Data processing: database and file management or data structures inventions 07/09

20090192977 - Method and apparatus for reducing storage requirements of electronic records: An embodiment of the present invention includes a system for storage of electronic records. The system includes a storage unit to store records and a processing system to store and retrieve records from the storage unit. The processing system receives non-exception based records and stores the records in the storage... Agent: Edell, Shapiro, & Finnan, LLC

20090192978 - System for document de-duplication and modification detection: Provided is a system and method for the de-duplication and modification detection of documents collected during document production. The disclosed technology provides a simple, legally defensible, rapid and cost-efficient system for collecting responsive electronic document sets, identifying and eliminating unnecessary documents by comparing a collected document to previously collected documents... Agent: Greg Goshorn, P.C.

20090192979 - Systems and methods for probabilistic data classification: A system for performing data classification operations. In one embodiment, the system comprises a filesystem configured to store a plurality of computer files and a scanning agent configured to traverse the filesystem and compile data regarding the attributes and content of the plurality of computer files. The system also comprises... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090192980 - Method for estimating the number of distinct values in a partitioned dataset: The task of estimating the number of distinct values (DVs) in a large dataset arises in a wide variety of settings in computer science and elsewhere. The present invention provides synopses for DV estimation in the setting of a partitioned dataset, as well as corresponding DV estimators that exploit these... Agent: Ip Authority, LLC Ramraj Soundararajan

20090192981 - Query deployment plan for a distributed shared stream processing system: A method of providing a deployment plan for a query in a distributed shared stream processing system includes storing a set of feasible deployment plans for a query that is currently deployed in the stream processing system. A query includes a plurality of operators hosted on nodes in the stream... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090193003 - Cross-language search: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, in which a cross-language search can be performed. A search query is received in a first language. A translated search query of the search query is obtained and evaluated to determine whether it is a candidate for cross-language searching. Upon identifying a... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090192982 - Fast index with supplemental store: A hardware and/or software search facility for searching and retrieving data stored on a mobile device. An index to the data is stored in fast memory (e.g., RAM) on the mobile device. The index contains a minimal amount of information necessary to present search results to a user. A supplemental... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090192996 - Method and apparatus for collecting entity aliases: A system and method for collecting entity aliases include a web object collection component that obtains, from a web search engine, at least one Web object associated with a user' input entity. The system and method also include a social tag collection component that obtains a respective set of social... Agent: Fleit, Gibbons, Gutman, Bongini & Bianco P.l

20090193000 - Method and apparatus for communication efficient private information retrieval and oblivious transfer: A method, article of manufacture and apparatus for performing private retrieval of information from a database is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprising obtaining an index corresponding to information to be retrieved from the database and generating a query that does not reveal the index to the database. The... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090192990 - Method and apparatus for realtime or near realtime video image retrieval: A distributed absorbing surveillance apparatus comprising a plurality of surveillance branches at which data of a video image frame is characterised, indexed and stored locally in real-time upon capturing means browsing and searching can be conducted locally at a relatively low computational overhead upon receipt of searching instructions from a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090193002 - Method and system for categorizing items in both actual and virtual categories: Articles of manufacture and methods are described. Specifically, the methods include constructing category structures within a database, classifying a data item within a database, and facilitating location of a data item within a database are described. A first method includes defining, in a database, a first structure of categories and... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20090192983 - Method and system for mining, ranking and visualizing lexically similar search queries for advertisers: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for analyzing query logs and for generating query-related information useful to entities, such as advertisers, are provided. Entities, such as advertisers, may display content, such as advertisements, on search engine websites in response to particular queries. A search engine may store a query log listing a... Agent: Fiala & Weaver, P.l.l.c. C/o Cpa Global

20090192993 - Method and system for setting domain name and network device thereof: A method and a system for setting a domain name and a network device thereof are provided. In the invention, the network device includes built-in identification information, and the identification information is stored in a back-end database. When the network device receives a domain name, it transmits setting information to... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090192995 - Method of searching address book and portable communication device using the same: A method of searching an address book and a portable communication device using the same, the method including: arranging an address book based on a character selected from information being displayed on the portable communication device; and displaying the arranged address book.... Agent: Mcneely Bodendorf LLP

20090192985 - Method, system, and program product for enhanced search query modification: Methods, programs products and systems are provided for presenting retrieved search engine results text items to a user on a display device through a graphical user interface configured to associate displayed text items with a search term modification action. Selecting a displayed text item through a graphical user interface component... Agent: Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., L.p.a.

20090192991 - Network information searching method by speech recognition and system for the same: A network information searching method for a search engine system is provided. The search engine system is capable of searching with a plurality of web-site search engines. First, a voice signal is processed for speech recognition to generate a literal word series, in which the voice signal conforms to a... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20090192992 - Network operating system: Generally described, the present invention is directed to a network operating system that provides more effective ways of leveraging the connectivity of computer networks. In one embodiment, an XML virtual machine is implemented that accepts high-level application code written in an XML programming language as input. Functionality is provided to... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090192984 - Personalized ad delivery when ads fatigue: A method is disclosed for diminishing user advertisement fatigue to increase click efficiency, including receiving a search query or browsing action from a user; analyzing a plurality of advertisements available for delivery to a search results page in response to the search query or browsing action; arranging the plurality of... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione / Yahoo! Overture

20090192986 - Providing content using stored query information: Among other disclosed subject matter, a computer-implemented method relating to providing content on a page includes receiving information for providing content for an access device in response to a navigation from a first page to a second page. The content is to be included in the second page. The method... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090192999 - Search service providing system and search service providing method: A search service providing system provides, on an overlay network configured such that at least one node is assigned on a hash space by a distributed hash table technique, a search service for searching at least one resource shared on the overlay network. The node includes: an information collecting unit... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20090192987 - Searching navigational pages in an intranet: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to a method for searching navigational pages within an intranet environment. The method comprises identifying a plurality of navigational pages, performing a page-level analysis upon each identified navigational page in order to determine if a navigational page can be categorized as a candidate... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20090192994 - Self-development apparatus, self-development system, self-development program and computer-readable storage medium for storing self-development program: In the present invention, firstly, some of information on a related personal ideal-state of life is searched via a interactive communication network by using a keyword extracted from among the stored information on a matter of ideal-state of life including that of user's own seeking ideal-state of life in the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090192997 - Service search system, method, and program: The invention provides a support system for searching for a function, including: a first storage for storing a history of at least one output parameter of each of a plurality of functions; an input section for receiving an input of an output parameter expected as an output of a function... Agent: Ibm - Arc Shimokaji & Associates, P.C.

20090192989 - Social contact service system for internet connected digital photo: A social contact service system for internet connected digital photos enables internet connected digital photo frames to be a social contact group. Via the social contact service system, any one of grouping internet connected internet connected digital photo frames would upload updated digital information to notify the members of the... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090192998 - System and method for deduced meta tags for electronic media: A system and method is provided of creating meta tags for a multi-media object. The method can include the operation of choosing a template model that includes meta tags. The user can also select the multi-media object from an electronic storage device. Another operation is associating the multi-media object with... Agent: Thorpe North & Western, LLP.

20090192988 - System and/or method for obtaining of user generated content boxes: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a process for receiving, evaluating and selecting of content modules such as content summary boxes and landing pages for display on network-accessible search engine results page. In one particular example, potential content providers may be provided with incentives and guidelines for the preparation... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP

20090193001 - Visualization of data relationships between components of a project: A computer-implemented method is disclosed for visualizing data relationships between components of a project for identifying potential duplication of selected components. One of the components is data collection assignments.... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090193004 - Apparatus and method for forming database tables from queries: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to capture data access commands from a query module utilizing a semantic layer. The data access commands are processed to produce table specification instructions and data access instructions to facilitate the construction and population of a table.... Agent: Sap GlobalIPC/o Cooley Godward Kronish LLP William S. Galliani

20090193005 - Processor for fast contextual matching: Words having selected characteristics in a corpus of documents are found using a data processor arranged to execute queries. Memory stores an index structure in which entries in the index structure map words and marks for words having the selected characteristics to locations within documents in the corpus. Entries in... Agent: Sap GlobalIPC/o Cooley Godward Kronish LLP William S. Galliani

20090193014 - Apparatus and methods for tracking, querying, and visualizing behavior targeting processes: Disclosed are apparatus and methods for providing information that is related to user on-line behavior, which was also used at least partly to generate user scores by one or more behavior targeting processes. A query client may select to receive information from a plurality of different data feeds that are... Agent: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson - Yahoo!

20090193020 - Information retrieval method, information retrieval apparatus, and computer product: An information retrieval apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires a numerical value defining a boundary of a numerical range; a detecting unit that detects a number of places in and a head numeral of the numerical value; an extracting unit that extracts from a bit string group, a bit... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090193012 - Inheritance in a search index: Embodiments of the present invention perform bulk updates of a search index with a representation that includes upward and downward inheritance. In various embodiments of the invention, a batched set of update requests is applied to a search index to modify existing indexed objects. A representation of the inheritance consequences... Agent: North Weber & Baugh LLP

20090193018 - Matching engine with signature generation: A system and a method generates at least one signature associated with document. In one embodiment, a document comprised of text is received and parsed to generate a token set. The token set includes a plurality of tokens. Each token corresponds to the text in the document that is separated... Agent: Okamoto & Benedicto, LLP

20090193015 - Method and appartus for adaptively updating recommend user group: A method of adaptively updating a first recommended user group list of a first user connected to a network, in which a predetermined number of second users are selected from the first recommend user group list that is a list of users having a high similarity to the first user... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090193016 - Method and system for access to restricted resources: A method and system of providing a search result to a user based on information indicated in a restricted access resource is described. A search system utilizing the assistance of human searchers or guides may obtain a search result using information included in a restricted resource. Access to a restricted... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090193010 - Method and system for reducing complex tree structures to simple tree structures based on relevance: The present invention discloses a method for reducing a tree structure in a processing system. The method includes providing a plurality of nodes in a tree structure. The method also includes querying each of the plurality of nodes based upon a threshold value, wherein the threshold is related to relevance;... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20090193013 - Method for storing messages in a directory: A method, system, and computer usable program product for storing messages in a directory executing in a data processing system are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A message is received over a network and identified in the directory. A base message entry that corresponds to the message is selected in... Agent: Ibm Corp. (gig)

20090193017 - Methods and systems for corporate discovery, investigation, and implementation of emerging technology: This disclosure provides a system and method of creating a searchable company database, the method comprising the steps of: a) having at least one company enter company information using a user interface; b) creating a company profile database, where the database categorizes the company into a least two tiers of... Agent: Bullivant Houser Bailey PC

20090193006 - Multiple dimenisioned database architecture: A database management system stores data form a plurality of logical tables as independent copies in different format. In one specific example the system organizes tables into table groups and de-normalizes the table in each table group. It also organizes data in a second format including vertical column containers that... Agent: George A. Herbster

20090193011 - Phrase based snippet generation: Disclosed herein is a method, a system and a computer product for generating a snippet for an entity, wherein each snippet comprises a plurality of sentiments about the entity. One or more textual reviews associated with the entity is selected. A plurality of sentiment phrases are identified based on the... Agent: Google / Fenwick

20090193019 - System and method for searching a remote database: A device is in communication with a server over a wireless network. Items are stored locally in the device. The device receives, from a user of the device, a request to search for items matching a search parameter. The device finds items among the locally-stored items that match the parameter.... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe

20090193007 - Systems and methods for ranking search engine results: Systems and methods for ranking search engine results based at least in part on user access to the results of previous search inquiries. Results to a search inquiry appearing on a search engine results page are ranked according to their relevance with respect to the search inquiry, and the ranking... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090193008 - Term synonym generation: Synonyms for a term to be indexed are dynamically generated by applying one or more rules (e.g., splitting, deletion or addition of characters, and concatenation of portions) to the term, each synonym generated either including only a portion and not all of the term or differing from the term by... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20090193009 - Viewing time of search result content for relevancy: Amounts of time that search result content is displayed for viewing can be collected and used for relevancy ranking. Selection of a first of a plurality of search results is detected. The plurality of search results is received in response to submission of a set of one or more search... Agent: Ibm Austin Iplaw (dg)

20090193022 - Associative memory: A computer-implemented method of realizing an associative memory capable of storing a set of documents and retrieving one or more stored documents similar to an inputted query document, said method comprising: coding each document or a part of it through a corresponding feature vector consisting of a series of bits... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090193021 - Camera system and method for picture sharing based on camera perspective: An electronic device may transmit point-of-view information to a server that searches an image database for images that were taken from a corresponding point-of-view. Matching images may be displayed to a user of the electronic device and the user may be provided with an option to save one or more... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090193023 - Data picker application: A data picker system configured to allow a user to select data from a data site for submission to a data repository comprises an interface unit configured to provide a user with an interface for the user to input location information of a data site, a parsing unit configured to... Agent: Dla Piper LLP Us

20090193024 - Metadata based navigation method: The embodiments of present invention provide a metadata based navigation method for web based online learning platform that facilitates intelligent interactions and knowledge sharing among the users of the portal with compatible profiles and compatible learning spaces. The communication of authorized user in the network is limited to the learning... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20090193025 - Method and system for controlling accesses to a database: The frequency of occurrences of an exclusion process is reduced so as to enhance the efficiency of handling accesses to a database. A system is provided for controlling accesses to a database. The system includes a database identifying section that identifies a database corresponding to an input of a first... Agent: Ibm Corporation

20090193027 - Information service system using usn nodes and network, and service server connectable to usn nodes through network: An information service system using USN nodes, a network and a service server connectable to ubiquitous sensor network (USN) nodes through the network are disclosed. The information sensed by the USN nodes is transmitted to the service server connected to an external network, so that an administrator can check the... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090193026 - Integrated database replay protection: An apparatus and method for providing replay protection integrity protection of a database accessible by an electronic device is provided, wherein the database is capable of protecting a plurality of records. When at least one protected record in the database is modified in an authorized manner, a record tag corresponding... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090193030 - electronic device, a database, system, and method for presenting the content of a file to a user: The invention relates to an electronic device comprising a control unit, a memory comprising a first and a second application, an user interface arranged to enable a file to be selected and to present a content of a file, and a transceiving unit, wherein the control unit is arranged to... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090193032 - Advertisement annotation system and method: An advertisement annotation system includes a media player (50) and a remote database (20). The remote database (20) is arranged to store annotations and index data associated with advertising media data. The media player (50) is arranged to output advertising media data to a user and is responsive to receipt... Agent: Leason Ellis LLP

20090193028 - Four dimensional (4d) information distribution system and methods: The present invention provides for a four dimensional (4D) information distribution system and method which allows on-demand and real-time transmission of time-sensitive and useful self-help data or instructional materials to user. The transmission of the 4D information can be initiated at the user's request or it can be automatically carried... Agent: Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP Susan Formicola

20090193033 - Method and apparatus for communication efficient private information retrieval and oblivious transfer: A method, article of manufacture and apparatus for performing private retrieval of information from a database is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprising obtaining an index corresponding to information to be retrieved from the database and generating a query that does not reveal the index to the database. The... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090193029 - Self-organized distributed directory: Various amounts of information can be beneficial to different controllers configured upon an industrial control system. Information can be retained in a distributed directory such that controllers quickly learn information concerning other controllers. The distributed directory can be automatically constructed and populated with information from different controllers. When a module... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP Attention: Heather Holmes

20090193031 - Tiered processing for xdm and other xml databases: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for processing of XDM operation to access XML documents in a database or other repository. According to one embodiment, a system for processing requests for information in a data repository can comprise a first tier adapted to receive an eXtensible Markup Language... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090193035 - Collaborative document management: A method for processing documents is provided, including the steps of retrieving a document stored in a first format, converting the retrieved document to a second format according to a conversion profile associated with the second format, presenting the converted document, responsive to a request to store an updated version... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090193038 - Creation of context for communications based on previous interactions: In one embodiment, an identification (ID) of a person involved in a current communication is utilized to access a communication log to determine an active time interval of a previous communication with the same person. The active time interval is utilized to identify the context material of the previous communication... Agent: Law Office Of Charles E. Krueger

20090193039 - Data driven system for data analysis and data mining: A process for automating data mining operations by defining data objects including one or more database table objects and storing the data objects in a metadata store maintained in a computer storage. Data manipulation operations on the meta data objects are defined and descriptions of the data manipulation operations associated... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20090193036 - Document specialization processing in a content management system: A content management system (CMS) provides a DITA specialization processing mechanism that provides the full functions of a content management system across the full functionality of the DITA architecture. A DITA specialization is used to generate an import descriptor that describes how to import the DITA specialization, which may include... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20090193037 - Method and apparatus for displaying data models and data-model instances: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and techniques for displaying data models and data-model instances. During operation, the system can use a model graph to represent the data model and an instance graph to represent the data-model instance. In the graph representation, a vertex can represent an entity or... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090193034 - Multi-axis, hierarchical browser for accessing and viewing digital assets: A digital asset browsing system allowing users to access assets in varying ways and along differing axial directions. The system includes data storage or memory devices storing digital assets (e.g., assets associated with a digital work such as an animated film). A client computing device or workstation accesses the data... Agent: Disney Enterprises, Inc. C/o Marsh Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20090193045 - Compression method for a data transfer that is independent of computer architecture and/or decompression method for a data record: A compression method for a data transfer that is independent of computer architecture and/or a decompression method for a data record that contains structural indicators and variable values are provided. The method includes the following steps: provision of a string automaton, which represents the structuring rules of the data record... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090193046 - Match rules to identify duplicate records in inbound data: Techniques for identifying duplicate records in data to be imported into a data hub. In one set of embodiments, a batch of records to be imported into a data hub is received and a match rule for the batch of records is selected. The match rule includes a set of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090193043 - Method and system for transforming database and compressible database structure: A database transforming method suitable for transforming a first database of a host into a second database of a mobile electronic device is provided, wherein the first database has a plurality of original fields. First, a plurality of main fields and a composite field are created in the second database.... Agent: J C Patents, Inc.

20090193041 - Method for automated design of row compression on tables in a relational database: A workload specification is obtained for the database. Based on the workload specification, candidate ones of the tables are identified and ranked. Compression impact is evaluated for the candidate ones of the tables. A design for the database is developed, specifying at least one of: (i) which of the tables... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090193042 - System and computer program product for automated design of row compression on tables in a relational database: A workload specification is obtained for the database. Based on the workload specification, candidate ones of the tables are identified and ranked. Compression impact is evaluated for the candidate ones of the tables. A design for the database is developed, specifying at least one of: (i) which of the tables... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090193040 - System and method for storing a program using partial compression: A method is set forth for compressing a file of size C for storage in a memory space of size F, where C>F, comprising compressing successive portions of the file until C≦F, creating a header to the file including an offset value indicating a location separating compressed and uncompressed portions... Agent: Mitel Networks Corporation Michelle Whittington, Esq.

20090193044 - Web graph compression through scalable pattern mining: A method and a processing device are provided for compressing a web graph including multiple nodes and links between the multiple nodes. Nodes of the web graph may be clustered into groups including no more than a predetermined number of nodes. A list of links of the clustered nodes may... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090193051 - Analysis supporting apparatus, analysis supporting method, and analysis supporting program: An analysis supporting apparatus includes a model-data generating unit that generates model data regarding an analysis model of an analysis target component in association with component hierarchy data representing a hierarchy of components forming an analysis target product; and a data converting unit that converts the model data generated by... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20090193047 - Contructing web query hierarchies from click-through data: The claimed subject matter is directed to constructing query hierarchies in response to a query request. To construct a query hierarchy, a list of related candidate queries is generated in response to the received query request. The list of related candidate queries is generated by determining the relative coverage of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090193049 - Electronic control batch record: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with batch process monitoring are described. One example method may include monitoring an external batch process (e.g. food manufacture, drug manufacture). The method may include collecting data (e.g. material usage, material yield, resource usage, quality results, process parameters, actions performed on batches) from the... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC - Oracle

20090193052 - Gathering research data: Systems and methods for gathering research data using multiple monitoring devices are provided. At least a pair of the monitoring devices each read ancillary codes contained within media data and which represents research data. The decoded data read by at least one of the pair is associated with a further... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP / Arbitron Inc. (c/o Patent Administrator)

20090193048 - Maintaining date and time with time zone rule changes: A method and system for maintaining date and time information correctly across rule changes for time zones is provided. A time maintenance system provides rules for converting dates and times between various time zones and a common time zone. When the time maintenance system receives a date and time in... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20090193050 - Report database dependency tracing through business intelligence metadata: In one embodiment, the present invention provides a data stream reference module 250 that can enable a user to perform forward tracing, backward tracing, and tracing indirect dependencies in a data model and/or metadata model. The tracing is not necessarily along a common hierarchical level but can be from one... Agent: Sheridan Ross P.C.

20090193053 - Information management system: A method is disclosed for authoring a knowledge base of semi-structured data comprising the steps of providing at least one knowledge entry in said knowledge base, said knowledge entries having mutable informational content associated therewith, defining a schema associated with said knowledge base, said schema having a plurality of hierarchical... Agent: Sonnabendlaw

20090193054 - Tracking changes to a business object: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with database auditing are described. One example method includes generating a first extensible markup language (XML) document using data from a database object. A database object may include data from multiple relational data tables. The method includes generating a second XML document in response... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC - Oracle

20090193055 - Method for preserving privacy with image capture: The present invention discloses a method and system that automatically analyzes digital images containing people or objects to generate derived data from the images including non-imaging numerical data and text data. The image content of the digital image can then be destroyed and the derived data can be stored along... Agent: Frank Pincelli Eastman Kodak Company

20090193056 - System and method for managing legislative information: A method for managing legislative information. in operation, legislative information, including text comprising legislative bills, is collected via an electronic search of at least one website. The text of the bills is then parsed into predefined categories. The text thus parsed is stored in a database. A search, using one... Agent: Lathrop & Gage LLP

20090193057 - Service-oriented architecture (soa) management of data repository: A data repository includes information for multiple data systems, which can each control data in this and a number of other domains. A business process can be launched by one of the data systems to update the target data and any related data in the repository or any other related... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090193058 - System and method for providing copyback data integrity in a non-volatile memory system: An invention is provided for affording CopyBack data integrity in a non-volatile memory system. When the potential for moving data with a CopyBack command occurs, a counter corresponding to the data is examined. When the counter is below a predetermined limit, the counter is incremented and data from the block... Agent: Patent Venture Group

20090193059 - Data consistency control method and software for a distributed replicated database system: A distributed replicated database system having a plurality of federated database systems and methods of updating and reading database records from the distributed replicated database system are disclosed. Each federated database system contains a complete copy of a database. Moreover, each federated database system comprises at least one server divided... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20090193060 - Efficient query processing of dml sql statements: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for efficiently processing DML SQL statements through minimal logging and optimized insertions. Rows are inserted into a table in a database in a sorted order. When an insertion of a particular row into the table causes a page split and a new page created... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090193061 - Computer system and automatic data backup method: By limiting a backup object to a particular one, it is possible to reduce the system load and perform effective automatic backup. By using a hard disc device or the like, a first storage unit (40) and a second storage unit (70) are prepared. When the system is started, a... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090193064 - Method and system for access-rate-based storage management of continuously stored data: A method and system for access-rate-based storage management of continuously stored data are provided, the method comprising the steps of: deciding an access weight dependent on an access rate for a data snapshot at a time point in continuously stored data stored in a storage system; determining whether the access... Agent: Law Office Of Ido Tuchman (yor)

20090193062 - Storing information in otherwise unused space in vtoc and vvds for recovery of data: When a VTOC and a VVDS are established for information used to access data sets of a volume, unused space remains in both structures. The data sets, VTOC and VVDS are stored on a recordable medium. For VSAM data sets, other, vital information about the data set is also stored... Agent: Law Firm Of Dan Shifrin

20090193063 - System and method for legacy system component incremental migration: A system and method for legacy system component incremental migration from a legacy system to a new system comprises a read-only ghost or shadow in the new system. When changes are made in the legacy system, the changes are incrementally and automatically migrated to the new system allowing the legacy... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090187530 - Enabling users to edit very large xml data: Enabling users to edit data encoded in extended markup language (XML). In one embodiment, an XML data to be edited is received and preprocessed to generate a tabular data corresponding to the XML data. The generated tabular data is stored in the form of a staging table in a database.... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20090187532 - Modifier management within process models: A system for managing values associated with properties of elements within a process model can include a storage element for storing the process model and a processing element. The processing element can be configured to identify within the process model an element, to identify an object containing the element, to... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090187531 - User experience for viewing business data via personal information application: Architecture that provides a user experience (UX) for accessing business information (e.g., sales, accounts, opportunities) via an office application. In a specific implementation, a personal information manager (PIM) application includes a familiar UX that introduces a business context (e.g., sales) to tasks in the PIM application. Forms included as part... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090187533 - Automatically identifying an optimal set of attributes to facilitate generating best practices for configuring a networked system: A method and system for automatically identifying an optimal set of attributes of entities included in a networked system. Entity types are ranked based on information gain. A first classification accuracy relative to a first entity type is determined. The first entity type is the top-ranked entity type or a... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090187535 - Method and apparatus for improved information transactions: Methods and systems for analyzing an image, such as a newspaper or magazine pager or the like including text by mapping the image to determine regions of text and analyzing portions of the image in accordance with characteristics of selected regions of the text to develop a desired ordering of... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20090187534 - Transaction prediction modeling method: Methods of generating a transactions prediction model using a computer for optimizing a number of transactions associated with a database system are presented, the methods including: capturing a database workload, where the database workload includes a number of statements corresponding with the transactions over a specified period of time, where... Agent: Kali Law Group, P.C.

20090187543 - Asset management system: A system and apparatus for managing and updating the status of various assets, including but not limited to real estate properties, is disclosed. The system can be used by and provides differing capabilities for all of property managers, banks, and realtors.... Agent: All Star Realty

20090187547 - Comprehension of digitally encoded texts: Methods, computer program products and systems for facilitating computer-assisted user comprehension of digitally encoded texts. In one embodiment of the present invention, the user is provided with the ability to perform multiple searches with different dictionaries or search engines, according to the user's needs. The user has the option of... Agent: Ibm Corp (ibm Austin Iplaw)

20090187541 - Computer method and system for contextual management and awareness of persistent queries and results: Presented is a computer system and user interface for seamlessly integrating the creation and submission of persistent queries, and for collecting and presenting the real-time results of those queries, into the context of one's work and directly structured work artifacts. Users are provided a real-time awareness of what is happening... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds

20090187544 - Managing a hierarchy of databases: Monitoring an activity profile for a given row of a database and determining a target database for a given row based on the activity profile of the given row. Identifying any row related to the given row and moving the given row and any row related to the given row... Agent: Kenneth L. Sherman, Esq. C/o Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman, LLP

20090187542 - Metadata search interface: A system and method for implementing a metadata search interface is disclosed. The technology creates a configuration file for the metadata search interface comprising a predicate describing a search parameter of the metadata search interface. The configuration file further comprises a control attribute which associates the predicate with a control... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090187545 - Method and apparatus for data processing with index search: In a database management apparatus for managing a database where an index is used in a search for data, the data is stored in a table that has attributes of the data as columns. The index is created in association with at least one column. The columns include an index... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090187538 - Method of prioritizing similar names of locations for use by a navigation system: Locations having similar names are identified and placed in groups. The naming similarity includes how names or portions of names are spelled and/or pronounced. The names within the groups are then ranked by priority. The ranking is calculated using one or more attributes in a geographic database, such as the... Agent: Navteq North America, LLC

20090187546 - Method, system and computer program product for duplicate detection: A method of duplicate detection for data items in a stream of data items, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a data item from the stream of data items; applying at least two different hashing algorithms to the data item to generate hash keys that identify elements in a... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20090187540 - Prediction of informational interests: Described herein is a system that includes a receiver component that receives an indication that a user has accessed a search engine to initiate a search session. An analyzer component predicts informational interests of the user upon receipt of the indication and outputs an informational item that corresponds to the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090187537 - Social network searching with breadcrumbs: A method for data presentation includes assembling a set of documents in response to a search query by a user having a social network. A respective person is identified with each of a group of documents in the set. For at least one document in the group, a chain of... Agent: Sheehan Phinney Bass & Green, PA C/o Peter Nieves

20090187539 - Solution providing navigation-independent access to elements of a software integrated development environment (ide) using uniform resource locators (urls): The present invention discloses a navigation-independent system for accessing the elements of a software integrated development environment (IDE) using uniform resource locators (URLs). Such a system can include a set of URL-accessible IDE elements, a set of URLs, and a URL operation tool. The set of URL-accessible IDE elements can... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090187536 - System and method providing object messages in a compute environment: The present invention provides a system, method and computer-readable media for creating object messages within a compute environment such as a cluster or grid. The method comprises upon an event affecting the availability or performance of an object within a cluster environment, retrieving messages related to the event from messages... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20090187549 - Real-time chat and conference contact information manager: An extension or accessory to a real-time, online virtual collaboration session, meeting and messaging system, which scans a participant's contact list for partially complete contact records, accesses an administered contact information store such as a corporate personnel contact database, and completes the partially complete records in the participant's contact list.... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20090187548 - System and method for automatically classifying search results: Disclosed is a system and a method for automatically classifying search results. The system includes a search engine server for obtaining and providing search results with regard to a search word entered by the user, grouping the obtained search results according to meanings of the search word, and providing the... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090187557 - Arranging search engine results: Search engine results arranged according to one or more first criteria (e.g., relevancy) are obtained. The results are assigned groups within chosen or calculated relevancy ranges. The results are then resorted within each group according to one or more second criteria (e.g., payment). The groups maintain original placement relative to... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti PC

20090187566 - Associating documents with classifications and ranking documents based on classification weights: A method and apparatus for associating documents with classification values and ranking documents based on classification weights is provided. It is determined if a document is associated a classification. If the document is associated with a classification, then it is determined if a classification value, which is associated with the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090187556 - Computer method and apparatus for graphical inquiry specification with progressive summary: A computer method and system provides for graphical specification of inquiries and includes a corresponding progressive summary. The inquiries operate on stream data. Users graphically specify an inquiry in a graphical user interface according to an ontology. The invention system generates a plain-text translation of the graphical description of the... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds

20090187561 - Content search method and system: Provided are a content search method and system, and more particularly, a content search method and system which enable a user to easily access desired search results by reducing the need to input a keyword again or navigate through pages of search results. The content search method includes: receiving a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090187555 - Feature selection for ranking: This disclosure describes various exemplary methods, computer program products, and systems for selecting features for ranking in information retrieval. This disclosure describes calculating importance scores for features, measuring similarity scores between two features, selecting features that maximizes total importance scores of the features and minimizes total similarity scores between the... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090187558 - Method and system for displaying search results: Methods and systems related to the display of primary and secondary search results are provided. Search results are displayed to the user without requiring the user to perform any tasks to view the entire set of search results. The user may then request secondary searches based on the displayed primary... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20090187553 - Method and system for facilitating verification of an entity based on business requirements: A method, system and computer program product for facilitating verification of an entity against a reference database. The entity comprises a plurality of attributes. The method obtains a set of attributes from the plurality of attributes based on a set of predefined parameters. Further, the method selects a set of... Agent: GlobalIPServices, PLLC

20090187559 - Method of analyzing unstructured documents to predict asset value performance: A method and system is disclosed for determining the changes in valuation of an asset of interest and then using high or low betweeness centrality values as an indicator for near term future changes in asset value. The present invention searches a broad set of electronically based documents, such as... Agent: Peter A. Gloor

20090187563 - Methods for generating and indicating a time relevant status for an operating entity: A method for generating an operating status at a defined time for an operating entity, comprising the steps of: generating one or more time rules for hours of operation of the operating entity; determining an operating status value by comparing the time with the time rules; and matching an operating... Agent: Venture Pacific Law, PC

20090187564 - Processor for fast phrase searching: Phrases in a corpus of documents including stopwords are found using a data processor arranged to execute phrase queries. Memory stores an index structure which maps entries in the index structure to documents in the corpus. Entries in the index structure represent words and other entries represent stopwords found in... Agent: Sap GlobalIPC/o Cooley Godward Kronish LLP William S. Galliani

20090187562 - Search method: A search method for causing a computer to execute the search method of searching for and retrieving, when a search formula to document data having a hierarchy structure whose elements are delimited by an element identifier is obtained, data corresponding to the search formula from the document data, stores, when... Agent: Fujitsu Patent Center C/o Cpa Global

20090187551 - Search results when searching for records of a business object: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for searching records of a business object using a keyword search. According to one embodiment, a method of searching for one or more records of a business object can comprise converting one or more records of the business object to one or... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090187550 - Specifying relevance ranking preferences utilizing search scopes: A mechanism for expressing a user preference to a set of documents based on user knowledge about the document corpora. The user preference input to the system can be positive, negative, or both. A set of documents that can be identified with a query can define a search scope definition.... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090187554 - Specifying weighted search terms for a search engine: A content searching data processing system can be configured for specifying weighted search terms for a search engine. The system can include a search engine executing in a host server. The search engine can be coupled to a search index and can be configured for communicative coupling to different content... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090187560 - String pattern conceptualization method and program product for string pattern conceptualization: A conceptualization method uses maximum or other substrings of a string pattern to find specific N-tuples of substring triples with N≧2 and m=1 . . . N inside a reference set (SET_r_i) of strings (STR_n_i). Each N-tuple is considered as a candidate for representing related concepts. Each concatenation of the... Agent: Lee Law, PLLC IBM Customer Number

20090187565 - System and method for handling item listings with generic attributes: A system for storing a plurality of items across different categories in a database including a database that stores a data structure that has item entries for items of different categories. Each item entry includes one or more associated attributes. The attributes may be shared by multiple items across more... Agent: Gregg A. Peacock Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090187552 - System and methods for generating data analysis queries from modeling constructs: A method for automatically generating data analysis queries from at least one modeling construct includes selecting a preconfigured template identifying at least one metric or dimension; retrieving dashboard model data comprising the preconfigured template; filtering to the dashboard model data using at least one user-specific access control; and automatically generating... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20090187570 - Apparatus for controlling subscriptions: An apparatus for controlling subscriptions comprising: a detector operable to detect to a subscription associated with a wildcard topic string; and an analyzer, responsive to the detection of the subscription associated with a wildcard topic string and a topic string of a topic node matching the wildcard topic string, for... Agent: Novak Druce + Quigg LLP

20090187568 - Free string match encoding and preview: A system for entering data in a format that is easy to use, enabling selection of encoding format and displaying the resulting search data string in format to enable generation of byte sets for supplying to free string match algorithm for application to network data.... Agent: Patenttm.us

20090187569 - System and method for a web- based people picture directory: An online system and a method for a web-based people picture directory provides collaborative identification of people pictured in the directory. The method includes creating profile templates for each person on earth and storing these profile templates in a central database. Next, populating the profile templates with publicly available basic... Agent: Akc Patents

20090187567 - System and method for determining valid citation patterns in electronic documents: A system and method are provided for comparing portions of document text with potential citation components, determining if individual portions correspond to a citation component, and determining if a set of portions correspond to a valid citation pattern. A set of valid citation patterns is provided. Each citation pattern may... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090187571 - Method of putting items into categories according to rank: A method of putting items into categories according to rank divides the items into a plurality of groups. The method then performs a first ranking of the items in each group, such that each item has a set of befores and a set of afters. A set of befores is... Agent: Dillon & Yudell, LLP

20090187577 - system and method providing audio-on-demand to a user's personal online device as part of an online audio community: A system for a site in a communications network that holds a profile of favorite information sources for each of a plurality of registered users. The system includes a server to check the relevancy of items of audio content from radio and TV stations and items of audio-rendered RSS content... Agent: Naomi Assia Law Offices C/o LandonIPInc.

20090187578 - Information processing device, information processing method and computer program: An information processing device is provided that performs content transfer with a content storage device on which is stored content that has content identification information, the information processing device including: a storage portion that stores content that has content identification information and records at least one of a first attribute... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090187575 - Method and apparatus for use in providing information to accessing content: The present embodiments provide methods, apparatuses, and systems for use in identifying one or more sources of content by receiving a request to supply a listing of registered content providers; identifying a first registered content identifier (ID); evaluating a first metadata directly associated with the first registered content ID, and... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery

20090187573 - Representing models in systems development lifecycle (sdlc) tools using a network of internet resources: In the present solution, as set of SDLC resources can be established, where each is separately addressable through a unique URL and is able to be managed through a simple set of operations. For example, a set of RESTful operations (GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE) can be used for the... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A. Ibm-rsw

20090187574 - System and method for network interaction between computing devices: The present specification provides, amongst other things, a method and system for network interaction between computing devices. In one embodiment a wireless client machine is provided that includes a mini web-browser that is configured to access a secure web-page from a web-server. The secure web-page includes an interactive form. The... Agent: Perry + Currier Inc. (for Rim)

20090187579 - System, method and product for processing utility data: A system, method and computer program product for providing data from a plurality of physically separate databases storing utility data to a plurality of software applications is provided. In one embodiment, the computer system comprises a first set of adaptors for accessing a plurality of measurement databases that store measurement... Agent: Capital Legal Group, LLC

20090187572 - Systems and methods for providing access to instructional content: Methods and apparatus are provided for locating trustworthy how-to content (e.g., on the Internet), and providing access to such content (e.g., via a web site). Some embodiments provide a method for making trustworthy how-to content accessible, which method includes locating an item of how-to content made available for access by... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090187576 - Tag syndicates: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to social bookmarking and provide a method, system and computer program product for tag syndicates in a social bookmarking system. In an embodiment of the invention, a tag syndicate method can be provided. The method can include establishing... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090187581 - Consolidation and association of structured and unstructured data on a computer file system: The present invention discloses systems and methods used to consolidate and associate structured and unstructured data together on a file system. File systems are far more efficient for handling unstructured data than conventional databases. File systems can also contain a large volume of structured data serialized in XML (extensible Markup... Agent: Teitelbaum & Maclean

20090187582 - Efficient update methods for large volume data updates in data warehouses: A system and method for ensuring large and frequent updates to a data warehouse. The process leverages a set of temporary staging tables to track the updates. A set of intermediate steps are performed to accomplish bulk deletions of the outdated changed records, and perform modifications to the map tables... Agent: Law Office Of Donald L. Wenskay

20090187583 - Enhanced label claim validation: The enhanced validation of a label claim, in which identification information uniquely identifying an item that has moved through a node in a supply chain is received, the item being marked with a label claim. Event data associated with the uniquely identified item is received from the node, and received... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090187580 - Integrated view of multi-sourced information objects: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to user interface rendering for information objects and provide method, system and computer program product for an integrated view of multi-sourced information objects. In an embodiment of the invention, an attention manager data processing system can be provided.... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090187584 - Query-aware sampling of data streams: A system, method and computer-readable medium provide for assigning sampling methods to each input stream for arbitrary query sets in a data stream management system. The method embodiment comprises splitting all query nodes in a query directed acyclic graph (DAG) having multiple parent nodes into sets of independent nodes having... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ndq

20090187585 - Comparing very large xml data: Comparing very large XML data. In one embodiment, a first and second XML data received for comparison are stored in the form of respective multiple rows in a database. A first and second set of rows (respectively corresponding to the first and second XML data) having the same value corresponding... Agent: Law Firm Of Naren Thappeta

20090187586 - Selecting various algorithms to compress columns of analytic data in a read-only relational database in a manner that allows decompression of the compressed data using minimal system resources: A method, computer program product and system for balancing compression efficiency against access performance. Source data is read from a database row by row and column by column within each row. Algorithm(s) are selected to compress the data read for each column. Algorithms are selected in a manner that closely... Agent: Winstead PC

20090187590 - Database creation method, database device and design data evaluation method: A database creation method relating to semiconductor ICs, the database registering function block cells constituting a design data of semiconductor IC and evaluation values corresponding to the function block cells such that the function block cells are associated with the evaluation values, for each of the semiconductor ICs, the creation... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090187588 - Distributed indexing of file content: Described herein is technology for, among other things, distributed indexing of file content. Content-based indexing the file involves determining whether content-based index information for the file is available from an external source. This avoids repeating already-performed content analysis, which is time consuming and computationally intensive especially for non-text files. The... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090187587 - Managing feature data based on spatial collections: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with registering a WFS feature type are described. One example method includes creating a feature instance table and a set of collection item tables to register the WFS feature type. Elements in the feature instance table and a collection item table may be related... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC - Oracle

20090187589 - Method and system for managing data clusters: A method and system for managing data clusters is provided. A first data cluster is generated having a first data object and a second data object. The first data cluster has a strict hierarchy between the first data object and the second data object. A first object reference from the... Agent: Sap Ag

20090187591 - Retrieving database records for aggregation without redundant database read operations: Various exemplary embodiments are a computer-readable medium encoded with a database, a system including a database, and a related method including one or more of the following: a plurality of tables, each table configured to store a respective data set comprising at least one row of data and each table... Agent: Kramer & Amado, P.C.

20090187597 - Information processing device, display data providing method, and program: There is provided an information processing device capable of communicating with a purchase history storage device for storing purchase history data and a display device, the information processing device including a storage unit for storing user image data and property data; a communication unit; a purchase history data acquiring unit... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20090187595 - Managing configuration items: There is provided a method for managing a plurality of configuration items. The method includes holding, at a repository, for each configuration item, one set of data indicating at least one predetermined attribute of the configuration item and a relationship with another configuration item. The method also includes detecting, at... Agent: Ibm Corp. (jgt) C/o Toler Law Group

20090187596 - Managing configuration items: A computer system is disclosed that includes a repository, a discovery section, a determining section, and a data creating section. The repository holds, for each configuration item, data indicating at least one predetermined attribute of the configuration item and a relationship with another configuration item. The discovery section detects information... Agent: Ibm Corp. (jgt) C/o Toler Law Group

20090187594 - Method and system for creation and reuse of concise business schemas using a canonical library: An exemplary feature is a method for using XML Schema based standards. The method consists of constructing a reduced schema for a specific interaction from a collection of reusable artifacts. The method further consists of publishing the reduced schema in a repository thereby allowing the reduced schema to be reused.... Agent: Cahn & Samuels, LLP

20090187593 - Methods and apparatus for targeted media content delivery and acquisition in a wireless communication network: Apparatus, methods and computer program products are provided for targeted media content acquisition on a wireless device. The wireless device selects media content to receive based on a resident user profile, locally constructed based on passive user data, active user data and user inference data drawn from the passive and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090187598 - System and method for electronically processing document imgages: The system and method facilitate the control and management of information and actions related to the computerized scanning, categorization, processing, storage, and retrieval of paper documents and electronic document images for the purposes of creating electronic data; data entry; data capture; data classification and categorization; and document-, file-, and records-management.... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090187592 - Web document user experience characterization methods and systems: Methods and systems are provided that may be used to characterize in some manner the performance that a user may experience when accessing a web document. An exemplary method may include accessing at least one performance characteristic associated with at least a portion of a computing environment adapted for sharing... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP

20090187601 - Automation process system and method to upgrade from non-unicode transformation support to unicode data transformation support: A system and method for automatically transforming non-Unicode supporting files into Unicode supporting files via one or more reusable maps. The system comprises a reusable source type tree organized from a schema, wherein the schema is created from a file; and one or more reusable maps, structured to automatically map... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090187604 - Docbase management system and method for extending docbase management system and functions: The present invention discloses a docbase management system and a method for extending docbase management system functions. The method includes: determining an extended function module which matches extended data, wherein, the extended function module is compatible with a system extension interface in a docbase management system; invoking, through the system... Agent: Goodwin Procter LLP Attn: Patent Administrator

20090187602 - Efficient update methods for large volume data updates in data warehouses: A system and method for ensuring large and frequent updates to a data warehouse. The process leverages a set of temporary staging tables to track the updates. A set of intermediate steps are performed to accomplish bulk deletions of the outdated changed records, and perform modifications to the map tables... Agent: Law Office Of Donald L. Wenskay

20090187603 - File management method, file management device, and program: A file management method includes creating a rotation group by grouping a file group in which the generations of the files are managed by changes in the file names, and storing information of the rotation group in a rotation group management unit; acquiring file identification information of the files belonging... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090187599 - Generating identity values in a multi-host database management system: Various approaches for generating key values in a database that is shared in a multi-host data processing arrangement. According to an example method, a shared sequence control structure contains a next key value. Mutually exclusive update access to the sequence control structure is provided for a plurality of instances of... Agent: Unisys Corporation

20090187600 - Method of improving replica server performance and a replica server system: An adaptable replica server system comprising a primary replica being associated with a primary storage for storing information and a primary processing means, and a secondary replica being associated with a secondary storage and a secondary processing means for creating confirmation data upon receiving input data from the primary replica,... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090187606 - Optimized modification of a clustered computer system: A method, program product, and data processing system are provided for modifying a cluster in a data processing system, the cluster comprising a plurality of nodes. A monitoring unit monitors resource usage over at least one cycle of a periodic timeframe to obtain monitored resource usage data. A forecasting component... Agent: Steven E. Bach Attorney At Law

20090187607 - System and method for profile synchronization: A system and method for profile synchronization is provided. The profile synchronization system includes a web server, a synchronization server, and one or more mobile terminals. The web server includes subscriber accounts each containing a subscriber profile and a profile matching table, identifies, when a subscriber profile is changed at... Agent: JeffersonIPLaw, LLP

20090187605 - Vehicle control apparatus: A vehicle control apparatus having plural microcontrollers interconnected by serial communication realizes data referencing between the microcontrollers without increasing the load on the CPUs and enables the development of control application software easily. The vehicle control apparatus includes plural processing units each having a computing means, a data storage means,... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090187609 - Distributed backup and retrieval system: A method is provided for performing distributed backup and retrieval of data. Data is sent by a plurality of client devices to be processed by a server and then stored in a database. A subset of the processed data stored in the database is backed up to each of the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090187608 - Handling transfer of bad data to database partitions in restartable environments: Method, computer program product, and system for transferring data to database partitions are provided. A transaction is initiated to insert one or more records into a partition of a database. At least one of the one or more records is then saved in binary form to a dump table in... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ibm Svl

20090187610 - Persistent multimedia content versioning: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with versioned persistent storage of multimedia content in a database object are described. One example method includes controlling a database management system (DBMS) to instantiate a database object that has a binary large object (BLOB) attribute, an XML edits attribute, and a set of... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC - Oracle

20090187611 - Prioritized replication paths: A method of updating data at one or more nodes and a corresponding system are described. The method comprises determining a node to which a data update is to be transmitted, wherein the node has a node priority. The method also comprises determining a version of data to be provided... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090187613 - Article of manufacture and system for fast reverse restore: Techniques are provided for performing a copy operation. A fast reverse restore command indicating a new source and a new target is received, wherein the new source is an original target and the new target is an original source. A synchronous scan is performed on the new target. A new... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20090187612 - Technique of controlling access to database: A method of controlling access to a database includes autonomously archiving data within a database from a first storage device into a second storage device, according to an archive condition; the archive condition being input in conjunction with the data and being associated with the data; accepting an input of... Agent: Ibm Corporation C/o: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090187614 - Managing dynamically allocated memory in a computer system: Managing dynamically allocated memory in a computer system in which garbage collection process is scheduled separately from data processing comprises initiating a system program and providing system memory for use by the system program, the system program being arranged to provide a processing environment, initiating an application program within the... Agent: Ibm Corporation Intellectual Property Law

20090182704 - Determining data feed usage: A data feed server configured for tracking usage of a data feed includes a data feed server configured to respond to polls from client computers and transmit a data feed in response to a poll from a client computer. The data feed server is further configured to received usage data... Agent: Ibm Corporation C/o: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090182703 - Exposing relational database interfaces on xml data: Mapping XML elements to complex relational database structures. One method includes acts for storing mark-up language representations of data in a complex relational database structure. The method includes receiving an XSD document. The XSD document defines at least one type that should be mapped to a complex relational database type.... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090182707 - Database changeset management system and method: A method of database changeset management for automated information enhancement and control over changesets using a computational device. The steps include: analyzing and processing a query; journaling the query into a changeset-journaling module; recording a blocking journal entry based on a blocking characteristic of the query into a journal blocker... Agent: Advantia Law Group

20090182708 - Dealing with composite data through data model entities: The present invention is generally directed to a system, method and article of manufacture for accessing data represented abstractly through an abstraction model. In one embodiment, a data repository abstraction layer provides a logical view of an underlying data repository that is independent of the particular manner of data representation.... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20090182709 - Dynamic preconditioning of a b+ tree: Various approaches for processing a B+ tree data structure are described. In one approach, in a first transaction a first insert operation to a first data page of a first index page in the B+ tree data structure is detected, and then it is determined whether performing the first insert... Agent: Unisys Corporation Charles A. Johnson

20090182706 - Generating example data for testing database queries: Computer-implemented methods, modules and clients relate to expanded, pruned sample table for testing database queries against a base table. The expanded, pruned sample table is formed from the base table by a process of initial sampling, synthesis, and pruning.... Agent: Stattler - Suh PC

20090182705 - Methods and apparatus for converting union commands to union all commands: In one aspect, a method is provided. The method includes: (1) identifying in a query of a database a union command involving data in the database that is mutually exclusive; and (2) changing the union command to a union all command.... Agent: Ibm Corporation Matthew C. Zehrer

20090182713 - Automated surfacing of tagged content in vertical applications: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to social bookmarking and provide a method, system and computer program product for automated surfacing of tagged content in a vertical application. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for automatically surfacing tagged content in a vertical... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090182710 - Calculating and storing data structures: Embodiments are provided to calculate and provide information based in part on a defined expression. In an embodiment, a database system can be configured to include a number of calculated columns as part of a database table structure. The database system can be configured to present a calculated result based... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090182717 - Interactive forms processing system and method: A system and method for assisting self-represented litigants, their agents, or attorneys in completing legal forms for a variety of issues, namely, an interactive forms processing system and method comprising a rules-based, on-line question and answer session that determines the form or forms needed for a particular application, completes those... Agent: Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20090182718 - Remote segmentation system and method applied to a segmentation data mart: Remote segmentation applied to a segmentation data mart allows a marketer to create a personalized email campaign for a selected segment of customers. Segmentation data is collected from a plurality of third party sources, imported and cleansed. The marketer may query a data mart with a user-defined rule created with... Agent: North Oaks Patent Agency

20090182714 - Sorting apparatus and method: A sorting apparatus and method for sorting units into a unit storage structure in accordance with a pre-determined order, the sorting apparatus comprising a unit search structure containing a record of units in the unit storage structure, and a unit location pointer structure containing location pointers for units in the... Agent: Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

20090182719 - Storage medium storing metadata for providing enhanced search function: A storage medium is provided for storing metadata for providing an enhanced search function using various search keywords of audio-visual (AV) data. The storage medium stores: AV data; and metadata for conducting an enhanced search of the AV data by scene using information regarding at least one search keyword. The... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090182711 - String searches in a computer database: An apparatus and method for a query optimizer improves string searches in a computer database that sequentially search for a string in a database record. The query optimizer optimizes the query to search records of a database from a specified start position other than the beginning of the record. The... Agent: Martin & Associates, LLC

20090182716 - Systems and methods for integrating educational software systems: Systems and methods are provided for integrating educational software. In one implementation, a first method includes providing on a first server an integrated learning management system adapted to exchange education data and materials via a connector interface, providing on the first server a first component which responds to requests made... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090182712 - Systems and methods for rapid delivery of media content: In one embodiment of the present invention, a system is provided that includes at least one computer for receiving from a user a search query that includes at least one search term. A first portion of a set of data that includes the first portion and a second portion of... Agent: Covington & Burling, LLP Attn: Patent Docketing

20090182715 - Systems and methods for retrieving data: A system and method for obtaining information responsive to a legal discovery request directed at an enterprise having a plurality of databases that potentially include information responsive to the legal discovery request, including structured databases and at least one unstructured database. A plurality of taxonomies are provided, each of which... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

20090182720 - Maintained symbol table only index: A method, apparatus and program product is provided for optimizing a database query. A query syntax, system generated predicates, and requisite statistics of the database query are analyzed to determine if a predicate structure is a good candidate for a symbol table only data structure. The predicate structure is analyzed... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20090182722 - Method and system for navigation of a data structure: A method and system are provided for navigation of a data structure. The method includes receiving an input path expression (104) for a query of a data structure (101) to locate one or more elements (110) in the data structure (101) at runtime. The input path expression (104) includes one... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090182721 - Method of generating search information and image apparatus using the same: A method of generating search information enables efficient navigation of content and an image apparatus therefore. The method of generating search information includes extracting and storing a portion of a plurality of searched screens, and generating search information using the stored screens. Accordingly, search information regarding digital content can be... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090182737 - Apparatus and method for search and retrieval of documents: A system for the support and management of search for documents is presented. The system includes knowledge-database, query interface and communication to a database of documents to be searched. Information generated during a search session is collected by the system and is added to the knowledge-database. The information is ranked... Agent: Haim Melman

20090182733 - Apparatus, system, and method for information search: An apparatus, system, and method of searching are disclosed. When a search result is obtained, the search result is displayed in a format indicating the correspondence relationship of at least two items of information included in the search result.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090182726 - Bloom filter for storing file access history: A method of producing a search query result that incorporates information about previously accessed search results includes retrieving a list of results responsive to a search request from a user at a first client. A Bloom filter is applied to the results in the list of results to identify one... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP. (pa)

20090182724 - Database query optimization using index carryover to subset an index: A method, apparatus and program product use a first index associated with a field in a database table to identify a range of records in the database table that includes instances of a first key value in the field and use the identified range of records to subset a second... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20090182725 - Determining entity popularity using search queries: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for determining the Internet search popularity of an entity are provided. Embodiments of the present invention include receiving a group of Internet search records and assigning a popularity ranking based on the number of times an entity descriptor associated with an entity occurs within the... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090182734 - Determining relevance of a document to a query based on spans of query terms: A relevance system determines the relevance of a query term to a document based on spans within the document that contain the query term. The relevance system aggregates the relevance of the query terms into an overall relevance for the document. For each query term, the relevance system calculates a... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP/msft

20090182729 - Local query identification and normalization for web search: Computer-implemented methods and systems for processing user entered query data to improve results of a search of pages using a local search database are provided, when searching the internet. The method includes receiving the user entered query data and parsing each word of the query data and examining each word... Agent: Mpg, LLP And Yahoo! Inc.

20090182728 - Managing an archive for approximate string matching: In one aspect, in general, a method is described for managing an archive for determining approximate matches associated with strings occurring in records. The method includes: processing records to determine a set of string representations that correspond to strings occurring in the records; generating, for each of at least some... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090182738 - Method and system for extending keyword searching to syntactically and semantically annotated data: Methods and systems for extending keyword searching techniques to syntactically and semantically annotated data are provided. Example embodiments provide a Syntactic Query Engine (“SQE”) that parses, indexes, and stores a data set as an enhanced document index with document terms as well as information pertaining to the grammatical roles of... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20090182730 - Method for semantic based storage and retrieval of information: A method of storing semantically similar documents on proximally located peers in a structured peer to peer overlay network, where each peer is assigned a unique identifier and each document includes one or more words belonging to at least one hierarchical structured collection of words. A method of searching and... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090182735 - Methods and apparatus for specifying and processing descriptive queries for data sources: Improved descriptive query techniques are provided. More particularly, techniques are provided for specifying and processing descriptive queries for data providers grouped into provider kinds with hierarchical containment relationships. The query may include arbitrary boolean combinations of arbitrary tests on the values of attributes of the data providers.... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090182736 - Mood based music recommendation method and system: A method of recommending songs to a listener. The method obtains a set of feature values for each of a plurality of songs. Whenever a playback event is generated for a song, a first reward and a Mood State Value (“MSV”) based on a set of parameters are determined. Each... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP/seattle

20090182732 - Query based operation realization interface: Method and apparatus for an operation realization interface. In some embodiments, the method and apparatus provides a user query interface for a user to enter a query to describe her goal of a product. Then, the method and apparatus processes the query to determine appropriate operations of the product that,... Agent: Jianwei Dian

20090182723 - Ranking search results using author extraction: Architecture that extracts author information from general documents and uses the author information for search results ranking. The architecture performs automatic author value extraction and makes the extracted value available at index time for subsequent use at query processing and results ranking. Machine learning (e.g., a perceptron algorithm) is employed... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090182731 - Search method and system using thinking system: The present invention relates to a system and method for information process using artificially constructed apparatus. More specially, the present invention provides a system and method that can search for information in a document structure and provide precise results by analyzing the inputs and search results using the executing system... Agent: Qin Zhang

20090182727 - System and method for generating tag cloud in user collaboration websites: A system and method for searching a collaborative website and displaying one or more words in a tag cloud. The system includes a search engine structured to search a collaborative website and a tag cloud generator configured to produce a tag cloud, which includes one or more words associated with... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090182742 - Just-in-time publishing system and program product for a publish/subscribe messaging system using a subscribe-event model: A system, and program product having at least one subscriber subscribing to topics from one or more data sources. The data sources available and the number of subscriptions for each data source are registered in a table in real time. Upon detecting either subscription activity by the subscribers or availability... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Richard Lau

20090182740 - Methods for address book restoration from call logs: A method for populating an address book in a mobile phone of a subscriber, the method including: populating a list with phone numbers from a call activity log for the subscriber that extends back for a period of time; identifying a group of phone numbers from the list of phone... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Europe

20090182743 - Registration and maintenance of address data for each service point in a territory: A computer system and method is disclosed for mining current and archived address data in order to identify a preferred address for each service point in a territory. The data mining system may start in response to the presentation of a candidate address for matching. The set of mined data... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20090182744 - String pattern analysis: A method of analyzing a string-pattern includes defining a minimum length (Lmin—1) of substrings (STR_A_B) to be considered; defining a maximum length (Lmax—1) of substrings (STR_A_B) to be considered; with a computer, searching the string-pattern for substrings (STR_A_B) with a length in an interval between the minimum length (Lmin—1) and... Agent: Ibm Corporation C/o: Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090182741 - Systems and arrangements of text type-ahead: Methods and arrangements of text entry are discussed. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic to select segments of text from text files based upon the number of words in phrases of the text files, upon the number of letters in words of the text files, or upon... Agent: Ibm Corporation (jss) C/o Schubert Osterrieder & Nickelson PLLC

20090182739 - Using metadata to route documents: Document metadata is evaluated against rules to determine what action to perform on the document. The actions include routing the document to a specific location, returning a location of where the document is stored, executing custom code that is associated with the document and routing the document to another routing... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090182745 - Methods and apparatus for creating, managing, and displaying content channel and weblog dialogues: Systems and methods for creating, managing, and displaying online content channel dialogue—particularly weblog debates—are provided. Online content channels do not presently show ways for users to pull content together and publish comments out to the content for the purpose of developing a robust debate or dialogue. The present invention enables... Agent: Mark M. Huck

20090182746 - Read mostly database tables: Described is a technology by which a database management system more efficiently processes read requests than write requests for a read-mostly database table, which is a database table that is generally read far more often than written. A lock partitioning mechanism may be implemented to provide a read lock for... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090182747 - Method and system for using fine-grained access control (fgac) to control access to data in a database: A method and system for controlling access to data stored in a table of a database are provided. The method includes marking the table of the database as being protected with fine-grained access control (FGAC), creating a system authorization class for the table of the database, the system authorization class... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20090182749 - Interactive remote wireless system and method to assist in real estate transactions, and the like: A system and apparatus to provide remote interactive access to multiple databases and, specifically, related to a system and apparatus to provide remote interactive access to real estate information related databases using a portable, voice interactive computing device with GPS capabilities and “smart” computer features. The system combines access to... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20090182748 - Interactive remote wireless system and method to assist in real estate transactions, and the like: A system and apparatus to provide remote interactive access to multiple databases and, specifically, related to a system and apparatus to provide remote interactive access to real estate information related databases using a portable, voice interactive computing device with GPS capabilities and “smart” computer features. The system combines access to... Agent: Dickinson Wright PLLC

20090182751 - Method of accessing digital images of mailpieces franked by a standard franking machine: s

20090182750 - System and method for flash folder access to service metadata in a metadata repository: Embodiments are systems and methods for automatic submission of service metadata files into a metadata repository by utilizing a protocol for web-based distributed authoring and versioning to expose a folder as a virtual view of a categorization in a hierarchy of categorizations in a metadata repository. After a service metadata... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090182752 - Automatically persisting data from a model to a database: Projects often involve multiple teams of developers in different locations. The different teams make updates to a central or shared database(s) that can store information about the project, such as progress. Each team or even different members of the different teams can check out instances of a representation of a... Agent: Ibm Austin Iplaw (dg)

20090182753 - Recording user-driven events withi a computing system: Technologies are described herein for recording user-driven events within a computing system. An interface is established between a recorder application and an input method editor (“IME”) executing on the computer system. Through the use of the interface, the recorder application can obtain and record data identifying user-driven events that are... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090182754 - System and method for parsing a text file: A method for parsing a text file defines a tree pattern and a plurality of character string patterns. A tree structure corresponding to the text file is determined according to the tree pattern, and the desired data are retrieved from the text file according to the character string patterns. The... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090182755 - Method and system for discovery and modification of data cluster and synonyms: Discovery and modification of data clusters such as synonyms. In one aspect, a method for clustering data includes receiving information on a system, the information manipulating one or more data attributes stored or to be stored in a database accessible by the system, where the information and manipulation does not... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ibm Svl

20090182766 - Avoiding database related joins with specialized index structures: Provided is a solution for storing data, the data comprising a set of tables, each table comprising a set of columns, each column comprising a set of values, each value being one or more data types. In the solution, a binary tree can be created for each of the data... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.-ibm Svl

20090182760 - Data description language for record based systems: Determining compatibility of data structures. A method may be practiced in a computing environment. The method includes accessing a first type defined in a mark-up object. The first type includes a first structure including a first plurality of fields. A second type defined in a mark-up object is accessed. The... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20090182764 - Database comprising topographical information on obstacles and method for generating one such database: The invention relates to a database and a method of generating a database containing topographical information on obstacles distributed over a geographic area subdivided into cells. The method includes reading topographical data obtained from heterogeneous sources. Topographical data are generated which relate to pointlike obstacles from the information collected from... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20090182756 - Database system testing: A computer-implemented method of testing a database can include the steps of constructing one or more data generation rules, receiving one or more user-defined objects associated with the database, and generating a set of data entries using the generation rules, wherein at least a portion of the generated data is... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ibm Svl

20090182759 - Extracting entities from a web page: A method for extracting entities from a web page includes first applying a high precision low recall (HPLR) technique on a first web page, producing one or more entities extracted from the first web page. Then a sequential model is trained using the one or more entities extracted from the... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20090182765 - Folder storage device: A folder storage device includes a folder storage unit which stores folders with hierarchy structures, a first folder hierarchy information generation unit arranged to generate first folder hierarchy information which indicates a related path and a hierarchical location of each folder based on the folders stored in the folder storage... Agent: Murata Machinery, Ltd. (muratec) C/o Keating & Bennett LLP

20090182761 - Identification method: An identification method and system. The method includes receiving by a computing system from a first entity, first data indicating that an electronic device is missing. The computing system receives from a transaction device reader, second data comprising first identification information associated with the electronic device and third data comprising... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090182762 - Matching up xml query expression for xml table index lookup during query rewrite: Techniques are provided for determining whether an XML table index may be used when executing an XML query. An XML table index is defined with a row pattern expression and one or more column pattern expressions. In one technique, an index expression is generated for each row pattern expression-column pattern... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090182757 - Method for automatically computing proficiency of programming skills: Techniques for automatically computing a programmer proficiency rating for one or more programmers are provided. The techniques include obtaining one or more programmer artifacts for each programmer to be assessed, obtaining one or more programmer artifacts and one or more human proficiency ratings for a separate set of one or... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090182763 - Multi-client collaboration to access and update structured data elements: Tools and techniques for providing multi-client collaboration to access and update structured data elements are disclosed. Client systems may present user interfaces that provide libraries of published data elements that are available for collaboration. The clients may request selected data elements, while referencing unique identifiers associated with the selected data... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090182768 - Multi-mvno wireless service: Systems and methods for determining an optimal range of frequencies of electromagnetic waves are described. In some embodiments, mobile voice communications devices measure average power received from certain ranges of such frequencies, each range associated with a communications service provider. A cost may be associated with each range. An optimal... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090182767 - Storing and retrieving objects on a computer network in a distributed database: A distributed, object-oriented database engine utilizing independent, intelligent processing nodes as a cooperative, massively parallel system with redundancy and fault tolerance. Instead of using traditional methods of parallelism as found in most distributed databases, the invention utilizes a messaging system and a series of message processing nodes to determine where... Agent: Kaplan Ward & Patel LLC

20090182758 - System and computer program product for automatically computing proficiency of programming skills: Techniques for automatically computing a programmer proficiency rating for one or more programmers are provided. The techniques include obtaining one or more programmer artifacts for each programmer to be assessed, obtaining one or more programmer artifacts and one or more human proficiency ratings for a separate set of one or... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090182769 - Method and apparatus for processing a pasting link based on a data object oriented repository system: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for processing a pasting link based on a data object oriented repository system (DOORS). The DOORS stores objects and link addresses of the objects, the link addresses of the objects records row numbers or column numbers of a spreadsheet, a group... Agent: Stout, Uxa, Buyan & Mullins LLP

20090182770 - Personalization of contextually relevant computer content: An organization defined as a collection of contexts having associated roles and objects is disclosed. In one implementation, a common computing system can maintain the contexts and associated roles and objects and provide data to personal systems. In another implementation, personal systems can maintain a subset of the data to... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090182777 - Automatically managing a storage infrastructure and appropriate storage infrastructure: With the present invention means are provided for automatically managing a storage infrastructure with a plurality of storage components in compliance with consumer service level objectives (SLOs). Therefore, the claimed method comprises: automated identification of available storage components, which are appropriate for storing consumer data under consideration of specified service... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20090182776 - Imaging apparatus, image management method, and program: Disclosed herein is an imaging apparatus including: removable recording section configured to store a database in which pieces of registered information are stored, and image files; and control section configured to determine at a predetermined timing whether there is an incompatibility between the pieces of registered information and the image... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090182775 - Imaging apparatus, picture managing method, and program: The present invention provides an imaging apparatus includes: a first storage section configured to store picture files; a second storage section configured to store a database for storing registration information and picture files, the second storage section being removably attached to the imaging apparatus; and a control section configured to... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090182771 - Method and apparatus for information boosting in related but disconnected databases: Method and apparatus for information boosting in related but disconnected databases, in one aspect, may comprise identifying disconnected data sources comprising data that are related or dependent on one another, determining one or more relationships and dependencies among the disconnected data, and refining the data sources based on one or... Agent: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.

20090182774 - Method and system for protocol operations and datasets to manage object identification numbers: An extension of media transfer protocol (MTP) is provided which may enable a first device to manage operations involving one or more object identifiers (ObjectIDs) stored within a second device that may correspond to objects stored within the second device. ObjectIDs may be specified in an array within an ObjectID... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090182773 - Method for providing multimedia content list, and multimedia apparatus applying the same: A method of providing a multimedia content list, and a multimedia apparatus applying the method, the method including: generating the multimedia content list according to viewable multimedia content; receiving a keyword input by the user and related to the multimedia content; and displaying, on the multimedia content list, a first... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090182772 - Methods and systems for implementing staged configurator modeling: This disclosure describes, generally, methods and systems for implementing staged configurator modeling. The method may include initiating a staged product configurator model environment and presenting a user interface (UI) configured to allow for definition of stages. The method may further include receiving input via the UI indicating the definition of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20090182779 - Complex dependencies for efficient data warehouse updates: The invention relates to a method of updating a data storage system. The method updates a raw database using an input data stream based on an input temporal value associated with the input data stream and a raw temporal value associated with the raw database. The method includes updating a... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hb Patent Docketing

20090182778 - Managing computer file system using file system trees: A system, method and computer program product for managing computer file system using file system trees. A plurality of Virtual Execution Environments (VEEs) running on a computer system is provided. The computer system has a common file system tree, which can be concurrently accessed by the VEEs. The shareable files... Agent: Bardmesser Law Group, P.C.

20090182780 - Method and apparatus for data integration and management: A system for maintaining master reference data for entities is disclosed. The system includes multiple reference data sets at multiple different data storages. A reference data set for a particular entity uniquely identifies the particular entity. The system also includes a first master reference data set at a first data... Agent: Adeli & Tollen, LLP

20090182781 - Data object logging: The invention provides a method, system, and program product for logging the contents of a data object.... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20090182783 - Lazier timestamping in a transaction time database: Systems and methods for facilitating more efficient timestamping in a lazy timestamping transaction time database environment are described herein. A recovery log component can store timestamp information of a transaction in a commit record of the transaction, wherein the commit record of the transaction is included in a recovery log.... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090182784 - Recovery point identification in cdp environments: The embodiments of the invention provide a method of identifying a recovery point in a continuous data protection (CDP) log. More specifically, the method begins by detecting corrupted data in the CDP log and identifying the nature of corruption. Next, the nature of corruption is mapped to applications to identify... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb Intellectual Property Law Firm, LLC

20090182782 - System and method for restartable provisioning of software components: A system and method for associating a state with a distributed system and transitioning component states with recovery to reverse transitioning attempts includes defining a global state representing an overall provisioning state of a plurality of components involved in a system wherein a set of global states are employed as... Agent: Keusey, Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C. Suite 210

20090182786 - Application coherency manager: An application coherency manager (ACM) implements and manages the interdependencies of simulation, data, and platform information to simplify the task of organizing and executing large simulations composed of numerous models and data files. One or more file systems or repositories stories raw data in the form of files, data, or... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20090182785 - Multi-way checkpoints in a data storage system: Embodiments of the present invention allow multiple checkpoints to be taken so that multiple versions of the filesystem, including a working version and at least two checkpoint versions, can be maintained over time. Specifically, at least three “superblock” root structures are used to manage multiple instantiations of the filesystem. The... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20090182788 - Apparatus and method for customized email and data management: An apparatus and method for customized email and data management is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a collaborative page is created to contain an email module configured to access one or more email accounts. Emails from the one or more email accounts are selected using an email selection criterion. The... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20090182787 - Recovery administration of global transaction participants: A transaction system that allows for analysis and administration at the global transaction participant level is disclosed.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker/oracle

20090182789 - Scalable de-duplication mechanism: A method for removing redundant data from a backup storage system is presented. In one example, the method may include receiving the application layer data object, selecting a de-duplication domain from a plurality of de-duplication domains based at least in part on a data object characteristic associated with the de-duplication... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20090182791 - Non-volatile memories and method with adaptive file handling in a directly mapped file storage system: In a memory system with a file storage system, an optimal file handling scheme is adaptively selected from a group thereof based on the attributes of the file being handled. The file attributes may be obtained from a host or derived from a history of the file had with the... Agent: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP - Sandisk Corporation

20090182790 - Storage of data: In one example, multimedia content is requested from a plurality of storage modules. Each storage module retrieves the requested parts, which are typically stored on a plurality of storage devices at each storage module. Each storage module determines independently when to retrieve the requested parts of the data file from... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20090182794 - Error management apparatus: A recording medium records an error management program for managing an error generated in an apparatus causes a computer to determine whether the error generated in the apparatus is a known error for which an action to cope with has been established. When the error generated in the apparatus is... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090182792 - Method and apparatus to perform incremental truncates in a file system: The present invention provides a computer implemented method for truncating a file in a file system. The file system receives a request to truncate a file to a target size, the file having a first inode. The file system creates a second inode to a transient directory, wherein the second... Agent: Ibm Corp. (aus/rcr) C/o Rolnik & Associates, P.C.

20090182793 - System and method for data management through decomposition and decay: Systems and methods for decomposing and decaying data over time by decomposing a type of data item into constituent units of the data item, establishing relationship factors between data items to other data items and between constituent units, creating a shelf-life criterion for the constituent units priority dimensions, calculating or... Agent: Robert H Frantz

20090177620 - Common software activity status representation: Described herein are technologies directed towards providing a common mechanism for tracking the activity status of one or more software actions of a computer system. Furthermore, the described technologies facilitate managing the presentation of the tracked activity status of individual actions and/or of a collection of such actions.... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090177619 - Information providing apparatus and input information receiving method: An information providing apparatus receives a user ID read by an IC card reader, and stores therein the user ID. The user inputs booking information by using an input screen that receives booking information, and then, the information providing apparatus further receives the user ID read by the IC card... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20090177618 - Record tagging, storage and filtering system and method: A record tagging, storage and filtering system and method that permits paper records to be tagged, stored and filtered according to user criteria. The system includes a scanning module, a central server, one or more user workstations and an optical character recognition server. After scanning, the records may then be... Agent: BurtonIPLaw Group

20090177617 - Systems, methods and apparatus for providing unread message alerts: The present invention includes systems, apparatus and methods for providing message alerts to a user prior to that user communicating with a second party. The user may desire to communicate with a second party by sending a text-based message or by speaking to them through a communications device, such as... Agent: Apple Inc./bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090177621 - Database query optimization: A method, system, and computer program product for optimizing database queries in a data processing system. A query optimization (QO) utility maximizes the query coverage of Materialized Query Tables (MQTs) in order to efficiently process various types of incoming queries to a database engine. In particular, the QO utility enables... Agent: Dillon & Yudell, LLP

20090177622 - Method and system for speeding up rebuild of user-defined indexes during partition maintenance operations in the database systems: A method, system, and computer program product provides improved performance for rebuild of user-defined indexes during partition maintenance operations (partition split, merge, and move). A method of maintaining a index of a partitioned database table comprises performing a partition maintenance operation on the partitioned database table wherein a plurality of... Agent: Bingham Mccutchen LLP

20090177623 - Query optimizer with join cardinality estimation which mitigates the effects of skew: One embodiment relates to a computer-implemented method to estimate a cardinality of a database query. Single table cardinalities are determined after application of selection predicates. In addition, pair-wise join selectivities are estimated without assuming independence between selection and join predicates. Said pair-wise join selectivities are multiplied with said single table... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20090177626 - Apparatus and method for investigative analysis of law enforcement cases: A method for determining links between target A and target B. The method comprises: identifying attributes of target A, identifying attributes of target B, determining direct links or common attributes among the identified attributes of target A and the identified attributes of target B, identifying open links from the step... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P. A.

20090177631 - Data providing device, method for providing data, and recording medium: A data providing device connected via a network to a data processing device and a data storage server storing data which is continuously updated. The data providing device includes a receiving unit configured to receive one or more search conditions for searching data to be provided to the data processing... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090177636 - Intelligent access within a document package: The invention features a method and apparatus for receiving a data package, the data package being digital data embedding a plurality of documents and a manifest that includes one or more pairs of identifiers. Each pair comprises an alias-source identifier and an alias-destination identifier, and each alias-destination identifier points to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090177632 - Method and device for transporting objects: A method and device for transporting a plurality of objects, such as mail items. In a plurality of transport operations, at least one object is transported to a processing system in each case. For each object, two measurements are taken to determine which value is assumed by a predetermined feature... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20090177634 - Method and system for an application domain: Data processing comprising requesting a semantic description from each manageable resource of a plurality of manageable resources. An application domain comprises the plurality of manageable resources. The semantic description of a manageable resource comprises semantic information about a plurality of aspects of a manageable resource. The semantic information is specified... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation Richard Lau

20090177627 - Method for providing keywords, and video apparatus applying the same: A method for providing keywords and a video apparatus applying the method are provided. The method for providing keywords includes separating metadata from content, extracting keywords in the content from the metadata, and generating a keyword list using the keywords and images related to the keywords. It is thus possible... Agent: Stein Mcewen, LLP

20090177625 - Model-driven database query: A system receives a model for a database to be queried and determines a first component-type and a first data-type for a first search criterion based on the model. The system generates at least one search criterion component that corresponds to the first search criterion and renders a query component... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC Oracle International Corporation

20090177637 - Ndma db schema, dicom to relational schema translation, and xml to sql query translation: A translation scheme translates DICOM content into a format compatible for storage in an NDMA relational database. The translation scheme employs a schema for indexing the DICOM content, and employs a mechanism for translating queries embedded in XML into SQL. The translation scheme translates DICOM compatible data into a tab... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20090177633 - Query expansion of properties for video retrieval: A computer implemented method for retrieving video clips from a database is disclosed. The method may include retrieving in an initial query from a video collection based on a search term; receiving a user selection of at least one video clip from a first set of video clips corresponding to... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler P.C.

20090177630 - Stampez online internet stamp identified: Online Internet application where the user can input any details known about any postage stamp, scan the image of a stamp or stamps that require identification into the online application and identification will be provided by comparing the details to database containing details of all postage stamps or comparing the... Agent: Anthony William Corrigan

20090177624 - System and method for peer-to-peer contact information look-up: The present invention provides a system and method for providing a peer-to-peer contact information look-up system. A user who seeks contact information may enter an identification query, such as a name or other identifier. A first level search may be performed by determining whether any contacts contained in the user's... Agent: Warren A. Sklar (soer) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20090177635 - System and method to automatically enhance confidence in intellectual property ownership: A system and method for documenting intellectual property ownership of digital content is described. The approach includes initializing an annotation, within or associated with the digital content, within a system with a reliable reference of authorship, ownership, and licensure to a first portion of the digital content and unverified claims... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20090177628 - System, apparatus, and method for providing illegal use research service for image data, and system, apparatus, and method for providing proper use research service for image data: In a system for providing an illegal use research service for image data, the image data received from a terminal apparatus is registered as a research subject, a research condition for research whether or not the image data being registered is illegally used by a Web site on the network... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090177629 - Users profiling method:

20090177640 - Creating concise and re-useable queries over complex data: A system, computer readable storage medium and method for creating re-usable queries over complex data including hierarchies, trees and graphs is described. This is achieved by an object-oriented query language, where a class is a logical property of a data item, and inheritance is implication between such properties. Virtual method... Agent: Fleit Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco P.l.

20090177639 - Method and system for identification of contents and ingredients: In embodiments of the present invention, improved capabilities are described for providing content information for a plurality of products, and specifically consumer products. A method and system is provided for updating a data repository based on information corresponding to each of the one or more products, receiving a user defined... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20090177638 - Report generation in an intellectual property database: A method, system, and article are provided for extending the functionality of a report generated in response to submission of a query to a database supporting management of patent related documents. Due dates for documents submission are tracked by the management tool. A graphical user interface is provided as an... Agent: Computer Patent Annuities North America, LLC C/o Cpa Global

20090177645 - Adapting a context-independent relevance function for identifying relevant search results: Techniques for predicting user interests based on information known about a specific context is provided. A context-independent relevance function is generated from information gathered from many users and/or from many documents (or files). Information about a specific context (e.g., a particular user, a particular group of users, or type of... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090177649 - Answer search system and method: An answer searching system and method is disclosed herein. The answer searching system includes a user, a database, a few of experts and a service platform. The user sends at least one question by a communication device. The database stores a number of experts' data. The experts are corresponding to... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20090177655 - Category searching: Performing a category search to identify categories of web sites that relate to a search term includes receiving at least one search term that then is compared with a hierarchy of category identifiers, and with terms related to one or more categories, to determine whether matches exist. A category identifier... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090177643 - Geocoding multi-feature addresses: A system and method of parsing natural language descriptions of features to determine an approximate location. An embodiment includes splitting the natural language descriptions into components, geocoding each component, and returning the geocode with the highest confidence level. The geocode references a specific location, and this information may be determined... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.l.l.c.

20090177653 - Image processing apparatus and image processing method: In an image processing apparatus according to the present invention, a scanning unit reads out image information regarding original document; an analyzing unit extracts layout information regarding character regions and character addition information added to characters within the character regions from the image information; an OCR processing unit converts the... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090177651 - Information processing device and method, program, and recording medium: An information processing device includes: a user information obtaining unit configured to obtain information relating to data of content that a user has used; a meta information obtaining unit configured to obtain content meta information corresponding to content that the user has used; a first vector generating unit configured to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090177647 - Method and apparatus for conducting data queries using consolidation strings and inter-node consolidation: Query inefficiencies are improved and entity-interrelational blindness is overcome by employing two ideas: Consolidation Strings and Inter-Node Consolidation. These ideas can be typically employed in law-enforcement records systems (such as COPLINK systems), but is certainly not limited to such an application. Consolidation Strings represent key pieces of information that are... Agent: Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC

20090177642 - Method and system for automated detection of application performance bottlenecks: A system for detecting performance bottlenecks in a target application. In response to receiving hotspot selections from a user interface, bottleneck rules are extracted from a database. A hotspot is a region of source code that exceeds a time threshold to execute in the target application. Metrics needed to evaluate... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090177650 - Method, communication system and collection controller allowing third party influence on the provision of a service to a user station: A content provider provides a content provider and service identification to a collection controller. The collection controller retrieves content provider and service specific service provision characteristics from a user subscription database and sets these service provision characteristics as a filter in a service provision control device to be used in... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090177652 - Mobile search service: At least some embodiments of this invention provide for a way to mix mobile content found as a result of searching and/or browsing on the Internet. Aspects of the invention provides software, systems (meaning software and hardware to run the software) or an exchange of signals with users to provide... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20090177641 - Patient monitoring network and method of using the patient monitoring network: In one embodiment, a method of using a patient monitoring network is provided. The method comprises steps of storing an association data at a primary server unit, the association data mapping a caregiver with at least one patient associated with the caregiver, storing an object data of at least one... Agent: Peter Vogel Ge Healthcare

20090177646 - Plug-in for health monitoring system: A monitoring and management system may use a plugin mechanism to add or update an interface to a managed service or device. The plugin may have capability to interface with the managed service or device, as well as an interface to a status database that may be populated by the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090177654 - System and method for leveraging media via user rating data: A method and system for leveraging user media file rating data. In one aspect, the system comprises a component in communication with a plurality of media file related services, a rating storage, and a component for making the user rating data available to be used by plural services so that... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090177648 - Systems and methods for organizing and managing trusted health care reference information: Computer systems, computer readable media, and methods for receiving a search query are provided. Responsive to the search query, data is searched. The data is organized into a plurality of therapeutic categories, each respective category comprising a plurality of documents that relate to the respective category, each document organized into... Agent: Jones Day

20090177644 - Systems and methods of mapping attention: The disclosure describes systems and methods of ranking user interest in physical entities based on the attention given to those entities as determined by an analysis of communications from devices over multiple communication channels. The attention ranking systems allow any “Who, What, When, Where” entity to be defined and ranked... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20090177656 - Techniques for evaluating patent impacts: Techniques for evaluating patent impacts are provided. A claim of a patent is normalized and an abstract of the claim is generated. The abstract is used to search a repository of target sources and their corresponding abstracts. Related abstracts found during the search are returned for purposes of evaluating the... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20090177657 - In-place sorting using node specific mask width: A method and system for in-place sorting S sequences of binary bits stored contiguously in an array within a memory device of a computer system prior to the sorting. Each sequence includes contiguous fields of bits. Program code is executed at each node of a linked execution structure in a... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090177658 - Fine-grained and concurrent access to a virtualized disk in a distributed system: A method for updating a block on disk is provided. The method involves one or more clients committing log records to queues corresponding to blocks. The method further involves checkpointing, which includes obtaining a flushing lock on the queue by a client, receiving log records from the queue, applying the... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090177660 - Document managing system, information processing device, document managing method, and program: An optical document managing server determines whether or not an access authority for accessing a document under its management is within a valid period preset on a per entry unit when receiving an access request for accessing the document from a client terminal, and permits access to the document when... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20090177661 - Emulated storage system: Systems and methods for efficient storage of data are provided. For instance, a method that includes acts of receiving a data stream to be stored on a first storage system, the data stream comprising a data object and metadata that describes attributes of the data object, extracting the metadata from... Agent: Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20090177659 - System and method for cyber-expo operating multi-exhibition and managing cumulative data: The present invention relates to a system and a method for cyber-expo operating multi-exhibition and managing cumulate data. The system for cyber-expo operating multi-exhibition and managing cumulate data comprises an exhibition material database which stores materials necessary for exhibition; a virtual space; at least one web server; a managing server;... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090177662 - Abstraction for representing an object irrespective of characteristics of the object: Methods and systems for providing easy access to information and sharing are provided. Embodiments of the present invention enable a host to grant access to published content to one or more users in a manner in which the user(s) can scan small portions of information to decide which information is... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

20090177663 - Software, devices and methods facilitating execution of server-side applications at mobile devices: Software, devices and methods allowing varied mobile devices to interact with server side software applications are disclosed. Data from an application executing at a computing device is presented at a remote wireless device by providing the device an application definition file, containing definitions for a user interface format for the... Agent: Smart & Biggar

20090177670 - Classification of digital content by using aggregate scoring: Aggregate scoring is used to help classify digital content such as content uploaded to multi-user websites (e.g., social networking websites). In one embodiment, specific categories are used that relate to a social implication of content. For example, text, images, audio or other data formats can provide communication perceived to fall... Agent: Trellis Intellectual Property Law Group, PC

20090177674 - Content display apparatus: A content display apparatus which is connected to a server having a recording medium to record a content such as a music content and an image content and content information including a file name of the content via a network is provided. The content display apparatus comprises a content similarity... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090177665 - Method and system for analyzing capabilities of an entity: A method and system for analyzing capabilities of an entity includes inputting data regarding an entity's capabilities, and using a capability model to detect a capability pattern among the capabilities and generate an action plan based on the capability pattern.... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090177673 - Method for predelivery verification of an intended recipient of an electronic message and dynamic generation of message content upon verification: A device sending electronic messages first verifies the intended recipient of the message by sending a message beacon (101) comprising data uniquely identifying the electronic message and the electronic address of the intended recipient of the message to a receiving device. The receiving device verifies that the intended recipient is... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20090177666 - Methods and apparatus for assigning performance to data volumes on data storage systems: A computerized data storage system and a method for portioning performance among data areas on a hard disk drive. The system includes a management computer coupled to one or more host computers and a storage apparatus. The storage apparatus includes hard disk drives and a storage controller for partitioning the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090177669 - Processing structured electronic document streams using look-ahead automata: In an embodiment, an XPath automaton with state look-ahead capability can efficiently determine whether XML documents, received in a stream in serialized form in a network element, match any of a set of XPath expressions. A token processor receives a structured electronic document in serialized format and identifies entities. A... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker, LLP

20090177672 - Quasi-inverses of schema mappings: A method and system for processing a schema mapping M from a source schema S to a target schema T by executing program code on a processor of a computer system. A schema mapping M′ from T to S is determined via processing the schema mapping M. The schema mapping... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090177667 - Smart data caching using data mining: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for populating a data cache on a server. Data requests received by the server are collected in a repository. A data mining algorithm is applied to the collected data requests to predict a set of data that is likely... Agent: Mollborn Patents, Inc.

20090177671 - System and method for automating etl application: Novel tools for development and operation of ETL (Extract Transform Load) systems for populating databases. An embodiment uses metadata tables to describe relationships between jobs to run for processing data. These relationships can include parent-child job relation, and priority. These tools create a DataStage Service Architecture (DSA) that helps automate... Agent: Charles L. Miller Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.

20090177675 - Systems and methods of identity and access management: The present disclosure generally provides systems and methods of providing identification and access management. The system could include a network security zone having access rules for a network resource object associated with the network. The system could also include a module to collect information related to an attempt to access... Agent: Cash Klemchuk Powers Taylor LLP

20090177668 - Term-driven records file plan and thesaurus design: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for generating a file plan and a thesaurus for a records management system. A first user input defining one or more top level terms to be used in the file plan is received. A second user input defining one... Agent: Mollborn Patents, Inc.

20090177664 - System and method for regulatory rules repository generation and maintenance: A system and method for deriving compliance requirements from statutes, regulations, case law, official interpretations, attorney general opinions, determination and other interpretive letters, administrative agency regulations, and sources prescribing and interpreting compliance requirements for a jurisdiction, preparing compliance rules documentation that reflect these regulatory requirements, creating computer-encoded compliance rules from... Agent: Taylor Russell & Russell, P.C.

20090177676 - Apparatus, system, and method for storing and retrieving compressed data: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for storing and retrieving compressed data. A compression module compresses a data file organized in logical tracks. A ratio module determines a track compression ratio. The track compression ratio is a ratio of an integer value n to one. A destage module destages... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20090177678 - Locating linear reference system events in a geographic information system: A method and system are provided for determining the geographic locations of events in a linear referencing system (LRS), such as a LRS for the Department of Transportation. The method and system utilize similarities between a LRS and the postal addressing system used in the United States. A LRS event... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20090177677 - Navigation device and method: A method of updating map data stored in one or more files on a portable navigation device (PND) or navigation system is disclosed. The method includes the steps of establishing a wireless communication with a wireless access point WAP of a wide, local, or wireless local area network having internet... Agent: Tomtom International B.v.

20090177682 - Data mining using variable rankings and enhanced visualization methods: Dimensional data with attributed categorical variables is mined against a continuous target with any data mining method by ranking variables. The ranked variables are used to generate a tree. A population and a target value, obtained from a top node of the tree, are stored. The top node is removed... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Fishkill

20090177680 - Generic bijection with graphs: A method, apparatus and program product is provided for accessing data in an abstract data store. In response to receiving a key value, an object is created by converting the key value into a key tuple. A value tuple is requested from the abstract data store corresponding to the key... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20090177679 - Method and apparatus for digital life recording and playback: The illustrative embodiments described herein provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing data. A plurality of devices dynamically capture data associated with the daily activities of a person. The data is transmitted to a mobile device associated with the person. The data is processed and... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090177683 - Multimedia file co-processing system and method: A mobile electronic system for sharing a multimedia playlist over a communication network to a receiving mobile electronic device is disclosed. The system generates a co-processing request according to operations of the user via an input unit and sends the co-processing request to the sharing mobile electronic device. The system... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090177681 - Quasi-inverses of schema mappings: A method and system for processing a schema mapping M from a source schema S to a target schema T by executing program code on a processor of a computer system. A schema mapping M′ from T to S is determined via processing the schema mapping M. The schema mapping... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090177684 - Automated configuration updater: A method is provided for automating updates to configuration data. The method comprises coding a builder method within a source file for an application component and running the source file through a transformer engine configured to implement an interface within the source file. The builder method is implemented to construct... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Lotus

20090177688 - Employee tracking system: An employee tracking system is disclosed, in which processing, accessing or both within the system is determined according to the hierarchical structure of the underlying organization. Each employee is associated with a node in the organization, and access to employee-related data is based upon the node associated with the requester... Agent: Fox Rothschild LLP New York

20090177685 - Enterprise architecture system and method: Various embodiments of the invention may provide a method for operating a REST web service operable to search one or more data sources. In some embodiments, the invention may comprise receiving a query directed to a first data source, wherein the first data source defines at least one characteristic of... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20090177686 - Method for generating database installation scripts: A method for generating automated scripts for installing objects into databases on database servers. A script generator inputs parameters such as the target database server identifier and a list of target databases for the installation. The script generator also inputs a hierarchical directory tree with files at the child nodes... Agent: Bromberg & Sunstein LLP

20090177687 - Method for providing flexible inheritance of program environment: The present invention relates to a method and a computer arrangement comprising a processor and a memory. The processor is operatively arranged to execute a group of instructions (program) present in the memory unit, so that said program can initiate execution of other programs, supplying said started programs with some... Agent: Rune Ljungbjorn

20090177689 - Situation-aware pattern extraction and recommendation: A method for determining user interests is provided, the method comprising: storing data items relating to usage patterns of the user, wherein the data items include an interest portion and a context portion; grouping the data items into context groups, each context group having data items with related context portions;... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP

20090177698 - Client access license tracking mechanism: A client tracking mechanism has a log file analysis routine that may generate two tables, one having a licensable entity designator and last logged off time, and the other having a current session designator. The first table may be aggregated by a server that may collect data from multiple client... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090177697 - Correlation and parallelism aware materialized view recommendation for heterogeneous, distributed database systems: A method is provided for generating a materialized view recommendation for at least one back-end server that is connected to a front-end server in a heterogeneous, distributed database system that comprises parsing a workload of federated queries to generate a plurality of query fragments; invoking a materialized view advisor on... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - IBM Arc Division

20090177694 - Credential management: A method, system and program product for managing, distributing and authenticating custom credentials such as diplomas, licenses and certifications awarded to target individuals and organizations by academic institutions, governmental authorities and professional and trade organizations. The custom credentials are authentic but prejudicial information not needed by a recipient has been... Agent: Karl O. Hesse

20090177690 - Determining an optimal solution set based on human selection: An exemplary method of determining a set of optimal solutions for a problem includes the steps of determining a set of probable solutions for the problem; presenting the set of probable solutions to at least one human expert; receiving at least one selection by the at least one human expert... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20090177692 - Dynamic correlation of service oriented architecture resource relationship and metrics to isolate problem sources: A potential multicomputer related problem is predicted and reported by determining a set of computer resources and relationships there between needed to complete a multicomputer business transaction, retrieving performance monitoring metrics for the computer resources during executions of the multicomputer transaction, dynamically deriving correlations between the resource relationships and the... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20090177693 - Electronic device driven selection and retrieval of media files from media source: An electronic device automatically selects a subset of media files to retrieve from a media source based on a list of the media files received from the media source. The list of media files indicates the media files that are stored in the media source and are retrievable by the... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20090177700 - Establishing usage policies for recorded events in digital life recording: The illustrative embodiments described herein provide a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing usage policies for data recorded with a digital life recorder. A usage profile sensor determines whether a broadcast of a usage profile is detected. A usage profile sensor receives the broadcast of the... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090177695 - Integration of social networking and merchandising: Described is a technology by which a social networking service is integrated with merchandising data (e.g., a wish list and/or registry) corresponding to a person registered with a merchandising website. The social networking service maintains buddy lists, and social networking service application provides a mechanism to obtain the merchandising data... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090177702 - Medical event logbook system and method: An event-based approach to collecting and organizing information associated with events affecting respiration is presented. The detection or prediction of an event affecting the respiration of a patient initiates acquisition of information associated with the event. The respiratory logbook system acquires information associated with the event during the event and... Agent: Hollingsworth & Funk, LLC

20090177696 - Method and apparatus for automatically identifying components to monitor in an enterprise environment: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates automatically identifying components to monitor in an enterprise environment. During operation, the system receives a designation of the enterprise environment. The system then identifies an enterprise application in the enterprise environment. The system also scans the enterprise application for... Agent: Pvf -- Oracle International Corporation C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20090177701 - Method to avoid malconnections with respect to voltage levels of electronic components of circuit boards during circuit board design: e

20090177691 - Multi-level reputation based recommendation system and method: Multi-level reputation based recommendation system and method focused on users as opposed to products or web sites. Establishes reputations of recommenders that may extend beyond a given user's first hand trust of these recommenders. Trust formed between a second and third user based on similar valuations that may not be... Agent: Dalina Law Group, P.C.

20090177699 - Systems and methods for providing pre-populated media devices: Methods and systems are provided for obtaining and using media devices that are pre-populated with media items of interest. In some embodiments, a user can select a media device and one or more media items. Subsequently, the selected media device may be pre-populated by saving metadata files, sample media item... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

20090177703 - Asynchronous multi-level undo support in javascript grid: Architecture for multi-level undo on a client in grid-based applications. The architecture is a control driven cascading changes system where change tracking works seamlessly in asynchronous (and synchronous) scenarios. A client application is associated with a grid object and, instantiates and configures the grid object. The application can initiate a... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090177706 - Data updating system, navigation device, server, and method of data updating: According to the present invention, the data updating system includes a terminal device running according to a predefined operating program, and servers providing the terminal device with a differential data file for updating a database. The terminal includes a local database in an updating data format differing from a reference... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090177704 - Retention policy tags for data item expiration: Architecture for retention policy tagging of data items such as messages for expiring data items without data reorganization. Retention policy tags can be applied to items, conversations, folders, and/or distribution lists, for example. Retention policy tags provide a way to manage (e.g., expire) data items such as email, for example,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090177707 - Standard operating procedure automation in database administration: A plurality of modules and/or engines to manage the operation and health of a plurality of data center assets through the use of standard operating procedures (SOPs). Modules of the present invention are configured to assist IT Administrators to create, and thereafter store in an accessible memory resource, a plurality... Agent: Hogan & Hartson LLP

20090177705 - System and method for using generic utilities to perform database utilities on mainframe operated db2 databases: A system and method for performing database utilities on a DB2 database may include using a single procedure (proc) for each database utility function. At least one parameter may be provided, where the at least one parameter identifies a DB2 database name. A generic control card may be accessed, where... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20090177711 - Method and apparatus for updating and synchronizing information between a client and a server: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for integrating applets running on a client with the application logic for applications running on a server. The mechanism of the present invention provides two significant advantages over the prior art: the synchronization of state, and the recognition of user actions in... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP And Apple Computer, Inc.

20090177709 - Method and system for managing a distributed transaction process: Systems and methods for managing a distributed transaction process include an active transaction manager that manages transactions with an active database, a latent transaction manager that manages transactions with a merge database, a transaction log that reflects the set of transactions in the active database that are not affiliated with... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090177710 - Method for resolving collisions in a database replication system by relaxing a constraint that contributes to collisions, or removing the cause of the constraint that contributes to the collisions: A method is provided for resolving collisions in a database replication system. The system includes a source database and a target database, wherein changes made at the source database are replicated to the target database. Each database has one or more tables, and at least one of the tables has... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090177708 - Preservation management of digital content: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for configuring a life-cycle for preservation of digital content. Metadata associated with a digital object that is to be stored in a repository is examined. One or more preservation rules for the digital object are identified, based on the... Agent: Mollborn Patents, Inc.

20090177712 - Digital data recording device: Provided is a digital data recording device capable of efficiently backing up media data of digital data requiring copyright protection and personal information protection within a range of the copyright holder's permission. The digital data recording device includes a record control unit for recording a media file configured by a... Agent: Juan Carlos Marquez Reed Smith LLP

20090177714 - Method for asynchronous catalog update: A method for synchronizing a first data set stored on a mobile communications device with a second data set stored in another location, comprising (a) accessing the second data set while the user of the mobile communications device is accessing the first data set; and (b) updating the first data... Agent: Fortkort & Houston P.C.

20090177713 - System, method and computer program product for managing a group of copies of a data entity: A method for managing a group of targets is provided. The method includes: receiving a request to update a x'th generation copy of a data entity, where x is a positive integer. Then applying an update function responsive to x such as to update a first sub-group of targets. Then... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20090177715 - Data backup device and system with the same: A data backup device for providing backup of user data for a plurality of data management devices and a system having the same are disclosed. The system includes at least one data management device for transferring user data via a network and the data backup device connected to the data... Agent: Kirton And Mcconkie

20090177720 - Failover method of remotely-mirrored clustered file servers: By incorporating a referral mechanism, a failover method and system for remotely mirrored clustered file servers enables a client computer to transparently access a remotely mirrored file system during a failover of a first NAS (network attached storage) storing the file system. The first NAS is clustered with a second... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090177716 - Removable storage device and electronic apparatus that can be connected together and method for saving environmental data: A removable electronic storage device (130) can be connected to an electronic apparatus having a microprocessor and an element for storing environmental data. This device includes a program (131) that can be executed automatically by the microprocessor of the apparatus on connecting the device (130) to the apparatus so as... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090177719 - Selective data replication system and method: The invention relates generally to copying electronic data. More particularly, the invention provides a computerized method for identifying, in a first backup data set, a data item satisfying a selection criterion, and copying to a second backup data set at least a portion of the data item.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP Patent-sea

20090177718 - System and method for managing a plurality of snapshots: A method and apparatus for backing up a computer system is disclosed. A backup is provided of a data stored on a first computer by the first computer generating a dump stream. The dump stream is transmitted to a second computer, the second computer uses the dump stream to maintain... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20090177717 - System and method for providing recognized offline modification of a virtual asset: A computer-implemented system and method for providing recognized offline modification of a virtual asset are provided. A virtual asset that includes parameters that each have intrinsic significance within a virtual environment defined exclusively by a central server is identified. Qualitative rules including characteristics of the parameters are defined. The virtual... Agent: Cascadia Intellectual Property

20090177721 - Management of quality of services in storage systems: A plurality of data elements are stored on storage devices in a storage system and are identified by unique identifiers. Each data element has management information associated therewith for enabling management of a quality of service of each data element individually. The management information is individually changeable for each data... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090171884 - System and method for web-based case management: A web-based case management system includes a centrally-located database for electronically storing case information including data, documents, and images. Further, the system includes an interface webpage that is viewable at a remote location. On the interface webpage, a plurality of links is provided, and each link is associated with specific... Agent: Nydegger & Associates

20090171888 - Data deduplication by separating data from meta data: Provided are techniques for data deduplication. A chunk of data and a mapping of boundaries between file data and meta data in the chunk of data are received. The mapping is used to split the chunk of data into a file data stream and a meta data stream and to... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20090171891 - Data indexing by local storage device: A computing device including a host device (HD) is in communication with a local storage device (LSD), wherein the LSD includes a memory array. A search index is generated with respect to data stored in the memory array of the LSD. By the LSD without involvement of the HD, the... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/ Sandisk

20090171885 - Efficient bulk load: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to bulk loading of data into a database comprising a plurality of database partitions. In one particular example, the database partitioning may be revised before addition of the new data to the partitions.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group LLP

20090171890 - Efficient predicate prefilter for high speed data analysis: A method and system are disclosed for operating a high speed data stream management system which runs a query plan including a set of queries on a data feed in the form of a stream of tuples. A predicate prefilter is placed outside the query plan upstream of the set... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Lazaroff

20090171886 - File management method of a ring buffer and related file management apparatus: A file management method of a ring buffer includes translating actual positions of an actual file stored in the ring buffer into virtual positions of a virtual file according to a specific mapping manner, searching the actual positions in the actual file according to the virtual positions, and accessing data... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20090171887 - Processing algebraic expressions for keyed data sets: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to managed object expression and provide a method, system and computer program product for algebraically expressing a managed object in a keyed data set. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for algebraically expressing a managed object... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090171889 - System and method for optimizing federated and etl'd databases with considerations of specialized data structures within an environment having multidimensional constraints: A method for creating a data warehousing scheme having optimally selected components. A mathematical model of a goal for the data warehousing scheme is input into an optimization engine. At least one constraint on the data warehousing scheme is input into the optimization engine. A mathematical optimization algorithm is performed... Agent: Duke W. Yee

20090171903 - Business rules externalization system: A business rules externalization system is provided for centrally storing, compiling, and distributing computer readable business rules employed by a plurality of multi-tiered applications executing the rules in native application code. The system includes a rule database for centrally storing the rules in a standardized format, including multiple versions of... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20090171909 - Computer-implemented system for producing, processing and managing structured data sets: A data management system has a basic function configurator to define a generic basic function, whereby the function to be performed is to be depicted in a basic function by means of descriptive attributes and associated values or value ranges necessary for processing the basic function. The function is to... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090171910 - Data exchange system: A system is provided that collects and stores data from different sources, such as individuals or companies, and associates all or part of the data collected from the input of a single source with an identifier. The system, upon receipt of an identifier provided by a requester, including, but not... Agent: The Eclipse Group LLP

20090171911 - Data indexing by local storage device: A computing device is provided having a host device (HD) is in communication with a local storage device (LSD), wherein the LSD includes a memory array. The LSD is configured to generate a search index with respect to data stored in the memory array of the LSD. The LSD is... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/ Sandisk

20090171912 - Disambiguation of a structured database natural language query: The invention compares a user-generated inquiry to a known data source in order to present a user with a choice of valid natural language inquiries. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to... Agent: Steven Thrasher

20090171902 - Life recorder: A system that can automatically capture life experiences of a user across a number of senses or perceptions is provided. Once the data is captured, it can be annotated and saved for subsequent playback. The innovation also enables the data to be synchronized to for playback, for example, audio can... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090171897 - Method and system for case management: A method and system for case management is provided. A structure hierarchy is generated based on a configuration data. The structure hierarchy has a folder node. A data object instance is associated to the folder node. A data object assembly is generated using the structure hierarchy. A task list having... Agent: Sap Ag

20090171896 - Method and system for generating a link hierarchy: A method and system for generating a link hierarchy is provided. A configuration data is generated. A link hierarchy is generated using the configuration data. A first node is generated in the link hierarchy of instance type. A second node is generated in the link hierarchy of query type. A... Agent: Sap Ag

20090171895 - Method and system for generating dynamic associations to data objects: A method and system for generating dynamic associations to data objects is provided. A structure hierarchy is generated based on a first configuration data. The structure hierarchy has a folder node. A second configuration for a query is generated. The query is associated to the folder node in the structure... Agent: Sap Ag

20090171907 - Method and system for searching text-containing documents: The invention relates to a method, system, software and computer processor for searching an information store, in which documents containing searchable text are stored, for specific information on a particular topic. A search query is input into a search interface. The search query is processed to generate a search string... Agent: Dennison Associates

20090171916 - Method for accelerating queries containing local range conditions using subtraction of cumulative bitmaps: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for optimizing a range-based query on a table in a database system.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090171917 - Method for opening file: A method for opening a file is provided. The method is suitable for a device storing at least one file, wherein a web browser is installed in the device. First, an application program for opening the file is searched for in both the device and the internet. Then, if the... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090171913 - Multimedia file co-processing system and method: A mobile electronic system for sharing a multimedia playlist over a communication network between a sending mobile electronic device and a receiving mobile electronic device is disclosed. The system includes selecting one or more multimedia files from the plurality of multimedia files according to a predetermined selection and generating a... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090171908 - Natural language minimally explicit grammar pattern: The invention utilizes a known syntax and concept model to enable a user to make a reliable and accurate database query with words that more closely resemble the user's natural language and less like a structured database query. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the... Agent: Steven Thrasher

20090171892 - Object query over previous query results: A method, apparatus and program product is provided for querying an object database. In response to performing a first query, a first set of query results is generated from an object database. Metadata associated with and describing the first set of query results is generated. The first query results and... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, L.L.P. (ibm)

20090171899 - One-stop travel search: One-stop travel search technology operable to aid users via an improved graphical information display is disclosed. The one-stop travel search technology can be operable to display a graph of the price of the travel mode depending on variables such as time of day. In one embodiment, the one-stop travel search... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090171918 - Personalized searchable library with highlighting capabilities: A system and method for electronically searching a personalized library of content includes, in at least one embodiment, receiving one or more search terms and electronically searching a text searchable database to produce search results. After receiving a search result selection, a page image in a page image database corresponding... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090171900 - Printer driver for transaction record storage: A printer driver may be used to pass transaction information to a remote location for storage. Such transaction information may pertain, for example, to online transactions performed by a user in relation to various online merchants. Such transactions, for example, may also be facilitated by a payment service provider. In... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090171905 - Producing information disclosure statements: An information disclosure statement (IDS) request is unpacked. The IDS request includes information that identifies one or more references. For each of the references, a respective bibliographic record is built from the information in the IDS request. Incomplete ones of the bibliographic records are determined. For each of the bibliographic... Agent: Edouard Garcia Attorney At Law

20090171901 - Real-time annotator: Systems (and corresponding methodologies) that annotate experience data in real-time are provided. The real-time annotated experience data can be employed in accordance with augmented reality systems which are capable of overlaying virtual data upon real-world data. The system employs ‘smart-tags’ that are capable of identifying data that relates to and/or... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090171915 - System and method for embedding symbology in digital images and using the symbology to organize and control the digital images: A method and system for designing and affixing symbology, e.g., an identifier, into digital and printed images and using that symbology to link these images to a global computer network to allow the organization and processing of these images both while in digital form, and later when in printed form... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20090171894 - System and method for generating expertise based search results: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer program products for generating search results comprising web documents with associated expert information. One embodiment of a method for generating such search results includes receiving one or more search queries, selecting one of the one or more search queries, determining... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20090171898 - System and method for leveraging tag context: A method and computer program product for leveraging the creation context of a tag includes creating one or more tags, each of the one or more tags associated with a respective piece of content. A creation context is associated with each of the one or more tags. The one or... Agent: Holland & Knight

20090171904 - System and method for name resolution: A plurality of relationships of a user are analyzed. A social network of the user based upon, at least in part, the plurality of relationships of the user, is analyzed, the social network identifying one or more relationship users. A collaborative user is identified based upon, at least in part,... Agent: Holland & Knight LLP

20090171906 - System and method for providing information relating to an email being provided to an electronic device: The invention relates to a system and method for associating an item in an electronic transmission with information. The system may be implemented in a server that associates information relating to an item embedded in an electronic transmission addressed to an electronic device. The server comprises: a first process to... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20090171893 - System and method for tracking testing of software modification projects: A system for tracking the testing of a set of software modification projects in an install plan provides a centralized project database where the testers can update their progress of testing software modification projects as they perform the tests. The central database advantageously eliminates the need to contact individual testers... Agent: Afs/ Visa

20090171914 - Systems and methods for aiding location of video files over a network: Systems and methods according to the present invention provide improved location of files over a network. More specifically, according to the present invention, a method of indexing digital video files on a content management system running on a web server includes associating a descriptive domain name with a dedicated node... Agent: Ryan Kromholz & Manion, S.c.

20090171921 - Accelerating queries based on exact knowledge of specific rows satisfying local conditions: A method, computer program product, and system are provided for accelerating a query in a database system. For example, an embodiment of the method may include generating a data structure identifying a set of rows that satisfy conditions local to a table prior to an evaluation of a query and... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090171920 - Adaptive page layout utilizing block-level elements: Computer-storage media, computerized methods and systems for formatting a page layout according to form factors of a display area are provided. Initially, search results are received and dynamically converted into respective block-level elements, where each of the block-level elements is associated with a portion of content from one of the... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090171924 - Auto-complete search menu: The invention builds a natural-language query by associating a auto-complete menu system with a domain-specific concept model, generating a command displayed in a list of proper commands, in a auto-complete fashion to the user (the list of proper commands comprising all elements of a set of proper commands), detecting a... Agent: Steven Thrasher

20090171923 - Domain-specific concept model for associating structured data that enables a natural language query: The invention defines a domain specific concept model that is flexible, intuitive, and which easily integrates into disparate, but similarly architected, domain-specific databases. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain... Agent: Steven Thrasher

20090171927 - Method for providing a real time view of heterogeneous enterprise data: A method for providing a real time view of heterogeneous enterprise data of operational systems includes capturing streams of operational events in real time, combining the events with contextual data, and materializing a resulting view. The resulting view includes a dynamically defined view of the stream of events and provides... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A.

20090171919 - Method using slp packing with statements having both isomorphic and non-isomorphic expressions: A computer implemented method is provided for using SLP in processing a plurality of statements, wherein the statements are associated with an array having a number of array positions, and each statement includes one or more expressions. The method includes the step of gathering expressions for each of the statements... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090171925 - 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

20090171926 - Processing structured documents stored in a database: A method, computer readable medium, and system for processing a structured document are disclosed. The method, computer readable medium, and system include identifying a plurality of strings processed by a database, assigning an identifier to each of the plurality of strings, storing each of the plurality of strings and its... Agent: Walder Intellectual Property Law PC

20090171922 - System and method for dynamically exposing sql statements as web protocols: A system, method, and program product is provided that receives a client request from a client computer system over a computer network, such as the Internet. The client request includes a request method and also includes a resource identifier. The system traverses a directory structure using the resource identifier. A... Agent: Ibm Corporation - Rsw (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20090171941 - Adaptive searching: A method and computer program product for receiving a search result set including one or more search results, and defining one or more ranking cues based upon, at least in part, ancillary user data. The one or more search results are ranked based upon, at least in part, the one... Agent: Holland & Knight

20090171938 - Context-based document search: Systems and corresponding methodologies are disclosed that employ ‘context’ of a document upon searching for relevant or desired references/results. The innovation establishes ‘context’ of a document thereby increasing relevance upon returning results to search queries. Context-based searching establishes relationships between terms of a document in order to focus more upon... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090171949 - Linguistic assistance systems and methods: System and Methods determine a linguistic preference between two or more phrases. Each of the phrases is submitted to at least one search engine as a search string. Search results are retrieved from each of the at least one search engine for each submitted search string and total hit values... Agent: Lathrop & Gage LLP

20090171950 - Metasearching a client's request for displaying different order books on the client: A process and system for metasearching on a distributed network activated by a request executed on a client device to request a metasearch engine to send a plurality of search queries to a plurality of server devices, each of the plurality of search queries comprising a keyword phrase, each of... Agent: Harvey Lunenfeld

20090171948 - Method and a system for selecting advertising spots: A method for selecting advertisement spots that comprises providing parameters, each associated with one or more references to web documents which are retrieved by it, receiving a description of a product, identifying a match between the received description and at least one of the parameters, and generating a list of... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20090171940 - Method and system for central data querying: A method and system for central data querying are provided. A user parameter requesting data is retrieved. A device is determined based upon the user parameter. A query is generated based upon the user parameter. The query is executed in the device to extract the data.... Agent: Sap Ag

20090171934 - Method and system for determining popularity of an enterprise and associating a ranking factor based on popularity with contact information for the enterprise stored locally on a communication device: Electronic interaction with an enterprise is tracked and used to determine the popularity of the enterprise. A ranking factor is determined for each enterprise from the popularity and associated with contact information for the enterprise. The ranking factor is transmitted to a communication device containing the contact information wherein the... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20090171946 - Method for analyzing technology document: A method for analyzing a technology document is adapted to a technology document and includes providing a technology structure network. The technology structure network has several technology category groups representing several technology categories correspondingly. Each technology category group is a technology hierarchical class having several technology levels from top to... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090171945 - Method for searching data: A method for searching data from a database is provided. The method comprises steps of determining a data set from the database according to a searching target. The data set includes several documents related to the searching target. Then, a content of each of the documents is analyzed to generate... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090171935 - Method for solving application failures using social collaboration: A computer-implemented method, system and computer usable program code for solving an application failure using social collaboration are provided. A search request to search a central repository of knowledge is received. The search request comprises a user identity and an application failure problem to be solved. The central repository of... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20090171947 - Method for the automatic evaluation of the similarity of two character strings that are stored in a computer: The invention describes a computer-aided method for automatically valuating the similarity of two character strings which are stored in a computer or to which the computer has access via an interface. First of all, associations which are present in the character strings are sought using a specification stored in the... Agent: Walter A Hackler Patent Law Office

20090171943 - Modifying relevance ranking of search result items: Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable media for modifying the rank of search result items returned by a search engine are provided. A search engine determines a plurality of search result items that satisfy a user query and the order the search result items are to be presented to a user.... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090171931 - Obtaining information from an object: Among other disclosure, a computer-implemented method for obtaining information from an object includes receiving a query configured to extract information from a non-XML object. The non-XML object is created using an object model that provides for: (1) organizing attributes under nodes in a hierarchy; and (2) creating, within the non-XML... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20090171942 - Predicting and ranking search query results: Techniques are described herein for providing search results that are ranked based on a predictor that predicts, for each of a number of objects, likelihoods that each particular object will be selected at different positions on a results list.... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20090171951 - Process for identifying weighted contextural relationships between unrelated documents: A system that builds a network using a document collection wherein the documents are collected and represented as a plurality of nodes in a network matrix. The documents that are to be analyzed are bound to the network (corpus) at a discrete node corresponding to the document. The documents are... Agent: Barlow, Josephs & Holmes, Ltd.

20090171928 - Ranking nodes for session-based queries: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a model of a set of nodes including a session node and multiple linked nodes linked to the session node. The linked nodes include parent nodes and child nodes. A parent node links one or more child nodes to the session node, and... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090171930 - Relevancy sorting of user's browser history: Various embodiments provide a Web browser that employs a relevancy algorithm to make an educated guess as to the likelihood of a user's intended destination when the user begins to enter text into a browser's address bar. In one or more embodiments, the relevancy algorithm employs various parameters and assigns... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090171952 - Result-based triggering for presentation of online content: A computer-implemented method for delivering content is provided, including specifying a rule having a trigger and defining a content presentation action, and receiving a search query from a user. The method further includes generating a result set in response to the search query, identifying at least one characteristic of the... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20090171944 - Set similarity selection queries at interactive speeds: The similarity between a query set comprising query set tokens and a database set comprising database set tokens is determined by a similarity score. The database sets belong to a data collection set, which contains all database sets from which information may be retrieved. If the similarity score is greater... Agent: At & T Legal Department - Ws Attn: Patent Docketing

20090171933 - System and method for adding identity to web rank: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer program products for generating search results comprising web documents with associated expert information. One embodiment of a method for generating such search results includes receiving one or more search queries, selecting one of the one or more search queries, determining... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20090171932 - System and method for annotation and ranking of reviews personalized to prior user experience: The present invention is directed towards methods and computer readable media for annotating and ranking user reviews on social review systems with inferred analytics. A reference framework is provided by creating context according to previous activity, bias, or background information of a given reviewer. The method of the present invention... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20090171937 - System and method for solving ambiguous meanings of unknown words used in instant messaging: A system and method for identifying an unknown word's likely definition based upon a common social networking group is presented. A user receives a message and selects an unknown word in the message. In turn, the recipient client identifies a common social networking group between the sending client and the... Agent: Ibm Corporation - Rsw (jvl) C/o Van Leeuwen & Van Leeuwen

20090171936 - System, method, and computer program product for accelerating like conditions: A system, method, and computer program product are provided for optimizing LIKE-condition based queries on a table in a database system.... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20090171929 - Toward optimized query suggeston: user interfaces and algorithms: Providing and presenting optimized query suggestions for web searching are described. A method for optimized query suggestion includes utilizing a combination of algorithms to identify query candidates in relationship to the submitted query, calculating a relevance and a frequency for the query candidates in relationship to the submitted query, and... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20090171939 - User-generated activity maps: Apparatus and computer-readable media for associating metadata with a geographic location are provided. The apparatus includes logic for detecting that a mobile device is present at a geographic location relevant to a user of the mobile device, logic for retrieving context information associated with the location, logic for selecting a... Agent: Yahoo C/o Mofo Palo Alto

20090171958 - Computer-based system and method for generating, classifying, searching, and analyzing standardized text templates and deviations from standardized text templates: A method for generating, classifying, searching, and analyzing standardized text templates drawn from a plurality of text documents and for identifying standardized text deviations from standardized text templates. Semi-standardized documents may be represented as standardized templates and deviations from standardized templates, with such templates themselves automatically generated by a computer-implemented... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20090171954 - Frequent pattern array: Machine readable media, methods, and computing devices are disclosed that mine a dataset using a frequent pattern array. One method of includes building a frequent pattern tree comprising a plurality of nodes to represent frequent transactions of a dataset that comprises one or more items. The method also includes transforming... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg, LLP

20090171957 - Method and system of applying policy on screened files: Described is a mechanism comprising a data screening filter and user mode service that applies (enforces) policies regarding allowing or blocking file content of a directory, based on matching the filename against patterns associated with that directory. An administrator configures a screening policy, such as the types of files to... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090171955 - Methods and systems for implementing approximate string matching within a database: A computer-based method for character string matching of a candidate character string with a plurality of character string records stored in a database is described. The method includes a) identifying a set of reference character strings in the database, the reference character strings identified utilizing an optimization search for a... Agent: Daniel M. Fitzgerald (21652) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090171953 - Techniques for recognizing multiple patterns within a string: Techniques for recognizing multiple patterns within a string of characters are presented. A dictionary is hierarchically organized, such that leaf nodes within the dictionary represents words defined in the dictionary. A string of characters are received. Each character within the string is traversed by attempting to match it with a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/novell

20090171956 - Text categorization with knowledge transfer from heterogeneous datasets: The present invention provides a method for incorporating features from heterogeneous auxiliary datasets into input text data for use in classification, a plurality of heterogeneous auxiliary datasets, such as labeled datasets and unlabeled datasets, are accessed after receiving input text data. A plurality of features are extracted from each of... Agent: Honda/fenwick

20090171959 - Apparatus and method for performing table comparisons: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to analyze sort options associated with an input table and a comparison table. It is determined whether a consistent sort can be performed by a first database associated with the input table and a second database associated with the comparison table. A... Agent: Sap GlobalIPC/o Cooley Godward Kronish LLP William S. Galliani

20090171960 - Method and system for context-aware data prioritization: A computer-implemented method for carrying out a data analysis task having an associated analysis context includes accepting a plurality of data items exchanged over a communication network. One or more rules are determined responsively to the analysis context for prioritizing the data items. The rules are applied to the data... Agent: Stephen S. Roche Setter Roche LLP

20090171961 - Workflow collaboration in a forensic investigations system: A system and method for centralized workflow collaboration that invokes the skills of different experts to carry out investigation of forensic evidence data and generate a forensic report. A centralized workflow system stores attributes, annotations, reports, and other information associated with collected forensic evidence data. The attributes associated with the... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090171962 - System and method for implementing nonblocking zero-indirection transactional memory: Systems and methods for implementing and using nonblocking zero-indirection software transactional memory (NZSTM) are disclosed. NZSTM systems implement object-based software transactional memory that eliminates all levels of indirection except in the uncommon case of a conflict with an unresponsive thread. Shared data is co-located with a header in an NZObject,... Agent: Mhkkg/sun

20090171963 - System and program products for efficiently locking resources of a global data repository: Concurrent access to a global data repository is provided, while minimizing the number of locks acquired to provide the concurrent access. One or more resources within the global data repository have predefined relationships with one or more other resources of the repository. Thus, locking for a particular resource is based... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C.

20090171964 - Acquiring and using social network information: Among other things, a user of a site is provided access to information associated with a person who has entered, on a shared social network (SN) system controlled independently of the site, a consent to permit information of the person to be accessed by the user at the site. The... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090171966 - Content distribution system and method: A method and system for the secure distribution of content to authorized persons. A content provider uploads encrypted content to the system and specifies the institutions or individuals to which the content is to be provided and release conditions under which it is to be made available. Encrypted content is... Agent: James F. Boyle Boyle Fredrickson, Newholm, Stein & Gratz, S.c.

20090171965 - System and method for policy based control of nas storage devices: A system and method for providing policy-based data management and control on a NAS device deployed on a network. When a user makes a request to store, read, or manipulate data on the NAS device, the NAS device provides an indication of this request to a management tool running on... Agent: Bourque & Associates Intellectual Property Attorneys, P.A.

20090171981 - Computer network storage environment with file tracking: A method and system for operating a network server to discourage inappropriate use are disclosed. The method provides for altering files on the server in such a way so as essentially not affect acceptable, desired file types in any noticeable way, and to substantially corrupt undesirable file types. The method... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20090171969 - Federated uptake throttling: In a first enterprise joined in a distributed, federated network of second enterprises, a system is provided for managing data flow between enterprises, the system including a data management server in the first enterprise having access to sets of rules for managing data flow to and from the first enterprise,... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20090171976 - Map data delivering device, communication terminal, and map delivering method: There is disclosed a map data delivering system for providing consistent road network information from supplement map information and map update information. The map data delivering system includes a navigation terminal and a map distribution server. The map distribution server includes a management data storage unit which stores an update... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090171975 - Method and system for tracking carbon credits and other carbon valuation units: The various embodiments disclosed herein relate to systems and methods for tracking and/or managing carbon reduction activities and the resulting carbon valuation units. Certain embodiments relate to methods or systems having at least a central processor, a database, and carbon credit calculation software configured to calculate a total number of... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing - Intellectual Property

20090171980 - Methods and apparatus for real estate image capture: The present invention includes methods and apparatus for processing requests for image data. In particular, some embodiments include receiving a request for image data descriptive of a subject parcel and dispatching an image data capture device rig to capture image data along a calculated route as well as the subject... Agent: Joseph P. Kincart, Esq.

20090171974 - Network operating system: Generally described, the present invention is directed to a network operating system that provides more effective ways of leveraging the connectivity of computer networks. In one embodiment, an XML virtual machine is implemented that accepts high-level application code written in an XML programming language as input. Functionality is provided to... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090171982 - Privacy and security method and system for a world-wide-web site: Personal information of users is used to customize the browsing experiences of the users on a World-Wide-Web site. To ensure privacy of the users' personal information, each user is assigned a unique Universal Anonymous Identifier (UAI). The UAI is generated by a trusted third party and provided to the Web... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20090171978 - Server device and information terminal for sharing information: A technique for synchronization of the information on multiple information terminal devices is disclosed. The information to be stored is stored in encrypted format in a server unit, and thus the server unit administrator cannot access this information. In the information terminal device where information is to be synchronized, encrypted... Agent: Winston & Strawn LLP Patent Department

20090171971 - Server-centric versioning virtual file system: Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with a server-centric virtual file system (VFS) that securely provides version control for file system objects associated with the VFS are described. One example system includes a VFS logic to provide virtual access to file system objects associated with a server. The VFS logic... Agent: Kraguljac & Kalnay, LLC - Oracle

20090171979 - System and method for a web-based address book: An online system and a method for a web-based address book that allows collaborative updating and synchronization of the listed persons' contact information. The method includes creating profile templates for each person within a group and storing these profile templates in a central database. Next, populating the profile templates with... Agent: Akc Patents

20090171970 - System and method for delivering utility usage information and other content to a digital photo frame: A system and method for distributing content to a plurality of digital photo frames disposed in a plurality of customer premises is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a plurality of content and storing the content in memory. The method may include converting at least some of the... Agent: Capital Legal Group, LLC

20090171967 - System and method for providing description diversity: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for ranking a plurality of social bookmarks. The method of the present invention comprises receiving a bookmark request, the request comprising an identification of a resource and a plurality of resource tags. Incrementing a bookmark count associated with the resource, updating... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Ostrow Kaufman & Frankl LLP

20090171977 - System and method for session reestablishment between client terminal and server: Disclosed is a system and a method for session reestablishment between a client terminal and a server for a messenger service. In a session reestablishment system including a client terminal capable of accessing a communication network, a session information database and a server for providing a messenger service to the... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20090171983 - System and method for virtual folder sharing including utilization of static and dynamic lists: A system and method for virtual folder sharing, including utilization of static and dynamic lists. Static and dynamic lists may be created as types of virtual folders. Virtual folders expose regular files and folders to users in different views based on their metadata instead of the actual physical underlying file... Agent: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. (c/o Microsoft Corporation)

20090171972 - Systems and methods for platform-independent data file transfers: Systems and methods for storing data files to a file system coupled to a database, and reading data files from the file system. In one aspect, a method for transferring a data file between a client system and a server system is provided. The client executes a first computer operating... Agent: Daniel M. Fitzgerald (21652) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090171973 - User-generated multimedia content from mobile and non-mobile devices: A multimedia content system operates to manage mobile blogs created by users of communication devices. The mobile blogs may include content objects, which may be formed of audio components, text components, image, and/or video components. The various components may be formed from features of the communication devices. A user operating... Agent: Ip Group Of Dla Piper US LLP

20090171968 - Widget-assisted content personalization based on user behaviors tracked across multiple web sites: A content provider system interacts with a network of web sites to provide behavior-based content to users. Operators of the web sites add widgets to selected web pages of their sites. The widgets, when executed on the computing devices of users who view the selected web pages, report user-generated events... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090171987 - Annotating collaborative information structures: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to collaborative information object management and provide a method, system and computer program product for annotating collaborative information structures. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for annotating collaborative information structures can be provided. The method can... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090171984 - Apparatus and method for interlinking the classified objects having the property and computer readable medium processing the method: Disclosed is an apparatus for interlinking topical classified object shaving properties. The apparatus include an interest Tong information database for storing one or more object information and one or more post information, which are classified according to interest fields requested by a user through a web server; a buddy information... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20090171990 - Apparatus and methods of identifying potentially similar content for data reduction: Apparatus and methods of identifying potentially similar content include utilizing workflow metadata to identify potential similarities in content to be processed, or between content to be processed and known content. As a result, a subset of potentially similar content is identified, and the subset can be used in data reduction... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090171992 - Green rating system and associated marketing methods: A method and system for assigning a rating to an entity based on a plurality of metrics, for example, assigning a rating to an entity which reflects that entity's level of environmental performance, and then assigning an indicia to the entity which reflects the rating relative to other like entities.... Agent: Fox Rothschild, LLP Pittsburgh

20090171989 - Identity data model broker: A method, system and computer program product for handling identity data from heterogeneous sources utilizes an Identity Data Model Broker (IDMB). The IDMB maps fields between heterogeneous data sources, served by disparate Identity Attribute Service (IdAS) context providers, to establish a normalized data format. Within an IdAS, an abstract data... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090171988 - Interface with scheduling information during defined period: Providing a user with scheduling information for a defined period of time. Calendar data which is indicative of the user's availability during the defined period of time is obtained based on an electronic calendar associated with the user. Event data which is indicative of event scheduled during the defined period... Agent: Senniger Powers LLP (msft)

20090171991 - Method for verification of data and metadata in a data repository: A method for metadata verification of a data repository of a computer system is described comprising accessing a data repository through a data profiler program, querying the data repository for metadata information about the data repository, presenting statistics regarding the metadata information using the profiler, analyzing the metadata information to... Agent: Sap_dlg

20090171985 - Methods, systems, and computer readable media for self-targeted content delivery: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for self-targeted content delivery are provided. Content objects can be delivered to a user and indications from the user to mark any content object can be received thereby generating standard data structures to be placed into a central data store. At a... Agent: At&t Legal Department - Hbh Attn: Patent Docketing

20090171993 - Network operating system: Generally described, the present invention is directed to a network operating system that provides more effective ways of leveraging the connectivity of computer networks. In one embodiment, an XML virtual machine is implemented that accepts high-level application code written in an XML programming language as input. Functionality is provided to... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20090171986 - Techniques for constructing sitemap or hierarchical organization of webpages of a website using decision trees: A decision tree may be determined that is a site map for a domain of web pages. A clustering of a plurality of web pages of a domain is determined, in an unsupervised fashion, based on content-related features of the plurality of web pages. Each determined cluster includes a plurality... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20090171995 - Associating and presenting alternate media with a media file: Embodiments of a system for selecting a media file comprising a plurality of media, selecting one or more other media as alternate media, generating metadata specifying the one or more alternate media, and associating the metadata and the one or more alternate media to enable the media file to be... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20090171996 - Associative object model for composite entity information: An associative object model for presenting composite entity information is provided. More particularly, a system and method of linking various data related to an entity from isolated databases in a distributed enterprise is provided. The system and method presents composite information on the entity to different systems within the distributed... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090171994 - Device, system, and method for improving processing efficiency by collectively applying operations: A system and method for generating a single compressed vector including two or more predetermined attribute values. For each of a plurality of data points such as pixels, if a first and a second attribute values of the data point are equal to a first and a second, respectively, of... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20090171997 - Method and system for obtaining user data having user-defined data types: The present invention relates generally to data retrieval, and more particularly but not exclusively to obtaining referentially converted user data having user-defined data types. In one implementation, the present invention is a method for retrieving user data in a data system using one or more application programs for defining a... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20090172000 - Methods and apparatus for improving data warehouse performance: Methods and apparatus for improving data warehouse performance are disclosed. An example method to transform a first database into a second database includes analyzing a structure of the first database, generating a hierarchical file path structure reflecting the structure of the first database, and associating a mapping file with a... Agent: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC

20090171998 - System and method for capturing and storing hospitality information in a relational database system: A database management system for a hospitality business. The database management system comprises a relational database for storing information concerning customers of the hospitality business and customer activities, activities hosted by the hospitality business, and products and services provided by the hospitality or gaming business. Data is stored and organized... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20090171999 - System and methodology for parallel stream processing: A system and methodology for parallel processing of continuous data streams. In one embodiment, a system for parallel processing of data streams comprises: a converter receiving input streams of data in a plurality of formats and transforming the streams into a standardized data stream format comprising rows and columns in... Agent: George Mack Riddle

20090172001 - Systems and methods for processing regular expressions: A method for reducing the size of a DFA associated with a regular expression separates the functions of locating subexpressions within the DFA and determining if the located subexpressions satisfy a regular expression. For example, the functions of (1) locating subexpressions in a range asserting expression and, (2) determining whether... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP

20090172006 - Apparatus and method for stripping business intelligence documents of references to unused data objects: A computer readable storage medium comprises executable instructions to provide a first report defining a plurality of references to a plurality of data objects. The plurality of references to the plurality of data objects is analyzed to identify references to unused data objects. The references to the unused data objects... Agent: Sap GlobalIPC/o Cooley Godward Kronish LLP William S. Galliani

20090172009 - Carpool or ride matching by wireless digital messaging linked database: Systems, methods, and computer program products match a candidate passenger with a driver for a trip toward a common direction. A candidate passenger for the trip is automatically identified based on the physical start-address and direction sent to the database via text messaging (Short Message Service) or by wireless email.... Agent: Ronald Schmith

20090172010 - Data classification system and method for building classification tree for the same: A data classification system is provided. The data classification system includes a fetch unit, a classification tree module, and a data repository. The fetch unit is adapted for receiving data including at least one datum, and fetching a data information contained in the data. The classification tree module is adapted... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20090172005 - Discovering and updating templates: Embodiments are provided to maintain templates associated with a client. New and updated templates can be provided to the client and accessed by a user. In an embodiment, a system can be configured to automatically update locally stored templates with updated templates associated with a library. The updated templates can... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090172011 - Image file creation device and image file creation method: The invention is an image file creation device for creating a first file with an extension “JPG” from an image data group composed of main image JPEG image data and a plurality of sub-image JPEG image data, the first file including the main image JPEG image data and related information... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20090172007 - Implementing applications with a data model comprising content, thread and category: Embodiments of plural application implementations in accordance with a unified data model are disclosed herein. A unified data model 102 may comprise contents104, threads 106 of contents, and categories 108 of threads, to which most application data are organized accordingly. Applications 110 may have extended data. Additionally, services 120 are... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.

20090172004 - Method and system for generating a data object assembly: A method and system for generating a data object assembly is provided. A modeling pattern having a node arranged in a hierarchy of nodes is provided. An element provider is registered for use in the modeling pattern. An element type is configured for the element provider. The element provider is... Agent: Sap Ag

20090172003 - Secondary persistencies in a service-oriented business framework: It is determined whether at least one request to replicate at least one business object is valid. The business object comprising a plurality of hierarchically arranged nodes, with a root node on a first end, at least one leaf node on a second end, and at least one intermediate node... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20090172002 - System and method for generating hyperlinks: A method, computer program product, and scanning system for scanning a physical document to generate an original image-based file. The original image-based file is processed to extract text from the original image-based file and generate a text-based file. The text-based file is processed to identify one or more hyperlinks included... Agent: Lexmark International, Inc. Intellectual Property Law Department

20090172008 - Templating virtual views in an on-demand portal infrastructure: A computer-implemented method for templating virtual views within an on-demand portal infrastructure is provided. The method includes retrieving a virtual view template identified by a virtual view template identifier in response to a request to render a virtual view of a portal. The method further includes aggregating site profile attributes... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20090172015 - Apparatus and method for playing mapped objects: An apparatus for playing mapped objects and a method thereof are provided. When a first object is selected to be played, the apparatus for playing mapped objects and the method thereof according to the invention select a target object of a corresponding category from an object categorizing database, and prompt... Agent: Wpat, PC

20090172013 - Method to improve unfolding in petri nets: Petri net models, of systems, communication protocols, and software programs, which include place objects, transition objects, arcs, and initial markings, may be used for testing and verification. To reduce computations, a new unfolding process is performed on the net models. Two or more candidate buffer place interfaces are selected from... Agent: Mendelsohn & Associates, P.C.

20090172012 - Methodology to derive enterprise relationships for generating a topology view in a soa environment: A method for generating a topology of a service oriented architecture (SOA) environment comprises associating a unique identifier with each entity within the SOA environment. The unique identifier summarizes attribute data of a respective entity. The relationships between the unique identifiers are used to derive a topology of the SOA... Agent: Hamilton & Terrile, LLP IBM Rsw

20090172016 - Self-organized parallel processing system: Systems and methods for improving the performance of a multimedia processor system by dynamically evaluating the current performance of the system and, if necessary, updating the configurations of the individual processors to improve the performance of the system. One embodiment comprises a method implemented in a multiprocessor system, including evaluating... Agent: Law Offices Of Mark L. Berrier

20090172014 - Stream-oriented database machine and method: An event stream processing device capable of processing larger numbers of events while simultaneously responding to queries. This is achieved through sequential storage of data, the maintenance in memory of information pertaining to the most recent events for each entity monitored and the aggregation of file read/write requests in a... Agent: Dann, Dorfman, Herrell & Skillman

20090172018 - Electronic document management method:

20090172017 - Techniques for multi-variable analysis at an aggregate level: Techniques for multi-variable analysis at an aggregate level are provided. Two or more datasets having different statistical data distributions and which are not capable of being aggregated are acquired. The values for variables in the two or more datasets are normalized to produce a single integrated dataset of normalized values.... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20090172023 - Data management system for manufacturing enterprise and related methods: A method, system, and interface for managing data in a manufacturing enterprise that provides a visual indication of projected results of currant activities. Method includes collecting multi-dimensional data comprising planned values and dynamically updated actual values, processing the values, projecting future events based on records of present and past events... Agent: Leonid Khodor

20090172022 - Dynamic storybook: A system (and corresponding methodology) that dynamically alters a storybook (e.g., literary work). Preferences, policies and contexts can be considered and incorporated into the storyline of the book to enhance interest by creating a rich, personalized experience. By enhancing readability and features (e.g., sensory features), stories become more true-to-life and... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090172034 - Enabling symptom verification: Systems, products and methods for enabling symptom verification. Verifying a symptom may include eliminating repeated symptom definitions or eliminating symptoms having low accuracy. A computer system enables verification of a symptom including a rule for detecting a set of events related to a given problem. The computer system includes a... Agent: Ibm Corp (ibm Austin Iplaw)

20090172025 - Federated access: A federation system operating in a first enterprise includes a configuration server and a database for creating and storing federation configuration data and a federation registrar having an interface for dealing with a second enterprise seeking to federate. In the system the second enterprise connects to the federation registrar, negotiation... Agent: Central Coast Patent Agency, Inc

20090172031 - Map updating system: A map updating system that stores map data and a priority sequence table, acquires first update data and second update data of the map data according to the priority sequence table, and updates the map data based on the first update data and second update data according to the priority... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090172020 - Mass change of master data via templates: A data entry template can be associated with each of a plurality of data records that are distributed across a plurality of heterogeneous or homogeneous data sources which can optionally be data bases. The data entry template can be modified to reflect a change to a business process that was... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C.

20090172028 - Method and apparatus for providing an auxiliary media in a digital cinema composition playlist: The embodiments of the present invention are directed towards creating, packaging, distributing, and reproducing auxiliary media tracks, such as a second language audio track, within a digital mastering and distribution system for motion pictures, such as that used in Digital Cinema. The invention appends data structures and elements to the... Agent: Thomson Licensing LLC

20090172037 - Method, system and computer-readable recording medium for controlling multimedia based on display condition of contents: A method for controlling multimedia data corresponding to at least one multimedia area included in content created by a content creator based on the state in which the content is displayed through a screen of a user terminal, includes the steps of: (a) creating information on the multimedia area to... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090172033 - Methods, systems and computer-readable media for facilitating forensic investigations of online activities: Methods, systems and computer-readable media containing program code for facilitating forensic investigations of online activities such as online transactions. One method for facilitating an investigation comprises: receiving a logical identifier and temporal information; consulting a database to obtain evidentiary information regarding end-user equipment to which was assigned the logical identifier... Agent: Smart & Biggar

20090172026 - Personalized information filter based on social tags: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to content personalization and provide a method, system and computer program product for tag-based content personalization. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for tag based personalization of content can be provided. The method can include comparing... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20090172032 - Picture processing apparatus, index creating apparatus, imaging apparatus, index creating method, and program: Disclosed herein is a picture processing apparatus including: an attribute information detection section configured to detect attribute information about a plurality of pictures included in moving picture data; an index data creation section configured to create index data for indexing the attribute information to the positions in the moving picture... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090172021 - Recommendations based on actions performed on multiple remote servers: A content provider system interacts with a network of web sites to provide behavior-based content to users. Operators of the web sites add widgets to selected web pages of their sites. The widgets, when executed on the computing devices of users who view the selected web pages, report user-generated events... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090172029 - Remote managing and consulting system for logistics: This invention relates to A remote managing and consulting system for logistics comprising a central processing system and one or more remote terminals which exchange data with the central processing system, wherein each of the remote terminals includes a wireless transmitting and receiving module, a optimization unit for logistics organization... Agent: Ying Chen Chen Yoshimura LLP

20090172035 - System and method for capturing and storing casino information in a relational database system: A database management system for a hospitality or gaming business. The database management system comprises a database for storing information concerning customers of the hospitality or gaming business, customer activities, and products and services provided by the hospitality or gaming business. Data is stored and organized within the database in... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation

20090172030 - System and method for image classification: Systems and methods for image classification are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of selecting a predetermined number of training images that are representative of images associable with a particular topic category. One embodiment can include, extracting... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090172024 - Systems and methods for collecting and analyzing business intelligence data: A system includes a memory to store program code and a processor to execute the program code to perform a process for generating a business intelligence (BI) data presentation. The process includes collecting BI data from one or more data sources and verifying the collected BI data. The process further... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090172036 - Systems and methods for workflow processing: Systems and methods for processing a workflow are disclosed. Certain embodiments allow prescreened data to be inserted into a workflow. A user's interpretation of prescreened data can be compared with previously obtained characteristics, enabling the user's interpretive output to be monitored and improved. The disclosed systems and methods have applications... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090172027 - Telephone menu selection: A method and system for facilitating user selection of telephone menu options. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving at least one function and a corresponding correspondent-defined code, wherein the correspondent-defined code identifies the at least one function. The method also includes receiving a user-defined code, where the user-defined code... Agent: Mollborn Patents, Inc.

20090172019 - Document imaging and management system for paperless workflow: A document imaging and management system, including a device for imaging at least one document having at least one computer-readable identifier, a database including a plurality of rules for managing documents and tasks, a processor, software executing on the processor for reading the computer-readable identifier, software executing on the processor... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20090172040 - File system that manages files according to content: A method of managing a plurality of files according to their respective instances of a property of the files, a data processing device that uses the method, and a computer readable storage medium bearing code for implementing the method. The files of at least one of the instances are managed... Agent: Mark M. Friedman

20090172039 - Snapshot management apparatus and method, and storage system: A high-performance and highly-reliable snapshot management apparatus and method, and a storage system are provided that can prevent the adverse influence of overhead when they retain a multiplicity of snapshots. An operational volume is set in a storage area provided by a first storage apparatus and a plurality difference volumes... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20090172038 - System and method for uddi data migration using standard uddi v3 api: A system and method are described for Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI) data migration exporting existing UDDI V3 data from a UDDI V3 compliant repository (a source repository) and importing this data into another UDDI V3 compliant repository (a destination repository). The data from the source repository is migrated... Agent: Blakely, Sokoloff, Taylor & Zafman, Lllp

20090172041 - Asynchronous replication: Contents of a copy of a server file may be saved to a down load file, a base file, and a working file. An indication may be received from an application that the application has edited the working file and a copy of the edited working file may be saved... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20090172042 - Method, system, and computer program product for implementing a model exchange framework: Disclosed are a method, a system, and a computer program products for implementing model exchange in a system design. In various embodiments, the method or system receives a model exchange request from a client where model exchange request comprises a first synchronization record which comprises a delta of both a... Agent: VistaIPLaw Group LLP

20090172043 - Method and system to synchronize updated versions of a document edited on a collaborative site that are under document management control: A method and system for synchronizing versions of a document on a collaborative site and on a content management repository is disclosed. The method and system comprises determining that a document has been modified on the collaborative site by a listener/updater mechanism. The method and system further comprises providing a... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, LLP/ibm Svl

20090172046 - Electronic appliance service system: The risk of a third party referring to or using backup data without authorization upon restoring such backup data in an HDD recorder is mitigated. First authentication information of a user as the HDD owner and second authentication information of an engineer of a repair plant are registered in an... Agent: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.

20090172047 - Method and apparatus for loading data files into a data-warehouse system: Date-warehouse systems are populated using an enhanced Extraction-Load-Transform (ETL) process and system by employing three ideas: Out-of-order-fill ETL, relative-ordering index (ROI), and dependent queries. Out-of-order-fill ETL allows a data warehouse to accept the loading of data files in any order, and does not require the loading of any previous backup... Agent: Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC

20090172045 - System and method for archiving portions of an output of a web application: A system and method is provided for archiving only pertinent portions of a web application. In implementation, the system and method of the invention allows web applications to easily save important areas of a web page that are displayed to the user. The important areas may include, for example, confirmation... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20090172044 - Virtual database administrator: A virtual database administrator (VDBA) is implemented in a database server network to monitor back-up write events from the database servers on the network to a network back-up server and correct failed back-up attempts. The VDBA regularly polls the database servers for copies of event logs that include information about... Agent: Hensley Kim & Holzer, LLC

20090172049 - Device and method for integrating file systems: The present invention enables a user to increase storage capacity for a host by using multiple storage devices. File systems are virtualized regardless of any difference in file system format. The invention may be embodied as a device for integrating file systems or as a method of integrating file systems.... Agent: Toler Law Group

20090172050 - Dual representation of stored digital content: Various methods, devices and systems are described for providing dual representation of stored digital content are described where the dual representation includes logical block data and corresponding data objects. Data object property information is synchronized with the data objects.... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/ Sandisk

20090172048 - Memory storage of file fragments: In some embodiments a beginning portion of a disk drive file fragment is stored in a memory, and the beginning portion of the disk drive file fragment is accessed from the memory. Other embodiments are described and claimed.... Agent: Intel Corporation C/o Cpa Global

20090172051 - Online incremental database dump: Various embodiments may include taking an initial dump of a database table and tracking changes to the database table, with regard to but outside of transactions, since a most recent full or partial dump has been taken. A partial dump, in such embodiments, may be taken since the most recent... Agent: James M. Stover Teradata Corporation