Data processing: database and file management or data structures inventions 11/08

20080294592 - framework for managing attributes of objects: A computer implemented method, computer program product, and system for managing objects. Responsive to receiving a find-rule method, and a path-rule table, wherein the path-rule table contains a set of paths, wherein each path references an object, wherein a file system locates the object using the path, and wherein the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080294594 - Audit trail management method, system and processing program: When an access is made to a database from an application in accordance with a request of a user in an application server, thread information and request identification are acquired. The two kinds of information are then delivered to a database connector and are outputted to the database with information... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080294593 - Information processing apparatus and method for the same: The present invention maintains the response speed to users operations when operation-target contents are changed and improves the operability in data retrieval operations. An information processing apparatus for reading out content information from a storage unit accumulating the content information and for displaying the content information holds association information that... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080294591 - Interactive computer-aided diagnosis: Despite intense research activities in the field of computer-aided diagnosis methods of computer vision, automated classification or comparable algorithmic solutions are not regularly used and even less regularly trusted by physicians. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a confidence interval of the performed diagnosis is visualized and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080294597 - Computer-implemented method, computer program product and system for creating an index of a subset of data: s

20080294598 - Electronic device: An application makes a processor issue a first file access command to a middleware in order to access a file. In response to the first file access command, the middleware makes the processor periodically determine whether file access operation having a higher priority level than file access operation involved with... Agent: Von Simson & Chin

20080294596 - System and method for processing queries for combined hierarchical dimensions: An abstract query is received for querying data sources for a combined hierarchical dimension having at least one hierarchy. The abstract query is mapped into data source specific queries by generating context expressions according to the at least one hierarchy. The data source specific queries are executed in an order... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080294595 - Visual interface to indicate custom binning of items: Records representing items in a dimensionally-modeled fact collection are assigned to bins. A count-based portion of a user interface receives user bin assignment specification of the records based on user-specified counts of records. Actual counts for bin assignment are determined by constraining records having a same data value at a... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20080294606 - Aggregating web datastore server for drilling information: A method for aggregating data that includes obtaining a log object including a log element, wherein the log element includes oilfield data obtained from a provider, obtaining an aggregation policy for the log element, and aggregating the log element into an aggregated object based on the aggregation policy is disclosed.... Agent: Osha, Liang LLP / Smith

20080294599 - Apparatus and method of semantic tuplespace system: A tuple matching method and system includes conducting a plurality of types of matching techniques. The system and method conducts both semantic tuple matching and correlation tuple matching.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080294609 - Canonicalization of terms in a keyword-based presentation system: A presentation system accepts presentations or references to presentations from prospective presenters. Some or all of the presentations or references are stored in a database and referenced by keywords such that presentations to be presented in response to particular searches can be identified. A presentation manager handles accepting bids and... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080294601 - Data relevance filtering: Data relevance filtering may be provided. First data comprising a plurality of items may be received. Next, relevance information corresponding to the data may be received. The relevance information may comprise a relevance threshold. Then a filter based upon the received relevance information may foe created and the data may... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080294610 - Determining veracity of data in a repository using a semantic network: A mechanism for determining the veracity of data in a repository. Responsive to receiving a search query from a user, a semantic network is created from the documents in the repository. A determination is made as to whether data from a first document in the semantic network conflicts with data... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080294602 - Domain collapsing of search results: Systems, methods, computer-readable media, and graphical user interfaces for presenting search results having collapsed domains are provided. A search result obtaining module obtains search results based upon a received query. Upon obtaining the search results, search results having the same domain are associated with one another. Thereafter, search result clusters... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080294611 - Hierarchical storage management using dynamic tables of contents and sets of tables of contents: A system, apparatus, and process creates a table of contents (TOC), including one or more table of contents (TOC) entries, to manage data in a hierarchical storage management system. Each TOC entry contains metadata describing the contents and attributes of a data object within an image, which is an aggregation... Agent: Brian C. Kunzler

20080294605 - Method and system for offline indexing of content and classifying stored data: A method and system for creating an index of content without interfering with the source of the content includes an offline content indexing system that creates an index of content from an offline copy of data. The system may associate additional properties or tags with data that are not part... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080294603 - Providing profile information to partner content providers: In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a search query, at an information provider, from a mobile device; generating a plurality of search results that are responsive to the search query and directed to corresponding content providers that are external to the information provider; identifying one or more search... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080294600 - Searching for a directory in a file system: Methods, apparatus, and products for searching for a directory in a file system are disclosed that include selecting, by a word selection module for inclusion in a word list, a word of text whose frequency of occurrence meets a predefined criterion; inserting, by the word selection module into the word... Agent: Ibm (roc-blf)

20080294608 - System for packet interactive multimedia response (pim2r) and a method of performing the same: t

20080294607 - System, apparatus, and method to provide targeted content to users of social networks: A system, apparatus, and method for providing targeted content to users of a social network. The system, apparatus, and method may be used to provide advertisements, promotions, and other relevant content to a user of a social network based on analysis of the user's preferences, interests, and tastes as expressed... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080294604 - Xquery join predicate selectivity estimation: A method for estimating a selectivity of a join predicate in an XQuery expression is provided. The method provides for determining a first sequence size of a first sequence in the join predicate, determining a second sequence size of a second sequence in the join predicate, determining a type of... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080294612 - Method for generating a representation of a query: This invention relates to a computer-based method for generating a representation of a query for use in performing said query. The method comprises the steps of: retrieving data from a data source; displaying said retrieved data in a plurality of cells, each of said plurality of cells being associated with... Agent: Prass LLP

20080294615 - Query processing system of a database using multi-operation processing utilizing a synthetic relational operation in consideration of improvement in a processing capability of a join operation: When queries written in SQL are converted into query trees by the query optimizer (S1102). The query processor finds tasks to be processed directly from the query trees (S1104), and if the next tasks performing operation on processing results of the tasks that can be processed directly are project operation,... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080294613 - Sql adapter business service: A Structured Query Language (SQL) adapter business service that converts data from a data set to a common representation format used for all data sets with which the SQL adapter business service interacts. Hence the SQL adapter business service can communicate with various internal and external systems independently of the... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20080294614 - Structured-document processing: Provides structured-document processing device for detecting a relationship of approximateness between structured documents effectively. State-transition-diagram information storing means stores information concerning a state transition diagram where source nodes of a source structured document transit in order of occurrence from the head thereof. Extracting means extracting, a pair consisting of a... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080294623 - Apparatus and method for recovering final display: An apparatus and method of recovering a final display are provided. The apparatus includes a query-string-creating module creating query strings in response to a cursor-request message, a query-string-controlling module creating a first cursor as a result of processing the query strings, and returning the created first cursor to the query-string-creating... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080294627 - Board recruiting: Methods, systems, and computer program products for recruiting candidates for a position on a board are described. In a computer system, a degree of matching between a profile of a candidate and a profile of the board is determined, and the candidate is introduced to the board after establishing a... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080294633 - Computer-implemented method, system, and program product for tracking content: A system, method, and program product for tracking content are described. Aspects of invention allow bodies of content, whether from a common channel or from different channels, to be compared for relatedness. Comparison of different bodies of content involves analyzing both the actual content, characteristics of the source(s) of the... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080294631 - Desire posting system and method: Systems and methods are provided herein that provide for desire posting.... Agent: Axios Law Group. PLLC

20080294625 - Item recommendation system: To recommend an item which is highly unexpected to a user because its similarity to user preferences is low and which is useful to the user. A rule that modifies a set of keywords for recommending an item is randomly applied, and a keyword which a user does not prefer... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080294626 - Method and apparatus for leveraged search and discovery - leveraging properties of trails and resources within:

20080294632 - Method and system for sorting/searching file and record media therefor: A method, a system and a recorded medium for sorting and searching files are disclosed. A method of sorting and searching files have the steps of (a) outputting an annotation interface for an original file selected by a user, (b) receiving annotation details inputted through the annotation interface, (c) generating... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080294622 - Ontology based recommendation systems and methods: A search technology generates recommendations with minimal user data and participation, and provides better interpretation of user data, such as popularity, thus obtaining breadth and quality in recommendations. It is sensitive to the semantic content of natural language terms and lets users briefly describe the intended recipient (i.e., interests, eccentricities,... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080294628 - Ontology-content-based filtering method for personalized newspapers: The invention is an ontological-content-based method for filtering and ranking the relevancy of items. The filtering method of the invention utilizes a hierarchical ontology, which considers the distance, or similarity between concepts representing each user to concepts representing each item, according to the position of related concepts in the hierarchical... Agent: Kevin D. Mccarthy Roach Brown Mccarthy & Gruber, P.C.

20080294617 - Probabilistic recommendation system: A recommendations system uses probabilistic methods to select, from a candidate set of items, a set of items to recommend to a target user. Some embodiments of the methods effectively introduce noise into the recommendations process, causing the recommendations presented to the target user to vary in a controlled manner... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080294629 - Process for facilitating a telephone-based search: The process for facilitating a telephone-based search includes accepting a telephone inquiry, receiving search criteria through the telephone inquiry and searching an electronic database for information relevant to the search criteria. A portion of the search criteria may be received from a software application installed on a telephone. Such search... Agent: Kelly Lowry & Kelley, LLP

20080294630 - Query statistics provider: A system to provide search query information. The system receives a request for search query information, identifies a set of search queries from a search query log that includes search queries submitted to a search service over a predetermined length of time, and provides the set of search queries. Each... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080294621 - Recommendation systems and methods using interest correlation: A search technology generates recommendations with minimal user data and participation, and provides better interpretation of user data, such as popularity, thus obtaining breadth and quality in recommendations. It is sensitive to the semantic content of natural language terms and lets users briefly describe the intended recipient (i.e., interests, eccentricities,... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080294624 - Recommendation systems and methods using interest correlation: A search technology generates recommendations with minimal user data and participation, and provides better interpretation of user data, such as popularity, thus obtaining breadth and quality in recommendations. It is sensitive to the semantic content of natural language terms taken from user profiles at social networking and online dating applications... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080294634 - System and article of manufacture for searching documents for ranges of numeric values: Provided are a system and article of manufacture for searching documents for ranges of numeric values. Document identifiers for documents include at least one value that is a member of a set of values. A number of posting lists is generated, wherein each posting list is associated with a range... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20080294619 - System and method for automatic generation of search suggestions based on recent operator behavior: A method, system and computer program product for enhancing the usability of web browsers by analyzing the recent behavior of an operator while executing a search pattern on a computer network. A search history and indexing datastore is defined and associated with the web document parser. The web document parser... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080294618 - System and method for advanced handling of multiple form fields based on recent operator behavior: A method, system and computer program product for enhancing the usability of web browsers by analyzing the recent behavior of an operator while executing a search pattern on a computer network. In particular, a browser enhancement utility provides web browsers with the ability to store (for a limited time period)... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080294616 - System and method for database searching using fuzzy rules: An apparatus and method for database searching using fuzzy rules is presented. The apparatus and method may accept a word or word phrase such as a persons name and returns fuzzy rules for database searching. Applicable search rules are selected and word or word phrase equivalents are displayed to a... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (1st American Re)

20080294635 - System for conducting searches on the world wide web enabling the search requester to modifying the domain context of a search responsive to an excessive number of hits on combinations of keywords: An implementation for reducing an excessive number of hits in a search result received at one of the receiving display stations on the Web comprising conventional means for displaying at said receiving display station, Web documents received from sources on the Web, and means for conducting keyword searches on the... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080294620 - User-defined relevance ranking for search: Detailed herein is a technology which, among other things, allows a search engine to utilize a user-defined relevance function. In one approach to the technology, a method of applying a user-defined relevance function is described. In this approach, a complex search query is decomposed into a simple operator. The simple... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080294638 - Method and system for parsing contents of memory device: A system and a method for parsing and/or modifying content information of a memory device are provided. A definition file including at least one memory address and at least one associated parameter is provided, wherein each of the parameters corresponds to an event description. The memory address is loaded by... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080294636 - Method of searching for supplementary data related to content data and apparatus therefor: Provided are a method of receiving metadata including keywords related to content data and searching for supplementary data by using the keywords after the content data is reproduced, and an apparatus therefor. The method comprises receiving content data to be reproduced; receiving metadata including at least one keyword related to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080294637 - Web-based user-interactive question-answering method and system: The disclosed subject matter consists of a system, a website, and their supporting methods for user-interactive question answering. The system consists of a pattern database to store question/answer patterns for users to select when asking/answering questions. Each question pattern may include or be associated with an answer pattern. The system... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080294641 - Methods and apparatus for storing, organizing, and sharing multimedia objects and documents: Briefly, the present invention provides electronic methods and apparatus for storing and organizing access restricted multimedia objects. This is accomplished using semantic networks by interactively defining a semantic network, identifying a relationship between nodes by associating a label with each semantic link, attaching multimedia objects to nodes and restricting user... Agent: Crawford Maunu PLLC

20080294640 - Pop-up software application: An information delivery software application that employs “pop-up” software application technology installed on a user's computer to deliver changing content selected by the computer user. In the present application, the pop-up technology that is used to deliver to the consumer in a controlled and constructive manner to deliver content the... Agent: Nexsen Pruet, LLC

20080294639 - System and method for delegating program management authority: A system and method for managing authority granted to third parties to act on the behalf of an organization is disclosed. The system enables program administrators to request authority to manage one or more programs and/or products. A request for authority is submitted to an authorized officer for the organization... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (amex)

20080294649 - Contents management system, image processing device in contents management system, and link information generating method of image processing device: A disclosed contents management system includes a management server for managing contents and an information processing device for performing a process on the contents, which are connected to a network. The management server includes a supplying unit for supplying the contents to the information processing device in response to a... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20080294646 - Data distributing and accessing method and system: A data distributing and accessing method for sharing a file via a network system includes steps of: dividing the file into a plurality of blocks; distributing the blocks in a plurality of data hosts interconnected via the network system; one of the data hosts receiving a file-reading request from a... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20080294648 - Distributed database system providing data and space management methodology: A distributed database system providing data and space management methodology. In one embodiment, for example, a method for transferring a data structure in cache at a first database server to a second database server in a distributed database system comprises steps of: determining a first database server having a data... Agent: John A. Smart

20080294644 - Method and system for semantic publish-subscribe services: A semantic publish-subscribe system, including: a plurality of subscribers; a plurality of publishers; and a server that receives and stores subscriptions that are described in web ontology language (OWL) graph patterns from the plurality of subscribers and that receives events that are described in semantic graphs formed by OWL assertions... Agent: Frank Chau, Esq. F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080294643 - Method of generating information related to a web page: A method of generating information relating to a web page. The method comprises applying a transformation (S2) to a page representation (S1) of a first web page to determine a first feature vector. The first feature vector is compared (S3) to a plurality of feature vectors for other web pages.... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP - Slc

20080294647 - Methods and apparatus to monitor content distributed by the internet: Methods and apparatus to monitor content distributed by the Internet are disclosed. An example method includes requesting a really simply syndication (RSS) feed file associated with a received topic identification, receiving the RSS feed file identifying a first media content, extracting a first resource identifier for the first media content... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20080294642 - Remote service system and method for functionally constrained data processing devices: The subject application is directed to a system and method for a system and method for providing remote service to functionally constrained data processing devices. A server first receives feature identification data representing available services requested from each of a plurality of data processing devices. Instructions corresponding to each of... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080294645 - System, method and computer program product for edi-to-edi translations: Systems, methods and computer program products for mapping an inbound EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) transaction to one or more outputs are described herein. An embodiment operates by receiving an inbound EDI transaction, and translating the inbound EDI transaction to any combination of EDI outbound transactions and non-EDI outbound transactions. Such... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20080294654 - Base tree node infrastructure: Methods and apparatuses enable generation of a tree structure that integrates the objects of the tree with access interfaces. A tree worker receives an indication of a base node object of a tree, and a list of children related to the base node object. In response to receiving the indication... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080294660 - Cluster storage using delta compression: 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 in the event that a similar segment to the segment is identified that is already managed by... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080294658 - Clustering triz analysis method: u

20080294653 - Condition based schema evaluation: The illustrative embodiments described herein provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for defining a condition based schema for a directory on a directory server. A schema is defined based on a protocol for querying directory services on a directory server. A conditional statement is added to... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080294663 - Creation and management of visual timelines: In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for the management and creation of timelines. The timelines may be automatically created based on a user query for information. The query may access a database that contains links to external information sources. The timeline may be accessed through a... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080294651 - Drawing device for relationship diagram of documents arranging the documents in chronolgical order: A document correlation diagram drawing device includes extracting means (20, 30) for extracting content data and time data of document elements (E) each including one or more documents, dendrogram drawing means (50) for drawing a dendrogram showing a correlation between documents on the basis of the content data of the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080294659 - Efficient xml joins: An XML join between XML documents can be performed by comparing XML elements between the XML documents, obtaining join-selection elements from a first XML document, obtaining join-required elements from one or more other XML documents, and performing the XML join using the elements in the first XML document and the... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20080294657 - Handling error documents in a text index: Provided are techniques for handling error documents. One or more entries for error documents are stored in a text index. A document with a document identifier is received. It is determined whether the document has an entry in the text index.... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20080294661 - Handling large messages via pointer and log: A computer system with a first messaging application communicates a message to another computer system with a second messaging application via a coupling facility storage device. If the message does not exceed a predetermined threshold, the message is put onto the queue in the coupling facility. If the message does... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080294656 - Loose pattern identification using a smart multiset intersection approach: A system and method of identifying loose patterns using a smart multiset intersection operation are provided. Data segments are received from a data segmentation algorithm and sorted into corresponding multisets. A retain operation may be performed on the multisets. A normalization operation is then performed on the repeating elements in... Agent: Conley Rose, P.C.

20080294664 - Mechanism for supporting indexed tagged content in a general purpose data store: A schema identifies a field in a document as a key field. Using an XML schema, the key field can be identified by attaching a property to the element or attribute to be used as a key field (if the XML schema standard is modified to support properties). Otherwise, attributes... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C. - Novell

20080294655 - Method and apparatus for generation of a user profile: The invention relates to generation of a user profile for applications and/or services such as e.g. recommendation of content items. Initially, a first user profile is generated at a first user device for a first user. The first user device furthermore stores user contacts for the first user with the... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080294662 - Method of management for map-type tour information: The present invention relates to a method of management for map-type tour information, which allows a travel-lover to record each trip. When coming back from a trip, the traveler organizes the process of the trip. First, a plurality of scenic spot passed through in the trip is labeled on a... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20080294650 - Organizing media data using a portable electronic device: The present invention relates to an electronic communication device, a portable electronic device, a method, a computer program product, a computer program element, and a system for organizing electronic media data in relation to fix points of geographic locations. The method for organizing electronic media data in relation to fix... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20080294652 - Personalized identification of system resources: A processing device may display a representation of a system resource. The system resource may include a menu, a folder, a filename, a shortcut, a textbox, or other resource. The user may make a gesture to indicate a desire to create a personalized identifier for the system resource. The processing... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080294667 - Method of communication for data transfer to an electronic microdevice: In a method of communication for the transfer of data for an electronic microdevice (1) using a user interface realized in a display device (2) for the representation of data of the microdevice (1) by means of a script-based browser that retrieves files as units of information from within a... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20080294665 - Methods and systems for handling data in a storage area network: A method for handling data within a storage area network (SAN), the method comprising receiving by an information handling system, the data from a component of the SAN, the data associated with at least one configuration of the component, converting the data into processed data and providing the processed data... Agent: Andrea E. Tran Pramudji Wendt & Tran, LLP

20080294666 - Processing a non-xml document for storage in a xml database: A method for processing a non-XML document for storage in a XML database. The method comprises analyzing the non-XML document and extracting metadata from the non-XML document. The method then generates a shadow XML document for the non-XML document in accordance with a predetermined XML schema, wherein the shadow XML... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080294669 - Program-data combining system: Methods for securing at least one program application and data associated with the program application are herein described. In one embodiment, the method includes compressing the program application and data associated with the program application into a program-data combine having a compressed format and storing the program-data combine on a... Agent: Dunlap Codding, P.C.

20080294668 - Storage and retrieval of compressed data in mixed mode: Methods of storing and retrieving compressed data and uncompressed data in a mixed mode are described. Generally, the method comprises the steps of compressing a fixed amount of input data within a sequence of frames to provide storage and retrieval in a sequential manner and random manner. The sequence of... Agent: Dunlap Codding, P.C.

20080294675 - Column file storage estimation tool with text indexes: A technique for estimating the amount of resources that will be needed in order to implement a database service is provided. A method of providing resources for a database service comprises generating an estimate of a size of an index for a data table based on statistics relating to the... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20080294676 - Compression of tables based on occurrence of values: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for compression of tables based on occurrence of values. In general, a number representing an amount of occurrences of a frequently occurring value in a group of adjacent rows of a column is generated, a vector representing whether the frequently occurring value exists... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C. Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64280

20080294680 - Data navigation module, apparatus and method: A navigation module for a structured database having a multiplicity of dimensions is operative to cause a user interface to display one or more data point values retrieved from the database and to receive user input. The navigation module responds to user selection of one or more presented data point... Agent: Law Office Of Michael D. Eisenberg Intellectual Property Law

20080294673 - Data transfer and storage based on meta-data: Meta-data is used to generate code which retrieves source data from multiple sources having different formats and places the data into a set of tables having a single schema. Stored procedures access meta-data from a set of meta-data tables, configure one or more destination tables, generate query code from the... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20080294671 - Exporting aggregated and un-aggregated data: A computer-implemented method, which comprises the following: receiving a graphical selection of a subset of data points from a set of data points, each data point representing at least one record of a dimensionally-modeled fact collection; and exporting information associated with the selected subset of data points.... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20080294682 - High performance freeze-dried dynamic web page generation: Dynamic web page generation is optimized by reducing the processing overhead required to parse the web page HTML code for tokens and insert dynamic content. Using the invention, an HTML file for a dynamic web page need be read and parsed only once throughout the life of the server. A... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080294679 - Information extraction using spatial reasoning on the css2 visual box model: A method for extracting tabular information from a web source by determining a plurality of coordinates for a plurality of visualized element nodes on the web source; determining a subset of the plurality of visualized element nodes based on the plurality of coordinates to obtain a candidate web table, wherein... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080294677 - Information processing device, computer readable recording medium, and information processing method: An information processing device includes: a creating unit that extracts link information from content, and creates interpage relationship data which includes information between a subject page and linking pages having links from/to the subject page directly or indirectly; a page weight calculating unit that calculates the weight of at least... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080294674 - Managing status of search index generation: Electronic items may be searched using search indices. Search indices may be generated for electronic items at a user device. In that case, a list of one or more electronic items stored in memory of the user device may be displayed, and a status of index generation for the electronic... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080294681 - Method and apparatus for matching buyers and sellers in an anonymous online marketplace: In one embodiment, the present invention is a method and apparatus for matching buyers and sellers in an anonymous online marketplace. One embodiment of a method for defining a community of network users includes collecting data relating to the network users, where the data is of at least one of... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan L.L.P. Nj Office

20080294670 - Method and system for hierarchical logging: A method and system to create a logical hierarchy of log files is described. The method records data about each event occurring during a maintenance procedure in a first order log file. Detailed information about the event is redirected to a further order log file. In some case, the hierarchical... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080294678 - Method and system for integrating a social network and data repository to enable map creation: A system and method for connecting a social network to a geospatial data repository, comprising: accepting geospatial data from a user; linking the geospatial data to the user in the social network; and allowing the geospatial data to be searched and/or combined with other geospatial data from the user or... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080294672 - System and method for disclosing relations between entities in support of information technology system visualization and management: A relationship visualization system provides a user interface by which a user may select from among entities, elements, and sub-elements as an initial point in a desired relationship for display. The system designates the selected entities, elements, and sub-elements originating endpoints for the desired relationship. The system displays the relationship... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20080294683 - Systems and methods for managing intellectual property: Systems and methods for managing intellectual property are provided. These systems and methods may accept new pieces of intellectual property from creators of the intellectual property and then record the intellectual property, control access to the intellectual property, facilitate use and integration of the intellectual property, and track information relating... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP

20080294687 - Centralized, automatic reporting system and method from interface technologies: One or more parameters such as time is reported to a center using a portable access device. The center then automatically receives data from the access device and populates an electronic form and converts the data for storage and subsequent processing or review. The invention allows other parties, upon proper... Agent: Call-tell LLC Varda Treibach-heck

20080294685 - Creating references in a scoped memory system: A method for creating a reference in a scoped memory system, the scoped memory system including a scope graph of scoped memory areas, wherein each scoped memory area is suitable for the allocation of objects therein for access by software threads and has associated a thread count for indicating that... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080294684 - Evolutionary spectral clustering by incorporating temporal smoothness: Systems and methods are disclosed for clusterizing information by determining similarity matrix for historical information and similarity matrix for current information; generating an aggregated similarity matrix (aggregated kernel); and applying evolutionary spectral clustering on the aggregated kernel to a content stream to produce one or more clusters.... Agent: Nec Laboratories America, Inc.

20080294686 - Spectral clustering for multi-type relational data: A general model is provided which provides collective factorization on related matrices, for multi-type relational data clustering. The model is applicable to relational data with various structures. Under this model, a spectral relational clustering algorithm is provided to cluster multiple types of interrelated data objects simultaneously. The algorithm iteratively embeds... Agent: Milde & Hoffberg, LLP

20080294689 - Credit report locking/unlocking via telephone interface: The present invention, in particular embodiments, is directed to methods, apparatuses and systems directed to locking and unlocking of credit reports via a telephone interface. In a particular implementation, the present invention provides a voice interface server accessible to consumers via a telephone and a voice-based credit report access system.... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20080294688 - Doors - digital orientation and organizational reference system: A method of presenting and testing for comprehension, organizational information commonly provided during new employee (or stakeholder) orientation and later made available in company or employee manuals. This method utilizes existing digital learning system technologies to author content, test and track results. This method is a Digital Orientation and Organizational... Agent: Dorron Brousard

20080294694 - Method, apparatus, system, medium, and signals for producing interactive video content: A method, apparatus, system and signal for producing interactive video content on a content publisher computer is disclosed. The method involves associating indicia with at least one image portion in the video content, the indicia being operably configured to follow the at least one image portion as a display position... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20080294691 - Methods for generating and playing multimedia file and recording medium storing multimedia file: Methods for generating and playing a multimedia file and a recording medium storing the multimedia file are provided. In the generating method, multimedia data to be written in the multimedia file is generated, and then a media chunk for storing the multimedia data is generated. Next, a metadata chunk including... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20080294693 - Receiving apparatus, recording apparatus, content receiving method, and content recording method: Disclosed herein is a receiving apparatus for receiving, either in broadcast fashion or via an external network, content information made up of contents and meta information about the contents, the receiving apparatus including: a device search section; a device information acquisition section; a device compatibility determination section; a storage destination... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080294692 - Synthetic events for real time patient analysis: Generating synthetic events based on a vast amount of data. First and second data are received. The first data is organized into a first cohort. The second data is organized into a second cohort. The first cohort and the second cohort are processed to generate a synthetic event. The synthetic... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080294690 - System and method for automatically registering a vehicle monitoring device: System and method for registering a vehicle monitoring device with a central monitoring system, comprising determining a monitoring device identifier, determining a vehicle identifier from an on-board diagnostic system, establishing a communication link between the vehicle monitoring device and the central monitoring system, and sending the monitoring device identifier and... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20080294695 - Use of xml for a modular system used to study label free biomolecular interactions: The use of XML in the context of a system of instrument modules used to study label free binding interactions. This includes provisions for computer to instrument communication using XML, intramodule communication using XML, a data format in XML and for automated firmware testing using XML.... Agent: Trex Enterprises Corp.

20080294697 - Automated data archive tool: A method and programmable storage device for controlling an archival process in a supply chain management software tool that includes using a control table to identify files or directories to be archived, and archiving information based on the data stored in each row of the control table. The method provides... Agent: Delio & Peterson, LLC

20080294700 - File management system, file management method, file management program: A file management system and the like for alleviating the load on the hardware due to file synchronization are provided. A file management system includes a time measurement unit for recording an update history of the file; an update interval calculation unit for calculating an update interval and a blank... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080294698 - Foresight data transfer type hierachical storage system: A storage system includes a file server connected with a plurality of computers, and a second storage device connected with a first storage device, in which the second storage device has a second volume; the first storage device has a virtual volume virtualized with a first volume and the second... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080294699 - Online advertising method and system which reflects update of database in real time: An online advertising method and system which automatically reflects update of a database due to new content data, generated in an online service, in advertising data associated with the online service. The method of the present invention comprises the steps of: identifying new content data associated with an online service;... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080294696 - System and method for on-the-fly elimination of redundant data: A system and method for “on-the-fly” de-duplication of data before storing the data in a storage system is provided. A data de-duplication module illustratively cooperates with protocol servers and a file system of a storage operating system executing on the storage system to implement the novel de-duplication technique. The de-duplication... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080294701 - Item-set knowledge for partial replica synchronization: A system is disclosed for synchronizing partially-replicated collections while keeping synchronization overhead low by using the concept of item-set knowledge. Item-set knowledge uses knowledge fragments, which associate knowledge vectors with item-sets. An item-set consists of an explicitly represented list of items. In a partial replica, this item set may be... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20080294702 - Method of aligning meta-models: A system and method for processing meta-models defined in accordance with Meta Object Facility (MOF). A system is provided that includes: a version control system for checking meta-models in and out of a model repository; a system for merging two versions of a meta-model that are based on a common... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080294704 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: Providing an information processing apparatus and information processing method that prevent the occurrence of inconsistencies between restored files and other files, thereby improving ease of use. When restoring a backup virtual tree, the owner of each file and directory belonging to the backup virtual tree is identified; and when it... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080294703 - Method and apparatus for obtaining the absolute path name of an open file system object from its file descriptor: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for obtaining an absolute path name for an open file system object. A file descriptor for the open file system object is identified in response to a process in a first software partition opening a file system object to form the... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080294705 - Performance improvement with mapped files: A method and apparatus for improving system performance by asynchronously flushing a memory buffer with system log entries to a log file. The apparatus and method minimize performance loss by detecting when a memory region that is mapped to a file is about to become full and generate or switch... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080288439 - Combined personal and community lists: Presented are techniques for creating a relationship between a community list of information and a personal list of information in order to transfer data between each list. In one technique, a community interface is displayed including a community list of information available to users within a community. Additionally, a personal... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080288438 - Device and method for multimedia data retrieval: The invention concerns a device for multimedia data retrieval, said multimedia data being associated with an active component, said device being characterized in that, depending on an external event, some of the active components trigger an action that make the user aware of the multimedia data associated with said active... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080288440 - Searching and indexing content in upnp devices: A method including providing a mediator at an access point in a network, the mediator being configured to communication with UPnP devices coupled to the network, detecting a search request from a search engine in the network, using the mediator to search and retrieve content from each UPnP device coupled... Agent: Perman & Green

20080288443 - Customizable joint type assignment method and apparatus: Application software in a tester for generating and running test programs for testing a printed circuit board is presented. The application software may include customizable joint type assignments from a CAD file making use of regular expressions.... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080288444 - Evaluating multi-table join selectivity in a computer database: An improved method and apparatus is described for a query optimizer to evaluate multi-table join selectivities in a computer database. The query optimizer includes a statistics manager that finds the most appropriate set of assumptions and statistics to use when calculating the cost of an arbitrary join expression. As described... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080288445 - Interactive aggregation of data on a scatter plot: A computer-implemented method, which comprises the following: aggregating a plurality of records in accordance with an aggregation specification, wherein the records are part of a dimensionally-modeled fact collection; graphically representing the records in un-aggregated form; graphically representing the records in aggregated form; and causing the graphical representation of the records... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20080288449 - Method and system for an aggregate web site search database: Signature schema documents may be pre-defined using a query language to provide instructions for application by an engine to extract data from web pages of respective web sites. For a particular web page, signature schema instructions identify a web page family for the web page and extract desired data from... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20080288448 - Method, apparatus, and system for providing business intelligence: The novel business intelligence system disclosed herein provides companies with an out of the box enterprise worthy business intelligence solution or environment. The business intelligence system encompasses all of the processes that are involved in the implementation of a business intelligence solution with maximum flexibility but minimizes the need for... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080288447 - Methods and apparatus for improving peer efficiency: Methods and apparatus for transferring data according to various aspects of the present invention operate in conjunction with a peer-to-peer (p2p) network. For example, a system may receive a request for sources for acquiring a file segment. The system may identify a set of candidate sources for retrieving the file... Agent: The Noblitt Group, PLLC

20080288442 - Ontology based text indexing: A method and system are disclosed for indexing a set of statements, such as RDF statements, that are described in accordance with a specified ontology. The method comprises the steps of defining a set of indexing rules, and using these indexing rules to examine the statements to identify selected ones... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080288441 - Processing method of data stream using border monitoring query: The objectives of the present invention are to process a large number of BMQs over data streams in high-performance and scalable manner. For this purpose, the invention presents BMQ-Index, a scalable and high performance data stream monitoring framework. The main idea of BMQ-Index is shared and incremental processing. For shared... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080288446 - Queries with soft time constraints: Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with supporting queries with soft time constraints are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes logic for accepting a query having a soft time constraint. The example system may also include logic for rewriting the query having the soft time constraint into a query... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC

20080288457 - Allocation system and method: A method of recording allocation of resources in response to a request for a data item to be transmitted to a device in the network where the request comprises data indicative of one or more requested items. The device is typically a mobile device and the requested items can be... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080288454 - Context-directed search: When categories are assigned to pieces of information, a search can be focused based on the categories. In an online forum, information is categorized by topic, and a search can be focused on the topic by adding additional search terms or restrictions to a search query, where the additional search... Agent: Yahoo C/o Mofo Palo Alto

20080288462 - Database system and display method on information terminal: A database system that includes a database for storing one or a plurality of relationships existing between a plurality of first instances belonging to a first entity and a plurality of second instances belonging to a second entity. A microprocessor is provided for searching the database when one or more... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20080288451 - Framework for metadata-driven dynamic reporting systems and methods: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for dynamically reporting information stored in a repository. According to one embodiment, a method for dynamically reporting information stored in one or more data repositories can comprise retrieving report metadata from a report repository. The report metadata can define a format for... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080288469 - Generated predicates form materialized result: Processing a multiple table query includes: determining if any tables in the query require materialization; for each table in the query that requires materialization, deriving at least one join predicate on a join column; determining if any tables earlier in a join sequence for the query has same join predicates;... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080288456 - Information nervous system: A semantically integrated knowledge retrieval, management, delivery and presentation system.... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080288467 - Integration of instant messaging with internet searching: Techniques for integrating instant messaging with Internet search features are provided. An instant messaging (IM) application allows users to launch a search of the Internet or the World Wide Web for information about another IM user or another topic. If an IM user wishes to location information relating to a... Agent: Yahoo C/o Mofo Palo Alto

20080288453 - Method and system for metadata-driven document management and access control: A system is provided to facilitate tag-based organization of documents. During operation, the system receives an original user query. The system extends the query to include documents with an IN-tag and exclude documents with an OUT-tag. The system then performs a search based on the extended query to indicate a... Agent: Pvf -- Parc C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080288465 - Model content provider with reusable components for supporting a plurality of gui api's: A user-friendly query modeling tool for representing creating, modifying and modeling a query language statement for use in retrieving data from a database. In accordance with the present invention, the tool includes a user interface for receiving or building and manipulating a query, a query model definition for use in... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080288460 - Multimedia content search and recording scheduling system: Techniques described herein enable searching for multimedia content and for downloading or scheduling the recording of the multimedia content. The multimedia content may have been previously stored on one or more databases. The client device may download or schedule the recording of multimedia content in one step, for example, in... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080288452 - Service using referrer strings to improve advertisement targeting: Query information in an indication of a referral to a web page is used to characterize the web page, e.g., for targeting advertisements and/or other supplemental content to display in association with the web page or in the process of responding to subsequent search engine queries. A referral indication may... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20080288458 - Session initiation protocol (sip) multicast management method: Described are a method and system for obtaining real-time media content over an Internet Protocol network. A proxy server receives a message from a client device requesting that communications be established with a media server for obtaining a stream of media content. The proxy server sends the client device a... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20080288463 - Shipping information transfer: Systems and methods of the present invention for transfer of shipping information are provided. A set of data is selected by a user. The set of data may be a set of contact information, which may be associated with one or multiple contacts. Alternatively, the set of data may need... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080288461 - Swivel search system: A method and apparatus for performing an integrated search is provided. An interface is provided that allows users to search and select any data related to a searchable term. Searchable terms may comprise titles of content, actors, and tags. Upon receiving results from the initial search, the user progresses through... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20080288468 - System for automatic data retrieval based on context-traversal history: A data retrieval system provides automatic retrieval of information based on a context-traversal history. A transferable object is identified in a first context while the user is operating in the first context. Information used to retrieve the transferable object is automatically stored without user interaction. The automatically stored information is... Agent: Ibm Lotus & Rational Sw C/o Guerin & Rodriguez

20080288455 - System for managing the property of research and development: Computerization of experiment notebooks that satisfy requirements for experiment records and effective utilization of computerized experiment notebooks and experiment data are facilitated. A computer used by the experimenter comprises: a first means for displaying an experiment notebook form on the screen of a display unit and receiving description data for... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080288450 - User accessible tissue sample image database system and method: Disclosed herein is a user-accessible tissue image database system. The system is searchable using a query image provided by a user. The query image is matched with images in the database based on common visual features. Specifically exemplified is the matching of images based on the presence of a target... Agent: Timothy H. Van Dyke

20080288466 - User selectable data attributes for automated electronic search, identification and publication of relevant data from electronic data records at multiple data sources: Systems, methods and computer program products that allow Subscribers to electronically obtain data of interest from participating Publishers using a computer network which employ an Administrative Server configured to allow Subscribers to electronically define, select and/or request an electronic topic data request with data elements of interest from a plurality... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080288459 - Web page transcoding method and system applying queries to plain text: Signature schema documents, pre-defined in a query language, provide one or more instructions for application by an engine to transcode plain text-based web pages of respective web sites. The instructions identify a web page family for the web page and extract a subset of data using one or more signatures... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20080288464 - Workflow system and method: Provides workflow systems and methods. A workflow system having a matchmaking unit for receiving a task query from a workflow, and a plurality of task definer units, each providing a definition of a task. The matchmaking unit communicates with the task definer units to evaluate the task definitions against the... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080288472 - Active sequencing: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for processing messages including structured data, such as objects and business objects. The method may include a receiver inhibiting processing of a first message including a first object referencing a second object, when the receiver of the first message does not... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C. Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64280

20080288471 - Apparatus and method for providing a data marketplace: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to provide an online store for displaying enhanced data presentation entities. Each enhanced data presentation entity has associated data values from a specified data source. Instructions to purchase a selected enhanced data presentation entity are received. The selected enhanced data presentation entity... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080288474 - Cross-language information retrieval: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for cross-language information retrieval. A source query in a source language is received. The source query is translated into a target query in a target language. One or more target-language resources that satisfy the target query are identified. The identified resources are... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080288475 - Method and system for automatically generating web page transcoding instructions: A system and method are provided for generating transcoding instructions to identify and extract a subset of data from a web page. Input describing the subset of data is received where the input describes one or more data fields and, for each data field, respective field values from at least... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20080288476 - Method and system for desktop tagging of a web page: A system and method are provided for identifying and extracting a subset of data from a selected web page of a web site for display on a client machine. One or more instructions are applied to the selected web page for identifying and displaying a candidate subset of data on... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20080288470 - Method and system for distributed dns resolution: The invention concerns distributed DNS resolution of a DNS request comprising an FQDN domain name between terminal (T) and relevant parent server (SPP). The method consists in transmitting (A) a DNS request (r_DNS) to an extended intermediate relay server (SRE), and, in the absence of stored previous DNS resolution solution,... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080288477 - Method and system of generating an aggregate website search database using smart indexes for searching: Signature schema documents may be pre-defined using query language to provide instructions for application by an engine to extract data from web pages of respective web sites. For a particular web page, signature schema instructions identify a web page family for the web page and extract desired data from the... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20080288478 - Method for providing node targeted content in an addressable network: Advertising, entertainment or other content is targeted to a particular node of an addressable network based on user information. Such addressable networks may include the Internet, certain television networks or other networks where content can be addressed to specific nodes. The user information may include financial information, product or service... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080288473 - Queries with hard time constraints: Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with supporting queries with hard time constraints are described. One exemplary system embodiment includes logic for accepting a query having a hard time constraint. The example system may also include logic for selectively rewriting the query having the hard time constraint into a... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC

20080288479 - System and method for leveraging historical data to determine affected entities: Systems and methods for leveraging historical data to determine affected entities is provided. In exemplary embodiments, a current matter is created. When creating the current matter, at least one initial scope parameter for the current matter is known. Historical data associated with the at least one initial scope parameter may... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20080288484 - Distributed user profile: A reasoning apparatus (101) is arranged to determine device locations for user profile elements of a distributed user profile. A user profile processor (201) receives a user profile which comprises a plurality of user profile elements. Each user profile element furthermore comprises associated metadata. The apparatus (101) also comprises a... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080288480 - Efficient online computation of diverse query results: The system includes a query engine and an advertisement engine. The query engine is configured to receive a query from the user. The advertisement engine generates advertisement results corresponding to the query. The advertisement results are selected from entries in an advertisement database, where the entries include predicate values corresponding... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20080288483 - Efficient retrieval algorithm by query term discrimination: Described is an efficient retrieval mechanism that quickly locates documents (e.g., corresponding to online advertisements) based on query term discrimination. A topmost subset (e.g., two) of search terms is selected according to their ranked importance, e.g., as ranked by inverted document frequency. The topmost terms are then used to narrow... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080288482 - Leveraging constraints for deduplication: A deduplication algorithm that provides improved accuracy in data deduplication by using aggregate and/or groupwise constraints. Deduplication is accomplished using only as many of these constraints that are satisfied rather than be imposed inflexibly as hard constraints. Additionally, textual similarity between tuples is leveraged to restrict the search space. The... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080288486 - Method and system for aggregate web site database price watch feature: Signature schema documents may be pre-defined using a query language to provide instructions for application by an engine to extract data from web pages of respective web sites. For a particular web page, signature schema instructions identify a web page family for the web page and extract desired data from... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20080288481 - Ranking online advertisement using product and seller reputation: Described is a technology by which online advertisements for returning with a query response are ranked according to reputation. The reputation may correspond to a product or service and/or seller reputation. In one example, a set of relevant advertisement items are located and ranked using reputation data as a factor.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080288485 - Standards-based learning systems and methods: A user creating or modifying a lesson in an LMS can indicate a standard, such as a state-defined educational standard, for which additional content is wanted and the LMS will automatically retrieve content from an external resource, such as an LOR, that corresponds to the standard.... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20080288488 - Method and system for determining trend potentials: A method for determining a significant change of an usage of expressions provided in a network system, including the steps of determining a reference data set including at least an expression frequency of expressions provided in the network system at a predetermined first time; determining a result data set including... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20080288489 - Method for searching patent document by applying degree of similarity and system thereof: A method for searching patent documents by applying degree of similarity and a system thereof are disclosed. The method for searching patent documents by applying degree of similarity comprises receiving at least one search keyword from a user of the service; searching a document previously stored in a database, by... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20080288490 - System and methods for keyword searches in unallocated spaces: There are many situations where it is desirable for law enforcement or security officials, and others, to perform a Keyword search on a confiscated memory device. Keyword searches on undeleted files are well known in the art. Often files are deleted in an effort to hinder prosecution. When a file... Agent: Steve Bress

20080288487 - Typed relationships between items: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to creating, maintaining, and using relationships between items. In aspects, items such as files, folders, and other objects may be stored in a data store. A user may desire to form a relationship between two items that provides additional semantic information regarding... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080288492 - Assisted management of bookmarked web pages: In a method of assisting in management of a collection of bookmarked web pages, browsing information is received. The browsing information is related to a history of web browser use. A ranked list of web pages is generated from a plurality of web pages which is received in the browsing... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080288495 - Fast select for fetch first n rows with order by: Fetching an ordered first N rows of a table, includes: reading a row in the table; determining that the read row qualifies as the first N rows of the table for rows read so far, and storing data of the read row; and determining an order of data of qualifying... Agent: Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080288493 - Spatio-temporal self organising map: A method of classifying a data record as belonging to one of a plurality of classes, the data records comprising a plurality of data samples, each sample comprising a plurality of features derived from a value sampled from a sensor signal at a point in time, the method including: defining... Agent: Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP

20080288494 - System enabling social networking through user-generated lists: A group of users is connected through a network such as the Internet to a system that both creates lists in an automated fashion by searching the Internet and compiling relevant data and also enables users to create and maintain lists, share lists with other users, and search for lists... Agent: Aka Chan LLP

20080288491 - User segment suggestion for online advertising: Described is a behavioral targeting technology for online advertising, by which an original attribute is uniformly expanded. Users that meet an original attribute are aggregated into a mid-result used to determine similarity relative to candidate attribute types. The most similar candidate attributes are selected for the expanded attribute. A URL/URL... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080288497 - Exclusive control method for database and program: A technology capable of preventing a problem which occurs when log writing of a preceding transaction fails while reducing waiting time of a subsequent transaction is provided. A database control method for releasing locking of data held by a transaction upon reception of a transaction completion instruction from an operation... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080288496 - Method for implementing concurrent producer-consumer buffers: A method and a system for implementing concurrent producer-consumer buffers are provided. The method and system in one aspect uses separate locks, one for putter and another for taker threads operating on a concurrent producer-consumer buffer. The locks operate independently of a notify-wait process.... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080288498 - Network-attached storage devices: Systems and methods for managing data within a networked computer environment including application servers and a plurality of storage devices utilize a collection of service modules, each separately addressable from and in communication with the application servers and the storage devices and providing system-wide services to the application servers and... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080288500 - Physiological data processing architecture for situation awareness: Systems, methods and computer program products for the processing, analysis and mining of physiological data within a wireless body area network are disclosed. The remote collection and monitoring of a person's (e.g., patient's) physiological data and activity levels for the purposes of determining the well-being of the person, as well... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080288499 - System, method, and program for sharing photos via the internet: A system for sharing files over a computer network via a hosting site is presented. The system includes a data storage space associated with the hosting. The space includes albums created by the one or more users for storage of related files. The albums include at least one level of... Agent: Tat Kuen Choi

20080288508 - Accessing a non-relational store with a container-managed persistence bean via a web service function: An apparatus, system, and storage medium that in an embodiment receive a key parameter from a container-managed persistent bean, determine that the container-managed persistent bean is associated with a non-relational data store, creating a web service input message with the key parameter, and invoke a web service function with the... Agent: Robert R. Williams IBM Corporation, Dept. 917

20080288503 - Defining a set of data across mutiple databases using variables and functions: A method for defining grouping of data, across multiple data sources using variables and functions, may include defining grouping of data corresponding to one or more entities across multiple data sources, using a generic language that relates to multiple entities. The method may include providing access to the data based... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080288501 - Integrating database functionality with workload schedulers: A relational database trigger that accesses a distributed database table is initially created. This relational database trigger is defined prior to executing a first set of instructions, which are designed to be executed by a local first computer. The first set of instructions is executed until the relational database trigger... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080288506 - Method for preserving virtual filesystem information across high availability takeover: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for preserving a virtual file system. Data for a virtual file system is received. The data include file handle information, vnode information, and gnode information. The data is saved to a storage device. The saved data can be used to... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080288504 - Methods, media, and systems for recording and reporting content usage: A content management system distributes items of media content to groups of users. The media is fingerprinted and tracked for reporting purposes. The system uses an algorithm to compensate for multiple content owners. The system can also be configured to provide content while still providing anonymity for actual use.... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080288507 - Printing apparatus and control method thereof: A printing apparatus manages identifiers of accounting destinations of print jobs. With a Web browser, a client can set update settings (update rules) of an identifier list saved in an identifier saving unit (of a device. An identifier update unit obtains an identifier list from another device, and updates the... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080288502 - Storing dependency and status information with incidents: A method and system are disclosed for reporting incidents occurring during operation of a distributed computing environment including a multitude of hardware and software resources. The method comprises the steps of whenever a defined incident occurs, generating a respective one incident report; and keeping with each incident report, selected information... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080288505 - Use of three-dimensional data center to support servicing outsourced operations: A solution for supporting servicing an outsource operation(s) using a three-dimensional (3D) data center is provided. In particular, a solution is provided in which a 3D data center is created from aggregating information technology (IT) resource data received from a plurality of outsourced operation locations that may be geographically or... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080288511 - Asynchronous method and system for performing an operation on metadata: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for asynchronously performing an operation on metadata in the context of an on-demand database service. These mechanisms and methods for asynchronously performing an operation on metadata can enable embodiments to allow a subscriber to perform other database service operations, while... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20080288510 - Data model for a common language: Embodiments and principles described herein relate to software repositories for common languages. Embodiments include maintaining database schema and structures which comprise application framework information and provides for the storage, querying, and retrieval of an abstraction of a namespace corresponding to an application framework. Embodiments also provide for the storage, querying... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080288517 - Document information management apparatus, program and method for acquiring information related to a document: A document information management apparatus is obtained which is capable of acquiring relevant information desired by a user as well as obtaining user's desired information created from the relevant information thus acquired in an efficient and quick manner. The apparatus includes a document handling part (3) capable of handling documents,... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080288509 - Duplicate content search: A system may store information regarding a set of items of content, receive sample content from a user, determine whether the sample content matches content of one or more of the items of content, and notify the user whether the sample content matches one or more of the items of... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20080288513 - Maintenance of xml documents: A system and a method of maintaining extensible markup language (XML) document includes splitting an XML document into fragments according to rules stored in a configuration file, binding each of the fragments to an object in a content management system, and providing a reference between the XML document and the... Agent: Fountainhead Law Group, PC

20080288515 - Method and system for transcoding web pages: Signature schema documents, pre-defined using a query language, provide instructions for application by an engine to transcode web pages of respective web sites. Signature schema instructions identify a web page family for a web page and extract a subset of data from the web page in accordance with its web... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20080288512 - System and method of evaluating programming process: The invention provides a system and a method for evaluating a programming process. The programming evaluating system includes a programming module, a determining module, a recording module, and an evaluating module. A user can program a program via the programming module. The determining module is used for determining whether the... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20080288514 - System and program product for displaying a logical structure: The present invention provides a methodology for truncating a logical structure having data matching a predefined pattern. For example, the present invention truncates a logical structure so that branches of the structure are automatically ceased at a recursive ancestor instead of at a descendant. By using the methodology of the... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080288516 - Universal meme identification: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, related to universal meme identification. In general, unique identifiers may be associated with semantic concepts that are part of a semantic network. The semantic networks may be implemented in a computer-implemented data structure that may be queried based on a unique identifier of... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64046

20080288521 - Automated manufacturing system: An automated manufacturing system comprises a computer processing system and a plurality of consolidation systems. The computer processing system receives information on product subbatches and product packages and consolidation status information to produce consolidation assignment information, each product package comprising one or more product subbatches. The consolidation systems receive the... Agent: Dr. Xin Wen

20080288518 - Content data block processing: The present invention provides a method for processing content data. The method comprises buffering a sequence of received compressed content data blocks (510), determining a level of available buffering for the received compressed content data blocks (550), determining a sub-set of compressed content data blocks to be decoded from the... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080288522 - Creating and storing a data field alteration datum using an analytic platform: A method for reading the altered data field in accordance with the field alteration data is provided. The method may include altering a data field characteristic of a data field in a data table, saving the field alteration datum associated with the alteration in a data storage facility, submitting a... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080288519 - Format negotiation for media remoting scenarios: Format negotiation for media remoting involves at least one media data format. In an example embodiment, a media format negotiation for playing media data is begun between a server and a client. The media data format is transferred from the server to the client. A notification that indicates if an... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080288520 - Node processing of variable information print jobs: Embodiments herein begin by receiving user input. The embodiments herein create a fixed data file and a text string based on the user input using a process manager located within a system. The embodiments herein also supply the fixed data file and the text string from the process manager to... Agent: Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080288526 - Composition of electronic document layout: Resolution and composition of electronic document layout are provided. An intermediate text data structure may be generated to hold a “resolved” rich text state for a given document. Properties contained in the “resolved” rich text state are a composite of all relevant properties including user defined and entered properties and... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080288523 - Event-based digital content record organization: Various embodiments of the present invention pertain to the organizing of digital content by events, so that retrieval of such digital content in a manner meaningful and logical to users is achieved. In this regard, an event may be defined at least by event boundaries, such as a span of... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20080288524 - Filtering of multi attribute data via on-demand indexing: Systems and methods that employ auxiliary data structures in form of indexes (e.g., slice indexes) to process incoming queries in query retrieval systems (e.g., Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) environments.) The indexing component analyzes attributes involved in predicate conditions of filter requests to form slice indexes for same filtering criteria, wherein... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080288531 - Metadata editing control: A metadata management architecture. The architecture includes a property component that lists one or more properties related to a file, and a viewing component that present files having one or more of the related properties. A synchronization component provides immediate synchronization between property editing fields of the property component and... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080288525 - System and method for sparsity removal: Method and system for removing sparse data in a response to a query to a multidimensional database by establishing a cross-tab with sparse data. After selecting a member in an axis of the cross-tab for sparsity removal, a first set expression on the orthogonal axis is selected in the context... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A.

20080288529 - System to organize data for visualizing performance characteristics in dynamic perspectives using relational database: Techniques for reconstructing a target hierarchy tree structure from profiling data of a computer system according to a predefined relational model, so as to obtain profiling information of a certain selected node. The predefined relational model is defined in advance according to a hierarchy tree structure of the profiling data,... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20080288528 - Systems and methods for detecting toxins in a sample: In one aspect the invention provides a system for detecting the presence of toxins in a sample that includes a plurality of chambers for culturing organisms and observing the organism's motility response when introduced into a sample containing a toxin. The toxicity measurement system may include an imaging module to... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080288527 - User interface for graphically representing groups of data: A technique of operating a user interface that enables the user to graphically manipulate records of a dimensionally-modeled fact collection, which comprises the following: receiving a graphical selection of a subset from a set of data points, each data point representing at least one record of the dimensionally-modeled fact collection;... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20080288530 - User-defined fields with automatic numbering: A process control system that automatically monitors processes and performs activities based on conditions detected during monitoring. The system includes: a server that has access to a database system and executes program code of the process control system; a table of process records in the database system, a process record... Agent: Gordon E Nelson Patent Attorney, PC

20080288532 - Computer device for managing documents in multi-user mode: A computer device for managing Documents in multi-user mode, including a document data processing tool, a document data display manager, and a document user rights manager.... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080288534 - Content feedback in a multiple-owner content management system: New functions for a contact center system include: testing user's comprehension of informational messages with a quiz; capturing insight of superior users having a KPI score above a threshold by having those users submit information on why they perform so well; dynamically ordering solutions to issues by re-ranking the solutions... Agent: Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly, LLP

20080288533 - Definition of context for specifying uniqueness of identifiers and context-based identifier mapping: Systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer program products, providing unique identifiers for data-bearing digital objects. Scheme-based definition of uniqueness contexts and scheme-based mappings between identifiers are described. A method of one aspect includes generating a first object identifier for a first object of a first object type on a first... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080288535 - Method, apparatus and system for linking documents: A method, apparatus and system for linking documents, the method comprising the steps of: providing a plurality of clusters in an enterprise intranet, each cluster consists of one or more documents; building a cluster page for each cluster to present the documents in the cluster; and building links between the... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080288538 - Dimensional compression using an analytic platform: Systems and methods are presented that may involve receiving a causal fact dataset including facts relating to items perceived to cause actions, wherein the causal fact dataset includes a data attribute that is associated with a causal fact datum. It may also involve pre-aggregating a plurality of the combinations of... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

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20080288545 - Method and system for forming a keyword database for referencing physical locations: An improved method and system for specifying physical locations when using applications run on navigation systems or other computer platforms that provide navigation- or map-related functions. When requesting a navigation- or map-related function from such an application, a user specifies a physical location using a keyword instead of specifying the... Agent: Navteq North America, LLC

20080288536 - Method and system for integrating browsing histories with media playlists: A method for maintaining a media playlist (100) and a browsing history list of a media browsing session on a media playback device. The media playlist (100) includes a reference to at least one media document available for playback on the device, and a playlist pointer (112) identifying a currently-playing... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20080288544 - Method for imposing policy modification constraints: Meta data specifying modification constraints for one or more of the attributes of an (operational) policy is generated/provided. Thereafter, the meta data is associated with the policy so that the constraints specified by the meta data can govern the modification of the policy. Under the present invention there are at... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080288540 - Method of access to personal information: Methods and systems to store and access personal and medical information, inclusive of, but not limited to access in an emergency situation, routine medical care, or a means to archive personal and medical information, and events, by an individual, a caregiver or guardian, and/or a medical professional are provided.... Agent: Licata & Tyrrell P.C.

20080288541 - Method, process, schema, and apparatus to organize and manage company folksonomy: A method, a process, and a schema that will be used to organize and manage a double-entry company accounting system, and a software system that is provided to allow a computer to manage that method, process and schema. The schema includes: account tagging of the accounting system of the company,... Agent: White-welker & Welker, LLC

20080288539 - Methods and systems for scheduling complex work orders for a workforce of mobile service technicians: Provided herein are data structures, processes and systems to facilitate scheduling of complex work orders to a mobile workforce. Complex work orders are comprised of several distinct sub-orders that require coordinated scheduling because the start of one sub-order is dependent on the start or completion of another. The data structure... Agent: Kimton N. Eng, Esq. Dorsey & Whitney LLP

20080288543 - System and method for aligning data frames in time: A method and apparatus for merging data acquired by two or more capture devices from two or more points in a computer system, duplicate frames are analyzed to determine the time difference between the timestamp of a first capture device and the timestamp of a second capture device. The invention... Agent: George R. Schultz Schultz & Associates, P.C.

20080288537 - System and method for slide stream indexing based on multi-dimensional content similarity: Embodiments of the present invention enable an approach to index segments of a media stream containing of visual and textual information, using a combination of visual, textual, auditory and temporal features to combine segments that correspond to topical contexts into logical groups. A visual/temporal/auditory/textual weighting scheme is adopted, which allows... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080288547 - Apparatus, system, and method for a data server-managed web services runtime: An apparatus, system, and method for creating and managing a data server-managed web services runtime. A generic web service runtime module and associated runtime controller are deployed on an application server. The runtime controller monitors a web services management metadata store for changes in the web service metadata defining the... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080288548 - Desensitizing data in cloning: Systems, methods, media, and other embodiments associated with desensitizing data in cloning are described. One example method embodiment includes identifying a column to be desensitized and preparing a set of executable instructions to desensitize the column. The example method may also include organizing the set of executable instructions based on... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC

20080288554 - Dynamic cluster database architecture: A method for implementing distributed database management system operations on a computer cluster. The method includes defining ownership relationships between a plurality of computers in the computer cluster and a plurality of data nodes in the computer cluster, wherein a distributed database management system operation can be directly carried out... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080288555 - Enforcing constraints from a parent table to a child table: An apparatus, system, and storage medium that, in an embodiment, receive a constraint command that specifies a parent table, a primary key in the parent table, a child table, and a foreign key in the child table, and enforce that all values for the primary key in the parent table... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080288553 - Medium and system for managing external routines in a database management system: A medium and system for managing an external routine in a computer implemented database management system includes creating a first table for storing external routines in a data store coupled to the database management system. An external routine is stored in the first table so that the database management system... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080288546 - Method and system for handling reallocated blocks in a file system: A system for managing a file system. In response to a user selecting an image of the file system to perform a rollback operation, each data block in the file system that is owned by the image is searched for. Then, it is determined whether a data block owned by... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080288551 - Method and system for updating user profiles: The invention relates to a data-processing system comprising a data processor (131) for obtaining description data derived from personal content provided by a user, a storage means (132) for storing the description data in user profile data for selecting other content in accordance with user preferences, wherein the data processor... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080288552 - Portable database storage appliance: A data storage system includes an active data store (ADS) and a passive data store (PDS) that, when implemented as a network-attached database appliance, facilitates the separation of operating system software components and data.... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080288550 - System and method for bridging file systems between two different processors in mobile phone: A mobile phone can include an application processor and a baseband processor. The application processor has a first file system and the baseband processor has a second file system. The baseband processor is connected to a host interface unit of the application processor via a memory bus. The baseband processor... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080288549 - Translating case-sensitive technical identifiers: From a case-sensitive technical identifier referencing a resource and having upper case letters, a bit string is generated. The bit string identifies whether each letter in the case-sensitive technical identifier is upper case or lower case. In addition, the upper case letters in the case-sensitive technical identifier are converted to... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C. Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64280

20080288556 - Maintaining memory checkpoints across a cluster of computing nodes: A method and system for increasing reliability and availability of a multi-processor network. A system includes a network with at least two nodes, with each node comprising a multi-processor unit (mpu) and memory. The mpu includes one or more processors and a wiretap unit. The wiretap unit and the memory... Agent: Mhkkg/sun

20080288558 - Method and apparatus for non-deterministic incremental program replay using checkpoints and syndrome tracking: Methods and apparatus are provided for non-deterministic incremental program replay using checkpoints and syndrome tracking. Replay of a program proceeds by, for a given execution of the program, recording one or more checkpoints of the program, the one or more checkpoints containing program state information; and a recorded list of... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP Suite 205

20080288557 - System for backing up and recovering data applied to data processing apparatus and method for the same: The invention discloses a data backup/recovery system for backing up and recovering data in a data processing apparatus. The data processing apparatus comprises a Basic Input Output System (BIOS) with a memory, a System Data Security Module (SDSM), and the data backup/recovery system. The SDSM is used for storing a... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080288559 - Exchange server standby solution using mailbox level replication with crossed replication between two active exchange servers: This invention provides the capability to plan, monitor and control post-failure switching of user mail access hosted on Microsoft Exchange servers at the granularity of individual user mailboxes. It offers a convenient point-and-click mechanism for achieving a very complex task, and allows replication of e-mail data from a Primary Exchange... Agent: W. Patrick Kelley, Sr. The City Hotel

20080288560 - Storage management method using data migration: Selection of a migration source volume and a migration destination volume of an implemented migration is accepted. Based on a completion date and time of the implemented migration and an update date and time of the volume, it is determined whether or not the selected migration source volume and migration... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080288563 - Allocation and redistribution of data among storage devices: Distributing and redistributing records among a changing set of storage devices is accomplished by grouping the records based on the starting and ending numbers of storage devices.... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Patent Administrator

20080288561 - Computer program product and method for database management system supporting multiple temporary tables: A computer system and a relational database management system (RDMS) computer program product are described for interfacing a number of concurrently running database sessions with a large database in which a plurality of local temporary object database descriptors are used in lieu of a single global temporary object database descriptor... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080288562 - Interactive storage meter for a storage container: An interactive, meter-type graphical user interface (“GUI”) visually illustrates how the storage capacity of a physical or logical storage container is consumed by a number of items. Examples of items include physical units, logical units, or files of digital content. The items are arranged into a number of logical groups... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080288564 - Method and system for creating snapshots by condition: A data management method in a storage device system having a control device connected to a computer, and a storage device connected to the control device. The control device saves data stored in an area corresponding to a write request, and then writes the data to the area specified in... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080281773 - Data storage method and data storage structure: A data storage method and a data storage structure are provided. In one aspect, a method of storing data includes setting a first data node in a first storage area; setting a second data node in a second storage area; wherein said second data node is an element of a... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080281774 - Method and system for checking availability of automounted file systems: A method, an apparatus, a system, and a computer program product are presented for determining whether a file system, which contains a file system resource that is to be the target of a file system operation, is currently mounted by a data processing system. A first kernel-level process obtains unique... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080281775 - Method and system for identifying automounted file system resources: A method, an apparatus, a system, and a computer program product are presented for determining whether a file system resource is a file system resource that is contained within a file system that can be automounted by a data processing system. A target file system resource is identified, after which... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080281777 - Complex datastore with bitmap checking: A datastore, such as a registry or file system having a defined data structure with a logical layer, may be analyzed using a bitmap corresponding to equally sized blocks of data in the datastore. The bitmap is created by traversing the datastore and setting a bit at the beginning of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080281778 - Hardware accelerator based method and device for string searching: A method for searching within a data block for a data chunk having a predefined value, the method includes: fetching, by a processor, a data block search instruction; fetching, a data unit that includes multiple data chunks; wherein at least one data chunk within the data unit belongs to the... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080281776 - Interactive system for creating, organising, and sharing one's own databank of pictures such as photographs, drawings, art, sketch, iconography, illustrations, portraits, paintings and images: An interactive system for creating, organising, and sharing one's own databank of pictures is disclosed, it being accepted that one may want to build such data based on one's personal interest, by well-defined classifications, using a computer system comprising of; a. (i) a User Interface; (ii). a Database comprising a.... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

20080281779 - Query directives and access plan hints: A query plan modification system and method relate to a database system that includes a cost-based optimizer for generating access plans. The database system also permits a user to view an access plan that has been generated by a particular SQL query and modify the access plan if desired. The... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20080281780 - Query directives and access plan hints: A query plan modification system and method relate to a database system that includes a cost-based optimizer for generating access plans. The database system also permits a user to view an access plan that has been generated by a particular SQL query and modify the access plan if desired. The... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20080281794 - \"web 2.0 information search and presentation\" with \"consumer == author\" and \"dynamic information relevance\" models delivered to \"mobile and web consumers\".: Moving forward from current generation of search engines, originally designed for web 1.0, an entirely new comprehensive information search system is presented for searching and presenting of information in the Web 2.0, and other emerging new models of the global Internet using new and emerging sources of static and dynamic... Agent: Anup K. Mathur

20080281798 - Automatic conversion schema for cached web requests: Various embodiments are directed to a proxy system for implementing an automatic conversion schema which allows data results from a publishing application to be extracted and displayed by a display application other than the publishing application. In one embodiment, a proxy publisher may receive a request from a publishing application... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20080281787 - Content storing device query: A method, apparatus, and correspondingly configured computer program, in which a querying device inputs a user an identification of desired content and sends a query request for the desired content to surrounding memory devices. The query request is adapted to cause compatible receiving memory devices to perform a search based... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080281792 - Conversion of data from a first file type to a second file type for use by a telecommunications equipment inventory system: Data files produced by one inventory scan are converted for use by a different inventory process so that multiple inventory scans to address multiple inventory processes are avoided. A subset of the categories of data from a first data file is extracted and included in a second data file. The... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20080281791 - Database management program: A database management program in which even in a case where a row having a value of a column A duplicated is arranged in sequential space as an initial state for speeding-up a search with a condition of the column A, even if insertion, deletion and update of a row... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080281796 - Desktop, stream-based, information management system: A steam-based document storage and retrieval system accepts documents that are in diverse formats and come from diverse application, automatically creates document model objects describing these documents in a consistent format and associating time stamps with the documents to automatically create a main stream in chronological order. The stream, or... Agent: Richard F. Jaworski Cooper & Dunham LLP

20080281788 - Hierarchical structured abstract file system: A method in a data processing system of searching a plurality of electronic files identified by filenames in a first hierarchical file structure that is on a recordable medium of the data processing system. A user-defined metalabel is assigned to each of the electronic files. The electronic files are organized... Agent: Mark D. Swanson Pauley Petersen & Erickson

20080281797 - Image search apparatus and image search method, and storage medium thereof: With the conventional techniques, when the images taken under various conditions such as plural aspect ratios, horizontal shooting and vertical shooting are collectively selected and searched, the search conditions adaptable to all the images can not be specified, whereby there was a problem that the search could not be made... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080281789 - Method and apparatus for implementing a search engine using an sram: A search engine system including a memory bank coupled to a bank selection signal, mask logic for receiving constructed keys and incoming key masks and for providing masked keys, hash function blocks for receiving at least two of the masked keys and for providing at least three hash function outputs,... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20080281785 - Method and system for remote binding of meta-content to a uniform resource identifier: A method and system for remote binding of meta-content to a uniform resource indicator are provided. The method includes providing a script to a web browser application in response to the web browser, application accessing the uniform resource identifier of a content provider system and requesting an asset therefrom. The... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080281793 - Method and system of information engine with make-share-search of consumer and professional information and content for multi-media and mobile global internet: The method of Make, Share and Search Integrated System, improves the user experience of creation and consumption of information content, with instant access to newly created and dynamic information. The new system also reduces or eliminates the need for web crawlers, by capturing search parameters at the time of creation... Agent: Anup Mathur

20080281786 - Producer/consumer optimization: Systems and methods facilitate efficient data processing in a computer environment. Data producers and consumers are considered in aggregate rather than in isolation. In one instance, interaction between data producers and consumers is improved by integrating producers and consumers. Optimization can subsequently be performed over the combination to produce synergistic... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080281784 - Query handling in databases with replicated data: The same data is stored in at least two different database management systems (DBMS's), including a columnar DBMS (320.2) and a non-columnar (e.g. row-oriented) DBMS (320.1). The columnar DBMS may provide fast responses to queries involving aggregation, and such queries can be routed to the columnar DBMS. A query may... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080281782 - Query processing client-server database system: There is disclosed a method for processing a query in a client-server database system comprising a server for managing content in a database and at least one client connected to the server via a network. The method comprises inputting a query from an application; and transmitting the inputted query to... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080281795 - Search engine for environmentally relevant items: Methods and systems for facilitating exchange of rights associated with environmentally relevant items are provided. The methods and systems may include identifying a type of environmentally relevant item recognized by a market associated with an environmentally relevant action and providing a user interface whereby a user may search for environmentally... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080281781 - Searching document sets with differing metadata schemata: Search and filtering of documents with different metadata schemata is enabled using a single index that supports a single schema through decorated namespaces. Each metadata schema submitted to a system is assigned a unique identifier and property names associated with the schema are prefixed with the unique identifier. A single-valued,... Agent: Carl K. Turk Merchant & Gould P.C.

20080281790 - System and method for determining and applying affinity profiles for research, marketing, and recommendation systems: The present invention relates to systems and methods enabling the identification and/or application of user affinities in an automated and highly effective manner. A method of the present invention includes enabling a user to build or evaluate a portion of or an entire personal expression. As this is done, an... Agent: Semionix, Inc.

20080281783 - System and method for presenting media: One embodiment of the present invention may permit retrieving and presenting media resources and/or providing online chat functionality. The embodiment may include a communication toolbar. The communication toolbar may be an interactive user tool that allows a user to retrieve and display document and media files, website/pages links, and/or conference... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney, LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080281799 - Techniques for sharing persistently stored query results between multiple users: A method, system and article of manufacture for managing access to query results and, more particularly, for managing access by multiple users to persistently stored query results, whereby at least some of the users may have different access rights. One embodiment provides a method of managing access to a query... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080281800 - Apparatus and method for searching among and presenting information associated with geographical position data: The invention relates to an apparatus for searching and presenting information associated with geographical position data. The apparatus comprises a GPS receiver adapted to receive geographical position data, an input device comprising a user interface comprising at least a first input text box adapted to receive a first text item,... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080281802 - Building a unified query that spans heterogeneous environments: A unified query building system generates a source structure comprising nodes from a data structure input of an identified data source, displays the generated source structure in a logical view, adds a selected node or element from the nodes to a design query canvas, generates a query object from the... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080281801 - Database system and related method: A database system storing a data structure. The data structure includes a plurality of data nodes that each store a type and a value. None of the data nodes are linked directly to one another. The data structure also includes a plurality of context nodes that are each linked to... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080281809 - Automated analysis of user search behavior: Automated analysis of user search behavior is provided. Data on user searches is maintained in a user search database. Relevance factors are determined for each search result included in a given search session where the relevance factors provide an indication of user satisfaction with particular search results included in the... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080281814 - Construction of trainable semantic vectors and clustering, classification, and searching using a trainable semantic vector: An apparatus and method are disclosed for producing a semantic representation of information in a semantic space. The information is first represented in a table that stores values which indicate a relationship with predetermined categories. The categories correspond to dimensions in the semantic space. The significance of the information with... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080281805 - Media content tags: A tag file associated with a content file provides a user with access to related content. A content provider can request that information be associated with selected content, such that when a user views the selected content a selectable element is generated and displayed to the user to provide easy... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080281810 - Meta search engine: In an information retrieval method a meta search engine (4) receives a user information query (qT) in the form of key words; and submits the query to a search engine (2), and also submits the query to a snippet database (6) storing previously selected results, indexed by a snippet index... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20080281812 - Method and system for identifying expertise: A system and method of identifying entities having expertise in one or more subjects. Among other features, the method includes querying a database for documents (e.g., articles, papers, periodicals) relevant to a subject; and calculating a first score for each relevant document. The method also identifies entities affiliated with one... Agent: John Sotos

20080281811 - Method of obtaining a representation of a text: A method of obtaining a data file (20;22) including a representation of a text, e.g. the lyrics of a song, includes obtaining multiple candidate files (13;25) containing character strings, on the basis of a search query submitted to a server system (5) arranged to permit a search of the contents... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080281803 - Method of transmitting content with adaptation of encoding characteristics: The invention proposes a method of transmitting a multimedia content from a server to a client device upon request of the client device, said method allowing adaptation of the characteristics of the encoder used for encoding the multimedia content based on the network transmission rate and/or client preference or preferences.... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080281815 - Optimal storage and retrieval of xml data: A document management system manages a large number of XML documents on an efficient and cost-effective basis. Storage requirements are reduced, because compressed versions of the XML documents, which are much smaller in size than the XML documents themselves, are used when processing queries. Processing requirements are reduced, because parsing... Agent: Yahoo C/o Mofo Palo Alto

20080281808 - Recommendation of related electronic assets based on user search behavior: Recommendation of related assets based on user search behavior is provided. Relevance classifications assigned to search results in association with search strings that produced the search results may be used for providing a list of one or more searchable assets that may be relevant to a given search query. All... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080281807 - Search engine: A search engine comprising search indices for entities, wherein a tag reputation of a tag which classifies an entity is updated by said search engine depending on a rating input by said user and depending on a user reputation of said user.... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080281806 - Searching a database of listings: A database having listings rather than long documents is searched using a term frequency-inverse document frequency (Tf/Idf) algorithm.... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080281804 - Searching mixed language document sets: Multilingual document searches are performed by ordering and filtering localized documents in different languages based on user preferences. Documents are indexed in a global search engine index using an identifier property and a language property permitting all relevant documents to be retrieved in a single search engine query. By storing... Agent: Carl K. Turk Merchant & Gould P.C.

20080281813 - System and method for searching and retrieving related messages: A system and method is provided which utilizes a threading service to offer enhanced features for a document management system including an email system. Various enhanced email features may be provided through one or more of the following components: a delete module, a reply module, a profile module, and a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP C/o Susan Trader

20080281817 - Accounting for behavioral variability in web search: The concept of variability pertains to whether users exhibit consistent search interaction patterns, for example, in terms of interaction flow or information targeted. Methods are provided for analyzing variability, and then adapting search-related functionality (e.g., processes and/or interfaces) to account for variability characteristics, for example, to account for predictable search... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080281821 - Concept network: A concept network that can be generated in response to a user query. Various embodiments include analysis of structure information, for example, where such information is based at least in part on Universal Resource Locators (URLs) of Web sites or data storage locations. A concept network may be used with... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080281816 - Dynamic keyword processing system and method for user oriented internet navigation: A system and method are described that enable users to navigate on the web according to use's own keyword definition on web site, keyword extraction and processing from user's visiting website, user's selection on keyword categories, and mapping between E-mail address and URL. The user's own keyword definition on web... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080281819 - Non-random control data set generation for facilitating genomic data processing: Processing of genomic data is facilitated by providing a control data set generation system wherein a control generator tool or process creates matched data sets for facilitating informatics analysis. These matched data sets may include genomic loci or genomic sequences, or both. The data is taken from a database of... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20080281820 - Schema matching for data migration: Embodiments include a system for matching an element of a source schema to an element of a target schema. The system includes a processing unit and a communication unit. The processing unit may be configured to: identify a sample data item of the element of the target schema; match a... Agent: Fountainhead Law Group, PC

20080281818 - Segmented storage and retrieval of nucleotide sequence information: Processing of genomic data is facilitated by providing a storage device with a database having a segmented sequence table. The table has a plurality of data subsets of common nucleotide sequence size n, wherein≧2, and each data subset of common nucleotide sequence n is separately indexed within the table. A... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20080281822 - Interactive system for building, organising, and sharing one's own databank of works of literature in one or more languages: An interactive system for building, organizing, and sharing one's own databank of works of literature in one or more languages is disclosed, it being accepted that one may want to build such data based on one's personal interest, by well-defined classifications, using a computer system comprising of; a. (i) a... Agent: Intellectual Property Law Group LLP

20080281823 - System and method for display of chained messages in a single email in different orders: Systems and methods for display of chained messages in a single email in different orders allow a user to specify sort criteria to determine the order of display of chained messages. The system includes a message finding program and a message sorting program. The message finding program identifies individual messages... Agent: Ibm Corporation (aus) C/o Rudolf O Siegesmund Yee & Associates, P.C.

20080281825 - apparatus for processing real-time mobile transactions in a three-tier distributed database system: An apparatus that enables real-time processing of mobile based transactions in a three-tier database by employing pending operation/locks databases at each mirror in the three-tier database and generating a token for each proposed transaction that indicates the operations/locks needed to perform the transaction. The token is passed to each mirror... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080281824 - Data management system providing a data thesaurus for mapping between multiple data schemas or between multiple domains within a data schema: In one embodiment, a system is provided for managing a centrally managed master repository for core enterprise reference data associated with an enterprise. A centralized master repository contains the reference data, the reference data being associated with multiple schemas, each schema including one or more data models for reference data,... Agent: I2 Technologies Us, Inc.

20080281826 - Managing potential clinical trial participants: A method for managing information on potential participants in clinical research trials is disclosed. The method and system include populating a centralized secure database with information on a contact from the contact's response content or referral content, assigning investigative responsibility for the contact to an investigator, and providing the investigator... Agent: Dubois, Bryant, Campbell & Schwartz, LLP

20080281830 - Distributed storage system with global replication: A data storage system apparatus and associated method with a virtualization engine connectable to a remote device over a network for passing access commands between the remote device and a storage space. A plurality of intelligent storage elements (ISEs) are configured for replicating data from a first ISE to a... Agent: Mccarthy Law Group

20080281831 - System and method for archiving records: A method of archiving recordations includes providing a storage device in communication with a network. A plurality of recordations are received from a first user, and relate to a specific person. The plurality of recordations include medical records, and are transmitted from the first user via the network from a... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20080281827 - Using structured database for webpage information extraction: A structured database is used for webpage information extraction, and in particular, to obtain training data from the webpage for training a statistical model. The structured database has a plurality of entries, wherein each entry comprises a plurality of fields. One of the fields comprises a URL (uniform resource locater),... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080281828 - Variable data replacement technique for an electronic communication system: A method and system for composing electronic communications retrieves and provides, in real-time or near-real time, personalized content data from electronically accessible content sources using replaceable tokens. A replaceable token points to a defined location of an electronically accessible content source. The token is identified, and the desired content data... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080281829 - Web-based system and method for collection and management of real estate open house data: A system and method for management of real estate open house data includes a database and a website configured to provide access to information from the database. The website is configured to communicate with a user identification device, in the form of a user's cell phone or other mobile device,... Agent: Richard L. Sampson Sampson & Associates, P.C.

20080281772 - System and method for managing access to storage media: Systems and methods for managing access to a file storage device are described. One embodiment is configured to initially allow an anti-pestware process to access the file storage device, and then in response to identifying a process, other than the anti-pestware process, attempting to access the file storage device while... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080281836 - system and method for displaying and navigating content on a electronic device: A system and method for displaying and navigating content on a electronic device is disclosed. The system and method provides information describing files stored in one or more memory units in a electronic device by first cataloging file metadata residing at a plurality of memory units into a corresponding plurality... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20080281840 - Analyte monitoring system and methods: Methods and systems for providing data communication in medical systems are disclosed.... Agent: Jackson & Co., LLP

20080281842 - Apparatus and method for pre-processing mapping information for efficient decomposition of xml documents: Pre-processing mapping information for efficient decomposition of an XML document for storage in a database. A mapping document is received that describes how all of (or a portion of) an XML document is to decomposed, the mapping document is transformed into a data structure for decomposing an XML document, and... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080281834 - Block tracking mechanism for web personalization: Described is a technology by which blocks of web pages may be selected, such as for building a user-personalized web page containing selected blocks. A selection mechanism, such as a browser toolbar add-on, provides a user interface for selecting blocks, and records information about selected blocks. A block tracking mechanism... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080281833 - Configuration change management tool: A change management system for managing configurable devices such as computer systems uses a set of rules for validating change requests, linking change requests, and determining inconsistencies within various configuration states. Analysis and validation may happen at the time the change request is created with respect to the current environment,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080281837 - Image forming apparatus controlling use of medium inserted thereinto: When a user logs in to an MFP and inserts a medium, a serial number of the medium is stored in a device information database in correspondence with user information of the user, and a descramble key, e.g., a hash code of the serial number is registered in the user... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080281838 - Method of determining dependencies between items in a graph in an extensible system: A dependency determination system and method determines dependencies among extensions of an extensible system based upon a directed graph thereof. Dependencies between extensions in an extensible system are expressed as a directed graph. Given the dependency graph for an extensible system or its data, the dependency system can traverse the... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20080281841 - Navigating a software project respository: A system for analyzing a document in a repository is provided. The system receives a document that includes data and a document type. The document type has an associated physical structure. The system determines a logical structure of the document based in part on the data and selects a subset... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080281832 - System and method for processing really simple syndication (rss) feeds: The invention provides a system and method for acquiring, normalizing, indexing and storing information related to RSS feeds and their constituent content items in a searchable database. In some embodiments, the invention includes an application that accesses electronic feed documents for a plurality of RSS feeds to ascertain information regarding... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080281839 - Three-dimensional topology building method and system: This patent application is for a method and system that takes any arbitrary pre-existing geometric data and builds ISO 19107 compliant 3-Dimensional (3D) topology rather than requiring an incremental build of the topology. In accordance with at least one embodiment of the present invention, a method for integrating a three-dimensional... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20080281835 - Virtual foldering system for blending process and content in a collaborative environment: A computer system that includes a storage medium. The storage medium stores a database. The database includes tables. Each table includes g at least one column and at least one row. The tables describe components of a hierarchy in which hierarchical relationships between components of the hierarchy are defined. The... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080281849 - Data integration apparatus, data integration method, and computer product: When collecting and integrating data present in separately managed information sources, data are collected from the information sources through a physical model of the information sources. Integration is executed by a process of converting a data configuration (mapping) into a logical model predefined for each utilization-side application and a process... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080281843 - Distributed memory type information processing system: It is possible to realize high-speed data processing between processing modules with a small communication amount when performing information processing of a large amount of data employing the parallel computer architecture. Each of the processing modules transmits a first list as a list of values stored in the memory of... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20080281846 - High performant row-level data manipulation using a data layer interface: Performing an operation directly on data stored in a database table provides for avoiding generation and processing of SQL statements. A Data Layer interface, comprising a set of APIs, allows internal database server components to call directly to the Data Layer for making fast row changes to a table. According... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080281844 - Interactive data access method and interactive data access system: A variable is defined by one engineering device. A tag name is assigned to the variable that the other device accesses, and a corresponding table of the tag name and the variable name is created. Further, a tag object is converted to a tag list in a format that can... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080281847 - Method of processing protein peptide data and system: The invention provides a method of processing protein peptide data obtained from healthy or pathological samples for analysis, comprising the steps of: providing a list of peptide sequences and associated auxiliary information representing an input data set; compiling from the input data set a new peptide sequence list by removing... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20080281848 - Method to share and exchange geographic based information: A simplified approach to sharing and exchanging geographic-based information containing the maps and corresponding data and metadata was developed to enable easy sharing of information for decision support tools. Current Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technologies are limited in their ability to share maps and data in the exact format that... Agent: Dodds & Associates

20080281845 - Transforming values dynamically: When altering records in a repository of information to add an attribute that has a non-NULL default value and a corresponding constraint to the records, no update record is issued and instead, the existing records are essentially treated as having a NULL value for the attribute being added. To compute... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080281851 - Archive for physical and digital objects: Existing tools for organizing family memories offer few possibilities for easily integrating both physical and digital materials in order to produce a single archive for a family (or other group of users). This also applies to archiving of physical objects and digital media in general (even for applications outside the... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080281859 - Data generating device, data generation method, and system: A generation rule acquiring/accumulating section (202), a target form acquiring/accumulating section (203), and a list data acquiring/accumulating section (204) acquires input data, template data, and a generation rule, respectively, Then, a generation rule interpreting/UI description generating section (205) reads contents of the files thereof, interprets the read generation rule, and,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080281855 - Data object identifiers: A short identifier can be generated for each of a plurality of data objects. Each short identifier can include a first portion characterizing a sort order and a second portion characterizing a composite component identifier associated with the corresponding data object. The sort order can characterize a relationship (e.g., grouping,... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C. Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64280

20080281857 - Event hierarchies and memory organization for structured data retrieval: From a corpus of segments, a hierarchical index is derived that indexes high frequency events of a selected event type occurring in segments of the corpus at a frequency higher than or equal to a threshold frequency, and also indexes at least some low frequency events that occur in segments... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080281858 - Itinerary search tool for territory management: Electronically creating an itinerary schedule in a calendar program. A geographic indicator and a calendar date are acquired and coordinated with each other to define an itinerary entry. The itinerary entry is included into a calendar program maintained by the machine. The step of acquiring the geographic indicator further comprises... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080281853 - Mapping enterprise java bean attributes to database schema: Mapping Enterprise Java Bean (“EJB”) attributes to database schema including providing a first metamap including one or more abstracted variable characteristics of a first database schema and creating from the first metamap a second metamap for a second database schema including varying one or more of the abstracted variable characteristics... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080281852 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing an adaptive framework for a metadata-context switch: An apparatus for providing an adaptive framework for a metadata-context switch may include a processing element. The processing element may be configured to receive, from an application, a query for data, to determine whether to provide a response to the query in a context view or in a metadata view... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080281854 - Opt-out community network based on preseeded data: A method, apparatus, and system of an opt-out community network based on preseeded data are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes procuring preseeded data, providing categories of the preseeded data, generating a community network of user profiles based on the preseeded data, each user profile associated with a specific... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20080281850 - System and methods for generating runtime messages: A method for generating a runtime message of an application (20) comprising the steps of generating a unique message identification for the runtime message, generating a message content, providing an XML repository (30), which stores the unique message identification and the message content in an XML format and including a... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080281860 - Systems and methods for analyzing documents: Systems and methods are provided for analyzing documents. In one implementation, a computer implemented method is provided for analyzing a patent application and providing a visual representation. According to the method, a selection is received from a user to view claims of the patent application in a claim tree hierarchy... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080281856 - Utilizing a schema for documenting managed code: A schema is provided that supports documenting API elements that is flexible and captures current technologies as well as evolves without interfering or breaking the definitions of the existing elements. The schema utilizes a flexible and extensible element that can be used to define various elements of the APIs and... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080281862 - Generating from application modifications commands to modify the objects in a repository: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for generating from application modifications commands to modify the objects in a repository. An input object including an update to at least one of a plurality of objects in a repository object is received. At least one maintain property associated with... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080281861 - Method and system for dynamically generating enterprise java beans during installation of a service component architecture application: A method of dynamically generating stateless session beans (EJBs) during installation of a Service Component Architecture (SCA) composite to expose simple SCA POJO components to Java EE callers. During SCA composite installation, an installation utility receives an installation request for a SCA composite with a simple POJO service. If EJB... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080281863 - Repository system and method: A method and apparatus are described relating to a repository having artifacts stored therein. A client 10 may request an object for a first time from a repository 20 with message 60 and receives a first response 62 from the repository including a representation of the object and a pointer... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080281864 - Method of displaying molecule function network: A graphical user interface that generates a molecule function network with an arbitrary range according to the designation by a user and displays the said molecule function network graphically; a graphical user interface with a molecule network window which displays a molecule network included in the molecule function network and... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080281866 - Algorithm for updating xml schema registry using schema pass by value with message: Schema information is provided with transmission of a data object. When a data object is converted to a transmission format, schema information for the object type is added to the transmission format element. The unmarshalling code uses the schema information to update a schema registry at the receiving end. The... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080281865 - Database recovery using logs applied to consistent copies: A copy utility creates a copy of source database objects that is transactionally consistent to a consistent point-in-time, and a recovery utility apples log records to the consistent copy to make a resulting image that is updated as of an identified point-in-time (i.e., the current time or a point-in-time after... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20080281869 - Apparatus and method of map engine clustering automation: A system for clustering map information includes a map engine clustering automation (MECA) module communicating with a map engine to receive at least map content data from the map engine. In one embodiment, the MECA module clusters the at least map content data automatically to provide at least clustered map... Agent: Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

20080281867 - Creation of digital program playback lists in a digital device based on hierarchal grouping of a current digital program: Playback list creation for digital programs in a digital device utilizes navigation path used to locate a particular digital program in a hierarchally-ordered grouping of digital programs, the grouping based on organization parameters of the digital program. The playback list is created from digital programs within the navigation path used... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080281870 - Method, apparatus, and system for capturing data exchanged between a server and a user: Data exchanged between at least one server and at least one user is intercepted in a capturing module that operates independently from the server and the user. A copy of the intercepted data is stored in a database. The intercepted data that is destined for the server is forwarded to... Agent: Lawrence A. Aaronson, P.C. Lawrence A. Aarronson

20080281868 - Methods, apparatus and products for transferring knowledge: In a particular embodiment, a method is disclosed including but not limited to receiving object data at a trainer device from a consultant device; negotiating between the trainer device and the consultant device, initial assignment data to achieve the object data; sending the negotiated assignment data to a client device;... Agent: Gilbreth & Associates, P.C.

20080281872 - Digital-cinema processing apparatus, ingesting method, and program: A digital-cinema processing apparatus for ingesting a digital cinema package (DCP) in a storage device includes a DCP obtaining unit configured obtain at least one divided DCP to be ingested among divided DCPs including a common asset map corresponding to a digital cinema, the divided DCPs having allocated thereto one... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080281873 - Document viewing terminal operating device and storage medium storing program for operating document viewing terminal: A PC stores a command for specifying a document to be imported to a document viewing terminal and a command for specifying a document to be deleted in a state where the PC is not connected to the document viewing terminal, and stored commands are executed at a time when... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080281874 - Information processing method, information processing program and information processing device: Provided are an information processing method, an information processing program, and an information processing device for copying or moving a file. The method includes a step for comparing file information and judging whether the file information coincide. The comparison element of the file information contains a file content. That is,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080281871 - Method for handling electronic documents: The present invention relates to a method, a system, a computer readable medium and a computer program product that, by using extracting, generating and transforming, processes data directly for e-business (automated electronic business) services. Virtual printer functions extract difference data from difference sending information systems into unique XML (Extensible Mark-up... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080281875 - Automatic triggering of backing store re-initialization: A method, device, and system are provided for determining when to re-initialize a backing store in a data storage system. More specifically, when all snapshots associated with a specified backing store are either being deleted or are marked for deletion the backing store is re-initialized rather than deleting each snapshot... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20080281876 - Methods and apparatus to recover data and configuration of storage system: Every configuration change and/or detected failure is stored in the CDP journal together with time point information indicative of the time when the respective change or the failure has occurred. When the administrator performs the recovery of the data by specifying the recovery time point, the content of journal is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080281877 - Backing store re-initialization method and apparatus: A method, device, and system are provided for re-initializing a backing store in a data storage system. More specifically, when all snapshots associated with a specified backing store are either being deleted or are marked for deletion the backing store is re-initialized rather than deleting each snapshot independently. The re-initialization... Agent: Sheridan Ross PC

20080281882 - File management system: Since both a physical storage place and a logical storage place in a storage system are separately managed as a directory structure, or a hierarchical structure, even in such a case that the physical storage place has been changed, the logical storage place which is displayed to the user is... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080281880 - Method for storing data for retrieval and transfer: Provided is a method, system and program for storing data for later retrieval and for transfer within a storage hierarchy. A data storage subsystem stores both individual user files and also managed files, each managed file comprising an aggregation of multiple user files. After receiving user files from a client... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080281878 - Method for storing media captured using a portable electronic device: A method for updating data in a media storage location includes: storing an identity on a portable electronic device, the identity allowing access to the media storage location; storing a file in a device memory of the portable electronic device, the file being captured by a media capturing component of... Agent: Perry + Currier Inc. (for Rim)

20080281881 - Reconciliation of local and remote backup data: Provided are a system, an article of manufacture, and a computer program product, wherein a first set of backup data is stored in a first computational device and a second set of backup data is stored in a second computational device. Metadata corresponding to the first set of backup data... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080281879 - Storage controller, and control method of the same: The storage controller of the present invention can efficiently execute recovery by using the storage contents of the primary volume and of the base volume as much as possible. The difference between the primary volume and the base volume is managed by using difference bitmaps that differ in the sections.... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080281884 - Disk blocking streaming: A method for executing on a local user system a body of computer-executable code that resides on a provider system is described. A modified image of the computer executable code is installed to a virtual disk on the local user system, the modified image comprising file structure information. The installing... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20080281883 - System and program for storing data for retrieval and transfer: Provided is a method, system and program for storing data for later retrieval and for transfer within a storage hierarchy. A data storage subsystem stores both individual user files and also managed files, each managed file comprising an aggregation of multiple user files. After receiving user files from a client... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080281887 - Application specific garbage collection system: On a platform or virtual machine, a system and method is provided that allows an application to implement its own Garbage Collection (GC) utility that can be designed and tuned for the specific application. The GC utility can be bundled with the application, and can be installed on the platform... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080281886 - Concurrent, lock-free object copying: Described is a technology by which a real-time data relocating mechanism is provided for multiprocessing environments, including supporting lock-free programs that run in parallel. The relocating mechanism moves an object by using a status field related to the data field, possibly in an interim (wide) object space, which is then... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080281885 - Interleaved garbage collections: An automated memory management or garbage collection routine uses a first garbage collection routine to perform garbage collection on new objects, and a second garbage collection routine to perform garbage collection on old objects. The two garbage collection routines are operated concurrently, with each routine separately marking objects to be... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080281888 - System and method for concurrent compacting self pacing garbage collection using loaded value and access barriers: A method, system, and computer program product for managing a heap of memory allocated to a program being executed on a data processing system is disclosed. A limited amount of memory is allocated to a program being executed by a mutator on a data processing system. The memory comprises memory... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20080275839 - System and method for providing context based services: In one aspect of the disclosure, a method of delivering content to a portable electronic device is provided that comprises receiving a request for content; determining a subscription level for a subscriber of the portable electronic device; determining, based on the subscription level, whether to deliver supplementary content with the... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (c/o Patent Administrator)

20080275840 - Selective database statistics recollection: The subject mater herein relates to database management and, more particularly, to selective database statistics recollection. Various embodiments provide one or more of system, methods, and software that identify database column and index states when statistics become stale to a point where query execution plans against respective columns and indexes... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20080275841 - Self tuning database retrieval optimization using regression functions: A system and method for accessing a relational database and estimating the selectivity of a query (e.g., an SQL query) in order to better predict the number of qualifying records for simple and complex queries. A dataset is created based upon queries applied against the database by the user community.... Agent: Edell, Shapiro, & Finnan, LLC

20080275855 - Advanced scrolling for relational database applications: Disclosed are a method, a system and a computer program for scrolling to an arbitrary position in a set of unfetched rows of data in a relational database. Each of the rows has a plurality of columns and a class value in each of the columns. Also, each column of... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080275844 - Crawlable applications: Systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments of the present invention provide for a computer based method for crawling application data from an application data store. The applications data store has business objects of an application stored thereon. The method may include identifying a first request for application data... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080275851 - Customer relationship management system with hierarchical tagging: A hierarchical tagging system and method are provided. In one embodiment, a software-based customer relationship management system and method may include the hierarchical tagging system.... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080275846 - Filtering search results using contact lists: A device may obtain a search result from a search engine, select a contact in a contact list, filter the search result based on browsing information of the selected contact, and display the filtered search result.... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080275843 - Identifying an application user as a source of database activity: Determining an application user as a source of database activity is disclosed. A communication is received. A thread that is configured to handle the communication is associated with an application user with which the communication is associated. The application user is associated with a database query generated by the thread.... Agent: Van Pelt & Yi LLP

20080275850 - Image tag designating apparatus, image search apparatus, methods of controlling operation of same, and programs for controlling computers of same: An appropriate tag is assigned to an image in comparatively simple fashion. An image of interest to be tagged is selected and tags that have already been assigned to the selected image of interest are displayed in a present-tag display area. Tags having a high frequency of appearance are extracted... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080275852 - Information processing system, apparatus and method for information processing, and recording medium: An information processing system includes a plurality of first information processing apparatuses, each of the plurality of first information processing apparatuses being configured to add search information and post content, and a second information processing apparatus for holding the search information matching the content posted from at least one of... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080275849 - Method and apparatus for targeting messages to users in a social network: A method and apparatus for targeting messages to users in a social network, for example by first identifying topics in the social network is provided. One embodiment of a method for discovering topics in a social network includes collecting information from the social network, the information including at least one... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP Sri International

20080275842 - Method for processing counts when an end node is encountered: A method for processing a particle stream in a KStore having a current sequence of nodes includes receiving at least one particle within the particle stream to provide a received particle and determining whether the current sequence is complete in accordance with the received particle to provide a sequence complete... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20080275853 - Network interface device: A network interface device in a manufacturing system may receive communications from remote users in a database query language. The network interface device may translate or forward commands and queries in a pump-supported language. The network interface device may communicate the commands and queries to pumps and other components on... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20080275858 - Optimizing execution of database queries containing user-defined functions: A query engine (or optimizer) which supports database queries having user-defined functions maintains historical execution data with respect to each of multiple user-defined functions. The historical execution data is dynamically updated based on query execution performance. When executing a query having user-defined functions, the query engine uses the historical execution... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080275854 - Peripheral object communication method, apparatus, and system: In accordance with respective embodiments of the present invention, flexibility can be improved due to an arbitrary communication system being made available, and convenience can be improved due to visible identification information being made unnecessary. Concretely, an ID-metadata database server is prepared in which metadata in which displaying information and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080275847 - Scalable minimal perfect hashing: A minimal perfect hash function can be created for input data by dividing the input data into multiple collections, with each collection comprising fewer elements that the input data as a whole. Subsequently, minimal perfect hash functions can be created for each of the collections and the resulting hash values... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080275845 - System and method for searching in a distributed environment: What is described is a method for searching in a distributed environment. The method includes receiving a query at a search module, triggering the search module to search content matching the query in a distributed environment. The distributed environment includes at least one of an internal database and an external... Agent: Sap Ag

20080275848 - System 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

20080275856 - System for viewing and indexing mark up language messages, forms and documents: A system for viewing and indexing mark up language messages, forms, and documents that have been stored in a document repository. The viewer and indexer can search the document repository based on any of a variety of search parameters, including any field of each message, form or document in the... Agent: Gardner Groff Greenwald & Villanueva. PC

20080275857 - Techniques for sharing persistently stored query results between multiple users: A system and article of manufacture for managing access to query results and, more particularly, for managing access by multiple users to persistently stored query results, whereby at least some of the users may have different access rights. One embodiment provides a computer-readable storage medium for managing access to a... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080275859 - Method and system for disambiguating informational objects: The present invention provides a Distinct Author Identification System (“DAIS”) for disambiguating data to discern author entities and link or associate authorships with such author entities. The invention provides powerful disambiguation processes applied across one or more databases to yield a disambiguated authority database of authors. An entire database of... Agent: James C. Eaves Jr. Greenebaum Doll & Mcdonald PLLC

20080275860 - Seamless design: A system and method for facilitating the interaction between a database application and a relational database is provided and includes accepting at least one object method argument in the form of at least one query variable, where the query variable has a database query encapsulated within. The method further includes... Agent: The Law Offices Of Steven Mchugh, LLC

20080275866 - Domain independent system and method of automating data aggregation and presentation: A domain independent system and method for automatically generating at least one presentation-ready report from either detailed or summarized data from database queries. The process of getting useful information requires querying a database to get detailed records, then meaningfully aggregating detailed data based on user experience and business needs and,... Agent: Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080275864 - Enabling clustered search processing via text messaging: Methods and apparatus for searching data, grouping search results into categories that are ordered according to search relevance, and reviewing the search results via text messaging. In one embodiment, a search term is submitted via a search request text message to a short code for a search service. The search... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080275868 - Graphic user interface for the construction of complex search queries: t

20080275861 - Inferring user interests: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes determining, for a portion of users of a social network, label values each comprising an inferred interest level of a user in a subject indicated by a label, associating a first user with... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080275870 - Method and apparatus for constructing a compact similarity structure and for using the same in analyzing document relevance: e

20080275873 - Method of enhancing emails with targeted ads: A computer method and system for intercepting email messages, scanning the email messages for key words, determining whether the key words match or relate to key words determined to relate to advertising content, and enhancing the email message by routing the emails to recipients in a manner so that highly... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080275865 - Searching and ranking contacts in contact database: In one aspect, a method may include receiving a request from a first mobile device for a search for contacts meeting a criterion; searching a database of contacts for the contacts meeting the criterion and including the contacts meeting the criterion in search results; determining whether a second mobile device... Agent: Harrity Snyder, L.L.P.

20080275863 - Selecting advertisements based upon search results: Computerized methods and systems for selecting advertisements for presentation based, at least in part, upon search-result items are provided. Upon receiving a search query, search-result items (e.g., uniform resource locators (URLs)) satisfying the search query are determined. The determined search-result items are then compared with search-result criteria associated with advertisements... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080275862 - Spectral clustering using sequential matrix compression: A clustering system generates an original Laplacian matrix representing objects and their relationships. The clustering system initially applies an eigenvalue decomposition solver to the original Laplacian matrix for a number of iterations. The clustering system then identifies the elements of the resultant eigenvector that are stable. The clustering system then... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080275869 - System and method for a digital representation of personal events enhanced with related global content: There is provided a system and method for creating a digital representation of personal events enhanced with related global content. Personal event frameworks are selectable by the user and are provided with insertion points to receive media items therein and are structured to complement type of personal event. Media items... Agent: Fellers Snider Blankenship Bailey & Tippens

20080275872 - System and method for efficiently searching a forwarding database that is split into a bounded number of sub-databases having a bounded size: A method, apparatus, and storage medium product are provided for forming a forwarding database, and for using the formed database to more efficiently and quickly route packets of data across a computer network. The forwarding database is arranged into multiple sub-databases. Each sub-database is pointed to by a pointer within... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080275867 - System and method for presenting content to a user: Assisting a user in locating particular content of interest from a collection of content including associated feature values and corresponding features. A user selects one of the plurality of feature values characterizing the collection of content and filters the content using the selected filtering feature value. The system groups the... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080275871 - Systems and media for utilizing electronic document usage information with search engines: Systems and media for utilizing electronic document usage information are disclosed. More particularly, hardware and/or software utilizing electronic document usage information to respond to user search requests with search engines are disclosed. Embodiments include receiving a search request from a requesting user and receiving document utilization information associated with one... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20080275875 - Navigator database search methods: Methods and associated apparatus allow a vehicle navigator to more efficiently search for locations in a database. According to one such method, a map is divided into tiles, and locations are associated within each tile with the tile the user is in. When queried by a user for a location,... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080275876 - Storage medium storing search information and reproducing apparatus and method: A storage medium storing search information and a reproducing apparatus for the storage medium and method of reproducing AV data corresponding to a searching result matching a user's search condition and providing additional functions by using the searching result. The storage medium includes image data; and meta information used to... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20080275874 - Supplier deduplication engine: Disclosed herein is a method of grouping similar supplier names together in a database. The syntactical errors in the supplier names are corrected. The supplier names are grouped after correcting the syntactical errors. The abbreviations in the supplier names are captured. The ordering, pronunciation and stemming errors in the supplier... Agent: Ashok Tankha Esq.

20080275877 - Method and system for variable keyword processing based on content dates on a web page: A method for modifying knowledge documents, includes: updating an index based on keyword weights, detecting a page that has not been indexed; parsing the page into structures; associating the structures with dates contained thereof; separating the dates on the page into one or more past and future dates; determining whether... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rochester Division

20080275878 - Method of managing user data in communication terminal: A method of managing user data in a communication terminal is provided. The method of managing user data in a communication terminal includes retrieving, when a request for displaying user data is input, in the communication terminal user data generated at a specific date; classifying the user data according to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080275880 - Access control for elements in a database object: A system for controlling access to elements in a database object are provided. The system provides for receiving a request from a user to access the database object, determining whether an access restriction is imposed on the database object, and controlling access to the elements in the database object by... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080275879 - Method and device for controlling the access to knowledge networks: The invention relates to an efficient system for user rights in a semantic digital network, whereby users are arranged in the same semantic network as the information objects. The rights are thus derived from the semantic relations between users and information objects in a common semantic network.... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080275883 - Consolidated subscriber database for ims network: An IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) network includes a plurality of network elements that are interconnected for directly or indirectly communicating with one another. One of the network elements houses (or embodies) a consolidated subscriber database. The consolidate subscriber database is the only data storage entity in the IMS network for... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080275885 - Index server support to file sharing applications: An index server support for file sharing applications is disclosed. A way of retrieving an index server includes sending a request for investigating a hierarchical structure of index servers in a network to a known index server, intercepting the investigation request by the first index server that becomes aware of... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080275884 - Method and system for on-demand communities: In an embodiment, communities are generated on demand. In this specification a community is a group of webpages in which users share ideas with one another by posting ideas and sending messages for one another to read. An on-demand community is a community that may be created via tools specialized... Agent: David Lewis

20080275881 - Real time collaborative on-line multimedia albums: Methods and systems for creating, editing and monitoring real-time collaborative on-line multimedia albums at a host site. The invention facilitates the construction of the multimedia albums which comprise digital content, such as photos and video clips, provided by multiple digital content contributors, taken from each contributor's unique perspective. The invention... Agent: Jlb Consulting, Inc. C/o Intellevate

20080275886 - Rich media file format and delivery methods: A rich media file is a self-contained file, including both the information to be viewed by a user and the viewer that displays the information to the user. The information can be formatted however the client likes: for example, the information can be split across several pages, and can include... Agent: Marger Johnson & Mccollom, P.C.

20080275882 - Search pogosticking benchmarks: Disclosed are apparatus and methods for quantifying how much searchers select other search results, instead of a particular search result. In example embodiments, the number of times that other search results are selected before a particular search result is selected (referred to as pre-pogosticking) is tracked, and the number of... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP/yahoo

20080275893 - Aggregating content of disparate data types from disparate data sources for single point access: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for aggregating content of disparate data types from disparate data sources for single point access by a user. Embodiments include establishing a user account for the user; retrieving content of disparate data types from identified disparate data sources associated with the user account; storing... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080275889 - Method and system for assessing the staffing needs of an organization: A method and system for creating a functional depth chart of an organization is provided. The method and system may include comparing a selected function requirement of the organization with a selected employee, if an employee is present within the organization. The method and system may also illustrate the results... Agent: Ge Energy General Electric C/o Ernest G. Cusick

20080275892 - Method for generating a set of machine-interpretable instructions for presenting media content to a user: m

20080275887 - Method of dynamic database association in multi-mode communication device: In a dynamic database association method, a static contact list is dynamically associated with a dynamic instant messenger contact list so that a user of a first database may access a contact list of a second database with associative links between said first and second databases. The user is also... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080275891 - Method to create a partition-by time/tuple-based window in an event processing service: A method to create a partition by time/tuple based window in an event processing service is provided. When continuous data streams are received, tuples are stored in a data structure with partitions based upon partition keys. Only a specified amount of tuples may be stored in each partition. When a... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080275888 - Redirection method for electronic content: Electronic content, for example, a web page, is configured by display by a web browser application to include content that is not included in or referenced by the web page. The web page includes a first locator for first content. A second locator for second content is associated with the... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080275890 - System and method for smoothing hierarchical data using isotonic regression: An improved system and method is provided for detecting a web page template. A web page template detector may be provided for performing page-level template detection on a web page. In general, the web page template classifier may be trained using automatically generated training data, and then the web page... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20080275894 - Content item apparatus and method of operation therefor: A content item apparatus comprises a content data receiver (201) for receiving first context data and first content characterising data for a content item. A decision structure processor (205) provides a content handling decision structure associating context data and content characteristics data with content handling executable actions in response to... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20080275898 - List update employing neutral sort keys: A program product for updating a list. A first list associated with a first platform includes a first plurality and a second plurality of keys. A second list associated with a second platform includes a third plurality of keys. The first and second platforms sort a first subset of characters... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080275897 - Method and system for creating an in-memory physical dictionary for data compression: Some aspects of the invention provide methods, systems, and computer program products for creating an in-memory physical dictionary for data compression. To that end, in accordance with aspects of the present invention, a new heuristic is defined for converting each of the plurality of logical nodes into a corresponding physical... Agent: Sughrue Mion PLLC Uspto Customer No With Ibm/svl

20080275895 - Method, system, and program product for aligning models: The present invention provides a model identity re-alignment algorithm that allows models with similar structures but substantial identity differences to be aligned such that all similar elements have the same identity. This causes the two models to appear to have come from a common ancestor. Once the two models have... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080275896 - Preserving user code in ott-generated classes: An object type translator (OTT) determines one or more database object types. The one or more database object types are mapped to a first structural language type definition code. After being generated, the user may add user code to the first structural language type definition code. During regeneration of these... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080275899 - Advertiser and user association: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes generating content-based keywords based on content generated by users of a social network. The method includes labeling nodes comprising user nodes, which are representations of the users, with advertising labels comprising content-based keywords... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080275900 - Anonymizing infocube data: In one aspect, in a computer-implemented method may make data anonymous, so that the data may be used during testing. The method may include receiving, from a user interface, an indication of a type of shuffling to be performed on data. Moreover, the data may be shuffled based on the... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C. Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64280

20080275906 - Content indexing and searching using content identifiers and associated metadata: A method of indexing content for network searching comprises obtaining media content signals stored on a computer network; deriving content identifiers from the content signals; using the content identifiers to obtain metadata used to classify the media content signals; and creating a searchable index of the media content signals based... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20080275903 - Flexible interface using scalable vector graphics with metalevel palette: The present invention provides a method and system of storing information for drawing an object on a computer system that includes providing a palette file that includes a set of first labels matched with numerical values, tagging a vector graphics file for drawing the object with second labels, translating the... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20080275905 - Media stream recording into a reception hint track of a multimedia container file: A system and method for storing received real-time media streams into a multimedia container file. Media content is recorded into a file according to a file format that provides instructions for constructing the media packets. At least one received media packet is represented in the file using the instructions for... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080275904 - Method of generating and methods of filtering a user profile: A method of generating a user profile (7;17,19;29) of a user of a device (14,15;23-26) for processing data representative of items of content, a respective recording of at least one perceptible content element being associated with each item of content, includes determining a set (3) containing a plurality of recordings... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080275907 - Scalable algorithms for mapping-based xml transformation: A computer-implemented method for use with an extensible markup language (XML) document includes inputting a high-level mapping specification for a schema mapping; and generating a target XML document based on the mapping. The method may perform schema mapping-based XML transformation as a three-phase process comprising tuple extraction, XML-fragment generation, and... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20080275901 - System and method for detecting a web page: An improved system and method is provided for detecting a web page template. A web page template detector may be provided for performing page-level template detection on a web page. In general, the web page template classifier may be trained using automatically generated training data, and then the web page... Agent: Law Office Of Robert O. Bolan

20080275908 - System, method and computer-readable medium for providing pattern matching: A system, method and computer-readable medium are disclosed for identifying representative data using sketches. The method embodiment comprises generating a plurality of vectors from a data set, modifying each of the vectors of the plurality of vectors and selecting one of the plurality of generated vectors according to a comparison... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080275902 - Web page analysis using multiple graphs: A collection of web pages is modeled as a directed graph, in which the nodes of the graph are the web pages and directed edges are hyperlinks. Web pages can also be represented by content, or by other features, to obtain a similarity graph over the web pages, where nodes... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080275911 - Emulated storage system: Systems and methods for efficient storage of data are provided. For instance, a method that includes acts of receiving a data stream to be stored on a first storage system, the data stream comprising a data object and metadata that describes attributes of the data object, extracting the metadata from... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20080275910 - Method and apparatus for automatic generation of information system user interfaces: A method and apparatus for the specification and automatic generation of user interfaces of information system (computer programs) is provided. The method is based in pattern language to specify requirements in an un-ambiguous mode and with precise semantics. The pattern language allows a user interface model to be composed using... Agent: Ronald Craig Fish, A Law Corporation

20080275909 - Systems and methods for managing image data and metadata: A method for managing image data and metadata is described. Image data is provided. Metadata associated with the image data is provided. A determination is made about the capabilities of a network and a destination. The image data and the metadata are encapsulated in an exchange format if the determined... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080275912 - Computer-assisted means for providing personalised healthcare products: The present invention relates to a computer assisted method of providing a personalized assessment of supplement requirements for a human subject in which an individual's genotype is analysed for the presence of alleles at one or more genetic loci which may be associated with risk factors, and the alleles present... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080275913 - Dynamic assignment of statements for selected exams using clinical concepts: A system and method for generating statements for use by a user in collecting clinically relevant information about a patient for a selected examination type. The system comprises a storage including a plurality of statements having statement concepts assigned to each of the plurality of statements, the statement concepts being... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20080275915 - Image file container: An image container file has at least first and second multimedia streams (MSs). The first MS includes first image data representing an image. The second MS includes arbitrary data, which can for example, correspond to: a different representation of the same image; annotations to the first image data; second image... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080275914 - On-line schedule system with personalization features: An on-line scheduling application allows users to personalize how television-related, entertainment-related, and social event related information is provided. Users may select one or more sources from which the information is obtained. Users may set up a date book that is also uses as a source. Users may select one or... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080275918 - Document management apparatus and computer readable medium: A document management apparatus includes a document storage section, a document transmission section, a determination section and a document update section. The document transmission section, when the document transmission section accepts a transmission request to transmit an electronic document, transmits the electronic document. The document transmission section stores history information... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080275920 - Efficient handling of mostly read data in a computer server: An apparatus and method is described for improving access to mostly read data on network servers. The preferred embodiments more efficiently utilize replicated data servers to minimize server response time for improved performance of data access to network servers by workload managing client requests across the primary server and all... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080275919 - Index maintenance for operations involving indexed xml data: A method and system are provided for maintaining an XML index in response to piece-wise modifications on indexed XML documents. The database server that manages the XML index determines which nodes are involved in the piece-wise modifications, and updates the XML index based on only those nodes. Index entries for... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080275917 - Itso fvc2 application monitor: The invention provides an ITSO-based smartcard system including a programmable smartcard device for use in the ITSO scheme carrying a file system and operating software enabling the on-device file system to interface with at least one off-device ITSO application. At the interface, the off-device ITSO application is permitted to access... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080275916 - Rule-based dry run methodology in an information management system: A method of processing data in an information gathering system includes receiving a set of candidate data records and attempting to obtain a set of processing rules associated with the set of candidate data records. If the set of processing rules is successfully obtained, the method includes obtaining a set... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080275921 - Self-managed processing device: A processing device may automatically provide protective services and may provide backup services for backing up and restoring user files, system files, configuration files, as well as other information. The processing device may be configured to check one or more performance conditions and perform an action to improve performance based... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080275922 - Rollback in a browser: Methods, tools, and systems are provided for editing an image in a browser. One method provides editing an image in a browser including maintaining a list of transformations applied to the image including a last transformation, receiving a selection from a user to rollback a transformation, the selection not including... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080275924 - Bare metal recovery from backup media to virtual machine: A legacy computer system receives a hard drive or other hardware failure. Rather than attempting to rebuild the computer system or recover selected data, which may require locating discontinued hardware or even software, a virtual machine image is created from a previously prepared backup image of the hard drive. The... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080275923 - Method for the expungement of backup versions of files on server targets that are configured to be updated sequentially: The present invention relates to a method for expunging backup versions of files that are stored at target servers, wherein the target servers are configured to be sequentially updated. The method comprises uploading a predetermined base file to a backup target server from a backup client, uploading a plurality of... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Tuscon Division

20080275926 - Storage system and method of copying data: A storage system comprises a primary storage system comprising a primary storage apparatus and a primary control apparatus for controlling the primary storage apparatus; and a secondary storage system comprising a secondary storage apparatus and secondary control apparatus for controlling the secondary storage apparatus. The primary storage apparatus and the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080275925 - System and method for generating consistent images of a set of data objects: A system and method efficiently generates a set of parallel persistent consistency point images (PCPIs) of volumes configured as a SVS and served by a plurality of nodes interconnected as a cluster. A volume operations daemon (VOD) executing on a node of the cluster is configured to manage generation of... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080275927 - Transfer of table instances between databases: A system and computer program product for transferring N table instances X1, X2, . . . , XN of a table T from a source database S to destination databases D1, D2, . . . , DN, respectively. The method is implemented by executing a computer code by a processor... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20080275928 - Flexible data storage system: Methods and systems for managing and locating available storage space in a system comprising data files stored in a plurality of storage devices and configured in accordance with various data storage schemes (mirroring, striping and parity-striping). A mapping table associated with each of the plurality of storage devices is used... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP