Data processing: database and file management or data structures inventions 04/09

20090112791 - History information management device of image forming apparatus: A history information management device 100 includes an operation panel 5 having a touch panel 5a, first storage unit 44a, storage operation control unit 45d, and display operation control unit 45e. The operation panel 5 receives a functional configuration. The first storage unit 44a stores the functional configuration as the... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20090112790 - Method and device for verifying integrity of data acquisition pathways: Disclosed is a method of verifying the integrity of data acquired from a device emulating a hard disk to a host computer over a data transfer pathway. A storage medium containing known data is connected to the data transfer pathway, the storage medium capable of emulating a hard disk. The... Agent: Marks & Clerk

20090112789 - Policy based file management: Managing files includes receiving a plurality of policies for a new file, where different policies may be applied according to predetermined conditions, receiving a request to create a new file, selecting an appropriate policy for the new file according to the predetermined conditions, determining if sufficient resources are available according... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20090112794 - Aliased keys for federated database queries: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for performing federated queries of data records stored in multiple data sources. In one embodiment, an aliased key table may be configured to store relationships between key fields of multiple data sources. The aliased key table may specify a mapping function to translate a... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090112798 - Computer system and method for reducing power consumption of storage system: A disk rotation control part for controlling the rotations of a plurality of disk devices is provided. The configuration is such that a disk of a disk device for which an access will not be generated is rotated at a second rate of speed, which is faster than 0, and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC Suite 220

20090112792 - Generating statistics for optimizing database queries containing user-defined functions: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for generating statistics for optimizing database queries containing user-defined functions (UDFs). In general, the statistics may be generated based on output values produced during past executions of a UDF. The statistics may also be generated based on input values received during past executions of... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090112797 - Logical structure analyzing apparatus, method, and computer product: A logical structure analyzing apparatus includes an extracting unit that extracts word candidates from a form, a first generating unit that classifies each of the word candidates into a group of heading candidates or a group of data candidates to generate, based on positions of the word candidates on the... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090112796 - Natural language conceptual joins: The invention answers a user's information request, stated in the user's natural language, by dynamically retrieving and merging facts and information from disparate and possibly geographically dispersed databases and presenting a single answer to the user. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring... Agent: Steven Thrasher

20090112795 - Query statistics: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with selectively acquiring and utilizing query statistics are described. One example method includes selectively acquiring statistics associated with search queries submitted to a search process during a sample period. The statistics may be associated with an index and tokens associated with the index and... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC - Oracle

20090112793 - Techniques for bushy tree execution plans for snowstorm schema: Methods for transforming a query to simulate a bushy tree execution plan for queries containing joins in series are provided. Left deep tree execution plans are supported by most relational database systems but are inefficient at processing queries directed to databases with snowstorm schema. A snowstorm schema contains several large... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090112799 - Database statistics for optimization of database queries containing user-defined functions: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for generating statistics for optimizing database queries containing user-defined functions (UDFs). In general, the statistics may be generated based on output values produced during past executions of a UDF. The statistics may also be generated based on input values received during past executions of... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090112825 - Entity relation mining apparatus and method: The present invention provides a relation mining apparatus and method for mining data for time-series relations and events among texts in various forms such as news, blogs, industrial reports and technical papers which may refer to various relations. According to the present invention, it is possible to automatically extract entity... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090112811 - Exposing storage resources with differing capabilities: Tracking storage resources includes providing a table containing storage resources along with capabilities and statuses thereof, updating the table in response to a change of status of a storage resource, updating the table in response to a change in capabilities of a storage resource and, in response to an inquiry... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20090112802 - Facilitating flexible windows in data stream management systems: Facilitating flexible windows in querying continuous data streams. In one embodiment, a software code is associated with a window, wherein execution of the software code determines the values to be included in the window. On receiving a query indicating the window, the result of the query is generated based on... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20090112822 - Map-based communication for a plurality of functional entities: The present invention is directed to a server system for supplying differing amounts of data into a database, wherein the system comprises the database and a data tracker device, wherein the data tracker receives data sent by a plurality of functional entities, preferably office machines and in particular devices with... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090112801 - Metadata driven reporting and editing of databases: Embodiments described herein are directed to providing enhanced database editing and reporting capabilities. Embodiments include a computer system receiving a database query including a request to edit one or more data items in the database. The computer system determines which data items would be affected by the requested data item... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090112808 - Metadata repository and methods thereof: A repository receives metadata from databases associated with different service providers. The repository converts the received metadata to a common format, such as MPEG7, and stores the converted metadata in a central database. The repository can also receive a query from a client device. The repository retrieves metadata associated with... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Lnap Attn: Patent Docketing

20090112820 - Method and apparatus for composite part data extraction: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for providing ply lay-up data for a composite part. A designation of a location is received for the composite part in a three dimensional object from a requester. A three dimensional model is opened in which the composite part is... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090112807 - Method and apparatus for facilitating a collaborative search procedure: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates intelligent query operations by using a collaborative search procedure which employs tribal knowledge from a group of like-minded individuals. During operation, the system receives a search query from the user. The system then processes the query using the tribal... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090112824 - Method and apparatus for generating presentation configuration file of document content: A method and an apparatus for generating presentation configuration files of document content, wherein the document content will be presented according to the presentation configuration files. The method may include acquiring one presentation configuration file template and updating the presentation file template according to personalized presentation rules associated with preferences... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20090112804 - Method for the creation of transient phonebook contacts: A method that includes searching a contact database for at least one contact entry; detecting a contact expiration flag associated with the at least one contact entry; comparing the contact expiration flag to a current date; and deleting the contact entry from the contact database if the expiration flag is... Agent: Perman & Green

20090112826 - Method for the transmission of data samples: A method enables efficient and coherent sample data storage in a system containing data transmitting and receiving devices. The algorithm is implemented by storing reverse-delta encoded data at a receiver side in a chronologically correct order by a data list and a recovery table, independently of the transmission device. The... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090112813 - Method of selecting a second content based on a user's reaction to a first content of at least two instances of displayed content: Embodiments provide a device, a system, a computer program product, and a method. A provided method embodiment may be implemented in an environment that includes a person viewing at least two instances of content having a common contextual attribute and displayed by an electronic device. The method includes detecting a... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20090112821 - Method, system and computer program for monitoring bookmarked web pages: The present invention relates to a method for monitoring a bookmarked web page and a system and a computer program implementing such a method. A method according to an embodiment of the invention includes a first phase, including steps for storing, in association with each other, user identification data and... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090112805 - Method, system, and computer program product for implementing search query privacy: User privacy is protected by preventing certain unsafe search queries from being associated with the user when saved by a search engine. When an unsafe query is detected, the unsafe query is submitted to a proxy service, and the proxy service submits the query to a search engine preventing the... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept 917

20090112806 - Query view inferred from datasource and query: The disclosed technique analyzes the source of the query and the query itself, to automatically determine the results view presented to the user. This view can be inferred or authored. Before the query is displayed, the query and the source can be analyzed, the results of which are then passed... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090112817 - Returning a new content based on a person's reaction to at least two instances of previously displayed content: Embodiments provide a device, apparatus, system, computer program product, and method. A provided method includes receiving information that is indicative of respective responses by a person to each of at least two instances of electronically displayed content. The received information is derived from data acquired by a sensor coupled to... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20090112819 - Search control combining classification and text-based searching techniques: A search control in a user interface enables a user to search documents on text or a tag.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090112815 - Searching by use of machine-readable code content: A method of searching the Internet or onboard database or other source through devices that contain or are coupled to cameras or other imaging devices, the method including extracting search terms from the human-understandable content encoded in a machine-readable code and displayed to the recipient on the device following the... Agent: Prof. Walter Antognini

20090112814 - Secure dns query: A secure DNS query may be made by establishing a secure connection with a specific DNS server to determine an address for a hostname. A client device may have a database that may contain a record of a secure DNS server for one or more hostnames. When a DNS request... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090112810 - Selecting a second content based on a user's reaction to a first content: Embodiments include a device, a system, a computer program product, and a method. A system embodiment includes: a display surface operable to display electronic content in a manner perceivable by a person; a sensor apparatus operable to acquire data indicative of a response by the person to a first electronic... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20090112812 - Spatially enabled content management, discovery and distribution system for unstructured information management: What is provided is a spatially-enabled content management system in which unstructured information is data mined for location or spatial references, with the search query including not only the spatial reference that has been provided by the data mining but also other search query terms, thus to provide an analyst... Agent: Patent Dept. Bae Systems

20090112803 - Specifying a family of logics defining windows in data stream management systems: Simplifying a user's task in specifying a family of logics, with each logic designed to potentially select different subsets of values from the same continuous data stream at the same time instant. In one embodiment, all the logics are together specified by a common user specified software code design to... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20090112827 - System and method for employing social networks for information discovery: Systems and methods are provided that enable searches of social networks by acting as a “compass” that assists users in navigating the social network. Individual user participation is not required in response to queries from other users. The systems and methods offer navigational assistance or information as opposed to a... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090112816 - System and method for updating a search results page in response to a user map interaction: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for updating a search results page in response to user interaction with a map resource. The method of the present invention comprises receiving a first search results page in response to a search query comprising at least a first map resource.... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20090112800 - System and method for visual contextual search: The present invention is directed towards systems, methods, and computer readable media for searching and retrieving one or more visual representations and contextual data associated with a given object and one or more constituent components of the object. The method of the present invention comprises receiving a first query identifying... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20090112809 - Systems and methods for monitoring health of computing systems: A method for determining health of computing systems is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a plurality of health determining metrics from at least one computing system. The method also includes calculating the health determinant value based on the plurality of health determining metrics. A first portion of the health determinant... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20090112818 - Techniques for parallel processing of directory searches: Techniques for parallel processing of directory searches are provided. A directory search is received on a multicore or multiprocessor architecture machine. At least two threads processing on different cores or processors of the machine handle different aspects of the directory search. A first thread identifies matches in the directory for... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20090112823 - Write failure protection for hierarchical integrity schemes: A method for data integrity protection includes arranging in an integrity hierarchy a plurality of data blocks, which contain data. The integrity hierarchy includes multiple levels of signature blocks containing signatures computed respectively over lower levels in the hierarchy, wherein the levels culminate in a top-level block containing a top-level... Agent: Sandisk C/o Darby & Darby PC

20090112831 - Aggregation of metadata associated with digital media files: Systems and methods for aggregating user feedback associated with digital media files is provided. User feedback is received from a user that includes metadata which may correspond to a digital media file. A batch of such user feedback is received and may be filtered to discard any low quality user... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090112829 - Caching of web form post-query requests: A method for obtaining a result for a post-query may include: (a) Algorithmically treating the query to create a signature. (b) Composing a pseudo-get web identifier including a web address identifying a responding station and the signature. (c) Sending the query via a network to the responding station to request... Agent: Law Office Of Donald D. Mondul

20090112833 - Federated search data normalization for rich presentation: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for normalizing search engine results page (“SERP”) data. The method of the present invention comprises receiving a search request and retrieving at least one RSS feed in response to receiving said search request. The retrieved RSS feed is normalized and a... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20090112832 - Intelligent content assistance: An intelligent content assistance system generates context-sensitive content recommendation during business processes. Information needs of a user in context are dynamically monitored and detected. Content-recommendation templates are retrieved to match the detected information needs, and instantiated using information from user input, context, interaction history, system-learned query and content models, and... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090112828 - Method and system for answer extraction: A document searching method including employing a computer to receive, from a user, a query including at least one search term, employing computerized answer retrieving functionality to generate document search terms including at least one additional search term not present in the query, which the at least one additional search... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090112834 - Methods and systems involving text analysis: An exemplary method for determining emotive tone in text, the method comprising, matching text in a text file with text entries in a control file database, wherein the formatting attributes include textual and non-textual indicators, receiving a first set of emotive values associated with the matching text entries from the... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Fishkill

20090112835 - Natural language database querying: The invention is natural language database querying (NLDQ), by a) allowing a user to type an information request using phrases stated in a natural language such as English, b) matching the phrases in the request to semantic objects stored in a hierarchy of ontologies, c) automatically converting the matched semantic... Agent: Steven Thrasher

20090112830 - System and methods for searching images in presentations: Image search and retrieval system is provided. System identifies pictures embedded in presentation slides. System represents each set of identical (or nearly identical) images with unique token. For example, if specific picture is reused in multiple presentations, it will be represented by system using same token. System may compute and... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090112847 - Apparatus and method for enhancing a composition with relevant content pointers: A computer readable medium includes executable instructions to identify a pre-existing list of keyphrases, to compare a keyphrase in a composition to the pre-existing list of keyphrases to obtain at least one candidate content pointer, and to associate the keyphrase with a content pointer selected from the at least one... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20090112850 - Bioitem searcher, bioitem search terminal, bioitem search method, and program: According to one aspect of the present invention, a bio-item searching apparatus searches for a target bio-item with a keyword input by a user. In the bio-item searching apparatus, the storage device stores a bio-item literature set having a literature in which the bio-item name is described for each of... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090112851 - Database management system, database management method and database management program: A meta-information storing section records a plurality of pieces of taxonomy data in ranks. A plurality of pieces of leaf meta-data respectively correspond to pieces of the lowest taxonomy data. A database records a plurality of pieces of real data which respectively correspond to pieces of leaf meta-data. A server... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20090112841 - Document searching using contextual information leverage and insights: A method and system are disclosed that enable a user to search a large collection of structured and unstructured documents using semantic concepts that the system provides to them, to search the most relevant business activity first, and then using one of the business activities as the additional context to... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090112836 - Information retrieval apparatus and method: An information retrieval apparatus includes a display unit which displays a first display menu showing a plurality of estimated meaning items and a second display menu showing a plurality of retrieval target items corresponding to the meaning items selected on the first display menu. A log storage unit stores a... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20090112839 - Media enhancement mechanism: A method to provide additional media objects for data objects containing one or more existing media objects is described. The existing media object is analyzed to determine additional related media available on the network, and the data object description is augmented with metadata to identify the additional media in an... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090112848 - Method and system for suggesting search queries on electronic devices: A method and system implementing a process for suggesting search queries on an electronic device is provided. The process involves displaying terms related to content accessed by a user for selection by the user, obtaining one or more key terms related to a user-selected term, and displaying the one or... Agent: Myers Andras Sherman LLP

20090112855 - Method for ordering a search result and an ordering apparatus: A method for ordering a search result, wherein the search result comprises a plurality of data unit candidates from hierarchical data which further comprises a data unit corresponding to a search requester, the method comprising: calculating a relative distance between the data unit of the search requester and each of... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Dept. 18g

20090112840 - Method for selecting electronic advertisements using machine translation techniques: A system for selecting electronic advertisements from an advertisement pool to match the surrounding content is disclosed. To select advertisements, the system takes an approach to content match that takes advantage of machine translation technologies. The system of the present invention implements this goal by means of simple and efficient... Agent: Stattler - Suh PC

20090112842 - Methods and apparatus for web-based research: A method and apparatus for facilitating web-based research among a community of users. Templates created by at least one user within the community may be modified by another user to facilitate further research on a item, such as a product and/or service, associated with the template. The modified template may... Agent: Wolf Greenfield (microsoft Corporation) C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090112857 - Methods and systems for improving a search ranking using related queries: Systems and methods that improve search rankings for a search query by using data associated with queries related to the search query are described. In one aspect, a search query is received, a related query related to the search query is determined, an article (such as a web page) associated... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090112838 - Ontology-based network search engine: A method and apparatus for searching for a documents residing on a network comprises receiving a search request from a user. The search request comprises one or more search terms of an ontology. The ontology includes a plurality of terms. One or more of the plurality of terms includes a... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090112837 - Proactive content dissemination to users: A content repository of a system stores items of content to be disseminated to users. The content repository generates a content profile for each item of content as the item of content is received. The content profile for each item of content includes information regarding the item of content. A... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090112853 - Ranking query processing method for stream data and stream data processing system having ranking query processing mechanism: A mechanism for managing ranking information using a sign of a stream tuple generated when stream data is inserted into, or deleted from, a window is provided. A mechanism for generating only the differential information of ranking calculation results, a mechanism for adding ranking information according to a request, an... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20090112844 - Representative keyword selection: This disclosure describes systems and methods for serving one or more contextually-relevant advertisements to an initial web page. Terms are selected from the initial web page that may later be used as representative keywords to select advertisements that are contextually relevant to the initial web page. In order to reduce... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090112849 - Selecting a second content based on a user's reaction to a first content of at least two instances of displayed content: Embodiments provide a device, apparatus, system, computer program product, and method. A provided electronic apparatus includes a display surface, a response sensor apparatus, a target-content selector circuit, a characterization circuit, a query circuit, and a chooser circuit.... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20090112856 - Storage medium including metadata and reproduction apparatus and method therefor: A storage medium including metadata, which provide an extended search function using a variety of search keywords on audio-visual data, and a reproduction apparatus and a reproduction method of reproducing the storage medium. The storage medium includes: audio-visual data; and metadata to provide an extended search function on the audio-visual... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090112845 - System and method for language sensitive contextual searching: A method, system and computer-readable media for searching a database and returning relevant results are disclosed. The method includes the steps of receiving a user query in one language, searching a database based on the user query to obtain one or more results, processing the results according to a local... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090112843 - System and method for providing differentiated service levels for search index: Programs, systems and methods for providing differentiated service levels for a search index are disclosed. Data object documents are processed by extracting terms and scoring each of the terms associated with each document according to criteria to indicate relative importance of the associated document. A plurality of posting lists are... Agent: Canady & Lortz LLP- Ibm

20090112854 - System and method for related information search and presentation from user interface content: A method and computer program product for extracting primary information from the content in response to a user selecting indicia rendered on a display of the handheld device. The primary information includes entities mentioned within the content. Related information is obtained from one or more content sources based on the... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20090112846 - System and/or method for processing events: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to processing information regarding events. In one particular example, a stabbing query may be formulated in response to an event. One or more sets are associated with and/or mapped to nodes of a tree.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP

20090112852 - User manual supporting method and apparatus using error pattern analysis: A user manual supporting method for use in an electronic appliance includes converting a series of operations performed by the user to operate the electronic appliance and converting the operations into a pattern of user operation sequence, and checking if an error is present in the pattern of user operation... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20090112860 - Autonomic resolution of system configuration: A method and apparatus are provided to support autonomic computing for system configuration. Common base events (CBEs) are generated and, based upon system configuration, are employed to monitor system resources and to resolve system configuration conflicts prior to an error. A symptom database stores a set of rules for the... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20090112859 - Citation-based information retrieval system and method: Disclosed are a method, machine-readable code, and a system for matching one or more citation tags with citation-rich documents or with professionals who are associated with a group of citation tags. The method takes a user input that can be converted to one or more primary search tags, and accesses... Agent: King & Spalding LLP

20090112858 - Efficient method of using xml value indexes without exact path information to filter xml documents for more specific xpath queries: A system and method is provided for query processing comprises: creating an index of a database and ordering a set of index candidates from the index into a list based on a set of heuristic rules. A query defining a query path is then reduced into a list of single... Agent: Law Office Of Donald L. Wenskay

20090112862 - Image-based search system and method: Disclosed-herein is an image-based search system and method. The image-based search system includes at least one user terminal, an information communication network, a search server, and a web server. The user terminal transmits any one or more of a search term entry signal, an image selection signal and an image... Agent: Adam K. Sacharoff Much Shelist Denenberg Ament & Rubenstein

20090112863 - Method and apparatus for finding maximal frequent itmesets over data streams: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for finding maximal frequent itemsets over data streams configured of continuously generated transactions. The method for finding maximal frequent itemsets over data streams including continuously generated transactions, when the itemsets included in previously generated transactions and a frequency of the itemsets... Agent: Ampacc Law Group

20090112864 - Methods for identifying relevant metadata for multimedia data of a large-scale matching system: A method for associate metadata to a multimedia content based on finding matches to similar multimedia content. A given input multimedia content is matched to at least another multimedia content with corresponding metadata. Upon determination of a match, the corresponding metadata is used as metadata of the given multimedia content.... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20090112861 - Non-word or non-number search: A system, method, and computer program product for performing a non-word or non-number search is provided. A search object designated by a user is stored. A user criterion selected by the user for the search object is registered. A search template representing the search object is constructed. The search template... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20090112866 - Apparatus and method for sorting raw data with horizontal division: An apparatus for sorting a raw data with horizontal division is provided. The apparatus includes a frame memory and a frame data sorting device coupled to the frame memory. The frame memory stores a frame data having m vertical fields, and each of the vertical fields has n horizontal fields.... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090112865 - Hierarchical structure entropy measurement methods and systems: Methods and apparatuses are provided for accessing taxonomic data associated with an item as classified into a taxonomy having a hierarchical structure, establishing dependency data associated with a distribution represented in the taxonomic data, and determining entropic data for the item based, at least in part, on the distribution and... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP

20090112867 - Anonymizing selected content in a document: A method and system for anonymizing selected content in a document, by receiving as input a document comprising content; assigning user access privileges to identified users based on an access control policy, the access control policy for the user based on a context and a set of pre-defined named entities... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090112871 - Genome sharing: Sharing data is disclosed. In some cases, sharing data includes receiving a request to share data from a first account to a second account, receiving an indication of a plurality of first account profiles associated with the first account to share with the second account, and establishing sharing from the... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20090112872 - Information sharing system and information sharing method: An information sharing apparatus comprises extracting unit extracting personal information item from acquired information item which includes personal information item, generating unit generating anonymous information item by deleting personal information item from acquired information item, storing unit storing personal information item and anonymous information item, storing unit storing first access... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090112870 - Management of distributed storage: Systems and methods of distributed storage are disclosed herein. A request to store data in a client computer is received. A request is sent from the client computer to a storage service to create a core object such that the core object can be created with a member entry to... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090112868 - Real-time interactive authorization for enterprise search: Techniques for providing at least one user access to one or more documents in a collaborative computing environment in accordance with a search engine are provided. The user is presented with search results, wherein the search results comprise at least one document comprising at least one portion to which the... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090112869 - Solution that utilizes access queues for automatically managing access to an electronic document: The present invention discloses a system for automatically controlling access to electronic documents. Such a system can include a set of electronic documents, a set of access queues, and a document access manager. Each access queue in the set of access queues can be configured to store a waiting list... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090112883 - Application processing method, and intermediation server device: An intermediate server device is installed among a financial institution server device, a local government server device and an applicant terminal device. The intermediate server device transmits application processing information received from the applicant terminal device to the financial institution server device after adding data for verification and application ID.... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090112881 - File sharing system in cooperation with a search engine: Provided is a computer system including: a client computer; a storage system coupled to the client computer via a network; a folder deciding module; and a file storage module, in which each of a plurality of files is stored in one of a plurality of folders; the client computer receives... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20090112884 - Information processing apparatus and control method: According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a storage device, a first system configured to execute an information process, a second system configured to operate independently from the first system, and to execute a file server process, an activation control module configured to activate the first system in... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090112880 - Managing file objects in a data storage system: Managing file objects in a data storage system includes providing a plurality of metadata servers, each metadata server having information for only a subset of file objects in the storage system, each subset for each of the metadata servers being less than a total number of file objects for the... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20090112876 - Method and system for providing dynamic branding in a computer program or suite: A method and system for providing dynamic branding for a computer program or suite having windows, screens, display elements in a graphical interface. The system comprises a branding service module and a branding files database. The database includes a schema for storing and accessing the branding files. The branding files... Agent: Bennett Jones LLP

20090112885 - Method for user identification: A method for user identification, the method comprising relaying an identifier of an application server user to a database associated with the application server, wherein the relaying is performed via a transaction request from the application server to the database.... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP C/o Landon Ip, Inc.

20090112878 - Methods, systems and computer program products for automatically identifying and backing up user device content: Methods, systems and computer program products facilitate intelligent, automatic selection of content on consumer electronic devices to be backed up. User-defined rules selectively and automatically back up content and/or metadata about the content to a network, to another external device, or to an internal chip or memory. Via a user-friendly... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Mb Attn: Patent Docketing

20090112882 - Methods, systems, and devices for managing medical images and records: The disclosure herein provides methods, systems, and devices for managing, transferring, modifying, converting and/or tracking medical files and/or medical system messages. In certain embodiments, the foregoing may generally be based on requesting medical files at a first medical facility, identifying the requested medical files at a second medical facility, initiating... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090112873 - Processing model-based commands for distributed applications: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for processing model based commands for distributed applications. Embodiments facilitate execution of model-based commands, including software lifecycle commands, using model-based workflow instances. Data related to command execution is stored in a shared repository such that command processors can understand... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090112875 - Shared view of customers across business support systems (bss) and a service delivery platform (sdp): An identity management tool provides identity management across multiple domains, providing a single access point not only for information for runtime, network, and service layer information, but also for systems such as business support systems (BSS), operational support systems (OSS), and third party systems. The identity management tool creates a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090112879 - Simultanously accessing file objects through web services and file services: Accessing data file objects includes providing a file system interface on a client, where the file system interface allows an application running on the client to make file system calls to access the data file objects. A Web Services interface may also be provided on the client, where the Web... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20090112877 - System and method for communicating data in a storage network: Systems and methods for communicating data in a storage network are disclosed. A method may include communicating, from a host to a storage array, a request for data having different portions stored in different storage nodes of the storage array. In response to the request, a first storage node of... Agent: Baker Botts, LLP

20090112886 - System and program for implementing scrollable cursors in a distributed database system: Provided are a system and program for accessing data in a distributed database environment. A client program receives multiple requests for data from a database object satisfying specified search predicates from an application program. Each request includes a request for at least one row from the table. The client program... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20090112874 - Text enhancement mechanism: Media enhancing services for pages containing text is described. Text is analyzed to determine related additional media available on the network, and the page description is augmented with metadata to identify the additional media in an enhanced page description. When the enhanced page is rendered, the metadata facilitates incorporation of... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090112889 - Compressing null columns in rows of the tabular data stream protocol: Systems and methodologies that enhance a Tabular Data Stream (TDS) protocol by enabling efficient transmission of a row(s) with null columns(s). An identification component employs a bit map that can be positioned at beginning of a row, to indicate to the receiving side (e.g., a client) columns that are to... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090112893 - Creation and management of electronic files for localization project: Creation and management of electronic files for a localization project. The electronic files are based on a data structure that defines the format and content of the electronic files and includes a first data structure portion that contains data that represents a plurality of references to localization project files. Moreover,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090112895 - Database size tracking and reporting for application upgrades: Techniques for determining the growth of database objects. In one set of embodiments, baseline sizes for a plurality of database objects are recorded, where the baseline sizes are recorded prior to the execution of an application upgrade. Further, upgraded sizes for the plurality of database objects are recorded, where the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090112890 - Efficient update of binary xml content in a database system: Various techniques are described hereafter for improving the efficiency of updating XML documents in a content repository, such as a database system. Specifically, techniques are described for updating an XML document by dynamically merging a stream of XML data from the document with update information. Techniques are also described for... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090112887 - Mapping deep structured data structures: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for mapping deep structured data structures. Statements defining a mapping of source elements formatted in accordance with a first hierarchical structure to a target formatted in accordance with a second hierarchical structure are received. The first and second hierarchical structures may be different.... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20090112888 - Method of providing database access to non-programmers: An operating system independent system for enabling non-technical users to manipulate data from within large pre-existing databases with limited involvement of programmers. The system consists of a visual interface for the construction of a sequence of operations to retrieve, manipulate and store data in the databases, as well as displays... Agent: Fox Rothschild, LLP Pittsburgh

20090112894 - Method of reducing storage power consumption by use of prefetch and computer system using the same: Provided is a computer system including: a computer running as a DB server; a storage system including a plurality of disk drives for storing data; and a management module, in which: at least one of the plurality of disk drives stores data of a DB schema written by the computer;... Agent: Stanley P. Fisher Reed Smith LLP

20090112892 - System and method for automatically summarizing fine-grained opinions in digital text: A method and system for automatically summarizing fine-grained opinions in digital text are disclosed. Accordingly, a digital text is analyzed for the purpose of extracting all opinion expressions found in the text. Next, the extracted opinion expressions (referred to herein as opinion frames) are analyzed to generate opinion summaries. In... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090112891 - System and method for implementing a stackable tabbed interface in a data processing system: A system and method for implementing a stackable tabbed interface in a data processing system. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a file system receives a collection of organizational schemes for arranging a collection of graphical indicia associated with a collection of files in a file system. In... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090112904 - Apparatus and method for categorical filtering of data: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to retrieve a dataset from a data source. The dataset includes a first set of categories. A data structure with nodes connected by edges is built to represent the dataset. A first set of merit values is calculated for the first set... Agent: Sap Global C/o Cooley Godward Kronish LLP William S. Galliani

20090112900 - Collaborative compression: Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for collaborative compression, in which is obtained a collection of files, with individual ones of the files including a set of ordered data elements (e.g., bit positions), and with individual ones of the data elements having different values in different ones... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090112897 - Data sequence compression: In a method of compressing a data sequence, the data sequence is parsed into data segments, where at least one of the data segments includes a match. In addition, the match is compressed using at least one context model that depends upon one or more coded data symbols that are... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090112898 - Decoding a hierarchical multi-layer data package: A hierarchical decoder is operable to decode a hierarchical multi-layer data package. The hierarchical multi-layer data package includes a plurality of layers and one or more subpackages in each layer. To decode the data package, an objective function is created based on parameters for identifying data in the data package... Agent: Motorola, Inc. Law Department

20090112902 - Document fidelity with binary xml storage: Techniques are provided for ensuring lexical fidelity when an XML document is stored in a binary format. Operations, on the XML data, that would cause the loss of lexical fidelity between the original XML document and the binary-encoded version of the XML document are not performed. Such operations include the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090112896 - Method and related device for hardware-oriented conversion between arithmetic and boolean random masking: A method for secure conversion between two different random markings used for cryptographic functions, converts a first binary data word, masked by a binary mask word according to a first masking process, into a corresponding second binary data word, masked by said binary mask word according to a second masking... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090112899 - Method and system for adaptive disk management: Provided herein are at least one embodiment of systems and methods of adaptive disk management for a recording device employing a memory storage device such as hard disk storage so that memory storage device usage is tracked in the recording device and the memory storage device is controlled based on... Agent: Scientific-atlanta, Inc. Intellectual Property Dept.

20090112903 - Ontology data import/export method and apparatus: The present invention provides a flexible ontology data import/export method and apparatus. The ontology data import apparatus comprises: an ontology data format analyzer for analyzing a format of input ontology data, and performing format determination by utilizing an ontology format database which stores formats of those successfully imported ontologies if... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090112901 - Software, systems and methods for modifying xml data structures: Methods, systems and software are described for modifying an Extensible Markup Language (XML) file. Initially, an XML file is provided having at least one data node that contains at least one instruction to modify the XML file. This XML file is parsed to identifying the modification instruction(s) and the XML... Agent: Potomac Patent Group PLLC

20090112909 - Automated generation of modeling language profiles: A database of data can be leveraged to automatically generate profiles for use in modeling. The data may be specific to one or more domains and/or general to multiple domains. A mapping scheme is established to map structure of the database to a structure of a profile. The mapping scheme... Agent: Ibm Austin Iplaw (dg)

20090112911 - Automated indexing of electronic files and file folders: A method for indexing an electronic file is presented. In the method, a first value based upon a time value is generated. An index for the electronic file is generated, with the index including the first value and a second value. The electronic file is associated with the index. In... Agent: Setter Roche LLP

20090112915 - Class configuration for locally cached remote data binding: Data-driven applications are often designed to couple with a remote data store, such as a relational database server. It may be difficult for developers to implement complex details of the synchronization, including data caching and concurrency management, and developers may be unable to use synchronization code libraries without specialized knowledge... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090112916 - Creating a mapping: Among other disclosed subject matter, a computer-implemented method for creating a mapping includes obtaining a definition relating to a first schema, the definition comprising a first plurality of nodes to be mapped to a second schema comprising a second plurality of nodes. The method includes receiving at least one context... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20090112913 - Efficient mechanism for managing hierarchical relationships in a relational database system: A method and apparatus for managing hierarchical relationships in a relational database system is provided. An “orderkey” data type, which is native within a relational database system, is disclosed. The orderkey type is designed to contain values that represent the position of an entity relative to the positions of other... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090112910 - Method and apparatus for personalization of an application: The invention relates to personalizing an application such as a content search and retrieval application. An ontology store (301) provides a multi-user ontology for a plurality of users. The multi-user ontology can be a standardised ontology. A user preference processor (303) provides a user preference profile for a first user... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090112917 - Method and computer program product for using data mining tools to automatically compare an investigated unit and a benchmark unit: Sources of operational problems in business transactions often show themselves in relatively small pockets of data, which are called trouble hot spots. Identifying these hot spots from internal company transaction data is generally a fundamental step in the problem's resolution, but this analysis process is greatly complicated by huge numbers... Agent: Verizon Patent Management Group

20090112908 - Method and system for generic extraction of business object data: Systems, methods, and software for generic extraction of business object data are provided. One computerized method includes retrieving multiple identifiers of sub-nodes. The sub-nodes are associated with a root node of a business object. The method further includes generating a tree data structure. The tree includes multiple tree nodes and... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20090112919 - Method and system to model and create a virtual private datacenter: A virtual private datacenter system and method are provided. A method for capacity planning of a virtual private datacenter and a method for chargeback for use of the virtual private datacenter also are disclosed.... Agent: Dla Piper LLP (us )

20090112906 - Multi-user animation coupled to bulletin board: A multi-user animation process receives input from multiple remote clients to manipulate avatars through a modeled 3-D environment. Each user is represented by an avatar. The 3-D environment and avatar position/location data is provided to client workstations, which display a simulated environment visible to all participants. A text or speech-based... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090112912 - Reference architecture framework: An architecture record can be created for a computer system that includes a plurality of computing devices, each having an operating system. The architecture record includes platform definition architectures each associated with one of the computing devices and the operating system of the computing device, domain reference architectures each associated... Agent: Banner & Witcoff, Ltd Attorneys For Client Number 007131

20090112914 - Returning a second content based on a user's reaction to a first content: Embodiments include a device, a system, a computer program product, and a method. A method embodiment includes receiving from a requester sensor data indicative of a response by a person to a first content displayed to the person. The method also includes analyzing the received sensor data for an indication... Agent: Searete LLC

20090112918 - Rich media content web site analytics system and method and network analytics infrastructure employing the same: A reporting server, a method of performing rich media content web site analytics and a network analytics infrastructure. In one embodiment, the reporting server includes: (1) a location mapper configured to receive messages directly from rich media message generators over a network and associate geographical locations with the messages based... Agent: Hitt Gaines P.C.

20090112905 - Self-compacting pattern indexer: storing, indexing and accessing information in a graph-like data structure: An indexing system uses a graph-like data structure that clusters features indexes together. The minimum atomic value in the data structure is represented as a leaf node which is either a single feature index or a sequence of two or more feature indexes when a minimum sequence length is imposed.... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090112920 - System and article of manufacture for defining and generating a viewtype for a base model: Disclosed is a technique for processing a base model. The base model is received. Then, the base model is used to create a ViewType comprising a ViewType object, one or more ViewList objects corresponding to classes in the base model, and one or more ViewElem objects corresponding to attributes in... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20090112907 - Warranty insight solution framework system and method: A system and method of warranty insight solution are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes populating a data mart with data from a number of sources, text analyzing and mining the unstructured data of the data mart according to a uniform structure, performing root cause analysis assistance on staged... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20090112923 - Automatic annotation of audio and/or visual data: Automatic annotation of data recorded by a device. A portion of an event may be recorded as an image, movie, sound byte, audio recording, etc., and contemporaneous to the recording, a time value (which may encode a calendar date) is determined. The time value is looked up on a calendar,... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090112921 - Managing files using layout storage objects: Managing a plurality of files includes providing at least one server having a table with plurality of file identifiers, each of the file identifiers including a pointer to a metadata file object containing a layout storage object that indicates storage parameters for corresponding files and includes accessing a particular one... Agent: Muirhead And Saturnelli, LLC

20090112922 - Methods and arrangements of processing and presenting information: Embodiments include systems, apparatuses, transformations, code, state machines or other logic to perform spreadsheet operations. Some embodiments may provide a text-based interface to a spreadsheet. In further embodiments, a spreadsheet may create, modify, and access spreadsheet objects in response to text entered into the text-based interface. The text-based interface may... Agent: Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20090112924 - Methods and apparatus for using information regarding actions performed using traceable objects: An embodiment of a communication system includes a client device adapted to receive a traceable object that includes tracer information, and to perform one or more object-related actions using the traceable object. The client device stores the tracer information and object usage information, which describes the one or more object-related... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C. (mot)

20090112925 - Intelligent fastener installation system: One embodiment of a fastening apparatus may include at least one of a fastener and a collar having a code with information regarding the fastener and/or collar. The code may be communicated to one or more databases of a computer. The fastener and/or collar may be tightened, located, maintained, and/or... Agent: Evan Law Group LLC And The Boeing Company

20090112934 - Backing up a protocol order: Computerized methods and systems for creating and documenting protocol orders in a molecular diagnostic laboratory environment are provided. Utilizing the methods and systems described herein, protocol statements may require values to be entered in association therewith prior to permitting access to subsequent protocol orders. Accordingly, more accurate test runs and,... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20090112929 - Digital registry for funeral services: An electronic guest book for funeral services is provided. One or more funeral services can be configured. During the service, a computer permits entry of guest information, such as name, address and comment. Subsequently, the guest information can be used to automate the generation of print materials, such as custom... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20090112931 - Method and a system for determining predicted numbers of processor cycles required for respective segments of a media file for playback of the media file: A method of determining predicted numbers of processor cycles required for respective segments of a media file for playback of the media file, a method of playback of a media file, a method of downloading a media file, a device for playback of a media file and a system for... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090112930 - Processes and systems for enhancing an electronic program guide: A process of displaying program information on a viewing screen may include: providing an electronic programming guide, the electronic program guide divided into timeslots containing program information; displaying program information from the displayed timeslots on a viewing screen; providing a link to additional information, the link associated with the program... Agent: Echostar Technologies, L.L.C.

20090112928 - System and method for ivr based order fulfillment: In one example embodiment, a system and method is disclosed as including generating a translation rule file describing a first rule to be used to translate a record definition file. An operation may then be performed that maps the record definition file, using the first rule, to generate a record... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090112927 - System and method of transforming data for use in data analysis tools: A process of transforming data residing in databases, such as relational databases, into forms suitable as input to data analysis tools, such as predictive modeling tools includes the steps of defining a business process problem to be solved and identifying data requirements. For example, the business process problem may relate... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson, P.C.

20090112926 - Utilizing presence data associated with a resource: In one embodiment, a method includes subscribing to a resource that is associated with one or more sensors and receiving presence data originating from the one or more sensors. The method includes determining a status associated with the resource based on the presence data originating from the one or more... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090112933 - Video content viewing apparatus: A multifunction video navigation display is achieved without adding an extra load onto hardware or software of a viewing apparatus. In such a video content viewing apparatus, a memory unit acquires video contents and metadata to execute video navigation functions from an external server and stores them, a metadata analysis... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090112932 - Visualizing key performance indicators for model-based applications: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for visualizing key performance indicators for model-based applications. A composite application model defines how to graphically present an interactive user surface for a composite application from values of a key performance indicator for the composite application. A presentation module... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090112935 - Integrating activity log information with user-specified content: A user content generation system is described herein that enables content authors to generate content that includes stored information from an activity log or other stored information repository. The content includes one or more references to the activity log information. When the system receives a request to display the content,... Agent: Boswell Intellectual Property Law PLLC

20090112938 - Indicating staleness of elements in a document in a content management system: A content management system (CMS) indicates stale (i.e. outdated) elements in a document according to a stale content policy that specifies one or more thresholds that determine whether or not an element is stale, and if a stale element should trigger an auto suggest mechanism. When an author checks a... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20090112939 - Linking framework for information technology management: A data synchronization task is received at a console, wherein the data synchronization task is associated with information technology management. A configuration document is configured using the data synchronization task, wherein the configuration document defines data synchronization through declarations. A linking framework is configured based on the configuration document. Data... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090112936 - Method of automatically synchronizing data: There is provided a system operable to execute automatic synchronization therein. The system comprises a first data memory (20) for storming a first data set, said first memory (20) being coupled to a communication network (10). The system further includes a portable device (100) including a second data memory (130)... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090112937 - Spreadsheet collaboration between rich and browser clients: Techniques for collaborating on a spreadsheet file by client computers in real time are disclosed herein. In particular, a revision manager module is preferably provided with a host machine which receives updates from the client computers, processes such updates, and then applies them to the spreadsheet file. Additionally, a technique... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20090112941 - Computer system and firmware recovery method for computer system: A firmware recovery method for a computer system including the following steps is provided. The computer system enters a firmware recovery mode. It is determined whether a display unit initial firmware is stored in a non-volatile memory. While the display unit initial firmware is not completely stored in the non-volatile... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090112940 - Method, system and computer-readable media for repairing corruption of data record references: A system, method and computer-readable media are provided for repairing corrupted data related to a software database. An electronic information technology system includes (1.) a logical page index; (2.) a free page map; and (3.) a computer-readable medium. The logical page index includes a plurality of logical page index pairs,... Agent: Patrick Reilly

20090112942 - System and method for decoupling space reservation in transactional logs: A common logging system (a “virtual logging system”) that presents to one or more log clients the appearance that each log client is interacting with a dedicated logging system. In reality, the virtual logging system is multiplexing virtual log streams, including log records, for each log client into a single... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090112943 - Computer readable medium, information management method and information management apparatus: A computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for managing an electronic information group which includes a first piece and a second piece of electronic information, the process includes monitoring state information indicating a state of the first piece of electronic information; determining that... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090112944 - Method, server, terminal, and system for updating an electronic service guide: A method for updating an electronic service guide (ESG) that includes sending version information of the ESG currently maintained by the server along with ESG data to a terminal. When the server receives an ESG request carrying second version information from the terminal, the server compares the first version information... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090112945 - Data processing apparatus and method of processing data: Data processing apparatus comprising: a chunk store containing specimen data chunks, a manifest store containing a plurality of manifests, each of which represents at least a part of a data set and each of which comprises at least one reference to at least one of said specimen data chunks, a... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090112946 - Data processing apparatus and method of processing data: Data processing apparatus comprising: a chunk store partitioned into a plurality of chunk sections, at least one section storing specimen data chunks, the processing apparatus being operable to: process input data into one or more input data chunks; identify a chunk section already containing a specimen data chunk corresponding to... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090112947 - Database log capture that publishes transactions to multiple targets to handle unavailable targets by separating the publishing of subscriptions and subsequently recombining the publishing: A first log reader publishes first messages to a plurality of queues. The messages comprise changes for transactions extracted from a log by the first log reader. In response to one of the queues becoming unavailable, a second log reader is launched to read and extract from the log, and... Agent: International Business Machines Corp. (jms)

20090112948 - Method for performing a backup by querying a backup infrastructure: One aspect of the invention is a method for backing up data. An example of the method includes querying a backup infrastructure to ascertain backup capabilities of the backup infrastructure. This example also may include broadcasting the capabilities of the backup infrastructure, wherein the capabilities are broadcasted by the backup... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20090112951 - Apparatus and method of managing files and memory device: A system and method of managing files and a memory device are provided. The system for managing files includes an attribute-management module designating nested attributes to the files having a size smaller than a basic allocation unit of a file system or to directories to which the files belong, a... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20090112949 - Compressed storage management: In accordance with one or more aspects, compressed storage management in a system includes determining which of multiple data units stored in an uncompressed portion of the storage resource are to be compressed and stored in a compressed portion of the storage resource. The management can further include returning one... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090112950 - File management device and storage device: A file system management device is connectable to a storage device. The storage device includes a first file system entity created according to a first file system in which a second file system entity created according to a second file system is allowed to be mapped. A mapping information storing... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090112953 - Enhanced garbage collection in a multi-node environment: Embodiments of the invention enhance a garbage collection process running on a parallel system or distributed computing environment. Using a garbage collector in such an environment allows a more in-depth analysis to be performed than is possible on other systems. This is because the number of compute nodes present in... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090112952 - Low latency optimization for generational garbage collection: A solution for handling objects in a nursery heap that includes a garbage collector monitoring engine, a size adjustor program, and/or a promotion program. The garbage collector monitoring engine can monitor occurrences of global garbage collection events performed by a global garbage collector program as well as occurrences of nursery... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090106186 - Dynamically generating an xquery: Dynamically generating an XQuery for an XML database storing a plurality of non-XML documents, each non-XML document having a corresponding shadow XML document in the XML database. The method may include providing a plurality of static units of XQuery code, the static units being predefined in accordance with the non-XML... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090106188 - Image processor, stored document management method, and stored document management system: An image processor includes a document name list acquisition unit, a document name list storage device, a document acquisition unit, and a document name assignment unit. The document name list acquisition unit acquires information of a document name list including a document name of each of a plurality of documents... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090106187 - Information processing apparatus having process units operable in parallel: An information processing apparatus according to an exemplary aspect of the invention includes a plurality of process units operable in parallel and a cache unit. The information processing apparatus executes a series of processes including access to a database through pipelining of the plurality of process units. The plurality of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090106185 - Measurement data management with combined file database and relational database: A device for managing a plurality of measurement data, each measurement data representing a value of a physical parameter, the device comprising a file database adapted for storing the plurality of measurement data in the form of data files each of which being assigned to a specific measurement, a relational... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20090106189 - Dynamically sharing a subtree of operators in a data stream management system operating on existing queries: A new continuous query to a data stream management system (DSMS) may use several operators that are equivalent to operators currently being used by continuous queries that have been previously registered in the DSMS. To determine equivalence of operators, the DSMS checks at least the function and the data input... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Group LLP Attn: Ora

20090106191 - Search center dynamic configuration using field mappings: A mechanism for dynamically configuring searchable fields of interest within a search provided. A field mappings file is used to define relationships between searchable interest in searchable objects and fields within a search index accessible to an se-wide search center. The field mappings file can provide the defined relationships searchable... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20090106190 - Support for user defined functions in a data stream management system: A data stream management system (DSMS) is designed to support a new user-defined function, by creating and using at least two structures as follows. A first structure (“metadata entry”) is created in response to a command for creation of the new function, and maps a single instance of a class... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Group LLP Attn: Ora

20090106208 - Apparatus and method for content item annotation: An apparatus for content item annotation comprises an ontology processor (103) which generates a reduced ontology from a first ontology. The reduced ontology comprises a subset of concepts of the first ontology. An analysis processor (107) and an annotation processor (109) determine first annotation data for the content item by... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20090106199 - Communication device and an information searching method: A communication device may be used to obtain information regarding a group including a user and one or more group members. The communication device includes a table creating module, a user interface, a salutation obtaining module, and an information searching module. The table creating module is configured for creating a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090106204 - Component part search system with public and private communities: A method of providing a searchable parts database includes collecting component part data from a plurality of users to form a component part database. An exclusive group is formed including a subset of the users. User members of the exclusive group are provided with access to the component part data... Agent: Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP

20090106195 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program: The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method and an information processing program that are capable of assigning an optimum keyword to a content. The information processing apparatus includes a content characteristic quantity extraction unit 52, a label information extraction unit 54, a associating information... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090106203 - Method and apparatus for a web search engine generating summary-style search results: A method and apparatus for a summarization-based search engine is presented. This invention provides a concise answer to a user's query—an accurate and up-to-date summary—that is synthesized from multiple contents taken from the World Wide Web. In contrast to conventional search engines, such as Google and Yahoo!, which return the... Agent: Frank F. Tian

20090106205 - Method and apparatus to define the scope of a search for information from a tabular data source: A method and apparatus for defining the scope of a search is described. In one embodiment, user input is received, and the scope is defined, based on the user input, for a search of free-form text for information from any random rows within a tabular structure of source data. In... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090106209 - Method and system for distributing product information: A method and system of associating product codes with product characteristics, and using those product codes to send and receive information about those characteristics to destinations on a network when the values of those characteristics change.... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090106212 - Method and system for searching for online users: A method and system for searching for online users. A storage unit is set for an SP, and adapted to store the basic information and status information of users. Thus, after receiving an online user search request carrying search conditions from an XDMC, the SP may determine online users meeting... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090106207 - Method for restricting access to search results and a search engine supporting the method: In a search engine (100) capable of supporting and implementing the above method, the search engine comprises as per se known subsystems for performing search and retrieval in the form of one or more core search engines (101), a content application programming interface (102), a content analysis stage (103) and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090106194 - Method, information processing apparatus, and program of searching for, aggregating and sorting trees: A searching method for tree data structure topology employs an array generated as a search key array representing a tree serving as search key to represent a parent-child relationship between nodes. The array has the node identifier assigned to a parent node associated with a corresponding non-root node. Non-root nodes... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20090106210 - Methods and systems for database organization: A relational database having a plurality of records is organized by using a processing arrangement to perform a clustering operation on the records so as to create a number of clusters. At least one of the clusters is characterized by a selected metadata parameter. The clustering operation is performed to... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090106200 - Methods and systems of content mobilization, mobile search, and video editing through a web interface: This invention relates to computer implemented methods and systems for content mobilization, and in particular, methods and systems for mobilization of video, music, photos and other media, including processes for mobile search, mobile messaging, building a mobile content library, and combinations thereof. Content mobilization may be initiated by entry of... Agent: Kenyon D. Potter

20090106206 - Progressive reference system, method and apparatus: A written document (hereinafter referred to as a “work,” on electronic format which includes, stories, novels, education texts, biographies, compilations, collections, anthologies, tracts, and any other traditional format for relatively extensive texts) provides access to reference, bibliography and/or definition material through an electronic software capability associated with the work. Depending... Agent: Mark A. Litman & Associates, P.A. York Business Center

20090106193 - Real time responses in decentralized networks: A method of enabling a user to obtain a query result in a data network is provided taken latency problems of decentralised networks comprising a number of entities into account. The method comprises the steps of sending a query from a requesting entity to a number of further entities in... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20090106198 - Support for sharing computation between aggregations in a data stream management system: A computer is programmed to process a continuous query that is known to perform a new aggregation on one or more stream(s) of data, using one or more other aggregations on the stream(s). The computer creates an operator to execute the continuous query, and schedules the operator for execution in... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Group LLP Attn: Ora

20090106197 - System and method for creating a collection of business listings: A system and method for developing a local business listing Internet site through member generated business listings is described. The members of the service provider providing the site are compensated with a portion of the money received by the service provider for the member created listings.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090106202 - System and method for enabling search of content: A system and method for searching content. The method comprises receiving from a first user metadata relating to generating a guide for content. A guide is generated relating to the content. The guide facilitates navigation of the content on a device. The metadata is forwarded to a metadata analyzer where... Agent: Wolf, Block, Shorr And Solis-cohen LLP

20090106211 - System and method for processing dns queries: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for high-speed database searching with concurrent updating, without the use of database locks or access controls, for large database systems. Specifically, a plurality of search queries may be received over a network, the database may be searched, and a plurality... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090106201 - System and method for related information search and presentation from user interface content: A method and computer program product for extracting primary information from the content in response to an action taken by a user. The primary information includes entities mentioned within the content. Related information is obtained from one or more content sources based on the primary information. The content is annotated... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20090106196 - Transferring records between tables using a change transaction log: A method and apparatus for transferring records between database tables using a transaction log. In one embodiment of the method, a first application generates a transaction for deleting a record from a first table in a database. In response to the generation of the first transaction, a copy of the... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20090106192 - Visual database for online transactions: A system of searching an image database. An image database is associated with an on-line merchant, and each of the images in the database are associated with items which can be purchased. Image information is entered, and that image to information is used to search the items in the database.... Agent: Scott C Harris

20090106214 - Adding new continuous queries to a data stream management system operating on existing queries: A new continuous query to a data stream management system (DSMS) may use a stream or a relation which may or may not be used by continuous queries previously registered in the DSMS. The DSMS is programmed to modify an execution plan to accommodate execution of the new query while... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Group LLP Attn: Ora

20090106215 - Deleting a continuous query from a data stream management system continuing to operate on other queries: A first continuous query is deleted from several continuous queries that are being executed, by performing different actions that depend on how resources are shared therebetween. As an example, a second continuous query is deleted if a view is referenced by the first continuous query, and if the view is... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Group LLP Attn: Ora

20090106217 - Ontology-based network search engine: A method and apparatus for searching for a documents residing on a network comprises receiving a search request from a user. The search request comprises one or more search terms of an ontology. The ontology includes a plurality of terms. One or more of the plurality of terms includes a... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090106216 - Push-model based index updating: A method and apparatus for push-model based index updating. In one embodiment of the method, a first transaction generated for modifying or inserting a first data object into a memory. A first message is generated in response to generating the first transaction, wherein the first message comprises information related to... Agent: Eric Stephenson Campbell Stephenson Ascolese LLP

20090106219 - Sql execution plan verification: Approaches, techniques, and mechanisms are disclosed for ensuring that a database command is executed according to a query plan that has been verified to be actually optimal. Except in rare circumstances, a database server does not execute a query plan unless it is first verified by the database server. The... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090106218 - Support for user defined aggregations in a data stream management system: A computer is programmed to accept a command to create a new aggregation defined by a user during execution of continuous queries on streams of data. The computer is further programmed to thereafter accept and process new continuous queries using the new aggregation, in a manner similar to built-in aggregations.... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Group LLP Attn: Ora

20090106213 - System and method for resolving mta domain names: A MAC-to-IP system receives IP and/or MAC lease information of network end-points from one or more DHCP servers providing services to a region of a multi-system subscriber access network. The lease information includes the MAC and IP address of devices that can be provisioned by a DHCP server serving the... Agent: The Marbury Law Group, PLLC

20090106220 - Systems and methods for gathering and selectively synchronizing state information of at least one machine: A method for gathering and selectively synchronizing state information of at least one machine includes generating, by a first machine, a query identifying a plurality of metrics characterizing a state of a second machine and at least one criterion identifying a circumstance in which to respond to the query. The... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20090106234 - Apparatus and methods for web marketing tools and digital archives - web portal advertising arts: This invention relates to the creation of a software application to: facilitate the creation, representation and publication of digital objects; in particular, methods and apparatus that improve digital resource retrieval on the part of end users and to provide a new system for the web based marketing of digital assets... Agent: Cloutier & Engle, PLLC Attn: Priya Sinha Cloutier

20090106232 - Boosting a ranker for improved ranking accuracy: A system described herein includes a trainer component that receives an estimated gradient of cost that corresponds to a first ranker component with respect to at least one training point and at least one query. The trainer component builds a second ranker component based at least in part upon the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090106238 - Contextual searching of electronic records and visual rule construction: A web-based system for visual construction of logical rules includes a server, a network, and client operatively connected to the server via the network. The server includes a database and a search engine. The client includes a web-based visual rule building application including selectable windows for displaying and visually editing... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090106235 - Document length as a static relevance feature for ranking search results: Embodiments are configured to provide information based on a user query. In an embodiment, a system includes a search component having a ranking component that can be used to rank search results as part of a query response. In one embodiment, the ranking component includes a ranking algorithm that can... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090106239 - Document review system and method: A system and method for reviewing electronic documents. The method may include the step of using a computing device to rate a document's relevancy to a concept. Depending on the document's relevancy rating, the document could be routed to either substantive review personnel or relevancy review personnel. If the relevancy... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20090106223 - Enterprise relevancy ranking using a neural network: A neural network is used to process a set of ranking features in order to determine the relevancy ranking for a set of documents or other items. The neural network calculates a predicted relevancy score for each document and the documents can then be ordered by that score. Alternate embodiments... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090106225 - Identification of medical practitioners who emphasize specific medical conditions or medical procedures in their practice: A scheme enables the identification of medical professionals having expertise with a particular medical condition or procedure. Areas of expertise are assigned to both conditions and procedures and medical professionals who treat the condition or perform the procedure. A description for treatment is received and used to identify a specific... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20090106229 - Linear combination of rankers: Described herein is a system that includes a receiver component that receives first scores for training points and second scores for the training points, wherein the first scores are individually assigned to the training points by a first ranker component and the second scores are individually assigned to the training... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090106222 - Listwise ranking: Procedures for learning and ranking items in a listwise manner are discussed. A listwise methodology may consider a ranked list, of individual items, as a specific permutation of the items being ranked. In implementations, a listwise loss function may be used in ranking items. A listwise loss function may be... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090106227 - Lubrication program management system and methods: A system for scheduling a plurality of selected maintenance tasks. The system comprises one or more storage media and a processor. The one or more storage media store data indicative of a plurality of maintenance points, a plurality of task templates, and a plurality of maintenance task definitions as associations... Agent: Dunlap Codding, P.C.

20090106228 - Method and apparatus for providing a user traffic weighted search: A method and apparatus for providing a user traffic weighted search in a network are disclosed. For example, the method receives a query from a customer and determines whether the customer has opted-in for a service for traffic data monitoring. The method then provides one or more search results to... Agent: At&t Corp.

20090106236 - Method for scoring products, services, institutions, and other items: The present invention relates to a method of scoring an item, including reviewing a first editorial evaluation of the item; assigning a first editorial evaluation score to the item based on the first editorial evaluation; reviewing a second editorial evaluation of the item; assigning a second editorial evaluation score to... Agent: Curtis, Mallet-prevost, Colt & Mosle, LLP

20090106231 - Query dependant link-based ranking using authority scores: Query dependent ranking uses an authority score. A base set is determined as the union of a result set to a received query, an inlinking-set, and an outlinked-set. The inlinking-set is determined by sampling a predetermined number of uniform resource locators (URLs) linking to each result. The outlinked-set is determined... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090106230 - Query dependent link-based ranking: Query dependent ranking uses weighted edges in a stochastic approach for link structure analysis (SALSA) technique. Functions describing the weights of edges into and out of a vertex are determined to define transition probability functions. The transition probability functions are used to compute authority scores for each uniform resource locator... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090106233 - Query engine interpreter and prioritization engine: A method for refining a search query includes receiving a query from a user, submitting at least one question to the user based on information provided in the query, and receiving an answer to the question from the user. The method also includes refining the query based on the answer... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090106221 - Ranking and providing search results based in part on a number of click-through features: Embodiments are configured to provide information based on a user query. In an embodiment, a system includes a search component having a ranking component that can be used to rank search results as part of a query response. In one embodiment, the ranking component includes a ranking algorithm that can... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090106224 - Real-time query suggestion in a troubleshooting context: A method for assisting a user to develop a query in a natural language includes receiving a user's query in a natural language and, while the user's query is being entered, presenting a subset of ranked query suggestions from a collection of ranked query suggestions to the user as candidates... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20090106241 - Search criteria control system and method: A method and system is provided for controlling search criteria when searching databases using active controls. In one aspect, a search criteria control bar (SCCB) displays results of a search by identifying category selections and keywords. Category selections may be identified by a unique delimiter and any keywords may also... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090106226 - Search shortcut pullquotes: A system for assisting users in obtaining objective information about consumer products is provided. The system includes pullquotes within a listing of ordered search results, where the pullquotes are extracted from independent objective consumer reviews.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090106240 - Supplier identification and locator system and method: A supplier identification and locator system in that allows a user to identify a supplier of goods or services over the Internet; the system includes at least one directory Web site having a domain name that is at least partially descriptive of a class of goods or services. The directory... Agent: Price Heneveld Cooper Dewitt & Litton, LLP

20090106237 - System and method for dynamically customizing web page content: A method for providing customized web page content. The method includes receiving information from a referring uniform resource locator (URL) including information relating to a first search performed by a user, processing specific terms in the referring URL to produce a customized web page based upon the terms in the... Agent: Pepper Hamilton LLP

20090106244 - Discovering interestingness in faceted search: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to enhanced faceted search support for OLAP queries over unstructured text as well as structured dimensions by the dynamic and automatic discovery of dimensions that are determined to be most “interesting” to a user based upon the data. Within the exemplary embodiments “interestingness”... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20090106245 - Method and apparatus for identifying and resolving conflicting data records: A method and apparatus for identifying and resolving conflicting data records are disclosed. The individual data fields of a master record are compared with the corresponding data fields of each source record in a particular data set. For each, one of various matching algorithms is used to assign a field... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090106242 - Resolving database entity information: Entity resolution in a database comprises receiving imported data comprising imported data entities each having properties each having values; receiving first user input that selects the imported data entities for resolution to existing data entities in a database; receiving second user input that specifies matching criteria for matching the imported... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090106243 - System for obtaining of transcripts of non-textual media: A system for obtaining textual transcripts of non-textual media is provided. The system uses a voting mechanism to determine which elements within a pool of candidate documents are included within a final transcript that is then associated with the non-textual media.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090106246 - Image display apparatus and method therefor: The present invention provides an image display apparatus and an image display method adapted for the apparatus. The apparatus stores a plurality of image files and metadata of each of the image files, and provides current timestamp. The metadata for each image includes an upload timestamp, a last-displayed timestamp, and... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090106247 - Method and system for allowing multiple users to access and unlock shared electronic documents in a computer system: A system for allowing multiple users to access and unlock shared electronic documents in a computer system. A group of users are defined as potential “lock-breaker” users for a document, such that they are automatically contacted in the event that a user wishes to unlock the document after it has... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20090106248 - Optimistic locking method and system for committing transactions on a file system: In a file system shared by multiple servers, reservation of a data storage unit such as a LUN of a disk array to acquire locks in order to commit a transaction acting on data stored in the data storage unit is deferred until the transaction is completed in RAM and... Agent: Vmware, Inc.

20090106250 - Access control system, access control device, program and recording medium: Effective utilization of a database while protecting a data provider's privacy is accomplished by an access control system which controls access to a database in which open information and secret information about a data provider are stored while being related to each other has an output request acquisition section which... Agent: Ibm - Arc Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20090106249 - Document management system, document management device, document management method and recording medium storing a document management program: A document management system includes a management device that manages operation limiting information for limiting an operation of a document, and a document operation device that operates the document, in which the document operation device is provided with an invalidation request portion that requests invalidation of the document, and the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090106268 - Content distribution prioritization using demand indices: A method of providing electronic content that includes matching electronic content to a plurality of destinations based on one or more criteria, assigning demand indices to each of the plurality of destinations based upon a determined value of the destination to the electronic content, determining an order of the plurality... Agent: Dla Piper LLP (us )

20090106269 - Distributed storage system with high bandwidth utilization: A distributed storage system comprising a plurality of storage-and-computing elements, each storing a plurality of small content fragments associated with a plurality of contents, wherein a content retrieval load is shared between the storage-and-computing elements such that approximately the total uplink bandwidth of the distributed storage system can be utilized,... Agent: Active Knowledge Ltd.

20090106267 - Dynamic management of multiple persistent data stores: Dynamic management of multiple persistent data stores is disclosed. One or more data objects are associated with a client context, e.g., an instance of a client application program. The one or more data objects are retrieved from one or more of a plurality of persistent data stores and provided to... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Apple Computer, Inc.

20090106255 - File aggregation in a switched file system: In a switched file system, a file switching device is logically positioned between clients and file servers and communicates with the clients and the file servers using standard network file protocols. The file switching device appears as a server to the client devices and as a client to the file... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20090106252 - Http-based publish-subscribe service: Resources are retrieved asynchronous through the use of resource requests to a feed server. When the feed server returns an initial requested resource, a URI for a next resource is sent to the requesting subscriber. The URI for the next resource was pre-generated by the feed server before the next... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090106259 - Identifier authenticating system: There is provided an identifier authenticating system in which information requesting users can share all predetermined information held in a plurality of information providing servers. In the identifier authenticating system, when an identifier holding user 18 presents an identifier to an information requesting server 16, the information requesting server 16... Agent: Clark & Brody

20090106265 - Image tile server: An image tile server importantly includes an image tile cache, to support a tiled map display in a user device. Instead of the conventional user device client (e.g., an Ajax client) making image requests directly to a mapping server (MS), a display device initiates an image request of a tile... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20090106261 - Information processing terminal device, information processing device, information processing method, and program: An information processing terminal device includes: a communication unit; a primary content information acquiring unit for acquiring primary content information; a primary content information holding managing unit for holding and managing primary content information, in correlation with a unique primary content identifier; a subsidiary content information holding managing unit for... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090106254 - Method and product for calculating a net operating income audit and for enabling substantially identifical audit practices among a plurality of audit firms: Deployment of a computer program including a global NOI audit model together with standards, procedures, documentation, and reporting requirements in interactive, digital form to a plurality of audit firms operating independently of each other and having a reporting relationship with an investment entity. The program is adapted for receiving audit... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar, LLC General Electric Company

20090106266 - Method and system for adjusting software settings: An arrangement permitting a user for example in a internet point or using a different profile in the same machine can connect to a web server to download and install local client software such as a java application or a browser plug-in the first time he accesses to this service... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090106260 - Method and system for transferring files: The present invention proposes an apparatus and a method to efficiently transfer large files by splitting the file into smaller portions which may be transferred through a plurality of recipient nodes to a terminal node. The portion of file to be transferred by each recipient node is decided based on... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090106257 - Multiple-link shortcuts based on contextual analysis of web page objects: A multiple-link shortcut pane associated with an object on a web page provides multiple Internet links dynamically selected based in part on an object type of the object. The shortcut pane is invoked by launching a shortcut launcher icon on the web page, which causes an object key to be... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090106253 - Portal event verification: Disclosed is a system and method for checking and identifying plurality of portal events of a portal page within a portal. The portal is checked for the plurality of portal events which are non-interconnected within the portal. Further, identifying a non-interconnected set of the plurality of portal events within the... Agent: Sap Ag

20090106262 - Scrubbing and editing of diagnostic data: Techniques that enable a user or customer at a system site to review and, if desired, modify data identified at the system site for transmission to a diagnosis site prior to the transmission. The identified diagnostic data may be modified such that data that the user does not want to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090106264 - Status processor and status display method: A status processor, configured to connect to a network, includes a media connecting unit configured to connect at least one storage media. The status processor further includes a server unit configured to transmit data. The status processor still further includes a directory name setting unit configured to create a status-reflecting... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20090106258 - System and method for distributing a media content file over a network: A customer computer accesses, through a network, a media content file, as follows. A session is opened between a customer computer and either an application server or a media content server. A request to view a media content file is received from the computer. A temporary metafile having a temporary... Agent: Steven E. Bach, Attorney At Law

20090106263 - Systems and methods for folder redirection: A method for redirecting, to a second machine, without user intervention, a request for access to a folder on a first machine, the request made by a resource executing within a remote access session on the first machine, includes receiving, by a component on a first machine, folder mapping information... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart / Citrix Systems, Inc.

20090106256 - Virtual computing environments: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for discovering entities in a first portion of a data center network, examining information associated with the discovered entities to determine relationships that exist between pairs of entities in the first portion of the data center network, and generating a specification of... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20090106251 - Web based communication of information with reconfigurable format: 22Attorney Docket No. DY-Internet/SCHA system of using an interactive device such as an e-mail pager to obtain information from a publicly available source, such as the Internet. The e-mail pager may send information in its native format to a service that acts as an intermediary. That service takes the information... Agent: Scott C Harris

20090106277 - Apparatus, method and system for directory quality assurance: An apparatus, method and system to validate the integrity of a persistent identifier of information that may be located in multiple locations, formats, and accessible in variable fashions based on the context of use (135). The present disclosure further provides the ability to validate that the information being identified is... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP

20090106273 - Autonomic generation of profiles in a content management system: A content management system (CMS) includes an autonomic profile generation mechanism that autonomically generates one or more profiles based on one or more patterns detected in a schema for an object. Autonomically generating profiles allows documents to be rendered in more efficient ways, avoiding the rendering of content that is... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20090106278 - Diagnosability system: A diagnosability system for automatically collecting, storing, communicating, and analyzing diagnostic data for one or more monitored systems. The diagnosability system comprises several components configured for the collection, storage, communication, and analysis of diagnostic data for a condition detected in monitored system. The diagnosability system enables targeted dumping of diagnostic... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090106275 - Method and system for screening items for transport: A method and a system for screening items for transport are disclosed. A passenger information database is provided, the passenger information database including a first passenger data record associated with the first passenger, the first passenger data record including an item list. The item list is populated by obtaining, from... Agent: D. James Chung Suite 300

20090106279 - Method of processing tag information and client-server system using the method: A method of processing tag information includes displaying a web page for designating media contents to be uploaded on a screen of the client terminal; receiving tag information on the media contents to be uploaded through the web page; converting the received tag information into metadata; storing the metadata in... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Attn: Patent Docket Dept.

20090106276 - Methods and apparatus for digital content handling: In one aspect, the invention provides a content handling system that comprises a digital data store containing a plurality of instruction sets, each defining a content handling workflow. The system further includes a content handling engine in communications coupling with the store, wherein the content handling engine identifies an embedded... Agent: Nutter Mcclennen & Fish LLP

20090106272 - Methods and tools for evaluating a mixture of turfgrass seeds: One embodiment of a method for evaluating a mixture of turfgrass seed includes storing turfgrass seed information in a database (e.g., a computer readable storage medium). A user provides computer input indicative of a mixture of turfgrass seeds Information related to the indicated mixture is retrieved from the database. Based... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090106271 - Secure search of private documents in an enterprise content management system: An enterprise content management system such as an electronic contract system manages a large number of secure documents for many organizations. The search of these private documents for different organizational users with role-based access control is a challenging task. A content-based extensible mark-up language (XML)-annotated secure-index search mechanism is provided... Agent: George A. Willinghan, Iii August Law, LLC

20090106274 - System and method for application creation: There is provided according to an embodiment of the present inventive interface and method, whereby providing a user with an authoring interface for user selection of a website theme and one or more objects, placing the one or more user selected objects one or more website pages according to parameters... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20090106270 - System and method for maintaining persistent links to information on the internet: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for maintaining persistent links to information stored on a network. Information elements are tagged and their original network location is saved as a hyperlink. The tagged information elements are then acquired at the original network location by a search engine crawler, indexed... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Rsw

20090106284 - Image forming apparatus and job information management method: Disclosed an image forming apparatus including: a first storage section to store job information of a completely executed job; a nonvolatile second storage section to store the job information, the second storage section being larger in capacity than the first storage section; and a control section to compress the job... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090106288 - Method and system for supporting media data of various coding formats: A method for supporting media data of various coding formats includes converting the received media files of different coding formats into media files of a particular file format where the media files of a particular file format include media data information and index information, determining the corresponding media file according... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20090106286 - Method of hybrid searching for extensible markup language (xml) documents: A method of generating a searchable database system for storing and querying Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents is disclosed. A Document Type Description (DTD) associated with one or more XML documents is analyzed to determine a scope of XML documents defined by the DTD. A first set of elements associated... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090106285 - Method, apparatus and computer program for migrating records in a database from a source database schema to a target database schema: There is disclosed a method, apparatus and computer program for migrating records in a database from a source database schema to a target database schema. A request is received to delete a state from the source schema. The state is marked as the redundant state. A resultant state is identified... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090106281 - On-line transaction processing (oltp) compression and re-compression of database data: A computer is programmed to compress data of a database in response to database modification language (DML) statements generated by on-line transaction processing (OLTP) systems. In several embodiments, data that is initially added to a database block is left uncompressed until a predetermined condition is satisfied, which happens infrequently (relative... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Group LLP Attn: Ora

20090106280 - Semantic-based lossy compression: Systems and methods for providing reduced object data to devices. Context can be received from a device. The context can be used to determine what portion of an object is used by an application executed on the device. The object can be reduced prior to communicating the data to the... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20090106282 - System and method for interformat data conversion: A method including loading an input data, the input data in a first data format and having a plurality of input data objects, and loading a plurality of factor definitions. The method also includes determining at least one output object to be created from a subset of the plurality of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090106283 - Text editing apparatus, recording medium: This disclosure discloses a text editing apparatus comprising a display device; an operation device; a conversion candidate creating portion that creates at least one conversion candidate associated with a character and outputs a signal for displaying the created conversion candidate; a finally-determined character string output portion that outputs a signal... Agent: Day Pitney LLP

20090106287 - Web service interface for order management system: Various techniques for providing a Web Service interface to an order management system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a Web Service interface receives a hierarchical property set, which includes properties being input to an order management system. The Web Service interface accesses mapping information, which associates a variable in a... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20090106302 - Apparatus, system, and method for processing hierarchical data in disparate data repositories: An apparatus, system, and method is disclosed for receiving a hierarchical data structure, analyzing the hierarchical data structure to determine what actions are needed to correctly process the hierarchical data structure in a data repository, generating a hierarchical command structure comprising a series of repository-specific commands needed to interface with... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090106289 - Array generation method and array generation program: A tree-type data structure representation method that can effectively trace relationships among data in a tree-type data structure, such as parent-child, ancestors, descendents, siblings, and generations, is provided. In a memory, data having a tree-type data structure in which unique node identifiers are assigned to nodes and a parent-child relationship... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20090106300 - Benefits services privacy architecture: A system and method of presenting benefits to a user of a computing device is provided. The method may include detecting user activities via a computer program executed on the computing device, storing a list of detected user activities in a user history in the computing device, and receiving a... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20090106301 - Creating reference objects: A storage medium and computer system that, in an embodiment, in response to a request to create a target object, create a reference object for the target object and bind the reference object to a name space without the target object being instantiated. In response to an invocation of a... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20090106298 - Information processing method, information processing device, and information processing program: A partial tree is efficiently removed from a tree, or another tree is inserted into a tree. A flag is set for the node identifier of a node constituting a partial tree to be removed in an erasure flag array. Referencing the value of the erasure flag array, node identifiers... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20090106294 - Method and apparatus for employing a searchable abstraction layer over enterprise-wide searchable objects: A mechanism for dynamically configuring searchable fields of interest within an enterprise-wide search center is provided. Such functionality is provided through the creation and maintaining of an abstraction layer that represents the searchable fields of interest, which are gathered from the total available fields from enterprise-wide searchable objects. The abstraction... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20090106296 - Method and system for automated form aggregation: The present invention relates to the field of computer software. More specifically, the present invention relates to methods of assisting aggregation of form-enabled web services. Systems and methods for handling the submission of user data into a plurality of form-enabled web sites are disclosed. The improved system allows for the... Agent: Career Liaison, LLC

20090106290 - Method of analyzing manufacturing process data: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for analyzing data associated with a manufacturing process. The method includes analyzing and comparing datasets representing manufacturing process variables by applying a mathematical function to the combined data and graphically analyzing the resulting output based upon user-selected criteria. In addition, the methods are capable of... Agent: Edward O. Yonter Patent And Licensing Department

20090106297 - Methods and apparatus to create a media measurement reference database from a plurality of distributed sources: Methods and apparatus to create a media measurement reference database from a plurality of distributed sources are described. An example method of developing a reference database associated with media content includes receiving first identifying data associated with media content from a meter on a first information presentation device, the media... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20090106291 - Methods and apparatus to provision network resource records: Methods and apparatus to provision network resource records are described. An example method of provisioning a plurality of resource records in a telephone number mapping system includes receiving first and second inputs to define a range of numbers corresponding to a plurality of resource records; creating an object in a... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hfz Attn. Patent Docketing

20090106293 - Multidimensional forecasting: An apparatus and method for multidimensional forecasting. In one embodiment of the method a database is accessed to select a set of data objects each of which has a date field that contains a date that falls within a predefined time period. The data contained in a first field of... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20090106299 - Shared-memory multiprocessor system and information processing method: Large-scale table format data on a common memory is sorted in parallel by a plurality of processors. A record to be processed is divided and assigned at first to the processors. Next, each processor counts the number of local appearances of item value numbers related to the record to be... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20090106295 - Simplified system setup: The invention concerns a method, device and computer program medium for setting up a part of a computer system as well as such a computer system including a number of modules of different types using data in a number of data fields provided in a system data set. The computer... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090106292 - System and method for managing facilities: A system allowing a user to answer a series of questions to generate survey data, associating system data with the survey data to generate a highly accurate report. The report allows, for example, for targeted assessment of select facilities systems including a time frame within which work to be performed... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20090106303 - Content management system that renders multiple types of data to different applications: A content management system (CMS) includes a rendering mechanism that receives a desired rendering action for a selected object in the repository, determines from defined rendering rules which elements in the selected object correspond to the desired rendering action, determines which of a plurality of applications corresponds to the desired... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20090106305 - Document process history managing system, document process history managing apparatus, document process history managing method, and computer readable medium: A document process history managing system includes: a storage apparatus; and a document process history managing apparatus including: a process operation information accepting unit; a version information applying unit; a recording unit; and an operation history representing unit.... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090106304 - Situation recognition for recommendation using merge-split approach: In one embodiment, data relating to usage patterns of the user is stored, wherein the data includes information as to items which were used and the context in which they were used. The data is then clustered into input clusters of data points. It is determined if there are any... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20090106306 - Sql execution plan baselines: Approaches, techniques, and mechanisms are disclosed for maintaining a set of baseline query plans for a database command. Except in rare circumstances, a database server may only execute a command according to a baseline plan, even if the database server predicts that a different plan has a lower cost. The... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090106307 - System of a knowledge management and networking environment and method for providing advanced functions therefor: Systems and methods for advanced functions of a knowledge management and networking environment are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of hosting a web-space having a plurality of objects. One embodiment can further include, identifying semantic metadata... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090106308 - Complexity estimation of data objects: Complexity criteria corresponding to the various data object parameters are received by a processing apparatus via a user interface. Values corresponding to one or more of the data object parameters are determined for a data object and subsequently compared to that portion of the complexity criteria corresponding to the one... Agent: Vedder Price PC

20090106310 - Grouping tables: Grouping a set of data is disclosed. In some embodiments, a set of data is grouped with respect to a column and/or a row associated with the set of data in response to receiving a selection of an option to group the set of data with respect to the column... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Apple Computer, Inc.

20090106309 - Performing an operation on an xml database: Performing an operation on an XML database. The method may include exchanging at least one DataObject between a client application and a Service DataObject (SDO) handler and transforming the DataObject into an XQuery operation for accessing XML documents of the XML database. The method may further include transforming an XML... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090106318 - system and method for detecting spam over internet telephony (spit) in ip telecommunication systems: A method and system for detecting a spam over internet telephony (SPIT) is disclosed. Incoming call requests are received and analyzed using heuristic algorithms. A runtime action is provided based on the analysis using the heuristic algorithms. The heuristic algorithms include zero-touch heuristic algorithms that require no human intervention, one-touch... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20090106315 - Extensions for system and method for an extensible media player: In a method and system for creating an extensible media player, a multimedia player application is instantiated on a client system. A presentation data file is transmitted to the client system from a server. The presentation data file includes a playlist of timelines, modules associated with each of the timelines... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20090106316 - Information retaining apparatus, information processing system, information processing method and program: An information retaining apparatus of the present invention has a storage unit which retains a plurality of information, an input unit which receives an input from a user, and a determination processing unit which extracts at least some of the plurality of information stored in the storage unit so as... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090106313 - Interactive prescription processing and managing system: An electronic prescription processing system. The system allows users to process prescriptions for multiple patients, access individual patient and medication data over a computer network and to use that data to perform all tasks necessary to fill and refill prescriptions including, checking for drug interactions, alerting the user of alternative... Agent: Alfred F. Hoyte, Esq.

20090106317 - Methods of identifying environmentally friendly businesses or individuals: This disclosure relates to techniques for a computer-implemented method which receives user input that specifies values for predetermined questions provided in an environmental questionnaire, identifies environmentally friendly businesses or individuals by analyzing the user input values and determining those businesses or individuals that meet predetermined minimum requirements, and stores a... Agent: William Mitchell College Of Law Intellectual Property Law Clinic

20090106311 - Search and find system for facilitating retrieval of information: The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for use in retrieving information from a physician practice management system and providing the retrieved information to a laboratory information system. The physician practice management system includes a first database for storing therein a plurality of first patient records, each... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090106314 - Situation-aware recommendation using correlation: In one embodiment, data relating to usage patterns of the user is stored, wherein the data includes information as to items which were used and the context in which they were used. A correlation table is constructed. Correlation values between each item and each context are then stored in then... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20090106312 - User function feedback method and system: A feedback method and system. The method includes includes enabling, for a first user, access to a computing system. The computing system enables a feedback software application. The computing system enables access to a first software application. The computing system retrieves a profile associated with the first software application, the... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090106320 - Automatic recognition and capture of sql execution plans: Approaches, techniques, and mechanisms are disclosed for capturing and utilizing information related to query plans exhibiting interesting characteristics. A database server receives a request to execute a command. The database server executes the command according to a query plan. In response to determining that the command matches one or more... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090106319 - Data management apparatus and data management method: An apparatus includes a storage processing unit 101 configured to store data into a predetermined memory area, an information acquiring unit 102 configured to acquire access information to access the data stored in the memory area by the storage processing unit 101, and an information output unit 103 configured to... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090106321 - Maintaining and utilizing sql execution plan histories: Approaches, techniques, and mechanisms are disclosed for maintaining a history of query plans executed for a database command, along with information related to each query plan. A database server receives a request to execute a particular command. The database server determines a plan for executing the particular command. The database... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090106323 - Method and apparatus for sequencing transactions globally in a 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

20090106322 - Two-set method for avoiding data loss when multiple users simultaneously edit the same data: A method is provided for modifying data in a database, wherein multiple users are each authorized to modify the data at the same time. The method comprises the steps of accessing a specified data set contained in the database, wherein the data set comprises multiple data elements, and forming first... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090106329 - Controlling execution of transactions: A requester includes a business process history DB having recorded therein GBPIDs, input messages, and provider names, and each of providers includes a log DB having recorded therein log data containing DBPIDs and images before updates of the DB. Moreover, in the requester, an UNDO information creator and a REDO... Agent: Ibm Endicott (anthony England) Law Office Of Anthony England

20090106326 - Customized roll back strategy for databases in mixed workload environments: Roll back strategies for database deadlock resolution are customized by identifying a first transaction to a database, identifying a second transaction to the database and detecting a deadlock between the first and second transactions with respect to the database. The deadlock is resolved based upon a predetermined roll back strategy... Agent: Stevens & Showalter, L.L.P.

20090106327 - Data recovery advisor: A computer is programmed to identify failures and perform recovery of data. Specifically, in several embodiments, the computer is programmed to automatically check integrity of data in a storage structure to identify a set of failures related to the storage structure. The computer is further programmed in some embodiments to... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Group LLP Attn: Ora

20090106328 - Fault tolerance and failover using active copy-cat: Fault tolerant operation is disclosed for a primary instance, such as a process, thread, application, processor, etc., using an active copy-cat instance, a.k.a. backup instance, that mirrors operations in the primary instance, but only after those operations have successfully completed in the primary instance. Fault tolerant logic monitors inputs and... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Cme

20090106324 - Push-model based index deletion: A method and apparatus for push-model based index deletion. In one embodiment of the method, a first transaction is generated for deleting a first data object from memory. A first message is generated in response to generating the first transaction, wherein the first message comprises information related to an identifier... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20090106325 - Restoring records using a change transaction log: In one embodiment of the method, a first transaction is generated for deleting a record from a table of a database. In response the record is deleted from the table. Further in response to the generation of the first transaction, a copy of data of the record is stored in... Agent: Campbell Stephenson LLP

20090106330 - Commitment chains for conflict resolution between disconnected data sharing applications: A sequence of processing transactions operating on a cached data set, which depend on each other because they operate on the same items of data from the data set. The transactions are saved until the master copy of the data becomes available. The transactions are played back against the master... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20090106333 - Backing up a protocol order associated with genetic testing: Computerized methods and systems for creating and documenting protocol orders in a molecular diagnostic laboratory environment are provided. Utilizing the methods and systems described herein, protocol statements may require values to be entered in association therewith prior to permitting access to subsequent protocol orders. Accordingly, more accurate test runs and,... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. Intellectual Property Department

20090106331 - Dynamic two-stage clinical data archiving and retrieval solution: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide methods and systems for dynamic, two-stage archiving and/or retrieval of clinical data. Certain embodiments provide a method for dynamic, two-stage clinical data archiving. The method includes copying clinical data from a primary datastore to a staging datastore, wherein non-clinical data is retained at... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090106332 - Storage system with improved multiple copy targeting: A storage control apparatus cooperable with a plurality of controlled storage apparatus arranged in a cascade of point-in-time copy relationship. The apparatus includes: a rate control component operable to set a desired rate for making clean a first target one of the plurality of controlled storage apparatus; a comparator component... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20090106334 - Method and apparatus for relocating an active file system journal: Relocating a file system journal within a partitioned memory space is described. In one embodiment, a method, which involves relocating an active file system journal, includes writing the changes for relocating the metadata structures into the new file system journal before the file system journal is activated so that journaling... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090100000 - Acquisition and expansion of storage area network interoperation relationships: A plurality of components of a storage area network is grouped into a plurality of component groups, wherein a component group includes one or more of the plurality of components of the storage area network. A group relationship data structure provides relationships among one or more of the plurality of... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20090099999 - Efficient delivery of cross-linked reports with or without live access to a source data repository: Reports of data elements from a data repository, such as may be used in a browser based business information system, can be displayed whether or not the data repository is currently accessible. Report documents, comprising a master report as well as linked reports, may be exported to a local storage.... Agent: Canady & Lortz LLP- Ibm

20090100007 - Customized geographical location indexing: A system is disclosed for customizing a geographic location index based on user preferences. The system obtains geographic data provided by a user and generates a customized geographic region based on the obtained geographic data. The system generates relationship data corresponding to the new customized geographic region. The system updates... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090100001 - Database management apparatus and method of managing database: Information on a referenced class or a referenced property is extracted from at least one referenced dictionary having a referencing relation with a referencing dictionary having the hierarchical structure, in which lower classes inherit the properties of upper classes; the extracted information is added to the referencing dictionary and organized;... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090100006 - Index creating method by creating/integrating node: There is provided a method of creating an index, which is executed in a document retrieval apparatus. The index includes index information and a trie, the index information includes an index item formed of a character string, the trie is formed of a plurality of nodes each including a part... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090100005 - Mapping network addresses to geographical locations: A network address mapping system is described. The network address mapping system can identify a set of Web pages, collects information from the Web pages indicating geographical locations (“geolocations”), and correlate the geolocations with the network addresses from which the identified Web pages are served. The collected information can be... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20090100003 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for enabling access to a dynamic attribute associated with a service point: An apparatus for enabling a user to access a dynamic attribute associated with a service point may include a processing element. The processing element may be configured to receive an indication of a dynamic attribute associated with a service point having a particular geographic location, indicate an availability of the... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090100008 - Methodology for file identification and retrieval in directories for categorized files: A computer implemented method, system, and computer usable program code are provided for marking objects. Responsive to an object being received, the object is stored in a directory in a file system. An indicia is associated with the object and the directory. The object is displayed using the indicia as... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090100004 - System and methodology for automatic tuning of database query optimizer: System and methodology for automatic tuning of database query optimizer is described. In one embodiment, in a database system having an optimizer for selecting a query plan for executing a database query, a method of the present invention is described for automatically tuning query performance to prevent query performance regression... Agent: John A. Smart

20090100002 - Updatable result set for multiple joined tables: A technique for providing an updatable result set from multiple joined tables derived from a plurality of databases includes testing for at least one unique index from each of the multiple joined tables. A technique for providing an updatable result set from multiple joined tables that may include null values... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20090100028 - Accessing a data structure: There is disclosed a method, apparatus, computer program and computer program product for facilitating access by an application to a data structure comprising a plurality of objects. A request is received from the application which initiates the return of the data structure. A handle is assigned to each of at... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090100025 - Apparatus and method for selectively viewing data: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to associate different entities with different entity classes. Each entity class has an associated set of lenses. Each lens includes metadata characterizing data presentation directives. User criteria is analyzed to deliver a subset of lenses to a user. Each lens includes executable... Agent: Sap Global C/o Cooley Godward Kronish LLP William S. Galliani

20090100026 - Condition dependent data processing device: The present invention is directed to a server system for supplying differing amounts of data into a database, wherein the system comprises the database and a data tracker device, wherein the data tracker receives data sent by a plurality of functional entities, preferably office machines and in particular devices with... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090100023 - Information processing apparatus and computer readable information recording medium: An information processing apparatus has a document element storing part configured to store a document in a document element storage part for each document element of the document, a comment input part configured to input a comment corresponding to the document element to a comment storing part, and the comment... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090100022 - Integrated full text search system and method: The present invention relates to an integrated full-text search architecture that integrates full text search with database server applications in a tight manner so that it becomes part of the server in all aspects including storage, metadata, query processing, back/up restore and resource management. This provides improved performance with respect... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090100017 - Method and system for collecting, normalizing, and analyzing spend data: A system for processing spend data. In response to capturing data feeds from one or more clients and a service provider, spend data contained within the data feeds is normalized by mapping the spend data to a common universal taxonomy using a business rule set. The normalized spend data is... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20090100011 - Method for inserting contents provided by external web server in commumity homepage: Disclosed is a method for inserting contents provided by external web server in community homepage. Community manager sets up key word or search category regarding interest contents, the key word and search category information is transmitted to predetermined web server. The web server derives contents corresponding to key word and... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20090100013 - Method or apparatus of data processing to compile a digital data media presentation for transferring between one or more computers: As media on the Internet grows, existing systems do not leverage the value of using online digital data media, such as a movie clip or song, for creating media presentations. In contrast, a system of the present invention compiles a media presentation for transferring data between one or more computers... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20090100014 - Methods and apparatus for adaptive source filtering and load shedding for data stream processing: Techniques are disclosed for adaptive source filtering and load shedding in such data stream processing systems. For example, in one aspect of the invention, a method for use in filtering data in a distributed data stream processing system, wherein a server receives and processes one or more data streams from... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090100027 - Methods, systems, and products for managing communications: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for managing the communications and information resources of a user. When a request for data is received, a message log is queried for the data. A result of the query is then communicated.... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Sz Attn: Patent Docketing

20090100019 - Multi-dimensional search results adjustment system: A search query comprising a plurality of search terms is used to generate a plurality of search results. The search query, in its entirety, is represented by an object in multi-dimensional space. The multi-dimensional space comprises a plurality of dimensions to represent a plurality of search criteria, respectively. The object... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Lnap Attn: Patent Docketing

20090100024 - Multi-modal mobile platform: There is provided a multi-modal mobile platform system for permitting a user to interact and exchange data through a mobile device. It will be appreciated that the present invention may be employed on any mobile device such as a cellular phone or Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) and the like. It... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20090100016 - Performing searches for a selected text: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for performing a plurality of searches. A request is received to perform the plurality of searches, wherein the request includes text. A search engine preference is retrieved, wherein the search engine preference specifies a plurality of search engines. An Internet... Agent: Duke W. Yee Yee & Associates, P.C.

20090100020 - Providing content to users: A method of providing content to users, with a tool incorporated in a website, includes searching a content database; selecting content from the database; and printing the selected content in book form. A system for providing content includes a content tool; and a service module. The content tool is incorporated... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090100012 - Search engine based self-teaching system: The invention relates to the structured addition to search engines on the internet, intranet and/or individual networks, whereby at least one entry or so-called link or address is selected from a list of information relating to at least one particular search term. Said entry is placed in a separate file... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20090100021 - Search-centric hierarchichal browser history: A search-centric hierarchical browser history technique that provides for the creation of a Web search history hierarchy organized according to the search queries that a user has conducted. In one embodiment, search queries occupy the highest level of the search history hierarchy and all Web sites/search results relating to a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090100018 - System and method for capturing, integrating, discovering, and using geo-temporal data: Various embodiments relate to the systems and methods for creating events, creating points of interest, associating points of interest with geographic locations, associating events with points of interest or with geographic locations, discovering events in a geographic area given a time frame, tagging and rating events and points of interest... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090100009 - System and method for displaying and acting upon email conversations across folders: In another embodiment, the method comprises (1) grouping email messages into conversations, where such grouping is performed independent of folders in which the messages reside; (2) receiving a command to perform an action on the conversation; (3) performing the action upon all messages in the conversation regardless of the folders... Agent: The Law Office Of Deepti Panchawagh - Jain

20090100010 - System and method for seamlessly integrating separate information systems within an application: The present invention is, in one embodiment, a system and method based on a client-server architecture for seamlessly integrating various information systems. In one embodiment, a bundle of files is deployed to a collaboration client, in order to enable the integration of the collaboration client with disparate information systems and... Agent: The Law Office Of Deepti Panchawagh - Jain

20090100015 - Web-based workspace for enhancing internet search experience: A comprehensive web based workspace, or search and navigation environment that supports the user throughout an Internet search session and beyond. Specifically, any search session is performed through the workspace which is a web based application that enables the user to log in and identify. The workspace tracks and analyzes... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco Pl

20090100030 - Crime investigation tool and method utilizing dna evidence: Crime investigation systems and methods including an investigation tool for receiving and storing DNA information, attaching related case information, disconnecting identification information, matching the information against stored information, and generating and communicating reports of match results, and an interface in communication with the crime investigation tool for entering the related... Agent: Adams Intellectual Property Law, P.A.

20090100034 - Database staging area read-through or forced flush with dirty notification: Embodiments of the present invention allow the results of a query to an operational datastore to be augmented with relevant data that may be stored in a staging area datastore. Upon receiving a query to the operational datastore, it is determined whether data relevant to the query is present in... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090100029 - Handling silent relations in a data stream management system: A new continuous query to a data stream management system (DSMS) may use a silent relation whose source does not provide any heartbeats. During execution of any given operator, the DSMS processes data from one input (“active input”) using its time stamp as if the same time stamp is received... Agent: Silicon Valley Patent Group LLP Attn: Ora

20090100032 - Method and system for creation of user/guide profile in a human-aided search system: A process and system of defining a user and/or guide profile is disclosed. Information of a user or guide profile may be obtained by designating information to be processed by a search system. Profile data may be obtained from a number of activities which produce information regarding a person who... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090100031 - Method and system for detecting changes in geographic information: Data related to changes in real-world geography are collected promptly for incorporating into a geographic database. Query strings are created using keywords targeted to detect data related to changes in real-world geography. Automatic Web search technology is utilized to search the World Wide Web for instances that match the created... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090100033 - Query processing system and method for database with encrypted column by query encryption transformation: Query processing system and method by query transformation transform a user request query based on an original DB structure, destined to a DBMS of a DB with some columns encrypted, into a query based on an encrypted DB structure so that the DBMS processes the query. The query is processed... Agent: Kang Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20090100044 - Action management system and action management method: A system and a method of managing the action on an electronic document and a paper document are disclosed. The action management system includes a procedure definition information data base for holding the procedure definition specifying the condition for a string of actions constituting the procedure, a procedure matching part... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20090100050 - Client device for interacting with a mixed media reality recognition system: The mobile device includes a client that has a number of modules, and the MMR Gateway and MMR matching unit are implemented as a server that has a number of modules. The implementation of the MMR system as a client and a server is advantageous because the modules may be... Agent: Ricoh/fenwick

20090100045 - Device and method for adaptive service selection, query system and method: The present invention relates to a device for adaptive service selection comprising a semantic analyzing means which analyzes a query from a user semantically, an adaptive service selecting means which generates a new service mapping rule so as to obtain a selected service, when the semantically-analyzed query does not match... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090100039 - Extensible mechanism for grouping search results: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with grouping automated search results are described. One embodiment includes a computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions operable to perform a method that includes identifying items to group. The method also includes selectively grouping a first item and a second item upon determining that a... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC - Oracle

20090100035 - Generating a user-specific search index of content within a virtual environment: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for searching for virtual objects of an immersive virtual environment based on user interactions within the virtual environment. Generally, embodiments provide an attribute index storing data describing attributes of virtual objects, and an interaction index storing data describing user interactions with virtual objects. Search... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090100038 - Information analysis system: An information analysis system is provided, which includes a data loading unit to retrieve data from a document, a storage unit to store the data, a correlation analysis unit to compute at least one correlation index to represent the correlation between the data stored at the storage unit, and a... Agent: Anthony G. Fussner

20090100040 - Lawful interception of broadband data traffic: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media provide for lawfully intercepting broadband data traffic. According to one method, a request to retrieve a network address associated with a login identifier is received. An Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) server is queried based on the login identifier to retrieve the network address associated... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC

20090100047 - Method and system of managing and using profile information: A method and system for matching a search request to a human assistant and/or other items based on information indicated in a profile associated with the search request is described. A ranking of a guide is determined based on matching of information associated with the guide and information associated with... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090100046 - Methods and apparatus for collecting, searching, and aggregating historical events in an online system: Systems and methods for aggregating, processing, and displaying historical data—including actions and ideas—are provided. Based on a singular endpoint event or range of endpoint events, a plurality of historical threads both forward and backward looking in time are computed and displayed to the user via an interface in a manner... Agent: Mark M. Huck

20090100049 - Methods and apparatus for entity search: Methods and apparatus that deliver a searching experience that is substantially akin to consultation with a human expert, and that satisfies a user's information need in fulfilling projects such as purchasing, shopping, procurement, bartering, requesting for quotes, in online retail, traditional retail, wholesale, health care, travel, real estate, restaurant-going, entertainment,... Agent: Fish & Associates, PC Robert D. Fish

20090100036 - Methods and systems for classifying search results to determine page elements: This invention relates to determining page elements to display in response to a search. A method embodiment of this invention determines a page element based on a search result. The method includes: (1) determining a set of result classifications based on the search result, wherein each result classification includes a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090100048 - Mixed media reality retrieval of differentially-weighted links: An MMR system for publishing comprises a plurality of mobile devices, an MMR gateway, an MMR matching unit and an MMR publisher integrated into a network with an advertiser, an ad broker, and an MMR service bureau. The MMR matching unit receives an image query from the MMR gateway and... Agent: Ricoh/fenwick

20090100041 - Public electronic document dating list: Systems and methods are disclosed which enable the establishment of file dates and the absence of tampering, even for documents held in secrecy and those stored in uncontrolled environments, but which does not require trusting a timestamping authority or document archival service. A trusted timestamping authority (TTSA) may be used,... Agent: Kelce Wilson

20090100037 - Suggestive meeting points based on location of multiple users: A system, method, and computer readable medium are provided for suggesting meeting locations to multiple users based, at least in part, on their current locations. In one example, a method includes receiving location information associated with at least two users, determining a center location with respect to the received location... Agent: Yahoo C/o Mofo Palo Alto

20090100042 - System and method for enhancing search relevancy using semantic keys: A method, computer-usable medium, and a computer system for searching for webpages are disclosed. Embodiments of the present invention provide a convenient and efficient mechanism for filtering results from a keyword search using semantic keys and semantic sub-keys, thereby enabling an increased number of irrelevant results to be filtered from... Agent: Murabito, Hao & Barnes, LLP

20090100043 - System and method for providing orientation into digital information: A system and method for providing orientation into digital information is provided. A plurality of evergreen indexes for subject areas are maintained. The evergreen indexes include digital information and are each organized by topics that include a topic model matched to the digital information. A user interest within the digital... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20090100054 - Adaptive comparison control in a data store: Data store access circuitry is disclosed that comprises: a data store for storing values; comparator circuitry coupled to said data store and responsive to receipt of a data access request comprising an address to compare at least a portion of said address with at least a portion of one or... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20090100051 - Differentiated treatment of sponsored search results based on search context: Methods and apparatus are described for presenting sponsored search results. A user is enabled to initiate a search from a context. The sponsored search results and organic search results are presented in a search results page in response to the search, an order of the sponsored search results and placement... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson - Yahoo!

20090100052 - Enabling collaborative networks: A system and method for providing collaborative resources to a user. A search expression is received from a user. One more keywords are determined from the search expression. One or more resources are determined responsive to the keywords and based on information related to the user, and the at least... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Ibm

20090100055 - Fast signature scan: Systems and methods for scanning signatures in a string field. In one implementation, the invention provides a method for signature scanning. The method includes processing one or more signatures into one or more formats that include one or more fingerprints and one or more follow-on search data structures for each... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090100056 - Method and device for extracting web information: A method for extracting web information includes: selecting a number of Hypertext Markup Language, HTML, tags as tag ruler elements to generate a tag ruler from an HTML text of a web page according to sequence of the HTML text; matching the HTML text with the tag ruler elements in... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090100053 - Semantic matching using predicate-argument structure: The invention relates to topic classification systems in which text intervals are represented as proposition trees. Free-text queries and candidate responses are transformed into proposition trees, and a particular candidate response can be matched to a free-text query by transforming the proposition trees of the free-text query into the proposition... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20090100060 - Device, system, and method of file-utilization management: Device, system, and method of file-utilization management. In some embodiments, a method may include receiving the content of a file to be protected and permission information representing one or more allowed users and including one or more content-utilization restrictions corresponding to the allowed users; generating a web-application file including the... Agent: Empk & Shiloh, LLP C/o Landon Ip, Inc.

20090100059 - High run-time performance system: A system and article of manufacture providing a high performance access control list. The preferred embodiments operate in a computer network having a plurality of users of the network and comprising a database management system and a content management system controlling access to a plurality of entities shareable by the... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090100061 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: An information processing apparatus and an information processing method capable of effectively performing access control with respect to items of information are disclosed. The information processing apparatus determining whether an operation with respect to information including plural items is permitted includes a classified information managing unit managing classified information in... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090100057 - Organization system for distributed items: An item grouping mechanism may be applied to files or other computer objects to allow the files or objects to be accessed according to the group definition. The group definition may be defined in a table with other group definitions and distributed across an organization so that each device using... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090100058 - Visualization of access permission status: Queries regarding access permissions of users and rights to directories in a complex enterprise are executed in near real-time, using lookups to tables that form a condensed database maintained for each file server. User information is condensed by arranging users in user groups having common data access rights. Directory permissions... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090100072 - Contents file processing device for mounting in vehicle: A contents file processing device for mounting in a vehicle, having name acquisition means for acquiring a name relating to a roadside device, downloading means for downloading a specified contents file from a predetermined server through the roadside device, and storage means for storing the contents file, downloaded by the... Agent: Eric Robinson

20090100068 - Digital content management system: Disclosed herein is a method and device for managing, organizing, sharing, discovering, and preserving digital media content. A user may view the digital content, metadata, and information indicating the state of the digital content using the display means provided for the digital content management device. A plurality of communication interfaces... Agent: Ashok Tankha Of Counsel, Lipton, Weinberger & Husick

20090100066 - Identity management: A method which may allow a user to create more than one online identity in a Web browser, and associate each online identity with one type of intended online activity. The user may be able to switch to a different online identity without logging out from his/her computer or Web... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20090100071 - Image transmission apparatus, registration method, and registration program: An image transmission apparatus is high in convenience, operability and reliability when newly registering a transmission destination to an address book. The apparatus obtains a list of destination names corresponding to recipients who have registered a recipient setting designating a transmission method; receives from a user a selection of whether... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090100065 - Method and system for quickly recording linear content from an interactive interface: A method and system includes a first device having an ordering interface and forming a recording command comprising a linear channel, a start time, time duration and date. The first device communicates a customer identifier and the recording command to a content processing system corresponding to the linear content. The... Agent: The Directv Group, Inc. Patent Docket Administration

20090100064 - Methods, computer program products, and systems for automating distribution of digital media: A digital media content file containing electronically captured content is received over a network. The received digital media content file is associated with at least one destination identifier specifying a destination for the electronically captured content and at least one output medium identifier specifying an output medium for the electronically... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Cc Attn: Patent Docketing

20090100062 - Playlist resolver: A real-time locater for digital media objects, related to one or more musical compositions and accessible over a network, is described. A service-provider maintains a master index of the digital media objects and a playlist-resolver server. The master index is organized by considering each media object to be an example... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090100067 - Presenting evidentiary information: The invention concerns the presentation of evidentiary information on computer generated interfaces within secure user groups. For example presenting evidence a courtroom to the judge, witness and legal representatives of the plaintiff and defendant simultaneously on computer display screens. All presenting of evidence is done using a website interface where... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP (oc)

20090100063 - System and method for obtaining location information using a networked portable electronic device: An improved system and method is disclosed for providing a user with detailed information about a particular location where the user is present. In one embodiment, a user may take a video of the location where the user is present. The user's video may be transmitted to a network server,... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090100070 - System and methods for acquiring and handling location-centric information and images: A computer-based system for collecting, merging, providing, and analyzing location-centric data is provided. The system includes an electronic storage device for electronically storing location-centric data, wherein at least a portion of the location-centric data defines one or more data models. The system also includes a processor communicatively linked to said... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090100069 - Systems, methods and programming for routing and indexing globally addressable objects and associated business models: Methods, apparatus, and programming recorded in machine readable memory are provided for the index, search and retrieval of objects on a global network. This inventive system embeds a distributed index in a routing layer to enable fast search. The method provides dynamic insertion, lookup, retrieval, and deletion of participating nodes,... Agent: Edward Porter Porter & Associates

20090100076 - Controlling and using virtual universe wish lists: Described herein are processes and devices that control and use virtual universe wish lists. One of the devices described is a virtual wish list device. The virtual wish list device determines an item in a virtual universe that is a desired by an avatar. The virtual wish list device designates... Agent: Ibm Austin Iplaw (dg)

20090100080 - Device for automatic indexing of content: A device (D) is dedicated to indexing content that is made available to users. This device (D) comprises processing means (PM) tasked with associated content with metadata that defines it at least partially based on contextual information that is representative of the usage of said content by users, on user... Agent: Fay Sharpe/lucent

20090100079 - E-mail information management apparatus, and e-mail information management method: An E-mail information management apparatus acquires a plurality of predetermined information from a mail header and a mail body and signature related information as signature target information, produces feature variable information and electronic signature data, and stores the signature target information, the variable information and the electronic signature data, as... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090100081 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program storage medium storing program: The present invention provides an information processing apparatus that replicates and stores content data stored in an external device, the information processing apparatus comprising: a content data storing section that stores first content data; a metadata storing section that stores first metadata of the first content data; a content data... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090100078 - Method and system for constructing data tag based on a concept relation network: A system for constructing data tag based on a concept relation network is disclosed. A tagging module collects input tags from users to create a tag table accordingly. A count of each tag used is calculated and compared with a predefined threshold value to generate two tag count tables. Relations... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090100074 - Method for providing font service on service page and system for executing the method: Provided is a method of providing font services by using an item server and a service server, including: the item server maintaining font providing information including font information and area information associated with the font information, for each user in a user database; the service server maintaining service page database... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP

20090100077 - Network risk analysis method using information hierarchy structure: A network risk analysis method using an information hierarchy structure is divided into 7 steps and results derived from each of the process steps are stored in a database to get a hierarchy structure for the respective steps. By using the information hierarchy structure, a network manager can easily comprehend... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20090100073 - System and method for enabling an external-system view of email attachments: The present invention can be used to provide a file-system view of email attachments. In such case, the email application appears as a file system to the operating system of an email user's computer. The created categories are provided to the operating system as the “folders” in the file system.... Agent: The Law Office Of Deepti Panchawagh - Jain

20090100075 - System and method of mirroring a database to a plurality of subscribers: A system and method for updating a plurality of subscribers served by a server. The system includes a server and a database coupled to the server. The database has link elements organized into a linked list. The link elements include a plurality of data link elements associated with data entries.... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090100083 - Method and apparatus for encoding media content and metadata thereof: Provided is a method of encoding media content and metadata. The method includes generating a scale indicator, which indicates a unit size of information about the media content, in the metadata, and determining data areas in the metadata that have different values based on the generated scale indicator. Accordingly, a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090100082 - Replication and mapping mechanism for recreating memory durations: Techniques for migrating duration trees from a source database server (or instance) to a destination database server (or instance) are provided. A duration is a memory management construct that allows database components to group related areas of memory together. A source duration tree is captured at the source database server... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090100088 - Apparatus and method for surveying substance and program and recording medium therefor: Survey request data on a chemical substance is transmitted to a terminal 3. Entered survey request data on the chemical substance, the entry area for the survey details information on the chemical substance used in a production of a part indicated by the part identification information having been entered in... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090100086 - Apparatus and method for visualizing data within a decomposition graph: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to provide a decomposition graph visualization with a set of nodes. A selection of two or more measures is received. A measure visualization is generated for each node to illustrate a relationship between the two or more measures.... Agent: Sap Global C/o Cooley Godward Kronish LLP William S. Galliani

20090100090 - Device and method for automatically generating ontology instance: The present invention relates to a method and device for generating an ontology instance that classifies documents into structured documents and unstructured documents and automatically generates ontology instances. The method includes collecting documents corresponding to classes of an ontology from Web; if the collected documents are unstructured documents, extracting inter-entity... Agent: Ampacc Law Group

20090100084 - Generic model editing framework: In one embodiment, a computer system generates a view of entities associated with varying data types for presentation on a generic viewer. The entities and data types have relationships as defined in a corresponding schema. The schema is stored as data in a repository with the data types. The computer... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090100085 - Management of resource identifiers: Method, system, and computer program product for managing resource identifiers are provided. The method provides for creating a hierarchical taxonomy for a plurality of resource identifiers, the hierarchical taxonomy being based on a plurality of tags and one or more hierarchical relationships among the plurality of tags, categorizing the plurality... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ibm Svl

20090100087 - Method and system for xform generation and processing application integration framework: The present invention is a method, system and framework for generating and processing XForms documents. Utilizing the method, system and framework of the present invention, developers need only write loosely coupled components that implement the minimal application-specific interface code, and the method, system and framework coordinates the generation and processing... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090100089 - Reference partitioned tables: Systems, methodologies, media, and other embodiments associated with supporting reference partitioned tables in a relational database are described. One example method includes identifying a partitioning strategy (e.g., range, list, hash) associated with a parent table that is related to a child table by a referential constraint. The example method may... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC - Oracle

20090100091 - Method and system for providing a process object framework for processing a request-type process: Disclosed is a method and system for creating a process object that represents a request-type process of a first application, receiving data from the request-type process into the process object creating a process data contained in the process object and processing the request-type process by executing steps of the request-type... Agent: Sap Ag

20090100107 - Accident data for the semantic web: Disclosed is a novel method and tabular display for presenting events in an investigation including obtaining blocks of information that include a description of an action and associating the information with other information to form logical groupings. The associations include input and output action associations. The method and tabular display... Agent: Mark C. Comtois Duane Morris LLP

20090100093 - Apparatus, system, method and computer program product for previewing media files: An apparatus, system, method and computer program product are provided for generating a preview of one or more media files and/or collections of media files stored on a user's device, wherein the preview may be specifically designed to enable the user to quickly and easily recognize the media file and/or... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090100097 - Audio video advertisement method: The present invention discloses an audio video advertisement method, which comprises steps: inputting at least one keyword into a webpage of a network platform; at least one company providing audio video files, giving each audio video file a company link, the network platform sorting out a plurality of the company... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20090100102 - Film school database: The invention is an electronic networking system assisting college “film students” in the process of locating other “film students” as well as their fellow students' film projects. The system includes features to search for projects and students within particular schools or throughout a plurality of schools. This system provides contact... Agent: Joshua Pancer

20090100099 - Method and apparatus for providing and offering an exchange database: A system and method for providing an exchange database system is provided in some embodiments, the method includes automatically collecting contact information associated with a business or service provider; storing the automatically collected contact information in a plurality of data records, each data record being associated with a business or... Agent: Buckley, Maschoff & Talwalkar LLC

20090100101 - Method and system for gathering, analyzing and disseminating mind-based perceptions: Data pertaining to mind-based perceptions is gathered from numerous sources via computer and, using statistical techniques, mind-based perceptions that are commonly occurring are identified. By considering mind-based perceptions from multiple sources that are repeated with a frequency above a certain threshold level, investigators can focus on events that are commonly-appearing... Agent: Saul Ewing LLP (philadelphia)

20090100105 - Methods and systems for facilitating image post-processing: Postprocessing of medical images (e.g., MRI and CT images) can be facilitated by a variety of techniques, including training methods which include modular organization and/or online presentation, postprocessing protocols which can be used to specify activities which can be predictably and consistently performed by technologists, and deployment of thin client... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20090100092 - Multimedia platform synchronizer: A karaoke home entertainment center for streamlining karaoke show; reduce stress, problems and time pressure on the KJ & to prevent piracy. The inventive device includes Ultimate Karaoke Book, Karaoke Rental Systems, ProPlayer, Karaoke Shoppe Download Centre, Karaoke Burning Station, Downloadable Karaoke CD+G Player, Video Library Pro, DRM and Licensing... Agent: Inskeep Intellectual Property Group, Inc

20090100094 - Recommendation system and method for multimedia content: A recommendation method for multimedia content and a computer program for performing the method includes in one aspect the steps of obtaining at least two lists of recommended titles, each list being obtained according to a different approach, base on a user database and a content database, combining the at... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20090100103 - Recording medium having information collecting program recorded thereon, information collecting device, and information collecting method: An information accepting unit accepts information provided from an information provider. A provided information management database associates the provided information with the information provider and manages the provided information associated with the information provider. An analysis unit analyzes the provided information managed by the provided information management database, and an... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090100100 - System and method for playing multimedia files at a workstation in a production line: A computer-based method for playing multimedia files at a workstation in a production line is disclosed. The method comprises: (a) detecting periodically if a current time has reached a scheduled play time to play one or more multimedia files according to a play file schedule stored in a storage system... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090100106 - System and method for securely storing wirelessly transmitted text, images and video: A method for securely storing photos or videos wirelessly received from a mobile communication device includes the steps of (a) establishing at a service provider a user identifier associated with a user of the mobile communication device; (b) receiving at the service provider a photo or video transmitted from the... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090100104 - System and method for supporting attendance at a spectator event: A system and method for supporting attendance at spectator events are provided. Received selection data representative of a plurality of associated participants is associated with at least one general, pre-determined participant group, and associated with the team's and/or one or more player's performance related to the outcome of the particular... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20090100098 - System and method of distributing multimedia content: In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, multimedia content may be streamed, together with associated timing information, to various users, who may provide feedback data in response to the multimedia content; the feedback data may be related to the multimedia content using the associated timing information, and then... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090100095 - Systems and methods for reinsurance utilizing epigenetic information: A method may include receiving epigenetic information associated with at least one individual. The epigenetic information may be utilized to calculate a risk. A least a portion of the risk may be transferred utilizing the epigenetic information.... Agent: Iv - Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20090100096 - Systems, devices, and methods for transferring digital information: Certain exemplary embodiments can be used to implement a method, system, device, software program product, machine-readable medium, signal, and/or user interface for, among other things: automatically down-sampling a first version of a digital image product to a second version; automatically uploading or downloading a predetermined version of the digital image... Agent: Michael N. Haynes

20090100109 - Automatic determination of item replication and associated replication processes: Architecture for replicating and sharing of data (e.g., different types) by analyzing the type and source of the data, analyzing the recipient entities (e.g., users, other devices or systems) that will receive the data, setting access to the data, and configuring rules and defaults for replication and security/access controls. For... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090100108 - Replica placement and repair strategies in multinode storage systems: A multimode storage system uses a global-placement and local-repair strategy for replica placement and repair of data objects. The data objects are initially placed randomly throughout the storage system, while the subsequent replacement replicas of any lost data objects are placed non-globally, for example within the same cluster as the... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090100110 - System, device, and method for validating data structures in a storage system: Validating a data structure includes (a) maintaining a tracking structure in a memory, the tracking structure including a corresponding status field for each table entry, the status fields having an unmarked state and a marked state; (b) processing the table entries sequentially and tracking the used and free table entries... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20090100111 - Apparatus and method to archive log entries formed by a data storage system: A method to archive log entries created by a data storage system comprising a first memory and a library log encoded in that first memory, wherein the first memory comprises a storage capacity, and wherein the method writes a plurality of log entries to the library log, wherein each log... Agent: Dale F. Regelman Quarles & Brady, LLP

20090100112 - Method and system for replicating objects: A method and system for method for replicating object consisting of creating a group of objects at a first location; transmitting the group of objects from a first location to a second location over a network coupling the first location to the second location, such that the number of transmissions... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090100113 - Transaction log management: A transaction processing system comprising a transaction log, a log management policy, a profile and a log manager, and method for managing the transaction log are provided. The method comprises maintaining a transaction log of recoverable changes made by transaction processing tasks; storing a log management policy including at least... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090100114 - Preserving a query plan cache: A method, apparatus, and program product are provided for preserving a query plan cache on a backup system having a dataspace containing a copy of data and a copy of a query plan cache from a production system. An update is initiated of at least a portion of the copy... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20090100115 - Methods and apparatus for file management using partitioned file metadata: Management of files in a memory, such as a flash memory, includes storing in the memory a first node including a first type of metadata of the file, a second node including data of the file and a third node including a second type of metadata of the file including... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20090100116 - Electronic equipment and memory managing program: The present invention claims and discloses an electronic equipment capable of executing a processing executing program that performs a predetermined processing. The electronic equipment comprises a memory; a setting unit that sets an allocation time for a memory region in the memory that the processing executing program is to use;... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090094187 - Evaluating appropriateness of content: Evaluating content, comprising: setting threshold levels for desired categories of attributes which are to be used to evaluate the content, wherein the content has a set of attributes; comparing the set of attributes of the content to the threshold levels for desired categories; and allowing access to the content when... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090094186 - Information retrieval system, registration apparatus for indexes for information retrieval, information retrieval method and program: An information retrieval system comprising: an information acquisition unit that acquires information as a subject of retrieval; a time information specifying unit that specifies time information owned by said information as the subject of retrieval; and an index updating unit that updates said index using the time information specified by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090094185 - User-definable run-time grouping of data records: In some embodiments, a method includes receiving input that includes a criteria for filtering a set of records to define a subset of records within the set of records. The criteria is defined by an end design user. The method includes updating a business class group with the criteria, wherein... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090094192 - Adaptive query processing infrastructure: Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for improving the processing of database queries. Some embodiments include detecting an overly long running query execution plan, stopping execution of the plan, and utilizing the query optimizer to select an alternate plan for execution. Embodiments may utilize system timers which are... Agent: Craig F. Taylor

20090094191 - Exploiting execution feedback for optimizing choice of access methods: A proactive monitoring mechanism for correcting the choice of access methods (available query plans) for a given query, based on execution feedback from the same query. The mechanism exploits bypassing predicate short-circuiting inside the database server's predicate evaluation module to obtain expression cardinalities. The mechanism can also modify a plan... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090094188 - Facilitating identification of an object recorded in digital content records: Embodiments of the present invention facilitate identification of one or more objects in digital content records at least by knowing or estimating what region of space-time was captured by the digital content records and where the objects were located at various points in time. An object's location versus time is... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20090094194 - Method and system for optimizing database performance: A method and system is provided that optimizes performance in non-relational databases. According to one aspect, view index size is kept at a level that optimizes performance by categorizing and sorting only a subset of the columns contained within the corresponding view. The remaining columns are marked as having been... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090094195 - Method for distributed rdsms: m

20090094190 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for displaying tag words for selection by users engaged in social tagging of content: Methods, systems and computer program products for displaying tag words for selection by users engaged in social tagging of content accessible via a communications network, are provided. A tag cloud, tag word inventory curve and slider control are displayed within a graphical user interface. The tag cloud is a visual... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Mb Attn: Patent Docketing

20090094189 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing tags added by users engaged in social tagging of content: Methods, systems and computer program products for managing tags added by users engaged in social tagging of content accessible via a communications network include identifying critical words associated with content accessed by a user, and recommending one or more content-descriptive tags to the user based on critical words identified in... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Mb Attn: Patent Docketing

20090094193 - Secure normal forms: Techniques for implementing secure normal forms are provided. In one embodiment, in response to a request for data from a client, a database server is operable to enforce a column-level security policy that is defined for a particular column of some, but not necessarily all, rows of a table stored... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090094203 - Apparatus and method for searching for digital forensic data: Provided are an apparatus and method for searching for digital forensic data. In particular, provided are an apparatus and method for searching for digital forensic data capable of automatically determining a character encoding type that is used in searching for data. The apparatus for searching for digital forensic data includes:... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090094208 - Automatically generating a hierarchy of terms: In certain embodiments, generating a hierarchy of terms includes accessing a corpus comprising terms. The following is performed for one or more terms to yield parent-child relationships: one or more parent terms of a term are identified according to directional affinity; and one or more parent-child relationships are established from... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090094213 - Composite display method and system for search engine of same resource information based on degree of attention: A composite display method and system for a search engine of same resource information based on the degree of attention. The search engine finds all the target stations that correspond to some conditions as original results. The original results are combined to a title search result depending on the content,... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090094209 - Determining the depths of words and documents: In one embodiment, determining a document depth includes accessing a record that describes documents. The record records affinities associated with the documents. A document depth for a document is determined from the affinities. A document depth analysis may be performed using the document depth. In one embodiment, determining a word... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090094205 - Distributed globally accessible information network implemented to maintain universal accessibility: A distributed information network is constructed for gathering information from sites distributed across a globally accessible computer network, i.e., the Internet. The distributed information network preferably includes a root server that stores a list of multiple distributed sites each represented by metadata. A network browser delivers an information search request... Agent: Stoel Rives LLP

20090094199 - Dynamic sitemap creation: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for dynamic sitemap creation. Embodiments of the present invention facilitate the placement of executable code behind a Sitemap feed. The executable code is configured to access objects from a data source (e.g., database, other data collection, Web service, etc.)... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090094207 - Identifying clusters of words according to word affinities: In one embodiment, identifying clusters of words includes accessing a record that records affinities. An affinity between a first and second word describes a quantitative relationship between the first and second word. Clusters of words are identified according to the affinities. A cluster comprises words that are sufficiently affine with... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090094211 - Implementing an expanded search and providing expanded search results: To implement an expanded search and to provide expanded search results, a first search query generated by a user is received. A type of expansion to apply to the first search query is determined. Expanded search queries associated with the first search query are automatically generated according to the determined... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090094210 - Intelligently sorted search results: Intelligently sorting search results includes retrieving search results according to a search. A criterion to apply to the search results to organize the search results into clusters that present content of the search results is determined. The criterion is applied to the search results, and the search results are presented... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090094201 - Item location finder: Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, a data processing system and a computer program product for locating items. In one illustrative embodiment, the computer implemented method comprises receiving a request for a location of an item from a requester, sending a query to a repository containing information relating to... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090094202 - Item location finder: Illustrative embodiments provide a computer implemented method, a data processing system and a computer program product for locating items. In one illustrative embodiment, the computer implemented method comprises receiving a request for a location of an item from a requester, sending a query to a repository containing information relating to... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090094197 - Method and apparatus for integrated cross platform multimedia broadband search and selection user interface communication: Disclosed is a method and system for an integrated cross platform multimedia broadband search and selection user interface. The user interface searches for media across different platforms including the users stored media and all other media available both online and offline. The interface uses a series of icons to display... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20090094198 - Method and system for identification of repeat print jobs using object level hash tables: A method and system for identifying print jobs that are repeats of a previously completed job utilizing an object level hash table. Received print jobs can be parsed into meaningful classes of objects and a table of hash values can be computed for objects in each class and for each... Agent: Xerox Corporation C/o Ortiz & Lopez, PLLC

20090094200 - Method for admission-controlled caching: A method of caching the results of a search engine query divides a search engine cache into two parts, controlled and uncontrolled, and determines, through an admission policy, to which part the query results should be cached. In one implementation, the admission policy estimates whether a query is likely to... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20090094206 - Mobile terminal and method of controlling the same: A mobile terminal and method of controlling the same are disclosed, by which a terminal user is enabled to input specific commands to the mobile terminal with minimum effort in a manner of configuring a display screen with consideration of enhanced user's convenience. The present invention includes a display unit,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090094212 - Natural local search engine: A method and system for searching for local information on a self-contained network of computers using natural words (keywords) that are native or familiar to a geographic location or searcher. The method and system do not employ prior or predetermined personal information about a searcher to perform the search. Rather,... Agent: John F. Letchford

20090094204 - Reply generation apparatus and method and program for causing computer to function as reply generating apparatus: A reply conforming to applied search criteria is generated using data obtained by a search based upon the search criteria. A reply generating server includes a storage unit storing a plurality of items of basic data; a search unit for searching and retrieving basic data, which is in line with... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090094214 - System and method for compiling geospatial data for on-line collaboration: A system and method for compiling geospatial data for on-line collaboration is provided. A database of categories is maintained. Each category includes one or more waymarks and is associated with at least one variable having one or more attributes, which each specify a type of data storable under that variable.... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20090094196 - System and method for creating and applying predictive user click models to predict a target page associated with a search query: Systems and methods for predicting a target page associated with a search query are disclosed. Generally, a predictive user click model module defines a set of sessions and builds a model to predict whether a webpage is a target page associated with a search query based on a number of... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090094216 - Database query language transformation method, transformation apparatus and database query system: The present invention provides a method for transforming a concept-based query into SQL query statements, comprising the steps of: transforming inputted concept-based queries into logic rules; checking validity of the logic rules; optimizing the valid logic rules; and translating the logic rules into SQL query statements in accordance with the... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090094217 - Dynamic graphical database query interface: A graphical query interface provides visual feedback to a user during the construction of a query. In a first embodiment, the visual feedback helps the user determine the quality of the query as the query is being built. The relationship of columns in the database is graphically displayed to a... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20090094215 - Extended handling of ambiguous joins: A system, method and article for handling ambiguous joins among a plurality of tables based on a query are disclosed. Metadata associated with the plurality tables is generated. The metadata comprises ambiguous join dimensions and special measures, where the ambiguous join dimensions provide a list of all dimensions used in... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20090094227 - Adaptive e-procurement find assistant using algorithmic intelligence and organic knowledge capture: The present invention is a real-time intelligent find-assistant that suggests useful search terms to a buyer shopping an electronic catalog, as they progress in their online journey to find a particular item for potential purchase. In contrast to current approaches, the present invention uses an adaptive algorithm to extract and... Agent: Gary C. Berkowitz

20090094226 - Apparatus and methods for performing a rule matching: Apparatus and methods for performing a rule matching are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus for performing a rule matching includes a content matching module and a first rule matching module. The content matching module searches the data stream for contents. The contents are organized into rules including a simple... Agent: Murabito, Hao & Barnes, LLP

20090094220 - Associative temporal search of electronic files: A method, system, and computer program product are provided for identifying data objects related to temporal characteristics. A first data object that has been previously stored is identified. The first data object has one or more associated temporal characteristics. At least one associated temporal characteristic is extracted from the first... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20090094224 - Collaborative search results: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for providing alternative search results for a query. In one aspect, a method includes transmitting a set of one or more search results for a query to a client device for presentation to a user, where each search result refers to a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090094234 - Implementing an expanded search and providing expanded search results: Implementing an expanded search and providing expanded search results comprises receiving a search query generated by a user. A type of expansion to apply to the search query is determined. Expanded search queries are automatically generated according to the determined expansion type without intervention from the user. A search is... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090094229 - Method and apparatus for exploiting 'trace' function to support database integration: A data processing method manipulates the internal command and communications controls of a database server to redirect certain data, for the purpose of developing a data integration cross reference for equivalent or ostensibly-equivalent fields. At least two databases can be cross referenced wherein the databases have fields that are similar... Agent: Duane Morris LLP - PhiladelphiaIPDepartment

20090094219 - Method and system for identifying a candidate for an opportunity: A database stores information about persons and their qualifications. In response to information about a current opportunity that specifies at least one qualification, the database is searched to identify at least one of the following: first persons having qualifications that substantially match the current opportunity's specified qualification; and preexisting opportunities... Agent: Davis Law Group, P.C.

20090094218 - Method and system for improving performance of counting hits in a search: One embodiment of the present invention includes a method for automatically enabling a search system or application to quickly and accurately count hits corresponding to a search expression. For example, a search expression is received or retrieved that may include redundant and/or overlapping search expression components. Each narrow search expression... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090094222 - Method and system for multifaceted scanning: A method and system for multifaceted scanning, the method having the steps of receiving a data source; processing the data source for a plurality of scanning aspects, the processing step utilizing rules and policies for the plurality of scanning aspects to provide transformed, modified or adapted content; and outputting the... Agent: Moffat & Co

20090094228 - Methods for control of digital shredding of media: According to the disclosure, a unique and novel archiving system that allows the digital shredding of archived data is disclosed. Embodiments of the archiving system include removable disk drives that store data, which may be erased such that the data is considered destroyed but that allows the removable disk drive... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090094233 - Modeling topics using statistical distributions: In one embodiment, modeling topics includes accessing a corpus comprising documents that include words. Words of a document are selected as keywords of the document. The documents are clustered according to the keywords to yield clusters, where each cluster corresponds to a topic. A statistical distribution is generated for a... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090094235 - Ordering directory assistance search results by local popularity of search results: A platform for ordering search results according to result popularity a directory assistance service, itself, to determine the popularity of the listings associated with a particular category and, therefore, the order in which those listings should be delivered resulting from a category search. Priority may be determined by the popularity... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20090094221 - Query suggestions for no result web searches: Presenting one or more suggested search-engine queries based on an initial search-engine query is described herein. Once the initial query is received, a search engine determines whether any web content is relevant thereto. If not, a query-suggestion service determines whether any suggested queries can be substituted for the initial query.... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090094232 - Refining a search space in response to user input: In one embodiment, a search space of a corpus is searched to yield results. The corpus comprises documents associated with keywords, where each document is associated with at least one keyword indicating at least one theme of the document. One or more keywords are determined to be irrelevant keywords. The... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090094230 - Related information providing apparatus and providing method: A meta-information collection part 12 of a related information providing server 10 periodically collects Electronic Program Guide information as meta-data of a broadcast program from an Electronic Program Guide distribution station 70. A keyword extraction part 13 extracts keywords from the Electronic Program Guide information. A related information acquisition part... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090094231 - Selecting tags for a document by analyzing paragraphs of the document: In one embodiment, assigning tags to a document includes accessing the document, where the document comprises text units that include words. The following is performed for each text unit: a subset of words of a text unit is selected as candidate tags, relatedness is established among the candidate tags, and... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090094223 - System and method for classifying search queries: A search facility for classifying search queries prior to executing the search queries. The facility can receive a search query from a user and perform one or more of a set of evaluations of the search query to determine likely query classifications. The facility can also decompose the search query... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090094225 - User-specific search indexing within a virtual environment: Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for searching for virtual objects of an immersive virtual environment based on user interactions within the virtual environment. Generally, embodiments provide an attribute index storing data describing attributes of virtual objects, and an interaction index storing data describing user interactions with virtual objects. Search... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090094237 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for generating data quality indicators for relationships in a database: The disclosed methods, systems, and computer-program products allow a business to generate data quality indicators for relationships in a database. In an embodiment, one or more relationships linked to a customer are retrieved from a database to form a set of relationships. A match confidence code is generated for each... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20090094236 - Selection of rows and values from indexes with updates: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for selection of rows and values from indexes with updates. In general, rows of an index may be associated with validity flags that indicate whether a row has been updated with an update inserted in a delta index; one scheme for value identifiers... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20090094239 - Systems and methods for interaction between employers and professional recruiters: An automated system with multiple databases and communication methods designed to promote the sharing and transfer of useful information and data between two parties. Specifically, the system is designed for use by employers to communicate more effectively with professional recruiters in order to dramatically increase the effectiveness of matching job... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20090094238 - Techniques for identifying a matching search term in an image of an electronic document: A technique for facilitating identification of a matching search term in one or more images includes selecting at least a portion of an image and creating search enriched metadata for a document that includes the image. The search enriched metadata includes a text portion that provides one or more search... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090094240 - Outgoing message monitor: An outgoing message monitor is provided. In an embodiment, outgoing messages are monitored to detect potential errors and alerts may be triggered. Using information about a message such as an email, a first classifier classifies the email into an expected class and a second classifier classifies the email into an... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090094241 - Information processing device, information management device, information processing system and computer readable medium: An information processing device includes a lock section, a creation section, a transmission section, a reception section, and a release section. The lock section disables an authorization function of the information processing device under a given condition. The creation section creates a first lock release file so that releasing the... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090094242 - Method and system for intra-document object locking in collaborative authoring: A collaborative authoring system and method is disclosed. A collaboration server stores objects and applications open the objects stored on the collaboration server as documents. Collaborative authoring is enabled through a combination of coarse-grained server locks on objects stored in a collaboration server for short term server transactions and fine-grained... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090094243 - Method for managing lock resources in a distributed storage system: A method and a distributed locking system for the management of lock resources in a distributed files system having several lock managers, each managing lock resources in its respective domain. Each lock manager maintains a registry lock file that comprises of a list of all locked files and a list... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090094246 - File system access control apparatus, file system access control method and recording medium including file system access control program: A file system access control which carries WORM commitment for files in a single transaction is provided. The file system access control apparatus includes command files that support WORM commitment, interprets WORM commitment command which is registered in command files by means of a daemon process module and executes WORM... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20090094244 - Method for creating and modifying lists for electronic distribution: An initial distribution list is dynamically modified using criteria determined from the current entries in the list. After an originator generates a distribution list and prior to submission of the message to entries on the generated list, the method of the present invention examines the entries in the created distribution... Agent: Ibm Corporation C/o Darcell Walker, Attorney At Law

20090094245 - Methods for implementation of information audit trail tracking and reporting in a storage system: Embodiments of archival storage system are disclosed. The archival storage system includes one or more removable disk drives that provide random access and are readily expandable. One or more application servers can store archival data to the one or more removable disk drives. Further, the archival storage system provides an... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090094255 - Computer system: The second computer selects from a plurality of storage systems a storage system to be accessed in order to acquire sub system pair information, and acquires sub system pair information from the selected storage system. Based on the acquired sub system pair information, the second computer generates system pair information... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090094253 - Content delivery system, delivery server, user terminal, and method: A system including a delivery server and a user terminal is disclosed. The deliver server includes a processor configured to transmit metadata including schedule information about release dates for content items, receive a request for one of the content items, the request being based on the schedule information included in... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090094249 - Creating search enabled web pages: The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for creating search enabled Web pages. A search engine crawler requests a Web page. A Web server receives the request and constructs a Web page that includes client-side script configured to obtain a portion of content at a Web... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090094250 - Ensuring data integrity on a dispersed storage grid: An improved system is disclosed for ensuring the integrity of data stored on a dispersed data storage network. Checksums are used to ensure integrity of both data segments and data slices. Checksums appended to data slices are checked by receiving slice servers to ensure that no errors occurred during transmission.... Agent: Law Offices Of Eugene M. Cummings, P.C.

20090094247 - Image storage system, device and method: An image sharing system, an image sharing device and a method for operating a plurality of image sharing devices are provided. Each image sharing device has a memory with image content files stored therein and a communication system to provide an image sharing system. The method comprises the steps of:... Agent: David A. Novais Patent Legal Staff

20090094254 - Image transmission device, image transmission system, and image transmission method: An image transmission system includes an image transmission device and a server that provides recipient information including recipient specification information and a transmission method and destination for image data. The server records, in association with a recipient identifier, recipient-designated recipient information and display mode designation information indicating a display mode... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090094257 - Media sequencing method to provide location-relevant entertainment: A media player application residing on a location-aware handheld device, in-vehicle navigation system, or in-airplane entertainment system responds to location signals and plays a plurality of location-relevant media assets that are automatically selected and sequenced to create the impression of a cohesive entertainment program. From the user's direction and speed,... Agent: Peter Nissen

20090094256 - Method and system for registering a device: This invention relates to systems and methods for registering a device and retrieving identification information of the device. The system (10) registers unique identification information of a remote device (12) for identification of the device (12) in the event of the device (12) being stolen or lost. The system includes... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090094252 - Remote file virtualization in a switched file system: A plurality of network file manager switches interoperate to provide remote file virtualization. Copies of file data and/or metadata are maintained at a central site and at one or more remote sites. The network file manager switch at the remote site may satisfy certain client requests locally without having to... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20090094248 - System and method of prioritizing the downloading of media items in a media item recommendation network: A system and method of prioritizing the downloading of media items to different user devices in a media item recommendation system is disclosed. A media server prioritizes the downloading of a recommended media item according to when each user device needs to receive the recommended media item to satisfy a... Agent: Concert Technology And Withrow & Terranova

20090094251 - Virtualized data storage vaults on a dispersed data storage network: A system, method, and apparatus for implementing a plurality of dispersed data storage networks using a set of slice servers are disclosed. A plurality of information records are maintained, with each information record corresponding to a dispersed data storage network. The information record maintains what slice servers are used to... Agent: Law Offices Of Eugene M. Cummings, P.C.

20090094262 - Automatic generation of ontologies using word affinities: In one embodiment, generating an ontology includes accessing an inverted index that comprises inverted index lists for words of a language. An inverted index list corresponding to a word indicates pages that include the word. A word pair comprises a first word and a second word. A first inverted index... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090094260 - Image-based wish list population: Wish list creation and population is provided where users can associate one or more images as items in a wish list. To this end, an image can be provided, such as a photograph taken by the user, and analyzed to locate matching items and information related thereto. In this regard,... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090094259 - Methods and systems for operating a sequence of events recorder: A method for recording a sequence of events is provided. The method includes operating a sequence of events recorder in a normal mode, wherein data stored is related to the sequence of events in a history buffer. The method also includes initiating a snap-shot mode of the events recorder after... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20090094258 - Off-loading star join operations to a storage server: A method, storage server, and computer readable medium for off-loading star-join operations from a host information processing system to a storage server. At least a first and second set of keys from a first and second dimension table, respectively are received from a host system. Each of the first and... Agent: Fleit, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l

20090094261 - Systems and methods for correlating epigenetic information with disability data: A system includes means for receiving epigenetic information associated with at least a first individual, means for receiving disability data associated with at least a second individual, and means for correlating the epigenetic information associated with at least a first individual with the disability data associated with at least a... Agent: Iv - Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20090094263 - Enhanced utilization of network bandwidth for transmission of structured data: Systems and methods are described that improve the efficiency of byte caching mechanisms when transmitting or receiving structured data. Some of these techniques may normalize the structured data before transmission over the network. Other techniques may use templates or semantic differences.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090094266 - Method for data compression and quality checking: Pricing data from a manufacturer is condensed to remove duplicate data and filtered to detect discrepant data. The non-discrepant data is delivered to a retailer and the discrepant data is delivered to the manufacturer for correction. The condensing is done by hashing the data using a key consisting of the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090094264 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for providing improved data compression: An apparatus for providing improved data compression may include an encoder comprising a quantizer for encoding input data and a side model. The quantizer may be trained with respect to high priority data among the input data and may be configured to partially encode the input data by encoding the... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090094265 - Systems and methods for rights protection of datasets with dataset structure preservation: A system and method for rights protection of a dataset that includes multiple trajectory objects includes determining an intensity power for embedding a watermarking key in a data trajectory. The data trajectory is modified to embed a watermarking key at the intensity power such that the intensity power guarantees an... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C. Suite 210

20090094268 - Animated data feeds: A backend component of a website including an embedded transactional database, the embedded transactional database containing data, an adapter object, the adapter object having a plurality of application programming interfaces configured to provide interaction with the data contained within the embedded transactional database.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090094269 - Generating bpel control flows: Generating Business Process Execution Language (‘BPEL’) control flows to populate a data warehouse for analysis of data of an operational system including identifying source tables in the operational system and one or more corresponding target tables in the data warehouse; creating BPEL steps to represent links between each source table... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20090094273 - Information processing apparatus and control method thereof, and document verification apparatus and control method thereof: In order to provide a technique that allows to efficiently check validation of a structured document using single schema data corresponding to structured documents of different versions, a document verification apparatus, which includes a storage unit that stores single schema data corresponding to structured documents of different versions, and checks... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090094274 - Method and apparatus for semantic discovery and mapping between data sources: An apparatus and method are described for the discovery of semantics, relationships and mappings between data in different software applications, databases, files, reports, messages, or systems. In one aspect, semantics and relationships and mappings are identified between a first and a second data source. A binding condition is discovered between... Agent: William L. Botjer

20090094272 - Method and system for constructing a software application: A method and computer program product reads one or more specifications that define, at least in part, a software application. A data storage structure is generated for storing data of the software application. At least one unit of code is generated based, at least in part, upon one or more... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20090094270 - Method of building a validation database: A validation database (VDB) is built from geographic reference data sources such as MSAG and USPS using automatic address correlation, and links between the records are stored in the VDB. The automatic address correlation employs multiple correlation algorithms, and a score is assigned to each link representing a confidence level.... Agent: Michelle A. Zarinelli C/o West Corporation

20090094267 - System and method for implementing metadata extraction of artifacts from associated collaborative discussions on a data processing system: System and method for implementing metadata extraction on a data processing system. A natural language processor receives a document and accesses commentary related to the document. In response to accessing commentary related to the document, the natural language processor processes the commentary to generate data structures corresponding to the commentary.... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090094271 - Variable driven method and system for the management and display of information: A method and system for the management and display of information in a graphical user interface (GUI). Key data fields are configured, including a primary key data field and secondary key data fields, which are associated with the primary key data field. The data fields are configured using configuration variables... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20090094275 - Auditable action request processing in a workflow environment: Various embodiments provide one or more of systems, methods, software, and data structures that include action request definitions that may be linked to a workflow process. Upon submission of an action request from an action request definition, an action request record may be created as a function of an action... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090094276 - System for the unique identification of physical and virtual objects: A system and method that provides framework components identifying, for example, an identification scheme agency, a particular scheme, and a scheme version are used to encapsulate a physical or virtual object instance to enable unique identification of the object. Identification may be made unique globally across information systems, industries, value... Agent: Sap / Finnegan, Henderson LLP

20090094283 - Active use lookup via mobile device: A system and methodology that enables a mobile device user to privately retrieve information while engaged in an active communication session is provided. The innovation enables a user to prompt lookup and retrieval of information (e.g., calendar appointments, contact information, task information) without interruption of the active communication session. The... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20090094278 - Architecture for master data management in an enterprise: Master data management and information exchange (MIX) architecture includes a technology agnostic framework that unifies sharing and management of master data across repositories, data formats and applications in an enterprise. The MIX architecture comprises at least one master data store which stores and updates master data for said enterprise; a... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20090094277 - Automatic optimization of display layout for mobile devices: A computer implemented method, a computer program product, and a mobile device are disclosed for presenting a list of invokable actions to a user of the mobile device. Responsive to identifying the commencing of the invokable action, specific attributes of the invokable action are identified and stored in a corresponding... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090094287 - Computerized game and associated physical game piece for trading and tracking via an online community: A computerized game and physical game piece provide the basis for establishing communication among members of an online community. An individual purchases or trades for a game piece which has a serial number thereon. The game piece also has a design that is representative of a message that individuals desire... Agent: Summa, Additon & Ashe, P.A.

20090094288 - Conversation persistence in real-time collaboration system: Previously conducted conversations in real-time collaboration messages are persistently stored, either by client or a server, and then are associated with conversational items presented to a user (e.g. contact names, topics, etc.). An icon is provided near each listed item, which when selected, displays to the user summaries or titles... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20090094279 - Dynamic distribution of content: Systems, methods and computer program products for information sharing are provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises generating metadata associated with content stored in a content repository accessible to a community having a plurality of members, wherein the metadata which is stored in the community's registry, is utilized by a... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20090094284 - Information processing device, content using system, information processing method, and computer program: An information processing device for executing playback processing of a disc recorded content, includes: a data processing unit configured to employ a playlist where content playback order information has been recorded to execute playback of a content; and a local storage unit storing a content; wherein the data processing unit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090094280 - Method of combining personal media files with a digital map: A method of combining personal media files with a digital map has (a) obtaining original information including a tracking information and multiple personal media files; (b) matching each media file to the corresponding tracking coordinates and recording matched points; (c) generating a displaying program codes to display a tracking pattern... Agent: Patenttm.us

20090094285 - Recommendation apparatus: A recommendation apparatus for selecting, by comparing one or more media files from a plurality of received recommendations, one or more media files for inclusion into a digital media file. A recommendation apparatus in accordance with an embodiment includes: a main controller component for receiving a plurality of recommendations associated... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090094286 - System for remote access to media, and reaction and survey data from viewers of the media: Embodiments are described that enable remote and interactive access, navigation, and analysis of reactions from viewers to a media instance. The reactions include physiological responses, survey results, verbatim feedback, event-based metadata, and derived statistics for indicators of success and failure from the viewers. The reactions are aggregated, and an interface... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20090094282 - Systems and methods for correlating past epigenetic information with past disability data: A system includes means for receiving epigenetic information associated with at least a first individual for at least a first epigenetic-information interval of time, means for receiving disability data associated with at least a first individual for at least a first disability-data interval of time, and means for correlating the... Agent: Iv - Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20090094281 - Systems and methods for transferring combined epigenetic information and other information: A method may include receiving anonymized epigenetic information associated with at least one individual. The anonymized epigenetic information associated with at least one individual may be combined with characteristic data. The combined data may be transferred.... Agent: Iv - Suiter Swantz PC Llo

20090094290 - Document management server, mobile terminal and document management system: When a user of a mobile phone browses a document in a document management server via a network, the user can input information (sticker information) on the browsed document and send it to the document management server. The document management server relates the received information to the pertinent document file... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090094289 - Method, apparatus and computer program product for multiple buffering for search application: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for facilitating a fast and efficient search. The apparatus may include a processor configured to receive and buffer a dataset based on the current location of a user, in a first buffer; receive and buffer another dataset based on the current... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090094291 - Support for compensation aware data types in relational database systems: Techniques are provided for extending a business transaction framework to support user-provided compensation logic for business transactions. The extensibility framework may be used to implement user-defined semantics for (a) validating concurrent updates to shared data and (b) performing compensating actions when an associated transaction is aborted. In one embodiment, the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090094292 - Quality assurance tool kit and method: A quality assurance system is provided to collect and store data of quality characteristics of a painted surface. These characteristics may be the date and time of the data collection, ambient temperature, lowest substrate temperature, dew point, humidity, abrasive blasting, preservation, anti-fouling, conductivity, dry film thickness, wet film thickness, preservation... Agent: Middleton & Reutlinger

20090094294 - Associating database log records into logical groups: A method, system and medium for organizing and associating log records into logically related groups is described. One or more input sources from, possibly, different systems/subsystems are input to a log correlation method. As the log records are processed the fields are interrogated to determine which log records are related... Agent: Wong, Cabello, Lutsch, Rutherford & Brucculeri, L.L.P.

20090094295 - Electronic equipment and log output method: There is provided electrical equipment which includes a macro file storage portion to store a macro file for acquiring log information under control of an operation system and log information outside control of the operation system at a time and a macro file executing portion to execute the macro file... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090094293 - Method and utility for copying files from a faulty disk: The present invention provides a faulty disk copy utility. A method for copying files in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: obtaining a list of files to be copied from a first location to a second location; initiating copying of a file from the list; logging an... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090094296 - Method for accessing a data entity and its versions: A method provides access to a data entity having a basis version and the creation of derived versions. The method includes a creating procedure for creating a derived version, by carrying out one or more operations on the basis version, storing them, and accepting them. The method further includes a... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090094297 - Archiving tool for managing electronic data: A method for storing electronic data in a network including a server and at least two client machines. Electronic data may be archived in a predetermined location of a client machine. A local archiving list may be generated on the client machine and may include descriptive properties of the electronic... Agent: Ibm Corp. (austin)

20090094298 - Methods for controlling remote archiving systems: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a unique and novel archiving system that includes two or more network storage systems, each network storage system including removable hard disk drives embedded in removable disk cartridges, referred to simply as removable disk drives. The removable disk drives allow for expandability and replacement... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090094299 - Apparatus and method for defragmenting files on a hydrid hard disk: An apparatus and method for defragmenting files on a hybrid hard disk are provided. The apparatus includes a nonvolatile memory located within the hybrid hard disk, a loading unit reading data of a fragmented cluster and temporarily storing the read data in the nonvolatile memory, and a writing unit writing... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20090094301 - Applications of overlooking root information for improving nondeferred reference-counting garbage collection: A reference-counting garbage collection system utilizing overlooking roots injects eager reference-counting updates into the program. An overlooking roots reference-counting subsumption optimization tool identifies redundant reference-counting updates and removes them, lowering the number of reference-counting update calls and improving execution throughput. The optimization tool also includes new overlooking root relationships in... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20090094300 - Nondeferred reference-counting garbage collection using overlooking roots: A reference-counting garbage collection system utilizing overlooking roots injects eager reference-counting updates into the program. An overlooking roots reference-counting subsumption optimization tool identifies redundant reference-counting updates and removes them, lowering the number of reference-counting update calls and improving execution throughput. The optimization tool also includes new overlooking root relationships in... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20090089251 - Multimodal interface for searching multimedia content: A disclosed method and computer program product for searching a multimedia content database include determining a first query parameter provided by a user via a first input modality and optionally determining a second query parameter provided the user via a second input modality. A multidimensional query is generated where the... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Jw Attn: Patent Docketing

20090089263 - Parsing unstructured resources: Systems and methods of processing an unstructured resource which contains one or more data portions are described. The method comprises reading the unstructured resource into memory and accessing a data structure associated with the unstructured resource. This data structure contains a number of elements, each element including position information for... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090089260 - Quick searching ui for a better user experience: A Quick Search User Interface (UI) comprises a search entry field for inputting characters, e.g. search terms. The Quick Search UI further comprises icons that are graphical representations of applications. The Quick Search UI subsequently launches an operating system and passes the user action to the operating system. The operating... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090089252 - Searching for associated events in log data: To retrieve a sequence of associated events in log data, a request expression is parsed to retrieve types of dependencies between events which are searched, and the constraints (e.g., keywords) which characterize each event. Based on the parsing results, query components can be formed, expressing the constraints for individual events... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090089246 - System and method for history clustering: The present invention is directed towards systems, methods and computer program products for clustering a plurality of user history items. According to one embodiment, a method of clustering a plurality of user history items comprises storing a plurality of history items corresponding to a plurality of user search queries and... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow, Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20090089248 - System and method of filtering search results: A system and method of filtering search results is provided. Certain embodiments provide an improved user experience in filtering large sets of data in a computer system through the use of multidimensional associative arrays which allow results to be filtered within a web interface without needing additional calls to web... Agent: Disney Enterprises, Inc. C/o Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20090089249 - Techniques for correlating events to digital media assets: Improved approaches to intelligently refer users of one online media store to another online store are disclosed. The inter-store referral can permit a user of an online media store, such as an online media store that offers digital media assets for purchase, to easily access related information, such as event... Agent: Technology & Innovation Law Group, PC

20090089269 - Method and system for managing information in a database: The present invention describes a method for managing information in a database. The method includes receiving a request from a first user in a first predefined format. The request includes a set of attributes. Further, the method includes extracting the set of attributes from the request. The method also includes... Agent: Lester H. Bimbaum

20090089270 - Taxonomy based indexing and searching: A method, apparatus, and computer program product provide the ability to locate and display data in a taxonomy. A canonical taxonomy is defined (that is not exposed to a user that is searching for parts) by defining canonical categories and canonical attributes in a hierarchical structure. Mapping taxonomies are defined... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP

20090089268 - Xml update facility for an xquery processor: An XML update facility is disclosed for an XQuery processor A modular system for updating an XML document comprises a query generator for converting one or more updates to the XML documents into one or more queries; an existing XML query engine for processing the one or more queries to... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090089281 - Community information filter: A method and system to filter community information by rating members, rating their contributions, and evaluating the accuracy of predictions extracted from their contributions. These metrics can be a combination of subjective and objective factors. Subjective ratings can be weighted according to the ratings of those doing the rating.... Agent: Antoinette M. Tease

20090089274 - Gradient based optimization of a ranking measure: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for generating relevance functions for ranking documents obtained in searches are provided. One or more features to be used as predictor variables in the construction of a relevance function are determined. The relevance function is parameterized by one or more coefficients. A query error is defined... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Cpa Global

20090089279 - Method and apparatus for detecting spam user created content: The present invention provides methods, apparatuses and systems directed to automatically detecting spam user created content. In a particular implementation, there is provided a method for processing spam contents, which comprises: maintaining a plurality of key information databases; receiving user-created content and at least one of a service ID and... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090089282 - Natural language based service selection system and method, service query system and method: The present invention relates to a natural language based service selection system for complementing incomplete queries, which comprises a semantic analyzing device which analyzes an incomplete query from a user semantically, a service selecting device which complements the incomplete query based on the semantic-analyzed query so as to acquire the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090089280 - Real-time search term popularity determination, by search origin geographic location: Information is generated indicative of frequency of search terms presented to at least one online search service. As event indications, indicative of user interaction generally with front end servers, are being provided for persistent storage, ones of the event indications that are indicative of search events are detected. The detected... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20090089272 - System and method for adaptive text recommendation: Network system provides a real-time adaptive recommendation set of documents with a high statistical measure of relevancy to the requestor device. The recommendation set is optimized based on analyzing the text of documents of the interest set, categorizing these documents into clusters, extracting keywords representing the themes or concepts of... Agent: Carr & Ferrell LLP

20090089277 - System and method for semantic search: Systems and methods for semantic search are provided. A corpus of information grouped into passages are indexed by semantic key terms generated from packed knowledge representations that document the semantic relationships of information within those passages. When a search is conducted, a query is similarly transformed into a packed knowledge... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20090089273 - System for detecting associations between items: A method of detecting associations between items can include identifying a plurality of items represented in a data repository from which to select items to recommend to a target user, each item including one or more attributes. A degree of fit between an item's attributes and other items is calculated.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090089276 - Systems, methods and computer products for a monitoring context generator: Systems, methods and computer products for generating calculation context classes from a relationship between structured data and a calculation procedure, the context classes having parent-child relationships. Exemplary embodiments include a method including searching the calculation procedure for a first data definition, generating a first context from a first scope applied... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20090089278 - Techniques for keyword extraction from urls using statistical analysis: Techniques are described for keyword extraction from URLs using regular expression patterns and keyword ranking. Tokenization of URLs also generates regular expressions of URLs from a website. The regular expressions are stored in the form of any type of indexing structure. When a new URL is received, the URL is... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090089275 - Using user provided structure feedback on search results to provide more relevant search results: The present invention discloses a solution of using user provided structure feedback to index electronic documents. In the solution, a search engine can serve search results based on an indexed store of electronic documents to at least user. Structure feedback can be received concerning the search results. The structure feedback... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.-ibm Svl

20090089287 - Automatically verifying that anti-phishing url signatures do not fire on legitimate web sites: A method and computer program product prevent false positives from occurring by reducing or preventing legitimate web site content from triggering matches to phishing black lists, but provides time and cost savings over manual review of black lists. A method implemented in a computer system for detecting false positives among... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20090089304 - System and method for configuration of revenue analysis grids: A system and method for configuring and maintaining grids to analyze their revenue relationships in order to better determine where to invest time and resources. Analysis grids can be quickly and easily tailored to adjust to the unique needs of an organization.... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20090089300 - Virtual clustering for scalable network control and management: In some embodiments, the invention involves a system and method relating to a framework to build a new class of network control (policy) and (state) management services. The framework may be used to build a number of self-management services to support decentralized (mesh) networks. In at least one embodiment, the... Agent: Joni D. Stutman-horn Intel Corporation

20090089308 - Mapping online contact information into a contacts list: A presence management system may communicate contact information with mapped values. Contact information may be stored in a hierarchical, extensible structure (“hierarchical extensible contact structure”). Devices in a presence management system utilize a mapping scheme to map contact values (e.g., e-mail address, phone number, etc.) to the appropriate field of... Agent: Ibm Austin Iplaw (dg)

20090089307 - Writable shared database objects: p

20090089318 - Method and apparatus for generating a graphic user interface: A method and apparatus for displaying a graphic user interface (GUI) includes: a file searching unit searching for one or more other files related to a file to be reproduced; a file information extraction unit extracting file information from the file to be reproduced and the one or more other... Agent: Stein, Mcewen & Bui, LLP

20090089317 - Method and system for indexing, relating and managing information about entities: Systems and methods for use in association with a master entity index system may allow data records to be grouped together into various entities, where each of the entities may represent a logical or physical item. These entities may also be associated with one another in a manner such that... Agent: SprinkleIPLaw Group

20090089321 - Method and system for managing social brokering services in an online social network: A method and system for managing social brokering services in an online social network has developed that is comprising: social network database storing member information, human network information by member information on basis of a social network, and Needs information; an application server converting written Needs request into Needs information... Agent: Gwips Peter T. Kwon

20090089316 - Method and system for searching contact lists quickly - by group name, tags and/or metadata: A method and system for searching contact lists quickly, that provides searching of a contact list by user defined group names, attributes, and/or system defined metadata regarding contacts, groups and/or attributes. A user of a communication system is allowed to organize their contacts in their contact list within a number... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20090089311 - System and method for inclusion of history in a search results page: The present invention is directed towards systems, methods and computer program products for maintaining a record of a user search history. According to one embodiment, a method for maintaining a record of a user search history comprises receiving a plurality of user search queries, storing the user search queries and... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow, Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20090089312 - System and method for inclusion of interactive elements on a search results page: The present invention is directed to system, methods and computer program products for generating a graphical module for the display of a query-specific content. The method according to one embodiment comprises receiving a query, determining a category identifier for the query and retrieving a category template corresponding to the category... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow, Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20090089309 - Using status models with inhibiting status values in a computer system: Actions are controlled actions in a computer-based process by a status schema model defined at design-time, stored in a computer-readable medium and including a precondition identifying how a status affects whether an action is to be allowed to be performed at runtime by a data object node instance having the... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20090089323 - Document managing system, document use controller, document storage device, document managing method and computer readable medium: A document managing system includes: a document use controller; and a document storage device, the document use controller including: a managing unit; and an instructing information transmitting unit, and the document storage device including: an index information holding unit; an instructing information receiving unit; and an index information updating unit,... Agent: Sughrue-265550

20090089329 - Systems and methods for the dynamic generation of repeat libraries for uncharacterized species: Systems and methods for using the same for dynamically generating repeat libraries for use in detecting and for masking out repetitive elements in species having poorly characterized genomes or transcriptomes based on phylogenetic analysis are provided herein. Dynamically generated repeat libraries find use, for example, in the design and use... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20090089325 - Targeted resource allocation: Systems and methods that manage resources and distribution thereof within an industrial system. Such an automated and dynamic allocation service can allocate resources from pools of resources available to the industrial system, and hence supply an efficient operation (e.g., adding/subtracting resources dynamically based on usage). A plurality of allocation rules... Agent: Amin Turocy & Calvin, LLP Attention: Heather Holmes

20090089337 - Efficient file hash identifier computation: Described is maintaining cached hash values for files in association with state data for each file that represents the state of that file's contents at the time of hashing. For example, in a journaling file system, the state data may comprise the update sequence number of the file in the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090089336 - Failure data collection system apparatus and method: An apparatus for collecting dump data collection receives an on demand data (ODD) dump request, pauses one or more scan loops, transfers dump data to an ODD dump buffer space, unpauses the scan loops, and offloads dump data from the ODD dump buffer space to the storage device. The apparatus... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090089345 - Method and system for minor garbage collection in a multitasking environment: A method for minor garbage collection in a multitasking environment involves marking cards as clean, where the cards designate ranges of memory locations in a shared older generation. The method further involves marking a card as dirty when a reference field of an object within the card is modified, where... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P./sun