system comprises a partition controller arranged to automatically create at least one table partition in advance so that at least one table partition is available prior to when the table partition is required by... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080256024 - Portable and iterative re-usable suboptimization of database queries: A method, apparatus and program product to optimize a database query. A query plan is generated for the database query where the query plan includes first and second subplans. Cached optimization data associated with the first subplan and generated during evaluation of another query plan for a previous query that... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20080256027 - System and method for analyzing and correcting retail data: A computer system and method is disclosed that analyzes and corrects retail data. The system and method includes several client workstations and one or more servers coupled together over a network. A database stores various data used by the system. A business logic server uses competitive and complementary fusion to... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080256028 - System and method for analyzing and correcting retail data: A computer system and method is disclosed that analyzes and corrects retail data. The system and method includes several client workstations and one or more servers coupled together over a network. A database stores various data used by the system. A business logic server uses competitive and complementary fusion to... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080256022 - Technique for auto filling values in a user interface: Disclosed is a method and system to receive a first value of a first attribute in a user interface and create a value pattern for a second attribute in the user interface based on the first value dynamically. A second value for the second attribute is automatically proposed from the... Agent: Sap Ag

20080256043 - Accumulation control device: An accumulation control device arranged to accumulate data in an accumulation device accepts a data classification when the data is acquired, and stores the accepted classification in accordance with the data to be accumulated in the accumulation device. When the data accumulated in the accumulation device is selected, determination is... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080256038 - Automated method for structured artifact matching: A method for determining a mapping between a first artifact and a second artifact, each artifact comprising at least one constituent, each at least one constituent comprising at least one feature, wherein each at least one feature is selected from a feature group consisting of: a relationship feature and a... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20080256042 - Automatically acquiring acoustic and cultural information about music: There are disclosed methods, apparatus, and storage media for building a music metadata library. Acoustic metadata for one or more music tracks may be automatically acquired from a plurality of client computing devices. Cultural metadata for the one or more music tracks may be automatically acquired by searching Internet-accessible content.... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20080256032 - Hierarchical playlist generator: A playlist generator partitions the playlist generation process into a multi-stage, hierarchical process. At an example highest hierarchical level, the user's “general” preferences are applied. These general preferences reflect the user's “tastes”, and are relatively constant. At a lower level of the hierarchy, the user's “specific” preferences are applied. These... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080256033 - Method and apparatus for distributed voice searching: A method for distributed voice searching may include receiving a search query from a user of the mobile communication device, generating a lattice of coarse linguistic representations from speech parts in the search query, extracting query features from the generated lattice of coarse linguistic representations, generating coarse search feature vectors... Agent: Prass LLP

20080256037 - Method and system for generating an ordered list: A system for generating an ordered list. The system may include a query engine and an advertisement engine. The query engine receives a query from the user and determines parameters to match with the advertisement. The advertisement engine receives the parameters and generates a list of items based on the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080256044 - Method and system for searching an information retrieval system according to user-specified location information: A method and system for searching an information retrieval system for items of interest that are in proximity to geographical locations provided by the user. The information retrieval system can perform a search for specified types of businesses or items of interest that surround or are in close proximity to... Agent: Merchant & Gould Bellsouth Corporation

20080256035 - Query substitution using active learning: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating a linear regression model based on statistically frequent query pairs. The method of the present invention comprises storing statistically frequent query pairs, the query pairs constituting a query and a query rewrite. Query pair samples are generated based on... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080256041 - System and method for generating and displaying community awareness management data: A system and method links one or more disparate community awareness management (CAM) datasets for a community awareness program (CAP) with one or more spatial layers to create linked CAM datasets. One or more data attributes common to a CAM dataset and a spatial layer are identified, and the link... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080256036 - System and method for performing data searches using multiple data search providers: A system and method are provided for performing data searches in response to a user request. The system has an application server that is configured to receive user requests, to send search requests based on the user requests, and to communicate with a plurality of search provider systems. The search... Agent: Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon LLP

20080256046 - System and method for prioritizing websites during a webcrawling process: A system and method for prioritizing a fetch order of web pages. The method comprises extracting by a web crawler a set of candidate web pages to be crawled. Each web page in the set of candidate web pages is associated with a website in a computer network. A determination... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080256034 - System and method for understanding relationships between keywords and advertisements: An impression graph is generated comprising keywords as nodes on a first side of the impression graph and advertisement listing as nodes on a second side of the impression graph, an impression relationship between a given keyword and a given advertisement listing represented by an impression edge connection. A click... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080256039 - System for determining the quality of query suggestion systems using a network of users and advertisers: A system is described for determining the quality of query suggestion systems using a network of users and advertisers. The system may include a memory and a processor. The memory may store data representing a plurality of query suggestion systems, a historical dataset, a plurality of residual values, and a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080256040 - Visualization of reputation ratings: In one embodiment, a system and method is illustrated including receiving a feedback request identifying a particular user, retrieving a feedback entry in response to the feedback request, the feedback entry containing a first term, building a scoring model based, in part, upon a term frequency count denoting a frequency... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080256045 - Xml sub-document versioning method in xml databases using record storages: A new sub-document versioning method for record storages of XML documents which uses virtual cutting points to ensure that a search tree is able to support multiple versions of sub-documents and provide efficient mechanisms for XML updating. Record boundaries and virtual cut points divide the two-dimensional space, the horizontal axis... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080256048 - Method and apparatus for providing data processing and control in medical communication system: Methods and apparatus for providing data processing and control for use in a medical communication system are provided.... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20080256047 - Selecting rules engines for processing abstract rules based on functionality and cost: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for selecting rule engines for processing abstract rules based on functionality and cost. In general, an abstract rule is analyzed to determine which functions are required to process the rule. The abstract rule is assigned to a rule engine by evaluating metadata describing the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080256066 - Book creation systems and methods: Methods and devices are provided for creating books. In general, the methods and devices are provided that can allow a child, a young adult, a senior citizen, or any other new or developing writer to create a story in an online environment including instruction and community involvement.... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20080256051 - Calculating importance of documents factoring historical importance: A method and system for determining temporal importance of documents having links between documents based on a temporal analysis of the links is provided. A temporal ranking system collects link information or snapshots indicating the links between documents at various snapshot times. The temporal ranking system calculates a current temporal... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080256069 - Complete context(tm) query system: A system (100), method and media for a data processing system that develops entity context before using said context to perform queries and return prioritized results.... Agent: Asset Trust, Inc.

20080256054 - Computer-implemented method and system for targeting contents according to user preferences: A method, system, and device targets contents according to the preferences of a particular user. A content is associated with one or more content category alternatives, and is different from other contents. Pairwise comparisons for a particular user for a set of content category alternatives are input into a computer,... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080256053 - Execution of database queries including filtering: A query processing system has a query processor and a data manager. The query processor calls the data manager to carry out data access for a query including a filtering operation. The data manager accesses the data in a set of data and before returning the data, initiates a callback... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080256067 - File search engine and computerized method of tagging files with vectors: The main purpose of the software, system and method of this invention is to help produce better searches for people utilizing their context as represented by a vector. The system allows for files (including websites) to be tagged with a vector. If a provider wants a searcher to find that... Agent: Summa, Allan & Additon, P.A.

20080256058 - Highlighting of search terms in a meta search engine: The invention relates to a method performed by a computer program for presenting data from a collection of documents, including retrieving (6) a search string; identifying (7) items within the string; making (8) a query to search engines; retrieving (10) from the engines document references; and retrieving (12) documents referenced... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080256065 - Information extraction system: A method for determining link feature weights from a data set of linked elements is described. These link feature weights are indicative of whether a link travels to a subset of the data set, which has a predetermined characteristic. The link features weights also correspond to link features associated with... Agent: Robert Platt Bell Registered Patent Attorney

20080256068 - Method and system for calculating importance of a block within a display page: A method and system for identifying the importance of information areas of a display page. An importance system identifies information areas or blocks of a web page. A block of a web page represents an area of the web page that appears to relate to a similar topic. The importance... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080256049 - Method and system for establishing document relevance: A search engine that provides search results which are ordered, in part, based on an automated analysis of the organizational structure of a group of documents, as indicated by the address of the documents, is disclosed. In one embodiment, a bot crawls various websites analyzing documents, and their organizational structure,... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080256062 - Method and system for propagating annotations using pattern matching: Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for propagating annotations created for data objects appearing in a variety of different application types are provided. Some embodiments present users collaborating on a project with an indication of data objects in a current document that have been annotated, or that related data objects... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080256052 - Methods for determining historical efficacy of a document in satisfying a user's search needs: Documents returned by a search engine may be good keyword matches to the search query terms, but may not historically have been very effective in addressing user needs. Documents which have historically been effective in addressing user needs are said to have high efficacy. Disclosed are methods that try to... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080256057 - Optimizing a query using fuzzy matching: A system is disclosed for optimizing a user query. User queries often include issue terms, such as misspelled or mistyped terms. The disclosed system employs a fuzzy network to match an issue term with a valid term. The system optimizes the user query with the valid term. Thereafter, query results... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080256064 - Pay per relevance (ppr) method, server and system thereof: The present invention relates to a server, system and method of pricing advertisements to be presented within a document, according to their relevance to user's search query, comprising: (a) receiving from an advertiser at least one keyword, for which his advertisement to be presented to said user, or receiving and... Agent: Dan Grois

20080256050 - System and method for modeling user selection feedback in a search result page: The present invention provides for improving the search relevance of a search results page by including a perceived relevance factor. The system, device and method monitors user selection of elements in the search results page, where these selections indicate relevance of the element compared with the original search request. A... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080256056 - System for building a data structure representing a network of users and advertisers: A system is described for building a data structure representing a network of advertisers and users. The system may include a memory and a processor. The memory may be operatively connected to the processor and may store a historical dataset comprising of a plurality of query items and advertisement items,... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080256060 - System for determining the quality of query suggestions using a network of users and advertisers: A system is described for determining the quality of query suggestions using a network of users and advertisers. The system may include a memory and a processor. The memory may store a historical dataset, a residual value, a query-advertisement link value, a query suggestion value, and a data representing a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080256061 - System for generating query suggestions by integrating valuable query suggestions with experimental query suggestions using a network of users and advertisers: A system is described for generating query suggestions by integrating valuable query suggestions with experimental query suggestions using a network of users and advertisers. The system may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store a historical dataset, a plurality of query suggestions, a plurality of... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080256059 - System for generating query suggestions using a network of users and advertisers: A system is described for generating query suggestions using a network of users and advertisers. The system may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store a data representing a network comprising query items linked to advertisement items via link items, wherein each link item comprises... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080256063 - Technique for searching for keywords determining event occurrence: A keyword search system including a text input unit for inputting subtexts obtained by dividing each text into parts, while associating the subtexts with an event through a process recorded in the text; a prediction device adjuster for adjusting a corresponding event prediction device to maximize the percentage of text... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080256055 - Word relationship driven search: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for performing searches based upon word relationships. A search term is received from a user in the form of at least one primary word. A data store is searched to determine if the primary word is associated with any content. If so, at least... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080256070 - Data collection cataloguing and searching method and system: The present invention relates to a method of cataloguing a data structure and also preferably a method of searching through such as data structure to detect the presence of search patterns within the data structure. The catalogusing method of the present invention employs the formation of a catalogue data structure... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080256071 - Method and system for selection of text for editing: A method of selection of text for editing is provided. The method includes inputting text to an apparatus and generating a label for at least one unit of the text as the text is being input to the apparatus. Accordingly, a user is able to select the at least one... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080256072 - Methods and apparatus for controlling the transmission and receipt of email messages: Methods and apparatus for identifying unwanted email messages by transmitting metadata with an outbound email message that indicates the total number of email messages sent by that sender in a predetermined time period, or alternatively indicates the total number of email messages which are equivalent to the outgoing message that... Agent: Charles G. Call

20080256074 - Efficient implicit privatization of transactional memory: Apparatus, methods, and program products are disclosed that provide a technology that implicitly isolates a portion of a transactional memory that is shared between multiple threads for exclusive use by an isolating thread without the possibility of other transactions modifying the isolated portion of the transactional memory.... Agent: Pvf -- Sun Microsystems Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080256073 - Transactional memory using buffered writes and enforced serialization order: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that support buffered writes and enforced serialization order in a software transactional memory system. A buffered write process is provided that performs writes to shadow copies of objects and writes content back to the objects after validating a respective transaction during commit. When a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080256075 - External interface access control: A method and apparatus of controlling access to a system containing vital corporation software and storing confidential data assets situated in an open accessible environment is provided. The method includes calculating a signature value for at least one file usable with the system, transferring the calculated signature value to a... Agent: Advanced Medical Optics, Inc.

20080256076 - External interface access control for medical systems: A method and system of controlling access to a system in a medical environment is provided. The method includes calculating a signature value for at least one file usable with the medical system, transferring the calculated signature value to a signature file, and providing at least one signature value in... Agent: Advanced Medical Optics, Inc.

20080256083 - Alias hiding in network data repositories: A logical network directory database compliant with the X.500 standard for a directory data system is disclosed. The network directory database provides a source of subscriber and service data accessible by various control and management processes that require subscriber information. The network directory database may be extensible across various communications... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080256087 - Apparatuses and methods for managing content stored in devices: Apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for managing content are provided. The apparatus includes a processor that can communicate with a number of devices, identify content files stored by the devices, and provide a visible indicia of each device in which each content file is stored. The processor may also... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080256082 - Data access in distributed server systems: A logical network directory database compliant with the X.500 standard for a directory data system is disclosed. The network directory database provides a source of subscriber and service data accessible by various control and management processes that require subscriber information. The network directory database may be extensible across various communications... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080256088 - Distributing personalized content: The invention provides a method and system for distributing personalized content to potentially large numbers of recipients. A pool is selected, from among all content available for distribution, of those content elements that will be made available for simultaneous distribution, and personalized content is selected for distribution from that pool.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080256090 - Dynamic directory service: In a network of computer nodes, a directory service provides both the physical location of directory information around the network and the directory information itself in a single data structure. This single data structure is distributed throughout the network, and continuously redistributed, so as to create a directory service that... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP Patent Department

20080256086 - Information processing system, information processing apparatus, server apparatus, information processing method, and program: An information processing system configured to include at least an open server apparatus and a terminal apparatus communicable with each other through a network is disclosed. The system includes: an opening mode setting means for setting an opening mode; a transmitted content information creating means for creating content information including... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080256079 - Load-based technique to balance data sources to data consumers: A system and method is described to determine routing configurations to route data from data producers to data consumers. Each routing configuration corresponds to a time period during which data is routed from the data producers to the data consumers. Data is routed from the data producers to the data... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20080256085 - Method and apparatus for reproducing network content: A method and apparatus for reproducing network content are provided. An apparatus for reproducing network content includes a first content list queue storing a content list received from content providing servers; a content list queue management module changing a content list stored in the first content list queue according to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080256084 - Method and system for using a website to perform a remote action on a set top box with a secure authorization: A communication system 10 and method of operating the same includes a website 40, a computing device 30 accessing the website 40 and selecting a content request from the website 40, a conditional access system 60 coupled to the website 40 generates a permission packet in response to the content... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20080256077 - Network connection presence/absence judgment method, data structure for judging whether network connection is present or absent, and recording medium containing the data structure: It is possible to easily judge whether a computer device is connected to a network. The judging method includes: a step for detecting position information on predetermined data contained in an external device connected to the network and described on a hypertext which has been read from a storage medium;... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080256078 - Secure distributed computing engine and database system: In this invention we present a secure distributed computing engine with a built-in distributed database system. The computing engine proposed here is capable of scaling with the network and can handle requests of generic execution types (such as calling a certain function with a set of parameters) or with regards... Agent: Venkat Bhashyam

20080256080 - Sharing media content among families of broadcast stations: Sharing media content among families of broadcast stations includes receiving information relating to media content from families of broadcast stations, storing the information such that the information is accessible to at least two of the families of broadcast stations via a computer network, receiving a query for specific media content... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080256089 - Supporting multiple security mechanisms in a database driver: A computer program product and database driver for connecting a client to a database server are provided. The computer program product and database driver provide for providing a generic interface, the generic interface being operable to interoperate with one or more non-GSSAPI (Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface) compliant security... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080256081 - System and method for passive information capture, cache and matching to facilitate uninterrupted transactions: A system and method for monitoring network communications between a consumer making a request for information on a network, and a provider that is providing the requested information. The system detects when the provider has not responded to an information request and provides stored information from a database that either... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20080256095 - Adaptation in network data repositories: A logical network directory database compliant with the X.500 standard for a directory data system is disclosed. The network directory database provides a source of subscriber and service data accessible by various control and management processes that require subscriber information. The network directory database may be extensible across various communications... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080256102 - Apparatus and method for processing management information: An apparatus for processing management information, comprising; a processing engine operable to receive current data and store the current data in a data store, a forecaster engine operable to read past data and current data from the data store and generate forecast data, and store the forecast data in a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080256092 - Data processing device and data processing method: In FIG. 1, upon reading out a document file that stores the information that serves as a key for acquiring fragments, a document processing apparatus 20 acquires a definition file associated with the document file. The definition file specifies a rule used for acquiring the fragments from other document files... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080256094 - Enhanced bloom filters: An interface is operable to receive an element for deletion from a bloom filter. The bloom filter includes multiple hash functions and an array. A processor is operable to generate hash function output values for the element using the hash functions. The hash function output values correspond to indices identifying... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080256101 - Keyword-based content management: A method, implementable in a system coupled to a network, includes accessing a first portion of a memory device coupled to the network. The first portion has stored thereon information characterizing an entity. An information set of a predetermined information type is gathered from the first portion. First and second... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080256096 - Localizing reports using metadata and multilanguage translations: A method of developing a report capable of providing information from a local database in a predefined structure to a remote application is discussed. The method includes defining an abstract data report structure. The abstract data report structure is configured to provide a report to the remote application having a... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080256098 - Method and apparatus for providing information on human relations based on analysis of log data in mobile communication terminal: Provided are a method and apparatus, which analyze many aspects of log data generated in a mobile communication terminal, calculate changes in human relations based on opposite parties of communication, and provide information on human relations in a variety of ways. Specifically, first log data for a most recent first... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080256093 - Method and system for detection of authors: A method and system are provided for detection of authors across different types of information sources such as across documents on the Web. The method includes obtaining a compression signature (303) for a document, and determining the similarity (304) between compression signatures of two or more documents. If the similarity... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20080256097 - Method and system for location identification: A method and system for generating location information for a network space is provided. Generating location information for a network space involves maintaining location profiles for spaces familiar to a client device, and performing location detection for the client device in a current space utilizing a signature of the current... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080256099 - Method and system for managing data and organizational constraints: A method and system for managing data and organizational constraints is provided. Data is collected and stored as records in a database and multi-dimensional matrices known as parameters are associated with each of the sets of records. The parameters are then processed using various formulae and functions and the results... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080256091 - Prioritising data elements of a data stream: The invention relates to prioritising of data elements of a data stream for transmission to a receiving device including determining a decodability of data elements, wherein the decodability indicates the extent to which the current data element is decodable at the receiving device. Then, a priority is assigned to the... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080256100 - System and method for using content features and metadata of digital images to find related audio accompaniment: A system (300), apparatus (200) and method (100) are provided to automatically play/suggest at least one audio accompaniment while a sequence of at least one digital image is being displayed such that the audio accompaniment matches the content of the particular sequence of images and matches any provided and/or generated... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080256106 - Determining the similarity of music using cultural and acoustic information: There is disclosed a method and storage media for determining the similarity between a first music collection and a second music collection. The similarity may be determined by comparing metadata associated with the first music collection and metadata associated with the second music collection. A plurality of comparison algorithms may... Agent: SocalIPLaw Group LLP

20080256105 - Document data creating apparatus, document data creating method and control program of the same: There is described a document data creating apparatus, a document data creating method and a program thereof, which make it possible to improve convenience of both the user and the creator of the document data by effectively utilizing the digital signature. The apparatus for creating document data that include a... Agent: Sidley Austin LLP

20080256104 - Rearranging data sections within a page file: A method for rearranging data sections within a page file associated with an operating system is disclosed. The technology initially accesses a page file which comprises one or more data sections. Data sections within the page file are analyzed. Then, data sections are rearranged such that at least one or... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080256103 - Systems and methods of providing possible value ranges: Embodiments of the invention relate generally to incremental computing. Specifically, embodiments of the invention include systems and methods that provide for the concurrent processing of multiple, incremental changes to a data value while at the same time monitoring and/or enforcing threshold values for that data value. For example, a method... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080256111 - Data generator apparatus testing data dependent applications, verifying schemas and sizing systems: A data generator for database schema verification, system sizing and functional test of data dependent applications. Allows for generation of data from random values or from working databases which may be profiled to generate patterns for occurrences of values and sizes of values. The data may be filled with a... Agent: Sap_dlg

20080256120 - Document processing apparatus, document processing method, document processing program and recording medium: The text format of input data is checked, and is converted into a system-manipulated format. It is further determined if the input data is in an HTML or e-mail format using tags, heading information, and the like. The converted data is divided into blocks in a simple manner such that... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080256109 - Dynamic podcast content delivery: Systems and methods for delivering podcast content dynamically in an automated podcast platform. In general, one aspect can be a method that includes receiving a request to download a podcast, and determining an item of audio content to be inserted into the podcast. The method also includes inserting the item... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080256118 - Emulation of empty database tables using database views: Methods and a system for managing database usage. The methods and system include receiving a request to create a table, determining the table is an empty table, and storing a pseudo-table in a data store in response to determining the table is empty. The pseudo-table may be a database view.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080256112 - Indirect methods in network data repositories: A logical network directory database compliant with the X.500 standard for a directory data system is disclosed. The network directory database provides a source of subscriber and service data accessible by various control and management processes that require subscriber information. The network directory database may be extensible across various communications... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080256107 - Integrating data with a contact: A system and method for integrating data with a contact is disclosed. The technology initially receives a first data element from a contact and provides a representation of the first data element. The representation of the first data element is then coupled with the contact on a contact list. A... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080256117 - Managing entity data in case of multiple entity identities: A method manipulates data that is or is to be stored at a server. The data has to be identifiable at the server via a data identifier that comprises an entity identity identifying an entity. A set of entity identities identifying the entity exists and comprises a primary entity identity... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080256108 - Mere-parsing with boundary & semantic driven scoping: Methods, systems and computer program products for implementing a mere-parser are disclosed. Text data is processed to generate one or more parse items. A boundary based attribute associated with one of the parse items is identified, and the identified mere attribute is associated with one or more of the remaining... Agent: Fish & Richardson, PC

20080256121 - Method and system for mapping multi-dimensional model to data warehouse schema: A system maps a multidimensional model to data warehouse schema. The system includes a multidimensional model editor for defining a multidimensional model based on a conceptual model; a mapping reasoner for generating more simple mappings from basic mappings by reasoning on the conceptual model so as to provide mappings for... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l

20080256116 - Publicly auditable polling method and system: A method includes collecting poll data, generating a poll database which includes the poll data, and publishing the poll database, such that the poll data is accessible to at least one interested party. A system is also provided, which includes a server connected to a computer network and a data... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080256119 - Publicly auditable polling method and system: A method includes collecting poll data, generating a poll database which includes the poll data, and publishing the poll data in the poll database, such that the poll data is accessible to at least one interested party. A system is also provided, which includes a server connected to a computer... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080256110 - Storage media tracking and managment: Managing removable computer-readable media transporting across various locations. Data is stored on the computer-readable media at an on-site location. Each of the computer-readable media is associated with a tracking device. The tracking device has a storage medium. An intent expression is defined for each of the computer-readable media. The defined... Agent: Christopher M. Goff (27839) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080256115 - Systems, apparatuses and methods for identifying transitions of content: Systems, apparatuses and methods for identifying the end of the presentation of a content item such as a song, and/or identifying transitions from one content item to another. Content is presented via a device. A calculated fingerprint(s) representative of at least a portion of the content is transmitted. A more... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20080256113 - Techniques to associate information between application programs: Techniques to cross-reference information for application programs are described. An apparatus may comprise a first application program to create notes for an operator, a second application program to display a target document, and a context reference module to generate a context reference for the target document indicating a source for... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080256114 - Techniques to display associated information between application programs: Techniques to cross-reference information for application programs are described. An apparatus may comprise a first application program to create notes for an operator, a second application program to display a target document, and a context generation module to generate a context for a note by displaying a document view for... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080256124 - Schema mapping specification framework: A method, system and program product for specifying, in a schema mapping framework, a mapping between a source schema and a target schema. The source and target schemas are schemas included in respective groups of registered, heterogeneous schemas. The source and target schemas may be of different types. Serialized versions... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080256123 - System and method for obtaining object data: In a method and a system for obtaining object data representative of an object, the object is provided with at least one identification carrier on which identification data are stored, the method including:—reading identification data from the identification carrier with a read unit;—determining from the identification data location data of... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080256122 - Time intelligence for application programs: Techniques to implement time intelligence for application program are described. An apparatus may include a calendar application module. The calendar application module may be arranged to define and generate a calendar for an application program, the calendar application module to define time members for a time dimension of a multidimensional... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080256125 - Device and method for storing / retrieving objects with multidimensionally addressed electronic data: The invention provides for devices and methods for storing/retrieving objects comprising multidimensionally addressed electronic data in a system of several data processing units, in particular as regards the economy of time, even if individual units of the data processing units are unreliable.... Agent: Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP

20080256126 - Testing environment for database server side logic: A system for providing a test environment for database server-side objects persistently stores a profile for a plurality of test runs for database server-side objects, where the profile comprises persistently stored test parameter values, pre-execution scripts, and/or post-execution scripts. Once the profile is created, it can be selected for subsequent... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080256131 - Factory equipment, factory equipment control method, and factory equipment control apparatus: A Factory Equipment provided with a control apparatus, equipment to be controlled, and safety measures provided for safety, wherein a memory of the control apparatus stores a work content-worker type relationship table and a work content-equipment operation relationship table, a work content judgment unit refers to the work content-worker type... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080256133 - Integrated change management unit: An integrated system for managing changes in regulatory and non-regulatory requirements for business activities at an industrial or commercial facility. Application of this system to environmental, health and safety activities, and to food, drug, cosmetic, and medical treatment and device activities, are discussed as examples. The system: provides one or... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080256134 - Method and computer program product for dynamic weighting of an ontological data model: A method, computer program product, and a data processing system that facilitates navigation through a directed graph for selection of sub-processes of a modified business process derived from a business process is provided. A bounding box is used for evaluating and selecting sequences of nodes representative of business sub-processes or... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080256132 - Method and system for determining incident impact: A method and system for determining an impact of an incident. An occurrence of an incident is identified. One or more persons at least potentially impacted by the incident are identified based on dynamic indications. After the occurrence, one or more indicators associated with the one or more persons identified... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080256129 - Method and system of creating media playlists and sending to mobile devices: The field of invention is computer-implemented systems and methods for creating and transmitting media to mobile devices, and in particular, methods and systems for locating, selecting, grouping, and arranging media items in playlists, and transmitting playlists to mobile devices and/or other electronic devices. This invention enhances the usability of mobile... Agent: Kenyon D. Potter

20080256130 - Nonlinear set to set pattern recognition: Variations in the states of patterns can be exploited for their discriminatory information and should not be discarded as noise. A pattern recognition system compares a data set of unlabeled patterns having variations of state in a set-by-set comparison with labeled arrays of individual data sets of multiple patterns also... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20080256135 - Program product for providing a configuration specification language supporting incompletely specified configuration entities: In a hardware definition language (HDL) file among one or more files, one or more design entities containing a functional portion of a digital system are specified. The one or more design entities logically contain a plurality of latches having a respective plurality of different possible latch values that each... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080256127 - System for extracting specific portions of contents: The present invention relates to a system for extracting a specific portion of content. When a desired portion is extracted so that a content service can be provided, a plurality of users extract a beginning time and an ending time of a specific frame in the case of moving picture... Agent: Crompton, Seager & Tufte, LLC

20080256128 - Systems and methods for source document management in clinical trials: System and methods for source documents management in clinical trials are described. One described method comprises receiving a clinical trial form on a client device over a network from a server device, the clinical trial form comprising a plurality of form data fields; receiving structured clinical trial data associated with... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20080256137 - Method and system for data processing with data replication for the same: A replication data base is created on the basis of a predetermined condition. A data processing system adds transactions that are lacking and/or cancels transactions that are not required, to and from a replication data base created on the basis of a certain arbitrary time, in accordance with a predetermined... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080256136 - Techniques and tools for managing attributes of media content: Methods, graphical user interfaces, computer apparatus and computer readable medium for managing attributes (or properties) for media content are disclosed. In accordance with one embodiment, a user of a computing device can utilize the methods, graphical user interfaces, computer apparatus, and computer readable medium to copy attributes from one digital... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20080256139 - Methods and systems for data recovery: To recover deleted files in a data store, candidate blocks of the data store may be identified and, for each of the candidate blocks, a probability that the candidate block contains a directory entry may be determined. Directory entry metadata for candidate blocks that have a determined probability that is... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080256138 - Recovering a file system to any point-in-time in the past with guaranteed structure, content consistency and integrity: A data management system (DMS) includes a continuous real-time object store that captures all real-time activities, with associated object metadata information. The DMS is capable of reintroducing any point-in-time view of data ranging from a granular object to an entire file system. A set of algorithms (for creation of a... Agent: David H. Judson

20080256142 - Journaling in network data architectures: A logical network directory database compliant with the X.500 standard for a directory data system is disclosed. The network directory database provides a source of subscriber and service data accessible by various control and management processes that require subscriber information. The network directory database may be extensible across various communications... Agent: Ndq&m Watchstone LLP

20080256140 - Method and apparatus combining revision based and time based file data protection: A method and apparatus for protecting file data is provided that combines or merges revision based backup with backup based on time intervals. One embodiment is directed to a method for protecting data contained in a file of a computer system, wherein the computer system is useable to create multiple... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080256141 - Method and apparatus for separating snapshot preserved and write data: A method and device for managing snapshot data is provided. Snapshots may be created having a preserved data area and a write data area. The preserved data area is used to maintain snapshot data corresponding to the point-in-time when the snapshot was created while the write data area is used... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20080256145 - Apparatus for migrating data between heterogeneous data storage devices: A method for migrating data between heterogeneous data storage devices within a storage area network is disclosed. A first virtualizer presents stored data as a first virtual disk, and then communicates a managed disk representation of the first virtual disk to a second virtualizer. After receiving the managed disk representation,... Agent: Dillon & Yudell, LLP

20080256143 - Cluster storage using subsegmenting: Cluster storage is disclosed. A data stream or a data block is received. The data stream or the data block is broken into segments. For each segment, a cluster node is selected, and a portion of the segment smaller than the segment is identified that is a duplicate of a... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080256146 - Query processing method for stream data processing systems: A stream data processing system capable of highly reliable and highly usable real time data processing, is provided with: (1) a mechanism of copying some or all of stream data, and archiving the stream data in a non-volatile memory to allow real time data and archive data to be used... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080256144 - Storage profile generation for network-connected portable storage devices: A data storage system comprises a plurality of portable data storage devices (12) coupled via a network (10). Each of the portable data storage devices (12) has an associated storage profile, which defines a which data objects will be stored in the storage device. A recommended profile for at least... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080256148 - Computer system and a method of assigning a storage device to a computer: A computer system which has a plurality of computers and a storage device subsystem connected to the plurality of computers. The storage device subsystem has a plurality of storage devices and a plurality of interfaces, through which the subsystem is connected to the computers. One of the plurality of computers... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080256147 - Method and a system for storing files: The present invention presents a method and a system of indexing, storing and retrieving data to and from multiple, remote and connected data sources over internet or intranet. Files are shredded into fixed number of strips using a defined pattern (shredding algorithm) and distributed randomly amongst the storage data sources... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080256149 - System and method for dependent failure-aware allocation of distributed data-processing systems: A system and method for allocating distributed processing systems includes inputting component descriptions in a distributed processing system and determining importance of each component. Capacity and failure characteristics of resource groups representing units of available processing capacity are also input. Components are assigned to a plurality of resource groups based... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080249978 - Apparatus, and system for certificate of mailing: An apparatus and system are disclosed for analyzing computer events recorded in a plurality of computer datasets. The apparatus includes a read module configured to access chronicle records in two datasets, an extraction module configured to extract a timestamp from each chronicle record, a generation module configured to generate a... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080249976 - Coded domain audio analysis: The present invention provides methods, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for determining a measure a similarity of the audio content of a plurality of files. Quantized samples are converted to energy values from files having audio content with compressed formats. Energy characteristics are determined from the energy values and are matched... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080249977 - Similar files management apparatus and method and program therefor: A similar files management apparatus displays files similar to a specified file with the respective degrees of similarity. The similar files management apparatus includes a unit specific information generation means for acquiring information specific to each unit contained in a file by means of a predetermined computation formula from the... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080249979 - Method and arrangement for pairing off parties on a labour market: The invention provides a method and an arrangement for pairing off a job seeker with potential employers on a labour market. A service provider maintains a database (601) arranged to store labour market data and a server device (602) arranged to connect the database to a data network (603). A... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080249980 - Method for classifying terms of legal documents: A method for classifying terms and conditions of legal documents is provided. The method includes the steps of: standardizing terms and conditions of all of the legal documents stored in a database; classifying the all of the legal documents having standardized terms and conditions into different categories according to different... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20080249981 - Systems and methods for federating data: The system and method federates relational and non-relational data by business users creating a virtual relational map of unrelated data in disparate systems. The method uses a declarative language to capture data relationships. As the relationships are built, it captures a virtual relational data map of all the data existing... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080249990 - Accessing data from asynchronously maintained index: A method and apparatus for computing queries in a way that is consistent with an index and the underlying base table is provided. A query is computed such that it is consistent with the state of an index and base table as of the last point at which the index... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080249982 - Audio search system: The present invention relates to systems and methods for identifying audio files. In particular, the present invention relates to systems and methods for identifying audio files (e.g., music files) with user-established search criteria. The systems and methods of the present invention allow a user to use an audio file to... Agent: Casimir Jones, S.c.

20080249988 - Computer programming method and system for performing a reversal of selected structured query language operations within a database transaction: An invention is disclosed for performing reversal of selected Structured Query Language (SQL) operations within a database transaction by a database server. Specifically, a computer programming product, method and system is provided for enabling a software client to reverse (i.e., “undo” or “rollback”) one or more selected SQL statement(s) within... Agent: Lee Law, PLLC IBM Customer Number

20080249992 - Cross-language searching: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, related to cross-language searching. Input characterizing search criteria in a first language may be received and a search may be performed on a database having records in a second language. The search may be performed on the database with synonyms of the search... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C. Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64280

20080249991 - Dynamic bid pricing for sponsored search: A method for an online sponsored search system includes storing a database of items. At least some of the items include a keyword and a money amount associated with a respective advertiser. The method further includes receiving information about current user preferences within the online sponsored search system. When the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080249985 - Facilitating identification of star schemas in database environments: Facilitating identification of star schemas in database environments. In an embodiment, queries are examined to determine the joins required. The two tables of each join are added as a relationship in the star schema.... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20080249983 - Identifying a result responsive to a current location of a client device: A method for identifying a result responsive to a current location of a client device includes receiving, form a client device and at a host, a search query that includes a point of interest and a current location of the client device. The method also includes automatically updating the search... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080249989 - Integrating a hosted services system and a search system: Technologies are described herein for integrating a hosted services system and a search system. A query for an entity is received at a search system. If an entry for the entity indicates that an information site does not exist for the entity, a request to create an information site for... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080249995 - Method and system for attribute management in a namespace: A computer-based method and system for managing attributes of objects in a namespace and for allowing multiple views into the namespace. The namespace system allows the objects identified by the names of the namespace to be hierarchically organized. The namespace system allows for attributes of various objects, including directory objects... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080249986 - Method and system for displaying contextual advertisements with media: Systems and methods have been developed for displaying contextually relevant advertisements to users as media objects are being rendered. One or more data sources with contextual information for different portions of each media object are maintained. From this contextual information, keywords may be generated and used to locate contextually-related advertisements.... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080249997 - Method and system for querying user information and search proxy, client and user: A method for querying user information includes: A search proxy receives a query request containing query conditions sent from a client, and forwards a message of the query request to the XDM server in which the user information is stored. The search proxy receives the query result returned from the... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd (for Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd)

20080249996 - 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

20080249987 - System and method for content selection based on user profile data: Online content is selected based at least in part on user profile data. In one embodiment, user profile data, including individual user characteristics, is stored on a profile server. A profile probability may then be calculated for the individual user characteristics. Subsequent online user behavior is analyzed and used to... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080249993 - System and method for localized social network: Systems and methods are provided to localize a social network. A VIP card may be used to connect businesses and users. Multiple user types may be specified. Features and functionality associated with multiple users may be specified.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080249994 - System and process for server side stateless data interchange: A system and process for data exchange using a stateless router and stateless server is disclosed. Using commodity hardware, the present invention enables assembly of a flexible extensible information management system without complexity or productivity loss. Comprising of a client computer, a stateless router, a stateless server and a database... Agent: Dergosits & Noah LLP

20080249984 - Use of graphical objects to customize content: A method, apparatus and computer-usable medium is provided for using graphical objects to automate the definition of search queries submitted to an information management system. A search query is defined using a plurality of predetermined search terms represented as graphical objects within a user interface. The search query is structured... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Rsw

20080249999 - Interactive cleaning for automatic document clustering and categorization: Documents are clustered or categorized to generate a model associating documents with classes. Outlier measures are computed for the documents indicative of how well each document fits into the model. Outlier documents are identified to a user based on the outlier measures and a user selected outlier criterion. Ambiguity measures... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080250001 - Method and system for providing information in virtual space: In an information providing system 100, a virtual three-dimensional space (virtual space) is established. Each of users of mobile communication terminals 50 virtually moves in the virtual space by manipulating an avatar representing the user, and obtains advertisement information through electronic signboards. Each of users of information providing terminals 30... Agent: Michaud-duffy Group LLP

20080250002 - Object classification: Classification of objects using the best boolean expression that represents the most optimal combination of the underlying features is disclosed.... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20080250003 - Peer to peer (p2p) concept query abstraction model augmentation with federated access only elements: Embodiments of the invention are generally related to data processing, and more specifically to retrieving results for a query from one or more devices coupled to a network. A first device may receive an abstract query including logical fields defined by a first data abstraction model and retrieve query results... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080250004 - Peer to peer (p2p) concept query notification of available query augmentation within query results: Embodiments of the invention are generally related to data processing, and more specifically to retrieving results for a query from one or more devices coupled to a network. A first device may receive an abstract query including logical fields defined by a first data abstraction model and retrieve query results... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080250005 - Peer to peer (p2p) federated concept queries: Embodiments of the invention are generally related to data processing, and more specifically to retrieving results for a query from one or more devices coupled to a network. A first device may receive an abstract query including logical fields defined by a first data abstraction model and retrieve query results... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080250006 - Peer to peer (p2p) federated concept queries: Embodiments of the invention are generally related to data processing, and more specifically to retrieving results for a query from one or more devices coupled to a network. A first device may receive an abstract query including logical fields defined by a first data abstraction model and retrieve query results... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080249998 - Techniques for processing data from a multilingual database: A method, system and article of manufacture for providing natural language support for users running queries against a multilingual database. One embodiment comprises identifying one or more physical values defined by physical data in the multilingual database for a query result associated with an executed query. At least one translation... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080250000 - Uniform metadata retrieval: A method for uniform metadata retrieval generates an interface for requesting metadata from a relational database. A hierarchical metadata request can be received via the interface. The hierarchical metadata request can be translated into a relational database metadata request. The relational database metadata request is utilized to retrieve metadata from... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080250009 - Assessing mobile readiness of a page using a trained scorer: A method and system for ranking pages of a search result based on the mobile readiness of the pages is provided. A mobile-readiness system receives an indication of pages that are to be ranked. The mobile-readiness system evaluates the mobile readiness for each of the pages. Mobile readiness indicates suitability... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080250015 - Corpus expansion system and method thereof: A system and method for expanding new sample seeds to automatically expand corpora, in which sample seeds are used to collect corpus is provided. The new sample seeds are generated based on the already existed sample seeds and collected corpora; The corpus expansion strategy is determined based on all the... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080250014 - Data search method and apparatus for same: A data search apparatus performs a data search by using a search string that has a space character included therein with a calculation of the number of target search data prior to the data search, on an assumption that at least two portions in the search string are used in... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20080250007 - Document characteristic analysis device for document to be surveyed: An index term extraction device including: input means (1) for inputting a document-to-be-surveyed d and documents-to-be-compared P; index term extraction means (120) for extracting an index term from the document-to-be-surveyed d; first appearance frequency calculation means (142) for calculating a function value IDF (P) of the appearance frequency of the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080250012 - In situ search for active note taking: A system and method that facilitates and effectuates in situ search for active note taking. The system and method includes receiving gestures from a stylus and a tablet associated with the system. Upon recognizing the gesture as belonging to a set of known and recognized gestures, the system creates an... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080250011 - Method and apparatus for query expansion based on multimodal cross-vocabulary mapping: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for multimodal cross-vocabulary mapping. A corpus of multimodal content is annotated simultaneously using annotations from a plurality of vocabularies to form a set of common annotations. Relationships between a first vocabulary associated with a first modality and a second vocabulary... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080250010 - Method and system for determining and pre-processing potential user queries related to content in a network: A framework identifies data that a user would likely be interested to access, then extracts and stores such data for the user to efficiently use when desired. Thereby, the framework allows the user to access several types of information efficiently, without the user having to request the information.... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080250008 - Query specialization: A system, a method and computer-readable media for identifying and presenting potential query refinements for a user's search input. Documents are identified as being responsive to the search input. A query log is accessed to identify previously entered queries that also returned one or more of the identified documents. From... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080250013 - System, method and computer program product for electronically responding to requests for product related data: A method for electronically responding to requests for product related data, the method includes: collecting product related data from feeder systems; organizing the collected product related data into digital libraries within a document management system; receiving a discovery request from legal counsel to identify related documents; searching the product related... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - Xerox

20080250018 - Binary function database system: A binary function database system is provided in which binary functions are extracted from compiled and linked program files and stored in a database as robust abstractions which can be matched with others using one or more function matching heuristics. Such abstraction allows for minor variations in function implementation while... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080250016 - Optimized smith-waterman search: An optimized database searching for a query sequence having a plurality of vectors arranged in a linear fashion, wherein the vectors are parallel to a query sequence, and a plurality of elements of the query sequence are reordered in a striped pattern, and wherein a set of dynamic programming scoring... Agent: Vern Maine & Associates

20080250017 - System and method for aiding file searching and file serving by indexing historical filenames and locations: A system, method, and computer-implementable method for aiding file searching within a file service by indexing historical filenames and locations. In response to receiving a request to alter a first name corresponding to a file within the file system to a second name, a file system manager associates the second... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080250019 - Method and device for recording of data: A method for recording of data, including the steps of selecting a second set of individuals from a stream of individuals forming a first set of individuals, and providing said second set of individuals with an opportunity to record data on a data collection device (1). The method comprises the... Agent: Mathews, Shepherd, Mckay, & Bruneau, P.A.

20080250022 - Community role delegation policy: A method and system for establishing and maintaining a permission delegation policy for roles within a collaborative computing environment. The method and system provide a list of potential delegatee end user persons to a delegator end user person. A list of delegatable permissions is provided to the delegator end user... Agent: Steven M. Greenberg, Esquire Christopher & Weisberg, P.A.

20080250021 - Method for searching private data via a public data search interface: A system for searching data over a network includes a server connected to the network adapted as an interface to users accessing the sever over the network using a computerized appliance, a data repository associated with the server adapted for storing and managing data, and a software interface for accepting... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080250020 - Ontological representation of knowledge: A technique provides for an ontological representation of knowledge included in one or more contexts. A system and method based on the technique allows the creation, editing, and evolution of the ontology in the normal course of business as entities interact and communicate. Agents acting on behalf of contexts control... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080250025 - Demand aggregation in a geo-spatial network: A method, apparatus, and system of demand aggregation in a geo-spatial network are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes creating an item group associated with a registered user of a geo-spatial network, inviting a set of neighboring users geo-spatially proximate to the registered user to join the item group,... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080250027 - Hypertext displaying apparatus and hypertext displaying program: A hypertext displaying apparatus is provided. When a link destination indicated in stored data is designated, a processing section instructs a transmission/reception section to download hypertext data at the link destination, and instructs a history storage section to register an identifier of the currently-displayed stored data. If a user gives... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080250029 - Methods for distributions of digital files: The invention relates to a process for distributing files, having the steps of receiving at least one digital file, transmitting the digital file to a location, and selecting at least one content provider. The process also has the steps of updating a content of the content provider to provide a... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080250024 - Mobile station with expanded storage space and method of retrieving files by the mobile station: Disclosed is a mobile station having an expanded storage space, and a method of retrieving a file stored in a remote storage server. The method may include determining whether the file is locally stored or remotely stored, deleting files in a local storage to provide space if the file is... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080250026 - Recommendations based on cross-site browsing activities of users: A system provides recommendations of web sites, web pages, and/or products to a user based on web pages viewed during a current browsing session. In one embodiment, a browser plug-in or other client program monitors and reports information regarding browsing activities of users across multiple web sites. The resulting cross-site... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080250028 - Secure data accessing system and method: A system and method for accessing data located behind a security mechanism is provided. In the preferred embodiment, the system may use the common HTTP protocol and JDBC drivers. In more detail, a client may execute a Java applet that generates database proxy objects that are communicated to an application... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080250023 - System and method for bookmarking content with user feedback: A system and method for maintaining and accessing a database containing a number of content segments indexed by broadcast time is provided. If a user is interested in a particular content segment broadcasted from a station, he activates a portable bookmarking device which creates an entry comprising a broadcast time... Agent: Woodard, Emhardt, Moriarty, Mcnett & Henry LLP

20080250041 - Automatic elimination of functional dependencies between columns: In business systems, one or more methods can be used to reduce an amount of redundant data. In one implementation, a method to reduce redundancy within a data model in a database, in which the data model is represented by at least one table, includes determining a number of distinct... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C. Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64280

20080250037 - Content recording apparatus, content playback apparatus, content playback system, image capturing apparatus, processing method for the content recording apparatus, the content playback apparatus, the content playback system, and the image capturing appara: A content recording apparatus includes: a content management file storing section that stores a content management file that records hierarchical entries organized in a virtual hierarchical structure; a content inputting section that inputs content files; a virtual management information creating section that creates virtual management information for virtually managing each... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080250030 - Data processor: A data processor writes a content data stream on a storage medium, on which a data storage location is defined based on a file allocation table (FAT). The processor includes: a control section for determining the amount of data to be read continuously until a portion of the data stream,... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (mei) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080250042 - Diagnosis of a storage area network: A method of determining a state of a Storage Area Network SAN is provided comprising analyzing data collected from components in the SAN, calculating a redundancy level of the SAN based on the analyzed data, and determining the state of the SAN based on the calculated redundancy level. The redundancy... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080250039 - Discovering and scoring relationships extracted from human generated lists: A computer-implemented system and method for extracting Human Generated Lists from an electronic database is described. The system searches for objects of the same class within a context window to identify Human Generated Lists and stores them to an archive. The archive may be used to generate a relationship network.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080250034 - External metadata acquisition and synchronization in a content management system: A content management system (CMS) allows a CMS administrator to access data from an external source, such as a web page, and to correlate the external data with an attribute for a document type. When a user authors a document of that type in the CMS, the user may select... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080250043 - File management program, file management method, file management apparatus, imaging device, and recording medium: When the mode of an electronic camera is set at folder creation mode and a release button is pressed, a new folder is created in a recording area of a recording medium and an icon image of the newly created folder is created. The icon image is created based on... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080250036 - Information processing apparatus, control method therefor, program, and storage medium: An information processing apparatus which makes it possible to insert data into any form template that is specified. A data input/output control system 104 as the information processing apparatus processes a form template including at least one field into which database data is inserted. An identifier management section 108 extracts... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080250032 - Method and system for efficiently saving and retrieving values of a large number of resource variables using a small repository: Saving and retrieving operations of values of a large number of resource variables include creating and maintaining a small repository in an event monitoring software management application to track all resource variables and their state values and to record unique entries of resource variable identifiers, but only for those resources... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Poughkeepsie

20080250038 - Method and system for populating a software catalogue with related product information: A method and system for populating a software catalogue in software applications which monitor the presence of software products on a plurality of computers. The proposed method aims at populating a software catalogue with a limited manual intervention of an administrator. The present invention reduces the cost of producing and... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20080250033 - System and method for determining an event occurence rate: Described are a system and method for determined an event occurrence rate. A sample set of content items may be obtained. Each of the content items may be associated with at least one region in a hierarchical data structure. A first impression volume may be determined for the at least... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080250040 - System and method for managing online networking information: A method and data structures for obtaining, distributing, managing, and utilizing information, including online content and user biographical information, in an online networking system are presented. Profile data pointers that point to profile data structures and item data pointers that point to item data structures are employed to access users'... Agent: Thomas Lathram

20080250035 - Systems and methods for organizing content for mobile media services: In embodiments of the present invention, systems and methods for organizing content for media services may comprise organizing content from a plurality of data sources having information relevant to a channel, transforming the content into short messages suitable for delivery to a user via at least two of SMS, MMS,... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080250031 - Systems and methods for providing syndicated content: Methods and systems of providing syndicated feeds are disclosed. Content metadata is received from a feed provider. At least one rule for syndicating to a feed receiver a content item that corresponds to the content metadata is identified. A request from the feed receiver for syndication of the content item... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080250046 - Analysis of performance data from a relational database system for applications using stored procedures or sql: Analyzing performance data from a relational database to discover poorly performing SQL statements includes creating event records of performance data for query statements executed by a relational database management system, and condensing the performance data in the event records. A performance summary can be generated for each condensed event record.... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080250045 - Method and system for generating a mapping between types of data: A method and system for routing data of an source type to a target type is provided. The system has various routines for converting data in one type into data in another type. In one embodiment, the system receives an indication of a source type and identifies various sequences of... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080250044 - Verification of semantic constraints in multimedia data and in its announcement, signaling and interchange: A collection of well-formed, but possibly semantically invalid, binary encoded multimedia data components or packages as well as the binary encoded announcement, signaling, and interchange protocols used in their transmission are converted into one or more well-formed extensible markup language (XML) files. Such XML files may then be validated according... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080250051 - Automatic test generation for reference testing: A system for application reference testing (SMART) solves the technical problem of generating test data and test cases from graphical user interface applications (GAPs) to test web services, effectively and non-invasively. SMART allows organizations to easily and promptly identify and resolve software bugs, ensure higher quality software and development productivity,... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080250049 - Constraint programming for reduction of system test-configuration-matrix complexity: A system for creating a system configuration data set includes an input operable to receive a set of system properties with attributes and values and a set of expressions representing a set of system test goals. The system further includes a processor operable to define a hierarchical tree structure with... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20080250057 - Data table management system and methods useful therefor: A data table management system operative to manage at least one data table storing a multiplicity of data elements such as data records, the system comprising a data element usage monitor operative to record information pertaining to usage of individual elements in at least one data table; and a data... Agent: Paul D. Bianco Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20080250059 - Hierarchical inherited xml dom: A computer program product comprising computer readable program configured to implement a method for providing processed data definition documents (DDDs) or processed document object models (DOMs) for object oriented programming. The use of these processed data definitions simplifies the data structures and streamlines programming to access the data. A standard... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080250048 - Method and apparatus for providing simplified control for device fault and event handling: A method identifies, prior to runtime, a first device that is added to a system. Further, the method generates, prior to runtime, a statically precompiled database for the device that provides a first set of error handling data. In addition, the method identifies, during runtime, a second device that is... Agent: Taylor & Aust, P.C.

20080250056 - Method and apparatus for writing binary data with low power consumption: Systems and methodologies are provided herein for representing information in a data processing system with low power consumption. As described herein, parity relationships between multiple nodes of to-be-written binary information and original information can be leveraged as described herein to reduce the amount of toggling required to write information in... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080250055 - Method and device for coding a hierarchized document: Preferentially, the method comprises a step of creating at least two patterns which describe at least structural information of said element and a step of selecting a pattern from among the created patterns, on the basis of the efficiency of each coding operation of a set of instances of the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080250050 - Method and system for developing a desired set of configuration profiles for an application program and storage medium for storing a set of computer instructions which effectuate the method: A method and system for developing a desired set of configuration profiles for an application program and storage medium for storing a set of computer instructions which effectuate the method are provided. The method includes the steps of displaying graphical representations of possible profile management operations on a display of... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080250060 - Method for assigning one or more categorized scores to each document over a data network: The present invention relates to a method and computer readable recording medium of assigning one or more categorized scores to a linked document, being linked from at least one linking document, over a data network, comprising: (a) determining one or more categorized scores of at least one linking document having... Agent: Dan Grois

20080250054 - Object based heuristics database platform: The present invention creates a secured and decoupled enterprise fixed asset management platform where the schema can be quickly adjusted to handle emergent types of data, where the client software does not need to be modified when the underlying system changes, and where the end-user can quickly find said data.... Agent: Michael Ries

20080250058 - Process data warehouse: Systems and/or methods are presented that can efficiently analyze and summarize large collections of data. A summarization component can employ mapping rules to map received data into specified states and observations of interest, which can be utilized to facilitate creating relational tables that can be utilized to facilitate summarizing a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080250052 - Repopulating a database with document content: Word processing documents that are created using content from a database are used to repopulate a database. The document includes content placeholders that link the content to locations within the database from which the content was retrieved. The appropriate content based on the changes made to the document is extracted... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080250047 - System and method for using multiple meta boxes in the iso base media file format: A metabox container box which is capable of storing multiple meta boxes for use. The metabox container box can also include a box which indicates the relationship between each of the meta boxes stored in the metabox container box. Various embodiments of the present invention are also backward-compatible with earlier... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080250053 - User interface for selecting operators: The present invention relates generally to a method of identifying data delivery parameters relating to delivery of data accessible from a network location via a communications service provider. Embodiments of the invention are particularly well suited to identifying delivery parameters when the delivery of data is metered, such as when... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080250062 - Apparatus and method for linking objects created in a rapid application development environment: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to invoke a rapid application development graphical user interface to define fields associated with a set of objects. The creation of new objects derived from the set of objects is facilitated using the rapid application development graphical user interface to select existing... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080250061 - Method and apparatus for supporting mobility of content bookmark: The present invention relates to a bookmark of media contents, more particularly to method and apparatus for supporting mobility of bookmarks set on media contents. The media content playing method according to the present invention stores bookmark information in agency means, e.g., mobile control point (CP) or a connectable memory... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080250063 - Systems and methods for interfacing multiple types of object identifiers and object identifier readers to multiple types of applications: A method for interfacing an object identifier reader to at least one application is disclosed. The method may include receiving object identifier data from the object identifier reader. The object identifier data may include information and formatting characters. The method may then involve identifying the information in the object identifier... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080250064 - Method and system to compare data entities: The present invention relates in general to methods and systems for comparing and maximizing the appropriateness of a first set of one or more data objects to a set of second data objects. In one embodiment, the first set of data objects represent one or more tasks to be fulfilled... Agent: John J. Brooks, Iii

20080250066 - Apparatus and method for adding contact information into a contact list: A portable electronic device includes call circuitry operative to establish a call with another contact over a communication network, a contact list stored in memory of the electronic device, said contact list including contact information; and logic circuitry operative to capture at least a portion of new contact information during... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080250070 - Creating a report having computer generated narrative text: The present invention provides a system that creates a report that includes complete sentences based on input values that reflect measured or observed patient conditions. The system creates a sentence or a portion of a sentence that describes the patient's condition by comparing the input values for one or more... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20080250069 - Method and system for using mnemonic symbols to provision channel attributes with an attribute mask: A name that means something to a human can be used to provision multiple channels, multiple times after a one-time association of an binary integer mask bit pattern with the name, or mnemonic. Typically, the one performing the one-time association of the mask pattern with the mnemonic will choose a... Agent: Arris International, Inc

20080250065 - Modifying a digital media product: Storing, by an owner of a digital media product, the product in a distributed media library, the library including information describing the modifiable part of the digital media product and a digital grant of rights to modify and distribute the product; producing, from users' digital expressions of preferences, information describing... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080250067 - System and method for selectively identifying media items for play based on a recommender playlist: A system and method for controlling media item recommendations received by a user based on the rendering of a user's pre-established recommender playlist. The recommender playlist is a list of identifiers that identify recommenders in the user's social network and a filter rule(s) associated with each recommender included in the... Agent: Concert Technology And Withrow & Terranova

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20080250071 - Systems and methods for business applications: A system and method for developing business application meta-objects which are application building blocks that access information from multiple information stores and nay be assembled in different combinations to service different business communities. The meta-objects permit business applications to be constructed and revised on the fly by an end-user. The... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080250075 - Document management system and its control method: This invention provides a document management system regarding deleted information for suppressing restoration of information that one does not wish to be referred to again. This invention comprises an electronic document DB device in which a DB is stored and a DB device used for electronic document backup that stores... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080250074 - Recoverable last resource commit: A method and apparatus for reducing logging overhead in systems where at least some of the participants conform to the two-phase commit protocol is provided. Transaction logging is eliminated at the transaction manager. The fault recovery mechanism is altered to obtain transaction status from participating resource managers logs, instead of... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080250072 - Restoring a source file referenced by multiple file names to a restore file: Provided are a method, system, and program for restoring a source file referenced by multiple file names to a restore file. An operation is processed to restore a source file having a first file name to a restore file, wherein the source file is in a state of being accessed... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080250073 - Sql change tracking layer: Systems and methods that track changes in a database via a change tracking layer that enables separation of change tracking and change enumeration. Such an arrangement enables multiple change enumeration and sync technologies over a single change tracking layer, while reducing amount of tracking information that are maintained.... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080250076 - Systems and methods of media management, such as management of media to and from a media storage library: A system and method for determining media to be exported out of a media library is described. In some examples, the system determines a media component to be exported, determines the media component is in the media library for a specific process, and exports the media component after the process... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080250077 - Method and apparatus for media duplication: There is disclosed in embodiments herein a digital media content duplication system and method that allows digital media data to be duplicated to one or more destinations and verified. In one embodiment, the system may comprise multiple servers and multiple database structures; providing storage, management. processing, coordination, and tracking of... Agent: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

20080250078 - Method and system for server-based error processing in support of legacy-based usage and billing systems: An error processing system comprising a client/server based PC application supported by SQL Server databases for use with legacy usage metering and billing services. The error processing system provides increased functionality, flexibility and reliability of error processing at a much lower cost than was possible using error processing and correction... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20080250079 - Storage subsystem: The data up to a point of time whereat failure has occurred will be restored at high speed at a remote site without imposing any burden on a host. The first storage system on the master side processes an I/O request from the host, and as a result of I/O... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080250080 - Annotating the dramatic content of segments in media work: A media work, such as a movie, musical composition, book, or interactive computer game, may be analyzed, segmented, and annotated based on its content. Segment annotations may include a dramatic content level, an indication of thematic importance or key events occurring during the media segment, and other descriptive data relating... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080250081 - Page-added information sharing management method: In a page-added information sharing management method, a setting of added information to an object in a page, including a range specification of the added information for the object is received. The added information is stored by associating the added information with the page. When a request for displaying the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080250086 - Apparatus method and system for asynchronous replication of a hierarchically-indexed data store: Changes such as write operations on a replication source comprising a hierarchically-indexed file system and associated data store are tracked and aggregated over a point-in-time image replication interval and communicated to a replication target. The replication target receives the changes, conducts operations to make the changes on a target volume... Agent: Brian C. Kunzler Kunzler & Associates

20080250084 - Archiving messages from messaging accounts: A method, information processing system, and computer readable medium that for archiving messages. The method includes querying a set of messaging accounts associated with a user. A set of archiving configuration messages residing within at least one messaging account in the set of messaging accounts is identified in response to... Agent: Fleit, Kain, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l

20080250085 - Backup system having preinstalled backup data: A backup system has a set of temporary backup data stored on a data storage system. When performing a backup operation for a device over a network, a block of data on the device may be compared to blocks of the temporary backup data. If the block of data already... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080250083 - Method and system of providing a backup configuration program: Methods and a system are provided for generating a list of user selectable files for backup based upon program properties. The file space on a user's computer or a computer network is searched for application programs, data files and file extension types stored therein. Once these items are located, they... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Tuscon Division

20080250082 - Method of backing up and restoring data in a computing device: Installable files installed on a first computing device are backed up to a second computing device and restored from the second device to the first device and/or a further device using the same means to verify the integrity of the files as used for the original installation of the files... Agent: Synnestvedt Lechner & Woodbridge LLP

20080250087 - System and apparatus for optimally trading off the replication overhead and consistency level in distributed applications: Methods and systems are provided for optimally trading off replication overhead and consistency levels in distributed data replication where nodes are organized in a hierarchy. The root node has the original data that need to be replicated at all other nodes, and the replicated copies have a freshness threshold that... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law Group, LLC

20080250088 - Concurrent evacuation of the young generation: The invention relates to a method for performing generational garbage collection on a heap comprising a plurality of generations. The method involves dividing a young generation of the heap into a first young generation and a second young generation, evacuating the first young generation concurrently with allocating the second young... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun

20080250089 - Improving 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.

20080243758 - Data processing device for processing measured values: A data processing device is provided for processing measurement values provided from a medical measurement device. The device generally comprises an input unit, a data input interface configured for communication with the medical measurement device, a memory unit for storage of data sets, a calculation unit, and an audible data... Agent: Roche Diagnostics Operations Inc.

20080243757 - Direct memory access controller with dynamic data transfer width adjustment, method thereof, and computer accessible storage media: A method of dynamic data transfer width adjustment is provided. The method includes firstly detects a data size of a transfer data. A data transfer width mode is detected according to a data address of transferring data. The data transfer width mode includes at least one of a word mode,... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080243753 - Method and apparatus for archiving media using a log: Method and apparatus for archiving media using a log are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises accepting an original media; updating a first log to include an indication that specifies a date of when the original media was received; converting the original media into a bitmap, the bitmap being... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080243752 - Method and apparatus for process logging: Method and apparatus for process logging are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises accessing a log having one or more log entries that contain a first data indicative of a set of one or more processing operations, a second data indicative of an input to the one or more... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080243751 - Method and apparatus for recording associations with logs: Method and apparatus for recording associations with logs are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises obtaining a first media identifier corresponding to a first media; accessing a log that contains one or more entries that associate two or more media identifiers with each other; and determining that the first... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080243760 - Method and system for devices efficiently sharing information regarding the content of a digital television bit-stream: A method and system for efficiently allowing a controller device to receive information from a tuner device regarding the content of a digital television bit-stream. The present invention first receives a digital television bit-stream at a tuner device. The digital television bit-stream comprises video, audio, and data information, as well... Agent: Sony C/o Murabito, Hao & Barnes LLP

20080243756 - Method and system for presenting non-linear content based on linear content metadata: A system and method may include receiving a non-linear content identifier request. The system and method may further include identifying linear content metadata associated with the non-linear content identifier request, the linear content metadata representing at least one metadata keyword. The system and method also may include identifying a relationship... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080243759 - Method for image data recording with a medical modality designed for image data recording and associated medical modality: A method for image data recording with a medical modality is provided. Protocols for image data recording using the at least two different image recording techniques are provisioned in a common database. The protocols are organized on the basis of body regions and/or clinical pictures. A body region and/or a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080243755 - System for controlling access to digital content: A storage system is provided that includes a memory controller for controlling a throughput rate for utilizing digital content by an accessing system, wherein the throughput rate is associated with information related to the digital content stored as a file. Also, a system for utilizing digital content is provided. The... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20080243754 - Systems and methods of media management, such as management of media to and from a media storage library: A system and method for determining media to be exported out of a media library is described. In some examples, the system determines a media component to be exported, determines the media component is in the media library for a specific process, and exports the media component after the process... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080243767 - Apparatus and method for constructing and using a semantic abstraction for querying hierarchical data: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to receive hierarchical data. A schema for the hierarchical data is also received. An entity relationship model for the hierarchical data is generated. A semantic abstraction associated with the entity relationship model is defined. An abstract term representing an underlying data element... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080243762 - Apparatus and method for query based paging through a collection of values: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to receive from a requester a query for objects within a system. An index for the objects within the system that match the query is generated. The index is segmented into pages. A set of page state queries is returned to the... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080243766 - Configuration management of an electronic device: A configuration of an electronic device (400) is managed by obtaining (1005) stakeholder attributes of a component resident in the electronic device from stakeholder requirements (FIGS. 7, 8) of one or more stakeholders and correlating (1020) the respective stakeholder attributes as well as available sets of values of attributes of... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080243768 - Executing non-blocking parallel scans: Executing non-blocking parallel scans is disclosed. One embodiment includes determining if one or more threads have completed scanning one or more assigned portions of a first division of the data set. The identified one or more threads are directed to immediately scan the portions of a next division of the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080243764 - Group joins to navigate data relationships: A group join query facilitates navigation of relationships (e.g., one-to-many or many-to-one) across a plurality of data collections. Such a query operator produces nested or hierarchical results that capture the arguments passed thereto. If desired, the nested results can be flattened to simulate conventional relational database results.... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080243771 - Managing copies of data: A method in a computer system for retrieving data from one of multiple copies of the data is provided, referred to as the data management system. The data management system receives a request identifying at least one data object to be accessed. Then, the data management system queries a metabase... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080243761 - Method and system for quantifying a data page repetition pattern for a database index in a database management system: A method and system are presented for quantifying a data page repetition pattern for a database index in a database management system. In one embodiment, the method includes identifying a database index to provide a basis for collecting a data page repetition statistic, the database index having a database index... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080243772 - Method and sytsem for generating nested mapping specifications in a schema mapping formalism and for generating transformation queries based thereon: A method and system for generating nested mapping specifications and transformation queries based thereon. Basic mappings are generated based on source and target schemas and correspondences between elements of the schemas. A directed acyclic graph (DAG) is constructed whose edges represent ways in which each basic mapping is nestable under... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080243770 - Method for creating a scalable graph database: Embodiments of a method for creating a graph database which is arranged to store or process data in the form of graph tuples comprising n-parts, are described. In an embodiment, each tuple-part is encoded into a unique part identifier (hereinafter called a UPI), each UPI comprises a tag at a... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20080243765 - Method for generating nested mapping specifications in a schema mapping formalism: A method for generating nested mapping specifications and transformation queries based thereon. Basic mappings are generated based on source and target schemas and correspondences between elements of the schemas. A directed acyclic graph (DAG) is constructed whose edges represent ways in which each basic mapping is nestable under any of... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080243769 - System and method for exporting data directly from deduplication storage to non-deduplication storage: A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium are disclosed for exporting data from a deduplication data store to a non-deduplication data store. A set of data may be stored in the deduplication data store in a format eliminating one or more duplicates of data objects in the set of data.... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080243763 - System, method and program to provide data to another program: System, method and program product for providing data to a program for processing. An electronic spreadsheet is formed. One or more cells in the spreadsheet are mapped to the program. Based on the mapping, one or more data entries in the one or more cells, respectively are automatically forwarded to... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080243773 - Systems and methods for a distributed file system with data recovery: The intelligent distributed file system enables the storing of file data among a plurality of smart storage units which are accessed as a single file system. The intelligent distributed file system utilizes a metadata data structure to track and manage detailed information about each file, including, for example, the device... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080243791 - Apparatus and method for searching information and computer program product therefor: An information searching apparatus stores, in a character-string accumulating unit, first character strings in correspondence with second character strings while classifying each of the second character strings according to an attribute thereof. The information searching apparatus further stores, in a storage unit, the attributes in correspondence with specified information each... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080243782 - Client collection membership evaluation: Client collection membership evaluation techniques are described. In an implementation, attributed are identified that define membership in one or more collections. A plurality of clients is monitored for changes to computing resources that correspond to the identified attributes. Membership of clients having the changes is evaluated using one or more... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080243793 - Contact information capture and link redirection: A contact information function associated with a web browser maintains a look-up table of recognizer functions, indexed by regular expressions that specify URLs. Upon a user entering or selecting a URL, the contact information function indexes the look-up table with the URL against the regular expressions. If one or more... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080243794 - Contents information search control system and contents information search control method: Disclosed is a contents information search control system that, when automatic search of contents, such as game software, is performed with a terminal, such as a cellular phone, according to a user's preference, can reflect a change in user's interest or expansion of a target range of an interest. A... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080243778 - Cube faceted data analysis: Methods, systems, and computer readable medium for displaying results of a search query. In one implementation, the method includes receiving a query, obtaining documents that satisfy the query, constructing a facet hierarchy based on documents that satisfy the query, creating a cube structure based on the facet hierarchy, and displaying... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080243775 - Data extraction supporting system: [Solution] An extraction candidate data deciding/transmitting means 84 of a data extraction supporting device 4 decides extraction candidate data corresponding to history corresponding data for each user, reads the extraction candidate data from the information database 90 and transmits the extraction candidate data to a user terminal 6 on condition... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20080243789 - Groupware system with improved contact data handling: A groupware computer system comprising a groupware server, a groupware client coupled to the server over a network, a contact information repository configured to store contact data of users in personal contact lists associated to individual users, a messaging system database configured to store statistical information about exchange of messages,... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080243792 - Image processing apparatus and method for controlling image processing apparatus: An apparatus includes a page designation unit configured to designate a page to be searched in a document file including a plurality of pages, an input unit configured to input a search key used to search the document file, and a search unit configured to perform character string search to... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080243779 - Integration of predefined multi-dimensional and flexibly-ordered dynamic search interfaces: A method, computer program product, and system for integrating faceted and predefined multi-dimensional search interfaces are provided. The method, computer program product, and system provide for displaying a first set of results from a search request in a faceted search interface and a second set of results from the search... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080243781 - Managing distributed index data: This disclosure provides various embodiments of systems, methods, and software for managing distributed index data. For example, in one embodiment, software for managing distributed index data may identify a query for one or more data objects from a data repository using a generic index, map the query to one of... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080243774 - Method and software program for searching image information: Video systems are widely used in the field of surveillance of buildings, traffic, private homes, supermarkets and the like. For some applications it is useful to save the video information for a later access or analysis. As the saved data volume increases with the number of video cameras of a... Agent: Striker, Striker & Stenby

20080243796 - 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

20080243797 - Method and system of selecting landing page for keyword advertisement: A method and system for displaying a keyword advertisement through retrieval of an optimal landing page associated with a detailed keyword, and displaying the retrieved landing page for a user, instead of displaying a non-specific landing page associated with the advertisement keyword included in the detailed keyword. A method of... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080243780 - Open profile content identification: Open profile data in a user profile, e.g., free-form fields in a user profile, are processed to identify interests and preferences of the user. The interests and preferences are utilized to identify categories associated with the user profile, and content items, e.g., advertisements, can be identified based on the categories.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080243798 - Search device and recording medium: A device composed of structures and access methods for providing search functionalities is proposed. The structure includes a presence/absence information unit that stores bit-level items grouped in blocks. Other structures included are, a character string list that is used to store keys composed of character strings and a file specification... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080243788 - Search of multiple content sources on a user device: Search may be performed on a user device, such as a handheld electronic reader device. In that case, when a search query is received, a determination can be made to search one or more available sources of content for the query term. Available sources of content may include at least... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080243790 - Software method for data storage and retrieval: This invention discloses a novel method for storing data in virtual multidimensional blocks and accessing and retrieving desired information from these blocks. Specific items of data whose characteristics fall within the range of a specified block are stored within that block. Blocks with smaller ranges are nested within larger blocks... Agent: Venable LLP

20080243800 - System and method for generating and using a dynamic blood filter: A dynamic Bloom filter comprises a cascaded set of Bloom filters. The system estimates or guesses a cardinality of input items, selects a number of hash functions based on the desired false positive rate, and allocates memory for an initial Bloom filter based on the estimated cardinality and desired false... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20080243795 - System and method for storage operation access security: A method and system for controlling access to stored data is provided. The storage access control system leverages a preexisting security infrastructure of a system to inform the proper access control that should be applied to data stored outside of its original location, such as a data backup. The storage... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080243799 - System and method of generating a set of search results: In a particular embodiment, a system includes an interface responsive to a network to receive data related to a first document and includes processing logic and memory accessible to the processing logic. The memory stores a plurality of modules executable by the processing logic to recursively retrieve documents, extract directed... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20080243786 - System and method of goal-oriented searching: In a particular embodiment, a method of goal-oriented searching is disclosed that includes providing a graphical user interface including an input and a selectable indicator. The selectable indicator is related to a pre-defined query associated with a particular goal. The particular goal includes multiple criteria. The method also includes receiving... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080243787 - System and method of presenting search results: In a particular illustrative embodiment, a method of presenting search results is disclosed that includes identifying data related to search results from one or more data sources. The one or more data sources include at least one document data source. The method also includes providing an interface to present multiple... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080243776 - System and method to facilitate real-time end-user awareness in query results through layer approach utilizing end-user interaction, loopback feedback, and automatic result feeder: A system and method for facilitating real-time end-user awareness in results to a query to optimize and refine a computerized search utilizing an interactive result layer (IRL) and result operational layer (ROL) are disclosed. The present invention establishes a loopback feedback between encapsulated end-user interactions, which are facilitated through an... Agent: Andrew T. Brunner

20080243784 - System and methods of query refinement: In a particular embodiment, a system is disclosed that includes processing logic and memory accessible to the processing logic. The memory includes instructions executable by the processing logic to receive data related to search results and to automatically generate a query based on the received data and without explicit user... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080243785 - System and methods of searching data sources: In a particular embodiment, a system is disclosed to search one or more data sources. The system includes an interface to a network, a visualization system to provide a search interface to a destination device via the network, and a search system. The search system communicates with the interface to... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080243783 - System for determining the geographic range of local intent in a search query: A system and method are disclosed for determining the geographic range of a search query. A search query may include local intent which influences the results and advertisements that are displayed in response to the search query. The geographic range associated with the local intent may vary depending on the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080243777 - Systems and methods for results list navigation using semantic componential-gradient processing techniques: Systems ana methods are provided for organizing and presenting large search results lists using lexical semantic componential-gradient processing techniques to dynamically organize search results into a gradable list of context rich semantic components, which is presented to a user under a gradient as a constrained set of choices to thereby... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080243803 - Information processing apparatus and method, and program: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus that presents, to a user who performs a search among a plurality of contents distributed over a search space formed using N, N is an integer greater than one, types of search axes, assistant information for assisting the user with the search. The... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080243804 - Information search system, information search supporting system, and method and program for information search: In a stage before a search engine for performing an information search by using an ontology is provided an information search supporting system having a morpheme analysis section, a syntactic and semantic analysis section, and a conversion execution section which converts a natural language sentence on which syntactic analysis and... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080243802 - Method and apparatus for searching for content using metadata based categories, and recording medium thereof: A method and apparatus for searching for content using metadata based categories, and a computer readable recording medium storing a computer program for executing the method are provided. The method includes displaying at least one category, displaying a sub-category list of a first category selected from among the displayed categories,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080243801 - System and method for model element identification: A problem analysis system and method, given at least one entity represented in an entity-relation-entity relationship, automatically formulates a query that is automatically submitted via a knowledge search tool to a database of mereological and functional relationships, and responses to this query from the database are automatically provided. The query... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20080243806 - Accessing information on portable cellular electronic devices: A method, performed by software executing on the processor of a portable cellular electronic device, which allows for the retrieval of personal, reference, and remote information with a minimum of operator interaction. A user interface is utilized to search and act on such information. Furthermore, additional features designed to assist... Agent: Mchale & Slavin, P.A.

20080243805 - Automatic creation of e-books: A system searches for segments among multiple publications dealing with a given topic or set of topics, and compiles these segments into a custom-created electronic-book. In a commercial environment, such custom-created e-books are offered for sale to a user or set of users who have expressed interest in the given... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080243808 - Bad word list: A mobile communication apparatus including enabling of character input and a first comparison of the inputted characters with characters in a predictive text dictionary, a second comparison of matches in the predictive text dictionary comparison with characters in a exception list, and taking action depending on the matches in the... Agent: Perman & Green

20080243815 - Cluster-based assessment of user interests: Computer-implemented processes are disclosed for clustering items and improving the utility of item recommendations. One process involves applying a clustering algorithm to a user's collection of items. Information about the resulting clusters is then used to select items to use as recommendation sources. Another process involves displaying the clusters of... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080243817 - Cluster-based management of collections of items: Computer-implemented processes are disclosed for clustering items and improving the utility of item recommendations. One process involves applying a clustering algorithm to a user's collection of items. Information about the resulting clusters is then used to select items to use as recommendation sources. Another process involves displaying the clusters of... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080243838 - Combining domain-tuned search systems: The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or techniques that effectuate combining domain-tuned search systems. The system can include mechanisms that obtain queries, written descriptions, or illustrative web-pages regarding a particular area of interest, and generate a definition related to the area of interest. The definition contains a list of paths... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080243818 - Content-based accounting method implemented in image reproduction devices: A content-based accounting method is implemented in a management section for a copier, scanner, printer or multifunction device (referred to as MFP), or on a networked server accessible by the copier, scanner, printer or MFP. When copying, scanning or printing a document, the management section automatically extracts content information from... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20080243833 - Dictionary updating apparatus and computer program product therefor: In a dictionary updating apparatus, based on frequency with which search words are used and relationships among the search keywords, in other words, based on a history of the search keywords, an improvement proposal making unit submits an improvement proposal regarding an element that degrades the quality of classes and... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080243836 - Document retrieval system, document number subsequence acquisition apparatus, and document retrieval method: A document retrieval system performing retrieval of electronic documents includes, a document database storing a plurality of pieces of document data, a transposed index storage device storing a transposed index in which the document numbers of the document data containing a keyword string are registered, a document number subsequence search... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080243831 - Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and storage medium: A first information processing apparatus includes a registration unit that receives, from an information processing apparatus, information of a derivation relationship in which a first document is a parent and a second document generated as a result of an operation performed with respect to the first document is a child... Agent: Gauthier & Connors, LLP

20080243809 - Information-theory based measure of similarity between instances in ontology: Improved information processing techniques for measuring similarity between instances in an ontology are disclosed. For example, a method of measuring similarity between instances in an ontology for use in an information retrieval system includes the following steps. A set of instances from the ontology is obtained. At least one of... Agent: William E. Lewis Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080243813 - Look-ahead document ranking system: A method and system is provided for calculating importance of documents based on transition probabilities from a source document to a target document based on looking ahead to information content of target documents of the source document. A look-ahead importance system generates transition probabilities of transitioning between any pair of... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080243837 - Method and apparatus for duplicate detection: The present invention includes a method and device for detecting duplicate documents by triangulation. Particular aspects of the present invention are described in the claims, specification and drawings.... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080243825 - Method and system for detecting undesired inferences from documents: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that detects inferences from documents. During operation, the system receives one or more documents and extracts a first set of knowledge relevant to the documents. The system further formulates one or more queries to one or more reference corpora based on... Agent: Pvf -- Parc C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080243810 - Method and system for launching a browser: Systems and methods are described for searching a publicly accessible network (e.g., the Internet) with an efficient use of space on a display device (e.g., a monitor, a screen) of a computer. Computers often use graphical interfaces for user interaction, and thus graphical space can be in short supply during... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080243832 - Method and system for parsing languages: Embodiments of systems and methods for comparing attributes of a data record are presented herein. In some embodiments, a weight is based on a comparison of the name (or other) attributes of data records. In some embodiments, an information score may be calculated for each of two name attributes to... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080243834 - Method, apparatus, server, system and computer program product for use with predictive text input: In a system, a server controller is configured to receive at least part of at least one personal dictionary, and is further configured to generate an adapted dictionary using words of the at least part of at least one personal dictionary. The server controller is also configured to transmit at... Agent: Perman & Green

20080243839 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for detecting the presence of an installation on a data processing system based on the relative storage locations of one or more files: The presence of an installation on a data processing system may be detected by providing a signature that includes m files having paths associated therewith, respectively. A number n files on the data processing system are determined that match files in the signature and a files found ratio given by... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080243807 - Notification method for a dynamic document system: A dynamic document template contains a set of queries. Each query may include a query scope. The query scope may refer to a content of a source document that is maintained in a document collection. A content rule is applied to monitor the template for a change. A notification event... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20080243816 - Processes for calculating item distances and performing item clustering: Computer-implemented processes are disclosed for clustering items and improving the utility of item recommendations. One process involves applying a clustering algorithm to a user's collection of items. Information about the resulting clusters is then used to select items to use as recommendation sources. Another process involves displaying the clusters of... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080243835 - Program, method and apparatus for web page search: prioritizing by referring to access log files which are stored in the web server corresponding to the extracted web page and recording, for every user accessing, information about which page's link is accessed by the user, tallying for each link access to the web page to calculate an access frequency,... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080243827 - Query generation using enviroment configuration: A query for a help system includes data about a user system and a task that the user is attempting. The query may be used by a search engine to generate relevant results to aid the user. The user system data may include configuration data about hardware and software. The... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080243812 - Ranking method using hyperlinks in blogs: A method for static ranking of web documents is disclosed. Search engines are typically configured such that search results having a higher PageRank® score are listed first. A modified scoring technique is provided whereby the score includes a reset vector that is biased toward web pages linked to blogs. This... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20080243828 - Search and indexing on a user device: Search may be performed on a user device, such as a handheld electronic book reader device. A search query term may be received. Text of a collection of electronic items stored in memory of the user device may be searched for the queried term. Search results may be returned identifying... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080243819 - Search macro suggestions relevant to search queries: Search macros suggestions are provided to refine a user's search. When a search query is received from an end user, one or more search macros are determined to be relevant to the search query. The search macros are then provided to the end user as suggestions for refining the user's... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080243814 - Search techniques for page-based document layouts: Systems, methods, and/or techniques (“tools”) for improved search techniques for page-based document layouts are described herein. The tools may analyze markup elements defined for pages within source documents, and may determine whether the markup elements for the page may include at least part of a search string.... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080243820 - Semantic analysis documents to rank terms: A method, apparatus and computer program product provides for a semantic analyzer to produce and rank semantic terms to reflect their relationship to the theme and topics of a document. The text and the document can have no relationship to any pre-selected keywords before the semantic analyzer performs text extraction.... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20080243829 - Spectral clustering using sequential shrinkage optimization: A clustering system initially applies an eigenvalue decomposition solver for a number of iterations to a clustering objective function. The eigenvalue decomposition solver generates an eigenvector that is an initial approximation of a solution to the objective function. The clustering system fixes the eigenvector values for the identified objects. The... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080243822 - System and method for associating a geographic location with an internet protocol address: Systems and methods for associating a geographic location with an IP address are disclosed. Generally, an IP address associated with each of a plurality of browser cookies is determined, where each of the plurality of browser cookies indicate a geographic location such as a home address or business address of... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080243824 - System and method for associating a geographic location with an internet protocol address: Systems and methods for associating a geographic location with an IP address are disclosed. Generally, a plurality of localized search queries of search queries received at an Internet search engine are determined, where each of the plurality of localized search queries is associated with a location. A geo tag is... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080243823 - System and method for automatically generating information within an eletronic document: A method for automatically generating target information within an electronic document including the steps of: retrieving term-based identifying information from the electronic document that specifies the target information to be generated; accessing rules associated with generation of the target information based on the retrieved term-based identifying information; analyzing the identifying... Agent: Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP

20080243826 - System and method for determining semantically related terms: Systems and methods for determining semantically related terms are disclosed. Generally, a semantically related term tool receives a seed set and identifies a plurality of terms that constitute the seed set. For each term of the seed set, the semantically related term tool identifies one or more concept terms associated... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080243811 - System and method for ranked keyword search on graphs: Arrangements and methods for providing for the efficient implementation of ranked keyword searches on graph-structured data. Since it is difficult to directly build indexes for general schemaless graphs, conventional techniques highly rely on graph traversal in running time. The previous lack of more knowledge about graphs also resulted in great... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20080243821 - System for providing geographically relevant content to a search query with local intent: A system and method are disclosed for utilizing local intent to provide geographically relevant information in response to a search query. The search query results and advertisements may be chosen based at least in part on the local intent and geographic range of the search query. The search query may... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080243830 - User suggested ordering to influence search result ranking: A method, apparatus, and system of user suggested ordering to influence search result ranking are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a search result having a set of links each associated with a content data relevant to a search query, ranking individual ones of the set of links... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080243840 - Comparing data sets through identification of matching blocks: A computer readable storage medium stores instructions to receive a source data set and a target data set. Instructions to identify differences between the target data set and the source data set are also stored. These instructions include dividing the target data set into a set of target data blocks.... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080243844 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: Provided is an information search technique that can realize a short response time for a search request. To realize this object, a search client apparatus according to the invention is connected to a network system having a metadata search apparatus and a plurality of image search apparatuses, and comprises: a... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080243842 - Optimizing the performance of duplicate identification by content: In accordance with the disclosure, there is provided a method for identifying duplicate documents comprising drafting a first document and creating a near unique representative string based on the document content. The method further comprises searching for other documents with the same NRS and selectively assigning a duplicate group identification... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080243841 - Pattern searching methods and apparatuses: A computer-based method for identifying patterns in computer text using structures defining types of patterns which are to be identified, wherein a structure comprises one or more definition items, the method comprising assigning a weighting to each structure and each definition item; searching the computer text for a pattern to... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080243843 - 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 minimum strength of association value serves as a statistical threshold to ensure the results will provide at least a... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20080243845 - Server assignment based on trends in username choices: A method and computer readable medium are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes sorting users into groups, where each group includes all usernames that have a same prefix string, calculating a usage factor for each user group, reserving a portion of total server storage space for each user group... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080243850 - Fault tolerant mutual exclusion locks for shared memory systems: Furthermore, more sophisticated implementations are provided that apply to queue-based locks where more than one process can cause the lock to be permanently unavailable, as well as implementations that balance the speed of recovery while minimizing the frequency of queries to the programming environment, as these queries may be costly... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080243846 - Locking semantics for a storage system based on file types: Techniques for implementing locking semantics for a storage system based on file types are described. An apparatus or system may include a database to store multiple data files, and a cache manager to manage the data files, the cache manager having a client lock manager to receive a request to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080243849 - Method and apparatus for supporting context links for application program text: Methods and apparatus are provided for supporting text-based context links for application programs. An embodiment includes a first computer to maintain a database of data objects and a second computer to execute an application program that operates on a file having text elements. In an embodiment, the second computer is... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080243847 - Separating central locking services from distributed data fulfillment services in a storage system: Techniques for implementing locking semantics for a storage system are described. An apparatus or system may include a data server to store multiple data files, and a locking server to store locking information for one or more data files stored by the data server. The locking information may include a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080243848 - User specific logs in multi-user applications: User specific logs in multi-user applications. Level data associating a user of a multi-user application with a respective log level is received. The multi-user application then records an amount of information determined by the log level corresponding to the user presently using the multi-user application.... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20080243854 - Information processing system: An operated terminal monitors a connection request from an operating terminal, and when a connection request is transmitted from an operating terminal, an access right for a resource being accessed by the operated terminal is re-determined. As a result, the access right for a resource is appropriately maintained. The need... Agent: Mattingly Stanger And Malur PC

20080243853 - Method and system for notifying an invitee user when an inviting user accesses a social networking application: A system and method may include receiving an access from an inviting terminal requesting access to a social networking application, the access request may be associated with a user identifier, searching a contact database, based on the user identifier and on an application identifier of the social networking application, to... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080243856 - Methods and apparatus for scoped role-based access control: Methods and apparatus for providing role-based access control of a resource by a subject in an access control system are provided. The system comprises one or more roles capable of association with one or more subjects, and a plurality of permission sets. One or more of the plurality of permission... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080243851 - Multi-user conditional access to a content item: This invention relates to a system and method of providing conditional access to a data content item for a number of users, where the data content item is associated with a digital right that provides a user the right to access the data content item a predetermined number of times.... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080243855 - System and method for storage operation access security: A method and system for controlling access to stored data is provided. The storage access control system leverages a preexisting security infrastructure of a system to inform the proper access control that should be applied to data stored outside of its original location, such as a data backup. The storage... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080243852 - System and methods for enabling collaboration in online enterprise applications: A method for enabling collaboration in online enterprise applications includes, during development of the online enterprise application, selecting at least one webpage to be in wiki format; creating an access control list for the at least one webpage; and selecting at least one control for the at least one webpage.... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20080243872 - Computer network security data management system and method: A software based system for compiling security data from an information network includes at least two network components, each providing data. A data 5 parser is coupled to certain of the network's components. The data parser has access to two parser scripts that correspond to the network's component data. Categorized... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C. David A. Rose

20080243873 - Content bank for objects: A content bank for objects hosts all information regarding an object and serves as a proxy for that object. The content bank comprises at least one instance of a digital identity corresponding the object. Object identity modules or services are available through the digital identity instance. Via the content bank... Agent: Accenture C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20080243858 - Design and methods for a distributed database, distributed processing network management system: c

20080243861 - Digital photograph content information service: A server provides an information record comprising selected information related to an image depicted in a digital photograph. The server may comprise a database and a recognition application. The database may store, in association with each of a plurality of subject matters: i) recognition data for recognizing the subject matter... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20080243862 - Firmware repository for mfp devices: A firmware repository includes an Extensible Markup Language (XML) description file. A system and method for managing the repository is described.... Agent: Law Offices Of Larry K. Roberts, Inc.

20080243859 - Information self-storage system: An information self-storage system and a method of storing digital information in and retrieving that information from a self-storage system are described. The system comprises a network of storage devices, a group of distributed servers for managing use of the storage devices, and a plurality of distributed input terminals for... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080243869 - Inter-home sharing apparatus and method using home network device: An inter-home content sharing apparatus and method are provided. The inter-home content sharing apparatus includes a home network protocol stack which communicates with the home network devices according to a home network protocol; a remote storage controller which receives a request for sharing content from the home network devices through... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080243865 - Maintaining global state of distributed transaction managed by an external transaction manager for clustered database systems: In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a transaction tracking mechanism is provided by a database server cluster to keep track of a global state of a distributed transaction. The global state of the distributed transaction comprises one or more statuses that are associated with one or more... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080243871 - Method and a system for publishing data: The present invention relates to a system and a method for single click publication of personal contents of user with the user's consent and sharing it with the rest of the world via internet. The published content can be accessed by other internet users at their desktop, viewed or shared... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080243868 - Method and apparatus for a digital leg history: A personalized way to digitally record a person's physical activities over time serves nostalgia, security, business advertising and object tracing purposes. A viewable, updateable digital history of a person's physical presence over a time is composed of a collection of (i) digital network entries from other members who hold their... Agent: Steven Horowitz, Esq.

20080243857 - Method for editing a multimedia page using pre-stored data: This invention relates to multimedia page editing on a terminal. A server (SER) supplies pages to the terminal (TER) in the form of object arrangement commands for objects in a multimedia page to be generated. The method according to the invention comprises a preliminary step wherein the server transmits on... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080243864 - Methods and systems for a network element database migration service: In various exemplary embodiments, the present invention provides methods and systems of extracting a database from one NE and importing a recreated database into another NE. The database includes NE circuit provisioning data and the like. The present invention is utilized when rolling traffic from one or more NEs to... Agent: Clements Bernard Miller

20080243867 - Reliable and scalable multi-tenant asynchronous processing: In a multi-tenant environment, synchronous processing requests from clients associated with tenants are handled by middle tier servers, which forward requests for asynchronous processing to queues associated with organizational databases for each tenant directed by a locator service. A group of independent asynchronous processing servers are used to perform the... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080243860 - Sequential media reclamation and replication: Sequential media reclamation is usually performed after portions of a sequential access volume's data are no longer needed and the unused portion of the volume exceeds a threshold. Improved sequential media reclamation is provided by using a sequential access disk volume (for example, a volume of a virtual tape library... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080243863 - System and method for healthcare advisory system: A system includes a Healthcare Advisory System (HAS) module and a server. The HAS module may send user location information to the server. Based on user information and environment information stored on the server, an alert may be generated and sent to a user via the HAS module.... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080243866 - System and method for improving cluster performance: A system for providing improved cluster operation performance comprises a storage system and a cluster system communicatively coupled to the storage system. The cluster system comprises an active node and a plurality of passive nodes. The active node comprises a storage system interface engine and at least one initiator engine... Agent: Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20080243870 - Systems and methods of media management, such as management of media to and from a media storage library: A system and method for determining media to be exported out of a media library is described. In some examples, the system determines a media component to be exported, determines the media component is in the media library for a specific process, and exports the media component after the process... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080243880 - Automatic identification of components for a compound document in a content management system: A content management system (CMS) includes a component identification mechanism for identifying components in a component-centric way that takes into account specified conditions for a link location in a compound document as well as component relationships and conditions. By using the relationships and conditions, a more intelligent choice may be... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080243886 - Case database management system and method: A case database management system capable of maintaining high quality case information registered in a case DB. A user of the case database management system can not only refer to case information registered in the case DB by user terminals, but also evaluate the case information. The case DB server... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080243876 - Creation of generic hierarchies: A method and system are disclosed for modeling a relational database. The method comprises the steps of defining a set of data tables to accommodate any number of levels of a business hierarchy and using these tables as a generic data model to handle various levels of requirements of the... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080243887 - Exclusion control: An exclusion controller which allows an information processing unit to acquire a contended resource to the exclusion of the other information processing units includes a plurality of non-prioritized information processing units mutually exclusively acquiring a non-prioritized exclusion right, which indicates a candidate for acquiring the contended resource, by a first... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20080243884 - Generic data staging and loading using enhanced metadata and associated method: A system and method is disclosed for providing data staging and loading through a master data management (MDM) system coupled with one or more business entities. The system is operable to invoke batch data loading of data associated with one or more source systems associated with the one or more... Agent: I2 Technologies Us, Inc.

20080243889 - Information mining using domain specific conceptual structures: A method and analytics tools for information mining incorporating domain specific knowledge and conceptual structures are disclosed, the method including: providing a first set of documents related to a first topic of interest; using a first taxonomy to categorize the first set of documents into a set of categories; providing... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20080243874 - Lightweight schema definition: Systems and methods for defining and using schema information with a document are disclosed. In some implementations, schema information may be provided as part of the same document that contains the information to which the schema applies. Such schema information may be used in a variety of ways, including, for... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080243888 - Mention-synchronous entity tracking: system and method for chaining mentions: A Bell Tree data structure is provided to model the process of chaining the mentions, from one or more documents, into entities, tracking the entire process; where the data structure is used in an entity tracking process that produces multiple results ranked by a product of probability scores.... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080243885 - Method and system for managing entities: Embodiments of a method for managing entities include candidate selection by a transitive bucketing process where at least one attribute of an initial data record is used to determine a set of candidate data records corresponding to the initial data record. For each candidate data record thus determined, additional candidate... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080243875 - Method, computer-readable medium, apparatus, user interface, and system for provision of a dictionary: A method is disclosed, including determining an application to be executed; determining a dictionary associated to the determined application; and enabling the associated dictionary. Corresponding computer program, apparatus, user interface, and system are also disclosed.... Agent: Perman & Green

20080243877 - Promoting content from one content management system to another content management system: Provided are a method, system, and program for promoting content from one content management system to another content management system. Content from a first content management system satisfying a content criteria is determined. The first content management system includes content objects added by users in a collaborative environment. A second... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080243878 - Removal: There can be provided a system, method and apparatus to enable a data object to be removed from a single-instancing data object store in such a way as to ensure that only data objects to which all references have been removed are actually removed from the store. Thereby, consistency and... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080243883 - System and method for providing an intelligent configuration rationalization solution: A system and method is disclosed for rationalizing configurations associated with one or more products. The system includes a database associated with one or more customers. The system further includes an order analysis system coupled with the database. The order analysis system is capable of rationalizing the differences between configurations... Agent: I2 Technologies Us, Inc.

20080243881 - System and method for reducing memory usage of tree-based data structures: A system and method for reducing memory usage is disclosed. The system and method include populating a first container with original data. The first container has a tree-based data structure that includes a plurality of nodes and a plurality of pointers. A block of memory is allocated to a second... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080243879 - System and method for storing redundant information: A method and system for reducing storage requirements and speeding up storage operations by reducing the storage of redundant data includes receiving a request that identifies one or more data objects to which to apply a storage operation. For each data object, the storage system determines if the data object... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080243882 - Updating of link to data repository: A method of operating a communication system which comprises a plurality of clients and a data repository, comprises the steps of detecting a location change of the data repository, acquiring data defining the clients connected to the data repository, transmitting a component to each client defined by the data, receiving... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080243890 - Automated two and three dimensional technical data packaging: Production of two and three dimensional technical data packages is automated by a computer that receives and stores one or more customer defined data submittal rules for formatting a technical data package. The computer then executes one or more of the rules to create a linked set of output data... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, LLC - (boeing)

20080243892 - Automatic file conversion to a target format: A conversion tool that is automatically launched enables file formats not understood by a given application to be opened by that application. The converter registers for file types that are not already associated with an application used by the system. When a file that is not supported by another application... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080243895 - Discovering object definition information in an integrated application environment: Provided is a method, system, and program for providing an object discovery agent (ODA) client. There is one object discovery agent (ODA) client and at least one ODA, wherein each ODA is associated with one application and includes: (i) application programming interfaces (APIs) to communicate with the associated application to... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20080243893 - Image managing system, digital camera, image managing method, and computer readable medium storing an image managing program: In an image managing system, a digital camera has a photographing section, a first memory, a display, an importance degree acquiring section and an outputting section, and an information processing device has an inputting section, a second memory, and a controller. The first memory of the digital camera stores image... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080243891 - Mapping data on a network: Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for mapping data on a network. Input files including information files and schema files are utilized to generate platform independent runtime files. The processing of the runtime files generates one or more business service applications. The runtime files map data... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080243894 - Medical image file output apparatus, medical image diagnostic apparatus and method for outputting medical image file: A medical image file output apparatus includes: a second-image input device which inputs a second image obtained by adding personal information in a human-readable manner to a first image obtained by scanning a subject; a third-image generating device which converts an area in the second image where the personal information... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (20459) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080243905 - Attribute extraction using limited training data: Techniques are described for reducing the false positive rate of regular expression attribute extractions via a specific data representation and a machine learning method that can be trained at a much lower cost (much fewer labeled examples) than would be required by a full scale machine learning solution. Attribute determinations... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080243897 - Autonomic updating of templates in a content management system: A content management system (CMS) autonomically updates one or more templates based on characteristics of documents in the repository, and based on specified criteria in an autonomic template update policy. At an appointed time, the CMS finds a template in the repository, retrieves an autonomic template update policy corresponding to... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080243903 - Data driven media interaction: An extensible framework that facilitates user interaction with media items (e.g., digital content). Abstraction between a user's exploration experience via a user interface component and underlying data and behavior layers is provided. A data source component provides information associated with media item(s) and a behavior component provides information associated with... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080243898 - Document image authenticating server: A document image authenticating server and method for using the same are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises a document receiving interface to capture images of documents associated with one or more workflows and tag the collected document with workflow information indicative of its associated workflow; a first memory... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080243900 - Dynamic and real-time discovery of computing resources: The disclosure is a real-time, dynamic and automatic system for computing object discovery within an IT enterprise network. Every time an object is activated on the network, the activation is self-announced by the object sending a thin ‘hello’ message to a network manager. The ‘hello’ message includes the minimum identification... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080243907 - Efficient indexing using compact decision diagrams: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing an inverted index of a searchable set of objects including key words. The inverted index includes multiple lists each corresponding to a particular key word and identifying a particular subset of the objects including the particular key word. The method includes generating a... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080243901 - Generating code on a network: Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for generating code on a network. Input files including information files and schema files are utilized to generate platform independent runtime files. The processing of the runtime files generates one or more business service applications. The runtime files map data... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20080243910 - Hierarchical inherited xml dom: A computer system including a processor and a memory unit containing instructions that when executed by the processor implement a method for providing processed data definition documents (DDDs) or processed document object models (DOMs) for object oriented programming. The use of these processed data definitions simplifies the data structures and... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080243902 - Method and system for providing a graphical workflow monitor: A browser based workflow monitor uses a graphical user interface (GUI) to display workflow status information and to create log information. The monitor presents the log information to a user in a format that is easily understood. Workflow information is accessed from a user workstation via a data network and... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20080243908 - Method for creating a scalable graph database using coordinate data elements: Embodiments of a method for creating a graph database which is arranged to store data in the form of graph tuples comprising n-parts, are described. In an embodiment, each tuple-part is encoded into a unique part identifier (UPI). A geospatial UPI is defined for two-dimensional data elements that include a... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20080243904 - Methods and apparatus for storing xml data in relations: A method and data-processing apparatus for storing data from an XML document in a relational database, wherein the XML document conforms to an XML schema which specifies the types of elements which may be included in the XML document and child element types of the said element types, and wherein... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080243906 - Online system and method for providing geographic presentations of localities that are pertinent to a text item: Content may be rendered from a network with the inclusion of supplemental geographic information. A text content from a content item is analyzed in order to make a determination as to one or more localities that are identified or relevant to the text. A geographic presentation may be provided with... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080243909 - Program: Provided is a program for causing a computer to execute the steps of: sending a request including execution environment identification information for identifying its program execution environment to a predetermined server through a network; receiving a list including installation candidates which can be installed under the program execution environment identified... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080243896 - Systems and methods for profiling clinic workflow: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a clinical information workflow profiling system including a workflow engine adapted to collect profiling data for a healthcare workflow task and a profiling processor adapted to analyze the profiling data to determine an alternative configuration of the healthcare workflow task.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080243899 - Systems, apparatus and method for performing digital pre-distortion based on lookup table gain values: A system (100, FIG. 1) performs digital pre-distortion using gain values stored in a lookup table (150). A method for performing digital pre-distortion includes identifying (310, FIG. 3) a lookup table entry, based on input data, and updating the lookup table entry by writing an updated gain value into the... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (fs)

20080243912 - Method of providing business intelligence: The present invention provides a method of determining business intelligence in real time. A business process or operation can be defined by a number of inter-related business entities. The inter-relationship between the values associated with each business entity can be determined such that the values of strategic objectives, such as... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080243913 - Partial sub-lock for delta object management: A system may include creation a first database object associated with a primary key and a first delta ID m, association of a first pointer with the first database object, creation of a data structure associating the first pointer with a first index m, a second index m and a... Agent: Sap Ag C/o Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20080243911 - Sharing a single instance of a user defined type: Methods, systems and apparatus for implementing behavior of a user defined type (UDT) in a database by providing a data table with multiple rows and generating a UDT table having only a single row. An instance of a UDT is created and stored in the single row of the UDT... Agent: Delio & Peterson, LLC

20080243915 - Content bank for objects: A content bank for objects hosts all information regarding an object and serves as a proxy for that object. The content bank comprises at least one instance of a digital identity corresponding the object. Object identity modules or services are available through the digital identity instance. Via the content bank... Agent: Accenture C/o Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz, P.C.

20080243914 - System and method for storing redundant information: A method and system for reducing storage requirements and speeding up storage operations by reducing the storage of redundant data includes receiving a request that identifies one or more data objects to which to apply a storage operation. For each data object, the storage system determines if the data object... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080243916 - Automatically determining a database representation for an abstract datatype: A method and apparatus for determining a database representation for an abstract datatype that may have more than one database representation. A user supplies a logical description that references the abstract datatype, along with one or more sample queries that reference the abstract datatype. For example, the user supplies a... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080243920 - Communication reputation: Techniques are described which may provide information regarding the end point's reputation, for presentation, or selectively block communications according to user preferences. In an implementation, a request to establish a communication link may include searching a database of reputation data for information regarding at least one of the source's reputation... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080243917 - Computer-based system and method for detecting risks: A system detecting emerging risks in various systems and relating a detected risk to its relative impact on a system or product. A server receives and stores risk information from geographically distributed computerized data sources via a communication network. The risk information includes an identification and rating of a specific... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080243928 - Human factors process failure modes and effects analysis (hf pfmea) software tool: Methods, computer-readable media, and systems for automatically performing Human Factors Process Failure Modes and Effects Analysis for a process are provided. At least one task involved in a process is identified, where the task includes at least one human activity. The human activity is described using at least one verb.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080243931 - Image forming system, information processing program, and image forming device handling secure job information: An image forming system which includes an information processing device and an image forming device. The information processing device includes: a generator configured to generate secure job information including image forming information and image forming authentication information; and a transmitter configured to transmit the secure job information. The image forming... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. Attorneys For Client Nos. 0166889, 006760

20080243927 - Method and a system for maintaining an integrity of a product: A system for maintaining an integrity of a product of a predetermined product type comprising configurable product elements, wherein a product description data set which indicates an actual configuration of said product is checked by means of a semantic reference model of said product type as to whether a product... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080243934 - Method and system for licensing of digital assets: A website or other publicly-accessible domain includes the ability to easily search for and license stock photography.... Agent: Charles A. Rattner

20080243919 - Method of and control arrangement for providing information about food and everages in combination with audio/video contents: A method of providing information about food and/or beverages in combination with audio/video contents, comprises the provision of a database (DB) in which an audio/video identifier (ID) identifying the audio/video content is correlated with food/beverage information (SI) about foods/beverages to be associated with individual scenes/events in the audio/video content and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080243929 - Program diagram preparing apparatus and method: A program diagram preparing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store program information items about a plurality of programs, a calculating unit configured to designate one of the programs as a center program and each of the other programs as first related programs, and to calculate first relativities between... Agent: Charles N.j Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20080243925 - Providing messages on properties given batch mode distribution constraints and sponsor budget constraints: Sponsored message placements are determined by (a) estimating a number of payable actions for candidate sponsored messages for a publication, (b) accepting batch mode distribution constraints of the publication and budget constraints of sponsors of the sponsored messages, and (c) selecting sponsored messages for the publication, from the set of... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20080243926 - Sports information viewing method and apparatus for navigation system: A sports information viewing method for a navigation system designed for receiving sports information and displaying the sport information in multiple windows on a display device, the method comprises a step of forming a database of sports information including, current sports information and past sports information in a memory, a... Agent: Muramatsu & Associates

20080243930 - System and method for automated customization of a workflow management system: The present invention is directed to a system and method providing an efficient automated customization of an existing workflow management system. Agent software may be utilized to operate autonomously to instruct a generic workflow tool provided by the existing workflow management system to accomplish the customization process without direct human... Agent: Ibm Corporation (swp)

20080243924 - System and method for efficient delivery of data content: A method of delivering video on demand content, including multicasting content to a plurality of client devices with storage, including instances where delivery begins mid-stream, and recovery mechanisms for missing content. Some embodiments include defining content as mandatory and involuntarily delivering the mandatory content. Some embodiments include a carousel with... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20080243923 - System and method for facilitating impulse content purchases: A system and method for identifying and facilitating impulse interactions with music, songs, advertisements, or other content are provided. The system and method may enable impulse purchases of music, or impulse reactions to advertising, or other interactions with various types of content. Impulse content purchases may be facilitated by collecting... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080243921 - System and method for managing it assets: A system configured to manage IT assets associated with an entity (e.g., a company, an institution, etc.), in accordance with one or more embodiments of the invention. The IT assets may include hardware assets, software assets, telecommunications assets, and/or other IT assets. The system enables substantially all of the information... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080243922 - System and method for marketing real estate: A system and method for marketing real estate in which an advertising broker (10) enters an agreement with a listing broker requiring the advertising broker to place advertisements relating the conveyance of a real estate property interest wherein the advertisements are placed in exchange for a percentage of the sale... Agent: Louis Ventre, Jr

20080243933 - System and method for multi-governance social networking groups: A system and method for providing social networking groups under distinct governance models. In one embodiment, a data store stores governance model rules. A server applies the stored rules to implement a first online social networking group under a first governance model and a second online social networking group under... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080243918 - System and method for supporting improved trick mode performance for disc based multimedia content: A playback apparatus for use in a reproducing system is disclosed. The playback apparatus includes a number of conventional elements including a memory configured to store data to be read from a data source (1), a presentation unit (340) configured to retrieve one or more data blocks from the memory... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080243932 - System and method for the production of media: A system and method for the production of media is provided. The system includes a first database of written content submitted by the public and approved by an administrator and a second database of trade professionals, whereby a member of the second database can review the content of the first... Agent: Cash Klemchuk Powers Taylor LLP

20080243940 - Data management system, and information processing device and computer readable medium therefor: A data management system includes an external device and information processing device communicably connected with the external device. The information processing device includes a data sending unit sending a data file to the external device, a specifying information storing unit storing data specifying information, a request unit sending a request... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080243942 - Elimination of redundant objects in storage systems: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture, wherein a data structure corresponding to a set of client nodes selected from a plurality of client nodes is generated. Objects from the selected set of client nodes are stored in the data structure. A determination is made that an object... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080243939 - Managing copies of data: A method in a computer system for retrieving data from one of multiple copies of the data is provided, referred to as the data management system. The data management system receives a request identifying at least one data object to be accessed. Then, the data management system queries a metabase... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080243937 - Method and formalism for sending instructions to distributed data bases carried out by means of a computer program: A method to send instructions to distributed Data Bases has a stage where directives are formatted in a document respecting an appropriate formalism, a stage in which the document is sent, one in which the document is interpreted and translated into basic instructions and, finally, one stage where those instructions... Agent: Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20080243935 - Method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing data in a browser-based application: A method, system, and computer program product are provided for managing data in a browser-based application. The application is opened in the browser, and a subset of the application is arbitrarily specified as data. Different versions of the subset of the application specified as data are caused to persist so... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080243941 - System and method for generating a cache-aware bloom filter: A cache-aware Bloom filter system segments a bit vector of a cache-aware Bloom filter into fixed-size blocks. The system hashes an item to be inserted into the cache-aware Bloom filter to identify one of the fixed-size blocks as a selected block for receiving the item and hashes the item k... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20080243938 - Systems and methods of media management, such as management of media to and from a media storage library, including removable media: A system and method for determining media to be exported out of a media library is described. In some examples, the system determines a media component to be exported, determines the media component is in the media library for a specific process, and exports the media component after the process... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080243936 - Tracking file system namespace changes during transactions: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to tracking file system namespace changes during transactions. In aspects, a filter monitors operations that may affect a tracked portion of a transactional file system's namespace. When an operation that affects the tracked portion is received, a data structure is modified to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080243943 - Method and apparatus for efficient execution of interprocedural transactional memory code while maintaining safety: In some embodiments, a method and apparatus for efficient execution of interprocedural transactional memory code while maintaining safety are presented. In this regard, a transaction agent is introduced to start a transactional memory transaction from a first procedure of a program, and to end the transaction from a second procedure... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080243944 - Synchronous peer-to-peer multipoint database synchronization: A method of synchronizing databases between multiple users in a peer-to-peer network is disclosed. The method comprises extracting changes from a source database of one of the users. Next, the changes are compressed and sent to the other users in the peer-to-peer network in parallel. Finally, the changes are decompressed... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080243945 - Log data store and assembler for large objects in database system: A mechanism works in conjunction with a DB2® Log and an analysis tool, such as BMC's Log Master™, to handle logged data for Large Objects (LOBs) stored in tables of a DB2 database system. A plurality of controls track data logged for the LOBs. The mechanism reads log records from... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20080243946 - Storage system and data recovery method: Proposed are a storage system and a data recovery method capable of guaranteeing data recovery processing at a service level sought by a user. This storage system and data recovery method uses one or more data recovery candidate points and specifies a section containing the journal and the replication of... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080243947 - Method and apparatus for controlling storage provisioning: Providing a volume to a host computer by a storage system is automated for ensuring that an appropriate version of a storage control software is installed on a storage control module of the storage system that manages access of the host computer to the volume. When the volume on the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080243948 - Method for sharing groups of objects: A method of sharing a group of one or more objects between a plurality of users, in which one or more of said plurality of users is able to change parameter data of at least one said object. The method comprises storing at least one version of each said object;... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080243950 - Advanced clock synchronization technique: An advanced clock synchronization technique is adapted for use with a replication service in a data backup and recovery storage environment. The storage environment includes a plurality of source storage systems and target storage systems, wherein the source storage systems are illustratively embodied as source replication nodes. The advanced clock... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080243959 - Apparatus and method for backing up computer files: An apparatus and method for backing up computer files comprising a portable housing, nonvolatile memory within the housing, an interface on the housing for communication between the nonvolatile memory and the computing device, and a software application in the nonvolatile memory. Using the software application, files are designated on the... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20080243955 - Bit stream backup incorporating parallel processes: Forensic analysis of computer data is facilitated by analyzing data as it is being read from a target storage (10), rather than from a restored bit stream back-up file. In some embodiments, multiple processors (16) or threads run different analyses simultaneously. In some embodiments, the analyses are performed on very... Agent: Michael O. Scheinberg

20080243949 - Divided backup of data warehouse: A data warehouse characterized by a plurality of fact tables and at least one dimension table is backed up. For fact tables that are static, those fact tables are backed up using a first backup method that is, for example, optimized for static data. For example, the first backup method... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20080243954 - Generating and indicating incremental backup copies from virtual copies of a data set: Provided are a method, system, and program for generating and indicating incremental backup copies from virtual copies of a data set. A virtual copy operation is initiated to create a virtual copy of a data set, wherein the virtual copy represents the data set at a point-in-time copy, and wherein... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080243952 - Group stamping style asynchronous replication utilizing a loosely-accurate global clock: A group stamping style asynchronous replication service utilizes a loosely-accurate global clock in a data backup and recovery storage environment. The storage environment includes a set of source storage systems illustratively embodied as source replication nodes that cooperate to maintain a consistency group that may span multiple geographical sites. The... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080243953 - Implementing read/write, multi-versioned file system on top of backup data: Various embodiments of a computer system and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer system includes hosts coupled to a backup medium. The backup medium stores data segments and objects, each object referencing one or more segments. A second host conveys a write request to a first host identifying... Agent: Rory D. Rankin Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080243956 - Management device and method for storage device executing cdp-based recovery: A management device of a storage device that executes CDP-based recovery comprises: a data protection term acquisition section that acquires a data protection term which is a term in which recovery of a data volume is ensured from a predetermined duration for which a predetermined time is a reference point;... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080243957 - System and method for storing redundant information: A method and system for reducing storage requirements and speeding up storage operations by reducing the storage of redundant data includes receiving a request that identifies one or more data objects to which to apply a storage operation. For each data object, the storage system determines if the data object... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080243958 - System and method for storing redundant information: A method and system for reducing storage requirements and speeding up storage operations by reducing the storage of redundant data includes receiving a request that identifies one or more data objects to which to apply a storage operation. For each data object, the storage system determines if the data object... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080243951 - Write ordering style asynchronous replication utilizing a loosely-accurate global clock: A write ordering style asynchronous replication service utilizes a loosely-accurate global clock in a data backup and recovery storage environment. The storage environment includes a set of source storage systems illustratively embodied as source replication nodes that cooperate to maintain a consistency group that may span multiple geographical sites. The... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080243960 - Deterministic file content generation of seed-based files: A method for deterministic file content generation of seed based files is comprised of extracting a seed value from a seeded file signature, passing the seed value to a seeded content generating function to produce a set of generated content, and appending the set of generated content to the seed... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080243964 - Dynamic allocation of program libraries: A method of dynamic allocation of program libraries to an application server is provided. In addition to a static allocation of libraries to the server at initialization time, libraries can be added to or removed from the set available to a server while that server is active. New libraries are... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080243961 - Method and apparatus for adding a database partition: A data repository system and method are provided. A method in accordance with an embodiment includes an operation that can be used to port data from one or more existing database partitions to new database partitions according to a minimally progressive hash. The method can be used to increase the... Agent: Patent Administrator Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20080243962 - Method and apparatus for providing and managing a virtual storage namespace: The namespace of file system objects in a storage system includes a namespace table for maintaining virtual namespaces for each client computer. The storage system maintains an information holding a correspondence between real names for file system objects and virtual names for the file system objects. The virtual names are... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080243963 - Quota enforcement with transacted file systems: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate enforcing quotas in transactional file systems. In aspects, a filter monitors operations that may affect quota usage/charge of a file system object having a quota allotment. In doing so, the filter determines a quota value outside of any transaction for the object... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080243965 - Cooperative dll unload: Loading and unloading a plurality of libraries on a computing device having a loader lock and internal and external counts for each library in the plurality of libraries is disclosed. The libraries assume an initialize state, followed by an initialized state, a pending unload state, and an unload state according... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080243967 - Duplicate record processing: Duplicate record processing is enabled employing on customizable rules. Detected duplicate records are merged, deleted, deactivated, or moved based on one or more sets of customizable rules. Different rule sets may be used for each record type, or a rule set reused for different records. Hierarchical relationships between master and... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080243969 - Method and system for customizing allocation statistics: A system and method are provided to customize allocation statistics. In one embodiment, a tag is associated to one or more threads to receive allocation statistic information relating to the one or more tagged threads, the one or more threads are tagged prior to performing an allocation statistic session. The... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080243968 - Method and system for object age detection in garbage collection heaps: A system and method are provided for object age detection in garbage collection heaps. In one embodiment, ages of objects in a garbage collection heap at a first virtual machine at a server are determined by detecting a number of garbage collections each object has survived. An age is associated... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080243970 - Method and system for providing loitering trace in virtual machines: A system and method are provided for performing loitering trace in virtual machines. In one embodiment, status of objects in a garbage collection heap at a first virtual machine at a server is identified, in response to a memory leak. First objects that are used are identified. Second objects that... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080243966 - System and method for managing temporary storage space of a database management system: A method and system to manage temporary storage space of a relational database management system by receiving a data segment allocation request from an application, allocating a data segment to the application, marking the data segment as allocated in a space map page, and indicating a usage status of the... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie Attorneys At Law