Data processing: database and file management or data structures inventions 02/09

20090055348 - Dynamic cluster database architecture: A method for implementing a set of database management components in a distributed database management system, the distributed database management system being implemented on a computer cluster. The method includes managing resources associated with an associated computer, the associated computer being one of a plurality of computers in the computer... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20090055346 - Scalable ticket generation in a database system: Particular embodiments of the present invention are related to a database system with reliable ticket generation functionality. In particular implementations, a method includes selecting, responsive to a request, a ticket bucket, wherein the ticket bucket comprises a current ticket number and a maximum ticket number; obtaining a ticket number based... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090055345 - Uddi based classification system: The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for providing a classification service. The method may receive a request to access a UDDI registry. The classification service may access metadata representing a classification system for the data stored in the UDDI registry. The classification service... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20090055347 - Wireless emergency management application: A system and method for providing a wireless emergency management application that facilitates the identification of persons who have various skills and/or training, thereby allowing the best available person to respond to an emergency or non-emergency situation. Still further, the instant system and method can track the location of specialized... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090055350 - Aggregate query optimization: A method, computer program product, and system for optimizing aggregate queries are provided. The method, computer program product, and system provide for receiving an aggregate query comprising a GROUP BY operation and an aggregate function, creating an access plan for executing the aggregate query, the access plan including a join... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20090055351 - Direct mass storage device file indexing: An arrangement for enumerating data, such as media content including music, that is stored on external hard drive-based mass storage devices is provided by a media content processing system that implements a direct mass storage device file indexing process. This file indexing process is configured for finding all files and... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090055352 - Methods of cost estimation using partially applied predicates: In accordance with aspects of the present invention, provided are methods for incrementally estimating the cardinality of a derived relation including statistically correlated partially applicable predicates for a range-partitioned table. During the generation of a QEP a cardinality estimate is calculated in which one or more partially applicable predicates is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090055349 - Table elimination technique for group-by query optimization: Techniques for optimizing queries are provided. In one technique, a query optimizer determines that two tables involved in equi-joins with one other table return unique rows. The query optimizer further determines that the rows returned by one of the tables is a subset of the rows returned by the other... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090055360 - Consistent user experience in information retrieval systems: An information retrieval system for searching a corpus is configured to operate in a manner that optimizes the consistency of a user experience given a subset of a corpus and a search query.... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20090055357 - Data integrity checking for set-oriented data stores: A method for determining data integrity for a set-oriented data store provides an integrity check mechanism within an application framework that provides object check values for one or more data objects in the set-oriented data store. The integrity check mechanism stores one or more predicate check values corresponding to predefined... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090055358 - Efficient processing of mapped boolean queries via generative indexing: A computer assisted method of searching at least one corpus of information based on at least one query. The method includes creating a generative index based on the corpus and a mapping of terms of the query to terms of the corpus. The method also includes searching the generative index... Agent: Cohen & Grigsby, P.C.

20090055356 - Information processing apparatus: An information processing apparatus: a pointing device that allows a user to move a cursor to point a position in a display screen of the display device; a monitoring unit that monitors whether or not the pointed position is unmoved for a predetermined time period; a text extraction unit that,... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090055354 - Method and apparatus for searching: A method of facilitating searching for data on a plurality of heterogeneous databases connected over a network, the databases including at least one named data field, and the method comprising: receiving via the network configuration data representing the configuration of each database, the configuration data including mapping data associating predefined... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20090055363 - Methods and systems for processing multi-media editing projects: Methods and systems of processing multi-media editing projects are described. In one embodiment, a request for one or more multi-media files is generated on a user computer that comprises part of a network where multi-media files are maintained in a network-accessible location. The file or files are intended for use... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090055353 - Multi-mode location based e-directory service enabling method, system, and apparatus: A method prepares a response when providing e-Directory services to a user making a user request for location-based supplier information. The method includes identifying from said user request a desired location for which the user is requesting supplier information, identifying from the user request at least one informational element useful... Agent: Heller Ehrman LLP

20090055359 - News aggregator and search engine using temporal decoding: Electronic documents are classified and compared according to their temporal qualities. The content of a document relating to an event is analyzed to identify temporal components. These components can be compared with corresponding counterparts in other documents to identify a relative temporal order. The invention can be used in environments... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney

20090055361 - Parallel data processing system: A tree-structured index to multidimensional data is created using naturally occurring patterns and clusters within the data which permit efficient search and retrieval strategies in a database of DNA profiles. A search engine utilizes hierarchical decomposition of the database by identifying clusters of similar DNA profiles and maps to parallel... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20090055362 - System and computer program product for performing an inexact query transformation in a heterogeneous environment: An inexact query transformation system selects a query element from a query statement. If an inexact transformation improves the query performance, the system prioritizes the candidate transformation rules applicable to the selected query element. The system applies the candidate transformation rules to the selected query element to generate a transformed... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20090055355 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for seamless integration for user, contextual, and social awareness in search results through layer approach: Systems, methods, and apparatus for providing contextual and social awareness in search results through a layer approach are herein disclosed. Awareness in search results is provided through one or more search layers, result operational layer, an interactive result layer, and loopback feedback among embodied layers. Specifically, the system provides collective... Agent: Andrew T. Brunner

20090055366 - Accessing objects in a service registry and repository using subclass inference: A service registry and repository method, system, computer program product and web service for managing an object database for objects comprising: receiving an database path query; breaking the path query into nodes; examining each node to locate objects for selection and objects from which selection is made; consolidating objects for... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090055365 - Auditing of curation information: An approach that tracks curation history of sensitive information is described. In one embodiment, there is a database that contains a plurality of sensitive information. The database comprises a plurality of base tables and backlog tables for each of the base tables. A curation audit query generator is configured to... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090055368 - Content classification and extraction apparatus, systems, and methods: Embodiments herein relate market entities, market topics, and market relationships in a market relationship module (MRM). The MRM is used to index user-applicable information content and to formulate queries for later recall and presentation of the applicable content. Other embodiments are described and claimed.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090055364 - Declarative views for mapping: The claimed subject matter provides systems and methods that effectuates and facilitates the generation of bidirectional views. The disclosed system can include components that transform queries and mappings into an internal representation that can be compiled into a bidirectional view. The bidirectional view can thereafter be employed to actuate query... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090055372 - Method and system for managing search mediation information: A method and system for managing search mediation information, which can selectively count a number of inputs of the search mediation information using a class-C Internet Protocol (IP) address, and create an input rank list or a popularity list associated with the search mediation information by referring to the counted... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090055371 - Photosharing server filters for automatic storage and sharing of digital files: A method and system for providing on online file- service that automatically stores and organizes digital files. The method and system include providing the server with a set of trigger handlers that are each configured to perform a particular action on a digital file. The user may log into the... Agent: Flashpoint Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20090055370 - System and method for data warehousing and analytics on a distributed file system: A computer implemented method for executing an ANSI SQL expression belonging to the SELECT-WHERE-equi-JOIN class on data residing in a distributed file system, said method comprising the steps of entering the ANSI SQL expression into a user interface; converting the ANSI SQL expression into a map-reduce program; running the map-reduce... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20090055367 - System and program products for pruning objects in a service registry and repository: This invention relates to a service registry and repository system, method and computer program product for accessing objects in an object repository. There is provided a method of managing an object database for objects comprising: receiving an object query; querying the object database using the object query; receiving a hierarchical... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090055369 - System, method and apparatus for implementing dynamic community formation processes within an online context-driven interactive social network: A method for showing a user navigating to a first website a collection of other websites relating to the first website comprising: identifying a first, second and third user having navigated to the first website; collecting navigation history tails from the first, second and third users, the navigation history tails... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20090055387 - Apparatus and method for targeted distribution of search index fragments over a wireless communication network: A system and method for identifying portions of an index related to prior search requests sent from a wireless data processing device and transmitting the portions of the index to the wireless data processing device to be used for local searches. Specifically, a method according to one embodiment of the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090055382 - Automatic peer group formation for benchmarking: A method of automatically generating peer groups of entities includes receiving data for a plurality of characteristic parameters about a number of entities and defining a number of peer groups, k, to be generated. A minimum number of entities, m, to be assigned to each peer group is defined, and... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20090055375 - Bundle generation: First topics related to a content page, such as a web page, are identified. Thereafter, second topics related to a first content element, such as advertisements, and a second content element, such as media files, are identified based on the first topics. Common topics are identified that are common to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090055377 - Collaborative media recommendation and sharing technique: A media recommendation and sharing technique that employs agents on media players/devices to expand the scope of media sharing scenarios. The technique assists a user in discovering media items, such as, for example, music, recordings, play lists, pictures, video games, on nearby media players or devices (devices which are capable... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20090055381 - Domain dictionary creation: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, to identify topic words in a document corpus that includes topic documents related to a topic are disclosed. A reference topic word divergence value based on the document corpus and the topic document corpus is determined. A candidate topic word divergence value... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090055383 - Dynamic media interaction using time-based metadata: Systems and methods are provided for linking time-based metadata to media content so that as the metadata changes in synchronicity with media content during play, information associated with the media content can be outreached in the context of the media presentation. More particularly, according to one embodiment of the present... Agent: Martine Penilla & Gencarella, LLP

20090055391 - Information processing apparatus and method, program, and recording medium: An information processing apparatus includes: an extracting means for extracting a feature volume from a predetermined content; and a computing means for computing an evaluation axis that classifies a first content and a second content by using a first feature volume extracted from the first content by the extracting means... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090055390 - Information sorting device and information retrieval device: An information retrieval device and the like are provided to quickly retrieve information desired by a user even when information is collected based on the user's taste or interest. Each of sort item generating units (121 to 12N) sorts information into plural sort items based on different sorting aspects (details... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack L.L.P.

20090055385 - Media-based recommendations: A computer-implemented method includes receiving information expressing a user's interest in one or more media programs, obtaining information indicative of popularity for a plurality of media programs responsive to the received information by individuals other than the user, and transmitting one or more recommendations of media programs for display to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090055374 - Method and apparatus for generating search keys based on profile information: Methods and apparatus for performing a search using a search keyword and associated aliases for the search keyword are disclosed. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method includes obtaining a search keyword via a user interface, and obtaining a search keyword via a user interface and automatically... Agent: Cisco Systems, Inc. Scientific-atlanta, Inc.

20090055393 - Method and system for facilitating information searching on electronic devices based on metadata information: A method and system for facilitating information searching for a user of an electronic device is provided. One implementation involves, on a client side, obtaining metadata for content accessed by a user via the electronic device, displaying terms based on said metadata for user selection, receiving a user selection including... Agent: Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20090055388 - Method and system for selecting search engines for accessing information: A method and system for access to information using search engines is provided. A search engine is selected for executing a query based on search engine characteristic information and the query. The characteristic information for each search engine includes information representing searching capabilities of each search engine. Selecting a search... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20090055392 - Ordering of search results based on language and/or country of the search results: A system and method for providing preferred language and/or country ordering of search results is described. A search query describing potentially retrievable information provided in a plurality of search result languages and/or countries is received. A search is executed by evaluating the search query against information characteristics maintained in a... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20090055380 - Predictive stemming for web search with statistical machine translation models: Techniques for determining when and how to transform words in a query to return the most relevant search results while minimizing computational overhead are provided. A dictionary is generated based upon words used in a specified number of previous most frequent search queries and comprises lists of transformations that may... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090055389 - Ranking similar passages: Passages in a digital corpus are scored and ranked based at least in part on characteristics of instances of the passages occurring in the corpus. Such characteristics include the popularity of the author, the characteristics of the words introducing and following the similar passage, frequency of appearance of the passage... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20090055384 - Shared influence search: In one embodiment, a search query is received from a user. Then a designated expert for the search query is determined. Search results based at least in part upon previous actions taken by the expert relevant to the search query are then identified. These results may then be returned to... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20090055386 - System and method for enhanced in-document searching for text applications in a data processing system: A system and method for implementing enhanced searching within a document in a data processing system. A search manager receives an original search term, wherein the original search term includes at least two words. The search manager creates a set of alternate search terms by: retrieving from a predetermined thesaurus... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090055376 - System and method for identifying similar media objects: The systems and methods described create a mathematical representation of each of the media objects for which user ratings are known. The mathematical representations take into account the subjective rating value assigned by a user to the respective media object and the user that assigned the rating value. The media... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090055373 - System and method for refining search terms: A system and method for refining a string of search term used in a search of an electronic data base, by extracting phrases from a first result set of the search, selecting relevant phrases from among the extracted phrases, and adding the selected phrases to the original search term.... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090055379 - Systems and methods for locating contact information: Systems and methods for locating contact information are shown and described. The method can include receiving an instruction to locate a portion of contact information stored in the one or more directories of the computing device and initiating a plurality of directory handler routines at the computing device. Each directory... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20090055378 - Systems and methods for providing improved access to phamacovigilance data: A system and method for browsing a pharmacovigilance database with a graphical representation that shows relationships between medical terms may include providing access to a plurality of medical terminologies and mapping medical terms of the plurality of terminologies to a searchable database by using a semantic network to relate the... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20090055394 - Identifying key terms related to similar passages: Key terms for similar passages from a large corpus are identified and used to enhance searching and browsing the corpus. The corpus contains multiple documents such as the text of books. Browsing by concept is supported by identifying a set of similar passages or quotations in documents stored in the... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20090055395 - Method and apparatus for xml data processing: Method and apparatus for at least one of coding or decoding of data. The method comprising retrieving Extensible Markup Language (“XML”)-Unicode Transformation Format 8 (“UTF-8”) data, confirming XML-UTF-8 data in a proper format converting a prolog located within said XML-UTF-8 data, initializing a tag and attribute lookup table, comparing a... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090055396 - Scoring and replaying media items: A computer-implemented method and system are provided for replaying media items. Aspects of the method and system include in response to one of the media items being played, calculating a respective replay score for the media item that affects replay of the corresponding media item; and using the replay score... Agent: Concert Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20090055397 - Multi-dimensional access control list: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for providing an access control list for an object in a computer system. A list of one or more subjects is defined. Each of the subjects is associated with a set of operations that the subject can perform on... Agent: Mollborn Patents, Inc.

20090055406 - Content distribution system: In a content distribution system 100 including a Web server 40 and a terminal device 50, the Web server 40 includes a final content file 25 for managing a content, a meta content file 26 for describing and managing, in a meta content, at least information on the playback start... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20090055405 - Increasing website revenue generation through distribution of interactive web content: A system and method of presenting web content on a webpage to increase website revenue generation. The method includes generating a data module by coupling an advertisement to specific data content, providing at least one link in the data module to allow a viewer of the webpage to manipulate the... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090055400 - Interactive presentation and distribution of web content having a search feature: A data module for display in web content on a webpage, and a method of presenting the web content. The module includes data content for display on a webpage having publisher content, a search field coupled to the data content, an advertisement coupled to the data content, and a link... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090055401 - Loosely coupled mass storage computer cluster: A method and apparatus redundantly store data, in particular video data objects, in a distributed computer system having at least three processor systems, each processor system being connected in point to point two way channel interconnection with each other processor system. The data is stored in a redundant fashion both... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20090055402 - Method and apparatus to automatically receive and/or transmit contents: A method and apparatus to automatically receive and/or transmit contents in which desired contents are automatically downloaded and streamed by using a rich site summary (RSS) function. The method includes receiving sample contents corresponding to previously set search conditions by connecting to a content server that has been previously linked... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20090055403 - Method and system for controlling and auditing content/service systems: An improved interactive network system is provided that allows the Network Operator to control the transfer of information to and from the network end users, the system preferably using triggers or markers embedded within the programming broadcast to users via the network. As a consequence of this system, the Network... Agent: Joseph J. Laks Thomson Licensing LLC

20090055398 - Retrieving mobile user context information using tokenized virtual dictionaries: A network device, system, and method are directed towards providing user context information to improve relevancy of a search result, or other content, provided to a user. A context service may provide a common retrieval interface (CRI) that reflects the capabilities available to a content service application (CSA). The CSA... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090055404 - System and method for online profile management: An online profile management system and method is disclosed that provides users with management and control over the presentation and distribution of their online profiles. The system can enable a user to create a professional profile for purposes such as job seeking, career management and/or professional networking, for example. The... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090055408 - Systems and methods for multi-user access to a wireless storage device: Various systems and methods for allowing multi-user access to a wireless storage device are disclosed. For example, some embodiments of the present invention provide methods for sharing content objects that include providing a wireless storage device that is operable to communicably couple to a master device and a sharing device.... Agent: Hamilton,desanctis & Cha (lsi)

20090055399 - Systems and methods for reading objects in a file system: Embodiments of the disclosure relate generally to file systems. Specifically, certain embodiments include systems and methods for reading objects in a file system. In some embodiments, a first processing thread traverses a portion of a file system and represents file system objects in a data structure. A portion of the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090055407 - Systems and methods for retrieving data in a computer network: A data retrieval system comprising a first computing device communicatively coupled to a second computing device; the first computing device having a processor that supports operation of at least one software application that is used for retrieving data; the second computing device communicatively coupled to one or more storage media;... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090055409 - Apparatus, system, and method for customized event processing using a jdbc resource adapter: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for managing dynamically generated events in a database. An activation module receives a custom event query comprising a pool quantity from a user. An event query module executes the custom event query on a database. An event retrieve module receives a result set... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090055412 - Bayesian surety check to reduce false positives in filtering of content in non-trained languages: A Bayesian spam filter determines an amount of content in incoming email messages that it knows from training. If the filter is familiar with a threshold amount of the content, then the filter proceeds to classify the email message as being spam or legitimate. On the other hand, if not... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090055415 - Dynamic and versatile notepad: Method for providing a versatile notepad for social networking and interactions with a plurality of users. An input content is received from a user. The received input content is analyzed based on at least the following expression types: expression indicative of time, expression indicative of a location, expression indicative of... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20090055414 - Method and system for feedback of decoded data characteristics to a decoder in stored data access and decoding operations to assist in additional decoding operations: Aspects of a method and system for feedback of decoded data characteristics to decoder in stored data access and decoding operations to assist in additional decoding operations are presented. Aspects of the system may include a decoder that enables decoding of a portion of encoded data. A processor may enable... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090055413 - Method and tool for classifying documents to allow a multi-dimensional graphical representation: A tool for classifying documents to allow a multi-dimensional graphical representation is disclosed, the tool comprises a plurality of characterization attributes associable with a plurality of documents to enable classification of the documents, at least some of the plurality of characterization attributes adapted to enable a first group of documents,... Agent: Maya-systems Inc.

20090055410 - Method for pruning objects in a service registry and repository: This invention relates to a service registry and repository system, method and computer program product for accessing objects in an object repository. There is provided a method of managing an object database for objects comprising: receiving an object query; querying the object database using the object query; receiving a hierarchical... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090055417 - Segmented metadata and indexes for streamed multimedia data: A method of organizing streamed data includes storing streamed data in a file, identifying metadata applicable to a subset of the streamed data, and forming at least one group of one or more samples of the streamed data, each sample in a group having identical metadata content for a metadata... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090055411 - System and method for precisely handling duration values: A system and method for handling duration values includes associating a duration value with a start datetime to allow precise duration handling. Thus, a uniform time line approach may be used to handle duration arithmetic, comparisons, or other computations for duration values. For example, the uniform time line approach may... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090055416 - Verifying data consistency among structured files: A scalable comparison structure and methodology is provided that is suitable for comparing select data content in hundreds or thousands of files in an efficient manner. Section delimiters are defined to identify the sections of the files within which the select data content is located, and sets of unique sections... Agent: Robert M. Mcdermott, Esq.

20090055418 - Automatic cascading copy operations in a database with referential integrity: A method and apparatus for performing a cascading copy operation in a database with referential integrity constraints is disclosed. A user may supply (or be prompted to provide) a new key value, a first table, and a primary key value to use in the cascading copy operation. In response, a... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090055419 - Method and system for content resyndication: Methods and systems for providing content. Syndicated content may be received from a content syndication source. The syndicated content may be augmented with metadata. The augmented content may be provided through a target syndication feed.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090055420 - Method, system, and computer program product for identifying common factors associated with network activity with reduced resource utilization: Disclosed are a method, system, and computer program product for determining a common factor contributing to network activity with reduced computational resource utilization. In some embodiments of the present invention, the method or the system determines one or more factors by examining one or more information transmitted across the network.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090055421 - Migration and transformation of data structures: The invention relates to a functional unit for the migration and transformation of data structures from at least one source system into data structures of at least one target system comprising at least one import filter and at least one export filter. The at least one import filter is for... Agent: Shlesinger, Arkwright & Garvey LLP

20090055423 - Recording/reproducing apparatus: A device, including a first storage unit configured to store a first plurality of files and a first management data corresponding to the first files; a connector configured to connect to an external storage device, the external storage being configured to store a second plurality of files and second management... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090055422 - System and method for data compression using compression hardware: A system and method for data compression using compression hardware is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving a data set in a data stream. The data set includes a set of data descriptor fields. Using the set of data descriptor fields included in the data set,... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20090055427 - Cloning policy using templates and override cloned policy: A method for creating a newly configured policy comprises a plurality of operations. An operation is performed for receiving a policy creation request including identification information corresponding to a template policy, override information corresponding to the template policy and override information corresponding to a policy referenced by the template policy.... Agent: Galasso & Associates, Lp

20090055428 - Metadata editing control: A metadata management architecture. The architecture includes a property component that lists one or more properties related to a file, and a viewing component that present files having one or more of the related properties. A synchronization component provides immediate synchronization between property editing fields of the property component and... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090055429 - Method and system for data collection: A system and method for collecting data are disclosed. The system generates tables in a database corresponding to source data selected for collection. Using a first program thread, the system receives source data from a data source and stores the source data in a data storage device. Using a second... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090055426 - Method and system for generating playlists for content items: A method and system for generating playlists for content items is provided. Generating a playlist involves monitoring user interaction with one or more content items as user-content interactions, determining a context associated with one or more user-content interactions, and generating a playlist of the content items based on the user-content... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20090055430 - Method and system for model-based replication of data: Techniques for replicating data in a system having a data tier with a plurality of data sources and an application tier with a plurality of applications are provided. Such techniques can include creating an instance of an information model of the data that is specified by a schema. The model... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090055425 - Sequence identification and analysis: The present technique provides for the analysis of a data series to identify sequences of interest within the series. Specifically, in accordance with one embodiment of the present technique, a method is provided comprising generating a data structure that stores characteristics about a plurality of sequences present in a data... Agent: General Electric Company (pcpi) C/o Fletcher Yoder

20090055424 - Xml based object-relationship mapping for different object type: A method for XML based object-relationship mapping for different object types in a computer system is provided. The method includes creating a database schema in a database layer including a single table with specific database columns for storing known properties as well as customizable database columns for storing extended properties.... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Austin

20090055432 - Accessing objects in a service registry and repository: This invention relates to a service registry and repository system, method and computer program product for accessing objects in an object repository. A method of managing an object database for objects comprising: receiving a database XPATH query; translating the database path query into an object query; and querying the object... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090055431 - Privacy ontology for identifying and classifying personally identifiable information and a related gui: Method and system of providing an association between a system's meta-tagged data objects and a list of terms, the association indicating which objects are and are not covered by a given policy, in one aspect, may comprise obtaining a list of terms and a policy that includes one or more... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090055434 - Simplified application object data synchronization for optimized data storage: A method for synchronizing a mobile device with a central computer system is provided. The method includes coupling the mobile device to an application server of the central computer system over a network, defining a sync list that includes a candidate object type for distribution, synchronizing a relevant object of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090055433 - System, apparatus and method for organizing forecasting event data: The invention relates to a system and method for improving the accuracy of forecasting by analyzing information in advance of some forecast window. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of: for each of a plurality of users acquiring a plurality of data; tagging each datum with information about... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090055435 - Analyzer, a system and a method for defining a preferred group of users: The present invention relates to an analyzer, a system, a method, and a computer-readable medium for defining a preferred group of users, wherein the group is defined in the following way. The analyzer receives data from a data network node, which may be e.g. a (plurality of) data-base(s). After receiving... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090055437 - Referent tracking of portions of reality: Management of information is facilitated by unambiguously tracking portions of reality over time. To track the portions of reality, a referent tracking system is used. The referent tracking system is able to communicate with other tracking systems and/or tradition information systems. Errors in the referent tracking system are detected and... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20090055438 - Strict validation of inference rule based on abstraction environment: An article of manufacture for processing rule sets and, more particularly, for processing abstract rule sets. One embodiment provides a computer-readable storage medium containing a program which, when executed by a processor, performs operations for managing execution of an analysis routine. The operations comprise accessing an analysis routine configured to... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090055436 - System and method for integrating on demand/pull and push flow of goods-and-services meta-data, including coupon and advertising, with mobile and wireless applications: The invention is a system and method, embodied in infrastructure platforms, that implements the suitable means of generating, storing, manipulating, distributing and utilizing marketing and sales oriented metadata that can be associated with goods and services offerings. It uniformly treats coupons, ads and similar marketing and sales information products as... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20090055439 - Flexible dimension approach in a data warehouse: Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method for dynamically adding dimensions specific to a tenant in a data warehouse without changing the structure of the fact table. Metadata is provided in a metadata table of a warehouse staging layer to map natural key values of the dimensions, obtained from predefined... Agent: Ashok Tankha

20090055440 - Information update method and information update system: A first server is connected with a second server. The first server judges whether it is possible to access the second server. When a result of the judgment shows that the second server may be accessed, then the first server sends an information update request including information to the second... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090055442 - Management system for contracts for difference: A management system for contract for difference trading is disclosed. The system includes a user interface module and a processing module. The user interface module includes computer program code for receiving user inputs on a purchase or sale of a contract for difference and computer program code for communicating data... Agent: Leason Ellis LLP

20090055441 - Method, system and computer program product for maintaining synchronization of files: A method for synchronizing data files, the method comprising: within a messaging utility, associating a Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) definition with a data file, the association made by a passive reference between the WSDL definition to the data file; creating a reference table identifying WSDL files and referenced data... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Austin

20090055444 - Method and system for high-availability database: The present invention provides a system switching function for database management systems which requires no standby resources idling during normal operation. One aspect of the invention is directed to a method for processing databases in a system which includes a plurality of storage areas each storing a database and a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090055443 - Recording a log of operations: Systems and methods are provided that record an easily viewable log of operations. A particular system includes a response receiving unit that receives an input response from a server, the input response related to a first client request and including first content adapted to prompt data input via a client.... Agent: Ibm Corp. (jgt) C/o Toler Law Group

20090055445 - On demand data conversion: Novel tools for updating data structures in a database. In an aspect, the tools are used to update a database's structures in response to the update of an application (such as an enterprise application) that uses the database. In another aspect, the tools may convert a data set to a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090055449 - Method for extracting and storing records of data backup activity from a plurality of backup devices: A method and system for requesting, cross-referencing, extracting and storing historical records of data backup activity by using a software component that interfaces to a plurality of data backup software devices is disclosed. In the first aspect, a method of storing automated request-for-historical records of data backup activity schedules is... Agent: Dla Piper LLP (us )

20090055448 - Method, apparatus, and program for capturing data changes utilizing data-space tracking: A method, apparatus, and program for reorganizing a database while concurrently providing access to the database for updates. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, an on-line reorganization facility (ORF) uses index data-spaces that point to other data-spaces, referred to as data data-spaces, to efficiently track and coordinate information about... Agent: Sughrue Mion PLLC Uspto Customer No With Ibm/svl

20090055446 - Staged, lightweight backup system: A restore system may perform a two staged restore operation. The first operation may restore system state and basic operational data to a system sufficient that the system may begin performing a set of basic operations. The second operation may restore secondary data over a period of time while the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090055447 - Techniques for snapshotting: Techniques are presented for snapshotting. Blocks associated with a storage volume are frozen from volatile access upon receipt of a snapshot request. Continued volatile access to the frozen blocks is permitted by transparently mapping each frozen block to an available block within the volume that is not associated with the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20090055452 - Journaling fat file system and accessing method thereof: A journaling file allocation table (FAT) file system includes an FAT file system module, a storage device and a driver. The FAT file system module includes a journaling module and receives a file operation instruction sent by an operating system. The storage device has an FAT file system and an... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090055450 - Measuring fragmentation on direct access storage devices and defragmentation thereof: A method for determining file fragmentation and performing subsequent defragmentation, including measuring a file fragmentation factor, measuring a file extent distance factor, measuring a file fragmentation level, selecting a file stored as multiple extents on at least one disk, selecting a free space extent on the disk whose length most... Agent: Daniel J Swirsky

20090055451 - Systems and methods for providing redundant data storage: Embodiments of systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing redundant data storage are disclosed. For example, one embodiment of the present invention is a method including the steps of receiving a first signal comprising a request to store a file; generating a plurality of data blocks comprising portions of the... Agent: Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20090049004 - Apparatus, method and computer program product for tying information to features associated with captured media objects: An apparatus, method and computer program product are provided for tying items of information to features in an area associated with a captured media object. An information provider may associate physical coordinates and temporal information with an item of information. When a media object is captured, metadata indicating the location... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090049005 - Method and system for collecting and analyzing environmental data: A method and system for customizing a data logging and analysis program. The method includes connecting environmental sensors to a computer or other data collecting device and accessing a workflow customization interface that allows a user to select a customized workflow or optionally to customize a data collection program by... Agent: Brown Rudnick LLP

20090049006 - Method and system for processing knowledge: The invention provides a knowledge sharing method for supporting mobile workers before, during and after visiting a location, organisation or individual as part of their day to day activities. It achieves this through a knowledge management system which has a database for storing knowledge specific to a plurality of entities... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20090049003 - System and method for providing write-once-read-many (worm) storage: Techniques for providing write-once-read-many (WORM) storage are described herein. According to one embodiment, a range of values is received to set an attribute of a file, where the received range of values is outside of an ordinary range of the attribute in accordance with a file system associated with the... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090049007 - Method, apparatus and computer program for model-driven message parsing: There is disclosed a method, apparatus and computer program for parsing a message using a message model. A message is received comprising one or more message fields. This message is stored as a reference bitstream. The message model is used to compare a message field in one or more subsequently... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090049008 - System for evolving efficient communication: An improved system, method, service method, and data structure that facilitates collaboration with, communication of, and access to information, particularly in an education environment is disclosed. The invention includes a database having one or more records. Each record defines a logical connection between one or more querents and one or... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090049016 - Apparatus and method for file difference management: A file difference management apparatus includes a storage unit in which a group data table and a difference detection data table are stored; a difference data detection module configured to search a previous difference detection file which is an original file of an difference management object file and detect a... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090049012 - Apparatus, system, and method for ensuring query execution plan stability in a database management system: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for ensuring query execution plan stability in a database management system. The present invention binds a static database query to a new query execution plan (QEP) that produces the same result set as an original QEP bound to the static database query. Next,... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090049015 - Data management device and terminal device: In a management server, a file registration reception unit receives a file registration request from the user via a terminal apparatus. A definition information holding unit stores conditions under which the attribute information is assigned to a file according to a file registration request. An attribute assignment unit assigns the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090049019 - Directional expression-based scientific information knowledge management: The present invention relates to methods, systems and apparatus for capturing, integrating, organizing, navigating and querying large-scale data from high-throughput biological and chemical assay platforms. It provides a highly efficient meta-analysis infrastructure for performing research queries across a large number of studies and experiments from different biological and chemical assays,... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP

20090049013 - Enhanced control to users to populate a cache in a database system: Providing enhanced control to users to populate a cache in a database system. A user provides an explicit indication indicating the specific information (available from the data stored in a storage of the database system) to be populated in the cache, and the cache is populated with the corresponding information.... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20090049009 - Method and system for software object profile management: Disclosed is a method and system for retrieving a software object based on a query and customizing a metadata of the software object by adding a property, a property value, a search key and a search key value to the metadata. An index is created on the software object based... Agent: Sap Ag

20090049010 - Method and system to enable domain specific search: A method and a computer system to enable domain specific search is disclosed. The present invention enables creation and sharing of domain specific search scripts, where search intelligence relating to domain and search engines is encapsulated in a parameterized domain specific search script. The system provides a customizable knowledge base... Agent: Chandra Bodapati

20090049020 - System and method for providing personalized recommended word and computer readable recording medium recording program for implementing the method: A system and method for providing a user-customized recommended word or words is provided, in which a recommended service log stored in a user terminal is classified according to at least one index, the indexed recommended service log is respectively stored for each index, and the user-customized recommended word or... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090049021 - System and method for storing text annotations with associated type information in a structured data store: A text annotation structured storage system stores text annotations with associated type information in a structured data store. The present system persists or stores annotations in a structured data store in an indexable and queryable format. Exemplary structured data stores comprise XML databases and relational databases. The system exploits type... Agent: Ibm - Arc Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20090049014 - Systems and methods for implementation of a structured query language interface in a distributed database environment: Systems and methods for implementation of a structured query language interface in a distributed database environment are provided. Exemplary systems include a distributed database configured with items of data, a volatile cache memory configured with a subset of the items of data, a scripting language configured to extract data from... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090049018 - Temporal document sorter and method using semantic decoding and prediction: Electronic documents are classified and compared according to their temporal qualities. The content of a document relating to an event is analyzed to identify temporal components, including semantic counterparts. These components can be compared with corresponding counterparts in other documents to identify a relative temporal order, and/or to generate predictions... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney

20090049017 - Temporal document verifier and method: Temporal qualities of electronic documents are verified using a variety of techniques, including automated and human based feedback. The invention can be used in environments such as automated news aggregators, search engines, and other electronic systems which compile information having temporal qualities.... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney

20090049011 - Tool to report the status and drill-down of an application in an automated manufacturing environment: Disclosed are embodiments that provide near real-time monitoring of a control application in a manufacturing environment in order to detect and determine the root cause of faults within the control application. The embodiments monitor the flow of data within the control application during certain events (i.e., certain transactions, stages, process... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090049026 - Data providing apparatus, data providing method and program: A data providing apparatus for providing search result information corresponding to-be-searched data including a search query includes a storing part storing the to-be-searched data which has been non-reversibly encoded according to a predetermined method, and the search result information to be provided as a search result with respect to the... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090049024 - Dynamic query optimization between systems based on system conditions: A computer-implemented system, method and article of manufacture for managing a plurality of database systems in a domain, wherein each of the database systems are managed by one or more closed-loop system management (CLSM) regulators. A virtual regulator manages the domain, wherein the virtual regulator communicates with the CLSM regulators... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20090049023 - Method and computer program for collaborative web searching: A method and computer program are provided for collaboratively searching one or more distributed computer systems using a web-based user-interface on a computer system. At least a portion of the search processing is remotely performed on the one or more distributed computer systems. The method and computer program include presenting... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20090049022 - Swapping multiple object aliases in a database system: A novel Structure Query Language (SQL) command globally swaps multiple alias names for multiple objects in a database management system.... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090049027 - System and method for generating a chronic circuit report for use in proactive maintenance of a communication network: A method for generating a chronic circuit report for use in maintaining a communication network is provided. The method comprises the steps of searching a database for information regarding circuit exceptions reported in a communication system, compiling a listing of circuits and circuit exception information, prioritizing the listing of the... Agent: At&t Legal Department Attn: Patent Docketing

20090049025 - System and method for harvesting service metadata from an architecture diagram into a metadata repository: Embodiments of the invention are generally related to architecture diagrams and metadata repositories, particularly with regards to systems and methods for harvesting service metadata from an architecture diagram into a metadata repository. One embodiment includes a service metadata repository communicating through an application programming interface to a plug-in to an... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090049038 - Location based news and search engine: A search engine and/or news aggregator considers temporal qualities of electronic documents, a location of a searcher/reviewer, and a situs associated with content of the document to determine how/if they should be presented to users.... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney

20090049039 - Mechanism for improving the effectiveness of an internet search engine: Also included is a mechanism to generate, for each relevant query, an intent page (16) which contains the relevant query and a link to the webpage that it accessed. The intent pages (16) are made visible to the internet search engine thereby improving the efficiency by which users are directed... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20090049031 - Method and system for database searching: A method of searching a second database comprising A) receiving a summary document generated by the first database, the summary document comprising a list of returned first database subject keys, representing the returned first database subjects, the list further including at least one identifier associated with the returned first database... Agent: Hodgson Russ LLP The Guaranty Building

20090049032 - Method and system for intent queries and results: A search engine compares entered search terms to an index of terms signifying a specific or local intent. If an entered term matches term in the index, then the search engine identifies and outputs information corresponding to the specific or local intent. Terms to include in the index of terms... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20090049042 - Method and system for rating expert classified by keyword: A method and system for computing an expert point value of a user for each keyword is provided, including: a first step of assigning a first knowledge-based expert rating value associated with a keyword to a user identifier of a user which enters the keyword into an expert field; a... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20090049029 - Method and system of detecting keyword whose input number is rapidly increased in real time: A method and a system of detecting a keyword whose input number is rapidly increased in real time which can estimate a search number at a future point in time by reflecting an input trend of the keyword in real time at a present point in time and can immediately... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090049028 - Method of determining the similarity of two strings: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of determining a similarity of a two string. The method comprises calculating a Levenshtein matrix of a first string and a second string. A Levenshtein distance is determined from the Levenshtein matrix. A largest common substring is also determined from the Levenshtein... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090049033 - Method of user-generated, content-based web-document ranking using client-based ranking module and systematic score calculation: Present invention allows a user to rank web-documents that he or she accesses with a web-browser. Ranking of web-documents is facilitated by a client-based ranking module, a software program functionally compatible with a user's web-browser. A user sends voting information together with an identification number unique to each version of... Agent: Andrei Sedov

20090049034 - Ontology system providing enhanced search capability: Ontology system providing enhanced search capability receives a search request specifying nodes and edges of interest and determines a set of matching ontologies stored in a knowledge store. The ontology system also generates a ranking for each of the matching ontologies based on the extent of matching. Data indicating the... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20090049041 - Ranking content items related to an event: Ranking content items is disclosed. A user input is received from each of one or more users indicating an opinion of the user with respect to a content item included in a plurality of content items. Based at least in part on a number of users from whom user input... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20090049035 - System and method for indexing type-annotated web documents: Methods and apparatus generate an index for use in a document retrieval system where the index is organized by type and keyword. Redundancy in the index is reduced by organizing type entries in a hierarchy of internal and leaf nodes. Determining whether to generate an inverted list for a type... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20090049030 - System and method for reducing the multiple listing of a media item in a playlist: A system and method for reducing the multiple listing of a media item in a playlist are disclosed. When a media item recommendation is received from a recommender, a playlist may be reviewed to determine whether there is a current listing of the media item in the playlist. If there... Agent: Concert Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20090049040 - System and method for semantic asset search in a metadata repository: Embodiments of the invention are generally related to semantic search and service metadata repositories, particularly with regards to methods and systems for performing a semantic asset search in a service metadata repository. One embodiment includes identifying service metadata assets with similar metadata, relationships, and categorizations to the service metadata assets... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090049036 - Systems and methods for keyword selection in a web-based social network: A system and method for selecting a subset of keywords from a set of master keywords found in user profiles in a social network is disclosed. The method includes selecting a first and second group of user profiles including one or more keywords and computing the number of occurrences of... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090049037 - Temporal document sorter and method: Electronic documents are classified and compared according to their temporal qualities. The content of a document relating to an event is analyzed to identify temporal components. These components can be compared with corresponding counterparts in other documents to identify a relative temporal order. The invention can be used in environments... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney

20090049043 - Method and apparatus for providing traffic-based content acquisition and indexing: A method and apparatus for processing packets in a network are disclosed. For example, the method scans one or more packets representing a content that is being transferred via the network, where the scanning acquires one or more content elements. The method then builds a keyterm index from the one... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090049044 - Method for providing a searchable, comprehensive database of proposed rides: A method is disclosed that matches travelers for ride sharing according to personal preferences, such as smoking, music, allergies, drive sharing, expense sharing, number of riders, and gender, as well as basic trip details. In preferred embodiments the method is accessed via a website, and trips can be over any... Agent: Russ Weinzimmer

20090049045 - Method and system for sorting media items in a playlist on a media device: A computer-implemented method and system are provided for sorting media items in a playlist on a media device that are ranked by score. One embodiment includes providing each of the media items with a respective profile score that is based on user preferences and a respective replay score that affects... Agent: Concert Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20090049046 - Annotation and publication framework: A hybrid annotation and publication system is disclosed that can access content in a scalable manner from databases, allow for its editing and publication via wiki-style programs, while at the same time allowing for peer-review of such content via peer-review programs. This system balances the wiki-style programs, the peer-review programs,... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20090049049 - Method and system for controlled distribution of profile information and related data objects: An information management and distribution system is disclosed. The information management and distribution system includes a client-side application and a server application that interact to facilitate the controlled exchange of contact information over a network. The client-side application can provide creation and design, rolodex, exchange, and update features. The information... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20090049048 - Module and associated method for tr-069 object management:

20090049047 - Storing custom metadata using custom access control entries: A computer-implemented system and method for storing custom metadata in a custom access control entry of a securable object. An exemplary method includes determining the custom metadata to be stored (e.g., information relating to the securable object that is inexpressible using a native file system application programming interface, information relating... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090049050 - File-based horizontal storage system: A file-based storage system includes a upload server configured to receive data files, a data buffer configured to store the data files received by the upload server, a plurality of first file silos each configured to store at least a portion of the data files received by the upload server,... Agent: Xin Wen

20090049052 - Flexible method and system for providing digital content: A system and method for disseminating digital content, including receiving at a server a request from a user computer for a browser displayable interface definition, and sending from the server to the user computer the interface definition including resource tags, the resource tags being interpretable for linking to sources of... Agent: Patrick S. Yoder Fletcher Yoder

20090049058 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus including: a communication connection section that is communicably connected to an external apparatus; a first storage section that stores a predetermined program to be executed by the external apparatus, and for which read/write operation from the external apparatus is inhibited; a second... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090049054 - Method and apparatus for sequencing transactions globally in distributed database cluster: A system and method for receiving and tracking a plurality of transactions and distributing the transactions to at least two replication queues over a network. The system and method comprise a global queue for storing a number of the received transactions in a first predetermined order. The system and method... Agent: Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP

20090049057 - Method and device for providing location based content delivery: A device for providing location based content delivery includes a server located at a first location, a hand-held electronic device configured for communication via a wireless network with the server to receive data relating to the plurality of requests for services and to transmit data regarding the provision of services... Agent: Ice Miller LLP

20090049059 - Method and system for controlled distribution of profiles and related content via centralized network-based resources: An information management and distribution system is disclosed. The information management and distribution system includes a client-side application and a server application that interact to facilitate the controlled exchange of contact information over a network. The client-side application can provide creation and design, rolodex, exchange, and update features. The information... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20090049053 - Method and system for pushing data to subscribers in an on-demand service: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for pushing data, which maybe associated with documents that are being tracked, in an on-demand service. These mechanisms and methods for pushing data in an on-demand service can enable subscriptions to elements associated with the documents being shared. As a... Agent: David Lewis

20090049055 - Method, apparatus, and system to provide content using content preference information: A method, an apparatus, and a system to provide content using content preference information of users, and a computer readable medium to store a computer readable program to execute the content providing method. The method comprises searching the content preference information to identify one of the users that is likely... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090049056 - Multi-tenant hosted application system: Technologies are described herein for implementing a hosted multi-tenant application system. The server computers utilized to provide the hosted application are organized into logical groupings of server computers called scale groups. One or more tenants are assigned to each scale group. When a new tenant is provisioned, the tenant is... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090049051 - Systems and methods for providing media access patterns in a geographic area: Systems and methods of presenting media access patterns to a user are disclosed herein. A geographic indicator is received from a user. The geographic indicator can be representative of a geographic area. A media item identifier corresponding to a media item having the greatest number of media access requests is... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090049061 - Characteristic based classification system: Characteristics can be stored in a computer databank for various plants, animals, and items. When a user wants to identify a particular plant, animal, or item, the user supplies the characteristics that are readily ascertained. After the user has entered the characteristics, the standardized reverse logic databank of the invention... Agent: Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC

20090049064 - Data and application model for configurable tracking and reporting system: A software application, which allows the addition, modification and deletion of database fields dynamically, may be utilized without having to modify the database structure, application code, or user interface elements. Essentially, additional attributes may be added, subtracted or changed by users without the assistance of a database administrator. In addition... Agent: Philip S. Johnson Johnson & Johnson

20090049060 - Method and apparatus for managing database records rejected due to referential constraints: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for managing database records rejected due to referential constraints. In one embodiment, such rejected records may be processed automatically. More specifically, the foreign key value included in a rejected record may be automatically added to a parent table, and the rejected record may then... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090049068 - Method and apparatus to capture and transmit dense diagnostic data of a file system: A processor selects file system metadata. A processor identifies each unit of data in a file system. The processor determines if the unit of data contains file system metadata. The processor writes a unit of data of metadata to a diagnostic file system, provided it was determined that the unit... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090049066 - Method and system for establishing tree file structure in computer: The present invention relates to a method and system for establishing tree file structure in a computer. The method executes the following steps: the computer invokes a panel generating program to establish a panel for displaying a tree structural of a file while it opens said file; said program invokes... Agent: Coats & Bennett, PLLC

20090049063 - Method for enabling a company to manage the execution of a task: A method for enabling a company to manage the execution of a task, the method comprising identifying information pertinent to the execution of the task, generating a list of requests related to the identified information, collecting data pertinent to the execution of the task using the generated list of requests,... Agent: Fasken Martineau Dumoulin, LLP

20090049062 - Method for organizing structurally similar web pages from a web site: Techniques are described for organizing structurally similar web pages for a website. Fingerprints are made of the structure of the web pages using shingling by placing the web page's HTML tags and attributes in sequence and encoding the tags and attributes using a standard encoding technique. Fixed-size portions of the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090049065 - On-demand database service system, method, and computer program product for validating a developed application: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for validating a developed application. These mechanisms and methods for providing such validation can enable embodiments to ensure that new versions of developed applications will operate in the same application environment of a previous version. The ability of embodiments to... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20090049067 - System and method of self-learning conceptual mapping to organize and interpret data: In a computer implemented method of researching textual data sources, textual data is reduced to a plurality of distinctive words based on frequency of usage within the textual data. The distinctive words are converted into first numeric representations of vectors containing random numbers. A first self-organizing map is formed from... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20090049073 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding metadata: Provided are a meta data encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The meta data decoding method includes decoding a media signal containing a media object, and decoding meta data corresponding to the media object. During the decoding of the meta data signal, decoding of the meta data is skipped when the meta... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090049071 - Method and apparatus for signal processing and encoding and decoding method, and apparatus therefor: An apparatus for processing a signal and method thereof are disclosed. Data coding and entropy coding are performed with interconnection, and grouping is used to enhance coding efficiency. The present invention includes the steps of obtaining index information and entropy-decoding the index information and identifying a content corresponding to the... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090049069 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for preserving privacy in data mining: Privacy in data mining of sparse high dimensional data records is preserved by transforming the data records into anonymized data records. This transformation involves creating a sketch-based private representation of each data record, each data record containing only a small number of non-zero attribute value in relation to the high... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090049072 - Security encoding unit and image forming apparatus including same: A security encoding unit performs security encoding processing on a plurality of images simultaneously, for example, an image on a front side of the document and an image on a back side of the document. The security encoding unit includes at least a first detector for detecting first security information... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090049070 - Web-based social network badges: Web-based social network badges according to various exemplary embodiments are customizable displays which allow computer users who are members of a web-based social network to share personal information on various third-party web sites. A template is used for selecting user information from a profile on the social network to appear... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090049078 - Autofoldering process in content management: A system, and program product for managing the creation, retrieval, editing or distribution of content by creating a folder and filing the folder in a library on a selected server. This is accomplished by first creating an autofoldering configuration entry in an Auto Link table. Accomplishment of this step results... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20090049074 - Content management system: A content management server is provided. The content management server includes at least one relay element to identify media content and media players within a network and acquire content characteristic information from the media content and media player characteristic information from the media players. A database stores the content characteristic... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20090049079 - Database management system, database management method, and program: A database management system for determining consistency in a hierarchical database sequentially reads pointers of a plurality of segment data, generates an address hash value, which is a hash value of retention addresses of the segment data having been read, generates a pointer hash value, which is a hash value... Agent: Ibm - Svl Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20090049075 - Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding: The present invention relates to a multimedia data encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The encoding method includes generating a data area including a plurality of media data areas; and generating a media information area including a plurality of track areas corresponding to the plurality of media data areas, respectively. According to... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090049080 - Relationship management for data modeling in an integrated development environment: A system and method of relationship management for data modeling in an integrated development environment is provided. A method of incorporating a program code file includes generating a relational schema of symbols in the program code file based on a framework for models in the integrated development environment, the schema... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wsm) C/o Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.

20090049076 - System and method for dynamic price setting and facilitation of commercial transactions: The present invention provides methods and systems for defining commercial transaction components; defining rules for mapping customer transactions into individual components; market segmentation in light of these individual definitions and bundling individual components of an offer into optimized packages for presentation and sale. A data processing system in accordance with... Agent: Richard T. Black Black Lowe & Graham PLLC

20090049077 - System and method for the creation and access of dynamic course content: The creation of course content for college and university courses, seminars, lectures, and other pedagogical activities has in the past relied heavily on a textbook. Using a textbook for course content creation creates a static, rigid course framework that fails to consider timely, relevant real world information that is dynamic... Agent: Robert D. Gunderman, Jr. Patent Technologies, LLC

20090049085 - Binary data classification method, binary data classification device, computer program, and storage medium: An information processing apparatus 100 for realizing a binary data classification method of the present invention includes a CPU for computing a column vector a that has at least a quarter of its components equal to zero, which satisfies diag(y)Dna>0, where a represents a column vector having a coefficient of... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090049081 - Integrating object-oriented design software with record-based cad software: Implementations of the present invention allow a user to work within a record-based design environment while achieving the advantages provided by an object-oriented database. In particular, the user of components in accordance with the present invention can create designs within a record-based application program, within an object-oriented application program, or... Agent: Workman Nydegger 1000 Eagle Gate Tower

20090049083 - Method and apparatus for accessing data using a symbolic representation space: A method of browsing data items using an n-dimensional array of symbols, where n is greater than or equal to 1, each symbol corresponding to at least one data item, using selecting means movable through the n-dimensional array and capable of selecting points in the array including where no symbol... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090049084 - Method and apparatus for generating and reproducing media object-based metadata: A method and an apparatus for generating and reproducing media object-based metadata are provided. The method includes generating a media stream which includes media objects and generating metadata which corresponds to each of the media objects. Each of the media objects includes metadata position information for accessing the corresponding metadata.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090049082 - System and method for identifying similar media objects: The systems and methods described create a mathematical representation of each of the media objects for which user ratings are known. The mathematical representations take into account the subjective rating value assigned by a user to the respective media object and the user that assigned the rating value. The media... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090049086 - System and method for providing an object to support data structures in worm storage: An object storage system provides a storage object to support index structures, logs, and audit trails in WORM storage. The storage object includes a mutable object, an immutable object, or an appendable object. For each storage object, the system maintains an indication of type, such as mutable, immutable, or appendable... Agent: Ibm - Arc Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20090049087 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing a universal uniform resource identifier (uuri): Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing a universal uniform resource identifier (UURI) are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for mapping a universal uniform resource identifier (UURI) to a uniform resource identifier (URI). The method includes receiving a message containing a... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20090049088 - Emergent information database management system: A method for recreating known emergent information comprises initially storing data in a database. Multiple data patterns, which are based on known emergent information, are developed. These multiple data patterns are ranked according to each data pattern's historic accuracy in creating the known emergent information. The data is applied to... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090049092 - Content ancillary to sensory work playback: An ancillary device is used to access content related to a sensory work during the playback of the sensory work. The ancillary device receives information related to the playback of a sensory work on a primary device, prepares content information related to the sensory work using the received information, presents... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20090049093 - Custom user pages for participants in a two-way communication: A method for creating and displaying custom user pages for participants in a two-way communication is described. A content profile for a second party in a two-way communication is selected or retrieved responsive to a triggering event. The content profile includes one or more content identifiers that identify content of... Agent: Coats & Bennett/sony Ericsson

20090049089 - Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and method: An information processing system comprising: an input section for receiving an input from a user; a signal detection section for measuring a signal concerning an event-related potential of electroencephalograms of the user; a determination section for determining a degree of confidence of the user with respect to the input based... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (pan) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090049095 - Internet based employment service transmitted using web services and video: The invention comprises an Internet based employment information computer network comprising at least one server and a database that utilizes a web service software system for transmission of employment candidate information from the database to an employer network. In one embodiment, the network further comprising resumes, photos or videos entered... Agent: Law Office Of David Mcewing

20090049100 - Method and apparatus for human-powered mobile visual search and feedback: A system and a method for receiving live human feedback of an image provided using a mobile device equipped with a camera. The method includes capturing an image with the mobile device equipped with a camera, inputting a text query, where the text query corresponds with the image, transmitting the... Agent: Brown Rudnick LLP

20090049099 - Method and apparatus for managing media file: A method and apparatus for managing a media file are provided. The method of managing a media file comprising a plurality of media objects comprises correcting at least one media object from among the plurality of the media objects; generating or renewing information relating to unused regions generated in the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090049104 - Method and system for configuring a variety of medical information: A method and a device for configuring a variety of medical information formats are described. The method is used to incorporate a variety of medical information so as to output documents in a certain format and search for information of the patient's medication history. According to one of the preferred... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090049097 - Method and systems for self-service programming of content and advertising in digital out-of-home networks: A media and content distribution system comprising a global scheduling system (GSS) configured to collect data and content, an Internet network, and one or more Regional Content Delivery Systems (RCDSs) is disclosed. The one or more RCDSs are configured to receive data and content and communicate with the GSS via... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090049103 - Method, apparatus and program products for retrieving moving image: An apparatus for retrieving moving image according to the present invention has an extracting unit for extracting the information of the feature quantity of the moving image from the fixed moving image data, an extracting unit for extracting the information of the unique identification of the moving image to identify... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090049096 - Multimedia storage media with playback function and multimedia player with modeling-looking: A modeling multimedia storage media with playback function and a multimedia player with modeling-looking comprises a housing, a memory for storing multimedia files, and a playback module for playing the multimedia files stored in the memory. The multimedia files stored in the memory are provided in an International Standard Recording... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090049101 - On-demand database service system and method for determining whether a developed application will operate properly with at least one other application: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for determining whether a developed application associated with an on-demand database service will operate properly with at least one other application. These mechanisms and methods for providing such determination can enable embodiments to ensure that new versions of developed applications... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20090049102 - On-demand database service system, method, and computer program product for enforcing the inclusion of tests in a developed application: In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for enforcing the inclusion of tests in a developed application. These mechanisms and methods for providing such enforcement can enable embodiments to ensure that new versions of developed applications will operate in the same application environment of a previous version.... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20090049098 - Providing a social network: A social network may be provided. First, a content group comprising a list of a plurality of content programs may be received. Next, a user selectable element corresponding to the content group may be made available to a plurality of users. A first request may then be received associated with... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090049090 - System and method for facilitating targeted mobile advertisement: A system and method for facilitating targeted mobile advertisement, the system having: a mobile device having: a communication subsystem adapted to send and receive data; at least one application adapted to consume data, create data or consume and create data; and a scan engine registered with the at least one... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090049091 - System and method for identifying similar media objects: The systems and methods described create a mathematical representation of each of the media objects for which user ratings are known. The mathematical representations take into account the subjective rating value assigned by a user to the respective media object and the user that assigned the rating value. The media... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090049094 - System and method for performing site audits on facilities: A system and method for performing site audits on facilities may include an electronic display configured to display facility information associated with a facility being site audited. A storage unit may be configured to store the facility information. The facility information may include a graphical representation of the facility. A... Agent: Patton Boggs, LLP

20090049105 - Extensible dependency management framework and method: The present invention provides an extensible dependency management framework and method. Specifically, the present invention provides dependency management handler(s) and dispatcher(s) (e.g., revalidation and/or refactoring). The handlers are created and registered by users of the framework. When a change to a resource is detected, a notification is received by a... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090049106 - method to improve collaboration within an organization: A system and method in accordance with the present invention provides a composite chart of interpersonal relationships of members within an organization. A user can utilize the composite chart to identify persons of interest or the effective organization based on any context or multiple contexts both internally and externally to... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20090049107 - Method and system of database management for replica database: When a database area multi-written or replicated in an external storage unit is separated, a database management system writes consistent data into the external storage unit. A method and system capable of controlling a timing of separating the replicated database area is provided. Furthermore, new data directory information necessary to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090049108 - Method and apparatus for workflow versioning: A method and system are provided for automatic workflow versioning. A workflow database can include metadata describing the relationships between data files, a workflow association and version/timestamp information such that relationships can be tracked against time and file versions. A system is provided to visualize a workflow and how it... Agent: Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Anne Kinsman

20090049109 - Distribution fabric: A data distribution fabric enabled over a communications network. The fabric comprises several edge servers that engage in bidirectional communication with one another over the network. One of the edge servers has read/write access to a backup database and is a backup server. A data or a software application stored... Agent: Michael Molins Molins & Co.

20090049110 - Apparatus and system for reorganizing a set of database partitions: An apparatus and system are disclosed for reorganizing a set of database partitions based on a ranked set of database partitions. The apparatus includes an evaluation module to determine a fragmentation indicator for each database partition within a set of database partitions. A ranking module ranks the set of database... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090043726 - Spatial join in a parallel database management system: There is provided a method, a system and a machine readable medium to execute a spatial query against a plurality of input tables of a distributed database. The method comprises: mapping spatial objects of a first input table to a first spatial grid, the first spatial grid including a plurality... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20090043727 - System and method for stepped loading of web page content: A system and method for integrating customized content with the main content of a Web page where the customized content is generated after the main content has been loaded within a browser application of a client computer is disclosed. The system and method of the present invention maintains information relating... Agent: Snell & Wilmer L.L.P. (amex)

20090043731 - Information processing apparatus, and function limitation method of information processing apparatus: The present invention aims to limit, in case of causing plural devices to perform a process together, a use of a function of another device by reflecting function limitation information for individual user. In case of retrieving the function of the another device, a function retrieval request is issued to... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090043730 - Methods and apparatus for improving data warehouse performance: Methods and apparatus for improving data warehouse performance are disclosed. An example method to format data received from a data warehouse includes receiving an analysis instruction, retrieving data from the data warehouse based on the analysis instruction, and associating a mapping file with a fact table, the mapping file stored... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20090043729 - Processing overlapping continuous queries: An edge-covering based harmonic method for shared filter ordering includes receiving a plurality of queries, wherein each query is a conjunction of filters, and each filter is shared across multiple queries of the plurality of queries, evaluating a weight of each filter, evaluating, randomly, each filter having a probability inversely... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090043728 - Query optimization in a parallel computer system to reduce network traffic: An apparatus and method for a database query optimizer to optimize a query that uses multiple networks. The query optimizer optimizes a query to reduce network traffic on a network or node that is overloaded or above an established parameter in a node/network attribute table. The query optimization to reduce... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20090043741 - Autocompletion and automatic input method correction for partially entered search query: A method for processing query information includes receiving a partial search query from a search requestor, and obtaining a set of predicted complete queries corresponding to the partial search query from a plurality of previously submitted complete queries, the previously submitted complete queries submitted by a community of users. The... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20090043734 - Dynamic partial uncompression of a database table: A database dynamic partial uncompression mechanism determines when to dynamically uncompress one or more compressed portions of a database table that also includes uncompressed portions. A query may include an express term that specifies whether or not to skip compressed portions. In addition, a query may include associated information that... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20090043736 - Efficient tuple extraction from streaming xml data: A method and apparatus are disclosed for querying streaming extensible markup language (XML) data comprising: routing elements to query nodes, the elements derived from the streaming extensible markup language data; filtering out elements not conforming to one or more predetermined path query patterns; adding remaining elements to one or more... Agent: Ibm - Arc Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20090043742 - Method and system for off-loading user queries to a task manager: A system and computer program product that off-loads the processing associated with responding to user status requests for software task execution queues or for queued software tasks that are managed by a software task manager. A software task manager is periodically queried for status and the results of that periodic... Agent: Fleit, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090043740 - Method for administrating data storage in an information search and retrieval system: In a method for administrating data storage in an information search and retrieval system, particularly in an enterprise search system, wherein the system implements indexing and search applications and comprises a suitable search engine, and data storage devices and a data communication system which together realize a network storage system... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090043732 - Method for providing search results list based on importance information and system thereof: The present invention relates to a method for providing a search result list by a search engine and a system thereof, and more particularly, to a method for generating a search result list by reflecting importance information in processing the search result list corresponding to a predetermined keyword input from... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20090043739 - Method of displaying customized data and browser agent: Provided are methods and apparatuses to display customized data. A browser agent of an Internet protocol television (IPTV) displays customized data. The browser agent includes a usage pattern monitor which monitors a user's usage pattern of the IPTV; and a user interest data analyzer which analyzes the usage pattern obtained... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090043743 - Privacy information reporting systems with broad search scope and integration: A system for providing background check information to consumers diversifies a search vector by iteratively searching databases to obtain comprehensive identifying information while eliminating redundancies. Fuzzy expansion operators based on phonetics, misspellings, and other factors may be employed. The self-background check is intended to be used by consumers to safeguard... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20090043735 - Reuse of business logic of reports: An InfoSet API calls a query, the call defining selections for data retrieval. These selections are passed by the query to a report, which obtains data responsive to the selections via a data source. The obtained data is persisted in a global memory which allows such data to be accessed... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20090043738 - System and method of information filtering: In one embodiment the present invention includes a computer-implemented method of information filtering. The method includes storing a user goal. The method further includes generating search results corresponding to the user goal. The method further includes continuously filtering the search results, based on a user context that changes, to obtain... Agent: Fountainhead Law Group PC

20090043744 - System for distributed communications: A system for use in a distributed environment comprising a first data processing system having a first entity (e.g. an object) and a second data processing system having a second entity. The first entity sends a request for an operation associated with the second entity. The request comprises an operation... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090043733 - Systems and methods for efficiently storing, retrieving and querying data structures in a relational database system: A database system is disclosed. The database system includes a common data repository, a document indexing database and a query engine. The common data repository is configured to store data in a common data table and is associated with a data object. The document indexing database is configured to store... Agent: Baker & Mckenzie LLP Patent Department

20090043737 - Systems and methods for providing a multi-function search box for creating word pages: A multi-function search box on a word page is provided to enable a user to enter a word. The multi-function search box includes a text input control to provide text input functionality. The text input control is capable of suggesting a complete word based on a partially entered word. A... Agent: Mpg, LLP And Yahoo! Inc.

20090043746 - Computer-readable medium storing program for automatically generating query window, apparatus for automatically generating query window, and method for automatically generating query window: A query processing apparatus and method automatically generating a query window for an end user. The apparatus and method includes acquiring virtual schema information about tagged document data, automatically generating a query window on the basis of the virtual schema information, specifying an increase or a decrease in a number... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090043745 - Query execution and optimization with autonomic error recovery from network failures in a parallel computer system with multiple networks: An apparatus and method for a database query execution monitor determines if an network error or low performance condition exists and then where possible modifies the query. The query execution monitor then determines an alternate query execution plan to continue execution of the query. The query optimizer can re-optimize the... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20090043747 - Remote segmentation system and method: Remote segmentation is a process by which segmentation data is collected from a third party and applied to an existing database. In a preferred embodiment of remote segmentation, a definition is added that makes the local system aware of all the possible segmentation dimensions in a way that is presentable... Agent: North Oaks Patent Agency

20090043764 - Augmenting a training set for document categorization: A method and system for augmenting a training set used to train a classifier of documents is provided. The augmentation system augments a training set with training data derived from features of documents based on a document hierarchy. The training data of the initial training set may be derived from... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20090043761 - Autonomic computing system, execution environment control program: To realize an autonomic system and method of improving the quality of a piece of software and solving problems with respect to operations in stages of a software life cycle. There are provided a pattern catalog 20 in which information on execution environments 11 to 14 in the stages of... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090043756 - Computer program, system and method for creating representations of web pages and transmitting crawler links for crawling the representations: The invention provides a method of providing information over a network, comprising utilizing a computer program to create a representation of a web page, utilizing the computer program to store the representation at a representation location, and utilizing the computer program to transmit a crawling link to the search engine,... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090043759 - Display and search interface for product database: A technique for displaying and searching databases provides a user interface that displays a list of attribute values of a product along with corresponding user interface elements, each containing a set of clickable sub-elements corresponding to subsets of possible attribute values with different ranks. The sub-element whose corresponding rank matches... Agent: Lumen Patent Firm

20090043748 - Estimating the date relevance of a query from query logs: Techniques are provided maintaining data that indicates for a plurality of query terms whether the plurality of query terms are date-qualified query terms. A query is received, and in response to receiving the query, the query is inspected to determine that the query contains a particular date-qualified query term. Then... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090043749 - Extracting query intent from query logs: Techniques are provided for storing queries received by a search engine are in a query log. For a particular query term in the query, it is determined how many queries in the query log contain that particular query term and an intent-indicating term, and determined how many queries in the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090043751 - Graphical user interface for data management: The exemplary embodiments provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for managing data. A user interface is generated. A user makes a selection at the user interface of at least one data type of a set of data types to be measured for relevancy. The set... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090043758 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program: In an information processing apparatus adapted to determine information, to be presented to a user, as to one or more contents, a calculation unit calculates the similarity between a first search axis, produced on the basis of information associated with the user, for use as a reference on the basis... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090043762 - Information retrieval system and method: An information retrieval method, process, and apparatus are provided which includes iterative or parametric data set querying. The result of each query iteration is displayed in an easy to analyze fashion, enabling the user to interactively refine the query with additional iterations. Each field of data in a data set... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20090043757 - Method and system for creating a representation of a web page using keywords or search phrases: The invention provides a method of providing information over a network, comprising preparing a representation of a web page, wherein A computer program may compile the representation from a plurality of information sources that may be included in the representation, the information sources including a plurality of keywords or search... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090043753 - Method for generating structured query results using lexical clustering: The present invention provides for the generation of structured query results using lexical clustering which includes collecting one or more search queries and data associated with the one or more search queries. The present invention further includes preprocessing the one or more queries into a canonicalized form of each of... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20090043752 - Predicting side effect attributes: A method and system for predicting attribute side effects of predisposition modification are presented in which a set of attributes for predisposition modification of an individual is used to modify the individual's attribute profile to generate a modified attribute profile. A set of attribute combinations is compared against the modified... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20090043760 - Program searching apparatus and program searching method: There is provided with a program searching apparatus, including: an extracting unit extracting words or phrases described in plural program information as keywords; an identifying unit identifying categories to which the keywords belongs; a first calculating unit calculating a number of program information containing the keywords as first information; a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090043750 - Query optimization in a parallel computer system with multiple networks: An apparatus and method for a database query optimizer to optimize a query that uses multiple networks. The database query optimizer optimizes a query that uses multiple networks to satisfy the query by splitting the query execution to use multiple networks. Thus, the query optimizer rewrites or optimizes a query... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20090043763 - System of fast launching network link service and method thereof: A system of fast launching network link service comprising: a search engine server, and a client device. The search engine server, through a receiving unit, receives a key-data produced by the client device, and through an analysis unit of a search unit analyzes the form of key-data, and then searches... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090043755 - Systems and methods for dynamic page creation: A computer-implemented method of dynamically creating a page module for a word on a display screen is provided. The page module is creating by determining a word provided for defining the page module, searching for text directly associated with the word and text contextually associated with the word, and, searching... Agent: Mpg, LLP And Yahoo! Inc.

20090043754 - Systems and methods for providing enhanced content portability in a word page module: A computer implemented method for porting a visual object from a word page to another website is disclosed. The other website is accessible to the word page via Internet. The method includes enabling user selection of the visual object for transferring to the other website, and enabling user identification of... Agent: Mpg, LLP And Yahoo! Inc.

20090043768 - method for differentiating states of n machines: A differentiating system and method for differentiating states of N machines computes and stores differences between N machine states. The differentiating system takes as input a list of item keys and data for items of two or more states and produces as output a list of the item keys of... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20090043767 - Approach for application-specific duplicate detection: Techniques are provided for extracting view data from documents, where the data corresponds to an application-specific view and includes a plurality of components. Component data is identified within the view data and a view signature is generated for the view data that includes component signatures generated for each of the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090043769 - Keyword extraction method: To provide a technology that facilitates a Web access based on information (search keyword) in an advertisement by extracting a search keyword from an image simulating a search box of a search engine and making a search with this search keyword. Image information is acquired, the image information is analyzed,... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090043766 - Methods and framework for constraint-based activity mining (cmap): A method of mining data to discover activity patterns within the data is described. The method includes receiving data to be mined from at least one data source, determining which of a number of specified interests and constraints are associated with the mining process, selecting corresponding mining agents that combine... Agent: John S. Beulick (24691) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090043765 - Server authentication: A method of authenticating a content-provider server, the method comprising: determining a domain name of the content-provider server; obtaining a fragment of a database of IP addresses, the fragment corresponding to the domain name of the content-provider server and storing one or more IP addresses associated with the domain name;... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20090043770 - Method of realizing commands synchronization in supporting multi-threading non-volitale memory file system: A method may be used in a multi-threading non-volatile memory file system. The method comprises creating a data structure to store progress information on one or more concurrent operations to access a file system of a non-volatile memory; and executing the one or more concurrent operations based on the progress... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090043771 - Systems, methods and computer products for ensuring data integrity of a storage system: Systems, methods, and computer products for ensuring data integrity of a storage system. Exemplary embodiments include a method for ensuring data integrity in a storage system, the method including creating a data set using a repeatable pattern to establish expected values, storing the data set into the storage system using... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Tuscon Division

20090043772 - Utilizing shared numeric locks: A method and system for performing at least one transaction on at least one column of a table in a database system is disclosed. The method includes determining whether a first transaction of the at least one transaction fulfills all of at least one criteria. The method further includes ensuring... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20090043773 - Providing security in a database system: A method and apparatus to provide security for data in a database system includes providing a secure user-defined data type (UDT) that has security features. The secure UDT defines security information, which in one arrangement is in the form of a list of identifiers of authorized users or other entities.... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20090043775 - Row-level security in a relational database management system: Access control methods provide multilevel and mandatory access control for a database management system. The access control techniques provide access control at the row level in a relational database table. The database table contains a security label column within which is recorded a security label that is defined within a... Agent: Sughrue Mion PLLC Uspto Customer No With Ibm/svl

20090043774 - Techniques for retaining security restrictions with file versioning: Techniques are presented for retaining security restrictions with file versioning. Files are versioned in such a manner that metadata including full directory paths and access restrictions are retained for each version of the file and enforced when each version is accessed. The files are versioned to hashed subdirectories for space... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20090043784 - Apparatus and program product for retrieving file processing software: A system, method, and program product for accessing or retrieving on a computer network the required software to process a file is disclosed. According to the invention, it is determined, when accessing a file, whether or not software required to process this file is already installed on the user's computing... Agent: Ibm Endicott (anthony England) Law Office Of Anthony England

20090043778 - Generating etl packages from template: Packages for server data extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) are generated and managed through package templates. The templates include configurable and static parameters and are created from user input. Package instances having template property values are created from the templates and then transformed into a package used to implement ETL... Agent: Vierra Magen/microsoft Corporation

20090043783 - Information processing apparatus and method and information processing system: Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus as a terminal apparatus with respect to a server which provides content data, including: a management data acquisition section; a display control section; a selection operation acceptance section; a requesting section; and a content data acquisition section.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090043780 - Method and system for directing a client location to alternate web pages based on an account balance: The invention provides a method of providing information over a network, comprising storing an account balance corresponding to a representation of a web page, preparing a representation of a web page, providing the representation to a search engine, receiving a request for the web page from the client location, and... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090043781 - Method and system for providing content according to personal preference: In one embodiment of the present invention, a main server receives a content request identifying a content category from a client and identifies the client sending the request from the content request. Then, the content category from the content request is identified. The main server determines if the content category... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20090043779 - Method and system for providing information over a network based on a predictive account balance: The invention provides a method of providing information over a network, comprising predicting a future balance of an account corresponding to a representation of a web page based on at least a rate of requests for the web page; preparing a representation of a web page, providing the representation to... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090043777 - Methods and apparatus for enabling use of web content on various types of devices: A method and system for displaying web content on a mobile communicator including the following functionality: receiving an http request from a mobile communicator being used by a user, retrieving at least one device identifying field from the http request, the at least one device identifying field identifying the mobile... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20090043776 - System and method for direct file transfer in a computer network: A computing host includes a host processor and a communication processor both coupled in communication with a network and a storage device. The host processor receives a file request for transferring a file between the network the storage device, determines that the file request is to be performed by using... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090043782 - System of making report with authenticated image: A report making program for making a work report is downloaded in a portable terminal with a camera having a Web browser from a web server. Report data such as an image and information inputted according to the report making program is sent from the portable terminal to the web... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090043789 - Central storage repository and methods for managing tags stored therein and information associated therewith: An information system includes at least one data storage device accessible through a network for storing tags and tag attribute data, a server connected to the network and to the at least one data storage device for serving tags and tag attribute data and for receiving tags and tag attribute... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20090043787 - Decoder and operation method thereof: A decoder and an operation method thereof are provided. The decoder includes a pre-unit, a database, a data filter, and a scheduler. The pre-unit provides packet information of a data stream. The database records a plurality of parameter sets. The scheduler fetches the corresponding parameter sets from the database according... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20090043785 - Managing structured content stored as a binary large object (blob): Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to structured content storage and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for managing structured content stored in a BLOB. In an embodiment of the invention, a performance optimized structured content management system can... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090043791 - Method, computer system and computer program for processing a structured data record: Disclosed is a computer system for processing a structured data record, said system having a communication device for retrieving and sending the structured data record, a database device for storing the structured data record and an analysis device for processing the structured data record. The structured data record contains a... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090043786 - Network repository for metadata: A method and apparatus for a network repository for metadata. Embodiments of a data repository include a memory to store data including one or more data content items, where each data content item is associated with zero or more metadata items, and where each data content item is associated with... Agent: Silicon Image/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090043788 - Proactive business intelligence: A method of retrieving data items residing in a multidimensional database, comprising the steps of: storing previously created views from said multidimensional database in a storage connected with said database; searching said stored views for all views comprising a queried metadata search string; displaying said search results; selecting a view... Agent: Brux Software Solutions Ltd.

20090043790 - System and method for representing, organizing, storing and retrieving information: A data structure for representing information as a binary directional graph comprising a set of points connected by three distinct types of directed edges. Each point must have a unique left (parenting) edge and a unique right (parenting) edge with end points, and an identity edge that can be null... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090043796 - Method and system for compressing a tree: A method and system for compressing a tree with a plurality of nodes that each may be associated with a node identifier and a parent node identifier. The method may comprise for each node in the tree determining whether the current node is to be deleted, if the current node... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090043793 - Parallel uncompression of a partially compressed database table: A multiprocessing uncompression mechanism takes advantage of existing multiprocessing capability within a database to perform dynamic uncompression of portions of a partially compressed database table that satisfy a query using processes that may be executed in parallel. Historical information is gathered for each query. Uncompression advice includes user-specified parameters that... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20090043792 - Partial compression of a database table based on historical information: A database partial compression mechanism compresses only part of a database table based on historical information regarding how the database table has been accessed in the past. The function of the database partial compression mechanism may also be governed by a user-specified partial compression policy. When the historical information indicates... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20090043795 - Side effects prediction using co-associating bioattributes: A bioinformatics method, software, database and system for predicting side effects resulting from predisposition modification are presented in which a set of attributes is used to modify an individual's attribute profile to generate a modified attribute profile. The modified attribute profile is compared against a predetermined set of attribute combinations... Agent: Charles A. Eldering

20090043794 - System and method for mediating transactions of digital documents: A system and method for mediating a transaction of a digital document by converting a transaction into an internal representation according to predefined rules and according to processing definitions associated with the source of the transaction, validating and possibly altering the transaction in its internal representation according to predefined rules... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090043797 - System and methods for clustering large database of documents: In a computerized system, a method of organizing a plurality of documents within a dataset of documents, wherein a plurality of documents within a class of the dataset each includes one or more citations to one or more other documents, comprising creating a set of fingerprints for each respective document... Agent: Morris Manning Martin LLP

20090043803 - Data object based data analysis: A test and measurement instrument and method of operating for presenting data in a data presentation, receiving a data selection indicating a portion of the data presented in the data presentation, generating a data object in response to the data selection, presenting the data object in an analysis sandbox, and... Agent: Thomas F. Lenihan Tektronix, Inc.

20090043809 - Decision based system for managing distributed resources and modeling the global optimization problem: A decision support system called Mounties that is designed for managing applications and resources using rule-based constraints in scalable mission-critical clustering environments. Mounties consists of four active service components: (1) a repository of resource proxy objects for modeling and manipulating the cluster configuration; (2) an event notification mechanism for monitoring... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090043806 - Efficient tuple extraction from streaming xml data: A method and apparatus are disclosed for querying streaming extensible markup language (XML) data comprising: routing elements to query nodes, the elements derived from the streaming extensible markup language data; filtering out elements not conforming to one or more predetermined path query patterns; adding remaining elements to one or more... Agent: Ibm - Arc Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20090043808 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: An image processing apparatus includes a segmentation unit configured to segment input image data into a plurality of objects, a generation unit configured to generate data having a format including the image data and metadata for the image data, and a registration unit configured to register, in the metadata, an... Agent: Canon U.s.a. Inc. Intellectual Property Division

20090043801 - Method and apparatus for selecting a doctor based on an observed experience level: Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that facilitates the selection of a doctor based on an observed experience level with a condition or a procedure. During operation, the system receives from a user a selection criteria for selecting of a doctor. The system also receives from the... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090043807 - Method, apparatus and software for processing data encoded as one or more data elements in a data format: A method, apparatus and software is disclosed for processing data encoded as one or more data elements in a data format, the data format being arranged for further processing by a parser to extract the encoded data elements. An index of the data elements is created for use in the... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20090043799 - Methods and apparatus for using annotated user interface widgets in search operations: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for using annotated user interface widgets in search operations. According to an exemplary embodiment, a method is described for using annotated user interface widgets in search operations including receiving a search phrase related to a user-defined annotation previously associated with a user interface widget of... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20090043800 - Safe multi-stream versioning in a metadata repository: A method for managing metadata in a metadata repository that includes parsing metadata to determine an identity of the metadata and individual items associated with the metadata; converting the identity of the metadata and the individual items associated with the metadata into corresponding object structures; storing the object structure representing... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20090043804 - Storing table data: In some embodiments, the grid definition and data source definition portions of a table definition are segregated. Grid definition values included in the grid definition portion include one or more grid geometry values and/or grid line style values. Cell content values included in the data source definition portion include one... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Apple Computer, Inc.

20090043802 - System and method for graphical creation, editing and presentation of scenarios: The present invention discloses a system and a method for creating, editing, reusing and presenting of scenarios. The scenario may comprise events, where each event nay comprise instance and/or class components. The system may comprise a processor and a GUI that is object oriented. The GUI may allow a user... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20090043798 - Techniques for automatically developing a web site: Techniques for building a web site with database components include a web site building appliance having a processor, a computer readable medium, and a special purpose operating system. The computer-readable medium carries a web site wizard including a template and instructions. The template holds data indicating a first arrangement of... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090043805 - Viral engine for network deployment: A private network system operates over a public network to provide an asymmetric service to members with information from other members and non-members. The system includes central servers and databases connected via the public network to client systems of public network users. The users may be members who communicate with... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090043810 - Method, system, and program product for building hierarchies: In general, the present invention allows one to define both a hierarchy with one or more peers and no parents (e.g., one or more blades and no chassis) and a hierarchy with one or more peers and a parent (e.g., one or more blades and a chassis) as long as... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090043813 - Embedding a representation of an item in a host: Functionality is described for creating objects that represent respective items provided in a store. The objects can be embedded in various hosts, such as network-accessible pages (e.g., web pages), network-accessible journals (e.g., blogs), messages (e.g., Emails), and so on. Consumers can activate the objects in the hosts to retrieve information... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090043812 - Information assessment associate for checkpoint operations: In accordance with an embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a computing environment, one or more answers to one or more questions from an assessing agent at a security checkpoint. The agent interrogates a party attempting to pass through the security checkpoint with questions. The questions are provided to the... Agent: NovatechIPLaw

20090043821 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program: an evaluation unit 107 for, based on the analyzed change and the stored attribute information, in a case where the analyzed change is a change of the specific mode, linking the attribute information indicative of the specific attribute corresponding to a change of the specific mode, to the image information... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20090043811 - Information processing apparatus, method and program: The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program in which a content piece matching preference information of a user or a content piece similar to a specified content piece can be searched for with a smaller amount of computation and can be... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090043816 - Method and apparatus for generating media-exchangeable multimedia data, and method and apparatus for reconstructing media-exchangeable multimedia data: A method of generating multimedia data is provided. The method includes generating a scene tree by allocating at least one piece of object information to each of a plurality of nodes and then linking the nodes based on the relationship between a plurality of pieces of object information allocated to... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090043818 - Signature generation for multimedia deep-content-classification by a large-scale matching system and method thereof: Content-based clustering, recognition, classification and search of high volumes of multimedia data in real-time. The invention is dedicated to real-time fast generation of signatures to high-volume of multimedia content-segments, based on relevant audio and visual signals, and to scalable matching of signatures of high-volume database of content-segments' signatures. The invention... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090043819 - System and method for document hold management: A system includes a legal hold notification tool including a legal hold management module to manage a legal hold issued on an organization, the legal hold management module generating a notification of the legal hold to a user subjected to the legal hold, and a legal hold affirmation module to... Agent: Lehman Brothers Inc. C/o Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP

20090043817 - System and method for management of research subject or patient events for clinical research trials: A system and method for managing clinical research trials is disclosed. The system and method may include a centralized secure database with information on clinical research trial participants, clinical research trial events, investigator and administrator inputs, and communication of participants, investigators and administrators. In one embodiment, the system and method... Agent: Dubois, Bryant, Campbell & Schwartz, LLP

20090043815 - System and method for processing downloaded data: A system for processing downloaded data is provided. The system includes a local server, a database server, an image storage server and a plurality of client computers. The database server, the image storage server and the client computers are connected to the local server. The local server is configured for... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Cheng-ju Chiang

20090043820 - System and method for providing information services to subscribers in a gprs network: The present invention is directed to a system and method for providing services, such as location-based services, in a GPRS network. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a database including local geographical information is stored in a BSS (Base Station System). The BSS transmits data in the database... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20090043814 - Systems and methods for comments aggregation and carryover in word pages: A computer-implemented method for managing comment data generated when interacting with a page module is disclosed. At least one comment data being expressed by a user when interacting with the page module is detected and analyzed identify a context for the comment data. If the comment data is identified to... Agent: Mpg, LLP And Yahoo! Inc.

20090043824 - Document creation, linking, and maintenance system: A document creation and citation system designed to maintain a database of reference documents. The content of a selected document may be automatically scanned and indexed by the system. The selected documents may also be manually indexed by a user prior to the upload. The indexed documents may be uploaded... Agent: Dykas, Shaver & Nipper, LLP

20090043823 - System and method for controlling a file system: According to various embodiments of the invention, a system and method for controlling a file system. In some embodiments, a control plane interposes between a data plane user and a data plane, intercepts file system operations, and performs control plane operations upon the file system operations. In one such embodiment,... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20090043822 - System and method for intelligent storage migration: The present invention relates to a methodology and computer program product for data storage migration that comprises monitoring a plurality of entities that comprise a storage area network for a predetermined set of information gathering cycles, constructing a resource graph that is representative of the entities that are comprised within... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20090043825 - Log location discovery and management: Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method for managing log information. The method comprising, responsive to receiving a request to discover log information, and invoking a set discovery agents to discover the log information for logs located on a set of managed nodes. The method further identifies the log information... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090043826 - Method for reliably updating a data group in a read-before-write data replication environment using a comparison file: A method is disclosed for reliably updating a data group in a read-before-write data replication environment. The method reliably updates the data group by receiving an updated data group sent from a first storage medium to a second storage medium, comparing the updated data group with a previous data group... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090043827 - Dynamic legal database providing historical and current versions of bodies of law: Information collections defining a common subject such as a codified or uncodified body of law are stored on a computer readable medium in association with temporal information indicating the state or status with respect to time of parts of the information collection, including different versions of the same part. Parts... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090043828 - Method and apparatus for nas/cas integrated storage system: Storage system and method are provided which integrate CAS name space with NAS name space in GNS. The storage system implements archive application functionalities, such as: 1) The name space of CAS can be integrated with NASs under GNS; 2) The storage system is equipped with CAS interface to receive... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090043829 - Storage system and method for backing up data: To realize backup that gives no influence on on-line performance at low cost, provided is a storage system including one or more disk storage devices, a tape storage device, and a controller for controlling the at least one disk storage device and the tape storage device. The controller stores a... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090043830 - Systems and methods for stored data verification: Methods and systems are described for verifying stored data by receiving a first set of metadata associated with a first set of stored data, generating a second set of metadata associated with a second set of stored data which is associated with the first set of stored data, and comparing... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090043833 - Method and apparatus for storing data in mobile terminal: An apparatus and method for storing an image in a storage folder corresponding to a file name in a mobile terminal are provided. The method includes detecting a keyword by analyzing a file name of data to be stored, and storing the data in a storage folder corresponding to the... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090043832 - Method of determining and storing the state of a computer system: A state determination and storage system includes an orchestrator component, guide components, and analyzer components to analyze and store state information for desired portions of a computer system through an extension approach. The system uses extensions to abstract common code for reuse by other extensions. State information is extracted from... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20090043831 - Smart solid state drive and method for handling critical files: A method and apparatus for dynamically distributing data to an appropriate storage device based on the significance of the data. In one embodiment the method determines the significance of a data file using the format of the data file. The method also includes identifying a storage device and memory location... Agent: The Tpl Group

20090037363 - Methods and systems for managing a data mining model: Methods, systems, and a computer readable medium storing a computer executable program for managing a data mining model are disclosed. A first notification associated with a data mining model is received at a business process system. A second notification associated with the data mining model is transmitted from the business... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090037364 - Participation profiles of virtual world players: A method and system provides arrangements creating a relationship between a real-world entity and a virtual world environment. A participant or player can participate in various virtual world activities including transactions to acquire virtual products, virtual services, and/or virtual items of value. Feedback may be provided and records kept regarding... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20090037372 - Creating profiling indices: A database engine and optimizer framework support creation of a series of profiling indices over a column having character string data, such as a traditional “varchar” data type. The profiling indices result in a reduction of the number of records that are searched when searching for a sub-string match within... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20090037370 - Distributed event processing: Methods and systems for distributed event processing are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system for distributed event processing includes a first event processor and a second event processor. The first event processor receives event data associated with an event stream. The second event processor receives a query associated with the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090037371 - Efficient storage and search of word lists and other text: A computer readable storage medium tangibly embodying machine-readable digital data arranged to facilitate expedited searching. The data includes a plurality of words residing in a table having rows and columns, each word residing in a different row and each letter of the word occupying a different column in that row.... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090037368 - Fast path loading of xml data: Techniques for implementing fast loading of binary XML into a binary XML database repository are provided. A client application reduces the processing burden on the repository by doing pre-processing of the binary XML data prior to loading.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090037366 - Online index builds and rebuilds without blocking locks: Techniques are provided for processing a CREATE INDEX statement that avoids one or more locks on the underlying table. The processing of such a statement may be divided into a build phase and a cooperation phase. During the build phase, a journal table is created and published. A snapshot of... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090037365 - Product join dynamic partition elimination for multilevel partitioning: A method of searching a multilevel partitioned database includes receiving a query data from the multilevel partitioned database. At least for one level partitions are dynamically included. For some levels, partitions may also be statically included for execution of the query. The query is the executed over the partitions that... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20090037367 - System and methodology providing workload management in database cluster: A system and methodology providing workload management in a database cluster. In one embodiment, for example, a method for allocating workload amongst a plurality of database servers sharing access to data comprises steps of: periodically collecting information about workload at each database server; distributing the workload information to each of... Agent: John A. Smart

20090037369 - Using sibling-count in xml indexes to optimize single-path queries: A method and apparatus are provided for using sibling-counts in XML indices to optimize single-path queries. Using a b-tree XML index with a SQL query logarithmically reduces the number of disk accesses by passing over index entries where it is determined that a match will not be found. However, because... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090037391 - common interface to access catalog information from heterogeneous databases: Various embodiments of a system and computer program product to access metadata from a plurality of data servers from a federated database management system are provided. In one embodiment, a request for metadata, from a client application, is received by the federated database management system. Data servers which are accessible... Agent: International Business Machines Corp. (jms)

20090037385 - Apparatus and method for transmitting contents between portable terminals: An apparatus and method for transmitting one or more contents through a short-range communication is provided. The apparatus includes a content-requesting terminal and a content-providing terminal. The content-requesting terminal requests a list of contents available for transmission to the content-providing terminal, receives the content list from the content-providing terminal, selects... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090037378 - Automatic generation of forms based on activity: A user can be presented with a form or other record that can enable efficient performance of various actions including a workflow or process. As actions are performed, the user can be presented with different forms more applicable to a current task being performed. The forms can be automatically created... Agent: Amin Turocy & Calvin, LLP Attention: Heather Holmes

20090037386 - Computer file processing: A method and apparatus for processing of computer files. An embodiment of a method for processing computer files includes receiving a serial data stream input, where the serial data stream input represents a set of computer files. The method further includes scanning the serial data stream input to extract selected... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090037384 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and storage medium that stores program thereof: The present invention improves processing speed of search processing of objects. To achieve this, in an image processing apparatus capable of extracting an object contained in input data, and of storing data about the object in a storage device, there are provided a detecting section for detecting a relationship of... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090037375 - Method and apparatus for the placement of advertisements in a search results page: Optimizing search advertising on a search results page in response to a search request includes the search engine determining advertisements for inclusion with the search results, where the advertisements include different advertisement techniques. The method includes selecting one or more of the advertisements for inclusion with the search results page,... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20090037379 - Method and appliance for xml policy matching: An XML matching engine and method are provided, where policy rules expressed using XPath/XQuery policies are matched to streaming XML documents. Two distinct data structures are used: a combined modified DFA data structure for storing simple XPath queries (no wildcards or descendents) and a modified AFilter structure for storing complex... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20090037373 - Method and system for management and publication of media assets in a distributed network: A system (1) for management and publication of media assets (102.3) in a distributed network (205). The system includes: a central media database (101) for storing and serving the media assets (102.3) and media programs (102.2) for publication of the media assets; one or more output platforms (117, 118) networked... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090037400 - Content management system that renders a document to a user based on a usage profile that indicates previous activity in accessing the document: A content management system (CMS) monitors a user's activity for a document, generates corresponding usage data for the user, and binds the usage data to corresponding sections of the document. A relevance policy may be defined for a user and/or for a user's role. The CMS may then render the... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20090037408 - Essence based search engine: The useful, non-obvious and novel step of this invention is to present a design and methodology for a search engine tool which properly identifies and categorizes the elements to be searched through the initial step of human parsing. This invention is called essence based searching. Essence based searching is an... Agent: James Neil Rodgers

20090037404 - Extended cursor sharing: Techniques for sharing cursors are provided. When a new query is issued, a database server determines whether the new query is semantically equivalent to a previous query. If so, then database server computes statistics associated with the new query. Based on the statistics, the database server determines whether compiling the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090037403 - Generalized location identification: A location identification system is described. In various embodiments, the location identification system identifies geographic location information in response to received search queries by processing geographic information to identify spatial or geometric regions, determining region intersection information that identifies spatial relationships between the geometric regions, and building an index of... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20090037401 - Information retrieval and ranking: A learning method is used to generate ranking models. The learning method can create a ranking function that assigns scores to documents and then ranks the documents using the scores. In this learning method, a training set along with performance measures are used to generate weak rankers which a used... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20090037411 - Membership selection assistant: A method and apparatus for a membership selection assistant that assists users in selecting a set of memberships to carry out a set of actions. This assistance is provided by determining what actions the user wishes to carry out and what memberships the user wishes to consider for those actions;... Agent: Vaibhava Goel

20090037409 - Method and system for information retrieval: Retrieving information from information sources using links. A set of information sources is preprocessed to extract content from text and existing links in the information sources according to some predetermined criteria. A set of search results is generated from amongst the preprocessed information sources in response to a received search... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090037412 - Qualitative search engine based on factors of consumer trust specification: A method of providing a search engine for use on global computer networks which identifies and merges categories of information that reflect, influence and imitate intelligent choice by concurrently searching one or more of eight factors of consumer trust: books, experts, news and articles, associations, celebrities and pro choice, awards,... Agent: Blank Rome LLP

20090037399 - System and method for determining semantically related terms: Systems and methods for determining semantically related terms are disclosed. Generally, a semantically related term tool trains a model to predict a degree of relevance between a candidate term and one or more seed terms. The model may be trained based on data such as a plurality of seed sets,... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090037417 - Avoiding lock contention by using a wait for completion mechanism: Techniques for avoiding lock contention when processing data definition language (DDL) statements are provided. Some DDL statements modify metadata of a table and then require access to the table. After such a DDL statement modifies the metadata of a table and the updated metadata is made available (i.e., published) to... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090037418 - Method and system for copying a snapshot tree: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to an instant snapshot-tree-copy operation that, when directed to an existing snapshot tree, generates a data-structure framework for a copy of the existing snapshot tree that can be immediately accessed while a background-copy process copies data from the existing snapshot tree to... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090037416 - Method for acquiring locks in wait mode in a deadlock free manner: Techniques for a data definition language (DDL) statement acquiring a lock on a table in wait mode in a deadlock free manner are provided. A DDL statement specifies metadata of a table that is to be modified, whereas a data manipulation language (DML) statement specifies a table to be modified.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090037419 - Website exchange of personal information keyed to easily remembered non-alphanumeric symbols: A website and method of use are disclosed for providing access to personal data upon entry of an access key that includes at least one easily remembered non-alphanumeric symbol. In some embodiments an incorrect or partial access key can be entered, or one of several access key variants can be... Agent: Russ Weinzimmer

20090037423 - Conducting transactions of electronic files: In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving a request to purchase an electronic file, retaining the electronic file until receiving a request to download the purchased electronic file, and transmitting the electronic file upon the receiving of the request to download the purchased electronic file.... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20090037436 - Data processing system: A data processing system includes at least a first storage system, a second storage system and a third storage system. The third storage system maintains a replication of data stored in the first storage system. When updating data in the first storage system, the first storage system updates the replication... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090037420 - Device with storage medium and method of operating the device: A device comprises a first storage medium, input/output architecture, a second storage medium, and a processor. The processor is arranged, in response to a request to access a file stored on the first storage medium, to recall the file from the first storage medium at substantially the data rate of... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090037424 - Efficient network data transfer: An approach for providing efficient network data transfer service is provided. In one embodiment, a first database server receives, from a second database server, a first request to access a first storage subsystem. Here, the second database server cannot access first data in the first storage subsystem without another database... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090037447 - Mail compression scheme with individual message decompressability: Embodiments of the present inversion relate to a two-pass compression scheme that achieves compression performance on par with existing methods while admitting individual message decompression. These methods provide both storage savings and lower end-user latency. They preserve the advantages of standard text compression in exploiting short-range similarities in data, while... Agent: Stattler - Suh PC

20090037448 - Network content in dictionary-based (de)compression: Apparatus and methods are described for network content in dictionary-based (de)compression. Content for compression is parsed into discrete constructions, such as phrases, words, etc. The discrete constructions are passed to a searching engine to locate network information at one or more network locator identities, such as URI's (URL's, URNs) that... Agent: King & Schickli, PLLC

20090037452 - System and method for synchronizing applications: Changes made to a first data set in a plurality of data sets are detected, and at least a first subset of the changes is synchronized to a data framework that facilitates data synchronization between the plurality of data sets.... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20090037449 - User configurable quick groups: This invention is directed to defining quick groups for easily associating keywords with an object (e.g., a media objection) accessible using an electronic device. The user of an electronic device may define several keywords that identify attributes of an object accessible using the electronic device. The user may associate keywords... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090037459 - Annotation data handlers for data stream processing: A method and apparatus for annotation data handlers for data stream processing. An embodiment of a method for processing annotations in computer files includes receiving a data stream input at a scanner component, where the data stream input represents program elements of one or more computer files. The data stream... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090037458 - Assistance method and device for building the aborescence of an electronic document group: A method of assisting with the construction of a tree of clusters of electronic documents, the documents being defined by predetermined attributes. The method includes, for a given cluster of documents and a given level of the tree, the following steps: a) obtaining (E300) constraints defined between at least two... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20090037454 - Comment faces: Rendering a contributor representation, such as an avatar, near content such as a comment, contributed to a web page such as a blog. The contributor representation is associated with a contributor identifier, such as an email address, and stored at a centralized registrar. The centralized registrar provides a content service... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Darby & Darby P.C.

20090037455 - Handling column renaming as part of schema evolution in a data archiving tool: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for managing database table schema evolution. It is detected whether any columns in a source table have been renamed since a previous archiving process. A set of table changes is generated for the renamed columns. It is detected whether... Agent: Mollborn Patents, Inc.

20090037457 - Method and apparatus for aligning multiple taxonomies: A document taxonomy alignment system and method, relying on document glosses and utilizing a soft ontology expansion. An all-new hierarchical leaf node can be created expressly for the purpose of better aligning the plurality of document taxonomies in question. A small but valuable subset of the nodes created by soft... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20090037460 - Method and system for identifying database triggers: A system to identify database triggers in a data processing system. A request is received to create a database monitor for a specific application event and in response to receiving the request to create the database monitor, the database monitor is created. Then, a request is received to monitor the... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090037456 - Providing an index for a data store: Chunks are stored in a data store, where respective collections of chunks form respective files. An index that maps digests of chunks to pages containing information to recreate the chunks is provided, where the index is stored in persistent storage.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090037453 - Unified and extensible implementation of a change state id for update services based on a hash calculation: In a method and system for updating data in a distributed system, a server receives a request to read data stored in the server. A data structure is populated with the requested data, and a first unique identifier is generated by applying a hash function to the data stored in... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090037461 - Method and system for automatic recognition and categorization of transactions: A method for categorization of transactions, the method including receiving a request for a transaction from a user of a plurality of users, determining an availability of an object association for an object name of an object of the transaction, wherein the object association is a preferred object association of... Agent: Osha - Liang L.L.P. (intuit)

20090037463 - Image processing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium that stores program thereof: Conventionally, there are problems in that object data extracted from an original document is not object data divided into object units a user desires, and that scan data cannot be handled in the object data units when reusing the scan data. To solve these problems, the image processing apparatus extracts... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090037462 - Single-operation on-line schema evolution: A method for modifying an original data object in a database using a single command is disclosed. The single command is first validated. Once the command has been validated a ghost data object is created using the new definition. The ghost data object is populated with data from the original... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090037471 - Communicating with business customers: A method including providing a business with a unified communications number for all types of customer communication and mapping the unified communications number to each address for the business issued by the communication service providers of the business. The method may also include routing communications addressed to the unified communications... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20090037470 - Connecting users based on medical experiences: A medical interaction system is described that promotes connections of a medical nature between individuals, patients, doctors, nurses, therapists, and others. Users can share personal information with other users. Owners of personal information have complete control over what they share and with whom they share it by using built in... Agent: Boswell Intellectual Property Law PLLC

20090037478 - Dependency processing of computer files: A method and apparatus for dependency processing of computer files. An embodiment of a method for dependency processing of computer files includes receiving a data stream input at a scanner component, where the data stream input represents multiple computer files. The data stream input is scanned for data types, where... Agent: Sap/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090037469 - Email filtering using recipient reputation: The present invention is an adaptive method for filtering spam by using the reputations associated with recipients of email messages to determine the reputations of message and content attributes, then using the attribute reputations to determine whether or not the email message is spam and then using the determination of... Agent: Schneck & Schneck

20090037473 - Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and storage medium: In an image forming apparatus, a first document manager stores image data in an image storage device, associates the image data with a first identifier, outputs the image data via an image output device when the first identifier is specified via an operation device, and deletes the image data from... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090037475 - Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing program: An image processing device includes a data reading unit which can read data from a storage medium storing image data group including RAW data and developed data obtained by developing the RAW data, a matching information storage unit which stores matching information including information associated with editing contents with which... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090037472 - Information processing apparatus and control method for information processing apparatus: According to one embodiment, a control method for an information processing apparatus includes acquiring metadata in which one or more pieces of meta-information including an address attribute required to download the multimedia data file from a program site are written by using a built-in communication circuit in a main body,... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090037467 - Media management, production, and delivery system and method: A media management, production, and delivery system and method for providing an efficient means of producing and delivering text and media are disclosed. Original text such as a news story is provided by a media source. Media relevant to the original text is edited and linked to the text. The... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20090037466 - Method and system for resolving feature dependencies of an integrated development environment with extensible plug-in features: A method, system and computer-readable medium for an enhanced dependency resolver are disclosed. The dependency resolver collects dependency information for features of a rich client platform from a plurality of update sites; stores the dependency information for the features in a database; constructs a plurality of dependency trees using the... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090037485 - Method and apparatus for auditing utility poles: An apparatus and method for managing utility pole information is provided in the illustrative embodiments. A method for managing the utility pole information may include creating several audit forms and searching those forms for an audit of a selected pole. The method may further include pre-populating the audit form with... Agent: Ip Department Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090037480 - Optimization of trace output timing based on disk operating conditions and transaction characteristic: A method, system and computer product for managing data write timing. The method includes selecting a policy composed of optimizing limits, inserting the selected policy into a score algorithm, running the score algorithm in response to a request to write data to determine a score, and writing the data to... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090037487 - Prioritizing documents: Systems, methods, and structures are described to support the enhanced text analysis of documents. Various embodiments include a text analysis system in which documents are prioritized by combinations of keywords in the texts of paragraphs of a document. The system and methods disclosed are useful for exploring documents using a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090037484 - Programming system for occasionally-connected mobile business applications: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for synchronizing a local database with a remote database. Additionally, a system, method, and computer program product are provided for performing a service operation on a database, the database located on a database system.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.