Data processing: database and file management or data structures inventions 12/08

20080319938 - System and method for identifying prospects for mortgage refinancing: A system and method for map-based mortgage information determination includes displaying a geographic location on a map display. The method and system further includes populating the map display with visual property indicators, where each of the property indicators indicate a property having property information associated therewith and receiving an input... Agent: Dreier LLP Susan Formicola

20080319939 - Value-instance-connectivity computer-implemented database: A computer-implemented database and method providing an efficient, ordered reduced space representation of multi-dimensional data. The data values for each attribute are stored in a manner that provides an advantage in, for example, space usage and/or speed of access, such as in condensed form and/or sort order. Instances of each... Agent: Jones Day

20080319940 - Message log analysis for system behavior evaluation: A technique is disclosed that enables the run-time behavior of a data-processing system to be analyzed and, in many cases, to be predicted. In particular, the illustrative embodiment of the present invention comprises i) transforming the messages that constitute an unstructured log into a numerical series and ii) applying a... Agent: Avaya Demont & Breyer, LLC

20080319941 - Method and apparatus for document clustering and document sketching: A first embodiment of the invention provides a system that automatically classifies documents in a collection into clusters based on the similarities between documents, that automatically classifies new documents into the right clusters, and that may change the number or parameters of clusters under various circumstances. A second embodiment of... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080319951 - Apparatus and method for classifying time-series data and time-series data processing apparatus: A time-series data classifying apparatus may include a first database, a peak feature extracting unit, a second database, a data input unit, and a predicting unit. The first database stores a plurality of cases each including time-series data a classification label. The peak feature extracting unit may, for each of... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080319943 - Delegated search of content in accounts linked to social overlay system: The present invention provides a federated search tool and search methods that consolidate searches to external online accounts of a user and other people that are part of the user's social network. In some embodiments, the search tool is presented as a single search box that may appear persistently on... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080319952 - Dynamic menus for multi-prefix interactive mobile searches: The present invention includes systems and methods for retrieving information via a flexible and consistent targeted search model that employs interactive multi-prefix, multi-tier and dynamic menu information retrieval techniques that provide context-specific functionality tailored to particular information channels, as well as to records within or across such channels, and other... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080319954 - Index for data retrieval and data structuring: A system of generating an index for a retrieval of data provided by at least one document is disclosed. The method and system comprise selecting data within the at least one document, assigning a category to the selected data, and assigning a timestamp to the selected data. The method and... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080319945 - Method and system for improving a reservation or a purchase process of an entity: Method of searching for availability of an entity for purchase or reservation. The method comprises the steps of searching for an entity matching a search criteria to obtain a list of entities, wherein the or each entity comprises a parameter having a predetermined availability; automatically searching for one or more... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20080319949 - Method and system for interactive, multi-user electronic data transmission in a multi-level monitored and filtered system: A method and system to permit the creation of “parent” accounts within a school system's data transmission system which are associated with a parent's child or children who are students in the system. A parent account is capable of creation and access by various levels within the hierarchy of the... Agent: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP

20080319953 - Method and system for managing digital content including streaming media: The present invention describes a system and method of managing digital content received from content providers and for facilitating access to the digital content to many subscribers. The method includes receiving from the content providers incoming feed files where each feed file contains information describing the content. The method determines... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080319942 - Method and system for report generation including extensible data: A method of extending a user interface to include additional data fields is provided. A first response is received at a first application. The first response indicates a selection of an add button associated with addition of a data field to a first window associated with a user interface of... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080319946 - Method and system for searching availability of an entity for purchase or reservation: A method of searching for availability of an entity for purchase or reservation. The method comprises the steps of searching for an entity matching a search criterion to obtain a list of entities, wherein the or each entity comprises a parameter having a predetermined availability; automatically searching for one or... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20080319947 - Mixed initiative semantic search: In one embodiment, a method is illustrated including receiving a search query, parsing the search query to identify first and second search terms, determining a relationship between the first and second search terms based on their respective domain assignments, conducting a search based on the respective domain assignments, and displaying... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20080319950 - System for building a website: A website development system and an optimizing sub-system is capable of instructing a user on measures to customize a website in order to increase visibility of the website to website search engines. The optimizing sub-system analyzes content provided by the user, or otherwise generated for the user, and notifies the... Agent: Christopher Paradies, Ph.d.

20080319956 - Tree-type broadcast system, reconnection process method, node device, node process program, server device, and server process program: w

20080319944 - User interfaces to perform multiple query searches: User interfaces for conducting multi-query searches. These user interfaces also provide specific mechanisms for supporting multi-query searches including: saving/restoring search context; search-specific query history; a “keepers” bin for storing useful results; elimination of redundant results; re-ranking of common search results; integration of searching with navigation; pivoting on search results; collaboration... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080319955 - Web browser page rating system: A computerized web page rating method encoded on a computer-readable medium is provided. The method operates client-side in network browser software, rating the relevancy of web pages visited in a project-based browsing network research session. The ratings of web pages are calculated using a relevancy algorithm selected from a group... Agent: Moetteli & Associates Sarl

20080319948 - Xml document manager server method and apparatus: A method is disclosed of providing an XML Document Manager Server function to an XML Document Manager Client (2-1). The XML Document Manager Server function is enabled by a database component for storing at least one XML document and a logic component for causing at least one operation to be... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20080319970 - Address matching: A method and system for providing address matching consistent with the invention includes comparing the address against a plurality of address records in a database, wherein the database comprises at least one or the following: a delivery point database (505) and an enhanced delivery point database (705). In addition, the... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080319961 - Apparatus and methods for accessing information relating to radio and television programs: A method for enabling a music listener to receive audio or auxiliary information about a particular musical selection includes providing a database storing a plurality of musical selections and auxiliary information relating to each selection. A request from a remote location is received, where the request is to obtain audio... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080319958 - Dynamic metadata based query formulation for multiple heterogeneous database systems: A method may comprise receiving a template query and one or more keywords from a user, generating a SQL query specification based on the template query and the one or more keywords, formulating SQL code based on metadata specification, sending the SQL code to a query execution engine, receiving correlated... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20080319957 - Extensible command trees for entity data model platform: Systems and methods that provide for a canonical representation in a structured form of a query, against a data model platform. A parser component can parse the SQL query to generate the abstract class that represent the query (command tree). Moreover, a view generation component can supply a mapping between... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080319965 - Filtering query results using model entity limitations: A method, system, and article of manufacture to process database queries are disclosed. One embodiment comprises receiving an abstract query against a database having a multiplicity of data records. The abstract query identifies a model entity that defines a focus of the abstract query. The method further comprises receiving a... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080319959 - Generating information on database queries in source code into object code compiled from the source code: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for generating information on database queries in source code into object code compiled from the source code. Source code including query statements to perform operations with respect to a database is translated into executable object code. A statement descriptor for at... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20080319960 - Information searching method, information searching system and inputting device thereof: An information searching method is used for searching for information on the Internet. Firstly, an information searching system is provided. The information searching system has a hot key. Secondly, whether the hot key is enabled is determined. If the hot key is enabled, the information searching system links to a... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20080319962 - Machine translation for query expansion: Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer program products, for expanding search queries. One method includes receiving a search query, selecting a synonym of a term in the search query based on a context of occurrence of the term in the received search query, the synonym having been derived from statistical... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080319967 - Method and system for executing a database query: For a database management system installed in a data processing system, the database management system for managing a database having partitions for storing table data based on a partitioning schema, in which each partition has an associated partition identifier, and in which the database has database catalog information associated therewith,... Agent: Edell, Shapiro, & Finnan, LLC

20080319963 - Method for providing information in data communication network using private page: Disclosed herein is a method for providing information in a data communication network using a private page. The method includes the steps of (a) a service providing server receiving necessary information from a searcher's terminal through a data communication network, and generating and storing a private page DataBase (DB); (b)... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080319968 - Processing query conditions having filtered fields within a data abstraction environment: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for composing and executing queries using filtered fields. In one embodiment, a query may be composed with compatible fields, meaning filtered fields that store related data of a particular data type. Such compatible fields may be combined into a single query condition, thus simplifying... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080319969 - Query conditions having filtered fields within a data abstraction environment: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for composing and executing queries using filtered fields. In one embodiment, a query may be composed with compatible fields, meaning filtered fields that store related data of a particular data type. Such compatible fields may be combined into a single query condition, thus simplifying... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080319966 - System for executing a database query: For a database management system installed in a data processing system, the database management system for managing a database having partitions for storing table data based on a partitioning schema, in which each partition has an associated partition identifier, and in which the database has database catalog information associated therewith,... Agent: Edell, Shapiro, & Finnan, LLC

20080319964 - Systems, articles and methods of preference filtering for database queries: Systems, methods and articles for performing preference filtering on a database query. Example embodiments provide a new algorithm, called BNL#, that operates with a worst-case running time of O(ntce+ne+np) where {ne, np}<<nt→O(ntce). This represents an improvement over existing algorithms that are known in the art, such as the BNL algorithm... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080319989 - Apparatus and method of searching document data: An apparatus and method of searching an electronic document are disclosed. A document that is assumed to contain a search symbol set is searched. The search symbol set is a symbol set being extracted from a plurality of symbols representing a search request when the symbol set being extracted satisfies... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080319975 - Exploratory search technique: A technique for the creation of synthesized results from multi-query searches to provide more relevant information to the user in a more useful format and to discard or reduce in relevancy information that is not so useful. It allows a user to define the boundaries of the exploratory search before... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080319990 - Geographic feature name search system: A computer-based software tool for performing intelligent searches for geographic names data utilizing a fuzzy-logic search as well as linguistic principles and allowing the user to select various search criteria is disclosed. Geographic feature names can be searched for exact matches, similar geographic names based on misspellings or phonetic similarities,... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080319978 - Hybrid system for named entity resolution: A method for named entity resolution includes parsing an input text string to identify a context in which an identified named entity of the input text string is used. The identified context is compared with at least one stored context in which the named entity in the stored context is... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080319976 - Identification and use of web searcher expertise: A search expertise level system and method for determining a search expertise level of a search engine user and then using that information to improve the searcher's experience. The search expertise level system and method identifies the search expertise level of the searcher based on query behavior, post-query browsing behavior,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080319979 - Information processing apparatus and computer-readable medium: A computer-readable medium stores a program causing a computer to execute information processing. The information processing includes: reading user information of a user who requests to provide first document information; generating second document information, based on (i) concealment region information associated with the first document information and (ii) the read... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080319981 - Knowledge portal for accessing, analyzing and standardizing data: A method and system is provided to access one or more historical incident databases, for example, CDC, CPSC, DTI, AAPCC and the like, for standardizing the potentially differing categories and coding among the databases. The standardizing includes recoding of the categories by providing a unified set of categories reflective of... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20080319993 - Metasearching a plurality of servers and placing at least one advertisement associated with at least one search query keyword phrase into a response for communicating to a client device: A process and system for metasearching on a distributed network activated by a request executed on a client device to request a metasearch engine to send at least one search query to a plurality of server devices, which may be search engines, the at least one search query comprising at... Agent: Harvey Lunenfeld

20080319983 - Method and apparatus for identifying and resolving conflicting data records: A method and apparatus for identifying and resolving conflicting data records are disclosed. The individual data fields of a master record are compared with the corresponding data fields of each source record in a particular data set. For each, one of various matching algorithms is used to assign a field... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080319982 - Method and apparatus for manipulating data files: A method of encoding a data file stored in a storage unit, said method comprising the steps of:—extracting (100) a non-alphabetical data from said data file, said data being associated with said file;—converting (101) said data into a word in using symbols taken from a first set of symbols; and—encoding... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080319980 - Methods and system for intelligent navigation and caching for linked environments: A real-time, content-based document navigation and caching tool for use within linked-document environments. The system includes a combination of rooted spidering, ranking and displaying to provide the user with a capability to perform intelligent navigation of the document collection. The system allows users to intelligently browse their local information environments,... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080319974 - Mining geographic knowledge using a location aware topic model: Mining geographic knowledge using a location aware topic model is provided. A location system estimates topics and locations associated with documents based on a location aware topic (“LAT”) model. The location system generates the model from a collection of documents that are labeled with their associated locations. The location system... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080319971 - Phrase-based personalization of searches in an information retrieval system: An information retrieval system uses phrases to index, retrieve, organize and describe documents. Phrases are identified that predict the presence of other phrases in documents. Documents are the indexed according to their included phrases. Related phrases and phrase extensions are also identified. Phrases in a query are identified and used... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Intellevate

20080319986 - Process of time-space collaborative filtering of information: The invention is a process for collaborative filtering of information called Time-Space Filtering (TSIF). The invention is used in the fields of information filtering and publishing and is particularly useful in the field of providing web-based information, e.g. electronic newspapers. TSIF is a process of filtering and ranking the relevance... Agent: Kevin D. Mccarthy Roach Brown Mccarthy & Gruber, P.C.

20080319973 - Recommending content using discriminatively trained document similarity: A generalized discriminative training framework for reconciling the training and evaluation objectives for document similarity is provided. Prior information about document relations and non-relations, are used to discriminatively train an ensemble of document similarity classification models. This result is a model set that can be used to compute similarity between... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080319972 - Short period search keyword: A search engine provides a registration of short period search terms to provide memorable key words that allow a person to view a specific Web page without having to remember a long and complicated uniform resource locator. A search engine is modified to weight a specific search term to the... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080319985 - Storage medium, data extraction apparatus and method: One or more extraction conditions for designating data to be extracted can be input in a program. When one or mode extraction conditions are input, a data extraction is carried out for each of the extraction conditions and the extracted data is output to an output destination in accordance with... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080319992 - System and method for providing personalized online information: A method and system for providing personalized and integrated online services for communications and commercial transactions both in private and public venues. The invention provides personalized information that is conveniently accessible through a network of public access stations (or terminals) which are enabled by a personal system access card (e.g.,... Agent: Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

20080319984 - System and method for remotely gathering information over a computer network: A method of finding relevant content on one or more target storage devices includes the step of receiving an instruction from an instruction queue specifying a content description to be searched for on the target digital storage medium. Content on the target digital storage medium specified by the content description... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20080319977 - System for providing enhance search results on the internet: Apparatus and a method that control the number of sponsored links that are presented in search result webpages in response to a search string presented by a user, based on the past behavior of users to presentations of result in response to the same search string. When this past behavior... Agent: Henry T. Brendzel

20080319991 - System for searching network accessible data sets: A Sales-Chip Relevance Alert extends the capability of the regenerating search engine by allowing users to become informed about relevant information that has changed to a second query or search request that is run after a first query or search request. The user can narrowly and specifically describe with a... Agent: Keith D. Nowak

20080319987 - System, method and program for creating index for database: An entire document set is decomposed into a sum of subsets each having no common part. Next, a set of keywords appearing in each of the subsets divided in the aforementioned manner is categorized into groups on the basis of a remainder resulting from dividing a hash value of each... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20080319988 - Use of fixed field array for document rank data: A computer based search server can comprise an archive including a fixed-width field array storing numeric rank data associated with documents. The search server can provide search results using the numeric rank data obtained from the fixed-width field array.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080319994 - Method for registering a template message, generating an update message, regenerating and providing an application request, computer arrangement, computer program and computer program product: The invention further relates to a method for generating an update message, a method for regenerating an application request and a method for providing an application request. In addition, the invention relates to a computer arrangement, a computer program and a computer program product adapted to perform the methods according... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080319995 - Reliability of duplicate document detection algorithms: In a single-signature duplicate document system, a secondary set of attributes is used in addition to a primary set of attributes so as to improve the precision of the system. When the projection of a document onto the primary set of attributes is below a threshold, then a secondary set... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080319997 - Combined pessimistic and optimistic concurrency control: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that improve implementation of concurrency control modes in a transactional memory system. A transactional memory word is provided for each piece of data. The transactional memory word includes a version number, a reader indicator, and an exclusive writer indicator. The transactional memory word is... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080319996 - Distributed lock manager for file system objects in a shared file system: A method and apparatus are provided for mediating access to a shared object in a naive computer system having a shared-nothing operating system layered on a shared file system. At least one primary token is utilized as a tool to mediate ownership of one or more shared objects in the... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20080320001 - Collaboration system and method for use of same: A system for managing data and communications over a network for an institution having a defined organizational structure is disclosed. A collaboration space includes interconnected collaboration points having an accessible object, a history log, and digital rights management controls. Mappings extend from access profiles associated with individuals within the defined... Agent: Scott T. Griggs

20080319998 - System and method for dynamic authorization to database objects: The present invention provides a system and method allows a user to add a parameter at the end of the GRANT statement that would not require multiple changes by the DBA. The parameter may indicate that the user only needs to have access for 2 days, or to have access... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080320000 - System and method for managing data and communications over a network: A system for managing data and communications over a network for an institution having a defined organizational structure is disclosed. A collaboration space includes interconnected collaboration points having an accessible object, a history log, and digital rights management controls. Mappings extend from access profiles associated with individuals within the defined... Agent: Scott T. Griggs

20080319999 - Techniques for project lifecycle staged-based access control: Techniques for project lifecycle staged-based access control are provided. Access control rights are defined for a stage of a project's lifecycle. As requestors transition to the stage, the access control rights are enforced on top of any existing security restrictions. In an embodiment, selective resources are not visible to requesters... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20080320007 - Edge deployed database proxy driver: An edge-deployed database proxy. A database access system which has been configured with the database proxy can include a universal database connectivity driver having a first exposed interface through which access to a database server can be provided; a database proxy driver registered with the universal database connectivity driver; and,... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080320006 - Enterprise console: A console for an enterprise suite is disclosed. The enterprise suite addresses the increasingly complex problem of keeping critical systems updated, compatible, and free of security holes. It uses Fixlet® technology to identify vulnerable computers on the network and then allows authorized personnel to correct problems across any subset of... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080320004 - Influence based rewards for word-of-mouth advertising ecosystems: Systems and/or methods are presented that facilitate determining the contextual influence of a user in referrals of products or services, and determining an amount of compensation for successful referrals based on the contextual influence of the user. A central service component can track activity and receive data associated with referrals,... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080320002 - Method of providing information: The invention relates to a method (100, 200, 300, 400) wherein a value of compliance between a number of profiles (PF) containing constraints, that should be satisfied, and a plurality of content items (CI) is generated. It is well known to generate a value of compliance, a so-called distance, between... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080320005 - Relocating item in distributed storage system: Techniques are provided for moving an item from one item server to another item server in a distributed storage system, using a location service, APIs, and item states. There are three parties that transact with each other: a source item server, a destination item server, and a location service. Each... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080320003 - Scaling network services using dns: Lookup requests received by a domain name service (DNS) are processed based on the actual location of data associated with a requested content page rather than a domain mapping of IP addresses. A DNS server which receives a request initiates a query for the location of user data associated with... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20080320016 - Age matrix for queue dispatch order: An apparatus for queue scheduling. An embodiment of the apparatus includes a dispatch order data structure, a bit vector, and a queue controller. The dispatch order data structure corresponds to a queue. The dispatch order data structure stores a plurality of dispatch indicators associated with a plurality of pairs of... Agent: Stevens Law Group

20080320017 - Determining the structure of relations and content of tuples from xml schema components: A system for determining relationships between hierarchically structured schema components and their effects on and content of tuples, includes: analyzing the hierarchically structured schema with user-supplied mappings and finding elements or attributes mapped to a same relational table; determining relationships between the elements or attributes to be either a one-to-one... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080320014 - Discriminative feature selection system using active mining technique: A discriminative feature set (DFS) selection method is described wherein a forward wrapper framework and a self error-correction concept are used. In this approach, the first feature is selected using a statistical measure. After that, the feature that aims to correct the errors made by the current feature set is... Agent: Feng Chu

20080320012 - Dynamic data discovery of a source data schema and mapping to a target data schema: A computerized method, program product, and a service that discovers trace data inserted into a source database having an unknown schema. Once the trace data is found by a dynamic data discovery engine, the tables, the fields, and the attributes of the fields in the source schema in which the... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.c

20080320011 - Increasing file storage scale using federated repositories: A storage management system using federated repositories directs content to child repositories in a hierarchical structure. A service for managing the storage maintains a list of active and historic repositories and routing of the content for storage is performed based on a file plan that includes the structure of the... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080320015 - Network search system and components thereof: There is described a networked computer system comprising a domain name system server storing zone datafiles, each zone datafile storing records associated with a corresponding zone of the domain name system name space. According to the invention, at least one zone datafile stores search terms, and a search index generator... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080320010 - Sensitive webpage content detection: Computer-readable media, systems, and methods for sensitive webpage content detection are described. In embodiments, a multi-class classifier is developed and one or more webpages with webpage content are received. In various embodiments, the one or more webpages are analyzed with the multi-class classifier and, in various embodiments, a sensitivity level... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080320013 - Statement generation using statement patterns: Provided are techniques for generating a result set. A statement that includes at least one statement pattern is received, wherein each statement pattern is a template that indicates how a statement is to be modified for execution against a data store and wherein each statement pattern modifies program logic and... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ibm Svl

20080320009 - Systems and methods for asset mapping: Systems and methods for asset mapping include storing at least one asset instance on a computer readable medium. The asset instance is processed such that the processed extracted data is stored within a series of field in at least one data store. The asset is mapped using a predefined asset... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080320008 - Video recording device: The invention refers to a method for updating of content information related to an audio/visual storage medium wherein content information is being stored on the storage medium after generating the content information. The updated content information is stored in a user data area of the data stream stored on the... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20080320018 - Cube-based percentile calculation: By dividing data entries among multiple data collections, a data collection comprising a data entry associated with a requested percentile can be determined with reference to the number of data entries within each collection. Initially, the range of values corresponding to the identified data collection can be presented as the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080320022 - Federated management of content repositories: A method for integrating a plurality of content repositories into a virtual content repository (VCR), comprising providing credential information to each one of said plurality of content repositories, receiving authorization information from each one of said plurality of content repositories, wherein the authorization information indicates whether or not an authorization... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080320020 - Method and system for optimizing xa open and xa close operations in a distributed database system: A system and method in accordance with the present invention provides for delaying an xa_close call on a connection and reducing the number of xa_open/xa_close calls. This process improves upon the original method of carrying out the xa_close call. The connection is always in an xa_open stage and will avoid... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080320019 - Pluggable merge patterns for data access services: Provided are techniques for storing data. Invocation of a data access service is received, wherein the invocation identifies a data structure storing one or more data elements having a data format. An update handler to be plugged into a data access framework is identified, wherein the update handler processes data... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20080320023 - System and method of translating a relational database into an xml document and vice versa: A method of translating a relational database into an XML document comprises generating an Extended Entity Relationship model from relational schema associated with the relational database and applying a schema translation process to the Extended Entity Relationship model to map the relational schema into a Document Type Definition (DTD) of... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080320021 - Systems and methods for presenting information based on publisher-selected labels: Publishers define relationships between their own content items (e.g., World Wide Web pages) and content items created or maintained by other publishers. A central namespace manager provides grouping labels that publishers insert into their content items. Content items having matching grouping labels are identified as related. Different classes of grouping... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080320028 - Configurable plug-in architecture for manipulating xml-formatted information: A method and system is described for building a document using a configurable plug-in architecture. In one example, a configuration file containing information of building the document with one or more components is received. The one or more components execute to modify or manipulate the document. The document may further... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080320025 - Gathering and using awareness information: Systems, methods, and user interfaces for gathering and using awareness information with common awareness functionality accessible to multiple applications are disclosed. Such systems, methods, and user interfaces may aggregate awareness information from multiple sources and provide awareness data and other derived information to multiple destinations. In some implementations, such systems... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080320029 - Lifeotype interfaces: The methods and systems described herein may involve providing a graphical user interface for presenting information about an individual's status, and presenting in the graphical user interface information regarding at least one of at least one lifeotype and at least one life byte. The methods and systems described herein may... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080320030 - Lifeotype markup language: The methods and systems described herein may involve providing a standard syntax for specifying an item of lifeotype information, wherein the syntax includes at least one markup language tag, the tag specifying a type of information included in the lifeotype information. The methods and systems described herein may involve providing... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080320031 - Method and device for analyzing an expression to evaluate: e

20080320026 - Method and system for managing a network-based database of user feedback: A method for managing a network-based database is provided. The network-based database includes user feedback on various topics. The subject matter on which feedback is given is referred to as a topic. The user feedback in the database is organized into multiple categories. The method includes receiving a request from... Agent: Lester H. Birnbaum

20080320024 - Portal and key management service database schemas: In a pay-per-use computer environment, particularly when network access is limited, self-monitoring tools on a pay-per-use computer may require special support from a host/server. The host/server must be able to respond to requests quickly and efficiently and yet maintain full information required to service requests and updates. A key management... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP (microsoft)

20080320032 - Storage of application specific profiles correlating to document versions: A computer system that includes a processor for operating a software application in the computer system. The software application provides for creation, storage, and retrieval of a file, the file having a corresponding profile that the software application uses for at least the purpose of preparing the software application to... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080320027 - Strongly typed tags: In one or more embodiments, a tag is provided and includes a property that associates a strongly typed variable with the tag. Strongly typed variables can include any suitable types. For example, in at least some embodiments, the strongly typed variable is a people type that allows the tag to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080320036 - Automatic data collection: A system for capturing and indexing information including a data capture device, a metadata collection component and a data transmission component. In operation the data capture device, metadata collection component, and transmission component are integrated with the data capture device.... Agent: Belasco, Jacobs & Townsley LLP Howard Hughes Center

20080320035 - Data processing system for the processing of object data: A data processing system for processing object data of a plurality of standard instances (101), where object identification data (100) and user data (110) in the object data database (20) can be stored and retrieved separately from each other so that no relationship between the object identification data (100) and... Agent: Daniel A. Monaco, Esq. Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

20080320039 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program: An information processing apparatus for grouping plural contents into clusters, the apparatus includes: an acquisition portion configured to acquire metadata of each of the plurality of contents; and a clustering portion configured to group the plural contents into the clusters based on the metadata, such that each of the clusters... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080320034 - Method for client management of jmx mbean state: Provided is a method for maintaining state information on a JMX Mbean programming object and simplifying the procedure for creating and employing the Mbean. Prior to invocation of a JMX Mbean, a JMX properties object is created. When the JMX Mbean is invoked, the properties object is passed to the... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20080320038 - Method for processing an object on a platform having one or more processors and memories, and platform using same: A method for processing, in a platform having one or more processors and memories, an object including elementary information of same type. The method decomposes the object to be processed into at least two sub-objects of N elementary information each, all the sub-objects having the same quantity N of elementary... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080320033 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing association of objects using metadata: An apparatus for providing association of objects using metadata may include a processing element. The processing element may be configured to extract metadata associated with an object, form, based on a predefined rule set and in response to an event, an associative relationship between the object and at least one... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080320037 - System, method and apparatus for tagging and processing multimedia content with the physical/emotional states of authors and users: A system, method and apparatus which enables the tagging of multimedia content with the physical and emotional states of authors and users thereby making it searchable by emotion or physical state.... Agent: Ungaretti & Harris LLP Intellectual Property Group - Patents

20080320041 - Adding virtual features via real world accessories: A method, apparatus, and electronic device for enhancing virtual features in devices are disclosed. A connection interface may pair the mobile telecommunications apparatus with a first accessory. A processor may execute a software program and add a virtual feature associated with the first accessory when the first accessory is present.... Agent: Prass LLP

20080320045 - Alarm management system: A system is monitored for event reports, which are delivered and stored in a first database (12). Data flood conditions are identified by monitoring this database (12) to identify event reports having predetermined characteristics whose occurrence exceeds a predetermined flood threshold value, such characteristics being stored in a second database... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080320047 - Apparatus and method for affecting correspondent-centric electronic mail: Techniques to make e-mail correspondent-centric rather than message-centric, and reduce junk e-mail. Tabulates, maintains, and updates useful information about the user's chosen correspondents, and the history and status of each correspondence series. Filters incoming messages from an unrecognized sender, asking user whether to add sender to correspondent list, and if... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080320042 - Apparatus and method for evaluating audio communications: An apparatus for evaluating audio communications includes: (a) a data storage device configured for identifying associative memory relations among information aspects stored in the data storage device, (b) a query device coupled with the data storage device, the query device being configured for posing queries relating to at least one... Agent: Law Office Of Donald D. Mondul

20080320048 - Automated composition of services in a platform: In a platform, a composed Web service having predetermined inputs and outputs is automatically composed from a set of component Web services stored in a database. Each component Web service comprises at least one input and at least one output associated with textual representations. The method of the invention comprises... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080320044 - Messaging interface system: A system is disclosed for serving a message from a centralized database to a catalog. A database message is parsed to create a catalog entity. The catalog entity transformed to a normalized object for a target system. The normalized object is transformed into a data structure for the target system.... Agent: Accenture Chicago 28164 Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080320049 - Methods and systems for harvesting comments regarding events on a network-based commerce facility: Systems and Methods to determine whether a single input interface includes comment information that is categorized. The system present a single input interface via a communications network. The single input interface includes a plurality of input mechanisms to facilitate user input of comment information and categorization information. The plurality of... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080320040 - Methods and systems for use of a virtual persona emulating activities of a person in a social network: The present invention provides methods and system that allow a first person to create a virtual persona of another person in an open overlay service. The virtual persona is virtual in that it makes it appear that the person is a subscriber of the open overlay service even if that... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080320043 - Officerassist: OfficerAssist (OA) is a uniquely configured system of software programs to automate the collection of digitally recorded data (audio, still images and video) from the end-user, to an archival system that manages the archive such that the data is evidentiary. OfficerAssist takes advantage of the current generation of digital recorders,... Agent: James W. Masten, Jr.

20080320046 - Video data management apparatus: Feature amount information of video data in a hard disk is calculated by a decoder and a feature amount extraction section. An icon reflecting the feature amount information is generated by an icon generation section and is presented to the user. A feature amount index control section pairs the feature... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080320050 - Asynchronous updating of web page data views: Embodiments are provided to create and manage data view modules for updating data on a web page, without having to reload the entire web page to view the updated data. In one embodiment, a static data view module for viewing web data is modified utilizing an asynchronous update function which... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080320051 - File-sharing system and method of using file-sharing system to generate single logical directory structure: The file sharing system of the present invention is able to provide a client with a single logical directory and reproduces the single logical directory in a remote site when the local site has stopped in use of a remote copy that is made between the local site and remote... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20080320052 - Method and a computer program for inode allocation and de-allocation: The present disclosure relates to a method and computer program for allocating inodes in a computing file system. The method, in one embodiment, includes determining whether all inodes in a first inode table have been initialized. Responsive to determining that all inodes in the first inode table have been initialized,... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080320053 - Data management method for accessing data storage area based on characteristic of stored data: There is provided a data management method for managing data stored in a parallel database system in which a plurality of data servers manage data. The parallel database system manages: correspondence information between a characteristic of the data and each of the plurality of data servers that manages the data;... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080320054 - Database and software conversion system and method: An apparatus and method for converting databases and software source code from one or more languages or formats to one or more differing target languages or formats by a process of identifying within the original software various functions, storing in a common database format the varying functions resolved into their... Agent: Andrews & Kurth, L.L.P.

20080320055 - Bi-directional data modification with synchronization: Systems and methods for synchronizing data between endpoints, including the modification of data on an endpoint without necessarily modifying data that is communicated between endpoints are disclosed. In such systems and methods the representation of data on an endpoint may be modified so that constraints on that particular endpoint are... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080320056 - Function matching in binaries: Which target functions in a target binary have target function basic blocks that match the source function basic blocks in a source function in a source binary is determined. For the target functions having matching target function basic blocks, a target function control flow graph is determined that has the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080320057 - Managing an archived file system: A determination is made that an archive that includes at least one file is present in association with an operating system file system. An additional file system is generated for accessing the archives. The generated additional file system is included in the operating system file system. An application is allowed... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080320058 - Apparatus, system, and method for maintaining dynamic persistent data: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for maintaining dynamic persistent data. A selection module selects the most recent metadata. A verification module verifies that the metadata has been successfully updated. A validation module validates that the metadata is accurate. A communication module communicates the Persistent Storage Device data to... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080320059 - Database system and method for external backup: A database system comprising a database logic adapted to perform database processing and a backup interface for external backup, wherein the backup interface is adapted to connect the database sys-tem to a plurality of different external backup systems and wherein the backup interface is adapted to receive one or more... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20080320060 - Systems and methods for partitioning data on multiple servers: Systems and methods for partitioning information across multiple storage devices in a web server environment. The system comprises a web server database which includes information related creating a web site. The information is divided into partitions within the database. One of the partitions includes user information and another of the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080320061 - Data storage space recovery system and method: A process of determining explicitly free data space in computer data storage systems with implicitly allocated data space through the use of information provided by a hosting computer system with knowledge of what space allocated is currently being used at the time of a query, is provided. In one embodiment,... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080320062 - Method of transferring file system, file system transference program, and file system transference device: It is an object of the present invention to realize the transference of a file system without moving data. A transference source file system outputs to a device driver a physical block number included in extent information. A transference driver intercepts an I/O request to the device driver, and obtains... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080313138 - Apparatus for representing an interest priority of an object to a user based on personal histories or social context: A method and apparatus assigns a quantative variable to each object (or set of objects) in a collection available to a user. The quantative variable is referred to as the Interest Priority Value (IPV). The IPV defines a range of states of the object, between ‘accessed’ and ‘unaccessed’, and is... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20080313137 - Behavioral web graph: A map representing relationships between network nodes is provided, comprising a matrix of points in the map, each point representing a pair of different nodes or collections of nodes coupled to the network, and a value associated with each point, the value indicating a probability that a user connected at... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080313128 - Disk-based probabilistic set-similarity indexes: Input set indexing for set-similarity lookups. The architecture provides input to an indexing process that enables more efficient lookups for large data sets (e.g., disk-based) without requiring a full scan of the input. A new index structure is provided, the output of which is exact, rather than approximate. The similarity... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080313132 - High accuracy bloom filter using partitioned hashing: A method and system for generating a bloom filter by mapping into respective groups each of a plurality of initial keys according to a first hash function and mapping each group hashed key into a bloom filter using k respective hash functions.... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ Lucent Technologies, Inc

20080313129 - Method and apparatus for enhancing a geographic information system database with operational data: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for providing data about an airport from an airport mapping database. A first set of elements are stored in the airport mapping database, wherein the first set of elements are visible objects and are identified using a set of geometric... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080313140 - Method and apparatus for multi-dimensional content search and video identification: A multi-dimensional database and indexes and operations on the multi-dimensional database are described which include video search applications or other similar sequence or structure searches. Traversal indexes utilize highly discriminative information about images and video sequences or about object shapes. Global and local signatures around keypoints are used for compact... Agent: Priest & Goldstein PLLC

20080313136 - Method and apparatus for producing up-to-date query results from tables including data from a data warehouse: Methods, systems, and computer program products for answering a query to be executed on a database comprising a first table and a second table, and in which the second table includes data from the first table. In one implementation, the method includes refreshing the data in the second table with... Agent: Delizio Gilliam, PLLC (ibm Svl)

20080313139 - Method and apparatus for representing an interest priority of an object to a user based on personal histories or social context: A method and apparatus assigns a quantative variable to each object (or set of objects) in a collection available to a user. The quantative variable is referred to as the Interest Priority Value (IPV). The IPV defines a range of states of the object, between ‘accessed’ and ‘unaccessed’, and is... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20080313130 - Method and system for retrieving, selecting, and presenting compelling stories form online sources: The invention provides a method and system for automatically retrieving, selecting, and presenting compelling stories from online sources. The system mines the online sources and collects texts that are likely to contain compelling stories. The system then extracts candidate stories from them and transforms these candidate stories to make them... Agent: Fernandez & Associates LLP

20080313135 - Method of identifying robust clustering: A method of finding robust clusters comprises the use of principal component analysis and consensus ensemble clustering. In another aspect, the method may comprise normalizing a data set; identifying attributes of the data set that contribute to most of variation in the normalized data set; selecting data having the attributes... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080313131 - Parameter-sensitive plans for structural scenarios: Systems and methods that generate specialized plans for compiling SQL queries. A plan generator component scans the query representation for parameter sensitive predicates and evaluates each predicate individually based on the parameter values. Accordingly, queries can be identified not only based on their structures, but also based on their parameter... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080313134 - Query optimization on vpd protected columns: A method and apparatus for preserving optimization hints in a transformed query is provided. In one embodiment, the methodology is implemented by query optimization logic. Upon receiving a first query to access values in a column of a table protected by an access control policy, the query optimization logic creates... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080313133 - Referring to partitions with for (values) clause: A method and apparatus for referencing a partition of a data storage space in a request to perform an operation with relation to the partition are disclosed. The techniques disclosed do not rely on knowing the partition's name, thus simplifying the process of requesting a database to perform an operation... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080313149 - Analyzing software usage with instrumentation data: Described is a technology by which software instrumentation data collected from user program sessions are analyzed to output an analysis report or the like via example methods and an architecture configured for efficient operation. A client component queries a service for analysis related information. To process the query, the service... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080313153 - Apparatus and method for abstracting data processing logic in a report: A computer-readable storage medium includes executable instructions to generate a context definition. A query is generated against a data source based on data requirements specified in the context definition. The query is executed against the data source to generate a data source result. The data source result is stored in... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080313143 - Apparatus and method for evaluating activities of a hostile force: An apparatus for evaluating hostile force activities includes: (a) a data storage device configured for identifying associative memory relations among information aspects stored in the data storage device; (b) a query device coupled with the data storage device; the query device being configured for posing queries relating to at least... Agent: Law Office Of Donald D. Mondul

20080313142 - Categorization of queries: Determination of a target category associated with a business listings query is provided. A query categorization system initially generates a mapping of internal categories of the query categorization system to target categories of a search engine service. The query categorization system receives a business listings query and identifies business listings... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080313150 - Centralized network data search, sharing and management system: The Personal Internet Multi-Media Channel Broadcast and Advertising System is designed to provide cell phone or other remote internet users with the ability to access stream media files from a personal computer to a cell phone, or other internet connected device, and is facilitated and enabled by a central server... Agent: Wiggin And Dana LLP Attention: Patent Docketing

20080313146 - Content search service, finding content, and prefetching for thin client: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that effectuates and facilitates search of multimedia content. The disclosed system can include components that extract closed captioned information from video content, index the extracted information against frames of corresponding video content, and utilize associated metadata, tags, and indexes to search... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080313158 - Database file management system, integration module and browsing interface of database file management system, database file management method: The invention provides a database file management system for managing files with various types by linking files stored in a computer into a database, the files being provided with characteristic fields such as date, title, description, classification, and property. A user defines and integrates various types of electronic files such... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20080313141 - Determining intellectual property ownership based on non-ownership information: A computer system may be configured with software that performs an automated process for identifying intellectual property likely to be owned by a specified entity. The process may include receiving information indicative of the identity of the specified entity. The process may include searching intellectual property ownership data for explicitly-owned... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080313148 - Discovery service for electronic data environment: A method includes storing, at a discovery service, address information for each of a plurality of information services providers. For each of the plurality of information services, product data of a respective information provider and access right data (defining access rights to the product data) are also stored. At the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20080313151 - Information providing system and information providing method: According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method comprises editing information related to a part according to a user operation, extracting characteristic information representing a characteristic of the part from information of an object to be edited when an operation to select the part is performed, searching a database... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080313156 - Job log management system and job log management method: A system including a search unit configured, when a user designates a search condition for the job log whose content to be changed and issues a job log change request, to search the database for a job log that satisfies the search condition, a re-search unit configured, if the search... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20080313154 - Method and apparatus for managing contact information: A method for managing contact information is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device having a controller to perform a web-based search for contact information based on a request, present search results obtained from the web-based search, monitor for a... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080313157 - Method and system for providing search results: A method and system for providing search results only inclusive of valid webpage(s) to a user is disclosed, the method comprising: receiving a first search query from a first user; providing to the first user first search results obtained in response to the first search query; determining whether a webpage... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080313144 - Method for enhancing search results: Disclosed in this specification is a software and browser application for monitoring submissions to a third-party search engine. When the third-party search engine returns a list of results, the list may be compared to a list of rated websites located in a rating database. For each website in the list... Agent: Hiscock & Barclay, LLP

20080313159 - Method, system and computer readable medium for addressing handling from a computer program: A method, system and computer readable medium for providing for providing a function item, such as a key, button, icon, or menu, tied to a user operation in a computer, whereby a single click on the function item in a window or program on a computer screen, or one single... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20080313145 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for charitable computing: A method, system, and computer program product for charitable computing on a host system are provided. The method includes receiving a search request at the host system and performing a local search on a data storage device, where the data storage device is locally accessible to the host system. The... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080313155 - Methods, systems, and products for managing electronic files: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for managing electronic files in a document repository. An electronic file is associated to the document repository, and data is extracted from the electronic file. A document repository index is created. An overwrite protection function is implemented that appends a date and time to... Agent: Scott P. Zimmerman, PLLC

20080313147 - Multi-level search: A computer-implementable method and system for performing a multi-level search. The method includes performing a primary search that involves executing a query submitted by a user, and returning primary search results (a list of documents, for example). The method further includes automatically performing a secondary search. The secondary search involves... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080313152 - Real-time digital video identification system and method using scene information: Provided is a real-time digital video identification system for searching and identifying a digital video in real-time by effectively constructing a database using a scene length of a digital video, and a method thereof. The system includes: a scene information extractor for receiving a digital video, extracting a difference between... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080313160 - Resource optimizations in computing utilities: Techniques are provided for use in accordance with relates to computing utilities. For example, in one aspect of the invention, a method for use in a computing utility, wherein the computing utility comprises a plurality of application service provider systems and a utility controller, and each application service provider system... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080313161 - Discosql: distributed processing of structured queries: Structured queries, such as those written using the Structured Query Language (SQL) can be an efficient mechanism for expressing the information sought to be obtained from a collection of data. Mechanisms can enable the use of structured queries to express data processing that can be performed in parallel in order... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080313162 - Methods and systems for context based query formulation and information retrieval: A method for context-based query formulation and information retrieval and aggregation is described. The method includes modeling one or more workflow activities utilized to perform work tasks, preparing at least one meta-querying template, to generate queries that utilize the modeled workflow activities, retrieving information relevant to the work task as... Agent: John S. Beulick (24691) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20080313163 - Service offering for the delivery of information with continuing improvement: A continually improving method for providing information to receivers which can include the step of receiving a request from a remotely located information requestor that specifies at least one information receiver. A transaction can be initiated to handle the request. The transaction can utilize previously recorded information to determine at... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080313177 - Adding dominant media elements to search results: A method and system for determining dominance of the media elements of display pages is provided. The dominance system provides a scoring mechanism for scoring the dominance of media elements of display pages based on features of each media element of the display page. To generate the scores for the... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080313171 - Cluster-based ranking with a behavioral web graph: A computer implemented method for returning relevant nodes in a network search has steps for (a) creating a behavioral network graph having points relating pairs of network nodes with values at the points indicating probability that a user connected at one node of the pair will transition next to the... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20080313172 - Determining actions involving captured information and electronic content associated with rendered documents: Information is captured from a rendered document with a handheld document data capture device. Electronic information associated with the rendered document is applied to determine the system's actions and/or behaviors in response to the data capture. In some embodiments, the electronic information is markup data or an action map associated... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080313178 - Determining searchable criteria of network resources based on commonality of content: A method, article of manufacture, apparatus for determining keywords to be used by a search engine. In one embodiment, a list of hyperlinks contained in an electronic document is identified by a searching program. The searching program then accesses the resource content (e.g., HTML) from each resource pointed to by... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080313179 - Information storage and retrieval: An information retrieval apparatus is described for searching a set of information items and displaying the results of the search, the information items each having a set of characterizing information features. The apparatus comprises a search processor to search information items in accordance with user-defined characterizing information features and identify... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080313170 - Method and apparatus for keyword mass generation: A method and apparatus in accordance with the invention which, for any given keyword, generates a numeric value that defines keyword relevance based on the number and importance of a keyword's forward link and back link keyword neighbors.... Agent: Yakov Kamen

20080313173 - Method and apparatus for rating, displaying and accessing common computer and internet search results using colors and/or icons: A new and safe way to display, limit, and rate search results. New Methods and Apparatus for Rating, Displaying and Accessing common computer and Internet Search results using Colors. It is known that search results can be filled with both inappropriate and offensive materials. This invention provides for new means... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20080313175 - Method and system for interaction-based expertise reporting: A task-based method and system for expertise reporting provides a display of a knowledge worker's expertise in structured documents based on their access and use of those documents.... Agent: Oyen, Wiggs, Green & Mutala LLP 480 - The Station

20080313174 - Method and system for unified searching across and within multiple documents: A user-interface system and method for searching among multiple documents and searching for subsections within individual documents using a single search interface on an input-constrained user device having a screen and a keypad.... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080313176 - Path-based ranking of unvisited web pages: Path-based ranking of unvisited Web pages for WWW crawling is provided, via identifying all the paths beginning with a “seed” URL and leading to visited relevant web pages as “good-path set”, and for each unvisited web page, identifying the paths beginning from the “seed” URL leading to it as “partial-path... Agent: Ference & Associates LLC

20080313168 - Ranking documents based on a series of document graphs: Ranking documents based on a series of web graphs collected over time is provided. A ranking system provides multiple transition probability distributions representing different snapshots or times. Each transition probability distribution represents a probability of transitioning from one document to another document within a collection of documents using a link... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080313166 - Research progression summary: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for generating a research progression summary are provided. A research progression summary provides a snapshot of documents (e.g., articles) that have had a significant impact on a particular field of research, or at least a portion thereof, over time. Research progression sorts through all accessible... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080313165 - Scalable model-based product matching: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to matching product information to products. In aspects, a product matching component receives product information. The product matching component normalizes the product information and obtains keywords from the product information. By querying a database of recognized products, the keywords are used to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080313169 - System and method for automated selection and distribution of media content: A media management system for and method of increasing value of media content are provided wherein content attributes associated with media content are stored, a target entry list is generated, and a resultant scenario calculated with an associated financial figure.... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20080313167 - System and method for intelligently indexing internet resources: The present invention is a system and method for building an intelligent index of Internet web pages. A populator retrieves a web page, divides words within the web page into categories, and determines a relevancy rating for the words in each category, the relevancy rating based on the number of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080313164 - System and method for selecting search listing in an internet search engine and ordering the search listings: Provided is a keyword advertising system extracting search listings in response to a search request, the system comprising: an interface receiving bid price information corresponding to a keyword from an advertiser; a search information database storing search listings associated with the advertisers in association with each of the received bid... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20080313183 - Apparatus and method for mapping feature catalogs: A computer-implemented method, and corresponding apparatus, is used for mapping feature catalogs. The feature catalogs include features, feature attributes, and feature attribute enumerations. The method includes the steps of accessing a first feature catalog, accessing a second feature catalog, identifying features, feature attributes, and feature enumerations in the first feature... Agent: Andrews Kurth LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080313181 - Defining a web crawl space: Provided are techniques for defining a web crawl space to be crawled. A seed list including one or more seed names is received from a user, wherein each seed name represents a website. In response to receiving the seed list, a web crawl space for the received seed list is... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20080313180 - Identification of topics for online discussions based on language patterns: A topic identification system identifies topics of online discussions by iteratively identifying topic words or keywords of the online discussions and identifying language patterns associated with those keywords. The topic identification system starts out with an initial set of keywords and identifies language patterns that each include a keyword. The... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080313182 - Methods, devices, and computer program products for predictive text entry in mobile terminals using multiple databases: A method of providing a predictive text function in a mobile terminal includes detecting entry of one or more alphanumeric characters via a user interface in a currently-executing first mobile terminal application. At least one character string including the one or more characters is identified among words in a default... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20080313184 - Multidimensional analysis tool for high dimensional data: Described is a technology by which high dimensional data may be efficiently analyzed, including by filtering, grouping, aggregating and/or sorting operations to provide an analysis result. For efficiency in the analysis, an inverted index may be built (e.g., as part of filtering), and/or a hash structure (e.g., as part of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080313185 - Managing access to objects of a computing environment: Access to objects of a computing environment is managed. Access to an object of the computing environment is prohibited via one cached entity corresponding to the object, while access to the object is allowed via another cached entity. The cached entities are concurrently maintained for a period of time, but... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesitti P.C.

20080313186 - Method and computer-readable media for creating verified business transaction documents: A method, and computer-readable media for performing the method, for creating verified business transaction documents. Electronic transaction documents are received from authenticated users, version identifiers are assigned to these documents, and the documents and version identifiers are stored in a database. Authenticated users may select a single version for “finalization”... Agent: Robert E. Marsh

20080313187 - Storage system capable of authenticating hosts on a network: A network-based storage system comprises one or more block-level storage servers that connect to, and provide storage for, one or more host computers over logical network connections, such as TCP/IP connections. In one embodiment, the block-level storage servers implement a protocol through which a storage server authenticates a host before... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080313194 - Descriptive-profile mercantile method: A descriptive-profile mercantile method, for use at a juncture in a data-communications topology having associated therewith a maintained databank of partial profiles, is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: from a user, receiving a transaction having therein a first partial profile; using the first partial profile, searching a databank... Agent: Louis J. Hoffman, P.C.

20080313188 - Distributed kernel density estimation: The described systems and methods can be used to estimate the global distributed kernel density without prior information of data using a gossip based method. In the gossip based method, a node in a distributed network periodically selects and exchanges kernels with a random node in the network. After exchanging,... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080313195 - Method and system for managing digital content including streaming media: The present invention describes a system and method of managing digital content received from content providers and for facilitating access to the digital content to many subscribers. The method includes receiving from the content providers incoming feed files where each feed file contains information describing the content. The method determines... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080313190 - Method and system for searchable web services: A method and system for a searchable Web service is disclosed, which involve gathering service information, using the gathered information for constructing a service definition file in a pre-defined format and enabling one or more search engines to discover information in the service definition file.... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20080313191 - Method for the support of file versioning in file repair: A system and method are provided for changing the file repair functionality associated with MBMS systems in order to allow for the unambiguous identification of a file version in the file repair request. A file repair request is extended by information that can globally, and independently of the file download... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080313192 - Method of managing a distributed storage system: A method of managing a distributed storage system (1) comprising a plurality of storage devices (D1, D2 . . . , Dn) on a network (N), wherein an autonomous function can be assigned to any storage device (D1, D2 . . . , Dn) of the distributed storage system (N),... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080313193 - Method of providing information to the public: An information access kiosk includes a computer assembly, including a wireless internet connection and an energy storage assembly, capable of powering the computer. Also, a protective assembly is adapted to permit the kiosk to withstand the attack of earthly elements when placed outside and a computer program, resident on the... Agent: Olympic Patent Works PLLC

20080313189 - Parallel processing of assigned table partitions: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for parallel processing of assigned table partitions. In general, a group of data may be received and at least a portion of the data may be caused to be assigned to an application server to process the data based at least in part... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C. Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64280

20080313197 - Data structure for supporting a single access operation: A data structure is formatted that supports a single access operation while enabling data structure verification, data integrity verification, and data extensibility. The data format utilizes error identifier fields to enable the verification of data integrity and bracket pairs to verify data structure integrity and to support data structure extensibility.... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080313200 - Method and apparatus for data exploration: A method and apparatus for data exploration in a data processing system. An apparatus according to an embodiment includes: an analyzing component for analyzing a data model to identify a first and a second data entity and a relationship between the first and the second data entity; a generator component... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080313199 - Method and apparatus to display information on device: A method and apparatus to display information on a device includes selecting one or more devices from among a plurality of devices displayed on a user interface, selecting one or more pieces of information from among a plurality of pieces of information on the one or more selected devices, and... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080313196 - Method, information processing apparatus, and program for generating array: A relationship among data in a tree data structure is effectively traced by assigning nodes respective unique node identifiers, a parent-child relationship is represented by a C->P array containing node identifiers for parent nodes associated with node identifiers for non-root nodes that are nodes other than a root node, a... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20080313198 - System and method of checking integrity of content and metadata: A system and method of checking the integrity of content and metadata are provided. The integrity-checking method includes storing changed content in a first storage space, and storing the metadata corresponding to the changed content in a second storage space.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080313203 - Information, transformation and reverse transformation processing: A transformation processing system input data including a data record area for storing target date and a transformation processing identification information record area for storing transformation processing identification information about transformation processing executed upon the target data. The transformation processing system includes: a reverse transformation information recording unit which records... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080313204 - Method and apparatus for database mapping: A computerized stored library of a plurality of database mappings is provided. Each database mapping represents the manner in which fields of a source database maps to fields of a target database. When a source database needs to be mapped to a target database, one or more of the database... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080313202 - Method and apparatus for semantic keyword clusters generation: A method and apparatus in accordance with the invention which, for any given keyword, generate a semantic keyword cluster of meanings and associated proximity scores.... Agent: Yakov Kamen

20080313201 - System and method for compact representation of multiple markup data pages of electronic document data: The subject application is directed to a system and method for compact representation of multiple markup data pages of electronic document data. Parsed electronic page content data is first received representing a plurality of markup pages. Element code data, attribute code data, attribute data type code data and relationship map... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080313208 - Apparatus, system, and method for automated context-sensitive message organization: A method and system are disclosed for automated context-sensitive message organization. The method in the disclosed embodiments substantially includes determining a logical correlation between a message identifier and a message file. The method may also include scanning a source code file to identify a reference to the message identifier and... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080313205 - Card design system: The present invention relates to a service provider connected to a database for storing a plurality of images having associated unique identifiers. The service provider comprising a first interface for enabling a user to select at least one of the plurality of images to be displayed on a transaction card.... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080313210 - Content publishing customized to capabilities of device: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to customizing content to the capabilities of a device. In aspects, an editor uses an editorial tool to specify criteria applicable to content. The criteria include rules to apply in generating content based on quantized capabilities of devices. A publishing component that... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080313211 - Data relationship visualizer: Data having express or implied relationships may be displayed by selecting a starting entity in a data structure, building a relationship tree, and building and optimizing a relationship matrix based on the relationship tree. The optimized relationship matrix may be used to layout and render a graphical image that positions... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080313213 - Efficient data infrastructure for high dimensional data analysis: Described is a technology by which high dimensional source data corresponding to rows of records with identifiers, and columns comprising dimensions of data values, are processed into a file model for efficient access. An inverted index corresponding to any dimension is built by mapping data from raw dimension values to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080313216 - File management apparatus and file transfer method and imaging apparatus: A file management apparatus for transferring a data file stored in a first recording medium (ex. embedded flash memory) to a second recording medium (ex. memory card), includes a controller that creates a new directory in the second recording medium, and stores to the new directory the data file stored... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080313217 - Method and apparatus for exchanging sub-hierarchical structures within a hierarchical file system: A method for replacing a first sub-hierarchy of a New Technology File System hierarchical filesystem (NTFS HFS) with a second sub-hierarchy is disclosed. The first sub-hierarchy includes a first root directory having at least one special system file, and a first plurality of files. The second sub-hierarchy includes a second... Agent: Carter, Deluca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP

20080313212 - Method and apparatus for parallel validation of documents: A method for validating a document by fragmenting the document, validating elements fully contained in each single fragment and validating elements spanning two or more fragments.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080313206 - Method and system for providing sharable bookmarking of web pages consisting of dynamic content: A system that automatically obtains Web page-specific scripts to save and restore the state of a Web page. When a user bookmarks or copies a Web page URL to the clipboard, a function is called to create a page state file that is stored together with the current URL to... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20080313218 - Method for checking index consistency in database: The present invention provides a system, a method, and a program for checking index consistency online in a database that includes a main database storing a plurality of data segments and an index database storing a plurality of index segments. A system according to an aspect of the present invention... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20080313214 - Method of ordering and presenting images with smooth metadata transitions: A method (100) of generating an ordered sequence of items from a collection of items, at least one of the items of the collection having at least two annotations, is disclosed. The method (100) selects one or more of the annotations and forms a first plurality of groups of items... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080313209 - Partition/table allocation on demand: A method and apparatus for the on-demand allocation of segments and creation of metadata for previously-created data storage spaces and partitions are provided. A space is created in a database. As part of this creation process, no segment is allocated for the space. Rather, metadata describing the space sufficiently to... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080313219 - Schema management: Disclosed is a system and program for managing schemas. A schema and one or more associated schema documents are registered. A schema information document is automatically generated based on the schema and the one or more associated schema documents. A request to be performed on at least one of the... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20080313207 - System and method for collection, retrieval, and distribution of data: A system for collection, retrieval and distribution of data may include a data collector to collect data from at least one data source and to tag each group of collected data with a metadata tag. The metadata tag may include information about the collected data. The system may also include... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Boeing

20080313220 - System and method for interfacing with a system monitor: An interface is provided between a running computer application and a system monitor. The system monitor handles notification messages generated by the computer application. The interface includes an import module to scan a source file, extract notification messages from the source file and store the notification messages in a scan... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20080313215 - System and method for the generation and storage of contextually anchored links and for navigation within information systems based on such links: A system and method for information management through the use of relational links are provided.... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080313221 - Document processor and computer readable medium: A document processor includes: a processing unit that performs a process instructed by a user to an electronic document; a first storing unit that stores at least one of keywords of an attribute element respectively for a plurality of attribute elements; a second storing unit that coordinates at least one... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080313222 - Apparatus and method for visually generating a playlist: An apparatus and method for dynamically generating a playlist to a user are provided. An on-screen user interface display is used for generating a display of a sequence of media desired by a user, in which an artist map having a large collection of music is displayed so that a... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080313228 - Controller log and log aggregation: Systems and methods of recording user actions on an industrial controller. When a user logs into an industrial controller (e.g., a stand-alone controller) changes made to the controller can be recorded by a logging component. The recorded information can be encrypted to ensure reliability of the information. The logging component... Agent: Amin Turocy & Calvin, LLP Attention: Heather Holmes

20080313231 - Cross-enterprise it information sharing platform: Scan information is obtained from a scan of a managed endpoint (e.g., a user workstation) in an enterprise environment. The scan information includes information about an endpoint object (e.g., a software program), on the managed endpoint. External information about the endpoint object is received from an information source outside of... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080313232 - Data query and location through a central ontology model: A data query system including a first storage medium including a data schema having a data schema query language associated therewith, a second storage medium including an ontology model including classes and properties, the ontology model having an ontology query language associated therewith, wherein constructs of the database schema are... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080313234 - Efficient xml schema validation of xml fragments using annotated automaton encoding: An XML schema is compiled into an annotated automaton encoding, which includes a parsing table for structural information and annotation for type information. The representation is extended to include a mapping from schema types to states in a parsing table. To validate a fragment against a schema type, it is... Agent: Ip Authority, LLC Ramraj Soundararajan

20080313233 - Implementing audio substitution options in media works: A classification method and system for possible content alteration of a media work may include criteria regarding content that is feasible for alteration. Such criteria may be maintained in records that are accessible to an interested party. Some embodiments may include a record of primary authorization rights applicable to a... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20080313226 - Licensed rights clearance and tracking for digital assets: Rights clearances management for assets, such as media assets. A rights brokerage service enables potential licensees to clears rights to use assets within designated projects, such as advertising campaign projects. The potential licensee uses an interface to select or identify an asset without necessarily accessing the asset itself. The rights... Agent: Corbis Corporation C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080313227 - Method and system for media-based event generation: Systems and methods are described allowing dynamic selection of media items (e.g., advertisements) for presentation within a media stream based on dynamically-generated information that describes the content of the media stream or the stream's consumer. Systems may include meta data servers and media servers that work together to dynamically select... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080313225 - Methods and systems for developing a data repository for heterogeneous mls systems: Systems and methods for developing a data repository containing property listing information automatically acquired from a plurality of multiple listing services (MLSs). The property listing information from various MLSs can be mapped to a common representation and stored in the data repository. The invention utilizes and transforms information from different... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20080313229 - Portals and doors for the semantic web and grid: A Domain Ontology Oriented Resource System (DOORS) and a Problem Oriented Registry of Tags And Labels (PORTAL) are infrastructure systems for resource metadata within a paradigm serving as a bridge between the original web and the semantic web. IRIS registers domain names while DNS publishes domain addresses with mapping of... Agent: Bruce E. Hayden, P.C.

20080313235 - Program, apparatus, and method for managing services: A technique is provided for data coordination across a multiplicity of phases. A data receiver receives an interface dataset from the (i−1)th upstream phase. With reference to relevant representative datasets in the interface dataset, a phase-specific service manager performs its assigned services to produce a phase dataset. By consulting a... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080313224 - System and method for integration of data records having differing data types to a geographical information system: According to one embodiment of the disclosure, a computing system generally includes a geographical information system that is coupled to a data record interface. The data record interface is operable to receive a data record having a data type that is different from a second data type used by the... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20080313230 - System and method for managing evolving user preferences: A system and method for managing evolving user preferences. Various aspects of the present invention may, for example and without limitation, comprise maintaining a user preference profile in which is stored a variety of information, including information indicating the manner in which a user desires an electronic device to operate.... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080313223 - Systems and methods for data analysis: A method for data analysis according to various aspects of the present invention generally includes selecting a conclusion from a plurality of conclusions for one or more test data sets by generating discriminators from one or more threshold indicators associated with the conclusion, selecting a portion of the discriminators, ranking... Agent: Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP

20080313237 - Method for high speed framing and a device having framing capabilities: A device having framing capabilities, the device includes at least one memory unit adapted to store data and metadata required for framing the stored data; the device is characterized by including a framer that is connected to a framed data unit and to a data fetch unit; wherein the device... Agent: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. Law Department

20080313236 - Process for cataloging data objects backed up from a content addressed storage system: A process for organizing data objects backed up from a content-addressed storage systems is disclosed. Content-addressed storage systems back up data objects in a flat directory, labeling them with non-intuitive user-unfriendly content addresses. Such directories can be large and difficult to browse, making selective recovery of desired data objects inefficient... Agent: Emc Outside Counsel Dergosits & Noah LLP

20080313238 - Read-copy update system and method: A method, system and computer program product for managing requests for deferred updates to shared data elements while minimizing grace period detection overhead associated with determining whether pre-existing references to the data elements have been removed. Plural update requests that are eligible for grace period detection are buffered without performing... Agent: Walter W. Duft

20080313240 - Method for creating data transfer packets with embedded management information: In a method of communicating management information from a completing entity to a requesting entity in a digital communication system, the availability of management information to be sent from the completing entity to the requesting entity is detected when generating a data packet that does not have a primary purpose... Agent: Robert R. Williams IBM Corporation, Dept. 917

20080313239 - Survey database method: A method for appending each record of a first database with a record from a second database. The records of the first database relate to information pertaining to a specific geographical location, such as an individual residing at a defined residence, or an average or other metric pertaining to all... Agent: Bowles Rice Mcdavid Graff & Love LLP

20080313241 - Distributed data storage using erasure resilient coding: An erasure resilient coding (ERC) distributed data storage system and method for storing data in a reliable and survivable fashion while minimizing hardware and associated costs. The system and method includes forming multiple protection groups both within and across storage nodes of the storage system. Data is segmented into original... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080313242 - Shared data center disaster recovery systems and methods: Systems and methods for providing disaster recovery services to enterprise customers of virtual computing services are described. Disaster recovery services may be provided in data centers that also provide primary computing services to enterprise customers. Disaster recovery services may be distributed across the data centers, such that no dedicated disaster... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080313243 - method and system for harmonization of variants of a sequential file: A set of versions of a file, with one chosen as baseline version, is displayed as a single flow of material where all agree with the baseline and in separate difference columns where they do not. A current version may be edited either directly or by adoption of material from... Agent: Albihns Stockholm Ab

20080313244 - Method and system for data processing with database update for the same: In a system cooperating a high performance computer and a low performance computer, a load of database processing upon the low performance computer is reduced. In a high performance center running DBMS for managing each version by using logical structure data of a database as physical structure pages and one... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080313245 - Non-disruptive backup copy in a database online reorganization environment: Various embodiments of a computer system and computer program product backup a dataset. An input image copy of the dataset is read, wherein the input image copy is prior to a start of dataset reorganization. A cursor value associated with reorganization of said dataset is determined. A backup copy is... Agent: International Business Machines Corp. (jms)

20080313246 - Interval partitioning: A method and apparatus for managing data in a partitioned data storage space is provided. Data referencing a new data item to be stored in the data storage space is received. It is determined that the data item does not pertain to any previously created partition. In response to the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20080306900 - Document management method and apparatus: An electronic file accessible from terminals through a network is stored in folders having a hierarchical structure as a document and managed. When a document or folder in a folder is moved or deleted, the history of moving or deleting the document or folder is held. When one of the... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20080306901 - File processing device and method: A file processing device and a method are provided. The method includes: providing a storage unit for storing a connection date when an exterior storage device is connected to a file processing device; retrieving a last connection date of the exterior storage device; selecting the exterior storage device for files... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080306899 - Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media for analyzing conversational-type data: Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media for analyzing conversational-type data by association of two or more types of extracted information in view of time are disclosed according to some aspects. In one embodiment, analysis of conversational-type data comprises identification of topical segments within the conversational-type data and linking of the topical... Agent: Battelle Memorial Institute Attn:IPServices, K1-53

20080306902 - System and method for tracking print job status: A system and method to track and display the status of an electronic document submitted through a web-portal to a multifunctional peripheral device. The multifunctional peripheral device receives an electronic document file upon which it is to perform a service and logs the receipt in a central status database. During... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080306903 - Cardinality estimation in database systems using sample views: A system and method that facilitates and effectuates estimating the result of performing a data analysis operation on a set of data. Employing an approximation of the data analysis operation on a statistically valid random sample view of the data allows for a statistically accurate estimate of the result to... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080306905 - Electronic directory system: A reverse based Electronic directory system is disclosed in which a subscriber can record a number of individual contact details about themselves, such as their telephone numbers (all types, including business, office direct line, business mobile, VoIP, home, personal mobile, facsimile) and e-mail addresses. The system allows other users to... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20080306907 - Redundant version information in history table that enables efficient snapshot querying: A system for efficient snapshot querying include: providing a first version value for each data in a history table, where the first version value indicates a beginning of a period in which the data is valid; providing at least a second version value for each data in the history table,... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080306906 - System for aggregation subquery join elimination: A system for use with an information retrieval system, in which system is used for transforming a database statement containing a first subquery and a second subquery joined together, the first subquery including a group by operation over a child subquery, the information retrieval system comprising means for removing the... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080306904 - System, method, and program product for integrating databases: A system for integrating databases comprises a first virtual table, a second virtual table, a common table, a list, a generating section, and a selecting section. The first virtual table corresponds to a first data. The second virtual table corresponds to a second data. The common table is associated with... Agent: Ibm Austin Iplaw (dg)

20080306916 - Auto-activation of fonts: A method and an apparatus that search for font data associated with an electronic document in a system in response to a font request are described. A font search is automatically activated when a requested font is determined not yet registered in a system. As a result of the font... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080306920 - Byte-code representations of actual data to reduce network traffic in database transactions: Methods, articles of manufacture, and systems for reducing network traffic for database transactions between a requesting client and a database server are provided. For some embodiments, the client may access statistical information regarding the data, such as that commonly contained in indexes (e.g., encoded vector indexes), conventionally generated for use... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080306921 - Digital media management apparatus and methods: Methods and apparatus for managing, finding and displaying objects such as digital images. Objects are tagged (“associated”) with descriptive textual and numeric data (“metadata”), and stored in a relational database from which they can be selected, sorted, and found. Tags can be defined by name, tag type, and associated attributes.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080306919 - Document search method: A document search apparatus capable of an index-type search and a scan-type search performs a search in a combination of the two search types while compensating for the disadvantages of the two search types with each other. A search query for index-type search and a search query for scan-type search... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080306913 - Dynamic aggregation and display of contextually relevant content: A web-based system scans content for specific terms, and transforms occurrences of the terms into hypertext links. Each hypertext link provides access to a dynamically generated web page which contains aggregated content related to the respective term. The aggregated content may be gathered through a distributed keyword search of various... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080306917 - File server for performing cache prefetching in cooperation with search ap: Provided is a control computer coupled to a storage apparatus for storing a plurality of information resources and a search computer for receiving a search request containing a search condition and transmitting information resource list information containing at least one piece of information regarding an information resource corresponding to the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080306908 - Finding related entities for search queries: Architecture for finding related entities for web search queries. An extraction component takes a document as input and outputs all the mentions (or occurrences) of named entities such as names of people, organizations, locations, and products in the document, as well as entity metadata. An indexing component takes a document... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080306909 - Intelligent download of media files to portable device: Systems and methods that intelligently download media files from a repository to a portable device of a user (e.g., cell phone), via an intelligent download engine and based on likelihood that such downloaded files are of interest to the user. Accordingly, from a user's perspective a seamless access to music... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080306910 - Method and process for end users to query hierarchical data: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for specifying precise queries of hierarchical data. In one embodiment, a mapping template is created to represent the hierarchical data in terms that are easy to for users to understand. The mapping template is used to generate a query tool having a tree structure... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ibm Svl

20080306914 - Method and system for performing a search: A method and computer system for searching for documents satisfying a search query. A client application in an electronic device displays a user interface with a text input field and a plurality of selectable categories, receives user input including a text string representing search terms and a selection of one... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080306911 - Ordered index: Systems and methods for processing an index are described. A postings list of items containing a particular term are ordered in a desired retrieval order, e.g., most recent first. The ordered items are inserted into an inverted index in the desired retrieval order, resulting in an ordered inverted index from... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080306912 - Query result iteration: Systems and methods for processing an index are described. A pulse in an inverted index refers to a group of items that do not occur in any other pulse in the index. When processing a query against an inverted index in which pulses are present, the query is processed against... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080306923 - Searching a multi-lingual database: A system and method of searching a database in which documents of different languages are included. The system includes a synonym or keyword dictionary which is bi-directional and allows for translation of keywords between a first language and other languages. The translated words keywords for the document are stored in... Agent: Norman L. Gundal C/o IBM Corporation

20080306915 - System and method for data management: A system and method for data management is disclosed. The data management system comprises a database and a display interface. The database stores data and metadata, wherein the metadata corresponds to the data. The display interface comprises a graphical interface and a searching interface. The graphical interface is used to... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20080306922 - System and method for enabling bulk retrieval of certificates: A system and method for searching and retrieving certificates, which may be used in the processing of encoded messages. In one embodiment, a certificate synchronization application is programmed to perform certificate searches by querying one or more certificate servers for all of the certificates on those certificate servers. If all... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080306918 - System and method for wikifying content for knowledge navigation and discovery: Systems, methods and computer program products for navigating concepts found in data produced by intellectuals in a knowledge discovery process are disclosed. The present invention utilizes data sources and facilities for enabling community-based contributions for identifying associations between concepts disclosed by intellectuals. The present invention's approach results in having concepts... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080306929 - De-serializing data objects on demand: The invention is directed to techniques for de-serializing data from a software system, such as an enterprise software system, upon request. For example, techniques are described for converting a data description language, such as the extensible markup language (XML), representation of data from an enterprise software system to an object... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A.

20080306927 - Index partitioning and scope checking: Systems and methods for processing an index are described. Searches are scope checked more efficiently using a forward lookup process based on the size of the requested search scope. In addition, an index is partitioned into separate stores based on a search scope that is learned based on where the... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080306925 - Method and apparatus for automatic multimedia narrative enrichment: A method and apparatus is disclosed that receives an input narrative in a particular media format, and produces therefrom a multimedia enriched version of the input narrative. In one embodiment, a method is provided for enriching an input narrative with multimedia content, wherein the method includes the step of selectively... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080306928 - Method and apparatus for the searching of information resources: The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for the searching of information resources. A method includes steps of: according to a current query for a first type of information resource, obtaining a result of query on said first type of information resource, one or more facets of said first... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20080306924 - Mobile telephone object lookup and identification: Provided is a system and method for providing an information retrieval service on a mobile computing device such as a wireless computer or cellular telephone. The user of a mobile computing device provides vocal, visual or textual data to the service provider. The service scans a transmitted data to convert... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20080306926 - System and method for semantic normalization of healthcare data to support derivation conformed dimensions to support static and aggregate valuation across heterogeneous data sources: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for determining aggregate values of health data items from heterogeneously coded databases containing heterogeneously coded medical data. The data, in heterogeneous databases, is queried using a series of semantic layers including i) cascaded asymmetric association tables and ii) semantic search.... Agent: Law Office Of Jim Boice

20080306930 - Automatic content organization based on content item association: An association engine for organizing content items in a logical database is provided. First description data including dimension data for a first identified content item in the database is extracted (S1). This process may be repeated for additional available identified content items (S3). Candidate description data is extracted (S5). Then,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080306933 - Display of search-engine results and list: Displaying a list of search-engine results in the same web-browser window as a viewing frame that is configured to display one of the results is described herein. A user's web search is performed on a search engine, and results are returned to a client computing device. The results are listed... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080306938 - Electronic publication system: A system and method for modifying publication data in a publication system are described. An example embodiment includes receiving proposed publication data and accessing a success measurement associated with past publications within a publication system. The success measurement may indicate a measurement of success associated with the past publications. An... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080306931 - Event weighting method and system: A system and method to facilitate automatic weighting of events in a network and targeting of advertising information to users within the network based on assigned event weights are described. Multiple events associated with a user are retrieved from a data storage module. Each event is further analyzed to extract... Agent: Stattler - Suh PC

20080306940 - Image display device and method: An image display device is provided. The device includes a display screen, a storage unit, and a processing unit. The storage unit stores images and selection interface information. The selection interface information includes a plurality of catalogues each of which collects one or more images. The processing unit includes a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080306936 - Method and apparatus for compiling user preferences for digital content streamed to a mobile handset: A method and apparatus for compiling user preferences and providing access to preferred digital content on a mobile handset is provided.... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080306942 - On the role of market economics in ranking search results: The invention presents a method of and service for searching computerized networks, such as the internet, that first performs a search based on a user query to produce results that are ranked. The results comprise references to entities (addresses on the network, such as web sites). Before reporting the results... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080306941 - System for automatically extracting by-line information: A by-line extraction system detects a set of potential headlines from a title meta-tag of a crawled document, selects a candidate headline from the set of potential headlines, and extracts the by-line information from the document using the location of the selected candidate headline. The system constructs the set of... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20080306932 - Systems and methods for a rating system: An embodiment relates generally to a method of searching. The method includes providing for a knowledgebase item and associating a review for the knowledgebase item. The method also includes associating a rating for the knowledgebase item and developing a ranking associated with the knowledgebase item based on at least one... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080306939 - Use of fixed-width field array with inverted index: A computer based system can comprise an inverted index for a number of documents and a fixed-width field array storing data associated with the documents. The system provides results data using information obtained from the fixed-width field array.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080306935 - Using joint communication and search data: Conventionally, there are communities of individuals who perform Internet searches and communities of individuals who utilized Internet communications. While there is commonly a large amount of overlap between the two communities, there is little interaction between the two communities. Internet searches can be used to recommend interesting people to a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080306934 - Using link structure for suggesting related queries: An approach is provided for determining related queries for a given search query based on the linking structure of electronic documents within a document set. Document titles are used to represent potential search queries and links between the electronic documents are used to determine relationships between the potential search queries.... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080306937 - Using search trails to provide enhanced search interaction: It has been found that user navigation that follows search engine interactions provides implicit endorsement of resources (such as web resources) that are preferred by users, and which may be particularly valuable for exploratory search tasks. Thus, a combination of past searching and browsing user behavior is analyzed to identify... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080306945 - Example-driven design of efficient record matching queries: Example-driven creation of record matching queries. The disclosed architecture employs techniques that exploit the availability of positive (or matching) and negative (non-matching) examples to search through this space and suggest an initial record matching query. The record matching task is modeled as that of designing an operator tree obtained by... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080306944 - Methods, systems and computer program products for analogy detection among entities using reciprocal similarity measures: Analogies among entities may be detected by obtaining associative counts among the entities and computing similarity measures among given entities and other entities, using the associative counts. First and second entities are then identified as being analogies if the first entity has a strongest similarity measure with respect to the... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20080306943 - Phrase-based detection of duplicate documents in an information retrieval system: An information retrieval system uses phrases to index, retrieve, organize and describe documents. Phrases are identified that predict the presence of other phrases in documents. Documents are the indexed according to their included phrases. Related phrases and phrase extensions are also identified. Phrases in a query are identified and used... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP C/o Intellevate

20080306946 - Systems and methods of task cues: A computing system for encouraging the performance of a task comprises association data, a proxy module, a display module, and a reward module. The association data associates tags with stimuli related to performing tasks. The proxy module is configured to receive encoded data, to identify tags in the encoded data... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080306947 - Taxonomy editor: A repository 10 stores metadata, including at least one taxonomy definition 16 and records 14, which may be classified using the defined taxonomies. An editor 20 may be used to edit taxonomy definitions, using a local copy 22. To check the edit, a taxonomy search service in repository 10 may... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080306949 - Inverted index processing: Systems and methods for processing an index are described. In one exemplary method, a 2-level term table and postings table is used to generate postings lists. The postings lists are optimally stored in a postings file. Update sets for an index are optimally processed to update a index to a... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080306948 - String and binary data sorting: A device, system, and method are directed towards sorting a set of string or binary data items. A segment of a fixed size from each data item is combined with a pointer to the data item in a word. The words are sorted, and words having equivalent string/binary segments are... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080306950 - Arrival rate throttles for workload management: A computer-implemented method, system and article of manufacture for managing workloads in a computer system, comprising monitoring system conditions and operating environment events that impact on the operation of the computer system, regulating execution of one or more queries based on the monitored system conditions and operating environment events using... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20080306955 - Content management system and method: A method and system for facilitating the editing by a user of content hosted on a network. A page comprising one or more items of content is presented to the user. A tag is embedded in the page. The tag includes rules associated with an identity of users who are... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

20080306957 - Method and computer-readable medium for providing an official file repository: A method and computer-readable medium are provided for storing files in an official file repository. According to the method, a generic interface is exposed that includes a first method for requesting that a file be stored in a file vault. A record series is maintained that identifies one or more... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080306956 - Method and system for developing user profile on a network: In an on-line networking community, a method and corresponding system develops detailed user profiles using basic information provided by the user. In one example embodiment, a web server accepts user submitted information from a user and correlates the user submitted information with available databases to retrieve supplemental information about the... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080306951 - Method and system of retrieving avatar data unique to a user: A method of retrieving avatar data unique to a user is provided. The method includes invoking an application and retrieving said avatar data from an avatar server. The avatar data is accessible from different types of devices, wherein the different types of data can be a game console or a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080306954 - Methods and systems for managing permissions data: Methods, systems and computer readable media which use permissions checking when deciding whether to allow access to a file are described. In one exemplary embodiment, a method includes receiving a notification of a change of permissions of a directory in a hierarchical file system and determining, in response to the... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080306959 - Semantic web portal and platform: The patent describes a single location and application on a network where a user can organize public, group, and private/personal information and have this single, location accessible to the public. A new, ontology-driven portal that organizes all three categories of data according to various “facets” using underlying ontologies to define... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080306952 - System and method for grouping claim records associated with a procedure: A system and computer-implemented method for grouping medical records implements a multi-level analysis of the records. The level of analysis for each record is determined based upon the time proximity of each record to the defining medical procedure or service (anchor procedure) to be analyzed. Once an anchor procedure is... Agent: Dorsey & Whitney LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080306958 - System and method for role based analysis and access control: A system and method for program access control includes, for a typestate, providing typestate properties and assigning a role to the typestate in a program in accordance with the typestate properties. Access to operations is limited for the typestate in the program based on the role assigned to the typestate... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.

20080306953 - System and method for sharing resources: A method and computer program product for defining an activity. One or more resources are associated with the activity. A user is associated with the activity. In response to associating the user with the activity, the user is granted access to the one or more resources associated with the activity.... Agent: Holland & Knight

20080306969 - method and system for improving applications based on location information of objects: Disclosed is a system for improving applications based on location information of objects. The system includes a receiver module configured to receive the location information of the objects from at least one location database in a communication network. The objects are associated with corresponding location-aware devices. Each location-aware device of... Agent: Jay M. Schloff Intellipex PLLC

20080306963 - Calendaring techniques and interfaces: The calendaring techniques and interfaces described herein provide access to calendar data stored in a server hosted calendar store to applications. The calendar data includes calendar events and tasks. In one aspect, an application program interface (API) retrieves an occurrence from a series of reoccurring calendar data upon request from... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080306970 - Canonical model to normalize disparate persistent data sources: A semantic database transaction monitor is provided that monitors database transactions by taking advantage of database replication technology. The invention receives one or more event streams of transaction data from one or more database replication software agents, originally from transaction logs, and then classifies each transaction, utilizing an inference engine... Agent: Stevens & Showalter, L.L.P.

20080306966 - Deriving product information: A method and a system determine that product information acquired from an electronic catalog includes a product identifier and chemical structure information that is associated with the product identifier. A substance identifier and a quality identifier for a chemical product are derived from product information for a chemical product, and... Agent: Wilmerhale/boston

20080306965 - File transmitting server: Upon receipt of information transmitted from a portable terminal including unique information, it is judged whether or not received unique information exists in management information. If the unique information exists, client identification information associated with the unique information is acquired from the management information, and configuration information, which shows a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080306967 - Information providing system, information receiving apparatus, information providing apparatus, information providing method and program: The information receiving apparatus includes the related information receiving portion to receive content-related information, the mode selecting portion to select a link condition between the content and the related information, the related information request transmitting portion to transmit content designation information when the link condition is switched to the link... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080306964 - Method and system for accessing a slide from a remote workstation: e

20080306968 - Method and system for extracting, analyzing, storing, comparing and reporting on data stored in web and/or other network repositories and apparatus to detect, prevent and obfuscate information removal from information servers: A system, method and apparatus providing for the search, identification, retrieval and analysis of data contained in World Wide Web (WWW) and network pages and storage repositories. Mechanisms are provided to facilitate selection of such data as is required by a user, to report in a manner required by the... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20080306960 - Starting up an application in a mobile client: s

20080306962 - System and method of recording and accessing multimedia data: The disclosure is directed to a system and method for recording and accessing multimedia data. In a particular embodiment, a method includes determining a first number of requests to record specific multimedia content at a first server supporting a multimedia content distribution service. The first server may be configured to... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080306961 - Updating floor-specific information: A method for updating floor information for display by an elevator in a remote property includes receiving, from a property server, data indicative of a floor for which the elevator lacks floor information, receiving, from a remotely executing process, new floor information for the floor; storing the new floor information... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080306971 - Method and apparatus to bind media with metadata using standard metadata headers: A method for embedding metadata into a media file (100) comprises providing (204) a metadata schema file (204) and a metadata instance file (206). Providing a media file having a binary capable user field. Then compressing (208) the metadata schema by a first compression method; and assembling (210) the compressed... Agent: Motorola Inc

20080306972 - Methods and systems for managing web feed content with an email client application: Displaying web feed contents into email messages. A web feed manager formats web feed contents from a web feed to allow a user on the email client application to read web feed contents as email messages with all the controls typically provided by the email client application for an email... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080306974 - Network service for user-controlled allocation of data items: A network service processes an electronic data item, addressed to a user, under control of rules specified by the user. The service is configured to process the item regardless of the software application used by the supplier of the item to deliver the item.... Agent: Michaelson & Associates

20080306973 - System and method for managing and updating data from a number of sources for a project: The disclosure relates to a system and method for managing data from a number of systems. The method comprises: defining a set of objects for the data; defining a set of classes for the data; maintaining a catalog for each instance of the data; in the catalog identifying each instance's... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20080306979 - Editing, creating, and verifying reorganization of flowchart, and transforming between flowchart and tree diagram: Provides methods for transforming a flowchart to an equivalent tree diagram, methods for transforming an equivalent tree diagram to a flowchart, methods for verifying reorganization of a flowchart, methods for editing a flowchart, methods for creating a flowchart and a flowchart editor. A flowchart includes one or more logic structures... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080306978 - Index aging and merging: Systems and methods for processing an index are described. An index may be merged with another index of comparable age and size into a single index. Since older indexes are less likely to need updating, they are “set aside” to age based on certain adaptive criteria such as the age... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080306975 - Method for copying and manipulating data: A method of compiling a series of output data elements to form an output data stream, said output data elements being derived from an input data source, said input data source comprising one or more input data elements, said method being performed by a processor and comprising the steps of:... Agent: Hayes Soloway P.C.

20080306976 - Process for dynamic table conversion: A method and system are disclosed for converting data from a source table having a multitude of source fields to a target table having a multitude of target fields, the method comprising the steps of extracting data from the source table, downloading the extracted data into a flat file, and... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080306977 - System, method and program product for backing up data: System, method and program product for backing up a plurality of data files from a first server to a second server via a network. A determination is made that more than one compressed data file at the second server, downloaded by the first server, is waiting to be decompressed. A... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080306991 - Apparatus and method to configure, format, and test, a data storage subsystem product: An apparatus and method are disclosed to configure, format, and test, a data storage subsystem product. The method supplies a data storage subsystem product comprising one or more host computer ports, a processor, one or more data storage device ports, and one or more data storage devices interconnected to the... Agent: Dale F. Regelman Quarles & Brady, LLP

20080306987 - Business information warehouse toolkit and language for warehousing simplification and automation: A method for use with an information (or data) warehouse comprises managing the information warehouse with instructions in a declarative language. The instructions specify information warehouse-level tasks to be done without specifying certain details of how the tasks are to be implemented, for example, using databases and text indexers. The... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20080306985 - Collecting, sharing, comparing, and displaying resource usage data: Resource usage data is automatically collected for an individual, house-hold, family, organization, or other entity. The collected data is transmitted to a central repository, where it is stored and compared with real-time and/or historical usage data by that same entity and/or with data from other sources. Graphical, interactive displays and... Agent: Raubvogel Law Office

20080306981 - Extensible document transformation language: an innovative way of generating business document and report: In various embodiments, a method for generating documents in native application formats includes receiving a document template as a first document according to a native format. The first document is parsed to generate an Extensible Document Transformation Language (XDTL) template representing the document template. An XDTL execution document is generated... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080306983 - Mapping hierarchical data from a query result into a tabular format with jagged rows: Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for mapping hierarchical data from a query result into a tabular display, such as a spreadsheet. The tabular display allows some (or all) of the elements included in the hierarchical display to be mapped to positions on the report. In one embodiment, a... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ibm Svl

20080306989 - Method for efficient collection and storage of experimental data: Methods and system for efficient collection and storage of experimental data allow experimental data from high-throughput, feature-rich data collection systems, such as high-throughput cell data collection systems to be efficiently collected, stored, managed and displayed. The methods and system can be used, for example, for storing, managing, and displaying cell... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080306980 - Method for predicting treatment classes using animal behavior informatics: A system and method used to assess animal behavior includes a module having sensors that collects a variety of physical and biological data from a test subject. Interpretation of the data is provided to assess the test subjects behavior, neurology, biochemistry and physiology. The module is useful in observing the... Agent: King & Spalding

20080306986 - Migration of legacy applications: Embodiments of the invention provide apparatuses, computer media, and methods for obtaining a rule component from a legacy application and subsequently generating an intermediate state expression from a legacy rule of the rule component. The intermediate state expression is converted to a target rule, which is utilized by the target... Agent: Kenneth F. Smolik Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20080306988 - Optimization-based visual context management: Improved visual context management techniques are disclosed. By way of example, a technique for updating an existing visual display to incorporate new information comprises obtaining new information requested by a subsequent user query, and dynamically deriving one or more visual transformations for updating at least a portion of the existing... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080306982 - System and method for generating reports on real property and surroundings: A system and method for generating reports on real property and surroundings, and more particularly, to a system and method for producing and maintaining a network accessible searchable database of property information that enables production of reports that provide a holistic view of the property includes the steps of receiving... Agent: Mark Young, P.A.

20080306984 - System and method for semantic normalization of source for metadata integration with etl processing layer of complex data across multiple data sources particularly for clinical research and applicable to other domains: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for mapping data. A rule set is received. The rule set defines a semantic conceptual mapping between a source attribute of a source datum and a target attribute of a target domain. Furthermore, the rule set is implemented using first... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20080306990 - System for performing a redistribute transparently in a multi-node system: Performing a redistribute of data in a database system including a plurality of nodes is disclosed. The data includes a plurality of partitions distributed between the plurality of nodes. At least one new node is being added. At least one partition of the plurality of partitions is selected to be... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080306993 - Display apparatus, display method, program, and recording medium: A display apparatus for displaying accumulated data items includes obtaining means for obtaining a plurality of data items accumulated, classifying means for classifying the plurality of data items into N groups on the basis of predetermined criteria, display-control means for controlling an indication on a display unit such that the... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20080306992 - Repository system and method: A repository has a database 18 containing a number of artifacts 22 storing data and a system device model 21 defining various entities, including the artifacts 22 and properties used in the artifacts. To update a system device model 21 in database 18 an extension package 62 is passed to... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080306994 - Method and system for processing user-defined object based on object storage: A method and a data processing system for processing a user-defined object based on an object storage. The method includes the following steps: a generic object template is newly built (10); corresponding information of the user-defined object is written into a name attribute, an application program attribute, a display attribute... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20080306995 - Automatic story creation using semantic classifiers for images and associated meta data: A method and system for automatically creating an image product based on assets stored in a user database. A number of stored digital media files are analyzed to determine their semantic relationship to an event and are classified according to requirements and semantic rules for generating the image product. These... Agent: Frank Pincelli Patent Legal Staff

20080307003 - Broker mediated geospatial information service: A method includes receiving from a requestor search criteria for a geospatial information service. The requestor selects a dataset for use in providing the geospatial information service. A plurality of processes is determined, resulting in process-dataset solutions to the search criteria including the selected dataset. In particular, each process-dataset solution... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20080307004 - Broker mediated geospatial information service including relative ranking data: A method for providing a geospatial information service in a broker-mediated geospatial information service environment includes receiving a request at a broker system from a requestor. The request includes search criteria for returning geospatial information to the requestor. A plurality of process-dataset solutions is determined, each process-dataset solution comprising a... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20080307000 - Electronic backup of applications: Systems and methods are provided for storing and restoring digital data. In some implementations, a method is provided. The method includes receiving, while a current view of an application is displayed in a user interface, a first user input requesting that a history view associated with the current view of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080306997 - Method and apparatus for managing calendar conflicts: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing calendar conflicts. A plurality of calendar invitations waiting to be processed is identified to form a plurality of unprocessed calendar invitations. Calendar invitations are grouped within the plurality of unprocessed calendar invitations together that conflict with each other... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080306998 - Method and system for rendering a collection of media items: The systems and methods disclosed herein relate to the identification, rendering, and publishing of collections of media items in an interactive computing environment.... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080307002 - Method for providing audio and/or video files: An audio and/or video file and method for providing audio and/or video files, wherein each audio and/or video file is subdivided in at least three parts, a first part of the audio and/or video file being provided in a first quality, a second part being provided in a second quality,... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20080306996 - System and method for the collection, correlation and use of vehicle collision data: System and method for collecting and using vehicle data. Crash data is received from a plurality of vehicle monitoring devices and added to a crash data database. The database is updated with additional information gathered from specific crashes. The crash data is correlated based upon a vehicle type parameter. Crash... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20080307001 - System connections and user interfaces: This disclosure relates to methods and systems to allow, in one embodiment, automatic access from one system to other systems which include an operating system that includes a user login process. In one embodiment, a method includes logging into, automatically in response to starting a first data processing system, a... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080306999 - Systems and processes for presenting informational content: Systems, processes, and devices may manage the presentation of information in association with the presentation of media. Media to be presented to a user may be identified and concepts related to the identified media may be determined. Items of non-advertising informational content corresponding to one or more of the concepts... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307009 - Autonomic index creation, modification and deletion: An index advice record engine generates and stores index advice records. An index advice policy mechanism allows a user to define an index advice policy that specifies criteria for autonomic index creation, modification and deletion. An autonomic index mechanism reads the index advice records, compares this information with the criteria... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080307006 - File mutation method and system using file section information and mutation rules: Provided are a file mutation method and a system using file section information and mutation rules. The file mutation system includes: a file section information extraction module obtaining file section information with respect to a sample file of a known file format; a file section information production module producing file... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080307007 - Method for managing shared data and related device: Method for managing data stored in a database (29-30;41) and shared by a plurality of applications (20-22;32-33) at least some of which are implemented in a device, the device being provided with a data model module (27-28;40) capable of updating the database and retrieving data from the database. According to... Agent: Thorne & Halajian Applied Technology Center

20080307008 - Method to enforce domain strong typing: A centralized method for defining and enforcing strong-typing among domains in RDBMS or ORDBMS is provided to allow flexible, easy, and quick domain creation, as well as facilitating easy implementation and change control on domains. When an application requests data from the database, one or more domains are first identified... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080307005 - System for reducing electrical wiring in complex apparatus, such as vehicles and aircraft: A system for controlling multiple processors, each of which controls a group of hardware devices. Each processor is equipped with storage space for a database. A single, shared, database circulates among the processors, and only a single processor receives the database at any given time. All processors are idle with... Agent: David D. Pettigrew, Jr.

20080307010 - Method and system for sending changes in information to a central system: A method and system is disclosed for sending changes in information to a central system. The method includes providing a first database having a plurality of information tables for storing information and providing a second database for tracking changes to the information in the information tables of the first database.... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080307011 - Failure recovery and error correction techniques for data loading in information warehouses: A method of data loading for large information warehouses includes performing checkpointing concurrently with data loading into an information warehouse, the checkpointing ensuring consistency among multiple tables; and recovering from a failure in the data loading using the checkpointing. A method is also disclosed for performing versioning concurrently with data... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20080307012 - Tsb-tree page split strategy: A system and method that is designed to effectuate and facilitate time and key splitting of versioned database pages in a temporal database. The system includes a component that examines the page when it is full. The component can thereafter selectively undertake a time split or key split of the... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080307013 - Updating an inverted index: Systems and methods for processing an index are described. To insure that the most updated index is available without having to update the index after every change (which can consume enormous resources), a specially marked postings list is generated for a changed item. During retrieval, the specially marked postings list... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080307015 - Backing up a database: Backing up a database, including providing, in the database by a DBMS, at least one record with at least one backup field, the backup field being a data element that controls the backing up of the record, and backing up, by a backup module, the a record in dependence upon... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080307014 - Compressing files using a minimal amount of memory: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program code for compressing a file in a computer. An amount of memory available for use in the computer is determined. A size of the file is determined. A chunk size is determined based on the size of the file and the amount... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080307021 - Computer system, management computer, storage system, and backup management method: A computer system includes a host computer; a storage system for obtaining a snapshot, at a specific point in time, of a data volume, storing data written to the data volume after the specific point in time as a journal, and applying the journal to the snapshot for data recovery;... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080307018 - Efficient data backup: Systems and methods are provided for storing and restoring digital data. In some implementations, a method is provided. The method includes identifying an item for segmented backup according to one or more specified criteria, and performing a first backup of the item including separating the item into a plurality of... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307020 - Electronic backup and restoration of encrypted data: Systems and methods are provided for storing and restoring digital data. In some implementations, a method is provided. The method includes identifying an encrypted source disk image to be included in a backup operation, the encrypted disk image being encrypted with a first key and generating an encrypted backup disk... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307019 - Manipulating electronic backups: Systems and methods are provided for storing and restoring digital data. In some implementations, a method is provided. The method includes initiating a backup operation of data including a plurality of items, interrupting the backup operation, where interrupting occurs after a portion of the data has been completed, receiving an... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307017 - Searching and restoring of backups: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for searching for and presenting backups. A first search result including a first version of an item is presented. The first version is associated with a first date range having a first start date and a first end date. User input requesting... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080307016 - Storage, organization and searching of data stored on a storage medium: Methods and apparatuses for storing, organizing and searching files stored in a storage device. Backup files may be stored in snapshot-dependent and/or snapshot-independent paths. The backup files may be stored with additional attributes that can be used for searching and/or indexing purposes.... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080301084 - Systems and methods for dynamically creating metadata in electronic evidence management: Systems and methods for creating metadata are provided in which electronic evidence is captured, the electronic evidence comprising a binary large object, extrinsic metadata, and intrinsic metadata. The extrinsic metadata and the intrinsic metadata are extracted from the captured electronic evidence. The extrinsic metadata, intrinsic metadata, or user-defined metadata, or... Agent: Beck And Tysver P.l.l.c.

20080301085 - Dynamic database file column statistics for arbitrary union combination: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for generating database statistics for optimizing union queries. In general, working sets including samples of values in database columns are persistently maintained in a database. To optimize a union query, the working sets describing the columns included in the union query are combined to... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080301087 - Index clustering for full text search engines: Techniques of index clustering for full text search engines are described herein. In one embodiment, a full text search is performed by a search node using a local copy of an index within the searching node during a search session. In response to an update of a list of data... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080301086 - Streaming multidimensional data by bypassing multidimensional query processor: A data warehouse comprises a multidimensional data storage area to store multidimensional data and a transactional data storage area to store underlying transactional data from which the multidimensional data is generated. The data warehouse also comprises a multidimensional query processor to provide one or more interfaces to issue a first... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A.

20080301090 - Detection of abnormal user click activity in a search results page: The present invention provides for the detection of abnormal user behavior for a query session of an electronic search engine. A query session is initiated upon receipt of a user search request that includes one or more search terms. The search engine, in accordance with known search technology, generates a... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080301093 - Determining search query statistical data for an advertising campaign based on user-selected criteria: Techniques for determining search query information for an advertising campaign and communicating the search query information to a sponsor of the advertising campaign are described. The techniques include receiving, from a sponsor the advertisement, a request for search query information relating to the advertisement having been presented by a search... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080301089 - Enhanced search results based on user feedback relating to search result abstracts: The present invention provides for enhanced search results in response to a search request based on a search term. The enhanced search results generate a search results page including a plurality of document identifiers including a hyperlink and an abstract, each abstract including a plurality of abstract terms. The method... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080301092 - Geocoding using information retrieval: Geocoding architecture based on information retrieval. The geocoding information retrieval system operates on locations and geographic entities. The architecture uses parameters in addition to the query string, if available. The parameters provide contextual information that enables filtering and sorting the results. The additional parameters include market, culture, map view, and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080301103 - Information processing system, collecting server, information processing method and program: An information processing system including, a client capable of receiving and reproducing content from a media server, and a collecting server for receiving content management information on the content from the media server and managing the content management information.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080301097 - Ldap revision history: A method and apparatus for maintaining a revision history in a Light Weight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) repository. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a query for a version of an attribute associated with an LDAP entry. The method further includes returning a value for the version of the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080301107 - Method and apparatus for improving bandwidth efficiency in a computer network: A method for operating a server to improve bandwidth efficiency in a computer network is disclosed. The server is operable to transmit files between a memory of the server and destinations on the computer network through a communication link having a finite bandwidth. The files are distinguishable by type and... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080301098 - Method for providing a unified view of a domain model to a user: Techniques for providing a unified view of a domain model to a user are described herein. In one embodiment, in response to a first search query received from a client via a first search mechanism (e.g., outside of the relational DB) for a list of persistent objects representing data entries... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080301094 - Method, apparatus and computer program for managing the processing of extracted data: Data is processed at a central data processor using multiple processing steps. The data is processed for the extraction of entities. Relationships between the extracted entities are also extracted. A system map is built using one or more factors derived from the extracted entities and relationships and organized by influence... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080301095 - Method, apparatus and computer program for managing the processing of extracted data: Data is processed at a central data processor using multiple processing steps. The data is processed for the extraction of entities. Relationships between the extracted entities are also extracted. A system map is built using one or more factors derived from the extracted entities and relationships and organized by influence... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080301105 - Methodologies and analytics tools for locating experts with specific sets of expertise: A method and analytics tools for locating experts with specific sets of expertise are disclosed, the method including providing a collection of documents P0; generating categories representing fields of expertise derived from the collection of documents P0; refining the taxonomy of the categories by applying user domain knowledge; extracting structured... Agent: Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20080301102 - Store product locating system: A store product locating system and method enables a customer to locate a product quickly at its exact position within the store. Using a kiosk, a customer can input a name for a product they are searching for, the system searches for the product in its database of products and... Agent: Leighton K. Chong Patent Attorney

20080301088 - System and method for application of laws: A system and method for determining a law that has been violated by a suspect is provided. The system and method can have a user interface to receive user inputs and to present queries and a plurality of answers to each of the queries, with the user inputs being selections... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080301104 - System and method for implementing enhanced search functionality: A system and method for implementing enhanced search functionality. The system includes means for identifying a plurality of search criteria; means for selecting a first database for the search; means for conducting a first plurality of searches of the first database, each one of the first plurality of searches using... Agent: Loeb & Loeb, LLP

20080301100 - System and method for indicating page component focus: The present invention relates to systems and methods for providing content items containing components utilizing focus indication focus indication. The method according to one embodiment comprises receiving a request from a client by a content delivery network for a resource that comprises a plurality of resources. The plurality of resources... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080301106 - System and method for providing graphical representations of search results in multiple related histograms: A system and method are provided for enabling a user to search for documents that the user has previously viewed on its local machine. The system includes three main components: the desktop integration module, the index module, and the graphical user interface module. The desktop integration module is an application... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP C/o Susan Trader

20080301091 - Systems and methods for improved forums: An embodiment relates generally to a method of searching. The method includes receiving a query in a structured forum and searching a general and certified knowledgebase based on the query. The method also includes providing a plurality of search results ordered based on an associated rating of each search result... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080301099 - Systems and methods for using proxies in social network analysis in electronic evidence management: Systems and methods are presented for using proxies in social network analysis in electronic evidence management. The systems and methods comprise capturing electronic evidence from at least one source. One or more metadata are dynamically associated with the captured electronic evidence. The captured electronic evidence is analyzed, and at least... Agent: Beck And Tysver P.l.l.c.

20080301101 - Systems, methods, means, and media for recording, searching, and outputting display information: Systems for recording, searching, and outputting display information are provided. In some embodiments, systems for recording display information are provided. The systems include a virtual display that: intercepts display-changes describing changes to be made to a state of a display; sends the display-changes to a client for display; records the... Agent: Wilmerhale/columbia University

20080301096 - Techniques to manage metadata fields for a taxonomy system: Techniques to manage metadata fields for a taxonomy system are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor and memory, the memory to store a vocabulary management module and a smart field management module for execution by the processor. The vocabulary management module may be arranged to manage a taxonomy of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080301108 - Dynamic discovery of abstract rule set required inputs: A method, system and article of manufacture for processing rule sets and, more particularly, for processing abstract rule sets. One embodiment provides a computer-implemented method of managing execution of an analysis routine on input data. The method comprises receiving input and receiving user-selection of an analysis routine for processing the... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080301109 - Modification of a saved database query based on a change in the meaning of a query value over time: An apparatus and method modify a saved query based on a change in a query value meaning that changes over time. In preferred embodiments a graphical query interface displays an option to adjust query values of a saved database query. A query adjustment mechanism then adjusts the value of the... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080301110 - Modification of a saved database query based on a change in the meaning of a query value over time: An apparatus and method modify a saved query based on a change in a query value meaning that changes over time. In preferred embodiments a graphical query interface displays an option to adjust query values of a saved database query. A query adjustment mechanism then adjusts the value of the... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080301121 - Acquiring ontological knowledge from query logs: Methods are disclosed for acquiring ontological knowledge using query logs. In one embodiment, query logs are first utilized as a basis for identifying important contexts associated with terms belonging to a semantic category. Then, those contexts are as a basis for identifying new terms belonging to the same category or,... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080301126 - Apparatus, method, and program for information processing: An information processor is disclosed. The processor includes: a keyword extraction portion for extracting keywords from a text created by a user; a keyword information acquisition portion for acquiring given keyword information about the keywords extracted by the keyword extraction portion; an interest degree calculation portion for finding information about... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080301132 - Data back up method and its programs for permitting a user to obtain information relating to storage areas of the storage systems and select one or more storage areas which satisfy a user condition based on the information: User data backup functions are realized through a computer, which is located on the management service provider corporation side and interfaces between a user side computer environment and a storage service side computer environment to support storage service. This computer selects storage devices which meet the user side conditions from... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080301123 - Distributing data across different backing data stores: A method and apparatus for distributing data across multiple data stores are provided. In one embodiment, records are maintained for multiple data stores that associate primary key indicators and time intervals pertaining to data items with distinct data stores. When a request pertaining to at least one data item is... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080301112 - Enabling searching of user ratings and reviews using user profile location, and social networks: A system and method are directed towards a free-form search query of user reviews using user profile, location information, and/or social networks, to obtain a result having an associated universal aggregated rating. The user may enter in free-form a search query that may then be transparently modified using the user's... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20080301125 - Event processing query language including an output clause: An event processor can use queries to operate on event streams. Event processing queries can include an output clause to restrict the output of the query.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080301124 - Event processing query language including retain clause: An event processor can use event processing queries to operate an event. Event processing queries can include a “retain” clause that limits the amount of data over which the query is run.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080301129 - Extracting and displaying compact and sorted results from queries over unstructured or semi-structured text: A system for indexing unstructured or semi-structured data is disclosed. The system may identify regions within the data, such as “Abstract” or “References”. The system may identify linguistic units such as sentences, noun groups, verb groups. The system may also identify concepts such as companies, people, diseases, amounts, and so... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080301117 - Keyword usage score based on frequency impulse and frequency weight: A method and system for assessing keyword usage based on frequency of usage of the keywords during various periods is provided. A keyword usage measurement system is provided with the frequency of keywords during various periods. The measurement system then calculates a recent usage score for a keyword by combining... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20080301127 - Method and apparatus for providing an on-line directory service: A method and apparatus for providing an on-line directory service is described. By providing search results in a graphical tapestry it is possible to provide more search results on a browser window, thereby minimising the requirement for a user to scroll through a sequential listing. The search results are provided... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20080301114 - Method and system for a professional social network: An embodiment relates generally to a method of providing a professional social network. The method includes providing a plurality of services in a service portal and providing for a plurality of service providers. Each service provider has an associated rating and review at least once and is associated with a... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080301111 - Method and system for providing ranked search results: Subject ranking management system provides a ranked search result for a given set of one or more search terms. The subject ranking management system determines, using a taxonomy, one or more parent subject items related to one or more matching subject items that match a given set of search terms.... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20080301128 - Method and system for searching for digital assets: A method of presenting digital assets in response to a search query by a user to locate at least one digital asset from a database of digital assets is described. Each digital asset has at least one keyword associated with it, and each associated keyword is part of a hierarchical... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20080301120 - Method, apparatus and computer program for managing the processing of extracted data: Data is processed at a central data processor using multiple processing steps. The data is processed for the extraction of entities. Relationships between the extracted entities are also extracted. A system map is built using one or more factors derived from the extracted entities and relationships and organized by influence... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080301130 - Method, system and article of manufacture for searching documents for ranges of numeric values: Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for searching documents for ranges of numeric values. Document identifiers for documents are accessed, wherein the documents include at least one value that is a member of a set of values. A number of posting lists are generated. Each posting list... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20080301131 - Modification of a saved database query based on a change in the meaning of a query value over time: An apparatus and method modify a saved query based on a change in a query value meaning that changes over time. In preferred embodiments a graphical query interface displays an option to adjust query values of a saved database query. A query adjustment mechanism then adjusts the value of the... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080301116 - Search ranger system and double-funnel model for search spam analyses and browser protection: An exemplary method for protecting web browsers from spam includes providing a multi-layer model that includes a doorway layer, a redirection domain layer, an aggregator layer, a syndicator layer and an advertiser layer; identifying domains as being associated with at least one of the layers; and, based at least in... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080301122 - Searching techniques: A method of online searching for a service or product, the method comprising: obtaining a first search request from a user, the first search request including a set of search criteria; storing the set of search criteria at a predetermined location; searching for a service or product which matches the... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath Attn: Intellectual Property Group

20080301113 - System and method for providing vector terms related to a search query: The present invention relates to providing vector terms for use in formulating search requests in response to a user query. The method according to one embodiment comprises receiving a search query from a client and identifying links to one or more content items corresponding to the search query. One or... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080301119 - System for scaling and efficient handling of large data for loading, query, and archival: A data query system is provided, which comprises: a data storage; a load server communicatively linked with the data storage and configured to store a plurality of data in the data storage as read-only data, and publish the plurality of read-only data; and a query server separate from the load... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20080301115 - Systems and methods for directed forums: An embodiment relates generally to a method of providing a directed discussion. The method includes providing for an on-line forum and providing a list of available personnel within the on-line forum. The method also includes receiving a query in the on-line forum and directing the query to the best available... Agent: Mh2 Technology Law Group (cust. No. W/red Hat)

20080301118 - User interactive precision targeting principle: A method of determining content relevance for a user sets a user preference, which is related to a first area of content. The method calculates a set of scores, by using a combination, of the user preference, affinity data, and a parametric weight. The method organizes the content by using... Agent: Stattler - Suh PC

20080301135 - Event processing query language using pattern matching: An event processor can use event processing queries to operate on an event stream. Event processing queries can include a “matching” function that matches a pattern in the event stream.... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080301133 - Location recognition using informative feature vocabulary trees: A location recognition technique that involves using a query image to identify a depicted location is presented. In addition to the query image, there is also a pre-constructed database of features which are associated with images of known locations. The technique matches features derived from the query image to the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080301134 - System and method for accelerating anchor point detection: A sampling based technique for eliminating duplicate data (de-duplication) stored on storage resources, is provided. According to the invention, when a new data set, e.g., a backup data stream, is received by a server, e.g., a storage system or virtual tape library (VTL) system implementing the invention, one or more... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080301137 - Collection bin for data management and transformation: An electronic collection bin is provided for assisting users in managing their personal information. The electronic collection bin provides a common location for collecting and organizing a user's information. The electronic collection bin may receive information items of varying data types and from disparate sources. After receiving an information item,... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20080301138 - Method for analyzing patent claims: A patent evaluation method analyzes key words in the claims and how many patents use those words, to measure the impact of a given patent. For a group of patents in a particular field (e.g., as defined by a patent classification code), the key words can be indexed against the... Agent: Daniel E. Johnson IBM Corporation, Almaden Research Center

20080301139 - Search ranger system and double-funnel model for search spam analyses and browser protection: An exemplary system for monitoring search spam and protecting against search spam includes a self-monitoring subsystem to uncover spam patterns and a self-protection subsystem to protect against spam by providing spam-related information to strengthen a relevance ranking algorithm. An exemplary architecture for monitoring search spam includes a first component to... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080301136 - Semantic correlation for flow analysis in messaging systems: Improved techniques for flow analysis in messaging systems are disclosed. For example, a method for finding correlations between messages of a system based on content includes the following steps. For one or more executions of the system, obtaining the messages of the system, wherein each message has a schema associated... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080301140 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for optimizing file accesses for an application executing in a virtual container: Disclosed is a method, apparatus and a computer program of a virtual execution environment. In one aspect thereof a data processor includes a disk-based storage system and a virtual machine monitor configured to execute a program in a virtual container. The virtual machine monitor is responsive, prior to execution of... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080301141 - Computer readable medium and information processing system: A computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for managing groups of users, the process includes: storing a group as a set of users and a term of existence of the group, correlating with each other; storing electronic information and an access right of... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20080301142 - Method and system for organizing and presenting construction knowledge-sharing tools: The invention is directed to a method and system for organizing a knowledge management platform to gather and share knowledge learned by construction project teams. The method involves authorizing access to the platform, wherein the platform comprises an integrated organizational scheme for organizing a project into one or more project... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080301144 - Automatic travel content capture tool for address book entries: Disclosed are a method of and system for capturing and updating travel directions in a user's local address book application. The method comprises the steps of determining a current location profile of the user, calculating a user trajectory using that profile and an intended destination, and adding the current location... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20080301143 - Automatic update system and method for using a meta mib: The present invention generally relates to a system and method for automatically updating a MIB by using a meta MIB, and more particularly to a system and method for automatically updating a MIB by using a meta MIB comprising agent 100 for generating an OID named as MIB Info Last... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080301150 - Centralized content repositories for distributed learning management systems: A learning system, including a centralized reusable learning object (RLO) repository that provides content to users, and communicates user performance data, via SCORM, to and from any one or more distributed, remote SCORM conformant learning management systems. The learning management system may include one or more pointer SCO's, which may... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (main)

20080301151 - Computer system and database management method using the same: A pre-fetch server, which is connected to a DB server running a DBMS and to a storage apparatus storing DB data, stores information required for judging whether or not a pre-fetch is effective. Judgment on whether or not the pre-fetch will be effective is performed when a pre-fetch I/O is... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080301145 - Method of and system for maximizing the return rate of dynamic inquiries into a population: A method of and system for submitting inquiries to members of an organization determine if there is a pending inquiry to be submitted to the member. If there is a pending inquiry to be submitted to the member, the system displays the pending inquiry to the member. The system permits... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080301148 - Methods and apparatus relating to server/client sql environments: Systems and methodologies that enhance a Tabular Data Stream (TDS) protocol by enabling clients to send tabular formed data as a single parameter to servers. A Table Valued Parameter (TVP) transporting component enables the client servers to transmit entire database tables as a single parameter; when invoking a server side... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080301149 - Portable media player recommendation system: A method and apparatus for proving a portable device recommendation system. The method may include storing, on a portable device, preferences of a user of the portable device with respect to media content, and facilitating sharing of desirable media content between this user and a user of another portable device... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080301146 - System and method for efficient dynamic and connectivity aware web page rendering: A method and apparatus for dynamic and connectivity aware web page rendering on a device having at least one connection to an Internet protocol network, the method having the steps of: requesting a web page; receiving the web page requested along with links to at least one element within the... Agent: Moffat & Co

20080301153 - System and method for managing construction projects: A system for managing construction projects includes a database, a component interface, a state interface, and a database interface. The component interface is operative to receive component identifiers identifying components of a construction project. The state interface is operative to receive state indicators, each state indicator indicating a particular state... Agent: Henneman & Associates, PLC

20080301147 - System and method for managing zone integrity in a storage area network: A system and method for managing zone integrity in a storage area network (SAN) is provided. A SAN fabric may be partitioned into one or more zone sets, where each zone set may include a plurality of zones. A topology of any of the zones may be modified, without compromising... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080301152 - System and method for point-of-use instruction: In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, systems and methods for transferring data over a network include communicating with a user via a portable communication device over the network, receiving a request for at least one instruction sequence related to a particular repair task of a... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid, LLP

20080301157 - Data structure: A data structure recorded in computer memory comprises a head reference, an ordered list of pages and an ordered list of elements. In the data structure, the head reference includes an address of a first page. Each page, except the final page, includes an address of a subsequent page. Each... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080301160 - Information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program: Information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program are provided. An information processing apparatus includes the following elements. A receiver receives a command requesting for the execution of predetermined processing. A storage unit stores data and first information indicating, among a plurality of stages in a lifecycle of the... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20080301156 - Method and system for bi-directionally synchronizing tracing relationships between a requirements repository and textual requirements documents: A method for bi-directional synchronization of tracing relationships between a requirements repository and textual requirements documents, including: in a first operating mode: gathering trace information from a requirements repository; and formatting the trace information and inserting the trace information as text in textual requirements documents; and in a second operating... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080301161 - Method and system for data processing with high availability: A server to be changed is added to a destination unit in terms of configuration. The server to be changed is started to restore the database in the database storage region to which the server has access and to restore the transaction for the process that was executed when the... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20080301155 - Multidimensional data cube validation: This disclosure describes techniques of validating data that a user enters into an enterprise system for storage within a multidimensional data cube. The data cube includes one or more data hyperplanes associated with members of a dimension having cells that contain data. In addition, the data cube includes a validation... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A.

20080301159 - Partitioning a network into sub-networks based on user utility: To perform a query, a set of nodes for an origin is loaded, it is determined if a node is a destination for each node of the set of nodes, and a path is recorded in response to the node being the destination. A hypothetical path is generated in response... Agent: Baker & Hostetler, LLP For Boeing Company

20080301158 - System and method for managing health data: A portable data-management system may be easily employed with multiple processing devices by eliminating the need to pre-install additional programs, agents, device drivers, or other software components on the hosts. A portable storage device contains software for a data-management application, which receives and processes test data from a meter that... Agent: Nixon Peabody LLP

20080301154 - User driven, interactive, intelligent and adaptive management and business intelligence data retreival and viewing information system and tool, that is database or data source abstracted and independent, and is network and connectivity abstracted and ind: A software tool or information system that is User Driven and allows the user to imagine, dictate, iterate and control the place, means, format and kind of data and information to be viewed and analyzed. The system allows the User to begin with an imagined image or picture of what... Agent: Joseph Vithayathil

20080301165 - Apparatus for processing time-base data and method thereof: A data processing apparatus and a method for displaying time-based data are provided. The data processing apparatus includes a storage unit for storing data processed by the data processing apparatus and identification information for sorting the data. The data processing apparatus also includes a display unit having a first display... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080301162 - Data conversion environment: Converting data from a first format to a second format may be used to merge two databases having different formatting. Conversion maps may be defined for pairs of formats and may be used to convert data between the pair of formats. Data may further be transformed from one information type... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20080301163 - Dynamic memory management system and method: A data expression is created to be executed on a computer. At least one of the at least two objects is tagged as temporary. A first non-assignment operator is executed to instruct the computer to perform a mathematical operation on object data corresponding to the one of the at least... Agent: Naval Research Laboratory Associate Counsel (patents)

20080301164 - Storage system, storage controller and data compression method: Provided are a storage system, a storage controller and a data compression method that will not deteriorate the performance of a storage system by adjusting the compression processing time required for compressing data. This storage controller includes a statistical information management unit for managing a throughput value decided based on... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080301179 - Client side indexing of offline address book files: A method of building an offline address book (OAB). An OAB data file and a table of attributes are generated at a server. The data file and table are transferred from the server to a client. The transferred data file and table are indexed by the client.... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20080301174 - Data structure, system and method for knowledge navigation and discovery: Data structures, systems, methods and computer program products that enable precise information retrieval and extraction, and thus facilitate relational and associative discovery are disclosed. The present invention utilizes a novel data structure termed a “Knowlet” which combines multiple attributes and values for relationships between concepts. While texts contain many re-iterations... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080301178 - Data structures representing polysaccharides and databases and methods related thereto: A data structure, tangibly embodied in a computer-readable medium, representing a polymer of chemical units is disclosed. The data structure includes an identifier including a plurality of fields for storing values corresponding to properties of the polymer. The polymer may, for example, be a polysaccharide and the chemical units may... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080301175 - Distributed system for monitoring information events: A system and method for receiving information from at least one information source and producing one or more events in accordance with user configurable data structures. The data structures define one or more processes for handling information events, and may be shareable and transportable between different users and/or workspaces. The... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20080301170 - E-profiler: dynamic profiling and auditing framework: A method of dynamically generating profiling data using runtime non-intrusive profiling of application transactions which are contained in containers such as web servers, application servers, portal servers and J2EE/ECM containers, includes the following steps: using common resources of memory and environment for both profiling activity and application transactions; remotely executing... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20080301169 - Electronic apparatus of playing and editing multimedia data: To edit and play multimedia information, an electronic apparatus includes a storage device, an editing interface and a player. The storage device is used for storing content entities, e.g. video files, audio files, image files, etc. The editing interface provides a user to select a portion of one or more... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080301176 - Electronic voice-enabled laboratory notebook: A system for record keeping in scientific, industrial, and commercial applications where records are used to document inventions and discoveries, such as in a research laboratory is disclosed and described herein. Such systems are referred to in the applicable field as Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs). Also disclosed is an improvement... Agent: Catalyst Law Group, Apc

20080301168 - Generating database schemas for relational and markup language data from a conceptual model: A method, information processing system, and computer readable medium for generating a plurality of candidate database schemas including relational and mark-up language elements. An information model comprising a plurality of entities and at least one relationship defined there between is received. The information model has been annotated with at least... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20080301173 - Method and apparatus for generating playlist of media content and method and apparatus for playing media content: Provided are a method and apparatus for generating a playlist of media content and a method and apparatus for playing media content. The method of generating a playlist of media content includes providing a user interface for setting a playlist while media content is being played and generating a playlist... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080301167 - Method and user interface for searching media assets over a network: Improved systems and methods to navigate, browse, search and/or playback digital media assets (e.g., media items) hosted on a media server are disclosed. One embodiment of the invention pertains to progressive searching of remote media items from a search user interface. Another embodiment of the invention pertains to a user... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20080301171 - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for generating xml files from mainframe data: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media provide for generating XML files from mainframe data. According to embodiments, a method for generating Extensible Markup Language (XML) files from mainframe data is provided. According to the method, at least one mainframe data file is received. Data is extracted from the at least one... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC

20080301177 - System and method for organizing concept-related information available on-line: A method, implemented at least in part by a computing device, for organizing concept-related information available on-line. The method includes crawling the Internet and visiting a plurality of websites, determining the information present at a given visited website, defining an index for the given website that points to data at... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080301172 - Systems and methods in electronic evidence management for autonomic metadata scaling: Systems and methods are provided for electronic evidence management for autonomic metadata scaling. The exemplary systems and methods comprise capturing electronic evidence from at least one source, and storing the captured electronic evidence in a repository. Classification metadata is dynamically created to identify one or more classes. The stored electronic... Agent: Beck And Tysver P.l.l.c.

20080301166 - User profile management system: The present invention provides a user profile which takes a user's situation into consideration. A management device 100 creates, in response to a request from applications 110, a new user profile (hereinafter referred to as “comprehensive user profile”) based on a plurality of user profiles, and provides it to the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20080301182 - Object-based real-time information management method and apparatus: The present invention provides an object-based method and apparatus for management of real-time information. Said method includes the steps of obtaining an identification information of an object, said identification information including identity information of said object and the relevant information of an event of said object; receiving a real-time information,... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080301181 - System and method for creating an object model: A method for creating a dynamic domain model of an object. The method includes storing and organizing temporal information about the object in a bitemporal database that includes both a valid time and a transaction time for the information. The information is inserted into a plurality of tables in the... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20080301180 - System and method for integrating image upload objects with a message list: There is disclosed a system and method for integrating an image upload object with a message list. In an embodiment, the method comprises: creating an image upload object for each image to be uploaded; and displaying the image upload object in a message list such that the image upload object... Agent: Fasken Martineau Dumoulin LLP

20080301183 - Method for using paths in a directory for locating objects: One embodiment is a method that discovers branches and groups that include a reference to an object located in a directory information tree. Paths are determined through the directory information tree to the branches and the groups. Information about the paths is then used to describe the object in the... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080301187 - Enhanced media item playlist comprising presence information: An enhanced media item playlist on which a media item identifier for a media item and presence information of a recommender of the media item, and, optionally, a media item annotation from a media item recommendation message, may be stored is disclosed. The playlist may be any accessible and/or manageable... Agent: Concert Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20080301192 - Image data management system: There is provided an image data management system that restricts a user's exit depending on the use of image data containing confidential information. An image data management system includes a management server 1, printers 2, gates 3 and 4, and an IC card 6. The printers 2 generate processing information... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080301190 - Integrated system and method for implementing messaging, planning, and search functions in a mobile device: An integrated system and method for implementing messaging, planning, and search functions in a mobile device. The system includes a messaging suite, a planner suite, a search suite, and a user interface configured to permit a user to interact with at least one of the messaging suite, the planner suite,... Agent: Loeb & Loeb, LLP

20080301191 - Map updating systems, methods, and programs: Map updating systems, methods, and programs create instruction data in a data center used for updating a pre-update piece of map structuring data among a plurality of pieces of stored map structuring data to a post-update piece of map structuring data, the instruction data identifying, in units of bytes, a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080301188 - Method and system to track accomplishments and to compute relative rankings: A system and method for listing activities within particular categories. Activities that are accomplished/achieved by respective users can be tracked and stored in a database. Accomplishments of users can be compared against accomplishments of other users and achievement levels can be computed and outputted. Achievement scores can also be calculated... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080301185 - Property validation framework: Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to validating properties. In aspects, a property is associated with one or more validators. Each validator includes actions to take to determine whether a feature of the property is valid. Multiple validators may be executed for a single property. A group of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080301186 - System and method for processing a received media item recommendation message comprising recommender presence information: A system and method for processing a received media item recommendation message is disclosed. A recipient receives the media item recommendation message which includes a media item identifier of a media item and presence information of a recommender of the media item in association with the media item identifier. The... Agent: Concert Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20080301189 - System and method for providing a real-time content distribution network: A system and method for providing a real-time content distribution network. The system includes a player device at a host location. The player device includes a network interface for communicating with a content provider server device via a network, one or more speakers, and a computer processor in communication with... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080301184 - System and method for updating mailing lists: According to some embodiments, a system and method are provided to receive an indication from a postal recipient that an unsolicited mail piece is not desired, the indication comprising a digital image of at least a portion of the unsolicited mail piece, store data associated with the postal recipient based... Agent: Pitney Bowes Inc. 35 Waterview Drive

20080301196 - Autonomic index creation, modification and deletion: An index advice record engine generates and stores index advice records. An index advice policy mechanism allows a user to define an index advice policy that specifies criteria for autonomic index creation, modification and deletion. An autonomic index mechanism reads the index advice records, compares this information with the criteria... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20080301193 - Method of compound document comparison: A method and system for comparing compound documents. An original compound document and a modified compound document are analyzed to determine and mark the location of embedded objects. A comparison is performed between an original primary document and the modified primary document, ignoring the embedded objects, the output of which... Agent: Roberts Mlotkowski Safran & Cole, P.C. Intellectual Property Department

20080301195 - Method, apparatus and system for reverting fat cluster number to file id and offset of non-fat flash file system: A device includes a processor connected to a memory. The device further includes a module having a process. The module is integrated in a memory file manager (MFM). The process operates to allow an external computer access to MFM volumes in the memory. A method includes reverting a file allocating... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080301194 - Mobile terminal: According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a mobile terminal including: a content file storage configured to store a plurality of contents and file types corresponding to the contents respectively; a plurality of processing module configured to execute processing according to coding methods respectively; a resource table... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080301198 - Duplicating database contents: The invention provides data processing, data control and information methods and systems for efficiently duplicating contents of a database in the data control system. An example of a data processing system includes: a cache unit acquiring, from a data control system which categorizes a plurality of data elements into a... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080301197 - Generating coherent global identifiers for efficient data identification: A method and system thereof for identifying records are described. Records on a node are distinguished from other records on the node by assigning each record a unique local identifier. When a record is moved from one node to another node, a unique global identifier is assigned to the record.... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20080301199 - Failover processing in multi-tier distributed data-handling systems: A method and system for processing a transaction request in a distributed data handling architecture. Responsive to receiving a transaction request at a master transaction server, a transaction identifier that identifies a data operation specified by the received transaction request is recorded within a local memory of a replica server.... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20080301200 - Log file amnesia detection: Log file amnesia detection is accomplished by associating a unique identifier with each record in a log file, where each record receives a unique log sequence number. Multiple time intervals are associated with the log file with different events triggering the beginning of a new time interval. The log file... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080301202 - Method for spooling experimental data: Methods and system for efficient collection and storage of experimental data allow experimental data from high-throughput, feature-rich data collection systems, such as high-throughput cell data collection systems to be efficiently collected, stored, managed and displayed. The methods and system can be used, for example, for storing, managing, and displaying cell... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080301201 - Storage system and method of managing data using same: The storage system includes a file server connected to a host apparatus and configured to provide a directory in a file system having a directory structure to the host apparatus, a storage subsystem connected to the file server and configured to provide a volume for storing the file system, and... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20080301204 - Correlated analysis of wasted space and capacity efficiency in complex storage infrastructures: A system and method for correlated analysis of wasted space and capacity efficiency in complex storage infrastructures are provided. The system and method of the illustrative embodiments bring together wasted space data from all areas and components of the storage infrastructure into a single set of reports correlating information from... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080301206 - Efficient data transfer to/from storage medium of computing device: An application issues an application command to a file system of the computing device, where the application command includes a location of data at a source. The file system allocates space on a medium for the data and compiles a list including an identification of each portion of the medium... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080301203 - Managing a snapshot stored within a file system space for efficient detecting of in-use blocks: In one embodiment, at least one snapshot thread manages a point in time snapshot of a file system stored within the space allocated to the file system. The snapshot thread tracks, for at least one block of the plurality of blocks of the file system, a separate entry in a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ap) C/o Amy Pattillo

20080301205 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for optimizing access to the content of a virtual application container on a fixed, read-only medium: Disclosed is a method, apparatus and a computer program of a virtual execution environment. In one aspect thereof a data processor includes a read-only storage medium and a virtual machine monitor configured to execute a program in a virtual container. Prior to execution of the application a set of application... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080301207 - Systems and methods for cascading destruction of electronic data in electronic evidence management: Systems and methods are provided for managing the destruction of documents in an organization that includes a cascaded destruction of the documents in distributed systems. The systems and methods include capturing electronic evidence in a central evidence management system as objects from sources in the distributed systems. The objects are... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery